Riccardo Muti (18.12.2015-Live-Munich) MP3

Live aus dem Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz, 18.12.2015

Franz Schubert
Sinfonie Nr. 4 c-Moll D 417 "Tragische"

ca. 20.35 Konzertpause
Elgin Heuerding im Gespräch mit Riccardo Muti

Luigi Cherubini
"Krönungsmesse" für Chor und Orchester A-Dur

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Leitung: Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti, BPO - Verdi (12.11.1982 - Live - Berlin) MP3

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Riccardo Muti dirigiert die Berliner Philharmoniker
Giuseppe Verdi
Quattro Pezzi Sacri für Solo-Sopran, Chor und Orchester
Marianne Mellnäs
Schwedischer Rundfunkchor Stockholm
Einstudierung: Eric Ericson

Aufnahme vom 12.11.1982 in der Berliner Philharmonie
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Riccardo Muti, BPO - Bruckner. S6 (11.03.1986 - Live - Berlin) MP3

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Riccardo Muti dirigiert die Berliner Philharmoniker

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Violinkonzert e-Moll, op. 64
Leon Spierer

Anton Bruckner
Sinfonie Nr. 6 A-Dur

Aufnahme vom 11.03.1986 in der Berliner Philharmonie
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Riccardo Muti, BPO (24.06.1975 & 23.06.1985 - Live - Berlin) MP3

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Riccardo Muti dirigiert die Berliner Philharmoniker

Igor Strawinsky
Scherzo fantastique op. 3

Aufnahme vom 24.06.1975 in der Berliner Philharmonie

Luigi Boccherini
Violoncellokonzert B-Dur
Ottomar Borwitzky

Aufnahme vom 23.06.1985 in der Berliner Philharmonie
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Riccardo Muti (15-17.01.2015 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Riccardo Muti and Yefim Bronfman
CSO Radio

Yefim Bronfman says he never wants the audience to think that Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto sounds difficult…although it is very challenging for the solo pianist. He performs the work with Maestro Muti, who also leads a symphony by Tchaikovsky and a Beethoven overture. Extended interviews with Bronfman about working with Maestro Muti, how composers such as Brahms dealt with the shadow of Beethoven, and the technical demands made on pianists in works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Ravel may be found below.

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Daydreams)
Originally recorded at concerts on Jan. 15, 16 and 17, 2015

Beethoven Overture to The Consecration of the House
Originally recorded at concerts on April 25, 26 and 27, 2013

Program notes for the Brahms and Tchaikovsky works may be read here, and those for Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture can be found here.

Yefim Bronfman, piano
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor

Riccardo Muti (Sept. 20, 22, 26 and 28, 2012 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Muti opens the 2012/13 season
CSO Radio

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2012/13 season opened in exciting fashion, with Respighi’s explosive Feste romane. A rarely heard symphony by Dvorák and a lovely miniature by Martucci precedes it. Mendelssohn’s delicate Italian Symphony closes the concert.

Dvorák Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76
Martucci Notturno
Respighi Feste romane
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 20, 22, 26 and 28, 2012
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian)
Originally recorded at concerts Oct. 6, 7 and 8, 2011

This broadcast is available for streaming until Oct. 12, 2015

Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor

Riccardo Muti (30.01.2015 - Live - Carnegie Hall) MP3

Carnegie Hall Live
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Plays Mendelssohn, Debussy and Scriabin

Ricardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ricardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Todd Rosenberg/CSO)

Listen to the archived broadcast, recorded Friday, January 30 at 8 pm, with Riccardo Muti leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a night out at sea as they perform pieces by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Scriabin.

Muti begins the program with Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, a piece inspired by Goethe’s poems Calm at Sea and The Prosperous Voyage, depicting a more personal rather than literal journey through “deathly” still waters.

The CSO continues the evening with Debussy’s La Mer, a symphonic portrait worked solely from the composer’s memory of summers spent in Cannes. Muti ends the program with Scriabin’s The Divine Poem a four-part tone poem without pause. With the sections translating to “Struggles,” “Delights,” and “Divine Play,” the bridge between a literal and metaphorical journey through ever-changing waters comes to a close.

This concert marks the first of three concerts by the CSO at Carnegie Hall this month. Muti has been music director of the CSO since 2010.

WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon co-hosts the broadcast with fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.

Program:

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
Debussy: La Mer
Scriabin: Symphony No. 3, "The Divine Poem"

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Carnegie Hall Live: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Plays Mendelssohn, Debussy and Scriabin

On Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, WQXR broadcast live from Carnegie Hall the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Muti.

Riccardo Muti (25-30.09.2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Muti conducts Tchaikovsky and Debussy
January 19, 2015 Authored by CSO Radio
CSO Radio

Tchaikovsky’s thrilling Fourth Symphony is featured in this program, with Berlioz’s early Waverley Overture and Debussy’s evocative La mer preceding it. From previous seasons, we have also included works by Martucci and Ravel. CSO musicians Jennifer Gunn (piccolo) and Baird Dodge (principal second violin) talk about their roles in audio interviews, with Gunn mentioning the extreme preparation needed for her brief (nineteen notes!) solo, and Dodge comparing Tchaikovsky to Shakespeare.

Berlioz Waverley Overture
Debussy La mer
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 25, 26, 27 and 30, 2014

Martucci Notturno
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 14, 15 and 16, 2012

Ravel Rapsodie espagnol
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 20, 22, 26 and 28, 2007

Chicago SO,
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and conductor

Riccardo Muti (22-24.01.2015 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Muti conducts Scriabin
CSO Radio

The First Symphony of Alexander Scriabin closes with a paean to art, written by the composer and sung by two soloists and chorus, after five movements featuring the orchestra. The second half is Prokofiev’s bracing cantata Alexander Nevsky, drawn from his score to Sergei Eisenstein’s famous film. The texts for both works may be found below.

Scriabin Symphony No. 1
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano
Sergey Skorokhodov, tenor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Originally recorded at concerts on Jan. 22, 23, and 24, 2015

Mozart Divertimento in D Major
Originally recorded at concerts on Oct. 3, 5, 8, and 11, 2013

The program notes and texts for the Scriabin and Prokofiev works are here. The program notes for the Mozart Divertimento may be read here.

Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano
Sergey Skorokhodov, tenor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, chorus director
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor

Riccardo Muti, CSO (2-4.10.2014-Live-Chicago) MP3

Muti conducts Tchaikovsky 3
Published April 20, 2015
CSO Radio

In addition to Tchaikovsky’s Third Symphony, Music Director Riccardo Muti conducts a suite from Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird. Principal trumpet Christopher Martin is the soloist in a rarely heard work for trumpet and orchestra, Andrzej Panufnik’s Concerto in modo antico, which he discusses in more detail below.

Panufnik Concerto in modo antico
Christopher Martin, trumpet
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3 (Polish)
Originally recorded in concerts on Oct. 2, 3 and 4, 2014

Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
Originally recorded in concerts on March 26, 27, 28 and 29, 2014

Ricardo Muti (19 & 21.09.2013 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Riccardo Muti conducts Verdi & Brahms 2
December 2, 2013 Authored by CSO Radio   
CSO Radio, Verdi’s 200th       

From the opening week of the 2013/14 concert season comes this program of a Brahms masterpiece, a virtually unknown work by Johann Strauss Jr., and instrumental music by Giuseppe Verdi. The ballet music from Macbeth springs forth with energy and swagger, while the symphony unfurls with inspired grace. From 2012 comes a similarly enthusiastic performance of Franck’s grand Symphony in D Minor, all conducted by music director Riccardo Muti.

J. Strauss Jr. Overture to Indigo and the 40 Thieves
Verdi Ballet Music from Macbeth
Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Originally recorded at concerts Sept. 19 and 21, 2013

Franck Symphony in D Minor
Originally recorded at concerts Feb. 2, 3, 4 and 7, 2012

Riccardo Muti, music director and conductor

Ricardo Muti (14-17 & 19.06.2012 - Live - Chicago) MP3

New on CSO Radio: Muti conducts Beethoven 5
CSO Radio   

In addition to Beethoven’s triumphant Fifth Symphony, Riccardo Muti leads two rarely heard works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The Meeting of the Volga and the Don was composed in 1951 by Prokofiev to commemorate the completion of a canal between two of the Soviet Union’s major waterways, while Shostakovich’s deeply felt song cycle Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti sets eleven poems by Michelangelo covering such themes as love, death, creativity, and separation.

Prokofiev The Meeting of the Volga and the Don
Shostakovich Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Originally recorded at concerts on June 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19, 2012

Prokofiev Three Scenes from Romeo and Juliet (CSO Brass from CSO Resound)

Ildar Abdrazakov, bass

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Brass

Riccardo Muti, Music Director and Conductor

Photo: Riccardo Muti’s score of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Riccardo Muti, CSO (19-21.06.2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Muti conducts Mahler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major

JUNE 19-21, 2014
Chicago Symphony Center

Wagner:Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung

Riccardo_Muti(12,13,14&17.06.2014-Live-Chicago) MP3

Muti conducts Schubert 1 and 6   
CSO Radio       

Continuing our Schubert festival, Music Director Riccardo Muti conducts two symphonies, as well as a portion of the composer’s incidental music to Rosamunde. Former principal bassoon David McGill performed Mozart’s concerto for his instrument at these concerts, and we end the program with something rather different from what came before: Prokofiev’s rarely heard occasional piece The Meeting of the Volga and the Don.

Schubert Symphony No. 6 in D Major, D. 589
Mozart Bassoon Concerto (David McGill, bassoon)
Schubert Symphony No. 1 in C Major, D. 82
Originally recorded at concerts on June 12, 13, 14 and 17, 2014

Schubert Entr’acte No. 3 from Rosamunde
Originally recorded at concerts on Feb. 9, 10 and 11, 2012

Prokofiev The Meeting of the Volga and the Don
Originally recorded at concerts on June 14, 16 and 19, 2012

David McGill, bassoon

Riccardo Muti, Music director and conductor

Riccardo Muti (6, 7, 8.02.2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Riccardo Muti conducts Schubert and Morricone
October 6, 2014 Authored by CSO Radio        

The Chicago Symphony Chorus is featured in this program in Schubert’s moving Mass in A-Flat Major and composer Ennio Morricone’s Voices From the Silence, from last season. Going back to 2012, the Chorus also performs works by Mozart and Vivaldi.

Schubert Overture in the Italian Style
Morricone Voices From the Silence (Ora Jones, narrator; Rosa Feola, soprano)
Schubert Mass in A-Flat Major (Rosa Feola, soprano; Michaela Selinger, mezzo-soprano; Antonio Poli, tenor; Riccardo Zanellato, bass)
Originally recorded at concerts on Feb. 6, 7 and 8, 2014

Mozart Ave verum corpus
Vivaldi Magnificat (Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano)
Originally recorded at concerts on June 20, 21, 22 and 23, 2012

Ora Jones, narrator

Rosa Feola, soprano

Michaela Selinger, mezzo-soprano

Antonio Poli, tenor

Riccardo Zanellato, bass

Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Duain Wolfe, Chorus Director

Riccardo Muti, Music Director and conductor
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CSO Radio

Riccardo Muti (26-29.03.2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Muti conducts Schubert Unfinished   
CSO Radio       

Schubert’s turbulent Eighth Symphony begins this program, which includes one more Schubert symphony (the Second) and Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. CSO principal cello John Sharp is the soloist in that work. The program closes with the ballet music from Verdi’s opera Macbeth.

Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 (Unfinished)
Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
John Sharp, cello
Schubert Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 125
Originally recorded in concerts on Mar. 26, 27, 28 and 29, 2014

Verdi Ballet Music from Macbeth
Originally recorded in concerts on Sept. 19 and 21, 2013

John Sharp, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Riccardo Muti, Music Director and conductor

Mitsuko Uchida, Riccardo Muti (20-22.03.2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Muti and Uchida (Schumann and Schubert)
   
Soaring themes and long musical lines feature prominently in the two works leading our program this week. The distinguished pianist Mitsuko Uchida lends her great elegance to Schumann’s only piano concerto, and music director Riccardo Muti leads Schubert’s final symphony. We bring back a 2012 concert of Schubert’s bubbly Third Symphony, and have an extended interview with Uchida about the piano concerto.

Schumann Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 (Great)
Originally recorded at concerts on March 20, 21 and 22, 2014


Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
Originally recorded at concerts Jan. 26, 28 and 31, 2012

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti, Music Director and conductor
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CSO Radio

Verdi - Requiem Mass - Riccardo Muti, 06.07.2014 (FLAC)

July, 6 - 2014
miltary cemetery of Redipuglia (1914-1918 war)

requiem for the victims of all wars

Giuseppe Verdi  Requiem Mass

(preceded by a military signal “the silence”)

conductor Riccardo Muti

soprano: Tatiana Serjan
mezzosoprano: Daniela Barcellona
tenor: Saimir Pirgu
bass: Riccardo Zanellato

Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
European Spirit of Youth Orchestra

Members of:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Teatro Verdi  Trieste Orchestra
Saint Petesburg Philharmonic
Orchestre National de France
Orchestre Symphonique du Théatre Royal de La Monnaie Bruxelles
Philharmonia Orchestra London
Wiener Philharmoniker
Students of Conservatorio “Giuseppe Tartini” from Trieste and “Jacopo Tomadini” from Udine

Chorus of Friuli Venezia Giulia
Chorus of Teatro Verdi di Trieste
New Chamber Chorus Franz Liszt of Budapest
Chorus of Music Academy by Lubiana
Chorus of Music Academy by Zagreb
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Gift Angelo from Italy.

Riccardo Muti, CSO (13-15.06.2013 - Live - Chicago) MP3

Riccardo Muti conducts Bruckner 1

Wagner Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
Originally recorded at concerts on June 13, 14 and 15, 2013

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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CSO radio

Riccardo Muti, CSO (30-31.01 & 01.02.2014 - Live - Chicago) FLAC

Riccardo Muti conducts Schubert (with Yo-Yo Ma and Giovanni Sollima)

Schubert’s Third Symphony has a memorable melody for clarinet after its brief introduction, and the Fourth Symphony, subtitled Tragic, moves with irresistible momentum. A new concerto by Italian composer Giovanni Sollima for two cellos will be heard between the two symphonies. With the composer playing one of the solo parts, the concerto’s other part is played by Yo-Yo Ma. Sollima uses many different styles in the piece, including southern Italian folk music in a work the audience enjoyed immensely. We have an extended interview with Sollima and Ma discussing the work below. Other music to complete the program includes a portion of Schubert’s incidental music to Rosamunde and the Ballet Music from Verdi’s Macbeth. Music director Riccardo Muti conducts the program.

Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
Sollima Antidotum Tarantulae XXI Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma, Giovanni Sollima, cellos [CSO Commission, World Premiere]
Schubert Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 (Tragic)

Originally recorded at concerts on January 30 and 31, and Feb. 1, 2014

Schubert Entr’acte No. 3 from Rosamunde

Originally recorded at concert on Feb. 9, 10 and 11, 2012

Verdi Ballet Music from Macbeth

Originally recorded at concerts on September 19 and 21, 2013