CSO Broadcast Listings July September, 2012

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1 CSO Broadcast Listings July September, 2012 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: June 29, 2012 DUTOIT CONDUCTS DEBUSSY Distinguished maestro Charles Dutoit leads an all-french program, featuring the young phenomenon Gautier Capuçon as soloist in Dutilleux s enigmatic cello concerto. Debussy s Images conjure up scenes of three different countries and Ravel evokes elegant imperial balls in Vienna with the dreamlike swirling sounds of La valse. Debussy: Images Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain (Gautier Capuçon, cello) Ravel: La Valse Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 (Yuja Wang, piano) PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: July 6, 2012 YO-YO MA PLAYS DVOŘÁK Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts and Yo-Yo Ma plays Dvořák. Moncayo: Huapango Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 (Yo-Yo Ma, cello) Bloch: Schelomo (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor) PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: July 13, 2012 BEETHOVEN 3 AND 6 Bernard Haitink conducts a program from the 2010 Beethoven Festival. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 Eroica Beethoven: Grosse Fuge for String Quartet Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 Pastoral 1

2 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: July 20, 2012 BEETHOVEN 7 Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny is an anchor of the CSO s legendary brass section and widely respected by colleagues, pupils and concertgoers. He demonstrates the entirety of the tuba s range of expression in Vaughan Williams animated concerto. Jaap van Zweden leads Beethoven s Seventh Symphony, which the composer himself called one of my best works. Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto in F Minor (Eugene Pokorny, tuba) Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126 (Han-na Chang, cello; Antonio Pappano, conductor) PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: July 27, 2012 AX PLAYS BEETHOVEN EMPEROR After a recent brilliant performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, The New York Times said Emanuel Ax "...played with youthful brio, incisive rhythm, bountiful imagination, delicacy when called for and thundering power when the piano fought back." Ax served as curator of the spring 2012 Keys to the City Piano Festival. Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven Emperor with conductor David Robertson. Hindemith: Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 Emperor (Emanuel Ax, piano) Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Beethoven: Consecration of the House, Op. 124 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: August 3, 2012 MUTI CONDUCTS CHERUBINI REQUIEM Riccardo Muti, one of the greatest opera and oratorio conductors of our time, showcases the internationally-renowned Chicago Symphony Chorus, prepared by chorus director Duain Wolfe, in all three works on this program. Brahms' Song of Destiny, which shares many musical characteristics with the German Requiem, is followed by Schoenberg's arrangement of the solemn Yom Kippur prayer. The grand Requiem in C Minor by Cherubini, who Beethoven called the greatest living composer of his time, completes this evening of choral grandeur. Brahms: Schicksalslied Schoenberg: Kol Nidre (Alberto Mizrahi, narrator) Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor Verdi: Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani 2

3 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2012 YO-YO MA PLAYS HAYDN Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma joins the CSO for Haydn s Cello Concerto in D Major, a work of extraordinary beauty and elegance. Dutch conductor and early music authority Ton Koopman conducts Mozart s youthful Symphony No. 20, paired with Haydn s Symphony No. 6, which depicts the rising of the morning sun. Haydn: Symphony No. 6 in D Major Le Matin Haydn: Cello Concerto in D Major (Yo-Yo Ma, cello) Locatelli: Introduttioni teatrali in G Major, Op. 4, No. 4 Rebel: Chaos from The Elements Mozart: Symphony No. 20 in D Major, K. 133 Bach/Koopman: Concerto in C Major from BWV 1064 (Robert Chen, violin; Mathieu Dufour, flute; Eugene Izotov, oboe) PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: August 17, 2012 ELDER CONDUCTS DVOŘÁK S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY Sir Mark Elder and the CSO share the stage in a program from the 2009 Dvořák Festival. Dvořák: String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 97 (American) (Emerson String Quartet with Paul Neubauer, viola) Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, nos. 2 and 3 Dvořák: The Midday Witch Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World) PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2012 TRIPLE CONCERTO TIMES TWO Trevor Pinnock leads the orchestra and three young virtuosos in Beethoven's concerto for piano, violin and cello. Then he plays double duty as conductor and one of three astonishing soloists featured in Mozart's Concerto for Three Pianos, a perfect finale to the Keys to the City Piano Festival. Mendelssohn paid homage to the British Isles, one of his favorite places, with his rousing Scottish Symphony. Debussy: Marche écossaise Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, Op. 56 (Stefan Jackiw, violin; Paul Gomziakov, cello; Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano) Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 (Scottish) Mozart: Concerto for 3 Pianos in F Major, K. 242 (Trevor Pinnock, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Benjamin Hochman, pianos) 3

4 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: August 31, 2012 MUTI CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN 5 Shostakovich described the subjects of his Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, composed shortly before his death, as "wisom, love, creation, death and immortality." It will be sung by Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, familiar to Chicago audiences from Riccardo Muti's landmark Verdi Requiem performances. This reflective work is contrasted with Muti's charged and riveting lead in Beethoven's seminal Fifth Symphony. 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 Prokofiev: Three Scenes from Romeo and Juliet (CSO Brass) PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: September 7, 2012 MUTI AND CHEN CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen, praised for his tremendous capacity as both soloist and ensemble leader, steps into the spotlight for Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1. Influenced by Rossini, this virtuosic showpiece has incredible musical depth and elegant melodic shape. Bruckner's Sixth Symphony is known for beautiful harmonies and colorful instrumentation, a perfect way to end Riccardo Muti's second season as music director. Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6 (Robert Chen, violin) Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: September 14, 2012 MODERN DANCES Repeat 10-36: Storytelling and dance music infuse this program conducted by Carlos Kalmar and Charles Dutoit. Falla: Three Dances from El amor brujo Bates: Music from Underground Spaces Ravel: Mother Goose Suite Rossini: Overture to La gazza ladra Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Charles Dutoit, conductor) 4

5 PROGRAM #: CSO RELEASE DATE: September 21, 2012 RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE Stewart Goodyear, whose artistry has been described as "breathtaking" and "phenomenal", returns to Symphony Center for Falla's sultry work, inspired by gypsy and flamenco music. You'll also hear the sounds of Spain as seen through the eyes of Ravel in his Rapsodie espagnole. Messiaen said his Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine have "a Europeanized Hindi or Balinese instrumentation," including soft prayers celestially chanted by the Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Three Latin American works conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya round out the program. Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine (Ludovic Morlot, conductor; Daniel Schlosberg, piano; Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot; Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, chorus director) Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Ludovic Morlot, conductor; Stewart Goodyear, piano) Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole (Ludovic Morlot, conductor) Golijov: Mariel (Kenneth Olson, cello; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor) Soro: Tres Aires Chilenos (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor) Alomía Robles: El cóndor pasa (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor) 5