CSO Audio Program Notes
By Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Web Team
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Audio Program Notes are accessible, interesting, and full of information about the works being performed by the CSO as well as the history and personalities behind the music. Download Program Note PDFs at cso.org/ProgramNotes.
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February 2-7 - Muti Conducts Franck | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, February 2-7. CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates' Alternative Energy explores the human progression through greater and more powerful forces of energy, blending electronic sounds recorded at Fermilab with percussion and orchestra. Riccardo Muti completes this program with Franck's Symphony in D Minor, a treasure-trove of rich melody. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 26-31 - Muti Conducts Carmina Burana | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, January 26-31. Witness these and other iconic moments in Carl Orff's thrilling cantata Carmina burana under Riccardo Muti's intense and electrifying command from the podium. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 18-21 - Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Dvorak | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, January 18-21. As part of his new "Beethoven Project", a series of concerts of all of the composer's symphonies and concertos, Viennese conductor Manfred Honeck invites Till Fellner to perform the lyrical First Piano Concerto. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 12-15 - Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Shakespeare | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, January 12-15. Sir Mark Elder, curator and director of the CSO's wildly successful 2009 Dvorak Festival, continues his focus on the influence of Shakespeare with Tchaikovsky's exquisite Romeo and Juliet. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 5-10 - Berlioz, Byron and Shakespeare | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, January 5-10. Berlioz's symphonic treatment of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a visionary work, a marvel of poetry and passion. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 15-17 - Mahler 6 | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, December 15-17. Renowned conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to lead the Orchestra in Mahler's dramatic Sixth Symphony. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 8-10 - Tilson Thomas Conducts Beethoven | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, December 8-10. Blumine was the original second movement of Mahler's First Symphony. This gem was lost, but rediscovered 70 years later and is befitting to our season-long Mahler tribute. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 1-3 - Mahler 1 | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, December 1-3. Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden leads Mahler's groundbreaking First Symphony, a cornucopia of musical memories and dreams filled with children's songs, Klezmer music and Viennese waltzes. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 10-15 - Ravel Daphnis and Chloe | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, November 10 through 15. Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Prokofiev's thrilling Violin Concerto No. 2. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 17-19 - Strauss Ein Heldenleben | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO, November 17 through 19. Ein Heldenleben is an opulent self-portrait and a display of orchestral virtuosity like no other. It's full of fascinating references and inside jokes, with musical nods to Strauss' heroes, Wagner and Beethoven. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 2 - Handel's Water Music | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO on November 2. This episode features Handel's Water Music and Organ Concerto No. 1 in G Minor. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 27-29 - Haydn's Creation | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO October 27 through 29. From the first kindling of light, a surprising burst of radiant sunshine in C major, to the vivid portrayal of nature's birds and beasts, Haydn's landmark oratorio The Creation is one of the great masterworks in the choral canon. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 20-22 - Mahler 4 | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO October 20 through 22. The CSO honors the 100th anniversary of the death of Gustav Mahler by including almost half of his symphonic output in the 2011/12 season. Mahler's Fourth Symphony artfully paints the sublime and the comic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the awkward and the graceful. Former CSO Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink returns to join our Mahler celebration. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 13-18 - Also Sprach Zarathustra | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO October 13 through 18. The bass clarinet is a key member of every orchestra's wind section, but rarely does the instrument step into the spotlight. Hear the deep, resonant tones of solo bass clarinet when CSO musician J. Lawrie Bloom performs Thea Musgrave's Autumn Sonata. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 6-8 - Muti Conducts Mahler's Farewell | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO October 6 through 8. On February 21, 1911, Gustav Mahler led the New York Philharmonic in what was to be his final public appearance. In honor of the 100th anniversary of Mahler's death, Riccardo Muti and the CSO recreate this historic concert of Italian repertoire and Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 30 and October 1 and 4 - Muti Conducts Liszt's Bicentennial | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO September 30 through October 4. Riccardo Muti honors Franz Liszt, one of the giants of the keyboard and composition alike, with a reprise of the program performed by the CSO 100 years ago for the centennial of Liszt's birth. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 23 and 27 - Muti and Dufour | Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO September 23 and 27. The Chicago Tribune wrote of CSO Principal Flute Mathieu Dufour, who performs Ibert's spirited concerto, "...he confirmed his uncanny mastery of color and dynamics, filling the hall with a vibrant, crystalline sound." Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony is sure to mesmerize from its funereal beginning to triumphant conclusion. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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