CSO_1415_Catalog
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | RICCARDO MUTI Music Director | 312-294-3000 | <strong>CSO</strong>.ORG<br />
27<br />
SATURDAY D<br />
5 concerts at 8:00<br />
NOV<br />
8<br />
DEC<br />
13<br />
FEB<br />
28<br />
APR<br />
18<br />
MAY<br />
9<br />
November 8<br />
DvoŘák New World Symphony<br />
Cristian Macelaru conductor<br />
Elena Urioste violin<br />
Brahms, arr. Dvořák<br />
Hungarian Dance Nos. 17–21<br />
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1<br />
Dvořák Symphony No. 9<br />
(From the New World)<br />
Dvořák’s New World Symphony is among<br />
the most recognizable and well-loved<br />
orchestral works ever written, its passion<br />
and fire balanced with moving serenity.<br />
Rising young conductor Cristian Macelaru<br />
pairs this beautiful masterpiece with<br />
Brahms’ exhilarating Hungarian Dances<br />
and Bruch’s rapturous First Violin Concerto,<br />
played here by hypnotic and sensitive<br />
violinist Elena Urioste.<br />
December 13<br />
BEETHOVEN 7<br />
Manfred Honeck conductor<br />
Haydn Symphony No. 93<br />
Strauss Don Juan<br />
Beethoven Symphony No. 7<br />
Manfred Honeck returns to Chicago to<br />
conduct three masterpieces from the<br />
Austro-German tradition. The lilting<br />
dance-rhythms of Haydn’s Symphony<br />
No. 93 and the rambunctious rhythms<br />
of Beethoven’s Seventh, described<br />
by Wagner as “the apotheosis of the<br />
dance,” frame Richard Strauss’<br />
Don Juan. In Strauss’ depiction of<br />
the legendary lover, a brazen horn call<br />
announces a swaggering Don Juan,<br />
whose numerous romantic conquests<br />
lead to a tragic finale.<br />
February 28<br />
Muti Conducts Tchaikovsky 6<br />
Riccardo Muti conductor<br />
Scriabin Symphony No. 2<br />
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)<br />
April 18<br />
SHOSTAKOVICH 8<br />
Semyon Bychkov conductor<br />
Daniil Trifonov piano<br />
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1<br />
Shostakovich Symphony No. 8<br />
May 9<br />
SALONEN CONDUCTS RAVEL<br />
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor<br />
Cast led by: Chloé Briot soprano (Child)<br />
Chicago Symphony Chorus<br />
Duain Wolfe chorus director<br />
Ravel Mother Goose Suite<br />
Debussy La damoiselle élue<br />
Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges<br />
In this first program of the 2015 Reveries<br />
and Passions Festival, Esa-Pekka Salonen<br />
couples an early Debussy work with two<br />
youth-centered pieces by Ravel. The Mother<br />
Goose Suite is a radiant collection of musical<br />
tales, from Tom Thumb to Beauty and<br />
the Beast, with considerable feeling behind<br />
its deceptively simple exterior. A fantasy<br />
opera in one act about childhood, L’enfant<br />
et les sortilèges (The Child and Magic Spells)<br />
presents an enchanting and poignant<br />
story about a rude child who learns<br />
compassion. This program is part of the<br />
2015 Reveries and Passions Festival.<br />
Photos clockwise from upper left:<br />
Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony<br />
Orchestra and Chorus, Manfred Honeck
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