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Program # CSO 08-03

January 18, 2008
Program # CSO 08-03

Riccardo Muti made his highly anticipated return to Orchestra Hall in September 2007 for the first time since 1975. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 117th season kicked off with a festive Opening Night Gala with Mr. Muti and Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli. In her CSO debut, Ms. Frittoli and the CSO performed favorite Italian opera arias by Verdi and Puccini. The concert continued with music from Falla’s ballet The Three-Cornered Hat and Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and Boléro. This broadcast also includes Prokofiev’s Third Symphony, which Mr. Muti led on subscription concerts as well as on the Orchestra’s seven-city European tour.

Verdi Overture to La Forza del Destino

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Verdi Tacea la notte placida from Il trovatore

Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Barbara Frittoli, Soprano

Puccini Vissi d'arte from Tosca

Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Barbara Frittoli, Soprano

Prokofiev Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Falla Suite no. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Ravel Boléro

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Program # CSO 08-02

January 11, 2008
Program # CSO 08-02

Paavo Järvi, music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2001, made his Orchestra Hall debut in October 2004 with Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5, a work that breathes in long melodic arcs and adds exciting drama, emerging triumphant at the end. Scholars have suggested that Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is closest in spirit not to his Russian roots but to the northern starkness employed by Carl Nielsen. This recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 is taken from Mr. Järvi’s performances with the CSO in October 2006.

Nielsen Symphony No. 5, Op. 50

Paavo Järvi, Conductor

Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93

Paavo Järvi, Conductor

Nielsen Helios Overture

Jean Martinon, Conductor

Program # CSO 08-01

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January 4, 2008
Program # CSO 08-01

This retrospective — co-hosted by CSO Association Archivist Frank Villella — is a tribute to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s founder and first music director Theodore Thomas (1835-1905). Maestro Thomas never recorded with the Orchestra, so all the recordings in this retrospective were conducted by his successors. They feature works he introduced in the United States as well as pieces that were special to him, including works by Wagner, Bruckner, Berlioz, Richard Strauss, and Thomas’s favorite work, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which he conducted on the first ever Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert on October 16, 1891.

Wagner Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Sir Georg Solti, Conductor
Bruckner Te Deum
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
Jessye Norman, Soprano
Yvonne Minton, Mezzo-Soprano
David Rendall, Tenor
Samuel Ramey, Bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Margaret Hillis, Director
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Artur Rodzinski, Conductor
Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17
Carlo Maria Giulini, Conductor
Strauss Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Désiré Defauw, Conductor
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Fritz Reiner, Conductor
Wagner Träume from Wesendonck Lieder (orch. Thomas)
Frederick Stock, Conductor