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CSO - April Highlights

4/2: Muti Conducts Hindemith & Dvořák
Johann Strauss, Jr.     Overture to Der Zigeunerbaron
Riccardo Muti conductor

Paul Hindemith           Symphony, Mathis der Maler
Riccardo Muti conductor

Antonín Dvořák          Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, From the New World
Riccardo Muti conductor

Isaac Albéniz               Navarra
Fritz Reiner conductor

Isaac Albéniz               Fête-Dieu à Séville from Ibéria, Book I
Fritz Reiner conductor

Isaac Albéniz               Triana from Ibéria, Book II
Fritz Reiner conductor

4/9: The Song Of The Earth
Robert Schumann       Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38 (Spring)                                  
Daniel Barenboim conductor

Karl Goldmark           In Springtime                                  
Frederick Stock conductor                                  

Gustav Mahler            Das Lied von der Erde                                   Maureen Forrester contralto                                  
Richard Lewis tenor
Fritz Reiner conductor

4/16: Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9
Caroline Shaw             Boris Kerner
                                   Kenneth Olsen cello
                                   Cynthia Yeh percussion

Adolphus Hailstork      Arabesques
                                   Emma Gerstein flute
                                   Cynthia Yeh percussion

Gustav Mahler             Symphony No. 9
Jakub Hrůša conductor

4/23: Rakitina, Weilerstein, & Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky      Capriccio italien, Op. 45
Pyotr Tchaikovsky      Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33
Pyotr Tchaikovsky      Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62

Johann Sebastian Bach        Sarabande from Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 (Encore)
                         Alisa Weilerstein cello

Pyotr Tchaikovsky      Suite from The Nutcracker, Op. 71a
Anna Rakitina conductor

Igor Stravinsky           Symphony of Psalms
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Emily Ellsworth director
Sir Georg Solti conductor

4/30: Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8
Antonín Dvořák          Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

Svante Henryson         Black Run from Colors in D Suite for Solo Cello (Encore)
Andrei Ioniță cello

Antonín Dvořák          Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88Herbert Blomstedt conductor

Ottorino Respighi       Fountains of Rome

Johann Strauss, Jr.     Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op. 324
Fritz Reiner conductor