6/4: Szeps-Znaider & Carpenter
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider leads Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring organ soloist Cameron Carpenter. The broadcast opens with Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice and rounds out with Daniel Barenboim leading Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Boléro.
Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Francis Poulenc Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani
Johann Sebastian Variation No. 20 from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Encore
Bach
Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, Organ
Cameron Carpenter organ
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conductor
December 2022
Maurice Ravel Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe
Maurice Ravel Boléro
Daniel Barenboim conductor
6/11: Celebrating Frederick Stock
This broadcast celebrates Frederick Stock! The CSO’s second music director opens the program with the ensemble’s first commercial recording —Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—and closes with his own arrangement of Paganini’s Moto perpetuo. The other works included all received their U.S. premieres under Stock’s baton: Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, Elgar’s Violin Concerto, and Scriabin’s Prometheus, in recordings featuring Maurizio Pollini, Itzhak Perlman, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, and Pierre Boulez.
Felix Mendelssohn Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61
Frederick Stock conductor
1916 (Columbia)
Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2 Maurizio Pollini piano
Claudio Abbado conductor
1977 (Deutsche Grammophone)
Edward Elgar Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61 Itzhak Perlman violin
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Alexander Scriabin Prometheus, Op. 60 Anatol Ugorski piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
Pierre Boulez conductor
1996 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Niccolò Paganini Moto perpetuo, Op. 11
(arr. Stock)
Frederick Stock conductor
1941 (Columbia)
6/18: Boulez Conducts Mahler, Bartók & Stravinsky
Principal Guest Conductor Pierre Boulez leads the CSO in Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Opening the broadcast is Mahler’s Totenfeier. In between, we hear Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
Gustav Mahler Totenfeier
1996 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Béla Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
1994 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Igor Stravinsky The Firebird
Pierre Boulez conductor
1992 (Deutsche Grammophon)
6/25: Carmina burana
This week, Osmo Vänskä leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Orff’s Carmina burana, featuring vocal soloists Joélle Harvey, Reginald Mobley and Hugh Russell. Opening the program is Montgomery’s Banner and Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus. Before that, Seiji Ozawa conducts Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Seiji Ozawa conductor
1976 (RCA)
Jessie Montgomery Banner
Einojuhani Cantus Arcticus
Rautavaara
Carl Orff Carmina burana
Joélle Harvey soprano
Reginald Mobley countertenor
Hugh Russell baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Jenny Wong guest director
Uniting Voices Chicago
Josephine Lee director
Osmo Vänskä conductor
March 2023