8/6: Ozawa Conducts Beethoven and Bartók
Seiji Ozawa served as the first music director of the Ravinia Festival from 1964 until 1968 and as principal conductor for the 1969 season. During his tenure, he recorded a number of works for RCA and Angel, including works by Beethoven, Borodin, Schoenberg and Bartók.
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Arnold Schoenberg Piano Concerto
Peter Serkin, piano
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
8/13: Mäkelä Conducts Rite of Spring
On this week’s broadcast, Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the CSO in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le toit. Opening the broadcast is Seventh music director Jean Martinon conducting Roussel’s Bacchus and Ariadne and Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess.
Albert Roussel Bacchus and Ariadne Suite No. 2
BONUS Jean Martinon, conductor
Maurice Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess
BONUS Jean Martinon, conductor
Darius Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
George Gershwin An American in Paris
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
8/20: Composers' Early Successes
Most of the music on this program was written by teenagers: Mendelssohn was seventeen years old when he composed his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninov completed his First Piano Concerto, Strauss his First Horn Concerto at age eighteen, and nineteen-year-old Shostakovich submitted his First Symphony as a graduation exercise from the Petrograd Conservatory. The overture to Rienzi, an early triumph for Wagner, completes the program.
Richard Wagner Overture to Rienzi
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11
Dale Clevenger, horn
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Igor Stravinsky Fireworks, Op. 4
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
Byron Janis, piano
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Felix Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21
Jean Martinon, conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8/27: Benny Goodman in Nielsen and Weber
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman—known as the “King of Swing”—appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on several occasions in the 1960s. He also recorded concertos by Weber and Nielsen with the ensemble under Jean Martinon and Morton Gould for RCA along with a very special Windy City–themed encore.
Carl Maria von Weber Overture to Oberon
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73
Benny Goodman, clarinet
Jean Martinon, conductor;
Carl Nielsen Helios Overture, Op. 17
Jean Martinon, conductor
Carl Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57
Benny Goodman, clarinet
Morton Gould, conductor;
Carl Maria von Weber Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
(arr. Hector Berlioz) Fritz Reiner, conductor
Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 74
Benny Goodman, clarinet
Jean Martinon, conductor
Fred Fisher Chicago
(arr. Morton Gould) Benny Goodman, clarinet
Morton Gould, conductor