10/1: Mäkelä Conducts Symphonie fantastique
This week, Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä returns with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy with viola soloist Antoine Tamestit. The broadcast concludes with a recording of Berlioz’sLes-francs-juges Overture led by eighth music director Sir Georg Solti.
Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy, Op. 16
Antoine Tamestit, viola
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Hector Berlioz: Les francs-juges Overture, Op. 3
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
(London 1973-74)
10/8: Klaus Mäkelä & Yunchan Lim
On this week’s episode, Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Jörg Widmann’s Con brio, and Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza, along with Yunchan Lim as soloist in
Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. To open the broadcast, ninth music director Daniel Barenboim
conducts Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture.
Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
(Erato 1993)
Unsuk Chin: subito con forza
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
Yunchan Lim, piano
Erich Wolfgang Die schönste Nacht from Die Stumme Serenade
Korngold: Yunchan Lim, piano
Jörg Widmann: Con brio, Concert Overture for Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
10/15: Musicians of the Orchestra
Legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra soloists take center stage in this program, including Steven
Staryk in Massenet’s Meditation from Thaïs, Donald Peck in Debussy’s Prelude to The Afternoon of a
Faun, and Arnold Jacobs in Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto. Dale Clevenger and fellow horns are
featured in Schumann’s Konzertstück, and the broadcast closes with Samuel Magad, Charles Pikler, and
John Sharp in Strauss’s Don Quixote.
Benjamin Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
(RCA 1967)
Ralph Vaughan Tuba Concerto in F Minor
Williams: Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Arnold Jacobs, tuba
(DGG 1977)
Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
Jean Martinon, conductor
Steven Staryk, violin
(RCA 1966)
Robert Schumann: Konzertstück for Four Horns in F Major, Op. 86
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Dale Clevenger, Richard Oldberg, Thomas Howell, and Norman Schweikert, horns
(DGG 1977)
Claude Debussy : Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Donald Peck, flute
(London 1976)
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Samuel Magad, violin
Charles Pikler, viola
John Sharp, cello
(Erato 1991)
10/22: Alsop Conducts Adams, Copland & Marsalis
Marin Alsop leads the CSO in a special program with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Featured works
include The Rock You Stand On by John Adams, the Suite from Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland,
and selections from Wynton Marsalis’ Fourth Symphony, The Jungle. Rounding out the broadcast is John
Williams conducting selections from his music for the 2012 film Lincoln.
Marin Alsop, conductor*
John Adams: The Rock You Stand On*
Aaron Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring*
Wynton Marsalis: Selections from The Jungle (Symphony No. 4)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Duke Ellington: Jack the Bear
(arr. Marsalis) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness
(arr. Marsalis) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
John Williams: Selections from Lincoln ("With Malice Toward None," Elegy, and The Peterson House and Finale)
John Williams, conductor
(Sony 2012)
10/29: Harding Conducts The Planets
This week, Daniel Harding leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's Overture to
Manfred, Brahms' Schicksalslied and Holst's The Planets, featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus
prepared by guest director Jenny Wong. Closing the broadcast, Sir Georg Solti conducts
Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.
Robert Schumann: Overture to Manfred, Op. 115
Daniel Harding, conductor
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Jenny Wong, director
Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
Daniel Harding, conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Jenny Wong, director
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, director
(London 1997)