11/5: Sokhiev & Avdeeva
This week, guest conductor Tugan Sokhiev conducts the CSO in Tchaikovsky’s Winter Dreams
Symphony. Opening the program is Panufnik’s Heroic Overture followed by Chopin’s First Piano Concerto
featuring Yulianna Avdeeva. The broadcast concludes with Daniel Barenboim leading Wagner’s Prelude
to Tristan and Isolde.
Andrzej Panufnik: Heroic Overture
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 (Winter Dreams)
Tchaikovsky: Tugan Sokhiev, conductor
Richard Wagner: Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
11/12: Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 6
This week, experience the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, as Jaap van Zweden leads Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. The broadcast opens with Sir George Solti leading Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring soprano Yvonne Minton.
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6
11/19: Barenboim Conducts Bruckner 8
This broadcast features iconic recordings of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ninth music director, Daniel Barenboim, conducting Wagner’s Prelude to Lohengrin, Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8.
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Richard Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28
11/26: A Tribute to Pierre Boulez
The CSO celebrates Pierre Boulez! In this broadcast, we hear Boulez, the CSO’s longtime principal guest
conductor and later Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, conducting the CSO in Stravinsky, Scriabin,
Varèse, Schoenberg and Bartók. In between, the CSO’s ninth music director Daniel Barenboim leads
Boulez’s Notations VII.
Igor Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4
Pierre Boulez, conductor
(Deutsche Grammophon 1992)
Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Anatol Ugorski, piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director)
(Deutsche Grammophon 1996)
Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Pierre Boulez, conductor
(Erato 1991)
Béla Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin No. 2
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
(Deutsche Grammophon 1998)
Pierre Boulez: Notations VII
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
(Teldec 2000)
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Roxana Constantinescu, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone
(CSO Resound 2009)