Muti Conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s 3rd Symphony
The "theme" is "Polish"......
Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Carnegie Hall Live tonight: Debussy, et.al.
All three works tonight have some connection to the sea...
Eschenbach + CSO + Bruckner’s 9th Symphony on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Coincidence? Bruckner's 9th Symphony is in the 'key' of D Minor as is Beethoven's 9th. . .find out tonight.
Donald Runnicles leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony
What is it with "5th Symphonies" (Beethoven, Dvorak, Mahler, others) being such amazing works? Tonight's Mahler 5th Symphony includes the "time-stopping Adagietto" movement.
Stephane Deneve conducts the CSO in Berlioz’ “Symphonie fantastique”
A purely musical melodrama, Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" describes the life of an artist, replete with unrequited love, witches, guillotines and colorful hallucinations.