Dutoit Conducts the CSO in music of Ravel, Debussy, Strauss and Salonen on the “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Charle Dutoit guest conducts the group in Ravel’s “Rapsodie espagnole” and Debussy’s “Images for Orchestra”. Also on the program, pianist Louis Lortie plays Franck’s “Symphonic Variations” and is featured in D’Indy’s “Symphony on a French Mountain Air”. [Franck is the "outlier": he's Belgian; the others, French....]

Tuesday May 19: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #15-20)

Dutoit Conducts Ravel

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnol

D’Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Louis Lortie, piano)

Franck: Symphonic Variations (Louis Lortie, piano)

Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé      

Debussy: Images