Evening Concert

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast

Opera Without Words
 

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “Illinois Classical” it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture No. 3”, Rossini’s “Overture to William Tell”, and music by Strauss, Copland, Wagner, and Glinka.  

Tuesday, October 28, 7:00 pm: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 25-44)

Opera without Words

Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla. Fritz Reiner, conductor; 1959 (RCA)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b. Sir Georg Solti, conductor; 1972 (London)

Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier. Fritz Reiner, conductor; 1957 (RCA)

Aaron Copland: Suite from The Tender Land. Fritz Reiner, conductor; 1958 (CSO: The First 100 Years)

Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana. Riccardo Muti, conductor; 2017 (CSO Resound)

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to William Tell. Fritz Reiner, conductor; 1958 (RCA)

Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre. Artur Rodzinski, cond.; 1948 (CSO: The First 100 Years)

Richard Wagner: Forest Murmurs from Siegfried. Daniel Barenboim, conductor; 1991 (Erato)

Richard Wagner: Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung. Daniel Barenboim, conductor; 1991 (Erato)