Edo de Waart conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss’ music

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 guest conductor Edo de Waart leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in an all- Richard Strauss program featuring the “Oboe Concerto” with Principal Oboist Eugene Izotov.  Also on the program the “Metamorphoses”, the “Serenade in E-flat and the “Four Last Songs”. Read the program notes here (and the at the links provided there): http://cso.org/uploadedFiles/1_Tickets_and_Events/Program_Notes/ProgramNotes_de_Waart_Conducts_All-Strauss.pdf

Tuesday March 24: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #15-11)

De Waart Conducts Richard Strauss

Strauss: Serenade in E-flat Major

Strauss: Metamorphosen

Strauss: Oboe Concerto (Eugene Izotov, oboe)

Strauss: Four Last Songs (Susanna Phillips, soprano)

[CSO fill: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”: movement II (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)]