This weekly program presents concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading orchestras in the United States, and its acclaimed Music Director Riccardo Muti. Hosted by Lisa Simeone, the series features live concert performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, recorded at Symphony Center, alongside selections from the orchestra's expansive catalog of commercial recordings. Every program is designed to illustrate fascinating stories found inside the music, as well as present insights from the performers themselves.
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Richard Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Riccardo Muti, conductor
John Corigliano: Campane di Ravello
Edward Elgar: In the South
Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel): Pictures from an Exhibition
Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams"
Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Alberto Mizrahi, narrator
Arnold Schoenberg: Kol Nidre
Dmitri Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Mason Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology
Hector Berlioz: Fantasy on The Tempest by Shakespeare from Lélio
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Rosa Feola, soprano
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
Claude Debussy: Gigues from Images for Orchestra
Bela Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Thomas Adès: …but all shall be well
Carlos Miguel Prieto and Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductors
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Cynthia Yeh, percussion
Sergei Prokofiev: Suite from Lt. Kijé
James MacMillan: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemaya
Witold Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Witold Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Till Fellner, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
Edward Elgar: In the South "Alassio"
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Mark Elder, Jaap van Zweden and Jay Friedman, conductors
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Overture to The Wasps
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1
Benjamin Britten: Suite on English Folk Songs "A time there was"
William Walton: Crown Imperial
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor and pianist
Robert Chen, violin; Charles Pikler, viola; John Sharp, cello; Alexander Hanna, bass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K. 540
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 "The Trout"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
