Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Wheaton College 2020/21

2020/21 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT WHEATON

acclaimed conductors and guest artists join the world-renowned cso to perform symphonic masterworks in the western suburbs.

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chopin & the mermaid

Emmanuel Krivine conductor

Yulianna Avdeeva piano Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Zemlinsky The Mermaid

Emmanuel Krivine conducts Berlioz’s colorful evocation of Carnival celebrations, Chopin’s dazzling First Piano Concerto and Zemlinsky’s lavishly scored symphonic fantasy, The Mermaid, E MMANUEL KRIVINE based on Hans Christian Andersen’s undersea fairy tale.

february 5

elgar cello concerto with capuçon

Osmo Vänskä conductor

Gautier Capuçon cello Saariaho Winter Sky from Orion Elgar Cello Concerto Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä leads his compatriot Kaija Saariaho’s haunting, glittering Winter Sky and Mendelssohn’s vivid musical landscape painting of Scotland. Gautier Capuçon, an artist with “virtuosity to burn” (Chicago Tribune), takes GAUTIER CAPUÇON on Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.

april 16 mahler 7

Simone Young conductor

Mahler Symphony No. 7

Australian conductor Simone Young, celebrated for her “commanding presence, bristling with energy and purpose” (New York Classical Review), leads Mahler’s enigmatic Seventh Symphony on the 100th anniversary of its U.S. premiere by the CSO on April 15, 1921.

SIMONE YOUNG

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