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22 23 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI ZELL MUSIC DIRECTOR

Celebrating the Legacy of Riccardo Muti and the CSO Save Up To 40% When You Subscribe

WELCOME

to the 2022/23 Season!

Join us this year for Riccardo Muti’s final season as CSO Zell Music Director, which pays tribute to his remarkable bond with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and celebrates the communicative power of his musicmaking that has excited Chicago audiences over these past 13 years.

This season, the CSO will perform key works from Muti’s Chicago years, including Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, which capped his first concert with the Orchestra 50 years ago next summer; Respighi’s Pines of Rome, the dazzling finale of his first concert as music director, in Millennium Park in 2010, and, together with the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Chorus, the maestro’s first Chicago performances of Beethoven’s sublime Missa solemnis, a towering work of sacred vocal expression and a testament to the very soul and spirit of music.

Muti’s concerts combine classics with new discoveries and reunite him with longtime colleagues and friends, highlighting pianist Yefim Bronfman, violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Maurizio Pollini, who is making his first appearance with the Orchestra in a decade.

Continuing his annual tradition of showcasing the Orchestra’s outstanding musicianship, Muti joins Concertmaster Robert Chen in Mozart, longtime Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny in the concerto Lalo Schifrin wrote with him in mind, and David Herbert, one of Muti’s earliest principal appointments, in William Kraft’s First Timpani Concerto.

With these unmissable programs, Riccardo Muti concludes one of the most extraordinary chapters in our Orchestra’s history. Guarantee your seats at the best prices of the season by subscribing today.

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“Culture affects our soul, our mind and the interrelationship between people…

We are here to give you emotions, to give you the sound of beauty, of harmony — that sound that the world is forgetting. So, I am so happy to see all of you in this historic hall, in front of an orchestra that is more than 130 years old, that has given beauty and music and enrichment to many generations. “

RICCARDO MUTI, ZELL MUSIC DIRECTOR CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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CSO Evenings

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Tuesday A |

5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶

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Vivaldi Gloria Experience the uplifting power of Antonio Vivaldi’s joyous Gloria, with its gleaming vocal fireworks and richly embroidered orchestral passages. Early-music specialist Giovanni Antonini conducts this and other Vivaldi treasures, including the Magnificat, in all its variety and invention; the luminous nobility of La Senna festeggiante, and the poignant Kyrie.

GIOVANNI ANTONINI

SEP

27 Muti & Bronfman Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Yefim Bronfman piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude UNITED STATES PREMIERE BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

NOV

1

Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Xian Zhang conductor NGWENYAMA Primal Message

APR

4

GRIEG Piano Concerto

Simon Trpčeski piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6

Boccherini, Vivaldi & Mozart 40 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Labadie conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas guitar BOCCHERINI Symphony No. 26 in C Minor VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 BOCCHERINI Fandango from Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major MOZART Symphony No. 40 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAY

9

Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria

MAY

VIVALDI Magnificat

23 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)

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Robert Chen violin

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4

Tuesday B |

5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶

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Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Come along for an engrossing program of musical storytelling as Thomas Adès conducts Liszt’s swirling treatment of the Faust legend, Janáček’s depiction of a 17th-century Cossack warrior and Sibelius’ incidental music to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Kirill Gerstein presents Adès’ own Piano Concerto, “an affectionate, joyous, remarkably uncomplicated tribute to tradition” (The New York Times).

THOMAS ADÈS

OCT

25 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8

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DEC

Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms SERIES HIGHLIGHT BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 SERIES HIGHLIGHT SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

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APR

Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor Kirill Gerstein piano LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest

MAY

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba

16 Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2

JUN

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Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL La valse

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Thursday F |

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Amadeus Live Experience the Academy Award®-winning 1984 film on screen while Mozart’s celebrated works are performed live by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. This riveting film classic tells a story of envy between Vienna court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and the raffish but gifted young Mozart (Tom Hulce).

AMADEUS LIVE IS A PRODUCTION OF AVEX CLASSICS INTERNATIONAL.

OCT

13 Amadeus Live Chicago Symphony Orchestra Constantine Kitsopoulos conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus

NOV 3

Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5

FEB

16 Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä conductor LÓPEZ Aino UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION MAHLER Symphony No. 5

APR

20 Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fabien Gabel conductor Daniil Trifonov piano LIADOV Kikimora STRAVINSKY Petrushka RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAY

25 Muti, Herbert & Pines of Rome Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor

David Herbert timpani

MOZART Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 KRAFT Timpani Concerto No. 1 RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I RESPIGHI Pines of Rome SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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Combine Thursday F and G for a complete 10-concert

Thursday G |

5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶

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Muti & Bronfman A new season begins as dazzling pianist Yefim Bronfman joins Riccardo Muti and the CSO in Brahms’ unabashedly vigorous and stirring First Piano Concerto. Tchaikovsky’s joyful Second Symphony quotes folk melodies from Ukraine. The program opens with the U.S. premiere of a long-lost and recently discovered score by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a British composer of African descent.

RICCARDO MUTI

SEP

22 Muti & Bronfman Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Yefim Bronfman piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude UNITED STATES PREMIERE BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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DEC

Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor

Hilary Hahn violin

TARRODI Birds of Paradise II TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra MAR

16 Carmina burana Chicago Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Reginald Mobley countertenor Elliot Madore baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director MONTGOMERY Banner RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus ORFF Carmina burana SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAR

30 Boccherini, Vivaldi & Mozart 40 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Labadie conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas guitar BOCCHERINI Symphony No. 26 in C Minor VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 BOCCHERINI Fandango from Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major MOZART Symphony No. 40

JUN

15

Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor

Gene Pokorny tuba

J. STRAUSS, JR. Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves SCHIFRIN Tuba Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Great)

Thursday A package and save up to 40%! See page 32.

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Thursday H |

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Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Mahler “peacefully bids farewell to the world” is how the composer’s protégé Bruno Walter described the finale to his Ninth Symphony. This valedictory score contains the many hallmarks of Mahler’s symphonies — their grand scale, profound emotions and folk dance themes — capped by an ethereal finale that achieves a sense of transcendent rapture.

JAKUB HRŮŠA

SEP

29 Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor ROSSINI Overture to Il viaggio a Reims MOZART Symphony No. 39 PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

NOV

17 Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Gautier Capuçon cello GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila AUERBACH Diary of a Madman UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

FEB

23 Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor SCHUMANN Violin Concerto

APR

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TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony SERIES HIGHLIGHT

Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest

JUN

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Julia Fischer violin

Kirill Gerstein piano

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba

Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 9

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Combine Thursday H and I for a complete 10-concert

Thursday I |

5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶

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Grieg Piano Concerto & Prokofiev 6 Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony was a risky undertaking in post-World War II Russia: a personal meditation on suffering and loss that he described as agitated, lyrical and austere. Pianist Simon Trpčeski animates the romantic flourishes of Grieg’s Piano Concerto while Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message is a fantasia inspired by the 1974 Aricebo interstellar radio transmission.

XIAN ZHANG

OCT

27 Grieg Piano Concerto & Prokofiev 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Xian Zhang conductor NGWENYAMA Primal Message PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6

DEC

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Simon Trpčeski piano

GRIEG Piano Concerto

Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAR

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SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductor Andrei Ioniță cello DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

APR

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

27 Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)

MAY

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Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2

Thursday B package and save up to 40%! See page 32.

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Thursday D |

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CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Dancers from Chicago’s world-renowned Joffrey Ballet invigorate the Symphony Center stage with two newly commissioned choreographies set to Siegfried Idyll, Wagner’s glowing birthday gift to his wife, and Rameau’s vivid ballet, composed for a royal wedding at the Palace of Versailles. Ravel evokes Baroque dance in Le tombeau de Couperin, with each movement becoming a touching tribute to friends who died in World War I. The program opens with the beguiling elegance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 34.

OCT

20 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8

NOV

10 CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harry Bicket conductor The Joffrey Ballet Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director

MOZART Symphony No. 34 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin RAMEAU Suite from Platée WAGNER Siegfried Idyll New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE

Cathy Marston choreography FEB

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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreography

Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Beatrice Rana piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (Classical) RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances SERIES HIGHLIGHT

APR 13

Mikko Franck & Hilary Hahn Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mikko Franck conductor

Hilary Hahn violin

R. STRAUSS Don Juan SERIES HIGHLIGHT RAUTAVAARA/AHO Deux Sérénades SARASATE Carmen Fantasy R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier MAY

18 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)

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Robert Chen violin

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4

Combine Thursday D and E for a complete 10-concert

Thursday E |

5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶

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Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition

MAURIZIO POLLINI

OCT

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Mussorgsky, shaken by the passing of his friend, the artist Victor Hartmann, turned his grief into music, composing his lavishly evocative 10-movement suite inspired by Hartmann’s sketches. Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Ravel’s iconic orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition.

Renowned pianist Maurizio Pollini makes his longawaited return to the stage with the CSO in Mozart’s dark-hued final piano concerto. The program opens with Franck’s supernatural thriller The Accursed Huntsman.

Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor

Maurizio Pollini piano

FRANCK Le chasseur maudit MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 MUSSORGSKY (ORCH. RAVEL) Pictures from an Exhibition

15 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

DEC

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice SERIES HIGHLIGHT POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ) MAR

23 Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins conductor Stephen Williamson clarinet COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha Suite COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAY

4

Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria

JUN

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VIVALDI Magnificat

Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL La valse

Thursday C package and save up to 40%! See page 32.

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Friday C |

5-Concert Series at 8:00 ✶

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Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances In a program celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov’s birth, Lahav Shani conducts the composer’s Symphonic Dances, which marries diabolical, jazzy melodies with plush, old-world grandeur. Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody, a set of 24 variations that crackle with wit and furious energy. Prokofiev’s delightful Classical Symphony opens the program.

LAHAV SHANI

Oct 7

Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor

Maurizio Pollini piano

FRANCK Le chasseur maudit MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 MUSSORGSKY (ORCH. RAVEL) Pictures from an Exhibition NOV

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CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harry Bicket conductor The Joffrey Ballet Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director MOZART Symphony No. 34 WAGNER Siegfried Idyll SERIES HIGHLIGHT New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE

Cathy Marston choreography

RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin RAMEAU Suite from Platée New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreography

10 Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

FEB

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Beatrice Rana piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (Classical) RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances MAY

5

Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria

JUN

9

VIVALDI Magnificat

Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 9 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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Friday D |

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Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story Marin Alsop shines a light on the rich panorama of women composers. The program includes Her Story by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe. Says Wolfe, “From Abigail Adams, to Sojourner Truth, to a multitude of contemporary voices, Her Story captures the passion and perseverance of women demanding representation and leading the fight for equality.

Ten female singers of the Lorelei Ensemble team up with the Chicago Symphony to tell this important part of American political history.”

MARIN ALSOP

OCT

21 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8

NOV

4

Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5

JAN

6

Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story Chicago Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor

Lorelei Ensemble

Program to include: WOLFE Her Story CSO CO-COMMISSION APR

28 Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

JUN

23 Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Erin Morley soprano Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano Giovanni Sala tenor Ildar Abdrazakov bass Chicago Symphony Chorus BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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“Mozart said that the most profound music is the one that hides between the notes. It’s an incredible idea: between two notes, even if closely linked, there is infinity. The mystery is there, in that space that encloses the universe.

The task of the musician and therefore of the conductor of the orchestra is precisely that, to be able to give voice and interpret the music that exists between two notes: in short, to bring out what is not written followed rigorously by what is. It is a great responsibility.”

— FROM THE BOOK L’INFINITO TRA LE NOTE BY RICCARDO MUTI

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Saturday C |

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Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Schubert’s magnificent final symphony and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves bookend this program with distinctive Viennese touches.

CSO Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny takes the spotlight in a concerto written for him by Lalo Schifrin (best known for his Mission: Impossible theme), which incorporates Baroque and jazz influences.

GENE POKORNY

OCT

15 Amadeus Live

NOTE START TIME: 7:30

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Constantine Kitsopoulos conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus NOV

19 Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Gautier Capuçon cello GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila AUERBACH Diary of a Madman UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

FEB

25 Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor SCHUMANN Violin Concerto

APR

8

TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony

Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest

JUN

17

Julia Fischer violin

Kirill Gerstein piano

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba

Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor

Gene Pokorny tuba

J. STRAUSS, JR. Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves SCHIFRIN Tuba Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Great) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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Saturday D |

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Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony marked a personal comeback after a debilitating crisis of confidence.

In the spring of 2023, a century and a half after the composer’s birth, Riccardo Muti conducts this sumptuous score, along with a world premiere by Mead Composerin-Residence Jessie Montgomery, who writes with “a Technicolor brilliance and harmonic plushness perfect for the CSO’s own heart-on-its-sleeve proclivities” (Chicago Tribune).

JESSIE MONTGOMERY

OCT

8

Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor

Maurizio Pollini piano

FRANCK Le chasseur maudit MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 MUSSORGSKY (ORCH. RAVEL) Pictures from an Exhibition SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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DEC

Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2

18 Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5

FEB

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä conductor LÓPEZ Aino UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION MAHLER Symphony No. 5 MAY

13 Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2

JUN

10 Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 9 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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Saturday E |

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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Iconoclastic organist Cameron Carpenter, “one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument” (Los Angeles Times), takes on Poulenc’s sparkling, Baroque-infused concerto, followed by the elegance and floor-shaking grandeur of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony.

CAMERON CARPENTER

NOV

5

Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5

DEC

17 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ)

MAR

11

Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductor Andrei Ioniță cello DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

APR

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

22 Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fabien Gabel conductor Daniil Trifonov piano LIADOV Kikimora STRAVINSKY Petrushka RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAY

20 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)

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Robert Chen violin

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4

Combine Saturday E and F for a complete 10-concert

Saturday F |

5-Concert Series at 8:00 ✶

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Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9

THOMAS WILKINS

OCT 1

Thomas Wilkins conducts three works featuring unique musical visions of America, capped with Dvořák’s majestic New World Symphony, which draws on African American and Native American source materials. Coleridge-Taylor’s ballet suite captures the spirit of Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. CSO Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson performs Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, premiered by Benny Goodman, which features a rollicking blend of jazz and classical sounds.

Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor ROSSINI Overture to Il viaggio a Reims MOZART Symphony No. 39 PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

JAN

7

Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story Chicago Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor

Lorelei Ensemble

Program to include: WOLFE Her Story CSO CO-COMMISSION MAR

25 Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins conductor Stephen Williamson clarinet COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha Suite COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)

MAY

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Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Magnificat VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria SERIES HIGHLIGHT

JUN

3

Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL La valse

Saturday A package and save up to 40%! See page 32.

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Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Dalia Stasevska surveys three concertos, from Bartók’s glittering late masterpiece — which shows off every section of the orchestra — to the scampering, playful sounds of Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise II. CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn joins the Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s thrilling and tender Violin Concerto.

HILARY HAHN

OCT

22 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

DEC

10 Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor TARRODI Birds of Paradise II TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

MAR

Hilary Hahn violin

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

18 Carmina burana Chicago Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Reginald Mobley countertenor Elliot Madore baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director MONTGOMERY Banner RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus ORFF Carmina burana SERIES HIGHLIGHT

APR

15

Mikko Franck & Hilary Hahn Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mikko Franck conductor

Hilary Hahn violin

R. STRAUSS Don Juan RAUTAVAARA/AHO Deux Sérénades SARASATE Carmen Fantasy R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier MAY

27 Muti, Herbert & Pines of Rome Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor MOZART Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I

22

David Herbert timpani

KRAFT Timpani Concerto No. 1 RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

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Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Vladimir Jurowski marks his return to Symphony Center with Shostakovich’s monumental Leningrad Symphony, a loving hymn to the composer’s native city and its heroism amid the 900-day siege during World War II. The vivid Seventh Symphony reverberates with the echoes of war, from the relentless, mechanized rhythms of the first movement to the fragile, victorious strains of the finale.

VLADIMIR JUROWSKI

NOV

12 CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harry Bicket conductor The Joffrey Ballet Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director MOZART Symphony No. 34 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin RAMEAU Suite from Platée WAGNER Siegfried Idyll New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE

Cathy Marston choreography FEB

11

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreography

Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Beatrice Rana piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (Classical) RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances

APR

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Boccherini, Vivaldi & Mozart 40 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Labadie conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas guitar BOCCHERINI Symphony No. 26 in C Minor VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 BOCCHERINI Fandango from Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major MOZART Symphony No. 40 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

APR

29 Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)

JUN

24 Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Erin Morley soprano Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano Giovanni Sala tenor Ildar Abdrazakov bass Chicago Symphony Chorus BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis SERIES HIGHLIGHT

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Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Few mass settings pose more questions of listeners than Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. A fervent meditation on faith and doubt, the piece spans moments of ecstasy and angst, soaring beauty and near-operatic theatricality.

Riccardo Muti leads this rarely performed score with a thrilling quartet of international singers and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

NOV

20 Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Gautier Capuçon cello GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila AUERBACH Diary of a Madman UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

18 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

DEC

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice SERIES HIGHLIGHT POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ) MAR

12 Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductor Andrei Ioniță cello DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

MAR

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8

26 Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins conductor Stephen Williamson clarinet COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha Suite COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

APR

23 Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fabien Gabel conductor Daniil Trifonov piano LIADOV Kikimora

JUN

STRAVINSKY Petrushka

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3

25 Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Erin Morley soprano Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano Giovanni Sala tenor Ildar Abdrazakov bass Chicago Symphony Chorus BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis

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30 Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor ROSSINI Overture to Il viaggio a Reims PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

OCT

MOZART Symphony No. 39

28 Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Xian Zhang conductor NGWENYAMA Primal Message PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6

DEC

2

Simon Trpčeski piano

GRIEG Piano Concerto

Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

DEC 16

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ)

FEB

24 Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor SCHUMANN Violin Concerto

APR

Julia Fischer violin

TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony SERIES HIGHLIGHT

14 Mikko Franck & Hilary Hahn Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mikko Franck conductor

Hilary Hahn violin

R. STRAUSS Don Juan RAUTAVAARA/AHO Deux Sérénades SARASATE Carmen Fantasy R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier MAY

12 Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE SERIES HIGHLIGHT RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 SERIES HIGHLIGHT

MAY

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Friday B | SEP

8-Concert Series at 1:30

23 Muti & Bronfman Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Yefim Bronfman piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude UNITED STATES PREMIERE BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian)

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DEC

Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor

Hilary Hahn violin

TARRODI Birds of Paradise II TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

17

FEB

Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä conductor LÓPEZ Aino UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION

MAR

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MAHLER Symphony No. 5

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Reginald Mobley countertenor Elliot Madore baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director MONTGOMERY Banner RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus ORFF Carmina burana

7

APR

Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest

MAY

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba

19 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)

JUN

Kirill Gerstein piano

2

Robert Chen violin

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4

Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer SERIES HIGHLIGHT RAVEL La valse

JUN

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Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor J. STRAUSS, JR. Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Great) SERIES HIGHLIGHT

Gene Pokorny tuba SCHIFRIN Tuba Concerto

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More Music at Symphony Center CSO CLASSICAL Symphony Ball

PIANO NOV 6 David Fray

CSO AT THE MOVIES

JAN 29 Leif Ove Andsnes

SEP 24

OCT 13-16

FEB 26

Amadeus

Marc-André Hamelin

NOV 25-27

The Princess Bride MAR 24

An Evening with John Williams JUN 29-JULY 1

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens CSO FOR KIDS: FAMILY MATINEES Perfect for ages 5-12 Saturdays at 11:00 & 12:45 NOV 19

Exploring the Orchestra: A Universe of Music

APR 2

Emanuel Ax

APR 16

Evgeny Kissin

MAY 7

Víkingur Ólafsson

MAY 21

Seong-Jin Cho

Maria João Pires MAY 28

CHAMBER MUSIC OCT 23 Midori & Jean-Yves Thibaudet FEB 5

FEB 11

Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter Virtuosi

MAY 6

MAR 2

In Pursuit of Dreams Downtown Sounds CSO FOR KIDS: ONCE UPON A SYMPHONY ® Perfect for ages 3-5 Saturdays at 10:00 & 11:45 DEC 3

JAN 7

Stone Soup

FEB 25

The Elves and the Shoemaker CSO MusicNOW at Symphony Center

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MAR 19

Hilary Hahn

APR 30 Jerusalem Quartet with Pinchas Zukerman & Amanda Forsyth JUN 4

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Joshua Bell & Daniil Trifonov

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Emerson String Quartet & Emanuel Ax

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass MAR 5

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Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour: Celebrating 65 Years

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Riccardo Muti conducts a rousing start to the 2022/23 Season. After opening with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lush — and recently rediscovered — Solemn Prelude, the CSO is joined by the formidable Yefim Bronfman in Mozart’s joyous and richly scored piano concerto. The evening ends with a knockout finale in Tchaikovsky’s brilliant 1812 Overture.

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