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TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Mahler 3
Sunday, Oct 14, 3:00 p.m.

Mahler Symphony No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor
Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
Charles Sundquist director
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Sunday, Nov 18, 3:00 p.m.

Sibelius Nocturne and Ballade from King Christian II
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky
Sunday, Feb 17, 3:00 p.m.

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Simon Trpčeski piano
Beethoven Emperor Concerto
Sunday, Mar 10, 3:00 p.m.

Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham conductor
Nicholas Angelich piano
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Sunday, May 26, 3:00 p.m.

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Chabrier España
Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas guitar
Muti Conducts Verdi Aida
Sunday, Jun 23, 3:00 p.m.

Verdi Aida

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Krassimira Stoyanova soprano (Aida)
Anita Rachvelishvili mezzo-soprano (Amneris)
Francesco Meli tenor (Radamès)
Kiril Manolov baritone (Amonasro)
Ildar Abdrazakov bass (Ramfis)
Eric Owens bass-baritone (The King)
Issachah Savage tenor (Messenger)
Kimberly Gunderson soprano (The Priestess)
Tasha Koontz soprano (The Priestess)

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Haitink Conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
Tuesday, Oct 30, 7:30 p.m.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Paul Lewis piano
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Tuesday, Dec 11, 7:30 p.m.

Wagner Overture to Rienzi
R. Strauss Four Last Songs
Nielsen Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Erin Wall soprano
Ax Plays Brahms
Tuesday, Apr 23, 7:30 p.m.

Bartók Dance Suite
Debussy Printemps
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 p.m.

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
Muti Conducts Verdi Aida
Tuesday, Jun 25, 7:30 p.m.

Verdi Aida

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Krassimira Stoyanova soprano (Aida)
Anita Rachvelishvili mezzo-soprano (Amneris)
Francesco Meli tenor (Radamès)
Kiril Manolov baritone (Amonasro)
Ildar Abdrazakov bass (Ramfis)
Eric Owens bass-baritone (The King)
Issachah Savage tenor (Messenger)
Kimberly Gunderson soprano (The Priestess)
Tasha Koontz soprano (The Priestess)

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar
Tuesday, Sep 25, 7:30 p.m.

Prokofiev Sinfonietta
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Alexey Tikhomirov bass
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Chen Leads All-Mozart
Tuesday, Dec 4, 7:30 p.m.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 (Strassburg)
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen concertmaster and violin
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Salonen Conducts Strauss & Bartók
Tuesday, Apr 2, 7:30 p.m.

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
John Relyea bass
Muti Conducts Pines of Rome
Tuesday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.

Bizet Roma
Berlioz The Death of Cleopatra, Lyric Scene for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
Respighi Pines of Rome

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Simone Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms
Tuesday, Jun 11, 7:30 p.m.

Liszt Prometheus
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Mahler 3
Friday, Oct 12, 1:30 p.m.

Mahler Symphony No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor
Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
Charles Sundquist director
Barenboim Conducts Smetana Má vlast
Friday, Nov 2, 1:30 p.m.

Smetana Má vlast

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Tilson Thomas Conducts Tchaikovsky 6
Friday, Dec 14, 1:30 p.m.

Stravinsky Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Elgar Enigma Variations
Friday, Jan 11, 1:30 p.m.

Ives, orch. Schuman Variations on “America”
Ives & Lowry, arr. Adams At the River
Copland Selections from Old American Songs
Still In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
Damrosch & Kipling Danny Deever
Daugherty Letter to Mrs. Bixby from Letters from Lincoln
Corigliano One Sweet Morning from One Sweet Morning
Elgar Enigma Variations

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Thomas Hampson baritone
Muti Conducts the Mozart Requiem
Friday, Feb 22, 1:30 p.m.

Schuman Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine)
Mozart Requiem

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Benedetta Torre soprano
Sara Mingardo contralto
Saimir Pirgu tenor
Mika Kares bass
Shostakovich 9
Friday, Apr 5, 1:30 p.m.

Borodin Symphony No. 2
Dvořák Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Ax Plays Brahms
Friday, Apr 19, 1:30 p.m.

Bartók Dance Suite
Debussy Printemps
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Muti Conducts An American in Paris & Tchaikovsky
Friday, Jun 14, 1:30 p.m.

Gershwin An American in Paris
Stephenson Bass Trombone Concerto [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Charles Vernon bass trombone

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Brahms
Friday, Oct 5, 1:30 p.m.

Beethoven Overture to Egmont
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Hindemith Symphony, Mathis der Maler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
David Fray piano
Trifonov Plays Prokofiev
Friday, Oct 19, 1:30 p.m.

Mantovani Threnos [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Bridge Lament
Copland Symphony No. 3

Bach/Rachmaninov Gigue from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 [10/18 ENCORE]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
Bruno Mantovani composer
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Friday, Dec 7, 1:30 p.m.

Wagner Overture to Rienzi
R. Strauss Four Last Songs
Nielsen Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Erin Wall soprano
Handel Messiah
Friday, Dec 21, 1:30 p.m.

Handel Messiah

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Halls conductor
Amanda Forsythe soprano
Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan tenor
Joshua Hopkins baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Wagner
Friday, Mar 15, 1:30 p.m.

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims Overture
Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 444
Benshoof Concerto in Three Movements
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Jennifer Gunn piccolo
Chopin & The Mermaid
Friday, Apr 12, 1:30 p.m.

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Friday, May 24, 1:30 p.m.

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Chabrier España
Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas guitar
Simone Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms
Friday, Jun 7, 1:30 p.m.

Liszt Prometheus
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Sheherazade
Friday, Sep 28, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Muti Conducts the Verdi Requiem
Friday, Nov 9, 8:00 p.m.

Verdi Requiem Mass

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Vittoria Yeo soprano
Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczala tenor
Dmitry Belosselskiy bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Salonen Conducts Strauss & Bartók
Friday, Mar 29, 8:00 p.m.

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
John Relyea bass
Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Friday, May 17, 8:00 p.m.

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
Stravinsky & The Joffrey Ballet
Friday, May 31, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ravel Mother Goose
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Stravinsky Suite from Pulcinella
Commedia
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Joffrey Ballet

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
The Joffrey Ballet
Ashley Wheater artistic director
Christopher Wheeldon choreographer

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar
Friday, Sep 21, 8:00 p.m.

Prokofiev Sinfonietta
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Alexey Tikhomirov bass
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Chen Leads All-Mozart
Friday, Nov 30, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 (Strassburg)
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen concertmaster and violin
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Mahler 1
Friday, Apr 26, 8:00 p.m.

Elgar Cello Concerto
Mahler Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Znaider conductor
Gautier Capuçon cello
Muti, Uchida & Mozart
Friday, May 10, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20
Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Muti Conducts Verdi Aida
Friday, Jun 21, 8:00 p.m.

Verdi Aida

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Krassimira Stoyanova soprano (Aida)
Anita Rachvelishvili mezzo-soprano (Amneris)
Francesco Meli tenor (Radamès)
Kiril Manolov baritone (Amonasro)
Ildar Abdrazakov bass (Ramfis)
Eric Owens bass-baritone (The King)
Issachah Savage tenor (Messenger)
Kimberly Gunderson soprano (The Priestess)
Tasha Koontz soprano (The Priestess)

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Sheherazade
Saturday, Sep 29, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Haitink Conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
Saturday, Oct 27, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Paul Lewis piano
Muti Conducts the Verdi Requiem
Saturday, Nov 10, 8:00 p.m.

Verdi Requiem Mass

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Vittoria Yeo soprano
Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczala tenor
Dmitry Belosselskiy bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Tilson Thomas Conducts Tchaikovsky 6
Saturday, Dec 15, 8:00 p.m.

Stravinsky Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Elgar Enigma Variations
Saturday, Jan 12, 8:00 p.m.

Ives, orch. Schuman Variations on “America”
Ives & Lowry, arr. Adams At the River
Copland Selections from Old American Songs
Still In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
Damrosch & Kipling Danny Deever
Daugherty Letter to Mrs. Bixby from Letters from Lincoln
Corigliano One Sweet Morning from One Sweet Morning
Elgar Enigma Variations

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Thomas Hampson baritone
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
Saturday, Mar 23, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin
Ax Plays Brahms
Saturday, Apr 20, 8:00 p.m.

Bartók Dance Suite
Debussy Printemps
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Muti, Uchida & Mozart
Saturday, May 11, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20
Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Saturday, May 25, 8:00 p.m.

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Chabrier España
Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas guitar
Simone Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms
Saturday, Jun 8, 8:00 p.m.

Liszt Prometheus
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar
Saturday, Sep 22, 8:00 p.m.

Prokofiev Sinfonietta
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Alexey Tikhomirov bass
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Barenboim Conducts Smetana Má vlast
Saturday, Nov 3, 8:00 p.m.

Smetana Má vlast

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Chen Leads All-Mozart
Saturday, Dec 1, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 (Strassburg)
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen concertmaster and violin
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Handel Messiah
Saturday, Dec 22, 8:00 p.m.

Handel Messiah

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Halls conductor
Amanda Forsythe soprano
Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan tenor
Joshua Hopkins baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky
Saturday, Feb 16, 8:00 p.m.

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Simon Trpčeski piano
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Wagner
Saturday, Mar 16, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims Overture
Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 444
Benshoof Concerto in Three Movements
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Jennifer Gunn piccolo
Chopin & The Mermaid
Saturday, Apr 13, 8:00 p.m.

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Saturday, May 18, 8:00 p.m.

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
Stravinsky & The Joffrey Ballet
Saturday, Jun 1, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ravel Mother Goose
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Stravinsky Suite from Pulcinella
Commedia
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Joffrey Ballet

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
The Joffrey Ballet
Ashley Wheater artistic director
Christopher Wheeldon choreographer
Muti Conducts An American in Paris & Tchaikovsky
Saturday, Jun 15, 8:00 p.m.

Gershwin An American in Paris
Stephenson Bass Trombone Concerto [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Charles Vernon bass trombone

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Mahler 3
Saturday, Oct 13, 8:00 p.m.

Mahler Symphony No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor
Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
Charles Sundquist director
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Saturday, Dec 8, 8:00 p.m.

Wagner Overture to Rienzi
R. Strauss Four Last Songs
Nielsen Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Erin Wall soprano
Beethoven Emperor Concerto
Saturday, Mar 9, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham conductor
Nicholas Angelich piano
Shostakovich 9
Saturday, Apr 6, 8:00 p.m.

Borodin Symphony No. 2
Dvořák Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Muti Conducts Pines of Rome
Saturday, May 4, 8:00 p.m.

Bizet Roma
Berlioz The Death of Cleopatra, Lyric Scene for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
Respighi Pines of Rome

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Trifonov Plays Prokofiev
Saturday, Oct 20, 8:00 p.m.

Mantovani Threnos [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Bridge Lament
Copland Symphony No. 3

Bach/Rachmaninov Gigue from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 [10/18 ENCORE]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
Bruno Mantovani composer
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Saturday, Nov 17, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Nocturne and Ballade from King Christian II
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Muti Conducts the Mozart Requiem
Saturday, Feb 23, 8:00 p.m.

Schuman Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine)
Mozart Requiem

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Benedetta Torre soprano
Sara Mingardo contralto
Saimir Pirgu tenor
Mika Kares bass
Salonen Conducts Strauss & Bartók
Saturday, Mar 30, 8:00 p.m.

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
John Relyea bass
Mahler 1
Saturday, Apr 27, 8:00 p.m.

Elgar Cello Concerto
Mahler Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Znaider conductor
Gautier Capuçon cello

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Sheherazade
Saturday, Sep 29, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Tilson Thomas Conducts Tchaikovsky 6
Saturday, Dec 15, 8:00 p.m.

Stravinsky Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
Saturday, Mar 23, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin
Muti, Uchida & Mozart
Saturday, May 11, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20
Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Simone Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms
Saturday, Jun 8, 8:00 p.m.

Liszt Prometheus
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Haitink Conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
Saturday, Oct 27, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Paul Lewis piano
Muti Conducts the Verdi Requiem
Saturday, Nov 10, 8:00 p.m.

Verdi Requiem Mass

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Vittoria Yeo soprano
Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczala tenor
Dmitry Belosselskiy bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Elgar Enigma Variations
Saturday, Jan 12, 8:00 p.m.

Ives, orch. Schuman Variations on “America”
Ives & Lowry, arr. Adams At the River
Copland Selections from Old American Songs
Still In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
Damrosch & Kipling Danny Deever
Daugherty Letter to Mrs. Bixby from Letters from Lincoln
Corigliano One Sweet Morning from One Sweet Morning
Elgar Enigma Variations

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Thomas Hampson baritone
Ax Plays Brahms
Saturday, Apr 20, 8:00 p.m.

Bartók Dance Suite
Debussy Printemps
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Saturday, May 25, 8:00 p.m.

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Chabrier España
Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas guitar

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar
Saturday, Sep 22, 8:00 p.m.

Prokofiev Sinfonietta
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Alexey Tikhomirov bass
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Handel Messiah
Saturday, Dec 22, 8:00 p.m.

Handel Messiah

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Halls conductor
Amanda Forsythe soprano
Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan tenor
Joshua Hopkins baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky
Saturday, Feb 16, 8:00 p.m.

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Simon Trpčeski piano
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Wagner
Saturday, Mar 16, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims Overture
Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 444
Benshoof Concerto in Three Movements
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Jennifer Gunn piccolo
Stravinsky & The Joffrey Ballet
Saturday, Jun 1, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ravel Mother Goose
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Stravinsky Suite from Pulcinella
Commedia
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Joffrey Ballet

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
The Joffrey Ballet
Ashley Wheater artistic director
Christopher Wheeldon choreographer

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PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Barenboim Conducts Smetana Má vlast
Saturday, Nov 3, 8:00 p.m.

Smetana Má vlast

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Chen Leads All-Mozart
Saturday, Dec 1, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 (Strassburg)
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen concertmaster and violin
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Chopin & The Mermaid
Saturday, Apr 13, 8:00 p.m.

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Saturday, May 18, 8:00 p.m.

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
Muti Conducts An American in Paris & Tchaikovsky
Saturday, Jun 15, 8:00 p.m.

Gershwin An American in Paris
Stephenson Bass Trombone Concerto [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Charles Vernon bass trombone

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PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Mahler 3
Thursday, Oct 11, 8:00 p.m.

Mahler Symphony No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor
Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
Charles Sundquist director
Haitink Conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
Thursday, Oct 25, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Paul Lewis piano
Chen Leads All-Mozart
Thursday, Nov 29, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 (Strassburg)
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen concertmaster and violin
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Tilson Thomas Conducts Tchaikovsky 6
Thursday, Dec 13, 8:00 p.m.

Stravinsky Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Elgar Enigma Variations
Thursday, Jan 10, 8:00 p.m.

Ives, orch. Schuman Variations on “America”
Ives & Lowry, arr. Adams At the River
Copland Selections from Old American Songs
Still In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
Damrosch & Kipling Danny Deever
Daugherty Letter to Mrs. Bixby from Letters from Lincoln
Corigliano One Sweet Morning from One Sweet Morning
Elgar Enigma Variations

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Thomas Hampson baritone
Muti Conducts the Mozart Requiem
Thursday, Feb 21, 8:00 p.m.

Schuman Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine)
Mozart Requiem

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Benedetta Torre soprano
Sara Mingardo contralto
Saimir Pirgu tenor
Mika Kares bass
Ax Plays Brahms
Thursday, Apr 18, 8:00 p.m.

Bartók Dance Suite
Debussy Printemps
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Muti Conducts Pines of Rome
Thursday, May 2, 8:00 p.m.

Bizet Roma
Berlioz The Death of Cleopatra, Lyric Scene for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
Respighi Pines of Rome

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Thursday, May 16, 8:00 p.m.

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
Simone Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms
Thursday, Jun 6, 8:00 p.m.

Liszt Prometheus
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor

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PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Brahms
Thursday, Oct 4, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Overture to Egmont
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Hindemith Symphony, Mathis der Maler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
David Fray piano
Barenboim Conducts Smetana Má vlast
Thursday, Nov 1, 8:00 p.m.

Smetana Má vlast

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Thursday, Nov 15, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Nocturne and Ballade from King Christian II
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Handel Messiah
Thursday, Dec 20, 8:00 p.m.

Handel Messiah

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Halls conductor
Amanda Forsythe soprano
Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan tenor
Joshua Hopkins baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Wagner
Thursday, Mar 14, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims Overture
Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 444
Benshoof Concerto in Three Movements
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Jennifer Gunn piccolo
Salonen Conducts Strauss & Bartók
Thursday, Mar 28, 8:00 p.m.

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
John Relyea bass
Chopin & The Mermaid
Thursday, Apr 11, 8:00 p.m.

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Mahler 1
Thursday, Apr 25, 8:00 p.m.

Elgar Cello Concerto
Mahler Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Znaider conductor
Gautier Capuçon cello
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Thursday, May 23, 8:00 p.m.

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Chabrier España
Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas guitar
Muti Conducts An American in Paris & Tchaikovsky
Thursday, Jun 13, 8:00 p.m.

Gershwin An American in Paris
Stephenson Bass Trombone Concerto [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Charles Vernon bass trombone

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PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Sheherazade
Thursday, Sep 27, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Trifonov Plays Prokofiev
Thursday, Oct 18, 8:00 p.m.

Mantovani Threnos [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Bridge Lament
Copland Symphony No. 3

Bach/Rachmaninov Gigue from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 [10/18 ENCORE]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
Bruno Mantovani composer
Muti Conducts the Verdi Requiem
Thursday, Nov 8, 8:00 p.m.

Verdi Requiem Mass

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Vittoria Yeo soprano
Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczala tenor
Dmitry Belosselskiy bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Thursday, Dec 6, 8:00 p.m.

Wagner Overture to Rienzi
R. Strauss Four Last Songs
Nielsen Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Erin Wall soprano
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky
Thursday, Feb 14, 8:00 p.m.

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Simon Trpčeski piano
Beethoven Emperor Concerto
Thursday, Mar 7, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham conductor
Nicholas Angelich piano
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
Thursday, Mar 21, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin
Shostakovich 9
Thursday, Apr 4, 8:00 p.m.

Borodin Symphony No. 2
Dvořák Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Muti, Uchida & Mozart
Thursday, May 9, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20
Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Stravinsky & The Joffrey Ballet
Thursday, May 30, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ravel Mother Goose
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Stravinsky Suite from Pulcinella
Commedia
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Joffrey Ballet

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
The Joffrey Ballet
Ashley Wheater artistic director
Christopher Wheeldon choreographer

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Sheherazade
Thursday, Sep 27, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Thursday, Dec 6, 8:00 p.m.

Wagner Overture to Rienzi
R. Strauss Four Last Songs
Nielsen Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Erin Wall soprano
Beethoven Emperor Concerto
Thursday, Mar 7, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham conductor
Nicholas Angelich piano
Shostakovich 9
Thursday, Apr 4, 8:00 p.m.

Borodin Symphony No. 2
Dvořák Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Muti, Uchida & Mozart
Thursday, May 9, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20
Stravinsky Apollon musagète
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Trifonov Plays Prokofiev
Thursday, Oct 18, 8:00 p.m.

Mantovani Threnos [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Bridge Lament
Copland Symphony No. 3

Bach/Rachmaninov Gigue from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 [10/18 ENCORE]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
Bruno Mantovani composer
Muti Conducts the Verdi Requiem
Thursday, Nov 8, 8:00 p.m.

Verdi Requiem Mass

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Vittoria Yeo soprano
Daniela Barcellona mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczala tenor
Dmitry Belosselskiy bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky
Thursday, Feb 14, 8:00 p.m.

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
Simon Trpčeski piano
Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony
Thursday, Mar 21, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin
Stravinsky & The Joffrey Ballet
Thursday, May 30, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ravel Mother Goose
Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Stravinsky Suite from Pulcinella
Commedia
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Joffrey Ballet

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
The Joffrey Ballet
Ashley Wheater artistic director
Christopher Wheeldon choreographer

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Haitink Conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
Thursday, Oct 25, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Paul Lewis piano
Chen Leads All-Mozart
Thursday, Nov 29, 8:00 p.m.

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 (Strassburg)
Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2
Mozart Symphony No. 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Chen concertmaster and violin
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Elgar Enigma Variations
Thursday, Jan 10, 8:00 p.m.

Ives, orch. Schuman Variations on “America”
Ives & Lowry, arr. Adams At the River
Copland Selections from Old American Songs
Still In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
Damrosch & Kipling Danny Deever
Daugherty Letter to Mrs. Bixby from Letters from Lincoln
Corigliano One Sweet Morning from One Sweet Morning
Elgar Enigma Variations

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Thomas Hampson baritone
Muti Conducts Pines of Rome
Thursday, May 2, 8:00 p.m.

Bizet Roma
Berlioz The Death of Cleopatra, Lyric Scene for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
Respighi Pines of Rome

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Simone Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms
Thursday, Jun 6, 8:00 p.m.

Liszt Prometheus
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conductor

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PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Mahler 3
Thursday, Oct 11, 8:00 p.m.

Mahler Symphony No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor
Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago
Charles Sundquist director
Tilson Thomas Conducts Tchaikovsky 6
Thursday, Dec 13, 8:00 p.m.

Stravinsky Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Muti Conducts the Mozart Requiem
Thursday, Feb 21, 8:00 p.m.

Schuman Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine)
Mozart Requiem

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Benedetta Torre soprano
Sara Mingardo contralto
Saimir Pirgu tenor
Mika Kares bass
Ax Plays Brahms
Thursday, Apr 18, 8:00 p.m.

Bartók Dance Suite
Debussy Printemps
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Thursday, May 16, 8:00 p.m.

Rautavaara A Requiem in Our Time
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Brahms
Thursday, Oct 4, 8:00 p.m.

Beethoven Overture to Egmont
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Hindemith Symphony, Mathis der Maler

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
David Fray piano
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Thursday, Nov 15, 8:00 p.m.

Sibelius Nocturne and Ballade from King Christian II
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Muti Conducts Beethoven & Wagner
Thursday, Mar 14, 8:00 p.m.

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims Overture
Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 444
Benshoof Concerto in Three Movements
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Jennifer Gunn piccolo
Mahler 1
Thursday, Apr 25, 8:00 p.m.

Elgar Cello Concerto
Mahler Symphony No. 1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Znaider conductor
Gautier Capuçon cello
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Thursday, May 23, 8:00 p.m.

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Chabrier España
Piazzolla Sinfonía Buenos Aires

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas guitar

TITLE/DATE/TIME

PROGRAM

PERFORMERS
Barenboim Conducts Smetana Má vlast
Thursday, Nov 1, 8:00 p.m.

Smetana Má vlast

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Handel Messiah
Thursday, Dec 20, 8:00 p.m.

Handel Messiah

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Halls conductor
Amanda Forsythe soprano
Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan tenor
Joshua Hopkins baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe chorus director
Salonen Conducts Strauss & Bartók
Thursday, Mar 28, 8:00 p.m.

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
John Relyea bass
Chopin & The Mermaid
Thursday, Apr 11, 8:00 p.m.

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Krivine conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Muti Conducts An American in Paris & Tchaikovsky
Thursday, Jun 13, 8:00 p.m.

Gershwin An American in Paris
Stephenson Bass Trombone Concerto [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Charles Vernon bass trombone

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