Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall

Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

Riccardo Muti

Von Susan Stempleski, 23 Januar 2025

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“Displaying extraordinary vigor, the 83-year-old maestro himself danced along as he conducted”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City, am 21 Januar 2025

Bellini, Norma: Overture

Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani): Ballet – Les Quatres Saisons (Quattro stagioni)

Tschaikowsky, Symphonie Nr. 4 in f-Moll, Op.36

Martucci, Notturno in G flat major, Op.70 no.1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti, Musikalische Leitung

Riccardo Muti und das Chicago Symphony Orchestra auf Abschiedstournee

Alexandra Richter, 19th January

Riccardo Muti, Chicagos Music Director Emeritus auf Lebenszeit, präsentiert in der Alten Oper Frankfurt ein italienisches Programm, das es in sich hat.

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Viel Bewegung mit Strauss und Tschaikowsky

Stefan Pillhofer, 15th January

Im Rahmen des noch andauernden Eröffnungsfestivals gastierte das Chicago Symphony Orchestra mit Tschaikowsky, der einen aus den Sitzen holt.

****1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

Graham Meyer, 9th April

Jakub Hrůša leads the CSO in pedestrian Janáček and Rachmaninov, but Strauss's Four Last Songs and Wagner's Tristan excerpts send audiences home deeply touched.

***11

Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening

Graham Meyer, 19th February

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Designate juxtaposes his Finnish countryman's music on their shared national epic, the Kalevala, with the heroic life limned in the tone poem of Richard Strauss.

****1

Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

Graham Meyer, 4th December

A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.

*****

Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago

Graham Meyer, 20th November

The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral.

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Susan Stempleski

Based in New York City, Susan is a retired specialist in second and foreign language teaching and the author/editor of several professional books for language teachers and many widely used textbooks for English language learners around the world. An avid concertgoer, she spends her time attending operas and other classical music events in New York and Paris. Since 2002, she has regularly published reviews on Classical Source. A keen Francophile, she has a particularly strong interest in French music, literature and film.

Vigor and Virtuosity: Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall