Chicago Symphony players show their brilliance as chamber musicians

Von Timothy Robson, 15 Januar 2021

Laden, bitte warten...

“this Ravel matched precision, texture and emotion into a superb and exhilarating unity”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, am 14 Januar 2021

Gounod, Petite Symphonie für Bläser

Mozart, Quartett D-Dur für Flöte, Violine, Viola und Cello, K285

Ravel, Streichquartett in F-Dur

Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Emma Gerstein, Flöte

Stephen Williamson, Klarinette

Wagner Campos, Klarinette

William Buchman, Fagott

Miles Maner, Fagott

David Cooper, Horn

David Griffin, Horn

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, Flöte

Robert Chen, Violine

Li-Kuo Chang, Viola

John Sharp, Cello

Stephanie Jeong, Violine

So Young Bae, Violine

Lawrence Neuman, Viola

Kenneth Olsen, Cello

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Weitere Kritiken...

Timothy Robson

We are saddened to learn of the death of Tim Robson, a long-time Bachtrack contributor (2012-21). Tim was an organist in Cleveland, Ohio and his repertoire extended to all musical periods, with a special interest in contemporary music. As a blogger he was a regular contributor to ClevelandClassical.com. In his parallel career as a librarian, Tim was Associate Director for Academic Engagement at the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University. Our condolences to his family.