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The self-styled “world’s largest chamber music party” ends an eventful festival with rare early Shostakovich, Grieg’s full-blooded Cello Sonata and Appalachian Spring heard in its original scoring for 13 instruments. 

Contrasting Gounod, Mozart and Ravel works were combined into an exhilarating package of technical virtuosity and musical finesse.

In the final concert of Muti's winter residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he presented one of his most varied programs to date with repertoire spanning nearly two centuries.