Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago

Manfred Honeck conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Jeanine De Bique, Avery Amereau, Ben Bliss and Stephano Park

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Por Graham Meyer, 23 noviembre 2025

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“the theatrical trappings – the offstage chant, the chimes, the silences – were über-dramatic”

Crítica hecha desde Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago el 20 noviembre 2025

Beethoven, Obertura Coriolano, Op.62

Haydn, Sinfonía núm. 93 en re mayor

Mozart, Réquiem en re menor, K626

Mozart, Motete en re mayor, "Ave verum Corpus", K618

Mozart, Meistermusik (Maurerische Trauermusik), K477 (K479a)

Mozart, Vesperae solennes de confessore in C major, K339: Laudate Dominum

Jeanine De Bique, Soprano

Avery Amereau, Mezzosoprano

Ben Bliss, Tenor

Stephano Park, Bajo

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Manfred Honeck, Dirección

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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

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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.

*****

Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut

Graham Meyer, 3rd October

Without a baton, the contemporary-music specialist showcases the Chicago Symphony strings in an intimate program ranging from music of the last decade all the way back to Pergolesi.

****1

Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the Chicago Symphony

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****1

Ravinia Festival opens with bombastic Gershwin, emotional Tchaikovsky

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Under Marin Alsop, the Chicago Symphony string players also offered a lyrical reading of Jessie Montgomery’s beguiling Strum.

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Graham Meyer

Graham is a Chicago-based arts and culture journalist, covering all forms of live performance, and specializing in classical music. His work has appeared extensively in Chicago magazine and Crain’s Chicago Business, as well as in The Chicago Tribune and at Chicago Classical Review. He has also covered dining and restaurants, winning a City and Regional Magazine Award for the restaurant newsletter Dish. Semi-professionally, he sings baritone in the choir Vox Venti, plays amateur piano, and composes music, especially choral. Apart from music, he constructs crossword puzzles and plays competitive bridge with his teenage daughter.