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

Par Graham Meyer, 23 novembre 2025

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

Critique faite à Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, le 20 novembre 2025

Beethoven, Coriolan, ouverture, Op. 62

Haydn, Symphonie no. 93 en ré majeur

Mozart, Requiem en ré mineur, K626

Mozart, Motet en ré majeur, « 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, Mezzo-soprano

Ben Bliss, Ténor

Stephano Park, Basse

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Manfred Honeck, Direction

Riccardo Muti et Chicago, un couple légendaire à la Philharmonie

Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 13th January

Dans un programme « italien » qui associait la création française d'une œuvre de Glass à des partitions de Mendelssohn et Strauss, le chef et l'orchestre ont montré leur singularité.

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Chicago et Muti à la Philharmonie : puissance et robustesse !

Augustin Javel, 17th January

Le Chicago Symphony Orchestra et Riccardo Muti ont montré tout leur savoir-faire dans une soirée Wagner-Hindemith-Dvořák éclatante – quoique parfois clinquante.

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Un triomphe pour Muti à Pleyel

Constance Clara Guibert, 26th October

Des bravos fusaient déjà à l’entrée de Muti sur scène. Plongés dans un Oiseau de feu légendaire, fascinant, évident, puis littéralement soulevés par un bis patriotique chargé de sens et d'énergie, les spectateurs de Pleyel ne se remettront pas aisément de la venue du maestro.

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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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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.

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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.