Klaus Mäkelä whets appetites for his upcoming Chicago tenure

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Uniting Voices Chicago

Principal Trumpet Esteban Batallán performs offstage in Mahler’s Third Symphony

Par Graham Meyer, 28 avril 2025

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“the bass drum rolling quietly – so quietly – electrified the air, chasing like a lit fuse”

Critique faite à Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, le 25 avril 2025

Mahler, Symphonie no. 3 en ré mineur

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Klaus Mäkelä, Direction

Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Contralto

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Uniting Voices Chicago

Josephine Lee, Chef de chœur

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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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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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.

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