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Marin Alsop scores an auspicious debut with the CSO

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Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 29 November 2015
Clyne, Masquerade
Barber, Second Essay For Orchestra, Op.17
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Peterson, Blues Etude
Dvořák, Symphony no. 7 in D minor, Op.70
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Jon Kimura Parker, Piano
Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening
****1
Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago
*****
Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago
****1
Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut
****1
Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the Chicago Symphony
****1
Ravinia Festival opens with bombastic Gershwin, emotional Tchaikovsky
***11
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