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Klaus Mäkelä whets appetites for his upcoming Chicago tenure with a wide-ranging Mahler 3

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
© Todd Rosenberg Photography
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Uniting Voices Chicago
© Todd Rosenberg Photography
Principal Trumpet Esteban Batallán performs offstage in Mahler’s Third Symphony
© Todd Rosenberg Photography
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“the bass drum rolling quietly – so quietly – electrified the air, chasing like a lit fuse”
Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 25 April 2025
Mahler, Symphony no. 3 in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä, Conductor
Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Contralto
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Uniting Voices Chicago
Josephine Lee, Choirmaster / chorus director
Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang
***11
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
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