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Jaap van Zweden conducts a profound meditation on the end of life in Chicago

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Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 10 November 2016
Mozart, Meistermusik (Maurerische Trauermusik), K477 (K479a)
Wagner, Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op.45
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor
Christiane Karg, Soprano
Michael Nagy, Baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, Choirmaster / chorus director
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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