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10 Concerts 10 Concerts A B C A B 5 Concerts 5 Concerts D E F G H I 8 Concerts 5 Concerts E F G H 5 Concerts 6 Conc. 5 Concerts THU FRI FRI SAT SAT SUN TUE 8:00 1:30 8:00 2017/18 8:00 8:00 3:00 7:30 ABCABCD ABCDAAB Riccardo Muti conductor penderecki The Awakening of Jacob 9/23 9/26 Anne-Sophie Mutter violin tchaikovsky schumann Symphony No. 2 C A 9/28 9/29 Riccardo Muti conductor rossini Overture to William Tell 10/1 ogonek New Work world premiere, cso commission A • F A bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) A Alain Altinoglu conductor PROKOFIEV Suite from The Love for Three Oranges Sandrine Piau soprano poulenc Michael Schade tenor gounod Saint Cecilia 10/5 10/6 Andrew Foster-Williams 10/7 C • E B bass-baritone B • G Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director 10/26 10/27 James Gaffigan conductor bernstein Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront James Ehnes violin B • I A Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Sir András Schiff conductor Mozart for Winds in C Minor 11/2 11/3 and Bartók Divertimento for String Orchestra 11/4 11/5 A • G C Bach Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor A • F A Beethoven No. 1 11/9 Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Bach, Orch. Webern Ricercar No. 2 from The Musical Offering 11/11 violin Berg Violin Concerto C • D Schubert Symphony No. 9 (Great) D 11/16 11/17 Riccardo Muti conductor Puccini Preludio sinfonico 11/18 11/21 Kirill Gerstein piano R. Strauss Suite from Le bourgeois gentilhomme B • H B Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 A • E B 11/30 12/1 John Storgårds conductor Grieg Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt 12/2 12/3 Gil Shaham violin Mendelssohn Violin Concerto B • I C Sibelius Symphony No. 1 B • H A 12/7 12/8 Jiří Bělohlávek conductor Smetana Selections from The Bartered Bride 12/9 12/12 Alisa Weilerstein cello Barber A • F D Dvořák Symphony No. 5 A • E B 12/14 12/15 Jaap van Zweden conductor Wagner Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin 12/16 12/19 Daniil Trifonov piano Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 B • H B Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 D A 12/21 12/22 Nikolaj Znaider conductor beethoven Violin Concerto 12/23 and violin Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 C • D A C

1/18 Rafael Payare conductor Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 1/20 Keith Buncke Mozart Bassoon Concerto C • E Bartók Concerto for Orchestra D 1/25 Manfred Honeck conductor MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 1/27 1/30 Till Fellner piano Mahler Symphony No. 5 A • G A • F A

Riccardo Muti conductor Stravinsky fantastique Clémentine Margaine Higdon world premiere, cso co-commission 2/1 2/2 mezzo-soprano Chausson Poème de l’amour et de la mer 2/3 Jay Friedman Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes B • H A Michael Mulcahy trombone B • G Charles Vernon bass trombone Gene Pokorny conductor Weber Overture to Der Freischütz 2/22 2/23 piano Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 2/24 2/27 A • F A Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream C B Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian) 3/1 3/2 conductor Mozart Symphony No. 39 3/3 Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) C • D D B • H

Charles Dutoit conductor Mussorgsky, Orch. Rimsky-Korsakov 3/8 3/9 Leonidas Kavakos violin Prelude to Khovanshchina 3/10 3/11 Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 A • G B Kodály Suite from Háry János A • F A Debussy La mer 3/15 Riccardo Muti conductor Haydn Symphony No. 89 3/17 Robert Chen violin Mozart Sinfonia concertante C • E Paul Neubauer viola Mozart Symphony No. 36 (Linz) B • G Riccardo Muti conductor WEBER Overture to Amanda Forsythe soprano Raimi Three Lisel Mueller Settings Elizabeth DeShong mezzo-soprano world premiere, cso commission 3/22 3/23 Paul Appleby tenor S chubert Mass in E-flat Major 3/24 B • I C Nicholas Phan tenor C Nahuel di Pierro bass Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director 3/29 3/30 Kent Nagano conductor Wagner Siegfried Idyll 3/31 Gilles Vonsattel piano Bernstein Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) A • F B Schumann Symphony No. 1 (Spring) A • E conductor Debussy, Orch. Ravel Sarabande and Danse 4/5 4/6 Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand 4/7 4/10 B • H A Chicago Symphony Chorus Ravel Daphnis and Chloe B • H A Duain Wolfe chorus director 4/12 4/13 Riccardo Muti conductor Walker Lyric for Strings 4/17 *4/14 A • G D Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) A • F B Riccardo Muti conductor Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini 4/19 4/20 Sarah Bullen harp Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake 4/21 Women of the Debussy Sacred and Profane Dances C • D B Chicago Symphony Chorus Debussy Nocturnes D Duain Wolfe chorus director 4/26 conductor Program to be announced. *4/28 B • I A • E

5/3 Semyon Bychkov conductor Bruch Concerto for Two 5/5 5/4 Katia Labèque piano Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony C • E D Marielle Labèque piano B • G 5/11 Emmanuel Krivine conductor BRAHMS Tragic Overture 5/12 5/15 Isabelle Faust violin SCHUMANN Violin Concerto C SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ) D A 5/17 5/18 Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor mahler Symphony No. 9 5/19 5/22 B • H B B • H B

5/24 5/25 Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn 5/26 Mitsuko Uchida piano Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 C • D A Schoenberg Transfigured Night C conductor Weber Overture to 5/31 6/1 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 6/2 6/3 Wagner Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser A • G B Wagner Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg B • G A Wagner Prelude to Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Giovanni Antonini Boccherini Symphony No. 6 (La casa del diavolo) 6/7 6/8 conductor and flautino Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425 6/9 Avi Avital mandolin Bach Mandolin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052 B • I A Vivaldi Flautino Concerto in C Major, RV 443 A • E Haydn Symphony No. 103 (Drumroll) 6/14 6/15 Riccardo Muti conductor Shostakovich Festive Overture Yo-Yo Ma cello Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 *6/16 C • E C Prokofiev Symphony No. 3 B • H Riccardo Muti conductor Mozart in D Minor Krassimira Stoyanova soprano Cherubini Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn Ekaterina Gubanova Rossini Stabat mater 6/21 6/22 mezzo-soprano 6/23 6/24 A • F D Dmitry Korchak tenor A • F A Eric Owens bass-baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director

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