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Riccardo Muti conductor 9/18 Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp 9/20 Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute Schubert Symphony No. 9 (The Great) B Sarah Bullen harp A
Riccardo Muti conductor Hanna-Elisabeth Müller soprano contralto 9/24* 9/25* Gerhild Romberger 9/26* Matthew Polenzani tenor Beethoven|Missa solemnis A|F C Tareq Nazmi bass B|H Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 10/1 10/2 Riccardo Muti conductor Varèse Arcana YeƂ m Bronfman piano C|D A Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser
conductor 10/8* Constantine Kitsopoulos 10/10* Chicago Symphony Chorus Amadeus Live B|H Duain Wolfe chorus director A|E
Weber The Ruler of the Spirits Overture 10/15 10/16 Marek Janowski conductor 10/17 Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 Benjamin Grosvenor piano A|G B Bruckner Symphony No. 3 C
Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes 10/22 10/23 Riccardo Muti conductor 10/27 Elgar Sea Pictures Alice Coote mezzo-soprano C|E A Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 B
Chen L’Eloignement 10/29 10/30 Xian Zhang conductor Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini 10/31 A|F B Simon Trpêeski piano Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 D Bartók Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Price Ethiopia’s Shadow in America Frank New Work world premiere, cso commission 11/5 11/6 Bramwell Tovey conductor Copland Suite from Appalachian Spring 11/7 11/8 B|I A Stephen Williamson clarinet Copland Clarinet Concerto A|F A Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Wagner Prelude to Parsifal 11/13 Edward Gardner conductor 11/14 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 Alexander Gavrylyuk piano D Walton Symphony No. 1 B|G
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture 11/19 Emmanuel Krivine conductor 11/21 11/22 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Yulianna Avdeeva piano C|D Zemlinsky The Mermaid C A
Haydn Symphony No. 71 Jane Glover conductor 12/3 12/4 Mozart Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314 12/5 12/8 Paul Jacobs organ Handel Organ Concerto Op. 4, No. 1 B|H A William Welter oboe D A Mozart Symphony No. 29
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Ruggles Angels 12/10 12/11 Measha Brueggergosman soprano 12/12 Tilson Thomas Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind Kristen Toedtman vocalist A|G D Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) B|G Kara Dugan vocalist
Berlioz Overture to Beatrice and Benedict Edo de Waart conductor Beethoven Romance No. 2 12/17 12/18 Stella Chen violin R. Strauss Symphonic Interlude No. 2 from Intermezzo 12/19 C|E B Sergei Dogadin violin Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo A|F Timothy Chooi violin Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo capriccioso Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian)
Haydn Symphony No. 97 1/7 1/8 Adam Fischer conductor 1/9 1/12 Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Martin Helmchen piano B|I C Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) A|E B
Vivaldi Concerto in A Major for Strings and Continuo, R. 158 conductor 1/14 1/15 Riccardo Muti Kraft Timpani Concerto No. 1 1/16 David Herbert timpani Schifrin Tuba Concerto A|F A Gene Pokorny tuba Schifrin Theme from Mission: Impossible C Respighi Feste romane
1/28 1/29 David Afkham conductor Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 1/30 1/31 C|E B Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano R. Strauss An Alpine Symphony B|H A
Saariaho Winter Sky from Orion 2/4 Osmo Vänskä conductor 2/6 2/9 Elgar Cello Concerto Gautier Capuçon cello B|I Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) C A
Schumann Piano Concerto 2/11 2/12 Herbert Blomstedt conductor 2/13 Stenhammar Interlude from The Song Igor Levit piano A|G A Nielsen Symphony No. 5 A|F
2/18 2/19 Manfred Honeck conductor Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 2/20 2/23 C|D D Christian Tetzlaff violin Bruckner Symphony No. 7 D B
Montgomery Starburst 2/26 Marin Alsop conductor 2/27 Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Lorelei Ensemble C Wolfe Her Story cso co-commission B|H
Riccardo Muti conductor Schubert Song of the Spirits over the Waters 3/4 3/5 Anita Rachvelishvili mezzo-soprano 3/6 Brahms Alto Rhapsody Chicago Symphony Chorus B|H D Cherubini Mass for the Coronation of Charles X A|E Duain Wolfe chorus director
Riccardo Muti conductor Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 3/9 Robert Chen violin Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 A
3/18 3/19 Cimarosa Overture to Il matrimonio segreto 3/20 Riccardo Muti conductor Mozart Symphony No. 38 (Prague) A|G B Mozart Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita) B|G
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 3/26 3/25 Thomas Adès conductor Adès Piano Concerto 3/30 D C|E Kirill Gerstein piano Liszt Battle of the Huns B fri 8:00 Janáček Taras Bulba
Walton Scapino, A Comedy Overture 4/1 4/2 Thomas Søndergård conductor 4/3 Britten Violin Concerto Janine Jansen violin B|H B Sibelius Symphony No. 2 B|H
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde 4/8 Fabien Gabel conductor 4/10 Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Amanda Majeski soprano A|F Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 (Organ) A|F
4/15 4/17 4/20 Simone Young conductor Mahler Symphony No. 7 C|D B|G A
Mussorgsky, orch. Rimsky-Korsakov Prelude to Khovanshchina 4/22 4/23 Tugan Sokhiev conductor 4/24 Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 2 Vadim Gluzman violin B|I A Shostakovich Symphony No. 12 (The Year 1917) A|E
Vivaldi Concerto for Strings, RV 157 Giovanni Antonini conductor Vivaldi Leggi almeno, tiranna infedele from Ottone in villa Amanda Forsythe soprano Vivaldi Armatae face et anguibus from Juditha triumphans 4/29 4/30 Yulia Van Doren soprano 5/1 5/4 Handel Dopo notte, atra e funesta from Ariodante Julie Boulianne mezzo-soprano C|E C Handel Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 1 C B Chicago Symphony Chorus Vivaldi Kyrie, RV 587 Duain Wolfe chorus director Vivaldi Gloria, RV 589
Debussy Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun 5/6 5/7 Philippe Jordan conductor 5/8 Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 (Egyptian) Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano A|F D Stravinsky The Rite of Spring B|H
Rachmaninov, orch. Stokowski Prelude in C-sharp Minor 5/13 5/14 Lahav Shani conductor 5/15 5/16 Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Behzod Abduraimov piano B|H A Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 A|E A
Lindberg New Work world premiere, cso commission 5/20 5/21 Mikko Franck conductor Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 5/22 5/25 A|G B Vilde Frang violin R. Strauss Don Juan B|G A R. Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Liadov The Enchanted Lake 6/3 6/4 Riccardo Muti conductor 6/5 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 Daniil Trifonov piano B|I C Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) A|F
conductor 6/10* Riccardo Muti 6/12* 6/13* Krassimira Stoyanova soprano Italian Opera Program C|D Francesco Meli tenor D A
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