24 go symphonyorchestra chica symphony centerpresent BALL SYMPHONY anne-sophie mutter muti riccardo orchestra symphony chicago 22 september friday, highlight season tchaikovsky mozart 7:00 6:00 Mozart’s fiery undisputed queen ofviolin-playing” ( and Tchaikovsky’s in beloved masterpieces, including Rossini’s followed by Riccardo Muti leading the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra season. Enjoy afestive opento the preconcert 2017/18 reception, proudly presents aprestigious gala evening ofmusic and celebration The Board Women’s ofthe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Gala package guests will enjoy postconcert dinner and dancing. rossini Suite from Suite 5 No. Concerto Violin to Overture C P s oncert reconcert Reception Turkish The Sleeping Beauty Concerto. The SleepingBeauty William Tell conducto The Times . Anne-Sophie Mutter, “the (Turkish) William Tell , London), performs London), , media sponsor: r violin Overture 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 Violin Concerto 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 Gloria Michael Schade tenor gounod Saint Cecilia Mass 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 barber Violin Concerto B • I A rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Sir András Schiff conductor mozart Serenade for Winds in C Minor 11/2 11/3 and piano bartók Divertimento for String Orchestra 11/4 11/5 A • G C bach Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor A • F A beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 11/9 Christoph von Dohnányi conductor bach, orch. Webern Ricercar No. 2 from The Musical Offering 11/11 Arabella Steinbacher 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 Cello Concerto 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 bassoon 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 Scherzo fantastique Clémentine Margaine higdon Low Brass Concerto world premiere, cso co-commission 2/1 2/2 mezzo-soprano chausson Poème de l’amour et de la mer 2/3 Jay Friedman trombone britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes B • H A Michael Mulcahy trombone B • G Charles Vernon bass trombone Gene Pokorny tuba Christoph Eschenbach conductor Weber Overture to Der Freischütz 2/22 2/23 David Fray 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 Herbert Blomstedt 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 Oberon 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 Charles Dutoit 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 copland Lincoln Portrait *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 John Williams conductor Program to be announced. 4/26 *4/28 B • I A • E 5/3 Semyon Bychkov conductor bruch Concerto for Two Pianos 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 Marek Janowski conductor Weber Overture to Euryanthe 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 Kyrie 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 All programs, artists, dates and times subject to change. *exchange-restricted dates Subscribers may exchange out of all concerts, but cannot exchange into any restricted concerts (unless exchanging from one restricted concert into another). 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Upgrade to a Box Seat subscription today and exchange into any concert! add these concerts to your order! • CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA • SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS september Friday, November 10, 7:30 *December 15–23 march CSO at Wheaton Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s *Friday, September 22, 7:00 Dohnányi Conducts Schubert 9 • Merry, Merry Chicago! • *Sunday, March 4, 3:00 Sunday, April 22, 3:00 Symphony Ball • Lang Lang in Recital • Maurizio Pollini piano • Friday, November 10, 8:00 * Wednesday, December 20, 8:00 october Joshua Bell violin • The Chicago Symphony Friday, March 16, 7:30 *April 27 & 29 Orchestra Brass • CSO at Wheaton CSO at the Movies Monday, October 2, 7:00 Monday, November 13, 7:00 Muti, Chen & Mozart • John Williams Returns • MusicNOW • MusicNOW • january *Saturday, March 17, 11:00 & 12:45 may Sunday, October 8, 3:00 Sunday, November 19, 3:00 *Friday, January 19, 8:00 CSO Family Matinee • Louis Lortie piano • Lucas Debargue piano • CSO at the Movies • *Saturday, May 5, 11:00 & 12:45 *Sunday, March 18, 3:00 CSO Family Matinee • *Tuesday, October 10, 7:30 *Friday, November 24, 8:00 Friday, January 26, 7:30 Itzhak Perlman violin Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends • CSO at the Movies • CSO at Wheaton Martha Argerich piano • *Sunday, May 13, 3:00 Honeck Conducts Mahler 5 • Evgeny Kissin piano • Sunday, October 22, 3:00 *Saturday, November 25, 3:00 Sunday, March 25, 3:00 Piotr Anderszewski piano • Vienna Boys Choir: Sunday, January 28, 3:00 Boris Berezovsky piano • Sunday, May 20, 3:00 Christmas in Vienna • Minnesota Orchestra • Yefim Bronfman piano • *Saturday, October 28, 8:00 april China NCPA Orchestra • december february Monday, May 21, 7:00 Monday, April 2, 7:00 MusicNOW • november *Saturday, December 2, 11:00 & 12:45 Sunday, February 18, 3:00 MusicNOW • CSO Family Matinee • Mitsuko Uchida piano June Wednesday, November 8, 8:00 • Sunday, April 8, 3:00 Mariinsky Orchestra • *December 5 & 6 *Sunday, February 25, 3:00 Emanuel Ax piano • Sunday, June 10, 3:00 A Chanticleer Christmas • Leonidas Kavakos violin Martin Helmchen piano • Yo-Yo Ma cello *Sunday, April 15, 3:00 *December 9 & 10 Emanuel Ax piano • Evgeny Kissin and Home Alone • the Emerson String Quartet •.