BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra

All programs air Monday evenings at 8.

April 7th 2008
Former Music Director Daniel Barenboim is both soloist and conductor in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22. This is an eclectic program that showcases the breadth of Barenboim’s musical interests, from classical Mozart, to the modernist Webern; from the folk elements of Manuel de Falla to the pantheism of Igor Stravinsky.
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Webern: Symphony, Op. 21
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K. 482 (Daniel Barenboim, piano/conductor)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

April 14th 2008
Violinist Vadim Repin joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Myung-Whun Chung for a mini Brahms-fest. And we finish with the atmospheric Suite no. 2 from Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe.
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Vadim Repin, violin)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2

April 21st 2008
Music written about or for Chicago, with an audio tour of the city by Geoffrey Baer.
Lindberg: Chick-a-Bone Checkout
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Golijov: Rose of the Winds
Turnage: Chicago Remains
Fisher/Goodman: Chicago
Stock: Symphonic Waltz, Op. 8

April 28th 2008
Retrospective: CSO at the Opera
Mozart: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro
Wagner: Overture to Tannhauser
Wagner: Quintet: Die selige Morgentraum-Deutweise from Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Verdi: Spuntat ecco il di d'esultanza from Don Carlo
Verdi: Act 1 from Otello
Rossini: Overture to La Scala di seta
Massenet: Meditation from Thais
Beethoven: Final Scene from Fidelio