Music of the Baroque: Mullova Plays Bach
Baroque riches abound as internationally acclaimed violinist Viktoria Mullova joins forces with guest conductor Jonathan Cohen, the newly appointed music director of Boston’s Handel &…
National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen
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Music of the Baroque: Mullova Plays Bach
Baroque riches abound as internationally acclaimed violinist Viktoria Mullova joins forces with guest conductor Jonathan Cohen, the newly appointed music director of Boston’s Handel &…
Chicago Youth in Music Festival Finale
A panorama of sarcastic waltzes, brassy outbursts, ghostly effects and echoes of Mahler, Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony represents the composer at his most deliriously inventive. The…
BRSO Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Marking his first season as its chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle leads the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) in Mahler’s mighty Sixth…
CSO x Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Two mighty orchestras present a rousing, jazz-meets-classical event. Discover selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, alternating between the original orchestral version performed by the Chicago…
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
A night commemorating the 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth. The legendary Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra consists of 15 of the world’s finest ensemble…
Gateways Festival Orchestra featuring Take 6
Comprised of the finest classical musicians in the country, the all-Black Gateways Festival Orchestra concludes its week-long Chicago residency with a Symphony Center concert featuring…
Yefim Bronfman
Yefim Bronfman, a pianist who plays “with blazing power in the big Russian manner, tempered with subtlety and nuance” (Chicago Tribune), brings a program pairing…
Mendelssohn Elijah
The 19th century’s most enduring oratorio, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, sung here in English, depicts the story of the biblical prophet Elijah, complete with his ascent to heaven…
Civic Orchestra of Chicago: Courage & Hope
Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, which pays tribute to the grandeur of the human spirit, closes a program of music shaped by World War II. Martinů’s symphonic…
Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, longtime friends and collaborators, offer an afternoon filled with musical intimacy and expressive fireworks. Their program encompasses two…
Klaus Mäkelä & Yuja Wang
Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto is an exhilarating showcase for Yuja Wang, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called “quite simply the most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the…
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