Riccardo Muti conducts three of Beethoven’s works, beginning with his Coriolan Overture and followed by his eighth and fifth symphonies. Plus, the CSO Brass performs Barber’s Mutations from Bach, selections from Bach’s The Art of Fugue and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song.

The new music director designate is just 28 years old. He’ll be the youngest in orchestra history when he takes the baton.

Riccardo Muti conducted the Italian premiere of William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony, which the composer wrote after visiting the site of a 1944 massacre in Rome.

“I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the board of governors does,” Salonen said in a statement.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced its 2024-2025 season, a full year of concerts in its mainstage subscription series, as well as chamber, solo, family, and other programming.

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Sanders was the last active member of the legendary Frank Miller-helmed CSO cello section.

Plus the overture to Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.

Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy.

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Julia Fischer performs Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

Plus Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major.

The program begins with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and Fourth Symphony, followed by Still’s Mother and Child and Price’s Third Symphony.

Music director emeritus for life Riccardo Muti will lead the CSO season-opening concert September 21 at Orchestra Hall.

CSO musicians struck for two days in September 2012 and for seven weeks March and April of 2019.

This week features pieces from a newly released recording from the CSO Resound label. Riccardo Muti conducts the broadcast.

“I belong to another period of making music, of approaching the scores, of asking for a lot of time for rehearsals, especially in opera.”

Celebrate Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti’s remarkable tenure with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at this free concert in Millennium Park.

We celebrate Riccardo Muti’s 13th and culminating season as the CSO’s tenth music director.

The announcement was made on the stage of Orchestra Hall on Friday night after a performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” the start of Muti’s final subscription weekend as music director.

Featuring Mitsuko Uchida.

Music Director Riccardo Muti leads the world premiere of Hymn for Everyone by CSO Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery.

The season will be the first following the departure of Riccardo Muti as music director. But the maestro will be close at hand as he continues his association with the CSO.

“In 20 to 30 years, when everything will collapse, you will say maybe Muti was right,” the 80-year-old Italian conductor said.

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