Maestro Muti and the CSO Soar With a Brilliant World Premiere …
2 days ago · Something entirely magical took place at Symphony Hall in a recent concert that featured a breathtaking world premiere of composer Osvaldo Golijov’s fascinating, grand-scale work, “Megalopolis Suite,” along with four additional and wholly beguiling works by Donizetti, Verdi, Chabrier and de Falla.
Muti will tour Chicago world premiere around the US
6 days ago · November 07, 2024. press release: CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first ...
Music Magic With Beethoven, the CSO, Maestro Riccardo Muti …
Nov 4, 2024 · Note: Muti’s second week of concerts by the CSO on Nov. 8 and 9 at 7:30 pm, will feature a very different program. In addition to featuring works by Donizetti, Verdi, Chabrier and de Falla, it will include the world premiere of a CSO commission of contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov’s “Megalopolis Suite.”
Riccardo Muti and Mitsuko Uchida collaborate to create a winning …
Nov 4, 2024 · The Allegro con brio which opens the symphony was energetic and uplifting. As in the Emperor, Muti employed restraint, which meant that at times the excitement smoldered before exploding with color. The tension, the syncopation, the dissonance, they were all deployed by Muti with the canny sense of a musical general.
For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago
June 17, 2023. The concert had ended, and Riccardo Muti, the music director of the Chicago Symphony, was walking out of Orchestra Hall when he saw a banner in the lobby and stopped in his tracks...
Riccardo Muti back in Chicago
Sep 28, 2022 · Music Director Riccardo Muti opened his 13th year as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program that included the U.S. premiere of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Solemn Prelude” and works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky on Thursday night at Symphony Center.
Riccardo Muti returns to Chicago as Director Emeritus for Life
Sep 29, 2023 · Dennis Polkow | September 22, 2023. “Maestro!” called out an enthusiastic, then-Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti to composer Philip Glass before the two embraced after a performance of the Glass Symphony No. …
CSO, Riccardo Muti reunite for familiar works at Symphony Center ...
Sep 22, 2023 · The CSO is continuing its search for Muti’s replacement with no announced timeline for its completion, and nearly 30 guest conductors, all or some possible music-director candidates, will lead ...
Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony ... - Associated Press News
Muti’s 13 seasons as music director were celebrated with Sunday’s subscription finale, and he ended his tenure on Tuesday night the way it began: with a free concert in Millennium Park, although the denouement of Florence Price’s Andante moderato and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony was played in a smoky haze caused by Canadian wild fires.
Muti ends 13 seasons with Chicago Symphony Orchestra with
Jun 28, 2023 · CHICAGO (AP) — Riccardo Muti was in total control to the very end. He had signaled the last note of his final Orchestra Hall concert as Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director on Sunday when...