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Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center, and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore, where it is in residency each summer. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-selling recordings and frequent sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the globe. Vis...

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Rakitina, Weilerstein & Tchaikovsky 01.12.2025 1:56:30

Rakitina, Weilerstein & Tchaikovsky by CSO Association

Guests in the House 24.11.2025 1:56:30

Guests in the House by CSO Association

Barenboim Conducts Bruckner 8 17.11.2025 1:56:30

Barenboim Conducts Bruckner 8 by CSO Association

Afkham & Gluzman 10.11.2025 1:56:30

Afkham & Gluzman by CSO Association

Opera Without Words 27.10.2025 1:56:30

Opera Without Words by CSO Association

Ravinia Opening Night 2025 20.10.2025 1:27:50

Ravinia Opening Night 2025 by CSO Association

Carmina burana 13.10.2025 1:56:30

Carmina burana by CSO Association

Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 6 06.10.2025 1:56:30

Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 6 by CSO Association

Mäkelä Conducts Mahler 3 22.09.2025 1:56:30

Mäkelä Conducts Mahler 3 by CSO Association

Harding Conducts The Planets 15.09.2025 1:56:30

Harding Conducts The Planets by CSO Association

Reiner Rarities 01.09.2025 1:56:30

Reiner Rarities by CSO Association

Musicians of the Orchestra 18.08.2025 1:56:30

Musicians of the Orchestra by CSO Association

Janáček; J. Strauss, Jr. & Mussorgsky 11.08.2025 1:56:30

Janáček; J. Strauss, Jr. & Mussorgsky by CSO Association

Barenboim Conducts Bruckner 4 - Broadcast 04.08.2025 1:56:30

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Solti Conducts Beethoven and Liszt - Broadcast 21.07.2025 1:56:30

Salonen & Apkalna - Broadcast 07.07.2025 1:56:30

Salonen & Apkalna - Broadcast by CSO Association

CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Verdi Requiem 12.06.2025 16:12

Verdi’s Requiem Mass, in its fervent quest for eternal rest, stands as a powerful demonstration of the composer’s ability to harness the human voice. Hailed by NPR as “simply magnificent” for their two-time Grammy Award-winning CSO Resound recording of this work, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are joined by a thrilling quartet of international singers to once again del...

CSO Program Notes: Riccardo Muti & Esteban Batallán 10.06.2025 14:22

Esteban Batallán, the CSO’s principal trumpet since 2019, makes his much-anticipated debut as a soloist with the Orchestra in a pair of brilliant, high-flying concertos. Riccardo Muti frames the program with Joseph Haydn’s tempestuous Symphony No. 48 and Schubert’s Haydn-inspired Tragic Symphony. Learn more: cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/muti-and-esteban-batallan

2024 Ravinia Festival Opening Night: Celebration of Americana - Broadcast 02.06.2025 1:56:30

2024 Ravinia Festival Opening Night: Celebration of Americana - Broadcast by CSO Association

CSO Program Notes: Elder, Goosby & Price 29.05.2025 20:51

In Randall Goosby, the pioneering American composer Florence Price “has her ideal champion,” writes The Guardian, “his playing full of old-school warmth and breadth but never schmaltzy.” Price’s beguiling violin concerto shares a program with Prokofiev’s enchanting Seventh Symphony, composed for a children’s radio broadcast. The suite from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg gathers stirring moments fr...

CSO Program Notes: An American Suite 27.05.2025 12:32

Dvořák’s radiant salute to the New World kicks off an American road trip with James Gaffigan at the wheel. Take in poignant selections from Gershwin’s landmark opera — sung by Janai Brugger — and the composer’s urbane and nostalgic love letter to Paris. Chicago native Florence Price sets two American poems to song, and a pair of symphonic showstoppers by Bernstein transports audiences to “New York...

Haitink Conducts Mahler 2 - Broadcast 26.05.2025 1:56:30

Haitink Conducts Mahler 2 - Broadcast by CSO Association

Giulini Conducts Mahler 9 - Broadcast 19.05.2025 1:56:30

Giulini Conducts Mahler 9 - Broadcast by CSO Association

Giulini Conducts Mahler 9 - Broadcast 19.05.2025 1:56:30

Giulini Conducts Mahler 9 - Broadcast by CSO Association

CSO Program Notes: Mahler 6 with Jaap van Zweden 30.04.2025 15:18

The CSO brings the soaring emotional peaks and valleys of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to Chicago audiences before performing it on Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw stage. The “hammer blows of fate” in the finale seem to foreshadow the tragedies in Mahler’s life, including his own fatal illness. But the symphony brims with life’s pleasures, too, from memories of mountain pastures (listen for the cowbells) to...