Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The central mission of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is to present classical music through the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to Chicago, national and international audiences.

The CSO is a musical force in Chicago and around the world. More than 150 performances and events a year. 109 talented musicians. Internationally renowned conductors. Two award-winning composers-in- residence. Find out everything you need and want to know about the CSO.








Program Listings
June 13, 2013
Mitsuko Uchida conducts Mozart from the keyboard 
Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major for String Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, K. 456
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K. 546
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271, Jeunehomme
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K. 413

June 20, 2013
Riccardo Muti conducts Bach
Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Eleonora Buratto, soprano; Anna Malavasi, mezzo-soprano; Saimir Pirqu, tenor; Adam Plachetka, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director)

June 27, 2013
Riccardo Muti conducts Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
Debussy: Images
Dutilleux: Tout un monde Lointain (Gautier Capuçon, cello)
Ravel: La Valse
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 (Yuja Wang, piano)

July 4, 2013 (pre-empted)
A Capitol Fourth 2013

July 11, 2013
Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki makes her CSO debut.
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Musgrave: Autumn Sonata
Ives: Three Places in New England
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) (Vadim Gluzman, violin; Paavo Järvi, conductor)

July 18, 2013
Tughan Sokhiev makes his CSO debut.
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Khachaturian: Flute Concerto (Mathieu Dufour, flute)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 Mussorgsky/orch.
Shostakovich: Songs and Dances of Death (from CD) (Sergei Aleksakshin, bass; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

July 25, 2013
Sakari Oramo conducts Nielsen 5.
Dean: Ampitheatre
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Yuja Wang)
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16 (Lorin Maazel, conductor)

August 1, 2013
Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts and Yo-Yo Ma plays Dvořák.
Moncayo: Huapango
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
Bloch: Schelomo (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor)

August 8, 2013
Riccardo Muti conducts Schubert and a world premiere by Mead Composer-in-Residence Anna Clyne.
Schubert: Entr'acte No. 3 from Rosamunde
Clyne: Night Ferry (CSO Commission, World Premiere)
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, Great
Falla: Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole

August 15, 2013
Riccardo Muti conducts Beethoven and Schubert
Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in A Major, R. 158
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, Prague
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
Excerpt from Lincoln soundtrack

August 22, 2013
Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado makes his CSO debut.
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Debussy: La boîte à joujoux
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Falla: El amor brujo (Marina Heredia, flamenco vocals)
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole (2-piano version) (Katia and Mariel LaBeque, piano; Semyon Bychkov, conductor)
Chabrier: España (Alain Altinoglu, conductor)

August 29, 2013
Kirill Petrenko makes his CSO debut in an all-Russian program.
Mussorgsky: Dawn on the Moscow River and Dance of the Persian Maidens from Khovanshchina
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35 (Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Christopher Martin, trumpet)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 (Andrey Boreyko, conductor)

September 5, 2013
Sir Mark Elder conducts a Berlioz/Shakespeare concert.
Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture
Berlioz: Queen Mab Scherzo; Romeo at the Tomb of the Capulets from Romeo and Juliet
Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Lawrence Power, viola)
Berlioz: Nuits d'été (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Pierre Boulez, conductor)

September 12, 2013
Mei-Ann Chen conducts during the Rivers Festival.
Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusina Overture
Price: Mississippi River
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Robert Chen, violin)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 (Lang Lang, piano; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor)

September 19, 2013
Juanjo Mena conducts works inspired by rivers, as part of the Rivers Festival.
Smetana: The Moldau from Ma vlast
Takemitsu: riverrun (Peter Serkin, piano)
Villa-Lobos: Amazonas
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral
Schmitt: La tragédie de Salomé (Alain Altinoglu, conductor)

September 26, 2013
Riccardo Muti conducts Bruckner 6.
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6 (Robert Chen, violin)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major
Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183

October 3, 2013
Riccardo Muti conducts the 2012-13 opening weekend
Dvořàk: Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76
Martucci: Notturno
Respighi: Feste romana
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, Italian