June 2016 programs on The Chicago Symphony

Russian composer Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus or the Poem of Fire for piano, chorus, large orchestra and "luce", sort of color organ which was supposed to create the synaestetical effects wished by the composer.

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This month, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform a series of programs of both darkness and light.  June wraps with Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus, the Poem of Fire.

6/2       Lutosławski: Musique funebre Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (Paul Lewis, p; Tugan Sokhiev and Christoph Dohnányi, cond)

6/9       Ravel: Mother Goose Suite Debussy: La damoiselle élue  Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Alborada del gracioso, Introduction and Allegro (Chloé Briot, Marie-Eve Munger, and Kate Royal, s; Marianne Crebassa, ms; Elodie Méchain, a; Manuel Nuñez Camelino, t; Stéphane Degout, bar; Eric Owens, bs-bar; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Anima—Young Singers of Greater Chicago; Jean Martinon, cond)

6/16      Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished  Elgar: Cello Concerto Schubert: Symphony No. 2 Verdi: Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani (John Sharp, c; Riccardo Muti, cond)

6/23      Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Classical Scriabin: Prometheus, the Poem of Fire Beethoven: Coriolan Overture Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague (Kirill Gerstein, p; Riccardo Muti, cond)