November 2015 programs on The Chicago Symphony

In costume performance of Schoenberg's 1912 expressionist melodrama, Pierrot Lunaire. 

Irwin Lewis

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Hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Arnold Schoenberg's landmark 1912 melodrama Pierrot Lunaire. Based on 12 French poems of the same name, this piece features a singer half-singing, half-speaking in a technique called Sprechstimme. You can hear this work on the November 5th broadcast.

11/5      Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale (Keira Duffy, s; John Lithgow, nar; Cristian Macelaru, cond)

11/12    Ippolito: Nocturne Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 Brahms: Symphony No. 3 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 (Orion Weiss, p; Edo de Waart and Fritz Reiner, cond)

11/19    Sibelius: Suite No. 1 from The Tempest Stravinsky: Violin Concerto Adès:  …but all shall be well Debussy: La mer Dvořák: The Water Goblin Williams:  Excerpt from film score for Lincoln (Leila Josefowicz, v; Susanna Mälkki and Sir Mark Elder, cond)

11/26    Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Haydn: Sinfonia concertante (Robert Chen, v; John Sharp, c; Eugene Izotov, ob; David McGill, bn; Bernard Haitink, cond)