October 2015 programs on The Chicago Symphony

The English countryside

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The five brief movements of Benjamin Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes, which was commissioned for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on January 3, 1967, encompass a wide range of moods.  You can hear this work on the October 22nd broadcast.

10/1      Ligeti: Lontano Beethoven: Triple Concerto Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, Little Russian Clyne: Night Ferry (Stephanie Jeong, v; Kenneth Olsen, c; Jonathan Biss, p Riccardo Muti, cond)

10/8      Brahms: Violin Concerto Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Haydn: Symphony No. 89 (Pinchas Zukerman, v; Riccardo Muti, cond)

10/15    Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Mozart: Symphony No. 36, Linz (Semyon Bychkov and Fritz Reiner, cond)

10/22    Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes (Alisa Weilerstein, c; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

10/29    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (Daniil Trifonov, p; Semyon Bychkov and Tugan Sokhiev, cond)