CSO Concert Series
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The orchestra is led by Music Director Riccardo Muti, a renowned Italian conductor who leads concerts throughout the season and who helps to plan the music that the orchestra will play. The CSO performs more than 150 concerts each year at Symphony Center, as well as summer performances at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park and sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the world.
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Experience what Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti calls “the work of a divine architect” in this special encore presentation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Recorded live September 18, 2014, at Orchestra Hall during one of the opening programs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2014/15 season, this performance features Muti leading the Orchestra and Chorus and distinguished soloists in one of history’s most powerful and inspiring artistic works. A masterpiece whose staggering influence can be seen across classical music, it concludes with the famous Ode to Joy, which calls for understanding, peace and universal goodwill. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is grateful to an anonymous donor for generously underwriting the recording of this concert in 2014.
