Saturday, 13 August 2016

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - The Solti Years 1969 - 1991 Part 2



1979 – 1980


4, 6, 16 October 1979
Sir Georg Solti
Donald Peck, flute
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5


11, 12, 13 October 1979
Sir Georg Solti
Margaret Price, soprano
Gwendolyn Killebrew, mezzo-soprano
Manfred Jung, tenor
Martti Talvela, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Choral


18, 19, 20 October 1979
Sir Georg Solti
Milton Preves, viola
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Walton: Viola Concerto
Elgar: Enigma Variations


26, 27 October 1979
Sir Georg Solti
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin
Barbara Hendricks, soprano
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Del Tredici: Final Alice


1, 2, 3 November 1979
Erich Leinsdorf
Larry Combs, clarinet
Haydn: Symphony No. 93
Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


8, 9, 10 November 1979
Erich Leinsdorf
Donald Gramm, baritone
Janice Hall, soprano
Delia Wallis, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Men’s Chorus
Richard Strauss: Die Tageszeiten, song cycle
Richard Strauss: Der Burger als Edelmann


15, 16, 17 November 1979
Erich Leinsdorf
Lazar Berman, piano
Pfitzner: Palestrina, Three Preludes
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1


21, 23, 24 November 1979
Andrew Davis
Jorge Bolet, piano
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Dvořák: Symphony No. 6

29, 30 November, 1 December 1979
Henry Mazer
Steven de Groote, piano
Copland: El Salón México
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19
Schumann: Symphony No. 2


6, 7, 8 December 1979
Gunther Schüller
Joseph Guastafeste, double bass
Mary Sauer, piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Schuller: Concerto for Double Bass and Chamber Orchestra Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
Scriabin: Mysterium, Universe Part 1 (arr. Nemtin)


13, 14, 15 December 1979
Leonard Slatkin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Purcell: Fantasia Upon One Note
Bolcom: Commedia for (almost) 18th Century Orchestra
Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica


20, 21, 22 December 1979
Leonard Slatkin
Varèse: Intégrales
Ginastera: Concerto for Strings
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5


18, 20 January 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Elgar: Falstaff


24, 25, 26 January 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Victor Aitay, violin
Ray Still, oboe
Dale Clevenger, horn
Norman Schweikert, horn
Samuel Magad, violin
Adolph Herseth, trumpet
Ralph Zeitlin, recorder
Francis Akos, violin
David Taylor, violin
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2


31 January, 1, 2 February 1980
Varujan Kojian
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade



7, 8, 9 February 1980
Rainer Miedél
Mark Piskunov, piano
Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Kodály: Peacock Variations


14, 15, 17 February 1980
Claudio Abbado
Samuel Magad, violin
Frank Miller, cello
Ray Still, oboe
Willard Elliot, bassoon
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante
Mahler: Symphony No. 5


21, 22, 23 February 1980
Claudio Abbado
Shlomo Mintz, violin
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica


28, 29 February, 1 March 1980
Margaret Hillis
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
Linn Maxwell, mezzo-soprano
Frank Little, tenor
Dale Duesing, baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mendelssohn: Elijah


6, 7, 8 March 1980
Kazuhiro Koizumi
Joseph Golan, violin
Bartók: Dance Suite
Richard Manners: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 2


13, 14, 15 March 1980
Rafael Kubelik
Lucia Popp, soprano
Mira Zakai, mezzo-soprano
Alexander Oliver, tenor
Malcolm King, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Mozart: Coronation Mass


20, 21, 22 March 1980
Rafael Kubelik
Mary Sauer, piano
Donald Koss, timpani
Martinů: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique



27, 28, 29 March 1980
Garcia Navarro
Ivan Moravec, piano
Weber: Preciosa, Overture
Franck: Symphonic Variations
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5


3, 4, 5 April 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Samuel Magad, violin
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring


10, 11, 13 April 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Mark Westcott, piano
Ravel: Une barque sur l’océan
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)


16, 18, 19 April 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Berit Lindholm, soprano
Birgit Finnilä, contralto
Dennis Bailey, tenor
Franz Mazura, bass-baritone
Wagner: Siegfried, Act 3 (concert version)


24, 25, 26 April 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Isobel Buchanan, soprano
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection


9, 11 May 1980
Henry Mazer
Nina Beilina, violin
Cimarosa: I Traci amanti, Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Schmidt: Symphony No. 4


15, 16, 17 May 1980
Raymond Leppard
Isobel Buchanan, soprano
David Holloway, baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)


22, 23, 24 May 1980
Christoph von Dohnányi
Anja Silja, soprano
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Schoenberg: Six Songs
Schumann: Symphony No. 4



29, 30, 31 May 1980
Edo de Waart
Maureen Forrester, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Women’s Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No. 3



1980 – 1981


2, 3, 4 October 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Faye Robinson, soprano
Teresa Cahill, soprano
Jo Ann Pickens, soprano
Jan De Gaetani, mezzo-soprano
Mira Zakai, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Brent Ellis, baritone
Theo Adam, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No. 8


9, 10, 11 October 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Murray Perahia, piano
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra


16, 17, 18 October 1980
Sir Georg Solti
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Beethoven: Romance No. 1
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic


23, 24, 25 October 1980
Henry Mazer
Edith Peinemann, violin
Kraft: Contextures
Pfitzner: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5


30, 31 October, 1 November 1980
Reynaold Giovaninetti
Debussy: Printemps
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3


6, 7, 8 November 1980
Rafael Kubelik
Sir Clifford Curzon, piano
Kubelik: Sequences for Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8


13, 14, 15 November 1980
Rafael Kubelik
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Brahms: Symphony No. 1



20, 21, 22 November 1980
Edo de Waart
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Dukas: La Peri, Fanfare
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances


26, 28, 29 November 1980
Varujan Kojian
Gidon Kremer, violin
Copland: Connotations
Berg: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben


4, 5, 7 December 1980
Daniel Barenboim
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8


11, 12, 13 December 1980
Daniel Barenboim
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Prelude
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3


18, 19, 20 December 1980
Margaret Hillis
Jan De Gaetani, mezzo-soprano
Seth McCoy, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Thomas Paul, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Berlioz: The Childhood of Christ


7, 8, 9, 10 January 1981
Eugene Ormandy
Glière: Symphony No. 3, Ilya Murametz
Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler


14, 15, 16, 18 January 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Frank Miller, cello
Sowerby: Comes Autumn Time
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Tippett: Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles
Bartók: Dance Suite


22, 23, 24 January 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Peter Frankl, piano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1
Holst: The Planets


29, 30, 31 January 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Victor Aitay, violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 96, Miracle
Ives: Variations on America (orch. Schuman)
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Don Juan

5, 6, 7 February 1981
Erich Leinsdorf
Barber: Symphony No. 1
Harris: Symphony No. 3 (In One Movement)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World


12, 13, 14 February 1981
Erich Leinsdorf
Earl Wild, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 97
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Interludes from Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel


19, 20, 22 February 1981
Claudio Abbado
Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Mahler: Symphony No. 1


25, 26, 27, 28 February 1981
Claudio Abbado
Salvatore Accardo, violin
Dale Clevenger, horn
Mozart: Symphony No. 32
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, Haffner


5, 6, 7 March 1981
Claudio Abbado
Lucia Valentini-Terrani, mezzo-soprano
Philip Kraus, baritone
Philip Langridge, tenor
Rockwell Blake, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Aage Haugland, bass
Donald Gramm, bass-baritone
Maximilian Schell, narrator
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mussorgsky: The Defeat of Sennacherib
Mussorgsky: Joshua
Mussorgsky: Salammbo, Chorus of Priestesses
Mussorgsky: Oedipus in Athens, Temple Scene
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex


12, 13, 14 March 1981
Erich Bergel
Enescu: Prélude à l’unisson and Menuet Lent
Messiaen: L’Ascension
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


19, 20, 21 March 1981
Daniel Barenboim
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2



26, 27, 28 March 1981
Daniel Barenboim
Radu Lupu, piano
Jessye Norman, soprano
Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano
David Rendall, tenor
Samuel Ramey, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Bruckner: Te Deum


1, 2, 3, 4 April 1981
Erich Leinsdorf
Mozart: March No. 1, K. 320a
Mozart: Serenade No. 9, Posthorn
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 17 and 21 (orch. Dvořák)


9, 10, 11 April 1981
Leonard Slatkin
Jaime Laredo, violin
Schwantner: Aftertones of Infinity
Barber: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2


16, 17, 18 April 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Mahler: Symphony No. 9


23, 25 April 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Mary Beth Stephen/Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Riegel/Peyo Garrazi, tenor
José van Dam, bass-baritone
Malcolm King, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust

8, 9 May 1981
Henry Mazer
András Schiff, piano
Elsa Charlston, soprano
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
Foss: Time Cycle
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini


13, 14, 15, 16 May 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Alfred Brendel, piano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague


21, 22, 24 May 1981
Michael Tilson Thomas
Bach: Two Chorale (orch. Schoenberg)
Ives: Symphony No. 2
Stravinsky: The Firebird, complete


1981 – 1982


1, 2, 3 October 1981
Claudio Abbado
Margaret Price, soprano
Wagner: Lohengrin, Preludes Acts 1 and 3
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung


9, 10 October 1981
Garcia Navarro
Turina: Danzas Fantásticas
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5


15, 16, 17 October 1981
Garcia Navarro
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Barbara Pearson, soprano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Falla: The Three Cornered Hat, complete


22, 23, 24 October 1981
Leonard Slatkin
Lucia Popp, soprano
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Mozart: Nehmt meinen Dank, K. 383
Mozart: Ah, lo prevedi, K. 272
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8


29, 30, 31 October 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished
Rochberg: Imago Mundi
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto


5, 6, 8 November 1981
Sir Georg Solti
Norma Burrowes, soprano
Sylvia Greenberg, soprano
Rüdiger Wohlers, tenor
Siegmund Nimsgern, bass
James Morris, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Haydn: The Creation


13, 14 November 1981
Sir Georg Solti
David Taylor, violin
Milton Preves, viola
Walton: Partita
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes



19, 20, 21 November 1981
Henry Mazer
Claude Frank, piano
Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator, The Lake
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17
Dukas: Symphony in C major


25, 27, 28 November 1981
Hans Werner Henze
Romualdo Tecco, violin
Henze: Los Caprichos
Henze: Il Vitalino Raddoppiato
Henze: Arien des Orpheus
Henze: Barcarolla


3, 4, 5 December 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8


10, 11, 12 December 1981
Hans Werner Henze
Malcolm Frager, piano
Henze: Quattro Poemi
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica


17, 18, 20 December 1981
Raymond Leppard
Dale Clevenger, horn
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Debussy: Three Nocturnes
Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Suite (ed. Leinsdorf)


7, 8, 9 January 1982
Dennis Russell Davies
Miriam Fried, violin
Thomson: Three Landscapes
Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 1


14, 15, 16 January 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Carter: Variations for Orchestra
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Debussy: La mer


4, 5, 6 February 1982
Margaret Hillis
Florence Kopleff, soprano
Lee Henning, tenor
Leslie Guinn, baritone
Kurt Link, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Poulenc: Mass in G major
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden
Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orleans
Ravel: Trois Chansons
Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht

11, 12, 13 February 1982
Janos Ferencsik
Francis Akos, violin
Yehuda Hanani, cello
Daniel Adni, piano
Kodály: Dances from Galanta
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


18, 19, 21 February 1982
Claudio Abbado
Salvatore Accardo, violin
Schubert: Symphony No. 4, Tragic
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
Janáček: Sinfonietta


25, 26, 27 February 1982
Claudio Abbado
Francisco Araiza, tenor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Berlioz: Te Deum


4, 5, 6 March 1982
Christoph von Dohnányi
Victor Aitay, violin
Edgar Muenzer, violin
Milton Preves, viola
Frank Miller, cello
Rihm: Tutuguri II (Music after Artaud)
Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Schumann: Symphony No. 2


11, 12, 13 March 1982
André Previn
Ralph Kirshbaum, cello
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Walton: Cello Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10


18, 19, 20 March 1982
André Previn
Cristina Ortiz, piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, complete


25, 26, 27 March 1982
Leonard Slatkin
Zara Nelsova, cello
Druckman: Aureole
Bloch: Schelomo
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7


1, 2, 4 April 1982
Leonard Slatkin
Josef Suk, violin
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Martinů: Violin Concerto No. 2
Respighi: Feste romane

8, 9, 10 April 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Florence Quivar, contralto
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor
Malcolm King, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Bach: Mass in B minor


15, 16, 17 April 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Samuel Magad, violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


22, 23, 24 April 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Etsko Tazaki, piano
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Classical
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts


29, 30 April, 1 May 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Cecile Licad, piano
Borodin: Prince Igor, Overture
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra


6, 7, 8 May 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Walfrid Kujala, piccolo
Haydn: Symphony No. 103, Drum Roll
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C major, Op. 44, P 78
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C major, Op. 44, P 79
Bartók: Divertimento for strings


20 May 1982
Varujan Kojian
András Schiff, piano
Rossini: William Tell, Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique


27, 28, 30 May 1982
Eugene Ormandy
James Dick, piano
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Persichetti: Piano Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 2


3, 4, 5 June 1982
Eugene Ormandy
Benita Valente, soprano
Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano
Jon Frederic West, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Choral

1982 – 1983


28, 29, 30 October 1982
Erich Leinsdorf
Young Uck Kim, violin
Bach: Cantata No. 29, Sinfonia
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 2
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, Great


4, 5, 7 November 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Helga Dernesch, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Women’s Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No. 3


11, 12, 13 November 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin
Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra
Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian



18, 19, 20 November 1982
Sir Georg Solti
Dennis Bailey, tenor
David Arnold, baritone
Elisabeth Trompeter, soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Bartók: Cantata Profana
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces


8
Varujan Kojian
Lynn Harrell, cello
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Petersson: Symphony No. 8


2, 3, 5 December 1982
Rafael Kubelik
Donald Peck, flute
Ray Still, oboe
Adolph Herseth, trumpet
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Barber: Capricorn Concerto
Dello Joio: Variations, Chaconne and Finale
Harris: Symphony No. 5


9, 10, 11 December 1982
Rafael Kubelik
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 16
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6



16, 17, 18 December 1982
Margaret Hillis
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
Barbara Pearson, soprano
Alfreda Hodgson, contralto
David Britton, tenor
Leslie Guinn, bass-baritone
Kurt Link, bass
Dennis James, organ
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Handel: Organ Concerto No. 13, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
Handel: Israel in Egypt


6, 7, 8 January 1983
Erich Bergel
Scarlatti: Concerto Grosso No. 2 in C minor
Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


13, 14, 15 January 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Tcherepnin: Magna mater
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World


20, 21, 22 January 1983
Sir Georg Solti
David Schrader, organ
Larry Combs, clarinet
Handel: Organ Concerto No. 16
Corigliano: Clarinet Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Scottish


27, 28, 29 January 1983
Henry Mazer
William Ferris, organ
André Laplante, piano
Ferris: Acclamations for organ and orchestra
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1
Honegger: Symphony No. 5, Di tre re
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso


3, 4, 5 February 1983
Claudio Abbado
Hildegard Behrens, soprano
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Schoenberg: Erwartung
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, Little Russian


10, 11, 13 February 1983
Claudio Abbado
Henry Mazer, Matthias Bamert, assistant conductors
Cecile Licad, piano
Stockhausen: Gruppen
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2



17, 18, 19 February 1983
Claudio Abbado
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique


24, 25, 26 February 1983
Claudio Abbado
Ray Still, oboe
Shlomo Mintz, violin
Rossini: Semiramide, Overture
Mozart: Oboe Concerto
Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1


3, 4, 5 March 1983
Claudio Abbado
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Kurt Link, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mozart: Kyrie in D minor
Gabrieli: Sacrae symphoniae, (Domine exaudi, Miserere mei Deus, non dicam vos servos and Jubilate Deo)
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto
Wagner: Lohengrin, Procession into the Cathedral, Act 2


10, 11, 12 March 1983
Erich Leinsdorf
Bernd Weikl, baritone
David Rendall, tenor
Irene Gubrud, soprano
James Billings, baritone
Gualtiero Negrini, tenor
Jennifer Jones, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Jones, bass
Kurt Link, bass
Robert Cole, bass
David Cottingham, tenor
Thomas Dymit, tenor
Gregory Frank, bass
Philip Kraus, baritone
Bradley Nystrom, bass-baritone
Maurice Weathersby, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act 1 Scene 1, Prelude and Chorale
Act 3, Quintet and Festweise


17, 18, 19 March 1983
Erich Leinsdorf
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Martinů: Symphony No. 4
Webern: Passacaglia
Liszt: Two Episodes from Lenau’s Faust


24, 25, 26 March 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Duparc: Four Mélodies françaises (Le manoir de Rosamonde, Au pays ou se fait la guerre, Phildylé, L’Invitation au voyage)
Mahler: Symphony No. 4



31 March, 1, 2 April 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Mozart: The Magic Flute, Overture
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica


7, 9 April 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Siegmund Nimsgern, bass-baritone
Hermann Becht, baritone
Gabriele Schnaut, mezzo-soprano
Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor
Robert Tear, tenor
Jan De Gaetani, mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Smith, bass
Gwynne Howell, bass
Mary Jane Johnson, soprano
John Cheek, bass
Dennis Bailey, tenor
Michelle Harman-Gulick, soprano
Elizabeth Hynes, soprano
Emily Golden, mezzo-soprano
Wagner: Das Rheingold, complete


28, 29 April 1983
Raymond Leppard
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Britten: Occasional Overture
Maxwell Davies: Stone Litany, Runes from a House of the Dead
Bax: Tintagel
Elgar: Symphony No. 1


5, 6, 7 May 1983
Mark Elder
John Browning, piano
Berlioz: King Lear, Overture
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5


12, 13, 15 May 1983
Leonard Slatkin
Donald Peck, flute
Finzi: New Year Music (Nocturne)
Telemann: Suite for Flute and Strings in A minor
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905


19, 20 May 1983
Leonard Slatkin
Claudine Carlson, soprano
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, Overture
Haydn: Symphony No. 70
Britten: Quatre Chansons Françaises
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Rhenish


26, 27, 28 May 1983
Leonard Slatkin
Hanlon: Cumulus Nimbus
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)



2, 3, 4 June 1983
Carlos Kleiber
Butterworth: English Idyll No. 1
Mozart: Symphony No. 33
Brahms: Symphony No. 2



1983 – 1984


29, 30 September, 1 October 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Adolph Herseth, trumpet
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, Military
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3


6, 7, 8 October 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Copland: Rodeo, Buckaroo Holiday
Delius: Brigg Fair
Mahler: Symphony No. 1


13, 14, 15 October 1983
Sir Georg Solti
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3
Berg: Violin Concerto
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture and Venusberg Music


27, 28, 29 October 1983
Rafael Kubelik
Smetana: Má vlast


3, 4, 6 November 1983
Rafael Kubelik
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 6
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Roussel: Symphony No. 3


10, 12 November 1983
Michael Tilson Thomas
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony


17, 18, 19 November 1983
Michael Tilson Thomas
Misha Dichter, piano
Ives: Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting
Varèse: Arcana
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1


25, 26 November 1983
Erich Leinsdorf
André-Michel Schub, piano
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust, Three Pieces



1, 2, 3 December 1983
Erich Leinsdorf
Jessye Norman, soprano
Dennis Bailey/David Rendall (2, 3), tenor
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde


8, 9, 11 December 1983
Erich Leinsdorf
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3


15, 16, 17 December 1983
Erich Leinsdorf
Murray Perahia, piano
Ruggles: Angels
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, Spring
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Ravel: La valse


5, 6, 7 January 1984
Claudio Abbado
Ken Noda, piano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 7


12, 13, 14 January 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Felicity Lott, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor
Simon Estes, bass-baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Beethoven: Missa solemnis


3, 4 February 1984
Claudio Abbado
Willard Elliot, bassoon
Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto
Ligeti: Ramifications
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation


9, 10 February 1984
Claudio Abbado
Gabriela Benačkovà, soprano
Lucia Valentini-Terrani, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Pergolesi: Stabat mater
Webern: Variations for Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4


16, 17, 18 February 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Haydn: Symphony No. 60, Il distratto
Bax: The Garden of Fand
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1



23, 26 February 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Liadov: Eight Russian Folk Songs
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, Leningrad


1, 2, 3 March 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rouse: The Infernal Machine
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2


8, 9, 10 March 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Radu Lupu, piano
Ravel: Menuet antique
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor


15, 16, 17 March 1984
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Lucia Popp, soprano
Walton Grönroos, baritone
Mahler: Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


22, 23, 24 March 1984
Margaret Hillis
Faith Esham, soprano
Hilda Harris, mezzo-soprano
David Britton, tenor
Michael Devlin, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Darion/Laderman: A Mass for Cain


29, 30, 31 March 1984
Garcia Navarro
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Debussy: Images
Glazunov: Symphony No. 4


5, 6 April 1984
Henry Mazer
Ian Hobson, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 30
Sibelius: Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3


12, 13, 14 April 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Eunice Lee, violin
Berlioz: Roman Carnival, Overture
Paganini: Violin Concerto 1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4



19, 21 April 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Franz Mazura, bass-baritone
Philip Langridge, tenor
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Daniel Harper, tenor
Aage Haugland, bass
Mira Zakai, mezzo-soprano
Herbert Wittges, baritone
Thomas Dymit, tenor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (concert performance)


26, 27, 28 April 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Peter Frankl, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Mozart: Symphony No. 40


3, 4, 6 May 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
McCabe: Concerto for Orchestra
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Elgar: Enigma Variations


10, 11, 12 May 1984
Claudio Abbado
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)


17, 18, 19 May 1984
Claudio Abbado
Samuel Magad, violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague
Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 4
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


24, 25, 27 May 1984
Claudio Abbado
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Hildegard Behrens, soprano
Alexander Malta, bass
Jacque Trussel, tenor
Gerhard Unger, tenor
Philip Langridge, tenor
Fiona Kimm, mezzo-soprano
Richard Cohn, baritone
Paul Kreider, baritone
Robert Cole, tenor
Sharon Flynn, soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Berg: Wozzeck (concert performance)


31 May, 1, 2 June 1984
Klaus Tennstedt
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, Linz
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

7, 8, 9 June 1984
Klaus Tennstedt
Edith Peinemann, violin
Weber: Oberon, Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra



1984 – 1985


27, 28, 29 September 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Elizabeth Hynes, soprano
Anne Gjevang, contralto
Keith Lewis, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Handel: Messiah


4, 5, 6 October 1984
Sir Georg Solti
Milton Preves, viola
Corigliano: Tournaments Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Bloch: Suite for Viola
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Prelude


11, 12, 13 October 1984
Adám Fischer
Rossini: Semiramide, Overture
Kodály: Háry Janos, Suite
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben


18, 19, 20 October 1984
Claudio Abbado
Cecile Licad, piano
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, Great


25, 26, 27 October 1984
Claudio Abbado
Zoltán Kocsis, piano
Boulez: Notations I-IV
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian


1, 2, 4 November 1984
Claudio Abbado
Ruggero Raimondi, bass
Zehava Gal, mezzo-soprano
Cyndia Sieden, soprano
Jennifer Jones, mezzo-soprano
Philip Langridge, tenor
Hartmut Welker, baritone
Samuel Ramey, bass
Kaludi Kaludov, tenor
Lucia Valentini-Terrani, mezzo-soprano
Sergei Koptchak, bass
Kurt Hansen, tenor
Richard Cohn, baritone
Bradley Nystrom, bass-baritone
Donald Kaasch, tenor
Paul Grizzell, bass
Dale Prest, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (original version), concert performance


8, 9, 10 November 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Joseph Guastafeste, string bass
Bach: Prelude and Fugue, BWV 532 (orch. Respighi)
Karlins: Reflux, Concerto for Amplified String Bass and Solo Wind Ensemble
Elgar: Symphony No. 2


15, 16, 17 November 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Mark Peskanov, violin
Beethoven: King Stephen, Overture
Hindemith: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6


23, 24 November 1984
Leonard Slatkin
Christian Altenburger, violin
Previn: Principals
Goldmark: Violin Concerto
Dvořák: Symphony No. 6


29, 30 November, 1 December 1984
Mark Elder
Peter Donohoe, piano
Dvořák: Othello, Overture
Muldowney: Piano Concerto
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3


6, 7, 8 December 1984
Kurt Masur
Annerose Schmidt, piano
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Matthus: Piano Concerto
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5


13, 14, 16 December 1984
Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy


20, 21, 22 December 1984
Margaret Hillis
Barbara Pearson, soprano
Bruce Cain, baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Bach: Cantata No. 50, Nun ist das Heil
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
Poulenc: Gloria
Honegger: Christmas Cantata


10, 11 January 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9


9 February 1985
Leonard Slatkin
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Handel: Solomon, Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Schwantner: Magabunda
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5


14, 15 February 1985
Claudio Abbado
Carter Brey, cello
Tchaikovsky: The Voyevode
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5


21, 22, 23 February 1985
Claudio Abbado
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Ellen Shade, soprano
Berg: Seven Early Songs
Berg: Violin Concerto
Berg: Alterberg Lieder
Berg: Three Pieces, Op. 6


26 February, 1, 2 March 1985
Claudio Abbado
Yuzuko Horigome, violin
Claudio Abbado, Mary Sauer, David Schrader, harpsichords
Bach: Three Pieces from The Musical Offering (Ricercar a 3, Canon a 4, Ricercar a 6)
Bach: Violin Concerto in E major
Bach: Concerto for Three Harpsichords
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4


7, 8, 10 March 1985
Rafael Kubelik
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8


14, 15, 16 March 1985
Rafael Kubelik
Edgar Krapp, organ
Kubelik: A Symphonic Peripetia for Organ and Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica


21, 22, 23 March 1985
Adam Fischer
J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus, Overture
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Brahms: Symphony No. 3


28, 29, 30 March 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Isaac Stern, violin
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Scottish



4, 6 April 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Pamela Coburn, soprano
Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Thomas Moser, tenor
Wolfgang Schoene, baritone
Siegmund Nismgern, bass-baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Bach: St. Matthew Passion


11, 12, 14 April 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, London
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3


18, 19, 20 April 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Donald Peck, flute
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite (1919)
Gould: Flute Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


25, 26, 27 April 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Guillermo Sarabia, Falstaff
Wolfgang Brendel, Ford
Katia Ricciarelli, Mistress Ford
Kathleen Battle, Nannetta
Christa Ludwig, Mistress Quickly
Ann Murray, Mistress Page
Yordi Ramiro, Fenton
Aage Haugland, Pistol
Francis Egerton, Bardolph
Heinz Zednik, Dr. Caius
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Verdi: Falstaff (concert performance)


9, 11 May 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Erie Mills, soprano
Adolph Herseth, trumpet
Berg: Lulu, Lyric Pieces
Bach: Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Bruckner: Symphony No. 1


16, 17, 18 May 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture
Mozart: Serenade for 13 wind instruments, K. 361
Debussy: La mer


23, 24, 25 May 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Weill: Little Threepeny Music for Wind Ensemble
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1



30, 31 May, 2 June 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Bach: Two Chorale Preludes BWV 654 and 631(orch. Schoenberg)
Bach: Ricercare from The Musical Offering
Bach: Prelude and Fugue, St. Anne (orch. Schoenberg)

6, 7, 8 June 1985
Henry Mazer
Thomas Zehetmair, violin
Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss, Divertimento
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Brahms: Serenade No. 1


13, 14, 15 June 1985
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor and piano
Grainger: Arrival Platform Humlet
Griffes: Clouds
Chabrier: Marche joyeuse
Del Tredici: March to Tonality
Gershwin: Second Rhapsody
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Respighi: Roman Festivals
Sousa: New Mexico March

1985 – 1986


26, 27, 28 September 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Lynn Harrell, cello
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


3, 4, 5 October 1985
Sir Georg Solti
András Schiff, piano
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song
Debussy: Three Nocturnes
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1


10, 11, 12 October 1985
Sir Georg Solti
Tamás Vasáry, piano
Marvis Martin, soprano
Anne Sofie Von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Jerry Hadley, tenor
Malcolm King, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mozart: Kyrie in D minor, K. 341
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 427


17, 18, 19 October 1985
Iván Fischer
Rossini: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Kodály: Dances of Galanta


24, 25, 27 October 1985
Klaus Tennstedt
Samuel Magad, violin
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1


31 October, 1, 2 November 1985
Klaus Tennstedt
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic


7, 9 November 1985
Daniel Barenboim
Siegfried Wagner: Sehnsucht
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Götterdämmerung, excerpts



8 November 1985
Daniel Barenboim
René Kollo, tenor
Johanna Meier, soprano
Hans Tschammer, bass
Nadine Denize, mezzo-soprano
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2


14, 15 November 1985
Kurt Sanderling
Malcolm Frager, piano
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina, Prelude (arr. Shostakovich)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 13
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15


21, 22, 23 November 1985
Neeme Järvi
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Liadov: Polonaise in memory of Pushkin
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Stenhammar: Symphony No. 1


29, 30 November 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Brahms: Serenade No. 2
Richard Strauss: Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op. 7
Schuller: Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
Richard Strauss: Aus Italien


5, 6, 7 December 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Copland: Symphony No. 3


12, 13, 15 December 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Roussel: Symphony No. 4
Dutilleux: Timbres, Espace, Mouvement
Franck: Symphony


19, 20, 21 December 1985
Erich Leinsdorf
Mechthild Gessendorf, soprano
Barbara Hendricks, soprano
Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano
Johann Strauss: The Gypsy Baron, Overture
Johann Strauss: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Johann Strauss: Bahn Frei, Galop
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, excerpts


9, 10, 11 January 1986
Raymond Leppard
Anthony and Joseph Paratore, pianos
Chabrier: Suite Pastorale
Bartók: Concerto for Two Pianos
Bizet: Symphony No. 1



16, 17, 18 January 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Liszt: A Faust Symphony


23, 24, 26 January 1986
Sir Georg Solti
André Watts, piano
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Liszt: Totentanz
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Suite


30, 1 February 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7


6, 7, 8 February 1986
Leonard Slatkin
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Schumann: Manfred, Overture
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Barber: Adagio for Strings
William Schuman: Symphony No. 3


13, 14, 16 February 1986
Leonard Slatkin
Margaret Marshall, soprano
John Aler, tenor
Benjamin Luxon, baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Britten: War Requiem


20 February 1986
Leonard Slatkin
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
Edward Druzinsky, harp
Wendy Fine: Notturno for Strings and Harp
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5


27, 28 February, 1 March 1986
Leonard Slatkin
Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Erb: Prismatic Variations
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy (arr. Liszt)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6


4 March 1986
Daniel Barenboim, conductor/piano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique



6, 8 March 1986
Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring


7 March 1986
Daniel Barenboim
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring


13, 15 March 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Weber: Euryanthe, Overture
Rochberg: Symphony No. 5
Schumann: Symphony No. 2


19, 20, 21 March 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Francis Akos, violin
Bach: Violin Concerto in D minor, after BWV 1052
Mahler: Symphony No. 5


24, 25, 26 April 1986
Margaret Hillis
Barbara Pearson, soprano
Donald Kasch, tenor
Kurt Link, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Rorem: American Oratorio
Rachmaninov: The Bells


1, 2, 3 May 1986
Michael Tilson Thomas
Young Uck Kim, violin
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 1


8, 9, 10 May 1986
Michael Tilson Thomas
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Ives: New England Holidays Symphony
Bartók: Three Village Scenes
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Rhenish


15, 16, 17 May 1986
Kazuyoshi Akiyama
Samuel Magad, violin
Joseph Golan, violin
Milton Preves, viola
Joseph Guastafeste, double bass
Mozart: Serenata notturna
Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)



22, 23, 24 May 1986
Günther Herbig
Edith Wiens, soprano
Mozart: Non più, tutti ascoltai…Non temer, amata bene, K. 490
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, Leningrad


29, 30 May, 1 June 1986
Jesús Lopez-Cobos
Horacio Gutierrez, piano
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1


5, 6, 7 June 1986
Jesús Lopez-Cobos
Prieto: Fandango de Soler
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade


12, 13, 14 June 1986
Andrew Davis
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Britten: Peter Grimes, Four Sea Interludes
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5




1986 – 1987


25, 26, 27 September 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Jessye Norman, soprano
Reinhild Runkel, mezzo-soprano
Robert Schunk, tenor
Hans Sotin, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Choral


2, 3, 5 October 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Blair Milton, violin
Charles Pikler, violin
Laura Hamilton, violin
Edward Druzinsky, harp
Richard Graef, flute
Grover Schulz, cor anglais
Burl Lane, saxophone
William Scarlett, trumpet
Vivaldi: Concerto for Three Violins in F major, F.J. No. 34
Hanson: Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings
Copland: Quiet City
Ibert: Concertino da Camera
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


9, 10, 11 October 1986
Sir Georg Solti
Jennie Wagner, violin
Albert Igolnikov, violin
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture and Scherzo
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins
Brahms: Symphony No. 2


16, 17, 18, 21 October 1986
Mark Elder
Emanuel Ax, piano
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tippett: Symphony No. 2


23, 24, 25, 28 October 1986
Lorin Maazel
Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler
Mahler: Symphony No. 1


30, 31 October, 1 November 1986
Lorin Maazel
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica


5, 7 November 1986
Claudio Abbado
Isaac Stern, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante fir Violin and Viola, (arr. for violin and cello)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
6, 8 November 1986
Claudio Abbado
Isaac Stern, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave
Brahms: Double Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique


13, 14, 16 November 1986
Claudio Abbado
Margaret Price, soprano
Linda Finnie, mezzo-soprano
Vinson Cole, tenor
Bonaldo Giaiotti, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem


20, 21, 22 November 1986
Sir Charles Mackerras
Michele Campanella, piano
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Dvořák: The Noonday Witch
Busoni: Piano Concerto


26, 28, 29 November 1986
Erich Leinsdorf
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, symphonic interludes
Wagner: The Ring, Excerpts


4, 5, 6, 9 December 1986
Erich Leinsdorf
Dale Clevenger, horn
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Hindemith: Horn Concerto
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Chabrier: España


11, 12, 13, 16 December 1986
Erich Leinsdorf
Nobuko Imai, viola
Husa: Music for Prague, 1968
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Berlioz: Harold in Italy


18, 19, 20 December 1986
Erich Leinsdorf
Donald Koss, timpani
James Ross, percussion
David Schrader, organ
Milhaud: Concerto for Percussion and Chamber Orchestra
Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani
Hindemith: Philharmonic Concerto
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
Kodály: Concerto for Orchestra


8, 9, 10, 13 January 1986
Yoel Levi
Haydn: Symphony No. 102
Harris: Symphony No. 3
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, selections

15, 16, 17, 20 January 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 103, Drum Roll
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Dvořák: Violin Concerto


22, 23, 24 January 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Larry Combs, clarinet
Corgliano: Clarinet Concerto
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique


19, 20, 22, 24 February 1987
Michael Tilson Thomas
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 (orch Schoenberg)


26, 27, 28 February 1987
Michael Tilson Thomas
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude Act 3
Wuorinen: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra


12, 13, 14 March 1987
Edo de Waart
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 10 for Strings
Schuman: Symphony No. 10, American Muse
Dvořák: Symphony No. 6


19, 21 March 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Hans Peter Blochwitz, tenor
Thomas Moser, tenor
Olaf Baer, baritone
Tom Krause, bass-baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Bach: St. Matthew Passion


26, 27 March 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Ruben Gonzalez, violin
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring


28 March 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Ruben Gonzalez, violin
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5



2, 3, 4 April 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Jerome Rose, piano
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, Haffner
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben


9, 10, 11, 14 April 1987
Leonard Slatkin
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Joan Tower: Silver Ladders
Barber: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7


16, 17, 18 April 1987
Leonard Slatkin
Haydn: Symphony No. 68
Donald Erb: Concerto for Brass and Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5


23, 24, 25, 28 April 1987
Christopher Hogwood
C.P.E. Bach: Symphony No. 3
Mozart: Wind Serenade, K. 375
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Suite
Haydn: Symphony No. 83, The Hen


30 April, 1, 3 May 1987
Christopher Hogwood
Bach: Suite No. 3
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
Martinů: Tre Ricercari
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 (original version)


13, 14, 15 May 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Mahler: Symphony No. 9


26 May 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring


28, 29, 30 May 1987
Kenneth Jean
John Sharp, cello
Virgil Thomson: Louisiana Story
Ravel: Boléro
Dvořák: Cello Concerto


4, 5, 7, 9 June 1987
Günther Herbig
Weber: Oberon, Overture
Tadeusz Baird: Four Essays for Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


11, 12, 13 June 1987
Günther Herbig
Mahler: Symphony No. 6

1987 – 1988


24, 25, 26 September 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Samuel Magad, violin
Bartók: Two Portraits
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5


1, 2, 3, 6 October 1987
Sir Georg Solti
Joseph Golan, violin
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4


8, 10 October 1987
Sir Georg Solti
David Schrader, organ
Haydn: Organ Concerto in C major
Haydn: Symphony No. 93
Mozart: The Magic Flute, Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague


15, 16, 17 October 1987
Margaret Hillis
Gary Bachlund, tenor
Yael Dayan, narrator
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Marvin David Levy: Masada


22, 23, 25 October 1987
Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky: Symphonie of Wind Instruments
Boulez Notations I-IV
Bartók: The Wooden Prince


29, 30, 31 October 1987
Pierre Boulez
Debussy: Jeux
Boulez: Livre pour cordes
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande


5, 6, 7 November 1987
Leonard Slatkin
Christopher Parkening, guitar
Michael Murray, organ
Haydn: Symphony No. 67
Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, Organ


12, 13, 14, 17 November 1987
Leonard Slatkin
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Barber: The School for Scandal, Overture
Hanson: Symphony No. 2, Romantic
Schuman: On Freedom’s Ground



19, 20, 21 November 1987
Erich Leinsdorf
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina, Prelude (orch. Shostakovich)
Britten: Peter Grimes, Four Sea Interludes
Wagner: Parisfal, Prelude Act 1, Transformation Scene Act 1, Prelude Act 3, Good Friday Music, Transformation and Finale Act 3


25, 27, 28 November 1987
Erich Leinsdorf
Janos Starker, cello
Debussy: Images, Gigues and Rondes de Printemps
Hindemith: Cello Concerto
Bizet: L’Arlèsienne, Suites Nos. 1 and 2


3, 4, 6 December 1987
Michael Tilson Thomas
Thomas Weisflog, organ
Linda Kelm, soprano
Dolora Zajic, mezzo-soprano
Gary Lakes, tenor
Kevin Langan, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Reicha: Musique pour celebrer la memoire des grands hommes de la Republique française
Haydn: The Storm, motet
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass


10, 11, 12, 15 December 1987
Neeme Järvi
Håkan Hågegard, baritone
Stenhammar: Sängen, Intermezzo
Stenhammar: The Song of Florez and Blanzeflor
Sibelius: Kuolema, Incidental Music
Alfven: Skogen Sover
Sibelius: Songs (4) (Höstkväll, Var det en dröm?, Säv, säv, susa, Svarta rosor)
Tubin: Symphony No. 4, Lyrica


17, 18, 19 December 1987
Neeme Järvi
Samuel Magad, violin
Glazunov: From the Middle Ages, Prelude
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (revised version)


7, 8, 9, 12 January 1988
Herbert Blomstedt
Ivan Moravec, piano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6


14, 15, 16 January 1988
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Stephen Hough, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 78
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Inextinguishable



21, 22, 24 January 1988
Hugh Wolff
Earl Wild, piano
Barber: Music from a Scene from Shelley
Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, Orchestral Music


4, 5, 6 February 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Kathleen Battle, soprano
Alfred Muff, baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Brahms: A German Requiem


9 February 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Mahler: Symphony No. 9


11, 12, 13 February 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Adolph Herseth, trumpet
Husa: Trumpet Concerto
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Brahms: Symphony No. 4


18, 19, 20, 23 February 1988
Michael Tilson Thomas
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Ives: Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2


26 March 1988
Claudio Abbado
Midori, violin
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4


31 March, 1, 2, 5 April 1988
Claudio Abbado
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Rihm: Dammerung
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor


7, 8, 9, 12 April 1988
Kenneth Jean
Vladimir Feltsman, piano
Blacher: Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World


14, 15, 16, 19 April 1988
Klaus Tennstedt
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, Great






21, 22, 23 April 1988
Erich Leinsdorf
Walter Klien, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 99
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Richard Strauss: Divertimento after Piano Pieces by Couperin


28, 29 April, 1 May 1988
Erich Leinsdorf
Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Richard Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite


5, 6, 7, 10 May 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Ella Braker, violin
Nisanne Graff, violin
Willard Elliot, bassoon
David Taylor, violin
Leonard Chausow, cello
Michael Henoch, oboe
Bruce Grainger, bassoon
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, Op. 3 No. 8
Villa-Lobos: Ciranda das sete notas, for bassoon and orchestra
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral


12, 13, 15, 17 May 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Craig Sheppard, piano
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


19, 20, 21 May 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Kenneth Jean (21)
Michael Ludwig, violin
Rossini: Semiramide, Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Ives: Two Tone Roads
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra


2, 3, 4 June 1988
Kenneth Jean
Juliana Markova, piano
Torke: Ecstatic Orange
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No. 72
Respighi: The Pines of Rome


9, 10, 11 June 1988
Kurt Masur
Britten: Simple Symphony
Haydn: Symphony No. 85, La reine
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5



16, 17 June 1988
Leonard Bernstein
Leif Bjaland*
John Fiore^
Kate Tamarkin+
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung^
Richard Strauss: Don Juan+
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel*
Shostakovich:: Symphony No. 1


21, 22 June 1988
Leonard Bernstein
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, Leningrad



1988 – 1989


29, 30 September 1988, 1 October 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Suite
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, Clock
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra


6, 7, 9 October 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Susan Dunn, soprano
Rochelle Ellis, soprano
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Richard Cohn, baritone
Nickolas Karousatos, baritone
Leo Nucci, baritone
Simon Estes, bass-baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra, Prologue and Act 1


13, 14, 15, 18 October 1988
Sir Georg Solti
Walfrid Kujala, flute
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Schuller: Flute Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8


20, 21, 22, 25 October 1988
Daniel Barenboim
Ran: Concerto for Orchestra
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique


27, 28, 29 October 1988
Daniel Barenboim
Hitomi Katagiri, mezzo-soprano
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9


3, 4, 5, 8 November 1988
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic


10, 11, 12 November 1988
Neeme Järvi
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Lloyd: Symphony No. 7


17, 18, 19, 22 November 1988
Zubin Mehta
Marvis Martin, soprano
Maureen Forrester, contralto
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection



23, 25, 27 November 1988
Zubin Mehta
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Jeanne Loriod, ondes-martenot
Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony


8, 9, 10, 13 December 1988
Günther Herbig
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms: Symphony No. 3


15, 16, 18 December 1988
Semyon Bychkov
Stephen Hough, piano
Haydn: Symphony No. 44, Trauersinfonie
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances


5, 6, 7, 10 January 1989
Erich Leinsdorf
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Stravinsky: Octet
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky: Le chant du rossignol
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien


12, 13, 14 January 1989
Erich Leinsdorf
Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss
Mozart: Posthorn Serenade


19, 20, 21, 24 January 1989
Günter Wand
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


26, 27, 28, 30 January 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Kenneth Jean (28)
Klara Takacs, mezzo-soprano
Aage Haugland, bass
Miklos Simon, narrator
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle


2, 3, 4 February 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Jay Friedman, trombone
Zwilich: Trombone Concerto
Shostakovich:: Symphony No. 8



16, 17, 18, 21 February 1989
Erich Leinsdorf
Ruben Gonzalez, violin
Dale Clevenger, horn
Norman Schweikert, horn
Edward Druzinsky, harp
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Chausson: Poème for violin and orchestra
Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1
Brahms: Four Songs for Women’s Voices, Two Horns and Harp
Debussy: Nocturnes


23, 24, 25 February 1989
Erich Leinsdorf
Cristina Ortiz, piano
Stravinsky: Four Norwegian Moods
Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 2
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Rhenish
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)


2, 3, 5, 7 March 1989
Christopher Keene
Haydn: Symphony No. 64, Tempora mutantur
Schreker: Chamber Symphony
Cowell: Symphony No. 10
Milhaud: Le bouef sur le toit


9, 10, 11, 14 March 1989
Christopher Keene
Natasha Gutman, cello
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing, Incidental Music
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major
Reich: Eight Lines
Honegger: Symphony No. 2


16, 17, 18, 21 March 1989
Leonard Slatkin
Mark Peskanov, violin
Bartók: Kossuth
Wolfe: Violin Concerto
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Janáček: Sinfonietta


23, 24, 25, 28 March 1989
Leonard Slatkin
Haydn: Symphony No. 66
Druckman: Brangle
Brahms: Serenade No. 1


30 March, 1, 4 April 1989
Kenneth Jean
Ken Noda, piano
Tcherepnin: Serenade for Strings
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8


6, 7, 8, 11 April 1989
Michael Tilson Thomas
Dale Clevenger, horn
Haydn: Symphony No. 81
Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1
Ives: Symphony No. 1
13, 14, 16, 18 April 1989
Michael Tilson Thomas
Emanuel Ax, piano
Members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
American Hymns – Nearer, my God, o Thee, From Greenland’s Icy Mountains, Ye Christian Heralds, Jesus, Lover of my Souls and Sweet By and By
Ives: Symphony No. 4


20, 21, 22, 25 April 1989
Neeme Järvi
James Galway, flute
Schmidt: Symphony No. 2
Corigliano: Pied Piper Fantasy


27, 28, 29 April 1989
Michael Morgan
James Tocco, piano
Liszt: Les Préludes
Haydn: Divertimento No. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 80
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety


4, 5, 6, 9 May 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Michael Morgan (5)
Gail Williams, Norman Schweikert, Richard Ohlberg, Daniel Gingrich, horns
Schumann: Konzertstück for Four Horns
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica


11, 12, 13 May 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5


18, 19, 20 May 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Anne-Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Keith Lewis, tenor
José van Dam, bass-baritone
Peter Rose, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust


















1989 - 1990



28, 29 September, 1 October 1989
Daniel Barenboim
Larry Combs, clarinet
Brahms: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 120 (arr. for clarinet and orchestra, Berio)
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (28, 29)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (1 Oct)


3, 5, 6, 7 October 1989
Daniel Barenboim
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 (3, 7)
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 (5, 6)


12, 13, 14 October 1989
David Zinman
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
Ince: Before Infrared
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Debussy: La mer


26, 27, 29, 31 October 1989
Günter Wand
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5


2, 3, 4 November 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Michael Morgan (4)
John Sharp, cello
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
Verdi: Aida, Gloria all’Egitto
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Posa in pace (3, 4)
Verdi: Don Carlo, Spuntato ecco il di d’esultanza (2)
Verdi: I Lombardi, Gerusalem!
Verdi: I Lombardi, O Signore, dal tetto natio
Verdi: Macbeth, Patria oppressa!
Verdi: Macbeth, Tre volta miagola
Verdi: I Masnadieri, Le rube, gli stupri
Verdi: Nabucco, Gli arredi festivi giu cadano infranti
Verdi: Nabucco, Va, pensiero
Verdi: Otello, Fuoco di gioia (3, 4)
Verdi: Requiem, Sanctus (3, 4)
Verdi: Rigoletto, Zitti zitti moviamo a vendetta
La traviata, Noi siamo zingarelle and Di Madride noi siam mattadori
Verdi: Il trovatore, Vedi! Le fosche and Anvil Chorus


9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18 November 1989
Sir Georg Solti
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

16 November 1989
Kenneth Jean
Berlioz: Roman Carnival, Overture
Bizet: Symphony in C
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2


22, 24, 25, 28 November 1989
Neeme Järvi
Pärt: Symphony No. 3
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)


30 November, 1, 3, 5 December 1989
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4


7, 8, 9 December 1989
Leonard Slatkin
Elmar Oliveira, violin
Erb: Solstice
Barber: Violin Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No. 87
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes


14, 15, 16 December 1989
Leonard Slatkin
John Bruce Yeh, clarinet
Deanne Lang, soprano
Rochelle Ellis, soprano
Emily Lodine, mezzo-soprano
Richard Cohn, baritone
William Diana, bass
Thomas Potter, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus
Stravinsky: Choral Variations on Von himmel hoch, da komm' hier
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky: Mass
Stravinsky: Concertino
Stravinsky: Ragtime
Stravinsky: Preludium
Stravinsky: Tango
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Stravinsky: Scherzo a la russe


4, 5, 6, 9 January 1990
Stuart Challender
Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, piano
Meale: Very High Kings
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Intermezzo, Four Interludes
Grainger: The Warriors


11, 12, 13, 16 January 1990
Michael Morgan
Haydn: Symphony No. 6, Le matin
Dvořák: Serenade for Wind Instruments
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6


18, 19, 20, 23 January 1990
Sir Georg Solti
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Bartók: Divertimento for Strings
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Debussy: Nocturnes


25, 26, 28 January 1990
Sir Georg Solti
Felicity Lott, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Hans Peter Blochwitz, tenor
William Shimell, baritone
Gwynne Howell, bass-baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Bach: Mass in B minor


1, 2, 3 February 1990
Sir Georg Solti
Andrzej Panufnik*
Samuel Magad, violin
Panufnik: Violin Concerto*
Panufnik: Symphony No. 10*
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2


6, 8, 9, 10 February 1990
Claudio Abbado
Michael Morgan (10)
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polish


15, 16, 18, 20 February 1990
Neeme Järvi
Lorin Hollander, piano
Kodaly: Hary Janos, Suite
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
Kodaly: Peacock Variations
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta


22, 23, 24, 27 February 1990
Herbert Blomstedt
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Haydn: Symphony No. 86
Laderman: Cello Concerto
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7


1, 2, 3, 6 March 1990
Daniel Barenboim
Waltraud Meier, Kundry
George Gray, Parsifal
Günter van Kannen, Klingsor
Susan Foster, Elizabeth Futral, Marlene Meyer, Rosa Vento, Martha Jane Rowe, Phyllis Pancella, Flowermaidens
Members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Wagner: Parsifal, Act 1 Prelude
Wagner: Parsifal, Act 2



8, 9, 10, 13 March 1990
Daniel Barenboim
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Takemitsu: Visions
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Ravel: Bolero
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte


15, 16, 17 March 1990
Daniel Barenboim, conductor and piano
Corigliano: Symphony No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3


22, 23, 24, 27 March 1990
Erich Leinsdorf
Liszt: Orpheus
Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune
Sibelius: Symphony 2


29, 30, 31 March 1990
Erich Leinsdorf
Debussy: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien, Symphonic Fragments
Mozart, Symphony No. 36, Linz
Webern: Passacaglia
Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3, Theme and Variations


3, 5, 8 May 1990
Kenneth Jean
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Welcher: The Visions of Merlin
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Liszt: Totentanz
BARTOK  Orchestral Suite No. 1


10, 11, 12 May 1990
Margaret Hillis
Michael Murray, organ
Marvis Martin, soprano
Karen Brunssen, mezzo-soprano
Gary Bachlund, tenor
Kurt Link, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Haydn: Organ Concerto No. 5
Bartók: Village Scenes
Bartók: Cantata profana
Haydn: Nelson Mass


17, 18, 19, 22 May 1990
James De Preist
Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Adams: Short Ride on a Fast Machine
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bartók: Hungarian Sketches
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra



24, 25, 27, 29 May 1990
Michael Morgan
Joshua Bell, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello
Jeffrey Kahane, piano
Haydn: Lo Speziale, Overture
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Crumb: A Haunted Landscape
Falla: The Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2


31 May, 1, 2, 5 June 1990
Klaus Tennstedt
Ray Still, oboe
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Mahler: Symphony No. 1


1990 – 1991


27, 28, 30 September 1990
Sir Georg Solti
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 5


4, 12, 13 October 1990
Sir Georg Solti
Charles Pikler, viola
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Bartok: Viola Concerto
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice


5 October 1990
Daniel Barenboim
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben


11, 16, 18 October 1990
Sir Georg Solti
Bartók: Dance Suite
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10


19, 20, 23 October 1990
Michael Morgan
Still: Wood Notes
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Diamond: Symphony No. 5
Dvořák: Symphonic Variations


25, 26, 27, 30 October 1990
Lorin Maazel
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Holst: The Planets
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Shchedrin: Old Russian Circus Music


1, 2, 3 November 1990
Leonard Slatkin
Barbara Nissman, piano
Carpenter: Sea Drift
Ginastera: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Various composers)


8, 9, 10 November 1990
Leonard Slatkin
Wendy White, mezzo-soprano
John Cheek, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Corigliano: Three Hallucinations
Piston: Symphony No. 2
Rorem: Goodbye My Fancy


 6, 7, 8, 11 December 1990
Erich Leinsdorf
Adolph Herseth, trumpet
Copland: The Tender Land, Suite
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
Wagner: Siegfried, Forest Murmurs
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture


13, 14, 15, 18 December 1990
Erich Leinsdorf
Stravinsky: Symphony in C major
Shchedrin: Carmen Suite (after Bizet)


10, 11, 12, 15 January 1991
Catherine Comet
Sowerby: Concert Overture for Orchestra
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Franck: Le chasseur maudit
Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1


17, 18, 19, 22 January 1991
Kenneth Jean
David Taylor, violin
Sheng: H’un (Lacerations): In Memoriam 1966-76
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Beaser: Double Chorus
Ravel: Mother Goose, complete


24, 25, 26, 29 January 1991
Herbert Blomstedt
Jane Green, soprano
William Diana, bass
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva


31 January, 1, 2, 5 February 1991
Neeme Järvi
Radu Lupu, piano
Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24
Schmidt: Symphony No. 3


7, 8, 10, 12 February 1991
Kurt Masur
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Classical
Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Scottish


14, 15, 16 February 1991
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, violin and viola
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Hindemith: Trauermusik for viola and strings
Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major
Mozart: Symphony No. 40



21, 22, 23, 26 February 1991
András Schiff, conductor and piano
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Bach: Piano Concerto No. 1
Bach: Piano Concerto No. 5
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3


28 February, 1, 2 March 1991
Jahja Ling
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


14, 15, 16 March 1991
Claudio Abbado
Natalia Gutman, cello
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Suite
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, Winter Dreams


21, 22, 25, 26 March 1991
Christopher Keene
Maria João Pires, piano
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra


28, 29, 30 March 1991
Sir Georg Solti
Donald Peck, flute
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2


5, 7 April 1991
Kenneth Jean
Ricardo Morales-Matos, clarinet
Sheng: H’un (Lacerations): In Memoriam 1966-76
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Beaser: Double Chorus
Ravel: Mother Goose, complete


11, 13 April 1991
Sir Georg Solti
Faye Robinson, soprano
Tippett: Byzantium
Mahler: Symphony No. 5


25, 26, 28 April, 4, 7 May 1991
Daniel Barenboim
Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano
Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor
Boulez: Notations 1-4
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde


30 April, 2, 3 May 1991
Daniel Barenboim
Charles Vernon, trombone
Zwilich: Concerto for Bass Trombone, Strings, Timpani and Cymbals
Kowalsky: Last Voyage
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9, 10, 11, 14 May 1991
Daniel Barenboim
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano
Lucy Shelton, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Land
Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
Boulez: Le visage nuptial, Movements 1, 2, 4, 5
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2


16, 17, 18 May 1991
Daniel Barenboim
Olli Mustonen, piano
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Denisov: Symphonie pour grande orchestra


23, 24, 25, 28 May 1991
Daniel Barenboim
Isaac Stern, violin
John Sharp, cello
Charles Pikler, viola
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote


30, 31 May, 1 June 1991
Daniel Barenboim, conductor and piano
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, Romantic


13, 14 June 1991
Daniel Barenboim
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, Great

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