Nicholas Kraemer, one of today's leading Baroque music specialists, lets the musicians of the CSO shine in a selection of 18th-century gems. He completes the concert with Strauss' elegiac Metamorphosen, an intimate work for 23 solo strings. Learn more...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Beyond the Score: Mahler 4
Symphony Center (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra's popular Beyond the Score series explores Mahler's Fourth Symphony. One of the conductor's most irresistible works, it draws from folk songs, klezmer, military marches and many more sources. The program will begin with a live multimedia documentary, exploring the Fourth Symphony's cultural and musical context, before the CSO performs the work in its entirety. Learn more...
Chants de Noël: A French Christmas: Christmas Music in French, Latin and English
St. Paul's United Church of Christ (Chicago, IL)
Chants de Noël: A French Christmas is a concert of holiday gems by French composers and arrangements of French carols sung in French, Latin and English. The program includes such carols as "Il est né le divin enfant," "Masters in this Hall," "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "Noël nouvelet." The centerpiece on the program is Saint-Saens' Christmas Oratorio for chorus, organ, harp and string quartet. Learn more...
The Chicago Ensemble Plays Piano Trios by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Dvorak
International House at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
The Chicago Ensemble presents a relaxing program of classical piano trios performed by leading Chicago classical musicians. A complimentary wine reception precedes each performance, and the program includes works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvořák. Learn more...
The Chicago Ensemble Plays Piano Trios by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Dvorak
Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago, IL)
The Chicago Ensemble presents a relaxing program of classical piano trios performed by leading Chicago classical musicians. A complimentary wine reception precedes each performance, and the program includes works by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvořák. Learn more...
The Chicago Chamber Musicians Play Bruckner, Dvorak in Winds and Strings
Merit School of Music - Gottlieb Hall (Chicago, IL)
The Chicago Chamber Musicians present Winds and Strings, a concert for Valentine's Day. The program features Bruckner's exquisitely blissful String Quintet in F Major, as well as delightful works by Dvorak and Krommer. Learn more...