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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Blomstedt Conducts Bruckner 4
Mar 10-12, 2022
Overview
Distinguished conductor Herbert Blomstedt conducts Bruckner’s most popular symphony, with its allusions to the peaceful countryside, hunting horns and a boisterous Austrian folk dance. Martin Helmchen, whose “pliant, quicksilver touch seemed to illuminate every solo passage” (Chicago Classical Review), is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17. The graceful score stems from one of the happiest periods in the composer’s career.
Ticket holders are invited to a free preconcert conversation featuring Laura Prichard in Orchestra Hall 75 minutes before the performance. The conversation will last approximately 30 minutes. No additional tickets required.
Program
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17
Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 (Romantic)
J.S. Bach arr. M. Reger
“Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ,” BWV 639 [Mar 12. Encore]
Performers
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The appearance of Herbert Blomstedt is made possible by the Juli Plant Grainger Fund for Artistic Excellence.
The appearance of Martin Helmchen is made possible by the Grainger Fund for Excellence.
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Herbert Blomstedt has no plans to retire. “I just love the music so much that I just can’t give up,” said the conductor, now 94. “There are always things that I want to learn. I’m never satisfied."
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A member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s viola section since 1984, Max Raimi also is a widely recognized composer and arranger, as well as an educator and essayist. In this appreciation, he comments on the contradictions of Anton Bruckner.
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