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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Muti & Bronfman
Sep 22-27, 2022
Overview
A new season begins as dazzling pianist Yefim Bronfman joins Riccardo Muti and the CSO in Brahms’ unabashedly vigorous and stirring First Piano Concerto. Tchaikovsky’s joyful Second Symphony quotes folk melodies from Ukraine. The program opens with the U.S. premiere of a long-lost and recently discovered score by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a British composer of African descent.
Ticket holders are invited to a free preconcert conversation featuring Johann Buis in Orchestra Hall 75 minutes before the performance. The conversation will last approximately 30 minutes. No additional tickets required.
Program
Coleridge-Taylor
Solemn Prelude [United States Premiere]
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2
Performers
Sponsors & Partners
These concerts are generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation.
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Besides being a challenging work to perform, Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 is also the most symphonic of the works in this genre, says Yefim Bronfman: “You have to really blend with the orchestra."
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