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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seong-Jin Cho Plays Prokofiev
Feb 27-Mar 2, 2025
Overview
The cool of the Arctic meets the warmth of Italy. The brooding, majestic themes of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony evoke the remote landscapes of conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s native Finland. Tchaikovsky transports listeners to a Roman carnival in his Capriccio Italien. Seong-Jin Cho, lauded for his “expert music-making … miraculous in its execution” (The New York Times), takes on Prokofiev’s incendiary Second Piano Concerto.
This program will also be performed at Wheaton College on Friday, February 28.
Program
Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel
À la manière de Borodine, M. 63/1 [Feb 27 Encore]
Seong-Jin Cho piano
Ravel
Sonatine, II. Mouvement de menuet [Mar 1 Encore]
Seong-Jin Cho piano
Bartók
Out of Doors, Mvt. 5 The Chase [Mar 2 Encore]
Seong-Jin Cho piano
Sibelius
Symphony No. 5
Performers
Extras
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Preconcert Dining
Enhance your concert experience by dining at the Thomas Club, offering a prix fixe menu featuring traditional American fare for a seamless preconcert dining experience. Reservations | Learn more and view the menu
Preconcert Conversation
Explore the music in a free preconcert conversation featuring Kyle Dzapo in Orchestra Hall 75 minutes before the performance. The talk will last approximately 30 minutes. No additional tickets are needed.
Postconcert CD Signing
Please join us for a postconcert CD signing with Seong-Jin Cho on Sunday, March 2. The signing will take place in the Rotunda and is open to all ticketholders. Merchandise will be available at the Symphony Store and in the Orchestra Hall outer lobby prior to the event.
Sponsors & Partners
These concerts are generously sponsored by Zell Family Foundation.
Media Partner
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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For Deutsche Grammophon, Seong-Jin Cho has recorded Ravel's complete solo piano music and two concertos,to mark the composer's 150th birth anniversary year. “This is the first time I’ve either performed or recorded a single composer’s complete works,” he said.
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Two days after the tragic fire at the Iroquois Theatre on December 30, 1903, Theodore Thomas led the Chicago Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Sibelius' Second Symphony, and "the result was a rendition technically complete and interpretatively powerful."
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“It’s always great to meet a new orchestra in America,” says Santtu-Matias Rouvali of his CSO debut, “because I didn’t go to America that much in my [early] career. I kind of saved it for later.”
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