Here is the second of three Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com stories on Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's upcoming 2010-2011 season, its first with Muti as music director. Herewith the visiting orchestra, chamber music, and piano series as reported in the Thursday February 25, 2010, edition.
Muti's role in the new CSO season
Symphony Center visiting orchestras, chamber music, and piano series
BY ANDREW PATNER
Unusually, Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director-designate Riccardo Muti played a role in Thursday’s announcement of non-CSO programs under the Symphony Center Presents banner.
Major orchestras visiting next season include
• The Mariinsky with conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Denis Matsuev in an all-Russian program October 12.
• The Cleveland Orchestra with its music director Franz Welser-Möst and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Feb. 2, 2011.
• The St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Yuri Temirkanov and cellist Alicia Weilerstien March 30, 2011.
• And the first visit to Chicago in almost 30 years of the Orchestre National de France, this time with its new music director Daniele Gatti and French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet making his Chicago debut April 13, 2011. Gatti is one of the few Italian guests at Orchestra Hall in Muti's first season.
Chamber programs will include:
• Pinchas Zukerman and Yefim Bronfman November 17.
• Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Chicago native clarinetist Anthony McGill January 30.
• Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky February 16, 2011.
• String and wind players from the Berlin Philharmonic and the CSO playing together on March 1, 2011
• Violist Yuri Bashmet with Evgeny Kissin on April 17, 2011.
• German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff and colleagues in a program of Liebeslieder and vocal quartets by various composers.
The Sunday afternoon piano series features:
• András Schiff in an all-Schumann recital October 24,
• Murray Perahia playing the Brahms Four Pieces, Op. 119, and Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, Op. 106, November 7,
• Pierre-Laurent Aimard in a program of Liszt, Ravel, Messiaen and contemporary Italian composer Marco Stroppa, December 5,
• Paul Lewis (above. left), beginning a five-recital/three-season Schubert cycle, February 13 and May 22, 2011,
• Evgeny Kissin in an all-Liszt program February 27, 2011,
• Young phenom Yuja Wang (above, right), a 2006 Gilmore Young Artist, on March 13,
• Leif Ove Andsnes (above) returns as a recitalist here for the first time in six years with a daunting program including Brahms, Schoenberg, and Beethoven's Waldstein, Op. 53, and final, Op. 111, sonatas on April 3,
• Maurizio Pollini -- perhaps in a program of Beethoven’s great final three sonatas, perhaps not -- April 10,
• and the downtown debut of Brazilian Arnaldo Cohen in an unusual program of European masters and mostly 20th century Brazilian composers on May 8.
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