Articles tagged with: Shostakovich
Muti and CSO open with calm Mendelssohn, suppressed cry of pain from Shostakovich
![Muti and CSO open with calm Mendelssohn, suppressed cry of pain from Shostakovich 9/19/19 8:13:20 PM -- Chicago, IL USA
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto
Scriabin Rêverie
Shostakovich Symphony No. 6
© Todd Rosenberg Photography 2019](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CSO190919_062-feature-image-Todd-Rosenberg-125x125.jpg)
Review: Riccardo Muti launched the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new season with a fresh revival of Shostakovich’s dark Stalin-era Sixth Symphony, which seemed relevant and contemporary under his command. Then Grieg’s Piano Concerto sparkled anew with Leif Ove Andsnes’ light keyboard touch.
Lyric Opera staging of Weinberg’s ‘Passenger’ casts intimate light on life, death at Auschwitz
![Lyric Opera staging of Weinberg’s ‘Passenger’ casts intimate light on life, death at Auschwitz Amanda Majeski and Daveda Karanas in 'The Passenger,' by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, at Chicago Lyric Opera Feb. 2014. (Robert Kusel)](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Amanda-Majeski-and-Daveda-Karanas-in-The-Passenger-by-Mieczyslaw-Weinberg-at-Chicago-Lyric-Opera-Feb.-2014.-Robert-Kusel-125x125.jpg)
Review: The first impression of “The Passenger” by the Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg, whose Holocaust-inspired 1968 opera has been circulating the globe since its belated 2010 world premiere, is that of a major composer in his prime. Conducted with searing authority by Andrew Davis, the illuminating Lyric Opera of Chicago presentation of “The Passenger” seemed familiar right away. Weinberg was typically referred to as a lesser-known member of Shostakovich’s inner circle, but in fact he was on top of his world. ★★★★
CSO, Muti plan tributes to Verdi and Schubert in 2013-14 season, with two world premieres
![CSO, Muti plan tributes to Verdi and Schubert in 2013-14 season, with two world premieres Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti takes a bow with the CSO credit Todd Rosenberg](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Chicago-Symphony-music-director-Riccardo-Muti-and-musicians-of-the-CSO-credit-Todd_Rosenberg-125x125.jpg)
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Ravinia favorite Misha Dichter’s double life revealed: The pianist’s a serious cartoonist
![Ravinia favorite Misha Dichter’s double life revealed: The pianist’s a serious cartoonist Misha Dichter drawing from A Pianist's World in Drawings credit Rosetta Books](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Misha-Dichter-drawing-from-A-Pianists-World-in-Drawings-credit-Rosetta-Books-125x125.jpg)
Report: Pianist Misha Dichter, who celebrates his 45th consecutive season with the Ravinia Festival on July 29, shares his passion for sketching in a new e-book.
In lightning-quick Beethoven 7th Symphony, van Zweden and CSO deliver a poetic thriller
![In lightning-quick Beethoven 7th Symphony, van Zweden and CSO deliver a poetic thriller Jaap van Zweden credit Hans Vanderwoerd](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Jaap-van-Zweden-credit-Hans-Vanderwoerd-125x125.jpg)
Review: It’s one thing to hear a hair-raising orchestra performance on a CD, and quite another to experience it happening right in front of you, live, in the splendorous acoustics of a concert space. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s rocket-sled finale in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony on May 15 at Orchestra Hall, with conductor Jaap van Zweden, was one to send a writer combing his thesaurus for a higher form of wow. *****
Chicago Opera lavishes style on Shostakovich comedy about romance — and finding a flat
![Chicago Opera lavishes style on Shostakovich comedy about romance — and finding a flat Moscow Cheryomushki Dmitri Shostakovich feature image Sophie Gordeladze as Lusya Dominic Armstrong as Sergei Chicago Opera Theater credit Liz Lauren](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Moscow-Cheryomushki-Dmitri-Shostakovich-feature-image-Sophie-Gordeladze-as-Lusya-Dominic-Armstrong-as-Sergei-Chicago-Opera-Theater-credit-Liz-Lauren-125x125.jpg)
‘Moscow, Cheryomushki.’ 4 stars!