This concert will be repeated Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Composer Missy Mazzoli acknowledges the audience following a performance of the world premiere of CSO Commission “Orpheus Undone.” had their work cut out for them Thursday evening in a concert that featured three very different and extremely challenging works that, as always, showcased the brilliance of both the composers and their interpreters.
Next up was Mahler’s hauntingly beautiful setting of five heart wrenching poems about the many aspects of love, written by the German poet Friedrich Ruckert, and performed byZell Music Director Riccardo Muti acknowledges soloist Elīna Garanča following a performance of Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The concert’s second half was devoted to Bruckner’s symphony, performed in the 1877 “revised version” being used by Muti. I confess that Bruckner has never been a personal favorite, but I began to rethink that when conductor Herbert Blomstadt led the CSO in the composer’s “Symphony No. 4” in early March. And Muti’s richly galvanizing approach to the composer’s “Symphony No. 2” sealed the deal.
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