NEW YORK — For classical music lovers within the Big Apple, the vacation feast has come early. Not solely did they've the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and music director Riccardo Muti onstage at Carnegie Hall, however the National Symphony is also on the town, and the Boston Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, all with hearty musical fare within the days main as much as Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, the New York Philharmonic is at dwelling in its personal corridor, partying in full swing. The CSO made an impressive impression on this plentiful swirl, with a pair of weekend packages Friday and Saturday that had been beforehand heard in Chicago. The first was the electrifying showpiece for the
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CSO, Riccardo Muti triumph in launch of monumental Beethoven
One can solely think about what the Viennese viewers thought on April 2, 1800, when the bold younger composer Beethoven, from the distant German metropolis of Bonn, organized a live performance on the Burgtheater subsequent to the Imperial Palace within the coronary heart of Vienna, to supply music of Haydn, Mozart, “and me!” The card that Beethoven needed to play was his First Symphony, and the native newspaper chroniclers didn’t hassle to indicate. One doubts the efficiency sounded as polished and realizing because it did on Thursday night time at Symphony Center, from the fingers of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra beneath the steerage of music director Riccardo Muti. But I’ll guess the Viennese musicians