Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique and Lélio. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound. Leonard Bernstein memorably called Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” “the first ...

This re-broadcast airs on Thursday, July 30 at 9pm On Friday, November 15, WQXR and Carnegie Hall brought you a live broadcast featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with director Riccardo Muti.

The first symphony of Muti’s season-long Tchaikovsky cycle, the F minor Fourth of 1877-78, was heard to pleasurable effect at the outdoor “Concert for Chicago” last Friday at Millennium Park.

Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a Berlioz program on Thursday, his inaugural subscription concert as the orchestra’s 10th music director. Todd Rosenberg ...

I also spotted French actor Gerard Depardieu, a longtime friend of Muti’s, who will narrate Berlioz’s “Lelio” on Saturday, as he did at the opening subscription concerts in Chicago last fall.

For Berlioz’s “Waverley” Overture, which was having its first CSO performance, he took care to bring out the French composer’s brilliance and boldness as an orchestrator. This music shows ...

Berlioz’s writing for the strings in this piece is fascinating, conjuring many unusual dimensions of sound. And the CSO’s horn section, woodwinds and percussion (a wonderful use of the ...

April 16 at 7:30: One night after performing “Otello,” Riccardo Muti and his orchestra plunge into another total-immersion concert. This one is Berlioz, with the “Symphonie ...

CHICAGO — Riccardo Muti, the revered Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director, is stepping down after 13 years leading one of the world’s finest ensembles – but he’s not retiring. In fact ...