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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The musical meat of this concert came at the beginning of the second half with Berlioz’s setting of Pierre-Ange Vieilliard’s poem, “The Death of Cleopatra,” which the composer wrote in ...

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 ...