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Friday C Series Highlight

Beethoven regarded the Missa solemnis as his crowning achievement, a personal expression on the brotherhood of mankind and the fragility of peace. It remains an Everest in the choral repertory, demanding both passion and intensity from its singers, while also containing some of Beethoven's most sublime music, not least its opening Kyrie. Internationally known for his Beethoven interpretations, former Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink joins the CSO for this thrilling work.

From the joy and hope of youth found in Wagner's tender Siegfried Idyll to the despair and transfi guration at life's end expressed in Mahler's final symphonic work, CSO Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez's program encompasses human experience from beginning to end. Schoenberg's intensely expressive and technically challenging Violin Concerto is performed by rising young violinist Michael Barenboim.

Italian musical masters Riccardo Muti and Maurizio Pollini are contemporaries and long-time collaborators, both graduates of the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory in Milan and pupils of the same composition teacher, Bruno Bettinelli. They frequently perform together in the world's greatest concert halls, and now collaborate with the CSO for Brahms's soaring First Piano Concerto. Schumann's Third Symphony, a musical postcard from the vistas of the Rhineland, follows intermission.