Program Book: Mahler 1, Oct 26-28, 2023

Read the program book for Mahler 1, Oct 26-28, 2023.

Magnificent music was performed in Orchestra Hall on Thursday evening’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra program, led by guest conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. The concert was anchored by Mahler’s audacious First Symphony and opened with his vivid dream-like Blumine, in which a quietly haunting, yet romantic, serenade by a trumpet soared above the orchestra. Joining the ensemble, cellist Jian Wang made his CSO subscription concert debut performing powerful monologues found in Bloch’s Schelomo, also titled “Hebraic Rhapsody.”

Photography by Nuccio DiNuzzo