Celebrating Frederick Stock

This broadcast celebrates Frederick Stock! The CSO’s second music director opens the program with the ensemble’s first commercial recording —Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—and closes with his own arrangement of Paganini’s Moto perpetuo. The other works included all received their U.S. premieres under Stock’s baton: Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, Elgar’s Violin Concerto, and Scriabin’s Prometheus, in recordings featuring Maurizio Pollini, Itzhak Perlman, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, and Pierre Boulez.

Felix Mendelssohn Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
Frederick Stock conductor
1916 (Columbia Graphophone)

Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2
Claudio Abbado conductor
Maurizio Pollini piano
1977 (Deutsche Grammophon)

Edward Elgar Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Itzhak Perlman violin
1981 (Deutsche Grammophon)

Alexander Scriabin Prometheus, Op. 60
Anatol Ugorski piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
Pierre Boulez conductor
1996 (Deutsche Grammophon)

Niccolò Paganini (arr. Stock) Moto perpetuo, Op. 11
Frederick Stock conductor
1941 (Columbia)

Production
Brian Wise producer
Charlie Post series audio engineer
Lisa Simeone host
Michael Schweppe host engineer
Neil Tevault host engineer

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This broadcast was produced by Brian Wise, with assistance from Jiwon Sun, Frank Villella, and Philip Huscher. The series engineer is Charlie Post. Vanessa Moss is the exectuive producer. Lisa Simeone is the series host. 

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