Score cover (detail) to the overture to Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla
Fritz Reiner collection, Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodzinski, and Sir Georg Solti—lead orchestral excerpts from operas by Beethoven, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Strauss. The program closes with several selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle.
Glinka Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Fritz Reiner conductor
1959 (RCA)
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1972 (London)
Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
Fritz Reiner conductor
1957 (RCA)
Copland Suite from The Tender Land
Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (CSO: The First 100 Years)
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Riccardo Muti conductor
2017 (CSO Resound)
Rossini Overture to William Tell
Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (RCA)
Wagner The Ride of Valkyries from Die Walküre
Artur Rodzinski conductor
1948 (CSO: The First 100 Years)
Wagner Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1991 (RCA)
Wagner Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1991 (Erato)
Production
Brian Wise producer
Charlie Post audio engineer
Lisa Simeone host
24-43
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