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Margaret Hillis (chorus director), Fritz Reiner (music director), and Walter Hendl (associate conductor) onstage with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in March 1959
Oscar Chicago
The Chicago Symphony Chorus is showcased on this program, performing Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard, Poulenc’s Gloria, Bruckner’s Helgoland, and—with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus—Górecki’s a cappella Euntes ibant et flebant. The broadcast concludes with the Chorus’s first release, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, recorded in March 1959 under the baton of Fritz Reiner.
Poulenc Gloria
Bernard Haitink conductor
Jessica Rivera soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
November 2007 (CSO Resound)
Barber Prayers of Kierkegaard
Andrew Schenck conductor
Sarah Reese soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Margaret Hillis director
October 1991 (Koch)
Bruckner Helgoland
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
Margaret Hillis director
March 1979 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Górecki Euntes ibant et flebant, Op. 32
John Nelson conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus
April 1994 (Nonesuch)
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Fritz Reiner conductor
Rosalind Elias mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Margaret Hillis director
March 1959 (RCA)
From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years—featuring recordings from the CSO’s vast discography, including releases on CSO Resound—is a cultural and community partnership between the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and WFMT, Chicago’s Classical Music Station.
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