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  • Happy 20th Birthday, Cedille (as in “say-dee”) Records

    Our friends at Cedille Records, the Grammy Award-winning, Chicago-based classical record label, are

  • CSO Resound Releases a Recording of Mahler Symphony No. 2

    Recording conducted by Bernard Haitink featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus, soprano Miah Persson a

  • Tippett in focus

    The neglect of Sir Michael Tippett's four symphonies has been the subject of an interesting discuss

  • CSO's new maestro comes to town

    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has a new music director — or rather, to be precise, a music direct

  • Giulini: Mahler (Symphony No.9) & Schubert (Symphony No.8)

    On Melomaniacos you can download Mahlers 9th Symphony conducted by Giulini, too (DG 423 910-2) --->

    • Biography Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), based in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the world's leading orchestras, currently performing its 116th season. History In 1891 Charles Norman Fay, a Chicago businessman, invited Theodore Thomas to establish an orchestra in Chicago. Conducted by Theodore Thomas under the name "Chicago Orchestra," the orchestra played its first concert on October 16, 1891 at the Auditorium Theatre. It is one of the oldest orchestras in the United States, along with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra Hall, now a component of the Symphony Center complex, was designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham and completed in 1904. Maestro Thomas served as music director for thirteen years until his death shortly after the orchestra's newly built residence was dedicated on December 14, 1904. The orchestra was renamed "Theodore Thomas Orc

    Discography

    Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music
    Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music


    Bruch, Dvork: Violin Concertos
    Bruch, Dvork: Violin Concertos


    Beethoven: Greatest Hits
    Beethoven: Greatest Hits


    Mozart: More Greatest Hits
    Mozart: More Greatest Hits


    Famous Overtures
    Famous Overtures


    Rossini: Overtures
    Rossini: Overtures


    Videos

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