Tuesday 04/12/22 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM
Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a stirring performance of Mozart’s Requiem followed by William Schuman’s Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine), in memory of a WWII massacre in the Ardeatine caves on the outskirts of Rome. Cherubini’s Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn opens the program.
Cherubini: Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn
Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Dmitry Korchak, tenor; Enea Scala, tenor
Schuman: Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine)
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Benedetta Torre, soprano; Sara Mingardo, contralto; Saimir Pirgu, tenor; Mika Kares, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director)