Ingenuity defines this episode featuring Mozart’s alluring String Quintet in C Minor, a clever rearrangement of an earlier wind serenade, Brahms’ own exceptional second viola quintet and Caroline Shaw’s work inspired by a pioneering engineer of traffic theory, Boris Kerner, arranged for cello and...

Tune in for a program of three composers making their mark. World-famous Stravinsky shocked audiences with his unexpectedly neoclassical turn in his octet for woodwinds and brass. Saint-Georges captivated Parisian society with works like this violin duo. Dvorák’s international career was launched...

The masterful skill of CSO musicians is on display in works as challenging to perform as they were to compose. Mozart quickly rewrote his serenade for six woodwinds to add a pair of oboes in a campaign to win a position in the Vienna Court. Tchaikovsky spent years trying to balance six virtuosic ...

The debut of a new concert series takes viewers on a musical journey to three continents with works by Gershwin, Nielsen, Piazzolla and more. For musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this lively chamber concert represents a welcome homecoming to the Orchestra Hall stage.

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