June 5, 2022 – April 11, 2022
Jun 2022
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé - Chorus Assistant Conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra • Chicago
In Daphnis and Chloe, Ravel uses ravishing orchestral colors and a wordless chorus to depict this pastoral romance. Salonen finds inspiration in the epic struggles of the twin half-brothers Castor and Pollux, depicted in his two-piece orchestral composition, Gemini. Opening the program is Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, a refreshing blend of traditional harmony and contrasting dissonance inspired by Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 77, No. 2.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill chorus director
Jun 2022
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé - Chorus Assistant Conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra • Chicago
In Daphnis and Chloe, Ravel uses ravishing orchestral colors and a wordless chorus to depict this pastoral romance. Salonen finds inspiration in the epic struggles of the twin half-brothers Castor and Pollux, depicted in his two-piece orchestral composition, Gemini. Opening the program is Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, a refreshing blend of traditional harmony and contrasting dissonance inspired by Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 77, No. 2.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill chorus director
Jun 2022
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé - Chorus Assistant Conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra • Chicago
In Daphnis and Chloe, Ravel uses ravishing orchestral colors and a wordless chorus to depict this pastoral romance. Salonen finds inspiration in the epic struggles of the twin half-brothers Castor and Pollux, depicted in his two-piece orchestral composition, Gemini. Opening the program is Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, a refreshing blend of traditional harmony and contrasting dissonance inspired by Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 77, No. 2.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill chorus director
May 2022
Solemn High Mass for the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
Ruth Watson Henderson (b. 1932) Missa brevis (1976)
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Coelos ascendit hodie
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Psallite Domino
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Apr 2022
Solemn High Mass for Easter Day
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Resurrexi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Missa brevis in C major “Orgelsolo”, K. 259
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Haec dies
Healey Willan (1880-1968) Christ, Our Passover
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Apr 2022
Great Vigil of Easter
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Sicut cervus
Pawel Łukaszewski (b. 1968) Alleluia, from Musica Sacra (2016)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Missa Cellensis, Hob. XXII: 5
Everett Titcomb (1884-1968) Christ Our Passover
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Apr 2022
Maundy Thursday
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627) Missa sine nomine
Gregorian antiphons at the Washing of Feet
Christoph Dalitz (b. 1967) Mandatum novum do vobis (2014)
Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) Ubi caritas (2007)
Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) Tantum ergo
Plainsong Psalm 22
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Apr 2022
Dame Jane Glover conducts Bach - Guest Chorus Director
Music of the Baroque • Chicago
Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus, Orchestra, and four world renowned soloists—Yulia Van Doren, Elizabeth DeShong, James Gilchrist, and Michael Sumuel—in Bach’s imaginative Easter Oratorio, a journey from a cavern’s darkness into the magnificent light of heaven. Gilchrist takes a solo turn in Bach’s only surviving cantata for tenor, “I, wretched man.” The motet "Komm, Jesu, komm" and the thrilling Sinfonia in D Major—possibly a fragment of a lost violin concerto—complete this all-Bach spring extravaganza.
Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra
Dame Jane Glover, conductor
Yulia Van Doren, soprano
Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone
Benjamin Rivera, guest chorus director