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Riccardo Muti

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Violinist

Robert Chen

Violin

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Muti, Chen & Mozart gran partita

Chicago

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Symphony Center Chicago

Muti, Chen & Mozart gran partita: Il matrimonio segreto (+2 More)

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The Secret Marriage

Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K 361/370a

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Muti, Chen & Mozart gran partita: Il matrimonio segreto Cimarosa (+2 More)

Two compositions from very different eras of Mozart’s life collide in a CSO program led by Riccardo Muti on May 18-23. The sunny Gran Partita for 13 instrume...

CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen performs and guides listeners through his interpretation of the famous violin solo from Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. “It's very important to be prepared technically to play this piece, but I think the technical and the expression, they go hand in hand,” Chen said. “What I'm doing technically is coming up with certain ways to express in sound the character. To get at a character, I think it's about having a concept of how you want something to sound and really going after it.”

In his Gran Partita for 13 instruments, Mozart achieves a sublime combination of grandeur, complexity and sunny charm. CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen presents the composer’s stately and rustic Violin Concerto No. 4, a product of his Salzburg years. Riccardo Muti opens the concert with Cimarosa’s overture, which echoes Mozart’s comic vein and abounds in freshness and invention.

Explore the music in the free preconcert conversation featuring Daniel Schlosberg in Orchestra Hall 75 minutes before the performance. The conversation will last approximately 30 minutes. No additional tickets are needed.

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Muti, Chen & Mozart gran partita by Cimarosa, Mozart, From (2023/2023), Conductor Riccardo Muti, Symphony Center Chicago, Chicago, United States

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