The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Riccardo Muti, have announced plans for a grand tour of Europe, Jan. 13-27, 2017.
The tour, marking the sixth time Maestro Muti and the orchestra will perform in Europe together, will include 11 concerts, with stops in Paris, Hamburg, Aalberg (Denmark), Milan, Vienna, Baden-Baden and Frankfurt.
Highlights of the tour will include:
+ The CSO’s first ever performances at the new Philharmonie de Paris (Jan. 13).
+ Concerts at the state-of-the-art Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (Jan. 14 and 15).
+ The CSO’s debut at the Musikkens Hus in Aalberg (Jan. 16 and 17).
+ The CSO’s first tour appearances at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in Milan since 1981 – and the first performances at the venue with Maestro Muti (Jan. 21 and 22).
+ A return to the Musikverein in Vienna (Jan. 23 and 24).
+ The first CSO appearances since the 1990s at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden (Jan. 25), and at the Alter Oper in Frankfurt (Jan. 27).
The featured tour repertoire for the tour will include: Hindemith’s “Concert Music for String Orchestra and Brass; Elgar’s “In the South (Alassio)”; Mussorgsky’s “A Night on Bald Mountain”; Ravel’s orchestration for Mussorgsky’s “Pictures from an Exhibition”; Richard Srauss’ “Don Juan”; Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4” and Dvorak’s “Husitska Overture.”
In addition to the orchestral performances during the tour, CSO musicians will lead master classes for students, and give community performances in the tour cities in programs supported by the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO.