Jaap van Zweden
Mahler 7 may 2025
Experience an exclusive Chicago preview of this program before the CSO appears at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam as one of only five international orchestras on the lineup. Jaap van Zweden conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, a shadowy, paranormal journey through the mysterious night and into the dawn of a new day.
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PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical”
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
may 2025
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
june 2025
EJaap van Zweden returns to Dallas for Shostakovich’s eloquent Fifth Symphony. Despite its grandeur and optimistic façade — huge climaxes, triumphant marches, exhilarating brass and percussion — a profound sadness cries out in the third movement, the spiritual center of the work. Yet, one critic says, “some shadow of Shostakovich’s indomitable spirit had seeped, surreptitiously, into the souls of attentive listeners.” Conrad Tao “ferociously talented” (TimeOut New York) joins our Conductor Laureate and the orchestra for Mozart’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 23. Opening the concert is Prokofiev’s charming Haydn-inspired “Classical” Symphony.
