Susan Graham
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July 25 - The stunning Susan Graham kicks off the celebration in a CSO concert featuring Berlioz's Les nuits d'été followed by Symphonie fantastique.
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Peter Serkin
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July 26 - Eschenbach and the CSO welcome pianist Peter Serkin playing Mozart, then perform Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol and Ravel's Boléro.
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Rinat Shaham
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July 27 - In his role as mentor, Eschenbach brings three gifted prodigies for their CSO debuts; mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, pianist Christopher Tainton, and cellist Dimitri Maslennikov. Following the CSO concert, Eschenbach collaborates with two of the evening's rising stars in a special postlude performance.
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Borodin Quartet
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July 31 - Eschenbach as pianist joins forces with the Borodin Quartet for the Shostakovich Piano Quintent--a work which Shostakovich wrote as a vehicle for his own use in performance.
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Tzimon Barto
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August 2 - Eschenbach and the CSO welcome back longtime friend Tzimon Barto in an all-Russian program featuring piano concertos of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff--a reprise of last summer's spectacular back-to-back concert performance.
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Midori
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August 3 - Midori joins Eschenbach and the CSO in one of the most remarkable concerts of the summer featuring barber, Dvorák and Shostakovich.
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Christoph
Eschenbach
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August 6 - Brazilian tangos and pop songs with the G-Strings-- the string quintet from eschenbach's German orchestra.
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Claudio
Bohórquez
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August 8 - A command performance of a beloved Brahms symphony plus another Eshenbach protégé-- cellist Claudio Bohórquez playing the Lalo cello Concerto with the CSO.
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Kim Kashkashian
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August 9 - Berlioz's Harold in Italy-- essentially a viola concerto, with the beautiful and talented Kim Kashkashian as soloist. Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet suite rounds out the night.
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Lang Lang
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August 10 - Eschenbach's final CSO concert as Ravinia's Music director is a piano extravaganza, with Lang Lang playing Beethoven's fourth concerto, Christopher Taylor as soloist in bernstein's Age of Anxiety and the maestro himself playing a Mozart rondo.
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Christoph
Eschenbach and
Lang Lang
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August 11 - One of Ravinia's most popular events: Eschenbach and Lang Lang playing four-handed piano music of Mozart.
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Sinfonietta
Cracovia
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August 12-13 - the Sinfonietta Cracovia residency includes John Axelrod conducting Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, the "Jupiter" Symphony and Eschenbach performing the K. 488 piano concerto.
All Mozart Program
August 12
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony
August 13
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Vinson Cole
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August 14 - Eschenbach conducts Sinfonietta Cracovia in Berlioz's arranmgement of Der Freischütz, featuring tenor Vinson Cole and an all-star cast.
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