Conductor Bernard Haitink will play at the Symphony Hall from Oct. 25 to Oct. 27 where he will orchestrate the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) through the work of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Haitink will be also be joined by the Chicago Symphony Chorus and their director Duain Wolfe. Also there on the night will be soprano Erin Wall, mezzo-soprano and Bernard Fink. The male half of this singing quartet comes in the form of bass-baritone Hanno Muller-Brachmann and four time Grammy award winning tenor Anthony Dean Griffey.
Haitink has chosen Beethoven's "Missa solemnis," a piece that requires two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, a pair of bassons, four horns, two trumpets, an alto, tenor and bass trombone , a timpani, singers in the alto, bass and soprano range, a mix choir and a series of violins, violas and cellos. So complex was the work that was composed from 1819 to 1823 that it ranks low in popularity despite it being one of this greatest works.
Amsterdam's Bernard Haitink is an experienced maestro and started his career his journey in music as a violinist where he studied at the conservatoire in the same city.
His debut as a conductor came on Nov.7 1956 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and in the following year he took the post of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic conductor.
Haitink has had conducting roles at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and l'Orchestre National de France.
The Dutchman has done complete symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Tchaikovsky just to name a few.
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