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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Hall, Chicago
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Canellakis
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Hall, Chicago
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The Oceanides
DVORAK
The Wood Dove 

RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Dances
4
April
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Hall, Chicago
SIBELIUS
The Oceanides
DVORAK
The Wood Dove 

RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Dances
5
April
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Hall, Chicago
SIBELIUS
The Oceanides
DVORAK
The Wood Dove 

RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Dances
Featured Recording

Bartók
Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano
Gábor Bretz, bass-baritone
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Release Date
April 4, 2025
Karina Canellakis conducts Janáček’s from a House of the Dead at Concertgebouw
On March 22, Karina Canellakis conducts the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Leoš Janáček’s final opera, From a House of the Dead, at The Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. This performance marks the conclusion of her multi-year Janáček opera cycle, following The Cunning Little Vixen, Kat'a Kabanova, and The Makropulos Affair. Janáček’s score shifts between jagged rhythmic energy and poignant lyricism, with unsettling percussion—including the sound of prisoners' chains—contrasting moments of unexpected beauty. The opera, left incomplete at the composer’s death in 1928, remains one of his most intense and gripping works. This concert is part of the NTR ZaterdagMatinee series and will be broadcast live on NPO Klassiek.
Highly Praised Return to the New York Philharmonic
Karina Canellakis returned to the New York Philharmonic for three concerts in February. The program featured Saariaho "Lumière et pesanteur", Berg Violin Concerto with soloist Veronika Eberle, Messiaen "Les Offrandes oubliées" and Debussy "La Mer". Zachary Woolfe writes about the first night's concert in the New York Times: "The players didn’t seem like they wanted these moments to end as soon as possible; they reveled in them. That attests, of course, to the musicians themselves — and, perhaps, to their continued acclimation to the renovated Geffen Hall, in which even the most fragile sounds register clearly. But it also speaks to Canellakis’s leadership on the podium. Throughout the concert, she elicited playing of poise and patience, inspiring the ensemble to relax into phrases — which gave the music more organic energy than pressing relentlessly forward would have. For all the bits of breathtaking stillness in the performance, there were also forceful climaxes, but Canellakis arrived at them with naturalness. At the end of the first section of “La Mer,” the volume swiftly swells from pianissimo to fortissimo. While some performances land flat on the loudness, she drew out the speed ever so slightly, making the rise in dynamics feel like a thrilling wave rather than an abrupt boom." Photo: Chris Lee
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