Riccardo Muti leads a program with Rachmaninoff’s gargantuan, beyond-lush Symphony No. 2 and a premiere of “Transfigure to Grace' by composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery at the Symphony Center.
Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the premier of composer Jessie Montgomery's work “Transfigure to Grace” on May 11, 2023, at Symphony Center in Chicago.The pianist-composer, whose 150th birthday would have been last month, is an assured presence on symphony programs everywhere. But that was far from the case when he died in 1943.
Composer Jessie Montgomery takes a bow with the orchestra after the world premiere of her new piece “Transfigure to Grace” on May 11, 2023, at Symphony Center in Chicago. On the other hand, “Grace” made plain what Chicago audiences already know: Montgomery is behind some of the most idiomatic and irresistible string writing being penned right now. Herself a violinist, Montgomery unveiled a witty and genial violin duo at MusicNOW a few weeks ago alongside fellow Chicago fiddle luminary Rachel Barton Pine.
As that remarkable compositional twist proved, orchestration is an exact yet ineffable science. In so many ways, Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 shouldn’t work. It’s overscored at best, unwieldy at worst. But when everything aligns, despite everything, it soars.Easier said than done. Throughout the evening, CSO indeed occasionally strained under the symphony’s immense weight.
Some uncommon alchemy happens in great musical moments like this: a spotlight descends on a musician, only for that spotlight to turn into a mirror on ourselves. Stolen smiles glimpsed around the ensemble confirmed what any audience member already knew. We’d experienced something special, and all the more beautiful because it would not be replicated again.
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