Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink
Now Playing: Mahler's Third Symphony
Topic: NEW CDs
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra can count many fine achievements under the recently concluded 15-year tenure of music director Daniel Barenboim. But an extensive discography isn't one of them.
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As if to catch up on lost time, the venerable orchestra plans to record six live concert CDs over the next three years on its new in-house label. As if to signal the ambition of this endeavor, the orchestra has released this recording of Mahler's Third Symphony as the first in the series. Its new principal conductor, Bernard Haitink, conducted this October 2006 performance.
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