CSO Sessions Episode 3: Désiré Defauw (on-demand until 4/17/2021)
Free
Gabriel Fauré — Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
André Grétry, arr. Felix Mottl – Three Dances from Céphale et Procris
Gabriel Fauré – Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Recorded December 9, 1953, DuMont Television Network Production, WGN Chicago Studios
Belgian conductor Désiré Defauw served as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s third music director from 1943 until 1947. He returned as guest conductor on several occasions, including a television concert — one of the Orchestra’s earliest filmed concerts in the collections of the Rosenthal Archives — in December 1953. From WGN’s studios, Defauw led suites from Grétry’s Cephalus and Procris and Fauré’s Pelleas and Melisande, along with Schumann’s Fourth Symphony.
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