Canellakis, Tao & Tchaikovsky 5
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60604
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60604
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60604
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
220 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60604
Music
Runs Apr 30May 03, 2026

“With desire and passion,” Tchaikovsky writes on the score of his Fifth Symphony, and he’s as good as his word: It’s a work teeming with brilliant orchestral colors, stormy emotions and a fate motif that haunts each movement. Illinois native Conrad Tao is the soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, the composer’s beguiling love letter to his wife and his native Hungary.