“The Triumph of the Octagon,” now in a world premiere at Symphony Center, owes its existence to the CSO’s performance of Glass's Symphony No. 11 last season.
release, Muti is a most unexpected ally to Glass’s musical language, its repeated phrases turning lyrical and variegated in his hands.While in Chicago for those performances, Glass noticed a framed photograph in Muti’s dressing room depicting Castel del Monte, a 13th-century citadel with an unusual octagonal footprint. He returned to that landmark as the inspiration for a short CSO commission — about 13 minutes long on Thursday — recognizing Muti’s career and service with the orchestra.
Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Philip Glass's"The Triumph of the Octagon" at Orchestra Hall on Sept. 28, 2023. The CSO’s “Aus Italien” fell into Strauss’s own booby traps, but there were plenty of its own making, too. This unruly work is best groomed by opinionated conviction and farsightedness; Muti’s itinerary on Thursday was loose, to say the least. It aggravated the dramatic shortcomings ofin its compression of dynamic contrasts and overreliance on flashy movements.
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