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Adams, John
– Chamber Symphony
Anonymous
– Sonata from “Die Bankelsangerlieder”
Bach, Johann Sebastian
– Cantata No. 82, “Ich habe genug”
– Concerto No. 1 in D minor (for piano), BMV 1052
– Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor BMV 1060
– Contrapunctus IX (arr. for Brass Quintet)
– Orchestral Suite No 1 BMV 1066
– Overture to Orchestral Suite No 4 BMV 1069
– Prelude and Fugue in G Major
– [Quote about Bach]
– Toccata and Fugue in D-minor (arr. Stokowski)
Barber, Samuel
– Die Natalie
– Essay No. 2 (coming soon)
– Piano Concerto
– String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (coming soon)
– Violin Concerto
– Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for Soprano and Orchestra
Bartok, Bela
– Dance Suite
– Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven, Ludwig van
– Egmont Overture
– Consecration of the House Overture (coming soon)
– Coriolan Overture
– Hammerklavier Sonata (coming soon)
– King Stephen Overture
– Leonore Overture No. 3
– Piano Concerto No. 1
– Piano Concerto No. 3
– Piano Concerto No. 4
– Piano Concerto No. 5 (New version! coming soon)
– Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op 16(coming soon)
– Septet in E-flat Major (coming soon)
– String Quartet No. 1 (coming soon)
– Symphony No. 1
– Symphony No. 3
– Symphony No. 5
– Symphony No. 6
– Symphony No. 7
– Symphony No. 8
– Symphony No. 9
– Triple Concerto
– Violin Concerto
Bennett, Robert Russell
– Four Freedoms – A Symphony
– The Four Freedoms – Paintings/Poster by Norman Rockwell
Berg, Alban
– Violin Concerto
Berio, Luciano
– Rendering (coming soon)
Berlioz, Hector
– D’amour l’ardente flamme, from La damnation de Faust (soon!)
– Symphony fantastique
– Harold in Italy
– Roman Carnival Overture
Bernstein, Leonard
– Overture to Candide (New Version! coming soon)
– “Glitter and Be Gay” from Candide
– Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Bizet, Georges
– Carmen Suite No. 1
– Toreador from Carmen Suite No. 1
– Jeux d’Enfants
– L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 & 2
– Symphony in C(coming soon)
Bloch, Ernst
– Concertino for Flute, Viola and Piano
– Schelomo
Böhm, Georg
– Partita: Variations on “Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele”
Bonds, Margaret
– I Got a Home in Dat Rock + He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Borodin, Alexander
– In the Steppes of Central Asia
– Music from Prince Igor
– String Quartet No. 2 (coming soon)
Brahms, Johannes
– A German Requiem
– Academic Festival Orchestra
– Chorale Prelude on “Herzlich tut mich verlangen,” Op. 122/10
– Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
– Hungarian Dances No. 1, 3, 10
– Hungarian Dance No. 5
– Liebeslieder Waltzes (coming soon)
– Nanie for Chorus and Orchestra
– Piano Concerto No. 1
– Piano Concerto No. 2
– Schicksalslied for Chorus and Orchestra
– Serenade No. 2
– Symphony No. 1
– Symphony No. 2
– Symphony No. 3
– Symphony No. 4
– Tragic Overture (coming soon)
– Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St. Anthony Variations)
– Violin Concerto
Britten, Benjamin
– Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
– Men of Goodwill
Bruch, Max
– Violin Concerto No. 1
– Violin Concerto No. 2
– Romanze for Viola
Burleigh, Harry T.
– Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child + I Want to Be Ready
Cantaloube, Joseph
– Selections from Chants d’Auvergne
Chabrier, Emanuel
– España
Cheetham, John
– Scherzo (coming soon)
Cherubini, Luigi
– Overture to Les Deux Journées
Chopin, Frederic
– Piano Concerto No. 1
– Piano Concerto No. 2
– Chopin – 1846 daguerreotype
– Variations on Là ci darem la mano
Copland, Aaron
– An Outdoor Overture (New version! coming soon)
– Appalachian Spring
– El Salon Mexico (coming soon)
– Fanfare for the Common Man (coming soon)
– Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
– Suite from Billy the Kid
– Symphony No. 3
Danzi, Franz
– Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 56, No. 1
Debussy, Claude
– Prelude à l’apres-midi d’un faune
– La Mer
– Nocturnes
– Petite Suite
Donizetti, Gaetano
– Excerpts from Lucia di Lammermoor
D’Rivera, Paquito
– Invitation al danza (coming soon)
Duruflé, Maurice
– Requiem (coming soon)
Dvořák, Antonin
– American String Quartet
– Cello Concerto in B-minor
– Serenade in D-minor for Winds
– Piano Quintet No. 2 (coming soon)
– Romance in F-minor
– Symphony No. 6 (coming soon)
–Symphony No. 7 (New version coming soon!)
– Symphony No. 8
– Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
Elgar, Edward
– “Enigma” Variations (coming soon)
– Serenade for Strings (coming soon)
Ewald, Victor
– Quintet No. 1 (coming soon)
Ewazen, Eric
– Western Fanfare (coming soon)
Ellington, (Edward Kennedy) “Duke”
– Sophisticated Lady + Take the ‘A Train (coming soon)
Enescu, George
– Romanian Rhapsodies No. 1 and No. 2
– Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Major
– Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D Major
Falla, Manuel de
– Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo
– El Amor Brujo
– Noches en la Jardines d’España
– The Three Cornered Hat Suites No. 1 and No. 2
Fauré, Gabriel
– Masques et Bergamasques Suite
– Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
Finzi, Gerald
– Five Bagatelles (coming soon)
Foote, Arthur
– Irish Folk Song
Concert Program Notes
Franck, César
– Symphony in D-Minor
– Violin Sonata in A Major (Movement 4)
Gabrielli, Giovanni
– Canzona a 12
Gang, Chen & He Zhanhao
– The Butterfly Lovers Concerto
Gershwin, George
–An American in Paris
– “I Got Rhythm” Variations
– Lullaby for Strings
– Rhapsody in Blue
– Selections from Porgy and Bess for Woodwind Quintet
Goldmark, Karl
– Violin Concerto in A-minor
Golijov, Oswaldo
– Last Round
Gottschalk, Louis
– Night in the Tropics
Gounod, Charles
– Final Scene from Act V of Faust
– Petite Suite (coming soon)
– St. Cecilia’s Mass
– Aria: “Vous qui faites l’endormie” from Faust
Grieg, Edvard
– Holberg Suite
– Piano Concerto (New version coming soon)
– Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 (coming soon)
– Two Elegiac Melodies
Griffes, Paul
– Poem for Flute and Orchestra
Grofé, Ferde
– Grand Canyon Suite
Handel, George Frederich
– Concerto for Organ and Orchestra No. 1 (coming soon)
– Concerto for Organ and Orchestra No. 4 (coming soon)
– Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 4, No. 5
– Harp Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6, HWV 294
– Keyboard Suite No. 3 in D minor (from Eight Great Suites) (coming soon)
– Overture to Theodora (coming soon)
– Selections from Water Music
Haydn, Franz Josef
– Overture from The Creation
– Symphony No. 44 “Trauer”
– Symphony No. 86 “Paris”
– Symphony No. 104 “London”
– The Mermaid’s Song
Hindemith, Paul
– Mathis der Maler
Holst, Gustav
– St. Paul’s Suite
Hovhaness, Alan
– Prelude and Quadruple Fugue (coming soon)
Humperdinck, Engelbert
– Prelude to Hansel und Gretel
– Selections from Hansel and Gretel
Ibert, Jacques
– Trois Pièces Brèves for Wind Quintet
Ives, Charles
– Symphony No. 3
Janácek, Leoš
– Mlada Suite(coming soon)
Jongen, Joseph
– Symphonie concertante for Organ and Orchestra
Joplin, Scott
– Three Rags (Arranged for String Quartet)
– Two Rags: (coming soon)
Paragon Rag
Country Club Rag
Khachaturian, Aram
– Saber Dance from Gayane
– Valse fromMasquerade
Klughardt, August
– Quintet in C, Op. 79
Kodaly, Zoltan
– Dances of Galánta
Korngold, Erich
– Violin Concerto
Lalo, Édouard
– Symphonie espagnole
Liadov, Anton
– The Enchanted Lake
Liebermann, Lowell
– Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Liszt, Franz
– Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (coming soon)
– Piano Concerto No. 1 (Movements 3 and 4)
– Piano Concerto No. 2
– Totentanz
Lübeck, Vincent
– Prelude and Fugue in E Major
Lutoslawski, Witold
– Mala Suite
Mahler, Gustav
– ‘Adagietto’ (from Symphony No. 5) (coming soon)
– Rückert Lieder (coming soon)
–Symphony No. 1
– Symphony No. 2
– Symphony No. 4
– Symphony No. 5
– Songs of a Wayfarer
Marquez, Arturo
– Danzón No. 2
Martinu, Bohuslav
– Rhapsody Concerto for Viola
Mendelssohn, Felix
– Infelice (coming soon)
– Quartet Op. 44, No. 2 (coming soon)
– Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture (coming soon)
– The Hebrides Overture
– The Fair Melusine Overture
– Sonata 1 in F minor, Op. 65 – Finale
– Sinfonia No. 8 in D (String version) (coming soon)
– Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang”
– Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”
– Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
– Violin Concerto
Mozart, Wolfgang A.
– “Ach! Ich fuhl’s” – Aria from The Magic Flute
– Adagio and Fugue in C-Minor
– Clarinet Quintet (coming soon)
– Contradanse “Donnerwetter”
– “Come scoglio” – Aria from Così fan tutte
– “Dove sono” – Aria from The Marriage of Figaro
– Quintet for Winds and Piano, K. 452
– Piano Concerto No. 12
– Piano Concerto No. 14 (coming soon)
– Piano Concerto No. 20 (New Version! coming soon)
– Piano Concerto No. 23
– Piano Concerto No. 24
– Overture to Così fan tutte
– Overture to Don Giovanni
– Overture to The Magic Flute
– Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
– “Ruhe sanft” – Aria from Zaide
– Serenade “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”
– String Quartet No. 1 (coming soon)
– Symphony No. 34
– Symphony No. 38
– Symphony No. 39
– Symphony No. 40
– Symphony No. 41
– Variations on a Theme by Gluck
– Violin Concerto No. 4
– Violin Concerto No. 5 “Turkish”
Mussorgsky, Modest
– Hopak from The Fair at Sorochynsk
– Night on Bald Mountain
– Pictures at an Exhibition
Nielsen, Carl
– Aladdin Suite (Selections)
– Flute Concerto
– Helios Overture
– Violin Concerto
Paganini, Niccoló
– Sonata for Grand Viola and Orchestra
– Violin Concerto No. 1 (coming soon)
Panufnik, Andersej
– Harmony
Piazzola, Ástor
– Milongo sin Palabras
– Bandoneón (Accordion) Concerto “Aconcagua”
Porter, Quincy
– String Quartet No. 3 (coming soon)
Poulenc, Francis
– Gloria for Soprano Solo, Chorus and Orchestra
– Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (coming soon)
Prokofiev, Sergei
– A Summer Day
– Peter and the Wolf (coming soon)
– Selections from Romeo and Juliet
– Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra
– Concerto for Violin No. 1
– Concerto for Violin No. 2
– Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
– Symphony No. 7
Puccini, Giacomo
– “E lucevan le stele” from Act III of Tosca
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
– Piano Concerto No. 2
– Piano Concerto No. 3
– Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
– Symphonic Dances
– Symphony No. 2
Ravel, Maurice
– Alborada del gracioso
– Bolero
– La Valse
– Mother Goose Suite
– Rapsodie Espagnole
– Tzigane
– Pavane for a Dead Princess
– Piano Concerto in G
Respighi, Ottorino
– Suite for Strings, P. 41 (coming soon)
– The Birds
– Trittico Botticelliano
Revueltas, Silvestre
– Janitzio
– La Noche de los Mayas (Chamber version)
– La Noche de los Mayas (Full Orchestral version)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai
– Capriccio Espagnol
– Le Coq d’Or Suite
– Russian Easter Overture
– Scheherazade
– Symphony No. 2 “Antar”
Rosauro, Ney
– Marimba Concerto No. 1 (coming soon)
Rossini, Gioachino
– Overture to Semiramide
– Overture to Tancredi
– Overture to The Barber of Seville
Roussel, Albert
– Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2
Saint-Saëns, Camille
– Bacchanale from Samson et Delila
– Cello Concerto in A Minor
– Piano Concerto No. 2
– Violin Concerto No. 3
– Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
Sarasate, Pablo de
– Zigeunerweisen
Schnittke, Alfred
– Concerto for Piano and Strings (coming soon)
Schoenberg, Arnold
– Five Pieces for Orchestra
Schubert, Franz
– Mass No. 2 (coming soon)
– Overture in D Major, “In the Italian Style,” D. 590
– Quintet for Piano and Strings “Trout”
– Rosamunde Overture (coming soon)
– Symphony No. 4 “Tragic”
– Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”
Schumann, Robert
– Introduction and Allegro Appasionata for Piano and Orchestra
– Piano Concerto
– Cello Concerto
– Manfred Overture
– Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”
– Symphony No. 4
Schuman, William
– American Festival Overture(coming soon)
Shostakovich, Dmitri
– Tahiti Trot
– Cello Concerto
– Symphony No. 1
– Symphony No. 5 (coming soon)
– Symphony No. 10
Sibelius, Jean
– En Saga
– Karelia Suite
– Violin Concerto (New version! coming soon)
– Symphony No. 1
– Symphony No. 2
– Symphony No. 5
– Symphony No. 6
– Symphony No. 7
Smetana, Bedrich
– The Moldau (Vtalva)
– From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves
– Overture and Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride (coming soon)
– Quartet No. 1 (coming soon)
Smith, John Stafford (& Francis Scott Key)
– Star Spangled Banner Anthem
Spirituals
– Three Spirituals (arranged for Organ):
Steal Away +
Were You There +
Great Day!
– Bonds, Margaret:
I Got a Home in Dat Rock +
He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands
– Burleigh, Harry T.:
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child +
I Want to be Ready
Spohr, Luigi
– Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Stanley, John
– Voluntary No. 1 from Ten Voluntaries, Op. 5
Internotes
Still, William Grant
– Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American”
– Panamanian Dances
Strauss, II, Johann
– Die Fledermaus (Selections)
– Emperor Waltz
Strauss, Richard
– Don Juan
– Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon with String Orchestra and Harp
– Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (New version! coming soon)
– Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche
– Tod und Verklärung
– Vier letzte Lieder
Stravinsky, Igor
– Fireworks
– The Firebird Suite (1911 and 1919)
– Petrouchka Suite (1947)
– Pulcinella Suite
– Symphony in C(coming soon)
– The Rite of Spring
Taylor, Samuel Coleridge
– Ballade in A minor (coming soon)
Trittico Botticelliano Program Notes
Tchaikovsky, Piotr
– Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
– Andante Cantabile
– Violin Concerto
– Piano Concerto No. 1
– Capriccio Italien
– Romeo and Juliet Overture (coming soon)
– Swan Lake (Selections) (coming soon)
– Symphony No. 4
– Symphony No. 5
– Symphony No. 6
– Variations on a Rococo Theme (coming soon)
Ticheli, Frank
– Radiant Voices(coming soon)
Tower, Joan
– Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (coming soon)
Vainberg, Moise
– Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
– A London Symphony (coming soon)
– The Lark Ascending
– The Wasps Overture (coming soon)
– Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
– Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 (coming soon)
– Serenade to Music
Verdi, Giuseppi
– (sidepiece) “The Commissioning of Äida”
– (sidepiece) “The Verdi Trumpets”
– Excerpts from Act II of Äida
– Prelude to Äida
– “Come dal ciel precipita” from Act II of MacBeth
– “Infelice! E tuo credevi” from Ernani (coming soon)
– “Pace, pace mio Dio” from Act IV, Scene 2 of La Forza del Destino
– Overture to La Forza del Destino
– “Si, pel ciel” from Act II of Otello
– Act I from La Traviata
– Prelude to Act III of La Traviata
– Overture to Nabucco
– Requiem Mass
Vivaldi, Antonio
– Gloria, RV 589 (coming soon)
– The Four Seasons
– The Sonnets to The Four Seasons (coming soon)
Voigt, Friedrich
– Nocturne (coming soon)
Wagner, Richard
– Siegfreid Idyll
– Prelude to Act I and “Good Friday Spell” from Parsifal
– Prelude & Liebestod to Tristan und Isolde
– Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Walker, George
– Pageant and Proclamation (coming soon)
Walton, William
– Viola Concerto
Weber, Carl Maria von
– Overture to Oberon
Webern, Anton
– Ricercare from a Musical Offering (from Bach)
Weinberger, Jaromir
– Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper
Wienawski, Henryck
– Violin Concerto No. 2
Zhanhao, He &Chen Gang
– (The Butterfly Lovers Concerto) [see also Gang, Chen]
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