Archive: Program Notes

Bach, Johann Sebastian
Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 1 and 6
Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 2 and 4
Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 3 and 5
Fugue from Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor

Barber, Samuel
Andromache's Farewell

Bartók, Béla
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra in C Major, op. 56
Overture Leonore No. 3
Overture to The Consecration of the House , Op. 124
Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 55, "Eroica"
Symphony No. 4 in Bb Major, Op 60
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

Berlioz, Hector
Overture Le Corsaire

Bizet, Georges
Patrie

Brahms, Johaness
Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 102
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 77
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Schicksalslied, Op. 54

Debussy, Claude
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Serenade, Op. 44

Cherubini, Luigi
Overture in G

Cortese, Glen
The Garden of the Gods

Dvořák, Antonín
Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. Op. 60

Fauré, Gabriel
Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande

Grieg, Edvard
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16

Handel, George Frederick
Messiah

Haydn, Franz Joseph
Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major
Symphony No. 100 in G Major, “Military”
Symphony No. 104 in D Major “London”

Kodály , Zoltan
Galanta Dances

Mahler, Gustav
Symphony No. 5

Mendelssohn, Felix
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 11
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major for piano and orchestra, K. 449 (1784)
Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Serenade No. 9 for orchestra in D Major, K. 320 “Posthorn”
Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K. 364
Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201
Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 “Haffner”

Mussorgsky, Modeste
Pictures at an Exhibition

Prokofiev, Sergei
excerpts from the ballet Cinderella
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 23

Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

Sarasate, Pablo de
Navarra for two violins and orchestra

Schubert, Franz
Symphony No. 8 in B minor “Unfinished”

Schumann, Robert
Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 97 “Rhenish”
New England Triptych

Shostakovich, Dmitri
Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Op. 35
Symphony No. 10, Op. 93
The Battleship Potemkin, Excerpts from Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 8, 10, and 11

Sibelius, Jan
Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 47
Symphony No. 5 in E flat Major, Op. 82

Strauss, Richard
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Illyich
Nutcracker
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 23
Suite from Swan Lake, Op. 20

Verdi, Guiseppe
Messa da Requiem

Vivaldi, Antonio
The Four Seasons, Op. 8, Nos. 1-4

Wagner, Richard
Siegfried’s Rhine Journey

Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

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