Programme Note List

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Orchestral (including chamber orchestra)

Adams, John –
Naïve and Sentimental Music

Arnold, Malcolm –
Symphony No. 5
Variations on a Theme of Ruth Gipps

Bach (orch. Goldmann) –
14 Canons, BWV 1087 (Goldberg Variations)

Bartók –
The Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Beethoven –
Symphony No. 9 (Choral)

Berg –
Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Violin Concerto

Berio –
Sinfonia

Berkeley, Lennox –
Serenade for Strings

Bernstein –
West Side Story (Symphonic Dances)

Bizet –
L’Arlésienne (Suite. No. 1)

Boulez –
Notations (I-IV, VII)
Le soleil des eaux
Le visage nuptial
Figures–Doubles–Prismes

Brahms –
Double Concerto

Britten –
Simple Symphony
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Bruch –
Violin Concerto No. 1

Bruckner –
Symphony No. 4

Chopin –
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

Copland –
Clarinet Concerto

Delius –
Violin Concerto
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (from A Village Romeo and Juliet)

Dean, Brett –
Ariel’s Song

Dvórak –
Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
Serenade for Strings in E major

Elgar –
Introduction and Allegro for strings
In the South (Alassio)

Falla –
The Three-Cornered Hat (complete ballet)

Glinka –
Ruslan and Lyudmila (overture)

Holst –
The Perfect Fool (ballet music)
The Planets

Ibert –
Divertissement

Kernis, Aaron Jay –
New Era Dance

Korgold –
Violin Concerto

Hindemith –
Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’

Liszt –
Les préludes
Prometheus
Hamlet
Totentanz
Dante Symphony
Faust Symphony
Sposalizio (orch. Sciarrino)
La notte
From the Cradle to the Grave

MacCunn –
The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (concert overture)

Mahler –
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 9
Das Lied von der Erde

Mendelssohn –
String Symphony No. 9 in C major
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (overture and incidental music)

Messiaen –
Éclairs sur l’au-delà
Turangalîla-symphonie

Mozart –
Divertimento in D major for strings, K136
Serenade in D major, K239 (Serenata notturna)
Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K413
Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, K364
Flute and Harp Concerto, K299

Mussorgsky –
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Penderecki –
Sinfonietta per archi (1991)

Poulenc –
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani

Prokofiev –
Piano Concerto No. 1

Respighi –
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3
Fountains of Rome
Trittico Botticelliano

Rimsky-Korsakov –
Scheherazade

Schoenberg –
Pelleas und Melisande

Schumann –
Piano Concerto

Shostakovich –
Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)
Chamber Symphony, Op. 118a (arr. Barshai)

Sibelius –
Symphony No. 5 (original and final versions)
Karelia Suite
Pan and Echo
Dance Intermezzo
The Tempest (Prelude, Suites Nos. 1 and 2)

Strauss, Richard –
Don Juan
Ein Heldenleben
An Alpine Symphony
Der Rosenkavalier (orchestral suite, 1945)

Stravinsky –
Abraham and Isaac
Agon
Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale)
Chopin arrangements (Nocturne and Grande valse brillante)
The Firebird (1945 suite)
Pulcinella (complete ballet)
The Rite of Spring
Jeu de cartes
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Scherzo à la russe
Symphony in C
Symphony in Three Movements
Chorale Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch’

Tchaikovsky –
Piano Concerto No. 1
Francesca da Rimini
Hamlet (overture)
Mozartiana (Orchestral Suite No. 4)
Variations on a Rococo Theme (original & later versions)
Serenade for Strings
Souvenir de Florence

Vaughan Williams –
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
A Pastoral Symphony
Oboe Concerto
Tuba Concerto
Symphony No. 9

Vivaldi –
The Four Seasons

Wagner –
Tannhäuser (overture)
Siegfried Idyll

Walton –
Henry V (suites, also ‘Shakespeare scenario’ arr. Christopher Palmer)
Façade (extracts)
Orb and Sceptre
Portsmouth Point
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Viola Concerto
Cello Concerto

Webern –
Im Sommerwind
Passacaglia, Op. 1
Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6

Chamber music (incl. chamber ensemble)

Beethoven –
Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2

Berg –
Lyric Suite for string quartet

Boulez –
Anthèmes 2
Dialogue de l’ombre double
Mémoriale
Messagesquisse

Brahms  –
Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 99

Cassadó –
Suite for solo cello

Chopin –
Polonaise brillante for cello and piano, Op. 3

Dvórak –
String Quintet in G major, Op. 77

Ibert –
Divertissement

Ligeti –
String Quartet No. 2

Martin, Frank –
Trio on Popular Irish Melodies

Mendelssohn –
Octet

Mozart –
Divertimento in D major for string quartet, K136
String Quintet in C major, K515

Popper –
Hungarian Rhapsody for cello and piano, Op. 68

Schoenberg –
String Quartet No. 1 in D minor
String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor

Shostakovich –
Two Pieces for string octet, Op. 11

Schumann –
Five Pieces in Folk Style for cello and piano, Op. 102

Stravinsky –
Octet

Tchaikovsky –
Souvenir de Florence

Verdi –
String Quartet in E minor

Wagner –
Siegfried Idyll

Webern –
Five Movements for string quartet, Op. 5
Six Bagatelles for string quartet, Op. 9
String Quartet, Op. 28

Piano solo

Albéniz –
Ibéria (collective note)

Beethoven –
Eroica Variations, Op. 35

Berg –
Piano Sonata

Chopin –
Mazurkas, Op. 59
Polonaise in C minor, Op. 40 No. 2
Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44
Scherzi Nos. 1-4 (collective note)
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor
Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor
Sonata No. 3 in B minor

Debussy –
Images, Book 2

Falla –
Fantasia baetica

Granados –
Goyescas

Hindemith –
Sonata No. 2 in G major (1936)

Liszt –
An die ferne Geliebte (transcr. from Beethoven)
Réminiscences de Don Juan
Isoldens Liebestod
Sonata in B minor

Mussorgsky –
Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version)

Prokofiev –
Piano Sonata No. 7

Schubert –
Piano Sonata in G major, D894
Four Impromptus, D899

Rachmaninov –
Mélodie, Op. 3 No. 3
Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor

Schubert –
Four Impromptus, D899

Schumann –
Abegg Variations
Kinderszenen

Scriabin –
Impromptu, Op. 12 No. 2
Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor (‘Sonata-Fantasy’), Op. 19 No. 2
Fragilité, Op. 51 No. 1

Songs (with piano)

Beethoven –
An die ferne Geliebte

Brahms –
Four Songs, Op. 28

Britten –
The Poet’s Echo
French Folksongs (selection)

Hahn, Reynaldo –
Songs (selection)

Mendelssohn –
Six Duets, Op. 63

Schubert –
Auf dem Strom

Schumann, Clara –
Lieder, Op. 13
Lieder, Op. 23

Schumann, Robert –
Frauenliebe und -leben
Liederkreis (Eichendorff), Op. 39
Five Songs, Op. 40
Songs from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98a

Verdi –
Ave Maria (1880 setting for soprano/mezzo-soprano and strings/piano)

Wagner –
Wesendonck-Lieder

Wolf –
Mörike-Lieder (general note)

Vocal and choral (incl. songs with orchestra)

Beethoven –
Symphony No. 9 (Choral)

Berio –
Sinfonia

Boulez –
Le soleil des eaux
Le visage nuptial

Brahms –
4 Lieder (choir, 2 horns & harp), Op. 17

Britten –
War Requiem

Bruckner –
Mass in E minor
Te Deum

Byrd –
Gradualia (selection)

Canteloube –
Songs of the Auvergne (selection, incl. Baïlèro)

Debussy –
La Damoiselle élue

Delius –
Sea-Drift
Cynara

Dvórak –
Stabat Mater

Elgar –
The Music Makers

Fauré –
Requiem (chamber and orchestral versions)

Henze –
Cantata della fiaba estrema

Holst –
Ave Maria
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, 3rd group (female chorus and harp)
Two Eastern Pictures (female chorus and harp)
Ode to Death

Liszt –
Dante Symphony
Faust Symphony

Mahler –
Das Lied von der Erde
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (complete, including early settings)

Mendelssohn –
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (overture and incidental music)

Messiaen –
Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine

Mozart –
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339
Requiem

Parry –
Hear My Words, O Ye People

Pergolesi –
Stabat Mater

Rachmaninov –
The Bells

Sibelius –
Luonnotar

Stravinsky –
Abraham and Isaac
The Dove Descending
Pulcinella (complete ballet)
Slavonic Choruses: Pater Noster, Credo, Ave Maria

Szymanowski –
Songs of a Fairytale Princess

Vaughan Williams –
Songs of Travel
Sancta civitas
Serenade to Music

Verdi –
Libera me (1869 original version, from Messa per Rossini)
Messa di Requiem
Ave Maria (1880 setting for soprano/mezzo-soprano and strings/piano)
Four Sacred Pieces (Ave Maria, Stabat Mater, Laudi alla Vergine Maria, Te Deum)

Wagner –
Wesendonck-Lieder

Walton –
Belshazzar’s Feast
Coronation Te Deum
Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario (arr. Christopher Palmer)
The Twelve

Opera

Stravinsky –
Le rossignol (The Nightingale)

Tippett –
King Priam

Composer biographies

Adès, Thomas
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Bizet, Georges
Chabrier, Emmanuel
Dvorák, Antonín
Hoddinott, Alun
Liszt, Franz
Messiaen, Olivier
Mussorgsky, Modest
Sibelius, Jean
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Tchaikovsky, Piotr
Thomas, Ambroise
Wagner, Richard
Walton, William