Friday, 3 July 2009
Wiener Philharmoniker
I have updated the Wiener Philharmoniker post (see below). It now contains details of Gustav Mahler's three years as conductor
New York Philharmonic 1972 - 1973
During this period, the orchestra gave its subscription concerts in the Avery Fisher Hall, New York. This listing gives details of subscription concerts only
New York Philharmonic
1972 – 1973
131st Season
Thursday 21 September 1972
Friday 22 September 1972
Saturday 23 September 1972
Tuesday 26 September 1972
Pierre Boulez
Symphony No. 31, ‘Hornsignal’ HAYDN
Symphonies of Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Four Etudes for Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
Die Meistersinger: Prelude Act 1 and Suite from Act 3 WAGNER
Leon Fleisher, piano
Thursday 28 September 1972
Friday 29 September 1972
Saturday 30 September 1972
Tuesday 3 October 1972
Pierre Boulez
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola MOZART
Symphony No. 6 MAHLER
Rafael Druian, violin Sol Greitzer, viola
Thursday 5 October 1972
Friday 6 October 1972
Saturday 7 October 1972
Tuesday 10 October 1972
Pierre Boulez
Sinfonia sacrae: Fili mi, Absalon SCHUTZ
Cantata profana BARTOK
Te Deum BERLIOZ
Ken Remo, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Westminster Choir Little Church around the Corner Boys Choir
Thursday 12 October 1972
Friday 13 October 1972
Saturday 14 October 1972
Tuesday 17 October 1972
Pierre Boulez
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Music for Orchestra KIRCHNER
The Poem of Ecstasy SCRIABIN
Michel Beroff, piano Rafael Druian, violin
Harold Gomberg, oboe John Cerminaro, French horn
Thursday 19 October 1972
Friday 20 October 1972
Tuesday 24 October 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto in C major HAYDN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Janos Starker, cello
Thursday 26 October 1972
Friday 27 October 1972
Tuesday 31 October 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Les offrandes oubliées MESSIAEN
Violin Concerto No. 2 SZYMANOWSKI
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Hernyk Szeryng, violin
Thursday 2 November 1972
Friday 3 November 1972
Saturday 4 November 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Symphony No. 60, ‘Il distratto’ HAYDN
A Ring of Time, Preludes and Pageants for Orchestra and Bells ARGENTO
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
Thursday 9 November 1972
Thursday 10 November 1972
Saturday 11 November 1972
Tuesday 14 November 1972
Max Rudolf
The Barber of Bagdad, Overture CORNELIUS
Symphony No. 57 HAYDN
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 16 November 1972
Friday 17 November 1972
Saturday 18 November 1972
Lorin Maazel
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 WEBER
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Malcolm Frager, piano
Friday 24 November 1972
Saturday 25 November 1972
Monday 27 November 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Six Concerts en sextour, Suite RAMEAU
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 GINASTERA
La Valse RAVEL
Natalie Hinderas, piano
Friday 1 December 1972
Tuesday 5 December 1972
James DePreist
Alceste, Overture GLUCK
Symphony No. 19 MOZART
Symphony No. 1, ‘The Bells of Zlonice’ DVORAK
Thursday 7 December 1972
Friday 8 December 1972
Saturday 9 December 1972
Tuesday 12 December 1972
Daniel Barenboim
Symphony No. 86 HAYDN
The Firebird, Suite (1911) STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 14 December 1972
Friday 15 December 1972
Saturday 16 December 1972
Tuesday 19 December 1972
Pierre Boulez
Cantata No. 48, ‘Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen’ BACH
A Sermon, A Narrative and a Prayer STRAVINSKY
Le Roi des étoiles STRAVINSKY
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Betty Allen, mezzo soprano John Stewart, tenor
Michael Wager, narrator Camerata Singers
Thursday 21 December 1972
Friday 22 December 1972
Saturday 23 December 1972
Tuesday 2 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Posthorn Serenade MOZART
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Kontra-Punkte No. 1 STOCKHAUSEN
The Tale of the Buffoon, Suite PROKOFIEV
Lorne Munro, cello Rafael Druian, violin
Nathan Stutch, cello Julius Baker, flute
Thursday 4 January 1973
Saturday 6 January 1973
Tuesday 9 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
André Watts, piano
Friday 5 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Une barque sur l’océan RAVEL
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
André Watts, piano
Thursday 11 January 1973
Friday 12 January 1973
Saturday 13 January 1973
Tuesday 16 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Theresienmesse HAYDN
The Song of the Nightingale STRAVINSKY
Reri Grist, soprano Anna Reynolds, mezzo soprano
Jerry Jennings, tenor Donald Gramm, bass baritone
Thursday 18 January 1973
Friday 19 January 1973
Saturday 20 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Suite in A minor for flute and orchestra TELEMANN
Ancient Voices of Children CRUMB
Ragtime for 11 instruments STRAVINSKY
Renard STRAVINSKY
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Julius Baker, flute Bruce Prince-Joseph, harpsichord
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano David Ulin, boy soprano
Thursday 25 January 1973
Friday 26 January 1973
Tuesday 30 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Five Movements for Strings WEBERN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Saturday 27 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Horn Cocnerto No. 2 MOZART
Five Movements for Strings WEBERN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
John Cerminaro, French horn
Thursday 1 February 1973
Friday 2 February 1973
Pierre Boulez
Rosamunde, Overture, and two Ballets SCHUBERT
Rückert Lieder MAHLER
Variations for Orchestra WEBERN
Six Pieces for Orchestra WEBERN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegmund Nimsgern, baritone
Tuesday 6 February 1973
Pierre Boulez
Rosamunde, Overture, and two Ballets SCHUBERT
Variations for Orchestra WEBERN
Six Pieces for Orchestra WEBERN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 8 February 1973
Friday 9 February 1973
Saturday 10 February 1973
Tuesday 13 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’ NIELSEN
William Masselos, piano
Thursday 15 February 1973
Friday 16 February 1973
Saturday 17 February 1973
Tuesday 20 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Harmoniemesse HAYDN
Mass STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Judith Blegen, soprano Frederica von Stade, mezzo soprano
Kenneth Riegel, tenor Simon Estes, bass baritone
Thursday 22 February 1973
Friday 23 February 1973
Saturday 24 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 96 HAYDN
Symphony No. 3 ROY HARRIS
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Pinchas Zukerman, violin Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Tuesday 27 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 96 HAYDN
Symphony No. 3 ROY HARRIS
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Pinchas Zukerman, violin Lorne Munroe, cello
Thursday 1 March 1973
Friday 2 March 1973
Saturday 3 March 1973
Tuesday 6 March 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Peter Grimes, Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes BRITTEN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Isaac Stern, violin
Wednesday 7 March 1973
Tuesday 13 March 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Peter Grimes, Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
André Watts, piano
Thursday 15 March 1973
Saturday 17 March 1973
Pierre Boulez
Julius Caesar, Overture SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 49, ‘La Passione’ HAYDN
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra BERIO
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Bruno Canino, piano Antonio Ballista, piano
Thursday 22 March 1973
Friday 23 March 1973
Saturday 24 March 1973
Tuesday 27 March 1973
Pierre Boulez
Serenade No. 2 BRAHMS
Variations for Orchestra SCHOENBERG
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Thursday 29 March 1973
Friday 30 March 1973
Saturday 31 March 1973
Tuesday 3 April 1973
Pierre Boulez
L’incontro improvviso (concert performance) HAYDN
Instrument
Henry Butler, narrator, Maralin Niska soprano
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Barbara Shuttleworth, soprano
George Shirley, tenor Andrea Velis, tenor
Spiro Malas, bass Saverio Barbieri, bass-baritone
Terrence Hawkins, vocalist David Cale Johnson, vocalist
Bruce Prince-Joseph, harpsichord
Thursday 5 April 1973
Friday 6 April 1973
Tuesday 10 April 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Scherzo â la russe STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto HINDEMITH
Polymorphia PENDERECKI
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Rafael Druian, violin
Thursday 12 April 1973
Friday 13 April 1973
Saturday 14 April 1973
Tuesday 17 April 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Sinfonia concertante HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, symphonic fragments DEBUSSY
Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2 ROUSSEL
Martha Argerich, piano Rafael Druian, violin
Lorne Munroe, cello Harold Gomberg, oboe
Manuel Zegler, bassoon
Thursday 19 April 1973
Saturday 21 April 1973
Tuesday 24 April 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Symphony No. 75 HAYDN
Cor Anglais Concerto SKROWACZEWSKI
An Alpine Symphony RICHARD STRAUSS
Thomas Stacy, cor anglais
Thursday 26 April 1973
Friday 27 April 1973
Saturday 28 April 1973
Tuesday 1 May 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Symphony in E flat major STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto No. 1 PAGANINI
Rapsodie Espagnole RAVEL
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Thursday 3 May 1973
Friday 4 May 1973
Saturday 5 May 1973
Tuesday 8 May 1973
Rafael Kubelik
Šárka from Ma Vlast SMETANA
Capriccio for Left Hand Piano and Orchestra JANACEK
Piano Concerto No. 1 MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Firkusny, piano Paige Brook, flute
John Ware, trumpet Carmine Fornarotto, trumpet
Thursday 10 May 1973
Friday 11 May 1973
Saturday 12 May 1973
Rafael Kubelik
Stabat Mater DVORAK
Judith Blegen, soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo soprano
Peter Schreier, tenor Paul Plishka, bass
The Camerata Singers
New York Philharmonic
1972 – 1973
131st Season
Thursday 21 September 1972
Friday 22 September 1972
Saturday 23 September 1972
Tuesday 26 September 1972
Pierre Boulez
Symphony No. 31, ‘Hornsignal’ HAYDN
Symphonies of Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Four Etudes for Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
Die Meistersinger: Prelude Act 1 and Suite from Act 3 WAGNER
Leon Fleisher, piano
Thursday 28 September 1972
Friday 29 September 1972
Saturday 30 September 1972
Tuesday 3 October 1972
Pierre Boulez
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola MOZART
Symphony No. 6 MAHLER
Rafael Druian, violin Sol Greitzer, viola
Thursday 5 October 1972
Friday 6 October 1972
Saturday 7 October 1972
Tuesday 10 October 1972
Pierre Boulez
Sinfonia sacrae: Fili mi, Absalon SCHUTZ
Cantata profana BARTOK
Te Deum BERLIOZ
Ken Remo, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Westminster Choir Little Church around the Corner Boys Choir
Thursday 12 October 1972
Friday 13 October 1972
Saturday 14 October 1972
Tuesday 17 October 1972
Pierre Boulez
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Music for Orchestra KIRCHNER
The Poem of Ecstasy SCRIABIN
Michel Beroff, piano Rafael Druian, violin
Harold Gomberg, oboe John Cerminaro, French horn
Thursday 19 October 1972
Friday 20 October 1972
Tuesday 24 October 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto in C major HAYDN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Janos Starker, cello
Thursday 26 October 1972
Friday 27 October 1972
Tuesday 31 October 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Les offrandes oubliées MESSIAEN
Violin Concerto No. 2 SZYMANOWSKI
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Hernyk Szeryng, violin
Thursday 2 November 1972
Friday 3 November 1972
Saturday 4 November 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Symphony No. 60, ‘Il distratto’ HAYDN
A Ring of Time, Preludes and Pageants for Orchestra and Bells ARGENTO
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
Thursday 9 November 1972
Thursday 10 November 1972
Saturday 11 November 1972
Tuesday 14 November 1972
Max Rudolf
The Barber of Bagdad, Overture CORNELIUS
Symphony No. 57 HAYDN
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 16 November 1972
Friday 17 November 1972
Saturday 18 November 1972
Lorin Maazel
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 WEBER
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Malcolm Frager, piano
Friday 24 November 1972
Saturday 25 November 1972
Monday 27 November 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Six Concerts en sextour, Suite RAMEAU
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 GINASTERA
La Valse RAVEL
Natalie Hinderas, piano
Friday 1 December 1972
Tuesday 5 December 1972
James DePreist
Alceste, Overture GLUCK
Symphony No. 19 MOZART
Symphony No. 1, ‘The Bells of Zlonice’ DVORAK
Thursday 7 December 1972
Friday 8 December 1972
Saturday 9 December 1972
Tuesday 12 December 1972
Daniel Barenboim
Symphony No. 86 HAYDN
The Firebird, Suite (1911) STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 14 December 1972
Friday 15 December 1972
Saturday 16 December 1972
Tuesday 19 December 1972
Pierre Boulez
Cantata No. 48, ‘Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen’ BACH
A Sermon, A Narrative and a Prayer STRAVINSKY
Le Roi des étoiles STRAVINSKY
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Betty Allen, mezzo soprano John Stewart, tenor
Michael Wager, narrator Camerata Singers
Thursday 21 December 1972
Friday 22 December 1972
Saturday 23 December 1972
Tuesday 2 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Posthorn Serenade MOZART
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Kontra-Punkte No. 1 STOCKHAUSEN
The Tale of the Buffoon, Suite PROKOFIEV
Lorne Munro, cello Rafael Druian, violin
Nathan Stutch, cello Julius Baker, flute
Thursday 4 January 1973
Saturday 6 January 1973
Tuesday 9 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
André Watts, piano
Friday 5 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Une barque sur l’océan RAVEL
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
André Watts, piano
Thursday 11 January 1973
Friday 12 January 1973
Saturday 13 January 1973
Tuesday 16 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Theresienmesse HAYDN
The Song of the Nightingale STRAVINSKY
Reri Grist, soprano Anna Reynolds, mezzo soprano
Jerry Jennings, tenor Donald Gramm, bass baritone
Thursday 18 January 1973
Friday 19 January 1973
Saturday 20 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Suite in A minor for flute and orchestra TELEMANN
Ancient Voices of Children CRUMB
Ragtime for 11 instruments STRAVINSKY
Renard STRAVINSKY
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Julius Baker, flute Bruce Prince-Joseph, harpsichord
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo soprano David Ulin, boy soprano
Thursday 25 January 1973
Friday 26 January 1973
Tuesday 30 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Five Movements for Strings WEBERN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Saturday 27 January 1973
Pierre Boulez
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Horn Cocnerto No. 2 MOZART
Five Movements for Strings WEBERN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
John Cerminaro, French horn
Thursday 1 February 1973
Friday 2 February 1973
Pierre Boulez
Rosamunde, Overture, and two Ballets SCHUBERT
Rückert Lieder MAHLER
Variations for Orchestra WEBERN
Six Pieces for Orchestra WEBERN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegmund Nimsgern, baritone
Tuesday 6 February 1973
Pierre Boulez
Rosamunde, Overture, and two Ballets SCHUBERT
Variations for Orchestra WEBERN
Six Pieces for Orchestra WEBERN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 8 February 1973
Friday 9 February 1973
Saturday 10 February 1973
Tuesday 13 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’ NIELSEN
William Masselos, piano
Thursday 15 February 1973
Friday 16 February 1973
Saturday 17 February 1973
Tuesday 20 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Harmoniemesse HAYDN
Mass STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Judith Blegen, soprano Frederica von Stade, mezzo soprano
Kenneth Riegel, tenor Simon Estes, bass baritone
Thursday 22 February 1973
Friday 23 February 1973
Saturday 24 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 96 HAYDN
Symphony No. 3 ROY HARRIS
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Pinchas Zukerman, violin Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Tuesday 27 February 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 96 HAYDN
Symphony No. 3 ROY HARRIS
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Pinchas Zukerman, violin Lorne Munroe, cello
Thursday 1 March 1973
Friday 2 March 1973
Saturday 3 March 1973
Tuesday 6 March 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Peter Grimes, Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes BRITTEN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Isaac Stern, violin
Wednesday 7 March 1973
Tuesday 13 March 1973
Leonard Bernstein
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Peter Grimes, Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
André Watts, piano
Thursday 15 March 1973
Saturday 17 March 1973
Pierre Boulez
Julius Caesar, Overture SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 49, ‘La Passione’ HAYDN
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra BERIO
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Bruno Canino, piano Antonio Ballista, piano
Thursday 22 March 1973
Friday 23 March 1973
Saturday 24 March 1973
Tuesday 27 March 1973
Pierre Boulez
Serenade No. 2 BRAHMS
Variations for Orchestra SCHOENBERG
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Thursday 29 March 1973
Friday 30 March 1973
Saturday 31 March 1973
Tuesday 3 April 1973
Pierre Boulez
L’incontro improvviso (concert performance) HAYDN
Instrument
Henry Butler, narrator, Maralin Niska soprano
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Barbara Shuttleworth, soprano
George Shirley, tenor Andrea Velis, tenor
Spiro Malas, bass Saverio Barbieri, bass-baritone
Terrence Hawkins, vocalist David Cale Johnson, vocalist
Bruce Prince-Joseph, harpsichord
Thursday 5 April 1973
Friday 6 April 1973
Tuesday 10 April 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Scherzo â la russe STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto HINDEMITH
Polymorphia PENDERECKI
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Rafael Druian, violin
Thursday 12 April 1973
Friday 13 April 1973
Saturday 14 April 1973
Tuesday 17 April 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Sinfonia concertante HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, symphonic fragments DEBUSSY
Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2 ROUSSEL
Martha Argerich, piano Rafael Druian, violin
Lorne Munroe, cello Harold Gomberg, oboe
Manuel Zegler, bassoon
Thursday 19 April 1973
Saturday 21 April 1973
Tuesday 24 April 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Symphony No. 75 HAYDN
Cor Anglais Concerto SKROWACZEWSKI
An Alpine Symphony RICHARD STRAUSS
Thomas Stacy, cor anglais
Thursday 26 April 1973
Friday 27 April 1973
Saturday 28 April 1973
Tuesday 1 May 1973
Aldo Ceccato
Symphony in E flat major STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto No. 1 PAGANINI
Rapsodie Espagnole RAVEL
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Thursday 3 May 1973
Friday 4 May 1973
Saturday 5 May 1973
Tuesday 8 May 1973
Rafael Kubelik
Šárka from Ma Vlast SMETANA
Capriccio for Left Hand Piano and Orchestra JANACEK
Piano Concerto No. 1 MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Firkusny, piano Paige Brook, flute
John Ware, trumpet Carmine Fornarotto, trumpet
Thursday 10 May 1973
Friday 11 May 1973
Saturday 12 May 1973
Rafael Kubelik
Stabat Mater DVORAK
Judith Blegen, soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo soprano
Peter Schreier, tenor Paul Plishka, bass
The Camerata Singers
Friday, 26 June 2009
Contents
I have just amended the Wiener Philharmoniker post (see below). It now covers the period 1860 - 1898, ending with Richter's last season with the orchestra. Next post will cover the three seasons when Mahler was in charge
Sunday, 24 May 2009
London Philharmonic Society 1899 - 1907
Royal Philharmonic Society
1899
87th Season
Wednesday 8 March 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
La Belle Dame, orchestral ballad MACKENZIE
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Piano Solos (Schumann, Szendy)
Overture to Ali Baba CHERUBINI
Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano Leonora Jackson, violin
Wednesday 22 March 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Orchestral Ballade in A minor COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
‘Mi parca’, aria from Otello VERDI
Piano Solos (Liszt and Chopin)
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Basil Sapellnikoff, piano Ruth Lamb, soprano
Wednesday 19 April 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Sergei Rachmaninov*
Idyll for Orchestra LUARD SELBY
‘Lentement baisse le jour’ Recitative and Cavatina from Prince Igor BORODIN
Orchestral Fantasia RACHMANINOV*
Piano Solos (Rachmaninov)
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Christianne Andray, soprano Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Thursday 4 May 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Giuseppe Martucci*
Charles Villiers Stanford+
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage, Overture MENDELSSOHN
“Parto, ma tu ben mio” Recitative and Aria from La clemenza di Tito MOZART
Symphony in D minor MARTUCCI*
Concert Variations on an English Theme for Piano and Orchestra STANFORD+
Overture to Olimpia SPONTINI
Rosa Olitzka, soprano G.A. Clinton, clarinet
Leonard Borwick, piano
Thursday 18 May 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Overture to Horatius Cocles MEHUL
Ode, for Chorus and Orchestra PARRY
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAENS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Ella Pancera, piano Evangeline Florence, soprano
Florence Power, contralto William Green, tenor
Bantock Pierpoint, bass Leeds Festival Chorus
Thursday 1 June 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Much Ado about Nothing, Overture EDWARD GERMAN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
‘Il dolce suono’ aria from Lucia di Lammermoor DONIZETTI
‘Legende de la fille du Paria’ aria from Lakme DELIBES
Violin Solo (Joachim)
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Joseph Joachim, violin Emma Nevada, soprano
Thursday 15 June 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Richard Strauss*
Preludes Act 2 and 3 from Incidental Music to Manfred MACKENZIE
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS*
‘Glöcklein im Thale, cavatina from Euryanthe WEBER
‘Spiagge amate’ GLUCK
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Clementine de Vere, soprano Moriz Rosenthal, piano
Royal Philharmonic Society
1900
88th Season
Thursday 8 March 1900
Frederic Cowen
Dramatic Overture OTTO MANNS
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Final Duet from Act 3 of Die Walküre WAGNER
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Teresa Carreño, piano Esther Palliser, soprano
Andrew Black, baritone
Wednesday 21 March 1900
Frederic Cowen
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
“Durch die Wälder”, Scena and Aria from Der Freischütz WEBER
Jaga Naut (Kehama), Orchestral Scene BANTOCK
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Frederick Lamond, piano
Thursday 5 April 1900
Frederic Cowen
Symphony in D major (No. 23) ??? HAYDN
Adelaide, aria BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Preislied from Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Entrance of the Gods from The Rheingold WAGNER
Edward Lloyd, tenor Ladislas Gorski, violin
Thursday 10 May 1900
Frederic Cowen
Edward Elgar*
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Sea Pictures ELGAR*
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Clara Butt, mezzo soprano Ferruccio Busoni, piano
Thursday 24 May 1900
Frederic Cowen
Air and Variations from Divertimento No. 15 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Spirit Song HAYDN
Scenes from an Every-day Romance COLERIDGE TAYLOR
Harold in Italy BERLIOZ
Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano Ada Crossley, mezzo soprano
Thursday 14 June 1900
Frederic Cowen
Impressions from Shakespeare (Macbeth) W. HANDEL THORLEY
‘Nel rimirar’, aria from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Don Juan, piano solo LISZT
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
Mario Ancona, tenor Moriz Rosenthal, piano
Thursday 28 June 1900
Frederic Cowen
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK
‘Io t’amero’, aria from Il re pastore MOZART
Konzertstück in B flat major COWEN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Amy Sherwin, soprano Ignacy Paderewski, piano
Royal Philharmonic Society
1901
89th Season
Wednesday 27 February 1901
Frederic Cowen
Notturno-Serenade for Four Orchestras MOZART
‘The Soldier’s Tent’, orchestral song PARRY
Violin Concerto GRÄDENER
Macbeth, Overture SULLIVAN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
H. Plunket Greene, baritone Franz Ondricek, violin
Wednesday 13 March 1901
Frederic Cowen
Overture from Suite in C major BACH
‘Mad Bess’, song (arr. Stanford) PURCELL
Piano Concerto in E major SAUER
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
The Cossack, song MONIUSZKO
‘Die Trommel’ from Egmont BEETHOVEN
Siegfried’s Rhine Journey WAGNER
Marie Brema, soprano Emil Sauer, piano
Wednesday 27 March 1901
Frederic Cowen
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Greeting to the New Century, Symphonic Poem No. 4 WILLIAM WALLACE
‘Riuscito sono aldo’ from Matilde di Guira HUMMEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Charles Santley, baritone Ferruccio Busoni, piano
Thursday 9 May 1901
Frederic Cowen
Paradise and Peri STERNDALE BENNETT
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Ich wob dies Gewand’, aria from Odysseus BRUCH
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Basil Sapellnikoff, piano Ada Crossley, contralto
Lady Hallé, violin
Thursday 23 May 1901
Frederic Cowen
Prelude to Parsifal WAGNER
Summer Time, song cycle LANDON RONALD
Violin Concerto in D major PAGANINI
Symphony No. 6, ‘The Idyllic’ COWEN
Chaconne BACH
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Ben Davies, tenor Jan Kubelik, violin
Thursday 9 June 1901
Frederic Cowen
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Divinite du Styx’, aria from Alceste GLUCK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
‘Leise, leise’, aria from Der Freischütz WEBER
Piano Solos (Chopin)
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
Blanche Marchesi, soprano Teresa Carreño, piano
Thursday 23 June 1901
Frederic Cowen
Edward Elgar*
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
‘Pourquoi me plaindre’, aria from Il Seraglio MOZART
Sevilliana from Don Cesar de Buzan MASSENET
Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR*
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Leopold Godowsky, piano Lydia Nervil, soprano
Maud Powell, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1902
90th Season
Thursday 27 February 1902
Frederic Cowen
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘Einst träumste’ arietta from Der Freischütz WEBER
Tone Pictures No. 2 and 3 from Mother Carey WILLIAM BELL
Piano Concerto in F minor HENSELT
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Amy Sherwin, soprano Emil Sauer, piano
Thursday 13 March 1902
Frederic Cowen
Elegy, Waltz and Russian Theme from Serenade for Strings TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Je suis Titania’ aria from Mignon THOMAS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Violin Solos (Schumann and Paganini)
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Jennie Norelli, soprano Franz Ondricek, violin
Thursday 24 April 1902
Frederic Cowen
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
‘Chi vidi, chi parlo’, Recitative and Aria GLUCK
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano Giulia Ravogli, soprano
Hugo Becker, cello
Thursday 15 May 1902
Frederic Cowen
Selection from Les Petits Riens MOZART
‘Ave Maria’, aria from Das Feuerkreuz BRUCH
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
The Butterfly’s Ball, Overture COWEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marguerite MacIntyre, soprano Jan Kubelik, violin
Thursday 29 May 1902
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Four Songs from the Turkish Hills CLUTSAM
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
‘Summer Dawn’, Nocturne for Contralto and Orchestra HERBERT BEDFORD
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
‘E dunque Vero’ from Semiramide ROSSINI
Coronation March COWEN
Clara Butt, contralto Kennerley Rumford, tenor
Basil Sapellnikoff, piano
Thursday 12 June 1902
Frederic Cowen
Overture to The Mastersingers WAGNER
‘O zittere nicht’ from Die Zauberflöte MOZART
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Kaisermarsch WAGNER
Lieder (Wagner)
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
The Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Mary Munchhoff, soprano Harold Bauer, piano
Wednesday 2 July 1902
Frederic Cowen
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Five Poems for Baritone and orchestra PERCY PITT
Violin Concerto RANDEGGER
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
‘Summer Dawn’, Nocturne for Contralto and Orchestra HERBERT BEDFORD
The Cricket on the Hearth, Overture MacKENZIE
David Frangçon Davies, baritone Clara Butt, contralto
Royal Philharmonic Society
1903
91st Season
Thursday 26 February 1903
Frederic Cowen
Pelleas and Melisande, Overture GARNET WOLSELEY COX
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
‘Non mi dir’, aria from Don Giovanni MOZART
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Piano Solos (Scarlatti and Chopin)
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Raoul Pugno, piano
Thursday 12 March 1903
Frederic Cowen
Alexander MacKenzie*
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Violin Concerto D’ERLANGER
‘A vos Jeux’, aria from Hamlet THOMAS
Irish Rhapsody No. 1 STANFORD
Violin Solo (Saint-Saëns)
London Day by Day, Suite MACKENZIE
Fritz Kreisler, violin Lydia Nervil, soprano
Thursday 26 March 1903
Frederic Cowen
Youth, concert overture ARTHUR HERVEY
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
‘Aus der Tiefe des Grames’, aria from Achilleus BRUCH
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAUER
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Gordon Tanner, violin Rosa Olitzka, soprano
Emil Sauer, piano
Thursday 14 May 1903
Frederic Cowen
Frederic Cliffe*
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 MacDOWELL
The Triumph of Alcestis FREDERIC CLIFFE*
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Edward MacDowell, piano Clara Butt, contralto
Arnold Földosy, cello
Thursday 28 May 1903
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
The Ballad of Thyra Lee, dramatic scene REGINALD SOMERVILLE
Symphonie Espagnole LALO
Piano Concerto in D minor RUBINSTEIN
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Frangcon-Davies, bass Max Wolfsthal, violin
Josef Hofmann, piano
Thursday 11 June 1903
Frederic Cowen
Alexander Glazunov*
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
‘Caro nome’, aria from Rigoletto VERDI
Symphony No. 7 GLAZUNOV*
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
From the Middle Ages, Suite GLAZUNOV*
Jeannie Norelli, soprano Adela Verne, piano
Thursday 25 June 1903
Frederic Cowen
Prelude and Finale from The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
‘Die Wallfahrt nach Kerlaar’, vocal scena STANFORD
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
A Fantasy of Life and Love COWEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Blanche Marchesi, soprano Jan Kubelik, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1904
92nd Season
Wednesday 2 March 1904
Frederic Cowen
Symphonic Prelude to Byron’s Manfred ADAM VON AHNN CARSE
‘Depuis le jour’, aria from Louise CHARPENTIER
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Elizabeth Parkins, soprano Dorothy Maggs, piano
Marie Hall, violin
Thursday 24 March 1904
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Lied Maritime D’INDY
‘Tutta raccolta’, aria from Scipio HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Double Bass Concerto in F sharp minor BOTTESINI
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
Maria Gay, soprano Leonard Borwick, piano
Claude Hobday, double bass
Thursday 28 April 1904
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Brünnhilde’s Aria from Sigurd REYER
Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra FRANCO DA VENEZIA
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Prelude to The Mastersingers BRAHMS
Minnie Tracey, soprano Ernesto Console, piano
Jean Gérardy, cello
Thursday 18 May 1904
Frederic Cowen
In the South (Alassio) ELGAR
‘Der Doppelganger’, song SCHUBERT
Allerseelen, song RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 GLAZUNOV
Gregory Hast, tenor Fritz Kreisler, violin
Thursday 2 June 1904
Frederic Cowen
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Clarinet Concerto STANFORD
Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Muriel Foster, contralto Charles Draper, clarinet
Annie de Jong, violin
Thursday 16 June 1904
Frederic Cowen
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Indian Rhapsody COWEN
Piano Solos (Pugno and Liszt)
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Raoul Pugno, piano
Thursday 30 June 1904
Frederic Cowen
Edward German*
Rhapsody on March Themes GERMAN*
Symphonie Espagnole LALO
Scherzo from Octet in E flat major MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Jan Kubelik, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1905
93rd Season
Wednesday 15 March 1905
Frederic Cowen
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Egyptian’ SAINT-SAËNS
Four Wesendonk Songs (orch. Mottl) WAGNER
Symphony No. 14 in D major HAYDN
Totentanz LISZT
Canadian Rhapsody MACKENZIE
Ferruccio Busoni, piano Amy Crossley, contralto
Wednesday 29 March 1905
Frederic Cowen
In the East, Tone Poem ARTHUR HERVEY
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
‘Non temer’, concert aria MOZART
Symphony No. 2, ‘Antar’ RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Cello Solo (Bach)
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Pablo Casals, cello Lillie Wormald, soprano
Thursday 13 April 1905
Frederic Cowen
Overture, In the South ELGAR
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Ombre legere’, recitative and aria from Dinorah MEYERBEER
Scherzo in G minor MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK
Bronislaw Huberman, violin Antonia Dolores, soprano
Thursday 11 May 1905
Frederic Cowen
Welsh Rhapsody GERMAN
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
‘O! Beau Pays de la Touraine’, aria from Les Huguenots MEYERBEER
Africa, Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Raoul Pugno, piano Lydia Nervil, soprano
Thursday 25 May 1905
Frederic Cowen
The Naiades, Overture STERNDALE BENNETT
Violin Concerto STANFORD
‘Dove Sono’, aria from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Havanaise for Piano and Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS
Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Achille Rivarde, violin Emma Albani, soprano
Thursday 8 June 1905
Frederic Cowen
Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Preislied from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Cello Solo (Bach)
Symphony No. 2 in A major PAUL JUON
Piano Solos (Scarlatti and Rubinstein)
Namensfeier Overture BEETHOVEN
Fanny Davies, piano John Coates, tenor
Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 22 June 1905
Frederic Cowen
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
‘Ave Maria, Königin’, aria from Das Feuerkreuz BRUCH
Symphony No. 5 COWEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Bohemian Dances Nos 3 and 5 ALBERTO RANDEGGER JNR
Maude Perceval Allen, soprano Franz von Vecsey, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1906
94th Season
Wednesday 27 February 1906
Frederic Cowen
Felix von Weingartner*
Macbeth, Overture SULLIVAN
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Symphony No. 1 WEINGARTNER*
Piano Solos (Chopin)
The Hussite, Overture DVOŘÁK
Teresa Carreño, piano Frederic Austin, baritone
Thursday 15 March 1906
Frederic Cowen
Irish Rhapsody No. 2 STANFORD
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Final Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Piano Solos (Chopin and Sauer)
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Emil Sauer, piano Marie Brema, soprano
Thursday 5 April 1906
Frederic Cowen
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Second Set of Four Old English Dances COWEN
Violin Solo (Bach)
Tasso LISZT
Mischa Elman, violin
Wednesday 2 May 1906
Frederic Cowen
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
‘Un aura Amorosa’ aria from Cosi fan tutte MOZART
Piano Concerto in E minor DOHNANYI
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Vocal solos (Brahms and Massenet)
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Franz Naval, tenor Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano
Thursday 17 May 1906
Frederic Cowen
Spring, Overture GOETZ
Motet for Double Chorus ‘Sing Ye to the Lord’ BACH
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Maude Perceval Allen, soprano Frederica Richardson, contralto
Webstar Millar, tenor Fowler Burton, bass
Richard Buhlig, piano Bradford Festival Choral Society
Thursday 31 May 1906
Frederic Cowen
Morceaux Symphonique from Rédemption FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 1 YORK BOWEN
The Mystic Trumpeter, Vocal Scene HOLST
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
York Bowen, piano Cicely Gleeson-White, soprano
Marie Hall, violin
Thursday 14 June 1906
Frederic Cowen
Joseph Holbrooke*
Orchestral Variations on an African Theme COLERIDGE TAYLOR
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Annabel Lee, Ballad HOLBROOKE*
Piano Solos (Mozart and Chopin)
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Raoul Pugno, piano Kennerley Rumford, baritone
Royal Philharmonic Society
1907
95th Season
Wednesday 6 February 1907
Edouard Colonne
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Air des Adieux from Jeanne d’Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Piano Solos (Beethoven, Schubert)
Benvenuto Cellini, overture BERLIOZ
Teresa Carreño, piano Amy Castles, soprano
Thursday 28 February 1907
Frederic Cowen
Irish Rhapsody No. 1 STANFORD
Two Sings (orch. Stanford) PURCELL
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 1 ENESCU
Three Lieder WEINGARTNER
Piano Solos (Mendelssohn and Liszt)
Les Abencerges, overture CHERUBINI
Marie Brema, soprano Vladimir de Pachmann, piano
Wednesday 13 March 1907
Frederic Cowen
Arthur Hervey*
Prelude to an unpublished opera, ‘Ione’ ARTHUR HERVEY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Aria from Hippolyte et Aricie RAMEAU
Violin Concerto No. 1 SINDING
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Percy Grainger, piano Blanche Marchesi, soprano
Johannes Wolff, violin
Wednesday 17 April 1907
Frederic Cowen
The Tempest, overture SULLIVAN
Violin Concerto No. 2 NACHEZ
‘Mon Coeur s’ouvre’, aria from Samson et Dalila SAINT-SAENS
Coronach, symphonic elegy McEWEN
Songs (Hubert Bath)
Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Tivadar Nachez, violin H. Kennerley Rumford, baritone
Thursday 2 May 1907
Frederic Cowen
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Solos (Chopin and Schubert)
Carnival Overture DVORAK
Sophie Menter, piano
Thursday 16 May 1907
Frederic Cowen
Cleopatra, symphonic poem CHADWICK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Preislied from Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Solos (Tchaikovsky and Paganini)
Cockaigne, overture ELGAR
Mischa Elman, violin Felix Senius, tenor
Thursday 30 May 1907
Frederic Cowen
Butterfly’s Ball, overture COWEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Spring Song from Die Walküre WAGNER
Mariage des Roses FRANCK
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Johanne Stockmarr, piano Georges Mauguière, tenor
Lady Halle, violin
1899
87th Season
Wednesday 8 March 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
La Belle Dame, orchestral ballad MACKENZIE
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Piano Solos (Schumann, Szendy)
Overture to Ali Baba CHERUBINI
Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano Leonora Jackson, violin
Wednesday 22 March 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Orchestral Ballade in A minor COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
‘Mi parca’, aria from Otello VERDI
Piano Solos (Liszt and Chopin)
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Basil Sapellnikoff, piano Ruth Lamb, soprano
Wednesday 19 April 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Sergei Rachmaninov*
Idyll for Orchestra LUARD SELBY
‘Lentement baisse le jour’ Recitative and Cavatina from Prince Igor BORODIN
Orchestral Fantasia RACHMANINOV*
Piano Solos (Rachmaninov)
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Christianne Andray, soprano Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Thursday 4 May 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Giuseppe Martucci*
Charles Villiers Stanford+
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage, Overture MENDELSSOHN
“Parto, ma tu ben mio” Recitative and Aria from La clemenza di Tito MOZART
Symphony in D minor MARTUCCI*
Concert Variations on an English Theme for Piano and Orchestra STANFORD+
Overture to Olimpia SPONTINI
Rosa Olitzka, soprano G.A. Clinton, clarinet
Leonard Borwick, piano
Thursday 18 May 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Overture to Horatius Cocles MEHUL
Ode, for Chorus and Orchestra PARRY
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAENS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Ella Pancera, piano Evangeline Florence, soprano
Florence Power, contralto William Green, tenor
Bantock Pierpoint, bass Leeds Festival Chorus
Thursday 1 June 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Much Ado about Nothing, Overture EDWARD GERMAN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
‘Il dolce suono’ aria from Lucia di Lammermoor DONIZETTI
‘Legende de la fille du Paria’ aria from Lakme DELIBES
Violin Solo (Joachim)
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Joseph Joachim, violin Emma Nevada, soprano
Thursday 15 June 1899
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Richard Strauss*
Preludes Act 2 and 3 from Incidental Music to Manfred MACKENZIE
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS*
‘Glöcklein im Thale, cavatina from Euryanthe WEBER
‘Spiagge amate’ GLUCK
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Clementine de Vere, soprano Moriz Rosenthal, piano
Royal Philharmonic Society
1900
88th Season
Thursday 8 March 1900
Frederic Cowen
Dramatic Overture OTTO MANNS
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Final Duet from Act 3 of Die Walküre WAGNER
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Teresa Carreño, piano Esther Palliser, soprano
Andrew Black, baritone
Wednesday 21 March 1900
Frederic Cowen
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
“Durch die Wälder”, Scena and Aria from Der Freischütz WEBER
Jaga Naut (Kehama), Orchestral Scene BANTOCK
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Frederick Lamond, piano
Thursday 5 April 1900
Frederic Cowen
Symphony in D major (No. 23) ??? HAYDN
Adelaide, aria BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Preislied from Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Entrance of the Gods from The Rheingold WAGNER
Edward Lloyd, tenor Ladislas Gorski, violin
Thursday 10 May 1900
Frederic Cowen
Edward Elgar*
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Sea Pictures ELGAR*
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Clara Butt, mezzo soprano Ferruccio Busoni, piano
Thursday 24 May 1900
Frederic Cowen
Air and Variations from Divertimento No. 15 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Spirit Song HAYDN
Scenes from an Every-day Romance COLERIDGE TAYLOR
Harold in Italy BERLIOZ
Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano Ada Crossley, mezzo soprano
Thursday 14 June 1900
Frederic Cowen
Impressions from Shakespeare (Macbeth) W. HANDEL THORLEY
‘Nel rimirar’, aria from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Don Juan, piano solo LISZT
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
Mario Ancona, tenor Moriz Rosenthal, piano
Thursday 28 June 1900
Frederic Cowen
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK
‘Io t’amero’, aria from Il re pastore MOZART
Konzertstück in B flat major COWEN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Amy Sherwin, soprano Ignacy Paderewski, piano
Royal Philharmonic Society
1901
89th Season
Wednesday 27 February 1901
Frederic Cowen
Notturno-Serenade for Four Orchestras MOZART
‘The Soldier’s Tent’, orchestral song PARRY
Violin Concerto GRÄDENER
Macbeth, Overture SULLIVAN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
H. Plunket Greene, baritone Franz Ondricek, violin
Wednesday 13 March 1901
Frederic Cowen
Overture from Suite in C major BACH
‘Mad Bess’, song (arr. Stanford) PURCELL
Piano Concerto in E major SAUER
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
The Cossack, song MONIUSZKO
‘Die Trommel’ from Egmont BEETHOVEN
Siegfried’s Rhine Journey WAGNER
Marie Brema, soprano Emil Sauer, piano
Wednesday 27 March 1901
Frederic Cowen
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Greeting to the New Century, Symphonic Poem No. 4 WILLIAM WALLACE
‘Riuscito sono aldo’ from Matilde di Guira HUMMEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Charles Santley, baritone Ferruccio Busoni, piano
Thursday 9 May 1901
Frederic Cowen
Paradise and Peri STERNDALE BENNETT
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Ich wob dies Gewand’, aria from Odysseus BRUCH
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Basil Sapellnikoff, piano Ada Crossley, contralto
Lady Hallé, violin
Thursday 23 May 1901
Frederic Cowen
Prelude to Parsifal WAGNER
Summer Time, song cycle LANDON RONALD
Violin Concerto in D major PAGANINI
Symphony No. 6, ‘The Idyllic’ COWEN
Chaconne BACH
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Ben Davies, tenor Jan Kubelik, violin
Thursday 9 June 1901
Frederic Cowen
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Divinite du Styx’, aria from Alceste GLUCK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
‘Leise, leise’, aria from Der Freischütz WEBER
Piano Solos (Chopin)
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
Blanche Marchesi, soprano Teresa Carreño, piano
Thursday 23 June 1901
Frederic Cowen
Edward Elgar*
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
‘Pourquoi me plaindre’, aria from Il Seraglio MOZART
Sevilliana from Don Cesar de Buzan MASSENET
Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR*
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Leopold Godowsky, piano Lydia Nervil, soprano
Maud Powell, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1902
90th Season
Thursday 27 February 1902
Frederic Cowen
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘Einst träumste’ arietta from Der Freischütz WEBER
Tone Pictures No. 2 and 3 from Mother Carey WILLIAM BELL
Piano Concerto in F minor HENSELT
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Amy Sherwin, soprano Emil Sauer, piano
Thursday 13 March 1902
Frederic Cowen
Elegy, Waltz and Russian Theme from Serenade for Strings TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Je suis Titania’ aria from Mignon THOMAS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Violin Solos (Schumann and Paganini)
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Jennie Norelli, soprano Franz Ondricek, violin
Thursday 24 April 1902
Frederic Cowen
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
‘Chi vidi, chi parlo’, Recitative and Aria GLUCK
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano Giulia Ravogli, soprano
Hugo Becker, cello
Thursday 15 May 1902
Frederic Cowen
Selection from Les Petits Riens MOZART
‘Ave Maria’, aria from Das Feuerkreuz BRUCH
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
The Butterfly’s Ball, Overture COWEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marguerite MacIntyre, soprano Jan Kubelik, violin
Thursday 29 May 1902
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Four Songs from the Turkish Hills CLUTSAM
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
‘Summer Dawn’, Nocturne for Contralto and Orchestra HERBERT BEDFORD
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
‘E dunque Vero’ from Semiramide ROSSINI
Coronation March COWEN
Clara Butt, contralto Kennerley Rumford, tenor
Basil Sapellnikoff, piano
Thursday 12 June 1902
Frederic Cowen
Overture to The Mastersingers WAGNER
‘O zittere nicht’ from Die Zauberflöte MOZART
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Kaisermarsch WAGNER
Lieder (Wagner)
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
The Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Mary Munchhoff, soprano Harold Bauer, piano
Wednesday 2 July 1902
Frederic Cowen
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Five Poems for Baritone and orchestra PERCY PITT
Violin Concerto RANDEGGER
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
‘Summer Dawn’, Nocturne for Contralto and Orchestra HERBERT BEDFORD
The Cricket on the Hearth, Overture MacKENZIE
David Frangçon Davies, baritone Clara Butt, contralto
Royal Philharmonic Society
1903
91st Season
Thursday 26 February 1903
Frederic Cowen
Pelleas and Melisande, Overture GARNET WOLSELEY COX
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
‘Non mi dir’, aria from Don Giovanni MOZART
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Piano Solos (Scarlatti and Chopin)
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Raoul Pugno, piano
Thursday 12 March 1903
Frederic Cowen
Alexander MacKenzie*
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Violin Concerto D’ERLANGER
‘A vos Jeux’, aria from Hamlet THOMAS
Irish Rhapsody No. 1 STANFORD
Violin Solo (Saint-Saëns)
London Day by Day, Suite MACKENZIE
Fritz Kreisler, violin Lydia Nervil, soprano
Thursday 26 March 1903
Frederic Cowen
Youth, concert overture ARTHUR HERVEY
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
‘Aus der Tiefe des Grames’, aria from Achilleus BRUCH
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAUER
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Gordon Tanner, violin Rosa Olitzka, soprano
Emil Sauer, piano
Thursday 14 May 1903
Frederic Cowen
Frederic Cliffe*
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 MacDOWELL
The Triumph of Alcestis FREDERIC CLIFFE*
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Edward MacDowell, piano Clara Butt, contralto
Arnold Földosy, cello
Thursday 28 May 1903
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
The Ballad of Thyra Lee, dramatic scene REGINALD SOMERVILLE
Symphonie Espagnole LALO
Piano Concerto in D minor RUBINSTEIN
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Frangcon-Davies, bass Max Wolfsthal, violin
Josef Hofmann, piano
Thursday 11 June 1903
Frederic Cowen
Alexander Glazunov*
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
‘Caro nome’, aria from Rigoletto VERDI
Symphony No. 7 GLAZUNOV*
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
From the Middle Ages, Suite GLAZUNOV*
Jeannie Norelli, soprano Adela Verne, piano
Thursday 25 June 1903
Frederic Cowen
Prelude and Finale from The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
‘Die Wallfahrt nach Kerlaar’, vocal scena STANFORD
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
A Fantasy of Life and Love COWEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Blanche Marchesi, soprano Jan Kubelik, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1904
92nd Season
Wednesday 2 March 1904
Frederic Cowen
Symphonic Prelude to Byron’s Manfred ADAM VON AHNN CARSE
‘Depuis le jour’, aria from Louise CHARPENTIER
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Elizabeth Parkins, soprano Dorothy Maggs, piano
Marie Hall, violin
Thursday 24 March 1904
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Lied Maritime D’INDY
‘Tutta raccolta’, aria from Scipio HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Double Bass Concerto in F sharp minor BOTTESINI
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
Maria Gay, soprano Leonard Borwick, piano
Claude Hobday, double bass
Thursday 28 April 1904
Frederic Cowen
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Brünnhilde’s Aria from Sigurd REYER
Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra FRANCO DA VENEZIA
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Prelude to The Mastersingers BRAHMS
Minnie Tracey, soprano Ernesto Console, piano
Jean Gérardy, cello
Thursday 18 May 1904
Frederic Cowen
In the South (Alassio) ELGAR
‘Der Doppelganger’, song SCHUBERT
Allerseelen, song RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 GLAZUNOV
Gregory Hast, tenor Fritz Kreisler, violin
Thursday 2 June 1904
Frederic Cowen
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Clarinet Concerto STANFORD
Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Muriel Foster, contralto Charles Draper, clarinet
Annie de Jong, violin
Thursday 16 June 1904
Frederic Cowen
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Indian Rhapsody COWEN
Piano Solos (Pugno and Liszt)
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Raoul Pugno, piano
Thursday 30 June 1904
Frederic Cowen
Edward German*
Rhapsody on March Themes GERMAN*
Symphonie Espagnole LALO
Scherzo from Octet in E flat major MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Jan Kubelik, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1905
93rd Season
Wednesday 15 March 1905
Frederic Cowen
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Egyptian’ SAINT-SAËNS
Four Wesendonk Songs (orch. Mottl) WAGNER
Symphony No. 14 in D major HAYDN
Totentanz LISZT
Canadian Rhapsody MACKENZIE
Ferruccio Busoni, piano Amy Crossley, contralto
Wednesday 29 March 1905
Frederic Cowen
In the East, Tone Poem ARTHUR HERVEY
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
‘Non temer’, concert aria MOZART
Symphony No. 2, ‘Antar’ RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Cello Solo (Bach)
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Pablo Casals, cello Lillie Wormald, soprano
Thursday 13 April 1905
Frederic Cowen
Overture, In the South ELGAR
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Ombre legere’, recitative and aria from Dinorah MEYERBEER
Scherzo in G minor MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK
Bronislaw Huberman, violin Antonia Dolores, soprano
Thursday 11 May 1905
Frederic Cowen
Welsh Rhapsody GERMAN
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
‘O! Beau Pays de la Touraine’, aria from Les Huguenots MEYERBEER
Africa, Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Raoul Pugno, piano Lydia Nervil, soprano
Thursday 25 May 1905
Frederic Cowen
The Naiades, Overture STERNDALE BENNETT
Violin Concerto STANFORD
‘Dove Sono’, aria from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Havanaise for Piano and Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS
Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Achille Rivarde, violin Emma Albani, soprano
Thursday 8 June 1905
Frederic Cowen
Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Preislied from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Cello Solo (Bach)
Symphony No. 2 in A major PAUL JUON
Piano Solos (Scarlatti and Rubinstein)
Namensfeier Overture BEETHOVEN
Fanny Davies, piano John Coates, tenor
Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 22 June 1905
Frederic Cowen
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
‘Ave Maria, Königin’, aria from Das Feuerkreuz BRUCH
Symphony No. 5 COWEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Bohemian Dances Nos 3 and 5 ALBERTO RANDEGGER JNR
Maude Perceval Allen, soprano Franz von Vecsey, violin
Royal Philharmonic Society
1906
94th Season
Wednesday 27 February 1906
Frederic Cowen
Felix von Weingartner*
Macbeth, Overture SULLIVAN
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Symphony No. 1 WEINGARTNER*
Piano Solos (Chopin)
The Hussite, Overture DVOŘÁK
Teresa Carreño, piano Frederic Austin, baritone
Thursday 15 March 1906
Frederic Cowen
Irish Rhapsody No. 2 STANFORD
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Final Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Piano Solos (Chopin and Sauer)
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Emil Sauer, piano Marie Brema, soprano
Thursday 5 April 1906
Frederic Cowen
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Second Set of Four Old English Dances COWEN
Violin Solo (Bach)
Tasso LISZT
Mischa Elman, violin
Wednesday 2 May 1906
Frederic Cowen
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
‘Un aura Amorosa’ aria from Cosi fan tutte MOZART
Piano Concerto in E minor DOHNANYI
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Vocal solos (Brahms and Massenet)
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Franz Naval, tenor Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano
Thursday 17 May 1906
Frederic Cowen
Spring, Overture GOETZ
Motet for Double Chorus ‘Sing Ye to the Lord’ BACH
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Maude Perceval Allen, soprano Frederica Richardson, contralto
Webstar Millar, tenor Fowler Burton, bass
Richard Buhlig, piano Bradford Festival Choral Society
Thursday 31 May 1906
Frederic Cowen
Morceaux Symphonique from Rédemption FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 1 YORK BOWEN
The Mystic Trumpeter, Vocal Scene HOLST
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
York Bowen, piano Cicely Gleeson-White, soprano
Marie Hall, violin
Thursday 14 June 1906
Frederic Cowen
Joseph Holbrooke*
Orchestral Variations on an African Theme COLERIDGE TAYLOR
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Annabel Lee, Ballad HOLBROOKE*
Piano Solos (Mozart and Chopin)
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Raoul Pugno, piano Kennerley Rumford, baritone
Royal Philharmonic Society
1907
95th Season
Wednesday 6 February 1907
Edouard Colonne
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Air des Adieux from Jeanne d’Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Piano Solos (Beethoven, Schubert)
Benvenuto Cellini, overture BERLIOZ
Teresa Carreño, piano Amy Castles, soprano
Thursday 28 February 1907
Frederic Cowen
Irish Rhapsody No. 1 STANFORD
Two Sings (orch. Stanford) PURCELL
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 1 ENESCU
Three Lieder WEINGARTNER
Piano Solos (Mendelssohn and Liszt)
Les Abencerges, overture CHERUBINI
Marie Brema, soprano Vladimir de Pachmann, piano
Wednesday 13 March 1907
Frederic Cowen
Arthur Hervey*
Prelude to an unpublished opera, ‘Ione’ ARTHUR HERVEY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Aria from Hippolyte et Aricie RAMEAU
Violin Concerto No. 1 SINDING
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Percy Grainger, piano Blanche Marchesi, soprano
Johannes Wolff, violin
Wednesday 17 April 1907
Frederic Cowen
The Tempest, overture SULLIVAN
Violin Concerto No. 2 NACHEZ
‘Mon Coeur s’ouvre’, aria from Samson et Dalila SAINT-SAENS
Coronach, symphonic elegy McEWEN
Songs (Hubert Bath)
Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Tivadar Nachez, violin H. Kennerley Rumford, baritone
Thursday 2 May 1907
Frederic Cowen
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Solos (Chopin and Schubert)
Carnival Overture DVORAK
Sophie Menter, piano
Thursday 16 May 1907
Frederic Cowen
Cleopatra, symphonic poem CHADWICK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Preislied from Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Solos (Tchaikovsky and Paganini)
Cockaigne, overture ELGAR
Mischa Elman, violin Felix Senius, tenor
Thursday 30 May 1907
Frederic Cowen
Butterfly’s Ball, overture COWEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Spring Song from Die Walküre WAGNER
Mariage des Roses FRANCK
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Johanne Stockmarr, piano Georges Mauguière, tenor
Lady Halle, violin
Thursday, 21 May 2009
London Philharmonic Orchestra 1960 - 1973
This lists the concerts given by the orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall. From June 1965 until February 1966, the Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment. During this time the orchestra gave concerts in the Fairfield Hall and the Royal Albert Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1960 – 1961 season
29th Season
Sunday 25 September 1960
Jascha Horenstein
The Wasps, Overture VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in C major, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 29 September 1960
Sir Adrian Boult
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Isaac Stern, violin
Tuesday 4 October 1960
Jascha Horenstein
Much Ado About Nothing, Overture KORNGOLD
Meditations for Orchestra VON EINEM
Violin Concerto BERG
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli TIPPETT
Chamber Symphony SCHOENBERG
Isaac Stern, violin
Thursday 13 October 1960
Hugo Rignold
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Fantasia para un gentilhombre RODRIGO
Love the Magician, Ballet Suite FALLA
Guitar Solos (Torroba, Turina, Albeniz)
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Andrés Segovia, guitar Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano
Sunday 23 October 1960
Hugo Rignold
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Moura Lympany, piano
Thursday 3 November 1960
John Pritchard
Symphony in C major BIZET
La vida breve, extracts FALLA
Operatic Arias (Rossini, Bizet)
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Tuesday 8 November 1960
John Pritchard
From the House of the Dead, Suite JANACEK
Les Offrandes Oubliées MESSIAEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 3 FRICKER
Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
Thursday 17 November 1960
Jaroslav Krombholc
Wallenstein’s Camp SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday 27 November 1960
Jaroslav Krombholc
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Salvatore Accardo, violin
Thursday 8 December 1960
Sir Adrian Boult
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7, ‘Sinfonia Antarctica’ VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Gioconda de Vito, violin Iris Kells, soprano
Tuesday 13 December 1960
Jaroslav Krombholc
The Mystery of the Nativity FRANK MARTIN
April Cantelo, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Alfred Hallett, tenor
Duncan Robertson, tenor John Carol Case, baritone
Denis Dowling, baritone Owen Brannigan, bass
Marion Nowakowski, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 17 January 1961
Sir Adrian Boult
Dance Concerto (Phalaphala) RAINIER
Violin Concerto ELGAR
A Colour Symphony BLISS
Alfredo Campoli, violin
Thursday 26 January 1961
Kirill Kondrashin
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9 SHOSTAKOVICH
Geza Anda, piano
Sunday 5 February 1961
Kirill Kondrashin
Abu Hassan, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Sergio Varella-Cid, piano
Thursday 16 February 1961
Colin Davis
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto KHACHATURIAN
The Planets HOLST
Alberto Lysy, violin Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 21 February 1961
Colin Davis
Theme and Variations, Op. 43b SCHOENBERG
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony in C major STRAVINSKY
David Oistrakh, violin
Thursday 2 March 1961
Sir Adrian Boult
Mass in B minor BACH
Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Richard Standen, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 12 March 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
A London Overture IRELAND
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Beryl Kimber, violin
Thursday 23 March 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Semiramide, Overture ROSSINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 WALTON
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Tuesday 28 March 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Fantasia Concertante for Violin and String Orchestra SEIBER
King David, symphonic psalm HONEGGER
Max Rostal, violin Mary Wells, soprano
Pamela Bowden, contralto Alexander Young, soprano
Ralph Downes, bass Richard Attenborough, narrator
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 6 April 1961
Pierre Monteux
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Lili Kraus, piano
Tuesday 2 May 1961
Pierre Monteux
Protée, Suite MILHAUD
Symphony No. 3 PIJPER
Jeux DEBUSSY
Mathis der Maler, Symphony HINDEMITH
Thursday 11 May 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Tapiola SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Totentanz LISZT
La mer DEBUSSY
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Sunday 21 May 1961
Harry Newstone
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Colin Horsley, piano
Tuesday 30 May 1961
John Pritchard
Fairy Drama for Speaker, Voices and Orchestra SKALKOTTAS
Guitar Concerto CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Guitar Solos
Parade SATIE
Margaret Leighton, speaker Arda Mandikian, soprano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Thursday 1 June 1961
Charles Münch
Elegy in memory of Serge Koussevitzky HANSON
Piano Concerto in D minor BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No, 5 BACH
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Rosalyn Tureck, keyboard Henry Daytner, flute
David Sandeman, flute
Sunday 11 June 1961
John Pritchard
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Thursday 15 June 1961
Bruno Maderna
Symphony No. 29 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Circus Polka STRAVINSKY
Tango STRAVINSKY
Scherzo a la Russe STRAVINSKY
Philippe Entremont, piano
Thursday 29 June 1961
Massimo Freccia
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Nathan Milstein, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1961 – 1962 season
30th Season
Thursday 28 September 1961
Alexander Gibson
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Tuesday 3 October 1961
Sir Eugene Goossens
Scapino, Overture WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 2 REIZENSTEIN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Franz Reizenstein, piano
Sunday 8 October 1961
Josef Krips
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Gina Bachauer, piano
Thursday 12 October 1961
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 26 October 1961
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Elegy BEETHOVEN
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Heather Harper, soprano Thomas Hemsley, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 5 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Thursday 9 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Clifford Curzon, piano
Monday 13 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Petite Symphonie Concertante for Harp, Harpsichord, Piano and Strings MARTIN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Osian Ellis, harp George Malcolm, harpsichord
Colin Horsley, piano Keith Harvey, cello
John Coulting, viola
Thursday 23 November 1961
John Pritchard
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 NIELSEN
Isaac Stern, violin Leonard Rose, cello
Tuesday 5 December 1961
Ferenc Fricsay
Two Portraits BARTOK
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Geza Anda, piano
Thursday 7 December 1961
Ferenc Fricsay
Symphony KODALY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Thursday 18 January 1962
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Gloria in Excelsis Deo WALTON
Viola Concerto WALTON
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
John Coulling, viola Owen Brannigan, bass
Marjorie Thomas, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 30 January 1962
Sir Adrian Boult
The Perfect Fool, Ballet Music HOLST
Music for Strings BLISS
The Garden of Fand BAX
Sancta Civitas VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
John Carol Case, baritone Goldsmiths Choral Union
Thursday 1 February 1962
John Pritchard
Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday 4 February 1962
Charles Groves
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello VERDI
Pleurez, pleurez mes yeux from Le Cid MASSENET
Exsultate jubilate MOZART
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra BRITTEN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Joan Hammond, soprano
Thursday 15 February 1962
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Brigg Fair DELIUS
The Firebird, Ballet Suite STRAVINSKY
Abbey Simon, piano
Thursday 20 February 1962
John Pritchard
Sea Drift DELIUS
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Vlado Perlemuter, piano Donald Bell, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 17 April 1962
Paul Hindemith
Mass in E minor BRUCKNER
An American Requiem (When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom’d) HINDEMITH
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Thomas Hemsley, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 22 April 1962
John Pritchard
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
John Ogdon, piano
Sunday 6 May 1962
Josef Krips
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Leon Fleisher, piano
Thursday 10 May 1962
Josef Krips
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 WALTON
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 15 May 1962
Josef Krips
Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Kerstin Meyer, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor
Thursday 24 May 1962
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No 27 MOZART
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sunday 3 June 1962
Paul Kletzki
Hansel and Gretel, Overture HUMPERDINCK
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Thursday 7 June 1962
Paul Kletzki
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Alfredo Campoli, violin
Tuesday 12 June 1962
Paul Kletzki
Symphony No. 2 HONEGGER
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Thursday 21 June 1962
Sir Adrian Boult
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concertstück WEBER
Totentanz LISZT
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1962 – 1963 season
31st Season
Thursday 27 September 1962
John Pritchard
Symphony for Brass and Percussion SCHULLER
Daphnis and Chloe, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 RAVEL
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Gina Bachauer, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 30 September 1962
Josef Krips
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Monday 8 October 1962
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Eileen Poulter, soprano
Tuesday 16 October 1962
John Pritchard
Agon STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Zino Francescatti, violin
Sunday 4 November 1962
Massimo Freccia
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Michael Rabin, violin
Tuesday 6 November 1962
Bernard Haitink
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Moura Lympany, piano
Thursday 8 November 1962
Frederic Jackson
Elijah MENDELSSOHN
Rae Woodland, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Duncan Robertson, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 29 November 1962
John Pritchard
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 No. 11 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 3 BARTOK
Le martyre de Saint Sebastien, excerpts DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Bela Siki, piano
Sunday 2 December 1962
John Pritchard
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 4 December 1962
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 7, ‘Sinfonia Antarctica’ VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Peter Katin, piano Hazel Schmid, soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 17 January 1963
John Pritchard
Nobilissima Visione HINDEMITH
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Cantata Academica BRITTEN
Shura Cherkassky, piano Heather Harper, soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Kenneth MacDonald, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 20 January 1963
John Pritchard
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Totentanz LISZT
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Tamas Vasary, piano
Tuesday 29 January 1963
Sir Adrian Boult
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto BLOCH
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Monday 11 February 1963
Arthur Fiedler
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
The Three Cornered Hat, Dances FALLA
Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Dances of Galanta KODALY
Leonard Pennario, piano
Sunday 17 February 1963
John Pritchard
Signor Bruschino, Overture ROSSINI
Three Excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Magic Flute MOZART
Prologue from Pagliacci LEONCAVALLO
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Geraint Evans, baritone
Tuesday 26 February 1963
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Parsifal, Prelude WAGNER
Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra BARTOK
Te Deum BERLIOZ
Louis Kentner, piano Walter Midgley, tenor
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 14 March 1963
John Pritchard
King Lear, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
La Mer DEBUSSY
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sunday 17 March 1963
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Eric Heidsieck, piano
Tuesday 19 March 1963
Dietfried Bernet
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto in D minor BACH
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Rosalyn Tureck, piano
Monday 25 March 1963
John Pritchard
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Harold in Italy BERLIOZ
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Thursday 18 April 1963
John Pritchard
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Nocturne for Tenor and Orchestra BRITTEN
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Peter Pears, tenor
Sunday 21 April 1963
John Pritchard
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Philippe Entremont, piano
Monday 30 April 1963
John Pritchard
Iberia DEBUSSY
Flute and Harp Concerto MOZART
The Planets, Suite HOLST
Richard Adeney, flute Marisa Robles, harp
London Philharmonic Choir
Monday 13 May 1963
Josef Krips
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Annie Fischer, piano
Friday 17 May 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Annie Fischer, piano
Thursday 23 May 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Sunday 26 May 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Tuesday 4 June 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 16 June 1963
John Pritchard
Love in Bath, Suite (arr. Beecham) HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
John Ogdon, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1963 – 1964 season
32nd Season
Sunday 22 September 1963
John Pritchard
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Exsultate jubilate MOZART
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Hymn to the Sun, Aria from The Golden Cockerel RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Mattiwilda Dobbs, soprano
Sunday 29 September 1963
Pablo Casals
El Pessebre, oratorio CASALS
Olga Iglesias, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Delme Bryn-Jones, baritone
Forbes Robinson, bass David Sellar, boy soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 24 October 1963
John Pritchard
Philharmonic Overture MILHAUD
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 NIELSEN
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Tuesday 5 November 1963
Sir Adrian Boult
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
Peter Katin, piano
Sunday 17 November 1963
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Clifford Curzon, piano
Tuesday 26 November 1963
Roberto Benzi
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Thursday 5 December 1963
John Pritchard
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Lélio, or the Return to Life BERLIOZ
Alexander Young, tenor Peter Lehmann Bedford, actor
Eric Porter, actor
Tuesday 10 December 1963
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
A Colour Symphony BLISS
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday 15 December 1963
John Pritchard
Christmas Oratorio CORELLI
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra BRITTEN
A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Friday 20 December 1963
John Pritchard
The Messiah HANDEL
Jeannette Sinclair, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor John Holmes, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Friday 10 January 1964
John Pritchard
Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Gina Bachauer, piano
Saturday 18 January 1964
George Malcolm
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Nine Quadrilles MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Tamas Vasary, piano
Sunday 26 January 1964
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Thursday 30 January 1964
Norman del Mar
Wozzeck, Fragments BERG
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Marie Collier, soprano Andre Navarra, cello
Quintin Ballardie, viola London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 11 February 1964
Dietfried Bernet
La Forza del Destino, Overture VERDI
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Der Rosenkavalier, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Hary Janos, Suite KODALY
Yan Pascal Tortelier, violin Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 23 February 1964
John Pritchard
The Perfect Fool, Ballet Suite HOLST
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Andor Foldes, piano
Friday 28 February 1964
John Pritchard
Posthorn Serenade MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Il Maestro di Cappella CIMAROSA
Geraint Evans, baritone
Thursday 12 March 1964
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Saturday 21 March 1964
John Pritchard
Overture Di Ballo SULLIVAN
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Stephen Bishop, piano
Tuesday 31 March 1964
Hermann Michael
Two Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Karl Engel, piano
Tuesday 7 April 1964
John Pritchard
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 ENESCU
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
Thursday 16 April 1964
John Pritchard
War Requiem BRITTEN
Heather Harper, soprano William McAlpine, tenor
Hans Willbrink, baritone Melos Ensemble
Highgate School Choir London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 19 April 1964
John Pritchard
Trumpet Tune and Air PURCELL
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
The Golden Cockerel, Suite RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Ralph Izen, trumpet Alfredo Campoli, violin
Tuesday 5 May 1964
John Pritchard
Symphony in B flat major CHAUSSON
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Petrushka, ballet suite STRAVINSKY
Annie Fischer, piano
Sunday 10 May 1964
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto GERSHWIN
Peter and the Wolf PROKOFIEV
Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Malcolm Binns, piano Odo Slobodskaya, narrator
Thursday 14 May 1964
John Pritchard
Fantasmagoria BURT
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony WEBERN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1964 – 1965 season
33rd Season
The Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment from June 1964 to January 1965. The orchestra gave concerts in other venues during the closure.
Sunday 20 September 1964 (Fairfield Hall, Croydon)
Sir Adrian Boult
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1 ELGAR
Peter Katin, piano
Tuesday 20 October 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
John Pritchard
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
John Ogdon, piano
Saturday 24 October 1964 (Fairfield Hall)
John Pritchard
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Szymon Goldberg, violin
Wednesday 28 October 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
Massimo Freccia
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Carmina Burana ORFF
Anne Edwards, soprano John Hauxvell, baritone
Francis Egerton, tenor London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 12 November 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
John Pritchard
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Totentanz LISZT
Claudio Arrau, piano
Saturday 14 November 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Claudio Arrau, piano
Sunday 29 November 1964 (Fairfield Hall)
Rudolf Schwarz
Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
Monday 14 December 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
Hermann Michael
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 SCHUBERT
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Saturday 16 January 1965 (Fairfield Hall)
Dietfried Bernet
Dance Scene FRICKER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Stephen Bishop, piano
Sunday 24 January 1965 (Royal Albert Hall)
Moshe Atzmon
Carnival Overture DVORAK
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Louis Kentner, piano
Tuesday 2 February 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
Michael Tippett*
Violin Concerto ELGAR
A Child of our Time TIPPETT
Yehudi Menuhin, violin Heather Harper, soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Joseph Ward, tenor
Forbes Robinson, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 7 February 1965
Jascha Horenstein
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
John Browning, piano
Tuesday 9 February 1965
Jascha Horenstein
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Leonard Rose, cello
Sunday 21 February 1965
Constantin Silvestri
Partita WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Friday 26 February 1965
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’ SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
The Three Cornered Hat, Suites 1 and 2 FALLA
John Ogdon, piano
Sunday 7 March 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Russlan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes VAINBERG
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ida Haendel, violin
Tuesday 9 March 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Night on the Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto KHACHATURIAN
Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Friday 12 March 1965
John Pritchard
Mass in B minor BACH
Heather Harper, soprano Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Alexander Young, tenor Victor Godfrey, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 28 March 1965
John Pritchard
Eliahu Inbal*
Queen Mab and Tomb Scenes from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Vladimir Krainov, piano
Tuesday 30 March 1965
John Pritchard
Eliahu Inbal*
Queen Mab and Tomb Scenes from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Thursday 1 April 1965
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Tuesday 6 April 1965
Dietfried Bernet
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Ralph Holmes, violin Rohan de Saram, cello
Saturday 17 April 1965
John Pritchard
Johnny Dankworth*
Suite from West Side Story BERNSTEIN
Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra SEIBER/DANKWORTH
Items by the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
An American in Paris GERSHWIN
Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
Thursday 22 April 1965
John Pritchard
Peacock Variations KODALY
Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTOK
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Andor Foldes, piano
Sunday 25 April 1965
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Beatrice and Benedict, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Geza Anda, piano
Friday 30 April 1965
John Pritchard
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s “In Nomine” MAXWELL DAVIES
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Sunday 2 May 1965
Tuesday 4 May 1965
John Pritchard
War Requiem BRITTEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Loren Driscoll, tenor
Hans Wilbrink, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Melos Ensemble Highgate School Choir
Friday 7 May 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
The Impresario, Overture MOZART
Bassoon Concerto WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Martin Gatt, bassoon Malcolm Binns, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1965 – 1966 season
34th Season
Sunday 23 September 1965
John Pritchard
March and Canzona for the Funeral of Queen Mary PURCELL
Brigg Fair DELIUS
Orpheus Britannicus BRITTEN
The Planets HOLST
John Wakefield, tenor
Tuesday 5 October 1965
John Pritchard
Partita WALTON
Kindertotenlieder MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Geraint Evans, baritone
Sunday 10 October 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Thursday 14 October 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9 SHOSTAKOVICH
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Thursday 21 October 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Heinz Medjimorec, piano
Sunday 31 October 1965
John Pritchard
Phedre, Overture MASSENET
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Hary Janos, Suite KODALY
Rodney Friend, violin
Thursday 11 November 1965
John Pritchard
The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Don Garrard, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 16 November 1965
Bernard Haitink
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Ida Haendel, violin
Sunday 21 November 1965
Bernard Haitink
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Gina Bachauer, piano
Sunday 28 November 1965
John Pritchard
The Perfect Fool, Suite HOLST
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
Thursday 2 December 1965
John Pritchard
Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee SCHULLER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 7 December 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
Santiago de Espada, Overture WILLIAMSON
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Bronislav Gimpel, violin
Thursday 16 December 1965
John Pritchard
The Messiah HANDEL
Elizabeth Robson, soprano Yvonne Minton, mezzo soprano
John Wakefield, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 20 January 1966
Sir Adrian Boult
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 23 January 1966
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Symphony No. 25 MOZART
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Christian Ferras, violin
Tuesday 1 February 1966
Hans Gierster
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Sunday 13 February 1966
Colin Davis
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Thursday 17 February 1966
Constantin Silvestri
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Rapsodie Espagnole RAVEL
Peter Frankl, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 24 February 1966
Sir Adrian Boult
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 ELGAR
Martha Argerich, piano
Tuesday 1 March 1966
Paul Kletzki
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Concerto for Orchestra LUTOSLAWSKI
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Sunday 6 March 1966
Paul Kletzki
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Radu Aldulescu, cello
Thursday 10 March 1966
John Pritchard
Serenata Notturna MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Andor Foldes, piano
Tuesday 15 March 1966
Antal Dorati
The Creation HAYDN
Elizabeth Harwood, soprano John Wakefield, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 20 March 1966
Antal Dorati
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Peter Katin, piano
Sunday 27 March 1966
John Pritchard
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge BRITTEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 3 April 1966
John Pritchard
West Side Story, Suite GERSHWIN
Ebony Concerto STRAVINSKY
Dialogues for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra BRUBECK
A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Johnny Dankworth and Orchestra
Thursday 7 April 1966
John Pritchard
Cello Symphony BRITTEN
Piano Concerto BUSONI
Maurice Gendron, cello John Ogdon, piano
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 10 April 1966
Evgeny Svetlanov
Prelude to Khovanshchina (Dawn on the Moscow River) MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Ronald Turini, piano
Tuesday 12 April 1966
Evgeny Svetlanov
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Bella Davidovich, piano
Tuesday 19 April 1966
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Symphony No. 104, ‘London’ HAYDN
Shéhérazade RAVEL
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Tuesday 3 May 1966
Lamberto Gardelli
William Tell, Overture ROSSINI
Sinfonia concertante for Winds MOZART
The Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Richard Morgan, oboe John McCaw, clarinet
Keith Whitmore, horn Martin Gatt, bassoon
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1966 – 1967 season
35th Season
Tuesday 20 September 1966
Constantin Silvestri
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 25 September 1966
Constantin Silvestri
In the South ELGAR
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 29 September 1966
Constantin Silvestri
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, contralto London Philharmonic Choir
Choir of Ealing Grammar School for Boys
Thursday 6 October 1966
John Pritchard
War Requiem BRITTEN
Heather Harper, soprano Gerald English, tenor
John Shaw, baritone Highgate School Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 9 October 1966
John Pritchard
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Gina Bachauer, piano
Tuesday 18 October 1966
John Pritchard
Ritual Dances from Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
John Ogdon, piano
Thursday 17 November 1966
Georg Solti
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Thursday 22 November 1966
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Thursday 1 December 1966
Walter Susskind
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Carmina Burana ORFF
April Cantelo, soprano Francis Egerton, tenor
John Hauxvell, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 4 December 1966
Antal Dorati
Concerto for Orchestra KODALY
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 11 December 1966
Antal Dorati
Symphony No. 34 MOZART
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 17 January 1967
Jascha Horenstein
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Sunday 22 January 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
Fugal Overture HOLST
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 26 January 1967
Neeme Järvi
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Stephen Bishop, piano
Thursday 2 February 1967
Neeme Järvi
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Overture in the Italian Style in D major SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Vasso Devetzi, piano
Sunday 5 February 1967
Karl Richter
Mass in B minor BACH
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Peter Pears, tenor John Carol Case, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 9 February 1967
Jean Martinon
Symphony No. 4 ROUSSEL
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
La Mer DEBUSSY
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 21 February 1967
Karel Ancerl
Serenade for Orchestra KREJCÍ
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Andor Foldes, piano
Thursday 23 February 1967
Karel Ancerl
Sinfonietta JANACEK
Three Lieder RICHARD STRAUSS
Composer’s Aria from Ariadne auf Naxos RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Thursday 2 March 1967
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola MOZART
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Elly Ameling, soprano Rodney Friend, violin
Quintin Ballardie, viola
Sunday 5 March 1967
Bernard Haitink
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Thursday 9 March 1967
Evgeny Svetlanov
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Yakob Flier, piano
Tuesday 14 March 1967
Evgeny Svetlanov
Kamarinskaya GLINKA
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Igor Oistrakh, violin
Thursday 23 March 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
Anna Reynolds, contralto Ronald Dowd, tenor
Forbes Robinson, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 26 March 1967
Evgeny Svetlanov
A Night on the Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Leonid Kogan, violin
Sunday 2 April 1967
Antal Dorati
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 DVORAK
Josef Suk, violin Maurice Gendron, cello
Tuesday 11 April 1967
Antal Dorati
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Sunday 16 April 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
Music for His Majesty’s Sackbuts and Cornets LOCKE
Violin Concerto No. 1 (arr. Wilhelmj) PAGANINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Tamas Vasary, piano Rodney Friend, violin
Thursday 20 April 1967
Constantin Silvestri
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Annie Fischer, piano
Sunday 23 April 1967
Lawrence Foster
Symphony No. 26 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Tuesday 2 May 1967
John Pritchard
Beatrice and Benedict (concert performance) BERLIOZ
Malvina Parnas, soprano Jean Bonhomme, tenor
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Georgetta Psaros, contralto
Raymond Myers, bass Napoleon Bisson, bass
Robert Eddison, narrator New Opera Chorus
Tuesday 9 May 1967
John Pritchard
Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART
Mass in C minor MOZART
John Ogdon, piano Catherine Gayer, soprano
Patricia Johnson, contralto Alexander Young, tenor
Raymond Myers, bass London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1967 – 1968 season
36th Season
Tuesday 26 September 1967
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 5 October 1967
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Heather Harper, soprano Kim Borg, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 10 October 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo HOLST
Cello Concerto WALTON
Symphony No. 1 ELGAR
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 22 October 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
The Marriage of Figaro, overture MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Sunday 29 October 1967
Richard Bonynge
The Messiah HANDEL
Joan Sutherland, soprano Monica Sinclair, contralto
Peter Baillie, tenor Raymond Myers, bass
Ambrosian Singers
Sunday 5 November 1967
Constantin Silvestri
Penelope, prelude FAURÉ
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Peter Frankl, piano
Thursday 9 November 1967
Bernard Haitink
Benvenuto Cellini, overture BERLIOZ
Symphonies of Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Sunday 12 November 1967
Bernard Haitink
Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Leonard Rose, cello
Thursday 7 December 1967
Antal Dorati
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Sunday 10 December 1967
Antal Dorati
The Creation HAYDN
Heather Harper, soprano William Blankenship, tenor
Forbes Robinson, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 19 December 1967
Carl Melles
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 4 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
John Ogdon, piano
Thursday 18 January 1968
Brian Priestman
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Excerpts from Boris Godunov MUSSORGSKY
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Yi Kwei Sze, bass
Tuesday 23 January 1968
Bernard Haitink
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Josef Suk, violin
Sunday 28 January 1968
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Spring Symphony BRITTEN
Elly Ameling, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Ronald Dowd, tenor London Philharmonic Choir
Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
Sunday 18 February 1968
Karl Richter
St. John Passion BACH
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Ernst Haefliger, tenor Ernst Gerald Schramm, bass
John Carol Case, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 20 February 1968
Lamberto Gardelli
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Rodney Friend, violin
Sunday 25 February 1968
Bernard Haitink
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Petrushka (1947) STRAVINSKY
Clifford Curzon, piano
Thursday 29 February 1968
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 3 March 1968
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 SCHUBERT
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Nikita Magaloff, piano
Sunday 10 March 1968
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Ingrid Haebler, piano Heather Harper, soprano
Anna Reynolds, contralto Alexander Young, tenor
Donald Bell, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 17 March 1968
Maxim Shostakovich
Katerina Ismailova, Suite SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH
Peter Katin, piano Gordon Webb, trumpet
Thursday 21 March 1968
Christoph von Dohnanyi
The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite BARTOK
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Sunday 31 March 1968
Paul Kletzki
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 SIBELIUS
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Thursday 4 April 1968
Evgeny Svetlanov
Lieutenant Kije, Suite PROKOFIEV
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 14 April 1968
Evgeny Svetlanov
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Agostin Anievas, piano
Thursday 18 April 1968
Evgeny Svetlanov
The Golden Cockerel, Suite RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 SHOSTAKOVICH
Rafael Orozco, piano
Tuesday 23 April 1968
John Pritchard
The Planets, Suite HOLST
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Dan Garrard, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 30 April 1968
John Pritchard
La Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 NIELSEN
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Thursday 9 May 1968
Bernard Haitink
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 12 May 1968
Bernard Haitink
Die Meistersinger, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1968 – 1969 season
37th Season
Tuesday 17 September 1968
Jerzy Semkow
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2 SCRIABIN
Isaac Stern, conductor
Sunday 29 September 1968
Sir Adrian Boult
Die Meistersinger, Overture WAGNER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 RUBBRA
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 3 October 1968
Sir Adrian Boult
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Organ Symphony COPLAND
Organ Concerto No. 2 in C major HAYDN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
E. Power Biggs, organ
Thursday 17 October 1968
Georg Solti
Dance Suite BARTOK
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Gyorgy Pauk, violin
Tuesday 29 October 1968
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Sunday 3 November 1968
Eugen Jochum
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Sunday 10 November 1968
Eugen Jochum
Masonic Funeral Music MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Nikita Magaloff, piano
Tuesday 19 November 1968
Bernard Haitink
Exsultate, jubilate MOZART
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 24 November 1968
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 9, ‘Jeunehomme’ MOZART
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
André Watts, piano
Thursday 5 December 1968
John Pritchard
Piano Concerto No. 2 HENZE
Symphony No. 3, ‘Espansiva’ NIELSEN
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Thursday 19 December 1968
Antal Dorati
Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Thursday 16 January 1969
Bernard Haitink
Three Pieces from Arden Must Die GOEHR
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Yonty Solomon, piano
Tuesday 21 January 1969
Bernard Haitink
Three Pieces from Arden Must Die GOEHR
Violin Concerto BRITTEN
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Rodney Friend, violin John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 26 January 1969
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Stephen Bishop, piano Heather Harper, soprano
Anna Reynolds, mezzo soprano Ryland Davies, tenor
Donald Bell, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 2 February 1969
Daniel Barenboim
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 9 February 1969
Daniel Barenboim
The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture ROSSINI
Italian Serenade WOLF
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Alfred Brendel, piano
Sunday 16 February 1969
Karl Richter
St. Matthew Passion BACH
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Van Ketteren, tenor Robert Tear, tenor
Ernst Gerald Schumann, baritone Kieth Engen, bass
Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir London Philharmonic Choir
Wednesday 19 February 1969
Richard Bonynge
Alcina (concert performance) HANDEL
Joan Sutherland, soprano Mary O’Brien, soprano
Margaret Elkins, soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Monica Sinclair, contralto Ryland Davies, tenor
John Gibbs, bass Ambrosian Singers
Thursday 6 March 1969
Josef Krips
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sunday 9 March 1969
Joseph Krips
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Tuesday 11 March 1969
Josef Krips
Il Seraglio, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Friedrich Gulda, piano
Sunday 16 March 1969
Bernard Haitink
Beatrice and Benedict, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto ELGAR
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 20 March 1969
George Szell
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn MAHLER
Symphony No. 6 MAHLER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Tuesday 25 March 1969
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Mass in E minor BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 4 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 30 March 1969
Bernard Haitink
Overture, Nocturne, Intermezzo, Scherzo, Funeral and Wedding Marches from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 9, ‘Jeunehomme’ MOZART
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
La Mer DEBUSSY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 13 April 1969
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 25 MOZART
Partita WALTON
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Sunday 27 April 1969
John Pritchard
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Malcolm Binns, piano
Sunday 4 May 1969
Bernard Haitink
Overture in the Italian Style SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Claudio Arrau, piano
Thursday 8 May 1969
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Claudio Arrau, piano
Sunday 11 May 1969
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 SHOSTAKOVICH
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1969 – 1970 season
38th Season
Thursday 16 October 1969
Jerzy Semkow
La cenerentola, Overture ROSSINI
Piano Concerto No. 25 MOZART
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Michael Roll, piano
Sunday 19 October 1969
Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Daydreams’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Alexander Nevsky, cantata PROKOFIEV
Larissa Avdeyeva, contralto London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 21 October 1969
Evgeny Svetlanov
Introduction to Sorochintsy Fair MUSSORGSKY
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Pictures from an Exhibition (arr. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 23 October 1969
Evgeny Svetlanov
The Maid of Pskov, Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
La Mer DEBUSSY
Malcolm Binns, piano
Thursday 30 October 1969
Edward Downes
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Voices of Night, Cantata REIZENSTEIN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin Elizabeth Harwood, soprano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Sunday 9 November 1969
Lorin Maazel
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Thursday 13 November 1969
Lorin Maazel
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Israela Margalit, piano
Sunday 30 November 1969
Bernard Haitink
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphonies of Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Taras Bulba JANACEK
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Thursday 4 December 1969
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Anna Reynolds, mezzo soprano Alexander Young, baritone
Tuesday 13 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
Cantata No. 170 BACH
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Margaret Price, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 15 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
Don Giovanni, Overture MOZART
Concerto in A minor for two violins, Op. 3 No. 8 VIVALDI
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Henryk Szeryng, violin Rodney Friend, violin
Tuesday 20 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Nikita Magaloff, piano
Sunday 25 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
The Silken Ladder, Overture ROSSINI
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Masuko Ushioda, violin
Thursday 5 February 1970
Eugen Jochum
Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Sunday 8 February 1970
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Sunday 15 February 1970
Karl Richter
Passacaglia in C major, K582 BACH
Fantasia in F minor MOZART
Requiem Mass MOZART
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Alexander Young, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, bass
John Alldis Choir
Thursday 19 February 1970
Jerzy Semkow
Funeral Music LUTOSLAWSKI
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Roberto Szidon, piano
Thursday 26 February 1970
Sir Adrian Boult
The Kingdom ELGAR
Margaret Price, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Alexander Young, tenor Benjamin Luxon, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 5 March 1970
Maxim Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 8 SHOSTAKOVICH
Sunday 8 March 1970
Maxim Shostakovich
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 8 SHOSTAKOVICH
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 10 March 1970
Charles Mackerras
Robert Simpson*
Symphony No. 1 SIMPSON
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Leonard Rose, cello
Tuesday 17 March 1970
Bernard Haitink
The Building of the House, Overture BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 PROKOFIEV
The Planets, Suite HOLST
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 26 March 1970
Bernard Haitink
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Thursday 2 April 1970
Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 2 HENZE
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Sunday 12 April 1970
John Pritchard
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Dance Scene FRICKER
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Radu Lupu, piano
Sunday 19 April 1970
Sir Adrian Boult
Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR
Organ Concerto WILLIAMSON
Choral Symphony HOLST
Malcolm Williamson, organ Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1970 – 1971 season
39th Season
Tuesday 22 September 1970
Bernard Haitink
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
André Watts, piano
Thursday 24 September 1970
Bernard Haitink
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Gina Bachauer, piano
Thursday 8 October 1970
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Overture, Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II
Artists’ Life, Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Heather Harper, soprano
Tuesday 13 October 1970
François Huybrechts
Lachian Dances JANACEK
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Peter Frankl. piano
Tuesday 20 October 1970
Josef Krips
Improvisations on an Impromptu by Benjamin Britten WALTON
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Tuesday 3 November 1970
Sir Adrian Boult
The Pilgrim’s Progress (concert performance) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
John Noble, baritone Norma Burrowes, tenor
Gerald English, tenor Raimund Herincx, baritone
Robert Lloyd, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 10 November 1970
John Pritchard
Seven Studies on themes of Paul Klee SCHULLER
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Tong Il Han, piano
Thursday 19 November 1970
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 22 November 1970
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 3 December 1970
Lorin Maazel
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Paul Tortelier, cello Quintin Ballardie, viola
Tuesday 8 December 1970
John Pritchard
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Ida Haendel, violin
Sunday 13 December 1970
John Pritchard
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 17 December 1970
Daniel Barenboim
Five Orchestral Pieces WEBERN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Sunday 17 January 1971
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Tuesday 19 January 1971
Brian Priestman
Symphonic Variations DVORAK
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
John Ogdon, piano
Sunday 24 January 1971
Georg Solti
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Thursday 4 February 1971
Paavo Berglund
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BACH
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Malcolm Binns, piano Rodney Friend, violin
Douglas Whittaker, flute Colin Chambers, flute
Tuesday 9 February 1971
Aldo Ceccato
Partita PETRASSI
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Lorin Hollander, piano
Tuesday 16 February 1971
Charles Groves
A Mass of Life DELIUS
Heather Harper, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Ryland Davies, tenor Benjamin Luxon, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 23 February 1971
Raymond Leppard
Concerto a Due Cori in F major HANDEL
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 SIBELIUS
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Thursday 4 March 1971
Jascha Horenstein
Iphigenie en Aulis, Overture GLUCK
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Tuesday 9 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Eleven Viennese Dances BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Three Orchestral Pieces BERG
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 14 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Three Orchestral Pieces BERG
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 21 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Thomas Helmsley, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 28 March 1971
John Pritchard
Circus, for two trumpets and orchestra HAMILTON
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’ NIELSEN
Gordon Webb, trumpet Howard Snell, trumpet
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Tuesday 30 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Thursday 8 April 1971
Sir Adrian Boult
Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Claudio Arrau, piano
Tuesday 13 April 1971
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Rodney Friend, violin
Thursday 15 April 1971
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 2 WILLIAMSON
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Bells RACHMANINOV
Alfred Brendel, piano Margaret Price, soprano
Kenneth Bowen, tenor Alan Charles, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 20 April 1971
Josef Krips
Il Seraglio, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Sunday 25 April 1971
Lorin Maazel
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Prometheus, The Poem of Fire SCRIABIN
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 2 May 1971
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Les Illuminations BRITTEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
Tuesday 4 May 1971
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1971 – 1972 season
40th Season
Tuesday 21 September 1971
John Pritchard
Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 24 October 1971
Bernard Haitink
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Sunday 7 November 1971
Daniel Barenboim
Concerto in C minor for Violin and Oboe BACH
Violin Concerto No. 3 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Isaac Stern, violin Roger Winfield, oboe
Tuesday 9 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion TIPPETT
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Ida Haendel, violin
Sunday 14 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 18 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 21 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 30 November 1971
Georg Solti
The Creation HAYDN
Heather Harper, soprano Stuart Burrowes, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 5 December 1971
Edo de Waart
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphonic Dances RACHMANINOV
Yong Uck Kim, piano
Sunday 19 December 1971
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 3 LENNOX BERKELEY
Piano Concerto No. 4 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
John Ogdon, piano
Thursday 20 January 1972
Bernard Haitink
Don Giovanni, Overture MOZART
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Hermann Krebbers, violin Tibor de Machula, cello
Sunday 23 January 1972
Bernard Haitink
Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten WALTON
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Radu Lupu, piano
Thursday 27 January 1972
Sir Adrian Boult
William Alwyn*
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 ALWYN*
Nathan Milstein, violin
Sunday 30 January 1972
Sir Adrian Boult
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 10 February 1972
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Sunday 13 February 1972
Georg Solti
Piano Concerto No. 12 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Tuesday 15 February 1972
Moshe Atzmon
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTÓK
John Lill, piano
Sunday 20 February 1972
Georg Solti
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Tuesday 7 March 1972
Bernard Haitink
Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon DAVID BEDFORD
Piano Concerto SCRIABIN
Also Sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 9 March 1972
Bernard Haitink
Serenade for Strings DVORAK
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Thursday 16 March 1972
Bernard Haitink
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Violin Concerto BRITTEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Rodney Friend, violin
Sunday 2 April 1972
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Sheherazade RAVEL
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Josephine Veasey, contralto
Thursday 6 April 1972
Georg Solti
Psalmus Hungaricus KODALY
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Robert Tear, tenor
Tuesday 18 April 1972
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 93 HAYDN
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Sunday 23 April 1972
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Thursday 27 April 1972
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Tuesday 2 May 1972
Bernard Haitink
Notturni ed Alba McCABE
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Alfred Brendel, piano
Sunday 7 May 1972
Bernard Haitink
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra FAURÉ
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Alicia de Larrocha, piano Felicity Palmer, soprano
Helen Watts, contralto Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1972 – 1973 season
41st Season
Thursday 28 September 1972
Daniel Barenboim
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto No. 1 MOZART
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor
Wednesday 4 October 1972
Aldo Ceccato
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Thursday 19 October 1972
Raymond Leppard
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Cassation derived from ‘The Rising of the Moon’ NICHOLAS MAW
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 22 October 1972
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 96, ‘Miracle’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 97 HAYDN
Symphony No. 98 HAYDN
Thursday 26 October 1972
Eugen Jochum
Concerto da Camera HONEGGER
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
John Lill, piano
Tuesday 31 October 1972
Edo de Waart
La Peri, Fanfare DUKAS
Integrales VARESE
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 6 DVORAK
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Sunday 5 November 1972
Bernard Haitink
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Requiem Mass MOZART
Ida Haendel, violin Heather Harper, soprano
Anna Reynolds, contralto Gerald English, tenor
Benjamin Luxon, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 19 November 1972
Bernard Haitink
‘Parto, parto’, aria from La Clemenza di Tito MOZART
Wesendonck Lieder WAGNER
Symphony No. 6 MAHLER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Thursday 23 November 1972
Bernard Haitink
Lontano LIGETI
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Totentanz LISZT
Petrushka STRAVINSKY
Alfred Brendel, piano
Tuesday 28 November 1972
Maxim Shostakovich
Khovanshchina, Prelude MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Pathetique, Oratorio SVIRIDOV
Peter Katin, piano Nina Isakova, mezzo soprano
Alexander Vedernikov, bass Russian State Yurlov Choir
Thursday 30 November 1972
Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
Violin Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
David Oistrakh, violin
Tuesday 5 December 1972
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 2 SEARLE
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Nathan Milstein, violin
Tuesday 12 December 1972
Kurt Sanderling
Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op. 6 No. 7 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Lorin Hollander, piano
Sunday 17 December 1972
Kurt Sanderling
Details need to be traced
Thursday 25 January 1973
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 3 PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 28 January 1973
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Tuesday 30 January 1973
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 99 HAYDN
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Thursday 15 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Sunday 18 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Stephen Bishop, piano
Thursday 22 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Bluebeards Castle BARTOK
Tatiana Troyanos, soprano Andras Farrago, baritone
Tuesday 27 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
La Damnation de Faust BERLIOZ
Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Stuart Burrows, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass Paul Hudson, bass
London Philharmonic Choir Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
Tuesday 3 April 1973
Edo de Waart
Sonata Pian e Forte GABRIELI
Washington’s Birthday IVES
Rückert Lieder MAHLER
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Sunday 8 April 1973
Sir Adrian Boult
John Alldis*
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Monologue from Act 1 of The Flying Dutchman WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Dona Nobis Pacem VAUGHAN WILLIAMS*
Sheila Armstrong, soprano David Ward, tenor
John Carol Case, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 22 April 1973
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Walter Klien, piano
Tuesday 1 May 1973
Erich Leinsdorf
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Peter Katin, piano
Friday 4 May 1973
Bernard Haitink
Concerto for Orchestra IAIN HAMILTON
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Kyung Wha Chung, violin
Tuesday 8 May 1973
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Thursday 10 May 1973
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Ileana Cotrubas, piano Norma Procter, mezzo soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1960 – 1961 season
29th Season
Sunday 25 September 1960
Jascha Horenstein
The Wasps, Overture VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in C major, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 29 September 1960
Sir Adrian Boult
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Isaac Stern, violin
Tuesday 4 October 1960
Jascha Horenstein
Much Ado About Nothing, Overture KORNGOLD
Meditations for Orchestra VON EINEM
Violin Concerto BERG
Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli TIPPETT
Chamber Symphony SCHOENBERG
Isaac Stern, violin
Thursday 13 October 1960
Hugo Rignold
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Fantasia para un gentilhombre RODRIGO
Love the Magician, Ballet Suite FALLA
Guitar Solos (Torroba, Turina, Albeniz)
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Andrés Segovia, guitar Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano
Sunday 23 October 1960
Hugo Rignold
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Moura Lympany, piano
Thursday 3 November 1960
John Pritchard
Symphony in C major BIZET
La vida breve, extracts FALLA
Operatic Arias (Rossini, Bizet)
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Tuesday 8 November 1960
John Pritchard
From the House of the Dead, Suite JANACEK
Les Offrandes Oubliées MESSIAEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 3 FRICKER
Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
Thursday 17 November 1960
Jaroslav Krombholc
Wallenstein’s Camp SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday 27 November 1960
Jaroslav Krombholc
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Salvatore Accardo, violin
Thursday 8 December 1960
Sir Adrian Boult
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7, ‘Sinfonia Antarctica’ VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Gioconda de Vito, violin Iris Kells, soprano
Tuesday 13 December 1960
Jaroslav Krombholc
The Mystery of the Nativity FRANK MARTIN
April Cantelo, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Alfred Hallett, tenor
Duncan Robertson, tenor John Carol Case, baritone
Denis Dowling, baritone Owen Brannigan, bass
Marion Nowakowski, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 17 January 1961
Sir Adrian Boult
Dance Concerto (Phalaphala) RAINIER
Violin Concerto ELGAR
A Colour Symphony BLISS
Alfredo Campoli, violin
Thursday 26 January 1961
Kirill Kondrashin
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9 SHOSTAKOVICH
Geza Anda, piano
Sunday 5 February 1961
Kirill Kondrashin
Abu Hassan, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Sergio Varella-Cid, piano
Thursday 16 February 1961
Colin Davis
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto KHACHATURIAN
The Planets HOLST
Alberto Lysy, violin Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 21 February 1961
Colin Davis
Theme and Variations, Op. 43b SCHOENBERG
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony in C major STRAVINSKY
David Oistrakh, violin
Thursday 2 March 1961
Sir Adrian Boult
Mass in B minor BACH
Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Richard Standen, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 12 March 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
A London Overture IRELAND
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Beryl Kimber, violin
Thursday 23 March 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Semiramide, Overture ROSSINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 WALTON
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Tuesday 28 March 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Fantasia Concertante for Violin and String Orchestra SEIBER
King David, symphonic psalm HONEGGER
Max Rostal, violin Mary Wells, soprano
Pamela Bowden, contralto Alexander Young, soprano
Ralph Downes, bass Richard Attenborough, narrator
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 6 April 1961
Pierre Monteux
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Lili Kraus, piano
Tuesday 2 May 1961
Pierre Monteux
Protée, Suite MILHAUD
Symphony No. 3 PIJPER
Jeux DEBUSSY
Mathis der Maler, Symphony HINDEMITH
Thursday 11 May 1961
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Tapiola SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Totentanz LISZT
La mer DEBUSSY
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Sunday 21 May 1961
Harry Newstone
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Colin Horsley, piano
Tuesday 30 May 1961
John Pritchard
Fairy Drama for Speaker, Voices and Orchestra SKALKOTTAS
Guitar Concerto CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Guitar Solos
Parade SATIE
Margaret Leighton, speaker Arda Mandikian, soprano
Andrés Segovia, guitar
Thursday 1 June 1961
Charles Münch
Elegy in memory of Serge Koussevitzky HANSON
Piano Concerto in D minor BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No, 5 BACH
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Rosalyn Tureck, keyboard Henry Daytner, flute
David Sandeman, flute
Sunday 11 June 1961
John Pritchard
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Thursday 15 June 1961
Bruno Maderna
Symphony No. 29 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Circus Polka STRAVINSKY
Tango STRAVINSKY
Scherzo a la Russe STRAVINSKY
Philippe Entremont, piano
Thursday 29 June 1961
Massimo Freccia
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Nathan Milstein, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1961 – 1962 season
30th Season
Thursday 28 September 1961
Alexander Gibson
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Tuesday 3 October 1961
Sir Eugene Goossens
Scapino, Overture WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 2 REIZENSTEIN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Franz Reizenstein, piano
Sunday 8 October 1961
Josef Krips
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Gina Bachauer, piano
Thursday 12 October 1961
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 26 October 1961
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Elegy BEETHOVEN
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Heather Harper, soprano Thomas Hemsley, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 5 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Thursday 9 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Clifford Curzon, piano
Monday 13 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Petite Symphonie Concertante for Harp, Harpsichord, Piano and Strings MARTIN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Osian Ellis, harp George Malcolm, harpsichord
Colin Horsley, piano Keith Harvey, cello
John Coulting, viola
Thursday 23 November 1961
John Pritchard
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 NIELSEN
Isaac Stern, violin Leonard Rose, cello
Tuesday 5 December 1961
Ferenc Fricsay
Two Portraits BARTOK
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Geza Anda, piano
Thursday 7 December 1961
Ferenc Fricsay
Symphony KODALY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Thursday 18 January 1962
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Gloria in Excelsis Deo WALTON
Viola Concerto WALTON
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
John Coulling, viola Owen Brannigan, bass
Marjorie Thomas, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 30 January 1962
Sir Adrian Boult
The Perfect Fool, Ballet Music HOLST
Music for Strings BLISS
The Garden of Fand BAX
Sancta Civitas VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
John Carol Case, baritone Goldsmiths Choral Union
Thursday 1 February 1962
John Pritchard
Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday 4 February 1962
Charles Groves
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello VERDI
Pleurez, pleurez mes yeux from Le Cid MASSENET
Exsultate jubilate MOZART
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra BRITTEN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Joan Hammond, soprano
Thursday 15 February 1962
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Brigg Fair DELIUS
The Firebird, Ballet Suite STRAVINSKY
Abbey Simon, piano
Thursday 20 February 1962
John Pritchard
Sea Drift DELIUS
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Vlado Perlemuter, piano Donald Bell, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 17 April 1962
Paul Hindemith
Mass in E minor BRUCKNER
An American Requiem (When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom’d) HINDEMITH
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Thomas Hemsley, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 22 April 1962
John Pritchard
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
John Ogdon, piano
Sunday 6 May 1962
Josef Krips
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Leon Fleisher, piano
Thursday 10 May 1962
Josef Krips
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 WALTON
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 15 May 1962
Josef Krips
Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Kerstin Meyer, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor
Thursday 24 May 1962
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No 27 MOZART
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sunday 3 June 1962
Paul Kletzki
Hansel and Gretel, Overture HUMPERDINCK
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Thursday 7 June 1962
Paul Kletzki
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Alfredo Campoli, violin
Tuesday 12 June 1962
Paul Kletzki
Symphony No. 2 HONEGGER
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Thursday 21 June 1962
Sir Adrian Boult
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concertstück WEBER
Totentanz LISZT
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1962 – 1963 season
31st Season
Thursday 27 September 1962
John Pritchard
Symphony for Brass and Percussion SCHULLER
Daphnis and Chloe, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 RAVEL
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Gina Bachauer, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 30 September 1962
Josef Krips
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Monday 8 October 1962
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Eileen Poulter, soprano
Tuesday 16 October 1962
John Pritchard
Agon STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Zino Francescatti, violin
Sunday 4 November 1962
Massimo Freccia
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Michael Rabin, violin
Tuesday 6 November 1962
Bernard Haitink
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Moura Lympany, piano
Thursday 8 November 1962
Frederic Jackson
Elijah MENDELSSOHN
Rae Woodland, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Duncan Robertson, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 29 November 1962
John Pritchard
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 No. 11 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 3 BARTOK
Le martyre de Saint Sebastien, excerpts DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Bela Siki, piano
Sunday 2 December 1962
John Pritchard
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 4 December 1962
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 7, ‘Sinfonia Antarctica’ VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Peter Katin, piano Hazel Schmid, soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 17 January 1963
John Pritchard
Nobilissima Visione HINDEMITH
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Cantata Academica BRITTEN
Shura Cherkassky, piano Heather Harper, soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Kenneth MacDonald, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 20 January 1963
John Pritchard
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Totentanz LISZT
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Tamas Vasary, piano
Tuesday 29 January 1963
Sir Adrian Boult
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto BLOCH
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Monday 11 February 1963
Arthur Fiedler
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
The Three Cornered Hat, Dances FALLA
Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Dances of Galanta KODALY
Leonard Pennario, piano
Sunday 17 February 1963
John Pritchard
Signor Bruschino, Overture ROSSINI
Three Excerpts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Magic Flute MOZART
Prologue from Pagliacci LEONCAVALLO
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Geraint Evans, baritone
Tuesday 26 February 1963
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Parsifal, Prelude WAGNER
Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra BARTOK
Te Deum BERLIOZ
Louis Kentner, piano Walter Midgley, tenor
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 14 March 1963
John Pritchard
King Lear, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
La Mer DEBUSSY
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sunday 17 March 1963
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Eric Heidsieck, piano
Tuesday 19 March 1963
Dietfried Bernet
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto in D minor BACH
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Rosalyn Tureck, piano
Monday 25 March 1963
John Pritchard
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Harold in Italy BERLIOZ
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Thursday 18 April 1963
John Pritchard
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Nocturne for Tenor and Orchestra BRITTEN
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Peter Pears, tenor
Sunday 21 April 1963
John Pritchard
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Philippe Entremont, piano
Monday 30 April 1963
John Pritchard
Iberia DEBUSSY
Flute and Harp Concerto MOZART
The Planets, Suite HOLST
Richard Adeney, flute Marisa Robles, harp
London Philharmonic Choir
Monday 13 May 1963
Josef Krips
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Annie Fischer, piano
Friday 17 May 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Annie Fischer, piano
Thursday 23 May 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Sunday 26 May 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Tuesday 4 June 1963
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 16 June 1963
John Pritchard
Love in Bath, Suite (arr. Beecham) HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
John Ogdon, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1963 – 1964 season
32nd Season
Sunday 22 September 1963
John Pritchard
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Exsultate jubilate MOZART
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Hymn to the Sun, Aria from The Golden Cockerel RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Mattiwilda Dobbs, soprano
Sunday 29 September 1963
Pablo Casals
El Pessebre, oratorio CASALS
Olga Iglesias, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Delme Bryn-Jones, baritone
Forbes Robinson, bass David Sellar, boy soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 24 October 1963
John Pritchard
Philharmonic Overture MILHAUD
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 NIELSEN
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Tuesday 5 November 1963
Sir Adrian Boult
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
Peter Katin, piano
Sunday 17 November 1963
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Clifford Curzon, piano
Tuesday 26 November 1963
Roberto Benzi
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Thursday 5 December 1963
John Pritchard
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Lélio, or the Return to Life BERLIOZ
Alexander Young, tenor Peter Lehmann Bedford, actor
Eric Porter, actor
Tuesday 10 December 1963
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
A Colour Symphony BLISS
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday 15 December 1963
John Pritchard
Christmas Oratorio CORELLI
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra BRITTEN
A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Friday 20 December 1963
John Pritchard
The Messiah HANDEL
Jeannette Sinclair, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor John Holmes, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Friday 10 January 1964
John Pritchard
Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Gina Bachauer, piano
Saturday 18 January 1964
George Malcolm
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Nine Quadrilles MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Tamas Vasary, piano
Sunday 26 January 1964
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Thursday 30 January 1964
Norman del Mar
Wozzeck, Fragments BERG
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Marie Collier, soprano Andre Navarra, cello
Quintin Ballardie, viola London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 11 February 1964
Dietfried Bernet
La Forza del Destino, Overture VERDI
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Der Rosenkavalier, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Hary Janos, Suite KODALY
Yan Pascal Tortelier, violin Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 23 February 1964
John Pritchard
The Perfect Fool, Ballet Suite HOLST
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Andor Foldes, piano
Friday 28 February 1964
John Pritchard
Posthorn Serenade MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Il Maestro di Cappella CIMAROSA
Geraint Evans, baritone
Thursday 12 March 1964
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Saturday 21 March 1964
John Pritchard
Overture Di Ballo SULLIVAN
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Stephen Bishop, piano
Tuesday 31 March 1964
Hermann Michael
Two Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Karl Engel, piano
Tuesday 7 April 1964
John Pritchard
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 ENESCU
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
Thursday 16 April 1964
John Pritchard
War Requiem BRITTEN
Heather Harper, soprano William McAlpine, tenor
Hans Willbrink, baritone Melos Ensemble
Highgate School Choir London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 19 April 1964
John Pritchard
Trumpet Tune and Air PURCELL
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
The Golden Cockerel, Suite RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Ralph Izen, trumpet Alfredo Campoli, violin
Tuesday 5 May 1964
John Pritchard
Symphony in B flat major CHAUSSON
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Petrushka, ballet suite STRAVINSKY
Annie Fischer, piano
Sunday 10 May 1964
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto GERSHWIN
Peter and the Wolf PROKOFIEV
Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Malcolm Binns, piano Odo Slobodskaya, narrator
Thursday 14 May 1964
John Pritchard
Fantasmagoria BURT
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony WEBERN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1964 – 1965 season
33rd Season
The Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment from June 1964 to January 1965. The orchestra gave concerts in other venues during the closure.
Sunday 20 September 1964 (Fairfield Hall, Croydon)
Sir Adrian Boult
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1 ELGAR
Peter Katin, piano
Tuesday 20 October 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
John Pritchard
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
John Ogdon, piano
Saturday 24 October 1964 (Fairfield Hall)
John Pritchard
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Szymon Goldberg, violin
Wednesday 28 October 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
Massimo Freccia
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Carmina Burana ORFF
Anne Edwards, soprano John Hauxvell, baritone
Francis Egerton, tenor London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 12 November 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
John Pritchard
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Totentanz LISZT
Claudio Arrau, piano
Saturday 14 November 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Claudio Arrau, piano
Sunday 29 November 1964 (Fairfield Hall)
Rudolf Schwarz
Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
Monday 14 December 1964 (Royal Albert Hall)
Hermann Michael
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 SCHUBERT
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Saturday 16 January 1965 (Fairfield Hall)
Dietfried Bernet
Dance Scene FRICKER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Stephen Bishop, piano
Sunday 24 January 1965 (Royal Albert Hall)
Moshe Atzmon
Carnival Overture DVORAK
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Louis Kentner, piano
Tuesday 2 February 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
Michael Tippett*
Violin Concerto ELGAR
A Child of our Time TIPPETT
Yehudi Menuhin, violin Heather Harper, soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Joseph Ward, tenor
Forbes Robinson, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 7 February 1965
Jascha Horenstein
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
John Browning, piano
Tuesday 9 February 1965
Jascha Horenstein
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Leonard Rose, cello
Sunday 21 February 1965
Constantin Silvestri
Partita WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Friday 26 February 1965
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’ SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
The Three Cornered Hat, Suites 1 and 2 FALLA
John Ogdon, piano
Sunday 7 March 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Russlan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes VAINBERG
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ida Haendel, violin
Tuesday 9 March 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Night on the Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto KHACHATURIAN
Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Friday 12 March 1965
John Pritchard
Mass in B minor BACH
Heather Harper, soprano Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Alexander Young, tenor Victor Godfrey, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 28 March 1965
John Pritchard
Eliahu Inbal*
Queen Mab and Tomb Scenes from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Vladimir Krainov, piano
Tuesday 30 March 1965
John Pritchard
Eliahu Inbal*
Queen Mab and Tomb Scenes from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin
Thursday 1 April 1965
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Tuesday 6 April 1965
Dietfried Bernet
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Ralph Holmes, violin Rohan de Saram, cello
Saturday 17 April 1965
John Pritchard
Johnny Dankworth*
Suite from West Side Story BERNSTEIN
Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra SEIBER/DANKWORTH
Items by the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
An American in Paris GERSHWIN
Johnny Dankworth Orchestra
Thursday 22 April 1965
John Pritchard
Peacock Variations KODALY
Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTOK
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Andor Foldes, piano
Sunday 25 April 1965
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Beatrice and Benedict, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Geza Anda, piano
Friday 30 April 1965
John Pritchard
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s “In Nomine” MAXWELL DAVIES
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Sunday 2 May 1965
Tuesday 4 May 1965
John Pritchard
War Requiem BRITTEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Loren Driscoll, tenor
Hans Wilbrink, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Melos Ensemble Highgate School Choir
Friday 7 May 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
The Impresario, Overture MOZART
Bassoon Concerto WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Martin Gatt, bassoon Malcolm Binns, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1965 – 1966 season
34th Season
Sunday 23 September 1965
John Pritchard
March and Canzona for the Funeral of Queen Mary PURCELL
Brigg Fair DELIUS
Orpheus Britannicus BRITTEN
The Planets HOLST
John Wakefield, tenor
Tuesday 5 October 1965
John Pritchard
Partita WALTON
Kindertotenlieder MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Geraint Evans, baritone
Sunday 10 October 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Thursday 14 October 1965
Evgeny Svetlanov
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9 SHOSTAKOVICH
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Thursday 21 October 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Heinz Medjimorec, piano
Sunday 31 October 1965
John Pritchard
Phedre, Overture MASSENET
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Hary Janos, Suite KODALY
Rodney Friend, violin
Thursday 11 November 1965
John Pritchard
The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Don Garrard, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 16 November 1965
Bernard Haitink
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Ida Haendel, violin
Sunday 21 November 1965
Bernard Haitink
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Gina Bachauer, piano
Sunday 28 November 1965
John Pritchard
The Perfect Fool, Suite HOLST
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
Thursday 2 December 1965
John Pritchard
Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee SCHULLER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 7 December 1965
Sir Adrian Boult
Santiago de Espada, Overture WILLIAMSON
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Bronislav Gimpel, violin
Thursday 16 December 1965
John Pritchard
The Messiah HANDEL
Elizabeth Robson, soprano Yvonne Minton, mezzo soprano
John Wakefield, tenor Donald Bell, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 20 January 1966
Sir Adrian Boult
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 23 January 1966
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Symphony No. 25 MOZART
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Christian Ferras, violin
Tuesday 1 February 1966
Hans Gierster
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Fou Ts’ong, piano
Sunday 13 February 1966
Colin Davis
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Thursday 17 February 1966
Constantin Silvestri
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Rapsodie Espagnole RAVEL
Peter Frankl, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 24 February 1966
Sir Adrian Boult
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 ELGAR
Martha Argerich, piano
Tuesday 1 March 1966
Paul Kletzki
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Concerto for Orchestra LUTOSLAWSKI
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Sunday 6 March 1966
Paul Kletzki
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Radu Aldulescu, cello
Thursday 10 March 1966
John Pritchard
Serenata Notturna MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Andor Foldes, piano
Tuesday 15 March 1966
Antal Dorati
The Creation HAYDN
Elizabeth Harwood, soprano John Wakefield, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 20 March 1966
Antal Dorati
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Peter Katin, piano
Sunday 27 March 1966
John Pritchard
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge BRITTEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 3 April 1966
John Pritchard
West Side Story, Suite GERSHWIN
Ebony Concerto STRAVINSKY
Dialogues for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra BRUBECK
A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Johnny Dankworth and Orchestra
Thursday 7 April 1966
John Pritchard
Cello Symphony BRITTEN
Piano Concerto BUSONI
Maurice Gendron, cello John Ogdon, piano
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 10 April 1966
Evgeny Svetlanov
Prelude to Khovanshchina (Dawn on the Moscow River) MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Ronald Turini, piano
Tuesday 12 April 1966
Evgeny Svetlanov
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Bella Davidovich, piano
Tuesday 19 April 1966
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Symphony No. 104, ‘London’ HAYDN
Shéhérazade RAVEL
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Tuesday 3 May 1966
Lamberto Gardelli
William Tell, Overture ROSSINI
Sinfonia concertante for Winds MOZART
The Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Richard Morgan, oboe John McCaw, clarinet
Keith Whitmore, horn Martin Gatt, bassoon
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1966 – 1967 season
35th Season
Tuesday 20 September 1966
Constantin Silvestri
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 25 September 1966
Constantin Silvestri
In the South ELGAR
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 29 September 1966
Constantin Silvestri
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, contralto London Philharmonic Choir
Choir of Ealing Grammar School for Boys
Thursday 6 October 1966
John Pritchard
War Requiem BRITTEN
Heather Harper, soprano Gerald English, tenor
John Shaw, baritone Highgate School Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 9 October 1966
John Pritchard
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Gina Bachauer, piano
Tuesday 18 October 1966
John Pritchard
Ritual Dances from Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
John Ogdon, piano
Thursday 17 November 1966
Georg Solti
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Thursday 22 November 1966
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Thursday 1 December 1966
Walter Susskind
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Carmina Burana ORFF
April Cantelo, soprano Francis Egerton, tenor
John Hauxvell, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 4 December 1966
Antal Dorati
Concerto for Orchestra KODALY
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 11 December 1966
Antal Dorati
Symphony No. 34 MOZART
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 17 January 1967
Jascha Horenstein
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Sunday 22 January 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
Fugal Overture HOLST
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 26 January 1967
Neeme Järvi
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Stephen Bishop, piano
Thursday 2 February 1967
Neeme Järvi
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Overture in the Italian Style in D major SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Vasso Devetzi, piano
Sunday 5 February 1967
Karl Richter
Mass in B minor BACH
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Peter Pears, tenor John Carol Case, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 9 February 1967
Jean Martinon
Symphony No. 4 ROUSSEL
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
La Mer DEBUSSY
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 21 February 1967
Karel Ancerl
Serenade for Orchestra KREJCÍ
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Andor Foldes, piano
Thursday 23 February 1967
Karel Ancerl
Sinfonietta JANACEK
Three Lieder RICHARD STRAUSS
Composer’s Aria from Ariadne auf Naxos RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Irmgard Seefried, soprano
Thursday 2 March 1967
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola MOZART
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Elly Ameling, soprano Rodney Friend, violin
Quintin Ballardie, viola
Sunday 5 March 1967
Bernard Haitink
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Thursday 9 March 1967
Evgeny Svetlanov
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Yakob Flier, piano
Tuesday 14 March 1967
Evgeny Svetlanov
Kamarinskaya GLINKA
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Igor Oistrakh, violin
Thursday 23 March 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
Anna Reynolds, contralto Ronald Dowd, tenor
Forbes Robinson, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 26 March 1967
Evgeny Svetlanov
A Night on the Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Leonid Kogan, violin
Sunday 2 April 1967
Antal Dorati
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 DVORAK
Josef Suk, violin Maurice Gendron, cello
Tuesday 11 April 1967
Antal Dorati
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Sunday 16 April 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
Music for His Majesty’s Sackbuts and Cornets LOCKE
Violin Concerto No. 1 (arr. Wilhelmj) PAGANINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Tamas Vasary, piano Rodney Friend, violin
Thursday 20 April 1967
Constantin Silvestri
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Annie Fischer, piano
Sunday 23 April 1967
Lawrence Foster
Symphony No. 26 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Tuesday 2 May 1967
John Pritchard
Beatrice and Benedict (concert performance) BERLIOZ
Malvina Parnas, soprano Jean Bonhomme, tenor
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Georgetta Psaros, contralto
Raymond Myers, bass Napoleon Bisson, bass
Robert Eddison, narrator New Opera Chorus
Tuesday 9 May 1967
John Pritchard
Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART
Mass in C minor MOZART
John Ogdon, piano Catherine Gayer, soprano
Patricia Johnson, contralto Alexander Young, tenor
Raymond Myers, bass London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1967 – 1968 season
36th Season
Tuesday 26 September 1967
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 5 October 1967
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Heather Harper, soprano Kim Borg, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 10 October 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo HOLST
Cello Concerto WALTON
Symphony No. 1 ELGAR
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 22 October 1967
Sir Adrian Boult
The Marriage of Figaro, overture MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Sunday 29 October 1967
Richard Bonynge
The Messiah HANDEL
Joan Sutherland, soprano Monica Sinclair, contralto
Peter Baillie, tenor Raymond Myers, bass
Ambrosian Singers
Sunday 5 November 1967
Constantin Silvestri
Penelope, prelude FAURÉ
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Peter Frankl, piano
Thursday 9 November 1967
Bernard Haitink
Benvenuto Cellini, overture BERLIOZ
Symphonies of Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Sunday 12 November 1967
Bernard Haitink
Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Leonard Rose, cello
Thursday 7 December 1967
Antal Dorati
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Sunday 10 December 1967
Antal Dorati
The Creation HAYDN
Heather Harper, soprano William Blankenship, tenor
Forbes Robinson, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 19 December 1967
Carl Melles
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 4 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
John Ogdon, piano
Thursday 18 January 1968
Brian Priestman
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Excerpts from Boris Godunov MUSSORGSKY
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Yi Kwei Sze, bass
Tuesday 23 January 1968
Bernard Haitink
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Josef Suk, violin
Sunday 28 January 1968
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Spring Symphony BRITTEN
Elly Ameling, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Ronald Dowd, tenor London Philharmonic Choir
Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
Sunday 18 February 1968
Karl Richter
St. John Passion BACH
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Ernst Haefliger, tenor Ernst Gerald Schramm, bass
John Carol Case, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 20 February 1968
Lamberto Gardelli
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Rodney Friend, violin
Sunday 25 February 1968
Bernard Haitink
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Petrushka (1947) STRAVINSKY
Clifford Curzon, piano
Thursday 29 February 1968
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 3 March 1968
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 SCHUBERT
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Nikita Magaloff, piano
Sunday 10 March 1968
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Ingrid Haebler, piano Heather Harper, soprano
Anna Reynolds, contralto Alexander Young, tenor
Donald Bell, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 17 March 1968
Maxim Shostakovich
Katerina Ismailova, Suite SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH
Peter Katin, piano Gordon Webb, trumpet
Thursday 21 March 1968
Christoph von Dohnanyi
The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite BARTOK
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Sunday 31 March 1968
Paul Kletzki
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 SIBELIUS
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Thursday 4 April 1968
Evgeny Svetlanov
Lieutenant Kije, Suite PROKOFIEV
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 14 April 1968
Evgeny Svetlanov
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Agostin Anievas, piano
Thursday 18 April 1968
Evgeny Svetlanov
The Golden Cockerel, Suite RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 SHOSTAKOVICH
Rafael Orozco, piano
Tuesday 23 April 1968
John Pritchard
The Planets, Suite HOLST
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Dan Garrard, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 30 April 1968
John Pritchard
La Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 NIELSEN
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Thursday 9 May 1968
Bernard Haitink
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 12 May 1968
Bernard Haitink
Die Meistersinger, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1968 – 1969 season
37th Season
Tuesday 17 September 1968
Jerzy Semkow
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2 SCRIABIN
Isaac Stern, conductor
Sunday 29 September 1968
Sir Adrian Boult
Die Meistersinger, Overture WAGNER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 RUBBRA
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 3 October 1968
Sir Adrian Boult
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Organ Symphony COPLAND
Organ Concerto No. 2 in C major HAYDN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
E. Power Biggs, organ
Thursday 17 October 1968
Georg Solti
Dance Suite BARTOK
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Gyorgy Pauk, violin
Tuesday 29 October 1968
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Sunday 3 November 1968
Eugen Jochum
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Sunday 10 November 1968
Eugen Jochum
Masonic Funeral Music MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Nikita Magaloff, piano
Tuesday 19 November 1968
Bernard Haitink
Exsultate, jubilate MOZART
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 24 November 1968
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 9, ‘Jeunehomme’ MOZART
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
André Watts, piano
Thursday 5 December 1968
John Pritchard
Piano Concerto No. 2 HENZE
Symphony No. 3, ‘Espansiva’ NIELSEN
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Thursday 19 December 1968
Antal Dorati
Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Thursday 16 January 1969
Bernard Haitink
Three Pieces from Arden Must Die GOEHR
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Yonty Solomon, piano
Tuesday 21 January 1969
Bernard Haitink
Three Pieces from Arden Must Die GOEHR
Violin Concerto BRITTEN
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Rodney Friend, violin John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 26 January 1969
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Stephen Bishop, piano Heather Harper, soprano
Anna Reynolds, mezzo soprano Ryland Davies, tenor
Donald Bell, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 2 February 1969
Daniel Barenboim
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 9 February 1969
Daniel Barenboim
The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture ROSSINI
Italian Serenade WOLF
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Alfred Brendel, piano
Sunday 16 February 1969
Karl Richter
St. Matthew Passion BACH
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Van Ketteren, tenor Robert Tear, tenor
Ernst Gerald Schumann, baritone Kieth Engen, bass
Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir London Philharmonic Choir
Wednesday 19 February 1969
Richard Bonynge
Alcina (concert performance) HANDEL
Joan Sutherland, soprano Mary O’Brien, soprano
Margaret Elkins, soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Monica Sinclair, contralto Ryland Davies, tenor
John Gibbs, bass Ambrosian Singers
Thursday 6 March 1969
Josef Krips
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sunday 9 March 1969
Joseph Krips
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Tuesday 11 March 1969
Josef Krips
Il Seraglio, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Friedrich Gulda, piano
Sunday 16 March 1969
Bernard Haitink
Beatrice and Benedict, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto ELGAR
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 20 March 1969
George Szell
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn MAHLER
Symphony No. 6 MAHLER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Tuesday 25 March 1969
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Mass in E minor BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 4 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 30 March 1969
Bernard Haitink
Overture, Nocturne, Intermezzo, Scherzo, Funeral and Wedding Marches from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 9, ‘Jeunehomme’ MOZART
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
La Mer DEBUSSY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 13 April 1969
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 25 MOZART
Partita WALTON
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Sunday 27 April 1969
John Pritchard
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Malcolm Binns, piano
Sunday 4 May 1969
Bernard Haitink
Overture in the Italian Style SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Claudio Arrau, piano
Thursday 8 May 1969
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Claudio Arrau, piano
Sunday 11 May 1969
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 SHOSTAKOVICH
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1969 – 1970 season
38th Season
Thursday 16 October 1969
Jerzy Semkow
La cenerentola, Overture ROSSINI
Piano Concerto No. 25 MOZART
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Michael Roll, piano
Sunday 19 October 1969
Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Daydreams’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Alexander Nevsky, cantata PROKOFIEV
Larissa Avdeyeva, contralto London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 21 October 1969
Evgeny Svetlanov
Introduction to Sorochintsy Fair MUSSORGSKY
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Pictures from an Exhibition (arr. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 23 October 1969
Evgeny Svetlanov
The Maid of Pskov, Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
La Mer DEBUSSY
Malcolm Binns, piano
Thursday 30 October 1969
Edward Downes
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Voices of Night, Cantata REIZENSTEIN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin Elizabeth Harwood, soprano
Benjamin Luxon, baritone BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Sunday 9 November 1969
Lorin Maazel
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Thursday 13 November 1969
Lorin Maazel
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Israela Margalit, piano
Sunday 30 November 1969
Bernard Haitink
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphonies of Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
Taras Bulba JANACEK
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Thursday 4 December 1969
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Anna Reynolds, mezzo soprano Alexander Young, baritone
Tuesday 13 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
Cantata No. 170 BACH
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Margaret Price, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 15 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
Don Giovanni, Overture MOZART
Concerto in A minor for two violins, Op. 3 No. 8 VIVALDI
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Henryk Szeryng, violin Rodney Friend, violin
Tuesday 20 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Nikita Magaloff, piano
Sunday 25 January 1970
Bernard Haitink
The Silken Ladder, Overture ROSSINI
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Masuko Ushioda, violin
Thursday 5 February 1970
Eugen Jochum
Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Sunday 8 February 1970
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Sunday 15 February 1970
Karl Richter
Passacaglia in C major, K582 BACH
Fantasia in F minor MOZART
Requiem Mass MOZART
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Alexander Young, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, bass
John Alldis Choir
Thursday 19 February 1970
Jerzy Semkow
Funeral Music LUTOSLAWSKI
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Roberto Szidon, piano
Thursday 26 February 1970
Sir Adrian Boult
The Kingdom ELGAR
Margaret Price, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
Alexander Young, tenor Benjamin Luxon, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 5 March 1970
Maxim Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 8 SHOSTAKOVICH
Sunday 8 March 1970
Maxim Shostakovich
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 8 SHOSTAKOVICH
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 10 March 1970
Charles Mackerras
Robert Simpson*
Symphony No. 1 SIMPSON
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Leonard Rose, cello
Tuesday 17 March 1970
Bernard Haitink
The Building of the House, Overture BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 PROKOFIEV
The Planets, Suite HOLST
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 26 March 1970
Bernard Haitink
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Thursday 2 April 1970
Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 2 HENZE
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Sunday 12 April 1970
John Pritchard
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Dance Scene FRICKER
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Radu Lupu, piano
Sunday 19 April 1970
Sir Adrian Boult
Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR
Organ Concerto WILLIAMSON
Choral Symphony HOLST
Malcolm Williamson, organ Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1970 – 1971 season
39th Season
Tuesday 22 September 1970
Bernard Haitink
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
André Watts, piano
Thursday 24 September 1970
Bernard Haitink
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Gina Bachauer, piano
Thursday 8 October 1970
Jascha Horenstein
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Overture, Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II
Artists’ Life, Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Heather Harper, soprano
Tuesday 13 October 1970
François Huybrechts
Lachian Dances JANACEK
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Peter Frankl. piano
Tuesday 20 October 1970
Josef Krips
Improvisations on an Impromptu by Benjamin Britten WALTON
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Tuesday 3 November 1970
Sir Adrian Boult
The Pilgrim’s Progress (concert performance) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
John Noble, baritone Norma Burrowes, tenor
Gerald English, tenor Raimund Herincx, baritone
Robert Lloyd, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 10 November 1970
John Pritchard
Seven Studies on themes of Paul Klee SCHULLER
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Tong Il Han, piano
Thursday 19 November 1970
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 22 November 1970
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 3 December 1970
Lorin Maazel
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Paul Tortelier, cello Quintin Ballardie, viola
Tuesday 8 December 1970
John Pritchard
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Ida Haendel, violin
Sunday 13 December 1970
John Pritchard
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 17 December 1970
Daniel Barenboim
Five Orchestral Pieces WEBERN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Sunday 17 January 1971
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Tuesday 19 January 1971
Brian Priestman
Symphonic Variations DVORAK
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
John Ogdon, piano
Sunday 24 January 1971
Georg Solti
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Thursday 4 February 1971
Paavo Berglund
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BACH
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Malcolm Binns, piano Rodney Friend, violin
Douglas Whittaker, flute Colin Chambers, flute
Tuesday 9 February 1971
Aldo Ceccato
Partita PETRASSI
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Lorin Hollander, piano
Tuesday 16 February 1971
Charles Groves
A Mass of Life DELIUS
Heather Harper, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Ryland Davies, tenor Benjamin Luxon, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 23 February 1971
Raymond Leppard
Concerto a Due Cori in F major HANDEL
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 SIBELIUS
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Thursday 4 March 1971
Jascha Horenstein
Iphigenie en Aulis, Overture GLUCK
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Tuesday 9 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Eleven Viennese Dances BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Three Orchestral Pieces BERG
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 14 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Three Orchestral Pieces BERG
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Clifford Curzon, piano
Sunday 21 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Thomas Helmsley, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 28 March 1971
John Pritchard
Circus, for two trumpets and orchestra HAMILTON
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’ NIELSEN
Gordon Webb, trumpet Howard Snell, trumpet
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Tuesday 30 March 1971
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Thursday 8 April 1971
Sir Adrian Boult
Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Claudio Arrau, piano
Tuesday 13 April 1971
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Rodney Friend, violin
Thursday 15 April 1971
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 2 WILLIAMSON
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Bells RACHMANINOV
Alfred Brendel, piano Margaret Price, soprano
Kenneth Bowen, tenor Alan Charles, bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 20 April 1971
Josef Krips
Il Seraglio, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Sunday 25 April 1971
Lorin Maazel
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Prometheus, The Poem of Fire SCRIABIN
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 2 May 1971
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Les Illuminations BRITTEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
Tuesday 4 May 1971
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1971 – 1972 season
40th Season
Tuesday 21 September 1971
John Pritchard
Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 24 October 1971
Bernard Haitink
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Sunday 7 November 1971
Daniel Barenboim
Concerto in C minor for Violin and Oboe BACH
Violin Concerto No. 3 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Isaac Stern, violin Roger Winfield, oboe
Tuesday 9 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion TIPPETT
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Ida Haendel, violin
Sunday 14 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 18 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 21 November 1971
Bernard Haitink
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Norma Procter, mezzo soprano Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Tuesday 30 November 1971
Georg Solti
The Creation HAYDN
Heather Harper, soprano Stuart Burrowes, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 5 December 1971
Edo de Waart
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphonic Dances RACHMANINOV
Yong Uck Kim, piano
Sunday 19 December 1971
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 3 LENNOX BERKELEY
Piano Concerto No. 4 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
John Ogdon, piano
Thursday 20 January 1972
Bernard Haitink
Don Giovanni, Overture MOZART
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Hermann Krebbers, violin Tibor de Machula, cello
Sunday 23 January 1972
Bernard Haitink
Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten WALTON
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Radu Lupu, piano
Thursday 27 January 1972
Sir Adrian Boult
William Alwyn*
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 ALWYN*
Nathan Milstein, violin
Sunday 30 January 1972
Sir Adrian Boult
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 10 February 1972
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Sunday 13 February 1972
Georg Solti
Piano Concerto No. 12 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Ingrid Haebler, piano
Tuesday 15 February 1972
Moshe Atzmon
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Concerto for Orchestra BARTÓK
John Lill, piano
Sunday 20 February 1972
Georg Solti
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Tuesday 7 March 1972
Bernard Haitink
Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon DAVID BEDFORD
Piano Concerto SCRIABIN
Also Sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano London Philharmonic Choir
Thursday 9 March 1972
Bernard Haitink
Serenade for Strings DVORAK
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Thursday 16 March 1972
Bernard Haitink
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Violin Concerto BRITTEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Rodney Friend, violin
Sunday 2 April 1972
Georg Solti
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Sheherazade RAVEL
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Josephine Veasey, contralto
Thursday 6 April 1972
Georg Solti
Psalmus Hungaricus KODALY
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Robert Tear, tenor
Tuesday 18 April 1972
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 93 HAYDN
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Sunday 23 April 1972
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Thursday 27 April 1972
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Tuesday 2 May 1972
Bernard Haitink
Notturni ed Alba McCABE
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Sheila Armstrong, soprano Alfred Brendel, piano
Sunday 7 May 1972
Bernard Haitink
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra FAURÉ
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Alicia de Larrocha, piano Felicity Palmer, soprano
Helen Watts, contralto Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1972 – 1973 season
41st Season
Thursday 28 September 1972
Daniel Barenboim
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto No. 1 MOZART
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor
Wednesday 4 October 1972
Aldo Ceccato
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Thursday 19 October 1972
Raymond Leppard
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Cassation derived from ‘The Rising of the Moon’ NICHOLAS MAW
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Paul Tortelier, cello
Sunday 22 October 1972
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 96, ‘Miracle’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 97 HAYDN
Symphony No. 98 HAYDN
Thursday 26 October 1972
Eugen Jochum
Concerto da Camera HONEGGER
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
John Lill, piano
Tuesday 31 October 1972
Edo de Waart
La Peri, Fanfare DUKAS
Integrales VARESE
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 6 DVORAK
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Sunday 5 November 1972
Bernard Haitink
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Requiem Mass MOZART
Ida Haendel, violin Heather Harper, soprano
Anna Reynolds, contralto Gerald English, tenor
Benjamin Luxon, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 19 November 1972
Bernard Haitink
‘Parto, parto’, aria from La Clemenza di Tito MOZART
Wesendonck Lieder WAGNER
Symphony No. 6 MAHLER
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Thursday 23 November 1972
Bernard Haitink
Lontano LIGETI
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Totentanz LISZT
Petrushka STRAVINSKY
Alfred Brendel, piano
Tuesday 28 November 1972
Maxim Shostakovich
Khovanshchina, Prelude MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Pathetique, Oratorio SVIRIDOV
Peter Katin, piano Nina Isakova, mezzo soprano
Alexander Vedernikov, bass Russian State Yurlov Choir
Thursday 30 November 1972
Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
Violin Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
David Oistrakh, violin
Tuesday 5 December 1972
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 2 SEARLE
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Nathan Milstein, violin
Tuesday 12 December 1972
Kurt Sanderling
Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op. 6 No. 7 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Lorin Hollander, piano
Sunday 17 December 1972
Kurt Sanderling
Details need to be traced
Thursday 25 January 1973
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 3 PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Sunday 28 January 1973
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Tuesday 30 January 1973
Eugen Jochum
Symphony No. 99 HAYDN
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Thursday 15 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Sunday 18 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Stephen Bishop, piano
Thursday 22 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
Concerto for Orchestra BARTOK
Bluebeards Castle BARTOK
Tatiana Troyanos, soprano Andras Farrago, baritone
Tuesday 27 February 1973
Sir Georg Solti
La Damnation de Faust BERLIOZ
Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Stuart Burrows, tenor
Gwynne Howell, bass Paul Hudson, bass
London Philharmonic Choir Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
Tuesday 3 April 1973
Edo de Waart
Sonata Pian e Forte GABRIELI
Washington’s Birthday IVES
Rückert Lieder MAHLER
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Sunday 8 April 1973
Sir Adrian Boult
John Alldis*
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Monologue from Act 1 of The Flying Dutchman WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Dona Nobis Pacem VAUGHAN WILLIAMS*
Sheila Armstrong, soprano David Ward, tenor
John Carol Case, baritone London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday 22 April 1973
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Walter Klien, piano
Tuesday 1 May 1973
Erich Leinsdorf
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Peter Katin, piano
Friday 4 May 1973
Bernard Haitink
Concerto for Orchestra IAIN HAMILTON
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Kyung Wha Chung, violin
Tuesday 8 May 1973
Bernard Haitink
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Thursday 10 May 1973
Josef Krips
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Ileana Cotrubas, piano Norma Procter, mezzo soprano
London Philharmonic Choir
Sunday, 17 May 2009
BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 1959 - 1962
This listing is prepared from the annual prospectuses as amended by reviews of those concerts available in The Times, and any changes of programme announced in The Times concert announcements. There may have been last minute changes not known to me.
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
65th Season 1959
Saturday 25 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
A London Overture IRELAND
Three Sea Pictures (In Haven, Sabbath Morning and Where Corals Lie) ELGAR
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra MOZART
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell BRITTEN
Dance Concertante for Two Pianos (three hands) and orchestra GRAHAM WHETTAM
Suite from La Boutique Fantasque (arr. Respighi) ROSSINI
Norma Procter, contralto Cyril Smith, piano
Phyllis Sellick, piano
Monday 27 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Flying Dutchman WAGNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 5 DANIEL JONES
Manoug Parikian, violin
Tuesday 28 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Marche Militaire in D major SCHUBERT
Entr’acte in B flat and Ballet Music in G from Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Wanderer Fantasia (arr. for piano and orchestra, Liszt) SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Jacqueline Delman, soprano Hervey Alan, bass
Joseph Weingarten, piano BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Wednesday 29 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 3 SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Festivo from Scènes historiques SIBELIUS
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Valse triste SIBELIUS
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Alfredo Campoli, violin
Thursday 30 July 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
April Cantelo, soprano Ronald Smith, piano
Friday 31 July 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Adelaide, Song with Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon and Strings ELIZABETH MACONCHY
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
William McAlpine, tenor Evelyn Rothwell, oboe
Archie Camden, bassoon Denis Matthews, piano
Saturday 1 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Tatiana’s Letter Song from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from The Sleeping Beauty TCHAIKOVSKY
Lensky’s Aria from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Love Duet from Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Amy Shuard, soprano Rowland Jones, tenor
Peter Element, piano
Monday 3 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA
Ruslan’s Aria from Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA
Nocturne for Strings (arr. Sargent) BORODIN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Peter and the Wolf PROKOFIEV
Tsar Dodon in his palace and Wedding and Death of Dodon from Le Coq d’or RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Wilfred Pickles, narrator Alfred Orda, baritone
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Tuesday 4 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
‘Non paventar…Infelice sconsolata’ Recit. And Aria from The Magic Flute MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 19 MOZART
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Elizabeth Simon, soprano Paul Beard, violin
Edith Vogel, piano
Wednesday 5 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Leslie Woodgate*
Suite No. 3 BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BACH
Cantata No. 80, ‘Ein’ fest Burg ist unser Gott’ BACH
Two Chorale Preludes, ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ and ‘Nun freut euch’ BACH
Motet, ‘Sing ye to the Lord’ BACH*
Organ Solo (Bach)
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Pamela Bowden, contralto
Duncan Robertson, tenor Roger Stalman, bass
David Martin, violin Douglas Whittaker, flute
Iris Loveridge, piano Geraint Jones, organ
BBC Chorus
Thursday 6 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Hollingsworth*
Overture to The Journey to Rheims ROSSINI
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonie concertante for Oboe and Strings IBERT*
España CHABRIER*
Leon Goossens, oboe Phyllis Sellick, piano
Friday 7 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 HUMPHREY SEARLE
Iberia DEBUSSY
Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Saturday 8 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to William Tell ROSSINI
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Organ Concerto in B flat (Op, 7 No. 1) HANDEL
Three Scenes from Petrushka STRAVINSKY
John Ogdon, piano Arnold Richardson, organ
Monday 10 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Maurice Miles*
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
‘Che farò’, Recitative and Aria from Orfeo GLUCK
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER
Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Kerstin Meyer, mezzo soprano Kendall Turner, piano
Tuesday 11 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Sinfonia Antarctica (Symphony No. 7) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Adrienne Cole, soprano Peter Katin, piano
BBC Women’s Chorus
Wednesday 12 August 1959
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Hollingsworth*
Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) ELGAR
The Planets HOLST
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR
André Navarra, cello BBC Women’s Chorus
Thursday 13 August 1959
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto in D HAYDN
‘O how pleasing to the senses’, recitative and aria from The Seasons HAYDN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Ilse Wolf, soprano Harry Danks, viola
Erling Bengtsson, cello
Friday 14 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Prelude to The Forgotten Rite IRELAND
Piano Concerto IRELAND
Satyricon, Overture IRELAND
Anthony di Bonaventura, piano Eric Parkin, piano
Saturday 15 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture di Ballo SULLIVAN
To Julia, Song Cycle (arr. Sargent) QUILTER
Variations on a Nursery Song DOHNANYI
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG
Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra MILHAUD
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Alexander Young, tenor Patricia Bishop, piano
Gilbert Webster, percussion Royal Choral Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Monday 17 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Maurice Miles*
Mátyás Seiber+
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Pieces for Cello and Orchestra MÁTYÁS SEIBER+
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Alberto Lysy, violin Amaryllis Fleming, cello
Tuesday 18 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Sir William Walton*
Sinfonietta JANÁČEK
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 1 WALTON*
Colin Horsley, piano BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Wednesday 19 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Hollingsworth*
Scherzo and March from The Love of Three Oranges PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto MALCOLM WILLIAMSON*
Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK*
Malcolm Williamson, piano
Thursday 20 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Hollingsworth
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
Marjorie Thomas, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor
John Cameron, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society
Royal Choral Society
Friday 21 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Andrzej Panufnik*
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
‘Abscheulicher’, Recitative and Aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Two Romances for Violin and Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Polonia, Suite PANUFNIK*
Joyce Barker, soprano Ida Haendel, violin
Saturday 22 August 1959
National Youth Orchestra
Walter Susskind
Overture to Theodora (arr. Gordon Jacob) HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Soirées Musicales (arr. Britten) ROSSINI
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK
Kathleen Jones, piano
Monday 24 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphonic Dances Nos. 2 and 4 GRIEG
Oboe Concerto MARTINŮ
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Evelyn Rothwell, oboe
Tuesday 25 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to The Silken Ladder ROSSINI
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 5 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme RICHARD STRAUSS
Colas Breugnon, Overture KABALEVSKY
Peter Katin, piano
Wednesday 26 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 ALWYN
Thursday 27 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Lamar Crowson, piano
Friday 28 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Saturday 29 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to Il Seraglio MOZART
Trumpet Concerto HAYDN
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier RICHARD STRAUSS
Overture to Pique Dame SUPPÉ
Selections from A Waltz Dream OSCAR STRAUS
New Pizzicato Polka JOHANN STRAUSS II
Tales of the Vienna Woods JOHANN STRAUSS II
Overture to Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II
William Lang, trumpet
Monday 31 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Creation HAYDN
Elsie Morison, soprano Walter Midgley, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society
Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 1 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Tapiola SIBELIUS
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) KODÁLY
Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH
Colin Horsley, piano
Wednesday 2 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Four Serious Songs (orch. Sargent) BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Kim Borg, bass Andor Foldes, piano
Thursday 3 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Kenneth Leighton+
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Burlesque KENNETH LEIGHTON+
Piano Solos (Chopin)
Carnival Overture DVOŘÁK
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Friday 4 September 1959
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 YORK BOWEN
Street Corner, Overture ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Alan Loveday, violin York Bowen, piano
Saturday 5 September 1959
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Hollingsworth
Richard Arnell*
Introduction to Act 3 of Sylvia DELIBES
Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from Façade WALTON
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Scenes and Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Ballet Suite, Harlequin in April RICHARD ARNELL*
Bolèro RAVEL
Natalia Karp, piano
Monday 7 September 1959
Basil Cameron
John Hollingsworth*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
‘Ombra mai fu’, Recitative and Aria from Xerxes HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Concerto in B flat for Harp and Small Orchestra HANDEL
Suite from The Water Music (arr. Harty) HANDEL
Concerto Serenata for Harp and Orchestra RODRIGO
Tintagel BAX
Constance Shacklock, contralto Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
Maurice Cole, piano
Tuesday 8 September 1959
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST
Violin Concerto BERG
Symphony No. 4 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber HINDEMITH
Tibor Varga, violin
Wednesday 9 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Lennox Berkeley+
Hamlet TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Pezzo Capriccioso TCHAIKOVSKY*
Symphony No. 2 LENNOX BERKELEY+
Maurice Gendron, cello
Thursday 10 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Le Roi David HONEGGER
Plague Choruses from Israel in Egypt HANDEL
Organ Concerto in D minor, Op. 7 No. 4 HANDEL
Zadok the Priest HANDEL
Richard Attenborough, narrator Elizabeth Fretwell, soprano
Monica Sinclair, contralto David Galliver, tenor
George Thalben-Ball, organ Alexandra Choir
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Goldsmiths’ Choral Union
Friday 11 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Myra Hess, piano
Saturday 12 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor NICOLAI
Joan of Arc’s Farewell from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
The Blue Danube Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Suite from The Firebird STRAVINSKY
The Rio Grande LAMBERT
Suite from L’Arlèsienne BIZET
Jean Allister, soprano Eileen Joyce, soprano
BBC Chorus
Monday 14 September 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
‘Wahn! Wahn!’ Sachs Monologue from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Closing Scene from Die Walküre WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Sylvia Fisher, soprano Sigurd Björling, baritone
Tuesday 15 September 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Endre Wolf, violin
Wednesday 16 September 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
John Hollingsworth*
Serenata Notturna MOZART
Exsultate jubilate, Motet MOZART
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Heather Harper, soprano Ralph Holmes, violin
Rohan de Saram, cello
Thursday 17 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK
Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
La Valse RAVEL
Helga Pilarczyk, soprano Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
Friday 18 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Overture to Lohengrin WAGNER
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Pauline Brockless, soprano Nancy Thomas, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor David Ward, bass
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Saturday 19 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron*
Overture to The Barber of Seville ROSSINI
Andante Cantabile TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Dance Rhapsody No. 1 DELIUS
Pomp and Circumstamce March No. 1 ELGAR
Sea Songs HENRY WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Constance Shacklock, piano Clifford Curzon, piano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
66th Season 1960
Saturday 23 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
‘In questa reggia’, aria from Turandot PUCCINI
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Variations on a theme of Paganini BLACHER
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Amy Shuard, soprano Clifford Curzon, piano
Monday 25 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Lennox Berkeley*
A London Overture IRELAND
Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila LENNOX BERKELEY*
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Nancy Evans, contralto Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Tuesday 26 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Cantata No. 140 BACH
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Elizabeth Simon, soprano Alexander Young, tenor
James Milligan, bass Rosalyn Tureck, piano
BBC Chorus
Wednesday 27 July 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Italian Serenade (orch. Reger) WOLF
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Annelies Kupper, soprano Endre Wolf, violin
André Navarra, cello
Thursday 28 July 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Eugene Goossens
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
La Mer DEBUSSY
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Sergio Varella Cid, piano
Friday 29 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto GERHARD*
Fêtes (Nocturnes) DEBUSSY
Yfrah Neaman, violin Maria Donska, piano
Saturday 30 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Oberon WEBER
‘Ombra cara’, aria from Radamisto HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
La Boutique fantasque, Suite (orch. Respighi) ROSSINI
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK
Russell Oberlin, counter tenor Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Monday 1 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to Medea CHERUBINI
The Mad Scene from I Puritani BELLINI
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Suite from L’Arlèsienne BIZET
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Joan Sutherland, soprano Phyllis Sellick, piano
Tuesday 2 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to The Thieving Magpie ROSSINI
Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 25 MOZART
Four Songs from Les nuits d’été (Villanelle, Le Spectre de la Rose, Sur les Lagunes, L’Ile Inconnue) BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Nadine Sautereau, soprano Charles Rosen, piano
Wednesday 3 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Creation HAYDN
Mary Wells, soprano William Herbert, tenor
Kim Borg, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society
Royal Choral Society Watford Philharmonic Society
Thursday 4 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Semiramide ROSSINI
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge BRITTEN
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Tibor Varga, violin
Friday 5 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Falstaff ELGAR
Lamar Crowson, piano
Saturday 6 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Stanford Robinson*
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
Suite No. 2 from The Wand of Youth ELGAR
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Jeux d’Enfants BIZET
Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra LITOLFF
Scottish Dances IAIN HAMILTON
España CHABRIER
Eileen Joyce, piano
Monday 8 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to Idomeneo MOZART
Anne’s Scena from The Rake’s Progress STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony in C STRAVINSKY
Gesang der Jünglinge STOCKHAUSEN
Bolero RAVEL
Joan Carlyle, soprano Ingrid Haebler, piano
Tuesday 9 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Concerto in E flat major for Two Pianos MOZART
Love Scene, Queen Mab Scherzo, Reverie and Capulet’s Feast from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion BARTÓK
Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky, piano Heinz König, percussion
Christopher Caskel, percussion
Wednesday 10 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Overture from The Impresario MOZART
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments HODDINOTT*
Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Trevor Anthony, bass
Valerie Tryon, piano BBC Choral Society
Royal Choral Society
Thursday 11 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST
The Planets HOLST
Paul Tortelier, cello BBC Women’s Chorus
Friday 12 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Alexander Gibson*
Finale of the Ballet Music from The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Musique Funèbre LUTOSLAWSKI
Jeux DEBUSSY
Myra Hess, piano
Saturday 13 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Cosi fan tutte MOZART
Suite from Mother Goose RAVEL
‘Di, cor mio’ and ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ arias from Alcina HANDEL
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Regnava nel silenzio’ aria from Lucia di Lammermoor DONIZETTI
On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS
From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA
Joan Sutherland, soprano Henryk Szeryng, violin
Monday 15 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Endre Wolf, violin
Tuesday 16 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Incidental Music to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Grande Messe des Morts BERLIOZ
Jeannette Sinclair, soprano Charles Craig, tenor
Marius Goring, narrator BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Wednesday 17 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Six Pieces, Op. 6 WEBERN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Jörg Demus, piano
Thursday 18 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 98 HAYDN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Variations SCHOENBERG
Alborada del gracioso RAVEL
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Elise Czerfalvi, violin
Friday 19 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Nocturne for Tenor BRITTEN
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Peter Pears, tenor Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Saturday 20 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Comedy Overture BUSONI
‘Porgi Amor’ and ‘Dove sono’ arias from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Parade SATIE
German Dances (orch. Webern) SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Overture to The Silken Ladder ROSSINI
Jaroslavna’s Aria from Prince Igor BORODIN
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano John Ogdon, piano
Monday 22 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis GLUCK
Wesendonk Lieder WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Sylvia Fisher, soprano Sergio Varella Cid, piano
Tuesday 23 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis*
Overture to Prince Igor BORODIN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY*
Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Alberto Remedios, tenor Roger Stalman, bass
Raimund Herincx, bass baritone John Neville, speaker
BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus
Wednesday 24 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
The Fair Melusine, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Altenberg Lieder BERG
Concerto in D major for flute and strings (Il Cardellino) VIVALDI
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Pamela Bowden, mezzo soprano Severino Gazzelloni, flute
Thursday 25 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola MOZART
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Ode (Elegiac Chant) STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Norbert Brainin, violin Peter Schidlof, viola
Friday 26 August 1960
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Arthur Bliss*
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘Abscheulicher!’, aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Lie Strewn the White Flocks, Pastoral BLISS*
Two Dances from Checkmate BLISS*
Joyce Barker, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Douglas Whittaker, flute BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Saturday 27 August 1960
Sir Malcolm Sargent
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PROGRAMME
Marie Collier, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, baritone
Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Monday 29 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Lieutenant Kije, Suite PROKOFIEV
Suite from The Firebird STRAVINSKY
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 30 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Consecration of the House, Overture BEETHOVEN
Adelaide, Song with Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Grace Hoffman, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor
Wednesday 31 August 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Meredith Davies
Overture to Beatrice and Benedict BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Sosotris’s Aria from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Mathis der Maler, Symphony HINDEMITH
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 1 September 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Basil Cameron
Prelude to Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Piano Solos (Chopin)
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL
Halina Czerny-Stefanska, piano
Friday 2 September 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Choral fantasia BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Siegfried’s Funeral March and Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Sylvia Fisher, soprano Peter Wallfisch, piano
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Saturday 3 September 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Alexander Gibson
Entry of Diana’s Huntresses from Act 1 of Sylvia DELIBES
Les Patineurs (arr. Lambert) MEYERBEER
Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas BRITTEN
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Ballet Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from Cinderella PROKOFIEV
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Malcolm Binns, piano
Monday 5 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
George Hurst*
Overture to Tancredi ROSSINI
Symphony No. 99 HAYDN
Requiem Mass VERDI
Ivana Tosini, soprano Anna Maria Rota, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Raffaele Arié, bass
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 6 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Harty) HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART
Les Préludes LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK
Vltava SMETANA
Andor Foldes, piano
Wednesday 7 September 1960
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Eugene Goossens*
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Joan of Arc’s Farewell from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Poem for Twenty-Two strings SEARLE
Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra GOOSSENS
Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Tessa Robbins, violin
Thursday 8 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir William Walton*
Derby Day, Overture ALWYN
Cello Concerto WALTON*
Symphony No. 9 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Erling Bengtsson, cello
Friday 9 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Three Places in New England IVES
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Denis Matthews, piano
Saturday 10 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Sir William Walton*
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL
Violin Concerto No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Suite from Façade WALTON*
Carnival in Paris SVENDSEN
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Beryl Kimber, violin
Monday 12 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
‘La Captive’, song with orchestra BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Metamorphosen RICHARD STRAUSS
Introduction Act 3 and Procession of Masters from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Monica Sinclair, soprano Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Tuesday 13 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Graham Treacher*
Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
De profundis SCHOENBERG*
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Norma Procter, contralto BBC Chorus
London New Music Singers
Wednesday 14 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Meredith Davies
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29 BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BACH
Cantata No. 21, ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniss’ BACH
Triptych for tenor and orchestra THEA MUSGRAVE
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
Heather Harper, soprano Duncan Robertson, baritone
Donald Bell, bass baritone Hugh Maguire, violin
Alexander Murray, flute Lowry Sanders, flute
Francis Jackson, organ BBC Chorus
Thursday 15 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto BERG
Symphonic Dance No. 4 GRIEG
Symphonic Studies RAWSTHORNE
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Ralph Holmes, violin
Friday 16 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Stanford Robinson*
Overture to Alceste GLUCK
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
La Création du Monde MILHAUD*
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Elsie Morison, soprano Monica Sinclair, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Donald Bell, bass
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Saturday 17 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron*
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Lyric Suite GRIEG
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS*
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS*
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
Beni Mora, Suite HOLST
Sea Songs HENRY WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Constance Shacklock, soprano Colin Horsley, piano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
67th Season 1961
Saturday 22 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Journey to Reims ROSSINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Mazeppa LISZT
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Emperor Waltzes JOHANN STRAUSS II
John Ogdon, piano
Monday 24 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Les Illuminations BRITTEN
Symphony No. 6 SHOSTAKOVICH
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Gerald English, tenor Thomas Hemsley, baritone
Alexandra Choir BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 25 July 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to Luisa Miller VERDI
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Tamas Vasary, piano
Wednesday 26 July 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Les Francs Juges, Overture BERLIOZ
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Kerstin Meyer, contralto Nina Milkina, piano
Thursday 27 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Seraglio MOZART
Serenade to Music VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Oboe Concerto RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 21 MIASKOVSKY
Prelude and Fugue for Strings in Eighteen parts BRITTEN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Elizabeth Harwood, soprano Pamela Bowden, contralto
Alfred Hallett, tenor Victor Godfrey, bass
Leon Goossens, oboe BBC Chorus
Friday 28 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe*
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
‘An die ferne Geliebte’, song cycle BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Symphonies for solo piano, wind, harps and percussion ELISABETH LUTYENS
Organ Solos (Bach and Liszt)
Charles Craig, tenor Katharina Wolpe, piano
Peter Le Huray, organ
Saturday 29 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Charles Mackerras*
Ballet Suite from Pucinella STRAVINSKY
‘O don fatale’, aria from Don Carlo VERDI
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Waltz Fantasy in B minor GLINKA
Love the Magician FALLA
Marina de Gabarain, contralto
Monday 31 July 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Six Songs from Das Marienleben HINDEMITH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK
Sybil Michelow, soprano Valerie Tryon, piano
Tuesday 1 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to La Clemenza di Tito MOZART
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Choral Fantasia BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Double String Orchestra TIPPETT
Symphony No. 5, ‘Reformation’ MENDELSSOHN
Edith Vogel, piano BBC Chorus
Wednesday 2 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Sir Arthur Bliss*
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale BRAHMS
A Colour Symphony BLISS*
Elise Cserfalvi, violin
Thursday 3 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis*
Overture to Prince Igor BORODIN
Symphony No. 5 PROKOFIEV
Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY*
Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Alberto Remedios, tenor Roger Stalman, bass
Raimund Herincx, bass Sir Donald Wolfit, narrator
BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus
Friday 4 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis*
Symphony No. 93 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Les Noces STRAVINSKY
Kyra Vayne, soprano Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
John Mitchinson, tenor John Cameron, bass
Maria Donska, piano Malcolm Binns, piano
Patricia Carroll, piano Genevieve Joy, piano
Thomas Rajna, piano BBC Chorus
Saturday 5 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ballet Music from Otello VERDI
The Rio Grande LAMBERT
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Jean Allister, contralto Peter Katin, piano
Joyce Hedges, piano BBC Chorus
Monday 7 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to Semiramide ROSSINI
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Joyeuse Marche CHABRIER
The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso SAINT-SAËNS
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 8 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 67 HAYDN
Shéhérazade RAVEL
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Irma Kolassi, mezzo soprano Manoug Parikian, violin
Wednesday 9 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Masonic Funeral Music MOZART
Statements COPLAND
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Thursday 10 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Op. 3 No. 1) HANDEL
Requiem Mass MOZART
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Teresa Stich-Randall, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
William McAlpine, tenor Michael Langdon, bass
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Harrow Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society
Friday 11 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Eugene Goossens*
Finale from The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Rhapsody for Clarinet and orchestra DEBUSSY
Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit (orch. Goossens) RAVEL
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Henryk Szeryng, violin Colin Bradbury, clarinet
Saturday 12 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Excerpts from The Yeoman of the Guard, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, The Mikado and The Gondoliers
Elsie Morison, soprano Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano
Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, baritone
Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus
Royal Choral Society
Monday 14 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Fanfare from La Peri DUKAS
Images DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Yvonne Lefébure, piano
Tuesday 15 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
George Malcolm
Two Canzonas from Symphonic Sacrae (Nos. 3 and 5) GABRIELI
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH
Cantata Academica BRITTEN
Serenade for contralto, women’s chorus and orchestra, Op. 135 SCHUBERT
Spem in Alium, motet TALLIS
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, mezzo soprano
Alexander Young, tenor Owen Brannigan, bass
BBC Chorus
Wednesday 16 August 1961
BBC Northern Orchestra
George Hurst
Overture to The Force of Destiny VERDI
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Divertimento for String Orchestra ANTHONY MILNER
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ralph Holmes, violin
Thursday 17 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Rückert Lieder MAHLER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Maureen Forrester, contralto Phyllis Sellick, piano
Friday 18 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Eugene Goossens*
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Marche ecossaise DEBUSSY
La Mer DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG
Tibor Varga, violin
Saturday 19 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture in the Italian Style in D major SCHUBERT
Opera Arias VERDI
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Violin Rhapsody No. 1 BARTÓK
Seven Popular Spanish Songs FALLA
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Carmen Prietto, mezzo soprano Erich Gruenberg, violin
Monday 21 August 1961
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Don Giovanni (concert performance) MOZART
Mirella Freni, Zerlina Gerda Scheyrer, Donna Anna
Ilva Ligabue, Donna Elvira Richard Lewis, Don Ottavio
Leonardo Monreale, Masetto Geraint Evans, Leporello
György Melis, Don Giovanni Michael Langdon, Commendatore
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Tuesday 22 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Reginald Goodall*
Representation of Chaos from The Creation HAYDN
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Mass in E minor BRUCKNER
Paul Baumgartner, piano BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Wednesday 23 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Violin Concerto ELGAR
The Planets HOLST
Alan Loveday, violin BBC Women’s Chorus
Thursday 24 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe*
Serenade for Strings ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Hecuba’s Lament ALEXANDER GOEHR*
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Edith Vogel, piano
Friday 25 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
King Stephen, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto SCHOENBERG
Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Denis Mathews, piano Katherine Wolpe, piano
Saturday 26 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Bryan Balkwill
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
‘Ocean, thou mighty monster’, scena and aria from Oberon WEBER
Dances of Galanta KODÁLY
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Polka and Russian Dance from The Age of Gold SHOSTAKOVICH
Horn Concerto No. 3 MOZART
Three Scenes from Petrushka STRAVINSKY
Nell Rankin, soprano Barry Tuckwell, horn
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Monday 28 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Flight into Egypt from The Childhood of Christ BERLIOZ
Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
Rowland Jones, tenor David Ward, bass
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 29 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe*
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10 (played twice) WEBERN
Improvisation sur Mallarmé, No. 2 Une dentelle BOULEZ
Organ Concerto Op. 7 No. 4 HANDEL
Heather Harper, soprano Charles Spinks, organ
The New Music Ensemble
Wednesday 30 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Alfonso and Estrella SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Overture to The Mastersingers WAGNER
André Navarra, cello
Thursday 31 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
The Consecration of the House, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘La mort d’Ophélie’ and ‘Sara la Baigneuse’ BERLIOZ
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Clarinet Concerto MOZART
Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet BBC Chorus
Friday 1 September 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Flos Campi VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Oceanides SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Patrick Ireland, viola Dario de Rosa, piano
Renato Zanettovich, violin Libero Lana, cello
Saturday 2 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
George Hurst*
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ
Psyche FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Scherzo Capriccioso DVOŘÁK
Oboe Concerto No. 1 ARNOLD
Mephisto Waltzes LISZT
Evelyn Rothwell, oboe Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Monday 4 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Beatrice and Benedict BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Kindertotenlieder MAHLER
Sinfonie singulière BERWALD
Tessa Robbins, violin Aafje Heynis, contralto
Tuesday 5 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Grande Messe des Morts BERLIOZ
Richard Lewis, tenor BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Croydon Philharmonic Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Wednesday 6 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Graham Treacher*
Comedy Overture BUSONI
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
De Profundis* SCHOENBERG
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for three pianos and strings BACH
Clifford Curzon, piano Eileen Broster, piano
Carlina Carr, piano Bronwen Jones, piano
BBC Chorus London New Music Singers
Thursday 7 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Concerto No. 2 in C major for three pianos and strings BACH
Symphony No. 6 SIBELIUS
Cello Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Paul Tortelier, cello Malcolm Binns, piano
Philip Challis, piano Keith Sellors, piano
Friday 8 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Organ Concerto MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL
Myra Hess, piano Malcolm Williamson, organ
Saturday 9 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Serenade for Strings DVOŘÁK
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Ecossaise IAIN HAMILTON
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfredo Campoli, violin Philippe Entremont, piano
Monday 11 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10 HANDEL
Variations on ‘La ci darem’ for piano and orchestra CHOPIN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK
Sena Jurinac, soprano Colin Horsley, piano
Tuesday 12 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Pohjola’s Daughter SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 1 RAWSTHORNE
Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Moura Lympany, piano
Wednesday 13 September 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to Idomeneo MOZART
Three Fragments from ‘Wozzeck’ BERG
Concerto in D minor for two violins and strings BACH
Tasso LISZT
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Marie Collier, soprano Nona Liddell, violin
Winifred Roberts, soprano
Thursday 14 September 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Meredith Davies
Symphony No. 91 HAYDN
Sosostris’s Aria from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Mater ora Filium for a capella chorus BAX
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Bronislaw Gimpel, violin
BBC Chorus
Friday 15 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Bernard Keeffe*
Overture to Ezio HANDEL*
Sinfonia concertante for wind instruments MOZART*
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Elizabeth Simon, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
Ronald Dowd, tenor Donald Bell, bass
Janet Craxton, oboe Colin Bradbury, clarinet
Douglas Moore, horn Geoffrey Gambold, bassoon
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Royal Choral Society
Saturday 16 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron*
Overture to The Barber of Seville ROSSINI
Two songs from The Duenna GERHARD
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST
Sea Songs HENRY WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Constance Shacklock, contralto Gina Bachauer, piano
Marie Collier, soprano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
68th Season 1962
Saturday 21 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir William Walton*
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell BRITTEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
The Quest, ballet music WALTON*
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Patricia Carroll, piano Ernest Lush, piano
Monday 23 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Creation HAYDN
Heather Harper, soprano Alexander Young, tenor
Richard Standen, bass BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Watford Philharmonic Society
Tuesday 24 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 11, ‘The Year 1905’ SHOSTAKOVICH
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Wednesday 25 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
David Willcocks*
Abdelazer, suite PURCELL*
Hymn to St. Cecilia BRITTEN*
Magnificat (Vespers of 1610) MONTEVERDI*
Suite No. 3 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine WAGNER
Heather Harper, soprano Mary Thomas, contralto
Kathleen Kay, contralto David Galliver, tenor
Philip Todd, tenor John Noble, bass
Richard Standen, bass Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Roy Jesson, organ Ambrosian Singers
BBC Chorus
Thursday 26 July 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Norman del Mar
Leonora No. 1, overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Helen Watts, contralto Boys from Highgate School Choir
Orpington Junior Singers
Friday 27 July 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Alexander’s Feast, overture HANDEL
Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Music for King Lear DEBUSSY
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Joyeuse Marche CHABRIER
Hugh Maguire, violin Simon Streatfield, viola
BBC Women’s Chorus
Saturday 28 July 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
The Barber of Seville, overture ROSSINI
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Mont Juic (Suite of Catalan Dances) (arr. Berkeley) BRITTEN
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet Valerie Tryon, piano
Monday 30 July 1962
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Cosi fan tutte MOZART
Antigone Sgourda, Fiordiligi Stefania Malagu, Dorabella
Reri Grist, Despina Loren Driscoll, Don Fernando
Ingvar Wixell, Don Guglielmo Michel Roux, Don Alfonso
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Tuesday 31 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Lennox Berkeley*
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Five Pieces for Violin and Orchestra LENNOX BERKELEY*
Cello Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Frederick Grinke, violin Paul Tortelier, cello
Wednesday 1 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Peter Gellhorn*
The Marriage of Figaro, overture MOZART
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Mass in B flat major, ‘Theresienmesse’ HAYDN*
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Kathleen Joyce, contralto
Alexander Young, tenor Richard Standen, bass
Peter Katin, piano BBC Chorus
Thursday 2 August 1962
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Variations SCHOENBERG*
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Respighi) BACH
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Phyllis Sellick, piano
Friday 3 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
John Carewe*
Fidelio, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Movements from Le Marteau sans Maitre BOULEZ*
Iberia DEBUSSY*
Rosemary Phillips, piano Lamar Crowson, piano
New Music Ensemble
Saturday 4 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT
Introduction, Papageno’s aria and Quintet from Act 1 The Magic Flute MOZART
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Canadian Carnival BRITTEN
The Trojans, ballet music BERLIOZ
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Mary Wells, soprano Pamela Petts, soprano
Pauline Darroll, contralto Gerald English, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Monday 6 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Bartered Bride, overture SMETANA
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Façade, Suite WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Tuesday 7 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Rudolf Schwarz*
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER*
Stephen Bishop, piano
Wednesday 8 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Don Giovanni, overture MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Agon STRAVINSKY*
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY*
Ralph Holmes, violin
Thursday 9 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
La Damoiselle elue DEBUSSY
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Elisabeth Robinson, soprano Yvonne Newman, contralto
BBC Women’s Chorus
Friday 10 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Schwarz
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 10, ‘Adagio’ MAHLER
Israel in Egypt HANDEL
Mary Wells, soprano Nancy Evans, mezzo soprano
John Mitchinson, tenor Frederick Harvey, baritone
Raimund Herincx, bass baritone BBC Chorus
Harrow Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society
Saturday 11 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
I Masnadieri, overture VERDI
Le Baiser de la Fee, divertimento STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Horn Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Danse macabre SAINT-SAENS
Barry Tuckwell, horn
Monday 13 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN
Andante and Rondo from Haffner Serenade MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Jeux DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG
Wolfgang Marschner, violin
Tuesday 14 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
A London Overture IRELAND
Sea Drift DELIUS
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Les Illuminations BRITTEN
Gloria in Excelsis Deo WALTON
Marjorie Thomas, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Gerald English, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
London Philharmonic Choir
Wednesday 15 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Der Freischutz, overture WEBER
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas BRITTEN
Medieval Diptych RAWSTHORNE*
Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT*
Peter Glossop, baritone Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 16 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Peter Gellhorn*
Munich Kyrie, K341 MOZART*
Sara la baigneuse BERLIOZ*
‘Misera dove son’, concert aria MOZART*
Sheherazade RAVEL
Cantata No. 50 BACH
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Stefania Woytowicz, soprano Rohan de Saram, cello
BBC Chorus
Friday 17 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
John Pritchard
Canzonas Nos. 14 and 16 (Symphoniae Sacrae) GABRIELI
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Les Noces STRAVINSKY
Kyra Vane, soprano Pamela Bowden, mezzo soprano
John Mitchinson, tenor John Cameron, bass
Katharina Wolpe, piano Malcolm Binns, piano
Patricia Carroll, piano Thomas Rajna, piano
Grace Wilkinson, piano BBC Chorus
Saturday 18 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Marche Militaire in D major SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto No. 3 MOZART
Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Perpetuum Mobile JOHANN STRAUSS II
Wine, Women and Song, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Emperor Waltzes JOHANN STRAUSS II
Artist’s Life, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Pizzicato Polka JOSEF AND JOHANN STRAUSS II
The Blue Danube, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Tessa Robbins, violin
Monday 20 August 1962
BBC Scottish Orchestra
Norman del Mar
The Impresario, overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Phoenix and the Turtle THEA MUSGRAVE
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY
David Wilde, piano Ambrosian Singers
Tuesday 21 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
‘Par che mi nasca in seno’, aria from Tamerlano HANDEL
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Piano Quartet in G minor (orch. Schoenberg) BRAHMS
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Wednesday 22 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
‘Per pieta, non ricercate’, concert aria MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings BRITTEN
Tanzwalzer BUSONI
Alexander Young, tenor Alan Civil, horn
Thursday 23 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Le Carnaval romain, overture BERLIOZ
Clarinet Concerto MOZART
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Thomas Hemsley, baritone Colin Bradbury, clarinet
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
London Philharmonic Choir Royal Choral Society
Friday 24 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe
Leonore No. 3, overture BEETHOVEN
‘Sanft wie du lebtest’, Elegiac Song BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Cinq Rechants MESSIAEN
Oiseaux exotiques MESSIAEN
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Dorothy Dorow, soprano Rosemary Phillips, contralto
Aloys Kontarsky, piano Ambrosian Singers
BBC Chorus
Saturday 25 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
La Scala di Seta, overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Jeux d’enfants BIZET
Danse (orch. Ravel) DEBUSSY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Monday 27 August 1962
BBC Northern Orchestra
George Hurst
The Consecration of the House, overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Festival Overture SHOSTAKOVICH
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 28 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Greetings Prelude STRAVINSKY
Symphony in C STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY
Sebastian Shaw, actor Patricia Johnson, soprano
Ronald Dowd, tenor Alberto Remedios, tenor
Raimund Herincx, baritone Roger Stalman, bass
BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus
Wednesday 29 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Josephine Veasey, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Hervey Alan, bass Roger Stalman, bass
Ambrosian Singers Goldsmiths’ Choral Union
Thursday 30 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture in D minor (orch. Elgar) HANDEL
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
The Planets HOLST
BBC Women’s Chorus
Friday 31 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Coriolan, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Ricercare from The Musical Offering (orch. Webern) BACH
Scenes and Arias MAW*
Portsmouth Point, overture WALTON*
Heather Harper, soprano Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Leon Fleisher, piano
Saturday 1 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Elsie Morison, soprano Marjorie Thomas, soprano
Walter Midgley, tenor John Cameron
Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus
Royal Choral Society
Monday 3 September 1962
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Idomeneo, overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 18 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Introduction and Allegro BLISS
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Nina Milkina, piano
Tuesday 4 September 1962
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman del Mar
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Three Hymns RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elisabeth Soderstrom, soprano Geza Anda, piano
Wednesday 5 September 1962
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Jabez and the Devil, Ballet Suite ARNOLD COOKE
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Vlado Perlemuter, piano
Thursday 6 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Manfred, overture SCHUMANN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Te Deum BERLIOZ
Charles Craig, tenor Harry Danks, viola
Janos Starker, cello Alexandra Choir
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Friday 7 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar
Prometheus, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 GERHARD
Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Saturday 8 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Il viaggio a Reims, overture ROSSINI
Bassoon Concerto WEBER
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Geoffrey Gambold, bassoon Shura Cherkassky, piano
Monday 10 September 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 104, ‘London’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Manoug Parikian, violin John Ogdon, piano
Tuesday 11 September 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
George Hurst
Leonora No. 2, overture BEETHOVEN
Cantata No. 82 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Five Neapolitan Songs HENZE
Scherzo Capriccioso DVORAK
Hermann Prey, baritone
Wednesday 12 September 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Four Songs from Les nuits d’ete BERLIOZ
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ SAINT-SAENS
April Cantelo, mezzo soprano Yan Pascal Tortelier, violin
Paul Tortelier, cello Winifred Davey
Josephine Lee Simon Preston, organ
Thursday 13 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Peter Maxwell Davies*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Fantasia on an In Nomine of John Taverner MAXWELL DAVIES*
Trumpet Concerto HAYDN
Exsultate jubilate MOZART
Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Elizabeth Simon, piano Paul Beard, violin
Richard Adeney, flute Leon Goossens, oboe
Adolf Scherbaum, trumpet Rosalyn Tureck, soprano
Friday 14 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Peter Gellhorn*
Suite No. 4 BACH
Mass in C major, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Robert Thomas, tenor
Donald Bell, bass baritone Alexandra Choir
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Saturday 15 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron
Di Ballo, overture SULLIVAN
Arioso from Mazeppa TCHAIKOVSKY
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAENS
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA
Sea Songs WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Monica Sinclair, soprano Alfred Orda, baritone
Moura Lympany, piano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
65th Season 1959
Saturday 25 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
A London Overture IRELAND
Three Sea Pictures (In Haven, Sabbath Morning and Where Corals Lie) ELGAR
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra MOZART
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell BRITTEN
Dance Concertante for Two Pianos (three hands) and orchestra GRAHAM WHETTAM
Suite from La Boutique Fantasque (arr. Respighi) ROSSINI
Norma Procter, contralto Cyril Smith, piano
Phyllis Sellick, piano
Monday 27 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Flying Dutchman WAGNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 5 DANIEL JONES
Manoug Parikian, violin
Tuesday 28 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Marche Militaire in D major SCHUBERT
Entr’acte in B flat and Ballet Music in G from Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Wanderer Fantasia (arr. for piano and orchestra, Liszt) SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Jacqueline Delman, soprano Hervey Alan, bass
Joseph Weingarten, piano BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Wednesday 29 July 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 3 SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Festivo from Scènes historiques SIBELIUS
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Valse triste SIBELIUS
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Alfredo Campoli, violin
Thursday 30 July 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
April Cantelo, soprano Ronald Smith, piano
Friday 31 July 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Adelaide, Song with Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Oboe, Bassoon and Strings ELIZABETH MACONCHY
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
William McAlpine, tenor Evelyn Rothwell, oboe
Archie Camden, bassoon Denis Matthews, piano
Saturday 1 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Tatiana’s Letter Song from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from The Sleeping Beauty TCHAIKOVSKY
Lensky’s Aria from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Love Duet from Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Amy Shuard, soprano Rowland Jones, tenor
Peter Element, piano
Monday 3 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA
Ruslan’s Aria from Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA
Nocturne for Strings (arr. Sargent) BORODIN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Peter and the Wolf PROKOFIEV
Tsar Dodon in his palace and Wedding and Death of Dodon from Le Coq d’or RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Wilfred Pickles, narrator Alfred Orda, baritone
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Tuesday 4 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
‘Non paventar…Infelice sconsolata’ Recit. And Aria from The Magic Flute MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 19 MOZART
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Elizabeth Simon, soprano Paul Beard, violin
Edith Vogel, piano
Wednesday 5 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Leslie Woodgate*
Suite No. 3 BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BACH
Cantata No. 80, ‘Ein’ fest Burg ist unser Gott’ BACH
Two Chorale Preludes, ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ and ‘Nun freut euch’ BACH
Motet, ‘Sing ye to the Lord’ BACH*
Organ Solo (Bach)
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Pamela Bowden, contralto
Duncan Robertson, tenor Roger Stalman, bass
David Martin, violin Douglas Whittaker, flute
Iris Loveridge, piano Geraint Jones, organ
BBC Chorus
Thursday 6 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Hollingsworth*
Overture to The Journey to Rheims ROSSINI
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonie concertante for Oboe and Strings IBERT*
España CHABRIER*
Leon Goossens, oboe Phyllis Sellick, piano
Friday 7 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 HUMPHREY SEARLE
Iberia DEBUSSY
Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Saturday 8 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to William Tell ROSSINI
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Organ Concerto in B flat (Op, 7 No. 1) HANDEL
Three Scenes from Petrushka STRAVINSKY
John Ogdon, piano Arnold Richardson, organ
Monday 10 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Maurice Miles*
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
‘Che farò’, Recitative and Aria from Orfeo GLUCK
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER
Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Kerstin Meyer, mezzo soprano Kendall Turner, piano
Tuesday 11 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Sinfonia Antarctica (Symphony No. 7) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Adrienne Cole, soprano Peter Katin, piano
BBC Women’s Chorus
Wednesday 12 August 1959
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Hollingsworth*
Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) ELGAR
The Planets HOLST
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Cockaigne, Overture ELGAR
André Navarra, cello BBC Women’s Chorus
Thursday 13 August 1959
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto in D HAYDN
‘O how pleasing to the senses’, recitative and aria from The Seasons HAYDN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Ilse Wolf, soprano Harry Danks, viola
Erling Bengtsson, cello
Friday 14 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Prelude to The Forgotten Rite IRELAND
Piano Concerto IRELAND
Satyricon, Overture IRELAND
Anthony di Bonaventura, piano Eric Parkin, piano
Saturday 15 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture di Ballo SULLIVAN
To Julia, Song Cycle (arr. Sargent) QUILTER
Variations on a Nursery Song DOHNANYI
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG
Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra MILHAUD
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Alexander Young, tenor Patricia Bishop, piano
Gilbert Webster, percussion Royal Choral Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Monday 17 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Maurice Miles*
Mátyás Seiber+
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Pieces for Cello and Orchestra MÁTYÁS SEIBER+
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Alberto Lysy, violin Amaryllis Fleming, cello
Tuesday 18 August 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Sir William Walton*
Sinfonietta JANÁČEK
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphony of Psalms STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 1 WALTON*
Colin Horsley, piano BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Wednesday 19 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Hollingsworth*
Scherzo and March from The Love of Three Oranges PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOV
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto MALCOLM WILLIAMSON*
Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK*
Malcolm Williamson, piano
Thursday 20 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Hollingsworth
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
The Dream of Gerontius ELGAR
Marjorie Thomas, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor
John Cameron, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society
Royal Choral Society
Friday 21 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Andrzej Panufnik*
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
‘Abscheulicher’, Recitative and Aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Two Romances for Violin and Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Polonia, Suite PANUFNIK*
Joyce Barker, soprano Ida Haendel, violin
Saturday 22 August 1959
National Youth Orchestra
Walter Susskind
Overture to Theodora (arr. Gordon Jacob) HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Soirées Musicales (arr. Britten) ROSSINI
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK
Kathleen Jones, piano
Monday 24 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphonic Dances Nos. 2 and 4 GRIEG
Oboe Concerto MARTINŮ
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Evelyn Rothwell, oboe
Tuesday 25 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to The Silken Ladder ROSSINI
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 5 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme RICHARD STRAUSS
Colas Breugnon, Overture KABALEVSKY
Peter Katin, piano
Wednesday 26 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 ALWYN
Thursday 27 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Lamar Crowson, piano
Friday 28 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Saturday 29 August 1959
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli
Overture to Il Seraglio MOZART
Trumpet Concerto HAYDN
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier RICHARD STRAUSS
Overture to Pique Dame SUPPÉ
Selections from A Waltz Dream OSCAR STRAUS
New Pizzicato Polka JOHANN STRAUSS II
Tales of the Vienna Woods JOHANN STRAUSS II
Overture to Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II
William Lang, trumpet
Monday 31 August 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Creation HAYDN
Elsie Morison, soprano Walter Midgley, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society
Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 1 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Tapiola SIBELIUS
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra STRAVINSKY
Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) KODÁLY
Symphony No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH
Colin Horsley, piano
Wednesday 2 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Four Serious Songs (orch. Sargent) BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Kim Borg, bass Andor Foldes, piano
Thursday 3 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Kenneth Leighton+
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Burlesque KENNETH LEIGHTON+
Piano Solos (Chopin)
Carnival Overture DVOŘÁK
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Friday 4 September 1959
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 YORK BOWEN
Street Corner, Overture ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Alan Loveday, violin York Bowen, piano
Saturday 5 September 1959
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Hollingsworth
Richard Arnell*
Introduction to Act 3 of Sylvia DELIBES
Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from Façade WALTON
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Scenes and Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Ballet Suite, Harlequin in April RICHARD ARNELL*
Bolèro RAVEL
Natalia Karp, piano
Monday 7 September 1959
Basil Cameron
John Hollingsworth*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
‘Ombra mai fu’, Recitative and Aria from Xerxes HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Concerto in B flat for Harp and Small Orchestra HANDEL
Suite from The Water Music (arr. Harty) HANDEL
Concerto Serenata for Harp and Orchestra RODRIGO
Tintagel BAX
Constance Shacklock, contralto Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
Maurice Cole, piano
Tuesday 8 September 1959
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST
Violin Concerto BERG
Symphony No. 4 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber HINDEMITH
Tibor Varga, violin
Wednesday 9 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Lennox Berkeley+
Hamlet TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Pezzo Capriccioso TCHAIKOVSKY*
Symphony No. 2 LENNOX BERKELEY+
Maurice Gendron, cello
Thursday 10 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Le Roi David HONEGGER
Plague Choruses from Israel in Egypt HANDEL
Organ Concerto in D minor, Op. 7 No. 4 HANDEL
Zadok the Priest HANDEL
Richard Attenborough, narrator Elizabeth Fretwell, soprano
Monica Sinclair, contralto David Galliver, tenor
George Thalben-Ball, organ Alexandra Choir
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Goldsmiths’ Choral Union
Friday 11 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Myra Hess, piano
Saturday 12 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor NICOLAI
Joan of Arc’s Farewell from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
The Blue Danube Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Suite from The Firebird STRAVINSKY
The Rio Grande LAMBERT
Suite from L’Arlèsienne BIZET
Jean Allister, soprano Eileen Joyce, soprano
BBC Chorus
Monday 14 September 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
‘Wahn! Wahn!’ Sachs Monologue from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Closing Scene from Die Walküre WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Sylvia Fisher, soprano Sigurd Björling, baritone
Tuesday 15 September 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Endre Wolf, violin
Wednesday 16 September 1959
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
John Hollingsworth*
Serenata Notturna MOZART
Exsultate jubilate, Motet MOZART
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Heather Harper, soprano Ralph Holmes, violin
Rohan de Saram, cello
Thursday 17 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK
Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
La Valse RAVEL
Helga Pilarczyk, soprano Hephzibah Menuhin, piano
Friday 18 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Overture to Lohengrin WAGNER
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Pauline Brockless, soprano Nancy Thomas, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor David Ward, bass
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Saturday 19 September 1959
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron*
Overture to The Barber of Seville ROSSINI
Andante Cantabile TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Dance Rhapsody No. 1 DELIUS
Pomp and Circumstamce March No. 1 ELGAR
Sea Songs HENRY WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Constance Shacklock, piano Clifford Curzon, piano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
66th Season 1960
Saturday 23 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
‘In questa reggia’, aria from Turandot PUCCINI
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Variations on a theme of Paganini BLACHER
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Amy Shuard, soprano Clifford Curzon, piano
Monday 25 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Lennox Berkeley*
A London Overture IRELAND
Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila LENNOX BERKELEY*
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Nancy Evans, contralto Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Tuesday 26 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Cantata No. 140 BACH
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Elizabeth Simon, soprano Alexander Young, tenor
James Milligan, bass Rosalyn Tureck, piano
BBC Chorus
Wednesday 27 July 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Italian Serenade (orch. Reger) WOLF
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Annelies Kupper, soprano Endre Wolf, violin
André Navarra, cello
Thursday 28 July 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Eugene Goossens
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
La Mer DEBUSSY
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Sergio Varella Cid, piano
Friday 29 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto GERHARD*
Fêtes (Nocturnes) DEBUSSY
Yfrah Neaman, violin Maria Donska, piano
Saturday 30 July 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Oberon WEBER
‘Ombra cara’, aria from Radamisto HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
La Boutique fantasque, Suite (orch. Respighi) ROSSINI
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK
Russell Oberlin, counter tenor Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Monday 1 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to Medea CHERUBINI
The Mad Scene from I Puritani BELLINI
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Suite from L’Arlèsienne BIZET
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Joan Sutherland, soprano Phyllis Sellick, piano
Tuesday 2 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to The Thieving Magpie ROSSINI
Sinfonia da Requiem BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 25 MOZART
Four Songs from Les nuits d’été (Villanelle, Le Spectre de la Rose, Sur les Lagunes, L’Ile Inconnue) BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Nadine Sautereau, soprano Charles Rosen, piano
Wednesday 3 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Creation HAYDN
Mary Wells, soprano William Herbert, tenor
Kim Borg, bass Croydon Philharmonic Society
Royal Choral Society Watford Philharmonic Society
Thursday 4 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Semiramide ROSSINI
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge BRITTEN
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Tibor Varga, violin
Friday 5 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Falstaff ELGAR
Lamar Crowson, piano
Saturday 6 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Stanford Robinson*
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
Suite No. 2 from The Wand of Youth ELGAR
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Jeux d’Enfants BIZET
Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra LITOLFF
Scottish Dances IAIN HAMILTON
España CHABRIER
Eileen Joyce, piano
Monday 8 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to Idomeneo MOZART
Anne’s Scena from The Rake’s Progress STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony in C STRAVINSKY
Gesang der Jünglinge STOCKHAUSEN
Bolero RAVEL
Joan Carlyle, soprano Ingrid Haebler, piano
Tuesday 9 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Concerto in E flat major for Two Pianos MOZART
Love Scene, Queen Mab Scherzo, Reverie and Capulet’s Feast from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion BARTÓK
Emperor Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky, piano Heinz König, percussion
Christopher Caskel, percussion
Wednesday 10 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Maurice Miles*
Overture from The Impresario MOZART
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments HODDINOTT*
Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Trevor Anthony, bass
Valerie Tryon, piano BBC Choral Society
Royal Choral Society
Thursday 11 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST
The Planets HOLST
Paul Tortelier, cello BBC Women’s Chorus
Friday 12 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Alexander Gibson*
Finale of the Ballet Music from The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Musique Funèbre LUTOSLAWSKI
Jeux DEBUSSY
Myra Hess, piano
Saturday 13 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Cosi fan tutte MOZART
Suite from Mother Goose RAVEL
‘Di, cor mio’ and ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ arias from Alcina HANDEL
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Regnava nel silenzio’ aria from Lucia di Lammermoor DONIZETTI
On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS
From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA
Joan Sutherland, soprano Henryk Szeryng, violin
Monday 15 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Endre Wolf, violin
Tuesday 16 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Incidental Music to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Grande Messe des Morts BERLIOZ
Jeannette Sinclair, soprano Charles Craig, tenor
Marius Goring, narrator BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Wednesday 17 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Six Pieces, Op. 6 WEBERN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Jörg Demus, piano
Thursday 18 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Symphony No. 98 HAYDN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Variations SCHOENBERG
Alborada del gracioso RAVEL
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Elise Czerfalvi, violin
Friday 19 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Nocturne for Tenor BRITTEN
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Peter Pears, tenor Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Saturday 20 August 1960
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Comedy Overture BUSONI
‘Porgi Amor’ and ‘Dove sono’ arias from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Parade SATIE
German Dances (orch. Webern) SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Overture to The Silken Ladder ROSSINI
Jaroslavna’s Aria from Prince Igor BORODIN
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano John Ogdon, piano
Monday 22 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis GLUCK
Wesendonk Lieder WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Sylvia Fisher, soprano Sergio Varella Cid, piano
Tuesday 23 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis*
Overture to Prince Igor BORODIN
Symphony No. 10 SHOSTAKOVICH
Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY*
Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Alberto Remedios, tenor Roger Stalman, bass
Raimund Herincx, bass baritone John Neville, speaker
BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus
Wednesday 24 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
The Fair Melusine, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Altenberg Lieder BERG
Concerto in D major for flute and strings (Il Cardellino) VIVALDI
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Pamela Bowden, mezzo soprano Severino Gazzelloni, flute
Thursday 25 August 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola MOZART
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Ode (Elegiac Chant) STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Norbert Brainin, violin Peter Schidlof, viola
Friday 26 August 1960
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Arthur Bliss*
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘Abscheulicher!’, aria from Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Lie Strewn the White Flocks, Pastoral BLISS*
Two Dances from Checkmate BLISS*
Joyce Barker, soprano Helen Watts, contralto
Douglas Whittaker, flute BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Saturday 27 August 1960
Sir Malcolm Sargent
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PROGRAMME
Marie Collier, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, baritone
Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Monday 29 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila GLINKA
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Lieutenant Kije, Suite PROKOFIEV
Suite from The Firebird STRAVINSKY
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Tuesday 30 August 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Consecration of the House, Overture BEETHOVEN
Adelaide, Song with Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Grace Hoffman, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor
Wednesday 31 August 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Meredith Davies
Overture to Beatrice and Benedict BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Sosotris’s Aria from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Mathis der Maler, Symphony HINDEMITH
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Ida Haendel, violin
Thursday 1 September 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Basil Cameron
Prelude to Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Piano Solos (Chopin)
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL
Halina Czerny-Stefanska, piano
Friday 2 September 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Choral fantasia BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Siegfried’s Funeral March and Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Sylvia Fisher, soprano Peter Wallfisch, piano
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Saturday 3 September 1960
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Alexander Gibson
Entry of Diana’s Huntresses from Act 1 of Sylvia DELIBES
Les Patineurs (arr. Lambert) MEYERBEER
Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas BRITTEN
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Ballet Suite from Swan Lake TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from Cinderella PROKOFIEV
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Malcolm Binns, piano
Monday 5 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
George Hurst*
Overture to Tancredi ROSSINI
Symphony No. 99 HAYDN
Requiem Mass VERDI
Ivana Tosini, soprano Anna Maria Rota, contralto
Richard Lewis, tenor Raffaele Arié, bass
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 6 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Harty) HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART
Les Préludes LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK
Vltava SMETANA
Andor Foldes, piano
Wednesday 7 September 1960
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Eugene Goossens*
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Joan of Arc’s Farewell from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Poem for Twenty-Two strings SEARLE
Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra GOOSSENS
Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano Tessa Robbins, violin
Thursday 8 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir William Walton*
Derby Day, Overture ALWYN
Cello Concerto WALTON*
Symphony No. 9 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Erling Bengtsson, cello
Friday 9 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Three Places in New England IVES
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Denis Matthews, piano
Saturday 10 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Sir William Walton*
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL
Violin Concerto No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Suite from Façade WALTON*
Carnival in Paris SVENDSEN
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Beryl Kimber, violin
Monday 12 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
‘La Captive’, song with orchestra BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Metamorphosen RICHARD STRAUSS
Introduction Act 3 and Procession of Masters from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Monica Sinclair, soprano Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Tuesday 13 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Graham Treacher*
Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
De profundis SCHOENBERG*
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Norma Procter, contralto BBC Chorus
London New Music Singers
Wednesday 14 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Meredith Davies
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29 BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BACH
Cantata No. 21, ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniss’ BACH
Triptych for tenor and orchestra THEA MUSGRAVE
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
Heather Harper, soprano Duncan Robertson, baritone
Donald Bell, bass baritone Hugh Maguire, violin
Alexander Murray, flute Lowry Sanders, flute
Francis Jackson, organ BBC Chorus
Thursday 15 September 1960
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto BERG
Symphonic Dance No. 4 GRIEG
Symphonic Studies RAWSTHORNE
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Ralph Holmes, violin
Friday 16 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Stanford Robinson*
Overture to Alceste GLUCK
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
La Création du Monde MILHAUD*
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Elsie Morison, soprano Monica Sinclair, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Donald Bell, bass
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Saturday 17 September 1960
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron*
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Lyric Suite GRIEG
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS*
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS*
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
Beni Mora, Suite HOLST
Sea Songs HENRY WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Constance Shacklock, soprano Colin Horsley, piano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
67th Season 1961
Saturday 22 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Journey to Reims ROSSINI
Piano Concerto No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Mazeppa LISZT
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Emperor Waltzes JOHANN STRAUSS II
John Ogdon, piano
Monday 24 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Les Illuminations BRITTEN
Symphony No. 6 SHOSTAKOVICH
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Gerald English, tenor Thomas Hemsley, baritone
Alexandra Choir BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 25 July 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to Luisa Miller VERDI
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Tamas Vasary, piano
Wednesday 26 July 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Les Francs Juges, Overture BERLIOZ
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Kerstin Meyer, contralto Nina Milkina, piano
Thursday 27 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Seraglio MOZART
Serenade to Music VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Oboe Concerto RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 21 MIASKOVSKY
Prelude and Fugue for Strings in Eighteen parts BRITTEN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Elizabeth Harwood, soprano Pamela Bowden, contralto
Alfred Hallett, tenor Victor Godfrey, bass
Leon Goossens, oboe BBC Chorus
Friday 28 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe*
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
‘An die ferne Geliebte’, song cycle BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Symphonies for solo piano, wind, harps and percussion ELISABETH LUTYENS
Organ Solos (Bach and Liszt)
Charles Craig, tenor Katharina Wolpe, piano
Peter Le Huray, organ
Saturday 29 July 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Charles Mackerras*
Ballet Suite from Pucinella STRAVINSKY
‘O don fatale’, aria from Don Carlo VERDI
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Waltz Fantasy in B minor GLINKA
Love the Magician FALLA
Marina de Gabarain, contralto
Monday 31 July 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Six Songs from Das Marienleben HINDEMITH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 DVOŘÁK
Sybil Michelow, soprano Valerie Tryon, piano
Tuesday 1 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Overture to La Clemenza di Tito MOZART
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Choral Fantasia BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Double String Orchestra TIPPETT
Symphony No. 5, ‘Reformation’ MENDELSSOHN
Edith Vogel, piano BBC Chorus
Wednesday 2 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Sir Arthur Bliss*
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale BRAHMS
A Colour Symphony BLISS*
Elise Cserfalvi, violin
Thursday 3 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis*
Overture to Prince Igor BORODIN
Symphony No. 5 PROKOFIEV
Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY*
Patricia Johnson, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Alberto Remedios, tenor Roger Stalman, bass
Raimund Herincx, bass Sir Donald Wolfit, narrator
BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus
Friday 4 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Colin Davis*
Symphony No. 93 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Les Noces STRAVINSKY
Kyra Vayne, soprano Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
John Mitchinson, tenor John Cameron, bass
Maria Donska, piano Malcolm Binns, piano
Patricia Carroll, piano Genevieve Joy, piano
Thomas Rajna, piano BBC Chorus
Saturday 5 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ballet Music from Otello VERDI
The Rio Grande LAMBERT
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Jean Allister, contralto Peter Katin, piano
Joyce Hedges, piano BBC Chorus
Monday 7 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Overture to Semiramide ROSSINI
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Joyeuse Marche CHABRIER
The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso SAINT-SAËNS
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 8 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 67 HAYDN
Shéhérazade RAVEL
Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Irma Kolassi, mezzo soprano Manoug Parikian, violin
Wednesday 9 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Masonic Funeral Music MOZART
Statements COPLAND
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Thursday 10 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Op. 3 No. 1) HANDEL
Requiem Mass MOZART
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Teresa Stich-Randall, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
William McAlpine, tenor Michael Langdon, bass
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Harrow Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society
Friday 11 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Eugene Goossens*
Finale from The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Rhapsody for Clarinet and orchestra DEBUSSY
Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit (orch. Goossens) RAVEL
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Henryk Szeryng, violin Colin Bradbury, clarinet
Saturday 12 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Excerpts from The Yeoman of the Guard, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, The Mikado and The Gondoliers
Elsie Morison, soprano Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano
Richard Lewis, tenor John Cameron, baritone
Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus
Royal Choral Society
Monday 14 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Fanfare from La Peri DUKAS
Images DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Yvonne Lefébure, piano
Tuesday 15 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
George Malcolm
Two Canzonas from Symphonic Sacrae (Nos. 3 and 5) GABRIELI
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 BACH
Cantata Academica BRITTEN
Serenade for contralto, women’s chorus and orchestra, Op. 135 SCHUBERT
Spem in Alium, motet TALLIS
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Norma Procter, mezzo soprano
Alexander Young, tenor Owen Brannigan, bass
BBC Chorus
Wednesday 16 August 1961
BBC Northern Orchestra
George Hurst
Overture to The Force of Destiny VERDI
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Divertimento for String Orchestra ANTHONY MILNER
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ralph Holmes, violin
Thursday 17 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
Rückert Lieder MAHLER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Maureen Forrester, contralto Phyllis Sellick, piano
Friday 18 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir Eugene Goossens*
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Marche ecossaise DEBUSSY
La Mer DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG
Tibor Varga, violin
Saturday 19 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture in the Italian Style in D major SCHUBERT
Opera Arias VERDI
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Violin Rhapsody No. 1 BARTÓK
Seven Popular Spanish Songs FALLA
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Carmen Prietto, mezzo soprano Erich Gruenberg, violin
Monday 21 August 1961
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Don Giovanni (concert performance) MOZART
Mirella Freni, Zerlina Gerda Scheyrer, Donna Anna
Ilva Ligabue, Donna Elvira Richard Lewis, Don Ottavio
Leonardo Monreale, Masetto Geraint Evans, Leporello
György Melis, Don Giovanni Michael Langdon, Commendatore
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Tuesday 22 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Reginald Goodall*
Representation of Chaos from The Creation HAYDN
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Mass in E minor BRUCKNER
Paul Baumgartner, piano BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Wednesday 23 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
Violin Concerto ELGAR
The Planets HOLST
Alan Loveday, violin BBC Women’s Chorus
Thursday 24 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe*
Serenade for Strings ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Hecuba’s Lament ALEXANDER GOEHR*
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Edith Vogel, piano
Friday 25 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
King Stephen, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto SCHOENBERG
Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Denis Mathews, piano Katherine Wolpe, piano
Saturday 26 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Bryan Balkwill
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
‘Ocean, thou mighty monster’, scena and aria from Oberon WEBER
Dances of Galanta KODÁLY
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Polka and Russian Dance from The Age of Gold SHOSTAKOVICH
Horn Concerto No. 3 MOZART
Three Scenes from Petrushka STRAVINSKY
Nell Rankin, soprano Barry Tuckwell, horn
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Monday 28 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Flight into Egypt from The Childhood of Christ BERLIOZ
Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
Rowland Jones, tenor David Ward, bass
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Royal Choral Society
Tuesday 29 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe*
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 10 (played twice) WEBERN
Improvisation sur Mallarmé, No. 2 Une dentelle BOULEZ
Organ Concerto Op. 7 No. 4 HANDEL
Heather Harper, soprano Charles Spinks, organ
The New Music Ensemble
Wednesday 30 August 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Alfonso and Estrella SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 2 WALTON
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Overture to The Mastersingers WAGNER
André Navarra, cello
Thursday 31 August 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
The Consecration of the House, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘La mort d’Ophélie’ and ‘Sara la Baigneuse’ BERLIOZ
Symphony in Three Movements STRAVINSKY
Clarinet Concerto MOZART
Symphonic Variations DVOŘÁK
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet BBC Chorus
Friday 1 September 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Flos Campi VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Oceanides SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Patrick Ireland, viola Dario de Rosa, piano
Renato Zanettovich, violin Libero Lana, cello
Saturday 2 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
George Hurst*
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini BERLIOZ
Psyche FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Scherzo Capriccioso DVOŘÁK
Oboe Concerto No. 1 ARNOLD
Mephisto Waltzes LISZT
Evelyn Rothwell, oboe Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Monday 4 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Beatrice and Benedict BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Kindertotenlieder MAHLER
Sinfonie singulière BERWALD
Tessa Robbins, violin Aafje Heynis, contralto
Tuesday 5 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Grande Messe des Morts BERLIOZ
Richard Lewis, tenor BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Croydon Philharmonic Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Wednesday 6 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Graham Treacher*
Comedy Overture BUSONI
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
De Profundis* SCHOENBERG
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for three pianos and strings BACH
Clifford Curzon, piano Eileen Broster, piano
Carlina Carr, piano Bronwen Jones, piano
BBC Chorus London New Music Singers
Thursday 7 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Concerto No. 2 in C major for three pianos and strings BACH
Symphony No. 6 SIBELIUS
Cello Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Paul Tortelier, cello Malcolm Binns, piano
Philip Challis, piano Keith Sellors, piano
Friday 8 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Organ Concerto MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe RAVEL
Myra Hess, piano Malcolm Williamson, organ
Saturday 9 September 1961
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Serenade for Strings DVOŘÁK
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Ecossaise IAIN HAMILTON
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfredo Campoli, violin Philippe Entremont, piano
Monday 11 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10 HANDEL
Variations on ‘La ci darem’ for piano and orchestra CHOPIN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Four Last Songs RICHARD STRAUSS
Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK
Sena Jurinac, soprano Colin Horsley, piano
Tuesday 12 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Pohjola’s Daughter SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 1 RAWSTHORNE
Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Moura Lympany, piano
Wednesday 13 September 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Overture to Idomeneo MOZART
Three Fragments from ‘Wozzeck’ BERG
Concerto in D minor for two violins and strings BACH
Tasso LISZT
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Marie Collier, soprano Nona Liddell, violin
Winifred Roberts, soprano
Thursday 14 September 1961
London Symphony Orchestra
Meredith Davies
Symphony No. 91 HAYDN
Sosostris’s Aria from The Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Mater ora Filium for a capella chorus BAX
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Bronislaw Gimpel, violin
BBC Chorus
Friday 15 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Bernard Keeffe*
Overture to Ezio HANDEL*
Sinfonia concertante for wind instruments MOZART*
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Elizabeth Simon, soprano Marjorie Thomas, contralto
Ronald Dowd, tenor Donald Bell, bass
Janet Craxton, oboe Colin Bradbury, clarinet
Douglas Moore, horn Geoffrey Gambold, bassoon
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Royal Choral Society
Saturday 16 September 1961
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron*
Overture to The Barber of Seville ROSSINI
Two songs from The Duenna GERHARD
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool HOLST
Sea Songs HENRY WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Constance Shacklock, contralto Gina Bachauer, piano
Marie Collier, soprano
Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
68th Season 1962
Saturday 21 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Sir William Walton*
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell BRITTEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
The Quest, ballet music WALTON*
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Patricia Carroll, piano Ernest Lush, piano
Monday 23 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Creation HAYDN
Heather Harper, soprano Alexander Young, tenor
Richard Standen, bass BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Watford Philharmonic Society
Tuesday 24 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 11, ‘The Year 1905’ SHOSTAKOVICH
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Wednesday 25 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
David Willcocks*
Abdelazer, suite PURCELL*
Hymn to St. Cecilia BRITTEN*
Magnificat (Vespers of 1610) MONTEVERDI*
Suite No. 3 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Siegfried’s Journey to the Rhine WAGNER
Heather Harper, soprano Mary Thomas, contralto
Kathleen Kay, contralto David Galliver, tenor
Philip Todd, tenor John Noble, bass
Richard Standen, bass Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Roy Jesson, organ Ambrosian Singers
BBC Chorus
Thursday 26 July 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Norman del Mar
Leonora No. 1, overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Helen Watts, contralto Boys from Highgate School Choir
Orpington Junior Singers
Friday 27 July 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Alexander’s Feast, overture HANDEL
Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Music for King Lear DEBUSSY
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Joyeuse Marche CHABRIER
Hugh Maguire, violin Simon Streatfield, viola
BBC Women’s Chorus
Saturday 28 July 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
The Barber of Seville, overture ROSSINI
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Mont Juic (Suite of Catalan Dances) (arr. Berkeley) BRITTEN
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet Valerie Tryon, piano
Monday 30 July 1962
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard
Cosi fan tutte MOZART
Antigone Sgourda, Fiordiligi Stefania Malagu, Dorabella
Reri Grist, Despina Loren Driscoll, Don Fernando
Ingvar Wixell, Don Guglielmo Michel Roux, Don Alfonso
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Tuesday 31 July 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Lennox Berkeley*
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Five Pieces for Violin and Orchestra LENNOX BERKELEY*
Cello Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Frederick Grinke, violin Paul Tortelier, cello
Wednesday 1 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Peter Gellhorn*
The Marriage of Figaro, overture MOZART
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Mass in B flat major, ‘Theresienmesse’ HAYDN*
Erna Spoorenberg, soprano Kathleen Joyce, contralto
Alexander Young, tenor Richard Standen, bass
Peter Katin, piano BBC Chorus
Thursday 2 August 1962
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Variations SCHOENBERG*
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch. Respighi) BACH
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Phyllis Sellick, piano
Friday 3 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
John Carewe*
Fidelio, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Movements from Le Marteau sans Maitre BOULEZ*
Iberia DEBUSSY*
Rosemary Phillips, piano Lamar Crowson, piano
New Music Ensemble
Saturday 4 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT
Introduction, Papageno’s aria and Quintet from Act 1 The Magic Flute MOZART
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Canadian Carnival BRITTEN
The Trojans, ballet music BERLIOZ
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Mary Wells, soprano Pamela Petts, soprano
Pauline Darroll, contralto Gerald English, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone Hans Richter-Haaser, piano
Monday 6 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Bartered Bride, overture SMETANA
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Façade, Suite WALTON
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Tuesday 7 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Rudolf Schwarz*
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER*
Stephen Bishop, piano
Wednesday 8 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Don Giovanni, overture MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Agon STRAVINSKY*
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY*
Ralph Holmes, violin
Thursday 9 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
La Damoiselle elue DEBUSSY
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Elisabeth Robinson, soprano Yvonne Newman, contralto
BBC Women’s Chorus
Friday 10 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Schwarz
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 10, ‘Adagio’ MAHLER
Israel in Egypt HANDEL
Mary Wells, soprano Nancy Evans, mezzo soprano
John Mitchinson, tenor Frederick Harvey, baritone
Raimund Herincx, bass baritone BBC Chorus
Harrow Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society
Saturday 11 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
John Pritchard
I Masnadieri, overture VERDI
Le Baiser de la Fee, divertimento STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Horn Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Danse macabre SAINT-SAENS
Barry Tuckwell, horn
Monday 13 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN
Andante and Rondo from Haffner Serenade MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Jeux DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG
Wolfgang Marschner, violin
Tuesday 14 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
A London Overture IRELAND
Sea Drift DELIUS
Cello Concerto ELGAR
Les Illuminations BRITTEN
Gloria in Excelsis Deo WALTON
Marjorie Thomas, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Gerald English, tenor John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Jacqueline du Pre, cello
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
London Philharmonic Choir
Wednesday 15 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Der Freischutz, overture WEBER
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas BRITTEN
Medieval Diptych RAWSTHORNE*
Ritual Dances from A Midsummer Marriage TIPPETT*
Peter Glossop, baritone Peter Katin, piano
Thursday 16 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Peter Gellhorn*
Munich Kyrie, K341 MOZART*
Sara la baigneuse BERLIOZ*
‘Misera dove son’, concert aria MOZART*
Sheherazade RAVEL
Cantata No. 50 BACH
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Stefania Woytowicz, soprano Rohan de Saram, cello
BBC Chorus
Friday 17 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
John Pritchard
Canzonas Nos. 14 and 16 (Symphoniae Sacrae) GABRIELI
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Les Noces STRAVINSKY
Kyra Vane, soprano Pamela Bowden, mezzo soprano
John Mitchinson, tenor John Cameron, bass
Katharina Wolpe, piano Malcolm Binns, piano
Patricia Carroll, piano Thomas Rajna, piano
Grace Wilkinson, piano BBC Chorus
Saturday 18 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Marche Militaire in D major SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto No. 3 MOZART
Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Perpetuum Mobile JOHANN STRAUSS II
Wine, Women and Song, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Emperor Waltzes JOHANN STRAUSS II
Artist’s Life, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Pizzicato Polka JOSEF AND JOHANN STRAUSS II
The Blue Danube, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Tessa Robbins, violin
Monday 20 August 1962
BBC Scottish Orchestra
Norman del Mar
The Impresario, overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Phoenix and the Turtle THEA MUSGRAVE
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’ TCHAIKOVSKY
David Wilde, piano Ambrosian Singers
Tuesday 21 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Introduction and Allegro ELGAR
‘Par che mi nasca in seno’, aria from Tamerlano HANDEL
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Piano Quartet in G minor (orch. Schoenberg) BRAHMS
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano
Wednesday 22 August 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
‘Per pieta, non ricercate’, concert aria MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings BRITTEN
Tanzwalzer BUSONI
Alexander Young, tenor Alan Civil, horn
Thursday 23 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Le Carnaval romain, overture BERLIOZ
Clarinet Concerto MOZART
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Belshazzar’s Feast WALTON
Thomas Hemsley, baritone Colin Bradbury, clarinet
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
London Philharmonic Choir Royal Choral Society
Friday 24 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
John Carewe
Leonore No. 3, overture BEETHOVEN
‘Sanft wie du lebtest’, Elegiac Song BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Cinq Rechants MESSIAEN
Oiseaux exotiques MESSIAEN
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
Dorothy Dorow, soprano Rosemary Phillips, contralto
Aloys Kontarsky, piano Ambrosian Singers
BBC Chorus
Saturday 25 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
La Scala di Seta, overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Jeux d’enfants BIZET
Danse (orch. Ravel) DEBUSSY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Monday 27 August 1962
BBC Northern Orchestra
George Hurst
The Consecration of the House, overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Festival Overture SHOSTAKOVICH
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Tuesday 28 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
Greetings Prelude STRAVINSKY
Symphony in C STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Oedipus Rex STRAVINSKY
Sebastian Shaw, actor Patricia Johnson, soprano
Ronald Dowd, tenor Alberto Remedios, tenor
Raimund Herincx, baritone Roger Stalman, bass
BBC Men’s Chorus Sadler’s Wells Men’s Chorus
Wednesday 29 August 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Josephine Veasey, soprano Ronald Dowd, tenor
Hervey Alan, bass Roger Stalman, bass
Ambrosian Singers Goldsmiths’ Choral Union
Thursday 30 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Overture in D minor (orch. Elgar) HANDEL
Symphony No. 2 ELGAR
The Planets HOLST
BBC Women’s Chorus
Friday 31 August 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar*
Coriolan, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Ricercare from The Musical Offering (orch. Webern) BACH
Scenes and Arias MAW*
Portsmouth Point, overture WALTON*
Heather Harper, soprano Josephine Veasey, mezzo soprano
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano Leon Fleisher, piano
Saturday 1 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Elsie Morison, soprano Marjorie Thomas, soprano
Walter Midgley, tenor John Cameron
Owen Brannigan, bass BBC Chorus
Royal Choral Society
Monday 3 September 1962
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Idomeneo, overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 18 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Introduction and Allegro BLISS
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Nina Milkina, piano
Tuesday 4 September 1962
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman del Mar
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Three Hymns RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elisabeth Soderstrom, soprano Geza Anda, piano
Wednesday 5 September 1962
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Jabez and the Devil, Ballet Suite ARNOLD COOKE
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Vlado Perlemuter, piano
Thursday 6 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Manfred, overture SCHUMANN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Te Deum BERLIOZ
Charles Craig, tenor Harry Danks, viola
Janos Starker, cello Alexandra Choir
BBC Chorus BBC Choral Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Friday 7 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman del Mar
Prometheus, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 GERHARD
Daniel Wayenberg, piano
Saturday 8 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Il viaggio a Reims, overture ROSSINI
Bassoon Concerto WEBER
Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ PROKOFIEV
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Geoffrey Gambold, bassoon Shura Cherkassky, piano
Monday 10 September 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 104, ‘London’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
Manoug Parikian, violin John Ogdon, piano
Tuesday 11 September 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
George Hurst
Leonora No. 2, overture BEETHOVEN
Cantata No. 82 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Five Neapolitan Songs HENZE
Scherzo Capriccioso DVORAK
Hermann Prey, baritone
Wednesday 12 September 1962
London Symphony Orchestra
Basil Cameron
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Four Songs from Les nuits d’ete BERLIOZ
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ SAINT-SAENS
April Cantelo, mezzo soprano Yan Pascal Tortelier, violin
Paul Tortelier, cello Winifred Davey
Josephine Lee Simon Preston, organ
Thursday 13 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Peter Maxwell Davies*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Fantasia on an In Nomine of John Taverner MAXWELL DAVIES*
Trumpet Concerto HAYDN
Exsultate jubilate MOZART
Symphony No. 6 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Elizabeth Simon, piano Paul Beard, violin
Richard Adeney, flute Leon Goossens, oboe
Adolf Scherbaum, trumpet Rosalyn Tureck, soprano
Friday 14 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Peter Gellhorn*
Suite No. 4 BACH
Mass in C major, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Heather Harper, soprano Norma Procter, contralto
John Mitchinson, tenor Robert Thomas, tenor
Donald Bell, bass baritone Alexandra Choir
BBC Choral Society Royal Choral Society
Saturday 15 September 1962
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Basil Cameron
Di Ballo, overture SULLIVAN
Arioso from Mazeppa TCHAIKOVSKY
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes BRITTEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAENS
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA
Sea Songs WOOD
Rule Britannia ARNE
Jerusalem PARRY
Monica Sinclair, soprano Alfred Orda, baritone
Moura Lympany, piano
Sunday, 10 May 2009
New York Philharmonic 1916 - 1928
The orchestra gave its main series of subscription concerts in Carnegie Hall, during this period.
New York Philharmonic
1916 – 1917 Season
Thursday 26 October 1916
Friday 27 October 1916
Josef Stransky
Lohengrin, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
An Alpine Symphony RICHARD STRAUSS
Guntram, Prelude Act 2 RICHARD STRAUSS
Siegfried’s Funeral Muic WAGNER
The Ride of the Valkyries WAGNER
Thursday 9 November 1916
Friday 10 November 1916
Josef Stransky
The Voyevode TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 12 November 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Josef Hofmann, piano
Thursday 16 November 1916
Friday 17 November 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Macbeth RICHARD STRAUSS
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Friday 24 November 1916
Josef Stransky
Julius Caesar, Overture SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Richard III, Overture VOLKMANN
Cello Concerto in A minor KLUGHARDT
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Willem Willeke, cello
Sunday 26 November 1916
Josef Stransky
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude Act 3 WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Bacchanale WAGNER
Parsifal, Good Friday Music WAGNER
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Forest Murmurs WAGNER
Parsifal, Prelude WAGNER
Sunday 3 December 1916
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, ‘Fingal’s Cave’, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Thursday 7 December 1916
Friday 8 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Die Ideale LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod WAGNER
Teresa Carreño, piano
Saturday 9 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Da, chas nastal...Prostitye vi,’ aria from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Vocal solos (Grieg)
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Frances Alda, soprano
Thursday 14 December 1916
Friday 15 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Tatiana’s Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
Götterdämmerung, Final Scene WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Sunday 17 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 GADE
Les Preludes LISZT
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Sylvia, Ballet Suite DELIBES
Mischa Elman, violin
Friday 5 January 1917
Josef Stransky
In the Spring, Overture GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
‘Verborgenheit’, ‘Der Freund’ and ‘Er ist’s’, lieder WOLF
Nocturnes: Nuages and Fetes DEBUSSY
Vocal Solos (Wolf and Liszt)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Elena Gerhardt, soprano
Thursday 11 January 1917
Friday 12 January 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Samson RUBEN GOLDMARK
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Thursday 25 January 1917
Friday 26 January 1917
Josef Stransky
Serenade No. 1 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in A major SINDING
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Maximilian Pilzer, violin
Sunday 28 January 1917
Josef Stransky
Die Feen, Overture WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Prelude Act 3 WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried’s Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Tristan and Isolde, Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd’s Song WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Friday 2 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra WIDOR
Le chasseur maudit FRANCK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
España CHABRIER
Guiomar Novaes, piano Charles Gilbert Spross, organ
Sunday 4 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 8 February 1917
Friday 9 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Josef Hofmann, piano
Saturday 10 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Fervaal, Introduction Act 1 D’INDY
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
España CHABRIER
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 18 February 1917
Josef Stransky
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Cello Concerto ECKERT
Invitation to the Dance (orch Weingartner) WEBER
Andante Cantabile TCHAIKOVSKY
Malaqueña from Boadbdil MOSZKOWSKI
Leo Schulz, cello
Tuesday 22 February 1917
Wednesday 23 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sunday 25 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Königskinder, Introduction to Act 3 HUMPERDINCK
Feuersnot, Love Scene RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
España CHABRIER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Thursday 1 March 1917
Friday 2 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
In a Nutshell GRAINGER
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 4 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Samson GOLDMARK
Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra LISZT
Entr’acte and ballet music from Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Xerxes, Largo, aria, ‘Ombra mai fu’ HANDEL
Yolanda Mero, piano
Friday 9 March 1917
Josef Stransky
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 10 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
‘Je dis que rien m’epouvante, aria from Carmen BIZET
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Little Russian Folk Songs ZIMBALIST
Diese herrliche Nacht RACHMANINOV
Gopak from Sorochitinsky Fair MUSSORGSKY
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Alma luck, soprano
Thursday 22 March 1917
Friday 23 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Forest Murmurs WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Prelude, Act 3 WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey WAGNER
Sunday 25 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Suite algerienne MASSENET
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Percy Grainger, piano
New York Philharmonic
1917 – 1918
76th Season
Thursday 25 October 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 HADLEY
Symphonic Interlude from Notreame de la Mer DUBOIS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Danse sacrée et danse profane DEBUSSY
Prelude to Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Alfred Kastner, harp
Friday 26 October 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 HADLEY
Symphonic Interlude from Notreame de la Mer DUBOIS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Danse sacrée et danse profane DEBUSSY
Prelude to Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Alfred Kastner, harp
Sunday 11 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Riders to the Sea, Symphonic Prologue GILBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
The Nutcracker, Ballet Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 15 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Infelice, concert aria MENDELSSOHN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Dante Symphony LISZT
Helen Stanley, soprano Betty McKenna, soprano
St. Cecilia Club
Friday 16 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Infelice, concert aria MENDELSSOHN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Dante Symphony LISZT
Helen Stanley, soprano Betty McKenna, soprano
St. Cecilia Club
Thursday 22 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Tam O'Shanter CHADWICK
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Scherzo capriccioso DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Friday 23 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Tam O'Shanter CHADWICK
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Scherzo capriccioso DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Sunday 25 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 fromThe Mastersingers WAGNER
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 30 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Concertino in F minor for Strings (arr. Franko) PERGOLESI
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra BRUCH
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Rose Sutro, piano Ottilie Sutro, piano
Sunday 2 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
‘Voi che sapete’, aria from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Symphony No. 104, 'London' HAYDN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
‘Les Regrets’, aria from Le Tasse, dramatic cantata GODARD
Suite No. 2 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
Helen Stanley, soprano
Thursday 6 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Psalm 23 LISZT
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Vernon Stiles, tenor
Friday 7 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Psalm 23 LISZT
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Vernon Stiles, tenor
Saturday 8 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphonie Orientale GODARD
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Le Carnaval romain, overture BERLIOZ
‘Vision Fugitive’, aria from Hérodiade MASSENET
Phaéton SAINT-SAËNS
Vocal solos (Franck, Koechlin and Saint-Saëns)
Suite No. 7 for Orchestra, 'Scènes alsaciennes' MASSENET
Louis Graveure, baritone
Thursday 13 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 to Lohengrin WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 14 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 to Lohengrin WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Sunday 16 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Vltava SMETANA
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Irish Rhapsody HERBERT
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Thursday 3 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Whitehouse, Symphonic Impressions NICOLA LAUCELLA
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 4 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Whitehouse, Symphonic Impressions NICOLA LAUCELLA
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 6 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Im Frühling, Overture GOLDMARK
‘Sei vendicata assai’, aria from Dinorah MEYERBEER
The Rain WHITHORNE
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Hiawatha's Vision from Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Louis Graveure, baritone
Friday 11 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
In a Summer Garden DELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Alfred Megerlin, violin
Saturday 12 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto GOLDMARK
Tasso LISZT
Piano Solos (Chopin and Paganini)
Max Rosen, violin
Thursday 17 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Schicksalslied BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in minor, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Grace Kerns, soprano Alma Beck, contralto
Arthur Hackett, tenor Arthur Middleton, bass
The New Choral Society of New York
Friday 18 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Saturday 19 January 1918
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 to The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 20 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Schicksalslied BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in minor, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Grace Kerns, soprano Alma Beck, contralto
Arthur Hackett, tenor Arthur Middleton, bass
The New Choral Society of New York
Thursday 24 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH J.S.
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Hamlet and Ophelia, Two Poems MacDOWELL
Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Pablo Casals, cello
Friday 25 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH J.S.
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Hamlet and Ophelia, Two Poems MacDOWELL
Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Pablo Casals, cello
Saturday 26 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Kyrie eleison from Mass in B minor BACH
Two Chorales: 'Thou Bliss of Earliest Innocence' and 'Wake my Heart' BACH
Cum sancto spiritu from Mass in B minor BACH
Chorus and Chorale, When will God recall my spirit? From Cantata No. 8 BACH
Sanctus from Mass in B minor BACH
Good Friday Music, March of the Knights of the Holy Grail, Prelude and Glorification
from Parsifal WAGNER
The Bethlehem Bach Choir
Sunday 27 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Senta's Ballad from Der Fliegende Holländer, WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wesendonk Lieder (arr. Mottl) WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Marcia Vanresser, soprano
Friday 1 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2, 'New England' STILLMAN-KELLEY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Wynne Pyle, piano
Sunday 3 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
In a Summer Garden DELIUS
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Fugato Humoresque on the Theme ‘Dixie’ MANA-ZUCCA
Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 7 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Médée, Suite for Orchestra D'INDY
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Friday 8 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Médée, Suite for Orchestra D'INDY
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Saturday 9 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 17 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Ballet Music from Céphale et Procris GRÉTRY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Prelude and Fugue CHIAFFARELLI
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Eddy Brown, violin
Thursday 21 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Les Eolides FRANCK
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Carnival, concert overture DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Friday 22 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Les Eolides FRANCK
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Carnival, concert overture DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Sunday 24 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Jewel Song, ‘Ah! Je ris’ from Faust GOUNOD
Chopiniana GLAZUNOV
‘vissi d'arte’ aria from Tosca PUCCINI
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marie Rippold, soprano
Thursday 28 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to Die Feen WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights from Parsifal WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Friday 1 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to Die Feen WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights from Parsifal WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Sunday 3 March 1918
Josef Stransky
König Stephan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 8 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony in C sharp minor BLOCH
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
España CHABRIER
Sascha Jacobinoff, piano
Saturday 9 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Prelude Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Les Préludes LISZT
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Thursday 21 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
1812, overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Friday 22 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
1812, overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Sunday 24 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 and Glorification from Parsifal WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie from Die Walküre WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1918 – 1919
77th Season
Thursday 14 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Melpomene, Overture CHADWICK
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Verdun (orch by the composer from Mvmnts 2 and 3 of Organ Sonata No.2) STANFORD
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 15 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Melpomene, Overture CHADWICK
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Verdun (orch by the composer from Mvmnts 2 and 3 of Organ Sonata No.2) STANFORD
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 22 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
King Christian II, Suite SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Raoul Vidas, violin
Friday 22 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
King Christian II, Suite SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Raoul Vidas, violin
Sunday 24 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Hamlet and Ophelia MacDOWELL
Scheherazade IMSKY-KORSAKOV
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 29 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Mortimer Wilson*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
From My Youth: Suite MORTIMER WILSON*
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Leo Schulz, cello
Sunday 1 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Eccomi in lieta vesta’, aria from I Capuleti ed i Montecchi BELLINI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Vltava SMETANA
‘Pleurez mes yeux’, aria from Le Cid MASSENET
Verdun (orch by the composer from Mvmnts 2 and 3 of Organ Sonata No.2) STANFORD
Hulda Lashanska, soprano
Friday 6 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 DAVID STANLEY SMITH
Vagabond and Invocation, Two Songs BLOCH
Caucasian Sketches PPOLITOV-IVANOV
Azara: Aria, ‘Softly the Balmy Zephyr Sings’, aria from Azara JOHN KNOWLES PAINE
L'apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Mary Jordan, soprano
Saturday 7 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Vysehrad, From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows and Vltava from Má Vlast SMETANA
At Twilight, Idyll for Orchestra FIBICH
Two Slavonic Dances DVOŘÁK
Thursday 12 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Barber of Bagdad CORNELIUS
Life's Dance DELIUS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St. Antoni Chorale) BRAHMS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 13 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Barber of Bagdad CORNELIUS
Life's Dance DELIUS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St. Antoni Chorale) BRAHMS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 15 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Violin Concerto No. 2 WIENIAWSKI
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Thursday 19 December 1918
Friday 20 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
To Lines of Whitman, Orchestral Sketches REGINALD SWEET
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Mischa Elman, violin
Friday 20 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
To Lines of Whitman, Orchestral Sketches REGINALD SWEET
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 22 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Ethel Leginska, piano
Friday 3 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide GLUCK
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra MOZART
Variations on an Original Theme GUSTAV STRUBE
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Alfred Megerlin, violin Josef Kovarik, viola
Sunday 5 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Genoveva, Overture SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Two Slavonic Dances DVOŘÁK
Raoul Vidas, violin
Thursday 16 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 17 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 19 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Elégie Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Epilogue from Tasso LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 LISZT
Thursday 23 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphonie fantastique BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Friday 24 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphonie fantastique BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Sunday 26 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Suite in F sharp minor HUMISTON
Piano Concerto No. 4 SAINT-SAËNS
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 30 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Toccata in F major, (arr. Esser) BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 31 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Toccata in F major, (arr. Esser) BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Harold Bauer, piano
Sunday 2 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Colonial Song GRAINGER
Mock Morris GRAINGER
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Percy Grainger, piano
Friday 7 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
España, Rhapsody CHABRIER
Ethel Leginska, piano
Saturday 8 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Barber of Bagdad CORNELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 13 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
La procession: Dieu s'avance à travers les champs, Song with Orchestra FRANCK
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Fontane di Roma RESPIGHI
Recitative and Aria, So wills the Lord from The Maid of Orleans TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Louise Homer, soprano
Friday 14 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
La procession: Dieu s'avance à travers les champs, Song with Orchestra FRANCK
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Fontane di Roma RESPIGHI
Recitative and Aria, So wills the Lord from The Maid of Orleans TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Louise Homer, soprano
Saturday 15 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Tristan and Isolde: Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 16 February 1919
Josef Stransky
In Bohemia, A Concert Overture HADLEY
Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in E minor MacDOWELL
Tam O'Shanter, Symphonic Ballad CHADWICK
Rhapsodie nègre for Piano and Orchestra POWELL
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
John Powell, piano
Thursday 27 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Friday 28 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Sunday 2 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
‘Marten aller Arten’, aria from Die Entführung aus dem Serail MOZART
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Carillon for Reciter and Orchestra ELGAR
Lerapeau Belge for Reciter and Orchestra ELGAR
Swans, Song for soprano and orchestra KRAMER
A Thought, song for soprano and orchestra GANZ
Incidental Music to Peer Gynt GRIEG
(Prelude: Morning, Death of Aase, Solvejg's Song, In the Hall of the Mountain Song)
Lucy Gates, soprano Carlo Liten, speaker
Thursday 6 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Tone Poem based on passages from Tagore HAROLD MORRIS
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Friday 7 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Tone Poem based on passages from Tagore HAROLD MORRIS
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Saturday 8 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Raoul Vidas, violin
Thursday 13 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SINDING
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 DVOŘÁK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Les Préludes LISZT
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 14 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SINDING
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 DVOŘÁK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Les Préludes LISZT
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 16 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes for Orchestra DEBUSSY
Rustic Wedding, Symphonic Poem GOLDMARK
Mischa Elman, violin
Thursday 27 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Friday 28 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Eddy Brown, violin
Sunday 30 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Eddy Brown, violin
New York Philharmonic
1919 – 1920
78th Season
Thursday 13 November 1919
Josef Stransky
To the Fallen BERNARD ROGERS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
In the Tatra Mountains NOVAK
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Friday 14 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfred Megerlin, violin Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 20 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL
Les Préludes LISZT
Eddy Brown, violin
Friday 21 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 DVOŘÁK
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
España CHABRIER
Eddy Brown, violin
Sunday 23 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 28 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Charmant Oiseau, aria from La Perle du Brésil FELICIEN DAVID
Danse macabre SAINT-SAËNS
At the Well, Song on Text by Tagore HAGEMAN
A Nocturne for soprano and orchestra KRAMER
June, Song for soprano and orchestra AMY BEACH
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Greta Mason, soprano
Sunday 30 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Mutter, Mutter! glaube nicht & Laß mich ihm am Busen hangen’ (orch. Stokowski) SCHUMANN
‘Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer’, (orch Stokowski) BRAHMS
Erlkönig, (orch Stokowski) SCHUBERT
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 5 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Prelude to a Merry Play CHIAFFARELLI
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
Edwin Hughes, piano
Saturday 6 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Symphonic Dances GRIEG
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 LISZT
Toscha Seidel, violin
Thursday 11 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 DVOŘÁK
Viennese Rhapsody SCHMITT
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Friday 12 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony FRANCK
Symphonic Dances GRIEG
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Vltava SMETANA
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Sunday 14 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Les Préludes LISZT
Percy Grainger, piano
Thursday 18 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Moonrise, Requiem and To Solitude: Three Symphonic Songs STRANSKY
Phaéton SAINT-SAËNS
Immolation Scene fromGötterdämmerung WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 19 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Moonrise, Requiem and To Solitude: Three Symphonic Songs STRANSKY
Impressions of Night SYLVIO LAZZARI
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 2 January 1920
Josef Stransky
A Night at Karluv-Tyn, Overture FIBICH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Rosita Renard, piano
Sunday 4 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Eddy Brown, violin
Saturday 10 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser: WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Thursday 15 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Olga Samaroff, piano
Friday 16 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Die Zauberflöte MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Viennese Rhapsody SCHMITT
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Olga Samaroff, piano
Sunday 18 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
L'Apprenti Sorcier DUKAS
Symphonic Dances GRIEG
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sascha Jacobsen, violin
Thursday 22 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Friday 23 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla GLINKA
The Cedar and the Palm for Orchestra KALINNIKOV
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Sunday 25 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 29 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Prometheus Bound, Overture GOLDMARK
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 30 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 1 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 DVOŘÁK
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Ozean du Ungeheuer!’ aria from Oberon WEBER
España CHABRIER
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Friday 6 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture in the Romantic Style HUGO RIESENFELD
‘Depuis la jour’, aria from Louise CHARPENTIER
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Finlandia SIBELIUS
‘L'ombre des anges’, song (arr. for soprano and orchestra) DEBUSSY
‘Oh, si les fleurs avaient des yeux’, mélodie (arr. for soprano and orchestra) MASSENET
‘A Dream’, song (arr. for soprano and orchestra) GRIEG
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Marguerite Namara, soprano
Saturday 7 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder No. 5 (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Tannhäuser: Overture WAGNER
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 12 February 1920
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
A Gettysburg Requiem RUBIN GOLDMARK
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Friday 13 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Sunday 15 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Sunday 22 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Vltava SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Thursday 26 February 1920
Josef Stransky
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Friday 27 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 94, 'Surprise' HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Sunday 29 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘All My Soul Within Me Shudders’ from Christus am Oelberge BEETHOVEN
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Psalm 23 LISZT
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Allen McQuhae, tenor
Thursday 4 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2, 'Four Seasons' HADLEY
Life's Dance DELIUS
Scottish Fantasy BRUCH
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Albert Spalding, violin
Friday 5 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Prometheus Bound, Overture GOLDMARK
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Albert Spalding, violin
Saturday 6 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Thursday 11 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 12 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2, 'Ocean' RUBINSTEIN
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 14 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG
Leopold Godowsky, piano
Thursday 25 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 26 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 28 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1920 – 1921
79th Season
Thursday 11 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Dante Symphony LISZT
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Spinning Scene from Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
The Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Eleanor Woodford, soprano St. Cecilia Club, choir
Friday 12 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Chorale Prelude, ‘O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross (orch. Reger) BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Thursday 18 November 1920
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Suite for Orchestra No. 1 MOSZKOWSKI
Toscha Seidel, violin
Friday 19 November 1920
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Suite for Orchestra No. 1 MOSZKOWSKI
Toscha Siedel, violin
Sunday 21 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 26 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 ALFVÉN
Vltava SMETANA
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Les Préludes LISZT
Sunday 28 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Leopold Godowsky, piano
Friday 3 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture, Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Olga Samaroff, piano
Saturday 4 December 1920
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Thursday 9 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Chorale Prelude: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross (orch. Reger) BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
‘Lesieux dans l'ombre des cavernes’, Evocations for Orchestra ROUSSEL
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 10 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfred Megerlin, violin
Sunday 12 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Arrigo Serato, violin
Thursday 16 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 17 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 31 December 1920
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, Overture, 'Fingal's Cave' MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
The Culprit Fay, Rhapsody HADLEY
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 2 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Joan Manen, violin
Saturday 8 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Ah! Perfido BEETHOVEN
Mazeppa LISZT
Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Thursday 13 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
The Fragant Hair, To Solitude and Hymnus, Three Orchestral Melodies STRANSKY
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
‘Ozean du Ungeheuer!’ aria from Oberon WEBER
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 14 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
The Fragant Hair, To Solitude and Hymnus, Three Orchestral Melodies STRANSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Sunday 16 January 1921
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Thursday 20 January 1921
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Leo Schulz, cello
Friday 21 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 HADLEY
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Ellen Ballon, piano
Sunday 23 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Vltava SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Thursday 27 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Friday 28 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Sunday 30 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 8 in F major BEETHOVEN
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 4 February 1921
Henry Hadley
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Song of the Indian Guest from Sadko RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
‘E lucevan le stelle’, aria from Tosca PUCCINI
Woodland Fancies, Suite for Orchestra HERBERT
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Dmitri Dobkin, tenor
Saturday 5 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
The Cedar and the Palm KALINNIKOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Thursday 10 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 11 February 1921
Josef Stransky
A Dante Symphony LISZT
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Spinning Scene from Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Mrs. John Hilton Land, soprano St. Cecilia Club, choir
Sunday 13 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Melpomene, Overture CHADWICK
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Over the Hills and Far Away GRAINGER
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 20 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Thursday 24 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 25 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 27 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Thursday 3 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Love Scene from Feuersnot RICHARD STRAUSS
Alexander Schmuller, violin
Friday 4 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Riders to the Sea, Prelude REGINALD SWEET
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Saturday 5 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Thursday 10 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Samson, Symphonic Poem RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 11 March 1921
Josef Stransky
BEETHOVEN
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Alexander Schmuller, violin
Sunday 13 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
‘Eri tu’ aria from Un Ballo in maschera VERDI
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Joseph Schwarz, baritone
Thursday 24 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 25 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Sunday 27 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
New York Philharmonic
1921 – 1922
80th Season
Thursday 27 October 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Prelude and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
John Powell, piano
Friday 28 October 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Prelude and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
John Powell, piano
Thursday 10 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Dirge from Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 MacDOWELL
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Friday 11 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Dirge from Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 MacDOWELL
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Saturday 12 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 17 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Henry Hadley*
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
The Ocean, Tone Poem HADLEY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 18 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Henry Hadley*
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
The Ocean, Tone Poem HADLEY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 20 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture Rienzi WAGNER
Venusberg Music Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd's Melody Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Friday 25 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Excerpts from Suite Primeval on Tribal Indian Melodies CHARLES SKILTON
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 26 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Sunday 27 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Friday 2 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Concerto Grosso in C major, 'Alexander's Feast', (arr. Mottl) HANDEL
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Mazeppa LISZT
Germaine Schnitzer, piano
Saturday 3 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Thursday 8 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, 'Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
La mort de Tintagiles CHARLES LOEFFLER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin and viola d'amore
Friday 9 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, 'Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
La mort de Tintagiles CHARLES LOEFFLER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin and viola d'amore
Sunday 11 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Concerto Grosso in C major, 'Alexander's Feast' (arr. Mottl) HANDEL
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 15 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov piano
Friday 16 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Sergei Rachmaninov piano
Friday 30 December 1921
Henry Hadley
Overture to Donna Diana REZNICEK
Symphony No. 5 GLAZUNOV
Indian Sketches, Suite GILBERT
In the Steppes of Central Asia BORODIN
Polonaise No. 2 in E major (orch. ??) LISZT
Sunday 1 January 1922
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Glorification from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Saturday 7 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Thursday 12 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
In the Court of Pomegranates WHITHORNE
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 13 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
In the Court of Pomegranates WHITHORNE
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 15 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Henry Hadley*
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
The Ocean HADLEY*
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Vltava SMETANA
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 19 January 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Erica Morini, violin
Friday 20 January 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Erica Morini, violin
Sunday 22 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, 'Military’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Phaéton SAINT-SAËNS
Le rouet d'Omphale SAINT-SAËNS
Danse macabre SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Elley Ney, piano
Thursday 26 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Friday 27 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Sunday 29 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Tuesday 31 January 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Artur Bodanzky*
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER*
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS*
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 3 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Tuesday 7 February 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 9 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 1 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
La Valse RAVEL
Symphony in minor FRANCK
Friday 10 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 1 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
La Valse RAVEL
Symphony in minor FRANCK
Sunday 12 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Les Préludes LISZT
Tuesday 14 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' MOZART
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Saturday 18 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Le carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Sunday 19 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
La Valse RAVEL
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Helen Teschner Tas, violin
Tuesday 21 February 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Suite from Tale of Tsar Saltan RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sakuntala, Overture GOLDMARK
Thursday 23 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Percy Grainger, piano
Friday 24 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 26 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 1 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Tuesday 28 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Julia Claussen, contralto The St. Cecilia Club
Boys' Choir of the Paulist Choristers
Thursday 2 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Julia Claussen, contralto The St. Cecilia Club
Boys' Choir of the Paulist Choristers
Friday 3 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Julia Claussen, contralto The St. Cecilia Club
Boys' Choir of the Paulist Choristers
Tuesday 7 March 1922
Artur Bodanzky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Thursday 9 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 10 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 12 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Impressions from an Artist's Life ERNEST SCHELLING
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG
Aufforderung zum Tanze (orch Berlioz) WEBER
Wiener Blut JOHANN STRAUSS II
Ernest Schelling, piano
Tuesday 14 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Sunday 19 March 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Suite from Ma Mère l'oye RAVEL
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Tuesday 21 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Impressions from an Artist's Life SCHELLING
Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 MacDOWELL
Les Préludes LISZT
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 23 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 24 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 26 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Le Baruffe Chiozzotte SINIGAGLIA
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Myra Hess, piano
Tuesday 28 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Cello Concerto D'ALBERT
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Thursday 30 March 1922
Friday 31 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Overture to The Birds DIEPENBROCK
Suite for Cello and Orchestra GOUDOEVER
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Henri van Goudoever, cello Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 31 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Overture to The Birds DIEPENBROCK
Suite for Cello and Orchestra GOUDOEVER
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Henri van Goudoever, cello Harold Bauer, piano
Tuesday 4 April 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Tasso LISZT
Saturday 8 April 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Elly Ney, piano
Sunday 9 April 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Myra Hess, piano
Sunday 30 April 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Inez Barbour, soprano Merlie Alcock, contralto
Lambert Murphy, tenor Roy Daladmun, bass
Chorus of the Oratorio Society of New York
New York Philharmonic
1922 – 1923
81st Season
Thursday 26 October 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Sursum corda!, KORNGOLD
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Friday 27 October 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Sursum corda! KORNGOLD
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 9 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Introduction and Scherzo from Incidental music Prince Csongor and the Gnomes WEINER
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Tasso LISZT
Joseph Hollman, cello
Friday 10 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Introduction and Scherzo from Incidental music Prince Csongor and the Gnomes WEINER
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Tasso LISZT
Joseph Hollman, cello
Saturday 11 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Te Deum Laudamus SGAMBATI
Jubilee CHADWICK
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Egyptian' SAINT-SAËNS
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Arthur Shattuck, piano
Tuesday 14 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 16 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Golgotha SAVINE
Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 17 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Golgotha SAVINE
Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 19 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 24 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'A Pastoral Symphony' VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Florence Hinkle, soprano Artur Rubinstein, piano
Saturday 25 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Good Friday Music to Parsifal WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Sunday 26 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Tasso LISZT
Scottish Fantasy BRUCH
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipone Guidi, violin
Tuesday 28 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Friday 1 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 2 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfred Cortot, piano
Thursday 7 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Two Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg) BWV 631, 654 BACH
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Friday 8 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Two Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg) BWV 631, 654 BACH
Cello Concerto LALO
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Hans Kindler, cello
Sunday 10 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 14 December 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, Overture 'Fingal's Cave' MENDELSSOHN
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod to Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Jascha Heifetz, violin Heinrich Gebhard, piano
P. Strano, cor anglais Gustave Heim, trumpet
Max Schlossberg, trumpet Jacob Grupp, trumpet
Friday 15 December 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, Overture 'Fingal's Cave' MENDELSSOHN
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod to Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Jascha Heifetz, violin Heinrich Gebhard, piano
P. Strano, cor anglais Gustave Heim, trumpet
Max Schlossberg, trumpet Jacob Grupp, trumpet
Sunday 17 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Hans Kindler, cello
Sunday 24 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 29 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Suite Fantastique for piano and orchestra SCHELLING
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Ernest Schelling, piano
Sunday 31 December 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Suite Fantastique for piano and orchestra SCHELLING
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Ernest Schelling, piano
Saturday 6 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Königskinder, A Concert Overture HUMPERDINCK
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Music for the Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant HENRY GILBERT
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Toscha Seidel, violin
Tuesday 9 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 FREDERICK CONVERSE
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Toscha Seidel, violin
Thursday 11 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Königskinder, A Concert Overture HUMPERDINCK
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Siren Song DEEMS TAYLOR
Le Carnaval des animaux SAINT-SAËNS
Myra Hess, piano Kurt Schindler, piano
Madeleine Marshall, piano
Friday 12 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Königskinder, A Concert Overture HUMPERDINCK
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Siren Song DEEMS TAYLOR
Tristan's Vision Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Myra Hess, piano
Sunday 14 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Anniversary, Overture CHADWICK
Le Carnaval des animaux SAINT-SAËNS
Suite from Act 3 of Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Kurt Schindler, piano Madeleine Marshall, piano
Tuesday 16 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd's Melody from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Thursday 18 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Josef Hofmann, piano
Friday 19 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Josef Hofmann, piano
Sunday 21 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 25 January 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Friday 26 January 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Sunday 28 January 1923
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd's Melody from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Tuesday 30 January 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Friday 2 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Frederic Lamond, piano
Thursday 8 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français D'INDY
Rapsodia españa for Piano and Orchestra (orch. Casella) ALBENIZ
La Valse RAVEL
Alfredo Casella, piano
Friday 9 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français D'INDY
Rapsodia españa for Piano and Orchestra (orch. Casella) ALBENIZ
La Valse RAVEL
Alfredo Casella, piano
Sunday 11 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Tuesday 13 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Saturday 17 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Serenade for string orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Sunday 18 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Serenade for string orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY
La Valse RAVEL
Thursday 22 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Chamber Symphony SCHREKER
Violin Concerto No. 4 VIEUXTEMPS
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Friday 23 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Chamber Symphony SCHREKER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Sunday 25 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
As You Like It, Overture WETZLER
Violin Concerto No. 4 VIEUXTEMPS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Tuesday 27 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eglogue RABAUD
La Valse RAVEL
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 1 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4 GLAZUNOV
Olga Samaroff, piano
Friday 2 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4 GLAZUNOV
Olga Samaroff, piano
Thursday 8 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Clarence Adler, piano Scipione Guidi, violin
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Friday 9 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Clarence Adler, piano Scipione Guidi, violin
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Sunday 11 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Symphony No. 3 HADLEY
Piet Hein, Dutch Rhapsody PETER VAN ANROOY
Wanderer fantasy (arr. Liszt for Piano and Orchestra) SCHUBERT
Alexander Siloti, piano
Friday 26 January 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Sunday 18 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Symphony No. 2, 'Symphonie des sommets' LAZARE SAMINSKY
Serenade for string orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY
Wanderer fantasy (arr. Liszt for Piano and Orchestra) SCHUBERT
Les Préludes LISZT
Alexander Siloti, piano
Thursday 22 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Sortilegi, Symphonic Poem PICK-MANGIAGALLI
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Friday 23 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Sortilegi, Symphonic Poem PICK-MANGIAGALLI
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Sunday 25 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Prelude, Good Friday Music, Transformation Music & Closing Scene, Act 1 from Parsifal WAGNER
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Tuesday 27 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Artur Schnabel, piano
Thursday 29 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Pour une Fête de Printemps ROUSSEL
Eglogue RABAUD
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Frederic Lamond, piano
Friday 6 April 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 5 CHAIKOVSKY
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Saturday 7 April 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils and Final Scene from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Barbara Kemp, soprano
Sunday 8 April 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Josef Lhevinne, piano
New York Philharmonic
1923 – 1924
82nd Season
Thursday 25 October 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Fêtes from Nocturnes for Orchestra DEBUSSY
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 26 October 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Fêtes from Nocturnes for Orchestra DEBUSSY
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 8 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin
Friday 9 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin
Saturday 10 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Suite No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Wiener Blut, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 LISZT
Monday 12 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro MOZART
Concerto No. 2 in F major a due cori for Two Wind Bands and Strings HANDEL
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Thursday 15 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro MOZART
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Mephisto Waltz No. 2 LISZT
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Friday 16 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro MOZART
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Mephisto Waltz No. 2 LISZT
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Sunday 18 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 22 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla GLINKA
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Overture and Venusberg Music to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 23 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla GLINKA
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Overture and Venusberg Music to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Saturday 24 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Sunday 25 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Wednesday 28 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon and Orchestra MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Till Eulenspiegel STRAUSS
Mitja Nikisch, piano Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Friday 30 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon and Orchestra MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Till Eulenspiegel STRAUSS
Mitja Nikisch, piano Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Saturday 1 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
L'apprenti Sorcier DUKAS
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Monday 3 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide GLUCK
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
‘Chanson triste’ and ‘Le Manoir de Rosemonde’, Two Songs with Orchestra DUPARC
Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Arthur Hackett, tenor
Thursday 6 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Osip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Friday 7 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Osip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Sunday 9 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon and Orchestra MOZART
Prelude Act 1 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
The Firebird, concert suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Bruno Labate, oboe Simeon Bellison, clarinet
Bruno Jaenicke, horn Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Thursday 13 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Sarabande and Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne) DEBUSSY
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 14 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Sarabande and Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne) DEBUSSY
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 16 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Monday 17 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 100, 'Military' HAYDN
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Sunday 23 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia from The Christmas Oratorio BACH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Thursday 27 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Youth, Fantasy Overture FELIX BOROWSKI
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Friday 28 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Youth, Fantasy Overture FELIX BOROWSKI
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Sunday 30 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Ballet Music from Céphale et Procris GRÉTRY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Pan, Rhapsody CARL SCHROEDER
The Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Monday 31 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 MacDOWELL
Les Préludes LISZT
Saturday 5 January 1924
Henry Hadley
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Youth, Fantasy Overture BOROWSKI
Harold Bauer, piano
Tuesday 8 January 1924
Henry Hadley
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
The Blue Flower CARL McKINLEY
Les Préludes LISZT
Harold Bauer, piano
Thursday 10 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Friday 11 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Sunday 13 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Adventures in a Perambulator, Suite CARPENTER
Prelude Act 1 to Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Erica Morini, violin
Tuesday 15 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Erica Morini, violin
Thursday 17 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Suite No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
The Firebird, concert suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Friday 18 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Suite No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
The Firebird, concert suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Sunday 20 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto in D major BERNHARD MOLIQUE
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
An den schönen, blauen Donau, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Leo Schulz, cello
Monday 21 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Elegy for Orchestra KORNAUTH
‘Ah, fors' è lui’, aria from La Traviata VERDI
Invitation to the Dance (arr. Weingartner) WEBER
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Roa Eaton, soprano
Thursday 24 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Variations and Fugue on a Merry Theme of Hiller REGER
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 25 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Variations and Fugue on a Merry Theme of Hiller REGER
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 27 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Tuesday 29 January 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Wednesday 30 January 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Wednesday 6 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Oberon WEBER
‘Divinités du Styx, aria from Alceste GLUCK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Alma Beck, soprano
Thursday 7 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Friday 8 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 10 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 14 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin RICHARD STRAUSS
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Les Préludes LISZT
Friday 15 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin RICHARD STRAUSS
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Les Préludes LISZT
Saturday 16 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from The Nutcracker TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 17 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Violin and Strings in E major BACH
Poème for Violin and Orchestra CHAUSSON
Overture to Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II
Jacques Thibaud , violin
Tuesday 19 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Violin and Strings in E major BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 21 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto JOHN POWELL
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Friday 22 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto JOHN POWELL
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Sunday 24 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in G minor BACH
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Wanda Landowska, harpsichord/piano
Wednesday 27 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem MENGELBERG
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 28 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto DVORÁK
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Felix Salmond, cello
Friday 29 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto DVORÁK
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Felix Salmond, cello
Tuesday 4 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Percy Grainger, piano
Thursday 6 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Euphorion, Symphonic Episode PAOLO GALLICO
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Friday 7 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Euphorion, Symphonic Episode PAOLO GALLICO
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Sunday 9 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Impressions from an Artist's Life, Variations for Piano and Orchestra SCHELLING
Les Préludes LISZT
Ernest Schelling, piano
Sunday 16 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Wednesday 19 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Flute Concerto No. 2 in C major MOZART
Impressions from an Artist's Life, Variations for Piano and Orchestra SCHELLING
John Amans, flute Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 20 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Symphonic Elegy RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
España, Rhapsody CHABRIER
Yolanda Mero, piano
Friday 21 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Symphonic Elegy RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
España, Rhapsody CHABRIER
Yolanda Mero, piano
Sunday 23 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Mischa Levitski, piano
Tuesday 25 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Mischa Levitski, piano
Thursday 27 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Le Chant du rossignol STRAVINSKY
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Friday 28 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Le Chant du rossignol STRAVINSKY
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Tuesday 2 April 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Samuel Gardner, violin
Friday 5 April 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
New York Philharmonic
1924 – 1925
83rd Season
Thursday 16 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Sinfonia drammatica RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Die Meistersinger, prelude WAGNER
Friday 17 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Sinfonia drammatica RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Die Meistersinger, prelude WAGNER
Wednesday 29 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Euryanthe, overture WEBER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Thursday 30 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT
Anthony and Cleopatra SCHMITT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Elley Ney, piano
Friday 31 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT
Anthony and Cleopatra SCHMITT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Elley Ney, piano
Thursday 6 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in B flat major CHAUSSON
Violin Concerto KARLOWICZ
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Friday 7 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in B flat major CHAUSSON
Violin Concerto KARLOWICZ
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Saturday 8 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 4 SAINT-SAENS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Wednesday 12 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Tannhauser, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 13 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Friday 14 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Sunday 16 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 STOJOWSKI
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Sigismund Stojowski, piano
Thursday 20 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Friday 21 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Sunday 23 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Two Preludes and Five Voice Fugues BACH
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Wednesday 26 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TGCHAIKOVSKY
Nikolai Medtner, piano
Friday 28 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TGCHAIKOVSKY
Nikolai Medtner, piano
Saturday 29 November 1924
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Irish Rhapsody VICTOR HERBERT
Leo Schulz, cello
Wednesday 3 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Thursday 4 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Poem for Orchestra LOEFFLER
Tristan and Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod WAGNER
Scipione Guidi, violin
Friday 5 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Poem for Orchestra LOEFFLER
Tristan and Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod WAGNER
Scipione Guidi, violin
Sunday 7 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Wiener Blut, Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Thursday 11 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan GRIFFES
Two Waltzes for String Orchestra DVORAK
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Friday 12 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan GRIFFES
Two Waltzes for String Orchestra DVORAK
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Thursday 18 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Salome HADLEY
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Friday 19 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Salome HADLEY
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sunday 28 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
From the Garden of Hellas, Suite BALLANTINE
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Ruth Breton, violin
Wednesday 31 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Southern Fantasy HUMISTON
From the Garden of Hellas, Suite BALLANTINE
Salome HADLEY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 3 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 8 January 1925
Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Volga Boatmen STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Friday 9 January 1925
Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Volga Boatmen STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Saturday 10 January 1925
Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Volga Boatmen STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Sunday 11 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Thursday 15 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Olga Samaroff, piano
Friday 16 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Olga Samaroff, piano
Sunday 18 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Thursday 22 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Friday 23 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Sunday 25 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Wednesday 28 January 1925
Willem van Hoogstraten
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Friday 30 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Saturday 31 January 1925
Willem van Hoogstraten
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Myra Hess, piano
Wednesday 4 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 5 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Igor Stravinsky, piano
Friday 6 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Igor Stravinsky, piano
Sunday 8 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Les Deux Journees, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Espana CHABRIER
Thursday 12 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Iberia DEBUSSY
Espana CHABRIER
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Friday 13 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Iberia DEBUSSY
Espana CHABRIER
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Saturday 14 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Sunday 15 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Capriccio for Flute KEMPTER
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
John Amans, flute
Wednesday 18 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 1 BIZET
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Flute Music WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Thursday 19 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 1 BIZET
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Friday 20 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 1 BIZET
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 22 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 26 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Friday 27 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Wednesday 4 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 5 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Prelude to Cantata No. 174 BACH
Adagio from Toccata in C major BACH
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Wanda Landowska, piano
Friday 6 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Prelude to Cantata No. 174 BACH
Adagio from Toccata in C major BACH
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Wanda Landowska, piano
Sunday 8 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Wednesday 18 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Through the Looking Glass, Suite DEEMS TAYLOR
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Thursday 19 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Through the Looking Glass, Suite DEEMS TAYLOR
Cello Concerto LALO
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gerard Hekking, cello
Friday 20 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Through the Looking Glass, Suite DEEMS TAYLOR
Cello Concerto LALO
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gerard Hekking, cello
Sunday 22 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Echoes from Ossian, Overture GADE
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfred Cortot, piano
Thursday 26 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in E minor SAMUEL GARDNER
La Valse RAVEL
Samuel Gardner, violin
Friday 27 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in E minor SAMUEL GARDNER
La Valse RAVEL
Samuel Gardner, violin
Saturday 28 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Marie Sundelius, soprano Sarah Charles-Cahier, contralto
Schola Cantorum
Wednesday 1 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Tasso LISZT
Yolanda Mero, piano
Thursday 2 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Concerto TAILLEFERRE
Tasso LISZT
Germaine Tailleferre, piano
Friday 3 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Concerto TAILLEFERRE
Tasso LISZT
Germaine Tailleferre, piano
Saturday 11 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
St. Matthew Passion BACH
Mildred Faas, soprano Mabel Beddoe, contralto
Lambert Murphy, tenor Thomas Denijs, bass
John Barclay, bass Wanda Landowska, harpsichord
Louis Robert, organ Scipione Guidi, violin
Bruno Labate, oboe d’amore Georges Apchain, oboe d’amore
John Amans, flute
New York Philharmonic
1925 – 1926
84th Season
Thursday 15 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 2 BACH
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Friday 16 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 2 BACH
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 29 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Partita for Piano and Orchestra CASELLA
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Lewis James, tenor
Friday 30 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Partita for Piano and Orchestra CASELLA
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Lewis James, tenor Alfredo Casella, piano
Saturday 31 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 2 BACH
Les Préludes LISZT
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 5 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Épreuve villageois, Overture GRÉTRY
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Thomas Denijs, bass
Friday 6 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Épreuve villageois, Overture GRÉTRY
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Thomas Denijs, bass
Saturday 7 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Épreuve villageois, Overture GRÉTRY
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Katherine Bacon, piano Thomas Denijs, bass
Thursday 12 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra GEBHARD
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Heinrich Gebhard, piano
Friday 13 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra GEBHARD
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Heinrich Gebhard, piano
Saturday 14 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Jubel, Overture WEBER
Two Violin Concerto in D minor BACH
Overture in D major KALLIWODA
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Scipione Guidi, violin Hans Lange, violin
Sunday 15 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Jubel, Overture WEBER
Two Violin Concerto in D minor BACH
Overture in D major KALLIWODA
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Scipione Guidi, violin Hans Lange, violin
Thursday 19 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 20 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 22 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Dance of the Sorceress TANSMAN
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Wednesday 25 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Ruth Rodgers, soprano Martha Offers, contralto
Schola Cantorum
Friday 27 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Ruth Rodgers, soprano Martha Offers, contralto
Schola Cantorum
Saturday 28 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection (2nd movement) MAHLER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 3 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Visions WETZLER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Percy Grainger, piano
Friday 4 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Visions WETZLER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 6 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Iphigenie in Aulis, Overture GLUCK
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Thursday 10 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Impressions from An Artist’s Life SCHELLING
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Ernest Schelling, piano
Friday 11 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Impressions from An Artist’s Life SCHELLING
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 17 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Friday 18 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Saturday 19 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Henry Hadley*
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Lucifer HADLEY*
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sunday 27 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Henry Hadley*
Old Dutch Dances RÖNTGEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Lucifer HADLEY*
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Thursday 31 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto RESPIGHI
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Ottorino Respighi, piano
Friday 1 January 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto RESPIGHI
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Ottorino Respighi, piano
Saturday 2 January 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Sunday 10 January 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 14 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Friday 15 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Saturday 16 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Sunday 17 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (arr. Abert) BACH
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Thursday 21 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto Grosso in D minor VIVALDI
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Friday 22 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto Grosso in D minor VIVALDI
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Sunday 24 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Thursday 28 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Paesaggi toscani TOMMASINI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Schola Cantorum
Friday 29 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Paesaggi toscani TOMMASINI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Schola Cantorum
Saturday 30 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto Grosso in D minor VIVALDI
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Monday 1 February 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (arr. Abert) BACH
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Saturday 6 February 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Sunday 7 February 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
La Mer DEBUSSY
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Notturno MARTUCCI
Novelletta MARTUCCI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Thursday 11 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Friday 12 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Saturday 13 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Suite for Cello and Orchestra VALENTINI
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Hans Kindler, cello
Sunday 14 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Suite for Cello and Orchestra VALENTINI
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Hans Kindler, cello
Thursday 18 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Sinfonia Domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 19 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Sinfonia Domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 21 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Thursday 25 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 2 RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 26 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 2 RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 4 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Interlude and Waltz Scene from Intermezzo RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Hungarian Dances BRAHMS
Friday 5 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Interlude and Waltz Scene from Intermezzo RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Hungarian Dances BRAHMS
Sunday 7 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Thursday 18 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Hussite, Overture DVOŘÁK
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Friday 19 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Hussite, Overture DVOŘÁK
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Saturday 20 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Hunagrian Dances BRAHMS
Sunday 21 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 25 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 26, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Harpsichord Concerto in D major HAYDN
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Wanda Landowska, piano/harpsichord
Friday 26 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 26, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Harpsichord Concerto in D major HAYDN
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Wanda Landowska, piano/harpsichord
Saturday 27 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 1 April 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Invitation to the Dance (orch. Weingartner) BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Friday 2 April 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Invitation to the Dance (orch. Weingartner) BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Saturday 3 April 1926
Fritz Reiner
Fidelio, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1926 – 1927
85th Season
Thursday 14 October 1926
Friday 15 October 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major (orch. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Pan and the Priest HANSON
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Thursday 28 October 1926
Friday 29 October 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Israel Symphony BLOCH
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
A Life of the Artist STRONG
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Joszef Szigeti, violin
Sunday 30 October 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major (orch. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Israel Symphony BLOCH
Pan and the Priest HANSON
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Thursday 4 November 1926
Friday 5 November 1926
Saturday 6 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Tempest, Prelude HONEGGER
8 Pièces Enfantines, Parts 1 and 2 STRAVINSKY
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Charles Stratton, tenor
Thursday 11 November 1926
Friday 12 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Victory Ball SCHELLING
Palestrina, Three Preludes PFITZNER
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Gitta Gradova, piano
Saturday 13 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Palestrina, Three Preludes PFITZNER
Concertstück for Piano and Orchestra WEBER
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Margaret Hamilton, piano
Sunday 14 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Funeral March in Memoriam Weber WAGNER
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Charles Stratton, tenor
Sunday 21 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHANN WAGENAAR
Impressions of Italy, Suite CHARPENTIER
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Wednesday 24 November 1926
Friday 26 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Serenade for Strings TCHAIKOVSKY
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Hans Kindler, cello
Saturday 27 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHANN WAGENAAR
Impressions of Italy, Suite CHARPENTIER
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Thursday 2 December 1926
Friday 3 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Carl Friedberg, piano
Sunday 5 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Concerto gregoriano RESPIGHI
Lohengrin, Prelude WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Thursday 9 December 1926
Friday 10 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Le Roi d’Ys, Overture LALO
Aline, Chaconne and Rigaudon MONSIGNY
The Carnival of Aix MILHAUD
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Darius Milhaud, piano
Thursday 16 December 1926
Friday 17 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Symphony No. 3, ‘The Song of the Night’ SZYMANOWSKI
Lohengrin, Prelude WAGNER
Siegfried’s Forge Songs WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Saturday 18 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Le Roi d’Ys, Overture LALO
Aline, Chaconne and Rigaudon MONSIGNY
Violin Sonata in G minor TARTINI
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Hans Lange, violin Munz Mieczyslaw, piano
Thursday 23 December 1926
Friday 24 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
E. Robert Schmitz, piano
Sunday 26 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Efrem Zimbalist, piano
Thursday 30 December 1926
Friday 31 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Alfred Cortot, piano
Saturday 1 January 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Leonid Kreutzer, piano
Sunday 9 January 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Gwendoline, Prelude to Act 2 CHABRIER
Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 13 January 1927
Friday 14 January 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 3 BACH
Gwendoline, Prelude to Act 2 CHABRIER
Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 15 January 1927
Sunday 16 January 1927
Hans Lange
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Thursday 20 January 1927
Friday 21 January 1927
Georges Georgescu
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
La Procession Nocturne RABAUD
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Sunday 23 January 1927
Georges Georgescu
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Thursday 27 January 1927
Friday 28 January 1927
Fritz Reiner
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
La Mer DEBUSSY
Suite from Act 3 of Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Saturday 5 February 1927
Sunday 6 February 1927
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano Louise Homer, contralto
Richard Crooks, tenor Fraser Gange, baritone
Schola Cantorum
Thursday 10 February 1927
Friday 11 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Pablo Casals, cello
Saturday 12 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Bernard Ocko, violin
Sunday 13 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Thursday 17 February 1927
Friday 18 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 7 MIASKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Sunday 20 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Paul Kochanski, violin
Thursday 24 February 1927
Friday 25 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
The Tempest, Overture SIBELIUS
Concerto for Orchestra HINDEMITH
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 3 March 1927
Friday 4 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Violin Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Joszef Szigeti, violin
Sunday 6 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
The Tempest, Overture SIBELIUS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 17 March 1927
Friday 18 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan BRAUNFELS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Sunday 19 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Concerto for Orchestra HINDEMITH
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 24 March 1927
Friday 25 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Grosse Fuge BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Walter Gieseking, piano
Saturday 26 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Kol Nidrei BRUCH
Berceuse SCHULZ
Rondo DVOŘÁK
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 31 March 1927
Friday 1 April 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano Fraser Gange, baritone
Choral Symphony Society of New York
Saturday 2 April 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
1927 – 1928
86th Season
Thursday 13 October 1927
Friday 14 October 1927
Saturday 15 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto in A minor for Strings, Op. 3/8 (arr. Franko) VIVALDI
Concerto for Quintet of Wind Instruments RIETI
Foules for Orchestra FERROUD
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
John Amans, flute Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Sunday 16 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto in A minor for Strings, Op. 3/8 (arr. Franko) VIVALDI
Concerto for Quintet of Wind Instruments RIETI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
John Amans, flute Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Thursday 20 October 1927
Friday 21 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Airs de Ballet Suite No.2 (arr. by FrançoisGevaert) GLUCK
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Finale from Piano Concerto No. 17,(played on harpsichord) MOZART
Symphony in C sharp minor BLOCH
Wanda Landowska, piano and harpsichord
Saturday 22 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Concerto in F minor for Keyboard and Strings BACH
Noches en los jardines de España FALLA
Symphony in C sharp minor BLOCH
E. Robert Schmitz, piano
Thursday 27 October 1927
Friday 28 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Les Deux journées, Overture CHERUBINI
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Sunday 13 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Les Deux journées, Overture CHERUBINI
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Les Préludes LISZT
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Thursday 17 November 1927
Friday 18 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Suite in F major ROUSSEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Saturday 19 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Suite in F major ROUSSEL
Scherzo Sinfonico RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Sunday 20 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 GRIEG
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Scherzo Sinfonico RUDOLF MENGELBERG
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Wednesday 23 November 1927
Friday 25 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 103 HAYDN
Cello Concerto DELIUS
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Iberia DEBUSSY
Beatrice Harrison, cello
Saturday 26 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Overture on Negro Themes JAMES P. DUNN
Istar, Symphonic Variations D'INDY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Ibéria DEBUSSY
Thursday 1 December 1927
Friday 2 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Yolanda Mero, piano
Sunday 4 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Istar, Symphonic Variations D'INDY
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Thursday 8 December 1927
Friday 9 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Gitta Gradova, piano
Thursday 15 December 1927
Friday 16 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Impressions du Midi GERARD VON BRUCKEN FOCK
La Valse RAVEL
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Saturday 17 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Scipione Guidi, violin Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Thursday 22 December 1927
Friday 23 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra BARTÓK
Istar, Symphonic Variations D'INDY
Morocco, symphonic tableau SCHELLING
Bela Bartók, piano
Thursday 29 December 1927
Friday 30 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Götterdämmerung, Funeral March WAGNER
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Saturday 31 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Catharine Wade-Smith, violin
Sunday 8 January 1928
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
La Valse RAVEL
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 12 January 1928
Friday 13 January 1928
Sir Thomas Beecham
Teseo, Overture HANDEL
Il Pastor Fido, Musette from Ballet Music HANDEL
Rodrigo, Bourrée HANDEL
The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 34 MOZART
Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens BERLIOZ
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Saturday 14 January 1928
Sir Thomas Beecham
Teseo, Overture HANDEL
Il Pastor Fido, Musette from Ballet Music HANDEL
Rodrigo, Bourrée HANDEL
The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Nina, ossia La pazza per amore, Overture PAISIELLO
Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens BERLIOZ
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Sunday 15 January 1928
Sir Thomas Beecham
Symphony No. 36 in C major, 'Linz' MOZART
Paris (The Song of a Great City) DELIUS
Nina, ossia La pazza per amore, Overture PAISIELLO
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS
Zémire et Azor, Ballet Music GRÉTRY
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Thursday 19 January 1928
Friday 20 January 1928
Bernardino Molinari
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Andante for Strings, Harp and Organ (arr. by Marinuzzi from work for violin and figured bass) GEMINIANI
Novelletta MARTUCCI
Fêtes from Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Semiramide, Overture ROSSINI
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Sunday 22 January 1928
Bernardino Molinari
Tancredi, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Suite for String Orchestra (arr. Ettore Pinelli from Twelve Sonatas, Op. 5) CORELLI
Novelletta MARTUCCI
L'Isle Joyeuse, (orch by Molinari from Piano Piece) DEBUSSY
I Vespri siciliani, Overture VERDI
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 26 January 1928
Friday 27 January 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Le Baruffe Chiozzotte, Overture SINIGAGLIA
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Pastorale d'été HONEGGER
Pacific 231 HONEGGER
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Saturday 4 February 1928
Sunday 5 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Pastorale d'été HONEGGER
Pacific 231 HONEGGER
Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Thursday 9 February 1928
Friday 10 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto in E major for strings, 'La Primavera' VIVALDI
Symphony No. 88, 'Letter V' HAYDN
Love Scene and Queen Mab's Scerzo from Roméo et Juliette BERLIOZ
Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Saturday 11 February 1928
Sunday 12 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Le Baruffe Chiozzotte, Overture SINIGAGLIA
Queen Mab's Scerzo from Roméo et Juliette BERLIOZ
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 16 February 1928
Friday 17 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Daphnis et Chloé, Ballet Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Juventus, Symphonic Poem DE SABATA
Sunday 19 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto in E major for strings, 'La Primavera' VIVALDI
Symphony No. 88, 'Letter V' HAYDN
Daphnis et Chloé, Ballet Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Juventus, Symphonic Poem DE SABATA
Thursday 23 February 1928
Friday 24 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
La Pisanella: Suite PIZZETTI
La Mer DEBUSSY
Thursday 1 March 1928
Friday 2 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
El Amor brujo, Ballet FALLA
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Sophie Braslau, contralto
Sunday 4 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
La Pisanella, Suite PIZZETTI
La Mer DEBUSSY
Thursday 15 March 1928
Friday 16 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Good-Humoured Ladies, Ballet (arr. Tommasini) SCARLATTI
Symphony No. 3, 'Organ' SAINT-SAËNS
Rondò arlecchinesco BUSONI
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfredo Tedesco, tenor
Saturday 17 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Rondò arlecchinesco BUSONI
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfredo Tedesco, tenor
Sunday 18 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Good-Humoured Ladies, Ballet (arr. Tommasini) SCARLATTI
Symphony No. 3, 'Organ' SAINT-SAËNS
Rondò arlecchinesco BUSONI
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfredo Tedesco, tenor
Thursday 22 March 1928
Friday 23 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 2 MARTUCCI
Concerto in A minor for Violin, Strings and Organ, Op. 3/6 VIVALDI
Parsifal, Good Friday Music WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Saturday 24 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Good-Humoured Ladies, Ballet (arr. Tommasini) SCARLATTI
Symphony No. 3, 'Organ' SAINT-SAËNS
Concerto in A minor for Violin, Strings and Organ, Op. 3/6 VIVALDI
Parsifal, Good Friday Music WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Thursday 29 March 1928
Friday 30 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Christmas Oratorio, Sinfonia BACH
Sonata sopra Sancta Maria from Vespro della Beata Vergine MONTEVERDI
The Redemption, Prelude to Part 2 FRANCK
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Nina Morgana, soprano Sophie Breslau, contralto
Richard Crooks, tenor Ezio Pinza, bass
Schola Cantorum
Saturday 31 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Christmas Oratorio, Sinfonia BACH
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Lohengrin, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1916 – 1917 Season
Thursday 26 October 1916
Friday 27 October 1916
Josef Stransky
Lohengrin, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
An Alpine Symphony RICHARD STRAUSS
Guntram, Prelude Act 2 RICHARD STRAUSS
Siegfried’s Funeral Muic WAGNER
The Ride of the Valkyries WAGNER
Thursday 9 November 1916
Friday 10 November 1916
Josef Stransky
The Voyevode TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 12 November 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Josef Hofmann, piano
Thursday 16 November 1916
Friday 17 November 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Macbeth RICHARD STRAUSS
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Friday 24 November 1916
Josef Stransky
Julius Caesar, Overture SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Richard III, Overture VOLKMANN
Cello Concerto in A minor KLUGHARDT
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Willem Willeke, cello
Sunday 26 November 1916
Josef Stransky
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude Act 3 WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Bacchanale WAGNER
Parsifal, Good Friday Music WAGNER
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Forest Murmurs WAGNER
Parsifal, Prelude WAGNER
Sunday 3 December 1916
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, ‘Fingal’s Cave’, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 SCHUMANN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Thursday 7 December 1916
Friday 8 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Die Ideale LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod WAGNER
Teresa Carreño, piano
Saturday 9 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Da, chas nastal...Prostitye vi,’ aria from Joan of Arc TCHAIKOVSKY
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Vocal solos (Grieg)
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Frances Alda, soprano
Thursday 14 December 1916
Friday 15 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Tatiana’s Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
Götterdämmerung, Final Scene WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Sunday 17 December 1916
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 GADE
Les Preludes LISZT
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Sylvia, Ballet Suite DELIBES
Mischa Elman, violin
Friday 5 January 1917
Josef Stransky
In the Spring, Overture GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 8 DVORAK
‘Verborgenheit’, ‘Der Freund’ and ‘Er ist’s’, lieder WOLF
Nocturnes: Nuages and Fetes DEBUSSY
Vocal Solos (Wolf and Liszt)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Elena Gerhardt, soprano
Thursday 11 January 1917
Friday 12 January 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Samson RUBEN GOLDMARK
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Thursday 25 January 1917
Friday 26 January 1917
Josef Stransky
Serenade No. 1 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in A major SINDING
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Maximilian Pilzer, violin
Sunday 28 January 1917
Josef Stransky
Die Feen, Overture WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Prelude Act 3 WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried’s Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Tristan and Isolde, Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd’s Song WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Friday 2 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra WIDOR
Le chasseur maudit FRANCK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
España CHABRIER
Guiomar Novaes, piano Charles Gilbert Spross, organ
Sunday 4 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 8 February 1917
Friday 9 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Josef Hofmann, piano
Saturday 10 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Fervaal, Introduction Act 1 D’INDY
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
España CHABRIER
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 18 February 1917
Josef Stransky
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Cello Concerto ECKERT
Invitation to the Dance (orch Weingartner) WEBER
Andante Cantabile TCHAIKOVSKY
Malaqueña from Boadbdil MOSZKOWSKI
Leo Schulz, cello
Tuesday 22 February 1917
Wednesday 23 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sunday 25 February 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SIBELIUS
Königskinder, Introduction to Act 3 HUMPERDINCK
Feuersnot, Love Scene RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
España CHABRIER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Thursday 1 March 1917
Friday 2 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
In a Nutshell GRAINGER
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 4 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Samson GOLDMARK
Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra LISZT
Entr’acte and ballet music from Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Xerxes, Largo, aria, ‘Ombra mai fu’ HANDEL
Yolanda Mero, piano
Friday 9 March 1917
Josef Stransky
The Magic Flute, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 10 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
‘Je dis que rien m’epouvante, aria from Carmen BIZET
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Little Russian Folk Songs ZIMBALIST
Diese herrliche Nacht RACHMANINOV
Gopak from Sorochitinsky Fair MUSSORGSKY
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Alma luck, soprano
Thursday 22 March 1917
Friday 23 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Forest Murmurs WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Prelude, Act 3 WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey WAGNER
Sunday 25 March 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Suite algerienne MASSENET
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Percy Grainger, piano
New York Philharmonic
1917 – 1918
76th Season
Thursday 25 October 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 HADLEY
Symphonic Interlude from Notreame de la Mer DUBOIS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Danse sacrée et danse profane DEBUSSY
Prelude to Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Alfred Kastner, harp
Friday 26 October 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 HADLEY
Symphonic Interlude from Notreame de la Mer DUBOIS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Danse sacrée et danse profane DEBUSSY
Prelude to Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Alfred Kastner, harp
Sunday 11 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Riders to the Sea, Symphonic Prologue GILBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
The Nutcracker, Ballet Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 15 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Infelice, concert aria MENDELSSOHN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Dante Symphony LISZT
Helen Stanley, soprano Betty McKenna, soprano
St. Cecilia Club
Friday 16 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Infelice, concert aria MENDELSSOHN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Dante Symphony LISZT
Helen Stanley, soprano Betty McKenna, soprano
St. Cecilia Club
Thursday 22 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Tam O'Shanter CHADWICK
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Scherzo capriccioso DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Friday 23 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Tam O'Shanter CHADWICK
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Scherzo capriccioso DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Sunday 25 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 fromThe Mastersingers WAGNER
Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 30 November 1917
Josef Stransky
Concertino in F minor for Strings (arr. Franko) PERGOLESI
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra BRUCH
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Rose Sutro, piano Ottilie Sutro, piano
Sunday 2 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus BEETHOVEN
‘Voi che sapete’, aria from The Marriage of Figaro MOZART
Symphony No. 104, 'London' HAYDN
Enigma Variations ELGAR
‘Les Regrets’, aria from Le Tasse, dramatic cantata GODARD
Suite No. 2 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
Helen Stanley, soprano
Thursday 6 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Psalm 23 LISZT
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Vernon Stiles, tenor
Friday 7 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Psalm 23 LISZT
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Vernon Stiles, tenor
Saturday 8 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphonie Orientale GODARD
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Le Carnaval romain, overture BERLIOZ
‘Vision Fugitive’, aria from Hérodiade MASSENET
Phaéton SAINT-SAËNS
Vocal solos (Franck, Koechlin and Saint-Saëns)
Suite No. 7 for Orchestra, 'Scènes alsaciennes' MASSENET
Louis Graveure, baritone
Thursday 13 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 to Lohengrin WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 14 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 to Lohengrin WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Sunday 16 December 1917
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Vltava SMETANA
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Irish Rhapsody HERBERT
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Thursday 3 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Whitehouse, Symphonic Impressions NICOLA LAUCELLA
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 4 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Whitehouse, Symphonic Impressions NICOLA LAUCELLA
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 6 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Im Frühling, Overture GOLDMARK
‘Sei vendicata assai’, aria from Dinorah MEYERBEER
The Rain WHITHORNE
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Hiawatha's Vision from Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Louis Graveure, baritone
Friday 11 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
In a Summer Garden DELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Alfred Megerlin, violin
Saturday 12 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto GOLDMARK
Tasso LISZT
Piano Solos (Chopin and Paganini)
Max Rosen, violin
Thursday 17 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Schicksalslied BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in minor, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Grace Kerns, soprano Alma Beck, contralto
Arthur Hackett, tenor Arthur Middleton, bass
The New Choral Society of New York
Friday 18 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Saturday 19 January 1918
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 to The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 20 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Schicksalslied BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in minor, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Grace Kerns, soprano Alma Beck, contralto
Arthur Hackett, tenor Arthur Middleton, bass
The New Choral Society of New York
Thursday 24 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH J.S.
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Hamlet and Ophelia, Two Poems MacDOWELL
Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Pablo Casals, cello
Friday 25 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH J.S.
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Hamlet and Ophelia, Two Poems MacDOWELL
Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Pablo Casals, cello
Saturday 26 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Kyrie eleison from Mass in B minor BACH
Two Chorales: 'Thou Bliss of Earliest Innocence' and 'Wake my Heart' BACH
Cum sancto spiritu from Mass in B minor BACH
Chorus and Chorale, When will God recall my spirit? From Cantata No. 8 BACH
Sanctus from Mass in B minor BACH
Good Friday Music, March of the Knights of the Holy Grail, Prelude and Glorification
from Parsifal WAGNER
The Bethlehem Bach Choir
Sunday 27 January 1918
Josef Stransky
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Senta's Ballad from Der Fliegende Holländer, WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wesendonk Lieder (arr. Mottl) WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Marcia Vanresser, soprano
Friday 1 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2, 'New England' STILLMAN-KELLEY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Wynne Pyle, piano
Sunday 3 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Ruy Blas, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
In a Summer Garden DELIUS
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Fugato Humoresque on the Theme ‘Dixie’ MANA-ZUCCA
Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 7 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Médée, Suite for Orchestra D'INDY
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Friday 8 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Médée, Suite for Orchestra D'INDY
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Saturday 9 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to Don Giovanni MOZART
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 17 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Ballet Music from Céphale et Procris GRÉTRY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Prelude and Fugue CHIAFFARELLI
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Eddy Brown, violin
Thursday 21 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Les Eolides FRANCK
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Carnival, concert overture DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Friday 22 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Les Eolides FRANCK
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Carnival, concert overture DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Sunday 24 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Jewel Song, ‘Ah! Je ris’ from Faust GOUNOD
Chopiniana GLAZUNOV
‘vissi d'arte’ aria from Tosca PUCCINI
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marie Rippold, soprano
Thursday 28 February 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to Die Feen WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights from Parsifal WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Friday 1 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to Die Feen WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights from Parsifal WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Sunday 3 March 1918
Josef Stransky
König Stephan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 8 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony in C sharp minor BLOCH
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
España CHABRIER
Sascha Jacobinoff, piano
Saturday 9 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Prelude Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Les Préludes LISZT
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Thursday 21 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
1812, overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Friday 22 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
1812, overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Sunday 24 March 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 and Glorification from Parsifal WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie from Die Walküre WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1918 – 1919
77th Season
Thursday 14 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Melpomene, Overture CHADWICK
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Verdun (orch by the composer from Mvmnts 2 and 3 of Organ Sonata No.2) STANFORD
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 15 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Melpomene, Overture CHADWICK
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Verdun (orch by the composer from Mvmnts 2 and 3 of Organ Sonata No.2) STANFORD
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 22 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
King Christian II, Suite SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Raoul Vidas, violin
Friday 22 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Magic Flute MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
King Christian II, Suite SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Raoul Vidas, violin
Sunday 24 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Carnival, Overture DVOŘÁK
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Hamlet and Ophelia MacDOWELL
Scheherazade IMSKY-KORSAKOV
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 29 November 1918
Josef Stransky
Mortimer Wilson*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
From My Youth: Suite MORTIMER WILSON*
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Leo Schulz, cello
Sunday 1 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Eccomi in lieta vesta’, aria from I Capuleti ed i Montecchi BELLINI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Vltava SMETANA
‘Pleurez mes yeux’, aria from Le Cid MASSENET
Verdun (orch by the composer from Mvmnts 2 and 3 of Organ Sonata No.2) STANFORD
Hulda Lashanska, soprano
Friday 6 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 DAVID STANLEY SMITH
Vagabond and Invocation, Two Songs BLOCH
Caucasian Sketches PPOLITOV-IVANOV
Azara: Aria, ‘Softly the Balmy Zephyr Sings’, aria from Azara JOHN KNOWLES PAINE
L'apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Mary Jordan, soprano
Saturday 7 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Vysehrad, From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows and Vltava from Má Vlast SMETANA
At Twilight, Idyll for Orchestra FIBICH
Two Slavonic Dances DVOŘÁK
Thursday 12 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Barber of Bagdad CORNELIUS
Life's Dance DELIUS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St. Antoni Chorale) BRAHMS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 13 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Barber of Bagdad CORNELIUS
Life's Dance DELIUS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St. Antoni Chorale) BRAHMS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 15 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Violin Concerto No. 2 WIENIAWSKI
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Thursday 19 December 1918
Friday 20 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
To Lines of Whitman, Orchestral Sketches REGINALD SWEET
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Mischa Elman, violin
Friday 20 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
To Lines of Whitman, Orchestral Sketches REGINALD SWEET
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Mischa Elman, violin
Sunday 22 December 1918
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Ethel Leginska, piano
Friday 3 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide GLUCK
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra MOZART
Variations on an Original Theme GUSTAV STRUBE
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Alfred Megerlin, violin Josef Kovarik, viola
Sunday 5 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Genoveva, Overture SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Two Slavonic Dances DVOŘÁK
Raoul Vidas, violin
Thursday 16 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 17 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 19 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Elégie Suite No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Epilogue from Tasso LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 LISZT
Thursday 23 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphonie fantastique BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Friday 24 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphonie fantastique BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Sunday 26 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Suite in F sharp minor HUMISTON
Piano Concerto No. 4 SAINT-SAËNS
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 30 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Toccata in F major, (arr. Esser) BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 31 January 1919
Josef Stransky
Toccata in F major, (arr. Esser) BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. by Abert) BACH
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Harold Bauer, piano
Sunday 2 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Colonial Song GRAINGER
Mock Morris GRAINGER
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Percy Grainger, piano
Friday 7 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
España, Rhapsody CHABRIER
Ethel Leginska, piano
Saturday 8 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Barber of Bagdad CORNELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 2 CHOPIN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 13 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
La procession: Dieu s'avance à travers les champs, Song with Orchestra FRANCK
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Fontane di Roma RESPIGHI
Recitative and Aria, So wills the Lord from The Maid of Orleans TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Louise Homer, soprano
Friday 14 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
La procession: Dieu s'avance à travers les champs, Song with Orchestra FRANCK
Lia's Recitative and Aria from L'enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Fontane di Roma RESPIGHI
Recitative and Aria, So wills the Lord from The Maid of Orleans TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Louise Homer, soprano
Saturday 15 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Tristan and Isolde: Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 16 February 1919
Josef Stransky
In Bohemia, A Concert Overture HADLEY
Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in E minor MacDOWELL
Tam O'Shanter, Symphonic Ballad CHADWICK
Rhapsodie nègre for Piano and Orchestra POWELL
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
John Powell, piano
Thursday 27 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Friday 28 February 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Sunday 2 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
‘Marten aller Arten’, aria from Die Entführung aus dem Serail MOZART
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Carillon for Reciter and Orchestra ELGAR
Lerapeau Belge for Reciter and Orchestra ELGAR
Swans, Song for soprano and orchestra KRAMER
A Thought, song for soprano and orchestra GANZ
Incidental Music to Peer Gynt GRIEG
(Prelude: Morning, Death of Aase, Solvejg's Song, In the Hall of the Mountain Song)
Lucy Gates, soprano Carlo Liten, speaker
Thursday 6 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Tone Poem based on passages from Tagore HAROLD MORRIS
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Friday 7 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Tone Poem based on passages from Tagore HAROLD MORRIS
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Josef Hofmann, piano
Saturday 8 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Raoul Vidas, violin
Thursday 13 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SINDING
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 DVOŘÁK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Les Préludes LISZT
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 14 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 SINDING
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 DVOŘÁK
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Les Préludes LISZT
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 16 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes for Orchestra DEBUSSY
Rustic Wedding, Symphonic Poem GOLDMARK
Mischa Elman, violin
Thursday 27 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Friday 28 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Eddy Brown, violin
Sunday 30 March 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Eddy Brown, violin
New York Philharmonic
1919 – 1920
78th Season
Thursday 13 November 1919
Josef Stransky
To the Fallen BERNARD ROGERS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
In the Tatra Mountains NOVAK
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Friday 14 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfred Megerlin, violin Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 20 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL
Les Préludes LISZT
Eddy Brown, violin
Friday 21 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 DVOŘÁK
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
España CHABRIER
Eddy Brown, violin
Sunday 23 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 28 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Charmant Oiseau, aria from La Perle du Brésil FELICIEN DAVID
Danse macabre SAINT-SAËNS
At the Well, Song on Text by Tagore HAGEMAN
A Nocturne for soprano and orchestra KRAMER
June, Song for soprano and orchestra AMY BEACH
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Greta Mason, soprano
Sunday 30 November 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Mutter, Mutter! glaube nicht & Laß mich ihm am Busen hangen’ (orch. Stokowski) SCHUMANN
‘Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer’, (orch Stokowski) BRAHMS
Erlkönig, (orch Stokowski) SCHUBERT
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 5 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Prelude to a Merry Play CHIAFFARELLI
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ELGAR
Edwin Hughes, piano
Saturday 6 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Symphonic Dances GRIEG
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 LISZT
Toscha Seidel, violin
Thursday 11 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 DVOŘÁK
Viennese Rhapsody SCHMITT
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Friday 12 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony FRANCK
Symphonic Dances GRIEG
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Vltava SMETANA
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Sunday 14 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Les Préludes LISZT
Percy Grainger, piano
Thursday 18 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Moonrise, Requiem and To Solitude: Three Symphonic Songs STRANSKY
Phaéton SAINT-SAËNS
Immolation Scene fromGötterdämmerung WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 19 December 1919
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Moonrise, Requiem and To Solitude: Three Symphonic Songs STRANSKY
Impressions of Night SYLVIO LAZZARI
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 2 January 1920
Josef Stransky
A Night at Karluv-Tyn, Overture FIBICH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Rosita Renard, piano
Sunday 4 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Eddy Brown, violin
Saturday 10 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser: WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Thursday 15 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Olga Samaroff, piano
Friday 16 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Die Zauberflöte MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Viennese Rhapsody SCHMITT
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Olga Samaroff, piano
Sunday 18 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
L'Apprenti Sorcier DUKAS
Symphonic Dances GRIEG
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sascha Jacobsen, violin
Thursday 22 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Friday 23 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla GLINKA
The Cedar and the Palm for Orchestra KALINNIKOV
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Sunday 25 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' MOZART
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 29 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Prometheus Bound, Overture GOLDMARK
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 30 January 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 1 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 DVOŘÁK
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
‘Ozean du Ungeheuer!’ aria from Oberon WEBER
España CHABRIER
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Friday 6 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture in the Romantic Style HUGO RIESENFELD
‘Depuis la jour’, aria from Louise CHARPENTIER
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Finlandia SIBELIUS
‘L'ombre des anges’, song (arr. for soprano and orchestra) DEBUSSY
‘Oh, si les fleurs avaient des yeux’, mélodie (arr. for soprano and orchestra) MASSENET
‘A Dream’, song (arr. for soprano and orchestra) GRIEG
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Marguerite Namara, soprano
Saturday 7 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder No. 5 (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Tannhäuser: Overture WAGNER
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Thursday 12 February 1920
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
A Gettysburg Requiem RUBIN GOLDMARK
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Friday 13 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Sunday 15 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Max Rosen, violin
Sunday 22 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Vltava SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Thursday 26 February 1920
Josef Stransky
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Friday 27 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 94, 'Surprise' HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Sunday 29 February 1920
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘All My Soul Within Me Shudders’ from Christus am Oelberge BEETHOVEN
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Psalm 23 LISZT
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Allen McQuhae, tenor
Thursday 4 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2, 'Four Seasons' HADLEY
Life's Dance DELIUS
Scottish Fantasy BRUCH
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Albert Spalding, violin
Friday 5 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Prometheus Bound, Overture GOLDMARK
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Albert Spalding, violin
Saturday 6 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Thursday 11 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 12 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2, 'Ocean' RUBINSTEIN
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 14 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG
Leopold Godowsky, piano
Thursday 25 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 26 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 28 March 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1920 – 1921
79th Season
Thursday 11 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Dante Symphony LISZT
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Spinning Scene from Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
The Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Eleanor Woodford, soprano St. Cecilia Club, choir
Friday 12 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Chorale Prelude, ‘O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross (orch. Reger) BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Thursday 18 November 1920
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Suite for Orchestra No. 1 MOSZKOWSKI
Toscha Seidel, violin
Friday 19 November 1920
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Suite for Orchestra No. 1 MOSZKOWSKI
Toscha Siedel, violin
Sunday 21 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 26 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 ALFVÉN
Vltava SMETANA
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Les Préludes LISZT
Sunday 28 November 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Leopold Godowsky, piano
Friday 3 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture, Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Olga Samaroff, piano
Saturday 4 December 1920
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Träume, Wesendonk Lieder (orch. by the composer) WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Thursday 9 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 BACH
Chorale Prelude: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross (orch. Reger) BACH
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
‘Lesieux dans l'ombre des cavernes’, Evocations for Orchestra ROUSSEL
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 10 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfred Megerlin, violin
Sunday 12 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Arrigo Serato, violin
Thursday 16 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Overture to Fidelio BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 17 December 1920
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Leonore Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 31 December 1920
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, Overture, 'Fingal's Cave' MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
The Culprit Fay, Rhapsody HADLEY
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 2 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Joan Manen, violin
Saturday 8 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Ah! Perfido BEETHOVEN
Mazeppa LISZT
Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Thursday 13 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
The Fragant Hair, To Solitude and Hymnus, Three Orchestral Melodies STRANSKY
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
‘Ozean du Ungeheuer!’ aria from Oberon WEBER
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Friday 14 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
The Fragant Hair, To Solitude and Hymnus, Three Orchestral Melodies STRANSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Margarete Matzenauer, soprano
Sunday 16 January 1921
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 of Tannhäuser WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Thursday 20 January 1921
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Leo Schulz, cello
Friday 21 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 HADLEY
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Carnival, Concert Overture DVOŘÁK
Ellen Ballon, piano
Sunday 23 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Vltava SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Thursday 27 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Friday 28 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Sunday 30 January 1921
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 8 in F major BEETHOVEN
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 4 February 1921
Henry Hadley
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Song of the Indian Guest from Sadko RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
‘E lucevan le stelle’, aria from Tosca PUCCINI
Woodland Fancies, Suite for Orchestra HERBERT
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Dmitri Dobkin, tenor
Saturday 5 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
The Cedar and the Palm KALINNIKOV
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Thursday 10 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 11 February 1921
Josef Stransky
A Dante Symphony LISZT
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Spinning Scene from Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Mrs. John Hilton Land, soprano St. Cecilia Club, choir
Sunday 13 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Melpomene, Overture CHADWICK
Symphony No. 1 KALINNIKOV
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Over the Hills and Far Away GRAINGER
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 20 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Thursday 24 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 25 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 27 February 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 DVOŘÁK
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Thursday 3 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Love Scene from Feuersnot RICHARD STRAUSS
Alexander Schmuller, violin
Friday 4 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Riders to the Sea, Prelude REGINALD SWEET
Capriccio espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Saturday 5 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Thursday 10 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Samson, Symphonic Poem RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 11 March 1921
Josef Stransky
BEETHOVEN
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Alexander Schmuller, violin
Sunday 13 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
‘Eri tu’ aria from Un Ballo in maschera VERDI
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Joseph Schwarz, baritone
Thursday 24 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 25 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Sunday 27 March 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
New York Philharmonic
1921 – 1922
80th Season
Thursday 27 October 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Prelude and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
John Powell, piano
Friday 28 October 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Prelude and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
John Powell, piano
Thursday 10 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Dirge from Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 MacDOWELL
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Friday 11 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Symphony No. 5 SIBELIUS
Dirge from Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 MacDOWELL
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Saturday 12 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 17 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Henry Hadley*
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
The Ocean, Tone Poem HADLEY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 18 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Henry Hadley*
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
The Ocean, Tone Poem HADLEY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 20 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der Fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Overture Rienzi WAGNER
Venusberg Music Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd's Melody Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Friday 25 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Excerpts from Suite Primeval on Tribal Indian Melodies CHARLES SKILTON
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 26 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Sunday 27 November 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Friday 2 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Concerto Grosso in C major, 'Alexander's Feast', (arr. Mottl) HANDEL
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Mazeppa LISZT
Germaine Schnitzer, piano
Saturday 3 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Thursday 8 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, 'Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
La mort de Tintagiles CHARLES LOEFFLER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin and viola d'amore
Friday 9 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, 'Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
La mort de Tintagiles CHARLES LOEFFLER
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin and viola d'amore
Sunday 11 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Concerto Grosso in C major, 'Alexander's Feast' (arr. Mottl) HANDEL
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 15 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov piano
Friday 16 December 1921
Josef Stransky
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Sergei Rachmaninov piano
Friday 30 December 1921
Henry Hadley
Overture to Donna Diana REZNICEK
Symphony No. 5 GLAZUNOV
Indian Sketches, Suite GILBERT
In the Steppes of Central Asia BORODIN
Polonaise No. 2 in E major (orch. ??) LISZT
Sunday 1 January 1922
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Glorification from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Saturday 7 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Two Elegiac Melodies GRIEG
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Thursday 12 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
In the Court of Pomegranates WHITHORNE
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 13 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
In the Court of Pomegranates WHITHORNE
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Sunday 15 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Henry Hadley*
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
The Ocean HADLEY*
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Vltava SMETANA
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 19 January 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Erica Morini, violin
Friday 20 January 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Erica Morini, violin
Sunday 22 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 100, 'Military’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Phaéton SAINT-SAËNS
Le rouet d'Omphale SAINT-SAËNS
Danse macabre SAINT-SAËNS
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Elley Ney, piano
Thursday 26 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Friday 27 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Sunday 29 January 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Tuesday 31 January 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Artur Bodanzky*
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER*
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS*
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 3 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Tuesday 7 February 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 9 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 1 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
La Valse RAVEL
Symphony in minor FRANCK
Friday 10 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 1 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
La Valse RAVEL
Symphony in minor FRANCK
Sunday 12 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Les Préludes LISZT
Tuesday 14 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' MOZART
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Saturday 18 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Le carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Sunday 19 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
La Valse RAVEL
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Helen Teschner Tas, violin
Tuesday 21 February 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Suite from Tale of Tsar Saltan RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sakuntala, Overture GOLDMARK
Thursday 23 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Percy Grainger, piano
Friday 24 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 26 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 1 from L'Arlèsienne BIZET
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Tuesday 28 February 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Julia Claussen, contralto The St. Cecilia Club
Boys' Choir of the Paulist Choristers
Thursday 2 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Julia Claussen, contralto The St. Cecilia Club
Boys' Choir of the Paulist Choristers
Friday 3 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Julia Claussen, contralto The St. Cecilia Club
Boys' Choir of the Paulist Choristers
Tuesday 7 March 1922
Artur Bodanzky
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian March BERLIOZ
Thursday 9 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 10 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 12 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Impressions from an Artist's Life ERNEST SCHELLING
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt GRIEG
Aufforderung zum Tanze (orch Berlioz) WEBER
Wiener Blut JOHANN STRAUSS II
Ernest Schelling, piano
Tuesday 14 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Sunday 19 March 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Suite from Ma Mère l'oye RAVEL
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Tuesday 21 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Impressions from an Artist's Life SCHELLING
Indian Suite for Orchestra No. 2 MacDOWELL
Les Préludes LISZT
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 23 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Friday 24 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Sunday 26 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Le Baruffe Chiozzotte SINIGAGLIA
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Myra Hess, piano
Tuesday 28 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Cello Concerto D'ALBERT
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Thursday 30 March 1922
Friday 31 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Overture to The Birds DIEPENBROCK
Suite for Cello and Orchestra GOUDOEVER
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Henri van Goudoever, cello Harold Bauer, piano
Friday 31 March 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Overture to The Birds DIEPENBROCK
Suite for Cello and Orchestra GOUDOEVER
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Henri van Goudoever, cello Harold Bauer, piano
Tuesday 4 April 1922
Artur Bodanzky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Tasso LISZT
Saturday 8 April 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Elly Ney, piano
Sunday 9 April 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Myra Hess, piano
Sunday 30 April 1922
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Inez Barbour, soprano Merlie Alcock, contralto
Lambert Murphy, tenor Roy Daladmun, bass
Chorus of the Oratorio Society of New York
New York Philharmonic
1922 – 1923
81st Season
Thursday 26 October 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Sursum corda!, KORNGOLD
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Friday 27 October 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Sursum corda! KORNGOLD
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 9 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Introduction and Scherzo from Incidental music Prince Csongor and the Gnomes WEINER
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Tasso LISZT
Joseph Hollman, cello
Friday 10 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Introduction and Scherzo from Incidental music Prince Csongor and the Gnomes WEINER
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Tasso LISZT
Joseph Hollman, cello
Saturday 11 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Te Deum Laudamus SGAMBATI
Jubilee CHADWICK
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Egyptian' SAINT-SAËNS
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Arthur Shattuck, piano
Tuesday 14 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in G minor, (arr. Abert) BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 16 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Golgotha SAVINE
Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 17 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Golgotha SAVINE
Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 19 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 24 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 3, 'A Pastoral Symphony' VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Florence Hinkle, soprano Artur Rubinstein, piano
Saturday 25 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Good Friday Music to Parsifal WAGNER
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prize Song from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Sunday 26 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Tasso LISZT
Scottish Fantasy BRUCH
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipone Guidi, violin
Tuesday 28 November 1922
Josef Stransky
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Friday 1 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 1 DANIEL GREGORY MASON
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 2 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Alfred Cortot, piano
Thursday 7 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Two Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg) BWV 631, 654 BACH
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Friday 8 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Two Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg) BWV 631, 654 BACH
Cello Concerto LALO
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Hans Kindler, cello
Sunday 10 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 14 December 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, Overture 'Fingal's Cave' MENDELSSOHN
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod to Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Jascha Heifetz, violin Heinrich Gebhard, piano
P. Strano, cor anglais Gustave Heim, trumpet
Max Schlossberg, trumpet Jacob Grupp, trumpet
Friday 15 December 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides, Overture 'Fingal's Cave' MENDELSSOHN
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod to Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Jascha Heifetz, violin Heinrich Gebhard, piano
P. Strano, cor anglais Gustave Heim, trumpet
Max Schlossberg, trumpet Jacob Grupp, trumpet
Sunday 17 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Hans Kindler, cello
Sunday 24 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Overture to Rienzi WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Ride of the Valkyrie WAGNER
Friday 29 December 1922
Josef Stransky
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' DVOŘÁK
Suite Fantastique for piano and orchestra SCHELLING
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Ernest Schelling, piano
Sunday 31 December 1922
Josef Stransky
The Hebrides 'Fingal's Cave', Overture MENDELSSOHN
Suite Fantastique for piano and orchestra SCHELLING
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Ernest Schelling, piano
Saturday 6 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Königskinder, A Concert Overture HUMPERDINCK
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Music for the Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant HENRY GILBERT
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Toscha Seidel, violin
Tuesday 9 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 FREDERICK CONVERSE
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Toscha Seidel, violin
Thursday 11 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Königskinder, A Concert Overture HUMPERDINCK
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Siren Song DEEMS TAYLOR
Le Carnaval des animaux SAINT-SAËNS
Myra Hess, piano Kurt Schindler, piano
Madeleine Marshall, piano
Friday 12 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Königskinder, A Concert Overture HUMPERDINCK
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
The Siren Song DEEMS TAYLOR
Tristan's Vision Act 3 from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Myra Hess, piano
Sunday 14 January 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Anniversary, Overture CHADWICK
Le Carnaval des animaux SAINT-SAËNS
Suite from Act 3 of Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Kurt Schindler, piano Madeleine Marshall, piano
Tuesday 16 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Prelude Act 1 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd's Melody from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Thursday 18 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Josef Hofmann, piano
Friday 19 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Overture to Euryanthe WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Josef Hofmann, piano
Sunday 21 January 1923
Josef Stransky
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 25 January 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Friday 26 January 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Sunday 28 January 1923
Josef Stransky
A Faust Overture
March of the Knights and Bell Scene from Parsifal WAGNER
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Wanderer's Ride from Siegfried WAGNER
Orchestral Interlude, Act 3 Scene 3 from Siegfried WAGNER
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 and Shepherd's Melody from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Prelude Act 3 from Lohengrin WAGNER
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Tuesday 30 January 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Friday 2 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Frederic Lamond, piano
Thursday 8 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français D'INDY
Rapsodia españa for Piano and Orchestra (orch. Casella) ALBENIZ
La Valse RAVEL
Alfredo Casella, piano
Friday 9 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Le Carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français D'INDY
Rapsodia españa for Piano and Orchestra (orch. Casella) ALBENIZ
La Valse RAVEL
Alfredo Casella, piano
Sunday 11 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' BEETHOVEN
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Tuesday 13 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Prelude Act 1 from The Mastersingers WAGNER
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Saturday 17 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Serenade for string orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Sunday 18 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Requiem for Orchestra RUBIN GOLDMARK
Serenade for string orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY
La Valse RAVEL
Thursday 22 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Chamber Symphony SCHREKER
Violin Concerto No. 4 VIEUXTEMPS
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Friday 23 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Manfred SCHUMANN
Chamber Symphony SCHREKER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Sunday 25 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
As You Like It, Overture WETZLER
Violin Concerto No. 4 VIEUXTEMPS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Tuesday 27 February 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eglogue RABAUD
La Valse RAVEL
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 1 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4 GLAZUNOV
Olga Samaroff, piano
Friday 2 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 4 GLAZUNOV
Olga Samaroff, piano
Thursday 8 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Clarence Adler, piano Scipione Guidi, violin
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Friday 9 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Clarence Adler, piano Scipione Guidi, violin
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Sunday 11 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Symphony No. 3 HADLEY
Piet Hein, Dutch Rhapsody PETER VAN ANROOY
Wanderer fantasy (arr. Liszt for Piano and Orchestra) SCHUBERT
Alexander Siloti, piano
Friday 26 January 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 LISZT
Sunday 18 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
A Night on a Bare Mountain MUSSORGSKY
Symphony No. 2, 'Symphonie des sommets' LAZARE SAMINSKY
Serenade for string orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY
Wanderer fantasy (arr. Liszt for Piano and Orchestra) SCHUBERT
Les Préludes LISZT
Alexander Siloti, piano
Thursday 22 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Sortilegi, Symphonic Poem PICK-MANGIAGALLI
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Friday 23 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Sortilegi, Symphonic Poem PICK-MANGIAGALLI
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Sunday 25 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Prelude, Good Friday Music, Transformation Music & Closing Scene, Act 1 from Parsifal WAGNER
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Tuesday 27 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Artur Schnabel, piano
Thursday 29 March 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Pour une Fête de Printemps ROUSSEL
Eglogue RABAUD
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Frederic Lamond, piano
Friday 6 April 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 5 CHAIKOVSKY
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Saturday 7 April 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils and Final Scene from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Barbara Kemp, soprano
Sunday 8 April 1923
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore: Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Josef Lhevinne, piano
New York Philharmonic
1923 – 1924
82nd Season
Thursday 25 October 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Fêtes from Nocturnes for Orchestra DEBUSSY
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 26 October 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Fêtes from Nocturnes for Orchestra DEBUSSY
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 8 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin
Friday 9 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Paul Kochanski, violin
Saturday 10 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Suite No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Wiener Blut, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 LISZT
Monday 12 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro MOZART
Concerto No. 2 in F major a due cori for Two Wind Bands and Strings HANDEL
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Thursday 15 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro MOZART
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Mephisto Waltz No. 2 LISZT
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Friday 16 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro MOZART
Symphony No. 9, 'Great' SCHUBERT
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Mephisto Waltz No. 2 LISZT
Three Orchestral Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Sunday 18 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 22 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla GLINKA
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Overture and Venusberg Music to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Friday 23 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla GLINKA
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Prelude Act 1 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Overture and Venusberg Music to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Saturday 24 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Sunday 25 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Wednesday 28 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon and Orchestra MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Till Eulenspiegel STRAUSS
Mitja Nikisch, piano Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Friday 30 November 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon and Orchestra MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Till Eulenspiegel STRAUSS
Mitja Nikisch, piano Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Saturday 1 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Der Freischütz WEBER
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
L'apprenti Sorcier DUKAS
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Monday 3 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide GLUCK
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
‘Chanson triste’ and ‘Le Manoir de Rosemonde’, Two Songs with Orchestra DUPARC
Prelude Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Arthur Hackett, tenor
Thursday 6 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Osip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Friday 7 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Egmont BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Osip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Sunday 9 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon and Orchestra MOZART
Prelude Act 1 of Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
The Firebird, concert suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Bruno Labate, oboe Simeon Bellison, clarinet
Bruno Jaenicke, horn Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Thursday 13 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Sarabande and Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne) DEBUSSY
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 14 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring' SCHUMANN
Sarabande and Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne) DEBUSSY
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 16 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Monday 17 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 100, 'Military' HAYDN
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Sunday 23 December 1923
Willem van Hoogstraten
Sinfonia from The Christmas Oratorio BACH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Thursday 27 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Youth, Fantasy Overture FELIX BOROWSKI
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Friday 28 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Youth, Fantasy Overture FELIX BOROWSKI
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Sunday 30 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Ballet Music from Céphale et Procris GRÉTRY
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Pan, Rhapsody CARL SCHROEDER
The Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Monday 31 December 1923
Henry Hadley
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 MacDOWELL
Les Préludes LISZT
Saturday 5 January 1924
Henry Hadley
Rienzi, Overture WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Youth, Fantasy Overture BOROWSKI
Harold Bauer, piano
Tuesday 8 January 1924
Henry Hadley
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
The Blue Flower CARL McKINLEY
Les Préludes LISZT
Harold Bauer, piano
Thursday 10 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Friday 11 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
L'Apprenti sorcier DUKAS
Sunday 13 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Adventures in a Perambulator, Suite CARPENTER
Prelude Act 1 to Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER
Erica Morini, violin
Tuesday 15 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Erica Morini, violin
Thursday 17 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Suite No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
The Firebird, concert suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Friday 18 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Suite No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
The Firebird, concert suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Sunday 20 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto in D major BERNHARD MOLIQUE
Caucasian Sketches IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
An den schönen, blauen Donau, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Leo Schulz, cello
Monday 21 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Elegy for Orchestra KORNAUTH
‘Ah, fors' è lui’, aria from La Traviata VERDI
Invitation to the Dance (arr. Weingartner) WEBER
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Roa Eaton, soprano
Thursday 24 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Variations and Fugue on a Merry Theme of Hiller REGER
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 25 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Variations and Fugue on a Merry Theme of Hiller REGER
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 27 January 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Tuesday 29 January 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Wednesday 30 January 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Wednesday 6 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Oberon WEBER
‘Divinités du Styx, aria from Alceste GLUCK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Alma Beck, soprano
Thursday 7 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Friday 8 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 10 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 14 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin RICHARD STRAUSS
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Les Préludes LISZT
Friday 15 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin RICHARD STRAUSS
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Les Préludes LISZT
Saturday 16 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Marche slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Suite from The Nutcracker TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 17 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Violin and Strings in E major BACH
Poème for Violin and Orchestra CHAUSSON
Overture to Die Fledermaus JOHANN STRAUSS II
Jacques Thibaud , violin
Tuesday 19 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Violin and Strings in E major BACH
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 21 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto JOHN POWELL
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Friday 22 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto JOHN POWELL
Overture to Tannhäuser WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Sunday 24 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Anacreon CHERUBINI
Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in G minor BACH
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Wanda Landowska, harpsichord/piano
Wednesday 27 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Praeludium to the Dutch National Anthem MENGELBERG
Good Friday Music from Parsifal WAGNER
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 28 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto DVORÁK
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Felix Salmond, cello
Friday 29 February 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto DVORÁK
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Felix Salmond, cello
Tuesday 4 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Oberon WEBER
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
Percy Grainger, piano
Thursday 6 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Euphorion, Symphonic Episode PAOLO GALLICO
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Friday 7 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Euphorion, Symphonic Episode PAOLO GALLICO
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Sunday 9 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Impressions from an Artist's Life, Variations for Piano and Orchestra SCHELLING
Les Préludes LISZT
Ernest Schelling, piano
Sunday 16 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
Prelude Act 1 and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Wednesday 19 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Flute Concerto No. 2 in C major MOZART
Impressions from an Artist's Life, Variations for Piano and Orchestra SCHELLING
John Amans, flute Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 20 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Symphonic Elegy RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
España, Rhapsody CHABRIER
Yolanda Mero, piano
Friday 21 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished' SCHUBERT
Symphonic Elegy RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
España, Rhapsody CHABRIER
Yolanda Mero, piano
Sunday 23 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' DVORÁK
Mischa Levitski, piano
Tuesday 25 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Mischa Levitski, piano
Thursday 27 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Le Chant du rossignol STRAVINSKY
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Friday 28 March 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Le Chant du rossignol STRAVINSKY
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Tuesday 2 April 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Samuel Gardner, violin
Friday 5 April 1924
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer WAGNER
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
New York Philharmonic
1924 – 1925
83rd Season
Thursday 16 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Sinfonia drammatica RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Die Meistersinger, prelude WAGNER
Friday 17 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Sinfonia drammatica RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Die Meistersinger, prelude WAGNER
Wednesday 29 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Euryanthe, overture WEBER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Thursday 30 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT
Anthony and Cleopatra SCHMITT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Elley Ney, piano
Friday 31 October 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Rosamunde, overture SCHUBERT
Anthony and Cleopatra SCHMITT
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Elley Ney, piano
Thursday 6 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in B flat major CHAUSSON
Violin Concerto KARLOWICZ
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Friday 7 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony in B flat major CHAUSSON
Violin Concerto KARLOWICZ
Francesca da Rimini TCHAIKOVSKY
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Saturday 8 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 4 SAINT-SAENS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Wednesday 12 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Tannhauser, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 13 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Friday 14 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Sunday 16 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 STOJOWSKI
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Sigismund Stojowski, piano
Thursday 20 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Friday 21 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Mother Goose, Suite RAVEL
Symphony No. 7 DVORAK
Sunday 23 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Two Preludes and Five Voice Fugues BACH
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Wednesday 26 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TGCHAIKOVSKY
Nikolai Medtner, piano
Friday 28 November 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
The Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TGCHAIKOVSKY
Nikolai Medtner, piano
Saturday 29 November 1924
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Irish Rhapsody VICTOR HERBERT
Leo Schulz, cello
Wednesday 3 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Thursday 4 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Poem for Orchestra LOEFFLER
Tristan and Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod WAGNER
Scipione Guidi, violin
Friday 5 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Poem for Orchestra LOEFFLER
Tristan and Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod WAGNER
Scipione Guidi, violin
Sunday 7 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Wiener Blut, Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Capriccio Italien TCHAIKOVSKY
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Thursday 11 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan GRIFFES
Two Waltzes for String Orchestra DVORAK
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Friday 12 December 1924
Willem van Hoogstraten
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan GRIFFES
Two Waltzes for String Orchestra DVORAK
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Thursday 18 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Salome HADLEY
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Friday 19 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Salome HADLEY
Capriccio Espagnol RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sunday 28 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
From the Garden of Hellas, Suite BALLANTINE
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Symphony No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Ruth Breton, violin
Wednesday 31 December 1924
Henry Hadley
Southern Fantasy HUMISTON
From the Garden of Hellas, Suite BALLANTINE
Salome HADLEY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 3 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 8 January 1925
Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Volga Boatmen STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Friday 9 January 1925
Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Volga Boatmen STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Saturday 10 January 1925
Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Volga Boatmen STRAVINSKY
Fireworks STRAVINSKY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du Rossignol STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Suite STRAVINSKY
Petrushka, Suite STRAVINSKY
Sunday 11 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Freischutz, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Thursday 15 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Olga Samaroff, piano
Friday 16 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Olga Samaroff, piano
Sunday 18 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Thursday 22 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Friday 23 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Sunday 25 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Wednesday 28 January 1925
Willem van Hoogstraten
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Friday 30 January 1925
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Death and Transfiguration RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Saturday 31 January 1925
Willem van Hoogstraten
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Myra Hess, piano
Wednesday 4 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 5 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Igor Stravinsky, piano
Friday 6 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Igor Stravinsky, piano
Sunday 8 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Les Deux Journees, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Espana CHABRIER
Thursday 12 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Iberia DEBUSSY
Espana CHABRIER
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Friday 13 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Iberia DEBUSSY
Espana CHABRIER
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Saturday 14 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Sunday 15 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Capriccio for Flute KEMPTER
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
John Amans, flute
Wednesday 18 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 1 BIZET
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Flute Music WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Thursday 19 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 1 BIZET
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Friday 20 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 1 BIZET
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 22 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 26 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Friday 27 February 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Wednesday 4 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 5 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Prelude to Cantata No. 174 BACH
Adagio from Toccata in C major BACH
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Wanda Landowska, piano
Friday 6 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Prelude to Cantata No. 174 BACH
Adagio from Toccata in C major BACH
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Wanda Landowska, piano
Sunday 8 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Wednesday 18 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Through the Looking Glass, Suite DEEMS TAYLOR
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Thursday 19 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Through the Looking Glass, Suite DEEMS TAYLOR
Cello Concerto LALO
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gerard Hekking, cello
Friday 20 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Through the Looking Glass, Suite DEEMS TAYLOR
Cello Concerto LALO
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gerard Hekking, cello
Sunday 22 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Echoes from Ossian, Overture GADE
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfred Cortot, piano
Thursday 26 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in E minor SAMUEL GARDNER
La Valse RAVEL
Samuel Gardner, violin
Friday 27 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in E minor SAMUEL GARDNER
La Valse RAVEL
Samuel Gardner, violin
Saturday 28 March 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Marie Sundelius, soprano Sarah Charles-Cahier, contralto
Schola Cantorum
Wednesday 1 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY
Tasso LISZT
Yolanda Mero, piano
Thursday 2 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Concerto TAILLEFERRE
Tasso LISZT
Germaine Tailleferre, piano
Friday 3 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Piano Concerto TAILLEFERRE
Tasso LISZT
Germaine Tailleferre, piano
Saturday 11 April 1925
Willem Mengelberg
St. Matthew Passion BACH
Mildred Faas, soprano Mabel Beddoe, contralto
Lambert Murphy, tenor Thomas Denijs, bass
John Barclay, bass Wanda Landowska, harpsichord
Louis Robert, organ Scipione Guidi, violin
Bruno Labate, oboe d’amore Georges Apchain, oboe d’amore
John Amans, flute
New York Philharmonic
1925 – 1926
84th Season
Thursday 15 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 2 BACH
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Friday 16 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 2 BACH
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 29 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Partita for Piano and Orchestra CASELLA
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Lewis James, tenor
Friday 30 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Partita for Piano and Orchestra CASELLA
Italia, Rhapsody CASELLA
Lewis James, tenor Alfredo Casella, piano
Saturday 31 October 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 2 BACH
Les Préludes LISZT
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 5 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Épreuve villageois, Overture GRÉTRY
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Thomas Denijs, bass
Friday 6 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Épreuve villageois, Overture GRÉTRY
Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune DEBUSSY
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Thomas Denijs, bass
Saturday 7 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
L’Épreuve villageois, Overture GRÉTRY
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Katherine Bacon, piano Thomas Denijs, bass
Thursday 12 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra GEBHARD
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Heinrich Gebhard, piano
Friday 13 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra GEBHARD
A Pagan Poem LOEFFLER
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Heinrich Gebhard, piano
Saturday 14 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Jubel, Overture WEBER
Two Violin Concerto in D minor BACH
Overture in D major KALLIWODA
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Scipione Guidi, violin Hans Lange, violin
Sunday 15 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Jubel, Overture WEBER
Two Violin Concerto in D minor BACH
Overture in D major KALLIWODA
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Scipione Guidi, violin Hans Lange, violin
Thursday 19 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 20 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 22 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Dance of the Sorceress TANSMAN
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Wednesday 25 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Ruth Rodgers, soprano Martha Offers, contralto
Schola Cantorum
Friday 27 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
Ruth Rodgers, soprano Martha Offers, contralto
Schola Cantorum
Saturday 28 November 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection (2nd movement) MAHLER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 3 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Visions WETZLER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Percy Grainger, piano
Friday 4 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Visions WETZLER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Percy Grainger, piano
Sunday 6 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Iphigenie in Aulis, Overture GLUCK
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Thursday 10 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Impressions from An Artist’s Life SCHELLING
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Ernest Schelling, piano
Friday 11 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Impressions from An Artist’s Life SCHELLING
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 17 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Friday 18 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Saturday 19 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Henry Hadley*
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Lucifer HADLEY*
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sunday 27 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Henry Hadley*
Old Dutch Dances RÖNTGEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Lucifer HADLEY*
Marche Slave TCHAIKOVSKY
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Thursday 31 December 1925
Willem Mengelberg
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto RESPIGHI
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Ottorino Respighi, piano
Friday 1 January 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto RESPIGHI
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Ottorino Respighi, piano
Saturday 2 January 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Sunday 10 January 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 14 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Friday 15 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Saturday 16 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Sunday 17 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (arr. Abert) BACH
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Thursday 21 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto Grosso in D minor VIVALDI
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Friday 22 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto Grosso in D minor VIVALDI
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Sunday 24 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Thursday 28 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Paesaggi toscani TOMMASINI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Schola Cantorum
Friday 29 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Sarabande ROGER-DUCASSE
Paesaggi toscani TOMMASINI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Schola Cantorum
Saturday 30 January 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto Grosso in D minor VIVALDI
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
The Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Monday 1 February 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (arr. Abert) BACH
Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Saturday 6 February 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Gethsemane DE SABATA
Petrushka, Suite, Parts 1 and 4 STRAVINSKY
Sunday 7 February 1926
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
La Mer DEBUSSY
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Notturno MARTUCCI
Novelletta MARTUCCI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Thursday 11 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Friday 12 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Saturday 13 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Suite for Cello and Orchestra VALENTINI
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Hans Kindler, cello
Sunday 14 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVOŘÁK
Suite for Cello and Orchestra VALENTINI
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Hans Kindler, cello
Thursday 18 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Sinfonia Domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Friday 19 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Sinfonia Domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Guiomar Novaes, piano
Sunday 21 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Thursday 25 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 2 RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Friday 26 February 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Le Corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 2 RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 4 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Interlude and Waltz Scene from Intermezzo RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Hungarian Dances BRAHMS
Friday 5 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Interlude and Waltz Scene from Intermezzo RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Hungarian Dances BRAHMS
Sunday 7 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Thursday 18 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Hussite, Overture DVOŘÁK
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Friday 19 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Hussite, Overture DVOŘÁK
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Saturday 20 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Three Hunagrian Dances BRAHMS
Sunday 21 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 25 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 26, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Harpsichord Concerto in D major HAYDN
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Wanda Landowska, piano/harpsichord
Friday 26 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 26, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Harpsichord Concerto in D major HAYDN
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Wanda Landowska, piano/harpsichord
Saturday 27 March 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 1 April 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Invitation to the Dance (orch. Weingartner) BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Friday 2 April 1926
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Concerto Grosso No. 5 HANDEL
Invitation to the Dance (orch. Weingartner) BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Saturday 3 April 1926
Fritz Reiner
Fidelio, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Suite from Act 3 of The Mastersingers WAGNER
New York Philharmonic
1926 – 1927
85th Season
Thursday 14 October 1926
Friday 15 October 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major (orch. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Pan and the Priest HANSON
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Thursday 28 October 1926
Friday 29 October 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Israel Symphony BLOCH
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
A Life of the Artist STRONG
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Joszef Szigeti, violin
Sunday 30 October 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major (orch. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Israel Symphony BLOCH
Pan and the Priest HANSON
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Thursday 4 November 1926
Friday 5 November 1926
Saturday 6 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Tempest, Prelude HONEGGER
8 Pièces Enfantines, Parts 1 and 2 STRAVINSKY
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Charles Stratton, tenor
Thursday 11 November 1926
Friday 12 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Victory Ball SCHELLING
Palestrina, Three Preludes PFITZNER
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Gitta Gradova, piano
Saturday 13 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Palestrina, Three Preludes PFITZNER
Concertstück for Piano and Orchestra WEBER
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Margaret Hamilton, piano
Sunday 14 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Funeral March in Memoriam Weber WAGNER
La Giara, Suite CASELLA
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Charles Stratton, tenor
Sunday 21 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHANN WAGENAAR
Impressions of Italy, Suite CHARPENTIER
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Wednesday 24 November 1926
Friday 26 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Serenade for Strings TCHAIKOVSKY
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Hans Kindler, cello
Saturday 27 November 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHANN WAGENAAR
Impressions of Italy, Suite CHARPENTIER
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Mephisto Waltz LISZT
Thursday 2 December 1926
Friday 3 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Carl Friedberg, piano
Sunday 5 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Concerto gregoriano RESPIGHI
Lohengrin, Prelude WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
Thursday 9 December 1926
Friday 10 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Le Roi d’Ys, Overture LALO
Aline, Chaconne and Rigaudon MONSIGNY
The Carnival of Aix MILHAUD
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Darius Milhaud, piano
Thursday 16 December 1926
Friday 17 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Symphony No. 3, ‘The Song of the Night’ SZYMANOWSKI
Lohengrin, Prelude WAGNER
Siegfried’s Forge Songs WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Lauritz Melchior, tenor
Saturday 18 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Le Roi d’Ys, Overture LALO
Aline, Chaconne and Rigaudon MONSIGNY
Violin Sonata in G minor TARTINI
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Hans Lange, violin Munz Mieczyslaw, piano
Thursday 23 December 1926
Friday 24 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
E. Robert Schmitz, piano
Sunday 26 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Efrem Zimbalist, piano
Thursday 30 December 1926
Friday 31 December 1926
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Alfred Cortot, piano
Saturday 1 January 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Leonid Kreutzer, piano
Sunday 9 January 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Gwendoline, Prelude to Act 2 CHABRIER
Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 13 January 1927
Friday 14 January 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Suite No. 3 BACH
Gwendoline, Prelude to Act 2 CHABRIER
Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Saturday 15 January 1927
Sunday 16 January 1927
Hans Lange
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Thursday 20 January 1927
Friday 21 January 1927
Georges Georgescu
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
La Procession Nocturne RABAUD
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Sunday 23 January 1927
Georges Georgescu
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Thursday 27 January 1927
Friday 28 January 1927
Fritz Reiner
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
La Mer DEBUSSY
Suite from Act 3 of Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Saturday 5 February 1927
Sunday 6 February 1927
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano Louise Homer, contralto
Richard Crooks, tenor Fraser Gange, baritone
Schola Cantorum
Thursday 10 February 1927
Friday 11 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Pablo Casals, cello
Saturday 12 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Bernard Ocko, violin
Sunday 13 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Thursday 17 February 1927
Friday 18 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
Symphony No. 7 MIASKOVSKY
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Sunday 20 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Paul Kochanski, violin
Thursday 24 February 1927
Friday 25 February 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
The Tempest, Overture SIBELIUS
Concerto for Orchestra HINDEMITH
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 3 March 1927
Friday 4 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Violin Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Leonore, Overture No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Joszef Szigeti, violin
Sunday 6 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
The Tempest, Overture SIBELIUS
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 17 March 1927
Friday 18 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan BRAUNFELS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano
Sunday 19 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Concerto for Orchestra HINDEMITH
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 24 March 1927
Friday 25 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Grosse Fuge BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Walter Gieseking, piano
Saturday 26 March 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Kol Nidrei BRUCH
Berceuse SCHULZ
Rondo DVOŘÁK
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Leo Schulz, cello
Thursday 31 March 1927
Friday 1 April 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano Fraser Gange, baritone
Choral Symphony Society of New York
Saturday 2 April 1927
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
1927 – 1928
86th Season
Thursday 13 October 1927
Friday 14 October 1927
Saturday 15 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto in A minor for Strings, Op. 3/8 (arr. Franko) VIVALDI
Concerto for Quintet of Wind Instruments RIETI
Foules for Orchestra FERROUD
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
John Amans, flute Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Sunday 16 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto in A minor for Strings, Op. 3/8 (arr. Franko) VIVALDI
Concerto for Quintet of Wind Instruments RIETI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' TCHAIKOVSKY
John Amans, flute Bruno Labate, oboe
Simeon Bellison, clarinet Benjamin Kohon, bassoon
Bruno Jaenicke, horn
Thursday 20 October 1927
Friday 21 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Airs de Ballet Suite No.2 (arr. by FrançoisGevaert) GLUCK
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Finale from Piano Concerto No. 17,(played on harpsichord) MOZART
Symphony in C sharp minor BLOCH
Wanda Landowska, piano and harpsichord
Saturday 22 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
A Victory Ball SCHELLING
Concerto in F minor for Keyboard and Strings BACH
Noches en los jardines de España FALLA
Symphony in C sharp minor BLOCH
E. Robert Schmitz, piano
Thursday 27 October 1927
Friday 28 October 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Les Deux journées, Overture CHERUBINI
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Sunday 13 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Les Deux journées, Overture CHERUBINI
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Les Préludes LISZT
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Thursday 17 November 1927
Friday 18 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Suite in F major ROUSSEL
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Saturday 19 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Suite in F major ROUSSEL
Scherzo Sinfonico RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Sunday 20 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore, Overture No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 GRIEG
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Scherzo Sinfonico RUDOLF MENGELBERG
A Negro Rhapsody RUBIN GOLDMARK
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Wednesday 23 November 1927
Friday 25 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 103 HAYDN
Cello Concerto DELIUS
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Iberia DEBUSSY
Beatrice Harrison, cello
Saturday 26 November 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Overture on Negro Themes JAMES P. DUNN
Istar, Symphonic Variations D'INDY
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
Ibéria DEBUSSY
Thursday 1 December 1927
Friday 2 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Yolanda Mero, piano
Sunday 4 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Istar, Symphonic Variations D'INDY
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Thursday 8 December 1927
Friday 9 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Gitta Gradova, piano
Thursday 15 December 1927
Friday 16 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Impressions du Midi GERARD VON BRUCKEN FOCK
La Valse RAVEL
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Saturday 17 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Scipione Guidi, violin Cornelius van Vliet, cello
Thursday 22 December 1927
Friday 23 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in G minor, 'Christmas Concerto' CORELLI
Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra BARTÓK
Istar, Symphonic Variations D'INDY
Morocco, symphonic tableau SCHELLING
Bela Bartók, piano
Thursday 29 December 1927
Friday 30 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Götterdämmerung, Funeral March WAGNER
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Cecilia Hansen, violin
Saturday 31 December 1927
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Catharine Wade-Smith, violin
Sunday 8 January 1928
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Scherzo Fantastique STRAVINSKY
La Valse RAVEL
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Thursday 12 January 1928
Friday 13 January 1928
Sir Thomas Beecham
Teseo, Overture HANDEL
Il Pastor Fido, Musette from Ballet Music HANDEL
Rodrigo, Bourrée HANDEL
The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 34 MOZART
Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens BERLIOZ
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Saturday 14 January 1928
Sir Thomas Beecham
Teseo, Overture HANDEL
Il Pastor Fido, Musette from Ballet Music HANDEL
Rodrigo, Bourrée HANDEL
The Walk to the Paradise Garden DELIUS
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Nina, ossia La pazza per amore, Overture PAISIELLO
Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens BERLIOZ
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Sunday 15 January 1928
Sir Thomas Beecham
Symphony No. 36 in C major, 'Linz' MOZART
Paris (The Song of a Great City) DELIUS
Nina, ossia La pazza per amore, Overture PAISIELLO
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring DELIUS
Zémire et Azor, Ballet Music GRÉTRY
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Thursday 19 January 1928
Friday 20 January 1928
Bernardino Molinari
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Andante for Strings, Harp and Organ (arr. by Marinuzzi from work for violin and figured bass) GEMINIANI
Novelletta MARTUCCI
Fêtes from Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Semiramide, Overture ROSSINI
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Sunday 22 January 1928
Bernardino Molinari
Tancredi, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Suite for String Orchestra (arr. Ettore Pinelli from Twelve Sonatas, Op. 5) CORELLI
Novelletta MARTUCCI
L'Isle Joyeuse, (orch by Molinari from Piano Piece) DEBUSSY
I Vespri siciliani, Overture VERDI
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Thursday 26 January 1928
Friday 27 January 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Le Baruffe Chiozzotte, Overture SINIGAGLIA
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Pastorale d'été HONEGGER
Pacific 231 HONEGGER
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Saturday 4 February 1928
Sunday 5 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Pastorale d'été HONEGGER
Pacific 231 HONEGGER
Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Thursday 9 February 1928
Friday 10 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto in E major for strings, 'La Primavera' VIVALDI
Symphony No. 88, 'Letter V' HAYDN
Love Scene and Queen Mab's Scerzo from Roméo et Juliette BERLIOZ
Pines of Rome RESPIGHI
Saturday 11 February 1928
Sunday 12 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Le Baruffe Chiozzotte, Overture SINIGAGLIA
Queen Mab's Scerzo from Roméo et Juliette BERLIOZ
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Thursday 16 February 1928
Friday 17 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 32 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Daphnis et Chloé, Ballet Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Juventus, Symphonic Poem DE SABATA
Sunday 19 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Concerto in E major for strings, 'La Primavera' VIVALDI
Symphony No. 88, 'Letter V' HAYDN
Daphnis et Chloé, Ballet Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Juventus, Symphonic Poem DE SABATA
Thursday 23 February 1928
Friday 24 February 1928
Arturo Toscanini
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
La Pisanella: Suite PIZZETTI
La Mer DEBUSSY
Thursday 1 March 1928
Friday 2 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
El Amor brujo, Ballet FALLA
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Sophie Braslau, contralto
Sunday 4 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
La Pisanella, Suite PIZZETTI
La Mer DEBUSSY
Thursday 15 March 1928
Friday 16 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Good-Humoured Ladies, Ballet (arr. Tommasini) SCARLATTI
Symphony No. 3, 'Organ' SAINT-SAËNS
Rondò arlecchinesco BUSONI
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfredo Tedesco, tenor
Saturday 17 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture ROSSINI
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' BEETHOVEN
Rondò arlecchinesco BUSONI
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfredo Tedesco, tenor
Sunday 18 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Good-Humoured Ladies, Ballet (arr. Tommasini) SCARLATTI
Symphony No. 3, 'Organ' SAINT-SAËNS
Rondò arlecchinesco BUSONI
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfredo Tedesco, tenor
Thursday 22 March 1928
Friday 23 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Symphony No. 2 MARTUCCI
Concerto in A minor for Violin, Strings and Organ, Op. 3/6 VIVALDI
Parsifal, Good Friday Music WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Saturday 24 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Good-Humoured Ladies, Ballet (arr. Tommasini) SCARLATTI
Symphony No. 3, 'Organ' SAINT-SAËNS
Concerto in A minor for Violin, Strings and Organ, Op. 3/6 VIVALDI
Parsifal, Good Friday Music WAGNER
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche RICHARD STRAUSS
Scipione Guidi, violin
Thursday 29 March 1928
Friday 30 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Christmas Oratorio, Sinfonia BACH
Sonata sopra Sancta Maria from Vespro della Beata Vergine MONTEVERDI
The Redemption, Prelude to Part 2 FRANCK
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' BEETHOVEN
Nina Morgana, soprano Sophie Breslau, contralto
Richard Crooks, tenor Ezio Pinza, bass
Schola Cantorum
Saturday 31 March 1928
Arturo Toscanini
Christmas Oratorio, Sinfonia BACH
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Lohengrin, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
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