The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1956 – 1957
season
57th Season
Week 1
5, 6, 8 October 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
MOZART Divertimento
No. 17 in D
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 8
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 5
Week 2
12, 13 October 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
BERLIOZ Le
carnaval romain, overture
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 2
RICHARD STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier, Waltzes
Week 3
26, 27, 29 October 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
Guiomar
Novaes, piano
HAYDN Symphony
No. 88
VON EINEM Concerto
for Orchestra
ROUSSEL Bacchus
et Ariane, Suite No. 2
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4
Week 4
2, 3 November 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
Philippe
Entremont, piano
BARBER The
School for Scandal, overture
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
JOLIVET Piano
Concerto
DEBUSSY Printemps
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini
Week 5
9, 10 November 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
KABALEVSKY Colas
Breugnon, overture
GLIÈRE Symphony
No. 3, 'Il'ya Mourometz'
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 6a
16, 17 November 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
Gregor
Piatigorsky, cello
WEBER Oberon,
Overture
McDONALD Symphony
No. 3, 'Lamentations of Fu Hsuan'
DVOŘÁK Cello
Concerto
Week 6b
19 November 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
Gregor
Piatigorsky, cello
KABALEVSKY Colas
Breugnon, overture
GLIÈRE Symphony
No. 3, 'Il'ya Mourometz'
DVOŘÁK Cello
Concerto
Week 7
23, 24 November 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
John
Pennink, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade
for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY Hamlet,
fantasy overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 8
30 November, 1 December 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
DELLO JOIO Variations,
Chaconne and Finale
PROKOFIEV Violin
Concerto No. 2
RICHARD STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
Week 9
7, 8, 10 December 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
Jacob
Krachmalnick, violin, David Madison, violin, Hilde Güden, soprano, Rudolf Petrak, tenor, Kenneth Smith, bass, Temple University Choirs
VIVALDI Concerto
Grosso in A major, 'Echo' for two violins and strings (orch.
Molinari)
MOZART Recitative
and Aria from Idomeneo
RICHARD STRAUSS Zerbinetta's Aria from Ariadne auf Naxos
ORFF The
Trumph of Aphrodite
Week 10
14, 15 December 1956
Eugene
Ormandy
Robert
Casadesus, piano
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Overture, Intermezzo, Nocturne and
Scherzo
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 26
RAVEL Piano
Concerto for the Left Hand
DEBUSSY La
mer
Week 11
21, 22 December 1956
Eugene Ormandy
McCOLLIN Two
Chorale Preludes
PERPESSO Christus
Symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY The
Nutcracker, suite
JOHANN STRAUSS II Emperor, waltz
Week 12
28, 29, 31 December 1956
Ernest Ansermet
WAGNER A
Faust Overture
HONEGGER Symphony
No. 3, 'Liturgique'
RAVEL Mother
Goose, suite
RAVEL La
Valse
Week 13
4, 5 January 1957
Ernest Ansermet
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 2
DEBUSSY Images
Week 14
11, 12 January 1957
Pierre Monteux
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella,
suite
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
DEBUSSY Pelléas
et Mélisande, five preludes and interludes
WAGNER Tannhäuser,
Overture
Week 15
18, 19 January 1957
William Steinberg
BRAHMS Academic
Festival Overture
ALBENIZ Five
Excerpts from Iberia (orch. Arbos)
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, 'Eroica'
Week 16
25, 26, 28 January 1957
Eugene Ormandy
HARRIS Symphony
No. 3
HINDEMITH Noblissima
Visione
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
Week 17
1, 2, 4 February 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
GESENSWAY Now
Let the Night Be Dark for All of Me
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 3, 'Rhenish
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 18
8, 9, 25 February 1957
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART The
Magic Flute, overture
BRUCKNER Symphony
No. 4, ‘Romantic’
HELLMESBERGER Ball
Scene
JOHANN STRAUSS II Wine, Women and Song, waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS II New Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Voices of Spring, Waltz
Week 19
15, 16 February 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Leontyne Price, soprano, Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano, Richard Tucker, tenor, Giorgio Tozzi, bass, Rutgers University Choir, Philadelphia
Orchestra Chorus
VERDI Messa
da Requiem
Week 20
22, 23 Febuary 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin
BORODIN Nocturne
from String Quartet No. 2 (arr. Sargent)
HINDEMITH Mathis
der Maler, symphony
LALO Symphonie
espagnole
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne
Schatten
Week 21
1, 2 March 1957
Charles Munch
BERLIOZ Love
Scene from Roméo et Juliette
HONEGGER Symphony
No. 2
RAVEL Le
tombeau de Couperin
ROUSSEL Symphony
No. 3
Week 22
8, 9, 11 March 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
MOZART The
Marriage of Figaro, overture
MOZART Violin
Concerto No. 3
WIENIAWSKI Violin
Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 5
Week 23
15, 16 March 1957
Eugene Ormandy
BACH Organ
Sonata No. 1 (Arr. Ormandy)
CARL PHILIPP BACH Concerto for orchestra in D major (orch.
Steinberg}
WILHELM FRIEDMANN BACH Sinfonia in D minor for two flutes and strings
BACH Jesus
Joy of Man's Desiring (orch. Cailliet)
BACH Brandenburg
Concerto No. 6
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH Sinfonia for Double Orchestra No. 3 (orch. Ormandy)
BACH Passacaglia
and Fugue in C minor (orch. Ormandy)
Week 24
22, 23 March 1957
William R. Smith, Eugene Ormandy*
Mason Jones, horn
ROSSINI La
Scala di Seta, overture
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 4, 'Italian'
MOZART Horn
Concerto No. 4
BARTÓK* Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 25
29, 30 March, 1 April 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
BEETHOVEN Leonore,
Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
Week 26
5, 6 April 1957
Eugene Ormandy
ZADOR Divertimento
for String Orchestra
PROKOFIEV Scythian
Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Week 27
12, 13 April 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin
VINCENT Symphony
in D major
CHAUSSON Poème
for violin and orchestra
RESPIGHI The
Fountains of Rome
VIEUXTEMPS Violin
Concerto No. 4
Week 28
19, 20 April 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Byron Janis, piano
WAGNER Parsifal,
Prelude and Good Friday Music
PROKOFIEV Piano
Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOV Piano
Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Festival Overture
The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1957 – 1958
season
58th Season
Week 1
27, 28, 30 September 1957
Eugene Ormandy
STRAVINSKY Petrushka,
Suite
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 4 (revised version)
MUSSORGSKY Pictures
at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Week 2
4, 5 October 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano
BRAHMS Chorale
Preludes, Op. 122 (orch. Thomson)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 3
11, 12 October 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Carlton Cooley, viola
DVOŘÁK Carnival
Overture
SCHUMAN Credendum
DEBUSSY Nocturnes,
Nuages et Fêtes
BERLIOZ Harold
in Italy
Week 4a
25, 26 October 1957
ELGAR Introduction
and Allegro
DVOŘÁK Symphony
No. 9, 'From the New World'
WEBER Invitation
to the Dance (orch. Ormandy)
ELGAR Enigma
Variations
Week 4b
28 October 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano
BRAHMS Chorale
Preludes, Op. 122 (orch. Thomson)
ELGAR Enigma
Variations
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 5
1, 2 November 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Agi Jambor, piano
BACH Ricercare
from The Musical Offering (orch. Ormandy)
BACH Piano
Concerto in D major
BACH Goldberg
Variations (orch. Nabokov)
BACH Piano
Concerto in D minor
BACH Toccata
and Fugue in D minor (orch. Ormandy)
Week 6
8, 9, 18 November 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin
SCHIBLER Passacaglia
COWELL Symphony
No. 11
BEETHOVEN Violin
Concerto
Week 7
15, 16 November 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Louis Kentner, piano
CORELLI Suite
for Strings
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 1, 'Spring'
WEINER Piano
Concertino in E minor
LISZT Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 8
22, 23 November 1957
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Leonore
No. 2, overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 6, 'Pastoral'
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 2
Week 9
29, 30 November 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Thomas Brockman, piano
HAYDN Symphony
No. 93
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 1
ROREM Design
for Orchestra
LISZT Mephisto
Waltz No. 1
Week 10
6, 7, 9 December 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Aase Nordmo Lövberg, soprano
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 8
BEETHOVEN Abscheulicher,
aria from Fidelio
WAGNER The
Flying Dutchman, Overture
WAGNER Elsa's
Dream from Lohengrin
WAGNER Dich
teure Halle from Tannhäuser
WAGNER Siegfried
Idyll
WAGNER Tristan
und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
Week 11
13, 14 December 1957
Eugene Ormandy
Lorne Munroe, cello
BEETHOVEN Egmont,
overture
SCHUMANN Cello
Concerto
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
Week 12
20, 21 December 1957
William Smith
Camilla Wicks, violin
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
BARBER Violin
Concerto
RAVEL Alborada
del gracioso
RAVEL Tzigane
RAVEL Bolero
Week 13
27, 28, 30 December 1957
Eugene Ormandy
William KincIaid, flute, Marilyn Costello, harp
MOZART Idomeneo,
overture
MOZART Flute
and Harp Concerto
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
JOHANN STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus, Overture
JOHANN STRAUSS II Emperor, waltz
Week 14
3, 4 January 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
HANDEL Overture
in D minor
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 21
YARDUMIAN Piano
Concerto
FRANCK Symphony
Week 15
10, 11 January 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Jacob Krachmalnick, violin
VIVALDI Winter
from The Seasons
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 4
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 5
Week 16
31 January, 1, 3 February 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Hilde Güden, soprano, Ethelyn Whitmore, mezzo soprano, Natalie
Möckel, mezzo soprano, Vera Zorina, narrator, Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus
RICHARD STRAUSS Daphne, excerpts
DEBUSSY The
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
Week 17
7, 8 February 1958
Erich Leinsdorf
CIMAROSA Gli
Orazil e Curiazil, overture
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 9, 'Great'
ROUSSEL Suite
in F major
STRAUSS Till
Eulenspiegel
Week 18
14, 15, 17 February 1958
Paul Kletzki
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
HONEGGER Symphony
No. 2
DEBUSSY La
mer
Week 19
21, 22 February 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Emil Gilels, piano
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 1, 'Classical'
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4
RESPIGHI The
Pines of Rome
Week 20
28 February, 1 March 1958
Igor Markevitch
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 6, 'Pathétique'
HINDEMITH Concerto
for Orchestra
FALLA The
Three Cornered Hat, suite
Week 21
7, 8, 10 March 1958
Fritz Reiner
BERLIOZ Beatrice
and Benedict, overture
MOZART Symphony
No. 36, 'Linz'
RAVEL Rapsodie
espagnole
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 5
Week 22
14, 15 March 1958
William Smith
Jacob Krachmalnick, violin
BRAHMS Variations
on a Theme by Haydn
ROZSA Violin
Concerto
DOHNÁNYI Suite
in F sharp minor
KODÁLY Dances
of Galanta
Week 23
21, 22 March 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
MOZART Symphony
No. 35, 'Haffner'
MENDELSSOHN Violin
Concerto
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
Week 24
28, 29, 31 March 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
ROZSA Concerto
for String Orchestra
PROKOFIEV Piano
Concerto No. 4
ROCHBERG Symphony
No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 25
4, 5 April 1958
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER Parsifal,
Good Friday Music
BOROWSKI Ecce
Homo
SMETANA Vltava
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 5
Week 26
11, 12 April 1958
Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV Vocalise
RACHMANINOV Symphonic
Dances
RACHMANINOV Symphony
No. 2
Week 27
18, 19, 21 April 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Maria Stader, soprano, Blanche Thebom, contralto, Thomas
Hayward, tenor, McHenry Boatwright, bass, Temple University Choir
BUSCH Psalm
No. 6
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 9, 'Choral'
Week 28
25, 26 April 1958
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Leonore
No. 3, overture
COPLAND Quiet
City
GERSHWIN An
American in Paris
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1958 – 1959
season
59th Season
Week 1
26, 27, 29 September 1958
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg, overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, 'Eroica'
ANGYAL Valse
Macabre
BARBER Medea's
Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
RAVEL Daphnis
et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Week 2
3, 4 October 1958
Eugene Ormandy
BACH Orchestral
Suite No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
DEBUSSY Ibéria
from Images
RAVEL La
Valse
Week 3
10, 11 October 1958
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN Symphony
No. 100, 'Military'
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 4, 'Italian’
BARTÓK The
Miraculous Mandarin, suite
MENNIN Concertato
for Orchestra, 'Moby Dick'
GEORG SCHUMANN Dance of the Nymphs and Satyrs from Amor
and Psyche
RICHARD STRAUSS Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Week 4
17, 18 October 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Janice Harsanyi, soprano
FOSS Ode
for Orchestra
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 2
BRITTEN Les
Illuminations
ROUSSEL Bacchus
et Ariane, Suite No. 2
Week 5
31 October, 1 November 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Leontyne Price, soprano, Martha Lipton, contralto,
Davis Cunningham, tenor, William Warfield, baritone,
Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir
HANDEL Messiah
Week 6
7, 8, 10 November 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Leonard Pennario, piano
HANSON Mosaics
PROKOFIEV Piano
Concerto No. 3
RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini
Week 7
14, 15, 24 November 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Robert Casadesus, piano
RAVEL Le
tombeau de Couperin
D'INDY Symphony
on a French Mountain Song
CHAUSSON Symphony
FRANCK Symphonic
Variations
Week 8
21, 22 November 1958
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo
and Juliet, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca
da Rimini
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred
Symphony
Week 9
28, 29 November 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Lorne Munroe, cello
COPLAND Music
for Radio
DVOŘÁK Cello
Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 10
5, 6 December 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Patti Jean Thompson, soprano, Ethelwyn Whitemore, soprano, Anne
Stackhouse, contralto, Wayne Conner, tenor, Barry Hanner, baritone, William Kincaid, flute, John de Lancie, oboe, Gilbert
Johnson, trumpet, David Madison, violin, Three College Chorus
BACH Chaconne
(orch. Gesensway)
BACH Magnificat
BACH Brandenburg
Concerto No. 2
BACH Suite
from The French Suites (orch. Honegger)
BACH Toccata,
Intermezzo and Fugue in C major (orch. Ormandy)
Week 11
12, 13, 15 December 1958
Eugene Ormandy
Nathan Milstein, violin
BEETHOVEN Leonore,
Overture No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 2
BEETHOVEN Violin
Concerto
Week 12
19, 20 December 1958
William Smith
CORELLI Concerto
Grosso No. 8, 'Christmas'
TCHAIKOVSKY The
Nutcracker suite
CHADWICK Noel
DVOŘÁK Symphony
No. 6
Week 13
26, 27 December 1958
Sir John Barbirolli
ELGAR Introduction
and Allegro
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 9
FAURÉ Pelléas
et Mélisande, suite
DEBUSSY La
mer
Week 14
2, 3, 5 January 1959
Paul Paray
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
DUKAS La
Peri
WAGNER Siegfried,
Waldweben
WAGNER Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg, suite from Act 3
Week 15
9, 10 January 1959
Sir Thomas Beecham
BIZET Symphony
in C
BERLIOZ King
Lear, overture
DELIUS The
Walk to the Paradise Garden
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
Week 16
16, 17, 19 January 1959
Sir Thomas Beecham
MENDELSSOHN The
Fair Melusine, overture
HANDEL The
Faithful Shepherd, suite (arr. Beecham)
MOZART Symphony
No. 36, 'Linz'
FRANCK Symphony
Week 17
23, 24, 26 January 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Philippe Entremont, piano
FINE Serious
Song for Strings
HAYDN Symphony
No. 101, 'The Clock'
LISZT Piano
Concerto No. 2
BARTÓK Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 18
30, 31 January 1959
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik
BRUCKNER Symphony
No. 9
VON EINEM Capriccio
for Orchestra
JOHANN STRAUSS II Explosions Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II New Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Blue Danube, Waltz
Week 19
6, 7 February 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Louis Kentner, piano
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 20
27, 28 February, 2 March 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin
SESSIONS The
Black Maskers, suite
WALTON Violin
Concerto
STRAVINSKY The
Firebird, suite
PAGANINI Violin
Concerto No. 1
Week 21
6, 7 March 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Gerard Souzay, baritone
BORODIN In
the Steppes of Central Asia
NABOKOV Symboli
Christiani for baritone and orchestra
RAVEL Trois
Mélodies Hebraiques
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 5
Week 22
13, 14 March 1959
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe
HANDEL The
Water Music
MOZART Symphony
No. 39
MARCELLO Oboe
Concerto in C minor
KENNAN Andante
for oboe and orchestra
CASELLA Paganiniana
DEBUSSY Danse
(orch. Ravel)
Week 23
20, 21 March 1959
Eugene Ormandy
VINCENT After
Descartes, symphonic poem
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 2
FRANK MARTIN Concerto
for Seven Winds, Percussion and Strings
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Festival Overture
Week 24
27, 28, 30 March 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano, Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus, Musical Arts Society of Camden
WAGNER Parsifal,
Prelude
REGER Piano
Concerto
HARTMANN Symphony
No. 6
BEETHOVEN Choral
Fantasy for piano and orchestra
Week 25
3, 4 April 1959
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL Music
for the Royal Fireworks
YARMUDIAN Choral
Prelude on Plainsong, Veni Sance Spiritus
SAINT-SAËNS Danse
macabre
RAVEL Rapsodie
espagnole
RACHMANINOV Symphony
No. 2
Week 26
10, 11 April 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Erica Morini, violin
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 7
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
MUSSORGSKY Pictures
at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Week 27
17, 18, 20 April 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Janice Harsanyi, soprano, David Poleri, tenor, Martial Singher, bass, Temple University Choirs
BERLIOZ The
Damnation of Faust
Week 28
24, 25 April 1959
Eugene Ormandy
BACH Toccata
and Fugue in D minor (orch. Ormandy)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
RICHARD STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel
WAGNER Tristan
und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
No comments:
Post a Comment