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Philadelphia Orchestra - Subscription Concerts 1980 - 1981

1980 – 1981 season
81st Season
 

Week 1
18, 19, 23 September 1980
Eugene Ormandy

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore, Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'

Week 2
25, 26, 27 September 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano

GOLDMARK                                       In Spring, overture
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 3
2, 3, 4, 7 October 1980
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 4
10, 11 October 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Nathan Milstein, violin

RESPIGHI                                           Trittico botticelliano
GLAZUNOV                                       Violin Concerto
HARRIS                                              Symphony No. 3
BRUCH                                              Violin Concerto No. 1

Week 5
16, 17, 18 October 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Emanuel Ax, piano

COPLAND                                         Inscapes
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 6
24, 25 October 1980
Kirill Kondrashin
Norman Carol, violin

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 103, 'Drum Roll'
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Ein Heldenleben

Week 7
30, 31 October, 1 November 1980
Kirill Kondrashin
Alexis Weissenberg, piano

RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 10

Week 8
6, 7, 8, 11 November 1980
Riccardo Muti
Alicia de Larrocha, piano, Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano, Jon Frederic West, tenor, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 25
SCRIABIN                                           Symphony No. 1

Week 9
14, 15 November 1980
Riccardo Muti

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7
HINDEMITH                                       Concert Music for Strings and Brass
ELGAR                                               In the South (Alassio) 

Week 10
21, 22, 23 November 1980
Riccardo Muti
Gwendolyn Bradley, soprano, Agnes Baltsa, contralto, Neil Rosenshein, tenor, Paul Plishka, bass, Singing City Choir

SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 1, 'Spring'
MOZART                                           Mass in C minor

Week 11
28, 29 November, 2 December 1980
Riccardo Muti
Itzhak Perlman, violin

BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, 'Romantic'

Week 12
4, 5, 6 December 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Dylana Jenson, violin

ROUSSEL                                            Bacchus et Ariane, ballet suite No. 2
SIBELIUS                                             Violin Concerto
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 13
11, 12, 13, 17 December 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Elmar Oliveira, violin

LADERMAN                                        Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7

Week 14
18, 19 December 1980
William Smith
Jerome Lowenthal, piano

MOZART                                           Overture to The Magic Flute
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 1
COPLAND                                         Appalachian Spring, ballet suite
HANSON                                           Suite from the Opera. Merry Mount 

Week 15
2, 3, 6 January 1981
James Conlon

BERLIOZ                                            Le Corsaire, Overture
CHAUSSON                                       Symphony
BRITTEN                                            Peter Grimes, Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Week 16
8, 9, 10, 11 January 1981
James Conlon
Horacio Gutierrez, piano

MOZART                                           Adagio and Fugue
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 4

Week 17
16, 17, 20 January 1981
William Smith

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Love Scene from Feuersnot
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel
RICHARD STRAUSS                             An Alpine Symphony

Week 18
29, 30, 31 January 1981
Riccardo Muti
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
STRAVINSKY                                      The Rite of Spring

Week 19
6, 7, 10 February 1981
Riccardo Muti
William de Pasquale, violin

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Hamlet, overture
BARTÓK                                            Violin Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Serenade for Strings

Week 20
12, 13, 14 February 1981
Riccardo Muti
Lynn Harrell, cello

SCHUMANN                                       Hermann und Dorothea, overture
SCHUMANN                                       Cello Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Romeo and Juliet, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

Week 21
20, 21 February 1981
Riccardo Muti
Salvatore Accardo, violin

ROSSINI                                             Semiramide, overture
PAGANINI                                          Violin Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (1947 version)

Week 22
27, 28 February, 3 March 1981
Max Rudolf
Mark Zeltser, piano

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 28
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2

Week 23
6, 7 March 1981
William Smith

WALTON                                          Partita for orchestra
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
DEBUSSY                                            Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 6

Week 24
12, 13, 14 March 1981
Aldo Ceccato
Susan Starr, piano

PENDERECKI                                      De Natura Sonoris No. 1
BERNSTEIN                                        Symphony No. 2, 'The Age of Anxiety'
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 5

Week 25
20, 21, 24 March 1981
John Nelson
Henryk Szeryng, violin

BARBER                                             Medea's Dance of Vengeance
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 3
SZYMANOWSKI                                 Violin Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Francesca da Rimini

Week 26
26, 27, 28, 31 March 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Bruno Leonardo Gelber, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

Week 27
3, 4 April 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Benjamin Luxon, baritone

MAHLER                                            Kindertotenlieder
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 28
9, 10, 11 April 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Shlomo Mintz, violin

WEBER                                              Oberon, Overture
PROKOFIEV                                       Violin Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

Week 29
23, 24, 25 April 1981
Aldo Ceccato
Norman Carol, violin, Joseph de Pasquale, viola, Faye Robinson, soprano, Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano, John Gilmore, tenor, John Cheek, bass, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MOZART                                           Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola
ROSSINI                                             Stabat mater

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