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Listen to the music, a self-guided tour through the orchestral repertoire, Jonathan D. Kramer

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Listen to the music

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Jonathan D. Kramer

a self-guided tour through the orchestral repertoire

Program notes for 290 frequently performed symphonies includes historical context, biographical details about the composers, suggestions on what to listen for, anecdotes, and other entertaining information. Includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Copland, Grieg, Ives, Mussorgsky, Strauss, Wagner, and many more

1. Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg concertos, numbers 1-6 ; Prelude and fugue in E-flat major, St. Anne, and Ricercar number 2 in C minor, from the musical offering ; Concertos in A minor and E major for violin and string orchestra and in D minor for two violins and string orchestra ; Suites for orchestra, number 1 in C major, number 2 in B minor, number 3 in D major, and number 4 in D major ; Toccata and fugue in D minor -- 2. Samuel Barber : Adagio for strings, opus -- 3. Bela Bartok : Concerto for orchestra ; Concerto number 1 for piano and orchestra ; Concerto number 2 for piano and orchestra ; Concerto number 3 for piano and orchestra ; Concerto number 2 for violin and orchestra ; Concerto for viola and orchestra ; The Miraculous Mandarin ; Music for strings, percussion and celeste ; The Wooden Prince -- 4. Ludwig van Beethoven : Concerto number 1 in C major for piano and orchestra, opus 15 ; Concerto number 2 in B-flat major for piano and orchestra, opus 19 ; concerto number 4 in C minor for piano and orchestra. opus 37 ; Concerto number 4 in G major for piano and orchestra, opus 58 ; Concerto number 5 in E-flat major for piano and orchestra, opus 73, Emperor ; Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra, opus 61 ; Concerto in C major for violin, cello, piano and orchestra, opus 56, triple ; Coriolan overture, opus 62 ; The creatures of Prometheus overture, opus 43 ; Leonore overtures numbers 1-3 ; Symphony number 1 in C major, opus 21 ; Symphony number 2 in D major, opus 36 ; Symphony number 3 in E-flat major, opus 55, eroica ; Symphony number 4 in B-flat major, opus 60 ; Symphony number 5 in C minor, opus 67 ; Symphony number 6 in F major, opus 68, pastorale ; Symphony number 7 in A major, opus 92 ; Symphony number 8 in F major, opus 93 ; Symphony number 9 in D minor, opus 125, Choral -- 5. Alban Berg : Concerto for violin and orchestra ; Three pieces for orchestra, opus 6 -- 6. Hector Berlioz : Le Corsaire overture, opus 21, and king Lear overture, opus 4 ; Harold in Italy, opus 16 ; Roman carnival overture, opus 9 ; Romeo and Juliet, opus 17 ; Symphonie fantastique, opus 14a -- 7. Alexander Boroding : Symphony number 2 in B minor -- 8. Johannes Brahms : Academic festival overture, opus 80, and tragic overture, opus 81 ; Concerto number 1 in D minor for piano and orchestra ; Concerto number 2 in B-flat major for piano and orchestra, opus 83 ; Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra, opus 77 ; Concerto in A minor for violin, cello, and orchestra, opus 102, double ; Quarter number 1 in G minor, opus 25 ; Symphony number 1 in C major, opus 68 ; Symphony number 2 in D major, opus 73 ; Symphony number 3 in F major, opus 90 ; Symphony number 4 in E minor, opus 98 ; Variations on a theme of Haydn, opus 56a -- 9. Max Bruch : Concerto number 1 in G minor for violin and orchestra, opus 26 -- 10. Anton Bruckner : Symphony number 1 in C minor ; Symphony number 2 in C minor ; Symphony number 3 in D minor, Wagner ; Symphony number 4 in E-flat major, Romantic ; Symphony number 5 in B-flat major ; Symphony number 6 in A major ; Symphony number 7 in E major ; Symphony number 8 in C minor ; Symphony number 9 in D minor -- 11. Frederic Chopin : Concerto number 1 in E minor for piano and orchestra opus 11, and concerto number 2 in F minor for piano and orchestra, opus 21 --12. Aaron Copland ; Appalachian spring -- 13. Arcangelo Corelli : Concerto grosso in G minor, opus 6, number 8, Christmas -- 14. Claude DeBussy : Images ; Jeux ; La Mer ; Nocturnes ; Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn -- 15. Antonin Dvorak : Concerto in B minor for cello and orchestra, opus 104 ; Concerto in A minor for violin and orchestra, 53 ; Symphony variations, opus 78 ; Symphony number 5 in F major, opus 24 ; Symphony number 6 in D major, opus 60 ; Symphony number 7 in D minor, opus 70 ; Symphony number 8 in G major, opus 88 ; Symphony number 9 in E minor, opus 95, from the new world -- 16. Edward Elgar : Variations on an original theme, opus 36 -- 17. Manuel de Falla : El amor brujo ; Nights in the gardens of Spain ; The three-cornered hat -- 18. Cesar Franck : Symphony in D minor -- 19. Alexander Glazunov : Concerto in A minor for violin and orchestra, opus 82 -- 20. Edvard Greig : Concerto in A minor for piano and orchestra, opus 16 -- 21. George Frideric Handel : Royal fireworks music ; Water music -- 22. Franz Joseph Hadyn : Concerto in C major for Cello and orchestra ; Concerto in D major for cello and orchestra ; Concerto in E-flat major for trumpet and orchestra ; The London symphonies, numbers 93-104 -- 23. Paul Hindemith : Symphony Mathis der Maler -- 24. Arthur Honegger : Pacific -- 25. Charles Ives : Symphony number 2 ; Symphony number 4 ; Three places in New England -- 26. Leos Janacek : Sinfonietta -- 27. Zoltan Kodaly : Dances of Galanta ; Hary Janos suite -- 28. Franz Liszt : Concerto number 1 in E-flat major for piano and orchestra and concerto number 2 in A major for piano and orchestra ; Les preludes -- 29. Edward Macdowell : Concerto number 2 in D minor, opus 23 -- 30. Gustav Mahler : Das lied con der erde ; Symphony number 1 in D major ; Symphony number 2 in C minor, resurrection ; Symphony number 3 in D minor ; Symphony number 4 in G major ; Symphony number 5 in C-sharp minor ; Symphony number 6 in A minor ; Symphony number 7 in E minor ; Symphony number 8 in E-flat major ; Symphony number 9 in D minor ; Symphony number 10 in F-sharp major -- 31. Felix Mendelssohn : Concerto number 1 in G minor for piano and orchestra, opus 25 ; Concerto in E minor for violin and orchestra, opus 64 ; The Hebrides overture, opus 26 ; A midsummer night's eve dream overture, opus 21 ; Symphony number 3 in A minor, opus 56, Scottish ; Symphony number 4 in A major, opus 90, Italian ; Symphony number 5 in D minor, opus 107, Reformation -- 32. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concerto in A major for clarinet and orchestra, K. 622 ; Concerto number 1 in G major for flute and orchestra, K. 313, Concerto number 2 in D major for flute and orchestra, K. 314, and concerto in C major for oboe and orchestra, K. 314 ; Concerto number 1 in D major for horn and orchestra, K. 412, Concerto number 2 in E-flat major for horn and orchestra, K. 417, Concerto number 3 in E-flat major for horn and orchestra, k. 447 ; and Concerto number 4 in E-flat major for horn and orchestra, K. 495 ; Concerto number 9 in E-flat major for piano and orchestra, K. 271 ; Concerto number 10 in E-flat major for two pianos an orchestra, K. 316a ; Concerto number 14 in E-flat major for piano and orchestra K. 449 ; Concerto number 17 in G major for piano and orchestra, K. 459 ; Concerto number 20 in D minor for piano and orchestra K. 466 ; Concert number 21 in C major for piano and orchestra, K 467 ; Concerto number 22 in E-flat major for piano and orchestra, K 482, Concerto number 23 in A major for piano and orchestra, K. 488, and Concerto number 25 in C minor for piano and orchestra, K. 491 ;Concerto number 25 in C major for piano and orchestra K. 503 ; Concerto number 26 in D major for piano and orchestra, K. 537, coronation ; Concerto number 27 in B-flat major for piano and orchestra, K. 595 ; Concerto number 3 in G major for violin and orchestra, K. 216, Concerto number 4 in D major for violin and orchestra, K. 218, and concerto number 5 in A major for violin and orchestra, K. 219 ; Serenade number 9 in D major, K. 320, Posthorn ; Symphonie concertante in E-flat major for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and orchestra, K. 297b, and Symphonie concertante in E-flat major for violin, viola and orchestra, K.364 ; Symphony number 25 in G minor, K. 183 ; Symphony number 29 in A major, K. 201 ; Symphony number 31 in D major, K. 300a, Paris ; Symphony number 35 in D major, K. 385 ; Symphony number 36 in C major, K. 425 ; Symphony number 38 in D major, K. 504 ; Symphony number 39 in E-flat major, K. 543 ; Symphony number 40 in G minor, K. 550 ; Symphony number 41 in C major, K. 551, Jupiter -- 33. Modeste Mussorgsky : Night on the bald mountain ; Pictures at an exhibition -- 34. Carl Nielsen : Symphony number 4, opus 29, The inextinguishable ; Symphony number 5, opus 50 -- 35. Sergei Prokofiev : Concerto number 1 in D-flat major for piano and orchestra, opus 10, and concerto number 2 in G minor for piano and orchestra, opus 16 ; Concerto number 3 in C major for piano and orchestra, opus 26 ; Concerto number 1 in D major for violin and orchestra, opus 19 ; Concerto number 2 in G minor for violin and orchestra, opus 63 ; Lieutenant Kije suite, opus 60 ; Romeo and Juliet, opus 64 ; Scythian suite, opus 60 ; Symphony number 1 in D major, opus 25, classical ; Symphony number 5 in B-flat major, opus 100 ; Symphony number 6 in E-flat minor, opus 111 -- 36. Sergei Rachmaninoff : Concerto number 1 in F-sharp minor for piano and orchestra, opus 1 ; Concerto number 2 in C minor for piano and orchestra, opus 18 ; Concerto number 3 in D minor for piano and orchestra, opus 30 ; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra, opus 43 ; Symphonic dances, opus 45 ; Symphony number 2 in E minor, opus 27 -- 37. Maurice Ravel : Alborado del Gracioso ; Bolero ; Concerto in D major for piano and orchestra ; Concerto in G major for piano and orchestra ; Mother goose suite ; Pavane for a dead princess ; Rapsodie espagnole ; Suite number 2 from Daphnis and Chloe ; Le tombeau du Couperin ; Tzigane ; Valses nobles et sentimentale and las valse -- 38. Ottorino Respighi : The pines of Rome -- 39. Albert Roussel ; Suite number 2 from Bacchus et Ariane, opus 43 -- 40. Camille Saint-Saens : Concerto number 2 in G minor for piano and orchestra, opus 22 ; Concerto number 4 in C minor for piano and orchestra, opus 44 ; Concerto number in B minor for violin and orchestra, opus 61 ; Symphony number 3 in C minor, opus 78, organ -- 41. Arnold Schoenberg : Concerto in piano for orchestra, opus 42 ; Concerto for violin and orchestra, opus 36 ; Five pieces for orchestra, opus 5 ; Verklarte nacht, opus 3 -- 42. Franz Shubert : Incidental music to Rosamunde ; Symphony number 2 in B-flat major ; Symphony number 3 in D major ; Symphony 4 C minor, tragic ; Symphony number 5 in B-flat, major ; Symphony number 6 in C major ; Symphony in B minor, unfinished ; Symphony in C major, the great -- 43. Robert Schumann : Concerto in A minor for cello and orchestra, opus 129 ; Concerto in A minor for piano and orchestra, opus 54 ; Overture to Manfred, opus 115 ; Overture, scherzo and finale, opus 52 ; Symphony number 1 in B-flat major, opus 38, spring ; Symphony number 2i n C major, opus 61 ; Symphony number 3 in E-flat major, opus 97, Rhenish ; Symphony number 4 in D minor, opus 120 --44. Dmitri Shostakovich : Concerto number 1 in E-flat major for cello and orchestra, opus 107 ; Concerto number 2 in F major for piano and orchestra, opus 102 ; Concerto number 1 for violin and orchestra, opus 77 ; Symphony number 1 in F minor, opus 10 ; Symphony number 5 in D minor, opus 47 ; Symphony number 7 in C major, opus 60 ; Symphony number 8 in C major, opus 65 ; Symphony number 10 in E minor, opus 93 -- 45. Jean Sibelius : Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra, opus 47 ; Symphony number 2 in D major, opus 43 ; Symphony number 4 in A minor, opus 63 ; Symphony number 5 in E-flat major, opus 82 ; Symphony number 7 in C major, opus 105 ; Tapoila, opus 112 -- 46. Richard Strauss :Also sprach Zarathustra, opus 30 ; Death and transfiguration, opus 24 ; Don Juan, opus 20 ; Don Quixote, opus 35 ; Ein Heldenleben, opus 40 ; Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings ; Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks, opus 28 -- 46. Igor Stravinsky :Apollon Musagete ; Concerto in D for violin and orchestra ; The firebird ; Petrouchka ; The rite of spring ; Song of the nightingale ; Symphonies of wind instruments ; symphony in C ; Symphony in three movements ; Symphony of Psalms -- 47. Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky ; Concerto number 1 in B-flat minor for piano and orchestra, opus 23 ; Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra, opus 35 ; Francesca da Rimini, opus 32 ; Romeo and Juliet ; Symphony number 4 in F minor opus 36 ; Symphony number 5 in E minor, opus 64 ; Symphony number 6 in B minor, opus 74, Pathetique -- 48. Heitor Villa-lobos : Bachianas brasileiras, number 5 -- 49. Antonio Vivaldi : The four seasons, opus 8 -- 50. Richard Wagner : Seigfried Idyll -- 51. Anton Webern : Six pieces for orchestra, opus 6, five pieces for orchestra, opus 10, and variations for orchestra, opus 30