Last year’s repertoire report generated a surprising amount of conversation, so we’ve decided to repeat the experiment this year. Knowing how much conductors love being asked back for repeat engagements, I nearly invited the same conducting grad student to process the list, this time at depression-era rates of $.20/hour, but there are others among us who need the work. Instead, I asked the former Executive VP of Lehman Brothers to do it for $.10/hour….
Discussion will follow in a separate post. We’ve included all publicly perfmormed works as both cellist and conductor (cello performances are marked with an *). Any piece that has been performed with more than one ensemble or at more than one venue (ie, not including repeats on a subscription series) is marked with a #. In general, we don’t include works I’ve taught, except for those from the Rose City Int’l Conductor’s Workshop, which require a special investment on my part. Works taught there but not otherwise performed in the year are marked wtih a +…
1. Arnold- Piano Trio # *
2. Barber- Adagio for Strings
3. Beethoven- String Quartet in F major, op 18 no. 1 *
4. Beethoven arr Mahler- Quartet in F minor. op. 95 (“Serioso”)
5. Beethoven- Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70 no. 1 “Ghost” *
6. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
7. Beethoven- Symphony no. 2 in D major +
8. Beethoven- Symphony No. 5 in C minor#
9. Bloch- Suite for Cello and Orchestra
10. Bloch- Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
11. Brahms- Clarinet Quintet *
12. Brahms- Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor+
13. Brahms- Double Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello *
14. Brahms- Symphony No. 1 in C minor
15. Brahms- Symphony no. 2 in D major
16. Britten- Simple Symphony
17. Brown– Novara (Welsh Premiere)
18. Chambers- The Tall-Eared Fox and the Wild-Eyed Man (UK Premiere)
19. Copland- Appalachian Spring (13 Instrument Version)m #
20. Copland- Quiet City
21. Debussy- Nuages and Fetes from Three Nocturnes
22. Downie– forms 3 (World Premiere Commission)
23. Dvorak- Serenade for Winds op. 44
24. Dvorak- Husitska Overture
25. Dvorak- Romance for Violin
26. Elgar- Violin Concerto
27. Elgar- Symphony no. 1
28. Gal- Violin Concerto (UK Premiere)
29. Glinka- Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
30. Haydn- Symphony no. 86 in D Major #
31. Haydn- Symphony no. 101 “The Clock
32. Higdon- Soprano Saxophone Concerto
33. Janacek- Quartet no 2 “Intimate Letters” *
34. Khatchaturian- Sabre Dance
35. Kodaly- Summer Evening
36. Linkola- Two Miniatures for Piano Trio # *
37. Mefano- Interferences (UK Premiere)
38. Mendelssohn- Piano Trio in D minor
39. Mendelssohn- Hebrides Overture
40. Messiaen- Louange a l’eternite de Jesus from
“Quartet from the End of Time” *
41. Mozart/Bach- Adagio and Fugue in D minor for String Trio *
42. Mozart- Piano Quartet in E-flatr Major # *
43. Mozart- Overture to “Die Zauberflote” #
44. Mozart- Overture to “The Impressario”
45. Mozart- Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola #
46. Mozart- Symphony no. 39 in E-flat
47. Mozart- Symphony no. 40 in G minor
48. Mussorgsky- A Night on Bald Mountain
49. Piston- Sinfonietta
50. Prokofiev- Lt Kije Suite
51. Puccini- Madama Butterfly +
52. Rachmaninoff- Symphony no. 1 in D minor
53. Sawyers- Gale of Life (UK Premiere)
54. Schnittke- String Trio *
55. Schubert- Trio Satz in B-flat
56. Schubert- Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos
57. Schumann- Genoveva Overture
58. Schumann- Piano Concerto in A minor
59. Schumann- Violin Concerto
60. Schumann- Symphony no. 2 in C major
61. Sibelius- Violin Concerto
62. Sibelius- Symphony no. 2 in D major
63. Sibelius- Symphony no. 5 in E Flat
64. Strauss- Death and Transfiguration
65. Stravinsky- Suite from “The Firebird” (1919 Version)
66. Stravinsky- Octet for Winds +
67. Tchaikovsky- Souvenir de Florence *
68. Tchaikovsky- Andante Cantabile for Cello and Strings*
69. Tchaikovsky- Symphony no. 4 in F minor
70. Thomas- “Primordial Monkey Soup” for Cello Quartet
and Solo Viola (World Premiere) *
71. Vaughan Williams- Overture to “The Wasps”
72. Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending
73. Wagner- Overture to Rienzi
74. Wagner- Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
75. Xenakis– Akrata (Welsh Premiere)
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