With my OES tenure now in its final week, I wanted to take a look back over our work together and see if we’ve accomplished anything.
It seemed a good time for a special edition of the Repertoire Report– in this case, a complete listing of every work I’ve performed during my time there. To do this, my research assistant (who kindly volunteered his time in exchange for me not telling his student loan company where he is now living) combed through all my programs. We’ll also publish the list by program, which might be of some interest as well. We’ve included some of the projects we’ve done with the Preparatory Orchestra as well- works with an asterisk have been done by both OES and the Prep orchestra. Works with a (2) have been done twice by OES. I’ve also included some chamber music and recital projects done through OES.
I think it’s a pretty good list (I guess I would, wouldn’t I), and I think it might give some encouragement to another young conductor just getting their first music directorship with a small orchestra of modest resources- there are surely few smaller or with more modest resources than what I found when I first arrived there. No need to be put off by my long tenure, either- I did the most repertoire in the first 4 years when OES was a bigger slice of my work, and I was doing all the concerts (and the orchestra was doing slightly more concerts).
Regrets? Well, not all of it would have been right for us at various times, but I can’t believe we never did any Bartok, Bruckner or Janacek. I would have loved to have done more French repertoire, more Brahms and more Bach. Well, more of everything, really. I’m really cross we never did the First Piano Concerto of Beethoven and the Triple Concerto- I would have loved to have finished his concerti to go with the symphonies. I can’t really believe we never did Leonore 3 or the Mendelssohn Italian Symphony- those both got listed on programs dozens of times and never quite got performed. I’m surprised how much Britten we managed to do. I think there’s a good amount and variety of new music- it’s not easy to program new works on a small season with a conservative audience, but we’ve pushed hard, and there are a good batch of pieces that got heard for the first time in Pendeton as a result.
Anyway- here’s the list. A lot of blood sweat and tears went into, and a lot of joy and wisdom came from it.
1. J.C. Bach- Cello Concerto in C minor
2. Bach- Christmas Oratorio
3- Bach- Cello Suites 2-5
4. Bach- Double Concerto in D minor for Two Violins
5. Bamert- Circus Parade
6. Barber- Adagio for Strings
7. Barber- Cello Concerto
8. Barber- Violin Concerto
9. Beethoven- Coriolan Overture
10. Beethoven- Egmont Overture *
11. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat
12. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
13. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 4
14. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
15. Beethoven- Violin Concerto in D Major, opus 61
16. Beethoven- String Quartet in F major, op 18 no. 1
17. Beethoven- Symphony No. 1 in C Major *
18. Beethoven- Symphony no. 2 in D major
19. Beethoven- Symphony No. 3 in E flat, “Eroica”
20. Beethoven- Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, opus 60
21. Beethoven- Symphony No. 5 in C minor *
22. Beethoven- Symphony no. 6 in F Major “Pastoral”
23. Beethoven- Symphony No. 7 in A Major
24. Beethoven- Symphony no. 8
25. Beethoven- Symphony No. 9
26. Berlioz- Overture to “Beatrice and Benedict”
27. Bernstein- Selections from West Side Story 8
28. Bizet- Carmen
29. Bloch- Suite for Cello and Orchestra
30. Borodin- Symphony No. 2
31. Brahms- Academic Festival Overture
32. Brahms- Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
33. Brahms- Symphony No. 1
34. Brahms- Selected Hungarian Dances
35. Brahms- Variations on a Theme of Haydn
36. Britten- Matinees Musicales
37. Britten- Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
38. Bruch Violin Concerto
39. Bruch- Kol Nidrei
40. Copland- Appalachian Spring (Version for Full Orchestra)
41. Copland- Hoe Down
42. Copland- An Outdoor Overture Copland- Quiet City
43. Debussy- Prelude to “Afternoon of a Faun”
44. Debussy- Cello Sonata
45. Donizetti- Overture to Don Pasquale
46. Emily Doolittle- “Falling Still” for Violin and Strings (US Premiere)
47. Doolittle- Green/Blue (world-premiere)
48. Doolittle- Airs of Men Long Dead (world-premiere)
49. Dvorak- Cello Concerto in B minor, opus 104
50. Dvorak- Husitska Overture
51. Dvorak- Serenade for Winds
52. Dvorak- Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major
53. Dvorak Slavonic Dances op 46 and 72
54. Dvorak- Stabat Mater
55. Dvorak- Symphony No. 6
56. Dvorak- Symphony no. 9 “From the New World”
57. Elgar- Chanson de Matin, Chanson de Nuit
58. Elgar- Cello Concerto (2)
59. Elgar- Violin Concerto
60. Elgar- Enigma Variations
61. Espinosa- Movement for Strings (World Premiere)
62. Faure- Elegy for Cello and Orchestra
63. Faure- Pelleas and Melisande Suite
64. Franck- Cello Sonata
65. Gershwin- An American in Paris
66. Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue (version for two pianos)
67. Glazunov- Violin Concerto
68. Glinka- Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla *
69. Glinka- Kamarinskaya
70. Grieg- Piano Concerto in A Minor
71. Handel- Harp Concerto, mvt. I
72. Handel- Messiah
73. Haydn- Cello Concerto in C major
74. Haydn- Mass in Time of War
75. Haydn- Symphony no. 59 in A Major, “Fire Symphony”
76. Haydn- Symphony no. 94 “Surprise”
77. Haydn- Symphony No. 101, “Clock”
78. Haydn- Symphony No. 104 in D major (“London”)
79. Hindemith- Der Schwanendreher (Concerto on Old German Folk Songs for Viola and Small Orchestra)
80. Holst.- The Planets, Suite for Large Orchestra
81. Janacek- Pohadka
82. Khatchaturian- Sabre Dance
83. Liadov- Eight Russian Folk Songs
84. Mahler- Symphony No. 1 in D Major
85. Mahler- Symphony No. 2 in C minor
86. Mahler- Symphony no. 4
87. Mahler- Symphony no. 5
88. Martinu- Memorial to Lidice
89. Margaret Mayer- Among Friends (world premiere commission for OES)
90. John McKinnon- “he calls me by the thunder”
91. McKinnon- Three Songs of the Magic Strings for Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere)
92. Mendelssohn- Overture to The Fair Melusina
93. Mendelssohn- Hebrides Overture
94. Mendelssohn- Violin Concerto
95. Cello Sonata in D Major
96. Mendelssohn- Symphony No. 5
97. Messiaen- Louange a l’eternite de Jesus from “Quartet from the End of Time”
98. Mozart- Overture to Marriage of Figaro
99. Mozart- Horn Concerto No. 2
100. Mozart- Concerto for Two Pianos
101. Mozart- Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major
102. Mozart- Piano Concerto in C major, K 467
103. Mozart- Piano Concerto no 23 in A Major
104. Mozart- Violin Concerto No. 4 (2)
105. Mozart- Masonic Funeral Music
106. Mozart- Mass in C minor, K 427 “Great”
107. Mozart- Requiem
108. Mozart- Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
109. Mozart- Symphony no. 31 in D “Paris” (2)
110. Mozart- Symphony No. 40 in G minor
111. Mozart- Symphony No. 41 in C Major “Jupiter”
112. Nielsen- Helios Overture
113. Offenbach- Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
114. Paganini- Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major
115. Piston- Symphony No. 2
116. Prokofiev- Peter and the Wolf
117. Prokofiev- Sonata for Cello and Piano
118. Prokofiev- Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra
119. Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto No. 2
120. Rachmaninoff- Piano Concerto No. 3
121. Rachmaninoff- Sonata for Cello and Piano
122. Ravel- Mother Goose Suite
123. Ravel- Tombeau de Couperin
124. Ravel- Tzigane
125. Rimsky-Korsakov- Capriccio Espagnol
126. Rimsky Korsakov- Russian Easter Festival
127. Ney Rosauro- Marimba Concerto
128. Rossini- Overture to La Gazza Ladra
129. Rossini- Overture to William Tell
130. Rossini- Overture to Barber of Seville (2)
131. Sarastate- Zigeunerwiesen
132. Schubert- Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos
133. Schubert- Overture to Rosamunde
134. Schubert- Symphony No. 3 in D Major
135. Schubert- Symphony No. 8 in B Minor “Unfinished” *
136. Schumann- Piano Concerto in A minor
137. Schumann- Symphony no. 2 in C major
138. Seitz- Violin Concerto in G major
139. Shostakovich- Cello Concerto No. 1
140. Shostakovich- Sonata for Cello and Piano
141. Shostakovich- Symphony No. 5
142. Sibelius- Spring Song
143. Sibelius- Symphony No. 1 in E minor
144. Sibelius- Symphony No. 2 in D major
145. Smetana- Die Moldau
146. Sousa- The Liberty Bell
147. Suppe- Overture to Poet and Peasant
148. William Grant Still- Afro-American Symphony
149. Johann Strauss Jr.- Emperor Waltz (2)
150. Johann Strauss Jr.- Overture to Die Fledermaus
151. Johann Strauss Jr.- The Beautiful Blue Danube (2)
152. Franz Strauss- Nocturne for horn and strings
153. Strauss- Death and Transfiguration
154. Richard Strauss- Fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra
155. Strauss- Cello Sonata
156. Stravinsky- Suite from “The Firebird” (1919 Version)
157. Tchaikovsky- Andante Cantabile for Cello and Strings
158. Samuel Coleridge Taylor- Petite Suite for Orchestra
159. Tchaikovsky- Romeo and Juliet Overture
160. Tchaikovsky- Souvenir de Florence
161. Tchaikovsky- Orchestral Suite no. 4, “Mozartiana”Tchaikovsky- Symphony No. 1
162. Tchaikovsky- Piano Concerto No. 1
163. Tchaikovsky- Valse from Swan Lake
164. Tchaikovsky- Symphony no. 4 in F minor
165. Tchaikovsky- Symphony No. 5
166. Thomas- Blue Northern (World Premiere Commission)
167. Thomas- In the Haze (World Premiere)
168. Thomas- “Primordial Monkey Soup” for Cello Quartet and Solo Viola (World Premiere)
169. Wagner- Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
170. Wagner- Overture to Rienzi
172. Weber- Overture to Der Freischutz (2)
173. Williams- Suite from Star Wars *
174. Zwilich- Bassoon Concerto
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