We thought it would be interesting to combine the repertoire reports from 2007-9 to see if there are any interesting trends which emerge. Each year tends to have its own quirks, but over 3, one should be able to get a pretty balanced sense of what my interests are. Still, there are some glaring aberrations here- I love Bartok more than most composers, yet I’ve not done a piece of his in the last 3 years. How awful!

You can see a side by side listing of the 3 years here. By a bizarre coincidence, I ended up performing almost exactly the same number of works in each of the last 3 years- 75, 75 and 76. Out of a possible 225  works, we ended up with 206 distinct titles, which means there is remarkably little overlap from season to season. Most of the overlapping pieces are things like Beethoven and the late Mozart symphonies. The one piece that stands out as being something I’ve done in all 3 years is Elgar 1- not an obvious choice, but a wonderful one!

There are 17 works of Beethoven- all but one (the 9th) of the Symphonies, and the relative rarities of the Serioso Quartet and Leonore 2, 12 works of Haydn and 20 by Mozart, which is a bit of a surprise for someone who considers Haydn the great composer. Arnold shows up 4 times in spite of the fact that I’m not a huge, huge fan of his music, and Khatchaturian twice- I’d gladly trade all of those for some Bartok.

1-       Arnold- Guitar Concerto

2-       Arnold- Scottish Dances

3-       Arnold- Piano Trio #  *

4-       Arnold- Serenade for Guitar and Strings

5-       Barber- Adagio for Strings

6-       Beethoven- Egmont Overture

7-       Beethoven- Leonore Overture No. 2

8-       Beethoven- Coriolan Overture

9-       Beethoven- Leonore Overture no. 3

10-   Beethoven arr. Mahler- String Quartet in F Minor Op. 95 “Serioso”

11-   Beethoven- String Quartet in F major, op 18 no. 1 *.

12-   Beethoven- Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70 no. 1 “Ghost”  *

13-   Beethoven- Piano Concerto no. 4

14-   Beethoven- String Trio in C minor, op 9 no 3.

15-   Beethoven- String Trio in G major, op 9 no. 1 VC

16-   Beethoven- Symphony no. 1 (2)

17-   Beethoven- Symphony no. 2 in D major

18-   Beethoven- Symphony no. 4

19-   Beethoven- Symphony No. 5 in C minor

20-   Beethoven- Symphony no. 6 in F Major “Pastoral”

21-   Beethoven Symphony no. 7

22-   Beethoven- Symphony no. 8 in F major

23-   Bloch- Concerto Grosso no 2.

24-   Bloch- Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

25-   Bloch- Suite for Cello and Orchestra

26-   Brahms- Clarinet Quintet *

27-   Brahms- Academic Festival Overture

28-   Brahms- Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor

29-   Brahms- Double Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello *

30-   Brahms- Serenade in D Major, op 11

31-   Brahms- Symphony No. 1 in C minor

32-   Brahms- Symphony no. 2 in D major

33-   Britten- Simple Symphony

34-   Brown– Novara (Welsh Premiere)

35-   Bruckner- Symphony no. 4 in E Flat Major “Romantic”

36-   Chambers, Evan- String Quartet “Three Memories”

37-   Chambers- The Tall-Eared Fox and the Wild-Eyed Man (UK Premiere)

38-   Chopin-  Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor

39-   Copland- Appalachian Spring (13 Instrument Version) m #

40-   Copland- Suite from “Rodeo”

41-   Copland- Quiet City

42-   Debussy- Cello Sonata VC

43-   Debussy- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

44-   Debussy- Nuages and Fetes from Three Nocturnes

45-   Dohnanyi- Serenade for String Trio VC

46-   Downie– forms 7 (World Premiere Commission)

47-   Dvorak- Romance for Violin

48-   Dvorak- Husitska Overture

49-   Dvorak- Serenade for Winds

50-   Dvorak Slavonic Dances op 46 and 72

51-   Dvorak- Symphony no. 9 “From the New World”

52-   Elgar- Cello Concerto in E Minor VC

53-   Elgar- Cockaigne Overture

54-   Elgar- Serendade for Strings

55-   Elgar- Symphony no. 1 in A flat Major

56-   Elgar- Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36

57-    Elgar- Violin Concerto

58-   Espinosa- Movement for Strings (World Premiere)

59-   Fauré- Suite from “Pelleas and Melisande”

60-   Gal- Concertino for Violin and Strings

61-   Gal- Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra

62-   Gal- Triptych

63-   Gershwin- An American in Paris

64-   Ginasterra- Harp Concerto

65-   Glinka- Kamarinskaya

66-   Glinka Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla

67-   Gregson- Trombone Concerto

68-   Grieg- Piano Concerto in A Minor

69-   Handel- Messiah (complete)

70-   Haydn- Cello Concerto no. 1 in C major

71-   Haydn- Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major

72-   Haydn- Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin and Cello

73-   Haydn- Symphony no. 45 “Farewell”

74-   Haydn- Symphony no. 59 in A Major, “Fire Symphony”

75-   Haydn- Symphony no. 60 “Il Distratto”

76-   Haydn- Symphony no. 72

77-   Haydn- Symphony no. 86 in D Major

78-   Haydn- Symphony no. 92 “Oxford

79-   Haydn- Symphony no. 94 “Surprise”.

80-   Haydn- Symphony no. 101 “The Clock

81-   Haydn- Symphony no. 104

82-   Higdon- Soprano Saxophone Concerto

83-   Hovaness- String Trio

84-   Ives- Symphony no. 3

85-   Janacek- Quartet no 2 “Intimate Letters” *

86-   Janacek- Pohadka for Cello and Piano VC

87-   Khatchaturian- Violin Concerto

88-   Khatchaturian- Sabre Dance

89-   Klein- String Trio

90-   Kodaly- Summer Evening

91-   Kodaly- Dances of Galanta

92-   Kodaly- Intermezzo for String Trio

93-   Krasa- “Tanec” for String Trio

94-   Linkola- Two Miniatures for Piano Trio # *

95-   Mahler- Ruckert Lieder

96-    Mahler- Symphony No. 1 in D Major

97-   Mahler- Symphony no. 3 in D minor

98-   Mahler- Symphony no. 4 in G major

99-   Mahler- Symphony no. 5

100-                        Mahler/ arr. Schoenberg- Das Lied von der Erde (Chamber orchestra version)

101-                        Mefano- Interferences (Mendelssohn-

102-                        Piano Trio in D minor UK Premiere)

103-                        Mendelssohn- Songs Without Words

104-                        Mendelssohn- Hebrides Overture

105-                        Mendelssohn- Violin Concerto in E minor

106-                        Messiaen- Louange a l’eternite de Jesus from“Quartet from the End of Time” *

107-                        Mozart/Bach- Adagio and Fugue in D minor for String Trio

108-                        Mozart- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

109-                        Mozart- Clarinet Quintet

110-                        Mozart- Gran Partita for Winds

111-                        Mozart/Wendt- Harmonie from Figaro

112-                        Mozart- Overture to La Clemenza di Tito (2)

113-                        Mozart- Impresario Overture

114-                        Mozart- Overture to “Die Zauberflote” #

115-                        Mozart- Overture to Marriage of Figaro

116-                        Mozart- Piano Quartet in E-flatr Major #  *

117-                        Mozart- Requiem

118-                        Mozart- Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major

119-                        Mozart- Piano Concerto in A major K 488

120-                        Mozart- Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola (2)

121-                        Mozart- Symphony no. 13

122-                        Mozart- Symphony no. 31 “Paris” (2)

123-                        Mozart- Symphony no. 34 in C major

124-                        Mozart- Symphony no. 39 in E-flat

125-                        Mozart Symphony no. 40 in G minor

126-                        Mozart- Symphony no. 41 in C Major

127-                        Mussorgsky- A Night on Bald Mountain

128-                        Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel)- Pictures at an Exhibition

129-                        Nielsen- Helios Overture

130-                        Piston- Sinfonietta

131-                        Prokofiev- Concerto No. 5 for Piano and Orchestra .   .

132-                        Prokofiev- Violin Concerto no. 2 in G minor

133-                        Prokofiev- Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major VC

134-                        Prokofiev- Violin Concerto no2 in G minor

135-                        Prokofiev- Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major VC

136-                        Prokofiev- Lt Kije Suite

137-                        Poulenc- Sinfonietta

138-                        Puccini- Madama Butterfly +.

139-                        Rachmaninoff- Sonata for Cello and Piano

140-                        Rachmaninoff- Symphony no. 1 in D minor

141-                        Ravel- Mother Goose Suite

142-                        Rossini- Cenerentola Overture

143-                        Rossini- Overture “Tancredi”

144-                         Rossini- Overture to Barber of Seville.

145-                        Saint-Saens- Cello Concerto in A minor

146-                        Saint-Saens- Cello Concerto no. 2 in D minor

147-                        Sawyers- Gale of Life (UK Premiere)

148-                        Philip Sawyers- Symphony no. 2

149-                        James Schlefer- Concerto for Shakuhachi and Chamber Orchestra

150-                        Schinittke- String Trio

151-                        Schubert- Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos

152-                        Schubert- Overture in D Major in the Italian Style

153-                        Schubert- Trio Satz in B-flat

154-                        Schubert (arr Mahler/Woods)- Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden”

155-                        Schubert- Symphony no. 4 in C minor “Tragic”

156-                        Schumann- Genoveva Overture

157-                        Schumann- Piano Concerto in A minor

158-                        Schumann- Violin Concerto

159-                        Schumann- Cello Concerto in A minor

160-                        Schumann- Konzertsucke for Four Horns

161-                        Schumann- Overture, Scherzo and Finale

162-                        Schumann- Overture to “Bride of Messina”

163-                        Schumann- Symphony no. 2 in C (2)

164-                        Schumann- Symphony no. 3 in E-flat, “Rhenish”

165-                        Schumann- Symphony no. 4 in D minor

166-                        Shostakovich- Chamber Symphony op. 73a

167-                        Shostakovich- Chamber Symphony op 83a

168-                        Shostakovich- Festive Overture

169-                        Shostakovich- Concerto no. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings

170-                        Shostakovich- Piano Concerto no. 2

171-                        Shostakovich- Sonata for Cello and Piano

172-                        Sibelius- Valse Triste

173-                        Sibelius- Violin Concerto

174-                        Sibelius- Symphony no. 2 in D major

175-                        Sibelius- Symphony no. 5 in E Flat

176-                        Sousa- The Liberty Bell

177-                        Strauss- Death and Transfiguration

178-                        Strauss, R- Oboe Concerto

179-                        Strauss, R- Romanze for Cello and Orchestra

180-                        Strauss, R- Serenade for Winds, op 7

181-                        Strauss, R- Cello Sonata VC

182-                        Strauss- Concerto No. 1 for Horn

183-                        Strauss- Horn Concerto no. 2

184-                        Stravinsky- Octet for Winds +

185-                        Stravinsky- L’histoire du soldat

186-                        Stravinsky- Suite from “The Firebird” (1919 Version)

187-                        Tchaikovsky- Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture

188-                        Tchaikovsky- Andante Cantabile for Cello and Strings*

189-                        Tchaikovsky- Souvenir de Florence *

190-                        Tchaikovsky- Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra

191-                        Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

192-                        Tchaikovsky- Quartet no. 3 in E flat minor

193-                        Tchaikovsky- Symphony no. 4 in F minor

194-                        Thomas- “Primordial Monkey Soup” for Cello Quartet and Solo Viola (World Premiere) *

195-                        Christopher Thomas- Snapshots (world premiere)

196-                        Vaughan Williams- Overture to “The Wasps”

197-                        Vaughan Williams- The Lark Ascending

198-                        Vaughan-Williams- Symphony no. 5

199-                        Varese- Octandre

200-                        Verdi- Aida

201-                        Verdi- Il Trovatore

202-                        Vivaldi- Four Seasons

203-                        Wagner- Rienzi Overture.

204-                        Wagner- Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

205-                        Williams- Suite from Star Wars

206-                        Xenakis– Akrata (Welsh Premiere)