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Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes

by Philip Hale

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Contents

  1. Editor’s Note
  2. Introduction
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. The Brandenburg Concertos
  5. The Concertos for Pianoforte
  6. The Orchestral Suites
  7. Symphony No. 1, in C Major, Op. 21
  8. Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Op. 36
  9. Symphony No. 3, in E Flat Major “Eroica,” Op. 55
  10. Symphony No. 4, in B Flat Major, Op. 60
  11. Symphony No. 5, in C Minor, Op. 67
  12. Symphony No. 6, in F Major, “Pastorale,” Op. 68
  13. Symphony No. 7, in a Major, Op. 92
  14. Symphony No. 8, in F Major, Op. 93
  15. Symphony No. 9, in D Minor, with Final Chorus on Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” Op. 125
  16. Overture to “Leonore No. 3,” Op. 72
  17. Overture to “Egmont,” Op. 84
  18. Overture to “Coriolanus,” Op. 62
  19. Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 4, in G Major, Op. 58
  20. Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 5, in E Flat Major, Op. 73
  21. Concerto for Violin, in D Major, Op. 61
  22. Hector Berlioz
  23. Symphonie Fantastique, in C Major, Op. 14 a
  24. Overture, “the Roman Carnival,” Op. 9
  25. “Schelomo” (Solomon), Hebrew Rhapsody for Violoncello and Orchestra
  26. Symphony No. 2, in B Minor, Op. 5
  27. Johannes Brahms
  28. Symphony No. 1, in C Minor, Op. 68
  29. Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Op. 73
  30. Symphony, No. 3, in F Major, Op. 90
  31. Symphony No. 4, in E Minor, Op. 98
  32. Variations on A Theme by Josef Haydn, in B Flat Major, Op. 56a
  33. “Tragic” Overture, Op. 81
  34. Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
  35. Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 15
  36. Concerto No. 2, in B Flat Major, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 83
  37. Concerto for Violin, in D Major, Op. 77
  38. Anton Bruckner
  39. Symphony No. 7, in E Major
  40. Symphony No. 8, in C Minor
  41. Suite. “Adventures in a Perambulator”
  42. Claude Achille Debussy
  43. “Prélude À L’Après-Midi D’un Faune” (Eclogue De Stéphane Mallarmé)
  44. Nocturnes
  45. “La Mer,” Trois Esquisses Symphoniques
  46. “Ibéria”: “Images” for Orchestra, No. 2
  47. Anton Dvořák
  48. Symphony No. 5, in E Minor, “from the New World,” Op. 95
  49. Edward William Elgar
  50. Variations on an Original Theme, “Enigma,” Op. 36
  51. Ballet-Pantomime: “El Amor Brujo”
  52. Three Dances Taken from the Ballet “the Three-Cornered Hat”
  53. César Franck
  54. Symphony in D Minor
  55. Georg Frideric Handel
  56. Twelve Concerti Grossi, for String Orchestra
  57. Franz Josef Haydn
  58. London Symphonies Symphony No. 104, in D Major (B. & H. No. 2)
  59. London Symphonies Symphony No. 94, in G Major, “Surprise” (B. & H. No. 6)
  60. Paris Symphonies Symphony No. 88, in G Major (B. & H. No. 13)
  61. “Konzertmusik” for String and Brass Instruments
  62. “Pacific 231,” Orchestral Movement
  63. Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’INDY
  64. Symphony No. 2, in B Flat Major, Op. 57
  65. Symphonic Variations, “Istar,” Op. 42
  66. Franz Liszt
  67. A “Faust” Symphony in Three Character Pictures (After Goethe)
  68. Symphonic Poem, No. 3, “Les Préludes” (After Lamartine)
  69. Pianoforte Concerto, No. 1, in E Flat
  70. “A Pagan Poem” (After Virgil), Op. 14, for Orchestra, Pianoforte, English Horn, and Three Trumpets Obbligati
  71. Orchestral Suite No. 2, in E Minor, “Indian,” Op. 48
  72. Gustav Mahler
  73. The Symphonies
  74. Symphony No. 5, in C Sharp Minor in Three Parts
  75. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  76. Symphony in a Major, “Italian,” Op. 90
  77. Overture and Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Lay, “a Midsummer Night’s Dream”
  78. Concert Overture, “the Hebrides,” or “Fingal’s Cave,” Op. 26
  79. Concerto for Violin, in E Minor, Op. 64
  80. “A Night on Bald Mountain” (“Une Nuit Sur Le Mont-Chauve”); Fantasy for Orchestra Posthumous Work Completed and Orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov
  81. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  82. Symphony in E Flat Major (Koechel No. 543)
  83. Symphony in G Minor (Koechel No. 550)
  84. Symphony in C Major, “Jupiter” (Koechel No. 551)
  85. Overture to the Opera, “the Marriage of Figaro”
  86. Overture to the Opera “the Magic Flute”
  87. Concertos for Violin
  88. Mozart as Pianist
  89. Scythian Suite, “Ala and Lolli,” Op. 20
  90. Classical Symphony, Op. 25
  91. Symphony No. 2, in E Minor, Op. 27
  92. Concerto No. 2, in C Minor, for Pianoforte with Orchestra, Op. 18
  93. “Ma Mère L’Oye” (Mother Goose), Five Children’s Pieces
  94. “Daphnis Et Chloé,” Ballet in One Act, Orchestral Fragments, Second Series “Daybreak,” “Pantomime,” “General Dance”
  95. Bolero
  96. Symphonic Poem, “Pines of Rome”
  97. Symphonic Suite, “Scheherazade” (After “the Thousand Nights and a Night”), Op. 35
  98. Caprice on Spanish Themes, Op. 34
  99. Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
  100. Symphony No. 3, in C Minor (with Organ), Op. 78
  101. “Verklärte Nacht” (Radiant Night), Arranged for String Orchestra, Op. 4
  102. Franz Peter Schubert
  103. Symphony No. 8, in B Minor (“Unfinished”)
  104. Symphony No. 7, in C Major
  105. Robert Alexander Schumann
  106. Symphony No. 1, in B Flat Major, Op. 38
  107. Symphony No. 2, in C Major, Op. 61
  108. Symphony No. 3, in E Flat Major, “Rhenish,” Op. 97
  109. Symphony No. 4, in D Minor, Op. 120
  110. Concerto in a Minor, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 54
  111. “The Poem of Ecstasy” (Le Poème De L’Extase), Op. 54
  112. Jean Julius Christian Sibelius
  113. Symphony No. 1, in E Minor, Op. 39
  114. Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Op. 43
  115. Symphony No. 4, in a Minor, Op. 63
  116. Symphony No. 5, in E Flat Major, Op. 82
  117. Symphony No. 7, Op. 105 ( In one movement )
  118. “Finlandia,” Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Op. 26, No. 7
  119. “The Swan of Tuonela” (“Tuonelan Joutsen”), Legend from the Finnish Folk Epic “Kalevala”
  120. “Don Juan,” Tone Poem (After Nicolaus Lenau), Op. 20
  121. “Tod Und Verklärung” (Death and Transfiguration) Tone Poem, Op. 24
  122. “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, After the Old-Fashioned Roguish Manner—In Rondo Form,” Op. 28
  123. “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” Tone Poem (Freely After Friedrich Nietzsche), Op. 30
  124. “Don Quixote,” Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35 Introduction, Theme with Variations, and Finale
  125. Introduction
  126. Theme
  127. Variation I
  128. Variation II
  129. Variation III
  130. Variation IV
  131. Variation V
  132. Variation VI
  133. Variation VII
  134. Variation VIII
  135. Variation IX
  136. Variation X
  137. Finale
  138. “Ein Heldenleben” (a Hero’s Life), Tone Poem, Op. 40
  139. Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky
  140. Suite from “L’Oiseau De Feu” (the Fire-Bird) A Danced Legend
  141. Suite from the Ballet, “Petrouchka”
  142. “Le Sacre Du Printemps” (“the Rite of Spring”), Pictures of Pagan Russia
  143. “Through the Looking Glass,” Suite, Five Pictures from Lewis Carroll, Op. 12
  144. Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
  145. Symphony No. 4, in F Minor, Op. 36
  146. Symphony No. 5, in E Minor, Op. 64
  147. Symphony No. 6, in B Minor, “Pathetic,” Op. 74
  148. “Romeo and Juliet,” Overture Fantasia (After Shakespeare)
  149. Concerto for Pianoforte No. 1, in B Flat Minor, Op. 23
  150. Concerto for Violin, in D Major Op. 35
  151. Richard Wagner
  152. Overture to “Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes”
  153. Overture to “Der Fliegende Holländer” (“the Flying Dutchman”)
  154. Overture to Tannhäuser
  155. Prelude to “Lohengrin”
  156. Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan Und Isolde”
  157. Prelude to “Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg”
  158. A Siegfried Idyl
  159. “The Ride of the Valkyries,” from “Die Walküre”
  160. Prelude to “Parsifal”
  161. “Good Friday Spell,” from “Parsifal”
  162. Carl Maria Von Weber
  163. Overture to the Opera “Oberon”
  164. Overture to the Opera “Der Freischütz”
  165. Overture to the Opera “Euryanthe”
  166. A London Symphony

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