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Philip Hale’s Boston Symphony Programme Notes

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  1. 1Editor’s Note
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Johann Sebastian — Bach
  4. 4The Brandenburg Concertos
  5. 5The Concertos for Pianoforte
  6. 6The Orchestral Suites
  7. 7Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1, in C Major, Op. 21
  8. 8Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Op. 36
  9. 9Symphony No. 3, in E Flat Major “Eroica,” Op. 55
  10. 10Symphony No. 4, in B Flat Major, Op. 60
  11. 11Symphony No. 5, in C Minor, Op. 67
  12. 12Symphony No. 6, in F Major, “Pastorale,” Op. 68
  13. 13Symphony No. 7, in A Major, Op. 92
  14. 14Symphony No. 8, in F Major, Op. 93
  15. 15Symphony No. 9, in D Minor, With Final Chorus on Schiller’s “Ode to…
  16. 16Overture to “Leonore No. 3,” Op. 72
  17. 17Overture to “Egmont,” Op. 84
  18. 18Overture to “Coriolanus,” Op. 62
  19. 19Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 4, in G Major, Op. 58
  20. 20Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 5, in E Flat Major, Op. 73
  21. 21Concerto for Violin, in D Major, Op. 61
  22. 22Hector — Berlioz
  23. 23Symphonie Fantastique, in C Major, Op. 14 A
  24. 24Overture, “The Roman Carnival,” Op. 9
  25. 25Ernest — Bloch — “Schelomo” (Solomon), Hebrew Rhapsody for Violonce…
  26. 26Alexander Porphirievitch — Borodin — Symphony No. 2, in B Minor, Op. 5
  27. 27Johannes — Brahms
  28. 28Symphony No. 1, in C Minor, Op. 68
  29. 29Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Op. 73
  30. 30Symphony, No. 3, in F Major, Op. 90
  31. 31Symphony No. 4, in E Minor, Op. 98
  32. 32Variations on a Theme by Josef Haydn, in B Flat Major, Op. 56a
  33. 33“Tragic” Overture, Op. 81
  34. 34Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
  35. 35Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 1, in D Minor, Op. 15
  36. 36Concerto No. 2, in B Flat Major, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 83
  37. 37Concerto for Violin, in D Major, Op. 77
  38. 38Anton — Bruckner
  39. 39Symphony No. 7, in E Major
  40. 40Symphony No. 8, in C Minor
  41. 41John Alden — Carpenter — Suite. “Adventures in a Perambulator”
  42. 42Claude Achille — Debussy
  43. 43“Prélude à L’après-Midi D’Un Faune” (Eclogue de Stéphane Mallarmé)
  44. 44Nocturnes
  45. 45“la Mer,” Trois Esquisses Symphoniques
  46. 46“Ibéria”: “Images” for Orchestra, No. 2
  47. 47Anton — Dvořák
  48. 48Symphony No. 5, in E Minor, “From the New World,” Op. 95
  49. 49Edward William — Elgar
  50. 50Variations on an Original Theme, “Enigma,” Op. 36
  51. 51Manuel — De Falla — Ballet-Pantomime: “El Amor Brujo”
  52. 52Three Dances Taken From the Ballet “The Three-Cornered Hat”
  53. 53César — Franck
  54. 54Symphony in D Minor
  55. 55Georg Frideric — Handel
  56. 56Twelve Concerti Grossi, for String Orchestra
  57. 57Franz Josef — Haydn
  58. 58London Symphonies — Symphony No. 104, in D Major (B. & H. No. 2)
  59. 59London Symphonies — Symphony No. 94, in G Major, “Surprise” (B. & H…
  60. 60Paris Symphonies — Symphony No. 88, in G Major (B. & H. No. 13)
  61. 61Paul — Hindemith — “Konzertmusik” for String and Brass Instruments
  62. 62Arthur — Honneger — “Pacific 231,” Orchestral Movement
  63. 63Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’INDY
  64. 64Symphony No. 2, in B Flat Major, Op. 57
  65. 65Symphonic Variations, “Istar,” Op. 42
  66. 66Franz — Liszt
  67. 67A “Faust” Symphony in Three Character Pictures (After Goethe)
  68. 68Symphonic Poem, No. 3, “Les Préludes” (After Lamartine)
  69. 69Pianoforte Concerto, No. 1, in E Flat
  70. 70Charles Martin — Loeffler — “A Pagan Poem” (After Virgil), Op. 14,…
  71. 71Edward — MacDOWELL — Orchestral Suite No. 2, in E Minor, “Indian,”…
  72. 72Gustav — Mahler
  73. 73The Symphonies
  74. 74Symphony No. 5, in C Sharp Minor in Three Parts
  75. 75Felix — Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  76. 76Symphony in A Major, “Italian,” Op. 90
  77. 77Overture and Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Lay, “A Midsummer Ni…
  78. 78Concert Overture, “The Hebrides,” or “Fingal’s Cave,” Op. 26
  79. 79Concerto for Violin, in E Minor, Op. 64
  80. 80Modeste Petrovitch — Moussorgsky — A Night on Bald Mountain
  81. 81Wolfgang Amadeus — Mozart
  82. 82Symphony in E Flat Major (Koechel No. 543)
  83. 83Symphony in G Minor (Koechel No. 550)
  84. 84Symphony in C Major, “Jupiter” (Koechel No. 551)
  85. 85Overture to the Opera, “The Marriage of Figaro”
  86. 86Overture to the Opera “The Magic Flute”
  87. 87Concertos for Violin
  88. 88Mozart as Pianist
  89. 89Serge Sergievich — Prokofieff — Scythian Suite, “Ala and Lolli,” Op…
  90. 90Classical Symphony, Op. 25
  91. 91Sergei Vassilievich — Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2, in E Minor, Op…
  92. 92Concerto No. 2, in C Minor, for Pianoforte With Orchestra, Op. 18
  93. 93Joseph Maurice — Ravel — “Ma Mère L’Oye” (Mother Goose), Five Child…
  94. 94“Daphnis et Chloé,” Ballet in One Act, Orchestral Fragments, Second…
  95. 95Bolero
  96. 96Otterino — Respighi — Symphonic Poem, “Pines of Rome”
  97. 97Nicolas Andrejevitch — Rimsky-Korsakov — Symphonic Suite, “Schehera…
  98. 98Caprice on Spanish Themes, Op. 34
  99. 99Charles Camille — Saint-Saëns
  100. 100Symphony No. 3, in C Minor (With Organ), Op. 78
  101. 101Arnold — Schoenberg — “Verklärte Nacht” (Radiant Night), Arranged f…
  102. 102Franz Peter — Schubert
  103. 103Symphony No. 8, in B Minor (“Unfinished”)
  104. 104Symphony No. 7, in C Major
  105. 105Robert Alexander — Schumann
  106. 106Symphony No. 1, in B Flat Major, Op. 38
  107. 107Symphony No. 2, in C Major, Op. 61
  108. 108Symphony No. 3, in E Flat Major, “Rhenish,” Op. 97
  109. 109Symphony No. 4, in D Minor, Op. 120
  110. 110Concerto in A Minor, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 54
  111. 111Alexander Nicolaievitch — Scriabin — “The Poem of Ecstasy” (Le Poèm…
  112. 112Jean Julius Christian Sibelius
  113. 113Symphony No. 1, in E Minor, Op. 39
  114. 114Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Op. 43
  115. 115Symphony No. 4, in A Minor, Op. 63
  116. 116Symphony No. 5, in E Flat Major, Op. 82
  117. 117Symphony No. 7, Op. 105 — (In One Movement)
  118. 118“Finlandia,” Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Op. 26, No. 7
  119. 119“The Swan of Tuonela” (“Tuonelan Joutsen”), Legend From the Finnish…
  120. 120Richard — Strauss — “Don Juan,” Tone Poem (After Nicolaus Lenau), O…
  121. 121“Tod und Verklärung” (Death and Transfiguration) Tone Poem, Op. 24
  122. 122“Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, After the Old-Fashioned Roguish…
  123. 123“Thus Spake Zarathustra,” Tone Poem (Freely After Friedrich Nietzsc…
  124. 124“Don Quixote,” Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Characte…
  125. 125“Ein Heldenleben” (A Hero’s Life), Tone Poem, Op. 40
  126. 126Igor Fedorovitch — Stravinsky
  127. 127Suite From “L’Oiseau de Feu” (the Fire-Bird) — A Danced Legend
  128. 128Suite From the Ballet, “Petrouchka”
  129. 129“Le Sacre du Printemps” (“the Rite of Spring”), Pictures of Pagan R…
  130. 130Joseph Deems — Taylor — “Through the Looking Glass,” Suite, Five Pi…
  131. 131Peter Ilitch — Tchaikovsky
  132. 132Symphony No. 4, in F Minor, Op. 36
  133. 133Symphony No. 5, in E Minor, Op. 64
  134. 134Symphony No. 6, in B Minor, “Pathetic,” Op. 74
  135. 135“Romeo and Juliet,” Overture Fantasia (After Shakespeare)
  136. 136Concerto for Pianoforte No. 1, in B Flat Minor, Op. 23
  137. 137Concerto for Violin, in D Major Op. 35
  138. 138Richard — Wagner
  139. 139Overture to “Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes”
  140. 140Overture to “der Fliegende Holländer” (“the Flying Dutchman”)
  141. 141Overture to Tannhäuser
  142. 142Prelude to “Lohengrin”
  143. 143Prelude and Liebestod From “Tristan und Isolde”
  144. 144Prelude to “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”
  145. 145A Siegfried Idyl
  146. 146“The Ride of the Valkyries,” From “Die Walküre”
  147. 147Prelude to “Parsifal”
  148. 148“Good Friday Spell,” From “Parsifal”
  149. 149Carl Maria — Von Weber
  150. 150Overture to the Opera “Oberon”
  151. 151Overture to the Opera “der Freischütz”
  152. 152Overture to the Opera “Euryanthe”
  153. 153Ralph Vaughan — Williams — A London Symphony

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