BPO Classics Repertoire 1974-1975

BPO Classics Repertoire 1974-1975

5, 6 October 1974
Bach – Suite No.4 in D major
Bartók – Dance Suite
Ives – Circus Band
Ives – General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Ives – They Are There
Brahms – Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Alexis Weissenberg, pianist
Bruce Fifer, baritone
Buffalo Schola Cantorum


13, 15 October 1974
Prokofiev – Scythian Suite, op.20
Schönberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra, op.16
Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor


19, 20 October 1974
Britten – Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Mozart – Piano Concerto No.17 in G major, K.453
Beethoven – Symphony No.4 in B-flat major, op.60
Neville Marriner, guest conductor
Stephen Manes, pianist


27, 29 October 1974
Liszt – Prometheus, op.99
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde: Liebestod
Knussen – Symphony No.3
Wagner – Wesendonck Songs
Dvorak – Symphony No.8 in G major, op.88
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Jessye Norman, soprano


2, 3 November 1974
Haydn – Symphony No.31 in D major “Hornsignal”
Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, op.63
Beethoven – Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Kyung-Wha Chung, violinist


24, 26 November 1974
Beethoven – Leonore Overture No.3, op.72
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18
Elgar – Enigma Variations, op.36
Robert Cole, conductor
Alicia de Larrocha, pianist


7, 8 December 1974
Prokofiev – Classical Symphony in D major, op.25
Mahler – Songs of a Wayfarer
Handel/Marriner – Water Music Suite
Bizet – Symphony No.1 in C major
Neville Marriner, guest conductor
Robert Tear, tenor


11, 12 January 1975
Crawford-Seeger – Three Songs after Carl Sandburg
Mahler – Symphony No.6 in A minor “Tragic”
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Rose Taylor, mezzo-soprano


19, 21 January 1975
Schumann – Symphony in G minor
Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Debussy – Pelleas and Melisande: Interludes
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings in C major, op.48
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Christoph Eschenbach, pianist


26, 28 January 1975
Beethoven – Egmont Overture, op.84
Mahler – Piano Quartet in A minor
Feldman – String Quartet and Orchestra
Berlioz – Harold in Italy, op.16
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
The Cleveland Quartet,
Donald Weilerstein, violinist
Peter Salaff, violinist
Martha Strongin Katz, violist
Paul Katz, cellist


8, 9 February 1975
Bach, J.C. – Sinfonia for Double Orchestra in E-flat major, op.18, No.1
Schumann – Symphony No.2 in C major, op.61
Berg – Violin Concerto
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
James Buswell, violinist


9, 11 March 1975
Pachelbel – Kanon
Ligeti – Atmospheres
Dvorak – Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Shostakovich – Symphony No.10 in E minor, op.93
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Leonard Rose, cellist


23, 25 March 1975
Rachmaninoff – Vocalise, op.34 No.14
Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No.3 in C Major, op.26
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.4 in F minor, op.36
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
John Browning, pianist


5, 6 April 1975
Bach – Violin Concerto No.2 in E major
Bruckner – Symphony No.7 in E major
Robert Cole, conductor
Charles Haupt, violinist


13, 15 April 1975
Bach, C.P.E. – Symphony No.1 in D major
Del Tredici – Adventures Underground
Mahler – Symphony No.1 in D major
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Susan Davenny Wyner, soprano
Guy Klucevsek, accordionist


19, 20 April 1975
Beethoven – Opferlied, op.121b
Beethoven – Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, op.112
Beethoven – Symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125 “Chorale”
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Benita Valente, soprano
Joanna Simon, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Malcolm Smith, bass
Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus,
Thomas A. Sokol, director