And now, for the big list – the stuff I played with the Oregon Symphony this past season*. Lots of variety, and some holes in repertoire that I really couldn’t believe when I looked at the list – only one work by Brahms, for example? Hm…
- Barber – Adagio for strings; Meditation and Dance of Vengeance from Medea
- Bartók – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Collard)
- Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 9, and Piano Concerto No. 1 (Hough)
- Berlioz – Symphony Fantastique
- Bernstein – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
- Brahms – Symphony No. 2
- Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1 (Perlman)
- Coleridge-Taylor – Danse negré
- Copland – Suite from Appalachian Spring
- Debussy – Danse (arr. Ravel)
- Dutilleux – Symphony No. 1
- Dvorak – Romance for violin and orchestra, Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
- Fleck – Big Country, “The Imposter” for banjo and orchestra
- Gershwin – Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
- Glazunov – Violin Concerto (Kwak)
- Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 2, 8, and Cello Concerto in C major (Gerhardt)
- Hosokawa – Blossoming II
- Korngold – Violin Concerto (Lamsma)
- Liszt – Totentanz (Hamelin)
- Lutoslawski – Partita for violin and orchestra (Jackiw)
- MacDowell – Piano Concerto No. 2 (Watts)
- Mahler – Symphony No. 5
- Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture; Violin Concerto No. 1 (Gomyo)
- Messiaen – Hymn
- Mozart – Symphonies Nos. 32, 35
- Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
- Orff – Carmina Burana
- Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf; Violin Concerto No. 1 (Ehnes)
- Rachmaninoff – Isle of the Dead
- Ravel – Bolero
- Rouse – Concerto for Orchestra
- Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1 (Sonnenberg)
- Sibelius – Symphony No. 4; Tapiola
- Sierra – Concerto for Saxophones (Carter)
- Strauss, R. – Till Eulenspiegel; Metamorphosen
- Stravinsky – Orpheus
- Tchaikovsky – March Slave; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Cohen); Symphony No. 4; 1812 Overture; Francesca da Rimini Overture; Orchestral Suite No. 3
- Torke – Charcoal
- Widmann – Con Brio
*I missed two classical subscription series due to the death of my father, so you won’t find those works listed above.