Wednesdays at 9:00 pM
11/06/2024
Performed on: October 30, 2013
CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen
SOLOIST: Leila Josefowicz, violin
RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite Esa-Pekka
SALONEN: Violin Concerto (New York Concert Premiere
SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5
11/13/2024
Performance Date: various
When Great Composers Conduct
MILHAUD: Suite française, op. 248 (arr. for orch.) Darius Milhaud, conductor
STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite (1945) Igor Stravinsky, conductor
HINDEMITH: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: Requiem for Those We Love Paul Hindemith, conductor Louise Parker, alto George London, bass Schola Cantorum
RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz Richard Rodgers, conductor
11/20/2024
Performance date: 10/1/14
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert
NIELSEN: Maskerade Overture
NIELSEN: Symphony No. 5
NIELSEN: Symphony No. 6, Sinfonia semplice
11/27/2024
Performance Date: November 11, 2021
Simone Young, Conductor
J.S. BACH: Fuga (Ricercata) from “Musical Offering” (arr. Webern)
DVORAK: Cello Concerto in B minor Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello Larissa
LAKNER: Three-Minute Cello Concerto Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
12/04/2024
Performance date: Various
Alan Gilbert, conductor
LYADOV: The Enchanted Lake
TCHAIKOVKSY: Selections from Swan Lake
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10
12/17/09
Ton Koopman, conductor
Sunhae Im, soprano
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Jörg Dürmüller, tenor
Detlef Roth, baritone
Westminster Symphonic Choir, chorus
Joe Miller, director
HANDEL: Messiah
12/19/2024
Performance Date: 11/14/2024
Conductor: John Adams
Soloists: Gabriel Cabezas, cello Ryan Roberts, English Horn Christopher Martin, Trumpet
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast (New York Premiere)
Copland: Quiet City
John Adams: City Noir
12/26/2024
Performance Date: various “Winter Holiday”
STRAUSS, II: Overture to Die Fledermaus from An Evening with Danny Kaye Danny Kaye/Zubin Mehta, conductors from Bel Canto Paramount 12704
MOZART: German Dance in C, K. 605, “Sleigh Ride” Leonard Bernstein, conductor from SMK 64076
BERNARD: Winter Wonderland
SUESSDORF: Moonlight in Vermont
ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor from Columbia MS 6381 GRIEG/SEIDL: No. 4, March of the Dwarfs from Lyric Suite Leonard Bernstein, conductor from MLK 64064
VIVALDI: Winter from The Four Seasons Frank Huang, violin/leader from NYP DD VII-10
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves Sir Andrew Davis, conductor from 12/31/1994
POULENC: Gloria in G Leonard Bernstein, conductor Judith Blegen, soprano Westminster Choir from Book-of-the-Month Records 61-7554
PROKOFIEV: Lt. Kijue Suite, Op. 60: Troika Skitch Henderson, Conductor
PROKOFIEV: 3 Selections from Winter Bonfire-Children’s Suite, Op. 122: No. 2 Winter Holiday; No. 4 Around the Bonfire; No. 8 Home Again Skitch Henderson, piano/ conductor from Sony Promotional SSK 6381
TCHAIKOVKSY: Selections from The Nutcracker Alan Gilbert conductor, from NYP DD II-6
MAHLER: Movement 1 from Symphony No. 4 Lorin Maazel, conductor from Maazel Mahler Collection
OFFENBACH: Ballet of the Snowflakes from Le Voyage dans la lune Bramwell Tovey, conductor from NYP 13-43
HUMPERDINCK: Children’s Prayer from Hansel und Gretel Andre Kostelanetz, conductor from ML 6206