2008 Program Listings
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May 12:
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Hindemith: Chamber Music No. 1, Opus 24
Schoenberg: Selected Cabaret Songs from Brettl Lieder (arr. P. Davin)
Revueltas: Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca
Berio: Folk Songs for Voice and Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
May 5:
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Weill: Divertimento for String Orchestra
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Steven Copes, violin
Douglas Boyd, conductor
April 28:
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452
Bartok: Divertimento for String Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Steven Copes, conductor
John Kimura Parker, piano
April 26:
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, live broadcast - 8 pm
Stravinsky: Suite from Pulcinella
Stravinsky: Two Poems of Constantin Balmont
Stravinsky: Three Japanese Lyrics
Schubert/Golijov She was Here
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D, London
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
April 21:
Larsen: Evening in the Palace of Reason
J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
April 14:
Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde
Kirchner: Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 Winds and Percussion
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, Great
Roberto Abbado, conductor
Steven Copes, violin
Ronald Thomas, cello
April 7:
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
April 5:
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, live broadcast - 8 pm
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Hindemith: Chamber Music No. 1, Opus 24
Schoenberg: Selected Cabaret Songs from Brettl Lieder (arr. P. Davin)
Revueltas: Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca
Berio: Folk Songs for Voice and Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
March 31:
Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Bizet: Symphony No. 1
Christian Zacharias, director and piano
March 24:
Haydn: Symphony No. 60, Il distratto
Stravinsky: Pribaoutki (Nonsense Rhymes)
Stravinsky: Kornilo (Cornelius)
Stravinsky: Natashka (Little Natalie)
Stravinsky: Polkovik (The Colonel)
Stravinsky: Starets i zayats (The Old Man and the Hare)
Ravel: Three Poems of Stepahne Mallarme
Ravel: Soupir
Ravel: Placet futile
Ravel: Surgi de la croupe et du bond
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Mozart: "Ch'io mi scordi di te?" - "Non temer, amato bene," K. 505
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, director and piano
March 17:
Josquin Des Prez & Guillame Dufay: Sacred & Secular Suite (arr. Lubman)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose
March 10:
Felix Mendelssohn: "Italian" Symphony No. 4
Anton Webern: Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24
Arnold Schoenberg: Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (1910)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, director and piano
March 3:
***please note, this is a chamber music concert***
Alberto Ginastera: Impresiones de la Puna (1934)
Arthur Foote: A Night Piece (1918)
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in a minor
February 25:
Goffredo Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 2
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 6
Roberto Abbado, conductor
Mario Brunello, cello
February 18:
Georg Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso No, 1, Op. 6
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Georg Frideric Handel: Three Arias from Julius Caesar
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92, Oxford
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
February 11:
Luigi Cherubini: Symphony in D Major
John Adams: Violin Concerto
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3
Robert Abbado, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
February 4:
Dan Coleman: Long Ago, This Radiant Day
Layton "Skip" James: Cantata Sine Nomine for All Saints' Day*
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen, a Study for 23 Solo Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
*World premiere, commissioned for the SPCO
Scott Yoo, conductor
Maria Jette, soprano
January 28
SKROWACZEWSKI: Symphony for Strings
RAYKHELSON: Adagio for Viola and Strings
SCHNITTKE: Larghetto for Viola and Strings, from Concerto for Three
SHOSTAKOVICH: Sinfonia in b-flat minor (arranged by A. Tchaikovsky from String Quartet No. 13)
TAKEMITSU: Three Film Scores for Strings
Yuri Bashmet, director and viola
January 21
MOZART: Symphony No. 25
SALIERI: Paino Concerto in C Major
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Concert Opera: Mozart and Salieri
Hans Graf, conductor
Rieko Aizawa, piano
Daniil Shtoda, tenor
Mikhail Svetlov, hass
January 14
ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers Overture
MARTIN: Pavane couleur du temps
HAYDN: Violin Concerto in G Major
MOZART: "Linz" Symphony No. 36
Ruggero Allifranchini, director and violin
January 7
BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 1
BEETHOVEN: Duet: "Um in der Ehe froh zu lebin" from Leonore
BEETHOVEN: March from Act II of Leonore
BEETHOVEN: Recitative and Duet: "Ich kann mich noch nicht fassen" from Leonore
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony-Cantata: Hymn of Praise
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Christina Pier & Mary Wilson, sopranos
Thomas Cooley, tenor
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