2014-2105: a retrospective, part two

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.