I’ve decided to start a new weekly feature – What I Would Have Been Playing This Week (or WWIBPTW) – as I’m starting to re-mourn my loss of orchestral and in-person concert experiences.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Tania León: Stride (Oregon Symphony commission)
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
This would have been a lot of fun. Our concertmaster Sarah Kwak would have been the soloist in the Prokofiev. Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony is one that I haven’t done enough to get tired of, and it has some great licks in it for our bassoons! I was also really looking forward to the Tania León commission as well, I’d been hearing great things about it. And the Enescu is a wonderful piece with a really nice viola solo.