Repertoire

Standard symphonic repertoire

(in performance, written before 1970)

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BACH, C P E

Flute Concerto in D minor

BACH, J S

Brandenburg Concerti Nos 3 & 4
Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060
Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043
Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Piano Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042

BACH-ELGAR

Fantasia and Fugue in C minor,  BWV 537

BACH-HONEGGER

Prelude and Fugue, BWV 545

BACH-SCHOENBERG

Prelude and Fugue, BWV 552

BARBER

Piano Concerto Op 38

Violin Concerto Op 14

Toccata Festiva

Adagio for Strings

BARTÓK

Concerto for Orchestra, SZ 116

Dance Suite, SZ 77

Divertimento for String Orchestra

Romanian Folk Dances, SZ 56

Concerto for Viola SZ 120 (Serly version)

Piano Concerto No 2, SZ 95

Violin Concerto No 2, SZ 112

The Miraculous Mandarin (suite) SZ 73

Two Images, Op 10, SZ 46

Hungarian Sketches, SZ 97

BEETHOVEN

Coriolan Overture
Leonore Overture No 2
Symphonies Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 9
Grosse Fuge (orchestral version)
Piano Concerti Nos 1, 3, 4 & 5

Violin Concerto in D major

BELLA

Solemn Overture in E flat major

BERG

Drei Orchesterstücke, Op 6

Piano Sonata (Arr. for Viola&Orchestra: L Hoffman)

BERLIOZ

Le Grande Ouverture du Roi Lear

Benvenuto Cellini Overture

Marche Hongroise

BERNSTEIN

Candide – Overture

Symphonic Dances from the West Side Story

Serenade for Violin and Orchestra

BIRTWISTLE

Tragoedia

BIZET

Carmen Suites Nos 1 & 2

BIZET-SCHEDRIN

Carmen Suite

BLOCH

Tfile for Cello and Strings (Arr. J Bosso)

BORODIN

Symphony No 2 in B minor

Polovtsian Dances (from the opera Prince Igor)

BRAHMS

Symphonies Nos 1, 2 & 4
Hungarian Dances, Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
Piano Concerti Nos 1 & 2
Serenade No 1

Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a

Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

BRIDGE

Lament for Strings

BRITTEN

Double Concerto for Violin and Viola (Colin Matthews)

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op 10

Suite on English folk tunes, Op 90

Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Piano Concerto Op 13

BRUCH

Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26

Kol Nidrei, Op 47

BRUCKNER

Symphony No 7

CAGE

4’33”

CHABRIER

Habanera

COPLAND

Clarinet Concerto

CORELLI

Concerto Grosso Op 6/8

DEBUSSY

Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane

La Mer
Nocturnes
Prelude á l’aprés-midi d’un faune
Sonata for Violoncello (Arr. J Bosso)

DOHNÁNYI

Symphonic Minutes, Op 36

Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op 9

Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op 25

Ruralia Hungarica, Op 32

Violin Concerto No 1, Op 27

DVORÁK

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53
Serenade for Strings

Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op 44

Slavonic Dances Op 46 & 72 (selection)

Symphonies Nos 8 & 9

ELGAR

Serenade for Strings Op 20

Introduction and Allegro for Strings Op 47

Cello Concerto, Op 85

ERKEL

Festival Overture

Hunyadi Overture

ESTÉVEZ

Mediodía en el Llano

FAURÉ

Pelléas et Mélisande, Op 80

Requiem (1893 version)

GERSHWIN

Summertime (version for clarinet&orchestra)

The Man I Love (version for clarinet&orchestra)

They All Laughed (version for clarinet&orchestra)

I Got Rhythm (version for clarinet&orchestra)

GINASTERA

Pampeana No 3

GOUNOD

Symphony No 1 in D major

GRANADOS

Three Spanish Dances

GRIEG

Holberg suite

Peer Gynt Suite No 1

Piano Concerto in A minor

GLUCK

Don Juan

HAYDN

Divertimento in B flat major “St Antoni”, Hob II:46

Symphonies Nos 1, 45, 60, 86, 101, 102, 103 & 104
Horn Concerto in D major
Cello Concerto in C major

Trumpet Concerto

HÄNDEL

Concerto for Harp

Water music (selection)

HINDEMITH

Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber

IBERT

Concerto for Flute

Bacchanale

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV

Caucasian Sketches

IVES

Central Park in the Dark

Three places in New England

Symphony No 3 “The Camp Meeting”

JANÁCEK

Idyll

JOAQUÍN

Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar

KABALEVSKY

Concerto No 1

KHACHATURIAN

Violin Concerto in D minor

KLEIN

Partita for Strings

KODÁLY

Peacock Variations (Variations on a Hungarian folksong)

Dances of Marosszek

Dances of Galanta

Hungarian Rondo

Háry János (extracts)

Háry János Suite

Concerto for Orchestra

Summer evening (Nyári este)

KOESSLER

Symphonic Variations

KOUSSEWITZKY

Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, Op 3

LEHÁR

Gold and Silver Waltz

Vilja Lied (The Merry Widow)

LISZT

Les Préludes, S 97

Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

Piano Concerto No 2

Danse Macabre, S 126

Rhapsodie Espagnole, S 254

Ad nos ad salutarem undam

MAHLER

Des Knaben Wunderhorn (selection)

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Rückert-Lieder

Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

MARCELLO

Oboe Concerto in C minor

MARTINU

Concerto for Oboe

MENDELSSOHN

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite

Overtures “The Hebrides”, “Ruy Blas” and “The Fair Melusina”

Symphonies Nos 3, 4 & 5

Violin Concerto in E minor

MERCADANTE

Flute Concerto in E minor

MILHAUD

Le Boeuf sur le toit

MONCAYO

Huapango

MOZART

Adagio and Fugue
Ave verum corpus
Concerto for Flute and Harp (K 299)
Divertimenti (complete)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Flute Concerto in G
Flute Concerto in D

Overtures “Don Giovanni”, “The Magic Flute”, “The Marriage of Figaro”
Piano Concerti in A major (K 488), D minor (K 466)  and G major (K 453)
Serenade in B flat major (Gran Partita)
Symphonies No 29, No 35 “Haffner”,  No 36 “Linz”, No 38 “Prague”, No 40 “The Great”,  41 ‘’ Jupiter’’
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Violin Concerto in D, KV 271a

MOZART, L

Toy Symphony

MUSSORGSKY

Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

NIELSEN

Symphony No 2

OFFENBACH

La Vie Parisienne (extracts)

La Fille du Tambour-Major (extracts)

La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein ((extracts)

Souvenir des Bouffes (extracts)

Cancan from Orphée

PASCULLI

Concerto su Poliuto

Grand Concerto sopra motivi di I Vespri Siciliani

PIAZZOLLA

Libertango

Oblivion

POULENC

Organ Concerto

PROKOFIEV

Piano Concerti Nos 2 and 3

Peter and the Wolf

Symphony Nos 1 (Classical) & 5

PUCCINI

I Crisantemi

RACHMANINOV

Piano Concerti Nos 2, 3 & 4

Symphonic Dances

Symphony No 2

RAMEAU

Ouverture “Zaïs”

Danse des Sauvages

RAVEL

Le Tombeau de Couperin

Piano Concerto in G major

REVUELTAS

La Noche de los Mayas

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Sheherezade, Op 35

ROSSINI

Overtures “La Gazza Ladra”, “William Tell” and “The Barber of Seville”

SAINT-SAËNS

Piano Concerto No 2

SCHÖNBERG

Five pieces for orchestra Op 16

Variations for Orchestra Op 31

SCHUBERT

Symphonies Nos 3, 4, 5, 7 (Unfinished) & 8 (The Great)

Overture to Rosamunde

Rosamunde Entr’acte and Ballet Music
Rondo in A major, D 438
Arpeggione Sonata (Transcription for Cello and Orchestra)

SCHUMANN

Concerto for Violoncello

Symphonies Nos 1, 2 & 3

SHOSTAKOVICH

Concerto for Violoncello No 1

Hamlet Suite

Piano Concerto No 2

Symphony No 5

SIBELIUS

Concerto for Violin

Tapiola Op 112

Karelia Suite Op 11

Symphony No 1

SMETANA

Má vlast – Vltava

Overture to the Bartered Bride

STRAUSS, J

The Fledermaus Overture
An der schönen, blauen Donau
Annen-Polka

‘Ever Since I was a Baby’ (Die Fledermaus)
Rosen aus dem Süden
Tritsch Tratsch Polka
Kaiser Waltz
Unter Donner und Blitz
Radetzky Marsch

Pizzicato Polka

STRAUSS, R

Ein Heldenleben

Death and Transfiguration

Don Juan

Four Last Songs

STRAVINSKY

Dumbarton Oaks
Histoire du Soldat
In memoriam Dylan Thomas
Le Chant du Rossignol
Le Sacre du Printemps
Pulcinella-Suite

Pétrouchka

Symphony in Three Movements
The Firebird – complete ballet (1910)
The Firebird Suite (1919)

The Firebird Ballet Suite (1945)

SUK

Serenade for Strings

TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No 5

Capriccio Italien
Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)
Serenade for Strings
Variations on a Rococo Theme Op 33

The Nutcracker (complete ballet)

Polonaise from ‘Eugene Onegin’

Violin Concerto

TELEMANN

Suite in A minor for flute and orchestra

Viola Concerto in G major TWV 51:G9

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Serenade to Music

VILLA-LOBOS

Fantasia (Saxophone Concerto)

VIVALDI

Concerti Grossi (selected)

Gloria

Concerto in B minor

WAGNER

Overture to Meistersinger

Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde”

WARLOCK, PETER

Capriol-Suite

WEBER

Clarinet Concerto in F minor

Concertino for Clarinet

Overture to “Freischütz”

WEBERN

Symphonie Op 21

Variations Op 30

Ricercata (Fuga)

WEINBERG

Chamber Symphony No 1, Op 145

WEINER

Divertimento

ZELENKA

Hipocondrie à 7 Concertanti

 

Opera and oratorio repertoire

 

BARBER

Vanessa

BARTÓK

Herzog Bluebeard’s Castle

BERG

Wozzeck (assistant conductor)

BERLIOZ

Benvenuto Cellini (assistant conductor)

BRAHMS

Ein Deutsches Requiem

Schicksalslied

BRITTEN

Albert Herring

DONIZETTI

Lucia di Lammermoor

FAURÉ

Requiem

GOLDMARK

Ein Wintermärchen

GRIEG

Peer Gynt

HAYDN

Die Schöpfung

KODÁLY

Budavári Te Deum

Missa Brevis

Psalmus Hungaricus Op 13

MITTERER

Play Zero (assistant conductor)

MOZART

Die Zauberflöte

Le Nozze di Figaro

OFFENBACH

Fantasio

ORFF

Carmina Burana

ROSSINI

The Barber of Seville (assistant conductor)

SCHUBERT

Mass in A flat major, D 678 “Missa Solemnis”

VERDI

La Traviata

Otello

Messa da Requiem

Rigoletto (assistant conductor)

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS

The Pilgrim’s Progress (assistant conductor)

 

List of works, written after 1970

 

ADAMS, JOHN

Short ride in a fast machine

Tromba Lontana

The Wound-Dresser

AMMANN, DIETER

Unbalanced Instability – Konzert für Violine und Kammerorchester

ANDRIESSEN, LOUIS

Variations and fugue on a theme by Johann Kuhnau

ATTERBERG, KURT

Double Concerto Op 57 (Swiss premiere)

ADÉS, THOMAS

…but all shall be well

Tevot

BELLA, MÁTÉ

Berzsián és Dideki (world premiere)

Chuang Tzu’s Dream

BENJAMIN, GEORGE

At First Light

Dance Figures (Italian premiere)

Mind of Winter (Italian premiere)

BOSSO, JORGE

Moshee (world premiere)

BOULEZ, PIERRE

Mémoriale (…Explosante-Fixe…Originel)

Dérive 2

Pli selon pli (Don, Tombeau) (assistant conductor)

BRASS, NIKOLAUS

Ohne Titel

BROSIN, ANETTE

Reciprocal Sightings (Premiere)

CHAPELA, ENRICO

Ínguesu

COOKE, PHILIP A.

The twilight people

CSER, ÁDÁM

D’arab (world premiere)

DOOLEY, PAUL

Pomo Canyon Air for Orchestra

DRAGONY, TÍMEA

Crann Bethadh (world premiere)

Virradás

DUFEK, HANNES

Grosse Musik (world premiere)

ELLISON, MICHAEL

Triple Concerto: for violin, viola/violin, and piano soloists, with string orchestra and percussion

EÖTVÖS, PÉTER

DoReMi (Hungarian premiere)

The Gliding of the Eagle in the Skies (Hungarian premiere)

FEKETE, GYULA

Excelsior! Suite

FRANCESCONI, LUCA

Cobalt & Scarlet

Piano Concerto

FUJIKURA, DAI

Tocar y Luchar

FURRER, BEAT

Strane costellazioni, per orchestra

Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra

GRIME, HELEN

Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)

GRYLLUS, SAMU

La chef d’œuvre inconnu (Hungarian premiere)

<>, “()” and … are traveling on the train

GUBAIDULINA, SOFIA

Bassoon Concerto

HAMILTON, GORDON

The Trillion Soul (Premiere)

HARRIS, ROSS

Face

HARVEY, JONATHAN

Madonna of Winter and Spring

HELLAWELL, PIERS

Sound carvings from the water’s edge

HIDAS, FRIGYES

Oboe Concerto

HILLBORG, ANDERS

King Tide (Hungarian premiere)

HOLLÓS, MÁTÉ

Grand Ensemble

HORVÁTH, MÁRTON LEVENTE

Violin Concerto “Kötéltánc” (world premiere)

Elegy (world premiere)

JACKSON

Reunion (world premiere)

JARRELL, MICHAEL

…Ombres… (world premiere)

JENKINS, KARL

Sharikiz (Hungarian premiere)

KABELAC, MILOSLAV

Symphony No 4

KILLMAYER, WILHELM

Fin’al Punto

KOCSÁR, MIKLÓS

Capricorn Concerto

LANGER, ELENA

Rain-Bows

LIGETI, GYÖRGY

Melodien

LITWIN, STEFAN

…, die Hölle aber nicht.

MAESTRACCI, AURÉLIEN

Hommage a Rameau (world premiere)

MADARÁSZ, IVÁN

Episodi Concertanti

Qui Venit

MÁRQUEZ, ARTURO

Conga del Fuego Nuevo

Danzón No 2

MASON, CHRISTIAN

Isolarion (Premiere)

Man Made

Layers of Love

MATKÓ, TAMÁS

Once you told me not to… (world premiere)

MATUZ, GERGELY

Scarmentado utazásainak története (world premiere)

MEALOR, PAUL

To seek where shadows are

MEDENCZI, ROMÁN

Concertino (world premiere)

MESKÓ, ILONA

Flauto Concerto

Haláltánc

Fleurs du Mal (world premiere)

MESSIAEN, OLIVIER

Chronochromie (assistant conductor)

Turangalila Symphony (assistant conductor)

Un Sourire

MORGAN-WILLIAMS, BETHAN

After every fourth or fifth question (world premiere)

NEPOMUCENO

Batuque

NÓGRÁDI, PÉTER

Canzonetta (world premiere)

NYITRAI, LÁSZLÓ

Fényjáték (world premiere)

ODEH-TAMIMI, SAMIR

Ahinnu II

Anin

Philaki

PARKER, AARON

Moiré

POSADAS, ALBERTO

Magma (Hungarian premiere)

RÓZSA, PÁL

Duna Szimfónia (world premiere)

RUTH-RICHARDS, EMMA

Image (world premiere)

SHAW, ARTIE

Concerto for Clarinet

SÁRY, LÁSZLÓ

Tamburás öreg úr

SCHNITTKE

Concerto for piano and strings

SISKA, ÁDÁM

Concerto (world premiere)

SOLTI, ÁRPÁD

Nocturne (world premiere)

Animal Tales – chamber opera (world premiere)

STANLEY, JANE

Palimpsest (world premiere)

STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ

INORI

Stop (Austrian premiere)
Kontra-Punkte
Punkte
Fünf Sternzeichen
Fünf weitere Sternzeichen

SUDZILOVSKY, JAROSLAV

Harmonia Caelestis (world premiere)

SUGÁR, MIKLÓS

Rainbow Mountains

SZABÓ, BARNA

Kintsugi

SZERVÁNSZKY, ENDRE

Concerto for Flute

SZTOJANOV, GEORGI

Das Cherubinische Wandersmann (world premiere)
Dialógusok az agyamból (world premiere)
3 novella Michael Ende ötletei nyomán (world premiere)

TRAINER, FRASER

Breaking Silence – Percussion Concerto (world premiere)

TÜRKMEN, ONUR

Nomad

VACCHI, FABIO

Prospero, o dell’armonia

VAJDA, JÁNOS

Cello Concerto (world premiere)

VARGA, JUDIT

…sweeter than roses… (world premiere)

…alles Fleisch…

VASKS, PETERIS

Concerto for English Horn

VIVIER, CLAUDE

Lonely Child

WANG, LU

Siren Song

WARD, DUNCAN

Fumes (world premiere)

WIDMANN, JÖRG

Ikarische Klage

WOLFSON, JAIME

Gedanken aus dem Tagebuch (world premiere)

ZARÁNDY, ÁKOS

Sextet

Sirató (world premiere)

Sír a tó (world premiere)

Recuerdo (world premiere)

ZIMMERMANN, BERND ALOIS

Photoptosis (assistant conductor)

ZOMBOLA, PÉTER

Chamber Symphony

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