Boston Symphony Broadcasts for the Year 1926
1/23/1926 Conductor: Eugene Goosens (Symphony Hall)
Weber: Der Freischütz--Overture
Brahms: Symphony Nº 4
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Debussy: Images for Orchestra--Nº 2, "Iberia"
(The 3rd work on the program, "Sinfonietta" by Goosens, was not
broadcast due to the refusal of the publisher, G. Ricordi, to license
it for radio broadcast)
1/30/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Serge Prokofiev (pf)
Mussorgsky: A Night On Bald Mountain
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges--March and Scherzo
Prokofiev: Concerto Nº 3 for Piano and Orchestra (Prokofiev)
Scriabin: Symphony Nº 3, "The Divine Poem"
2/13/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Vivaldi: Concerto in e for String Orchestra (Ed. by A.
Mistovski) (World Premiere)
Lekeu: Fantaisie Contrapuntique sur un Cramignon Liégeois
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 1
2/20/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
The Cecilia Society (chorus,) Malcolm Lang (cond.);
Charles Stratton (tenor)
Liszt: Psalm XIII (Stratton, Cecilia)
Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Cecilia)
2/27/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphont Nº 94, "Surprise"
Henry Gilbert: Symphonic Piece (World Premiere)
Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé--Suite Nº 2
3/6/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Georges Enesco (violin); Ernest Hutcheson (piano)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 8
Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 (World Premiere)
Tailleferre: Jeux de Plein Air (World
Premiere)
Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet
(Enesco, Hutcheson)
De Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat--Three Dances
The Neighbor's; Dance of the Miller; Dance Finale
3/20/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº2 (Burgin, Laurent,
Gillet, Mager)
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin (Szigeti)
Roussel: Padmâvati--Suite Nº 1
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
3/27/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 3--Marcia funebre (Franz Kneisel in
memoriam)
Marc Delmas: Penthesilée--Overture
Timothy Spelman: Tone Poem, "Assisi, the Great Pardon of Saint
Francis" (World Premiere)
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 4
3/28/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Ethyl Hayden (soprano); Boris Saslawsky
(baritone); Harvard Glee Club & Radcliffe Choral Society,
G. Wallace Woodworth & Mrs Robert Winternitz,
conductors
Brahms: A German requiem (all the cast listed above)
4/3/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture
Debussy: Images for Orchestra--Nº 1, "Gigues"
Stravinsky: Chant du Rossignol
Brahms: Symphony Nº 2
4/17/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Josef Lhevinne (piano)
Glazunov: The Middle Ages Suite--Prelude
Tchaikovsky: Concerto Nº 1 for Piano and Orchestra (Lhevinne)
Bloch: Three Jewish Poems
Berlioz: Damnation of Faust--Three Standard Excerpts
4/24/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
The Cecilia Society (chorus,) Malcolm
Lang (cond.); Charles Stratton (tenor)
Mozart: Symphony Nº 35
Prokofiev: Sept, ils sont Sept! (Cecilia,
Stratton)
Ibert: Chant de Folie (Cecilia)
(World Premiere)
Roger Ducasse: Sarabande (Cecilia)
Prokofiev: Sept, ils sont Sept! (Cecilia,
Stratton)
Borodin: Prince Igor--Polovetsian Dances
5/1/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Vivaldi: Concerto in E Minor for String Orchestra (Ed. by A.
Mistovski)
Satie orch. Debussy: Gymnopédies
Stravinsky: Petrushka--Suite
Brahms: Symphony Nº 1
10/9/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Weber: Der Freischütz--Overture
Debussy: Nocturnes--Nuages, Fêtes
Prokofiev: Chout--Suite
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 3
10/16/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Serenade Nº13, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
Alexander Steinert: Poem for Orchestra, "Southern
Night"
(World Premiere)
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Franck: Symphony
10/23/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 99 in E-Flat
Ibert: Les Recontres, Three Pieces for Ballet
Wagner: Lohengrin--Prelude
Wagner: Die Götterdämmerung-- Siegfried's
Funeral March
Wagner: Siegfried--Forest Murmurs
Wagner: Die Meistersinger--Prelude
10/30/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Borodin: Symphony Nº 2
Filip Lazăr: Tziganes (World Premiere)
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
11/13/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Egmont--Overture
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges--Suite
Bartók: Dance Suite
Brahms: Symphony Nº 4
11/20/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Alexander Tansman: The Garden of Paradise--Excerpt, "The Dance of the
Sorceress"
Hans Krasa: Symphony for Small Orchestra--Pastorale et Marche
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture
Bethoven; Symphony Nº 5
12/4/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nº 3
Mussorgsky orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
(The Beethoven Emperor Concerto with Cortot was the second work on the
program, but Cortot refused to allow it to be broadcast. The Friday
performance had been reviewed as a disastrous conflict between the
conductor and the soloist.)
12/11/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
C.P.E. Bach/Steinberg: Concerto in D for Strings
Stravinsky: The Firebird--Suite
Sibelius: Symphony Nº 7
Sibelius: Finlandia
12/18/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Darius Milhaud (piano)
Schumann: Symphony Nº 1
Milhaud: Le Carnaval d'Aix (Milhaud)
Ravel: La Valse
12/25/1926 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso Nº 6 in g
Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody Nº 1
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde--Prelude and Liebestod
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade