Boston Symphony Broadcasts for the Year 1927
1/1/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
Wagner: Die Götterdämmerung--Siegfried's Funeral
Music (Galen Stone in memoriam)
D. Scarlatti: Three Pieces, Arranged for
Orchestra by Roland-Manuel
De Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and
Violoncello (Landowska)
Mozart: Concerto Nº 16 for Piano and Orchestra--Finale (Rondo,
Allegro di molto,)
played on the Harpsichord
(Landowska)
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
1/15/1927 Conductor: Alfredo Casella (Symphony Hall)
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor for String Orchestra, Arranged by Sam
Franko
Mozart: Concerto Nº 21 for Piano and
Orchestra (Gieseking)
Casella: Partita for Piano and Orchestra (Gieseking)
Casella: La Giara--Orchestral Suite
1/22/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso Nº 12 in B Minor
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº 4
Roussel: Suite in F Major (World Premiere)
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy
1/29/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Aaron Copland (piano)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº 3
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Copland: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
(Copland) (World Premiere)
Schumann: Symphony Nº 1
2/12/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Moritz Rosenthal (piano)
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Brahms: Concerto Nº 2 for Piano and Orchestra
(Rosenthal)
Brahms: Symphony Nº 2
2/19/1927 Conductor: Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella
(Symphony Hall)
Alfredo Casella (conductor); Elsa Respighi (soprano)
Respighi: Concerto in the Mixolydian Mode for Piano and Orchestra
(Ottorino Respighi, piano; Alfredo
Casella (conductor)
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute--Suite
Nº
2
Respighi: Belfagor--Overture
Respighi: Il Tramonto, for Soprano and
Orchestra (Elsa Respighi)
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
2/26/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Louis Speyer (english horn)
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (Speyer)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa (World Premiere)
Elgar: Enigma Variations
3/5/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
The Cecilia Society (chorus,) Malcolm
Lang (cond.);
Charles Stratton (tenor)
Jakobus Langendoen: Variations on a Dutch Theme of Adrianus
Valerius
Delius: The Song of the High Hills
Wolf: Der Feuerreiter (Stratton, Cecilia)
Brahms: The Song of Destiny (Cecilia)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the
Maiden Fevronia--Suite
Prelude: Hymn to Nature; Bridal Procession; The
Invasion of the Tartars; The Battle of Kershenetz
Prokofiev: Sept, ils sont Sept! (Cecilia,
Stratton)
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar--Finale (Cecilia)
3/19/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Richard Burgin (violin)
Handel/Harty: Water Music Suite
Alexander Tansman: Symphony in A Minor (World Premiere)
Glazunov: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Burgin)
Weber: Oberon--Overture
3/26/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 6
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7
4/2/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Jean Bedetti ('cello)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº 4
Lalo: Concerto for 'Cello (Bedetti)
Hill: Lilacs, Poem for Orchestra, Op. 33
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Honegger: Pacific 231
4/16/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
D. Scarlatti: Five Sonatas arranged in the form of a Suite &
orchestrated by Vincenzo Tommasini
(after the Ballet, The Good-Humored
Ladies
Loeffler: Memories of my Childhood, Symphonic Poem
Converse: Flivver Ten Million (World Premiere)
Tchaikovsky Symphony Nº 5
4/23/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Chadwick: Tam o'Shanter, Ballade for Orchestra
Sessions: Symphony Nº 1, in E Minor (World Premiere)
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Strauss: Salome--Salome's Dance
4/30/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Leonore,--Overture Nº 3
Dukelsky: Zéphyr et Flore--Suite (World Premiere)
Aubert: Habanera
Wagner: Die Walküre--Ride of the Valkyries
Brahms: Symphony Nº 1
10/8/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini--Overture
Brahms: Symphony Nº 3
Stravinsky: Petrushka--Suite
Debussy: Images for Orchestra--Nº 2, Iberia
10/15/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Bach orch. Schoenberg: Two Chorale Preludes
1. Schmücke Dich...
2. Komm, Gott...
De Falla: El Amor Brujo
Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
10/22/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 88
Prokofiev: Le Pas d'Acier--Suite
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye
Loeffler: A Pagan Poem
10/29/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, Nº 10
Honegger: Fedra--Incidental Music (World Premiere of
Concert Form)
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé--Suite Nº 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 4
11/12/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Malipiero: Cimarosiana
Sibelius: Symphony Nº 5
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
11/19/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Symphony Nº 39
Martinǔ: La Bagarre (World Premiere)
Bloch: Three Jewish Poems
Strauss: Don Juan
12/3/1927 Conductor: Richard Burgin (Symphony Hall)
Albert Spalding (violin)
Cherubini: Ali Baba--Overture
Brahms: Concerto for Violin (Spalding)
Schreker: Prelude to a Drama
Liszt: Mazeppa
12/10/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator
Carpenter: Skyscrapers
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7
12/17/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Myra Hess (piano)
Liadov: From the Apocalypse
Bax: Symphony Nº 1
Schumann: Concerto for Piano (Hess)
Wagner: Tannhäuser--Overture