Boston Symphony Broadcasts for the Year 1953
1/2/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Bach‑Munch: Chorale Prelude "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist"
Schumann: Symphony Nº 2
Milhaud: Introduction and funeral march
Milhaud: Symphony Nº 1
Milhaud: Kentuckiana
1/3/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Bach‑Munch: Chorale Prelude "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist"
Schumann: Symphony Nº 2
Milhaud: Introduction and funeral march
Milhaud: Symphony Nº 1
Milhaud: Kentuckiana
1/9/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Claudio Arrau (pf)
Cherubini: Anacréon‑‑Overture
Harsanyi: Symphony in C
Brahms: Piano Concerto Nº 2 (Arrau)
1/10/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Claudio Arrau (pf)
Cherubini: Anacréon‑‑Overture
Harsanyi: Symphony in C
Brahms: Piano Concerto Nº 2 (Arrau)
1/23/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Isaac Stern (vl)
Schubert: Rosamunde‑‑Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Stern)
Bartók: Deux images
Samazeuilh: Nuit, poem for Orchestra
Wagner: Die Meistersinger‑‑Act III Excerpts
1/24/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Isaac Stern (vl)
Schubert: Rosamunde‑‑Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Stern)
Bartók: Deux images
Samazeuilh: Nuit, poem for Orchestra
Wagner: Die Meistersinger‑‑Act III Excerpts
1/30/53 Conductor: Guido Cantelli (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 93
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Rossini: Semiramide‑‑Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 5
1/31/53 Conductor: Guido Cantelli (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 93
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Rossini: Semiramide‑‑Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 5
2/6/53 Conductor: Guido Cantelli (Symphony Hall)
Frescobaldi‑Ghedini: Four pieces
Schumann: Symphony Nº 4
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
Mussorgsky‑Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
2/7/53 Conductor: Guido Cantelli (Symphony Hall)
Frescobaldi‑Ghedini: Four pieces
Schumann: Symphony Nº 4
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
Mussorgsky‑Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
2/20/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Leslie Chabay (t), Margaret Roggero (ms), Yi‑Kwei Sze (bs), Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (Chabay, Roggero, Sze, Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society)
2/21/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Leslie Chabay (t), Margaret Roggero (ms), Yi‑Kwei Sze (bs), Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
2/27/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Fauré‑Rabaud: Dolly
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Chausson: Symphony in B flat
2/28/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Fauré‑Rabaud: Dolly
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
Chausson: Symphony in B flat
3/6/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in c, K. 546
Martinu: Symphony Nº 1
Strauss: Divertimento after Couperin
Ravel: La valse
3/7/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in c, K. 546
Martinu: Symphony Nº 1
Strauss: Divertimento after Couperin
Ravel: La valse
3/20/53 Conductor: Richard Burgin (Symphony Hall)
William Kapell (pf)
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Schoenberg: Music to accompany a film scene
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto Nº 3 (Kapell)
Sibelius: Symphony Nº 1
3/21/53 Conductor: Richard Burgin (Symphony Hall)
William Kapell (pf)
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Schoenberg: Music to accompany a film scene
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto Nº 3 (Kapell)
Sibelius: Symphony Nº 1
3/27/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Nathan Milstein (vl)
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Milstein)
Honegger: Symphony Nº 2
Chabrier: Bourée fantasque
3/28/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Nathan Milstein (vl)
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Milstein)
Honegger: Symphony Nº 2
Chabrier: Bourée fantasque
4/3/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Daniel Pinkham (hpd), E. Power Biggs (or), Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society
Bach: Matthäuspassion (Moll, Kopleff, Handt, Souzay, Matthen, Pinkham, Biggs)
4/4/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Daniel Pinkham (hpd), E. Power Biggs (or), Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society
Bach: Matthäuspassion (Moll, Kopleff, Handt, Souzay, Matthen, Pinkham, Biggs)
4/10/53 Conductor: Pierre Monteux (Symphony Hall)
Lili Kraus (pf)
Creston: Symphony Nº 2
Mozart: Piano Concerto Nº 18 (Kraus)
Stravinsky: The Firebird‑‑Suite
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier‑‑Suite
4/11/53 Conductor: Pierre Monteux (Symphony Hall)
Lili Kraus (pf)
Creston: Symphony Nº 2
Mozart: Piano Concerto Nº 18 (Kraus)
Stravinsky: The Firebird‑‑Suite
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier‑‑Suite
4/17/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Handel‑Harty: Water Music‑‑Suite
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane‑‑Suite Nº 2
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7
4/18/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Handel‑Harty: Water Music‑‑Suite
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane‑‑Suite Nº 2
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7
1953 Tanglewood
Several broadcasts on WGBH via tape delay. Details to be added
1953 Tanglewood CBS broadcasts:
7/26/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Tanglewood)
Strauss: Divertimento after Couperin
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Milhaud: La création du monde
8/2/53 Conductor: Pierre Monteux (Tanglewood)
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 5
8/9/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Tanglewood)
Gregor Piatigorsky (c), Joseph de Pasquale (va)
Schubert: Symphony Nº 5
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Strauss: Don Quixote (Piatigorsky, de Pasquale)
8/16/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Tanglewood)
Schubert: Symphony Nº 8
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde‑‑Prelude and Liebestod
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Die Meistersinger‑‑Act III Excerpts
10/9/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso in F, Op. ___ Nº ___
Brahms: Symphony Nº 2
Bloch: Concerto Grosso Nº 2
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
10/10/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso in F, Op. ___ Nº ___
Brahms: Symphony Nº 2
Bloch: Concerto Grosso Nº 2
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
10/16/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Leo Smit (pf)
Mozart: Divertimento in D, K. 136
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Copland: Piano Concerto (Smit)
Smit: The Parcae, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 2
10/17/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Leo Smit (pf)
Mozart: Divertimento in D, K. 136
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Copland: Piano Concerto (Smit)
Smit: The Parcae, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 2
10/30/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Samuel Mayes (c)
Debussy: Images‑‑Ibéria
Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto (Mayes)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 3
10/31/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Samuel Mayes (c)
Debussy: Images‑‑Ibéria
Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto (Mayes)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 3
11/6/53 Conductor: Charles Munch & Martti Turunen (Symphony Hall)
Sibelius: Finlandia
Nielsen: Symphony Nº 5
The following were conducted by Martti Turunen
with Sulo Saarits (br),Helsinki University Chorus
Klami: Vipussa Käynti
Madetoja: Sammon Ryöstö
Sibelius: The Origin of Fire
11/7/53 Conductor: Charles Munch & Martti Turunen (Symphony Hall)
Sibelius: Finlandia
Nielsen: Symphony Nº 5
The following were conducted by Martti Turunen
with Sulo Saarits (br),Helsinki University Chorus
Klami: Vipussa Käynti
Madetoja: Sammon Ryöstö
Sibelius: The Origin of Fire
11/13/53 Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 101
Bartók: Dance Suite for Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 6
11/14/53 Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 101
Bartók: Dance Suite for Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 6
11/20/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Margaret Harshaw (s)
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Honegger: Symphony Nº 1
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde‑‑Prelude and Liebestod (Harshaw)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung‑‑Starke Scheite (Harshaw)
11/21/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Margaret Harshaw (s)
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Honegger: Symphony Nº 1
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde‑‑Prelude and Liebestod (Harshaw)
Wagner: Götterdämmerung‑‑Starke Scheite (Harshaw)
11/27/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Zadel Skolovsky (pf)
Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges‑‑Scherzo and March
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 7
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nº 2 (Skolovsky)
Borodin: Prince Igor‑‑Polovtsian Dances
11/28/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Zadel Skolovsky (pf)
Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges‑‑Scherzo and March
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 7
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nº 2 (Skolovsky)
Borodin: Prince Igor‑‑Polovtsian Dances
12/11/53 Conductor: Richard Burgin & Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Ruth Posselt (vln)
Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes [Burgin conducting]]
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole (Posselt) [Munch conducting]
Mahler: Symphony Nº 10: Adagio [Burgin conducting]
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien [Burgin conducting]
12/12/53 Conductor: Richard Burgin & Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Ruth Posselt (vln)
Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes [Burgin conducting]]
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole (Posselt) [Munch conducting]
Mahler: Symphony Nº 10: Adagio [Burgin conducting]
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien [Burgin conducting]
12/18/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Jennie Tourel (ms), Mac Morgan (br), Lee Cass (bs), John McCollum (t), New England Conservatory Chorus
Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (Tourel, Morgan, Cass, McCollum, New England Conservatory Chorus)
12/19/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Jennie Tourel (s), Mac Morgan (br), Lee Cass (bs), John McCollum (t), New England Conservatory Chorus
Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (Tourel, Morgan, Cass, McCollum, New England Conservatory Chorus)
12/24/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Nicole Henriot (pf)
Auber: La Muette de Portici‑‑Overture
Milhaud: Suite Concertante for Piano and Orchestra (Henriot)
Saint‑Saëns: Piano Concerto Nº 3 (Henriot)
Brahms: Symphony Nº 4
12/26/53 Conductor: Charles Munch (Symphony Hall)
Nicole Henriot (pf)
Auber: La Muette de Portici‑‑Overture
Milhaud: Suite Concertante for Piano and Orchestra (Henriot)
Saint‑Saëns: Piano Concerto Nº 3 (Henriot)
Brahms: Symphony Nº 4