BSTT SERIES "The Art of Serge Koussevitzky"



1. October 9, 1943    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Vivaldi arr. Siloti: Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #11
    Stravinsky: Ode in Three Parts for Orchestra (World Premiere)
    Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

2. November 6, 1943    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

3. December 18, 1943    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Haydn: Symphony #88 in G
    Mozart: Symphony #39 in E flat, K. 543

4. December 25, 1943    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, #12
    Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E Flat

5. March 31, 1945    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
    Liadov: The Enchanted Lake
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

6. December 3, 1946    The Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh

    Ravel: Pavane
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

7. April 13, 1948    Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford

    Piston: Symphony #3
    Wagner: Lohengrin: Act I Prelude
    Wagner: Die Meistersinger: Act I Prelude

8. October 15, 1946    The Metropolitan Theatre, Providence

    Shostakovich: Symphony #9
    Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy

9. April 8, 1947    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Rachmaninov: Symphony #3
    Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

10. February 5, 1944    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3
    Brahms: Symphony #3

11. March 4, 1944    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Mozart: Symphony #29
    Barber: Symphony #2 "Airborne" (World Premiere, original version)

12. December 30, 1944    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
    Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (original ending)

13. February 17, 1945    Hunter College Auditorium, NYC

    Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina Prelude
    Brahms: Symphony #1

14. March 17, 1945    Hunter College Auditorium, NYC

    Gluck: Iphigenia in Aulis: Overture
    Beethoven: Symphony #7

15. November 11, 1947    Woolsey Hall, Yale, New Haven

    Prokofiev: Symphony #1 "Classical"
    Brahms: Symphony #4

16. April 14, 1945    Hunter College Auditorium, NYC

    Beethoven: Symphony #3
    (Played in memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

17. March 10, 1945    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Copland: Quiet City (Mager)
    Hanson: Symphony #3

18. October 13, 1945    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela (Louis Speyer)
    Sibelius: Symphony #1

19. October 20, 1945    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

20. February 9, 1946    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathetique"

21. April 13, 1946    Hunter College Auditorium, NYC

    Piston: Prelude & Allegro for Organ & Strings (E. Power Biggs, organ)
    Britten: Peter Grimes: Three Orchestral Interludes
    Copland: Appalachian Spring

22. March 2, 1946    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Wagner: Tannhäuser: Overture
    Wagner: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
    Wagner: Die Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Funeral Music
    Wagner: Siegfried: Forest Murmurs
    Wagner: Die Meistersinger: Prelude to Act I

23. March 9, 1946    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Sibelius: Symphony #6
    Kabalevsky: Symphony #2

24. April 6, 1946    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Strauss: Don Juan
    Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina Prelude
    Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

25. April 20, 1946    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Sibelius: Symphony #7
    Wagner: Parsifal: Good Friday Spell
    Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

26. March 16, 1946    Hunter College Auditorium, NYC

    Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3
    Beethoven: Symphony #6

27. November 17, 1945    Hunter College Auditorium, NYC

    Prokofiev: Symphony #1 "Classical"
    Prokofiev: Symphony #5

28. October 22, 1946    Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard, Cambridge

    Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4

29. March 4, 1947    Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard, Cambridge

    Weber: Oberon: Overture
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5

30. July 15, 1947    The Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox
& April 15, 1947    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Bach: Suite #1 in C [July]
    Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra [April]

31. April 7, 1945    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Thompson: The Testament of Freedom (Harvard Glee Club, G. Wallace Woodworth)
    Shostakovich: Symphony #8: 1st Movement

32. March 2, 1948    The Metropolitan Theatre, Providence

    Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter"
    Malipiero: Symphony #4 "In memoriam"

33. November 4, 1947    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto #1 (Lukas Foss, pf.)
    Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
    Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 "Italian"

34. December 9, 1947    The Masonic Temple, Detroit

    Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Laurent)
    Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Joseph de Pasquale)

35. December 30, 1947    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Bruckner: Symphony #8 (abridged for broadcast)

36. February 24, 1948    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
    Brahms: Symphony #2

37. March 9, 1948    Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard, Cambridge

    Mozart: Serenade #13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
    Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
    Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2

38. March 16, 1948    Woolsey Hall, Yale, New Haven

    Mozart: Idomeneo: Overture
    Shostakovich: Symphony #5

39. April 20, 1948    Symphony Hall, Boston

    Beethoven: Egmont Overture
    Sibelius: Symphony #2

40. April 27, 1946    Symphony Hall, Boston and The Music Shed, Tanglewood, Lenox
and other dates 

    Beethoven Symphony #9 (and rehearsal)

(Frances Yeend, soprano; Viola Silva, alto; Andrew McKinley, tenor; Robert Hall Collins, bass)