Please provide your suggestions for music to play next season. The theme is:
November – audience friendly, based on stories
March – serious, ambitious, include challenging and crowd-pleasing items
July – themed around a country, or film, or dance. Ties in with European cup – is that an opportunity?
Since it’s our 19/20 season, how about 1920s music?
November – based on stories
Kodaly – Hary Janos
Tchaikovsky – MSND Incidental music
Mussorgsky – Night on bare mountain
Dvorak – Ov. Noonday witch
Berlioz- Harold in Italy
RK – Scheherezade
Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky – Ov. Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev – Lt.Kije
March – as above plus
Bach – Double violin concerto
Schumann – Cello concerto/Symphony No.2
Bruckner – Sym. no.4
Brahms -PCs nos 1 & 2/Tragic Ov.
Mozart – Oboe Concerto NOT flute imposter!
Prokofiev- Classical Symphony
Ravel – Tombeau de Couperin
Bizet- Symphony in C
Schubert – Symphony No.5
Family:-
Expana- Chabrier
Tubby the Tuba
The Lark Ascending – VW
Rodeo – Copland
Billy the Kid – Copland
Ruslan and Ludmilla – Glinka
Force of Destiny-Verdi
Till Eulenspiegel -Strauss
Corsair – Berlioz
Concerto do Aranjuez – Rodrigo
Tam O’Shanter – Arnold
March concert
Symphony 2 Glazunov
Firebird- Stravinsky
London Symphony-VW
Cockaigne – Elgar
Francesca da Rimini – Tchaikovsky
Shostakovich Symphony- 7, 8, 20, 11, 13
Heldenleben – Strauss
Romans’ – Berlioz
Rienzi – Wagner
Bachanale Saint Saens
Golden Cockerel – RK
Tannhouser – Wagner
Carnival overture- Dvorak
Scherzo Capricioso Dvorak
Summer
Themed could use some pieces from above lists eg Spain, Germany, London
Films
Robin Hood – Kongold
Anything by Toomkin, Frank Waxman, Max Steiner, Rosza
Add
Three Cornered Hat de Falla
El Amor Bruno de Falla
Iberia – Debussy
Carmen Suites – Bizet
John Dixon suggests Bruckner symphony no 6
Love lots of the ideas above! Would add – Harry Potter music / Quilter Children’s overture for the Nov concert, Brahms 2nd symphony / Saint-Saens piano concerto / Shostakovich 5 for the March one, and surely the Elgar cello concerto is close enough to the 1920s to be included in there somewhere…?