Sunday, May 25, 2014

Mo' mo' modern...

VGCM p424-458
BELA BARTOK
Concerto for Orchestra
Divertimento for String Orchestra
String Quartets, especially no. 4, then nos. 3 and 5 
Piano Concertos nos. 2 and 3
Violin Concerto no. 2
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
ALBAN BERG
Orchestral excerpts from Wozzeck and Lulu
Opera: Wozzeck
Lyric Suite
ANTON WEBERN
Passacaglia op. 1
Five Movements for String Quartet (or String Orchestra version)
Six Pieces for Orchestra
Symphony
Six Bagatelles for String Quartet
PAUL HINDEMITH
Kleine Kammermusik
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony Mathis der Maler

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

From Asia to Vienna

Schoenberg, Stravinsky
VGCM p388-423
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Verkldrte Nacht
Five Pieces for Orchestra Pierrot Lunaire
Piano Concerto
Violin Concerto
A Survivor from Warsaw 
Opera: Moses und Aron
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Early ballets: The Firebird, Petrushka, Le Sacre du printemps
Les Noces
L'Histoire du soldat
Octet for Wind Instruments
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Symphony of Psalms
Symphony in Three Movements Agon
Opera: The Rake's Progress 
Violin Concerto
Oedipus Rex