In the Perelman Theatre – Kimmel Center

Enso Quartet: MAureen Nelson & Ken Hamao on violin, Melissa Reardon viola, Richard Belcher cello and guests Dimitri Murrath viola and Peter Wiley cello.

Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade for String Quartet (1887)

Gillian Whitehead – No stars, not even clouds (2012)

Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet in E minor (1873)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence in D major Op.70 (1887-1891)

Disc 27

Antonio Vivaldi

Le Quattre Stagioni – The Four Seasons

Concertos for Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo

– No 1. In E Major “Spring” RV 269

– No.2 in G Minor “Summer” RV 315

– No.3 in F major “Autumn” RV 293

– No.4 in F minor “Winter” RV 297

Concerto for Diverse Instruments in C major RV 558

Concerto for Oboe, Strings & Basso continuo in D minor RV 454

Concerto for Flute, Strings & Basso continuo in C minor RV 441

John Corigliano violin, John Wummer & Robert Morris flutes, Engelbert Bremner oboe, William Vacchiano & Nathan Prager trumpets, Carlo de Filippis & Giovanni Vicari mandolines, Christine Stavrache & Aristidd von Wurtzler harps, Laszlo Varga cello “The Four Seasons”

Harold Gomberg oboe

Juhn Wummer flute

New York Philharmonic

Disc 28

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op.35

Isaac Stern violin & the New York Philharmonic

Disc 29

Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings (from String Quartet op.11)

Bela Bartok – Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz 106

Paul Ben-Haim – The Sweet Psalmist of Israel – 3 Symphonic Fragments for Harpsichord, Harp and Orchestra

Sylvia Marlowe harpsichord

Christine Stavrache harp

New York Philharmonic

Disc 30

Ludwig van Beethoven – Overtures

Leonore No.3 op. 72a

Die Weihe Hauses op. 124

Konig Stephan op. 117

Fidelio op. 72b

Egmont op.84

Leonore No.3 op. 72a

New York Philharmonic

Disc 31

Hector Berlioz

Grande Ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini op.23

Le Carnival romain op.9

Romeo et Juliette

Marche hongroise

New York Philharmonic

Disc 26

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in B-flat major op.23

Anto Dvorak

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major op.33

Philippe Entremont (Tchaikovsky) piano

Justus Frantz piano

New York Philharmonic

Disc 21
Sergei Rachmaninoff Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in C minor op.18

Sergei Prokofiev Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 in G minor

Philippe Entremont piano
Isaac Stern violin
New York Philharmonic

Disc 22
Camille Saint-Saens
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.4 in C minor op.44
Introduction et Rondo capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra in A minor op.28

Claude Debussy 
Premiere Rhapsodie pour orchestre avec clarinette principal
Rhapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone

Gabriele Faure
Ballade in F-sharp major for Piano and Orchestra

Robert Casadesus piano
Zino Francescatti violin
Stanley Drucker clarinet
Sigurd Rascher saxophone
New York Philharmonic

Disc 23
Dimitri Shostakovich
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in C minor op.35
Concerto for Piano and Prchestra No.2 in F major op.102

Francis Poulenc
Concerto for 2 pianos and Orchestra in D minor FP 61
Andre Previn piano
William Vacchiano trumpet
Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale pianos
New York Philharmonic

Disc 24
Richard Strauus
Don Quizote

Igor Stravinsky 
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments

Lorne Munroe cello (Strauss)
William Lincer viola (Strauss)
David Nadien violin (Strauss)
Seymour Lipkin piano
New York Philharmonic

Disc 25
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in B-flat minor op.23

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in C minor op.18

Andre Watts piano (Tchaikovsky)
Gary Graffman piano (Rachmaninoff)
New York Philharmonic

Disc 16
Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.15 in B-flat major K 450
&
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.17 in G major K 453

Leonard Bernstein on piano and conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Disc 17
Mozart
Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat major K 365 (316a)
Concerto for 3 Pianos and Orchestra in F major K 242 “London”
Eine Kleine nactmusik
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale for the piano concertos plus Leonard Bernstein for the triple piano
New York Philharmonic

Disc 18
Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.25 in C Major K 503

Felix Meldelssohn Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor op.64
Isaac Stern on violin
Bernstein on piano and conducting
Israel Philharmonic

Disc 19
Felix Meldelssohn Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor op.64

Robert Schumann Cencerto for Cello and Orchestra in A minor op.129

Pinchas Zuckerman violin
Leonard Rose cello
New York Philharmonic

Disc 20
Carl Nielsen Concerto for Flute and Orchestra FS 119
Carl Nielsen Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra FS 129

Paul Hindemith Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Julius Bake Flute
Stanley Drucker clarinet
Isaac Stern violin
New York Philharmonic

Disc 14

Aaron Copland – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
including Aaron Copland on violin (? piano)

William Schumann – Concerto on Old English Rounds for Viola, Women’s Chorus and Orchestra
Donald McInnes on viola
The Camerata Singers under the direction of chorus master Harold Gomberg

The New York Philharmonic

Disc 15

Franz Liszt Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in E-flat major S 124

Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op.43 for piano and orchestra

Maurice Ravel Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G majour

Andre Watts on piano for the Liszt
Gary Graffman on piano for the Rachmininoff and Ravel
New York Philharmonic for the Liszt and Rachmaninoff
Columbia Symphony Orchestra for the Ravel

Disc 6
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 in C major op. 15
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major op.19

Glenn Gould on piano
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (No.1)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra (No.2)

Disc 7
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor op.37
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major op.58

Glenn Gould on Piamo
Columbia Symphony Orchestra (No.3)
New York Philharmonic (No.4)

Disc 8
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor op.37
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major op.73 “Emperor”

Randolf Serkin on piano.
New York Philharmonic

Disc 9
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major op.61
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for 2 Violins and Orchestra in D minor BWV 1043

Isaac Stern on violin (both pieces)
Yehudi Menuhin on violin (Bach)
New York Philharmonic

Disc 10
Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italie op.16
Ernest Chausson – poeme op.25
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane

William Lincer on viola (Berlioz)
Zino Francescatti on violin (Chausson and Ravel)
New York Philharmonic

Disc 11
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in D minor op.15
Glenn Gould & the New York Philharmonic

Disc 12
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in B -flat major op.83
Andre Watts & the New York Philharmonic

Disc 13
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op.77

Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor op.47

Zino Francescatti & the New York Philharmonic

CD1:
Johann Sebastian Bach 
Concerto for Violin, Stings and Basso continuo in E major BWV 1042
Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Basso continuo in C minor BWV 1060R
Concerto for Keyboard, Strings and Bsso continuo in D minor BWV 1052

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Piccolo (Flautino), Strings and Basso continuo in C major RV 443

Isaac Stern (violin), Harold Gomberg (oboe), William Heim (piccolo), Glenn Gould (piano), The New York Philharmonic and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Berstein conducted and played harpsichord

CD2:
Samuel Barber Concerto for Violon and Orchestra op.14

Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Sz 116

Isaac Stern (violin) and the New York Philharmonic

CD3:
Bela Bartok
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 Sz 95
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 Sz 119

Philippe Entremont (piano) and the New York Philharmonic

CD4:
Bela bartok
Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra Sz 115
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 Sz 112

Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale (pianos), Saul Goodman (timpani), Walter Rosenberger, Elden Bailey and Morris Land (percussion) and Isaac Stern (violin) with the New York Philharmonic

CD5
Alban Berg Concerto for Violin and Orchestra “To the Memory of an Angel”

Bela Bartok
Rhapsody No.1 Folk Dances for Violin and Orchestra Sz 87
Rhapsody No.2 Folk Dances for Violin and Orchestra Sz 90
Isaac Stern (violin) and the New York Philharmonic

Outside weddings and funerals I haven’t attended church for a long time. Suffice it to say I am an atheist and many years of church attendance converted me to that state.

So last weekend I attended a church service only to have my convictions reaffirmed.

The relatively new chaplain in this particular house of god was telling a story about death and why one should welcome Jesus into your heart / embrace God / etc, etc.

It started off innocuously enough suggesting that there are a lot of good reasons not to believe. Reasons like not having to go to church, saving time, preserving income….the audience could buy into this.

Then there was an assertion about death. That people die and life can seem all a bit pointless, especially if there is no afterlife.

The chaplain proceeded to compare his acquaintance Katrina Dawson to his mother. Katrina was the young barrister killed in the Lindt cafe incident. He alluded to her achievements and then said that at the funeral he couldn’t help but think “was that it?” Then he referred to the also premature death of his mother whom he described as less accomplished than Katrina  but as she had embraced Jesus into her life she was welcomed into heaven for eternal life. The question of what happended to Katrina Dawson wasn’t referred to again after this but the implication was there……The young members of the audience didn’t catch on but for the older members it was clear that the preacher had condemned Katrina Dawson to hell. For forgiveness, no salvation, no regret, no sadness, no empathy…that was that and so there you go – embrace Jesus.

The message, the sentiment, was appalling enough but the mode of delivery waas duplicitous. Knowing that there was an audience of children and adults and using veiled personal anecdotes to convey an exhortary message that would be understood by some and not others, and that was intended to offend by not offending was to my mind not a compelling way to engage the audience with the re-join the fold message. 

Well the sheep are now bleating in protest and not following the shepherd.

Katrina Dawson lost her life because of Islamic fundamentalism. Let’s not diminish it further with Christian Evangalism.