Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope

Contents

• Preface
• Editorial Conventions
• Bartok
• Piano Concerto No.1
• Violin Concerto No.2
• Dance Suite
• Beethoven
• Symphonies: some supplementary remarks
• Overture Leonore No.2
• Overture Leonore No.3
• Overture King Stephen
• Berlioz
• Symphonie fantastique
• Harold in Italy
• Overtures
• Bloch
• Schelomo: Hebraic rhapsody for cello and orchestra
• Brahms
• Four Symphonies
• Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor
• Violin Concerto in D
• Hungarian Dances: a brief guide
• Bruch
• Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor
• Busoni
• Piano Concerto
• Debussy
• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
• Dvořák
• Scherzo capriccioso
• Symphonic Variations
• Romance for violin and orchestra
• Serenade for strings
• Elgar
• Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma')
• Concert-Overture: Froissart
• Concert-Overture: Cockaigne
• Concert-Overture: In the South (Alassio)
• Sea Pictures
• Serenade for Strings in E minor
• Fauré, orch. Aubert
• Fantaisie for Flute
• Franck
• Symphony in D minor
• Haydn
• Symphonies with High Horns
• Symphony No.100 in G ('Military')
• Symphony No.104 in D ('London')
• Liszt
• Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat
• Piano Concerto No.2 in A
• Mahler
• Symphony No.2 in C minor
• Martinů
• Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra
• Mendelssohn
• Symphony No.3 in A minor ('Scottish')
• Symphony No.4 in A ('Italian')
• Violin Concerto in E minor
• Overture The Hebrides
• Mozart
• Piano Concertos
• Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel
• Pictures from an Exhibition
• Nielsen
• Sinfonia espansiva (Symphony No.3)
• Prokofiev
• Classical Symphony (Symphony No.1)
• Peter and the Wolf
• Rachmaninov
• Symphony No.2 in E minor
• Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
• Ravel
• Piano Concerto
• La Valse
• Le Tombeau de Couperin
• Pavane pour une infante défunte
• Respighi
• Fontane di Roma
• Rimsky-Korsakov
• Symphonic Suite: Scheherazade
• Capriccio Espagnol
• Rossini
• Overture William Tell
• Saint-Saëns
• Symphony No.3 in C minor
• Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor
• Schubert
• Overture Die Zauberharfe ('Rosamunde')
• Schumann
• Symphony No.4 in D minor
• Overture, Scherzo and Finale
• Cello Concerto in A minor
• Overture Genoveva
• Shostakovich
• Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat
• Sibelius
• Symphony No.2 in D
• Symphony No.3 in C
• Symphony No.4 in A minor
• Symphony No.5 in E flat
• Symphony No.6 in D minor
• Symphony No.7 in C
• Violin Concerto in D minor
• Tapiola
• Smetana
• Má Vlast: 2. Vltava
• Má Vlast: 3. Šárka
• Strauss
• Ein Heldenleben
• Horn Concerto No.1 in E flat
• Oboe Concerto
• Metamorphosen: Study for 23 Solo Strings
• Tchaikovsky
• Symphony No.2 in C minor
• Symphony No.3 in D
• Symphony No.4 in F minor
• Symphony No.5 in E minor
• Symphony No.6 in B minor, 'Pathétique'
• Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor
• Violin Concerto in D
• Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• Tippett
• Symphony No.2 in C
• Vaughan Williams
• A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
• Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
• Tuba Concerto
• Wagner
• Prelude Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
• Walton
• Cello Concerto
• Weber
• Overture Der Beherrscher der Geister
• Overture Der Freischütz
• Overture Oberon
• Bibliography