NIH PhilharmoniaSelected works from past concerts/seasons…

 
Season 2010-2011

  

   “Let’s Dance!”

            Dvorak – Slavonic Dance no. 8

            Bartok – Rumanian Dances

            Brahms – Hungarian Dances nos. 5 & 6

            Ravel – Bolero

  

   “The One and Only”

            Beethoven ­– Leonore Overture no. 3

            Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique

 

   “We’re Traveling Abroad”

            Saint-Saëns – Suite Algerienne

            Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 2 (Little Russian)

  

   “Back in 10”

            Jacobs – Mass for the Living (World premiere)

            Barber ­ – Adagio for Strings

            Schumann – Symphony no. 3 (Rhenish)

  

   “Getting Darker”

            Shostakovich – Symphony no. 5






Season 2009-2010

“A Little Taste of NIH Phil”

            Vivaldi – “Summer” from the Four Seasons

            Mozart – Symphony no. 41 (Jupiter)

 

      “It’s for the Birds”

            Respighi – Gli Uccelli (The Birds)

            Stravinsky – L’oiseau de feu (The Firebird) (1919 version)

 

      “Let’s Order American”

            Copland – An Outdoor Overture

            Barber – Capricorn concerto

 

      “A Bass Ball”, Jonathan Deutsch, bass

            Mozart – aus dem Serail, Ha! Wie will ich triumphieren

            Verdi – Nabucco, Prayer:  Tu sul labbro de’ veggenti

            Strauss, Joh, Jr. – Emperor Waltz

            Ponchielli  – La Gioconda, Dance of the Hours

            Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin, Gremin’s aria 

            Gounod – Faust, Vous qui faites l’endormie

     

      “Ein Deutscher Abend”

            Mahler – Adagietto from Symphony no. 5

            Beethoven – Symphony no. 7

 



Season 2008-2009

“Spring is Russian In”

            Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3, Matthew Van Hoose, piano

            Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherezade

 

      “Fallen Heroes”

            Vaughan Williams – Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

            Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

 

      “NIH Phil Goes to the Opera”, Millicent Scarlett, soprano

            Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro, Porgi Amor

            Puccini – Manon Lescaut, In quelle trine morbide

            Puccini – Gianni Schichi, O mio babbino caro

            Verdi – La Forza Del Destino, Overture

            Puccini – La Boheme, Si mi chiamano Mimi

            Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo

            Catalani – La Wally, Ebben Ne andro lontano

 

      “How Sweet It Is”

         Corigliano – Voyage,    Susanne Goldberg, flute

         Brahms – Symphony No. 2






Season 2007-2008

“A Celebration”

            Beethoven – Symphony no. 9. Op 125 “Choral”, with the Friday

                        Morning Music Club Choral

 

      An Evening with Friends”

            Jacob – Bassoon Concerto, Robin Gelman, bassoon

            Elgar – Enigma Variations, Op. 36 (Variations on an Original Theme)

 

      “Story Tellers”

            Cowell – Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10

            Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf, Ron David, narrator

 

      “Old & New ‘Suits’”

            Corelli – Suite for String Orchestra

            Grundstrom – Suite for Chamber Orchestra (World Premiere)

            Dvorak – Symphony no. 7, op. 70, D minor




Season 2006-2007

“Downtown Meets Uptown”

            Berlioz – Beatrice & Benedict Overture

            Faure – Requiem, with the 18th Street Singers

 

      “A Lovers Tryst”

            Schumann, Clara –

            Brahms – Serenade no. 2

            Schumann, R. – Symphony no. 4

     

 

      “Something Old, Something New”

            Lilge – Oboe Concerto, Emily Bentgen, oboe

            Handel – Water Music Suite no. 2

            Schubert – Symphony no. 3

 

      “Bach, Beethoven and the Boys”

            Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture

            Mozart, L. – Kindersymphonie

            Beethoven – Symphony no. 1




Season 2005-2006

“All Mozart”

            Mozart – Adagio & Fugue

            Mozart Wind Serenade, Eb major

            Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 21, k. 467, Maria Alvarez, piano          

     

      Concert no. 3

            Corelli –Sarabanda, Giga & Bandinerie

            Respighi – Ancient Airs & Dances, Set I

 

      Concert no. 2

            Weber – Overture to Oberon

            Mozart – Horn Concerto, k. 495, Nancia D’Alimonte, horn

            Beethoven – Symphony no. 5

 

      Concert no. 1

            Wagner – Siegfried Idyll

            Haydn – Symphony no. 92 (Oxford)


Season 2005

“Czech it Out”

            Suk – Serenade

            Dvorak – Czech Suite

            Mozart – Symphony no. 38 (Prague)

     

 

      The First Program of NIH Philharmonia, originally NIHCO

            (National Institutes of Health Chamber Orchestra)

            Grieg – Holberg Suite

            Bizet – L’Arlesienne Suite

            Beethoven – Symphony no. 8




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