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George Thomson
Conducting Repertoire List


Works that I conducted in rehearsal but not performance with the Berkeley Symphony (and have not conducted elsewhere) are listed in red.

Orchestral Repertoire:

Adams
El Dorado
Adès
Living Toys
Powder Her Face
Arensky
Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a
Bach, C. P. E.
Sinfonia No. 4 in A Major
Bach, J. S.
arr. Nodaira, The Art of Fugue
arr. Webern, Ricercata from the Musical Offering
Brandenburg Concertos 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Concerto for Two Claviers in C minor
Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor
Concerto for Three Violins in D Major
Orchestral Suites 1, 2
Sinfonia from Cantata No. 42
Sinfonia from the Christmas Oratorio
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Bartok
Divertimento for String Orchestra
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Rumanian Folk Dances
Two Portraits, Op. 5
Beethoven
Overtures:
        Coriolanus
        Creatures of Prometheus
        Egmont
        Fidelio
        King Stephen        
        Ruins of Athens
Piano Concerto Nos. 1, 2
Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Triple Concerto
Violin Concerto
Wellington's Victory, Op. 91 (Battle mvt.)
Berg
Kammerkonzert
Berlioz
Le carnaval romain
Le corsaire
Harold en Italie
Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust
Symphonie fantastique
Bizet
Carmen Suite
L'Arlésienne Suite
Bloch
Concerto Grosso No. 1
Schelomo
Boccherini/Grützmacher
Cello Concerto in B-flat
Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Polovtsian Dances
Scherzo (from “Les Vendredis”)
Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Haydn Variations
Piano Concerto No. 1
Serenade No. 2
Symphonies 1, 3, 4
Brewbaker
Piano Concerto
Britten
Simple Symphony
Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1
Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 (original version)
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 9
Busoni
Doktor Faust
Campo
Symphony No. 1
Carter
What Next?
Cello Concerto
Piano Concerto
Chaminade
Concertino for Flute
Chavez
Sinfonia india
Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2
Cimarosa
Il matrimonio segreto Overture
Cmiel
Orpheo
Copland
Appalachian Spring
Billy the Kid
“Buckaroo Holiday” and “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo
Crumb
Echoes of Time and the River


Debussy
Marche écossaise
Music for Le roi Lear
Petite suite (orch. Busser)
Nuages, Fêtes (from Trois Nocturnes)
Diamond
Rounds for String Orchestra
Dukas
Fanfare to precede La Péri
Dvorák
Serenade for Strings, Op. 22
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
Symphonies 8, 9
Elgar
Cello Concerto
Enigma Variations
Introduction and Allegro for Quartet and String Orchestra
Pomp and Circumstance March #1
Serenade for Strings
Sospiri
Eötvös
Shadows for Flute, Clarinet, and Orchestra
Falla
El retablo de Maese Pedro
The Three-Cornered Hat, Suites I & II
Fauré
incidental music to Pelléas et Mélisande
Franck
Le chasseur maudit
Symphony in D minor
Geminiani
Concerto Grosso after Corelli’s “La follia”
Glazunov
Symphony No. 1 in E Major
Glière
Russian Sailors’ Dance, from The Red Poppy
Glinka
Kamarinskaya
Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture
Goldmark
Rustic Wedding Symphony
Grieg
Elegiac Melodies Op. 34
“Holberg” Suite
Lyric Suite
Music from Peer Gynt
Piano Concerto
Handel
Acis and Galatea
“Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” from Solomon
Concerti Grossi Op. 6 Nos. 5, 7
L’allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato
Water Music
Harris
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Haydn
Cello Concertos 1, 2
Symphonies 23, 43, 83, 88, 96, 99, 100
Hérold
Zampa Overture
Hindemith
Acht Stücke for Strings
Concerto for Trumpet, Bassoon, and Strings
Nobilissima visione
Holst
Brook Green Suite
The Planets
St. Paul’s Suite
Humperdinck
Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel


Ives
Symphony No. 3
The Unanswered Question
Janacek
Suite for String Orchestra
Josheff
In the Meadow (1992)
Lalo
Symphonie espagnole
Liszt
Les Préludes
Locke
Curtain Tune from The Tempest
Mahler
Das klagende Lied (orig. version in 3 mvts.)
Lieder aus “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Rückert-Lieder
Symphonies 1, 4, 5
Manoury
60ème parallèle
Martin
Maria Triptychon
Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn
Overture for Winds
Piano Concerto No. 1
String Symphonies 9, 12
Symphonies 3, 5
"Trumpet" Overture
Violin Concerto
Milhaud
Percussion Concerto
Moussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel)
Mozart
Abduction from the Seraglio (complete opera)
Arias:

Bella mia fiamma, K. 528
Giunse alfin il momento…Deh vieni (Le nozze di Figaro)
L’amerò, sarò costante (Il re pastore)
Non s
ò più (Le nozze di Figaro)
Una donna a quindici anni (Così fan tutte)
Bassoon Concerto
Clarinet Concerto
Deutsche Tänze K.571, K.605 no. 3
Galimathias Musicum, K.32
Overtures:
Così fan tutte
Don Giovanni
Le nozze di Figaro
Die Zauberflöte    
Piano Concertos:
K.271, K.365, K.488, K.491, K.503
Rondo for Violin and Orchestra K.373
Serenades:
K. 320 ("Posthorn"), K.375, K.388, K.525 ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik")
Sinfonia Concertante K.364
Symphonies 33, 40, 41
Violin Concertos K.218, K.219


Nielsen
Clarinet Concerto
Nodaira
Piano Concerto
Ohana
Guitar Concerto (Trois Graphiques)
Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda
Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Peter and the Wolf
Piano Concerto No. 3
Romeo and Juliet excerpts (fr. Suites 1 & 2)
Purcell
Incidental Music to Abdelazer
Rachmaninov
Symphonies 2, 3
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Ravel
Ma mère l’oye (suite)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Shehérézade
Tzigane
Respighi
Ancient Airs & Dances, Suite No. 3
Pini di Roma
Revueltas
Night of the Maya (excerpt)
Ocho por Radio
Reynolds, Belinda
Crossings for String Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Cortège from Mlada

Flight of the Bumble-Bee
Sheherazade
Rohde
Bitter Harvest
Five Pieces for Orchestra

Minerva’s Pools
Rossini
Overtures:
Il barbiere di Siviglia
La gazza ladra

Semiramide
William Tell


Saint-Saëns
Carnival des animaux
Cello Concerto
Havanaise
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Symphony No. 3
Violin Concerto No. 3
Sarasate
Navarra
Zapateado
Schoenberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (chamber version)
Piano Concerto
Verklärte Nacht
Schubert
Ballet Music from “Rosamunde”
Symphonies 3, 5, 6, 8
Schumann
Cello Concerto
Manfred Overture
Piano Concerto
Symphonies 1, 3
Sekiya
Sinfonia delle ombre
Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony, Op. 110b
Symphony No. 1
Sibelius
Finlandia
Swan of Tuonela
Symphonies 1, 2, 5, 7
Violin Concerto

Sousa
Washington Post March
Strauss, J.
Pleasure-Train Polka
Waltzes: Blue Danube, Tales of the Vienna Woods, Emperor Waltz
Strauss, R.
Horn Concerto No. 1, Op.11
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, suite
Ein Heldenleben
Morgen!
Das Rosenband
Tod und Verklärung
Stravinsky
Concertino (1952 version)
The Fairy’s Kiss

L’histoire du soldat
Petrushka (1947)
The Rake’s Progress
The Rite of Spring
Suite from L’oiseau de feu (1919)
Suite No. 2
Symphony in E-flat
Violin Concerto
Suesse
110th St. Rhumba
Whirligig
Suk
Serenade for Strings, Op. 6
Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore (complete)
Suppé
Poet and Peasant Overture


Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
Nutcracker (Ballet and Suite)
Rococo Variations
Romeo and Juliet
Serenade for Strings
Souvenir de Florence
Symphonies 4, 5
Telemann
Don Quixote Suite
Ouverture burlesque
Viola Concerto
Varèse
Octandre
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
A London Symphony
Verdi
La forza del destino Overture
Vieuxtemps
Violin Concerto No. 5
Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasilieras Nos. 5, 9
Vivaldi
Concertos Op. 3 Nos. 1, 4, 10
Concertos Op. 8 Nos. 2, 3, 4
Concerto in D "Il Gardellino" RV428
Concerto in G “Alla rustica” RV151
Concerto in A minor for Two Violins RV523
Concerto in G minor for Two Cellos RV531
Concerto in A Major for Violin and Three Violins 'in eco' RV 552
Gloria
Wagner
Overture to Rienzi
Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Warlock
Capriol Suite
Wassenaer
Concerto armonico No. 1 in G Major
Weber
Concertino for Clarinet
Concerto No. 2 for Clarinet
Overtures:
Der Freischütz
Oberon
Webern
Langsamer Satz
Wieniawski
Polonaise de concert, Op. 4
Violin Concerto No. 2
Wilson
Hold On: Symphony No. 3
Winges
Aural Colors
Wreede
Three Berkeley Vignettes
Wuorinen
Symphony Seven

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(public rehearsal/reading:)
  • Eliane Aberdam, Asteroide 622 (excerpt)
  • Simon Andrews, "...hors'd upon the sightless chariots of the air" for Piano and Orchestra
  • Javier Luis Arau, Fantasy Episodes
  • Ross Bauer, Dusk
  • Per Bloland, The Twilight of Our Minds
  • Steven Blumberg, Old Maps of the New World (excerpt)
  • Matt Brubeck, What If We Can’t Come Back? (excerpt)
  • Anthony Cheung, Portrait of the Artist as a Tormented Young Madman
  • Matthew Cmiel, Their Darkest Longing
  • Keith Doelling, String Quartet (arr. for str. orch.)
  • Ken Durling, Symphony, mvt. III
  • Kurt Erickson, Toccata for Orchestra
  • Richard Felciano, Symphony for String Orchestra (1st mvt.)
  • David Garner, Concerto for Horn, mvt. I
  • Deniz Ince, Night Dance (excerpt)
  • Peter Josheff, Lonely Elephant Variations
  • Brian Kane, Anaphora (excerpts)
  • JooWan Kim, Concerto Passacaglia Op. 6
  • Jorge Liderman, Glimpses (excerpts)
  • Joël Lindheimer, Cello Concerto (excerpt)
  • Dylan Mattingly, Overture to Orestia
  • Ron McKean, Vernal Equinox, from Moonphase
  • David Meckler, Gear for Orchestra
  • Helena Michelson, Scintilla One
  • Lisa Miller, Stasis and Return
  • Ketty Nez, Afterimages for Orchestra
  • Belinda Reynolds, Convergence, for Guitar and Orchestra (excerpt)
  • Kurt Rohde
    The Mean Season
    Strong Motion
    Bitter Harvest (excerpt)
  • Martin Rokeach, Possible Worlds
  • Naomi Sekiya, Manzanar (excerpt)
  • Gabriella Smith, Dances of the Isuan Interval
  • Ronald Bruce Smith, Transformations
  • Mary Stiles, The Art of Light
  • Curt Veeneman, Les Cloches
  • Lawrence Wayte, Shadows, Pt. 1
  • Mark Winges
    Fog Patterns and Clouds
    Mirrors (excerpt)
  • Michael Zbyszynski, Labirynt

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Contemporary chamber music:
  • Bauer, Ross, Eskimo Songs [world premiere]
  • Blaustein, Susan, Songs of The World (A Naive Poem), (Warsaw, 1943)
  • Blumberg, Steven, Sextant
  • Boulez, Improvsation sur Mallarmé I (Phyllis Bryn-Julson, SFCMP)
  • Callaway, Ann, Devachan
  • Caltabiano, Ron
    Clarinet Quartet
    Quilt Panels
  • Campion, Edmund, Musica
  • Chuaqui, Miguel
    Hyperbole
    Desde el limite (From the Border) [world premiere]
  • Chen Yi, Song in Winter
  • Chou Wen-Chung, Echoes From the Gorge
  • Clark, Timothy Vincent, Of Significant Length
  • Cox, Cindy, Geode [world premiere]
  • Dong, Kui, The Blue Melody
  • Druckman, Jacob, Come Round [west coast premiere]
  • Dugger, Edwin, Two Rhapsodies
  • Feldman, Morton, For Frank O'Hara
  • Festinger, Richard
    Septet (also recorded)
    After Blue
  • Froom, David, Chamber Concerto
  • Furman, Pablo, Matices Coincidentes [world premiere]
  • Green, Michelle, Quid Pro Quo
  • Halle, John, Spooks
  • Harding, Susan Forrest, Nocturne
  • Harrison, Ellen, La cité du globe captif
  • Horst, Martha, Chiaroscuro [world premiere]
  • Imbrie, Andrew
    EARPLAY Fantasy [world premiere]
    Sextet for Six Friends [world premiere]
    Songs of Then and Now
    Spring Fever
  • Jaffe, David, Havana Dreams [world premiere]
  • Kitzke, Jerome
    Present Music
    We Need to Dream All This Again
  • Lam, Bun-Ching
    Last Spring
    Three Dada Songs
  • Luo, Jing-Jing, The Spell
  • Mackey, Steven, Ravenshead [workshop, pre-premiere]
  • Milhaud, Darius, Machines agricoles
  • Murail, Tristan, La Barque Mystique
  • Neuwirth, Olga, Five Daily Miniatures
  • Pereira, David
    Leaf Storm [world premiere]
    Before and After [world premiere]
  • Powell, Mel, Sextet
  • Rakowski, David, La Roba
  • Ran, Shulamit, Mirage
  • Ravel, Maurice, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
  • Rohde, Kurt, Drift [world premiere]
  • Rosenzweig, Morris, Another Order of Cat
  • Rouse, Christopher, Ku-Ka-Ilimoku
  • Sanchez-Gutiérrez, Carlos, A Tutiplén [world premiere]
  • Soley, David, Grisaille [world premiere]
  • Sollberger, Harvey, The Advancing Moment
  • Stalvey, Dorrance, Exordium, Genesis, Dawn
  • Stravinsky, Igor, Two Poems of Balmont and Three Japanese Lyrics
  • Takemitsu, Toru, Quatrain II
  • Taub, Bruce J., Lady Mondegreen’s Dances
  • Thow, John, Sextet [world premiere]
  • Vayo, David, Poem (also recorded)
  • Yarnell, Carolyn
    More Spirit Than Matter…
    Three Graces
  • Zhou Long, Dhyana

(rev. 10/07)


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