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 sò 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
(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
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
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