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Kenneth Woods- Conductor

Orchestral Repertoire Operatic repertoire follows below

Adam, Adolpe: Giselle (complete ballet staged)

Adams, John

Arnold, Malcolm: for Guitar and Strings Concerto for Guitar Scottish Dances

Applebaum, Edward: No. 4

Bach, J.S.: St. John Passion St. Matthew Passion Christmas Oratorio Magnificat Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 Brandenberg Concerti, No.’s 1, 3, 4 and 5 Violin Concerti in A minor and E major Concerto for Two Concerto for Violin and Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor

Bacewicz, Grażyna Concerto for String

Barber, Samuel: Prayer of Kirkegarde Overture to “The School for Scandal” Adagio for Strings Concerto First Essay ’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance

Bartók, Bela: for Strings Two Portraits Violin Concerto No. 2 Concerti No.’s 2 and 3 Concerto Miraculous Mandarin (Complete and Suite)

Beethoven, Ludwig van: No.’s 1-9 in C Major Overtures: Coriolan, Leonore 1, 2 and 3, Fidelio, Egmont, Creatures of Prometheus, King Stephen Incidental Music to “Egmont” Piano Concerti No.’s 1-5 Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Violin Concerto in F minor op. 95, “Serioso,” arr. Gustav Leonore Overture No. 3 arr.

Berg, Alban: Three Orchestra Pieces Kammerkonzert Violin Concerto

Berio, Luciano: Folk Songs Serenata I for and 14 Intruments

Berlioz, Hector: Harold in Italy Symphonie Fantastique Damnation of Faust Overtures: Benvenuto Cellini, Roman Carnival, Corsaire, Beatrice and Benedict Te Deum

Bernstein, Leonard: Overture to Candide Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Symphony No. 1 Three Dance Episodes from On the Town On the Waterfront

Bizet, Georges: L’Arlesienne Suites No.’s 1 and 2 Carmen Suites No.’s 1 and 2 Symphony in C major

Bloch, Ernest: Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 Concerto Grosso No. 2 Suite for Cello (or viola) and Orchestra (1919)

Boito, Arrigo: Mefistofele- Prologue in Heaven

Borenstein, Nimrod Concerto for Piano, and Op. 74 (world premiere performance and recording)

Borodin, Alexander: Symphony No. 2 Polovtsian Dances In the Steppes of Central Asia

Boulez, Pierre: Messagesquisse (conducting from solo cello)

Brady, Tim We’re Hardcore, Song Cycle for Mezzo and Chamber Orchestra

Brahms, Johannes: Symphonies No.’s 1-4 Serenade no. 1 in D Major (original and chamber version by Alan Boustead)

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Alto Rhapsody German Requiem Variations on a theme of Haydn Piano Concerti No.s 1 and 2 Violin Concerto for Cello and Violin Overtures: Tragic and Academic Festival Hungarian Dances in A Major arr. Kenneth Woods

Britten, Benjamin: Four Sea Interludes Les Illuminations Serenade for , Horn and Strings opus 1 Matinées musicales Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Variations on a Theme of Frank

Brown, Earl Novara

Brown, James Francis Concerto “Lost Lanes” (London premiere)

Bruch, Max: Violin Concerto No. 1 Scottish Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra

Bruckner, Anton: Symphonies No.’s 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 Symphonic Prelude Christus Factus Est

Busoni, Ferruccio Violin Concerto

Butterworth, Arthur On the Banks of Green Willow

Canteloube, Joseph: Songs of the Auvergne

Chabrier, Emmanuel: Espana

Chausson, Ernest: Poème, Op. 25 for Violin and Orchestra

Chopin,Frédéric: No. 1 in E minor

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: The Bamboula Danse negre

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Othello Suite Petite Suite de Concert

Copland, Aaron: Symphony No. 2 (“Short Symphony”) Appalachian Spring (13 instrument and Full Orchestra versions) Four Ballet Pieces from Rodeo Hoe Down A Lincoln Portrait El Salon Mexico An Outdoor Overture Music for the Theater Quiet City

Corigliano, John: Fanfare to Music Symphony No. 1

Crumb, George: Ancient Voices of Children Nightmusic I

Delibes,Léo: Coppélia

Debussy, Claude: Printemps, suite symphonique La Mer Images Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (original andSchönberg versions) Trois Nocturnes

Donizetti, Gaetano: Overture to Don Pasquale

Doolittle, Emily: “falling still” for Violin and Orchestra (US premiere, UK premiere) airs of men long dead (world premiere) green/blue (world premiere, UK premiere)

Downie, Gordon forms 7 (world premiere)

Dukas, Paul: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Symphony in C La Péri

Dvorak, Antonin: Symphonies No.’s 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 Stabat Mater Triptych “Nature Life and Love”: In Nature’s Realm, Carnival, Othello, Husitska Overture The Noon Witch The Water Goblin Violin Concerto Piano Concerto

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 Symphonic Variations Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 Serenade for Winds Serenade for Strings Czech Suite

Elgar, Edward: Symphony No. 1 Symphony no. 2 Falstaff In the South (Alassio) Introduction and Allegro for Strings Violin Concerto Cello Concerto Cockaigne Overture (“In London Town”) Chanson de nuit Chanson de matin Imperial March Serenade for Strings, op 20 The Spirit of England Sea Pictures (Original version and version for Choir and Strings by Donald Fraser (world premiere) String Quartet (orchestrated David Matthews) (Orchestrated Donald Fraser (world premiere))

Falla, Manuel de Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Franck, César: Symphony in D minor Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra

Fauré, Gabriel: Incidental music to Pelléas et Mélisande Requiem Elégie for Cello and Orchestra

Fraser, Donald Sinfonietta for Strings (world premiere performance and recording)

Gál, Hans: Symphonies no.s 1, 2, 3 and 4 (world premiere recording) for Violin and Strings (world premiere recording) Concertino for Cello and strings (world premiere Recording) Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (world premiere recording) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (world premiere recording) Triptych for Orchestra (world premiere recording) Idyllikon for Chamber Orchestra Divertimento for Winds

Garcia, Gerald: Guitar Concerto “Heart of the Rose” (world premiere)

Gershwin, George: An American in Paris Concerto in F Rhapsody in Blue

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Ginastera, Alberto

Glazunov, Alexander: Violin Concerto in A minor

Glinka, Mikhail: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila Kamarinskaya

Gordon, Geoffrey “Saint Blue”: Double Concerto for Trumpet, Piano and Strings after Kandinsky (world premiere performance and recording)

Gregson, Edward: “Contrasts:” A Concerto for Orchestra Concerto

Grieg, Edvard: Peer Gynt Suites Two Elegiac Melodies Piano Concerto Holberg Suite Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

Gunning, Christopher Symphony No. 2 (world premiere performance and recording) Symphony No. 10 (world premiere performance and recording) Symphony No. 12 (world premiere performance and recording)

Handel, George: The Messiah Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline “The Ways of Zion do Mourn”

Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphonies No.’s 39, 44, 45, 49, 59, 60, 63, 72, 80,82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 92, 93, 94, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 103 and 104 for Strings and Winds Cello Concerti in D major and C major Violin Concerto in G major Mass in Time of War Nelson Mass The Creation

Higdon, Jennifer Concerto

Hindemith, Paul: Concert Music for Brass and Strings The Four Temperaments “”

Hoffman, Joel: The Millenium Dances

Holst, Gustav: A Somerset Rhapsody St Paul’s Suite The Planets

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Ives, Charles: The Unanswered Question in the Dark They Are There Lincoln, the Great Commoner The Majority Orchestra Set no. 2 Symphony No. 3 “The Camp Meeting”

Janáček, Leoš: Sinfonietta Idyll Taras Bulba

Johnson, Robert: Autumnal for English Horn and Oboe Janus Variations

Jones, Jesse Smith Square Dances (world premiere)

Kabalevsky, Dmitri: Overture to Colas Breugnon Cello Concerto No. 1

Kaprálová, Vítězslava Partita for Piano and Strings

Khachaturian, Aram: Violin Concerto Sabre Dance from “Gayane”

Kim, Earl: Where Grief Slumbers

Korngold, Erich: Sinfonietta Violin Concerto

Kodaly, Zoltan: Harry Janos Suite Psalmus Hungaricus Galanta Dances

Krenek, Ernst Piano Concerti no’s 1-4 (world premiere recordings) Concerto for Two (world premiere recording) Doppelkonzert for Violin, Piano and Strings (world premiere recording) Little Concerto for Piano and Organ (world premiere recording)

Lalo, Eduard: Cello Concerto Symphonie Espagnol for Violin and Orchestra

Lehar, Franz: Overture to The Merry Widow

Liadov, Anatol: Eight Russian Folk Songs

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Liszt, Franz: Les Preludes Piano Concerto No. 1

Macha, Otmar: Variations

Mahler, Gustav: Symphonies No.’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 Symphony no. 10 (rev. Cooke III – first performance) Adagio from Symphony No. 10 arr. 18 Solo Strings, arr. Hans Stadlmair (Original and Schönberg/reduced versions) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)(Original and Schönberg/reduced versions) (Songs on the Death of Children) Rückert Lieder

Martinů, Bohuslav: Memorial to Lidice Partita for Strings

Matthews, David Romanza (world premiere recording) Symphony No. 9 Variations for Strings Double Concerto for Violin and Viola Le Lac for soprano and chamber orchestra Winter Remembered for Viola and String Orchestra

Maxwell Davies, Peter: An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise

McCabe, John Trumpet Concerto- “La Primavera” (world premiere performance and recording) Pilgrim for Double String Orchestra Red Leaves for Chamber Orchestra

Mefano, Paul Interferences (UK Premiere)

Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphonies No.’s 1, 3, 4 and 5 Hebrides Overture Elijah Violin Concerto in E minor Violin Concerto in D minor A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture and Incidental Music) Overture: Die Schöne Melusine

Messiaen, Olivier: Turangalîla

Milhaud, Darius: La création du monde Le Boeuf sur le Toit, ballet for chamber orchestra Le Boeuf sur le Toit, concert choreographique for Violin and Orchestra

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphonies No.’s 13, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38-41 Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Overtures to Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Impressario, Abduction from the Seraglio, Cosi fan Tutte Piano Concerti No.’s 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 27 Violin Concerti No.’s 3, 4, 5 Horn Concerti No.’s 2, 3, 4 Flute Concerti No.’s 1 and 2 Concerto for Flute and Harp Clarinet Concerto Concerto Requiem Mass in C minor Grand Partita for Winds Masonic Funeral Music Don Giovanni Harmoniemusik (arr. Triebensee) Figaro Harmoniemusik (arr. Wendt)

Musgrave, Thea Green for 12 Strings (London premiere)

Mussorgsky, Modest: Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel) Night on Bald Mountain (original and Rimsky-Korsakov versions) Prelude to Kovanschina

Nielsen, Carl: Helios Overture

Offenbach, Jacques: Overture to in the Underworld

Orff, Carl: Carmina Burana

Paganini, Niccolò: Violin Concerto No. 1

Patterson, Paul “Allusions”: Concerto for Two Violins and Strings (world premiere recording)

Paulli, HS: Konservatoriet (complete ballet)

Penderecki, Krzysztof: Symphony No. 3 (covered for the )

Piston, Walter: Symphony No. 2 Sinfonietta

Pritchard, Deborah Violin Concerto “Wall of Water” (world premiere performance and recording) Trumpet Concerto “Seven Halts on the Somme” (world premiere recording Piccolo Trumpet Concerto “Skyspace” (world premiere performance and recording)

Popper, David: Hungarian Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

Poulenc, Francis: Les Biches Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Gloria Stabat mater Sinfonietta

Pritchard, Deborah Skypace for Piccolo Trumpet and Strings (World Premiere) Wall of Water for Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere)

Prokofiev, Sergei: Symphonies No.’s 1 and 5 Suites 1-3 from Romeo and Juliet Alexander Nevsky Cantata A Summer’s Day, Suite for Children Peter and the Wolf Lieutenant Kije Suite Violin Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 5 Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra

Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Symphonies No.’s 1 and 2 Symphonic Dances Piano Concerti No.’s 2 and 3 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Isle of the Dead

Ravel, Maurice: Tombeau de Couperin Pavane pour une infante défunte Piano Concerto Rhapsodie Espagnol Daphnis and Chloé Suites 1 and 2 Alborada del Grazioso La Valse Mother Goose Suite

Respighi, Ottorino: , Suite One and Three Fountains of Rome Overture Metamorphseon

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Scheherazade Capricio Espagnol Russian Easter Overture

Rosauro, Ney:

Rossini, Gioachino: Overtures to Gazza Ladra, Tancredi, William Tell, Cenerentola and Barber of Seville

Rott, Hans: Symphony in E

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Roussel, Albert: Evocations 1-3

Saariaho, Kaija Terra memoria for String Orchestra (UK Premiere)

Saint-Saëns, Camille: Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”) Cello Concerto No. 1 Cello Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 2 Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra

Saxton, Robert Trumpet Concerto- “Psalm, A Song of Ascents” The Resurrection of the Soldiers (co-premiere)

Sawyers, Philip Symphony No. 2 (world premiere recording) Symphony no. 3 (world premiere performance and recording) Symphony No. 4 (world premiere performance and recording) Concertante for Violin, Piano and Strings (world premiere recording) Gale of Life Overture (UK Premiere) Cello Concerto (UK premiere and world premiere recording) Trumpet Concerto (world premiere performance and recording) Violin Concerto (world premiere performance and recording) Elegiac Rhapsody in Memory of John McCabe for Trumpet and Strings (world premiere performance and recording) The Valley of Vision (world premiere performance and recording) Hommage to Kandinsky (world premiere recording) Songs of Loss and Regret (world premiere performance and recording) Fanfare (world premiere performance and recording)

Schönberg, Arnold: Chamber Symphony No. 1 Pierrot Lunaire Pelleas und Melisande Verklärte Nacht String Quartet No. 2, arr. for string orchestra by the composer A Survivor from Warsaw

Schubert, Franz: Symphonies No.’s 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 String Quartet in D minor arr. for String Orchestra (arr. Mahler and arr. Woods versions) Overture in the Italian Style “Rosamunde” Overture (Overtue to Die Zauberharfe) Der Tod und das Mädchen, Variations and Lied for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (arr. Woods) Die Forelle, Lied and Variations for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (arr. woods

Schumann, Robert: Symphonies No.’s 1-4 Overture, and Finale Konzertstücke for four Horns Violin Concerto Piano Concerto Cello Concerto Manfred Overture Bride of Messina Overture Genoveva Overture

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Schwertsik, Kurt Nachtmusiken (US premiere)

Shostakovich, Dmitri: Symphonies No.’s 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15 Chamber Symphony op 73a (String Quartet No. 3 arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony op 83a (String Quartet No. 4 arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony op. 110a (String Quartet no. 8 arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony op 118a (String Quartet no. 10 arr. Barshai) Violin Concerti No.’s 1 and 2 Cello Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 1 (Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings) Piano Concerto No. 2 Festive Overture The Gadfly

Sibelius, Jean: Symphonies No.’s 1-7 Violin Concerto En Saga Finlandia Romance in C Festival Prelude Valse Triste Spring Song Incidental Music to Pelléas and Mélisande

Smetana, Bedrich: Die Moldau

Still, William Grant: Afro-American Symphony (Symphony No. 1) Dismal Swamp

Strauss, Franz: for Horn and Strings

Strauss, Johann Jr: Overture to Die Fledermaus Overture to Der Zigeunerbaron Waltzes: Emperor, Blue Danube, Voices of Spring, Artist’s Life, Vienna Blood, Welcome to America, Manhattan

Strauss, Richard: Don Juan Ein Heldenleben Tod und Verklärung An Alpine Symphony Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche Don Quioxte Horn Concerti No.’s 1 and 2 Duet Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings and Harp Serenade for Winds Metamorphosen Salome, final scene

Stravinsky, Igor: Firebird Suite (1919) Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Le Sacre du printemps Petrouchka Danses Concertantes A Soldier’s Tale (Complete and Suite) Symphony in Three Movements Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Suppé, Franz von: Overture to Poet and Peasant (Dichter und Bauer) Light Calvary Overture

Taylor, Matthew Symphony No. 4 (world premiere recording) Symphony No. 5 (world premiere performance and recording) Romanza for Strings (world premiere recording)

Takemitsu, Toru: Twill by Twilight Death and Resurrection from “Black Rain”

Tchaikovsky, Peter: Symphonies No.’s 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 Piano Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto in D major Francesa da Rimini Nutcracker (ballet and suite) Suite Overture “1812” “Mozartiana,” Suite no 4 for Orchestra Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Variations on a Rococo Theme Pezzo Capriccioso (version for string orchestra) Serenade for Strings String Quartet No. 3 In E-flat Minor (arr. Kenneth Woods)

Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon (excerpts and arias)

Tippett, Sir Michael: Concerto for Double String Orchestra Little Music for Strings Divertimento- Selinger’s Round

Truscott, Harold Elegy for Strings (UK premiere)

Turina, Joaquin : Rapsodica Sinfonica

Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 5 Oboe Concerto Festival Te Deum Fantasy on “Greensleeves” Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Fantasia on the Theme of Thomas Tallis The Lark Ascending On Wenlock Edge (version for full orchestra)

Varèse, Edgar Octandre

Verdi, Giuseppe: Overtures to La Forza del Destino, Nabucco, Vespri Siciliani Requiem

Xenakis, Iannis Akrata

Wagner, Richard: Symphony in C Sigfried Idyll Overtures/Preludes to Parsifal, Rienzi, Flying Dutchman, Die Meistersinger Tristan und Isolde: Preludes to Act I, Act III and Liebestod Waldweben (Forest Murmurs) from Siegfried

Walton, William Façade Viola Concerto Cello Concerto Variations on a theme of Music from Henry V

Weber, Carl Maria von: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 Overture to Der Freischütz Overture to Oberon Overture to Euryanthe

Webern, Anton: Langsammer Satz for String Orchestra arr. Schwarz

Weill, Kurt: Die Propheten Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Suite for Winds from A Threepenny )

Welcher, Dan: Piano Concerto “Shiva’s ” Bright Wings

Wieniawski, Henri: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor Reverie for Viola and Orchestra

Zwilich, Ellen: “Upbeat” for Orchestra Concerto for Bassoon

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net

Opera Repertoire Bartók, Béla: Bluebeard’s Castle

Bizet, Georges: Carmen

Britten, Benjamin:

Donizetti, Gaetano: L’Elisir d’amore

Joubert, John Jane Eyre (world premiere performance and recording)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Don Giovanni Le nozze di Figaro Die Zauberflöte

Puccini, Giacomo: Suor Angelica Gianni Schicchi La bohème Madama Butterfly

Verdi, Giuseppe: Falstaff

Wagner Die Walküre

Kenneth Woods- conductor www.kennethwoods.net