New York Philharmonic Presents: THE GLENN DICTEROW COLLECTION New York Philharmonic Presents: LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) ALBUM 3 (DOWNLOAD ONLY) 85:51 THE GLENN DICTEROW Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) for Violin, String Orchestra, Harp, SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) and Percussion 33:40 Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, COLLECTION 2 Phaedrus: Pausanias Op. 63 25:18 (Lento – Allegro marcato) 7:35 1 Allegro moderato 0:20 3 Aristophanes (Allegretto) 4:42 2 Andante assai – Allegretto – Tempo I 8:56 4 Erixymachus (Presto) 1:30 3 Allegro ben marcato 6:02 5 ALBUM 1 (CD AND DOWNLOAD) 76:12 Agathon (Adagio) 8:00 Zubin Mehta, conductor 6 Socrates: Alcibiades (Molto tenuto – June 15, 1985, Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany Allegro molto vivace – Presto vivace) 11:53 MAX BRUCH (1838-1920) 5 Moderato nobile 8:54 Leonard Bernstein, conductor KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937) Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, 6 Romance 8:09 August 14, 1986, Blossom Music Center, Ohio 4 Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 24:16 Op. 26 26:11 7 Finale: Allegro assai vivace 7:12 Kurt Masur, conductor 1 Prelude: Allegro moderato and Adagio 18:38 David Robertson, conductor SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981) January 8, 9, 10, 13, 2004, Avery Fisher Hall 2 Finale: Allegro energico 7:33 May 22, 23, 24, 2008, Avery Fisher Hall Lorin Maazel, conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 24:02 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) March 9,13,14, 2009, Avery Fisher Hall JOHN WILLIAMS (B. 1932) 7 Allegro 11:31 Concerto No. 1 in A minor for 8 Theme from Schindler’s List 3:58 8 Andante 8:28 Violin and Orchestra, Op. 99 36:17 BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945) John Williams, conductor 9 Presto in moto perpetuo 4:03 5 Nocturne: Moderato 11:55 Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. posth., April 24, 26, 2006, Avery Fisher Hall Kurt Masur, conductor 6 Scherzo: Allegro 6:42 BB 48a 21:42 7 3 Andante sostenuto [attacca] 9:46 October 3, 4, 5, 1996, Avery Fisher Hall Passacaglia: Andante 8:18 4 ALBUM 2 (DOWNLOAD ONLY) 93:54 8 Cadenza 4:32 Allegro giocoso 11:56 9 Alan Gilbert, conductor FRANZ WAXMAN (1906-1967) Burlesque: Allegro con brio 4:50 0 Carmen Fantasie for Violin and May 19, 22, 26, 2012, Avery Fisher Hall AARON JAY KERNIS (B. 1960) Maxim Shostakovich, conductor 1 Lament and Prayer for Solo Violin, Orchestra Based on Themes from October 9, 1982, Avery Fisher Hall the Opera of Georges Bizet 10:56 ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897-1957) Oboe, Strings, and Percussion 25:16 Concerto in D major for Violin and Lorin Maazel, conductor Zubin Mehta, conductor Orchestra, Op. 35 24:15 January 20, 21, 22, 2005, Avery Fisher Hall January 13, 1990, Avery Fisher Hall nyphil.org/DicterowCollection 2 New York Philharmonic Presents THE GLENN DICTEROW COLLECTION 3 FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR his collection of recordings is an summate professionalism. I’ve seen him work important contribution in our cel- with conductors of great renown and complete T ebration of Glenn Dicterow, who is beginners, and have always been impressed by completing his fi nal season as the New York his consistent commitment and dedication. Philharmonic’s concertmaster. Numbers can In my fi rst weeks as music director, dur- hint at his contributions: he has provided a ing a concert on my fi rst Philharmonic tour, LEE CHRIS crucial underpinning and perspective during when I was hoping for something extra at a the tenures of four music directors and for certain moment in the music I looked over more than 200 guest conductors, and he has to Glenn and knew he absolutely understood presided over more than 6,000 concerts, and my intention. What happened next is an has given the Philharmonic for 34 years. has been his for decades this Orchestra will been a soloist in 219. illustration of what a quintessential concert- I am extremely fortunate to have been still benefi t from his impeccable virtuosity, true But statistics don’t capture the totality. master can do: Glenn, somehow, through the music director of the orchestra that Glenn professionalism, and beautiful playing. We wish Glenn is a legend. One of the world’s greatest force of his will and his body language, gal- Dicterow helped defi ne. He has been an es- him all success and happiness in his future. violinists, he brings his incredible musical vanized the orchestra, kicking things into a sential ingredient in the New York Philhar- point of view and inspires the highest standard turbo charge. This dramatic infl uence on the monic’s sound and approach to music. Long through the warmth of his sound and his con- entire ensemble is at the heart of what Glenn after he has stepped away from the seat that 6 New York Philharmonic Presents THE GLENN DICTEROW COLLECTION 7 New York Philharmonic Presents: THE GLENN DICTEROW COLLECTION Album Two Download Only at nyphil.org/DicterowCollection KERNIS Lament and Prayer BERNSTEIN Serenade BARBER Violin Concerto STEVEN SHERMAN Glenn with former Music Director Leonard Bernstein rehearsing in WAXMAN Central Park, 1986. Carmen Fantasie LAMENT AND PRAYER image of a cantor and a congregation. In the and in 1999 it premiered his Garden of Light, composer’s own words, “the music proceeds commissioned by the Walt Disney Company Glenn on Kernis: for Solo Violin, Oboe, Strings, as statement and response in much of the fi rst to celebrate the new millennium. and Percussion part, which is very chromatic, rather severe- His works for violin represent a signifi - I was looking for more cutting edge pieces since sounding and intense; the prayer is mostly cant volume of his repertoire, not surprising the Orchestra’s guest artists were playing most of Aaron Jay Kernis quiet, and spun from a very simple, long line since that is the instrument he principally the standards, such as, the Beethoven, Brahms, and the Bruch, in addition to the fact that I had b. Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, with pulsing harmonies underneath — just studied when he began his path as a musi- already played them. I happened to listen to a January 15, 1960 the hint of the minimalist elements that oc- cian. His music is characterized by poetic recording of Pamela Frank playing Lament and casionally crop up in my music.” imagery, brilliant instrumental tones, a keen Prayer, and I was absolutely blown away. Lorin Maazel, conductor Glenn Dicterow, Lorin Maazel and the sense of exploration, and the feeling that It was the emotional content in the work Glenn Dicterow, violin New York Philharmonic performed the La- the composer gets under the skin of his with which I felt a great kinship. It’s heartfelt and it’s about the plight of the Jewish people and it ment and Prayer in January, 2005, building on a subject matter, reinventing his language to speaks for itself – lament and prayer. And I said, Performances of January 20, 21, 22, 2005 relationship that started with the Orchestra’s serve the project at hand. Among his other I have to play this piece! Even though it’s only Avery Fisher Hall premiere of Kernis’ Dream of the Morning Sky works are Color Wheel (2001, written for The about 21 minutes I felt it was very important and in its 1983 Horizons Festival that catapulted Philadelphia Orchestra on the opening of its one of Aaron’s best works. Working with Aaron was wonderful and I think quite successful. the young composer to national attention and new concert hall at the Kimmel Center for proclaimed his talent for composing for the the Performing Arts); a Toy Piano Concerto aron Jay Kernis’ Lament and Prayer more-or-less standard symphony orchestra. (2002, written for Margaret Leng Tan); a song marks the culmination of a group By the end of that decade Kernis had begun cycle for the soprano Renée Fleming; and complement described by the composer as A of compositions motivated by the to display a style marked by expressive lyri- an ambient-sound installation for the Rose “triangles (with thin triangle beaters), jingles, composer’s reaction to war, suffering and cism and was sometimes cited as a leading ex- Center for Earth and Space at the American metal shakers, sizzle cymbals (with thin genocide. Completed in 1996, the dedica- ponent of the “New Romanticism.” In 1994 Museum of Natural History in New York. triangle beaters, light sticks, or brushes), small tion in the score reads: “In commemoration the Philharmonic premiered his New Era Asian bells, and other metal percussion in- of the 50th anniversary of the end of World Dance, one of the commissions the Orchestra Instrumentation: oboe (offstage); chimes struments”; two harps; and strings; in addition War II and the Holocaust” and invokes the extended to celebrate its 150th anniversary, (offstage), and an additional percussion to the solo violin. 32 New York Philharmonic Presents THE GLENN DICTEROW COLLECTION 33 SERENADE concerto for Isaac Stern to premiere at the Venice Festival in September.” Candide would (after Plato’s “symposium”) end up dragging on and on. The “violin Glenn on Bernstein and his Serenade: for Violin, String Orchestra, concerto,” however, was accomplished in less Harp, and Percussion than a year once he set about working on it Since his fi rst performance of the Serenade to do it with the composer on the podium. seriously in the fall of 1953, and those close in 1986, Glenn has performed the work 22 The fi rst time I played it was at a daunt- times with the Philharmonic alone, seven of ing Parks Concert in 1986. There must have to Bernstein reported that it remained one of those with Bernstein.