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by Chris Myers

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Richard Addinsell
Connect With the Heroes
includes Warsaw Concerto

J. S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes Die Kunst der Fuge

Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings

Capricorn Concerto
Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
Leonore Overture No. 3
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes String Quartet No. 6, op. 18 no. 6

Leonard Bernstein
Connect With the Heroes
includes Three Dance Episodes from On the Town

Ernest Bloch
Concerto Grosso No. 1

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto

Benjamin Britten
Britten, Dowland, and Purcell
includes Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury, Lachrymae, and String Quartet No. 2
Britten & Shostakovich
includes Cello Suite No. 1, String Quartet No. 1
Canticle No. 3 Still falls the Rain
Mozart & Britten
includes Three Divertimenti and String Quartet No. 3

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 1

Dietrich Buxtehude
Das neugeborne Kindelein

Alfredo Casella
Symphony No. 2

Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, op. 21

Aaron Copland
Music for the Theatre

Connect With the Heroes
includes Fanfare for the Common Man

Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso, op. 6, no. 8 “Fatto per la notte di Natale”

Claude Debussy
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes String Quartet

John Dowland
Britten, Dowland, and Purcell
includes Bookes of Songs or Ayres

Antonín Dvořák
Serenade in E major

Symphony No. 8
The Sound of the Czechs

Karólína Eiríksdóttir
Nordic Spirit
includes Flautuspil/Flute Reel

Philip Glass
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes String Quartet No. 5

Edvard Grieg
Nordic Spirit
includes String Quartet No. 1

George Frideric Handel
The Messiah, Part I

Water Music No. 1

Franz Joseph Haydn
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes String Quartet op. 33 no. 3 “The Bird”

Hildegard von Bingen
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes O virtus Sapientiæ

Paul Hindemith
Mathis der Maler Symphony

Aram Khachaturian
Piano Concerto

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6

Francesco Manfredini
Concerto Grosso op. 3, no. 12 “Pastorale per il santissimo natale”

Bohuslav Martinů
Oboe Concerto
Sinfonietta La Jolla
The Sound of the Czechs

Felix Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas Overture

Claudio Monteverdi
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes “Pur ti miro” from L’incoronazione di Poppea

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
Concerto for Flute & Harp, K. 299
Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488
Symphony No. 33, K. 319
Symphony No. 39, K. 543
Mozart & Britten
includes Adagio & Fugue and String Quartet K. 387

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 1
Nordic Spirit
includes Violin Sonata No. 1

Amilcare Ponchielli
“Dance of the Hours”

Francis Poulenc
Concerto for Organ, Timpani, and Strings

Florence Price
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes String Quartet

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2

Henry Purcell
Britten, Dowland, and Purcell
includes Fantasia on One Note, Z. 745

Maurice Ravel
La Valse

Richard Rodgers
The Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein
includes music from Carousel, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The King & I, and The Sound of Music
Connect With the Heroes
includes Victory at Sea

Kaija Saariaho
Nordic Spirit
includes Tocar

Alexander Scriabin
Le Poème de l’extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), op. 54

Caroline Shaw
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes Blueprint

Dmitri Shostakovich
Britten & Shostakovich
includes String Quartet No. 9
Symphony No. 7 Leningrad
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, op. 103 The Year 1905
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
includes String Quartet No. 3

Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride Overture

The Sound of the Czechs

Johann Strauss, Jr.
Die Fledermaus Overture

Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra
Don Juan

Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird
Pulcinella Suite

Georg Philipp Telemann
Trumpet Concerto in D major, TWV 51:D7

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Richard Wagner
Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre

William Walton
Crown Imperial
Connect With the Heroes
includes Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

John Williams
Connect With the Heroes
includes Suite from Schindler’s List and “Hymn to the Fallen” from Saving Private Ryan

Full Concert Overviews
Britten, Dowland, and Purcell
Britten & Shostakovich
Connect With the Heroes
Mozart & Britten
Nordic Spirit
R/Evolution: A Millennium of Musical Mavericks
The Sound of the Czechs