August 16
Composers’ Early Successes
Most of the music on this program was written by teenagers: Mendelssohn was seventeen years old when he composed his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninov completed his First Piano Concerto, Strauss his First Horn Concerto at age eighteen, and nineteen-year-old Shostakovich submitted his First Symphony as a graduation exercise from the Petrograd Conservatory. The overture to Rienzi, an early triumph for Wagner, completes the program.
Richard Wagner
Overture to Rienzi
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11
Dale Clevenger, horn
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Igor Stravinsky
Fireworks, Op. 4
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
Byron Janis, piano
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
Jean Martinon, conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10
Leonard Bernstein, conductor