July 13
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, and 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, early triumph for Wagner, complete 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