Boston Symphony Broadcasts for the Year 1928


1/14/1928 Conductor: Maurice Ravel (Symphony Hall)
    Lisa Roma (soprano)
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Debussy orch Ravel: Sarabande and Dance
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Ravel: Shéhérazade   (Roma)
Ravel: La Valse

1/21/1928 Conductor: Sir Thomas Beecham (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Teseo--Overture
Handel: Il Pastor Fido--Musette
Handel: Rodrigo--Bourée
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet--The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Berlioz: Les Troyens--Royal Hunt and Storm
Mozart: Symphony Nº 34
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

1/28/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Liadov: Russian Popular Songs for Orchestra, Op. 58
Dukas: La Péri
Sibelius: Symphony Nº 1

2/11/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Nina Koshetz (soprano); Cecilia Society, Malcolm Lang, conductor
Conrad Beck: Symphony Nº 3   (World Premiere)
Holst: Ode to Death, Op. 38   (Cecilia)
Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night--Overture
Borodin: Prince Igor--Aria   (Koshetz)
Schmitt: Psalm XLVII   (
Koshetz, Cecilia)

2/18/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Bela Bartók (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'or--Introduction and Wedding March
Bartók: Concerto Nº 1 for Piano   (Bartók)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 6

2/25/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
The entire broadcast was cancelled due to difficulties in obtaining the broadcast rights for Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

3/3/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Bernard Zighera (piano)
Walton: Sinfonia Concertante   (Zighera)
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
Brahms: Symphony Nº 1

3/17/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Vladimir Horowitz (piano); Richard Burgin (violin)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons--Summer
(edited by Molinari)    (Burgin)
Daniel G. Mason: Symphony in C Minor, Op. 11
Rachmaninov: Concerto Nº 3 for Piano and Orchestra   (Horowitz)
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust--Three Standard Excerpts

3/24/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Gluck: Ballet Suite Nº 2 (Arranged by Mottl)
Schumann: Symphony Nº 4
Piston: Symphonic Piece   (World Premiere)
Filip Lazăr: Music for Orchestra    (World Premiere)
Stravinsky: The Firebird--Suite

3/31/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Paul Kochanski (violin)
Hill: Symphony in B-flat, Op. 34
    (World Premiere)
Bach: Concerto Nº 1 for Violin and Orchestra   (Kochanski)
Ravel: Tzigane
   (Kochanski)
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde--Prelude and Liebestod

4/7/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Converse; California   (World Premiere)
Wagner: Parsifal--Prelude
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 5

4/21/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Marius Casadesus (Quinton); Henri Casadesus (Viola d'Amore); Regina
Patorni-Casadesus
    (Harpsichord); Albert W. Snow (Organ)
Luigi Lorenziti: Venetian Symphony   (World Premiere)
    (
Marius Casadesus, Henri Casadesus, Regina Patorni-Casadesus)
Luigi Borghi: Concerto for Harpsichord and Wind Orchestra   (
Mme. Patorni-Casadesus)
Bonifazio Asioli: Concerto in A Major for
Viola d'Amore and Orchestra   (Henri Casadesus)
Saint-Saëns: Symphony Nº 3   (Snow)

4/28/1928 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Egmont--Overture
Lopatnikoff: Scherzo, Op. 10   (World Premiere)
Debussy: La Mer
Brahms: Symphony Nº 2