Boston Symphony Broadcasts for the Year 1927


1/1/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
Wagner: Die Götterdämmerung--Siegfried's Funeral Music   (Galen Stone in memoriam)
D. Scarlatti: Three Pieces, Arranged for Orchestra by Roland-Manuel
De Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Violoncello   (Landowska)
Mozart: Concerto Nº 16 for Piano and Orchestra--Finale (Rondo, Allegro di molto,)
    played on the Harpsichord    (Landowska)
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

1/15/1927 Conductor: Alfredo Casella (Symphony Hall)
    Walter Gieseking (piano)
Vivaldi: Concerto in A Minor for String Orchestra, Arranged by Sam Franko
Mozart: Concerto Nº 21 for Piano and Orchestra   (Gieseking)
Casella: Partita for Piano and Orchestra   (Gieseking)
Casella: La Giara--Orchestral Suite

1/22/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso Nº 12 in B Minor
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº 4
Roussel: Suite in F Major   (World Premiere)
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

1/29/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Aaron Copland (piano)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº 3
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Copland: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra   (Copland)    (World Premiere)
Schumann: Symphony Nº 1

2/12/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Moritz Rosenthal (piano)
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Brahms: Concerto Nº 2 for Piano and Orchestra   (Rosenthal)
Brahms: Symphony Nº 2

2/19/1927 Conductor: Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella (Symphony Hall)
    Alfredo Casella (conductor); Elsa Respighi (soprano)
Respighi: Concerto in the Mixolydian Mode for Piano and Orchestra
    (
Ottorino Respighi, piano; Alfredo Casella (conductor)
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute--Suite Nº 2
Respighi: Belfagor--Overture
Respighi: Il Tramonto, for Soprano and Orchestra   (Elsa Respighi)
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome

2/26/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Louis Speyer (english horn)
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela   (Speyer)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa   (World Premiere)
Elgar: Enigma Variations

3/5/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
   
The Cecilia Society (chorus,) Malcolm Lang (cond.); Charles Stratton (tenor)
Jakobus Langendoen: Variations on a Dutch Theme of Adrianus Valerius
Delius: The Song of the High Hills
Wolf: Der Feuerreiter
   (Stratton, Cecilia)
Brahms: The Song of Destiny   (
Cecilia)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia--Suite
    Prelude: Hymn to Nature; Bridal Procession; The Invasion of the Tartars; The Battle of Kershenetz
Prokofiev: Sept, ils sont Sept!   (Cecilia, Stratton)
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar--Finale  
(Cecilia)

3/19/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Richard Burgin (violin)
Handel/Harty: Water Music Suite
Alexander Tansman: Symphony in A Minor   (World Premiere)
Glazunov: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra   (Burgin)
Weber: Oberon--Overture

3/26/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 6
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7

4/2/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Jean Bedetti ('cello)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nº 4
Lalo: Concerto for 'Cello   (Bedetti)
Hill: Lilacs, Poem for Orchestra, Op. 33
Prokofiev: Symphony Nº 1
Honegger: Pacific 231

4/16/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
D. Scarlatti: Five Sonatas arranged in the form of a Suite & orchestrated by Vincenzo Tommasini
    (after the Ballet, The Good-Humored Ladies
Loeffler: Memories of my Childhood, Symphonic Poem
Converse: Flivver Ten Million   (World Premiere)
Tchaikovsky Symphony Nº 5

4/23/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Chadwick: Tam o'Shanter, Ballade for Orchestra
Sessions: Symphony Nº 1, in E Minor   (World Premiere)
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Strauss: Salome--Salome's Dance

4/30/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Beethoven: Leonore,--Overture Nº 3
Dukelsky: Zéphyr et Flore--Suite   (World Premiere)
Aubert: Habanera
Wagner: Die Walküre--Ride of the Valkyries
Brahms: Symphony Nº 1

10/8/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini--Overture
Brahms: Symphony Nº 3
Stravinsky: Petrushka--Suite
Debussy: Images for Orchestra--Nº 2, Iberia

10/15/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Bach orch. Schoenberg: Two Chorale Preludes
    1. Schmücke Dich...
    2. Komm, Gott...
De Falla: El Amor Brujo
Strauss: Symphonia Domestica

10/22/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Haydn: Symphony Nº 88
Prokofiev: Le Pas d'Acier--Suite
Ravel:
Ma Mère l'Oye
Loeffler: A Pagan Poem

10/29/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, Nº 10
Honegger: Fedra--Incidental Music   (World Premiere of Concert Form)
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé--Suite Nº 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony Nº 4

11/12/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Malipiero: Cimarosiana
Sibelius: Symphony Nº 5
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

11/19/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Mozart: Symphony Nº 39
Martinǔ: La Bagarre   (World Premiere)
Bloch: Three Jewish Poems
Strauss: Don Juan

12/3/1927 Conductor: Richard Burgin (Symphony Hall)
    Albert Spalding (violin)
Cherubini: Ali Baba--Overture
Brahms: Concerto for Violin   (Spalding)
Schreker: Prelude to a Drama
Liszt: Mazeppa

12/10/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator
Carpenter: Skyscrapers
Beethoven: Symphony Nº 7

12/17/1927 Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky (Symphony Hall)
    Myra Hess (piano)
Liadov: From the Apocalypse
Bax: Symphony Nº 1
Schumann: Concerto for Piano   (Hess)
Wagner: Tannhäuser--Overture