This blog lists all subscription concerts the orchestra gave in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1931 – 1932 Season
Thursday 1 October 1931 (B1)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso SAINT-SAËNS
Fête Polonaise CHABRIER
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 8 October 1931 (C1)
Pierre Monteux
Russian Easter Festival Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Jaroslavna’s Aria from Prince Igor BORODIN
Kikimora LIADOV
The Enchanted Lake LIADOV
Baba Yaga LIADOV
‘Triste est la steppe’, aria GRETCHANIKOV
Oriental Romance RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Dream Dance from Sorochintsky Fair MUSSORGSKY
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Cradle Song from Songs and Dances of Death MUSSORGSKY
Nina Koshetz, soprano
Thursday 15 October 1931 (B2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Maartje Offers, contralto Amsterdam Toonkunst Choir
Union for the Promotion of Folk Song Youth Choir
Sunday 18 October 1931 (Z1/1)
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 22 MOZART
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Wanda Landowska, piano
Thursday 22 October 1931 (C2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Myra Hess, piano
Thursday 29 October 1931 (B3)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7, ‘Le Midi’ HAYDN
‘Lobgesang’ from Symphoniarum sacrarum SCHÜTZ
Sinfonietta BERNARD WAGENAAR
Shéhérazade RAVEL
La Valse RAVEL
Vera Janacopulos, soprano
Sunday 1 November 1931 (Z2/1)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 2 (arr. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Lucio Silla, Overture JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Cello Concerto CORNELIS DOPPER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp, cello
Sunday 8 November 1931 (Z2/2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 GLAZUNOV
Spring GLAZUNOV
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
March on a Russian Theme GLAZUNOV
Caecilia Hansen, violin
Thursday 12 November 1931 (C3)
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
Die Nacht DIEPENBROCK
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Ilona Durigo, contralto Jacques Urlus, tenor
Sunday 15 November 1931 (Z2/2)
Willem Mengelberg
L’Isola disabitata, Overture HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Deux Images BARTÓK
Lohengrin, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Burleske in D minor RICHARD STRAUSS
Walter Gieseking, piano
Thursday 26 November 1931 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Cello Concerto in G minor MATTHIAS GEORG MONN
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Pablo Casals, cello
Sunday 29 November 1931 (Z1/3)
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hiller REGER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Thursday 3 December 1931 (C4)
Willem Mengelberg
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, Nocturne and Scherzo MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Alexander Schmuller, violin
Thursday 10 December 1931 (B5)
Willem Mengelberg
Nachklänge aus Ossian, Overture GADE
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hiller REGER
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Sunday 13 December 1931 (Z2/3)
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Ania Dorfmann, piano
Thursday 17 December 1931 (C5)
Willem Mengelberg
Cornelis Dopper*
Eduard van Beinum#
Old Netherlands Dance Suite DOPPER*
Symphony No. 2, ‘Rembrandt’ DOPPER#
Nocturne for Viola and Orchestra DOPPER
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Frédéric Denayer, viola
Thursday 7 January 1932 (B6)
Pierre Monteux
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 D’INDY
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 10 January 1932 (Z1/4)
Pierre Monteux
Alfredo Casella*
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Scarlattiana CASELLA
La Giara, Symphonic Suite CASELLA*
Alfredo Casella, piano Louis van Tulder, tenor
Thursday 14 January 1932 (C6)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony No. 85, ‘La Reine’ HAYDN
Piano Concerto ERNST TOCH
Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ SAINT-SAËNS
Ernst Toch, piano
Sunday 17 January 1932 (Z2/4)
Pierre Monteux
Overture in the Italian Style in C major SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Ariadne auf Naxos, cantata HAYDN
Concerto for Orchestra HINDEMITH
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Annie Woud, contralto
Thursday 21 January 1932 (B7)
Pierre Monteux
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Symphony No. 31, ‘Horn Signal’ HAYDN
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Moritz Rosenthal, piano
Sunday 24 January 1932 (Z1/5)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto GUILLAUME LANDRÉ
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra BARTÓK
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Zoltán Székely, violin
Thursday 28 January 1932 (C7)
Pierre Monteux
Sergei Prokofiev*
A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov) MUSSORGSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV
Le Pas d’Acier, Suite PROKOFIEV*
Petrushka RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Sergei Prokofiev, piano
Thursday 4 February 1932 (B8)
Pierre Monteux
Fidelio, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Sunday 7 February 1932 (Z1/6)
Pierre Monteux
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Ein hohes Lied DIRK FOCK
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Das Hexenlied VON SCHILLINGS
Ludwig Wüllner, speaker
Thursday 11 February 1932 (C8)
Pierre Monteux
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto No. 1 HAYDN
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Prelude to The Mastersingers WAGNER
Albert Spalding, violin
Sunday 14 February 1932 (Z2/5)
Pierre Monteux
Theo van der Bijl*
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Glagolitic Mass JANACEK*
Françoise Vetter-Hendriks, soprano Rélie Rimathé, contralto
Louis van Tulder, tenor Johan Nelissen, baritone
Willy Françoise, organ R.K. Oratorium Vereniging
Thursday 25 February 1932 (B9)
Pierre Monteux
Céphale et Procris, Ballet Music (arr. Mottl) GLUCK
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra HENRIËTTE BOSMANS
Symphony No. 3 PIJPER
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Henriëtte Bosmans, piano
Sunday 28 February 1932 (Z2/6)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 5 SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Two Studies for Orchestra VLADIMIR VOGEL
Le Carnaval Romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Gérard Hekking, cello
Thursday 3 March 1932 (C9)
Eduard van Beinum
Sinfonia concertante in B flat major HAYDN
La Mer DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Louis Zimmermann, violin Henk van Wezel, cello
Johannes Willem Peddemors, oboe Petrus Johannes Elders, bassoon
Sunday 6 March 1932 (Z1/7)
Eduard van Beinum
Le Miroir de Jésus ANDRÉ CAPLET
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Berthe Seroen, soprano Bel Canto a cappella choir
Thursday 10 March 1932 (B10)
Willem Mengelberg
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’ HAYDN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Sunday 13 March 1932 (Z2/7)
Willem Mengelberg
Prologus brevis VAN GILSE
Schelomo BLOCH
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Raphael Lanes, cello
Thursday 17 March 1932 (B11)
Willem Mengelberg
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern SCHUBERT
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Wanderers Nachtlied LISZT
Mignon LISZT
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Ilona Durigo, contralto Apollo Royal Male Choir
Thursday 31 March 1932 (C10)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
'No, no, che non sei capace', K419, concert aria MOZART
'Vorrei spiegarvi', K418, concert aria MOZART
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
'Grossmächtige Prinzessin’ from Ariadne auf Naxos RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils, from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Maria Ivogün, soprano
Sunday 3 April 1932 (Z1/8)
Willem Mengelberg
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Cello Concerto LALO
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Marix Loevensohn, cello
Thursday 7 April 1932 (C11)
Willem Mengelberg
Maurice Ravel*
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL*
Bolero RAVEL*
Marguérite Long, piano
Sunday 10 April 1932 (Z2/8)
Willem Mengelberg
Marche Militaire (orch. Guiraud) SCHUBERT
Poet and Peasant, Overture SUPPÉ
Wiener Dreiviertelakt JOHAN WAGENAAR
Perpetuum mobile JOHANN STRAUSS II
Wiener Blut, Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Symphony No. 45, ‘Farewell’ HAYDN
Thursday 14 April 1932 (B12)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Thursday 28 April 1932 (C12)
Willem Mengelberg
The Seasons HAYDN
Mia Peltenburg, soprano Julius Patzak, tenor
Herman Schey, bass Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1932 – 1933 Season
Thursday 6 October 1932 (B1)
Pierre Monteux
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 (arr. Cortot) CHOPIN
A Romantic Suite REGER
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Alfred Cortot, piano
Thursday 13 October 1932 (B2)
Pierre Monteux
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Violin Concerto DVORAK
Chirurgie, Suite PIERRE-OCTAVE FERROUD
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Nathan Milstein, violin
Sunday 16 October 1932 (Z1/1)
Pierre Monteux
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Totentanz LISZT
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
Thursday 27 October 1932 (B3)
Willem Mengelberg
Cyrano de Bergerac, Overture JOHAN WAGENAAR
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Marix Loevensohn, cello
Sunday 30 October 1932 (Z2/1)
Willem Mengelberg
Die Zauberharfe, Overture SCHUBERT
Triumph der Empfindsamkeit, Suite KRENEK
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Jo Vincent, soprano
Thursday 3 November 1932 (K1)
Willem Mengelberg
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Concert Music for Piano, Bradd and Two Harps HINDEMITH
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Walter Gieseking, piano
Sunday 6 November 1932 (Z1/2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Romeo alone and Capulet’s Celebrations from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 10 November 1932 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Sunday 13 November 1932 (Z2/2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Les Préludes LISZT
Alexander Uninsky, piano
Thursday 17 November 1932 (B5)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3, ‘To My Fatherland’ ZWEERS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Sunday 20 November 1932 (Z1/3)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Ballade on a Norse Folk Song RÖNTGEN
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Sunday 27 November 1932 (Z2/3)
Pierre Monteux
Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6/5 HANDEL
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
La Mer DEBUSSY
Louis Zimmermann, violin Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Marix Loevensohn, cello Josefa Rosanska, piano
Thursday 1 December 1932 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto in D minor LOUIS ZIMMERMANN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Thursday 8 December 1932 (B7)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2 BEETHOVEN
Overture, Entr’acte and Ballet Music from Rosamunde SCHUBERT
Perpetuum Mobile JOHANN STRAUSS II
Wiener Dreivierteltakt JOHAN WAGENAAR
Sunday 11 December 1932 (Z1/4)
Eduard van Beinum
Donna Diana, Overture REZNICEK
Arbeid, symphonic movement MARIUS MONNIKENDAM
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Henriëtte Bosmans, piano Marix Loevensohn, cello
Thursday 15 December 1932 (K2)
Hermann Abendroth
Willem van Otterloo*
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 BACH
‘O Teseo! O Teseo mio!’ recitative abd lament from Arianna MONTEVERDI
Divertimento No. 7 MOZART
Two Dances for Harp and Strings DEBUSSY
Death of Socrates from Socrates, symphonic drama SATIE
Suite No. 3 VAN OTTERLOO*
Marya Freund, soprano Rosa Spier, harp
Thursday 5 January 1933 (B8)
Eduard van Beinum
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 1 MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Ania Dorfmann, piano
Sunday 8 January 1933 (Z2/4)
Eduard van Beinum
Fantasy in G minor SUK
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Thursday 12 January 1933 (K3)
Eduard van Beinum
A Musical Joke MOZART
Coffee Cantata BACH
Pièces enfantines for chamber orchestra STRAVINSKY
The Carnival of the Animals SAINT-SAËNS
Hélène Cals, soprano Louis van Tulder, tenor
Herman Schey, bass
Thursday 19 January 1933 (B9)
Eduard van Beinum
Les deux journées, Overture CHERUBINI
Violin Concerto in G major DITTERSDORF
Marsyas, Suite DIEPENBROCK
Violin Concerto No. 1 MILHAUD
Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat FALLA
Alexander Schmuller, violin
Sunday 22 January 1933 (Z1/5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 29 MOZART
La demoiselle élue DEBUSSY
Symphonic Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra EMILE ENTHOVEN
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHAN WAGENAAR
Hans Gruys, mezzo soprano Suze Luger, contralto
Louis Zimmermann, violin Bel Canto A cappella Choir
Thursday 26 January 1933 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
The Marriage of Figaro, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sunday 29 January 1933 (Z2/5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
The Nutcracker, Suite TCHAIKOVSKY
Caecilia Hansen, violin
Thursday 16 February 1933 (B11)
Erich Kleiber
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre WAGNER
Parsifal, Overture WAGNER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude Act 3, Sachs Monologue and Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Alexander Kipnis, baritone
Sunday 19 February 1933 (Z2/6)
Erich Kleiber
Symphony in C major WAGNER
Lohengrin Prelude Act 3 and Lohengrin’s narration WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Entry of the Guests and Pilgrimsfahrt nach Rom WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Jacques Urlus, tenor
Thursday 23 February 1933 (K4)
Pierre Monteux
Concerti for Orchestra MALIPIERO
Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op. 4 No. 6 HANDEL
Viola da gamba Concerto in D major TARTINI
Concert champêtre POULENC
Wanda Landowska, harpsichord Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp, viola da gamba
Sunday 26 February 1933 (Z1/6)
Pierre Monteux
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
François Lang, piano
Thursday 2 March 1933 (B12)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony No. 2 BORODIN
Rébus, ballet suite MARKEVITCH
Cello Concerto in A minor (Arpeggione Sonata orch. Cassado) SCHUBERT
The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture ROSSINI
Gaspar Cassadó, cello
Sunday 5 March 1933 (Z2/7)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto in E major BACH
Violin Concerto MALIPIERO
Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
Viola Mitchell, violin
Thursday 9 March 1933 (B13)
Pierre Monteux
Gwendoline, Overture CHABRIER
Gigues from Images DEBUSSY
Carnaval d’Aix for Piano and Orchestra MILHAUD
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Darius Milhaud, piano
Sunday 19 March 1933 (Z1/7)
Pierre Monteux
Variations on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Violin Concerto No. 1 PAGANINI
Two Symphonic Moments TANSMAN
Tzigane RAVEL
Zino Francescatti, violin
Thursday 23 March 1933 (K5)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony in C major, Op. 16 No. 3 BOCCHERINI
Invocation and Hymne au soleil from Les indes galantes RAMEAU
Italian Serenade WOLF
Les Prières CAPLET
Pulcinella Suite STRAVINSKY
Charles Panzéra, baritone Frédéric Denayer, viola
Sunday 26 March 1933 (Z2/8)
Bruno Walter
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 19 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Willem Andriessen, piano
Thursday 30 March 1933 (B14)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 86 HAYDN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Samuel Dushkin, violin
Sunday 2 April 1933 (Z1/8)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major, Op. 18/2 (arr Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Lucio Silla, Overture JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Marguérite Long, piano
Thursday 6 April 1933 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Cantata No. 209, ‘Non sa che sia dolore’ BACH
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Jo Vincent, soprano Karel Willeke, flute
Thursday 20 April 1933 (FS1)
Willem Mengelberg
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Ilona Durigo, contralto Royal Apollo Mens Choir
Tuesday 25 April 1933 (FS2)
Willem Mengelberg
Tragic Overture BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Elly Ney, piano
Thursday 27 April 1933 (FS3)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Carl Felsch, violin
Tuesday 2 May 1933 (FS4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Mia Peltenburg, soprano Herman Schey, bass
Toonkunstkoor, Amsterdam
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1933 – 1934 Season
Thursday 5 October 1933 (B1)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 3 SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 HENK BADINGS
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS
Marcelle Meyer, piano
Thursday 12 October 1933 (B2)
Pierre Monteux
Iphigenie en Aulis, Overture GLUCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Adolf Busch, violin
Sunday 15 October 1933 (Z1/1)
Pierre Monteux
The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture ROSSINI
Violin Concerto in B flat major PERGOLESI
In the Steppes of Central Asia BORODIN
Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Samuel Dushkin, violin
Thursday 19 October 1933 (K1)
Eduard van Beinum
Orchestral Suite No. 1 BACH
‘Stein, der über alle Schätze’, aria from Cantata No. 152 BACH
‘Was mir behagt, ist nur muntre Jagd, aria from Cantata No. 208 BACH
Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra BACH
Cantata No. 202 BACH
Jo Vincent, soprano Karel Willeke, flute
Richard Sell, horn A. Toorenspits, horn
Louis Zimmermann, violin Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Sunday 22 October 1933 (Z2/1)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
To van der Sluys, soprano Maartje Offers, contralto
Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Thursday 26 October 1933 (B3)
Eduard van Beinum
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
Epiphanie fresque for cello and orchestra CAPLET
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 3 ROUSSEL
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Marix Loevensohn, cello
Sunday 29 October 1933 (Z1/2)
Eduard van Beinum
Enigma Variations ELGAR
‘Ah! Perfido’, concert aria BEETHOVEN
‘Baron Hop’, suite No. 2 ALEXANDER VOORMOLEN
Das Rosenband, Meinem Kinde, Morgen, Wiegenlied and Caecilie, lieder RICHARD STRAUSS
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Tuesday 31 October 1933 (O1)
Eduard van Beinum
Fidelio, Overture BEETHOVEN
'Nein länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen’, recitative and aria from Der Freischütz WEBER
‘Ozean, du Ungeheuer’, recitative and aria from Oberon WEBER
Udine, Overture LORTZING
‘Zu neuen Thaten’ & Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Funeral March and Closing Scene from Götterdämmerung WAGNER
Florence Austral, soprano Gotthelf Pistor, tenor
Thursday 2 November 1933 (B4)
Clemens Krauss
Overture and Bacchanale from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 4 RUBINSTEIN
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Josef Hofmann, piano
Sunday 5 November 1933 (Z2/2)
Clemens Krauss
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Schlagobers, Ballet Suite RICHARD STRAUSS
Prelude from Die Meistersinger WAGNER
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 16 November 1933 (B5)
Pierre Monteux
Concerto Grosso No. 10 HANDEL
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Overture for an Opera Bouffe GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE
Cello Concerto RÖNTGEN
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp, cello
Sunday 19 November 1933 (Z1/3)
Pierre Monteux
Overture, Scherzo and Finale SCHUMANN
Impressions from an Artist’s Life, for piano and orchestra SCHELLING
Printemps DEBUSSY
La valse RAVEL
Ernest Schelling, piano
Thursday 30 November 1933 (K2)
Eduard van Beinum
Johannes den Hertog*
Igor Markevitch+
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Menuet chanté from Alceste LULLY
‘Amour que veux-tu de moi’ from Amadis LULLY
‘Rossignols Amoureux’ from Hippolyte et Aricie RAMEAU
Two Womens Choruses from Faust JOHANNES DEN HERTOG*
Pastorale d'été HONEGGER
Psalm for soprano and orchestra MARKEVITCH+
Vera Janacopulos, soprano
Sunday 3 December 1933 (Z2/3)
Eduard van Beinum
Igor Markevitch+
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Psalm for soprano and orchestra MARKEVITCH+
Vera Janacopulos, soprano
Thursday 7 December 1933 (B6)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Kindertotenlieder MAHLER
Alexander Kipnis, bass
Tuesday 12 December 1933 (O2)
Pierre Monteux
La chasse du jeune Henri, overture MÉHUL
'Vainement Pharaon dans sa reconnaissance', aria from Joseph MÉHUL
Castor and Pollux, Suite RAMEAU
'A cette voix quel trouble agitait tout mon être' from Pearl Fishers BIZET
Chasse Bohémienne, from La jolie fille de Perth BIZET
Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans BERLIOZ
‘Nature immense impénétrable et fière’ from La Damnation de Faust BERLIOZ
'Désirer sans espoir' from Maximilien MILHAUD
'Puisqu'on ne peut fléchir ces jalouses gardiennes' from Le Roi d’Ys LALO
Gwendoline, Prelude Act 2 CHABRIER
Fête Polonaise from Le Roi malgré lui CHABRIER
Joseph Rogatchewski, tenor
Sunday 17 December 1933 (Z1/4)
Pierre Monteux
Bourrée fantasque (inst. Mottl) CHABRIER
La Péri DUKAS
Receuillement DIEPENBROCK
Fêtes galantes for soprano and orchestra WILLEM PIJPER
Romance sans paroles WILLEM PIJPER
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Berthe Seroen, soprano
Thursday 21 December 1933 (B7)
Pierre Monteux
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 1 ROUSSEL
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Erna Rubinstein, violin
Thursday 4 January 1934 (B8)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Zino Francescatti, violin
Sunday 7 January 1934 (Z2/4)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Six Symphonic Epigrams WILLEM PIJPER
Piano Concerto WILLEM PIJPER
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Willem Andriessen, piano
Thursday 11 January 1934 (B9)
Eduard van Beinum
Der Barbier von Bagdad, overture CORNELIUS
Flute and Harp Concerto MOZART
Taras Bulba JANÁCEK
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Karel Willeke, flute Rosa Spier, harp
Marix Loevensohn, cello
Sunday 14 January 1934 (Z1/5)
Eduard van Beinum
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Ballet Suite, Op. 130 REGER
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Jelli d’Aranyi, violin
Thursday 18 January 1934 (K3)
Eduard van Beinum
Dance Suite from Couperin RICHARD STRAUSS
Chamber Concerto for piano, violin and 13 wind instruments BERG
Notturno in D major for four orchestras MOZART
Concerto for chamber orchestra ROUSSEL
Francis Koene, violin Henriëtte Bosmans, piano
Tuesday 23 January 1934 (O3)
Emil Cooper
Ruslan and Ludmila, overture GLINKA
Gritzko’s arioso and The Dream of Parassia from Sorochintsky Fair MUSSORGSKY
Mlada, Act 3 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Mazeppa, Act 3 TCHAIKOVSKY
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Oda Slobodskaya, soprano Kipras Petrauskas Piotrovsky, tenor
Thursday 25 January 1934 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Khamma DEBUSSY
Nights in the Gardens of Spain FALLA
Jan Smeterlin, piano
Sunday 28 January 1934 (Z2/5)
Eduard van Beinum
Le chasseur maudit FRANCK
Cello Concerto LALO
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Maurice Maréchal, cello
Sunday 4 February 1934 (Z1/6)
Albert van Raalte
Passacaglia in C minor (orch. Respighi) BACH
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Stefan Bergmann, piano
Thursday 8 February 1934 (B11)
Bruno Walter
Der Freischütz, overture WEBER
Verklärte Nacht SCHOENBERG
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Sunday 11 February 1934 (Z2/6)
Bruno Walter
Overture, Nocturne & Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
Ah! Infelice, concert aria MENDELSSOHN
‘Qui, Dieu le veut!’ aria from The Maid of Orleans TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Else Rijkens, soprano
Thursday 15 February 1934 (K4)
Bruno Walter
Serenade No. 2 BRAHMS
Serenata for small orchestra CASELLA
Serenade for 13 wind instruments RICHARD STRAUSS
Italian Serenade WOLF
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Frédéric Denayer, viola
Sunday 18 February 1934 (Z1/7)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 102 HAYDN
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Bruno Walter, piano
Tuesday 27 February 1934 (O4)
Mario Parenti
The Italian Girl in Algiers, overture ROSSINI
'La mamma morta m'hano a la porta', aria from Andrea Chenier GIORDANO
Easter Prelude from Siberia GIORDANO
‘Celeste Aida’ from Aida VERDI
Danza del Torchio e Cavalcata from Giulietta e Romeo ZANDONAI
Preludes from Acts 3 and 4 of La Wally CATALANI
'Donna non vidi mai simile a questa' from Manon Lescaut PUCCINI
‘Vissi d’arte e d’amor’, aria from Tosca PUCCINI
‘Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia’, duet from Madama Butterfly PUCCINI
William Tell, overture ROSSINI
Augusta Oltrabella, soprano Pedro Mirassou, tenor
Thursday 1 March 1934 (B12)
Henri van Goudoever
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Violin Concerto DVORAK
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Ruth Posselt, violin
Sunday 4 March 1934 (Z2/7)
Pierre Monteux
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), overture MENDELSSOHN
Symphonie concertante SZYMANOWSKI
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Karol Szymanowski, piano
Thursday 8 March 1934 (K5)
Pierre Monteux
Symphony No. 31, ‘Horn Signal’ HAYDN
‘Ridente la calma’, canzonetta MOZART
‘Ferne von ihrem Neste’ arietta from La finta giardiniera MOZART
Concert Music for Strings and Brass HINDEMITH
Grosse Fuge (arr. Weingartner) BEETHOVEN
‘Der Hirt auf dem Felsen’ (orch. Reinecke) SCHUBERT
Voices of Spring (arr for soprano and orchestra) JOHANN STRAUSS II
Lotte Schöne, soprano Rudolf Gall, clarinet
Sunday 11 March 1934 (Z1/8)
Fritz Busch
Leonore No. 2, overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
Rococo variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Four Böcklin Tone Poems REGER
Gaspar Cassadó, cello
Thursday 15 March 1934 (B13)
Fritz Busch
Cockaigne, overture ELGAR
Hymn to the Night DIEPENBROCK
Suite No. 3 WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Jo Vincent, soprano
Sunday 18 March 1934 (Z2/8)
Carl Schuricht
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Stefan Askenase, piano
Thursday 5 April 1934 (B14)
Erich Kleiber
Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Thursday 26 April 1934 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Rosette Anday, contralto Martin Oehman, tenor
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1934 – 1935 Season
Thursday 4 October 1934 (B1)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Thursday 11 October 1934 (B2)
Bruno Walter
Symphonic Fantasy WEILL
Piano Concerto No. 3 PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Sergei Prokofiev, piano
Sunday 14 October 1934 (Z1/1)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’ MOZART
‘Crudele!...Non mir dir’, recitative and aria from Don Giovanni MOZART
Church Windows RESPIGHI
‘Casta Diva’ aria from Norma BELLINI
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Sunday 21 October 1934 (Z2/1)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 7 SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Erica Morini, violin
Thursday 25 October 1934 (B3)
Bruno Walter
The Birds, overture DIEPENBROCK
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Joszef Szigeti, violin
Sunday 4 November 1934 (Z1/2)
Bruno Walter
Leonore No. 2, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Josef Hofmann, piano
Thursday 8 November 1934 (B4)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 88 HAYDN
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAENS
In the Garden of Marguerite, Interlude ROGER-DUCASSE
Le joli jeu de Furet ROGER-DUCASSE
Le Tombeau de Couperin RAVEL
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Raphael Lanes, cello
Sunday 11 November 1934 (Z2/2)
Bruno Walter
Concerto Grosso in D major HANDEL
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Maartje Offers, contralto Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Zanglust Youth Choir
Thursday 15 November 1934 (B5)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’ SCHUBERT
Rosamunde, ballet music SCHUBERT
Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART
Die schone Galatea, overture SUPPE
The Blue Danube, waltz JOHANN STRAUSS II
Die Fledermaus, overture JOHANN STRAUSS II
Thursday 22 November 1934 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Tod und Verklarung RICHARD STRAUSS
Burleske RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Ernest Schelling, piano Louis Zimmermann, violin
Sunday 25 November 1934 (Z1/3)
Willem Mengelberg
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Symphonia domestica RICHARD STRAUSS
Guila Bustabo, violin
Sunday 2 December 1934 (Z2/3)
Willem Mengelberg
Richard Strauss*
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS*
‘Lied der Frauen’, ‘Meine Augen’, ‘Befreit’, ‘Fruhlingsfeier’ RICHARD STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils and Closing Scene from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Viorica Ursuleac, soprano
Thursday 6 December 1934 (B7)
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, overture WEBER
Symphony No. 7 MAHLER
Thursday 13 December 1934 (B8)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Ah! Perfido, concert aria BEETHOVEN
From the South, suite VON BRUCKEN FOCK
Parassia’s Dream from Sorochinsky Fair MUSSORGSKY
Jaroslavna’s aria from Prince Igor BORODIN
Gopak MUSSORGSKY
Dances from Galanta KODALY
Oda Sloboskaya, soprano
Sunday 16 December 1934 (Z1/4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony in B flat major, Op. 18/2 JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Salve Regina RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Jo Vincent, soprano
Sunday 6 January 1935 (Z2/4)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 0 BRUCKNER
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Misha Elman, violin
Thursday 10 January 1935 (B9)
Eduard van Beinum
Organ Concerto in D minor HANDEL
Mathis der Maler, symphony HINDEMITH
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Piet van Egmond, organ
Thursday 17 January 1935 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
Sinfonietta for Strings MIASKOVSKY
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 2 SAINT-SAENS
Romeo alone and the Capulet’s Party from Romeo and Juliet BERLIOZ
Artur Rubinstein, piano Ladies Choir
Sunday 20 January 1935 (Z1/5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Triple Concerto CASELLA
Mathis der Maler, symphony HINDEMITH
Alberto Poltronieri, violin Arturo Bonucci, cello
Alfredo Casella, piano
Sunday 27 January 1935 (Z2/5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphonic Prologue to a Tragedy REGER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Thursday 31 January 1935 (B11)
Eduard van Beinum
Parsifal, Prelude WAGNER
The Night DIEPENBROCK
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Annie Woud, contralto
Sunday 3 February 1935 (Z1/6)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto in E major BACH
Hungarian Dances BARTOK
Violin Concerto No. 1 PAGANINI
Vasha Prihoda, violin
Thursday 7 February 1935 (C1)
Hermann Scherchen
The Art of the Fugue (orch. Graeser) BACH
Sunday 17 February 1935 (Z2/6)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Alexander Borovsky, piano
Thursday 21 February 1935 (B12)
Bruno Walter
Egmont, overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Harold in Italy BERLIOZ
Rudolf Serkin, piano Frédéric Denayer, viola
Sunday 24 February 1935 (Z1/7)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Benvenuto Cellini, overture BERLIOZ
Adolf Busch, violin
Thursday 28 February 1935 (C2)
Bruno Walter
Concerto Grosso in D major HANDEL
Concerto Grosso No. 12 HANDEL
Acis and Galatea HANDEL
Lotte Leonard, soprano Charles Kullmann, tenor
Ankie van Wickevoort Crommelin, contralto Berthold Sterneck, bass
Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Thursday 7 March 1935 (B13)
Willem Mengelberg
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 10 March 1935 (Z2/7)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Clarinet Rhapsody No. 1 DEBUSSY
Les Preludes LISZT
Rudolf Gall, clarinet
Thursday 14 March 1935 (B14)
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in A minor VIVALDI
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Clarinet Rhapsody No. 1 DEBUSSY
Bolero RAVEL
Rudolf Gall, clarinet
Thursday 21 March 1935 (C3)
Willem Mengelberg
Passacaglia in C minor BACH
Suite No. 2 in B minor BACH
Cantata No. 80 BACH
Double Violin Concerto in D minor BACH
Cantata No. 50 BACH
Piet van Egmond, organ Adelheid Armhold, soprano
Suze Luger, contralto Louis van Tulder, tenor
Thomas Denijs, baritone Louis Zimmermann, violin
Ferdinand Helmann, violin Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Sunday 24 March 1935 (Z1/8)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
George van Renesse, piano
Thursday 28 March 1935 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Alcina, Suite HANDEL
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAENS
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Thursday 4 April 1935 (B16)
Willem Mengelberg
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Hiller REGER
Introduction and Allegro appassionato SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Three Pieces from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Yvonne Lefébure, piano
Sunday 7 April 1935 (Z2/8)
Willem Mengelberg
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Ilona Durigo, contralto Martin Oehman, tenor
Thursday 11 April 1935 (C4)
Willem Mengelberg
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BACH
Dir, dir Jehova will ich singen, BWV 299 BACH
Jesu, Jesu, Du bist mein, BWV 358 BACH
Komm süsser Tod, BWV 478 BACH
Ihr Gestirn, ihr hohen Lüfte, BWV 476 BACH
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor BACH
Cantata No. 56 BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BACH
Louis Zimmermann, violin Harold Samuel, piano
Nic. Klasen, flute Herman Schey, bass
Piet van Egmond, organ
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1935 – 1936 Season
Thursday 3 October 1935 (B1)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Overture and Bacchanale from Tannhäuser WAGNER
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Thursday 10 October 1935 (B2)
Bruno Walter
Four Symphonic Portraits from The Gambler PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Thursday 17 October 1935 (C1)
Bruno Walter
Leopold Emmer*
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Coronation Mass MOZART
Tenebrae factae sunt (four-voice a capella) VICTORIA*
Haec dies (eight-voice a capella) JAKOBUS GALLUS*
Psalm 23 SCHUBERT
Walter Kautek, soprano Hans Dvorak, contralto
Philipp Massalsky, tenor Otto Couperus, bass
Wiener Sängerknaben Bel Canto a capella Choir
Sunday 20 October 1935 (Z1)
Bruno Walter
Le corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 3 SAINT-SAENS
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 24 October 1935 (B3)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 3 HENK BADINGS
Piano Concerto No. 9 MOZART
Piano Concerto MAX TRAPP
La valse RAVEL
Walter Gieseking, piano
Thursday 31 October 1935 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Cantata No. 51 BACH
Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra HENRIËTTE BOSMANS
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Jo Vincent, soprano Marinus Komst, trumpet
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Sunday 10 November 1935 (Z2)
Willem Mengelberg
Alexander Tansman*
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHAN WAGENAAR
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra TANSMAN
Tryptique for Strings TANSMAN*
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Alexander Tansman, piano
Thursday 14 November 1935 (B5)
Willem Mengelberg
Alceste, Overture GLUCK
Philharmonic Concerto HINDEMITH*
Der Schwanendreher HINDEMITH
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Paul Hindemith, viola
Sunday 24 November 1935 (Z3)
Eduard van Beinum
Ballet Suite REGER
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Emanuel Feuermann, cello
Thursday 28 November 1935 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Overture and ‘Endlich allein’ from The Bartered Bride SMETANA
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Four Wesendonck Lieder (Engel, Treibhaus, Schmerzen, Traume) WAGNER
‘Ozean, du Ungeheuer’ aria from Oberon WEBER
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Maria Müller, soprano
Sunday 8 December 1935 (Z4)
Willem Mengelberg
Cantata No. 210 BACH
Psyché, three excerpts FRANCK
Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’ SAINT-SAENS
To van der Sluys, soprano
Thursday 12 December 1935 (B7)
Willem Mengelberg
Romeo and Juliet NERLIOZ
Suze Luger, contrtalto Louis van Tulder, tenor
Alexander Kipnis, bass Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Thursday 19 December 1935 (C2)
Willem Mengelberg
Double Piano Concerto in C minor BACH
Triple Piano Concerto in D minor BACH
Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra in B minor VIVALDI
Concerto for Four Pianos and Orchestra in A minor BACH
Eduard van Beinum, piano George van Renesse, piano
Johannes den Hertog, piano Felix de Nobel, piano
Louis Zimmermann, violin Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Leon Rudelsheim, violin Jo Hekster, violin
Thursday 9 January 1936 (B8)
Eduard van Beinum
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
The Rite of Spring STRAVINSKY
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Thursday 16 January 1936 (C3)
Ernest Ansermet
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Six épigraphes antiques (orch. Escher) DEBUSSY
Les Noces STRAVINSKY
Nathalie Wetchor, soprano Hélène Sadoven, mezzo soprano
Michel d’Arial, tenor Alexis Kanchine, bass
Johannes den Hertog, piano Géza Frid, piano
Gerard Hengeveld, piano Johan Ligtelijn, piano
Vlassoff Russian Choir, Paris
Sunday 19 January 1936 (Z5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Piano Concerto in B flat major, Op. 13 No. 4 JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Passacaglia WEBERN
Piano Concerto in C major ROUSSEL
Espana CHABRIER
Marinus Flipse, piano
Thursday 23 January 1936 (B9)
Eduard van Beinum
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major BOCCHERINI
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Marix Loevensohn, cello
Thursday 30 January 1936 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
George Enescu*
Symphonic Prologue to a Tragedy REGER
Violin Concerto in D major, K271a MOZART
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 ENESCU*
George Enescu, violin
Thursday 6 February 1936 (B11)
George Szell
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Lulu, Suite BERG
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Julia Nessy, soprano
Sunday 9 February 1936 (Z6)
George Szell
Symphony No. 7, ‘Le Midi’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto SIBELIUS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Emil von Telmányi, violin
Thursday 13 February 1936 (C4)
Eduard van Beinum
The Mirror of Jesus CAPLET
Mass No. 2 in E minor BRUCKNER
Berthe Seroen, soprano Bel Canto, a capella choir
Thursday 20 February 1936 (B12)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Thursday 27 February 1936 (B13)
Bruno Walter
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Bruno Walter, piano
Sunday 1 March 1936 (Z7)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
La Mer DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Franz Osborn, piano
Thursday 12 March 1936 (B14)
Bruno Walter
Violin Concerto in A minor BACH
Violin Concerto BUSONI
Symphonie fantastique BERLIOZ
Adolf Busch, violin
Thursday 26 March 1936 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Iberia DEBUSSY
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Henriëtte Bosmans, piano
Sunday 29 March 1936 (Z8)
Willem Mengelberg
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Parassia’s Deam from Sorochintsky Fair MUSSORGSKY
Jaroslavna’s Aria from Prince Igor BORODIN
Gopak MUSSORGSKY
Breton Suite No. 5 VON BROCKEN FOCK
Dance of the Seven Veils and Closing Scene from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Oda Slobodskaya, soprano
Thursday 2 April 1936 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Flute and Harp Concerto MOZART
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Hubert Barwasher, flute Rosa Spier, harp
Ilona Durigo, contralto Julius Patzak, tenor
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1936 – 1937 Season
Thursday 8 October 1936 (B1)
Willem Mengelberg
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHAN WAGENAAR
Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
Piano Concerto No. 27 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT
Les preludes LISZT
Walter Gieseking, piano
Thursday 22 October 1936 (B2)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Sunday 25 October 1936 (Z1)
Bruno Walter
Vltava SMETANA
Violin Concerto No. 1 PAGANINI
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Theo Olof, violin
Thursday 29 October 1936 (B3)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Taras Bulba JANACEK
Violin Concerto GLAZUNOV
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 12 November 1936 (B4)
Bruno Walter
Sinfonia Divina in D minor BOCCHERINI
Cello Concerto DVORAK
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Raphael Lanes, cello
Sunday 22 November 1936 (Z2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Cello Concerto PIJPER
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Marix Loevensohn, cello
Thursday 26 November 1936 (B5)
Willem Mengelberg
Leonore No. 3, Overture BEETHOVEN
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Hiller REGER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Incidental Music excerpts MENDELSSOHN
Hermann Schey, bass
Thursday 3 December 1936 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Sinfonia in B flat major (arr. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Violin Concerto RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Thursday 10 December 1936 (C1)
Willem Mengelberg
A Faust Symphony LISZT
Messa Solemnis LISZT
Louis van Telder, tenor Jo Vincent, soprano
Theodora Versteegh, contralto Willem Ravelli, bass
Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Sunday 13 December 1936 (Z3)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto GRIEG
William Tell, Overture ROSSINI
Willem Andriessen, piano
Thursday 17 December 1936 (B7)
Sol Justitiae EMILE ENTHOVEN
Prologus brevis JAN VAN GILSE
Concerto for Two Oboes and Orchestra VOORMOLEN
Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN
Haakon Stotijn, oboe Jaap Stotijn, oboe
Friday 8 January 1937 (B8)
Willem Mengelberg
Two Piano Concerto in C minor BACH
Three Piano Concerto in D minor BACH
Four Violin Concerto in B minor VIVALDI
Four Piano Concerto in A minor BACH
Eduard van Beinum, piano George van Renesse, piano
Johannes den Hertog, piano Geza Frid, piano
Louis Zimmermann, violin Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Leon Rudelsheim, violin Jo Hekster, violin
Sunday 10 January 1937 (Z4)
Willem Mengelberg
Alcina, Suite HANDEL
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Dances from Galanta KODALY
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Thursday 14 January 1937 (B9)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 GLAZUNOV
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Guila Bustabo, violin
Thursday 21 January 1937 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
Introduction to a Tragedy HENK BADINGS
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 BRUCKNER
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Sunday 24 January 1937 (Z5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Breton Suite No. 5 VON BRUCKEN FOCK
Berceuse Armorique VON BRUCKEN FOCK
Les Cigales VON BRUCKEN FOCK
Le chasseur noir VON BRUCKEN FOCK
Scheherazade RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Berthe Seroen, soprano
Saturday 30 January 1937 (C2)
Vltava SMETANA
Serenade for Strings SUK
Piano Concerto PAVEL BORCOVEC
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Thursday 4 February 1937 (B11)
Eduard van Beinum
The Hebrides, Overture MENDELSSOHN
La Mer DEBUSSY
Concerto for Orchestra EDMUND VAN BORCK
‘Es blaut die Nacht, die heisse Nacht’, aria from Giulio Cesare HANDEL
An die Hoffnung REGER
Die Meistersinger, Prelude WAGNER
Eva Liebenberg, soprano
Sunday 7 February 1937 (Z6)
Eduard van Beinum
Le Roi d’Ys, Overture LALO
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Rondes de Printemps DEBUSSY
L’Arlesienne, Suite No. 2 BIZET
Frederic Lamond, piano
Thursday 11 February 1937 (B12)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 33 MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 4 SAINT-SAENS
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Robert Casadesus, piano
Thursday 18 February 1937 (B13)
Bruno Walter
Concerto Grosso No. 6 HANDEL
Symphony No. 3 MAHLER
Louis Zimmermann, violin Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Henk van Wezel, cello Annie Woud, contralto
Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor Zanglust Children’s Choir
Thursday 25 February 1937 (B14)
Bruno Walter
Cello Concerto in A major CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Theme, Variations and Finale ROSZA
Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Emanuel Feuermann, cello
Sunday 28 February 1937 (Z7)
Bruno Walter
Divertimento in B flat major, K287 MOZART
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand RAVEL
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Paul Wittgenstein, piano
Thursday 4 March 1937 (C3)
Bruno Walter
Euryanthe, (concert performance) WEBER
Hilde Konetzni, soprano Hans Hotter, baritone
Ankie van Wickevoort Crommelin, contralto Otto Couperus, bass
Betty van den Bosch, soprano August Seider, tenor
Harm Schmedes, tenor Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Thursday 11 March 1937 (B15)
Bruno Walter
Sem Dresden*
Le corsaire, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 1 SEM DRESDEN
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Hendrik Rijnbergen, violin
Sunday 14 March 1937 (Z8)
Willem Mengelberg
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Ilona Durigo, contralto Julius Patzak, tenor
Thursday 18 March 1937 (B16)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN
Four Movements from Haffner Serenade MOZART
Three Songs, Op. 33 MOSSOLOV
Dance of the Seven Veils and Closing Scene from Salome RICHARD STRAUSS
Oda Slobodskaya, soprano
Thursday 1 April 1937 (C4)
Eduard van Beinum
Concerto grosso in G major TORELLI
Te Deum and Stabat Mater from Four Sacred Pieces VERDI
Cello Concerto in C minor PIZZETTI
Olympie, Overture SPONTINI
Haarlem Oratorio Union Enrico Mainardi, cello
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1937 – 1938 Season
Thursday 7 October 1937 (B1)
Willem Mengelberg
Festival March JOHAN WAGENAAR
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Ein Heldenleben RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Kreisler, violin Louis Zimmermann, violin
Thursday 14 October 1937 (B2)
Willem Mengelberg
Roman Carnival, Overture BERLIOZ
Piano Concerto No. 26, ‘Coronation’ MOZART
Symphonic variations HENK BADINGS
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Robert Casadesus, piano
Thursday 21 October 1937 (C1)
Willem Mengelberg
Te Deum DIEPENBROCK
Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN
To van der Sluys, soprano Suze Luger, contralto
Louis van Tulder, tenor Willem Ravelli, bass
Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Sunday 24 October 1937 (Z1)
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Carl Flesch, violin Jo Vincent, soprano
Thursday 28 October 1937 (B3)
Willem Mengelberg
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Jeu de Cartes STRAVINSKY
Symphony No. 3 BRAHMS
Thursday 4 November 1937 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Anacreon, Overture CHERUBINI
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Adolf Busch, violin
Thursday 18 November 1937 (C2)
Willem Mengelberg
Hymne op Amstelredam RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Fantasia for Organ SWEELINCK
Overture and Reyen from Lucifer DOPPER
Gysbreght van Aemstel BERNARD ZWEERS
Vondel’s vaart naar Agrippine DIEPENBROCK
Paul Huf, narrator Betty van den Bosch, soprano
Suze Luger, contralto Harm Schmedes, tenor
Willem Ravelli, bass Piet van Egmond, organ
Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Thursday 25 November 1937 (B5)
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Symphonie fantastique BERLIOZ
Pablo Casals, cello
Sunday 28 November 1937 (Z2)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ BEETHOVEN
Symphonie espagnole LALO
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 9 December 1937 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Concerto Grosso in A minor VIVALDI
Canzone and Ave Maria from Otello VERDI
Concerto gregoriano RESPIGHI
Concerto for Orchestra CASELLA
William Tell, Overture ROSSINI
Ruth Horna, soprano Guila Bustabo, violin
Thursday 16 December 1937 (B7)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’ MOZART
Two Duets from Mathis der Maler HINDEMITH
Lohengrin: Prelude Act 3 and Lohengrin’s narration WAGNER
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried WAGNER
Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music WAGNER
August Seider, tenor Hans Hotter, baritone
Sunday 19 December 1937 (Z3)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 95 HAYDN
Der Schwanendreher HINDEMITH
Höstkvall SIBELIUS
Fêtes galantes PIJPER
Romance sans paroles PIJPER
Three Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust BERLIOZ
Paul Hindemith, viola Else Rijkens, soprano
Thursday 6 January 1938 (B8)
Eduard van Beinum
Leonore No. 1, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Egon Petri, piano
Sunday 9 January 1938 (Z4)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 4 ROUSSEL
Les indes galantes, Invocation and Hymn to the Sun RAMEAU
Nocturne (orch. Ropartz) FRANCK
Pavane for a Dead Infanta RAVEL
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée RAVEL
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Charles Panzéra, baritone
Thursday 13 January 1938
Eduard van Beinum
Marche écosaisse DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 2 HENRIK ANDRIESSEN
Malédiction for Piano and Strings LISZT
Konzertstück for Piano and orchestra WEBER
Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’ MENDELSSOHN
Franz Osborn, piano
Thursday 20 January 1938
Eduard van Beinum
Four Pieces for Orchestra GUILLAUME LANDRÉ
Ik ben in eenzaamheid met meer alleen DIEPENBROCK
Zij sluimert DIEPENBROCK
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
L’enfant prodigue DEBUSSY
Louis van Tulder, tenor Jo Vincent, soprano
Laurenz Bogtman, bass
Sunday 6 February 1938 (Z5)
Oswald Kabasta
Leonore No. 2, Overture BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Burleske RICHARD STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Henriette Bosmans, piano
Thursday 10 February 1938 (B11)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 6 SCHUBERT
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BARTOK
Violin Concerto DVORAK
Le Roi d’Ys, Overture LALO
Georg Kulenkampff, violin
Sunday 20 February 1938 (Z6)
Eduard van Beinum
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Violin Concerto in E major BACH
Piano Concerto No. 12 MOZART
Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’ MOZART
Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Thursday 24 February 1938 (B12)
Ernest Ansermet
Darius Milhaud*
Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’ MOZART
La Mer DEBUSSY
Suite Provençale MILHAUD*
Cantate Nuptiale for soprano and orchestra MILHAUD*
La Valse RAVEL
Thursday 3 March 1938 (B13)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 86 HAYDN
Symphony No. 9 MAHLER
Thursday 10 March 1938 (C3)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’ MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
‘Sancta Maria’, Graduale, K273 MOZART
Ave verum corpus, K618 MOZART
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Bruno Walter, piano Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor
Sunday 13 March 1938 (Z7)
Bruno Walter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture MENDELSSOHN
Prosperos Beschwörungen, Suite WELLESZ
Double Concerto BRAHMS
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Louis Zimmermann, violin Raphael Lanes, cello
Thursday 17 March 1938 (B14)
Bruno Walter
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 2 KRENEK
Tod und Verklärung RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Ernst Krenek, piano
Thursday 31 March 1938 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Sunday 3 April 1938 (Z8)
Willem Mengelberg
Rosamunde, Overture SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Myra Hess, piano
Thursday 7 April 1938 (B16)
Willem Mengelberg
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture, Scherzo and Nocturne MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto SCHUMANN
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1938 – 1939 Season
Thursday 6 October 1938 (B1)
Willem Mengelberg
The Birds, Overture DIEPENBROCK
Piano Concerto No. 23 MOZART
Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra DEBUSSY
Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 RAVEL
Walter Gieseking, piano
Sunday 9 October 1938 (Z1)
Willem Mengelberg
Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture GLINKA
Serenade for Strings TCHAIKOVSKY
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV
The Firebird, Suite STRAVINSKY
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Thursday 13 October 1938 (B2)
Willem Mengelberg
Ernest Schelling*
Orchestral Suite No. 2 BACH
'L'améro saro constante', aria from Il re pastore MOZART
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
‘Liebst du um Schönheit’ and ‘Ich atmet' einen linden Duft’, lieder MAHLER
‘Hans und Grete’, lied MAHLER
‘Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?’ lied MAHLER
Suite variée SCHELLING*
Desi von Halban- Kurz, soprano
Thursday 20 October 1938 (C1)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ MAHLER
To van der Sluys, soprano Annie Woud, contralto
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Thursday 27 October 1938 (B3)
Willem Mengelberg
'Céphale et Procris', Suite (arr. Mottl) GRÉTRY
Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
Alfred Cortot, piano
Sunday 30 October 1938 (Z2)
Willem Mengelberg
'Die Zauberflöte', Overture MOZART
'A questo seno, deh vieni', Scena and aria MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Salve Regina RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
To van der Sluys, soprano
Thursday 10 November 1938 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’ HAYDN
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Lola Bobesco, violin
Thursday 24 November 1938 (B5)
Willem Mengelberg
Serenade in G major REGER
Violin Concerto No. 2 HENK BADINGS
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Olly Folge Fonden, violin Artur Rubinstein, piano
Sunday 27 November 1938 (Z3)
Willem Mengelberg
Sinfonia in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 2 (arr. Stein) JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Lucio Silla, Overture MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 24 MOZART
Three Episodes RICHARD MOHAUPT
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Robert Casadesus, piano
Thursday 8 December 1938 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN
Philharmonic Concerto HINDEMITH
Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ DVORAK
Ferdinand Helmann, violin Henk van Wezel, cello
George van Renesse, piano
Sunday 11 December 1938 (Z4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY
1812, Overture TCHAIKOVSKY
Nathan Milstein, violin
Thursday 15 December 1938 (C2)
Willem Mengelberg
The Seasons HAYDN
Ankie van Wickevoort Crommelin, soprano Julius Patzak, tenor
Herman Schey, bass Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Sunday 8 January 1939 (Z5)
Eduard van Beinum
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Overture MENDELSSOHN
Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN
'Gysbreght van Aemstel, Overture HENK BADINGS
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Ibéria DEBUSSY
Lili Kraus, piano
pauze
Thursday 12 January 1939 (B7)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 99 HAYDN
Sinfonietta JANACEK
Piano Concerto No. 4 BEETHOVEN
Arthur Schnabel, piano
Thursday 19 January 1939 (B8)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 2 SAINT-SAËNS
‘Il faut passer tôt ou tard’ from Alceste GLUCK
Cantilène 'Belle Hermione, hélas! Hélas!' from Cadmus et Hermione LULLY
Sinfonietta for Clarinet and Orchestra SEM DRESDEN
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée RAVEL
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Charles Panzéra, baritone Rudolf Gall, Clarinet
Thursday 26 January 1939 (B9)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 8 BRUCKNER
Sunday 29 January 1939 (Z6)
Bruno Walter
Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Bruno Walter, piano
Tuesday 31 January 1939 (B10)
Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’ SCHUMANN
Three Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Aerdenhoutsch Vrouwenkoor
Thursday 9 February 1939 (B11)
Bruno Walter
The Flying Dutchman, Overture WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll WAGNER
Symphony No. 5 MAHLER
Thursday 16 February 1939 (B12)
Eduard van Beinum
Divertimento in D major, K131 MOZART
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Cello Concerto SCHUMANN
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Emanuel Feuermann, cello
Sunday 19 February 1939 (Z7)
Eduard van Beinum
Concerto No. 2 a due Chori in F major Op. 2 HANDEL
'The hand of Time pulls down', recitative from The Triumph of Time HANDEL
'Loathsome urns, disclose your treasure', aria from The Triumph of Time HANDEL
Double Violin Concerto in D minor BACH
Cantata No. 56, 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen' BACH
Mack Harrell, baritone Louis Zimmermann, violin
Ferdinand Helmann, violin Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Thursday 23 February 1939 (C3)
Igor Markevitch
May Night, Overture RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The New Age MARKEVITCH
Violin Concerto No. 2 PROKOFIEV
Pictures from an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) MUSSORGSKY
Robert Soëtens, violin
Thursday 2 March 1939 (B13)
Eduard van Beinum
Les francs-juges, Overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Sunday 12 March 1939 (Z8)
Eduard van Beinum
Stabat Mater SZYMANOWSKI
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Ruth Horna, soprano Annie Woud, contralto
Max Kloos, baritone R.K. Oratorium Vereniging
Thursday 23 March 1939 (B14)
Willem Mengelberg
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Zoltán Székely, violin
Thursday 30 March 1939 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Amphitrion, Overture WAGENAAR
Piano Concerto GRIEG
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Henriëtte Bosmans, piano
Thursday 20 April 1939 (B16)
Willem Mengelberg
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Saturday 6 May 1939 (C4)
Missa solemnis BEETHOVEN
Jo Vincent, soprano Suze Luger, contralto
Louis van Tulder, tenor Willem Ravelli, bass
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1939 – 1940 Season
Thursday 5 October 1939 (B1)
Carl Schuricht
Symphony No. 34 MOZART
Das Lied von der Erde MAHLER
Kerstin Thorborg, contralto Martin Oehman, tenor
Thursday 12 October 1939 (B2)
Pierre Monteux
Benvenuto Cellini, Overture BERLIOZ
Les Éolides FRANCK
La Mer DEBUSSY
Piano Concerto No. 4 SAINT-SAËNS
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Robert Casadesus, piano
Sunday 15 October 1939 (Z1)
Pierre Monteux
Der Freischütz, Overture WEBER
'Wie nahte mir der Schlummer', aria from Der Freischütz WEBER
Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
Fiat Domine HENDRIK ANDRIESSEN
Magna res est amor HENDRIK ANDRIESSEN
Symphonie Fantastique BERLIOZ
Jo Vincent, soprano
Thursday 26 October 1939 (B3)
Carl Schuricht
Bertus van Lier*
Symphony No. 3 BERTUS VAN LIER*
Violin Concerto No. 5 MOZART
Also sprach Zarathustra RICHARD STRAUSS
Carl Flesch, violin
Sunday 29 October 1939 (Z2)
Eduard van Beinum
Anacréon, Overture CHERUBINI
Piano Concerto No. 3 BEETHOVEN
Don Quixote RICHARD STRAUSS
Frederic Lamond, piano Gérard Hekking, cello
Thursday 2 November 1939 (C1)
Carl Schuricht
Requiem Mass VERDI
Ina Souez, soprano Lore Fischer, contralto
Louis van Tulder, tenor Herman Schey, bass
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Thursday 9 November 1939 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Alceste, Overture GLUCK
Violin Concerto BLOCH
Symphony No. 4 MAHLER
Joseph Szigéti, violin Jo Vincent, soprano
Thursday 23 November 1939 (B5)
Willem Mengelberg
Manfred, Overture SCHUMANN
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen MAHLER
Peacock Variations KODALY
Hymn to Love REGER
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WAGNER
Herman Schey, bass
Sunday 26 November 1939 (Z3)
Willem Mengelberg
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Nikolai Orloff, piano
Thursday 30 November 1939 (B6)
Willem Mengelberg
Ciaconna gotica DOPPER
Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday 7 December 1939 (C2)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Te Deum BRUCKNER
Jo Vincent, soprano heodora Versteegh, contralto
Louis van Tulder, tenor ax Kloos, baritone
Koninklijke Oratorium Vereniging
Sunday 10 December 1939 (Z4)
Eduard van Beinum
Suite in D major for viola da gamba and strings TELEMANN
Symphony No. 31, ‘Horn Signal’ HAYDN
Cello Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS
From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields SMETANA
Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp, viola da gamba/cello
Thursday 14 December 1939 (B7)
Eduard van Beinum
Overture in C major in the Italian Style SCHUBERT
A Romantic Suite REGER
Piano Concerto No. 1 CHOPIN
Slavonic Dances Nos. 1, 5 and 8, Op. 46 DVORAK
Ignaz Friedman, piano
Thursday 21 December 1939 (B8)
Eduard van Beinum
Manfred Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Willem Andriessen, piano
Thursday 4 January 1940 (B9)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 39 MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 8 SPOHR
Music for strings RUDI STEPHAN
Iberia DEBUSSY
Georg Kulenkampff, violin
Sunday 7 January 1940 (Z5)
Eduard van Beinum
Printemps DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto WILLEM PIJPER
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Hendrik Rijnbergen, violin
pauze
Thursday 11 January 1940 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture ROSSINI
Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN
Concert Piece for Orchestra GUILLAUME LANDRÉ
Symphony No. 2 BRAHMS
Szymon Goldberg, violin
Thursday 18 January 1940 (B11)
Paul Paray
Orpheus LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS
Till Eulenspiegel RICHARD STRAUSS
Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite FAURÉ
La Valse RAVEL
Alexander Borovsky, piano
Sunday 21 January 1940 (Z6)
Paul Paray
Symphony No. 1 PARAY
Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes DEBUSSY
Symphonie espagnole LALO
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DUKAS
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Thursday 25 January 1940 (C3)
Peter van Anrooij
The Barber of Bagdad (concert performance) CORNELIUS
Ludwig Hofmann, (Barbier) Ankie van Wickevoort Crommelin, (Margiana)
Suze Luger, (Bostana) Louis van Tulder, (Nureddin)
Albert Dana, (Baba Mustapha) Theo Baylé, (De Kalief)
Jaap Stroomenbergh, (First muezzin) Arie Roodenburg, (Second muezzin)
Justus Bonn, (Third muezzin) Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Thursday 8 February 1940 (B12)
Eduard van Beinum
Georg Friedrich Händel
(1685-1759)
Concerto grosso in C major HANDEL
Concerto in Alexander's Feast HANDEL
Symphonic Dances HINDEMITH
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Finlandia SIBELIUS
Louis Zimmermann, violin Ferdinand Helmann, violin
Henk van Wezel, cello, Pablo Casals, cello
Thursday 15 February 1940 (C4)
Ernest Ansermet
Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien DEBUSSY
Daphnis et Chloé (complete) RAVEL
Corry Bijster, soprano Elisabeth Francis, contralto
Jo van de Meent-Walter, contralto Paul Huf, narrator
'Bel Canto' a cappella choir
Sunday 18 February 1940 (Z7)
Eduard van Beinum
Euryanthe, Overture WEBER
A Romantic Suite REGER
Piano Concerto No. 2 BRAHMS
Henriëtte Bosmans, piano
Thursday 29 February 1940 (B13)
Sir Adrian Boult
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ MENDELSSOHN
Music for Strings BLISS
Enigma Variations ELGAR
Thursday 7 March 1940 (B14)
Eduard van Beinum
Variations on a Theme by Haydn BRAHMS
Salve Regina RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphony No. 7 BRUCKNER
Jo Vincent, soprano
Sunday 10 March 1940 (Z8)
Willem Mengelberg
Roman carnival, overture BERLIOZ
Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTOK
Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’ BEETHOVEN
Zoltán Székely, violin
Thursday 14 March 1940 (B15)
Willem Mengelberg
Orchestral Suite No. 3 BACH
Violin Concerto HINDEMITH
Shéhérazade, song cycle RAVEL
Bolero RAVEL
Ferdinand Helmann, violin Else Rijkens, soprano
Thursday 28 March 1940 (B16)
Willem Mengelberg
The Bartered Bride, Overture SMETANA
Piano Concerto No. 3 RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’ TCHAIKOVSKY
Walter Gieseking, piano
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
1940 – 1941 Season
Thursday 3 October 1940 (B1)
Willem Mengelberg
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
‘Exsultate, jubilate’, motet MOZART
Cello Concerto No. 2 HENK BADINGS
Symphony in D minor FRANCK
Jo Vincent, soprano Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp, cello
Thursday 10 October 1940 (B2)
Willem Mengelberg
The Taming of the Shrew, Overture JOHAN WAGENAAR
Piano Concerto SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 MAHLER
Emil von Sauer, piano
Sunday 13 October 1940 (Z1)
Willem Mengelberg
Oberon, Overture WEBER
Piano Concerto No. 19 MOZART
Symphony No. 1 BRAHMS
Willem Andriessen, piano
Thursday 24 October 1940 (B3)
Willem Mengelberg
The Birds, Overture DIEPENBROCK
Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 TCHAIKOVSKY
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Sunday 27 October 1940 (Z2)
Willem Mengelberg
The Birds, Overture DIEPENBROCK
Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 1 BRUCH
Tannhäuser, Overture WAGNER
Guila Bustabo, violin
Thursday 31 October 1940 (B4)
Willem Mengelberg
Sinfonia ALEXANDER VOORMOLEN
Symphonic Variations FRANCK
Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOV
Walter Gieseking, piano
Thursday 7 November 1940 (C1)
Willem Mengelberg
Cantata No. 57, ‘Selig ist der Mann' BACH
A German Requiem BRAHMS
Jo Vincent, soprano Max Kloos, baritone
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Sunday 10 November 1940 (Z3)
Willem Mengelberg
Old Dutch Dances, Op. 46 RÖNTGEN
Symphony No. 4 SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto in A minor DVOŘÁK
Academic Festival Overture BRAHMS
Carl Flesch, violin
Thursday 14 November 1940 (B5)
Eduard van Beinum
Violin Concerto in E major BACH
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Violin Concerto RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Symphony No. 3 in F major BRAHMS
Emil von Telmányi, violin
Thursday 28 November 1940 (B6)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony in C major BIZET
Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL
Elégie for Cello and Orchestra FAURÉ
Roméo et Juliette: Five Symphonic Excerpts BERLIOZ
Cor de Groot, piano Henk van Wezel, cello
Sunday 8 December 1940 (Z4)
Willem Mengelberg
Symphony No. 7, ‘Zuiderzee’ DOPPER
Coriolan, Overture BEETHOVEN
Gesänge des Harfenspielers for baritone and orchestra WOLF
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde WAGNER
Laurens Bogtman, bass
Thursday 12 December 1940 (B7)
Willem Mengelberg
Don Juan RICHARD STRAUSS
Cello Concerto PFITZNER
Arpeggione Sonata (arr. as Cello Concerto by Cassado) SCHUBERT
Háry János, Suite KODÁLY
Gaspar Cassadó, cello
Thursday 19 December 1940 (C2)
Willem Mengelberg
Overture, Ballet, Entr’acte Act 3 and Romance from Rosamunde SCHUBERT
'Liebe schwärmt auf alle Wegen'; arietta from Claudine von Villa Bella SCHUBERT
'Vedi quanto adoro', recitative and aria (arr. Flothuis) SCHUBERT
Ständchen, D920 (orch. Liszt) SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’ SCHUBERT
Betty van den Bosch, soprano Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Thursday 9 January 1941 (B8)
Johannes den Hertog
Iphigenie in Aulis, Overture GLUCK
Three Hölderlin Hymns, Op. 71 RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphony No. 3 PIJPER
A Faust Overture WAGNER
Closing Scene from Die Walküre WAGNER
Ruth Horna, soprano Henk Noort, tenor
Sunday 12 January 1941 (Z5)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’ SCHUBERT
Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN
Cello Concerto MALIPIERO
Le carnaval romain, Overture BERLIOZ
Enrico Mainardi, cello
Thursday 16 January 1941 (B9)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 9 BRUCKNER
Violin Concerto BRAHMS
Georg Kulenkampff, violin
Thursday 23 January 1941 (C3)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 40 MOZART
Stabat Mater RUDOLF MENGELBERG
Variations on a Theme of Mozart REGER
Annie Woud, contralto Louis van Tulder, tenor
Amsterdams a cappella koor 'Bel Canto'
Thursday 30 January 1941 (B10)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 101, ‘Clock’ HAYDN
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS
Songs of Death and Life HENK BADINGS
La Mer DEBUSSY
Henriëtte Bosmans, piano Louis van Tulder, tenor
Sunday 2 February 1941 (Z6)
Eduard van Beinum
Egmont, Overture BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART
Elverhöi, Op. 48 JOHAN WAGENAAR
Ballad of the Blackbird HENDRIK ANDRIESSEN
Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL
Ferdinand Helmann, violin Joanna Diepenbrock, narrator
Thursday 6 February 1941 (B11)
Eduard van Beinum
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ SCHUBERT
Piano Concerto No. 2 LISZT
Clarinet Rhapsody No. 1 DEBUSSY
The Firebird, Suite (1919) STRAVINSKY
György Faragó, piano
Thursday 13 February 1941 (B12)
Eduard van Beinum
Pavane and Chaconne for Strings PURCELL
Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY
Elly Ney, piano
Thursday 20 February 1941 (B13)
Hermann Abendroth
Four Böcklin Tone Poems REGER
Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART
Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS
George van Renesse, piano
Sunday 23 February 1941 (Z7)
Hermann Abendroth
Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’ HAYDN
Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’ BRUCKNER
Thursday 27 February 1941 (B14)
Eduard van Beinum
The Barber of Seville, Overture ROSSINI
Violin Concerto No. 22 VIOTTI
Marsyas, Suite DIEPENBROCK
Tzigane RAVEL
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Zoltán Székely, violin
Thursday 13 March 1941 (B15)
Paul van Kempen
Käthchen von Heilbronn, Overture PFITZNER
Alto Rhapsody BRAHMS
Symphony No. 5 BRUCKNER
Lore Fischer, contralto
Thursday 20 March 1941 (B16)
Franz von Hoesslin
Parsifal, Prelude Act 1 WAGNER
Die Heimat FRANZ VON HOESSLIN
Three Roman Sonnets FRANZ VON HOESSLIN
Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI
Symphony No. 7 BEETHOVEN
Ria Focke, contralto
Sunday 23 March 1941 (Z8)
Eduard van Beinum
Largo and Allegro for Strings HENK BADINGS
Violin Concerto No. 22 VIOTTI
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune DEBUSSY
Tzigane RAVEL
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor BORODIN
Zoltán Székely, violin
Thursday 8 May 1941 (C4)
Eduard van Beinum
Mass No. 3 in F minor BRUCKNER
Te Deum KODÁLY
To van der Sluys, soprano Theodora Versteegh, contralto
Louis van Tulder, tenor Willem Ravelli, bass
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
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