Leonard Bernstein's Young people's concerts: with the New York Philharmonic. Volume 2

Disc 1. 1. Young performers no. 1 (March 6, 1960). Introduction ; Daniel Domb, cello, Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor (Cello concerto in B minor, 1st mvt. / Dvořák) ; Barry Finclair, violin, Stefan Mengelberg, conductor (Violin concerto no. 2 in D minor, 3rd mvt. / Wieniawski) ; Alexandra Wager, narrator (Peter and the wolf / Prokofiev)

2. Unusual instruments of the present, past & future (March 27, 1960). Uncommon percussion instruments (The little train / Villa Lobos) ; Peculiar instruments of the past, Shawms (Alta / De la Torre) ; Old and new brass instruments (Canzone for eight brass instruments / Gabrieli) ; Eighteenth century instruments (Brandenburg concerto no. 4 in G major, 1st mvt. / Bach) ; Electronic instruments (Concerto for tape recorder and orchestra / Luening & Ussachevsky) ; An unusual symphonic instruments, Anita Darian, kazoo (Concerto for kazoo and orchestra / Bucci)

3. Overtures and preludes (January 8, 1961). The excitement of an overture (Overture to Semiramide / Rossini) ; An overture masterpiece (Overture to Leonore no. 3 / Beethoven) ; An overture without an opera (Prélude à l'aprè-midi d'un faune / Debussy) ; An overture to a Broadway musical (Overture to Candide / Bernstein).

Disc 2. 4. Aaron Copland birthday party (February 12, 1961). Aaron Copland : 60 years young (An outdoor overture / Copland) ; Modern music (Statements, no. 3. Dogmatic / Copland) ; Jazzy music (Music for the theatre, no. 2. Dance / Copland) ; Tone painting rural America (Music for movies. Our town / Copland) ; Music of the American West (Rodeo. Hoe-down / Copland) ; Folk songs, William Warfield, vocalist (The boatman's dance ; I bought me a cat / Copland) ; Copland conducts Copland (El Salón México / Copland)

5. Young performers no. 2 (March 19, 1961). Introduction ; Lynn Harrell, cello, Elyakum Shapira, conductor (Cello concerto in B minor. 3rd mvt. / Dvořák) ; Jung Ja Kim, piano, Russell Stanger, conductor (Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor. 2nd mvt. / Chopin) ; Veronica Tyler, soprano, Gregory Millar, conductor (La Bohème. Addio / Puccini ; The telephone. Lucy's aria / Menotti) ; Henry Chapin, narrator (The young person's guide to the orchestra / Britten)

6. The road to Paris (January 18, 1962). Paris : the center of the musical world (An American in Paris / Gershwin) ; French impressionistic influences, Sara Nelsova, cello (Schelomo : Hebrew rhapsody for cello and orchestra / Bloch) ; French musical forms in Spanish dances (The three cornered hat. The millers dance ; The final dance / De Falla).

Disc 3. 7. Young performers no. 3 (April 14, 1962). Introduction ; Seiji Ozawa, conductor (Overture to the Marriage of Figaro / Mozart) ; Gary Karr, double bass, Maurice Peress, conductor (Prayer / Bloch) ; Gary, double bass, John Canarina, conductor (Fantasy on a theme from the opera Moses in Egypt / Rossini) ; Ruth and Naomi Segal, duo-pianists, Paula Robison, flute, Paul Green, clarinet, Tony Cirone, xylophone, David Hopper, glockenspiel, Gary Karr, double bass (Carnival of the animals / Saint-Saëns)

8. The sound of a hall (November 21, 1962). How does the hall sound? (Overture : the Roman carnival / Berlioz) ; The science of acoustics (The little horses, Copland) ; Clearness and richness (Concerto for four violins / Vivaldi) ; Blending (Façade. Tango / Walton) ; Dynamic range ; Overture 1812 (Overture 1812 / Tchaikovsky)

9. Young performers no. 4 (January 15, 1963). Introduction ; Joan Weiner, piano, Yuri Krasnopolsky, conductor (Piano concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488. Allegro / Mozart) ; Claudia Hoca, piano, Zoltan Rozsnyai, conductor (Piano concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488. Adagio / Mozart) ; Pamela Paul, piano, Serge Fournier, conductor (Piano concerto no. 23 in A major, K. 488. Allegro assai / Mozart)

Andre Watts, piano (Piano concerto no. 1 in E flat major / Liszt).

Disc 4. 10. A tribute to teachers (November 29, 1963). In praise of teachers ; Serge Koussevitzsky (Prelude to Khovanshchina / Mussorgsky) ; Randall Thompson (Symphony no. 2. 3rd mvt. / Thompson) ; Walter Piston (The incredible flutist / Piston) ; Fritz Reiner (Academic festival overture / Brahms)

11. Young performers no. 5 (December 23, 1963). Introduction ; Heidi Lehwalder, harp (Concerto in B flat, op. 4, no. 6. 1st mvt. / Handel) ; Weldon Berry, clarinet, Amos Eisenberg, flute, Heidi Lehwalder, harp (Introduction and allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and strings / Ravel) ; Shulamith Ran, piano, Pedro Calderon, conductor (Capriccio for piano and orchestra / Ran) ; Stephen Kates, cello, Zdenek Kosler, conductor (Rhapsody no. 1. Part 2 / Bartok) ; Stephen Kates, cello (William Tell overture / Rossini)

12. The genius of Paul Hindemith (February 23, 1964). Atonal? (Three exercise pieces, no. 1 / Hindemith ; Two-part invention / Bach ; Piano sonata no. 2 / Hindemith) ; Bitonality (Quartet no. 3, op. 22 ; Kleine Kammermusik, op. 24, no. 2 / Hindemith) ; The Hindemith sound ; Mathis der Maler, General introduction ; Introduction to first movement ; Concert of angels ; Introduction to second movement ; The entombment ; Introduction to third movement ; Temptation of Saint Anthony.

Disc 5. 13. Farewell to Nationalism (November 30, 1964). What is Nationalistic music? (Russian sailors' dance / Glière ; Hungarian rhapsody no. 2 / Liszt ; The three cornered hat / De Falla ; Five pieces for orchestra / Webern ; Pieces for prepared piano and strings / Mayazumi ; Composition for twelve instruments / Babbitt ; Incontri / Nono) ; Internationalism (Sonata in G minor for flute and harpsichord ; Concerto in G minor for flute, bassoon, violin and bass) ; Nineteenth century Nationalism (Die Meistersinger, Prelude / Wagner ; Mazurka in B flat (Chopin) ; La traviata. Sempre libera / Verdi ; Symphony no. 4 / Tchaikovsky) ; American Nationalistic music (The fourth of July / Ives) ; Spanish Nationalistic folk music (The three cornered hat. Dances from part one / De Falla) ; A musical homage to country (The Moldau / Smetana)

14. Young performers no. 6 (January 28, 1965). Introduction ; Patricia Michaelian, piano (Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466. 1st mvt. / Mozart) ; James Buswell, violin (Violin concerto in E minor, op. 64 / Mendelssohn) ; A model of orchestration (Mother Goose suite / Ravel)

15. Young performers no. 7 (February 2, 1966). Introduction ; Paul Schoenfield, piano (Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade & Gnomus / Mussorgsky) ; James DePreist, conductor (Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade & Gnomus / Mussorgsky-Ravel) ; Stephanie Sebastian, piano (Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade & The old castle / Mussorgsky) ; Jacques Houtmann, conductor (Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade & The old castle / Mussorgsky-Ravel) ; David Oei, piano (Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade, Tuileries, Promenade, Ballet of the chicks in their shells / Mussorgsky) ; Edo DeWaart, conductor (Pictures at an exhibition. Promenade, Tuileries, Promenade, Ballet of the chicks in their shells / Mussorgsky-Ravel) ; Horacio Gutierrez, piano (Pictures at an exhibition. The great gate of Kiev / Mussorgsky) ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor (Pictures at an exhibition. The great gate of Kiev / Mussorgsky-Ravel).

Disc 6. 16. Young performers no. 8 (February 27, 1967). Introduction ; Elmar Oliveira, vioiln, Mark Salkind, oboe, Fred Alston, bassoon, Donald Green, cello ; Juan Pablo Izquierdo, conductor (Sinfonia concertante, Allegro / Haydn) ; Sylvia Caduff, conductor (Sinfonia concertante. Andante ; Allegro con spirito / Haydn) ; Stephen Dominko, accordion, Sylvia Caduff, conductor (Piano concerto no. 2 in F minor. 3rd mvt. / Chopin) ; George Reid, vocalist ; Juan Pablo Izquierdo, conductor (The magic flute. In diesen heiligen Hallen / Mozart)

Charles Ives : American pioneer (February 23, 1967). A genius and a pioneer (The gong on the hook and ladder / Ives) ; Musical quotes (Washington's birthday / Ives) ; Early Ives (The circus band march / Ives) ; Ives' modern masterpiece (The unanswered question / Ives)

18. Alumni reunion (April 19, 1967). Introduction ; Stephen Kates, cello (Variations on a Rococo theme / Tchaikovsky) ; Veronica Tyler, vocalist (La Bohème. Mi chiamano Mini / Puccini ; Porgy and Bess. My man's gone now / Gershwin) ; Andre Watts, piano (Piano concerto no. 2 in B flat major. 1st mvt. / Brahms).

Disc 7. 19. Forever Beethoven (January 28, 1968). Why Beethoven? (Symphony no. 5 in C minor. 1st mvt. / Beethoven) ; The man who freed music : Joseph Kalichstein, piano, Paul Capolongo, conductor (Piano concerto no. 4 in G major. 2nd & 3rd mvts / Beethoven) ; An overture of liberation (Overture to Leonore no. 3 / Beethoven)

20. Young performers no. 9 (March 31, 1968). Introduction ; Lawrence Foster, cello, Alois Springer, conductor (Cello concerto no. 1 in A minor / Saint-Saëns) ; Martin & Steven Yann, piano duo (Allegro in A minor / Weber) ; Hindemith : Symphonic metamorphoses of themes by Weber : Allegro in A minor ; Martin & Steven Yann, piano duo (March from Turandot / Weber) ; Hindemith : Symphonic metamorphoses of themes by Weber : Turandot, Scherzo, Helen Quach, conductor ; Martin & Steven Yann, piano duo (March in G minor / Weber) ; Hindemith : Symphonic metamorphoses of themes Weber : March

21. Fantastic variations (December 25, 1968). An introduction to Ricahrd Strauss' Don Quixote, fantastic variations for cello & orchestra, op. 35 ; Don Quixote.

Disc 8. Bach transmogrified (April 27, 1969). 22. Bach untouched (Little fugue in G minor / Bach) ; Bach transcribed, Leopold Stokowski, conductor (Little fugue in G minor / Bach) ; Bach switched on, Moog synthesizer (Little fugue in G minor / Bach) ; Bach intact (Partita in E major / Bach) ; Bach borrowed (Phorion / Foss) ; Bach untransmogrified (Brandenburg concerto no. 5 in D major. 1st mvt. / Bach) ; Bach rocked, New York Rock and Roll Ensemble (Brandenburg concerto no. 5 in D major. 1st mvt. / Bach)

23. The anatomy of a symphony orchestra (May 27, 1970). The sounds of an orchestra ; Strings ; Woodwinds ; Brass ; Percussion (The pines of Rome / Respighi)

24. A Copland celebration (December 27, 1970). The sounds of big city jazz ; Concerto for clarinet and stirng orchestra / Copland ; The sounds of the American West ; Ballet suite from Billy the Kid / Copland.

Disc 9. Thus spake Richard Strauss (November 4, 1971). 25. Introduction to Richard Strauss' Thus spake Zarathustra ; Thus spake Zarathustra / Strauss

26. Liszt and the devil (February 13, 1972). A portrait of the composer ; General introduction to Liszt's A Faust symphony ; A Faust symphony / Liszt

27. Holst : The planets. Introduction to Gustav Holst's The planets ; The planets / Gustav Holst.