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, Rachmaninoff 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.
Composers’ Early Successes
Byron Janis
Playlist
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 Rachmaninoff: 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
