If I Could Choose Only One Work By...SZYMANOWSKI

It Would Have To Be...Violin Concerto No. 1 An extraordinarily lush, searching, poetic work utterly typical of the composer's maturity, and one of the great 20th-century violin concertos. The List So Far... 1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet) 2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major 4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” 6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker 7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2) 8: Handel: Saul 9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro 10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major 11. Vaughan Williams: Job 12. Bach: Goldberg Variations 13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs 14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust 15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87) 16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor 18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor 19. Chopin: Preludes 20. Verdi: Rigoletto 21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2 22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet) 23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos 27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire 28. Smetana: Ma Vlást 29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain 30. Bizet: Carmen 31. Elgar: In the South 32. Sullivan: The Mikado 33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA 34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies 35. Monteverdi: Orfeo 36. Scarlatti: Sonatas 37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17 38. Berg: Wozzeck 39. Hermann: Psycho (film score) 40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini 41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas 42. Holst: Suites for Military Band 43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex 44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures 45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony 46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw 47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen 49. Korngold: Violin Concerto 50. Tallis: Spem in Alium 51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat 54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov 55. Franck: Violin Sonata 56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) 57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian” 58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins 59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater 60. Albeniz: Iberia 61. Bernstein: Mass 62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony 63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith 64. Dukas: Piano Sonata 65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess 66. Tippett: Piano Concerto 67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)