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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Rachmaninoff played the solo piano part at the piece’s premiere in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1934.

A concert favorite since its first performance in 1880 under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Rimsky-Korsakoff student Tushmalov is best known for this first orchestral version of Mussorgsky’s piano suite.

Prokofiev was persuaded to make a chamber orchestra version of the original sextet in 1934, published as Op. 34a.

Debussy’s work for solo clarinet and orchestra.

Entrée from the opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Incidental music to the play by Molière.

One of the first of Dvořák’s symphonic works to draw international attention.

Mozart’s signature comedic opera opened to great acclaim in Vienna in 1786. Mozart himself conducted the premiere, and it was an instant hit.

One of the celebrated “London” Symphonies, this masterwork was composed in 1795 during Haydn’s second triumphal visit to London.