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Classical pieces I’ve heard performed live. good I liked, ok were just ok, bad I didn’t like.

Naturally, this is very incomplete, and it’s biased toward my taste, which tends toward the Romantic and Contemporary periods.

Schreker – Prelude to Die Gezeichneten good
SF Symphony, Feb 18 2012

Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 4 good
SF Symphony, Feb 18 2012

Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 ok
SF Symphony, Feb 18 2012

Janáček – Sinfonietta ok
SF Symphony, Jan 14 2012

Debussy – Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien bad
SF Symphony, Jan 14 2012

Beethoven – Symphony No. 8 good
SF Symphony, Oct 28 2011

Henri Dutilleux – L’Arbre Des Songes good
SF Symphony, Oct 28 2011

Haydn – Symphony No. 99 bad
SF Symphony, Oct 28 2011

Mozart – Symphony No. 35 in D major ok
SF Symphony, Sep 30 2011

Adès – Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra ok
SF Symphony, Sep 30 2011

Stravinsky – Petrushka good
SF Symphony, Sep 30 2011

Stravinsky – Scherzo a la Ruse ok
SF Symphony, Sep 30 2011

Knut Nystedt – “Immortal Bach” good
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

J.S. Bach – “Busslied” ok
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Schubert – “An Silvia” ok
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Schumann – “Widmung” ok
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Barber – Agnus Dei good
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Mahler – “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” good
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Mahler- “Scheiden und Meiden” from Des Knaben Wunderhorn ok
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Duruflé – Requiem ok
SF Symphony, May 22 2011

Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 good
SF Symphony, May 12 2011

Dvorák – New World Symphony good
SF Symphony, Mar 25 2011

Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 4 ok
SF Symphony, Mar 25 2011

Hindemith – Concert Music, Opus 50 bad
SF Symphony, Mar 5 2011

Stenhammar, Nielsen, Grieg, Sibelius – Songs of Scandinavia bad
SF Symphony, Mar 5 2011

Brahms – Serenade No. 1 bad
SF Symphony, Mar 5 2011

Beethoven – Symphony No. 4 ok
SF Symphony, Jan 21 2011

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 good
SF Symphony, Jan 21 2011

Beethoven – Leonore Overture No. 3 ok
SF Symphony, Jan 21 2011

Mussorgsky – Prelude to Khovanshchina ok
SF Symphony, Jan 15 2011

Khachaturian – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra bad
SF Symphony, Jan 15 2011

Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet good
SF Symphony, Jan 15 2011

Brahms – Academic Festival Overture bad
SF Symphony, Nov 27 2010

Berg – Lyric Suite good
SF Symphony, Nov 27 2010

Milhaud – La Création du monde good
SF Symphony, Nov 12 2010

Wainwright – Five Shakespeare Sonnets bad
SF Symphony, Nov 12 2010

Weill – Symphony No. 2 ok
SF Symphony, Nov 12 2010

Harrison – A Parade bad
SF Symphony, Sep 25 2010

Copland – Quiet City good good
SF Symphony, Sep 25 2010

Copland – Symphony for Organ and Orchestra good
SF Symphony, Sep 25 2010

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Opus 36 ok
SF Symphony, Sep 25 2010

Stravinsky – Ode (Triptychon for Orchestra) bad
SF Symphony, May 21 2010

Bernstein – Chichester Psalms ok
SF Symphony, May 21 2010

Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé good
SF Symphony, May 21 2010

Dutilleux – Métaboles good
SF Symphony, Nov 14 2009

Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major good
SF Symphony, Nov 14 2009

Schumann – Cello Concerto good
SF Symphony, Nov 14 2009

Mason Bates – The B-Sides good
SF Symphony, May 23 2009

Sibelius – Symphony No. 4 in A Minor good good
SF Symphony, May 23 2009

Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor bad
SF Symphony, May 23 2009

Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Ravel) good good
SF Symphony, April 18 2009

Mozart – Overture to Le nozze di Figaro good, Exsultate, jubilate ok, Symphony No. 38 in D major ok
SF Symphony, April 18 2009

Gabrieli – In ecclesiis from Symphoniae sacrae ok
SF Symphony, March 7 2009

Ligeti – Requiem good
SF Symphony, March 7 2009

Ravel – Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra good
SF Symphony, March 7 2009

Liszt – Tasso ok
SF Symphony, March 7 2009

Hillborg – Exquisite Corpse good

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