Four Centuries of Great Music May 25, 2025 Music from the 2024-2025 Season of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra

Four Centuries of Great Music  Hilton Head Symphony 2024-25

Today on Four Centuries of Great Music  I am featuring some of the music that was played as part of the 2024-2025 Season of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra.  I will be opening with Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26, G minor. It was performed last October 20th and 21st as part of the first concert of the season featuring Melissa White, Violin with John Morris Russell, Conducting the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra.   It is in three movements: 

Max Bruch:  Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 - I. Prelude, Allegro moderato
Max Bruch:  Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 - II. Adagio
Max Bruch:  Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 - III. Finale,  Allegro energico

Bomsori, violin with Jakub Hrusa conducting the Bamberger Symphoniker
Bomsori: Bruch & Korngold
Deutsche Grammophon

This first concert also featured performances of Mikhail Glinka Ruslan und Lyudmila Overture and  Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Op. 36, in F minor


Today on Four Centuries of Great Music  I am featuring some of the music that was played as part of the 2024-2025 Season of the Hilton Head Symphony.  During the second concert of the season on November 10th and 11th, they played Duke Ellington’s  Suite from The River in a performance conducted by John Morris Russell.  This is an extraordinary orchestral suite tracing the life of a river in seven movements.


Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: I. Spring
Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: II. Meander
Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: III. Giggling Rapids
Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: IV. Lake
Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: V. Vortex
Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: VI. Riba
Duke Ellington:  Suite from The River: VII. Village Virgins

Neeme Järvi & Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Dawson & Ellington: Orchestral Works
Chandos Records

You can stream my conversation with John Morris Russell about this complete concert from the November 6, 2024 episode of Savannah Music Local and Sustainable at www.wruu.org/broadcasts/54490


Also on the second concert of the Hilton Head Symphony’s 2024-2025 season was Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World) in a performance conducted by John Morris Russell.

Antonin Dvorak:  Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World): I. Adagio - Allegro Molto
Antonin Dvorak:  Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World): II. Largo
Antonin Dvorak:  Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World): III. Scherzo, Molto Vivace
Antonin Dvorak:  Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World): IV. Allegro con Fuoco
London Symphony Orchestra & Leopold Ludwig
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 & Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
Everest Records

You can stream my conversation with John Morris Russell about this complete concert from the November 6, 2024 episode of Savannah Music Local and Sustainable at www.wruu.org/broadcasts/54490


The third concert of the Hilton head Symphony Orchestra was their holiday pops concert on December 1st and December 2nd.  
You can stream my conversation with John Morris Russell about this complete concert from the November 20, 2024 episode of Savannah Music Local and Sustainable at www.wruu.org/broadcasts/54655


From the last concert of Hilton Head Symphony’s 2024-2025 season was Claude Debussy’s Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun in a performance conducted by John Morris Russell.

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L.86
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Little Big Debussy Box
Vanguard Classics

This concert also featured Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17, K.453, G Major and Claude Debussy La Mer (The Sea).  You can stream my conversation with John Morris Russell about this complete concert from the April 16, 2025 episode of Savannah Music Local and Sustainable at www.wruu.org/broadcasts/57847


In the fourth concert of the 2024-2025 Season on January 19th and 20th the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra performed Gabriel Fauré Elegy, Op. 24 for cello and orchestra with cellist Sharon Robinson and Jaime Laredo, conducting

Elegy for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 24
Hagen, Capucon, OCL
Renaud Capuçon · Julia Hagen, cello 
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
GABRIEL FAURÉ
Renaud Capuçon
Deutsche Grammophon

This concert also featured Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ludwig van Beethoven “Triple” Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Piano. You can stream my conversation with John Morris Russell about this complete concert from the January 1, 2025 episode of Savannah Music Local and Sustainable at www.wruu.org/broadcasts/55623