Program under the direction of Rainer Klugkist

Summer semester 2023

• Antonín Dvořák - Overture in F major op. 91 "In Nature"
• Bedrich Smetana - Symphonic poem JB 1:112 "My Fatherland: No. 2 "The Moldau" and No. 6 "Blanik"
• Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances Sz 68 BB 76
• Vittorio Monti - Csárdás No. 1 in D minor for violin and orchestra
  • Soloist: Anna Godesberg
• Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 6 in A major
• Antonín Dvorák - Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor

Winter semester 2022/2023

• Camille Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre
  • Soloist: Anna Godesberg
• Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 6 in C major
• Modest Mussorgky - Night on the Bare Mountain
• Engelbert Humperdinck - Excerpts from "Hansel and Gretel"

Summer semester 2022

• Kurt Weil - Suite from "The Threepenny Opera"
• George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
• Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Phantom of the Opera (excerpt)
• Frederick Loewe - My Fair Lady (excerpt)
• Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs - Grease!
• Louis Daniel Armstrong - Satchmo! A Tribute to Louis Armstrong

Winter semester 2019/2020

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont Ouverture op.34
• Edward Elgar - Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra in E minor op.84
• Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 8 in C major, D944, "Great C major Symphony"

Summer semester 2019

• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Symphony No.3 in C, "The English"
• Gustav Holst - Japanese Suite op.33
• Love Is All You Need (A Tribute to the Beatles) arr. Bruce Healey
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Concert Suite) arr. Jerry Brubaker

Winter semester 2018/19

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale"
• Richard Wagner - Rienzi Overture
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite from the ballet "Swan Lake"

Summer semester 2018

• George Gershwin - Cuban Ouverture
• Leonhard Bernstein (arr. Charlie Harmon) - Candide Suite
• Arturo Márquez - Conga del Fuego
• Arturo Márquez - Danzón 7 (German premiere)
• José Pablo Moncayo - Huapango
• Arturo Márquez - Danzón 2

Winter semester 2017/18

• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3, D minor, op. 30
  • Soloist: Xingyu Lu
• Aram Khachaturian - Symphonic Suite from the ballet "Gajaneh" for orchestra
• Steffen Brinkmann - Symphonic poem "The Castle" (world premiere)

Summer semester 2017

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Overture to "Coriolan"
• John Williams - Three pieces from Schindler's List
  • Soloist: Christian Waltermann
• Trevor John, Randy Edelmann - The Last of the Mohicans
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Robin Hood's Adventures, Symphonic Suite
• Monty Norman - Themes from 007

Winter semester 2016/17

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Ouverture, op. 36
• Richard Strauss - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 1, E flat major, op. 11
  • Soloist: Johannes Berger
• Antonín Dvorák - Symphony No. 9, E minor, op. 95, "From the New World"

Summer semester 2016

• Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez (arr. Robert Longfield) - Music from Frozen
• Stephen Schwartz (arr. Ted Ricketts) - Highlights from Wicked
• Claude-Michel Schönberg (arr. Bob Lowden) - Selections from Les Misérables
• John Williams (arr. Calvin Custer) - Highlights from Jurassic Park
• Howard Shore (arr. John Whitney) - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• John Willams (arr. Jay Bocook) - Symphonic Suite from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Koji Kondo (arr. Andrés Soto) - The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary

Winter semester 2015/16

• Johann Strauss (son) - Ouverture to "The Gypsy Baron"
• Niels Wilhelm Gade - Symphony No. 2 in E major, op. 10
• John Sibelius - Symphonic poem, op. 26, "Finlandia"
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite (arrangement for orchestra)
• Steffen Brinkmann - Miner's Rhapsody (world premiere)

Summer semester 2015

• Giuseppe Verdi - Overture to "La Forza del Destino"
• Georges Bizet - Carmen Suites No. 1 and 2
• Dimitri Shostakovich - 2nd suite for jazz orchestra

Winter semester 2014/15

• Gioachino Rossini - Petite Messe solenelle
  • with the mixed choir Hannover-Döhren e.V.

Summer semester 2014

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5, E minor, op. 64
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - Sinfonietta No. 1, "Em memória de Mozart"
• Arturo Márquez - Danzón No. 2

Winter semester 2013/14

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Concert Overture No. 2, B minor, op. 26, "The Hebrides"
• Niels Wilhelm Gade - Symphony No. 8, B minor, op. 47
• Alexander Borodin - A Steppe Sketch from Central Asia, Symphonic Poem
• Jerry Goldsmith (arr. Jakob Wahrlich) - Suite from Mulan
• Hans Zimmer (arr. John Wasson) - Music From Gladiator
• Alan Menken, Tim Rice (arr. Mortimer) - Aladdin

Summer semester 2013

• Piotr Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
  • Soloist: Yuliya Kopylova
• Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Maurice Ravel) - Pictures at an Exhibition (arrangement for orchestra)
• Anatoly Lyadov - Kikimora

Winter semester 2012/13

• Joseph Haydn - Trumpet concerto in E flat major
  • Soloist: Scott Keating
• Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
• Edward Grieg - Excerpts from Norwegian Dances
• Edward Grieg - Excerpts from Symphonic Dances
• Antonín Dvořák - Excerpts from Slavonic Dances
• Leonard Bernstein - Excerpts from West Side Story
• Alexander Borodin - Excerpts from Polovtsian Dances

NTH Project Winter 2012

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for piano, violin, violoncello and orchestra, C major, op. 56
• Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
• Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstances, op. 39, No.4 in G major
• William Walton - Crown Imperial March

Summer semester 2012

• Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
  • with the Gemischter Chor Hannover-Döhren e.V.

Winter semester 2011/12

• Bedrich Smetana - The Moldau
• Robert Schumann - Symphony No.3, E flat major, op.97, "Rhenish Symphony"
• Joseph Haydn - Concerto for violoncello and orchestra, C major
  • Soloist: Jola Isberner

Summer semester 2011

• Carl Maria von Weber - Preciosa (Ouverture), op. 78
• Carl Maria von Weber - Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 2, E flat major, op. 74
• Robert Schumann - Symphony No.3, E flat major, op. 97, 2nd movement
• Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No.7 in D minor, op. 70
• Ingo Laufs - Glück auf! a symphonic hike through the Harz Mountains

Winter semester 2010/11

• Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 1, G minor
• Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto, D major, op. 77
  • Soloist: Solenne Paidassi
• Franz von Suppé - Overture to "Light Cavalry"
• George Gershwin - An American in Paris

Summer semester 2010

• Piotr Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto in B flat minor, op. 23
  • Soloist: Maria Männikkö
• Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No.1
• Alexander Borodin - Symphony No.3, A minor - Fragment
• Ingo Laufs - Glückauf! a symphonic hike through the Harz Mountains
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite (arrangement for symphony orchestra)

Winter semester 2009/10

• Frederick Delius - Florida Suite

Music from the movies:

• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• James Bond
• Out of Africa
• Dances with Wolves

Summer semester 2009

• Jean Sibelius - Symphonic poem, op. 26, "Finlandia"
• Jean Sibelius - Concerto for violin and orchestra, D minor, op. 47
  • Soloist: Kana Sugimura
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Symphony No. 5, D minor, op. 107, "Reformation Symphony"

Winter semester 2008/09

• Johann Strauss - Waltz "On the beautiful blue Danube", op. 314
• Edward Elgar - "Pomp and Circumstance" op. 39, No. 1 and No. 4
• Igor Stravinsky - Suite from the ballet "The Fairy's Kiss"
• Alexander Arutyunyan - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, A flat major
  • Soloist: Christian Beyer

Project Coronation Mass November 2008 - Choir anniversary of the Mixed Choir Hannover-Döhren

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mass in C major, KV 317 "Coronation Mass"

Summer semester 2008

• Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 (op. 46) and No. 2 (op. 55)
• Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto, A minor, op. 16
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite (arrangement for symphony orchestra)
  • Soloists: Michiko Tsusa and Volker Link

Winter semester 2007/08

• Franz Schubert - Symphony No.8 in B minor, D 759
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Contrapuncus I from the Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor, KV 626 "Missa pro defunctis"
  • with the Young Vocal Ensemble Hanover

Summer semester 2007

• Giuseppe Verdi - Excerpts from La Traviata
• Giuseppe Verdi - Excerpts from Rigoletto
• Georges Bizet - Excerpts from Carmen

Winter semester 2006/07

• Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dances No. 1, No. 3, No. 5 and No. 10
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 1, C major, op. 21
• Robert Schumann - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, A minor, op. 54
  • Soloist: Michiko Tsusa

Project with the Ecumenical Choir July 2006

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Mass in C major, op. 86
  • Conductor: Arno Janssen

Summer semester 2006

• Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 8, G major, op. 88, "The English"
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations for violoncello and orchestra, A major, op. 33

Winter semester 2005/06

• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Ouverture, op. 26, "The Hebrides"
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Symphony No.3, A minor, op. 56, "Scottish Symphony"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No.40, G minor, KV 550

Summer semester 2005

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 61
  • Soloist: Iris Maron
• Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1, C minor, op. 68
• Alexander Borodin - A steppe sketch from Central Asia

Winter semester 2004/05

• Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9, E minor, op. 95, "From the New World"
• Antonín Dvořák - Cello Concerto, B minor, op. 104
  • Soloist: Daniel Sorour

Summer semester 2004

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, C minor, op. 67, "Symphony of Destiny"
• Giacomo Puccini - Messa di gloria
  • together with the chamber choir at the TU Clausthal

Winter semester 2003/04

• Aaron Copland - The Quiet City
• Joaquin Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
• Georges Bizet - Excerpts from the Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2

Summer semester 2003

• Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1, G minor, op. 13, "Winter Dreams"
• Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dances No. 1
• Edvard Grieg - Norwegian Dances No. 2 and No. 3
• Jean Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela

Winter semester 2002/03

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont Overture
• Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 4, D minor, op. 120
• Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto grosso, D minor, op. 3 no. 11

Program under the direction of José V. López de Vergara

Summer semester 2002

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite No. 2, B minor, BWV 1067
  • Soloist: Nicolas Köb
• Francis Poulenc - Concerto for strings, timpani and organ
  • Soloist: Arno Jannsen
• Charles Gounod - Little Symphony for Winds
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 35, D major, "Hafner Symphony"

Winter semester 2001/02

• Antonin Dvorak - Selection from the Slavonic Dances
• Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
• Luigi Boccherini - Cello Concerto No. 9, E flat major, G. 482

Summer semester 2000

• Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy - Overture "The beautiful Melusine"
• Joseph Haydn - Concerto for trumpet, E flat major
  • Soloist: Michael Junker
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 8, F major, op. 93

Winter semester 1999/2000

• Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 6, C major, D 489, "Little Symphony in C major"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto, A major, KV 622
• Georges Bizet - L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1