RICHARD PRIOR • REPERTOIRE

Director of Orchestral Studies
Conductor, Emory Symphony Orchestra

The repertoire below is an overview of works conducted with various orchestras, including:

• Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra (2000-2004)
• Tulsa Signature Symphony
• Davidson College Symphony Orchestra (1994-1999)
• Oxford University Symphony Orchestra, United Kingdom
• Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
• Nottingham University Philharmonia, United Kingdom (1988-1991)

as well as repertoire performed with high school honor groups and youth symphonies such as:

• Oklahoma Summer Institute for the Arts, Quartz Mountain 2004
• Oklahoma Youth Symphony
• Tulsa Metro Honor Orchestra
• Wichita Honor Orchestra
• Ponca City High School Orchestra, Mid West Convention 2003

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord, Violin and Flute (A minor)
Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin (C minor)
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Barber: First Essay for Orchestra
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Barber: Overture to the School for Scandal
Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances
Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Hungarian March)
Bocherini: Cello Concerto
Boccherini: Symphony in A Major
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Brahms: Hungarian Dances
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Britten: Simple Symphony
Britten: Four Sea Interludes
Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Creston: Fantasy for Trombone and Orchestra
Delibes: Lakme (sous le dome epais)
De Meij: Symphony No. 1 ‘Lord of the Rings’ (Gandalf)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, “New World”
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Faure: Pavanne
Finzi: Prelude for Strings
Finzi: Romance for Strings
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Gorecki: Harpsichord Concerto
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2
Grieg: Three pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfur
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Handel: Water Music
Hanson: Symphony No. 2: Romantic
Haydn: Symphony No. 45
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Haydn: Symphony No. 100
Haydn: Symphony No. 104
Holst: St. Paul’s Suite
Holst: The Planets
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance
Khatchaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Lalo: Cello Concerto
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Mahler: Adagietto for Strings
Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C minor
Martin: Ballade for Flute
Mendelssohn: Overture to Fingal’s Cave
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 ‘Reformation’
Mozart: Concerto for Oboe in C Major
Mozart: Concerto for Flute in G Major
Mozart: Concerto for Horn in E Flat
Mozart: Concerto for Violin in G major
Mozart: Concerto No. 17 for Piano in G major
Mozart: Concerto No. 21 for Piano in C major
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart: Die Zäuberflote Overture
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Mozart: Symphony No. 30
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Mozart: Symphony No. 41
Mussorgsky: Night on a Bald Mountain
Prior: Symphony No. 1
Prior: Symphony No. 2
Prior: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra: “Phoenix Rising”
Prior: Cimarron Portrait
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
Ravel: Bolero
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Ravel: Le Tambeau de Couperin
Ravel : Mother Goose
Ravel: Pavanne for a Dead Princess
Rimsky-Korakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Rossini: Barber of Seville Overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Rossini: The Thieving Magpie Overture
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Schubert: Symphony No. 9
Schumann: Chester
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Sibelius: Finlandia
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Stravinsky: Octet for Winds
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Strauss: Radetzky March
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovsky: Cappriccio Italien
Tchaikovsky: March Slave
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 ‘A London Symphony’
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Vaughan Williams: Rhosymedre
Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Band
Vivaldi: Concerto for two cellos in G minor
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (complete)
Vivaldi: Concerto for Flute and Strings ‘La Notte’
Wagner: Ride of the Walkyries
Wagner: Siegfried Idyl
Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Warlock: Capriol Suite
Weber: Clarinet Concerto
Williams: Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Williams: Suite from E.T.          

Choral Repertoire

Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Duruflé: Requiem
Elgar: Sea Songs
Faure: Requiem
Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Handel: Messiah
Haydn: Little Organ Mass
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Mozart: Exultate Jubilate
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart: Mass in C minor
Mozart: Mass in D
Mozart: Coronation Mass
Prior: hymn for nations united
Prior: Stabat Mater
Schubert: Mass in G
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands
Vivaldi: Gloria

Opera/Musical Theater Repertoire

Barber: A Hand of Bridge
Bart: Oliver
Bernstein: West Side Story
Gay: Me and My Girl
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury
Holst: Savitri
Loesser: How to Succeed in Business...
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
Menotti: The Medium
Moore: The Ballad of Baby Doe
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Puccini: Suor Angelica
Rogers & Hammerstein: South Pacific
Rossini: Arias from The Barber of Seville
Styne: Bells are Ringing
Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea
Wilson: The Boyfriend