If you could conduct for one night

[Lethevich]

Debussy - Trois Nocturnes
Vaughan Williams - Flos Campi
interval
Schnittke - Symphony No.4

[Karl Henning]

Demanding night for the chorus!  But a lovely program.

[Scion7]

This may well be obvious, but: If I could conduct for one night, it would be an all-Henning program.

Would you be a tyrant conductor?

[Karl Henning]

Have never been a tyrant yet. I expect I have no talent for tyranny.

[Mirror Image]

The Essence of America - A six-part series featuring myself conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra

-Series 5-

Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur (electric violin: Tracy Silverman)
Reich: Music for Large Ensemble

-Intermission-

Harrison: Symphony No. 3

Encore:

Adams: Two Fanfares for Orchestra: Tromba Lontana - Short Ride In A Fast Machine

[Brian]

Politely drawing inspiration from John:
America Strings!

Barbara Harbach | Demarest Suite (12')
Philip Glass | Symphony No 3 (24')
-INTERVAL-
Samuel Barber | Adagio (8')
William Schuman | Symphony for Strings (17')
Aaron Jay Kernis | Musica celestis, ii. adagio, for string orchestra (12')

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

[Mirror Image]

Politely drawing inspiration from John:

Nothing wrong with that!

[TheGSMoeller]

This may well be obvious, but: If I could conduct for one night, it would be an all-Henning program.

I imagine a "Being John Malkovich"-esque album cover for this wonderful evening with an entire choir of Karl Hennings, with Karl conducting and another Karl and his clarinet seated in front. 

And of course filled with great music...get to it Karl! (at least have a show Atlanta)

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The Essence of America - A six-part series featuring myself conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra

-Series 6-

Bernstein:: Facsimile
Schuman: Judith

-Intermission-

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Encore:

Barber: Medea's Dance of Vengeance

[Karl Henning]

There had better be some Henningmusick in your Essential America series, buddy, or you lose all credibility ; )

[Lethevich]

Havergal Brian
Symphony No.1 'Gothic'

- Encore

Johann Strauss II
Kaiser-Walzer

[Mirror Image]

There had better be some Henningmusick in your Essential America series, buddy, or you lose all credibility ; )

If I do a concert of Contemporary American composers, you will be included, Karl. But you will receive a commission from me to do a large orchestral work.

[TheGSMoeller]

All Berlioz:

Berlioz: Overture-Benvenuto Cellini
Berlioz: Harold en Italie (viola)Antoine Tamestit

-intermission-

Berlioz: Overture-Le carnaval romain
Berlioz: La mort de Cléopâtre (soprano)Susan Graham
Berlioz: Overture-Rob Roy

-encore-

Berlioz: Rakoczy March - La damnation de Faust

[Chaszz]

Tristan und Isolde, with Callas and Windgassen. Yes, I know Windgassen is not considered a real heldentenor, but who wound up singing on two of the century's greatest Wagner recordings, Bohm's incandescent live Bayreuth Tristan and Solti's landmark Ring? What Wolfgang lacks in power he makes up for in psychological depth and feeling. As for Callas, no other singer of any era or gender is even in her general territory as an actress or actor, case closed. The orchestra would be the Met's current one.

For second choice, no live performance or recording I've ever heard gets the climax of the cadenza in the first movement of Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto right. I would need a relatively inexperienced harpsichordist without preconceptions whom I could mold to play it the way it deserves to be played.

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Russian Thoroughfare:

Glazunov: From The Middle Ages
Lyadov: Eight Russian Folksongs
Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain
Mussorgsky: Joshua

-Interval-

Stravinsky: Petrouchka (complete ballet - 1911 version)

Myself conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

[springrite]

All Carter program:

Cello Concerto (with Sherry)
Encore: Cello Sonata

Double Concerto
Encore: Night Fantasie

Forget about the conductor, people will show up for the encores.

[techniquest]

Back by popular demand (though clearly not from anyone on this forum!  ), and moving on from last years controversial Mahler 4 and February's noisy and rather expensive OTT ultra-concert, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and me present the following:

Petrov - Poem for Those who Died in The Siege of Leningrad
Gerhard - Concerto for Orchestra

Interval

Jon Lord - Concerto for Group and Orchestra, featuring guest musicians: Steve Hackett (electric guitar), Chris Squire (bass guitar), Carl Palmer (drums), Rick Wakeman (keyboards); George Michael (vocals)

(Encore - Squire - 'Hold Out Your Hand' )

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Transfigured Nights: A Second Viennese School Orchestral Series with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by myself

This five night series will feature music not only from Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, but of many composers who followed them -

Series #1 -

Webern: Passacaglia
Dallapiccola: Frammenti Sinfonici

-Interval-

Schoenberg: Violin Concerto (Soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter)

[Lisztianwagner]

A Debussy/Ravel programme:

Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker

Claude Debussy
Trois Nocturnes
La Mer

Interval

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé

[springrite]

A Debussy/Ravel programme:

Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker

Claude Debussy
Trois Nocturnes
La Mer

Interval

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé

I like the length of this program.