NCCO's All-Male 2019-20 Season

New Century Chamber Orchestra has announced its 2019-20 season, and it's the kind of thing you just didn't see under Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: an all-male season. Alas, because it's a good season with a lot of interesting and rarely-heard music, just that none of it was composed by women.

Fin de siècle 
September 26-29, 2019
Daniel Hope, Music Director & Concertmaster
Simos Papanas, Guest Concertmaster
Maxim Landos, piano

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church Berkeley, Berkeley
Saturday, September 28, 2019, 7:30 p.m., Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Sunday, September 29, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael

Ernest Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings
            Simos Papanas, violin
            Maxim Landos, piano

Edward Elgar: Chanson de Matin
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47
Christian Sinding: Adagio from Suite im alten Stil, Op. 10
Jules Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
Arnold Schoenberg: Notturno for Strings and Harp
Richard Strauss: Morgen for Violin and Strings

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Simone Dinnerstein Leads Bach
November 7-10, 2019
Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church Berkeley, Berkeley
Friday, November 8, 2019, 7:30pm, First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 7:30 p.m., Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Sunday, November 10, 2019, 3:00 p.m., Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto in E Major, BWV 1053
J.S. Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir
J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050

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Christmas with Anne Sofie von Otter
December 18-20, 2019
Daniel Hope, concertmaster
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano

Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco
Friday, December 20, 2019, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, Berkeley

Johann Sebastian Bach: “Schliesse, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder” from The Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
George Frideric Handel: “As with rosy steps the morn” from Theodora, HWV 68
Handel: “Cara sposa” from Rinaldo, HWV 7
Thad Jones: A Child is Born
Irving Berlin: White Christmas
Robert Wells: The Christmas Song
Traditional: O Tannenbaum
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano

Antonio Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons
            Daniel Hope, violin

Handel: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10, HWV 328
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 "Christmas Concerto”

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Beethoven in the Presidio
January 23-25, 2020
Daniel Hope, violin
Lynn Harrell, cello
Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Friday, January 24, 2020, 7:30 p.m., Presidio Theater, San Francisco

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No.2
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer”
Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1 No. 1

Saturday, January 25, 2020, 7:30pm., Presidio Theater, San Francisco

Additional Performance:
Thursday, January 23, 2020, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, Berkeley

Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
            Daniel Hope, violin
            Lynn Harrell, cello
            Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21

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Music of the Spheres
May 13-17, 2020
Daniel Hope, concertmaster
San Francisco Girls Chorus

Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 7:30 p.m., Bing Concert Hall, Palo Alto
Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Saturday, May 16, 2020, 7:30 p.m., Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Sunday, May 17, 2020, 3:00 p.m., Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael

Gabriel Prokofiev: Spheres
Johann Paul von Westhoff (Arr. Christian Badzura): Imitazione delle Campane
Philip Glass: Echorus
Michael Nyman: Trysting Fields
Karsten Gundermann: Faust
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
John Williams: Starkiller from Star Wars (Arr. for strings)
Gustav Holst: Mars and Jupiter from The Planets (Arr. for strings)

Gabriel Fauré (Arr. John Rutter): Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
Aleksey Igudesmann: Lento
Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace: Benedictus
            Featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus