2025-26 Season Repertoire

We are very excited for the 2025-26 season.  We have multiple side-by-sides, exciting guest soloists, and a collaboration with Philly Pops to finish out the year.  Below is a portion of our repertoire for the season. And, as always, these are subject to change.

 

Philadelphia Sinfonia

Concert #1 – Voices Beyond Barriers

Fanny Mendelssohn – Overture in C (1832)

Lili Boulanger – D’un soir triste (1918)

Richard Rodgers – The Sound of Music Medley (1959)

Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 (1889)

 

Concert #2 – Fate Now Conquers

Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers (Overture, 1906)

Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture (1880)

Carlos Simon – Fate Now Conquers (20202)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 (1888)

 

Concert #3 – America 250: Stars, Stripes, and Symphonies

Collaboration with Philly Pops

Aaron Copland (1900–1990) – Fanfare for the Common Man

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) – West Side Story Overture (arr. M. Paress)

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) – Three Dance Episodes from On the Town

John Williams (b. 1932) – Star Wars Suite for Orchestra – Selections (only Mvt. I-III)

I. Main Title

II. Princess Leia’s Theme

III. The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)

Joan Tower (b. 1938) – Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 6

Leroy Anderson (1908–1975) – Bugler’s Holiday

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) – 1812 Overture

John Williams (b. 1932) – Catch Me If You Can

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) – The Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) – The Liberty Bell

 

Philadelphia Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra

CPE Bach – Sinfonia No. 3 in C Major (1773)

W. A. Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546 (1788)

Edward Elgar – Serenade in E minor, Op. 20 (1892)

Florence Price – III. Juba from String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935)

Anton Arensky – Variations On A Theme By Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a (1894)

Amy Beach – Bal Masqué, Op.22  (string orchestra version) (1893)

Benjamin Britten – Simple Symphony IV. Frolicsome Finale (1933-34)

 

Philadelphia Sinfonia Players

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Los Esclavos felices Overture (1820)

Gustav Holst – Brook Green Suite (1933)

Gabriel Faure – Pavane, op.50 (1887)

Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major D. 485 (1816)

Amy Beach – Bal Masque for Chamber Orchestra op. 22 (1893)

W. A. Mozart – The Abduction from the Seraglio Overture K. 384 (1782)

Serge Koussevitzky – Concerto for Double Bass, Op. 3 (1902), Orch. by Paul Gerike, featuring Michael Franz, double bass

 

Philadelphia Sinfonia Strings

Winter Concert

William Boyce – Finale from Overture #5 (1770)

Florence Price – The Deserted Garden (1933)

J.S. Bach – Concerto in a minor for violin (1730), 1st movement, with soloist Lucia Nasrallah

 

Spring Concert

Haydn – String Quartet, Op. 3, #5, Scherzando

Brahms – Two Minuets from “Serenade #1, Op. 11”

Hisaichi- Merry-Go-Round of Life from “Howl’s Moving Castle”