Repertoire
Robert is in high demand as one of the outstanding musicians of his generation and has an impressive list of classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire he has conducted with orchestras and choirs.
Here is a selected list of his favourite pieces from his repertoire. For a complete repertoire list please download the attachment at the bottom of this page.
Symphonies
Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Cooper)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1, 2, 3, 4
Dvorak: Symphony Nos. 8, 9 ‘From the New World’
Elgar: Symphony No.1
Haydn: Symphony Nos. 44, 45 ‘ Farewell’, 100 ‘Military’, 101, 102, 103, 104
Mahler: Symphony Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7
Mealor: Symphony No.2 World Premiere
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1, 3 ‘Scottish’, 4 ‘Italian’, No. 5 ‘Reformation’
Mozart: Symphony Nos. 29, 31 ‘Paris’, 35 ‘Haffner’, 36 ‘Linz’, 38 ’Prague’, 39, 40, 41 Jupiter’
Nielsen: Symphony No. 1, 2, 4
Price, Florence: Symphony No.3
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony Symphony No.5
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2, Symphony No. 3
Schubert: Symphony Nos. 3, 5, 6 & 7/8 ‘Unfinished’, 9
Schumann: Symphony No. 3
Sibelius: Symphony No.1, 2, 5
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, 7, 10, 12
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, 4, 5, 6
Works for large and chamber orchestras
Andriessen: The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Beethoven: All main overtures
Berlioz: All main overtures
Brahms: All main overtures
Copland: Appalachian Spring full and chamber
Dvorak: Carnival Overture, Legends, Slavonic Dances, Serenade No.2 in D minor, Op.44
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Enigma Variations, Pomp & Circumstance Marches
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Holst: The Planets Suite
Marquez: Danzon No.2
Maxwell Davies: Concert Overture Ebb of Winter
Mendelssohn: All main overtures
Mozart: All main overtures
Mussorgsky: Night on a Bare Mountain
Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Sibelius: Finlandia Overture, Karelia Overture, Karelia Suite, ValseTriste
Strauss, Richard: Tod und Verklärung
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite 1919, l’Histoire du Soldat
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Nutcracker Suite, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Swan Lake Suite
Walton: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue
Watkins, Huw: Sonata for Cello and 8 Instruments
Weber: All main overtures
Williams, Grace: Penillion, Fantasy on Welsh Nursery Rhymes
Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves, Wasps Overture
Film music
Also Sprach Zarathustra, A Space Odyssey
Frozen suite
Harry Potter Suite
Jurassic Park Suite
Star Trek into Darkness
Star Trek Suite (Original)
Star Wars Suite
The Snowman
Theme to Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Theme to Doctor Who
Theme to E.T
Theme to Jaws
Theme to Superman
Theme to Thunderbirds
Works for String Orchestra
Adams: Shaker Loops
Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Bartok: Romanian Dances
Britten: Simple Symphony
Dvorak: Serenade for Strings
Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Sospiri
Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Holberg Suite
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony
Strauss: Metamorphosen
Suk: Serenade
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus
Walker: Lyric
Concerto/narration accompaniments
Barber: Knoxville of Summer 1919: for Soprano and Orchestra
Beethoven: Fantasy for Piano, Orchestra and Choir, Piano Concerto No.2, No.3, Concerto
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello, Piano Concerto No. 1
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1
Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures, Violin Concerto
Finzi: Dies Natalis
Gershwin: Piano Concerto, Rhapsody in Blue
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C, Trumpet Concerto, Violin Concerto No.4
Mathias: Harp Concerto
Mealor: Piano Concerto
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Piano Concerto 23, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, Violin Concerto No. 5
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Schumann: Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.1, No.2
Strauss: Four Last Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello, Violin Concerto
Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending for Violin and Orchestra
Walton: Viola Concerto
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1
choral works
Anderson: Four American Choruses
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique - Old Buddhist Prayer
Brahms: German Requiem
Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia, Saint Nicolas, War Requiem
Casken: Memorial, Into My Dark
Dale: Requiem
Duruflé: Requiem
Elgar: Dream of Gerontius
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, Requiem
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Concert Version
Handel: The Messiah
Haydn: Creation, Missa Sancti Nicolai
Jenkins: The Armed Man: Mass for Peace, Adiemus
Mantyjarvi: Canticum Calamitatis
Martin: Mass for Double Choir A capella
Mealor: Jubilate Deo, Salvatore Mundi, Te Deum Magnificat
Mozart: Requiem, Vesperae solennes de Confessore
Orff: Carmina Burana
Reeves: The Maze of Sleep
Rutter: Requiem
Tarney: Magnificat
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Vaughan Williams: Towards the Unknown Region
Verdi: Requiem
Vivaldi: Gloria
Walton: Belshazaar’s Feast
opera extracts
Bizet: Habanera (Carmen)
Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima (L’elisir d’amore) Quel gardo il cavaliere
(Don Pasquale)
Dvorak: Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Concert Version, By Strauss
Gounod: Je Veux Vivre (Romeo and Juliet), The Jewel Song (Faust)
Gluck: Che Faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Handel: Piangero la sortie mia (Giulio Cesare)
Lehar: Dein ist mein ganzes herz, Meine Lippen, sie Kussen so heib,
Merry Widow Waltz (Giuditta)
Mozart: Dallas Sau pace (Don Giovanni), Ach, ich fühl’s, Der Holle
racht in Meinem (The Magic Flute), Exultate Jubilate, Deh Vieni, non tardar, Non so piu Cosa Son, Porgi Amor,
Dove Sono, (The Marriage of Figaro), Parto, Parto, Ma Tu Ben Mio (La Clemenza di Tito)
Puccini: Che gelida manina, O mio babbino carro, O Soave Fanciulla,
Nessun Dorma, Quando m’en vo
Purcell: With Drooping Wings
Saint-Saens: Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix
Strauss II: Csardas, Chacun a son gout, Champagne Song, Mein Herr
Marquiss, Bruderlein und Schwesterlein, (Die Fledermaus)
Verdi: Sempre Libera from La Traviata, Brindisi Drinking Song,
La Donna e mobile,
Wager: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
Weill: I’m a Stranger Here Myself