In order to be a part of this performance, musicians were required to record themselves performing the piece on their own instruments. However, since the piece features sections of improvisation, players are also invited to send in clips of themselves improvising.
"Join 101 musicians from over 30 countries who make up the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 playing a spectacular Grand Finale concert at Sydney Opera House.The musicians met for a weeklong celebration of music in Sydney culminating in the Grand Finale featuring animated visuals on the interior and exterior projections by Obscura Digital on the iconic sails, all synchronised to the music of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011's performance and conducted by YouTube Symphony Orchestra Artistic Advisor Michael Tilson Thomas."
Here is what is entailed in this 2+ hour performance:
0:02:05 Introduction by MTT
0:03:20 Hector Berlioz - Roman Carnival - Overture, Op. 9 (featuring Android Jones - digital artist)
0:13:00 Meet Maria Chiossi - Harp
0:18:00 Percy Grainger - Arrival on a Platform Humlet from in a Nutshell - Suite
0:22:20 Johan Sebastian Bach - Toccata in F major for organ (featuring Cameron Carpenter)
0:30:00 Meet Paulo Calligopoulos - Electric Guitar and violin
0:32:55 Alberto Ginastera - Danza del trigo (Wheat Dance) and Danza final (Malambo) from the ballet Estancia (conducted by Ilyich Rivas)
0:42:22 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 'Caro' bell'idol mio' - Canon in three voices, K562 (featuring the Sydney Children's Choir and soprano Renee Fleming via video)
0:45:14 Meet Xiomara Mass - Oboe
0:48:42 Benjamin Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
1:08:00 William Barton - Kalkadunga (featuring William Barton - Didgeridoo)
1:13:15 Timothy Constable - Suna
1:16:36 Meet Roman Riedel - Trombone
1:18:38 Richard Strauss - Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic (featuring Sarah Willis, Horn, Berlin Philharmoniker and conducted by Edwin Outwater)
1:23:08 *PREMIERE* Mason Bates - Mothership (specially composed for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011)
1:34:34 Meet Su Chang - Guzheng
1:36:55 Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (Finale) (featuring Stefan Jackiw and conducted by Ilyich Rivas)
1:44:44 Meet Ozgur Baskin - Violin
1:46:22 Colin Jacobsen and Siamak Aghaei - Ascending Bird - Suite for string orchestra (featuring Colin Jacobsen, violin, and Richard Tognetti, violin, and Kseniya Simonova - sand artist)
1:55:35 Meet Stepan Grytsay - Violin
1:58:00 Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird (Infernal Dance - Berceuse - Finale)
2:12:50 *ENCORE* Franz Schubert - Rosamunde (featuring Eugene Izotov - oboe, and Andrew Mariner - clarinet)
For those, like myself, who love putting these concerts on in the background to enjoy, I managed to find two more pieces from their performances at Carnegie Hall:
Act 1:
07:15 Johannes Brahms - Allegro giocoso from Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op. 98
17:15 Lou Harrison - Music from Canticle No. 3
27:45 Antonín Dvořák - Music from Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
32:45 Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzon Septimi toni No. 2
38:15 Johann Sebastian Bach - Sarabande from Suite No. 1 in G major, for Cello Solo, VWV 1007 (performed by Joshua Roman)
43:30 Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No. 9
54:00 Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkuere
Act 2:
3:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vase from Two Pieces for Pian, Six Hands (performed by Derek Wang, Charlie Liu, Anna Larsen)
07:45 Tan Dun - Internet Symphony Eroica
16:00 Sergei Prokofiev - Scherzo from Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Piano, Op. 16 (featuring Yuja Wang)
23:00 Claude Debussy - Nuages from Nocturnes
32:15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Finale from Concerto No. 5 for violin in A major, K. 219 (featuring Gil Shaham)
48:00 John Cage - Aria with Renga (featuring Measha Brueggergosman)
57:15 Mason Bates - Preview of Warehouse Medicine from B-Sides
1:05:30 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Finale from Symphony No. 4
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