Bernard Rands describes the inspiration behind the work:
"The title DREAM is not intended to suggest a musical evocation of a specific dream. Rather, the musical form of this composition models some of the general characteristics of dreams - unpredictable and fantastic juxtapositions; exotic simultaneities; recognizable and mysterious images blended together; intense clarity; opaque chaos; moments of nightmarish intensity - all unfolding in unreal time and often linked by a single, dominating element.
2/3 Coleridge-Taylor: Novelettes Nos. 3 and 4 Schubert: Symphony No. 5 Jessie Montgomery: Strum Kodály: Dances of Galánta Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (Erina Yashima and Rafael Kubelík, cond)
2/10 Holmès: La Nuit et l'Amour Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 Schumann: Symphony No. 2 Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, Forest Murmurs from Siegfried, Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung (John Sharp, c; Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Daniel Barenboim, cond)
2/17 Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture Rands: DREAM for Orchestra Liszt: Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem No. 6 Schoenberg: Transfigured Night Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (Riccardo Muti, cond)
2/24 Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polish Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished Stravinsky: Fireworks, Four Studies (Riccardo Muti and Pierre Boulez, cond)
