The Knights performing the first movement of Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" concerto, recorded live at the eponymous estate itself.

Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks - 1. Tempo Giusto

The Knights performing part IV of the Jacobsen/Aghaei collaborative composition. Recorded live at the "Dumbarton Oaks" estate on October 8, 2013.

Colin Jacobsen/Siamak Aghaei -  Concerto For Santur, Violin, And Orchestra - Part IV

The Knights performing Thomas Ades, live at Ravinia on September 7, 2012

Ades - Three Studies After Couperin - Mvmt I

The Knights performing movements III-IV of Beethoven's Symphony No.5, live at Ravinia on September 8, 2012

Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, mvts. III-IV

The Knights perform Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" concerto live at Ravinia on August 20, 2014

Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks, mvt. I

Movement 2 of Aaron Jay Kernis's "Symphony of Meditations" (Symphony no.3), for ochestra, chorus, and soprano soloist.

Text by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, translated by Peter Cole
Performed by the Yale Philharmonia, Camerata, Glee Club, and Schola Cantorum.
Aaron Kernis, conductor.
Recorded live, Nov. 6, 2009.
Uploaded with kind permission of the composer.

Aaron Jay Kernis - Symphony of Meditations, mvt.2

Lisa Bielawa's "Templehof Etude," recorded live by The Knights at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY, on April 5, 2012.

Written for The Knights, "Tempelhof Etude" is the first chapter in the massive "Tempelhof Broadcast", an hour-long work written for a total of more than 600 musicians.

Lisa Bielawa - Tempelhof Etude (Tempelhof Broadcast, ch. 1)

Benjamin Britten's Serenade, recorded live by The Knights at Ravinia on September 3rd, 2013.

With Nicholas Phan, tenor, and Michael P. Atkinson, french horn.

Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, no.6 "Hymn"

The Knights perform the first movement of Charles Ives' Three Places in New England, entitled "The 'St. Gaudens' in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and His Colored Regiment)."

Recorded live at the Ojai Music Festival on June 14, 2014.

Ives - Three Places In New England, I. The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common...

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