Premières

Djong Victorin Yu conducts with a large, kaleidoscopic repertoire. Here is a partial listing of his premières in various concert halls around the world. 

Hugo Alfvén

Midsommarvaka, Op.19 

Malcolm Arnold

Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op.140

Fantasy on a theme of John Field, Op.116

A Grand, Grand Overture, Op.59

Peterloo Overture, Op.97

Sweeney Todd, Op.68 (first performance outside the U.K.)

Symphony No.5, Op.74

Tam O'Shanter Overture, Op.51 

Kurt Atterberg

Symphony No.2, Op.6 

Tor Aulin

Violin Concerto No.3, Op.14 

Seymour Barab

A Game of Chance 

Howard Blake

Violin Concerto “The Leeds” (first London performance) 

Benjamin Britten

Les illuminations, Op.18 

Frederick Delius

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 

The Walk to the Paradise Garden 

Edward Elgar

Polonia 

Manuel de Falla

Noches en los jardines de España

El sombrero de tres picos (complete ballet music) 

Reinhold Glière

The Red Poppy, Op.70 

Paul Hindemith

Trauermusik 

Arturo Márquez

Danzón No.2 

Darius Milhaud

Le boeuf sur le toit 

Andrzej Panufnik

Katyn Epitaph 

Russell Peck

Voice of the Wood (first performance outside the U.S.) 

Serge Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet 

Sergei Rachmaninoff:

Aleko, Suite from the opera 

Caprice bohemien, Op. 12

Piano Concerto No.1 (original version)

Prince Rostislav

Symphony No.1, Op.13

Youth Symphony 

Ture Rangström

Symphony No.2 “Mitt land”

Maurice Ravel

L’heure espagnole 

Jay Reise

The Selfish Giant (world premiere) 

Miklós Rózsa

Concerto for Strings, Op.17 

Camille Saint-Saëns

Cyprès et Lauriers, Op. 156 (first London performance)

Rodion Shchedrin

Carmen Suite 

Josef Suk

Symphony in E, Op.14 

Yevgeny Svetlanov

Rhapsody No.2 

Piotr Tchaikovsky

Symphony No.2 (original version) 

Dag Wirén

Serenade for Strings, Op.11 

William Walton

Violin Concerto 

Henry V 

Victor Herbert

Irish Rhapsody