Classical Music Playlist, July 30, 2021
Maurice Ravel said that a Concerto should not aim to be profound and dramatic but lighthearted and sparkling. It was with this idea that he composed his Piano Concerto in G-major that premiered in 1932. Opening famously with a whip crack (or a slapstick from the percussion section), and inspired by America's jazz and his Basque ancestry, Ravel's Piano Concerto stands as a cheerful farewell from a composer who would soon fall so ill he could no longer compose. This was his penultimate composition and it was hailed as a masterpiece wherever it was performed across the globe soon after its premiere. It's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Polish State Philharmonic; Johannes Wildner, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major
Concerto Amsterdam; Jaap Schroder, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
6:30 a.m.
Henriette Renie
Contemplations
Xavier de Maistre, harp
6:35 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Suite Espanola: No. 4 "Cadiz" Opus 47
Pepe Romero, guitar
6:40 a.m.
Paul Schoenfield
Cafe Music
Eroica Trio
6:58 a.m.
Gustav Holst
St. Paul's Suite Opus 29/2
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Muzio Clementi
Symphony No. 2 in D major WoO 33
Rome Symphony Orchestra; Francesco La Vecchia, conductor
7:38 a.m.
Edouard Lalo
Scherzo in D minor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
7:44 a.m.
Trevor Jones
Last of the Mohicans: The Kiss
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
7:48 a.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess Selections (Arr. for violin)
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
8:00 a.m.
Giacomo Puccini
Preludio Sinfonico
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; Claudio Scimone, conductor
8:12 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture Opus 36
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
8:28 a.m.
Ari Pulkkinen
Angry Birds (Main Theme)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
8:32 a.m.
Rebecca Clarke
Cortege
Ian Jones, piano
8:38 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals
London Festival Orchestra; Ross Pople, conductor
9:01 a.m.
John Ireland
Epic March
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
9:11 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Horn Trio in Eb major Opus 40
Martin Hackleman, horn; Martin Beaver, violin; Jane Coop, piano
9:40 a.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Oboe Concerto No. 6 in D major Opus 7/6
Philharmonia Orchestra; Simon Wright, conductor John Anderson, oboe
9:49 a.m.
Ennio Morricone
The Mission: Gabriel's oboe
Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra; Ennio Morricone, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
9:56 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude (from Prelude and Fugue, Well-Tempered Clavier I:01) in C major BWV 846
Xuefei Yang, guitar
10:00 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:04 a.m.
Franz Berwald
Symphony No. 2 "Sinfonie capricieuse" in D major
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:33 a.m.
Gaspar Sanz
Spanish Suite (Suite Espagnole)
Angel Romero, guitar
10:43 a.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Harp Concerto: I. First Light
Rochester Philharmonic; Ward Stare, conductor Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
10:50 a.m.
Amy Beach
Piano Quintet: II. Adagio espressivo in F# minor Opus 67
Lark Quartet Joanne Polk, piano
11:01 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 21 in A major K 134 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:22 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
The Gadfly: Nocturne
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
11:28 a.m.
Hans Leo Hassler
Canzon
New York Chamber Musicians (New York Kammermusiker)
11:33 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Fantasia on Polish Airs in A major Opus 13
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra; Tadeusz Wojciechowski, conductor Tatiana Shebanova, piano
11:50 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
11:59 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in F major Opus 6/9 HWV 327
I Musici
12:15 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Overture, Scherzo & Finale in E major Opus 52
Staatskapelle Dresden; Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
12:33 p.m.
Undine Smith Moore
Afro-American Suite for Flute, Cello, and Piano: III. Adagio ma appossionato
Mallarme Chamber Players
12:38 p.m.
John Ireland
Piano Concerto in Eb major
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; John Wilson, conductor John Lenehan, piano
1:03 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Norwegian Danse No. 2
Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra; Bjarte Engeset, conductor Henning Kraggerud, violin
1:07 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
1:17 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
MLADA: Lithuanian Dance
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
1:20 p.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Tambourin
Christopher O'Riley, piano
1:23 p.m.
Joseph Curiale
Gates of Gold
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Joseph Curiale, conductor
1:44 p.m.
Josef Suk
Fantastic Scherzo Opus 25
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor Martha Argerich, piano
2:23 p.m.
Alberto Ginastera
Danzas Argentinas: II. Danza de la moza donosa Opus 2 Dance of the Donosa Girl
Martha Argerich, piano
2:27 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: The Moldau (Vltava)
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
2:40 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
3:01 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto, Op. 8, No. 9 in D minor RV 454
I Solisti Italiani Pietro Borgonovo, oboe
3:10 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" in Eb major Opus 97
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
3:44 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Danza Paraguaya No. 3: London Carape
David Russell, guitar
3:46 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Children's Corner: Golliwog's Cakewalk
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
3:50 p.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Concerto for trumpet and two oboes in D major
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor John Wallace, trumpet; Paul Arden-Taylor, oboe; Anna Evans, oboe
4:00 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Jubilation Overture (Jubel-Overture) J 245
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
4:08 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex)
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Margaret Fingerhut, piano
4:17 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
4:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No. 52
Wei Luo, piano
4:47 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 4: II. Scherzo in Eb major Opus 48
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
4:53 p.m.
Horatio Parker
Scherzo, for strings
Gowanus Arts Ensemble; Reuben Blundell, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in Ab major Opus 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
5:13 p.m.
Deems Taylor
Through the Looking Glass: Looking Glass Insects
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
5:17 p.m.
Dobrinka Tabakova
Concerto for Cello and Strings: II. Longing
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Rysanov, conductor Kristina Blaumane, cello
5:26 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Silvestre Revueltas
Ocho por Radio
London Sinfonietta; David Atherton, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Alfred Brendel, piano
6:26 p.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition: Great Gate of Kiev
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
6:33 p.m.
Philip Lane
Suite of Cotswold Folkdances
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gavin Sutherland, conductor
6:46 p.m.
Rabih Abou-Khalil
Arabian Waltz
Silk Road Ensemble; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
6:53 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Water Games (Jeux d'eau)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
