Classical Music Playlist, August 3, 2021
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) in 1866
Nationalism became an expression of unique cultural heritage for composers in the Romantic era of the 19th century. This was felt strongly in the Scandinavian countries where Copenhagen was a center of the movement and where Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg was living when he composed his only Piano Concerto at age 25. The Copenhagen premiere in 1869 was a triumphant success with later performances in Norway, Germany and England and broader international success thereafter. Though Grieg became known for his expression of Norwegian spirit in his songs, piano and other music, he rarely quoted existing folk songs directly but preferred to craft original melodic patterns and rhythms suggestive of Norway. For example, the Piano Concerto’s opening three-note motif, repeated multiple times descending through octaves in quick succession, is characteristic of Norwegian folk music. Trivia: Grieg’s Piano Concerto was the first piano concerto ever recorded, but only six minutes of it due to the limited recording technology of 1909. Hear the entire 30 minute concerto in a splendid modern digital recording as your Midday Masterpiece today at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet: IV. Finale in Eb major Opus 47
Emerson String Quartet Menahem Pressler, piano
6:08 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
I Musici Siegfried Behrend, guitar
6:37 a.m.
Samuel Wesley
Symphony in A major
Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra; Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor
6:53 a.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
6:59 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Concertino for clarinet and orchestra in Eb major Opus 26
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; Lukas Foss, conductor Jon Manasse, clarinet
7:11 a.m.
Marianne Martinez
Concerto for Harpsichord in E major: I. Allegro in E major
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nicoleta Paraschivescu, harpsichord
7:19 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 22 "The Philosopher" in Eb major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra; Adam Fischer, conductor
7:37 a.m.
Amy Beach
From Grandmother's Garden: Mignonette Opus 97/3
"Joanne Polk, piano"
7:40 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Pastoral Suite (Suite Pastorale)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Vanda: Overture Opus 25
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Libor Pesek, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Sonata in E minor
Althea Waites, piano
8:37 a.m.
Francesco Durante
Concerto No. 4 for strings and continuo in E minor
Concerto Koln
8:48 a.m.
Libby Larsen
3 Pieces for Treble Wind and Guitar: I. Canti Breve
Caroline Hartig, clarinet; Christopher Kachian, guitar
8:52 a.m.
John Barry
Dances With Wolves: John Dunbar Theme
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Peter van Anrooy
Piet Hein Rhapsody
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra; Kees Bakels, conductor
9:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata No. 27 in G major (Live) in G major K 379
Hilary Hahn, violin; Cory Smythe, piano
9:30 a.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Oboe Concerto in F minor TWV 51:d1
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Heinz Holliger, oboe
9:39 a.m.
Nino Rota
Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'orchestra)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Riccardo Muti, conductor
9:50 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Majorca (Mallorca) Opus 202
Jason Vieaux, guitar
10:00 a.m.
Johann Joachim Quantz
Concerto for corno da caccia, oboe and strings in Eb major
Saxony Virtuosi; Ludwig Guttler, conductor Ludwig Guttler, corno da caccia; Andreas Lorenz, oboe
10:10 a.m.
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No. 2
London Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
10:29 a.m.
Philip Glass
Piano Concerto No. 3: III. For Arvo Part
A Far Cry Simone Dinnerstein, piano
10:44 a.m.
Steve Howe
Aire para un Dia (Mood for a Day)
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
10:49 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto: finale in D major Opus 77
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Shlomo Mintz, violin
10:59 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Caractacus: Triumphal March Opus 35
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; James Judd, conductor
11:07 a.m.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: O fortuna
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor Atlanta Symphony Chorus; Robert Shaw Festival Singers
11:14 a.m.
John Williams
Schindler's List: Main Theme
Niv Ashkenazi, violin; Matthew Graybill, piano
11:19 a.m.
Anton Stamitz
Viola Concerto in Bb major
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor Jan Peruska, viola
11:41 a.m.
Darius Milhaud
Suite Francaise Opus 248
CCM Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto: III. Finale in A minor Opus 7
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Angela Cheng, piano
12:11 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
12:40 p.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Sonata a Cinque in A major Opus 2/3
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor
12:49 p.m.
Marcel Grandjany
The Good Little King of Yvetot (Le bon petit roi d'Yvetot)
Anne-Marguerite Michaud, harp
12:52 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Serenade in F major Opus 3/5
Guildhall String Ensemble
12:59 p.m.
Johan Svendsen
Carnival in Paris (Karnival i Paris) Opus 9
Latvian National Symphony; Terje Mikkelsen, conductor
1:13 p.m.
Antonio Rosetti
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor
Palatinate Chamber Orchestra; Johannes Moesus, conductor Anton Steck, violin
1:34 p.m.
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
12 Ensemble Milos Karadaglic, guitar
1:38 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Helene Grimaud, piano
1:44 p.m.
Amy Beach
Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 150 in A minor Opus 150
Neave Trio
2:00 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16
Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor Vadym Kholodenko, piano
2:31 p.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Quartet No. 1 in D major
European Baroque Soloists
2:39 p.m.
Nadia Boulanger
Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Amit Peled, cello; Lucy Mauro, piano
2:49 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Mediterranean
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
2:54 p.m.
Giacomo Puccini
TURANDOT: Nessun dorma
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
2:58 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, maman K 265
Annette Heim, flute; Bret Heim, guitar
3:12 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Symphony No. 5 "Solitudo" in B minor
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
3:41 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Rain
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
3:47 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake) BWV 645
David Russell, guitar
3:53 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Soir et Matin, Op. 76: II. Matin
Fabienne Sulser, flute; Matthias Walpen, cello; Anne-Marie Aellen, piano
4:00 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in A major Opus 2/6
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
4:09 p.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess Selections (Arr. for violin)
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
4:20 p.m.
Joseph Kraus
Sinfonia in C# minor
Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Petter Sundkvist, conductor
4:41 p.m.
Johann Jacob Froberger
Toccata
The Paramount Brass
4:45 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Excursions Opus 20
Eric Parkin, piano
4:59 p.m.
Antonio Salieri
Concerto for oboe and flute in C major
I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor Clementine Hoogendoorn, flute; Pietro Borgonovo, oboe
5:19 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
Bamberg Symphony; Claus Peter Flor, conductor
5:32 p.m.
Fritz Kreisler
Tempo di minuetto in the style of Pugnani
Sarah Chang, violin; Sandra Rivers, piano
5:37 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
All Things Majestic: II. String Lake
The Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
5:45 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Etude Symphonique Opus 28
Joanne Polk, piano
5:51 p.m.
Miklos Rozsa
Spellbound: Prelude & Love Theme
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic; Alexander Shelley, conductor Daniel Hope, violin
5:59 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dances Opus 64
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:30 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
6:36 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:43 p.m.
William Grant Still
Romance
Marcus Eley, clarinet; Lucerne DeSa, piano
6:49 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Quiet City
New York Chamber Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Mark Hill, English horn; Neil Baum, trumpet
