Classical Music Playlist, November 27, 2024
Five recurring musical themes weave through the finale of Mozart's Symphony 41.
Mozart composed his final three symphonies - numbers 39, 40 and 41 - in quick succession, apparently in the hope of presenting them as a series but there’s no record this ever happened.
In No. 41, Mozart repeatedly weaves five recurring themes through the final moments of this final symphony. It’s an ingenious tapestry that’s been celebrated for over 200 years by fellow composers and music scholars. Titled the “Jupiter” Symphony by an impresario apparently intent on capitalizing on this grand scale of the finale, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Pieter Hellendaal
Concerto Grosso in D major Opus 3/5
Combattimento Consort; Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor
6:18 a.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
6:47 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Tales From The Vienna Woods Opus 325 (Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture Opus 101
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 7 "Lodron" in F major K 242 "Lodron"
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano; Robert Levin, fortepiano; Melvyn Tan, fortepiano
7:34 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Suite Espanola: No. 4 "Cadiz" Opus 47
Pepe Romero, guitar
7:39 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 14: V. Presto in C# minor Opus 131
Takacs Quartet
7:45 a.m.
Hugo Alfven
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsummer Night Vigil" Opus 19
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for trumpets, oboes, strings and timpani in D major TWV 54:D3
English Chamber Orchestra; Simon Preston, conductor Hannes Laubin, trumpet; Wolfgang Laubin, trumpet; Bernhard Laubin, trumpet
8:10 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8:36 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Das Jahr (The Year): 6. June: Serenade
Anna Shelest, piano
8:42 a.m.
James Horner
THE ROCKETEER: Rocketeer to the Rescue/End Title
Studio Orchestra
8:49 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 2: IV. Finale - Allegro molto in G minor Opus 45
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola
9:00 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 3 "Organ" in C minor Opus 78
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor James O'Donnell, organ
9:37 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier 1:24) in B minor BWV 869
David Korevaar, piano
9:51 a.m.
Ina Boyle
Phantasy for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (THESS-sal-loh-NEE-kee); Daniel Geiss, conductor Daniel Hope, violin
10:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 4 in Eb major K 495
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor Lowell Greer, natural horn
10:17 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
The Bees (Las Abejas)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
10:19 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Solace
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
10:26 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Opus 64
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
10:51 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
FIDELIO Overture Opus 72
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 3
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
11:31 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
11:37 a.m.
Harry Thacker Burleigh
Southland Sketches (1916)
Kristin Lee, violin; Jeremy Ajani Jordan, piano
11:49 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Vienna Blood Opus 354 Wiener Blut
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
11:58 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Festive Polonaise (Le Roi Malgre Lui: Fete Polonaise)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
12:06 p.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Strum
Catalyst Quartet
12:14 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Opus 30
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
12:53 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for horn and strings in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
1:09 p.m.
Arturo Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
1:20 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major Opus 16
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
1:53 p.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE WALKURE: Magic Fire Music
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" in C major K 551
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
2:34 p.m.
Hayato Sumino
7 Levels of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Hayato Sumino, piano
2:40 p.m.
Gerardo Matos Rodriguez
La Cumparsita (Tango)
Canadian Brass
2:44 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins (Double Concerto) in D minor BWV 1043
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor Andrew Manze, violin; Rachel Podger, violin
3:00 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
EURYANTHE Overture Opus 81 J 291
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:10 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for four mandolins in B minor Opus 3/10 RV 580
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor Avi Avital, mandolin
3:18 p.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
3:51 p.m.
Samuel Scheidt
Battle Suite: Gailliard Battaglia
Empire Brass; Rolf Smedvig, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Tielmann Susato
Pavane "La Bataille"
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
DIE FLEDERMAUS Overture (The Bat)
Philharmonia Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
4:08 p.m.
Florence Price
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
4:14 p.m.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum: Prelude
Empire Brass William Kuhlman, organ
4:17 p.m.
Gaspar Sanz
Canarios
Chatham Baroque
4:21 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 15 in Bb major K 450
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
4:46 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Libor Pesek, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2: IV. Allegro con spirito in D major Opus 73
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
5:09 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major Opus 92
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
5:49 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
Hayato Sumino, piano
5:54 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
6:00 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 4 in D minor Opus 120
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
6:32 p.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four Folk Songs: III. Serenata
Claremont Trio
6:38 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
blue cathedral
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Spano, conductor
6:51 p.m.
George Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me
Chick Corea, piano
