Classical Music Playlist, December 27, 2024
200 years after it was first known to have been performed in 1784, in 1984 the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) recorded Mozart's Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major (K. 361) — also known as the "Gran Partita" Serenade — for the soundtrack of the film "Amadeus." The film won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri who first encounters Mozart's enviable talent while listening to the "Gran Partita." The fictionalized account has Salieri confess while listening to the third movement, "It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.” And this set off his character's contempt-slash-envy of Mozart's compositional talent throughout the film. You’ll hear that third movement from the film, and the entire “Gran Partita” Serenade as recorded by the ASMF, for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in E minor in E minor RV 484
Arion Mathieu Lussier, baroque bassoon
6:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest" in D minor Opus 31/2
Stewart Goodyear, piano
6:35 a.m.
ANONYMOUS
Dance of the Swans (Ballo de Cigni)
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
6:38 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
WILD SWANS: Eliza Aria
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Ola Rudner, conductor Jane Sheldon, soprano
6:42 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Opus 34
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: I. Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 98
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Sophie Langdon, violin; Richard Watkins, horn
7:42 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in Bb major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
7:53 a.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales: VI. Contradanza
Imani Winds
7:54 a.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Suite Opus 54
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:20 a.m.
Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto
Paris Concert Society Orchestra; Georges Pretre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
8:41 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in E major BMV 1006a
Sharon Isbin, guitar
8:46 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 1 in Eb major K 16 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Piano Quintet in G minor Opus 1
Catalyst Quartet Stewart Goodyear, piano
9:28 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams": III. Scherzo in G minor Opus 13
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
9:35 a.m.
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
9:55 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
London Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:00 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
10:10 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Impromptu No. 2 in Eb major Opus 90/2 D 899
John O'Conor, piano
10:16 a.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphony No. 3 "English" in C major
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Matthias Bamert, conductor
10:51 a.m.
Percy Grainger
Children's March "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor Arts District Chorale
11:00 a.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor
11:09 a.m.
Elmer Bernstein
Guitar Concerto "For Two Christophers": III. Celebration
London Symphony Orchestra; Elmer Bernstein, conductor Christopher Parkening, guitar
11:15 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 6 in D minor Opus 104
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:43 a.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Voodoo Dolls
Apollo Chamber Players Hector del Curto, bandoneon
11:50 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Traditional French Carol, arr. Steven Johnson
Tomorrow Will Be My Dancing Day
Steven Johnson, piano; Tom Levandowski, guitar; Scott Hall, sax; Ben Loorz, percussion
12:07 p.m.
Traditional French Carol, arr. Steven Johnson
Tomorrow Will Be My Dancing Day
Steven Johnson, piano; Tom Levandowski, guitar; Scott Hall, sax; Ben Loorz, percussion
12:13 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in Bb major Opus 60
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:46 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 10 in E minor Opus 72
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
12:54 p.m.
Frederick Delius
KOANGA: La Calinda
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Fela Sowande
African Suite: Selections
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
1:10 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
Hayato Sumino, piano
1:16 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 101 "Clock" in D major
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
1:44 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 for winds "Gran Partita" in Bb major K 361 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
2:50 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
PELLEAS ET MELISANDE: Sicilienne Opus 80
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
2:54 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement: III. Allegretto
Chineke! Orchestra; Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
2:59 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
3:15 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 1
Turibio Santos, guitar
3:20 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
3:43 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Espana (Spanish Rhapsodie)
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
3:50 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet: I. Allegro non troppo in F minor Opus 34
Artemis Quartet Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:16 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: Symphonic Poem
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
4:44 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite: III. Alla Marcia Opus 11
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 7: III. Precipitato in Bb major Opus 83
Wei Luo, piano
4:53 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
BARTERED BRIDE: Dance of the Comedians
Janacek Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertino Opus 107
Residentie Orkest Den Haag; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Sharon Bezaly, flute
5:08 p.m.
John Field
Divertissement No. 1 in E major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
5:14 p.m.
Anton Arensky
Piano Quintet: Scherzo Opus 51
Ying Quartet Adam Neiman, piano
5:24 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 "Italian" in A major Opus 90
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
5:54 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Sextet for wind quintet & piano: II. Divertissement FP 100
Pascal Roge, piano; Patrick Gallois, flute; Maurice Bourgue, oboe; Michel Portal, clarinet
6:00 p.m.
Holiday Programming
Chanukah in Story and Song PART 1
Leonard Nimoy, host
6:23 p.m.
Holiday Programming
Chanukah in Story and Song PART 2
Leonard Nimoy, host
6:38 p.m.
Holiday Programming
Chanukah in Story and Song PART 3
Leonard Nimoy, host
