Classical Music Playlist, January 17, 2025
Joaquín Rodrigo in 1960 | photo by Juan Gyenes
In writing a concerto for two guitar soloists in 1966, Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo (1902-1999) took an old anonymous madrigal and put it through variations of different styles of Spanish music such as the Girardilla, Fandango and Zapateado. Guitarist brothers Pepe and Angel Romero gave the premiere in 1970 and you’ll hear their 1974 recording of Rodrigo’s “Concierto Madrigal” for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto No. 3 in D major Opus 4/3
Avison Ensemble; Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Violin Concerto in G minor Opus 80
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor Elena Urioste, violin
6:43 a.m.
John Bull
Galiarda
Buffalo Guitar Quartet
6:45 a.m.
Francesco Tristano
On John Bull's Galliard In D
Basel Chamber Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Francesco Tristano, piano
6:50 a.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
7:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 4, No. 4 in A minor Opus 4 RV 357
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Monica Huggett, violin
7:09 a.m.
John Ireland
Piano Concerto in Eb major
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; John Wilson, conductor John Lenehan, piano
7:36 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
String Quartet: II. Allegro molto leggiero in E minor
Mannheim String Quartet
7:41 a.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 32
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Overture Opus 10
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
8:17 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
8:41 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop" in Db major Opus 28
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
8:46 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 7 in F major
Staatskapelle Berlin; Otmar Suitner, conductor
8:49 a.m.
Malcolm Arnold
Four Scottish Dances Opus 59
Philharmonia Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No. 3 "West Coast Pictures" in D Opus 10
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Sixten Ehrling, conductor
9:36 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
9:41 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in F major Opus 6/9 HWV 327
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
9:55 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor
10:15 a.m.
Mahito Yokota
SUPER MARIO GALAXY: Gusty Garden Galaxy
London Philharmonic Orchestra
10:21 a.m.
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra; Jorge Rotter, conductor
10:49 a.m.
Amy Beach
Scottish Legend Opus 54/1
Alan Feinberg, piano
10:52 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Scottish March (Marche Ecossaise)
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3 Opus 72
German Chamber Philharmonic; Daniel Harding, conductor
11:13 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in Eb major Opus 1
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
11:37 a.m.
Alexander Zhuk
Ukrainian Rhapsody
Anna Shelest, piano
11:45 a.m.
Philip Glass
Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra: Movement 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Evelyn Glennie, timpani; Jonathan Haas, timpani
11:51 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS: Overture
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Jennifer Reason
LOCAL ARTIST FEATURE: Neil Nayyar, multi-instrumentalist and composer
Jennifer Reason, host
12:11 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Henning Kraggerud, violin
12:38 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
12:42 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Zadok the Priest HWV 258
The English Concert; Simon Preston, conductor Choir of Westminster Abbey
12:48 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
1:17 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Opus 15
Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Yo Yo Ma, cello
1:50 p.m.
Richard Wagner
LOHENGRIN: Prelude to Act III
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto Madrigal
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar; Angel Romero, guitar
2:30 p.m.
Tielmann Susato
Allemaingien (1-3, 5-8)
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
2:41 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No. 1
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
2:54 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Abu Hassan Overture J 106
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in A minor P 440
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
3:09 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Autrefois ("In Times Past") Opus 87/4
Joanne Polk, piano
3:13 p.m.
Clarice Assad
Bohemian Queen: III. Hyde Park Jam
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra; Allen Tinkham, conductor Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
3:19 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:58 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in Ab major Opus 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
4:12 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K 467 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Alfred Brendel, piano
4:39 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus No. 9 BWV 1080
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
4:42 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Re-Inventions: Re-Invention No. 1
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
4:47 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 mandolins in G major RV 532
I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor Bonifacio Bianchi, mandolin; Alessandro Pitrelli, mandolin
5:00 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 8 "Le Soir" (Evening) in G major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
5:22 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
THE SNOW MAIDEN: Dance of the Tumblers
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
5:27 p.m.
Michael Torke
Sky
Albany Symphony Orchestra; David Alan Miller, conductor Tessa Lark, violin
5:52 p.m.
Henry Litolff
Concerto Symphonique No. 4: II. Scherzo Opus 102
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Moshe Atzmon, conductor Cristina Ortiz, piano
6:01 p.m.
Jennifer Reason
LOCAL ARTIST FEATURE: Neil Nayyar, multi-instrumentalist and composer
Jennifer Reason, host
6:12 p.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Picture for Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary": III. Allegro vivace
Catalyst Quartet Michelle Cann, piano
6:43 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 35 "Haffner": IV. Finale (Presto) in D major K 385
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
6:48 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in Ab major Opus 87/17
David Jalbert, piano
6:53 p.m.
James Louis "J.J." Johnson
Lament
Kristin Lee, violin; Jeremy Ajani Jordan, piano
