Classical Music Playlist, January 31, 2025
Beethoven in his Study by Carl Schloesser (circa 1811)
The premiere of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with himself as soloist, was a comedy of errors. The best musicians in town had been hired for another performance so the rehearsal was a disaster, and he hadn’t yet written out all the music for himself — just some messy scribbles — which pretty much freaked out his page-turner, student Ignaz von Seyfried, who later wrote of the adventure:
“I saw empty pages with here and there what looked like Egyptian hieroglyphs, totally unintelligible to me, scribbled to serve as clues for him. He played nearly all of his part from memory, since, obviously, he had put so little on paper. So, whenever he reached the end of some invisible passage, he gave me a surreptitious nod and I turned the page. My anxiety not to miss such a nod amused him greatly and the recollection of it at our convivial dinner after the concert sent him into gales of laughter.”
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
LE TEMPLE DE LA GLOIRE: Suite II The Temple of Glory
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
6:16 a.m.
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor
Saint Cecilia Chamber Orchestra; Pietro Spada, conductor Pietro Spada, piano
6:43 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
6:54 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
MAZEPPA: Gopak
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Grace Williams
Penillion
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor
7:16 a.m.
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 4 in E minor WOO 20
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Sillito, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
7:42 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Romance Opus 36
Hermann Baumann, horn; Reiko Honsho, piano
7:45 a.m.
Percy Grainger
The Gum Suckers March
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Mark Bennett, trumpet; Michael Harrison, trumpet
8:08 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 7 in D minor Opus 70
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Bomsori Kim, violin
8:46 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin: Gavotte en Rondeau in E major BWV 1006
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
8:49 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro giocoso ma non troppo (Finale) in A minor Opus 53
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
8:53 a.m.
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis: IV. March
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
8:59 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Opus 30
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor Martha Argerich, piano
9:41 a.m.
Agustin Bardi
Gallo Ciego blind rooster
Apollo Chamber Players Hector del Curto, bandoneon
9:46 a.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto No. 4 in Bb major Opus 3/4
Avison Ensemble; Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
9:55 a.m.
Barbara Strozzi
Il Primo Libro di Madrigali: Priego ad amore
Cappella Mediterranea; Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in F major Opus 6
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
10:12 a.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Odeon - Tango Brasileiro
Richard Cionco, piano
10:14 a.m.
Claude Champagne
Rustic Dance (Dance Villageoise)
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Yoav Talmi, conductor
10:21 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Opus 27
Guarneri Quartet
10:55 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Opus 80
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
11:11 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C minor Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
11:16 a.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
11:43 a.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
11:51 a.m.
Juventino Rosas
Over the Waves (Sobre las olas)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Jennifer Reason
LOCAL ARTIST FEATURE: Richard Ollarsaba, bass-baritone
Jennifer Reason, host
12:12 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
London Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Kondrashin, conductor Sviatoslav Richter, piano
12:34 p.m.
Victor Ewald
Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 5
Center City Brass Quintet
12:48 p.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Karl Munchinger, conductor Martin Haselbock, organ
12:55 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 29: Sinfonia BWV 29
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor Paul Nicholson, organ
12:59 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture Opus 96
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:06 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
1:38 p.m.
Julia Smith
String Quartet
Apollo Chamber Players
1:52 p.m.
James Horner
THE ROCKETEER: Rocketeer to the Rescue/End Title
Studio Orchestra
2:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Opus 37
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
2:36 p.m.
Henning Sommerro
Varsog
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
2:41 p.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
2:59 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in E minor Opus 6/3 HWV 321
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
3:13 p.m.
Philip Glass
Piano Quintet No. 1 "Annunciation" (Part 1)
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
3:24 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Aladdin Suite Opus 34
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
3:50 p.m.
Jose Moncayo
Huapango
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor
4:11 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor Opus 34
Linos Ensemble
4:38 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
OTELLO: Ballet Music
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
4:45 p.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro, ma non tanto in D minor Opus 47
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Klaus Makela, conductor Janine Jansen, violin
4:59 p.m.
Neil Nayyar; Prasanna
Connecting Dots
Neil Nayyar
5:03 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
5:28 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
5:45 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 "Carnival in Pest" in D major
Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Jennifer Reason
LOCAL ARTIST FEATURE: Richard Ollarsaba, bass-baritone
Jennifer Reason, host
6:12 p.m.
Anton Reicha
Symphony in C minor
Beethoven Acadamie; Jan Caeyers, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Harry Thacker Burleigh
Southland Sketches (1916)
Kristin Lee, violin; Jeremy Ajani Jordan, piano
6:47 p.m.
Catrin Finch; Seckou Keita
Yama Ba
Seckou Keita, kora; Catrin Finch, harp
6:52 p.m.
Nainita Desai
My Mind Is Still
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