Classical Music Playlist, August 20, 2021
1803 Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven by Christian Hornemann
The chamber ensemble of piano, violin, and cello was a familiar form in the late 1700s. Such a trio could also show off the new piano that was quickly replacing the harpsichord as the favored keyboard in the home, salon and concert hall. Works for the new instrument could also be a showcase for emerging piano virtuosos. Mozart, Haydn and others composed such Piano Trios; in 1795, Beethoven published his own collection of three Piano Trios (his Opus 1). Himself one of those new piano virtuosos and a remarkable improviser on it, for the next few years he wrote extensively for the piano in solo, chamber and concerto forms. But in 1804 he tried something no one else had yet done: basically, a Concerto with the piano trio as the solo instrument. Balancing three different timbres of instruments against an orchestra, combined with giving each of the piano, violin and cello sufficiently interesting and challenging themes, was a formidable task. It’s a work of great bravura in both senses of the word: excellence and daring. Beethoven’s Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 102 in Bb major
Capella Istropolitana; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
6:38 a.m.
Francis Poulenc
Perpetual Motion (Mouvements Perpetuels)
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Nancy Allen, harp
6:45 a.m.
Josef Myslivecek
Violin Concerto in C major
Virtuosi of Prague; Oldrich Vlcek, conductor Ivan Zenaty, violin
7:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Papillons (Butterflies) Opus 2
Jeno Jando, piano
7:29 a.m.
Thomas Tallis
If ye love me ...
; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers
7:32 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
7:55 a.m.
Yosef Hadar
Evening of Roses
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
8:00 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Ignace Pleyel
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Bb major
S. W. German Chamber Orchestra of Pforzheim; Sebastian Tewinkle, conductor Dieter Klocker, clarinet
8:39 a.m.
Carlos Troyer
Traditional Zuni Songs: Lover's Wooing & Zunian Lullaby
Dario Muller, piano
8:47 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for Guitar and Strings No. 9: IV. Finale "Retreat from Madrid" in C major G 453
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble Pepe Romero, guitar
8:55 a.m.
Xavier Dubois Foley
Shelter Island
Randall Goosby, violin; Xavier Dubois Foley, double bass
9:02 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in F major Opus 4/9 RV 284
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Monica Huggett, violin
9:10 a.m.
Leonard Bernstein
Anniversary for Aaron Copland
Lara Downes, piano
9:11 a.m.
Samuel Scheidt
Echo
German Brass; Enrique Crespo, conductor
9:14 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 1 in D major Opus 43
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
9:52 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Quintet in F Sharp Minor for Clarinet and Strings: II. Larghetto Affetuoso
Catalyst Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
10:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, maman K 265
Andras Schiff, piano
10:15 a.m.
Saverio Mercadante
Flute Concerto in G major
Sinfonia Finlandia (Jyvaskyla); Patrick Gallois, conductor Patrick Gallois, flute
10:32 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
Giovanni de Chiaro, guitar
10:36 a.m.
Johan Wagenaar
Twelfth Night Overture Opus 36
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
10:47 a.m.
Arvo Part
Mirror in the Mirror (Spiegel im Spiegel)
Dietmar Schwalke, cello; Alexander Malter, piano
10:57 a.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
THE GARDEN OF ROSES: Overture (Il Giardino di Rose)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Simon Wright, conductor John Wallace, trumpet; John Miller, trumpet
11:03 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Opus 21
Polish Festival Orchestra; Krystian Zimerman, conductor Krystian Zimerman, piano
11:40 a.m.
William Boyce
Symphony No. 8 in D minor Opus 2
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Etude No. 11 Opus 8/11
Wendy Warner, cello; Irina Nuzova, piano
11:57 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude (from Prelude and Fugue, Well-Tempered Clavier I:01) in C major BWV 846
Xuefei Yang, guitar
12:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Havanaise Opus 83
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano
12:10 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No. 5 in Bb major Opus 21 G 497
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
12:27 p.m.
Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
City of Prague Philharmonic; Nic Raine, conductor
12:34 p.m.
Philip Glass
Glassworks: Opening
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
12:42 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Gulbenkian Orchestra; Lawrence Foster, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Luigi Cherubini
Eliza: Overture
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:08 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite Opus 20
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
1:35 p.m.
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute sonata with obbligato harpsichord
Rachel Brown, flute; James Johnstone, harpsichord; Mark Caudle, cello
1:44 p.m.
Kenji Bunch
Concerto for Piano Trio and Percussion
Ahn Trio Matthew Gold, percussion; Brian Resnick, percussion
1:52 p.m.
Morten Lauridsen
O magnum mysterium
Cincinnati May Festival Chorus; Robert Porco, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello & orchestra in C major Opus 56
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Alexandre Rabinovitch, conductor Martha Argerich, piano; Renaud Capucon, violin; Mischa Maisky, cello
2:35 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Waltz No. 2 in E major Opus 39/2
Marie-Josephe Jude, piano; Jean-Francois Heisser, piano
2:38 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4 "Fandango" in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
2:58 p.m.
Caroline Shaw
Plan and Elevation: V. The Beech Tree
Attacca Quartet
3:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast" in C major HWV 318
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
3:15 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 104 "London" in D major
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
3:43 p.m.
Claude Debussy
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes, Book I: No. 8) (La fille aux cheveux de lin)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
3:46 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Oblivion
London Symphony Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
3:51 p.m.
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in F minor K 466
Assad Brothers Sergio Assad, guitar; Odair Assad, guitar
4:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40: I. Molto Allegro in G minor K 550
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Georg Solti, conductor
4:09 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2: III. Allegro Scherzando in C minor
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
4:21 p.m.
Michio Miyagi
The Sea in Springtime (Haru no Umi)
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
4:30 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Pastoral Suite (Suite Pastorale)
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
4:51 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in D in D major
Vikingur Olafsson
4:54 p.m.
Laszlo Draskoczy
Dances from Korond
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jan Soderblom, conductor Kari Kriikku, clarinet
4:59 p.m.
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Capriccio No. 1 in D major Z 182
Bern Camerata; Alexander van Wijnkoop, conductor
5:16 p.m.
Arvo Part
Fur Anna Maria
Ralph van Raat, piano
5:18 p.m.
Louis Ganne
Andante and Scherzo
Susan Milan, flute; Ian Brown, piano
5:26 p.m.
Ignaz Holzbauer
Flute Concerto in E minor
La Stagione Frankfurt; Karl Kaiser, conductor Karl Kaiser, flute
5:46 p.m.
Arthur Sullivan
Pineapple Poll Suite
Eastman Wind Ensemble; Frederick Fennell, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 1 "Jota aragonesa"
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra; Samuel Friedman, conductor
6:08 p.m.
Joseph Wolfl
Piano Concerto No. 1 Opus 20
S. W. German Radio Symphony Orchestra; Johannes Moesus, conductor Yorck Kronenberg, piano
6:40 p.m.
Knudage Riisager
Little Overture (for string orchestra)
CBC Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
6:45 p.m.
Florence Price
Memory Mist
Lara Downes, piano
6:49 p.m.
Max Richter
Spring
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Andre de Ridder, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Max Richter, moog synthesizer
