Classical Music Playlist, October 19, 2021
Edward MacDowell | photo: Library of Congress
The first major piano concerto by an American was written in 1885 by a composer who by 1896 was considered America’s finest at the time, Edward MacDowell. This was actually his 2nd Piano Concerto, the first having been a student work. Legendary 20th century pianist Van Cliburn played MacDowell’s 2nd Concerto for his professional debut at age 18, and you’ll hear him play it for today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 1/5
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
6:09 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Ballet Scenes Opus 52 (Scenes de Ballet)
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:39 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F major K 15
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:49 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Havanaise Opus 83
New York Chamber Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
7:01 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
7:14 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Suite for Piano (Pour le Piano suite)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
7:30 a.m.
Missy Mazzoli
Impromptu (Thomas's Piece)
The Kapralova Orchestra Joshua Bell, violin
7:33 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
RUSLAN AND LUDMILA: Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No. 26 in D major Opus 42 G 520
London Festival Orchestra; Ross Pople, conductor
7:59 a.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Concerto for flute, strings and continuo in G major
Berlin Baroque Soloists; Rainer Kussmaul, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
8:11 a.m.
Francis Johnson
The Princeton Grand March
Symphony Orchestra of America; Matthew H. Phillips, conductor
8:15 a.m.
Danny Elfman
Hitchcock: Music from the End Credits
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; John Mauceri, conductor
8:22 a.m.
Samuel Wesley
Symphony in Bb major
Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra; Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor
8:44 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Dolly Suite Opus 56
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
9:03 a.m.
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony No. 5 in F major Opus 3
Camerata Budapest; Hanspeter Gmur, conductor
9:14 a.m.
Reinhold Gliere
The Red Poppy: Russian Sailor's Dance
New Jersey Symphony; Zdenek Macal, conductor
9:19 a.m.
Gang Chen; Zhanhao He
The Butterfly Lovers (Concerto for Violin)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra; Lan Shui, conductor Gil Shaham, violin; Jonathan Fox, gu ban; Nella Hunkins, cello; Ta Jin, flute; Gulia Mashurova, harp
9:48 a.m.
James Newton Howard
The Village
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
9:55 a.m.
Johannes Hanssen
Valdres March
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 2 Opus 72
German Chamber Philharmonic; Daniel Harding, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Coppelia: (Suite from the ballet)
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor
10:29 a.m.
Giacomo Puccini
TURANDOT: Nessun dorma
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
10:33 a.m.
Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Sonata "Devil's Trill" in G minor
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Joshua Bell, violin; John Constable, harpsichord
10:48 a.m.
David Lyon
Short Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
PRECIOSA: Overture J 279
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor
11:09 a.m.
Franz Danzi
Concertante for flute, clarinet & orchestra in Bb major Opus 41
Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra; Jorg Faerber, conductor James Galway, flute; Sabine Meyer, clarinet
11:30 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces: Vanished Days Opus 57/1
Oda Voltersvik, Piano
11:37 a.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Finale (1919)
Israel Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
11:41 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Pastoral Suite (Suite Pastorale)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 3, No. 6 in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Angel Romero, guitar
12:09 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Serenade for Strings in E major Opus 22
Padova Chamber Orchestra; David Golub, conductor
12:40 p.m.
Bela Bartok
Music for strings, percussion & celesta: III. Adagio SZ 106
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
12:48 p.m.
Leonid Desyatnikov
My Happiness
Gidon Kremer, violin; Vadim Sakharov, piano; Alois Posch, double-bass; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon
12:52 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Presto for string orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Philip Glass
Glassworks: Opening
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
1:07 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for flute, violin and continuo in A minor BWV 1044
American Bach Soloists; Jeffrey Thomas, conductor Sandra MIller, flute; Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord
1:29 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Dance of the Green Eyes
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; Pablo Gonzalez, conductor
1:34 p.m.
Mike Oldfield
The Exorcist: Tubular Bells
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
1:38 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 2
Sinfonia 21; Richard Hickox, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Edward MacDowell
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 23
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Walter Hendl, conductor Van Cliburn, piano
2:28 p.m.
Jeff Lambert
Chicago Summer
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
2:33 p.m.
Antonio Lotti
Oboe d'amore Concerto in A major
I Musici Heinz Holliger, oboe d'amore
2:49 p.m.
Jules Massenet
THAIS: Meditation
Maxim Vengerov, violin; Itamar Golan, piano
2:55 p.m.
Walter Mourant
Pied Piper
Northern Sinfonia of England; Steuart Bedford, conductor George Macdonald, clarinet
3:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in Bb major Opus 3/2 HWV 313
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
3:14 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Scottish March (Marche Ecossaise)
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
3:21 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major K 330
Lars Vogt, piano
3:40 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Gayne Ballet Suite
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:54 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 1. El arpa del Guerrero
Sharon Isbin, guitar
3:59 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. final movement in Bb minor Opus 23
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor Evgeny Kissin, piano
4:08 p.m.
Carl Stamitz
Quartet for oboe and strings in D major Opus 8/4
Terzetto Paul Goodwin, oboe
4:24 p.m.
Libby Larsen
Sorrow Song and Jubilee
Apollo Chamber Players
4:31 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
The Does (Les Biches): Suite "The Does" - fashionable Parisian women
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Stephane Deneve, conductor Stuttgart SWR Vocal Ensemble
4:53 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
Scarborough Fair
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Plinio Fernandes, guitar
4:58 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Andras Schiff, piano
5:12 p.m.
William Grant Still
Panamanian Dances (Danzas de Panama)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
5:27 p.m.
Franz Berwald
Concert Piece in F major Opus 2
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
5:39 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Rondo in C major Opus 51/1
Russell Sherman, piano
5:47 p.m.
Xavier Dubois Foley
Shelter Island
Randall Goosby, violin; Xavier Dubois Foley, double bass
5:52 p.m.
Billy Strayhorn
Take the "A" Train
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto Andaluz for 4 guitars
Delaware Symphony Orchestra; David Amado, conductor Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
6:25 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Etude No. 3 "The Little Bell" ("La Campanella") in G# minor
Jorge Bolet, piano
6:30 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Alexander Arutiunian
Trumpet Concerto
Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor Bibi Black, trumpet
6:54 p.m.
George Gershwin
I Loves You Porgy
Lara Downes, piano
