Classical Music Playlist, February 1, 2023
The September 2021 Deutsche Grammophon recording of Florence Price symphonies
After having moved from Arkansas to Chicago in 1927 as part of The Great Northward Migration, composer Florence Price found inspiration, opportunities and successes within the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her first symphony won a first prize award and was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Federal Music Project - a New Deal initiative to support struggling professional musicians and provide communities with concerts - commissioned a new symphony from Price. The result was her Symphony No. 3 which was premiered by a WPA orchestra in 1940.
In 2020, Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin began an effort to perform music of Florence Price in their concert programs “to restore her to the place that she holds in the history of American music.” Then in September 2021 they released a new recording of two Price symphonies including the WPA-commissioned Third. That recording is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Concerto No. 9 for two oboes and strings in C major Opus 9/9
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Nicol Matt, conductor Stefan Schilli, oboe; Giovanni Deangeli, oboe
6:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major Opus 135
Emerson String Quartet
6:36 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Le Sommeil de l'Enfant
Lara Downes, piano
6:41 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Serenade for string orchestra in E minor Opus 20
I Musici
7:14 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 43 "Mercury" in Eb major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:39 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 2. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Sharon Isbin, guitar
7:45 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Ballade No. 1 in G minor
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
7:54 a.m.
John Williams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 oboes, 2 violins, bassoon in C major RV 557
Ensemble Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardini, conductor Members of...
8:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K 466
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O'Conor, piano
8:42 a.m.
Olivia Belli
Valse
Olivia Belli, piano
8:44 a.m.
Henning Sommerro
Varsog
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
8:49 a.m.
Huang Tzu
Plum blossoms in the snow
Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:51 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons: February "Shrovetide" Opus 37
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:55 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite: Scherzo Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Moderato in C minor Opus 18
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
9:12 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 8: I. Allegro con brio in G major Opus 88
Berlin Philharmonic; Rafael Kubelik, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
9:15 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for violin & cello "Double Concerto" in A minor Opus 102
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violin; Yo Yo Ma, cello
9:48 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
Preludio
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
9:51 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Giga
Horst Klee, guitar
9:54 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Philip Glass
Cello Concerto No. 1: Movement 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Julian Lloyd Webber, cello
10:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 34 in C major K 338
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
10:38 a.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
New World A' Comin'
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor Duke Ellington, piano
10:51 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": III. Scherzo in E minor Opus 95
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Violin Concerto in G minor Opus 80
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor Elena Urioste, violin
11:32 a.m.
Amy Beach
Fireflies Opus 15
Joanne Polk, piano
11:37 a.m.
Andrea Falconieri
Folias echa para mi Senora
Chatham Baroque
11:43 a.m.
Kevin Puts
Contact: I. The Call
Philadelphia Orchestra; Xian Zhang, conductor Time for Three
11:52 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Espana (Spanish Rhapsodie)
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major BWV 1054
Australian Chamber Orchestra Angela Hewitt, piano
12:17 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4: I. Preludio W284 Introdu��o
Nelson Freire, piano
12:22 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO Overture (Sinfonia)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Tullio Serafin, conductor
12:31 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major HOB VIIb:1
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Anner Bylsma, cello
12:55 p.m.
Roland Dyens
Tango En Skai (Immitation Leather Tango)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
12:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Janacek Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Vladimir Martynov
The Beatitudes
Kronos Quartet
1:21 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique" in C minor Opus 13
Paul Lewis, piano
1:42 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 32
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
1:52 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
Hagen Quartet
2:00 p.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 3
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
2:32 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Troubled Water
Lara Downes, piano
2:38 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No. 1 in Eb major Opus 11
Philharmonia Orchestra; Tolga Kashif, conductor Frank Lloyd, horn
2:55 p.m.
Frode Fjellheim
The Return of the Sun
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin; Frode Fjellheim, vocals
2:59 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 18 in Bb major K 456
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Richard Goode, piano
3:28 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 8 in A minor
London Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:33 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for tuba and orchestra in F minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor Arnold Jacobs, tuba
3:46 p.m.
Silvestre Revueltas
Sensemaya
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Michael Stern, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
4:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047
I Musici
4:13 p.m.
Jon Batiste
Chopinesque
Jon Batiste, piano
4:16 p.m.
Olivia Belli
Nocturne IV
Olivia Belli, piano
4:21 p.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
4:44 p.m.
Richard Rodgers
Carousel: Waltz
Stephen Hough, piano
4:52 p.m.
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor Mary Preston, organ
5:01 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
5:13 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
La Catedral
David Russell, guitar
5:21 p.m.
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
Symphony No. 1 in G minor
Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra; Jorge Rotter, conductor
5:49 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Presto for string orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:57 p.m.
Clarence Cameron White
Basque Folk Song
Marcus Eley, clarinet; Lucerne DeSa, piano
6:01 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 1 in E major Opus 5
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
6:36 p.m.
Bill Frisell
Change in the Air
Bill Frisell, guitar
6:40 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Portraits of Langston: IV. Silver Rain
McGill/McHale Trio Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano
6:45 p.m.
Terence Blanchard
Da 5 Bloods: End Credits
Studio Orchestra
6:54 p.m.
Ricky Ian Gordon
What Shall We Remember
Lara Downes, piano
