Classical Music Playlist, April 3, 2023
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in 1929
Italian-Jewish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote his Violin Concerto No. 2 in 1931 specifically for violinist Jascha Heifetz. It's a concerto of “Hebraic flavor," as the composer described it, titled "The Prophets" with movements inspired by Isaiah, Jeremiah and Elijah. Castelnuovo-Tedesco said the Concerto recalls “the splendor of past days” compared to the rising anti-Semitism that was sweeping across Europe at the time. A 1954 recording of the Concerto featuring Jascha Heifetz is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Related trivia: Jascha Heifetz premiered the Concerto in 1933 with Arturo Toscanini conducting. They would both sponsor the composer’s emigration to the United States in 1939 just as WW2 got underway amid unsafe antisemitism and after the composer’s native Italy instituted Italian racial laws in late 1938 that led to his music being banned from the radio and concert performances of his music canceled. Once he got here, Heifetz helped him get a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a film composer. He would work on scores for about 200 films at MGM and other major studios. Castelnuovo-Tedesco became a US citizen in 1946.
6:00 a.m.
Alessandro Stradella
Sonata for trumpet and strings
Philharmonia Orchestra; Simon Wright, conductor John Wallace, trumpet
6:06 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 3 in C major K 515
Tokyo String Quartet Pinchas Zukerman, viola
6:45 a.m.
George Gershwin
Etude No. 3 "THE MAN I LOVE"
Nicholas McCarthy, piano
6:49 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in Bb major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:00 a.m.
John Rutter
Folk Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
7:15 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major K 175
English Chamber Orchestra; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
7:38 a.m.
Frederic Hand
Heart's Song
Frederic Hand, guitar
7:45 a.m.
Granville Bantock
The Sea Reivers (Hebridean Tone Poem No. 2)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Christoph Gluck
ORFEO ED EURIDICE: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
New York Philomusica; Paige Brook, conductor Paige Brook, flute
7:57 a.m.
Anton Arensky
Piano Quintet: Scherzo Opus 51
Ying Quartet Adam Neiman, piano
8:08 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
8:23 a.m.
John C. Williams
When The Birds Return
London Symphony Orchestra; Istvan Kertesz, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:27 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
8:32 a.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
8:44 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Stewart Goodyear, piano
9:01 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 "Romantic": I. Bewegt, Nicht Zu Schell in Eb major
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Karl Bohm, conductor
9:22 a.m.
William Grant Still
Lyric Quartet: III. The Jovial One
Catalyst Quartet
9:27 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for tuba and orchestra in F minor
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor John Fletcher, bass tuba
9:40 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro Scherzando in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
9:49 a.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:00 a.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
10:08 a.m.
Kurt Weill
Lost in the Stars
Lara Downes, piano
10:14 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
Irish Symphony
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
10:49 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Sylvia: Pizzicato Polka
New Philharmonia Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor
10:51 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Pastoral Suite: Rustic Dance (Suite Pastorale: Danse Villageoise)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
10:57 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Septet: V. Scherzo in Eb major Opus 20
Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists; Andrew Wan, conductor
11:02 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
11:25 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Prelude and Toccata in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
11:30 a.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Fandango
Richard Savino, guitar
11:32 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
11:37 a.m.
Joseph Canteloube
Bailero from Chants d'Auvergne
Lyon Opera Orchestra; Kent Nagano, conductor Dawn Upshaw, soprano
11:44 a.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Jonathon Heyward, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
12:00 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: I. Allegro non troppo in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Doric String Quartet
12:16 p.m.
George Walker
String Quartet No. 1 "Lyric": II. Molto adagio
Catalyst Quartet
12:22 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
PRECIOSA: Overture J 279
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
12:31 p.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in Eb major Opus 1
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
12:55 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 12
Connor Chee, piano
1:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
1:08 p.m.
William Bolcom
Ghost Rag: I. Graceful Ghost
Spencer Meyer, piano
1:14 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major Opus 135
Emerson String Quartet
1:39 p.m.
Georges Bizet
CARMEN: Toreador song
London Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:42 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite: III. Alla Marcia Opus 11
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
1:48 p.m.
Nino Rota
Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'orchestra)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Violin Concerto #2 "The Prophets" (I Profeti)
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Alfred Wallenstein, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
2:30 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 6 "Rapture" (Il Piacere) in C major Opus 8 RV 180
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor Andrew Manze, violin
2:41 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
2:53 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Princess Mononoke Suite (from Princess Mononoke)
New Japan World Dream Orchestra; Joe Hisaishi, conductor Joe Hisaishi, piano
3:03 p.m.
William Boyce
Symphony No. 6 in F major Opus 2
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
3:12 p.m.
Xuefei Yang
Xinjiang Fantasy
Xuefei Yang, guitar
3:18 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Grande fantasie
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
3:33 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 100 "Military" in G major
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
3:57 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 5: Alma Brasileira
Assad Brothers Sergio Assad, guitar; Odair Assad, guitar
4:03 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto: I. Allegro affettuoso in A minor Opus 54
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor Martha Argerich, piano
4:18 p.m.
Terence Blanchard
No Cross Burning Tonight (from BlacKkKlansmen)
Studio Orchestra
4:23 p.m.
William Alwyn
Elizabethan Dances (1957)
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
4:42 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Boston Ballet Orchestra; Jonathan McPhee, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Michael Gandolfi
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: The Willowtwist
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Spano, conductor
4:54 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Scherzo from "Death and the Maiden" in D minor D 810
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Leos Janacek
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN: Suite
Prague Symphony Orchestra; Petr Altrichter, conductor
5:21 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Papillon Opus 77
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano
5:25 p.m.
Johann Johannsson
The Theory of Everything Suite
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
5:33 p.m.
Carlos Gardel
Guitarra, Guitarra Mia
Franz Halasz, guitar
5:37 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 14 in A major K 114
Schlierbacher Kammerorchester; Thomas Fey, conductor
5:58 p.m.
Erik Satie
Gymnopedie No. 1
John Novacek, piano
6:03 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite Opus 40
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor And various soloists
6:25 p.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Angel Romero, guitar
6:34 p.m.
John Williams
Empire of the Sun: Cadillac of the Skies
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
6:39 p.m.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Bibo No Aozora
Ryuichi Sakamoto, piano; Everton Nelson, violin
6:46 p.m.
Philip Glass
Symphony No. 3: Movement III
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
6:57 p.m.
Olafur Arnalds
saman
Olafur Arnalds; SOHN, singer
