Classical Music Playlist, November 21, 2024
When Tchaikovsky began composing his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1879 he worked "deliberately and carefully, rather than with a feverish urgency which is always detrimental to my works." He eventually wrote that he was "very satisfied and proud of this concerto" and Tchaikovsky’s publisher Pyotr Jurgenson printed it in early 1881. The premieres in late 1881 (USA) and Russia (mid-1882) won favorable reviews, though some subsequently thought the Concerto too long and could be edited, among other more substantial suggestions, and Tchaikovsky agreed to minor cuts.
But in 1893 Jurgenson wanted to reprint the concerto and enlisted Tchaikovsky’s friend, pianist and composer Aleksandr Ziloti to prepare the score and in doing so made extensive edits to which Tchaikovsky objected sternly, telling Ziloti, "I absolutely cannot agree to your cuts," and that the proposed changes "left a bitter taste, and made my hair stand on end." In August 1893 Tchaikovsky advised the publisher Jurgenson, "[Ziloti] is overdoing it in his desire to make this concerto easy, and wants me literally to mutilate it for the sake of simplicity." But Tchaikovsky died three months later and Ziloti's changes were published in 1897. This became the standard edition performed for decades. Despite the composer and others preferring the Second Concerto, it never achieved the fame of his Piano Concerto No. 1. But gaining exposure and appreciation in recent decades, in 2009 British pianist Stephen Hough recorded Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in the version free of the Ziloti edits, and it's today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Concerto No. 290 in G minor QV 196
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor Rachel Brown, flute
6:16 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Opus 37
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
6:53 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 4 in F# minor
London Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphonic Variations
Scottish National Orchestra; Andrew Penny, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
7:44 a.m.
Thelonious Monk
Monk's Mood
Kristin Lee, violin; Jeremy Ajani Jordan, piano
7:50 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Omphale's Spinning Wheel (Le Rouet d'Omphale) Opus 31
Malmo Symphony Orchestra; Marc Soustrot, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Ignaz Moscheles
Recollections of Ireland Opus 69
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Howard Shelley, conductor Howard Shelley, piano
8:16 a.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Hary Janos Suite
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
8:40 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest": III. Allegretto in D minor Opus 31/2
Richard Goode, piano
8:48 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin: Gavotte en Rondeau in E major BWV 1006
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
8:52 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tsar's Bride overture
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 1
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Manze, conductor Seta Tanyel, piano
9:47 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Maria Graf, harp
9:52 a.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Ballad Opus 4
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor Peter Dixon, cello
10:00 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Pieteri Inkinen, conductor
10:18 a.m.
Hayato Sumino
Human Universe
Hayato Sumino, piano
10:26 a.m.
Erich Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violin
10:51 a.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in G major K 525
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor
11:20 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
WILD SWANS: Eliza Aria
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Ola Rudner, conductor Jane Sheldon, soprano
11:25 a.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Boreades suite (Abaris)
Capella Savaria; Mary Terey-Smith, conductor
11:47 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4: III. Rondo: Vivace in G major Opus 58
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
11:59 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Opus 80
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
12:11 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 12
Connor Chee, piano
12:16 p.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major Opus 99
English Chamber Orchestra; Miguel Gomez Martinez, conductor Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
12:37 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Fantasie-impromptu in C# minor Opus 66
Olga Kern, piano
12:44 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol Opus 34
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Johan Svendsen
Carnival in Paris (Karnival i Paris) Opus 9
Latvian National Symphony; Terje Mikkelsen, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Takacs Quartet
1:42 p.m.
H. T. Burleigh
Deep River
PubliQuartet Lara Downes, piano
1:44 p.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes: I. Singing River
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
1:52 p.m.
Paul Dukas
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
2:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major Opus 44
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
2:40 p.m.
Olivia Belli
Sapias Latin: "have good taste/sense"
Scoring Berlin; Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor Mari Samuelsen, violin
2:44 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: I. Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 98
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
2:58 p.m.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Symphony in G Major in G major
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
3:14 p.m.
Henriette Renie
Contemplation
Naoko Yoshino, harp
3:18 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop" in Db major Opus 28
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
3:25 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D major AV 144
Staatskapelle Dresden; Rudolph Kempe, conductor Manfred Clement, oboe
3:50 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Outdoor Overture
Cleveland Pops Orchestra; Louis Lane, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Fantasy for a Gentleman
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
4:24 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
The Lark in the Clear Air
McGill/McHale Trio Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano
4:28 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Etude No. 3 "The Little Bell" ("La Campanella") in G# minor
Jorge Bolet, piano
4:34 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 RV 310
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
4:41 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C minor Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:46 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
Chineke! Orchestra; Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
5:18 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Danzas Paraguayas
David Russell, guitar
5:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 104 "London" in D major
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
5:55 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
MAZEPPA: Gopak
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Symphony No. 2 Opus 17
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Hans-Peter Frank, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre Opus 40
French Radio and Television Orchestra; Jean Martinon, conductor
6:44 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Intermezzo No. 3 (1943) in Ab major
Pascal Roge, piano
6:49 p.m.
Bela Bartok
Allegro Barbaro for piano SZ 49
Zoltan Kocsis, piano
6:52 p.m.
Chick Corea
The Hilltop
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