Classical Music Playlist, January 14, 2025
Captain Scott's ship, Terra Nova, stuck in ice on the way to the South Pole, December 1910
1912 was a bad year for England. The RMS Titanic sank, and Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party died on the return from his expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole. (Worse, Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen successfully arrived about a month earlier). But Scott was hailed as a national hero and offered as proof that "There is plenty of pluck and spirit left in the British after all." A 1948 film was made about Scott's adventure titled "Scott of the Antarctic" for which English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote the score. The composer was moved by the story of Scott's failed adventure and intrigued by the chance to compose music that evokes ice and wind and completed about half the film score before even seeing a script. While composing, Vaughan Williams thought his movie music could be the basis for a symphony. Working on the project intermittently over the next years, he completed his Symphony No. 7, titled "Sinfonia Antartica" (not "Antarctica") and premiered it in 1953 to stellar reviews. Evocative and easily listenable, it's today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Capriccio No. 2 in G major Z 183
Bern Camerata; Alexander van Wijnkoop, conductor
6:14 a.m.
Carl Reinecke
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Opus 144
Sinfonieorchester St Gallen; Modestas Pitr�nas, conductor SImon Callaghan, piano
6:50 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Romantic Sonata: III. Musical Moment (Sonata romantica "Hommage a Franz Schubert")
Marcin Dylla, guitar
6:54 a.m.
Giuseppe Sammartini
Pastorale in G major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
7:19 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Oboe Concerto No. 1 in F major Opus 37
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
7:43 a.m.
Mario Albanese
Jequibau
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
7:45 a.m.
Roberto Firpo
Viviani
Cortango
7:49 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze BWV 208
Empire Brass Douglas Major, organ
7:54 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia (Konzertsatz) in D major BWV 1045
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite suite
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
8:14 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:46 a.m.
Gerardo Matos Rodriguez
La Cumparsita (Tango)
Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:48 a.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Odeon - Tango Brasileiro
Richard Cionco, piano
8:53 a.m.
Frederick Delius
KOANGA: La Calinda
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
8:58 a.m.
Alberic Magnard
Symphony No. 3 in Bb minor Opus 11
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
9:37 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Les Sylvains (The Fauns) in D major Opus 60
Anna Shelest, piano
9:42 a.m.
Alexander Arutiunian
Trumpet Concerto
Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor Bibi Black, trumpet
10:00 a.m.
John Field
Rondo for piano & strings in Ab major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
10:08 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO Overture (Sinfonia)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Violin Concerto in F# minor
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor Ulf Wallin, violin
10:52 a.m.
Manuel de Falla
EL AMOR BRUJO: Ritual Fire Dance
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
10:56 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 9 in E minor
London Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Francois Devienne
Bassoon Concerto in B Flat in Bb major
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Bohdan Warchal, conductor Eckart Hubner, bassoon
11:20 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture Opus 92
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
11:30 a.m.
Stewart Goodyear
The Kapok
iSing Silicon Valley; Jennah Delp Somers, conductor Inbal Segev, cello; Stewart Goodyear, piano
11:48 a.m.
Jose Moncayo
Sinfonietta
Mexico National Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Arturo Diemecke, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
12:20 p.m.
Manuel Ponce
Estrellita
Duo Sonidos
12:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HOB 18:11
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
12:45 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posey
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 8 "Christmas Concerto" in G minor Opus 6
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
1:15 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 "Linz" in C major K 425
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:48 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
1:55 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 5 in A major Opus 46
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
2:43 p.m.
Giacomo Puccini
TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle
Maggio Musicale, Firenzi; Zubin Mehta, conductor Placido Domingo, tenor
2:47 p.m.
George Gershwin
I Got Rhythm Variations
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor Earl Wild, piano
2:57 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor Martha Argerich, piano
3:20 p.m.
John Williams
Munich: Prayer For Peace
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
3:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 "Oxford" in G major
Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor
3:51 p.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
New York Philharmonic; Thomas Schippers, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor BWV 1056
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Andras Schiff, piano
4:11 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
4:34 p.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
4:47 p.m.
Richard Addinsell
Warsaw Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
4:57 p.m.
August Soderman
Concert Overture in F major
Norrlands Opera Symphony Orchestra; Roy Goodman, conductor
5:07 p.m.
Fela Sowande
African Suite: Selections
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
5:18 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Iberia
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
5:39 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Guitar Concerto
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Goran Sollscher, guitar
5:59 p.m.
Jan Kalliwoda
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major Opus 17
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor
6:27 p.m.
Enrique Soro
Three Chilean Airs (Tres aires chilenos)
Chile Symphony Orchestra; Jose Luis Dominguez, conductor
6:39 p.m.
Derrick Skye
Black Ocean
Mir� Quartet; Conspirare; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor
6:45 p.m.
Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter Orchestra; Lorenz Dangel, conductor
6:53 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Black, Brown, & Beige Suite: II. Brown
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
