Classical Music Playlist, August 5, 2021
The late French musicologist and critic Claude Rostand described French composer Francis Poulenc as "half monk, half rascal." This certainly describes his life, personality and music. Artistic and religious, his music ranges from parody to piety; from merry to melancholic. Coming of age in the free-wheeling Paris of the 1920s he was a member of Les Six, that group of six French composers (more a friendship than a formal school of thought on music) who in 1920 bonded around the forward-thinking artistic ideas of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau. After decades of alternating free-spirited, irreverent and impudent works with solemn and reverent religious compositions, in 1950 he combined the dramatic and the droll in his Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor. It’s a high-spirited work that he described as his “low-brow” concerto; that is, a guilty pleasure written not to appeal to any intellectual pretension but music written solely for the sake of entertainment. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
English Chamber Orchestra; Ian Watson, conductor Ian Watson, organ
6:09 a.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Orchestre de Paris; Semyon Bychkov, conductor
6:39 a.m.
Romano Antonio Piacentino
Flute Concerto in G major
I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor James Galway, flute
6:55 a.m.
Joseph Lauber
Four Medieval Danses: Pavane
Laurel Zucker, flute; Susan Jolles, harp
6:59 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture Opus 101
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Harp Concerto: IV. Rap Knock
Rochester Philharmonic; Ward Stare, conductor Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
7:17 a.m.
Jules Massenet
LE CID: Ballet Suite
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
7:38 a.m.
Enrique Granados
El Pelele (The straw mannequin)
Jean-Francois Heisser, piano
7:43 a.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
8:01 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
8:13 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
The Birds (Gli Uccelli)
Chamber Orchestra of New York "Ottorino Respighi"; Salvatore Di Vittorio, conductor
8:35 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Die Schone Mullerin: No. 16 "Die Liebe Farbe" D 795
Hans-Peter Blochwitz, tenor; Cord Garben, piano
8:41 a.m.
Carter Burwell
Rob Roy: Robert & Mary
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor Eric Rigler, bagpipes
8:46 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior! Opus 13
Royal Scottish Orchestra; Petter Sundkvist, conductor
9:00 a.m.
William Grant Still
Folk Suite No. 3
Sierra Winds
9:07 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Villanelle Opus 126/10
Peter Jacobs, piano
9:10 a.m.
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Ballet No. 4 Opus 52
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet, conductor
9:20 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Florence Opus 70
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Mischa Maisky, cello
9:55 a.m.
John Williams
STAR WARS - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Imperial March
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
KONIGSKINDER: Overture (The Royal Children)
Czechoslovak RSO, Bratislava; Alfred Walter, conductor
10:08 a.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major
Janacek Philharmonic; Ryan Cockerham, conductor Er-Gene Kahng
10:34 a.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
La Poule ("The Hen")
Alain Lefevre, piano
10:41 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vespers: Magnificat Opus 37
Swedish Radio Choir; Tonu Kaljuste, conductor
10:49 a.m.
David Lyon
Short Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
11:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in Bb major Opus 6/7 HWV 325
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
11:15 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Opus 55
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor
11:33 a.m.
Max Richter
Dona Nobis Pacem 2
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
11:38 a.m.
Terence Blanchard
25th Hour: Opening Title
Brussels Philharmonic; Dirk Brosse, conductor
11:42 a.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Opus 15
Mito Chamber Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor "Martha Argerich, piano
12:34 p.m.
John Stanley
Trumpet Tune
Maurice Andre, trumpet; Jane Parker-Smith, organ
12:38 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Finale (1919)
Israel Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Elegie Opus 24
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; ...and friends
12:51 p.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Prelude and Quadruple Fugue Opus 128
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Fantasy Scenes
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa, conductor
1:13 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
1:43 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Goyescas: Los Requiebros (Compliments)
Maria Garzon, piano
1:54 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Ave Maria Opus 52 D 839
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Kurt Herbert Adler, conductor Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
2:00 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto
Paris Concert Society Orchestra; Georges Pretre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
2:20 p.m.
Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche Suite: III. Brazileira
Tippett Quartet Jess Gillam, alto saxophone; Zeynep Ozsuca, piano; Andee Birkett, double bass
2:24 p.m.
Karl Goldmark
In Italy Overture Opus 49
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
2:38 p.m.
Franz Biber
Partita IV in Eb major
The Purcell Quartet
2:47 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marche Slav Opus 31
Marinsky Theatre Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 10 in C major Opus 6
I Musici
3:14 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Opus 33
London Symphony Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
3:34 p.m.
Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes
Althea Waites, piano
3:45 p.m.
Joseph Lanner
Court-Ball Dances (Hofballtanze) Opus 161
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
3:54 p.m.
Johan Wagenaar
El Cid: overture Opus 27
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
4:01 p.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
4:12 p.m.
Rebecca Clarke
Morpheus
Philip Dukes, viola; Sophia Rahman, piano
4:20 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
4:27 p.m.
Giuseppe Tartini
Flute Concerto in G major G 293
Accademia Strumentale Italiana; Giorgio Bernasconi, conductor Marzio Conti, flute
4:44 p.m.
Michael Torke
Sky: I. Lively
Albany Symphony Orchestra; David Alan Miller, conductor Tessa Lark, violin
4:54 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Mock Morris
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony No. 5 in F major Opus 3
Camerata Budapest; Hanspeter Gmur, conductor
5:10 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major HWV 348
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
5:38 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Sophisticated Lady
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor Various soloists
5:45 p.m.
Giulio Regondi
Guitar Etude No. 10 in A major
David Starobin, guitar
5:51 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester)
Lyon Opera Orchestra; Kent Nagano, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No. 1 in Eb major
Rome Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor
6:34 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:40 p.m.
Wynton Marsalis
Violin Concerto in D: IV. Hootenanny in D
Philadelphia Orchestra; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Nicola Benedetti, violin
6:50 p.m.
David Bowie
This is not America
Ahn Trio
6:56 p.m.
Cecil Burleigh
At Sunset from Rocky Mountain Sketches
Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra; Reuben Blundell, conductor
