Classical Music Playlist, August 6, 2021
Violinist Joseph Joachim and composer Johannes Brahms in their younger years
Johannes Brahms and Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim became instant and great friends upon meeting in their early 20s in 1853. Brahms wasn't yet known but the violinist was already a celebrity (and a more accomplished composer than Brahms at that point) who encouraged and endorsed the budding young composer and in the 1860s they even toured together with Brahms as Joachim’s pianist. 25 years into the friendship, Brahms was now famous and wrote his only violin concerto for Joachim who assisted the pianist-composer with technical advice about writing for the violin. The premiere was on January 1, 1879 with Joachim as the soloist and Brahms (inadvertently underdressed, causing murmurs in the audience) conducted. Since about 1900 the Concerto has been considered one of the greatest ever written and one of the most performed. Almost 100 years after the premiere Itzhak Perlman recorded what has been called one of the greatest Brahms recordings of all time and a reference performance of the Concerto. At the 1979 Awards, the recording won the Grammy for Classical Album of the Year. Perlman’s epic 43-minute performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm. (And be sure to be tuned in at about 19 minutes in to hear Perlman play the cadenza (solo) that Joachim contributed to the composition.)
6:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra; Michel Plasson, conductor
6:43 a.m.
Amy Beach
From Grandmother's Garden: Morning Glories Opus 97/1
Joanne Polk, piano
6:45 a.m.
J. Michael Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in C major
Prague Chamber Orchestra Guy Touvron, trumpet
6:59 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Soirees musicales (Suite after Rossini) Opus 9
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Okko Kamu, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Tullio Serafin, conductor
7:21 a.m.
William Byrd
Dance Suite arranged for Guitar Quartet
Buffalo Guitar Quartet
7:34 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Bagatelles Opus 47
Takacs Quartet
7:52 a.m.
John Williams
Summon the Heroes
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Friedrich Kuhlau
Elf-Mound Overture Opus 100
Odense Symphony Orchestra; Othmar Maga, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Lili Boulanger
One Spring Morning (D'un Matin de Printemps)
Jan Roberts-Haydon, flute; Sylvie Beaudette, piano
8:19 a.m.
Libby Larsen
Sorrow Song and Jubilee
Apollo Chamber Players
8:26 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor Alexander Doisy, saxophone
8:37 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major Opus 100
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
8:59 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Simon Preston, organ
9:08 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major Opus 16
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
9:42 a.m.
Muzio Clementi
Sonatina No. 4 in F major Opus 36
June Chun, piano
9:50 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
9:56 a.m.
Harold Arlen
Over the Rainbow
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano
10:00 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
In Ireland
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Colin Fleming, flute; Denise Kelly, harp
10:10 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major Opus 135
Emerson String Quartet
10:35 a.m.
Frank Bridge
Canzonetta
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
10:39 a.m.
Stephen Perillo
Requiem for a Goldfish
Russian Festival Orchestra; Yuval Waldman, conductor
10:49 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor: II. Andante Sostenuto in B minor
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
10:58 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Concert Piece (Morceau de concert) Opus 94
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
11:08 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Turkish Rondo (from Sonata No. 11 "Turkish March") in A major K 331
John O'Conor, piano
11:12 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion: O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross BWV 244
Michigan State University Symphonic Band; Keith Brion, conductor
11:17 a.m.
John C. Williams
Aeolian Suite: Double Dance
Studio Orchestra; William Goodchild, conductor John Williams, guitar
11:31 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Les Sylphides: Suite
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Heinz Fricke, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
12:14 p.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Quartet No. 1 in Eb major Opus 2
Allegri String Quartet (members of) Thea King, clarinet
12:35 p.m.
Alan Silvestri
FORREST GUMP: Feather Theme
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
12:38 p.m.
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble
12:43 p.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Symphonic Minutes Opus 36
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for violin, two cellos and strings in C major RV 561
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor Fabio Biondi, violin; Maurizio Naddeo, cello; Antonio Fantinuoli, cello
1:08 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Sonata in C major Opus 15
David Russell, guitar
1:24 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (NAH-sih-kaw)
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Nick Ingram, conductor Joe Hisaishi, piano
1:43 p.m.
Darius Milhaud
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra: II. Tres Decide
Bulgarian National Symphony; Ljubomir Denev, conductor Ken Peplowski
1:48 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture in B minor Opus 26
Bamberg Symphony; Claus Peter Flor, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major Opus 77
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violin
2:44 p.m.
Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor: II. Adagio in D minor
BBC Concert Orchestra; Richard Balcombe, conductor Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
2:49 p.m.
John Rutter
Folk Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
3:02 p.m.
Franz Schubert
12 German Dances Opus 171 D 790
Stephen Kovacevich, piano
3:14 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
3:41 p.m.
Albertus Groneman
Concerto for solo flute, 2 flutes, viola and continuo in G major
Musica Ad Rhenum Jed Wentz, flute
3:50 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Madrigal-Gavota
Deborah Mariotti, guitar
3:56 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA: Triumphal March from Act II
Orchester der Deutschen Oper; Giuseppi Sinopoli, conductor Chor der Deutschen oper Berlin
4:02 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 28 in C major K 200
Moscow Virtuosi; Vladimir Spivakov, conductor
4:22 p.m.
Jose Moncayo
Huapango
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
4:31 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale in C major Opus 1
Norman Krieger, piano
4:40 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Mars, Bringer of War Opus 32
Philharmonia Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
4:48 p.m.
John Williams
The Post: The Presses Roll
Studio Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:53 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Cuban Dance (Danzon Cubano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano Opus 22
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano; Elena Urioste, violin
5:12 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in D major Opus 7/1
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor
5:22 p.m.
Ignace Pleyel
Flute Concerto in C major B 160
Sinfonia Finlandia (Jyvaskyla); Patrick Gallois, conductor Patrick Gallois, flute
5:47 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 3 in Ab major Opus 46
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
5:54 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 6 "Jota" (Rondalla Aragonesa)
Angel Romero, guitar; Celedonio Romero, guitar
5:59 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: Symphonic Poem
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
6:28 p.m.
Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf
Oboe Concerto in G major
Bern Camerata; Thomas Furi, conductor Heinz Holliger, oboe
6:44 p.m.
John Tavener
The Protecting Veil
London Symphony Orchestra; Gennady Roszhdestvensky, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
6:54 p.m.
John Lanchbery
Tales of Beatrix Potter: The Mouse Waltz
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; John Lanchbery, conductor
