Classical Music Playlist, August 13, 2021
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"Kreutzer Sonata" by Karl Fedorovich [K.F.] Saxen [PD]
Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" so inspired Leo Tolstoy that he wrote an entire short story around it, basically about the effect music has on the listener (which became central to the story of the movie “Immortal Beloved” with script dialogue lifted almost verbatim from Tolstoy).
But regarding the Sonata itself in Beethoven's time. He originally dedicated it to the bi-racial violinist George Bridgetower, with whom he got along famously and who premiered the work (with Beethoven at the piano) in May of 1803 in a performance between friends that was so spectacular Beethoven jumped up from his piano bench, mid performance, to hug Bridgetower. But after that premiere performance Beethoven and Bridgetower were drinking and Bridgetower apparently insulted a woman Beethoven admired. Enraged, Beethoven removed the dedication to Bridgetower, dedicating it instead to the man considered the finest violinist of the day, Rodolphe Kreutzer, whose playing Beethoven admired but met briefly only once and wasn't particularly impressed with his personality. Kreutzer wasn't fond of Beethoven's music and even told Hector Berlioz that the Sonata was “outrageously unintelligible” and is not known to have ever played it. Beethoven never spoke to Bridgetower again, who was bitter the rest of his life. And if it weren't for Beethoven's dedication to him, Kreutzer's name might likely have been forgotten over time.
The dedication to Kreutzer, and the Sonata itself, passed with not much notice until the Tolstoy story appeared in 1889. Since then, and inspired by the Tolstoy story, stage productions, films, paintings and so on have been created bearing Kreutzer's name all because of his association to the Sonata, even though the Sonata had very little to do with Kreutzer (and only marginally with Tolstoy's story, to be honest). All this brought the public's attention to the Beethoven Sonata. Meanwhile, George Bridgetower has endured only as a footnote to most people. Save for poet Rita Dove who resurrected his name in her 2009 book of poems, "Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play.
The music that started all this, Beethoven's Violin Sonata #9, the "Kreutzer" Sonata, played by Itzhak Perlman, is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 HWV 314
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
6:08 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Opus 64
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Nigel Kennedy, violin
6:38 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No. 14 in A major Opus 21 G 498
London Festival Orchestra; Ross Pople, conductor
6:52 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
OTELLO: Ballet Music
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Domenico Cimarosa
Oboe Concerto in C minor
I Musici Heinz Holliger, oboe
7:12 a.m.
Leonard Bernstein
Candide Suite
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
7:31 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Toccata Opus 39
Enid Katahn, piano
7:36 a.m.
Phil Rosheger
Good Luck Waltz
David Russell, guitar
7:39 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 119
NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
7:59 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Polish Concerto (Concerto Polonois) in G major
Apollo's Fire; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet: II. Larghetto Affetuoso
Catalyst Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
8:17 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 "Carnival in Pest" in D major
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
8:31 a.m.
Roger Quilter
Where the Rainbow Ends: Suite
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
8:47 a.m.
William Grant Still
Vignettes for oboe, bassoon and piano
Sierra Winds
9:00 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 1: I. Allegro ma non troppo in E minor
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
9:17 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major K 459
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
9:45 a.m.
Henry Purcell
The Rival Sisters Overture
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Ronald Thomas, conductor
9:51 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
String Quintet in E major: III. Scherzo - Allegro Vivace in E major Opus 1
Mannheim String Quartet
9:57 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2: Badinerie BWV 1067
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Rolf Smedvig, conductor Rolf Smedvig, trumpet
10:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 1 "La Tempesta di Mare" (The Storm at Sea) in F major Opus 10 RV 433
Tokyo Bach-Mozart Ensemble Masahiro Arita, flute
10:08 a.m.
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Rome Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor
10:37 a.m.
Mark Isham
A River Runs Through It: Main Theme
Studio Orchestra
10:40 a.m.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: Dance
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
10:43 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Concert Rondo "Krakowiak" (krak-KOH-vee-akk) in F major Opus 14
Slovak State Philharmonic, Kozice; Robert Stankovsky, conductor Idil Biret, piano
11:01 a.m.
Manuel de Falla
Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
11:14 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
John O'Conor, piano
11:20 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Sonata da Camera
Empire Brass William Kuhlman, organ
11:30 a.m.
Clarice Assad
a Tide of Living Water
Lara Downes, piano
11:33 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orchestral Suite "Mozartiana" in G major Opus 61 "Mozartiana"
San Diego Chamber Orchestra; Donald Barra, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in Bb major Opus 6
I Solisti Italiani
12:11 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Symphony No. 6 in Eb major Opus 94
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
12:48 p.m.
Franz Von Suppe
Searching for Fortune Overture
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
12:57 p.m.
Ned Rorem
Mountain Song
Fenwick Smith, flute; Mihae Lee, piano
1:01 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 "Classical" in D major Opus 25
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
1:16 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
St. Anthony Variations in Bb major Opus 56
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
1:36 p.m.
Amy Beach
From Grandmother's Garden: Honeysuckle Opus 97/5
Joanne Polk, piano
1:40 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik III: Trio for 2 Flutes and continuo in D major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
1:50 p.m.
Otto Nicolai
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer" in A major Opus 47
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
2:38 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture Opus 96
Moscow Philharmonic; Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor
2:45 p.m.
Oskar Lindberg
Old Cattle Pasture Hymn from Dalarna: Andante
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
2:50 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Prague Waltzes
Prague Symphony Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
3:01 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in F major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
3:11 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor Opus 73
English Chamber Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Emma Johnson, clarinet
3:34 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 30 "Alleluja" in C major
Northern Chamber Orchestra; Nicholas Ward, conductor
3:50 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 5 "Andaluza"
Angel Romero, guitar; Celedonio Romero, guitar
3:56 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
TSAR SALTAN: Flight of the Bumblebee
Olga Kern, piano
3:58 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
4:10 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Gottschalk Waltz Opus 1
Alexandra Oehler, piano
4:19 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
WILLIAM TELL: Overture (GUILLAUME TELL)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
4:31 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5: Adagietto (4th movement) in C# minor
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Zubin Mehta, conductor
4:42 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Sigurd Jorsalfar: Homage March Opus 22
Malmo Symphony Orchestra; Bjarte Engeset, conductor
4:51 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
4:59 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 10 "The Hunt" in Bb major Opus 8 RV 362 (La Caccia)
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin
5:09 p.m.
Eric Coates
Covent Garden (from The London Suite)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Adrian Leaper, conductor
5:15 p.m.
Muzio Clementi
Symphony No. 4 in D major WoO 35
Philharmonia Orchestra; Francesco d'Avalos, conductor
5:43 p.m.
Henry F. Gilbert
The Dance in Place Congo (Symphonic Poem)
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Calvin Simmons, conductor
5:55 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Suite Espanola: No. 4 "Cadiz" Opus 47
Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano duo
6:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major K 503
London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor Stephen Kovacevich, piano
6:32 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Requiem: Pie Jesu Opus 48
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andreas Delfs, conductor Renee Fleming, soprano
6:37 p.m.
Andrew York
Quiccan
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
6:43 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 5: Alma Brasileira
Assad Brothers Sergio Assad, guitar; Odair Assad, guitar
6:49 p.m.
Franz Lehar
Gold and Silver (waltz) Opus 79
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra; Willi Boskovsky, conductor
