Classical Music Playlist, September 7, 2021
Admiral Horatio Nelson by Lemuel Francis Abbott (1799)
Franz Joseph Haydn was at the peak of his creative powers and fame in 1798. But the outer world was upside down. Napoleon had won major battles in Austria and Vienna itself was threatened and the population fearful. It was at this time when he composed what Haydn's chief biographer, H.C. Robbins, described as "arguably Haydn's greatest single composition," the Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times). The mass consists of six movements; the text, slightly altered, is taken from the Latin Mass of the Catholic church. But just as Haydn had completed the work came news that Napoleon had suffered a resounding defeat in Egypt at the Battle of the Nile by British forces led by Admiral Horatio Nelson. With the premiere of Haydn's Mass coincident with this enormously consequential battle, Haydn's masterpiece came to be known as the "Lord Nelson Mass." This stunning masterwork is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Marin Marais
Bells of Saint Genevieve (Sonnerie de Ste. Genevive du Monte)
Munich Pro Arte Orchestra; Kurt Redel, conductor
6:08 a.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Suite from "Mascarade"
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:36 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Horn Concerto No. 2 in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
6:53 a.m.
Florence Price
Clouds
Lara Downes, piano
6:59 a.m.
Malcolm Arnold
Four Cornish Dances Opus 91
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Penny, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Humoresque No. 7 in Gb major Opus 101/7
Josef Suk, violin; Lincoln Mayorga, piano
7:16 a.m.
Aaron Jay Kernis
100 Greatest Dance Hits: II. Salsa Pasada
Escher Quartet Jason Vieaux, guitar
7:20 a.m.
John Field
Piano Sonata in Eb major Opus 1/1
Ian Hobson, piano
7:31 a.m.
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D major AV 144
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
7:59 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in F major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Hubert Parry
Lady Radnor's Suite
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
8:27 a.m.
Giulio Regondi
Guitar Etude No. 3 in A major
David Starobin, guitar
8:32 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 25 in G minor K 183
Philharmonia Orchestra; Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
8:55 a.m.
Benjamin Wallfisch
Final Kiss
Studio Orchestra; Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
9:01 a.m.
Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf
Oboe Concerto in G major
Bern Camerata; Thomas Furi, conductor Heinz Holliger, oboe
9:17 a.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR: Polovetsian Dances
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Ghennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
9:34 a.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
9:39 a.m.
Charles Ives
Memories: Rather Sad
The President's Own U.S. Marine Band; Lt. Col. Jason K. Fettig, conductor Gunnery Sgt. Sara Dell'Omo, mezzo-soprano
9:42 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Max Bruch
Swedish Dances Opus 63
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
10:10 a.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
10:31 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Concert Piece for clarinet & basset horn in F minor Opus 113
London Symphony Orchestra; Alun Francis, conductor Thea King, clarinet; Georgina Dobree, basset horn
10:40 a.m.
Caroline Shaw
Is A Rose: II. "And So"
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor Anne Sofie von Otter, alto
10:47 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Autumn (L'Autunno) in F major Opus 8 RV 293
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Sarah Chang, violin
11:00 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Our Town
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
11:10 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Rossiniana No. 3 Opus 119/3
Luis Orlandini, guitar
11:30 a.m.
Franz Von Suppe
Light Cavalry Overture
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra; Willi Boskovsky, conductor
11:37 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Suite in the Ancient Style Opus 127
Members of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony
11:51 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
The Storming of Red Hill (Assault on Beautiful Gorky)
BBC Concert Orchestra; Gavin Sutherland, conductor Valentina Lisitsa, piano
11:59 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Overture Opus 10
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
12:08 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Sachio Fujioka, conductor Craig Ogden, guitar
12:32 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio Sonata in D major TWV 42: G4
Le Triomphe de L'Amour
12:41 p.m.
Pierre Mercure
Kaleidoscope
Montreal Metropolitain Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
12:53 p.m.
Leo Delibes
Lakme: Flower Duet (Viens, Malika..Sous le Dome epais)
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor Joan Sutherland, soprano; Jane Berbie, mezzo-soprano
12:59 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor
1:13 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 5 in D major K 204
Orchestre D'Auvergne; Leopold Hager, conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin
1:47 p.m.
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor William Tritt, piano
1:50 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
Mother
Takako Nishizaki, violin; Gerald Garcia, guitar
1:53 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Danse Slav (from Le Roi Malgre Lui)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Lord Nelson Mass in D minor HOB 22:11
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Colin Davis, conductor Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus; Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Marjana Lipovsek, mezzo-soprano; Francisco Araiza, tenor
2:41 p.m.
Manuel Ponce
Giga
Horst Klee, guitar
2:44 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for Three Keyboards in D minor BWV 1063
Hamburg Philharmonic; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Christoph Eschenbach, piano; Gerhard Oppitz, piano; Justus Frantz, piano
2:59 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ruins of Athens: Turkish March Opus 113/4
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:02 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Paray, conductor
3:10 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No. 24 in A major Opus 37/4 G 518
London Festival Orchestra; Ross Pople, conductor
3:32 p.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
L'ELISIR D'AMORE: Una furtiva lagrima
Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Carlo Rizzi, conductor Marcelo Alvarez, tenor
3:37 p.m.
Carl Busch
Minnehaha's Vision
Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra; Reuben Blundell, conductor
3:49 p.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess Selections (Arr. for violin)
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
4:00 p.m.
Grace Williams
Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Andrew Penny, conductor
4:12 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations: IX. Nimrod
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; ...and friends
4:17 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 43 "Mercury" in Eb major
Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Helmut Muller-Bruhl, conductor
4:42 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Masques and Bergamasques Opus 112
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
4:57 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
The Bees (Las Abejas)
David Russell, guitar
5:01 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor
5:17 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in G major RV 436
I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor James Galway, flute
5:27 p.m.
Anton Arensky
Piano Quintet: Scherzo Opus 51
Ying Quartet Adam Neiman, piano
5:37 p.m.
Gisle Kverndokk
Symphonic Dances: V. Weddings and Funerals
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Ken-David Masur, conductor
5:46 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams": III. Scherzo in G minor Opus 13
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Michael Torke
Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
6:02 p.m.
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy Opus 46
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Joshua Bell, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
6:33 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Zadok the Priest HWV 258
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Monteverdi Choir
6:40 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Notes of Gratitude
Lara Downes, piano
6:46 p.m.
Ludovico Einaudi
Choros
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
6:53 p.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
