Classical Music Playlist, April 14, 2022
Beethoven dedicated over a dozen works to his friend, patron and his only student of composition, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. Those dedications include the “Archduke” Piano Trio.
Beethoven’s two premiere performances of the “Archduke” Trio marked his last appearances as a pianist. Sad written accounts tell of how terribly Beethoven’s piano skills were compromised by his deafness. He pounded on the keys much too hard in some passages, and in softer passages was unintelligible. One notable composer, Louis Spohr, wrote, “I was deeply saddened at so hard a fate. If it is a great misfortune for anyone to be deaf, how shall a musician endure it without giving way to despair? Beethoven’s continual melancholy was no longer a riddle to me.” Beethoven gave two performances of the Archduke Trio as pianist then never again performed in public. But the music was praised for its grandeur, nobility, and “genial vitality.” Beethoven’s “Archduke” Piano Trio is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Willem De Fesch
Concerto No. 5 in C minor Opus 5
Musica Ad Rhenum
6:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 14 "Spring" in G major K 387
Cleveland Quartet
6:41 a.m.
Arvo Part; Pat Metheny, arr.
Fur Alina
Pat Metheny, 42-string guitar
6:51 a.m.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Sinfonia No. 3 in D minor HW 1/3
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdiana
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
7:10 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 2 in A minor Opus 55
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor
7:32 a.m.
Josquin des Pres
Ave Maria
Capella Alamire Julia Doyle, soprano
7:38 a.m.
Hugo Alfven
Mountain King Suite: Dance of the Shepherd Girl
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Niklas Willen, conductor
7:44 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Fantasy
London Symphony Orchestra; Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor Barry Douglas, piano
8:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 "Italian": I. Allegro Vivace in A major Opus 90
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major BWV 1066
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
8:40 a.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Peace
Anthony McGill, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano
8:45 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Sr.
Cachucha Galopp Opus 97
London Symphony Orchestra; Arnie Roth, conductor
8:48 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Mazurka No. 2 in D major Opus 33
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
8:52 a.m.
Paul Dukas
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
8:59 a.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
9:10 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
9:51 a.m.
Yann Tiersen
Amelie's Waltz
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
9:55 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Opus 55
Malmo Symphony Orchestra; Bjarte Engeset, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Romance for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G major Opus 40
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Henryk Szeryng, violin
10:27 a.m.
Adolphus Hailstork
An American Port of Call
Virginia Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
10:36 a.m.
Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Mark O'Connor, violin; Edgar Meyer, bass
10:43 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Bassoon Concerto in F major Opus 75
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
11:01 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Opus 30
Rochester Philharmonic; Christopher Seaman, conductor Jon Nakamatsu, piano
11:44 a.m.
Henriette Renie
Dance of the Elves (Danse des Lutins)
Xavier de Maistre, harp
11:48 a.m.
Henry Purcell
"Three parts on a ground" (Fantasia a 4)
Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Bruggen, conductor
11:55 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka "Chit-Chat Polka" Opus 214
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; John Farrer, conductor
12:14 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto in D major AV 144
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
12:41 p.m.
Nikolai Kapustin
Prelude in Jazz Style No. 12 in G# minor Opus 53
John Salmon, piano
12:44 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Act I: Waltz Opus 20
Russian National Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
12:53 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO: Va, pensiero
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Lamberto Gardelli, conductor Vienna State Opera Chorus
12:59 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Winter (L'Inverno) in F minor Opus 8/4 RV 297
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Jeanne Lamon, violin
1:08 p.m.
Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major
Toulouse Capitole Orchestra; Michel Plasson, conductor
1:40 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Solitude
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:45 p.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Ballad Opus 4
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor Peter Dixon, cello
1:52 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Menuet Antique
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Trio "Archduke" in Bb major Opus 97
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
2:41 p.m.
David Kellner
Gigue in D major
Ronn McFarlane, lute
2:44 p.m.
John Adams
The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor
2:58 p.m.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: Dance
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
3:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto No. 3 "a due cori" in F major HWV 334
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
3:15 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto
Paris Concert Society Orchestra; Georges Pretre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
3:36 p.m.
Jacques Offenbach
LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE: Ballet of the Snowflakes
Philharmonia Orchestra; Antonio de Almeida, conductor
3:48 p.m.
Claude Debussy
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes, Book I: No. 8) (La fille aux cheveux de lin)
Antonin Kubalek, piano
3:52 p.m.
Hugo Alfven
Festival Overture Opus 25
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Niklas Willen, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Coronation March Opus 65
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; James Judd, conductor
4:11 p.m.
Francisco Tarrega
Memories of the Alhambra (Recuerdos de la Alhambra)
Canadian Brass
4:16 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 99 in Eb major
Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Bruggen, conductor
4:43 p.m.
Andrea Falconieri
Ciacona
Daniel Hope, violin; and friends
4:47 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in Ab major Opus 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 4, No. 9 in F major Opus 4/9 RV 284
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin; Micaela Comberti, violin; Jane Coe, cello
5:09 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
I Solisti Italiani
5:17 p.m.
Silvestre Revueltas
Sensemaya
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
5:25 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor Stephanie Chase, violin
5:53 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Sr.
Chain Bridge Waltz (Kettenbrucken-Walzer) Opus 4 The Suspension Bridge Waltz
London Symphony Orchestra; Arnie Roth, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Adolphe Adam
GISELLE: Suite
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:39 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Cleveland Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
6:45 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Asturias (Leyenda) - from "Suite Espanola" Opus 47
Xuefei Yang, guitar
6:51 p.m.
Mohammed Fairouz
Piano Miniature No. 6, Addio
Lara Downes, piano
6:54 p.m.
Benjamin Wallfisch
Final Kiss
Studio Orchestra; Benjamin Wallfisch, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
