Classical Music Playlist, May 6, 2022
As a 17 year old student at the Paris Conservatory George Bizet composed a symphony that he soon forgot about and never mentioned in any of his notebooks or letters. Eighty years later - sixty years after his death - Bizet’s early symphony had its premiere in 1935 and caused a sensation. It was immediately hailed as a youthful masterpiece and famed choreographer George Balanchine even choreographed it into a ballet in 1947. George Bizet's early Symphony in C is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Sinfonia for String Orchestra No. 7
Sphinx Virtuosi; Damon Gupton, conductor
6:22 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik I: Concerto for flute, violin & strings in A major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:47 a.m.
Antonio Lauro
Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 "Natalia" (Vals Venezolano)
Sharon Isbin, guitar; Colin Davin, guitar
6:51 a.m.
Philip Glass
Glassworks: Opening
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
7:00 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 76/3 "Emperor": I. Allegro in C major Opus 76/3
Aeolian String Quartet
7:13 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor K 457
Andras Schiff, piano
7:35 a.m.
Philip Glass
Metamorphosis II
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Francine Kay, piano
7:40 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Empire March (1924) Opus
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; James Judd, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Impromptu No. 2 in Eb major Opus 90/2 D 899
Radu Lupu, piano
7:51 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:37 a.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: IV. Porro
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
8:41 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 11 "The Lyre" (La Cetra) in C minor Opus 9 RV 198
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Simon Standage, violin
8:52 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Song of Jean Racine (Cantique de Jean Racine) Opus 11
London Sinfonia; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers
9:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major Opus 90
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
9:33 a.m.
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
9:41 a.m.
Kevin Doherty
Artist Spotlight: Lara Downes
CapRadio Lara Downes, piano
9:47 a.m.
Scott Joplin
A Picture of her Face
Lara Downes, piano; Will Liverman, baritone
9:51 a.m.
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Lara Downes, piano
9:55 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE: Spanish Dance Opus 20
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Concierto del Sur for guitar and orchestra
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
10:44 a.m.
Henry Purcell
DIDO AND AENEAS: Dido's Lament
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Jessye Norman, soprano
10:50 a.m.
Florence Price
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
10:56 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
10:59 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Royal Flemish Philharmonic; Phillippe Herreweghe, conductor Martin Helmchen, piano
11:23 a.m.
Marin Marais
Contradance (Les Contrefaiseurs)
Musica Pacifica
11:25 a.m.
Giuseppe Torelli
Allegro
The Paramount Brass
11:28 a.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Alleluia & Fugue for string orchestra Opus 40
I Fiamminghi; Rudolf Werthen, conductor
11:37 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
SEMIRAMIDE: Overture
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Treemonisha Overture
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra; Gunther Schuller, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins (Double Concerto) in D minor BWV 1043
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Petra Mullejans, violin; Gottfried von der Goltz, violin
12:17 p.m.
Jeff Lambert
Chicago Summer
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
12:22 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Sophie Langdon, violin; Richard Watkins, horn
12:51 p.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Opus 101
Beaux Arts Trio
1:21 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Waltz from Act I
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
1:27 p.m.
Francesco Durante
Concerto No. 8 "La Pazzia" in A major
Concerto Koln
1:40 p.m.
Enrique Granados
La Maja de Goya
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
1:46 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in Ab major Opus 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
1:59 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
2:31 p.m.
Amjad Ali Khan
Love Avalanche
Sharon Isbin, guitar; Ayaan Ali Bangash, sarod; Amit Kavthekar, tabla
2:36 p.m.
Johann Albrechtsberger
Harp Concerto in C major
Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra; Paul Kuentz, conductor Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
2:55 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Consolation No. 3 in Db major G 172
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
3:00 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
3:26 p.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Heinz Holliger, oboe
3:36 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Suite for Piano (Pour le Piano suite)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
3:51 p.m.
Mark O'Connor
Butterfly's Day Out
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Edgar Meyer, bass; Mark O'Connor, mandolin
3:57 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ruins of Athens: Turkish March Opus 113/4
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Variations on Mozart's "La ci darem la mano" in Bb major Opus 2
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
4:18 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
4:29 p.m.
Dave Brubeck
Five Pieces from Two-Part Adventures
John Salmon, piano
4:36 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Roma
Western Kentucky University Wind Ensemble; Gary Schallert, conductor
4:59 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Saul: Sinfonia HWV 53
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Trevor Pinnock, organ
5:18 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Re-Inventions: Re-Invention No. 1
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
5:23 p.m.
Dominick Argento
Valentino Dances
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor William Schimmel, accordion
5:34 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
St. Anthony Variations in Bb major Opus 56
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Waltz
Staatskapelle Dresden; Hans Vonk, conductor
6:00 p.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Picture for Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor
6:25 p.m.
William Grant Still
Folk Suite No. 4
Sierra Winds
6:30 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Althea Waites, piano
6:37 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro
Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:51 p.m.
Camargo Mozart Guarnieri
Enchantment (Encantamento)
Simon Bolivar Orchestra; Maximiano Valdez, conductor
