Classical Music Playlist, May 16, 2022
Felix Mendelssohn’s 1844 Violin Concerto in e-minor was his last large orchestral work. Not only is it one of the most popular and frequently performed violin concertos of all time, it’s also regarded as an essential concerto for any serious violinist. The Mendelssohn e-minor Violin Concerto, with soloist Jascha Heifetz (recorded in 1959), is today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 12 in F major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder Waltzes Opus 52
I Musici de Montreal; Yuli Turovsky, conductor
6:38 a.m.
Amy Beach
From Grandmother's Garden: Heartsease Opus 97/2
Joanne Polk, piano
6:42 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto No. 3 in D major G 478
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
7:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 1/5
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb major Opus 57
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Jon Manasse, clarinet
7:38 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Madrigal-Gavota
David Russell, guitar
7:41 a.m.
Charles Stanford
Four Irish Dances: A March-Jig
Piers Lane, piano
7:45 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Polka in Bb major Opus 53A
Prague Symphony Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
7:49 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor": III. Rondo in Eb major Opus 73
London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor Evgeny Kissin, piano
8:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in A minor in A minor RV 498
Seattle Baroque Michael McCraw, bassoon
8:13 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Robert Levin, fortepiano
8:39 a.m.
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posey
Eastman Wind Ensemble; Donald Hunsberger, conductor
8:56 a.m.
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Lara Downes, piano
9:00 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
9:16 a.m.
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan: Hymn to the Fallen
Boston Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Tanglewood Festival Chorus
9:23 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Apollo's Fire; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
9:47 a.m.
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Aghavni: III. 1986
Lara Downes, piano
9:50 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Iberia: Festival Day in Seville (Fete-Dieu a Seville)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
10:31 a.m.
Michael Nyman
In Re Don Giovanni
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
10:34 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DON GIOVANNI Overture K 527
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
10:41 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Notturno H337
Betty Ann Miller, piano
10:48 a.m.
Hugo Alfven
Swedish Rhapsody #2 "Uppsala Rhapsody" Opus 24
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Niklas Willen, conductor
11:01 a.m.
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Concerto No. 290 in G minor QV 196
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor Rachel Brown, flute
11:17 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite Opus 20
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
11:44 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: IV. Finale. Allegro con brio in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
11:52 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Yoav Talmi, conductor
11:56 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Sylvia: Pizzicato Polka
New Philharmonia Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 2
Janacek Philharmonic; Ryan Cockerham, conductor Er-Gene Kahng
12:15 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 6 in D minor Opus 104
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzona Prima a 5
Canadian Brass
12:47 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G minor in G minor Opus 23
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
12:52 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre Opus 40
French Radio and Television Orchestra; Jean Martinon, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration Opus 24
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
1:27 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for lute and 2 violins in D major RV 93
Il Giardino Armonico Luca Pianca, Archlute; Members of...
1:37 p.m.
Pedro Iturralde
Pequena Czarda
Tippett Quartet Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone; Zeynep Ozsuca, piano
1:41 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1: I. Allegretto-Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 10
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
1:51 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: II. Land of Romance
Lara Downes, piano
1:59 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Opus 64
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
2:24 p.m.
Maurice Greene
Overture No. 6 in Eb major
Baroque Band; Garry Clarke, conductor
2:33 p.m.
Arthur Foote
Suite for Strings in E major Opus 63
London Symphony Orchestra; Kenneth Klein, conductor
2:51 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Etude Romantique Opus 132
Joanne Polk, piano
2:59 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 "Oxford" in G major
Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor
3:25 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
City of London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, conductor
3:34 p.m.
Darius Milhaud
La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
3:47 p.m.
Wynton Marsalis
Fiddle Dance Suite: No. 4 Nicola's Strathspey
Nicola Benedetti, violin
3:53 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Overture
Philharmonic of La Scala; Riccardo Muti, conductor
4:01 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
4:17 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in A major Opus 6/11 HWV 329
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
4:35 p.m.
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Miniature Dance Suite: Jig
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
4:38 p.m.
Jose Moncayo
Sinfonietta
Mexico National Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Arturo Diemecke, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Sarah Kirkland Snider
The Currents
MIchael Mizrahi, piano
4:57 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2: Third Movement in F major BWV 1047
Canadian Brass
5:01 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Maestoso in F minor Opus 21
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
5:18 p.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto Grosso No. 9 (after Scarlatti) in C major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
5:31 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 18 "The Hunt" in Eb major Opus 31/3
Richard Goode, piano
5:55 p.m.
Ernst Bacon
FORD'S THEATER: IX. Pennsylvania Avenue, April 9, 1865
Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
6:00 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: Symphonic Poem
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
6:28 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
6:40 p.m.
Adolphus Hailstork
Symphony No. 1: 2nd Movement
Virginia Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
6:47 p.m.
Ludovico Einaudi
Experience
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
6:52 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango: III. Nightclub 1960
Patrick Gallois, flute; Goran Sollscher, guitar