Classical Music Playlist, July 6, 2022
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
Swedish composer Franz Berwald just couldn't get a break. In his native Sweden his music was met with indifference. He tried Paris; same thing. Vienna liked his music, but that admiration didn't follow him back to Sweden. Music not working for him, he turned to glassblowing then managing a sawmill. He did find success later in pediatric orthopedics and physical therapy, helping children with congenital spinal deformities especially. In his sixties, Sweden began to take notice of his music and was even made a professor of composition in 1867. But sadly, he died the next year. It was after his death when his music gained wider recognition including his four symphonies. From 1845, just before he was 50 years old, the Symphony No. 4, "Naïve Symphony," by Franz Berwald is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in Bb major RV 503
Arion Mathieu Lussier, baroque bassoon
6:11 a.m.
Jan Kalliwoda
Symphony No. 2 in Eb major Opus 17
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor
6:40 a.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: II. Guabina Viajera (Traveller Guabina)
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
6:47 a.m.
Grace Williams
Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Andrew Penny, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Our Town
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Louis Lortie, conductor Louis Lortie, piano
7:32 a.m.
William Byrd
Ave verum corpus (All hail, O true body...)
; Peter Phillips, conductor The Tallis Scholars
7:36 a.m.
John Adson
Royal Music for Winds
New York Chamber Musicians (New York Kammermusiker)
7:39 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in Ab major Opus 45
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
7:55 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE IMPRESARIO: Overture K 486
Tafelmusik; Bruno Weil, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Suite No. 2 in F major Opus 28
North Texas Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
8:14 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in C major Opus 21
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:40 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Largo in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
8:44 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 3 Trumpets in Bb major
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
8:56 a.m.
Amy Beach
Pastorale
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
9:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Berlin Academy of Ancient Music
9:20 a.m.
Francisco Tarrega
Memories of the Alhambra (Recuerdos de la Alhambra)
Narciso Yepes, guitar
9:25 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Variations on Mozart's "La ci darem la mano" in Bb major Opus 2
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Charles Mackerras, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano
9:43 a.m.
Arvo Part
Summa
Attacca Quartet
9:50 a.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 32
Berlin Philharmonic; Colin Davis, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 "Classical" in D major Opus 25
London Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
10:15 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
10:35 a.m.
John Williams
Theme from The Patriot
Boston Pops Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor Middlesex County Fifes & Drums
10:44 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for violin, oboe and strings in G minor RV 576
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor Members of...
10:56 a.m.
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot: Nessun Dorma
Academy of Saint Cecilia Orchestra & Chorus; Antonio Pappano, conductor Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
11:00 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 100 "Military" in G major
Philharmonia Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
11:23 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in Bb major Opus 3/1 HWV 312
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
11:33 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Portraits of Langston: V. Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
McGill/McHale Trio Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano
11:38 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in D minor Opus 15
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Claudio Arrau, piano
11:52 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Rondes de Printemps
Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Jose Moncayo
Huapango
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
12:10 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Robert Levin, fortepiano
12:37 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Vernon Handley, conductor
12:42 p.m.
Henriette Renie
Dance of the Elves (Danse des Lutins)
Xavier de Maistre, harp
12:46 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 "Carnival in Pest" in D major
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
1:18 p.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon VIII
Empire Brass
1:23 p.m.
David Diamond
Rounds for String Orchestra
do.gma chamber orchestra; Mikhail Gurewitsch, conductor
1:39 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto: II. Andante Opus 14
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor Robert McDuffie, violin
1:49 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 2: IV. Finale - Allegro molto in G minor Opus 45
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola
2:00 p.m.
Franz Berwald
Symphony No. 4 in Eb major
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
2:30 p.m.
Frank Bridge
Four Pieces for strings: Song without words H. 22
Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor
2:34 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
OTELLO: Ballet Music
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
2:41 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in G minor in G minor (1843) H395
Anna Shelest, piano
2:59 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
3:09 p.m.
Evaristo Dall'Abaco
Concerto for Strings in F major Opus 6/3
Cappella Coloniensis; Gunther Wich, conductor
3:17 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in Eb major Opus 1
St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Caroline Shaw
Plan and Elevation: IV. The Orangery
Attacca Quartet
3:57 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:02 p.m.
Karl Goldmark
Im Fruhling Overture (In Spring) Opus 36
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
4:14 p.m.
Erich Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Alfred Wallenstein, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
4:37 p.m.
Samuel Akpabot
Pastorale from "Scenes from Nigeria"
Marcus Eley, clarinet; Lucerne DeSa, piano
4:41 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9: II. Molto Vivace (Scherzo and Trio) in D minor Opus 125
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:54 p.m.
Adam Larrabee
24 Preludes for Banjo: No. 11 "Impromptu" in Bb major
John Bullard, banjo
4:56 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Humoresque No. 7 in Gb major Opus 101/7
James Ehnes, piano
5:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast" in C major HWV 318
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
5:15 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Re-Inventions: Re-Invention No. 1
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
5:20 p.m.
Jules Massenet
LE CID: Ballet Suite
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
5:41 p.m.
Pieter Hellendaal
Concerto Grosso in Eb major Opus 3/4
Combattimento Consort; Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor
5:55 p.m.
Alma Deutscher
The Chase (Impromptu in C minor)
Alma Deutscher, piano
6:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 3 "Organ" in C minor Opus 78
Orchestra of the Bastille; Myung Whun Chung, conductor
6:38 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
6:46 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
African Suite: African Dance Opus 35/4
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
6:52 p.m.
Manuel Ponce
Giga
Horst Klee, guitar
6:55 p.m.
George Gershwin
Walking the Dog
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
