Classical Music Playlist, July 14, 2022
The Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813)
Today is Bastille Day in France and we’re celebrating with the music of George Gershwin! (“Wait… what?”) Yes! Here’s how we figured it: the American Revolutionary War against the British crown formally ended when a delegation of Americans in Paris, including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, negotiated and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783. (The French had fought with the US against Britain, which caused them financial difficulties that fomented problems contributing to the French Revolution.) There was another American in Paris since 1784, Thomas Jefferson, when on July 14, 1789 citizens mobbed the Bastille in Paris that ignited the French Revolution and soon led to greater democracy in France. Jefferson helped the French to draft documents that would eventually work their way into the first French Constitution of 1791. We’ll celebrate this legacy of Americans in France with George Gershwin’s musical reflections of his own travel in 1926 as “An American In Paris.” It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Heinichen
Concerto in F major S 235
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:17 a.m.
Muzio Clementi
Symphony No. 3 "The Great National" in G major
Philharmonia Orchestra; Claudio Scimone, conductor
6:46 a.m.
Marcel Grandjany
French Folk Song (Et ron ron, petit patapon)
Anne-Marguerite Michaud, harp
6:49 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Gloriana: Courtly Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
7:12 a.m.
George Enescu
Dixtour pour instruments a vent (Dectet for winds) Opus 14
Oslo Wind Soloists
7:33 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Solace
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
7:39 a.m.
Manuel de Falla
EL AMOR BRUJO: Ritual Fire Dance
Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano duo
7:43 a.m.
Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra
7:49 a.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1: I. Allegretto-Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 10
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8:12 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Concerto of the South (Concierto del Sur)
New York Philharmonic; Jose Serebrier, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
8:39 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Umoja
Imani Winds
8:43 a.m.
Daniel-Francois Auber
THE BRONZE HORSE: Overture (Le cheval de bronze)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
8:51 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21: II. Andante in C major K 467
London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor Stephen Kovacevich, piano
9:00 a.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
9:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in Bb major Opus 60
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
9:44 a.m.
Howard Shore
LORD OF THE RINGS: The Fellowship of the Ring: Concerning Hobbits
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
9:48 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto: III. Finale in A minor Opus 7
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Angela Cheng, piano
10:00 a.m.
Gerald Finzi
Eclogue for piano and string orchestra Opus 10
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor Martin Jones, piano
10:10 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 1 in D major Opus 43
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Stefan Sanderling, conductor
10:49 a.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Sinfonia No. 1 in F major
I Solisti di Milano
10:57 a.m.
Neil Gladd
The Goldberg Rag
Ugo Orlandi, mandolin; Claudio Mandonico, piano; Daniele Bosio, tuba
11:00 a.m.
Charles Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 5
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
11:15 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor Opus 5
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
11:39 a.m.
Harold Arlen
Over the Rainbow
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano
11:43 a.m.
Stanley Myers
Cavatina
Jason Vieaux, guitar
11:48 a.m.
Giacomo Puccini
Three minuets for strings in A major
Orchestre D'Auvergne; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Orchestre de Paris; Semyon Bychkov, conductor
12:30 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Carnaval Opus 9
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
12:42 p.m.
George Walker
Caprice
George Walker, piano
12:44 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Helsinki Philharmonic; Okko Kamu, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol Opus 34
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:18 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 88 in G major
Tafelmusik; Bruno Weil, conductor
1:38 p.m.
Nainita Desai
My Mind Is Still
Voces8
1:45 p.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Melody in Gb major Opus 16/2
Stephen Hough, piano
2:00 p.m.
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
2:19 p.m.
An-Lun Huang
Saibei Suite No. 2: "Saibei Dance"
Chicago Sinfonietta; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
2:25 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata No. 1 in Eb major BWV 525
Le Concert Francais
2:40 p.m.
Benjamin Britten
PETER GRIMES: Four Sea Interludes Opus 33a
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Fantasy
London Symphony Orchestra; Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor Barry Douglas, piano
3:15 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Grand Variations and Polonaise on a theme by Paisiello Opus 65
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
3:36 p.m.
John Williams
Memoirs of a Geisha: The Chairman's Waltz
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
3:39 p.m.
Roger Quilter
Where the Rainbow Ends: Suite
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
3:55 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in D major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
4:10 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
La Marseillaise
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor Sylvia McNair, soprano; Richard Leech, tenor; ...with chorus
4:20 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto
Paris Concert Society Orchestra; Georges Pretre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
4:41 p.m.
George Butterworth
Banks of Green Willow
English Symphony Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
4:47 p.m.
Michael Nyman
If (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
BBC Concert Orchestra; Jessica Cottis, conductor Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
4:53 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Black, Brown, & Beige Suite: II. Brown
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Iberia: I. The Streets and Byways
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
5:08 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": I. Allegro con brio in Eb major Opus 55
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
5:24 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 2. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Sharon Isbin, guitar
5:29 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (The tomb of Couperin)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
5:47 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana: I. Aussert Bewegt
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
5:51 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale in C major Opus 1
Norman Krieger, piano
5:59 p.m.
William Dawson
Negro Folk Symphony
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:28 p.m.
William Grant Still
Folk Suite No. 2
Sierra Winds
6:37 p.m.
Kojiro Umezaki
If You Shall Return...
Silk Road Ensemble
6:44 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 10 "Triste"
Angel Romero, guitar; Celedonio Romero, guitar
6:50 p.m.
Johann Johannsson
The Theory of Everything Suite
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
