Classical Music Playlist, August 26, 2022
As the Soviet Army pushed the Nazis back into Germany in early 1945, Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich announced that he was working on "a symphony of victory with a song of praise" featuring chorus that would glorify the Red Army and Stalin who looked forward to the tribute to himself. It was going to be his Ninth Symphony, with expectations that it would be a work as monumental and glorious as Beethoven's Ninth. What everyone got was something entirely different. Shostakovich said "I simply couldn't" compose a work that elevated Stalin so what emerged was one of his shortest symphonies with humor instead of heroism and light Mozartian touches. Audiences were surprised though initially charmed. But the hammer soon fell and the Shostakovich switcheroo backfired on him. The following year the Chief Soviet propagandist, Andrei Zhdanov, effectively condemned the Symphony in his oppressive doctrine of 1946 that pressured artists to conform to the Soviet party line. The Symphony was banned outright in 1948. Shostakovich didn't compose another Symphony until the death of Stalin in 1953. The surprising and subversive Symphony No. 9 by Shostakovich is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Henri-Joseph Rigel
Symphony No. 10 in D minor
Concerto Koln
6:16 a.m.
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb major Opus 57
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Sillito, conductor Julian Bliss, clarinet
6:41 a.m.
Huang Huwei
Pictures of Sichuan
Li Fan, piano
6:50 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major Opus 3/4a HWV 315
Musicians of the Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor
7:03 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
7:14 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 3
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
7:46 a.m.
Arvo Part
Fur Anna Maria
Ralph van Raat, piano
7:48 a.m.
Armas Jarnefelt
Praeludium
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor
7:52 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Mandolin Concerto (originally for violin) in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
Venice Baroque Orchestra Avi Avital, mandolin
8:01 a.m.
Franz Danzi
Sinfonia Concertante: I. Allegro moderato in Bb major Opus 41
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra; Allen Tinkham, conductor Anthony McGill, clarinet; Demarre McGill, flute
8:14 a.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:50 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Solace
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
8:56 a.m.
Philip Glass
Cello Concerto No. 1: Movement 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Julian Lloyd Webber, cello
9:00 a.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major Opus 99
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar
9:21 a.m.
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Bajka (The Fairy Tale): Overture
Warsaw Philharmonic; Antoni Wit, conductor
9:35 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Arabesque in C major Opus 18
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
9:44 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Aconquija
Eliot Fisk, guitar
9:48 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Andante and Hungarian Rondo Opus 35
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
10:00 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp; Christian Larde, flute; Guy Deplus, clarinet; ...and friends
10:12 a.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Princess Mononoke
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
10:18 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 6 in D minor Opus 104
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Pieteri Inkinen, conductor
10:48 a.m.
Astor Piazzolla
La Muerte del Angel (Death of the Angel)
Franz Halasz, guitar
10:51 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Requiem: Pie Jesu Opus 48
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andreas Delfs, conductor Renee Fleming, soprano
10:57 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier I:02) in C minor BWV 847
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
11:01 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
RUSLAN AND LUDMILA: Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
11:07 a.m.
Charles Gounod
Petite Symphonie for winds in Bb major
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
11:29 a.m.
Henri-Joseph Rigel
Symphony No. 8 in G minor
Concerto Koln
11:44 a.m.
Bryce Dessner
El Chan: I. El Charco del Ingenio
Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano duo
11:47 a.m.
Tan Dun
Song of Peace
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; Tan Dun, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello; Yips Children's Choir
11:52 a.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
12:02 p.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in A major Wq 172 / H 439
English Chamber Orchestra; Andrew Davis, conductor Matt Haimovitz, cello
12:24 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
La Jota Aragonese Opus 64
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
12:29 p.m.
Federico Moreno Torroba
Sonatina
Norbert Kraft, guitar
12:42 p.m.
Paola Prestini
Morning on the Limpopo: Matou Women
Lara Downes, piano
12:46 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Festive Polonaise (Le Roi Malgre Lui: Fete Polonaise)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
1:08 p.m.
Dosia McKay
Is Now Not Enough?
NeoQuartet
1:19 p.m.
Pavel Vranicky
Symphony in D major Opus 52
Dvorak Chamber Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in Eb major Opus 70
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:26 p.m.
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet
Trumpet Sonata in D major Opus 3/9
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet; Simon Preston, organ/harpsichord
2:33 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Opus 11
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Colin Davis, conductor Gerhard Oppitz, piano
2:55 p.m.
Amy Beach
Pastorale
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
3:00 p.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
The Temple of Glory: Suite II (Le temple de la gloire)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
3:16 p.m.
John Williams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
3:21 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor Andre Watts, piano
3:46 p.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
3:55 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 7 in F major
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
3:59 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Suite No. 5 "The Harmonious Blacksmith" - Air and Variations in D minor HWV 430
Castellani Andriaccio Duo
4:05 p.m.
Chevalier de Meude-Monpas
Violin Concerto No. 4 (1786) in D major
Encore Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Hege, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
4:24 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story: Somewhere Ballet Sequence
Leonard Bernstein Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
4:28 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings: I. Andante non troppo in C major Opus 48
St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
4:58 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Opus 25
Bamberg Symphony; Claus Peter Flor, conductor Sergei Edelmann, piano
5:22 p.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: I. El Margariteno (pasillo) The Song of the Dreamer
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
5:27 p.m.
Alexander MacKenzie
Twelfth Night Opus 40
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins, conductor
5:47 p.m.
Caroline Shaw
Plan and Elevation: II. The Cutting Garden
Attacca Quartet
5:52 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 1 for four violins and orchestra in D major Opus 3 RV 549
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Members of...
6:01 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 "Drum Roll" in Eb major
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
6:30 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen: Traumerei (Dreaming) Opus 15/7
John O'Conor, piano
6:33 p.m.
Earl Wild
Grand Fantasie on Porgy and Bess: Summertime (After G. Gershwin)
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
6:43 p.m.
Terence Blanchard
Da 5 Bloods: End Credits
Studio Orchestra
6:52 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
La Catedral
Denis Azabagic, guitar
