Classical Music Playlist, September 14, 2022
The Piano Trio - piano, violin and cello - had been a popular form in Western Europe since at least the time of Haydn's Trios in the 1760s. But even by the late 19th century the form never caught hold in Russia. So when Tchaikovsky's patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, in 1880 asked him for a Piano Trio he wrote back to her that he had "antipathy for this combination of instruments." Nonetheless, a year later he wrote to her again to say that he was experimenting with "this sort of music" and had begun writing a trio. A month after that he wrote again: "The Trio is finished ... now I can say with some conviction that my work is not all bad. But I am afraid, having written all my life for orchestra, and only taken late in life to chamber music, I may have failed to adapt the instrumental combinations to my musical thoughts." He needn't have worried. Colleagues praised his Trio (and some offered suggestions, which Tchaikovsky accepted) and, with its elegiac feel, became a model for future elegies from Russian composers. That he came to chamber music late, Tchaikovsky ended up writing only three string quartets, a string sextet (the "Souvenir de Florence") and the epic Piano Trio in A minor. That Trio is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Willem De Fesch
Concerto No. 3 in G major Opus 5
Musica Ad Rhenum
6:08 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 2 in G major Opus 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
6:34 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Giga
Horst Klee, guitar
6:37 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Opus 25
London Mozart Players; Howard Shelley, conductor Howard Shelley, piano
6:59 a.m.
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony No. 5 in F major Opus 3
Camerata Budapest; Hanspeter Gmur, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Leos Janacek
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN: Suite
Prague Symphony Orchestra; Petr Altrichter, conductor
7:31 a.m.
Adriano Banchieri
Concerti 1-3
Empire Brass
7:38 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Les Preludes (Symphonic Poem #3) S 97
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
7:54 a.m.
Andrew York
Sunburst
Jason Vieaux, guitar
8:00 a.m.
Enrique Soro
Three Chilean Airs (Tres aires chilenos)
Chile Symphony Orchestra; Jose Luis Dominguez, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major HOB VIIb:1
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Anner Bylsma, cello
8:37 a.m.
Hector Berlioz
Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March Opus 24
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
8:42 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for tuba and orchestra in F minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor Arnold Jacobs, tuba
8:55 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier I:02) in C minor BWV 847
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
9:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 for winds "Gran Partita": I. Largo - Allegro Molto in Bb major K 361 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
9:10 a.m.
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto Opus 14
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
9:35 a.m.
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Chaconne (from Daphnis and Chloe)
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet, conductor
9:42 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
St. Anthony Variations in Bb major Opus 56
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor
10:09 a.m.
Leos Janacek
Lachian Dances
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor
10:31 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
The Crimson Tower (Torre Bermeja) Opus 92/12
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
10:37 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
10:54 a.m.
John Williams
1941 (march)
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings: IV. Presto (last mvmt.) in Eb major Opus 20
I Solisti Italiani
11:07 a.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:33 a.m.
Johann Paul Westhoff
Sonata No. 3: Imitazione delle Campane
Daniel Hope, violin; Johnathan Cohen, cello
11:35 a.m.
William Byrd
The Earl of Oxford's March
Canadian Brass; Robert Moody, conductor
11:39 a.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Marosszek Dances
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
11:52 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic" in Ab major Opus 53
Folke Nauta, piano
12:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 35 "Haffner" in D major K 385
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:25 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Four Irish Dances: A Reel
Piers Lane, piano
12:30 p.m.
Aaron Copland
El Salon Mexico
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:42 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 6
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
12:48 p.m.
Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor Diane Lacelle, oboe
1:00 p.m.
Luigi Cherubini
Eliza: Overture
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:08 p.m.
Anthony Hedges
An Ayrshire Serenade Opus 42
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gavin Sutherland, conductor
1:20 p.m.
Cesar Franck
Sonata for violin and piano in A major
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Martha Argerich, piano
1:46 p.m.
Amjad Ali Khan
Love Avalanche
Sharon Isbin, guitar; Ayaan Ali Bangash, sarod; Amit Kavthekar, tabla
1:52 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte)
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Trio in A minor Opus 50
Beaux Arts Trio
2:47 p.m.
Edouard Lalo
Scherzo in D minor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
2:53 p.m.
Tessa Lark
Applachian Fantasy
Tessa Lark, violin
2:59 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Carlos Kleiber, conductor
3:33 p.m.
Francisco Tarrega
3 Mazurkas
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
3:40 p.m.
Leo Delibes
Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus from Act III
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
3:47 p.m.
George Gershwin
Walking the Dog
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:52 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 RV 310
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
4:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 "Linz" in C major K 425
London Mozart Players; Jane Glover, conductor
4:29 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Suite Espanola: No. 1 "Granada" Opus 47/1
David Russell, guitar
4:36 p.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes: I. Singing River
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
4:44 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: I. Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 98
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
4:57 p.m.
Mahito Yokota
SUPER MARIO GALAXY: Gusty Garden Galaxy
London Philharmonic Orchestra
5:03 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major Opus 100
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
5:24 p.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales: I & II. Alborada & Son
Imani Winds
5:31 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture in B minor Opus 26
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
5:43 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Andante Festivo
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:49 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Polish State Philharmonic; Johannes Wildner, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Henri Vieuxtemps
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor Opus 31
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
6:32 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Legend No. 6 Opus 59
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
6:39 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Rondes de Printemps
Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
6:47 p.m.
Mike Oldfield
The Exorcist: Tubular Bells
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
6:50 p.m.
Otto Kelland
Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's
Ofra Harnoy, cello; Mike Herriott, brass
6:54 p.m.
Dave Brubeck
Rising Sun
John Salmon, piano
