Classical Music Playlist, December 29, 2022
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1877 into a family of Polish descent, the life of composer Sergei Bortkiewicz was made difficult by war and its factions. First in WWI, then in Russia by the Bolsheviks during the Revolution, and later still by the Nazis in WWII, all this time being under house arrest, or deported or living in exile. But his later life was particularly more comfortable. In 1945 he was awarded a professorship in Vienna, the Bortkiewicz Society was founded in 1947 in Vienna to keep his music alive, and upon his retirement in 1948 was awarded an honorary pension from Vienna. For his 75th birthday in 1952, a concert in his honor was presented in Vienna with many of his works performed including his 1912 Piano Concerto No. 1, which is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Willem De Fesch
Concerto No. 4 in D major Opus 5
Musica Ad Rhenum
6:09 a.m.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 17
Polish National Radio Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor Janina Fialkowska, piano
6:43 a.m.
TRADITIONAL
Mother
Takako Nishizaki, violin; Gerald Garcia, guitar
6:47 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6/2 HWV 320
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Friedrich Kuhlau
Elf-Mound Overture Opus 100
Odense Symphony Orchestra; Othmar Maga, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor Opus 129
Champs-Elysees Theatre Orchestra; Philippe Herreweghe, conductor Christophe Coin, cello
7:38 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Peggy's Rag
Sarah Cahill, piano
7:42 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (The tomb of Couperin)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet: I. Allegro non troppo in F minor Opus 34
Artemis Quartet Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
8:16 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Opus 64
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
8:41 a.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Althea Waites, piano
8:48 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": III. Scherzo in E minor Opus 95
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
8:57 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Romance for horn and piano
Gregory Hustis, horn; Steven Harlos, piano
8:59 a.m.
Paul Dukas
La Peri: Fanfare
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
9:02 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor K 550
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
9:32 a.m.
Robert Farnon
Seashore
BBC Concert Orchestra; Gavin Sutherland, conductor Valentina Lisitsa, piano
9:36 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Suite No. 2 in F major Opus 28
North Texas Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
9:49 a.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 1
Turibio Santos, guitar
9:54 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-sharp minor in C# minor Opus 3/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
10:00 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 in C major Opus 105
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Spano, conductor
10:23 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in E minor in E minor RV 484
Ensemble Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardini, conductor Alberto Grazzi, bassoon
10:35 a.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 12
Connor Chee, piano
10:40 a.m.
Johan Svendsen
Norwegian Rhapsody No. 3 (Norsk Rapsodi No. 3) Opus 21
Latvian National Symphony; Terje Mikkelsen, conductor
10:51 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
11:00 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
11:11 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Liebestraume: Nocturne No. 3 in Ab major S 541
Claudio Arrau, piano
11:18 a.m.
Juan Arriaga
Symphony in D minor
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
11:48 a.m.
Lili Boulanger
One Spring Morning (D'un Matin de Printemps)
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
11:54 a.m.
John Barry
Dances With Wolves: John Dunbar Theme
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
12:02 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 85
London Symphony Orchestra; John Barbirolli, conductor Jacqueline Du Pre, cello
12:34 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Humoresque No. 7 in Gb major Opus 101/7
Orion Weiss, piano
12:38 p.m.
John C. Williams
Aeolian Suite: Double Dance
Studio Orchestra; William Goodchild, conductor John Williams, guitar
12:52 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Opus 65
Andrei Gavrilov, piano
12:59 p.m.
Grace Williams
Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Andrew Penny, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Clarence Cameron White
Levee Dance
Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle, piano
1:16 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Petite Suite de Concert: II. Demande et response Opus 77
Chineke! Orchestra; Anthony Parnther, conductor
1:23 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne No. 13 in C minor
Teresa Carreno, piano
1:30 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: Symphonic Poem
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Sergei Bortkiewicz
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb major Opus 16
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jerzy Maksymiuk, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
2:36 p.m.
John C. Williams
When The Birds Return
Voces8; Barnaby Smith, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
2:41 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 4, No. 9 in F major Opus 4/9 RV 284
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Monica Huggett, violin
2:50 p.m.
Terence Blanchard
Da 5 Bloods: End Credits
Studio Orchestra
3:00 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde Overture Opus 26 D 797 (The Magic Harp)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor
3:12 p.m.
Madeleine Dring
Colour Suite: IV. Blue Air
Sarah Cahill, piano
3:16 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 4 in F major Opus 46
Berlin Philharmonic; Lorin Maazel, conductor
3:25 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals Tropical
David Russell, guitar
3:29 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 27 in Bb major K 595 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Alfred Brendel, piano
4:00 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
4:11 p.m.
Florence Price
Fantasy No. 2
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
4:18 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 102 in Bb major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
4:44 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Violin Concerto: III. Finale in A major Opus 8
Polish Chamber Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor Nigel Kennedy, violin
4:59 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
5:14 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia (Konzertsatz) in D major BWV 1045
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor
5:21 p.m.
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 8 in F major
Saint Cecilia Chamber Orchestra; Pietro Spada, conductor Pietro Spada, piano
5:50 p.m.
Olafur Arnalds
Happiness Does not Wait
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
5:55 p.m.
Georges Bizet
CARMEN: Toreador song
London Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Jan Dussek
Harp Concerto in Eb major Opus 15
Mantova Orchestra; Vittorio Parisi, conductor Roberta Alessandrini, harp
6:25 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture in B minor Opus 26
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Percy Fletcher
Folksong and Fiddle Dance
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gavin Sutherland, conductor
6:46 p.m.
R. Carlos Nakai
Passages: I. The Sun
R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flute; Luis Engelke, trumpet; William Eaton, harp guitar; Will Clipman, percussion
6:51 p.m.
George Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me
Chick Corea, piano
