Classical Music Playlist, January 2, 2023
Don Quixote, illustrator unknown (U.S. 1874)
“With too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. His fantasy filled with everything he had read in his books: enchantments as well as combats, battles, challenges, wounds, courtings, loves, torments, and other impossible foolishness.”
That's how Miguel de Cervantes describes what led the title character of his early 17th century novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" to embark on his adventurous fantasy life of a chivalrous Knight.
The story inspired Richard Strauss to compose his tone poem "Don Quixote" in 1897. The music is written in a theme and variations format with the solo cello representing Don Quixote and the solo viola (and other instruments at times) depicting his squire Sancho Panza. "Don Quixote" is today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna" in D major K 239
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor
6:14 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Piano Trio No. 1 in G minor Opus 11
Trio Parnassus
6:36 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major BWV 1066
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Elena Roussanova
Moments of Arrival
Prague Radio Symphony; Julius Williams, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Sonata "Arpeggione" in A minor D 821
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, conductor John Williams, guitar
7:35 a.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 2
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
7:42 a.m.
Josef Suk
Fantastic Scherzo Opus 25
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
7:58 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
8:08 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations Opus 36
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:38 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:50 a.m.
Mark Isham
A River Runs Through It: Main Theme
Studio Orchestra
8:53 a.m.
Elmer Bernstein
The Magnificent Seven
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5: III. Scherzo in C# minor
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Gerd Seifert, horn
9:18 a.m.
Amy Beach
Piano Trio in A minor Opus 150
The Gold Coast Trio Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; Susan Lamb Cook, cello; Hao Huang, piano
9:33 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor Maurice Andre, trumpet
9:55 a.m.
John C. Williams
When The Birds Return
Voces8; Barnaby Smith, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
10:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor BWV 1041
Collegium Musicum 90; Simon Standage, conductor Simon Standage, violin
10:14 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Sonata in G minor
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
10:35 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Portraits from "The England of Elizabeth"
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
10:53 a.m.
Karl Jenkins
The Armed Man--A Mass for Peace: XII. Benedictus
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Berlin Radio Choir Daniel Hope, violin
11:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 3 "The Goldfinch" (Il Gardellino) in D major Opus 10 RV 428
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor Janet See, flute
11:11 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 38 "Prague" in D major K 504
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
11:46 a.m.
William Grant Still
Summerland
Althea Waites, piano
11:52 a.m.
Thomas Morley
Four Dances
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
12:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor Isaac Stern, violin
12:34 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Lundu for the Marqueza de Santos (Lundu da Marqueza de Santos)
New York Chamber Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica
12:38 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 2 (unfinished): II. Allegro scherzando in F major
Oslo Camerata; Stephan Barratt-Due, conductor
12:46 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3 Opus 72
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in C minor in C minor (1824, age 18) H128
Betty Ann Miller, piano
1:18 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kije Suite Opus 60
St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
1:39 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
1:53 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
New York Youth Symphony; Michael Repper, conductor Michelle Cann, piano
2:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote Opus 35
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor Antonio Meneses, cello
2:43 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Spring in Buenos Aires (Primavera Portena)
David Tanenbaum, guitar
2:48 p.m.
Arthur Foote
Serenade: Gavotte Opus 25
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
2:53 p.m.
John Williams
War Horse: Dartmoor, 1912
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in E minor Opus 11
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
3:11 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 25 in G minor K 183
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
3:38 p.m.
Missy Mazzoli
Heartbreaker
MIchael Mizrahi, piano
3:44 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins (Double Concerto) in D minor BWV 1043
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Petra Mullejans, violin; Gottfried von der Goltz, violin
4:00 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Grand Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in F major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
4:25 p.m.
Bela Bartok
Allegro Barbaro for piano SZ 49
Zoltan Kocsis, piano
4:27 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C minor Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:32 p.m.
Ernest Chausson
Poeme
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Mikko Franck, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
4:50 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
English Chamber Orchestra; Steuart Bedford, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Sonatina No. 1 (arr. for clarinet & piano) in D major Opus 137 D 384
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Richard Goode, piano
5:12 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Violin Concerto in F# minor
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor Ulf Wallin, violin
5:47 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Peggy's Rag
Sarah Cahill, piano
5:52 p.m.
Erich Korngold
The Sea Hawk (1940) Suite
Oregon Symphony; James DePreist, conductor
6:01 p.m.
Johan Svendsen
Symphony No. 1 in D major Opus 4
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Nitin Sawhney
Breathing Light Leictes Blut
Helene Grimaud, piano
6:40 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Mock Morris
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
6:44 p.m.
Steve Reich
Duet for 2 violins and string orchestra
Basel Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Hope, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Simos Papanas, violin
6:50 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
