Classical Music Playlist, January 30, 2023
The late 19th century “War of the Romantics” pitted “absolute music,” like that of Brahms in which music should not represent anything but itself, against “programmatic music,” like that of Wagner that sought to convey or support some narrative idea or picture. A Wagnerian critic, Adolphe Jullien, asked composer Édouard Lalo for the descriptive ideas that guided the composition of his 1887 Symphony in g-minor. Lalo took his stand in the “War” with his reply to Jullien that, “I had no literary thought in the sense that you mean. When I write a composition to words, I become a slave to…a given text. But when I write music without a literary text, I have before and about me only the domain of sounds, melodic and harmonic. For a musician, this immense field possesses in itself, aside from all literature, its poems and its dramas.”
The only symphony, and the final orchestral composition, by Édouard Lalo is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Larghetto for Horn & Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Ronald Janezic, horn
6:11 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 3 in F major Opus 70
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
6:40 a.m.
Rebecca Clarke
Passacaglia (on an Old English Tune)
Philip Dukes, viola; Sophia Rahman, piano
6:51 a.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
Concertino for clarinet and orchestra in Bb major
Camerata Budapest; Laszlo Kovacs, conductor Bela Kovacs, clarinet
7:00 a.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL UND GRETEL Overture
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Jeffrey Tate, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Sinfonia Concertante in Bb major HOB 105
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor Marieke Blankestijn, violin; William Conway, cello; Douglas Boyd, oboe; Matthew Wilkie, bassoon
7:32 a.m.
Zenobia Powell Perry; Josephine Gandolfi, arr.
Tawawa House Suite: 3. Sunday Dance Tune
Josephine Gandolfi, piano; Deanne Tucker, piano
7:34 a.m.
William Brade
Three Masque Dances of Count Palatine
The King's Noyse; David Douglass, conductor
7:39 a.m.
Ron Nelson
Courtly Airs and Dances
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
7:52 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
7:56 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8:00 a.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Opus 33
London Symphony Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
8:33 a.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 1
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Makela, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:39 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 4: I. Tempo Moderato in D minor
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
8:55 a.m.
Ludovico Einaudi
Experience
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
9:01 a.m.
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique: No. 5 Witches Sabbath Opus 14
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Davis, conductor
9:12 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Fantasy in B minor Opus 28
Oda Voltersvik, Piano
9:23 a.m.
Gian Carlo Menotti
AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL Overture
Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Schippers, conductor
9:29 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Oboe Concerto in F major Opus 37
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
9:52 a.m.
Chick Corea
The Hilltop
guitar4mation
10:00 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:10 a.m.
Tan Dun
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Eternal Vow
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; Tan Dun, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
10:14 a.m.
Francis Poulenc
Piano Concerto
Paris Concert Society Orchestra; Georges Pretre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
10:35 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in Eb major
Erato Quartet Basel
10:56 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium
Martha Argerich, piano; Gidon Kremer, violin; Edith Salmen-Weber, glockenspiel; Irena Grafenauer, flute
11:00 a.m.
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 in G minor Opus 26
Berlin Philharmonic; Mariss Jansons, conductor Midori, violin
11:26 a.m.
Leonard Cohen
Famous Blue Raincoat
12 Ensemble Milos Karadaglic, guitar
11:31 a.m.
Paul Dukas
Polyeucte Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
11:47 a.m.
Florence Price
Clouds
Lara Downes, piano
11:54 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO: Va, pensiero
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus
12:00 p.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
12:11 p.m.
John C. Williams
When The Birds Return
Voces8; Barnaby Smith, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
12:16 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
Overture to The Siege of Corinith (IL SIEGE DE CORINTHE)
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
12:26 p.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
12:51 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Gottschalk Waltz Opus 1
Alexandra Oehler, piano
1:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE MAGIC FLUTE: Overture (Die Zauberflote) K 620
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
1:07 p.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia piccola" in G minor Opus 14
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ari Rasilainen, conductor
1:29 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
My Neighbor Totoro (from My Neighbor Totoro)
London Symphony Orchestra; Roman Simovic, conductor Joe Hisaishi, piano
1:35 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Cantos de Espana: No. 4 Cordoba Opus 232
Pepe Romero, guitar
1:43 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
John O'Conor, piano
2:00 p.m.
Edouard Lalo
Symphony in G minor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
2:29 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Venus, Bringer of Peace Opus 32
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
2:39 p.m.
John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Suite
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor American Boychoir; Tanglewood Festival Chorus
2:50 p.m.
Rebecca Clarke
Viola Sonata: I. Impetuoso
Philip Dukes, viola; Sophia Rahman, piano
3:01 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...
3:10 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Opus 45
Duo Gazzana Natascia Gazzana, violin; Raffaella Gazzana, piano
3:34 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 73 "La Chasse" (The Hunt) in D major
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
3:57 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 9
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
4:01 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Egmont Overture Opus 84
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
4:10 p.m.
Gaspar Sanz
Canarios
Chatham Baroque
4:14 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto Opus 14
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor Isaac Stern, violin
4:38 p.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales: I & II. Alborada & Son
Imani Winds
4:46 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in D minor Opus 15
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Claudio Arrau, piano
5:00 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Outdoor Overture
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
5:10 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
XERXES: Largo: "Ombra mai fu"
Les Concerts du Monde; Keith Clark, conductor
5:15 p.m.
Vincent d'Indy
Symphony on a French Mountain Air
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, piano
5:42 p.m.
Freddie Aguilar
Anak
Xuefei Yang, guitar
5:46 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 2 in A major Opus 36
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner (neh-vull MAIR-rih-nuhr), conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
6:33 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2: II. Andante Opus 102
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano
6:41 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Night Flight Opus 19 A
London Symphony Orchestra; David Measham, conductor
6:51 p.m.
Tessa Lark
Applachian Fantasy
Tessa Lark, violin
6:55 p.m.
Ennio Morricone
Cinema Paradiso: Love Theme
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
