Classical Music Playlist, February 14, 2023
“Spring”, “September”, “When Falling Asleep”, and “At Sunset” are the final completed works of Richard Strauss. Through lyrics about death and acceptance, they reflect an 84-year-old composer at peace with knowing his time is up. The Four Last Songs feature a soprano and an especially prominent horn part, making them deeply personal to Strauss – his wife was a soprano, and his father was a horn player.
Today, you can celebrate soprano Renee Fleming’s birthday with Strauss’s Four Last Songs, your Midday Masterpiece at 2pm.
6:00 a.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Sinfonia No. 2 in C minor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Catherine Mackintosh, conductor Catherine Mackintosh, violin
6:08 a.m.
Arthur Foote
Piano Trio No. 2 in Bb major Opus 65
Neave Trio
6:31 a.m.
Gena Branscombe
A Memory
Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra; Reuben Blundell, conductor
6:35 a.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
6:59 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: IV. Finale. Allegro con brio in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
7:11 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1053
Australian Chamber Orchestra Angela Hewitt, piano
7:31 a.m.
Shelley Washington
Middleground
PubliQuartet
7:42 a.m.
Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche Suite: III. Brazileira
Tippett Quartet Jess Gillam, alto saxophone; Zeynep Ozsuca, piano; Andee Birkett, double bass
7:45 a.m.
Xuefei Yang
Xinjiang Fantasy
Xuefei Yang, guitar
7:51 a.m.
Jules Massenet
THAIS: Meditation
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
7:59 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A minor Opus 6/4 HWV 322
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
8:12 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Hero's Song Opus 111
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:35 a.m.
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan: Hymn to the Fallen
Boston Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Tanglewood Festival Chorus
8:42 a.m.
Florence Price
Fantasy No. 1
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
8:47 a.m.
Francisco Tarrega
Pavana
Pepe Romero, guitar
8:50 a.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Guildhall String Ensemble
9:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" in C major K 551
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
9:34 a.m.
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Violin Concerto: III. Finale in A major Opus 8
Polish Chamber Orchestra; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor Nigel Kennedy, violin
9:42 a.m.
Paola Prestini
Morning on the Limpopo: Matou Women
Lara Downes, piano
9:46 a.m.
Maurice Greene
Overture to St. Cecilia
Baroque Band; Garry Clarke, conductor
9:51 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Passacaille, Gigue, and Minuet
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
10:08 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
10:42 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Military March (Marche militaire) No. 1 in D major Opus 51 D 733 (Military March)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
10:49 a.m.
Julio Sagreras
El Colibri
Xuefei Yang, guitar
10:51 a.m.
Kevin Puts
Contact: I. The Call
Philadelphia Orchestra; Xian Zhang, conductor Time for Three
11:01 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for lute and 2 violins in D major RV 93
Il Giardino Armonico Luca Pianca, Archlute; Members of...
11:10 a.m.
Zhen Chen
Lost in Midtown
Lin Ma, Pipa; Zhen Chen, piano; Yidou Liu, cello
11:15 a.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Jacques Israelevich, violin; Stephanie Sebastian, piano
11:53 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Sylvia: Pizzicato Polka
New Philharmonia Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor
11:56 a.m.
Joseph Curiale
Awakening: Joy
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Joseph Curiale, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Charles Gounod
ROMEO ET JULIETTE: L'amour,l'amour...Ah! leve-toi soleil!
Munich Radio Orchestra; Marcello Viotti, conductor Ramon Vargas, tenor
12:06 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
ROMEO AND JULIET: Love Scene Opus 17
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
12:25 p.m.
Frode Fjellheim
Under the Arctic Moon
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
12:28 p.m.
Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHEME: O soave fanciulla...Farewell Duet Act 1
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor Luciano Pavarotti, tenor; Nuccia Focile, soprano
12:33 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
12:50 p.m.
Clarice Assad
Archetypes: IV. The Lover
Third Coast Percussion
12:55 p.m.
Erik Satie
I want you (Je te veux)
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
1:03 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
English Chamber Orchestra; Steuart Bedford, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata No. 3: II. Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza in C minor Opus 45
Duo Gazzana; Mykola Hobdych, conductor Natascia Gazzana, violin; Raffaella Gazzana, piano
1:17 p.m.
Ignaz Moscheles
Concertante for flute and oboe in F major
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman, conductor Mathieu Dufour, flute; Alex Klein, oboe
1:33 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Opus 25
Bamberg Symphony; Claus Peter Flor, conductor Sergei Edelmann, piano
1:56 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
2:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder)
Houston Symphony Orchestra; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Renee Fleming, soprano
2:25 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
2:41 p.m.
Max Richter
Spring
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Andre de Ridder, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Max Richter, moog synthesizer
2:52 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Suite caracteristique Opus 100
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Masayo Matsuo, harp
2:57 p.m.
Errollyn Wallen
Woogie Boogie
Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle, piano
3:01 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 3, No. 6 in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin
3:10 p.m.
John Williams
Theme from The Patriot
Boston Pops Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor Middlesex County Fifes & Drums
3:19 p.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Serenade in C major Opus 10
NES Chamber Orchestra; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
3:41 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
3:45 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
3:48 p.m.
Fela Sowande
African Suite: Selections
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in G major K 525
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
4:18 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
4:22 p.m.
Morten Lauridsen
Les Chansons des Roses: Dirait-on
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
4:26 p.m.
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah
City of Birmingham Cellos Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
4:31 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
4:57 p.m.
H. T. Burleigh
Deep River
PubliQuartet Lara Downes, piano
5:01 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in D major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
5:11 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
New York Youth Symphony; Michael Repper, conductor Michelle Cann, piano
5:18 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
Capriccio for oboe & piano
Heinz Holliger, oboe; Gabriel Burgin, piano
5:30 p.m.
Josef Suk
Serenade for Strings in Eb major Opus 6
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
5:55 p.m.
Pedro Iturralde
Pequena Czarda
Tippett Quartet Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone; Zeynep Ozsuca, piano
6:00 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 2 "Four Temperaments" Opus 16
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals: The Swan (Le Cygne)
Orchestre de Paris; Semyon Bychkov, conductor Mischa Maisky, cello
6:40 p.m.
Neil Gladd
The Goldberg Rag
Ugo Orlandi, mandolin; Claudio Mandonico, piano; Daniele Bosio, tuba
6:42 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Red Clay & Mississippi Delta
Imani Winds
6:48 p.m.
Kojiro Umezaki
If You Shall Return...
Silk Road Ensemble
6:55 p.m.
Alexis Ffrench
Bluebird
City of Prague Philharmonic Alexis Ffrench, piano
