Classical Music Playlist, May 10, 2023
As Director of the Paris Conservatory from 1896 to 1905, Théodore Dubois maintained a conservative curriculum strictly of the time. He excluded earlier French baroque music such as by Jean-Philippe Rameau and revolutionary music of Richard Wagner. He forbade Conservatory students to attend performances of Debussy's ground-breaking new opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, and was hostile to student Maurice Ravel when he did not conform to Dubois' anti-modernism (and was expelled twice after two admissions). Nonetheless, Dubois composed a considerable amount of music in the French Romantic tradition marked with fine melodies and refined taste. Hear this in his 1907 Piano Quartet in A-minor for today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Giuseppe Tartini
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in E minor
Ensemble 415; Chiara Banchini, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
Quintet for strings and piano in F# minor
Parisii Quartet Alexandre Tharaud, piano
6:38 a.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango: II. Cafe 1930
Manuel Barrueco, guitar; Emmanuel Pahud, flute
6:47 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Marianne Martinez
Piano Concerto in A Major in A major
Orqueste Filarmonia Iberica; Melani Mestre, conductor Melani Mestre, piano
7:16 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
7:36 a.m.
Xavier Dubois Foley
Shelter Island
Randall Goosby, violin; Xavier Dubois Foley, double bass
7:43 a.m.
Ferenc Farkas
Old Hungarian Dances
Vienna Quintet
7:53 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Rhapsody in G minor Opus 79/2
Emanuel Ax, piano
8:01 a.m.
Michael Torke
Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
8:12 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb major Opus 74
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
8:35 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
25 Scottish Songs: 2. Sunset Opus 108/2
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Gerald Finley, baritone; Nicola Benedetti, violin; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
8:41 a.m.
Joaquin Malats
Spanish Serenade (Serenata Espanola) in F major
Klaus Jackle, guitar
8:46 a.m.
Frode Fjellheim
The Return of the Sun
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin; Frode Fjellheim, vocals
8:50 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia Opus 26
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Romance in G major Opus 39
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor Elena Urioste, violin
9:10 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9: II. Scherzo in D minor WAB 109
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, conductor
9:22 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Corbeille de fleurs
Alan Feinberg, piano
9:28 a.m.
Alexander Borodin
Petite Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
9:53 a.m.
John Corigliano
Lullaby for Natalie
London Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
10:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 1/5
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
10:09 a.m.
Nino Rota
The Godfather: Selections
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Riccardo Muti, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major Opus 16
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:50 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertino Opus 107
Residentie Orkest Den Haag; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Sharon Bezaly, flute
10:59 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Quintet in A minor
Catalyst Quartet Michelle Cann, piano
11:26 a.m.
Gian Carlo Menotti
AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL Overture
Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Schippers, conductor
11:32 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 13: III. Allegretto Grazioso K 333
Orli Shaham, piano
11:40 a.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Umoja
Imani Winds
11:54 a.m.
David Pritchard
Stairs
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
11:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Trio "Ghost": I. Allegro vivace e con brio in D major Opus 70/1
The Gold Coast Trio Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; Susan Lamb Cook, cello; Hao Huang, piano
12:08 p.m.
Howard Shore
The Forest: 3rd movement
National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Milos Karadaglic, guitar
12:15 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5: III. Scherzo in C# minor
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Gerd Seifert, horn
12:33 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Iberia
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
12:55 p.m.
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Lara Downes, piano
1:00 p.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
1:17 p.m.
Ennio Morricone
The Mission: Gabriel's oboe
Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra; Ennio Morricone, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
1:24 p.m.
Cesar Franck
Variations Symphoniques
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor Jorge Bolet, piano
1:43 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 1
Turibio Santos, guitar
1:47 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Theodore Dubois
Piano Quartet in A minor
Trio Hochelaga Jean-Luc Plourde, viola
2:32 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Finale (1911)
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Makela, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
2:37 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Impromptu No. 6 in Db major Opus 86
Nora Koch, harp
2:47 p.m.
Grace Williams
Carillons, for oboe and orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor Anthony Camden, oboe
2:59 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor Julian Bream, guitar
3:23 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Les Sylvains (The Fauns) in D major Opus 60
Anna Shelest, piano
3:28 p.m.
Henry Purcell
Overture, Rondeau & Incidental Music from Abdelazer ("The Moor's Revenge")
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor
3:42 p.m.
John Adams
Pavane: She's So Fine (from John's Book of Alleged Dances)
Attacca Quartet
3:50 p.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Comedy Overture
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa, conductor
4:14 p.m.
Hans Zimmer
The Frozen Planet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
4:19 p.m.
Amy Beach
Scottish Legend Opus 54/1
Alan Feinberg, piano
4:23 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in Eb major K 543
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
4:54 p.m.
Ronn McFarlane
Fermi's Paradox
Carolyn Surrick, viola da gamba; Ronn McFarlane, lute
5:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
5:08 p.m.
George Gershwin
Three Preludes: 1 & 2
Sharon Isbin, guitar
5:16 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
The Does (Les Biches): Suite
National Orchestra of France; Charles Dutoit, conductor
5:37 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria Variata in A minor BWV 989
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
5:53 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
6:00 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
6:30 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:36 p.m.
Joaquin Turina
Sevillana Opus 29
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
6:41 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
Love Theme from ON THE WATERFRONT (Symphonic Suite)
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
6:48 p.m.
Florence Price
Fantasie Negre (No. 1) in E minor
Michelle Cann, piano
