Classical Music Playlist, July 12, 2023
As Director of the Paris Conservatory from 1896 to 1905, Théodore Dubois maintained a conservative curriculum strictly of the era. He excluded earlier French baroque music such as by Jean-Philippe Rameau and later revolutionary music of Richard Wagner. And though he privately admired Wagner and Debussy, he forbade Conservatory students to attend performances of Debussy's ground-breaking new opera, Pelléas et Mélisande. And leading to a scandal that eventually got him relieved of his post as Director of the Conservatory, Dubois was outright hostile to student Maurice Ravel when he did not conform to Dubois' Conservatory rule of 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 such as in his Piano Concerto No. 2, today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Gaspar Sanz
Suite in e minor in E minor
Chatham Baroque
6:11 a.m.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Violin Concerto in A major Opus 5/2
Encore Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Hege, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
6:36 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in C minor in C minor (1824, age 18) H128
Betty Ann Miller, piano
6:54 a.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata on the 8th tone
Philadelphia Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensembles
6:59 a.m.
Domenico Cimarosa
Oboe Concerto in C minor
I Musici Heinz Holliger, oboe
7:11 a.m.
Jacob Shea
The Arctic Suite
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
7:32 a.m.
Philip Glass
Metamorphosis II
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Francine Kay, piano
7:38 a.m.
Earl Wild
Grand Fantasie on Porgy and Bess: Summertime (After G. Gershwin)
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
7:59 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 12 in F major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
8:28 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: III. Allegro giocoso in E minor Opus 98
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:36 a.m.
Oskar Bohme
Trumpet Concerto Opus 18
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra; Arnie Roth, conductor George Vosburgh, trumpet
8:53 a.m.
Rafael Antonio Castellanos
Vaya de Jacara Amigos
El Mundo; Richard Savino, director, conductor Ryland Angel, tenor
8:59 a.m.
John Ireland
Epic March
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
9:09 a.m.
Andrew York
Muir Woods
Andrew York, guitar
9:15 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet "Trout" in A major Opus 114 D 667
L'Archibudelli Jos Van Immerseel, fortepiano
9:52 a.m.
Guillaume Dufay
Nuper Rosarum Flores
; Alexander Blachly, conductor Pomerium Musices
10:00 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Spring Song
Lahti Symphony Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
10:10 a.m.
Jean-Michel Blais
murmures
Jean-Michel Blais, piano
10:16 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 4 in Eb major Opus 48
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
10:52 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Portraits of Langston: VI. Harlem's Summer Night
McGill/McHale Trio Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano
10:57 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
11:09 a.m.
Henry Purcell
The Double Dealer: Overture and Hornpipe
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
11:14 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Concertpiece for piano and orchestra in F minor Opus 79 (Konzertstuck)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor Nikolai Demidenko, piano
11:31 a.m.
Philip Glass
The Hours Suite: II. The Poet Acts
Janacek Philharmonic; Mark Shapiro, conductor Gregory Harrington, violin
11:37 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 25 in G minor K 183
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture Opus 92
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
12:10 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Sarah Cahill, piano
12:16 p.m.
Gang Chen; Zhanhao He
The Butterfly Lovers (Concerto for Violin)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra; Lan Shui, conductor Gil Shaham, violin; Jonathan Fox, gu ban; Nella Hunkins, cello; Ta Jin, flute; Gulia Mashurova, harp
12:44 p.m.
Granville Bantock
The Sea Reivers (Hebridean Tone Poem No. 2)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
12:50 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet: IV. Finale in Eb major Opus 47
Emerson String Quartet Menahem Pressler, piano
12:59 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
1:16 p.m.
John Williams
Munich: Prayer For Peace
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
1:21 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major Opus 58
Haruma Sato, cello; Wataru Hisasue, piano
1:48 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Black, Brown, & Beige Suite: II. Brown
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
1:55 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Cleveland Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Theodore Dubois
Piano Concerto No. 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Manze, conductor Cedric Tiberghien, piano
2:29 p.m.
Fernando Sor
Etude No. 17 in E minor Opus 6/11
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
2:34 p.m.
Joseph Kraus
Sinfonie in D major
Concerto Koln
2:53 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Polonaise from Act III
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 3 in F major Opus 70
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Angel Romero, guitar
3:28 p.m.
Max Richter
Mercy
Hilary Hahn, violin; Cory Smythe, piano
3:35 p.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
3:49 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
XERXES: Largo: "Ombra mai fu"
I Solisti Italiani
3:54 p.m.
Rebecca Clarke
I'll Bid My Heart Be Still
Philip Dukes, viola; Sophia Rahman, piano
3:59 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1042
Amsterdam Bach Solisten; Thomas Zehetmair, conductor Thomas Zehetmair, violin
4:17 p.m.
Howard Shore
LORD OF THE RINGS: The Fellowship of the Ring: Concerning Hobbits
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
4:20 p.m.
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Misha Dichter, piano
4:38 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, maman K 265
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
4:58 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
5:18 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
"Military" Polonaise in A major Opus 40/1
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
5:25 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No. 1 in Eb major Opus 11
Cologne Symphony Orchestra; Gunter Wand, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
5:41 p.m.
Freddie Aguilar
Anak
Xuefei Yang, guitar
5:44 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Four Irish Dances: A Reel
Piers Lane, piano
5:49 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor
Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
6:01 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Quintet in A minor
Catalyst Quartet Michelle Cann, piano
6:29 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Hary Janos: Intermezzo
Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Winter in Buenos Aires (Invierno Porteno)
David Tanenbaum, guitar
6:41 p.m.
Joaquin Turina
The Bullfighter's Prayer Opus 34
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:50 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
