Classical Music Playlist, August 30, 2023
Self-portrait of Louis Spohr
Louis (Ludwig) Spohr was an influential violinist who also invented the instrument's chin rest and is credited as the first major conductor to use a baton. As a composer he was one of the most popular in early 19th century Europe and his symphonies at the time were considered second only to Beethoven (with whom he was a friend and performed in the orchestra at the premiere of Beethoven's 7th symphony).
In 1814 Spohr was asked to compose an Octet for a patron to bring to England that would get him invited to performances of Spohr's music where this patron would also meet potential business investors. To be attractive to English audiences, Spohr made the third movement of the Octet variations on a theme taken from a popular keyboard concerto by Handel (the tune known as “The Harmonious Blacksmith”). That inventive and utterly charming Octet for clarinet, two horns, violin, two violas, cello and bass is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Pieter Hellendaal
Concerto Grosso in D minor Opus 3/2
Combattimento Consort; Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor
6:12 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Opus 49
Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio David Golub, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; Colin Carr, cello
6:42 a.m.
Fabritio Caroso
A Renaisance dance (3)
The Broadside Band; Jeremy Barlow, conductor
6:44 a.m.
Fabritio Caroso
A Renaisance dance (1)
The Broadside Band; Jeremy Barlow, conductor
6:47 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 1: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in F major Opus 88
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
6:59 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Masques and Bergamasques Opus 112
Seattle Symphony; Ludovic Morlot, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Quintet in Eb minor Opus 87
Schubert Ensemble of London
7:36 a.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
7:42 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals (Waltz) No. 4 in G major Opus 8/4
Jason Vieaux, guitar
7:47 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Spring (La Primavera) in E major Opus 8 RV 269
...and friends Janine Jansen, violin
7:59 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5: IV. Andante maestoso (Finale) in E minor Opus 64
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
8:12 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 7
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Holly Mathieson, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
8:34 a.m.
William Grant Still
Lyric Quartet: III. The Jovial One
Catalyst Quartet
8:37 a.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 1: III. Juba Dance in E minor
Chineke! Orchestra; Roderick Cox, conductor
8:43 a.m.
Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen: Symphony (The 4th Act Suite) Z 629
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
8:50 a.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 34
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Jose Moncayo
Sinfonietta
Mexico National Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Arturo Diemecke, conductor
9:12 a.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Tango in d minor
Lara Downes, piano
9:16 a.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto in D minor
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Lydia Mordkovitch, violin
9:55 a.m.
Fernando Sor
Etude No. 17 in E minor Opus 6/11
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
10:00 a.m.
Adolphus Hailstork
Three Spirituals
Virginia Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
10:09 a.m.
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major
Bizzarrie Armoniche Riccardo Masahide Minasi, violin
10:17 a.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Oboe Concerto in Eb major Wq 165 / H 468
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Paul Goodwin, oboe
10:40 a.m.
Frederic Hand
Heart's Song
Frederic Hand, guitar
10:47 a.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
10:58 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major BWV 1066
American Bach Soloists; Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
11:21 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Athalia: March of the Priests Opus 74
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
11:27 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in G minor in G minor (1843) H395
Joanne Polk, piano
11:47 a.m.
Yuzo Toyama
Suite from Yugen: Dance of Celestials
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor Per Flemstrom, flute
11:52 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Romanian Folk Dances SZ 56
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
11:59 a.m.
Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor Diane Lacelle, oboe
12:11 p.m.
Sebastian Iradier
La Paloma the dove
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
12:14 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Liebestraume: Nocturne No. 3 in Ab major S 541
Claudio Arrau, piano
12:20 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Children's March "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Michigan State University Symphonic Band; Keith Brion, conductor
12:28 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:54 p.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Perigoso
Estela Olevsky, piano
12:59 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
I Solisti Italiani
1:07 p.m.
Enrique Soro
Danza Fantastica
Chile Symphony Orchestra; Jose Luis Dominguez, conductor
1:13 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute & Harp Concerto in C major K 299
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
1:42 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio: I. Allegro molto vivace in D minor
Nash Ensemble
1:53 p.m.
Joaquin Malats
Spanish Serenade (Serenata Espanola) in F major
Klaus Jackle, guitar
2:00 p.m.
Louis Spohr
Octet for clarinet, two horns and strings in E major Opus 32
Vienna Octet
2:26 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Vivace in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
2:39 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
2:53 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Fast Blue Village 2
Del Sol String Quartet
3:00 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 96 "Miracle" in D major
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor
3:23 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concert Etudes: Automne Opus 35
Joanne Polk, piano
3:30 p.m.
John Williams
Theme from The Patriot
Boston Pops Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor Middlesex County Fifes & Drums
3:39 p.m.
Johann Melchior Molter
Sinfonia Concertante in D major
Wind Ensemble; Bob Van Asperen, conductor Wolfgang Basch, trumpet
3:51 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Symphony No. 4 "Stockholm" (Holmia): I. Allegro moderato in A major
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
4:16 p.m.
Alfredo Casella
Italia: IV. Finale (Allegro molto vivace...) Opus 11
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
4:24 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7: II. Allegretto in A major Opus 92
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
4:33 p.m.
Hans Rott
Symphony No. 1: III. Scherzo: Frisch und lebhaft (Fresh and lively) in E major
Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrusa, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
4:37 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor Opus 73
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
4:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
5:12 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
Zapateada (aire popular cubano)
Pepe Romero, guitar
5:14 p.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Strum
Catalyst Quartet
5:23 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
5:41 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 8 "Christmas Concerto" in G minor Opus 6
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
5:56 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
RIGOLETTO: La Donna e Mobile
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
6:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor Opus 61
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor Chee-Yun, violin
6:29 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Three Easy Variations for guitar Opus 51
William Kanengiser, guitar
6:45 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 12
Connor Chee, piano
6:49 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Come Sunday
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor Various soloists
6:55 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Decarissimo
Gidon Kremer, violin; Vadim Sakharov, piano; Alois Posch, double-bass; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon
