Classical Music Playlist, October 17, 2023
Mozart had a pet bird that he taught to sing the opening melody of the final movement of his Piano Concerto No. 17. He had the starling for three years and when it died, Mozart actually gave it a proper funeral in the garden with a burial and gravestone which was all documented by friends in attendance. The bird is long gone but we still have Mozart’s tuneful and lighthearted Piano Concerto No. 17, today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Graun
Horn Concerto in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Barry Tuckwell, horn
6:10 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 2 in G major Opus 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
6:36 a.m.
Carlos Gardel
Cuando Tu No Estas
Franz Halasz, guitar
6:41 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite Opus 40
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major Opus 92
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
7:15 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Quartet No. 1 in Eb major Opus 2
Allegri String Quartet (members of) Thea King, clarinet
7:36 a.m.
Paulinho Nogueira; Luiz Gonzaga
Bachianinha No. 2 / Araponga
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
7:40 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in A minor in A minor BWV 904
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
7:50 a.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Charles Dutoit, conductor
8:18 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
New York Youth Symphony; Michael Repper, conductor Michelle Cann, piano
8:37 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Asturias (Leyenda) - from "Suite Espanola" Opus 47
Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:44 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 6: III. Scherzo (Furiant) in D major Opus 60
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
8:53 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter": IV. Finale in C major K 551
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Georg Solti, conductor
9:01 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dances Opus 64
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:33 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Liebestraume: Nocturne No. 3 in Ab major S 541
John Novacek, piano
9:39 a.m.
John Williams
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA: Sayuri's Theme
Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles; John Williams, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
9:45 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Matinees musicales (Suite after Rossini) Opus 24
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor
10:13 a.m.
John Corigliano
Lullaby for Natalie
London Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
10:20 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 96 "Miracle" in D major
Capella Istropolitana; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
10:42 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Morris Dance Tunes
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra; Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
10:55 a.m.
Shara Nova
I Have Never Loved Someone
Conspirare; Mir� Quartet; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Joseph Joachim
Violin Concerto No. 2: III. Finale alla zingara in D minor Opus 11 Hungarian style
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Carlos Kalmar, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
11:12 a.m.
Gisle Kverndokk
Symphonic Dances: II. Waltz
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (sta VAHN ger); Ken-David Masur, conductor
11:19 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 7 in D minor Opus 70
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Bomsori Kim, violin
11:54 a.m.
Arthur Foote
Serenade: Gavotte Opus 25
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
11:59 a.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
12:08 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046
European Brandenburg Ensemble; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
12:29 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 3: II. Allegro molto
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:38 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Song of Jean Racine (Cantique de Jean Racine) Opus 11
London Sinfonia; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers
12:47 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: IV. From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Aleksandra Pakhmutova
Trumpet Concerto
Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor Bibi Black, trumpet
1:16 p.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Cyclopes ("Cyclops")
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
1:21 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Violin Concerto in A minor Opus 82
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Walter Hendl, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
1:41 p.m.
Kevin Puts
Contact: I. The Call
Philadelphia Orchestra; Xian Zhang, conductor Time for Three
1:50 p.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
Concertino for oboe and chamber orchestra in F major
Camerata Budapest; Laszlo Kovacs, conductor Jozef Kiss, oboe
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major K 453
English Chamber Orchestra; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
2:31 p.m.
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Sonata Quarta, from Sonatae unarum fidium in D major
Carrie Krause, baroque violin; John Lenti, theorbo
2:41 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
OTELLO: Ballet Music
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
2:49 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
The Thieving Magpie (LA GAZZA LADRA): Overture
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor
3:16 p.m.
Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Mark O'Connor, violin; Edgar Meyer, bass
3:23 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
3:49 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Sophie Langdon, violin; Richard Watkins, horn
3:59 p.m.
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Cincinnati Jazz Orchestra; Erich Kunzel, conductor William Tritt, piano
4:18 p.m.
Paulinho Nogueira
Bachianinha No. 1
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
4:22 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 "Italian": IV. Saltarello (Presto) in A major Opus 90
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
4:29 p.m.
John Williams
The Cowboys: Overture
City of Prague Philharmonic; Paul Bateman, conductor
4:40 p.m.
John Knowles Paine
Symphony No. 2 "In the Spring": II. Scherzo (May-Night Fantasy) in A major Opus 34
Ulster Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
4:51 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio in C minor Opus 67
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
5:13 p.m.
Emilio Pujol
Tango Espagnol
Julian Bream, guitar
5:18 p.m.
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto for bassoon, two oboes & strings in C minor
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Dominic Teresi, bassoon; John Abberger, oboe; Christopher Palameta, oboe
5:28 p.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Horn Concerto Opus 28
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Gerard Oskamp, conductor Albert Linder, horn
5:49 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
5:53 p.m.
Karl Jenkins
The Armed Man--A Mass for Peace: XII. Benedictus
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Berlin Radio Choir Daniel Hope, violin
6:00 p.m.
Reinhold Gliere
The Red Poppy [ballet]: Suite
New Jersey Symphony; Zdenek Macal, conductor
6:28 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": I. Adagio - Allegro molto in E minor Opus 95
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
6:42 p.m.
George Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me
Chick Corea, piano
6:49 p.m.
William Grant Still
Suite for Violin and Piano: III. Gamin
Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle, piano
6:53 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Double Concerto: II. Milonga
A Far Cry Jason Vieaux, guitar; Julien Labro, bandoneon
