Classical Music Playlist, January 19, 2024
Composer Charles Stanford circa 1894
If you’re Irish, of Irish descent or a Hibernophile who enjoys all things Irish, you’ll want to tune in to hear Irish composer Charles Stanford’s Symphony No. 3, the “Irish” Symphony, an immediate success for him and his most popular symphony. It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto No. 3 in G minor Opus 3/3
Avison Ensemble; Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
6:10 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Trio in D minor Opus 120
Beaux Arts Trio
6:32 a.m.
Antonio Lauro
Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 "Natalia" (Vals Venezolano)
Sharon Isbin, guitar; Colin Davin, guitar
6:36 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in Bb major Opus 11
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo, conductor Kari Kriikku, clarinet
7:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas: Overture Opus 95
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:09 a.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Horn Concerto Opus 28
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Gerard Oskamp, conductor Albert Linder, horn
7:30 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in D major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Frederick Delius
KOANGA: La Calinda
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Portraits of Langston: V. Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
McGill/McHale Trio Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael McHale, piano
7:49 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20: III. Rondo in D minor K 466
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Jeremy Denk, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
7:58 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
8:18 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 102 in Bb major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
8:43 a.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Lara Downes, piano
8:48 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop" in Db major Opus 28
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
8:55 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
9:01 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 3 "Organ" in C minor Opus 78
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor James O'Donnell, organ
9:37 a.m.
Philip Glass
Sonata for Violin & Piano: Movement III
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
9:42 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
9:53 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Re-Inventions: Re-Invention No. 1
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra in Eb major Opus 26
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
10:10 a.m.
Paulinho Nogueira
Bachianinha No. 1
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
10:15 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 3 in C major K 515
Nash Ensemble w/ Philip Dukes Philip Dukes, viola
10:50 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in E minor Opus 35/1
Joanne Polk, piano
10:59 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
11:23 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 1: III. Intermezzo in G minor Opus 27
Guarneri Quartet
11:31 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Utah Symphony Orchestra; Maurice Abravanel, conductor
11:45 a.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
11:51 a.m.
Alexander Zhuk
Ukrainian Rhapsody
Anna Shelest, piano
11:59 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor
12:18 p.m.
Clara Schumann
Scherzo No. 2 in C minor in C minor Opus 14
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
12:25 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
St. Anthony Variations in Bb major Opus 56
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Joaquin Turina
Fandanguillo Opus 36
Narciso Yepes, guitar
12:48 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade: Waltz
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
12:54 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
CANDIDE: Overture
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Karl Goldmark
Im Fruhling Overture (In Spring) Opus 36
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Adolfo Mejia
Bambuco en mi in E minor Bambuco in e minor
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
1:15 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor
1:40 p.m.
John Field
Divertissement No. 2 in A major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
1:51 p.m.
Ben Shirley
High Sierra Sonata: III. Reflections on a Day
Pacifica Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
2:00 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Symphony No. 3 "Irish" in F minor
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
2:42 p.m.
Marco Uccellini
La Gran Battaglia
El Mundo; Richard Savino, director, conductor
2:46 p.m.
Tielmann Susato
Pavane "La Bataille"
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
2:52 p.m.
Dustin O'Halloran
Opus 17 (String Quartet Version)
Siggi String Quartet; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Vikingur Olafsson, piano
3:00 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:10 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Aire de Zamba
Angel Romero, guitar
3:12 p.m.
Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Janine Jansen, violin; Itamar Golan, piano
3:17 p.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 2 in G major Opus 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
3:43 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major Opus 3/6 HWV 317
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor Richard Egarr, organ
3:53 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Song of Jean Racine (Cantique de Jean Racine) Opus 11
London Sinfonia; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers
4:01 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Concertpiece for 4 horns & orchestra: I. Lebhaft in F major Opus 86
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Members of...
4:09 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Dances Opus 35
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor
4:40 p.m.
Federico Moreno Torroba
Castillos de Espana: Torija/Alcaniz (Elegia/Festival)
Andres Segovia, guitar
4:45 p.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in E major
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor
4:54 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Swans (Act II) Opus 20
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
4:55 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Scene (Act II) Opus 20
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
5:12 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
5:17 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
5:42 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
6:00 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 85
London Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
6:30 p.m.
Jack Gallagher
Sonatina for Piano
Frank Huang, piano
6:44 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
6:53 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 9
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
6:56 p.m.
Max Richter
Spring I
Zurich Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope, violin
