Classical Music Playlist, February 9, 2024
Pianist Yuja Wang and Composer-Conductor Teddy Abrams | photo: Louisville Orchestra
Pianist Yuja Wang, and Berkeley-born composer and conductor Teddy Abrams, both just won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for their performance of his 2021 Piano Concerto.
Born in Berkeley in 1987 and a member of the San Francisco Youth Symphony for seven seasons and a protégé of Michael Tilson Thomas from the age of eleven, since 2014 Abrams has been Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra whom he conducts on the Grammy winning recording.
By dividing the concerto into eleven sections, including a swing-style big band overture, Latin jazz-inspired "solos" and passages reminiscent of boogie-woogie, American gospel songs and Broadway showstoppers, Abrams sees his concerto as "an opportunity for the piano to take us through what I think is one of the strengths of American culture: its plurality, its interconnectedness." The Grammy-winning performance of his Piano Concerto is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johan Helmich Roman
The Drottningholm Music (2)
Stockholm Museum Chamber Orchestra; Claude Genetay, conductor
6:15 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
The Birds (Gli Uccelli)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
6:34 a.m.
Amy Beach
A Hermit Thrush at Eve Opus 92
Alan Feinberg, piano
6:41 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 31 "Paris" in D major K 297
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio: I. Allegro molto vivace in D minor
Nash Ensemble
7:11 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Oboe Concerto in F major BWV 1053R
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Douglas Boyd, oboe
7:32 a.m.
Adolfo Mejia
Bambuco en mi in E minor Bambuco in e minor
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
7:35 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C major Opus 72
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 12 (Quartet Movement) in C minor D 703
Emerson String Quartet
7:50 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex)
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Margaret Fingerhut, piano
8:00 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
8:33 a.m.
Karl Jenkins
Palladio: I. Allegretto
London Philharmonic Strings; Karl Jenkins, conductor
8:38 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Tales From The Vienna Woods Opus 325 (Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
8:50 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
8:59 a.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 1 in G minor Opus 7
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Fabio Luisi, conductor
9:34 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 3: I. Prelude in C major BWV 1009
Yo Yo Ma, cello
9:37 a.m.
Philip Glass
Symphony No. 3: Movement IV
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
9:42 a.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Aram Khachaturian, conductor
9:52 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
String Quintet in E major: III. Scherzo - Allegro Vivace in E major Opus 1
Mannheim String Quartet
10:00 a.m.
Domenico Cimarosa
Oboe Concerto in C minor
I Musici Heinz Holliger, oboe
10:11 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
10:16 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations Opus 36
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
10:48 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Opus 80
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
La Catedral
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; Lionel Bringuier, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
11:09 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3: II. Adagio cantabile in G minor Opus 36
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
11:20 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Opus 11
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Colin Davis, conductor Gerhard Oppitz, piano
11:42 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
Afro-Cuban Lullaby (Cancion de Cuna: Berceuse)
Milos Karadaglic, guitar
11:45 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Fast Blue Village 2
Del Sol String Quartet
11:52 a.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Symphony No. 4 "Stockholm" (Holmia): I. Allegro moderato in A major
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
12:22 p.m.
Aaron Copland
In Evening Air
Lang Lang, piano
12:25 p.m.
Sebastian Iradier
La Paloma the dove
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
12:29 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
12:45 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture in B minor Opus 26
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:55 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G major Opus 6/1 HWV 319
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
1:08 p.m.
Fernando Sor
Etude No. 19 in Bb major Opus 29/13
Andres Segovia, guitar
1:12 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
American Suite in A major Opus 98
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Libor Pesek, conductor
1:36 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Rhapsodie No. 1 for clarinet
Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor Franklin Cohen, clarinet
1:46 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Vienna Blood Opus 354 Wiener Blut
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Claude Balbastre
Quand Jesus naquit a Noel When Jesus was born at Christmas
Faythe Vollrath, harpsichord
2:00 p.m.
Teddy Abrams
Piano Concerto
Louisville Orchestra; Teddy Abrams, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
2:38 p.m.
Francois Couperin
The Mysterious Barricades (Les Barricades mysterieuses)
David Russell, guitar
2:42 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
2:54 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Abu Hassan Overture J 106
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Howard Hanson
MERRY MOUNT suite
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
3:16 p.m.
Amy Beach
Scottish Legend Opus 54/1
Alan Feinberg, piano
3:21 p.m.
Anton Reicha
Wind Quintet No. 2 in Eb major Opus 88/2
Albert Schweitzer Quintet
3:47 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra; Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
3:55 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO: Va, pensiero
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus
4:01 p.m.
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdiana
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
4:10 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major K 453
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra; Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:39 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade: The Young Prince and The Young Princess Opus 35
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Gunther Schuller
Suite for Wind Quintet: II. Blues
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
4:52 p.m.
Zenobia Powell Perry; Josephine Gandolfi, arr.
Tawawa House Suite: 3. Sunday Dance Tune
Josephine Gandolfi, piano; Deanne Tucker, piano
4:55 p.m.
Georges Bizet
CARMEN: Toreador song
London Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Outdoor Overture
Cleveland Pops Orchestra; Louis Lane, conductor
5:10 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Iberia
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
5:31 p.m.
Ricardo Castro
Piano Concerto: III. Polonaise in A minor Opus 22
Orquesta Sinf�nica de Miner�a (OSM); Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
5:40 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Hana-Bi
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
5:43 p.m.
Mark Isham
A River Runs Through It: Main Theme
Studio Orchestra
5:47 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9: II. Scherzo in D minor WAB 109
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, conductor
5:59 p.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 5 "Western Hemisphere"
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
6:20 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins (Double Concerto) in D minor BWV 1043
English Chamber Orchestra; Steven Mercurio, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
6:36 p.m.
Rebecca Clarke
Piano Trio: II. Andante Molto Semplice
Neave Trio
6:41 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
La Catedral
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; Lionel Bringuier, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
6:50 p.m.
Zenobia Powell Perry
Piano Potpurri: No. 5. A Jazz Trifle
LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, piano
6:52 p.m.
Toumani Diabate; Nico Muhly, arr.; Ian Gardiner, arr.
Moon Kaira
London Symphony Orchestra Toumani Diabate, kora
