Classical Music Playlist, February 13, 2024
Seiji Ozawa | photo: Columbia Artists Management Inc
Conductor Seiji Ozawa passed away last week at the age of 88. He was Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra until 2002. He took that position nearly 30 years earlier in 1973, coming from the San Francisco Symphony where he was Music Director from 1970 until 1977 and leading both orchestras simultaneously for a few years. In San Francisco he founded the Symphony Chorus after using university choruses for many years. He maintained ties to music organizations in Japan and China and was the recipient of numerous awards around the world.
Seiji Ozawa was born in China in 1935 and died February 6th at his home in Tokyo.
Though French composer Francis Poulenc was raised in a devout Catholic family, it wasn't until the untimely death of two friends later in his life that he found his spirituality reawakened. Following that, he composed a series of sacred works including his "Stabat Mater" in 1950 and "Gloria" in 1959, about four years before his own passing in 1963. Poulenc's "Gloria" is today's Midday Masterpiece with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
6:00 a.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
NAIS: Orchestral Suite (2)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
6:19 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" in B minor D 759
Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
6:40 a.m.
Michael Praetorius
Dance Suite from Terpsichore
Buffalo Guitar Quartet
6:50 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings: I. Andante non troppo in C major Opus 48
St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in Eb major Opus 1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo, conductor Kari Kriikku, clarinet
7:31 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 HWV 314
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
7:39 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Peggy's Rag
Sarah Cahill, piano
7:43 a.m.
Percy Grainger
Mock Morris
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
7:48 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in E minor Opus 11
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
7:59 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Gloriana: Courtly Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
8:10 a.m.
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
8:28 a.m.
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz
Gaytas
The Harp Consort
8:30 a.m.
ANONYMOUS
Propinan de Melyor
Piffaro Renaissance Band
8:32 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 RV 310
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
8:40 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
8:55 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Romance Opus 36
Hermann Baumann, horn; Reiko Honsho, piano
9:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major Opus 92
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
9:39 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Elegy No. 1 Opus 17
Clara Rodriguez, piano
9:45 a.m.
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto for Recorder and Strings in F major
Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra) Gwyn Roberts, recorder
9:54 a.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major Opus 92
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
10:15 a.m.
Fernando Sor
Etude No. 17 in E minor Opus 6/11
Andres Segovia, guitar
10:19 a.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
10:49 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Waltz
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol Opus 34
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:15 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Hungarian Folksongs fro the Csik District
Lara Downes, piano
11:20 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Quartet for clarinet and strings in Eb major S 78/WoO 5
L'Archibudelli Charles Neidich, clarinet
11:46 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Impromptu No. 2 in Eb major Opus 90/2 D 899
Krystian Zimerman, piano
11:52 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quintet No. 2: III. Scherzo (Furiant) in A major Opus 81
Emerson String Quartet Menahem Pressler, piano
11:58 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
12:25 p.m.
Paquito D'Rivera
Aires Tropicales: VI. Contradanza
Imani Winds
12:26 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Athalia: March of the Priests Opus 74
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:32 p.m.
Amy Beach
Ballade, Op. 6 Opus 6
Anna Shelest, piano
12:42 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in D major
Berlin Academy of Ancient Music
12:50 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Overture
Philharmonic of La Scala; Riccardo Muti, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 5
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Andrew York
Sunburst
Jason Vieaux, guitar
1:20 p.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:45 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Sarah Cahill, piano
1:52 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major Opus 3/6 HWV 317
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Francis Poulenc
Gloria for soprano, chorus, & orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor Kathleen Battle, soprano; Tanglewood Festival Chorus
2:24 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
2:34 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Don Juan Opus 20
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
2:53 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
BARTERED BRIDE: Overture
Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor
3:01 p.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
3:15 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Nocturne, "Souvenirs de mon pays"
Alexandra Oehler, piano
3:23 p.m.
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy Opus 46
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
3:52 p.m.
Nicola Matteis
Ground after the Scotch Humour
Daniel Hope, violin; and friends
3:54 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish": II. Vivace non troppo in A minor Opus 56
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Ignaz Moscheles
Recollections of Ireland Opus 69
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Howard Shelley, conductor Howard Shelley, piano
4:16 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Suite Espanola: No. 1 "Granada" Opus 47/1
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
4:22 p.m.
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
4:42 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
University of Texas Wind Ensemble; Jerry Junkin, conductor
4:54 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 5 in A major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Hary Janos Suite
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
5:24 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
La Catedral
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; Lionel Bringuier, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
5:33 p.m.
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon: Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
5:39 p.m.
Amy Beach
Gaelic Symphony: II. Alla siciliana - allegro vivace - andante in E minor Opus 32
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:48 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor": III. Rondo in Eb major Opus 73
London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor Evgeny Kissin, piano
6:00 p.m.
Muzio Clementi
Symphony No. 4 in D major WoO 35
Philharmonia Orchestra; Francesco d'Avalos, conductor
6:28 p.m.
Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano Opus 22
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano; Elena Urioste, violin
6:39 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor Alexander Doisy, saxophone
6:50 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Piano Trio: I. Pale Yellow
Lincoln Trio
