Classical Music Playlist, February 15, 2024
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Today in 1797 was the birthday of Henry Steinway, founder of Steinway & Sons Pianos. 100 years later, in 1897, the ten year old piano prodigy Arthur Rubinstein was sent to Berlin to study music under the general supervision of legendary violinist-conductor Joseph Joachim who was a great friend and collaborator of Johannes Brahms. This established for Rubinstein a lifelong connection to the music of the great German composer. Rubinstein later became a Steinway artist which meant he performed and recorded on Steinway pianos. All these come together as Rubenstein plays a Steinway in a 1954 recording of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 for today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 6 in F major BWV 1057
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Andras Schiff, piano
6:17 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Serenade in F major Opus 31
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:50 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Gottschalk Waltz Opus 1
Alexandra Oehler, piano
7:00 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 "Italian": I. Allegro Vivace in A major Opus 90
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Opus 58
London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor Melvyn Tan, piano
7:44 a.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 1
Turibio Santos, guitar
7:47 a.m.
Ariel Ramirez
MISA CRIOLLA: II. Gloria
Zurich Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Hope, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Palau de la Musica vocal quartet
7:54 a.m.
Claude Champagne
Rustic Dance (Dance Villageoise)
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Yoav Talmi, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 6: III. Scherzo (Furiant) in D major Opus 60
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jenamy" in Eb major K 271
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
8:40 a.m.
Huang Tzu
Plum blossoms in the snow
Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:43 a.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2
Empire Brass; Rolf Smedvig, conductor
8:47 a.m.
Leonard Bernstein
CANDIDE: Overture
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8:52 a.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Prelude in C Sharp Major
Alice Sara Ott, piano
8:55 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude (from the Well-Tempered Clavier I:01) in C major BWV 846
Andras Schiff, piano
8:59 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 47 "The Palindrome" in G major
Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor
9:27 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Asturias (Leyenda) - from "Suite Espanola" Opus 47
Narciso Yepes, guitar
9:35 a.m.
Cesar Franck
Variations Symphoniques
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Andrew Litton, piano
9:51 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Overture (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 6/5 HWV 323
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
10:16 a.m.
Ernest Bloch
Suite Hebraique: I. Rapsodie Hebrew suite
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor Zina Schiff, violin
10:23 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Dance Suite: III. Allegro vivace SZ 77
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
10:27 a.m.
Mel Bonis
Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major Opus 124
Mozart Piano Quartet
10:53 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4: III. Allegro giocoso in E minor Opus 98
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DON GIOVANNI Overture K 527
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Christian Baldini, conductor
11:07 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Grand Quintet (Gran Quintetto) Opus 65
Artaria Quartet Richard Savino, guitar
11:26 a.m.
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posey
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
11:41 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
"Military" Polonaise in A major Opus 40/1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
11:47 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Minute Waltz in Db major Opus 64/1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
11:50 a.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement in D major
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Opus 18
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
12:33 p.m.
William Kroll
Banjo and Fiddle
English Chamber Orchestra Nigel Kennedy, violin
12:37 p.m.
Morten Lauridsen
Les Chansons des Roses: Dirait-on
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
12:42 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 1 for four violins and orchestra in D major Opus 3 RV 549
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Members of...
12:51 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
TANCREDI: Overture
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Concerto 4-3: I. The Shallows
Philadelphia Orchestra; Xian Zhang, conductor Time for Three
1:10 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HOB 18:11
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Emanuel Ax, piano
1:29 p.m.
John Williams
JFK: Prologue
Studio Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Tim Morrison, trumpet
1:34 p.m.
Victor Ewald
Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 5
Center City Brass Quintet
1:49 p.m.
Arturo Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor Opus 15
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor Artur Rubinstein, piano
2:47 p.m.
Paulinho Nogueira; Luiz Gonzaga
Bachianinha No. 2 / Araponga
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
2:50 p.m.
Antonio Lauro
Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 "Natalia" (Vals Venezolano)
Xuefei Yang, guitar
2:53 p.m.
Charles-Marie Widor
Organ Symphony No. 5: Toccata Opus 42
Simon Preston, organ
3:00 p.m.
Florence Price
Piano Quintet in A minor
Catalyst Quartet Michelle Cann, piano
3:28 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2: IV. Finale: Allegro vivace in E minor Opus 27
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:43 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia (Konzertsatz) in D major BWV 1045
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor
3:49 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Havanaise Opus 83
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor Maria Duenas, violin
4:00 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
4:12 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Masquerade Overture
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
4:18 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 17 in Ab major Opus 28
Alice Sara Ott, piano
4:23 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K 467
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
4:52 p.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE WALKURE: Ride of the Valkyries
Berlin Philharmonic; Klaus Tennstedt, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Michael Torke
Sky
Albany Symphony Orchestra; David Alan Miller, conductor Tessa Lark, violin
5:24 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
5:43 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Moments Musicaux No. 1 in C major Opus 94 D 780
Radu Lupu, piano
5:50 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 3: III. Polonaise. Allegretto in F major Opus 70
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
6:00 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor Opus 35
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Alexander Vedernikov, conductor Martha Argerich, piano; Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet
6:23 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
6:36 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
String Quartet: II. Assez vif. Tres Rythme in F major
Verona String Quartet
6:44 p.m.
Philip Glass
Glassworks: Opening
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
6:51 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
THREE BLACK KINGS: Martin Luther King
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Sal Andolina, clarinet and alto saxophone
