Classical Music Playlist, February 22, 2024
Five recurring musical themes weave through the finale of Mozart's Symphony 41.
Mozart composed his final three symphonies - numbers 39, 40 and 41 - in quick succession, apparently in the hope of presenting them as a series but there’s no record this ever happened.
In No. 41, Mozart repeatedly weaves five recurring themes through the final moments of this final symphony. It’s an ingenious tapestry that’s been celebrated for over 200 years by fellow composers and music scholars. Titled the “Jupiter” Symphony by an impresario apparently intent on capitalizing on this grand scale of the finale, Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Quartet for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo in D minor
Camerata Koln
6:09 a.m.
Francesco Molino
Guitar Concerto in E minor Opus 56
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
6:34 a.m.
Tielmann Susato
Dans du Roy
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
6:36 a.m.
Anthony Holborne
Galliard
Canadian Brass
6:39 a.m.
Joseph Kraus
Sinfonie in D major
Concerto Koln
6:58 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for flute and strings in D major
Berlin Baroque Soloists; Rainer Kussmaul, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
7:12 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Trio No. 1 in F major Opus 18
The Rembrandt Trio
7:40 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:49 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
London Symphony Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
7:54 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Concerto for Mandolin: III. Rondo in G major
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor Avi Avital, mandolin
8:00 a.m.
Jose Moncayo
Sinfonietta
Mexico National Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Arturo Diemecke, conductor
8:12 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 6 "Le Matin" in D major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
8:34 a.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Contretemps
Alice Sara Ott, piano
8:38 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
8:51 a.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...
9:00 a.m.
Amy Beach
Quartet for Strings Opus 89
Lark Quartet
9:17 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV 974
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
9:28 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
La Vega
London Symphony Orchestra; Elmer Bernstein, conductor Christopher Parkening, guitar
9:43 a.m.
Paul Dukas
Polyeucte Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta, conductor
10:16 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Papillon Opus 77
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano
10:19 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Maxixe
Xuefei Yang, guitar
10:23 a.m.
Ignaz Moscheles
Piano Concerto No. 3 in G minor Opus 58
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Howard Shelley, conductor Howard Shelley, piano
10:54 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 9 in B major Opus 72
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
11:24 a.m.
Missy Mazzoli
Heartbreaker
MIchael Mizrahi, piano
11:28 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 29: Sinfonia BWV 29
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor Paul Nicholson, organ
11:32 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in G major Opus 111
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
11:46 a.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Princess Mononoke Suite (from Princess Mononoke)
New Japan World Dream Orchestra; Joe Hisaishi, conductor Joe Hisaishi, piano
11:56 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Lakme: Flower Duet (Viens, Malika..Sous le Dome epais)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor Renee Fleming, soprano; Susan Graham, contralto
12:01 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Treemonisha Overture
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra; Gunther Schuller, conductor
12:09 p.m.
George Gershwin
I Got Rhythm Variations
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Orion Weiss, piano
12:20 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 "Drum Roll" in Eb major
Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox, conductor
12:51 p.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Prelude in C Sharp Major
Alice Sara Ott, piano
12:55 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
La Catedral
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; Lionel Bringuier, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
1:09 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Polonaise No. 2 in Eb minor Opus 26
Artur Rubinstein, piano
1:18 p.m.
Alexey Shor
Seascapes for Viola and Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry, conductor David Aaron Carpenter, viola
1:37 p.m.
William Grant Still
Romance
Marcus Eley, clarinet; Lucerne DeSa, piano
1:44 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Masques and Bergamasques Opus 112
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" in C major K 551
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
2:39 p.m.
John Williams
Lincoln: With Malice Toward None
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
2:45 p.m.
Florence Price
Fantasie Negre (No. 1) in E minor
Lara Downes, piano
2:53 p.m.
Gian Carlo Menotti
AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL Overture
Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Schippers, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
New Queen's Hall Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
3:13 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals
London Festival Orchestra; Ross Pople, conductor
3:36 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 4
Angelica Hairston, harp
3:40 p.m.
Paulinho Nogueira
Bachianinha No. 1
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
3:44 p.m.
William Grant Still
Vignettes for oboe, bassoon and piano
Sierra Winds
3:57 p.m.
Santiago de Murcia
La Jota
Richard Savino, guitar; Mauro ReFosco, percussion; Yousif Sheronick, percussion
4:00 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
4:26 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in D major
Berlin Academy of Ancient Music
4:34 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Cockaigne Overture (In London Town) Opus 40
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Davis, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Andrea Falconieri
Ciacona
Daniel Hope, violin; and friends
4:53 p.m.
Juan Ara��s
A Festive Chaconne (Chacona: "Un sarao de la chacona")
Piffaro Renaissance Band
4:56 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:02 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor BWV 1056
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; James Judd, conductor Jean Louis Steuerman, piano
5:13 p.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Alexey Botvinov, piano
5:22 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Polonaise from Act III
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
5:27 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Symphony No. 1 Opus 9
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
5:51 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 oboes, 2 violins, bassoon in C major RV 557
Ensemble Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardini, conductor Members of...
6:00 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
String Quartet "Intimate Voices" (Voces Intimae) in D minor Opus 56
Melos Quartet
6:32 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
WILLIAM TELL: Overture (GUILLAUME TELL)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
6:45 p.m.
Robert Dauber
Serenade
Niv Ashkenazi, violin; Matthew Graybill, piano
6:48 p.m.
Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah
City of Birmingham Cellos Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
6:53 p.m.
Nainita Desai
My Mind Is Still
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