Classical Music Playlist, May 6, 2024
Czech composer Bedřich Smetana titled his String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” as its four movements are autobiographical chapters of his life and loves up to age 52 when he composed the work in 1876.
The first movement represents his youthful "inclination to art."
The second movement contains a nationalistic Czech polka, which recalls his time as a composer of dance music and his recognition as a passionate dancer.
The third movement is a recollection of his first love who would become his wife (who he married in 1849 but died in 1859 and he remarried in 1860 before composing this quartet).
The final movement begins with more dance as a proud symbol of himself as a composer of nationalistic Czech music. But this is interrupted with a high E note on the violin mirroring the tinnitus that signaled the beginning of his hearing loss that would make him completely deaf within a year, two years before writing this quartet.
And while the 1876 Quartet ends with a fade out of the music to silence, as happened with his hearing before the end of 1874, he continued to compose before his death in 1884. The String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” by Bedřich Smetana is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for oboe & bassoon in G major RV 545
Ensemble Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardini, conductor Paolo Grazzi, oboe; Alberto Grazzi, bassoon
6:10 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Cello Sonata in D in D Opus 78
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano
6:40 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 6 "Le Matin" in D major
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 25: I. Allegro maestoso in C major K 503
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Jeremy Denk, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
7:15 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Concerto for two clarinets in Eb major Opus 35
English Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Pay, conductor Thomas Friedli, clarinet; Antony Pay, clarinet
7:39 a.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four Folk Songs: III. Serenata
Claremont Trio
7:44 a.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Contretemps
Alice Sara Ott, piano
7:48 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Marianne Martinez
Piano Concerto in A Major in A major
Orqueste Filarmonia Iberica; Melani Mestre, conductor Melani Mestre, piano
8:16 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
8:36 a.m.
John Williams
Themes from Jurassic Park
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
8:43 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Allegro di molto in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
8:45 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concert Etudes: Scherzo in C major Opus 35/1
Anna Shelest, piano
8:49 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 3 "Organ": Finale in C minor Opus 78
Kansas City Symphony; Michael Stern, conductor Jan Kraybill, organ
8:59 a.m.
Ernest Chausson
Symphony in Bb major Opus 20
Philharmonia Orchestra; Francesco d'Avalos, conductor
9:31 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
9:48 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in Bb major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Elena Roussanova
Moments of Arrival
Prague Radio Symphony; Julius Williams, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano in Eb major Opus 44
Linos Ensemble
10:37 a.m.
Klaus Badelt
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Selections
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
10:42 a.m.
Howard Shore
The Forest: 3rd movement
National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Milos Karadaglic, guitar
10:49 a.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
10:59 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" in G major
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
11:24 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Etude No. 3 "The Little Bell" ("La Campanella") in G# minor
Lang Lang, piano
11:30 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Phantasy Quintet
Medici String Quartet
11:46 a.m.
John Williams
1941 (march)
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
11:52 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Simon Preston, organ
12:09 p.m.
Federico Moreno Torroba
Castillos de Espana: Torija/Alcaniz (Elegia/Festival)
Andres Segovia, guitar
12:13 p.m.
Francesco Tristano
On John Bull's Galliard In D
Basel Chamber Orchestra Francesco Tristano, piano
12:16 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: Symphonic Poem
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
12:45 p.m.
Ignaz Moscheles
Romance et Tarantelle Brilliante
Ian Hobson, piano
12:54 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
COSI FAN TUTTE Overture K 588
Tafelmusik; Bruno Weil, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
1:16 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major Opus 3/6 HWV 317
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
1:24 p.m.
Joseph Fiala
Concerto for Oboe in Bb major
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Frantisek Vajnar, conductor Jiri Krejci, oboe
1:43 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Decarissimo
Gidon Kremer, violin; Vadim Sakharov, piano; Alois Posch, double-bass; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon
1:48 p.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life" in E minor
Emerson String Quartet
2:27 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
2:31 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 1
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Makela, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
2:43 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D major BWV 1054
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
3:00 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9
Scottish National Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor
3:10 p.m.
Dorothy Howell
Piano Concerto in D minor in D minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Rebecca Miller, conductor Danny Driver, piano
3:31 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 for winds "Gran Partita": III. Adagio in Bb major K 361
Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
3:38 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Sinfonia Concertante in C major Opus 21
Portland Baroque Orchestra; Monica Huggett, conductor Richard Savino, guitar
4:00 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major
London Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Kondrashin, conductor Sviatoslav Richter, piano
4:20 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 6 in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
4:28 p.m.
Victor Ewald
Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 5
Center City Brass Quintet
4:42 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
4:44 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words "Spring Song" (Book V, No. 6) in A major Opus 62/6
Barbara Meister, piano
4:48 p.m.
Nino Rota
Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'orchestra)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Riccardo Muti, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": I. Allegro ma non troppo in F major Opus 68
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
5:12 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Etude No. 10 in F# minor Op 26/10
Lang Lang, piano
5:18 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
5:23 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 7 in D minor Opus 70
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Bomsori Kim, violin
5:58 p.m.
H. T. Burleigh
Deep River
PubliQuartet Lara Downes, piano
6:02 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble Antony Pay, clarinet
6:38 p.m.
Carlos Gardel
Guitarra, Guitarra Mia
Franz Halasz, guitar
6:40 p.m.
Jorge Calandrelli
Solitude
Milos Karadaglic, guitar; Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
6:44 p.m.
John Mackey
Kingfishers Catch Fire
North Texas Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
6:50 p.m.
Philip Glass
Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Glass Ensemble; Michael Riesman, conductor Albert de Ruiter, Basso
6:54 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Reverie
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
