Classical Music Playlist, August 2, 2024
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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
The Piano Concerto No. 2 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns opens unusually with more than a minute-and-a-half piano solo. Often the orchestra plays that long before the piano enters. Perhaps his most popular concerto, the capricious nature of styles across all movements prompted Polish composer and pianist Zygmunt Stojowski to joke that it "begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach." Well-crafted and demanding of the soloist, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Caprice Symphony in G major TWV 50:1
Ensemble Caprice
6:09 a.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
Quintet for strings and piano in F# minor
Parisii Quartet Alexandre Tharaud, piano
6:36 a.m.
Bernhard Molique
Concertino for oboe in G minor
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
6:52 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Concierto del Sur: III. Allegro moderato e festivo
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
6:59 a.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Charles Dutoit, conductor
7:18 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HOB 18:11
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Emanuel Ax, piano
7:37 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
7:46 a.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes: I. Singing River
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
7:53 a.m.
Claude Champagne
Rustic Dance (Dance Villageoise)
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Yoav Talmi, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Concert Rondo "Krakowiak" in F major Opus 14
Warsaw Philharmonic; Kazimierz Kord, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano
8:14 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major K 216
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie; Bruno Weil, conductor Lena Neudauer, violin
8:37 a.m.
Franz Strauss
Nocturno for Horn and Piano Opus 7
Peter Landgren, horn; Ann Schein, piano
8:45 a.m.
Hania Rani; Dobrawa Czocher
Con Moto
Hania Rani, piano; Dobrawa Czocher, cello
8:51 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
BARTERED BRIDE: Dance of the Comedians
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Lowell Liebermann
Flute Concerto Opus 39
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Eugenia Zukerman, flute