Classical Music Playlist, August 2, 2024
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
9:24 a.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 7 "Valenciana"
Angel Romero, guitar; Celedonio Romero, guitar
9:31 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Piano Sonata in C minor Opus 21
Joanne Polk, piano
9:49 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia Opus 26
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Claus Peter Flor, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Florence Price
String Quartet in G major: II. Andante moderato - Allegretto in G major
Pacifica Quartet
10:22 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor
10:44 a.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Symphonic Minutes Opus 36
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo in Bb major Opus 83
Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor Leon Fleisher, piano; Jules Eskin, cello
11:18 a.m.
Gunther Schuller
Suite for Wind Quintet: II. Blues
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
11:20 a.m.
Lalo Schifrin
from La Nouvelle Orleans
Imani Winds
11:25 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Grand Quintet (Gran Quintetto) Opus 65
Artaria Quartet Richard Savino, guitar
11:43 a.m.
Frederick Delius
KOANGA: La Calinda
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor
11:49 a.m.
Jose Moncayo
Huapango
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Sonata "Undine" for flute and piano; I. Allegro, II. Allegretto vivace
Meerenai Shim, flute; Lori Lack, piano
12:04 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Sonata "Undine" for flute and piano; I. Allegro, II. Allegretto vivace
Meerenai Shim, flute; Lori Lack, piano
12:16 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 "Linz" in C major K 425
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
12:49 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5
Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Kenneth Silito, conductor Alexandre Lagoya, guitar
12:55 p.m.
Alberto Ginastera
Estancia: Malambo
Lyon National Orchestra; David Robertson, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor BWV 1060
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Stephen Hammer, oboe; Catherine Mackintosh, violin
1:14 p.m.
George Walker
String Quartet No. 1 "Lyric": II. Molto adagio
Mir� Quartet
1:22 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
American Suite in A major Opus 98
Prague Philharmonia; Jakub Hrusa, conductor
1:46 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 3: III. Allegro in A minor Opus 44
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
2:24 p.m.
John C. Williams
When The Birds Return
Voces8; Barnaby Smith, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
2:30 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 45 "Farewell" in F# minor
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
2:56 p.m.
Claude Debussy
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes, Book I: No. 8) (La fille aux cheveux de lin)
Empire Brass
3:00 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Artist's Life Opus 316 Kunstlerleben
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
3:11 p.m.
John Williams
The Cowboys: Overture
City of Prague Philharmonic; Paul Bateman, conductor
3:22 p.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Trio in G minor Opus 17
Nash Ensemble
3:51 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Bruno Bartoletti, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace in A major Opus 92
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
4:15 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major Opus 16
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
4:47 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Asturias (Leyenda) - from "Suite Espanola" Opus 47
Xuefei Yang, guitar
4:54 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite: III. Alla Marcia Opus 11
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Andante and Hungarian Rondo Opus 35
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
5:11 p.m.
Manuel Ponce
Romantic Sonata: III. Musical Moment (Sonata romantica "Hommage a Franz Schubert")
Marcin Dylla, guitar
5:14 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Moments Musicaux No. 3 in F minor Opus 94 D 780
Radu Lupu, piano
5:17 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orchestral Suite "Mozartiana" in G major Opus 61
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:43 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio
Neave Trio
6:00 p.m.
Edouard Lalo
Symphony in G minor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
6:29 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor Nigel Kennedy, violin
6:48 p.m.
Paulinho Nogueira
Bachianinha No. 1
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
6:52 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango: III. Nightclub 1960
Patrick Gallois, flute; Goran Sollscher, guitar
