Classical Music Playlist, August 12, 2024
English composer and teacher Sir Hubert Parry taught at the Royal College of Music from 1883, was its Director since 1900, and taught such notable composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge and John Ireland. He wrote only one piano concerto, completed in 1879. Its 1880 premiere won a mix of rave reviews and, at the time, descriptions as avant-garde. Hubert Parry’s Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Major is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in D major Opus 1/9
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
6:12 a.m.
Henriette Renie
Trio for harp, violin and cello
Xavier de Maistre, harp; Ingolf Turban, violin; Wen-Sinn Yang, cello
6:38 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor
6:58 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6: I. Majestoso in A major
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:16 a.m.
Joseph Fiala
Concerto for Oboe in Bb major
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Frantisek Vajnar, conductor Jiri Krejci, oboe
7:35 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:46 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Allegro con brio in C major Opus 15
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Karina Canellakis, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
8:15 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor