Classical Music Playlist, August 14, 2024
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
“It transports us into a world where we cannot recall ever having been before.”
That's what Robert Schumann said when he discovered the manuscript of the Symphony No. 9 by Franz Schubert in 1839 in Vienna, eleven years after Schubert's death. All that time unknown and never performed, Schumann brought the symphony to Leipzig where Felix Mendelssohn agreed to conduct it. And this is how the world came to have Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9, later titled "The Great C Major." It’s today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Ignaz Holzbauer
Symphony in D major Opus 3/4
L'Orfeo Barokorkester; Michi Gaigg, conductor
6:18 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Trio "Ghost" in D major Opus 70/1
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano; Itzhak Perlman, violin; Lynn Harrell, cello
6:42 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Coppelia: (Suite from the ballet)
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor
6:58 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Occasional Suite in D major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:14 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
London Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Kondrashin, conductor Sviatoslav Richter, piano
7:36 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D major
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
7:39 a.m.
Hector Berlioz
Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March Opus 24
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
8:01 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet: I. Allegro non troppo in F minor Opus 34
Artemis Quartet Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
8:16 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor