Classical Music Playlist, August 27, 2024
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák held a lifelong fondness for his Symphony #3. It was the first of his symphonies ever fully performed, the 1874 premiere conducted by Bedrich Smetana (who was famous at the time whereas Dvořák was mostly still unknown). And as a judge for a state fund, based on the strengths of the symphony, Johannes Brahms awarded Dvořák a financial prize for young composers in need who show promise (though Dvořák didn’t know that Brahms was a judge until much later). Such memories make it understandable that Dvořák fondly leafed through the score a few days before his death. Dvořák’s Symphony #3 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Baldassare Galuppi
Sinfonia della Serenata in F major
English Chamber Orchestra; Jose Luis Garcia, conductor
6:07 a.m.
Alexander MacKenzie
Twelfth Night Opus 40
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins, conductor
6:27 a.m.
Chen Peixun
Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake
Shen Lu, piano
6:32 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute & Harp Concerto in C major K 299
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
7:01 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Andante and Hungarian Rondo Opus 35
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
7:12 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Bamberg Symphony; Claus Peter Flor, conductor Sergei Edelmann, piano
7:41 a.m.
Grace Williams
Sea Sketches: V. Calm Sea in Summer
English Chamber Orchestra; David Atherton, conductor
7:47 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals Tropical
David Russell, guitar
7:51 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Scherzo from "Death and the Maiden" in D minor D 810
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
7:58 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Violin Concerto in G minor Opus 80
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor Elena Urioste, violin