Classical Music Playlist, September 18, 2024
Richard Strauss at age 36 in early 1901.
Richard Strauss composed his F-minor second symphony between 18 and 20 years old. Its world premiere in New York City in December 1884 was the first music of Richard Strauss ever performed in America. After its European premiere the next year, the symphony and Strauss were quite in vogue in Germany and put young composer on the map. Though he remained proud of it — with later reservations of his youthful inexperience but continued to conduct the symphony into his later years — he soon abandoned the symphonic form and moved onto his tone poems such as Don Juan. The early Symphony in F-minor by Richard Strauss is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
MASS IN B MINOR: Kyrie in B minor BWV 232
English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Monteverdi Choir
6:19 a.m.
Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 1 in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:46 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
Afro-Cuban Lullaby (Cancion de Cuna: Berceuse)
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
6:50 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO Overture (Sinfonia)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Tullio Serafin, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in F major Opus 6
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Clarinet Concerto in Eb major Opus 36
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Gunther Herbig, conductor Emma Johnson, clarinet
7:35 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song without Words for cello and piano Opus 109
Haruma Sato, cello; Wataru Hisasue, piano
7:41 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (The tomb of Couperin)
Lyon National Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Anton Arensky
Piano Quintet: Scherzo Opus 51
Ying Quartet Adam Neiman, piano
8:08 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor