Classical Music Playlist, December 2, 2024
Danish composer Carl Nielsen (appx 1908)
Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his Symphony No. 5 after World War I, which had changed everything. The symphony works its way through chaos, including ad lib drums making up their own erratic rhythm (like sounds of war), to a rebuilt musical world completely redefined. As the composer said, “no single one of us is the same as before the war.” Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5, with Herbert Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Symphony, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in F major Opus 1/1
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
6:08 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest" in D minor Opus 31/2
John O'Conor, piano
6:33 a.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4: I. Preludio W284
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
6:37 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor Opus 129
London Symphony Orchestra; Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor Janos Starker, cello
7:02 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Gloriana: Courtly Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488
Camerata Academica Salzburg; Sandor Vegh, conductor Andras Schiff, piano
7:41 a.m.
Olivia Belli
Sapias Latin: "have good taste/sense"
Scoring Berlin; Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor Mari Samuelsen, violin
7:44 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Notturno in G minor H337
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
7:50 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 HWV 314
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Michael Torke
Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor Opus 56
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:44 a.m.
Amy Beach
Scottish Legend Opus 54/1
Alan Feinberg, piano
8:49 a.m.
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy: IV. Finale Opus 46
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Joshua Bell, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
8:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" in F major Opus 68
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
9:41 a.m.
Hayato Sumino
Nocturne II - After Dawn
Hayato Sumino, piano
9:45 a.m.
Marie Awadis
Etude No. 3: Ballade
Marie Awadis, piano
9:49 a.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Joaquin Turina
The Bullfighter's Prayer Opus 34
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:21 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 3. Balada de la doncella enamorada
Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:28 a.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Ballet Suite (1919)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
10:49 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Romance in G major Opus 39
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor Elena Urioste, violin
11:00 a.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Naples Philharmonic; Erich Kunzel, conductor David Russell, guitar
11:23 a.m.
Grace Williams
Sea Sketches: V. Calm Sea in Summer
English Chamber Orchestra; David Atherton, conductor
11:30 a.m.
Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
City of Prague Philharmonic; Nic Raine, conductor
11:36 a.m.
Georges Bizet
CARMEN: Toreador song
London Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:40 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (The tomb of Couperin)
Lyon Opera Orchestra; Kent Nagano, conductor
11:58 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 6/5 HWV 323
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
12:14 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Baires Promenade
Cortango
12:16 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Concerto for Mandolin: III. Rondo in G major
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor Avi Avital, mandolin
12:22 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
European Brandenburg Ensemble; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
12:38 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 "Romantic": I. Bewegt, Nicht Zu Schell in Eb major
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Karl Bohm, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
1:10 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Opus 66
Claremont Trio
1:40 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 3 in Ab major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
1:46 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 "Carnival in Pest" in D major
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 5 Opus 50
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
2:36 p.m.
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Kristin Lee, violin; Jun Cho, piano
2:43 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams": III. Scherzo in G minor Opus 13
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
2:51 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Mark Bennett, trumpet; Michael Harrison, trumpet
3:00 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
The Thieving Magpie (LA GAZZA LADRA): Overture
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
3:10 p.m.
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz
Paradetas
The Harp Consort
3:13 p.m.
Tielmann Susato
Allemaingien (1-3, 5-8)
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
3:24 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
3:50 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet: IV. Finale in Eb major Opus 47
Emerson String Quartet Menahem Pressler, piano
4:00 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Opus 18
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
4:33 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
WILD SWANS: Eliza Aria
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Ola Rudner, conductor Jane Sheldon, soprano
4:37 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons: December "Christmas" Opus 37
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
4:41 p.m.
Michael Torke
December
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
4:51 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Blue Danube Waltz Opus 314
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
5:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in Bb major Opus 6/7 HWV 325
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
5:16 p.m.
Zenobia Powell Perry
Piano Potpurri: No. 5. A Jazz Trifle
LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, piano
5:18 p.m.
Lalo Schifrin
from La Nouvelle Orleans
Imani Winds
5:23 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 100 "Military" in G major
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
5:46 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR: Polovetsian Dances
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor Atlanta Symphony Chorus; Robert Shaw Festival Singers
6:00 p.m.
Holiday Programming
All Is Bright SEGMENT 1
Lynne Warfel, host
6:31 p.m.
Holiday Programming
All Is Bright SEGMENT 2
Lynne Warfel, host
