Program Guide 02-16-2016
Almanac
February 16
1709 Charles Avison baptized – English composer and organist (d.1770); best known for his 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti and his Essay on Musical Expression, the first music criticism published in English.
1892 premiere of Jules Massenet's opera Werther at the Imperial Theatre Hofoper in Vienna; loosely based on Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
1907 Alec Wilder – American composer of popular and classical music (d.1980); good friends with Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and other luminaries of American popular music; among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote was I'll Be Around (1942); author of the definitive book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900 – 1950.
1936 Eliahu Inbal – Israeli conductor (83 years old); won first prize at the 1963 Guido Cantelli conducting competition in Novara, Italy.
1938 John Corigliano – American composer (81 years old); his scores have won him the Pulitzer Prize (Symphony No. 2, 2001), five Grammy Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar (The Red Violin, 1997).
1952 Santiago Rodriguez – Cuban-American pianist (67 years old); his Rachmaninoff recordings on the Élan label received the Rosette award in The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music; Silver Medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
00:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Robin Grier
00:02:00 00:30:56 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Avie 2159
00:33:00 00:13:48 Alec Wilder Serenade for Winds
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Richard Auldon Clark Members of Newport 85570
00:49:00 00:30:50 Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major Op 74
Cleveland Quartet Telarc 80351
01:22:00 01:16:47 Johannes Brahms A German Requiem Op 45
Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan Gundula Janowitz, soprano; Eberhard Waechter, baritone; Vienna Singverein DeutGram 4795448
02:41:00 00:27:22 Anton Arensky Piano Quintet in D major Op 51
Ying Quartet Adam Neiman, piano Sono Lumin 92143
03:10:00 00:31:40 Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 1 in E flat major Op 2
Eliahu Inbal Frankfurt Radio Symphony PentaTone 5186157
03:44:00 00:33:21 Ferde Grofé Grand Canyon Suite
Seattle Symphony Gerard Schwarz Ilkka Talvi, violin Delos 3104
04:19:00 00:31:16 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Violin Concerto No. 2 Op 66
SWR Symphony Orch Pieter-Jelle de Boer Tianwa Yang, violin Naxos 573135
04:52:00 00:25:32 Ottorino Respighi Roman Festivals
Mariss Jansons Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra EMI 55600
05:20:00 00:15:50 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major
Apollo's Fire Jeannette Sorrell Olivier Brault, violin; Francis Colpron, recorder; Kathie Stewart, recorder ApolloFire 2005
05:38:00 00:06:34 Eric Fenby Overture "Rossini on Ilkla Moor"
Gavin Sutherland Royal Ballet Sinfonia ASV 2126
06:00 BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC with Jacqueline Gerber
06:05:00 00:02:37 Frederick Delius Hassan: Serenade
Cleveland Sinfonietta Louis Lane Rafael Druian, violin; Martha Dalton, harp Sony 48260
06:16:00 00:05:47 Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in b: Sanctus
Munich Bach Orchestra Karl Richter Munich Bach Choir DeutGram 4795448
06:30:00 00:04:26 Jean-Philippe Rameau The Hen from Concert No. 6 en sextuor
Marc Minkowski Musicians of the Louvre DeutGram 4795448
06:42:00 00:05:57 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo from Piano Concerto No. 14
Vienna Philharmonic Claudio Abbado Maria João Pires, piano DeutGram 4795448
06:57:00 00:02:08 Henry Fillmore March "His Excellency"
Loras John Schissel Virginia Grand Military Band WalkFrog 430
07:04:00 00:03:07 George Gershwin Porgy and Bess: Tempo di Blues
Opus Two William Terwilliger, violin; Andrew Cooperstock, piano Azica 71290
07:14:00 00:05:08 Mikhail Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla: Overture
Lorin Maazel Cleveland Orchestra Decca 4787779
07:29:00 00:04:09 Bruce Broughton Silverado: Themes
Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80141
07:42:00 00:06:17 Ralph Vaughan Williams The Wasps: Ballet & Final Tableau
Michael Stern Kansas City Symphony Reference 129
08:05:00 00:02:35 Leonard Bernstein Candide: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Canadian Brass RCA 68633
08:15:00 00:06:08 Emmanuel Chabrier España
Neeme Järvi Orch de la Suisse Romande Chandos 5122
08:29:00 00:04:14 Aaron Copland Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz
Louis Lane Cleveland Orchestra Sony 62401
08:44:00 00:05:33 Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air
José Serebrier Bournemouth Symphony Naxos 557883
09:09:00 00:05:43 Franz Lehár The Merry Widow: Waltz
Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops Orchestra RCA 68793
09:21:00 00:01:40 Leroy Anderson Jazz Legato
Leonard Slatkin BBC Concert Orchestra Naxos 559356
09:31:00 00:05:13 John Williams The Reivers: Main title
John Williams Symphony Orchestra Sony 51333
09:43:00 00:06:05 Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Susan Palma-Nidel, flute DeutGram 437782
10:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
10:00:00 00:05:02 Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Fêtes d'Hébé: Overture
Raymond Leppard English Chamber Orchestra EMI 65732
10:13:00 00:08:16 Daniel Auber La muette de Portici: Overture
Igor Markevitch Orchestre Lamoureux DeutGram 4795448
10:27:00 00:06:41 Charles Avison Concerto Grosso No. 10 after Scarlatti in D major
Roy Goodman Brandenburg Consort Hyperion 66891
10:41:00 00:08:33 Peter Tchaikovsky Finale from Symphony No. 3 Op 29
Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 449967
11:00:00 00:05:06 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Finale from Flute Concerto in A major
Württemberg Chamber Orch Jörg Faerber Sir James Galway, flute RCA 60244
11:12:00 00:07:13 Ignacio Cervantes Danzas Cubanas
Jorge Luis Prats, piano Decca 4782732
11:25:00 00:07:14 Camille Saint-Saëns Finale from Symphony No. 1 Op 2
Eliahu Inbal Frankfurt Radio Symphony PentaTone 5186157
11:38:00 00:07:51 Josef Strauss Waltz "Water Colors" Op 258
Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 431628
12:04:00 00:04:41 Alec Wilder Slow Dance
Richard Auldon Clark Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Newport 85570
12:16:00 00:08:06 Charles Wildman Gypsy Fury: Swedish Rhapsody
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra William Hudson Santiago Rodriguez, piano Elan 82268
12:30:00 00:06:20 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo in D major
Vladimir Horowitz, piano DeutGram 4795448
12:41:00 00:06:07 Leroy Anderson A Harvard Festival
Leonard Slatkin BBC Concert Orchestra Naxos 559356
12:55:00 00:02:34 Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D minor
Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 4795448
13:00 THE BIG WORK AT ONE
13:02:00 00:21:57 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op 31
Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 4795448
13:31:00 00:05:00 Ludwig van Beethoven The Ruins of Athens: Overture Op 113
Daniel Harding German Chamber Philharmonic VirginClas 45364
13:41:00 00:10:18 Antonín Dvorák Finale from Violin Concerto Op 53
BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda James Ehnes, violin Chandos 10309
14:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
14:01:00 00:05:13 George Frideric Handel Chandos Anthem No. 2: Overture in D minor
Yehudi Menuhin Royal Philharmonic MCA 6231
14:12:00 00:07:59 Gustav Holst The Planets: Venus Op 32
Sir Andrew Davis BBC Philharmonic Chandos 5086
14:19:00 00:08:22 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 39
Karl Böhm Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4793449
14:29:00 00:06:25 Claude Debussy Three Nocturnes: Festivals
Pierre Boulez Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 4795448
15:01:00 00:05:03 Sergei Rachmaninoff Slava Op 11
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano; Emanuela Friscioni, piano Centaur 3062
15:15:00 00:08:32 Johann David Heinichen Concerto Grosso in F major
Reinhard Goebel Cologne Musica Antiqua Archiv 437549
15:30:00 00:07:24 Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A flat Op 47
Krystian Zimerman, piano DeutGram 4795448
15:45:00 00:08:32 Franz Schubert Der Spiegelritter: Overture
Manfred Huss Haydn Sinfonietta, Vienna Koch Intl 1121
16:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Bill O’Connell
16:05:00 00:02:27 Igor Stravinsky Pétrouchka: Russian Dance
Pierre Boulez Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 4795448
16:13:00 00:08:19 Peter Tchaikovsky Scherzo from Symphony No. 6 Op 74
Evgeny Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonic DeutGram 4795448
16:31:00 00:03:59 John Williams JFK: Prologue Symphony Orchestra
John Williams Tim Morrison, trumpet Sony 51333
16:42:00 00:08:45 Philip Glass Violin Concerto: Second movement
Vienna Philharmonic Christoph von Dohnányi Gidon Kremer, violin DeutGram 4795448
17:06:00 00:02:33 John Williams The Force Awakens: March of the Resistance
John Williams Symphony Orchestra Disney 21772
17:14:00 00:06:46 Peter Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Waltz
Mstislav Rostropovich Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4795448
17:28:00 00:05:46 Hubert Bath Love Story: Cornish Rhapsody
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra William Hudson Santiago Rodriguez, piano Elan 82268
17:42:00 00:05:39 Johannes Brahms A German Requiem: How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place
Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan Vienna Singverein DeutGram 4795448
17:48:00 00:03:04 Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D major
Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 4795448
18:00 BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS
18:06:00 00:02:04 Claudio Monteverdi Vespers of the Blessed Virgin: Deus in adjutorium
English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner Monteverdi Choir DeutGram 4795448
18:13:00 00:06:54 Ferruccio Busoni Duettino Concertante after Mozart
Greg Anderson, piano; Elizabeth Joy Roe, piano Steinway 30022
18:28:00 00:09:16 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 23 in D major
Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic Sony 66859
18:44:00 00:05:50 Alfredo Catalani Loreley: Dance of the Water Nymphs
Gianandrea Noseda BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10634
19:00 SYMPHONY AT SEVEN with John Simna
19:02:00 00:16:46 Franz Liszt Symphonic Poem No. 3 'Les Préludes'
Sir Georg Solti London Philharmonic DeutGram 4779525
19:21:00 00:34:38 Johannes Brahms Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor Op 102
Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Antonio Meneses, cello DeutGram 4795448
20:00 WCLV ESSENTIAL CLASSICS
20:02:00 00:18:26 Franz Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa Krystian Zimerman, piano DeutGram 4795448
20:22:00 00:31:54 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major Op 36
Sir John Eliot Gardiner Révolutionaire et Romantique Soli Deo 721
21:00 CHICAGO SYMPHONY with Lisa Simeone - Riccardo Muti, conductor
21:04:00 00:31:00 Mason Bates Anthology of Fantastic Zoology
21:40:00 00:45:30 Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in e Op 64
22:30:00 00:48:10 Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird: Suite (1919)
23:00 QUIET HOUR
23:02 00:05:57 Alec Wilder Air for Flute
Richard Auldon Clark Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Eugenia Zukerman, flute Newport 85570
23:09 00:10:06 Gerald Finzi Introit in F Op 6
Richard Hickox City of London Sinfonia Tasmin Liitle, violin Chandos 9888
23:21:00 00:11:39 Antonín Dvorák: Andante from Symphony No. 4 Op 13
Libor Pesek Czech Philharmonic Orchesta Virgin 91144
12:33:00 00:07:33 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Largo from Piano Concerto No. 4 Op 40
Vassily Petrenko Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Simon Trpceski, piano Avie 2191
12:42:00 00:07:59 Johannes Brahms: Andante from Horn Trio Op 40
Richard King, horn Amy Lee, violin Orli Shaham, piano Albany 1325
12:50:00 00:05:39 Alec Wilder: Air for Bassoon
Richard Auldon Clark Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Kenneth Pasmanack, bassoon Newport 85570
12:57:00 Carl Orff Carmina burana: In trutina
Kate Royal, soprano Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Edward Gardner EMI 94419
