Program Guide 03-10-2016

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March 10

1785 first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in Vienna with the composer as soloist; the work had been completed the previous day; the Géza Anda recording for Deutsche Grammophon of the second movement Andante was featured in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan, a name that has been attached to this concerto ever since.

1839 Dudley Buck – American composer, organist and writer on music (d.1909); best known today for his organ composition, Concert Variations on the Star-Spangled Banner Op 23, which was later arranged into an orchestral overture.

1844 Pablo de Sarasate – Spanish violinist and composer (d.1908); on his talents as performer and composer, music critic George Bernard Shaw said that he "left criticism gasping miles behind him"; a number of works were dedicated to Sarasate, including Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2, Édouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Camille Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 and Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, and Alexander Mackenzie's Pibroch Suite.

1877 first performance of Alexander Borodin's Symphony No. 2 by the Russian Musical Society in St. Petersburg; the most important large-scale work completed by the composer; took seven years to complete because Borodin’s time was spent on scientific research and teaching duties, as well as writing his opera Prince Igor.

1880 first performance of John Knowles Paine’s Symphony No. 2 ‘In Springtime’; the usually staid Boston audience went bonkers, complete with handkerchief waving and shouting; historian Louis Elson compared the work’s final movement to Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1, also subtitled ‘Spring’.

1892 Arthur Honegger – Swiss composer, though born in France and spent a large part of his life in Paris (d.1955); associated with Les Six, a group that also included composers Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, and Louis Durey; he is featured on the Swiss 20 franc banknote.

1947 Andrew Parrott – English conductor, early-music scholar (73 years old); in 1973 founded the Taverner Choir, Consort and Players, early music ensembles based in London.

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Mar. 1, 2016

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CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER

00:02:00   00:28:18   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major    Cleveland Orchestra   George Szell   Robert Casadesus, piano   Sony   780837
00:32:00   00:49:18   Sir Edward Elgar   Symphony No. 1 in A flat major Op 55       George Hurst   BBC Philharmonic   Naxos   550634
01:23:00   00:16:48   Manuel de Falla   El amor brujo: Suite           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
01:42:00   00:53:18   Ernö Dohnányi   Symphony No. 1 in D minor Op 9       Matthias Bamert   BBC Philharmonic   Chandos   9647
02:37:00   00:10:21   Arthur Honegger   Concertino for Piano & Orchestra   Montreal Symphony Orchestra   Charles Dutoit   Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano   Decca   452448
02:49:00   00:53:19   Franz Schubert   Mass No. 6 in E flat major    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra   Robert Shaw   Benita Valente, soprano; Marietta Simpson, mezzo; Jon Humphrey, tenor; Glenn Siebert, tenor; Myron Myers, bass   Telarc   80212
03:44:00   00:25:05   Richard Strauss   Piano Sonata in B minor Op 5           David Golub, piano   Arabesque   6664
04:11:00   00:27:59   Alexander Borodin   Symphony No. 2 in B minor        Sir Simon Rattle   Berlin Philharmonic   EMI   273
04:41:00   00:36:55   Ludwig van Beethoven   Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Op 15   Symphony of the Air   Josef Krips   Arthur Rubinstein, piano   RCA   300350
05:22:00   00:16:15   Carlos Baguer   Symphony No. 18 in B flat       Matthias Bamert   London Mozart Players   Chandos   9456
05:40:00   00:07:04   E. J. Moeran   In the Mountain Country       Vernon Handley   Ulster Orchestra   Chandos   8639
05:52:00   00:05:25   Sergei Rachmaninoff   Vocalise Op 34       Michael Tilson Thomas   San Francisco Symphony   SF Sym   60

BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER

06:07:00   00:03:19   Bedrich Smetana   The Two Widows: Polka       Christoph von Dohnányi   Cleveland Orchestra   Decca   444867
06:15:00   00:07:05   Henry Purcell   Abdelazer: Suite       Jeanne Lamon   Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra   Reference   2101
06:25:00   00:03:09   Johann Sebastian Bach   Violin Partita No. 3: Gavotte           Tasmin Little, violin   Naked Vn   2008
06:30:00   00:04:20   Camille Saint-Saëns   Marche militaire française Op 60       Geoffrey Simon   London Philharmonic   Cala   4031
06:33:00   00:02:07   Max Steiner   Jezebel: Waltz       John Mauceri   Hollywood Bowl Orchestra   Philips   438685
06:40:00   00:06:25   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Rondo from Piano Concerto No. 21   Orpheus Chamber Orchestra       Jonathan Biss, piano   EMI   17270
06:47:00   00:03:42   Antonio Salieri   Cublai Overture       Matthias Bamert   London Mozart Players   Chandos   9877
06:53:00   00:02:32   Goff Richards   Homage to the Noble Grape: Champagne           London Brass   Teldec   46069
06:55:00   00:03:11   Sir Malcolm Arnold   The Padstow Lifeboat Op 94       Jerry Junkin   Dallas Wind Symphony   Reference   66
07:05:00   00:05:38   Antonio Vivaldi   Concerto for Strings in G major        Andrew Parrott   Taverner Players   EMI   54208
07:13:00   00:09:18   Antonín Dvorák   Carnival Overture Op 92       George Szell   Cleveland Orchestra   Sony   63151
07:23:00   00:02:50   Manuel de Falla   The Three-Cornered Hat: Miller's Dance           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
07:25:00   00:02:12   Aaron Copland   Billy the Kid: Celebration       Hugh Wolff   St Paul Chamber Orchestra   Teldec   77310
07:30:00   00:06:05   Charles Ives   A Concord Symphony: The Alcotts       Michael Tilson Thomas   San Francisco Symphony   SF Sym   60
07:40:00   00:07:18   Johannes Brahms   Scherzo from Piano Quintet Op 34   Cleveland Orch String Quartet       Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano   Decca   425839
07:50:00   00:04:55   Richard Wagner   Tannhäuser: Pilgrims' Chorus   Atlanta Symphony Orchestra   Robert Shaw   Men of; Atlanta Symphony Chorus   Telarc   80333
07:55:00   00:02:10   Anthony Holborne   Almaine 'The Night Watch'       Jordi Savall   Hespèrion XXI   AliaVox   9813

BBC NEWS

08:07:00   00:04:45   Pablo de Sarasate   Jota aragonesa Op 27           Julia Fischer, violin; Milana Chernyavska, piano   Decca   4785950
08:15:00   00:09:03   Michael Torke   Bright Blue Music       David Zinman   Baltimore Symphony Orchestra   Ecstatic   92201
08:25:00   00:05:08   Claude Debussy   Estampes: La soirée dans Grenade           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
08:33:00   00:03:11   Sir Edward Elgar   Chanson de matin Op 15   Royal Liverpool Philharmonic   Vernon Handley   Natalie Clein, cello   EMI   1409
08:40:00   00:06:17   Alexander Borodin   Finale from Symphony No. 2       Gerard Schwarz   Seattle Symphony   Naxos   572786
08:47:00   00:02:59   Duke Ellington   The River: Giggling Rapids       JoAnn Falletta   Buffalo Philharmonic   Naxos   559737
08:52:00   00:05:33   John Williams   Far and Away: Themes   La Pietà   Angèle Dubeau   Angèle Dubeau, violin   Analekta   8733
08:58:00   00:03:25   Percy Grainger   Irish Tune from County Derry           Marc-André Hamelin, piano   Hyperion   66884
09:05:00   00:17:11   Percy Grainger   Lincolnshire Posy       Jerry Junkin   Dallas Wind Symphony   Reference   117
09:35:00   00:03:54   Pablo de Sarasate   Spanish Dance No. 6 'Zapateado' Op 23           Nicola Hall, guitar   Decca   430839
09:55:00   00:03:47   Robert Schumann   Scherzo from String Quartet No. 1 Op 41           Cavani String Quartet   Azica   71203

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA

10:01:00   00:02:58   Manuel de Falla   Homenaje 'Le tombeau de Claude Debussy'           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
10:04:00   00:03:46   Claude Debussy   Preludes Book 2: La puerta del vino           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
10:11:00   00:13:06   Peter Tchaikovsky   Festival Overture Op 15       Geoffrey Simon   London Symphony Orchestra   Chandos   9190
10:27:00   00:03:03   Fritz Kreisler   Liebesfreud   Orpheus Chamber Orchestra       Gil Shaham, violin   DeutGram   449923
10:32:00   00:03:49   Ludwig van Beethoven   Scherzo from Symphony No. 8 Op 93       Sir John Eliot Gardiner   Révolutionaire et Romantique   Soli Deo   721
10:40:00   00:07:04   Franz Joseph Haydn   Andante from Symphony No. 101       Marc Minkowski   Musicians of the Louvre   Naïve   5176
10:50:00   00:26:36   Robert Schumann   Piano Quartet in E flat major Op 47           Wu Han, piano; Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel, cello   DeutGram   22906
11:00:00   00:03:25   Dmitri Shostakovich   Tahiti Trot 'Tea for Two' Op 16       Mariss Jansons   Philadelphia Orchestra   EMI   55601
11:20:00   00:10:21   Arthur Honegger   Concertino for Piano & Orchestra   Montreal Symphony Orchestra   Charles Dutoit   Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano   Decca   452448
11:33:00   00:08:37   Pablo de Sarasate   Scottish Airs Op 34           Adele Anthony, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano   Canary   7
11:45:00   00:08:57   Michael Haydn   Symphony No. 34 in E flat major        Matthias Bamert   London Mozart Players   Chandos   9352

BBC NEWS

12:06:00   00:07:45   Carl Maria von Weber   Jubilation Overture       Gustav Kuhn   Dresden State Orchestra   Capriccio   10052
12:17:00   00:06:09   Dudley Buck   Festival Overture on 'The Star-Spangled   St Louis Symphony   Leonard Slatkin   St Louis Symphony Chorus   RCA   60983
12:25:00   00:05:38   Sergei Prokofiev   War and Peace: New Year's Eve Waltz       Neeme Järvi   Philharmonia Orchestra   Chandos   10538
12:33:00   00:03:54   Manuel de Falla   El amor brujo: Ritual Fire Dance           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
12:40:00   00:04:37   Claude Debussy   Images, Book 1: Reflets dans l'eau           Simon Trpceski, piano   EMI   272
12:47:00   00:09:17   Louis Moreau Gottschalk   Bamboula Op 2           Cecile Licad, piano   Naxos   559145
12:57:00   00:02:01   Léo Delibes   Sylvia: Pizzicato       Martin West   San Francisco Ballet Orchestra   Reference   125

BIG WORK AT ONE

13:00:00   00:48:54   Igor Stravinsky   The Firebird       Valéry Gergiev   Mariinsky Theater Orchestra   Philips   446715
13:51:00   00:06:10   Peter Tchaikovsky   Suite No. 2: Waltz Op 53       Neeme Järvi   Detroit Symphony   Chandos   9454
14:01:00   00:04:31   Pablo de Sarasate   Introduction & Tarantella Op 43   Abbey Road Ensemble   Lawrence Foster   Itzhak Perlman, violin   EMI   55475
14:06:00   00:02:25   Pablo de Sarasate   Gavota de Mignon Op 16           Gil Shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano   Canary   7
14:11:00   00:13:36   Johann Sebastian Bach   Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major    Australian Chamber Orchestra   Richard Tognetti   Angela Hewitt, piano   Hyperion   67308
14:27:00   00:10:23   Luigi Cherubini   Concert Overture in G major        Sir Neville Marriner   Academy St. Martin in Fields   EMI   54438
14:41:00   00:11:48   Francis Poulenc   Suite Française after Claude Gervaise           Eric Parkin, piano   Chandos   8847
14:54:00   00:04:03   Adolphe Adam   Giselle: Grand Pas de Deux       Erich Kunzel   Cincinnati Pops Orchestra   Telarc   80625
15:01:00   00:16:48   Manuel de Falla   El amor brujo: Suite           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
15:20:00   00:11:03   Richard Wagner   Tristan und Isolde: Act 1 Prelude       Fabio Luisi   Philharmonia Zürich   Accentus   102
15:33:00   00:03:43   Antonio Vivaldi   Concerto for Strings in G major        Jeanne Lamon   Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra   Sony   62719
15:40:00   00:03:52   Ottorino Respighi   Ancient Airs Suite No. 2: Danza rustica       Jesús López-Cobos   Lausanne Chamber Orchestra   Telarc   80309
15:46:00   00:08:55   Leos Janácek   Moravian Dances       Antoni Wit   Warsaw Philharmonic   Naxos   572695
15:58:00   00:03:53   Manuel de Falla   The Three-Cornered Hat: Dance of the           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL

16:06:00   00:03:15   Manuel de Falla   La vida breve: Spanish Dance No. 1           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
16:13:00   00:11:06   John Knowles Paine   Finale from Symphony No. 2 Op 34       JoAnn Falletta   Ulster Orchestra   Naxos   559748
16:28:00   00:04:05   Pablo de Sarasate   Spanish Dance No. 5 'Playera' Op 23           Julia Fischer, violin; Milana Chernyavska, piano   Decca   4785950
16:34:00   00:05:34   Pablo de Sarasate   Spanish Dance No. 7 'Vito' Op 26           Julia Fischer, violin; Milana Chernyavska, piano   Decca   4785950
16:41:00   00:07:14   Giovanni Gabrieli   Sonata No. 20 à 22   Taverner Consort   Andrew Parrott   Members of   EMI   54265
16:51:00   00:03:38   Arthur Honegger   Danse de la chèvre           Werner Zumsteg, flute   Nimbus   5327
16:57:00   00:02:17   Dmitri Shostakovich   Fugue No. 7 in A major Op 87       Matthias Maute   Ensemble Caprice   Analekta   9996
17:05:00   00:05:39   Randall Thompson   Alleluia       Timothy Seelig   Turtle Creek Chorale   Reference   49
17:26:00   00:09:08   Eric Whitacre   Alleluia       Eric Whitacre   Eric Whitacre Singers   Decca   16636
17:40:00   00:05:17   Alexander Borodin   Scherzo from Symphony No. 2       Sir Simon Rattle   Berlin Philharmonic   EMI   273
17:47:00   00:03:08   Cécile Chaminade   Etudes de concert: Scherzo Op 35           Joanne Polk, piano   Steinway   30037
17:52:00   00:02:35   Johannes Brahms   Hungarian Dance No. 20 in E minor        Marin Alsop   London Philharmonic   Naxos   557429
17:57:00   00:02:01   Jean-Marie Leclair   Recréation de Musique No. 2: Badinage           Florilegium   Channel   7595

BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH BILL O'CONNELL

18:09:00   00:14:23   John Knowles Paine   Departure of Winter from Symphony No. 2 Op 34       JoAnn Falletta   Ulster Orchestra   Naxos   559748
18:26:00   00:03:46   Manuel de Falla   La vida breve: Spanish Dance No. 2           Vanessa Perez, piano; Stephen Buck, piano   Steinway   30036
18:32:00   00:03:46   Claude Debussy   Preludes Book 2: La puerta del vino           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
18:38:00   00:14:49   Peter Tchaikovsky   Mozartiana Suite: Theme & Variations Op 61       Neeme Järvi   Philharmonia Orchestra   Chandos   8777
18:55:00   00:03:28   Manuel de Falla   The Three-Cornered Hat: Neighbors' Dance           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036

KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA

19:02:00   00:22:54   Antonín Dvorák   Serenade for Winds in D minor Op 44   Vienna Philharmonic   Myung-Whun Chung   Members of   DeutGram   471613
19:27:00   00:27:59   Alexander Borodin   Symphony No. 2 in B minor        Sir Simon Rattle   Berlin Philharmonic   EMI   273
19:57:00   00:02:22   Manuel Ponce   Prelude in the Baroque style           Christopher Parkening, guitar; David Brandon, guitar   EMI   49406

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA

20:02:00 00:25:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major Op 21 Bruno Weil Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Tafelmusik 1032
20:29:00 00:27:32 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major Camerata Salzburg Géza Anda Géza Anda, piano DeutGram 4793449

SYMPHONYCAST WITH ALISON YOUNG - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Lang Lang, piano

21:04:00   00:38:21   Peter Tchaikovsky   Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op 23
21:44:00   00:01:41   Frédéric Chopin   Waltz No. 6 in D flat major Op 64
21:47:00   00:36:39   Carl Nielsen   Symphony No. 4 Op 29       Sir Simon Rattle
22:25:00   00:31:45   Robert Schumann   Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op 97   LA Philharmonic--Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor (DeutGram 400062)

SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH JOHN SIMNA

23:02:00   00:02:58   Manuel de Falla   Homenaje 'Le tombeau de Claude Debussy'           Vanessa Perez, piano   Steinway   30036
23:04:00   00:06:09   Erik Satie   Gymnopédies Nos. 1 & 3       Louis Lane   Cleveland Orchestra   Sony   63056
23:11:00   00:06:21   Claude Debussy   Images, Book 1: Hommage à Rameau           Simon Trpceski, piano   EMI   272
23:19:00   00:07:01   Ludwig van Beethoven   Andante from Piano Quartet Op 16           Wu Han, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Beth Guterman, viola; David Finckel, cello   CMS Studio   82503
23:26:00   00:06:33   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21   Orpheus Chamber Orchestra       Jonathan Biss, piano   EMI   17270
23:35:00   00:09:08   Peter Tchaikovsky   Swan Lake: White Swan Pas de Deux   Mariinsky Theater Orchestra   Valéry Gergiev   Kirill Terentiev, violin; Zenon Zalitsailo, cello   Decca   10104
23:44:00   00:09:18   Alexander Glazunov   Mazurka in G major Op 18       Konstantin Krimets   Moscow Symphony   Naxos   553538
23:55:00   00:03:34   Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov   Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1: In       David Zinman   Baltimore Symphony Orchestra   Telarc   80378