Program Guide 03-18-2016
Almanac
March 18
1844 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian composer (d.1908); member of the group of composers known as ‘The Five’ and a master of orchestration; believed, as did fellow composer Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov, in developing a nationalistic style of classical music.
1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero – Italian composer, musicologist, editor and teacher (d.1973); first editor of the collected works of Monteverdi and Vivaldi; his musical language is characterized by an extreme formal freedom.
1902 first performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet in Vienna by the Rosé Quartet and two extra players; considered his earliest important work; inspired by Richard Dehmel's poem of the same name, combined with the influence of the composer's strong feelings for Mathilde von Zemlinsky (the sister of his teacher Alexander von Zemlinsky), whom he would later marry.
1927 first performance of the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in Philadelphia with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski and the composer as soloist; on the same program was the premiere performance of Rachmaninoff's Three Russian Songs for chorus and orchestra (dedicated to Stokowski); a revised (and much shortened) version of the concerto premiered in Philadelphia on October 17, 1941, with Eugene Ormandy conducting and the composer again as soloist.
1943 Nobuko Imai – Japanese violist (77 years old); teaches in the Conservatory of Amsterdam and in Switzerland.
1950 James Conlon – American conductor (70 years old); current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera, the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony, and the Cincinnati May Festival; he is also Principal Conductor of the RAI National Symphony in Torino, Italy, since 2016. He is the first American to hold that position since the Orchestra was founded in 1931. He is known for his efforts in reviving music by composers suppressed during the Nazi regime
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
CLASSICAL MUSIC with Robin Grier
00:02:00 00:38:08 Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor Sir Charles Mackerras Orch of Age of Enlightenment VirginClas 61305
00:42:00 00:24:23 Johannes Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes Op 52 Leon Fleisher, piano; Katherine Jacobson, piano Sony 506416
01:08:00 00:48:14 Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G major Takács Quartet Decca 452854
01:58:00 00:23:36 Claude Debussy The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian: James Conlon Rotterdam Philharmonic Erato 75330
02:24:00 00:42:14 Antonín Dvorák Symphony No. 4 in D minor Op 13 Libor Pesek Czech Philharmonic Orchestra VirginClas 91144
03:08:00 00:27:09 Arnold Schoenberg Transfigured Night Op 4 Emerson String Quartet Paul Neubauer, viola; Colin Carr, cello Sony 547060
03:37:00 00:20:45 Claude Debussy Khamma James Conlon Rotterdam Philharmonic Erato 75330
04:00:00 00:31:09 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Op 40 Helsinki Philharmonic Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexander Ghindin, piano Ondine 977
04:33:00 00:45:47 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Op 35 Seattle Symphony Gerard Schwarz Maria Larionoff, violin Naxos 572693
05:21:00 00:17:05 Robert Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale Op 52 Thomas Dausgaard Swedish Chamber Orchestra Bis 1569
05:40:00 00:06:00 Edvard Grieg Lyric Pieces Book 10: Woodland Peace Op 71 Per Tengstrand, piano Azica 71207
05:51:00 00:07:35 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Largo from Cello Concerto in A major English Chamber Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis Matt Haimovitz, cello DeutGram 429219
CLASSICAL MUSIC with Jacqueline Gerber
06:07:00 00:03:59 Robert Schumann Fantasy Pieces: In the Night Op 12 Jenny Lin, piano Hänssler 98037
06:15:00 00:07:06 George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire ApolloFire 2002
06:25:00 00:09:31 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship Op 35 Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel Daniel Majeske, violin Decca 4787779
06:33:00 00:02:09 Frédéric Chopin Etude No. 4 in C sharp minor Op 10 Irena Portenko, piano Blue Griff 213
06:40:00 00:06:12 Ludwig van Beethoven Presto from String Quartet No. 14 Op 131 Franz Welser-Möst Cleveland Orchestra TCO 821
06:47:00 00:02:58 Gabriel Pierné Pastorale Op 14 Reykjavik Wind Quintet Chandos 9362
06:52:00 00:03:52 Claude Debussy Pour le piano: Toccata Barry Douglas, piano RCA 68127
06:58:00 00:03:40 John Philip Sousa March 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' Frederick Fennell Cleveland Symphonic Winds Telarc 80099
07:05:00 00:04:57 William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag Leon Fleisher, piano; Katherine Jacobson, piano Sony 506416
07:13:00 00:06:53 Nicolò Paganini Rondo from Violin Concerto No. 1 Op 6 London Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin Midori, violin Philips 420943
07:20:00 00:05:28 Alexander Scriabin Waltz in A flat Op 38 Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Decca 4785334
07:25:00 00:01:53 Traditional The Drunken Sailor Sharon Isbin, guitar Sony 745456
07:30:00 00:04:43 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart La clemenza di Tito: Overture Martin Pearlman Boston Baroque Telarc 31827
07:40:00 00:09:04 Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite John Wilson Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Avie 2194
07:51:00 00:04:27 Felix Mendelssohn Scherzo from Octet for Strings Op 20 Cleveland Quartet Meliora String Quartet Telarc 80142
07:57:00 00:01:18 George Gershwin Of Thee I Sing: Wintergreen for Leonard Slatkin BBC Concert Orchestra Naxos 559357
08:07:00 00:05:02 Giacomo Puccini La bohème: Che gelida manina Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Marco Armiliato Jonas Kaufmann, tenor Decca 10837
08:15:00 00:08:06 Camille Saint-Saëns Finale from Symphony No. 3 Op 78 Seattle Symphony Ludovic Morlot Joseph Adam, organ SeattleSM 1002
08:25:00 00:03:33 Gregorian Chant Ave maris stella Anonymous 4 Harm Mundi 2907546
08:30:00 00:04:38 Sir Edward Elgar La Capricieuse Op 17 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Vernon Handley Natalie Clein, cello EMI 1409
08:40:00 00:08:13 Franz von Suppé The Queen of Spades: Overture Zubin Mehta Vienna Philharmonic CBS 44932
08:50:00 00:04:09 Ludwig van Beethoven Variations on Arne's 'Rule Britannia' Olli Mustonen, piano Decca 436834
08:55:00 00:04:25 James Horner Titanic: My Heart Will Go On La Pietà Angèle Dubeau Angèle Dubeau, violin Analekta 8733
09:05:00 00:17:24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G major George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Sony 86793
09:25:00 00:04:46 Quincy Jones The Color Purple: Theme Varèse Sarabande Symphony David Newman Belinda Broughton, violin Varese Sar 1985
09:35:00 00:06:41 Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine Op 11 City of London Sinfonia John Rutter Cambridge Singers Collegium 109
09:45:00 00:07:46 Josef Strauss Waltz 'My Life is Love and Laughter' Op 263 Franz Welser-Möst Vienna Philharmonic Decca 4782601
09:55:00 00:04:43 Claude Bolling Hispanic Dance Sir Angel Romero, guitar; George Shearing, piano; Shelley Manne, percussion; Ray Brown, bass EMI 47192
CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
10:02:00 00:02:41 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko: Song of India Gil Shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano DeutGram 447640
10:05:00 00:02:37 Frederick Delius Hassan: Serenade Cleveland Sinfonietta Louis Lane Rafael Druian, violin; Martha Dalton, harp Sony 48260
10:10:00 00:13:54 Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata No. 5 in E minor Joshua Smith, flute; Jory Vinikour, harpsichord; Ann Marie Morgan, cello Delos 3408
10:28:00 00:03:03 Joseph Hellmesberger Jr Valse espagnole Daniel Barenboim Vienna Philharmonic Decca 12569
10:33:00 00:03:34 Jean Sibelius Karelia Suite: Intermezzo Op 11 Lorin Maazel Vienna Philharmonic Decca 4785437
10:40:00 00:06:26 Franz Schreker Intermezzo for String Orchestra Op 8 James Conlon Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne EMI 56784
10:47:00 00:02:54 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo alla Turca from Sonata No. 11 Lars Vogt, piano EMI 36080
10:51:00 00:31:09 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Op 40 Helsinki Philharmonic Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexander Ghindin, piano Ondine 977
11:25:00 00:08:36 Jean Joseph Mouret First Suite of Symphonies Paris Orchestral Ensemble Jean-Pierre Wallez Maurice André, trumpet; Bernard Soustrot, trumpet; Guy Touvron, trumpet; Jean-Pierre Leroy, trumpet EMI 64100
11:36:00 00:09:40 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major Op 54 HJ Lim, piano EMI 64952
11:48:00 00:09:16 Dmitri Shostakovich Overture on Russian & Kirghiz Folk Theodore Kuchar National Symphony of Ukraine Brilliant 6735
12:07:00 00:08:21 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov May Night: Overture Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572788
12:17:00 00:07:45 Alexander Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia Valéry Gergiev Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Philips 470840
12:26:00 00:03:18 Eric Coates March "Calling All Workers" Ronald Corp New London Orchestra Hyperion 66868
12:31:00 00:04:23 Gian Carlo Menotti Amelia Goes to the Ball: Overture James Conlon Metropolitan Opera Orchestra RCA 61509
12:39:00 00:07:07 Franz Lehár The Merry Widow: Sirens of the Ball Sir John Eliot Gardiner Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 463185
12:49:00 00:08:39 Sir Malcolm Arnold English Dances Set 1 Op 27 Bryden Thomson Philharmonia Orchestra Chandos 8867
THE BIG WORK AT ONE
13:01:00 00:35:07 Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 2 in B minor Op 16 Alan Gilbert New York Philharmonic DaCapo 220623
13:37:00 00:19:41 Frank Bridge Suite for String Orchestra William Boughton English String Orchestra Nimbus 5068
13:58:00 00:01:32 Francis Poulenc Intermezzo No. 1 in C major Pascal Rogé, piano Decca 425862
CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
14:00:00 00:02:21 Camargo Guàrnieri Brazilian Dance Gustavo Dudamel Simón Bolívar Symphony DeutGram 4778775
14:03:00 00:06:41 Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria Greg Anderson, piano; Elizabeth Joy Roe, piano Steinway 30006
14:11:00 00:15:18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Op 36 Lorin Maazel Cleveland Orchestra Decca 4785437
14:31:00 00:10:48 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko Op 5 Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572787
14:44:00 00:12:44 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op 22 Trio Parnassus MD+G 3307
15:01:00 00:19:01 Franz Schubert Fantasy in F minor Leon Fleisher, piano; Katherine Jacobson, piano Sony 506416
15:23:00 00:06:35 Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 42: Sinfonia Thomas Hengelbrock Freiburg Baroque Orchestra DHM 77289
15:31:00 00:03:35 Aaron Copland Old American Songs Set No. 2: The St Paul Chamber Orchestra Hugh Wolff Thomas Hampson, baritone Teldec 77310
15:38:00 00:07:31 Ralph Vaughan Williams Scherzo: The Waves from "A Sea Symphony" Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano Atlanta Symphony Chorus Telarc 80588
15:49:00 00:07:00 Isaac Albéniz Suite Española: Leyenda 'Asturias' Op 47 Jason Vieaux, guitar Azica 71224
15:58:00 00:07:08 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Three Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572693
CLASSICAL MUSIC with Bill O’Connell
16:09:00 00:01:11 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Shannon Lee, violin; Pamela Mia Paul, piano Telarc 80695
16:13:00 00:13:16 Maurice Ravel La valse Leon Fleisher, piano; Katherine Jacobson, piano Sony 506416
16:30:00 00:09:10 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade: The Young Prince & Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel Daniel Majeske, violin Decca 4787779
16:42:00 00:07:02 Manuel de Falla Pedrelliana from 'Homenajes' Juanjo Mena BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10694
16:52:00 00:03:11 Leroy Anderson Old MacDonald Had a Farm Leonard Slatkin BBC Concert Orchestra Naxos 559357
16:57:00 00:02:32 Carlos Gardel Por una cabeza European Film Philharmonic Christoph Israel Milos Karadaglic, guitar DeutGram 17000
17:05:00 00:04:57 William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag Leon Fleisher, piano; Katherine Jacobson, piano Sony 506416
17:13:00 00:11:06 Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor American Classical Orchestra Thomas Crawford Marc Schachman, oboe Centaur 3108
17:26:00 00:08:39 Jacques Offenbach La belle Hélène: Overture Yan Pascal Tortelier BBC Philharmonic Chandos 9765
17:40:00 00:04:23 Gian Carlo Menotti Amelia Goes to the Ball: Overture James Conlon Metropolitan Opera Orchestra RCA 61509
17:46:00 00:03:39 Dmitri Shostakovich Hamlet: Ball at the Palace Op 116 Theodore Kuchar National Symphony of Ukraine Brilliant 6735
17:52:00 00:02:52 Richard Rodgers Oklahoma: The Surrey With the Fringe on Keith Lockhart Boston Pops Orchestra RCA 63835
17:57:00 00:02:08 Johann Strauss Jr Polka 'At the Hunt' Op 373 Howard Griffiths Brandenburg State Orchestra Klanglogo 1506
DINNER CLASSICS
18:09:00 00:14:35 Gian-Francesco Malipiero Vivaldiana Peter Maag Filarmonia Veneta MarcoPolo 223397
18:25:00 00:03:58 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers Robert Porco Cleveland Orchestra MAA 2014
18:33:00 00:02:44 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Snow Maiden: Bird's Dance Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572787
18:37:00 00:18:19 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Mlada: Suite Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572787
SYMPHONY AT SEVEN with John Simna
19:02:00 00:19:56 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 88 in G major George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Sony 768779
19:24:00 00:16:14 Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite Op 56 Ludovic Morlot Seattle Symphony SeattleSM 1004
19:42:00 00:13:51 Johan Wagenaar Overture to 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Op 23 Riccardo Chailly Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Decca 425833
19:58:00 00:01:19 Alexander Glazunov Ballet Scenes: Scherzino Op 52 Edo de Waart Minnesota Orchestra Telarc 80347
WCLV ESSENTIAL CLASSICS
20:02:00 00:10:35 Alexander Borodin Prince Igor: Polovetsian Dances George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Sony 93019
20:15:00 00:41:58 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Op 35 Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel Daniel Majeske, violin Decca 4787779
20:57:00 00:02:02 Frédéric Chopin Waltz No. 4 in F major Op 34 Maurizio Pollini, piano DeutGram 14190
21:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER with Elliott Forrest: Folk Traditions
21:03:00 00:25:40 Antonín Dvorák String Quartet No. 12 in F major Op 96 Stamitz Quartet Bayer 100141
21:31:00 00:25:05 Ernö Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 2 in E flat minor Op 26 Audubon Quartet Lydia Artymiw, piano Centaur 2503
22:00 CITY CLUB FORUM – recorded today at The City Club of Cleveland, a citadel of free speech, No Labels Theory of the Case: To Make America Work! - Nancy Jacobson, Founder and CEO of No Labels
QUIET HOUR
23:02:00 00:06:26 Franz Schreker Intermezzo for String Orchestra Op 8 James Conlon Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne EMI 56784
23:08:00 00:09:07 Karl Goldmark In the Garden from "Rustic Wedding" Stephen Gunzenhauser National Symphony of Ireland Naxos 550745
23:20:00 00:06:42 Stephen Feigenbaum Serenade for Strings Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80745
23:26:00 00:11:45 Richard Strauss Sextet for Strings from "Capriccio" Op 85 Herbert Blomstedt Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Decca 4645
23:40:00 00:05:07 Francisco Tárrega Capricho árabe Jason Vieaux, guitar Azica 71287
23:45:00 00:09:20 Jean Sibelius Andantino from Symphony No. 3 Op 52 Jukka-Pekka Saraste Finnish Radio Symphony Orch RCA 60434
23:56:00 00:02:56 Claude Debussy Preludes Book 1: Danseuses de Delphes Pascal Rogé, piano Decca 4785437
23:56:00 00:03:24 Erik Satie Gymnopédie No. 2 Bruce Levingston, piano Sono Lumin 92148
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