Program Guide 03-24-2016
Almanac
March 24
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated his six ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg, whose orchestra apparently never performed them.
1784 first performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof in Vienna, with the composer as soloist; many pianists consider this to be one of the more difficult of Mozart's concertos.
1868 first performance of the Brahms Piano Quintet Op 34, in Paris; before being published in 1865, the work had undergone at least two transformations, starting as a string quintet and then turning into a Sonata for 2 Pianos (which survives as Op 34b).
1924 first performance of the Sibelius Symphony No. 7 (as ‘Fantasia sinfonica No. 1’) in Stockholm, conducted by the composer, who was unsure what name to give the piece, and only decided it was a symphony after long deliberation.
1928 Byron Janis – American pianist (91 years old); made a French film on Chopin that was shown around the world.
1930 Cristobal Halffter – Spanish composer (88 years old); the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter.
1932 first performance of Randall Thompson’s Symphony No. 2 by the Rochester Philharmonic, Howard Hanson conducting; the composer’s biographer Donald Francis Urrows says that in this work, Thompson “accomplished two things: he wrote an integrated work of large dimensions along the ‘classical’ model... and he put into his music an element of nationalism.”
1937 Benjamin Luxon – English baritone (82 years old); now retired; Benjamin Britten created the title role of his 1971 television opera Owen Wingrave for Mr. Luxon.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER
00:02:00 00:19:18 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Avie 2207
00:23:00 01:02:28 Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil Op 37 Sigvards Klava Latvian Radio Choir Ondine 1206
01:27:00 00:11:25 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Avie 2207
01:40:00 00:57:13 Nitin Sawhney Water Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
02:39:00 00:21:25 Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C major Op 105 Paavo Berglund Helsinki Philharmonic EMI 68646
03:02:00 00:38:09 Robert Schumann Symphonic Etudes Op 13 Daniel Gortler, piano Roméo 7281
03:42:00 00:40:55 Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 Cleveland Orch String Quartet Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Decca 425839
04:25:00 00:21:08 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major Apollo's Fire Jeannette Sorrell Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord; Michael Lynn, flute; Cynthia Roberts, violin Avie 2207
04:48:00 00:29:34 Franz Schubert Symphony No. 10 in D major Sir Charles Mackerras Scottish Chamber Orchestra Hyperion 67000
05:19:00 00:16:40 Cécile Chaminade Piano Sonata in C minor Op 21 Joanne Polk, piano Steinway 30037
05:38:00 00:06:15 Alexander Glazunov Wedding March Op 21 Igor Golovschin Moscow Symphony Naxos 553839
05:52:00 00:05:24 Ottorino Respighi Three Botticelli Pictures: The Birth of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra DeutGram 437533
BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER
06:07:00 00:03:15 Traditional Shaker Song "Peace" Dale Warland Dale Warland Singers Gothic 49243
06:13:00 00:06:13 Felix Mendelssohn Finale from Violin Concerto Op 64 Göttingen Symphony Orchestra Christoph-Mathias Mueller Rachel Barton Pine, violin Cedille 144
06:20:00 00:03:08 Claude Pascal Ouverture from Wind Octet Robert J. Ambrose Atlanta Chamber Winds Albany 1127
06:25:00 00:03:14 Sergei Rachmaninoff Prelude No. 3 in B flat major Op 23 Sviatoslav Richter, piano DeutGram 4795448
06:30:00 00:05:02 C. Monteverdi & T. Merula Two Ciacconas Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Members of Tafelmusik 1001
06:40:00 00:05:02 Sérgio Assad Gypsy Slopes from 'Interchange' Delaware Symphony David Amado William Kanengiser, guitar; Scott Tennant, guitar; John Dearman, guitar; Matthew Greif, guitar Telarc 31754
06:45:00 00:02:12 Zoltán Kodály Háry János: Viennese Musical Clock Steven Smith Cleveland Orch Youth Orch MAA 10706
06:50:00 00:02:16 Leroy Anderson The Syncopated Clock Leonard Slatkin BBC Concert Orchestra Naxos 559357
06:54:00 00:01:30 Dmitri Shostakovich Ballet Suite No. 1: Galop Constantine Orbelian Moscow Chamber Orchestra Delos 3257
06:55:00 00:03:06 John W. Bratton The Teddy Bears' Picnic Ronald Corp New London Orchestra Hyperion 67067
07:05:00 00:04:09 George Gershwin Prelude No. 2 'Blue Lullaby' Burning River Brass BurnRiver 2013
07:10:00 00:07:43 Johann Adolf Scheibe Sinfonia à 4 in B flat Andrew Manze Concerto Copenhagen Chandos 550
07:20:00 00:02:12 Jennifer Higdon Echo Dash Hilary Hahn, violin; Cory Smythe, piano DeutGram 19103
07:25:00 00:02:13 Sergei Prokofiev Cinderella: Gavotte Vladimir Ashkenazy Cleveland Orchestra Decca 410162
07:30:00 00:04:41 Johann Joseph Fux Rondeau à 7 in C Reinhard Goebel Cologne Musica Antiqua Challenge 72032
07:32:00 00:03:20 Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Partita No. 3: Preludio Tasmin Little, violin Naked Vn 2008
07:40:00 00:08:10 Hans Gál Buffoneria from Symphony No. 4 Op 105 Kenneth Woods Orchestra of the Swan Avie 2231
07:50:00 00:04:31 Leos Janácek In the Mists: No. 1 Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
07:55:00 00:02:16 Anonymous Spiritual "The Battle of Jericho" Karen P. Thomas Seattle Pro Musica SeattlePro 9806
BBC NEWS
08:07:00 00:05:45 Franz Schubert Finale from Piano Quintet Cleveland Quartet John O'Conor, piano; James Vandemark, bass; Members of Telarc 80225
08:15:00 00:07:29 Joaquín Rodrigo En Aranjuez con tu amor London Symphony Orchestra Klauspeter Seibel Sir James Galway, flute DeutGram 3024
08:25:00 00:02:10 Robert Schumann Album for the Young: Andante cantabile Op 68 Stephen Hough, piano VirginClas 90770
08:30:00 00:03:36 Arthur Foote Suite for Strings: Praeludium Op 63 Mikhail Gurewitsch do.gma chamber orchestra MD+G 9121717
08:32:00 00:02:46 Gilbert & Sullivan HMS Pinafore: A British tar King's Singers RCA 61885
08:40:00 00:07:25 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondeau from Violin Concerto No. 4 Schleswig-Holstein Festival Christoph Eschenbach Ray Chen, violin Sony 544775
08:50:00 00:03:10 Pietro Castrucci Finale with Echo from Concerto Grosso Op 3 Catherine Mackintosh Orch of Age of Enlightenment BBC 201
08:55:00 00:07:14 Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex: Paul Bateman City of Prague Philharmonic Silva 3010
09:05:00 00:17:46 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major Op 10 Peter Takács, piano Cambria 1175
09:29:00 00:05:50 Johann Strauss Jr Kiss Waltz Op 400 Franz Welser-Möst Vienna Philharmonic Sony 544071
09:38:00 00:02:39 Richard Rodgers The King and I: Shall We Dance? Keith Lockhart Boston Pops Orchestra RCA 63835
09:55:00 00:03:43 Leonard Bernstein Candide: Make Our Garden Grow Boston Pops Orchestra John Williams Tanglewood Festival Chorus Sony 48224
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA
10:04:00 00:05:09 Maurice Ravel Jeux d'eau Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
10:09:00 00:04:30 Eric Whitacre Water Night Noel Edison Elora Festival Singers Naxos 559677
10:15:00 00:12:20 Ludwig van Beethoven Scherzo from Symphony No. 9 Op 125 Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 4776409
10:30:00 00:04:15 Peter Tchaikovsky Nocturne in C sharp minor Op 19 Munich Radio Orchestra Ari Rasilainen Sol Gabetta, cello RCA 75951
10:39:00 00:06:20 Frédéric Chopin Nocturne No. 12 in G major Op 37 Byron Janis, piano EMI 56780
10:47:00 00:03:10 Anonymous Gigue-Duet from Concerto in D for Wind Ensemble Bob van Asperen Wolfgang Basch, trumpet DHM 7976
10:52:00 00:27:46 Randall Thompson Symphony No. 2 in E minor Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Sony 60594
11:22:00 00:08:31 Luigi Cherubini Anacréon: Overture Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields EMI 54438
11:33:00 00:08:29 Vincenzo Bellini Oboe Concerto in E flat major City of London Sinfonia Nicholas Ward Anthony Camden, oboe Naxos 553433
11:43:00 00:09:01 Johannes Brahms Finale from Symphony No. 2 Op 73 Vladimir Ashkenazy Cleveland Orchestra Decca 433549
11:53:00 00:04:32 Jacques Offenbach Le Papillon: Valse des rayons Richard Bonynge London Symphony Orchestra Decca 444827
BBC NEWS
12:06:00 00:08:03 Gioacchino Rossini La Cenerentola: Overture Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe DeutGram 431653
12:16:00 00:08:21 Mily Balakirev Oriental Fantasy 'Islamey' Op 18 Valéry Gergiev Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Philips 470840
12:28:00 00:05:43 Franz Liszt Paraphrase on Verdi's 'Rigoletto' Byron Janis, piano RCA 300350
12:37:00 00:04:11 George Gershwin Variations on 'I Got Rhythm' CityMusic Cleveland Andrea Raffanini Kyung Sun Lee, violin CityMusic 1
12:44:00 00:11:34 Hector Berlioz The Trojans: Ballet Music London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis Chorus LSO Live 40
12:56:00 00:02:14 Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude Yo-Yo Ma, cello Sony 752307
BIG WORK AT ONE WITH MARK SATOLA
13:01:00 00:40:55 Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 Cleveland Orch String Quartet Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Decca 425839
13:44:00 00:14:07 Robert Schumann Konzertstück in G major Op 92 Berlin Philharmonic Claudio Abbado Murray Perahia, piano Sony 64577
14:00:00 00:02:58 Irving Fine Blue Towers Joel Spiegelman Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Delos 3139
14:04:00 00:02:07 Leonard Bernstein Divertimento for Orchestra: Waltz Eiji Oue Minnesota Orchestra Reference 87
14:08:00 00:14:39 Gabriel Pierné Ramuntcho: Suite No. 2 Juanjo Mena BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10633
14:25:00 00:11:54 Ferruccio Busoni Tanzwalzer Op 53 Kazuki Yamada Orch de la Suisse Romande PentaTone 518
14:40:00 00:12:44 Carlos Baguer Symphony No. 13 in E flat Matthias Bamert London Mozart Players Chandos 9456
14:56:00 00:04:17 Earle Hagen Harlem Nocturne Quartet San Francisco ViolinJazz 105
15:00:00 00:20:01 Richard Strauss Burleske in D minor Op 11 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fritz Reiner Byron Janis, piano RCA 300350
15:26:00 00:04:37 Claude Debussy Images, Book 1: Reflets dans l'eau Simon Trpceski, piano EMI 272
15:32:00 00:06:42 Alexander Glazunov Novelette No. 1 Op 15 St. Petersburg String Quartet Delos 3262
15:41:00 00:05:50 Claude Debussy Preludes Book 1: La cathédral engloutie Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
15:50:00 00:06:27 Johann Furchheim Sonatella for Strings in A major Reinhard Goebel Cologne Musica Antiqua Challenge 72032
15:58:00 00:05:23 Toru Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch No. 2 Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL
16:07:00 00:01:44 Jules Massenet Impromptu 'Eau courante' Aldo Ciccolini, piano EMI 64277
16:13:00 00:10:29 Edvard Grieg Finale from Piano Concerto Op 16 Norwegian Radio Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya Vadym Kholodenko, piano Harm Mundi 907629
16:27:00 00:03:19 Donald Fraser Bewitched: Theme [in the Style of JoAnn Turovsky, harp Delos 3222
16:31:00 00:02:46 Donald Fraser Mr. Ed: Theme Hollywood Chamber Orchestra Grant Gershon Scott Tennant, guitar Delos 3222
16:35:00 00:03:23 Donald Fraser Mary Tyler Moore: Love is All Around Ramiro Belgardt, cello; JoAnn Turovsky, harp Delos 3222
16:42:00 00:07:05 Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition: Baba Yaga & Byron Janis, piano RCA 300350
16:52:00 00:03:11 David Ludwig Seasons Lost: Spring Curtis 20/21 Ensemble Vinay Parameswaran Jennifer Koh, violin; Jaime Laredo, violin Cedille 146
16:56:00 00:03:03 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro from Piano Sonata No. 15 John O'Conor, piano Telarc 80391
17:05:00 00:05:22 Emmanuel Chabrier The King in Spite of Himself: Danse Neeme Järvi Orch de la Suisse Romande Chandos 5122
17:13:00 00:12:17 Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2 Juanjo Mena BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10694
17:27:00 00:07:18 Johannes Brahms Scherzo from Piano Quintet Op 34 Cleveland Orch String Quartet Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Decca 425839
17:40:00 00:06:35 Gabriel Fauré Barcarolle No. 5 in F sharp minor Op 66 Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
17:48:00 00:01:52 Gabriel Fauré Ave Maria Op 67 John Rutter Women of the; Cambridge Singers; John Scott, organ Collegium 109
17:52:00 00:03:18 Francis Poulenc Improvisation No. 15 in C minor Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano Steinway 30015
17:58:00 00:01:14 Francis Poulenc Métamorphoses: Reine des Mouettes Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano Steinway 30015
BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH BILL O'CONNELL
18:09:00 00:21:25 Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C major Op 105 Paavo Berglund Helsinki Philharmonic EMI 68646
18:32:00 00:03:14 Ludwig van Beethoven Für Elise Valentina Lisitsa, piano Decca 17091
18:38:00 00:03:07 Ludwig van Beethoven Minuet in G major Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Lambert Orkis, piano DeutGram 457619
18:43:00 00:11:19 Richard Wagner Die Feen: Overture Fabio Luisi Philharmonia Zürich Accentus 102
18:57:00 00:01:35 Ludwig van Beethoven Turkish March from 'The Ruins of Athens' Op 113 Leonard Slatkin St Louis Symphony RCA 7716
KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA
19:02:00 00:23:34 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 85 in B flat major Hugh Wolff St Paul Chamber Orchestra Teldec 46313
19:28:00 00:22:22 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major Academy St. Martin in Fields Sir Neville Marriner Rachel Barton Pine, violin Avie 2317
19:52:00 00:05:09 Gioacchino Rossini La cambiale di matrimonio: Overture Orpheus Chamber Orchestra DeutGram 415363
19:58:00 00:01:25 Lars-Erik Larsson A Winter's Tale: Intermezzo Op 18 Andrew Manze Helsingborg Symphony CPO 777671
ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA
20:02:00 00:22:51 Zoltán Kodály Háry János: Suite Op 35 Iván Fischer Budapest Festival Orchestra Philips 462824
20:27:00 00:29:10 Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 London Symphony Orchestra Oivin Fjeldstad Sir Clifford Curzon, piano Decca 4785437
20:58:00 00:01:30 Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1: Gigue Andrés Díaz, cello Azica 71252
SYMPHONYCAST WITH ALISON YOUNG - Warsaw National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Sayaka Shoji, violin; Danjulo Ishizaka, cello; Camilla Tilling, soprano
21:04:00 00:08:31 Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture Op 62
21:14:00 00:32:56 Johannes Brahms Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor Op 102
21:54:00 00:54:31 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major
22:49:00 00:08:06 Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro con brio from Symphony No. 5 Op 67, Mvt I Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH JOHN SIMNA
23:02:00 00:05:57 Frederick Delius Summer Night on the River Sir Andrew Davis BBC Symphony Orchestra Teldec 90845
23:07:00 00:02:04 Luciano Berio Wasserklavier Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
23:10:00 00:07:59 E. J. Moeran Lonely Waters Ulster Orchestra JoAnn Falletta Rebekah Coffey, soprano Naxos 573034
23:20:00 00:07:28 Johann Sebastian Bach Andante from Violin Concerto No. 1 Vienna Symphony David Oistrakh David Oistrakh, violin DeutGram 4793449
23:27:00 00:07:23 Johann Sebastian Bach St. John Passion: Chorus 'Ruht wohl, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Ton Koopman Netherlands Bach Society Erato 94675
23:37:00 00:07:59 Johannes Brahms Andante from Horn Trio Op 40 Richard King, horn; Amy Lee, violin; Orli Shaham, piano Albany 1325
23:44:00 00:09:19 Ignace Jan Paderewski Romanze from Piano Concerto Op 17 London Symphony Orchestra Arthur Fiedler Earl Wild, piano Elan 82266
23:56:00 00:03:05 Mikhail Antsev Berceuse Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle, piano Cedille 139
23:57:00 00:02:26 Claude Debussy Beau soir Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano Sony 510316
