Program Guide 03-24-2016

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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 (92 years old); made a French film on Chopin that was shown around the world.

1930 Cristobal Halffter – Spanish composer (90 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 (83 years old); now retired; Benjamin Britten created the title role of his 1971 television opera Owen Wingrave for Mr. Luxon.

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Mar. 1, 2016

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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