Program Guide 08-11-2016
Almanac
August 11
1900 Alexander Mossolov – Soviet composer (d.1973); achieved his greatest fame for his 1926 composition, Iron Foundry; conflicts with Soviet authorities led to his expulsion from the Composers' Union in 1936 and imprisonment in the Gulag in 1937; later turned his attention to setting Turkmen and Kyrgyz folk tunes for orchestra.
1927 Raymond Leppard – English conductor and harpsichordist (died October 22nd, 2019, at 92); played an instrumental role in the rebirth of interest in baroque music; in particular, he was one of the first major conductors to perform baroque opera; from 1987–2001, music director of the Indianapolis Symphony.
1929 Alun Hoddinot – Welsh composer (d.2008); his musical style has been described as "modernist romantic."
1933 Tamás Vásáry – Hungarian-born pianist and conductor (87 years old); was an assistant at Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest to Zoltán Kodály, who once made him a gift of a Steinway piano; awarded the UNESCO Mozart Medal in 2012 in recognition of his talent and dedication to the universal values that inspire the organization.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER
00:02:00 00:30:07 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Op 19 Cleveland Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano Decca 421718
00:34:00 00:17:55 Sir Edward Elgar The Wand of Youth Suite No. 1 Op 1 Raymond Leppard Indianapolis Symphony Koss Class 1014
00:51:00 00:16:26 Sir Edward Elgar The Wand of Youth Suite No. 2 Op 1 Raymond Leppard Indianapolis Symphony Koss Class 1014
01:10:00 00:30:20 Ludwig van Beethoven Serenade for String Trio in D major Op 8 Leopold String Trio Hyperion 67253
01:42:00 01:01:04 Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony' Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano Christine Goerke, soprano; Brett Polegato, baritone; Atlanta Symphony Chorus Telarc 80588
02:45:00 00:33:11 Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op 58 Bamberg Symphony Gilbert Varga Isabelle van Keulen, violin Koch Intl 6522
03:20:00 00:27:12 Maurice Ravel Mother Goose Ballet Franz Welser-Möst Cleveland Orchestra MAA 20604
03:49:00 00:40:09 Alexander Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau Riccardo Chailly Deutsches Symphonie Berlin Decca 417450
04:31:00 00:27:06 Ludwig van Beethoven Quintet for Piano & Winds in E flat major Op 16 Radu Lupu, piano; Han de Vries, oboe; George Pieterson, clarinet; Vicente Zarzo, horn; Brian Pollard, bassoon Decca 414291
05:00:00 00:21:04 Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini Op 35 Alessio Bax, piano Signum 309
05:23:00 00:12:37 Frederic Hand Odyssey Frederic Hand, guitar; David Leisner, guitar Willow 1036
05:38:00 00:07:01 Tomaso Albinoni Concerto for 2 Oboes in D major Op 9 Collegium Musicum 90 Simon Standage Anthony Robson, oboe; Catherine Latham, oboe Chandos 610
05:50:00 00:08:20 Ferdinand Hérold Zampa: Overture Lance Friedel Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Naxos 573418
BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER
06:07:00 00:03:46 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave verum corpus Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Ton Koopman Amsterdam Baroque Choir Erato 10705
06:15:00 00:08:19 Maurice Ravel Miroirs: Une barque sur l'océan Kent Nagano Lyon Opera Orchestra Erato 14331
06:23:00 00:05:17 Enrique Granados Goyescas: Intermezzo Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos London Symphony Orchestra MCA 25887
06:30:00 00:05:10 Antonio Vivaldi Allegro from 'Autumn' Concerto in F major Academy St. Martin in Fields Joshua Bell Joshua Bell, violin Sony 11013
06:40:00 00:02:09 Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1: Bourrée Paramount Brass Centaur 2355
06:42:00 00:08:16 Sergei Prokofiev Cinderella: Cinderella at the Palace Theodore Kuchar National Symphony of Ukraine Naxos 550968
06:52:00 00:03:44 Antonín Dvorák Legend No. 8 in F major Op 59 Sir Charles Mackerras Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Supraphon 3533
06:55:00 00:03:16 Kenneth J. Alford March "On the Quarterdeck" Frederick Fennell Dallas Wind Symphony Reference 85
07:05:00 00:04:59 William Byrd Mass for Five Voices: Gloria Suzi Digby Ora Harm Mundi 906102
07:10:00 00:05:56 Franz Liszt Spinning Song from Wagner's 'The Daniel Barenboim, piano DeutGram 4779525
07:17:00 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
07:23:00 00:03:05 William Byrd Earl of Oxford's March Robert Moody Canadian Brass Ensemble OpeningDay 7347
07:30:00 00:03:56 Samuel Barber Souvenirs Suite: Waltz Op 28 Yoel Levi Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Telarc 80441
07:32:00 00:02:04 Sir Thomas Beecham The Faithful Shepherd Suite: Gavotte Yehudi Menuhin Royal Philharmonic MCA 6231
07:40:00 00:07:31 Modest Mussorgsky Intermezzo 'In modo classico' in B minor Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic Sony 62034
07:46:00 00:04:45 Philip Glass Harpsichord Concerto: Movement III West Side Chamber Orchestra Kevin Mallon Christopher D. Lewis, hc Naxos 573146
07:51:00 00:03:07 Ludwig van Beethoven Minuet in G major Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Lambert Orkis, piano DeutGram 457619
07:58:00 00:02:05 Anatoly Liadov The Musical Snuff Box Op 32 Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80657
BBC NEWS
08:07:00 00:06:26 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo in C major English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Peter-Lukas Graf, flute Brilliant 93290
08:15:00 00:09:08 Franz Joseph Haydn Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 83 Bruno Weil Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Sony 66295
08:25:00 00:05:04 Sir Edward Elgar The Wand of Youth Suite No. 2: March Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields Capriccio 49241
08:30:00 00:03:06 Percy Grainger Mock Morris Marc-André Hamelin, piano Hyperion 66884
08:40:00 00:08:35 Joachim Raff Allegro from Octet for Strings Op 176 Academy Chamber Ensemble Chandos 8790
08:48:00 00:03:09 William Boyce Allegro from Symphony No. 4 Op 2 Christopher Hogwood Academy of Ancient Music l'Oiseau 436761
08:55:00 00:05:26 Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Suite Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80600
09:05:00 00:18:36 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute Quartet No. 3 in C major Emerson String Quartet Carol Wincenc, flute DeutGram 431770
09:35:00 00:04:06 Franz Joseph Haydn The Creation: The Heavens Are Telling Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Shaw Atlanta Symphony Chorus Telarc 80119
09:55:00 00:04:25 Carl Stamitz Rondeau from Viola Concerto No. 1 Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Markand Thakar Victoria Chiang, viola Naxos 572162
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JOHN SIMNA
10:01:00 00:02:48 Johann Sebastian Bach Chorale Prelude 'To God Alone on High Raymond Leppard Indianapolis Symphony Koss Class 3303
10:04:00 00:03:32 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Rondo from Trumpet Concerto in E flat major English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Sony 60804
10:09:00 00:11:46 Gabriel Pierné Divertissements on a Pastoral Theme Juanjo Mena BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10633
10:23:00 00:06:08 Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2: Allemande Simone Dinnerstein, piano Sony 798943
10:30:00 00:03:22 Igor Stravinsky Circus Polka Michael Tilson Thomas London Symphony Orchestra RCA 68865
10:38:00 00:05:43 Erik Satie Jack in the Box Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Decca 470290
10:45:00 00:05:14 Eugène Bozza Children's Overture Timothy Reynish Royal NCM Wind Orchestra Chandos 9897
10:53:00 00:22:31 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 52 in C minor Rebecca Miller Royal Northern Sinfonia Signum 434
11:17:00 00:07:06 Engelbert Humperdinck Sleeping Beauty: Prelude Karl Anton Rickenbacher Bamberg Symphony VirginClas 61128
11:27:00 00:07:57 Alessandro Scarlatti Sinfonia di Concerto Grosso No. 4 in E minor I Musici William Bennett, flute; Hans Elhorst, oboe Philips 400017
11:37:00 00:07:00 Manuel de Falla La vida breve: Interlude & Spanish Dance Jesús López-Cobos Cincinnati Symphony Telarc 80149
11:46:00 00:08:32 Johann David Heinichen Concerto Grosso in F major Reinhard Goebel Cologne Musica Antiqua Archiv 437549
BBC NEWS
12:07:00 00:08:38 Hector Berlioz Overture 'Le corsaire' Op 21 Sir Colin Davis Dresden State Orchestra RCA 68790
12:18:00 00:08:44 Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A minor Willi Boskovsky Philharmonia Hungarica EMI 64627
12:29:00 00:05:19 Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Frederic Hand, guitar Willow 1036
12:39:00 00:05:58 Hector Berlioz The Damnation of Faust: Minuet of the Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra MAA 1032
12:47:00 00:09:10 Sir William Walton Coronation Te Deum Philharmonia Orchestra Sir David Willcocks John Scott, organ; Bach Choir Chandos 8760
12:58:00 00:01:35 Ludwig van Beethoven The Ruins of Athens: Turkish March Op 113 Leonard Slatkin St. Louis Symphony RCA 7716
BIG WORK AT ONE WITH MARK SATOLA
13:01:00 00:46:50 Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Fêtes d'Hébé: Ballet Music English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Ursula Connors, soprano; Ambrosian Singers EMI 65732
13:50:00 00:09:00 Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E flat Op 8 Chamber Orchestra of Europe Daniel Hope, violin DeutGram 4777463
14:00:00 00:01:30 Claudio Monteverdi L'Orfeo: Toccata Myung-Whun Chung St Cecilia Academy Orchestra DeutGram 471566
14:02:00 00:04:36 Girolamo Frescobaldi Toccata Camerata Salzburg Jian Wang, cello DeutGram 474236
14:08:00 00:15:04 Aaron Copland Music for Movies Leonard Slatkin St. Louis Symphony RCA 61699
14:25:00 00:05:10 Frédéric Chopin Waltz No. 3 in A minor Op 34 Emanuel Ax, piano Sony 60771
14:44:00 00:11:29 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Overture on Russian Themes Op 28 Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572788
14:57:00 00:02:02 Manuel Ponce Prelude in the Baroque style Christopher Parkening, guitar EMI 54853
15:00:00 00:17:55 Sir Edward Elgar The Wand of Youth Suite No. 1 Op 1 Raymond Leppard Indianapolis Symphony Koss Class 1014
15:20:00 00:07:48 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann The Raven: Overture Ole Schmidt Odense Symphony DaCapo 226047
15:29:00 00:03:31 John Stanley Trumpet Voluntary English Chamber Orchestra Anthony Newman Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Sony 66244
15:37:00 00:06:09 Johann Friedrich Fasch Concerto for Trumpet, 2 Oboes & Strings in D major English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Sony 57497
15:46:00 00:09:36 William Alwyn Overture to a Masque David Lloyd-Jones Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Naxos 570704
15:56:00 00:01:34 Peter Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Valéry Gergiev Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Decca 10104
15:59:00 00:04:21 John Williams Olympic Fanfare & Theme John Williams Boston Pops Orchestra Philips 420178
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA
16:06:00 00:03:16 Jacques Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle BBC Philharmonic Yan Pascal Tortelier Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Chandos 9765
16:12:00 00:10:08 Sir Edward Elgar Coronation March Op 65 Sir Andrew Davis BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10570
16:29:00 00:04:31 Max Steiner In This Our Life: Suite Charles Gerhardt National Philharmonic RCA 81272
16:35:00 00:04:29 Antonín Dvorák Rusalka: Polonaise Eiji Oue Minnesota Orchestra Reference 71
16:41:00 00:06:18 George Frideric Handel Samson: Let the Bright Seraphim Sym of Harmony & Invention Harry Christophers Lynne Dawson, soprano; Crispian Steele-Perkins, tr; The Sixteen Collins 70382
16:50:00 00:06:26 Franz Schreker Intermezzo for String Orchestra Op 8 James Conlon Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne EMI 56784
17:06:00 00:03:06 Scott Joplin The Ragtime Dance Leila Josefowicz, violin; John Novacek, piano Philips 462948
17:18:00 00:08:39 Jacques Offenbach La belle Hélène: Overture Yan Pascal Tortelier BBC Philharmonic Chandos 9765
17:29:00 00:04:19 Frederic Hand For Julian Frederic Hand, guitar Willow 1036
17:40:00 00:05:11 Frédéric Chopin Mazurka No. 32 in C sharp minor Op 50 Vassily Primakov, piano Bridge 9289
17:47:00 00:03:56 Frederick Delius Koanga: La Calinda Raymond Leppard Indianapolis Symphony Koss Class 3303
17:52:00 00:06:22 Anatoly Liadov Polonaise No. 1 in C major Op 49 Enrique Bátiz Mexico City Philharmonic ASV 657
BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH MARK SATOLA
18:08:00 00:13:05 Franz Schubert Rondo in A major Martha Argerich, piano; Lang Lang, piano DeutGram 4795096
18:21:00 00:03:59 Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 6: Gavotte Andrés Díaz, cello Azica 71252
18:25:00 00:03:12 Astor Piazzolla Escualo Salut Salon Warner 554295
18:28:00 00:12:22 Richard Wagner Rienzi: Overture Fabio Luisi Philharmonia Zürich Accentus 102
18:48:00 00:11:19 Jenö Takács Serenade on Country Dances from Old Graz Op 83 Quintett.Wien Nimbus 5479
KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA
19:02:00 00:05:08 Mikhail Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla: Overture Lorin Maazel Cleveland Orchestra Decca 4787779
19:09:00 00:14:32 Franz Joseph Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat major English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Sony 57497
19:26:00 00:06:05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo from Piano Concerto No. 14 Chamber Players of Canada Janina Fialkowska, piano Atma 2532
19:30 SPECIAL: CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA AT HOME IN HOUGH CONCERT
The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2016 Neighborhood Residency Program, live from East Professional Center in Cleveland
Brett Mitchell, conductor; Hough Community Chorus, William Henry Caldwell, director; Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon, narrator
Leonard Bernstein: Candide Overture
John Williams: Air and Simple Gifts
Richard Smallwood (arr Panion): Total Praise
Richard Smallwood (arr Panion): Oh Happy Day
George Gershwin: American in Paris
Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait
J. Rosamond Johnson (arr Hale Smith): Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
20:53:00 00:04:58 George Frideric Handel The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment: Catherine Mackintosh Orch of Age of Enlightenment BBC 201
21:00 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY with Jim Cunningham: James Gaffigan, conductor; Gabriela Montero, piano
Mason Bates: White Lies for Lomax
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Encore: Gabriela Montero: Improvisation on ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’
Richard Wagner: Good Friday Spell from Parsifal
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D ‘Reformation’
Gabriela Montero: Improvisation on ‘Mister Rogers’ Theme
Bonus: Richard Wagner: Parsifal Prelude—William Steinberg, conductor
SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH JOHN SIMNA
23:02:00 00:06:21 Enrique Granados Spanish Dance No. 2 in C minor Op 5 Milos Karadaglic, guitar DeutGram 15579
23:08:00 00:07:54 Antonín Dvorák Slavonic Dance No. 16 in A flat major Op 72 Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra Decca 430171
23:16:00 00:05:19 Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Frederic Hand, guitar Willow 1036
23:24:00 00:06:31 Ludwig van Beethoven Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 Op 130 Cypress String Quartet Cypress 2012
23:30:00 00:07:11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 Camerata Salzburg Géza Anda Géza Anda, piano DeutGram 4793449
23:40:00 00:05:01 Bill Douglas Earth Prayer Chamber Ensemble Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Bill Douglas, keyboard RCA 68416
23:45:00 00:04:11 Frederic Hand Prayer Frederic Hand, guitar Willow 1036
23:49:00 00:05:37 Alan Hovhaness Prayer of Saint Gregory Op 62 I Fiamminghi Rudolf Werthen Benny Wiame, trumpet Telarc 80392
23:56:00 00:03:11 Máximo Diego Pujol Preludio No. 2 "Tristón" Jason Vieaux, guitar Naxos 553449
23:57:00 00:02:05 Edward MacDowell Woodland Sketches: To a Wild Rose Op 51 Ronald Corp New London Orchestra Hyperion 67067