Progrm Guide 08-25-2016

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august 25

1830 At a production of Daniel Auber's opera La muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici) at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, a riot broke out during the patriotic and revolutionary duet Amour sacré de la patrie; that riot ignited the Belgian Revolution, leading to the expulsion of the Dutch and the independence of the Belgians.

1880 Robert Stolz – Austrian songwriter, conductor and composer of operettas and film music (d.1975); received two Oscar nominations in the '40s.

1902 Stefan Wolpe – German-born American composer and teacher (d.1972); Elliott Carter said of him: "Comet-like radiance, conviction, fervent intensity, penetrating thought on many levels of seriousness and humor, combined with breathtaking adventurousness and originality, marked the inner and outer life of Stefan Wolpe, as they do his compositions."

1918 Leonard Bernstein – American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist (d.1990); among the first conductors born and educated in the United States to receive worldwide acclaim; the New York Times said of him: "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history"; many of his compositions are regularly performed around the world, although none has matched the tremendous popular and commercial success of West Side Story.

1959 Ruth Ann Swenson – American soprano (61 years old); renowned for her coloratura roles.

Recording of the Week

Time Present and Time Past

Aug. 1, 2016

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Program Guide

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER

00:02:00   00:45:36   Ludwig van Beethoven   Symphony No. 6 in F major Op 68       Karl Böhm   Vienna Philharmonic   DeutGram   4793449
00:50:00   00:33:21   Ferde Grofé   Grand Canyon Suite   Seattle Symphony   Gerard Schwarz   Ilkka Talvi, violin   Delos   3104
01:25:00   00:20:28   Johann Sebastian Bach   English Suite No. 4 in F major            Angela Hewitt, piano   Hyperion   67451
01:47:00   00:29:25   Alan Hovhaness   Symphony No. 50 Op 360       Gerard Schwarz   Royal Liverpool Philharmonic   Telarc   80604
02:19:00   00:48:14   Franz Schubert   String Quartet No. 15 in G major            Takács Quartet   Decca   452854
03:09:00   00:46:27   Josef Suk   Symphony No. 1 in E major Op 14       Václav Neumann   Czech Philharmonic Orchestra   Supraphon   111964
03:57:00   00:13:39   William Henry Fry   Niagara Symphony       Tony Rowe   Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch   Naxos   559057
04:13:00   00:29:17   Leonard Bernstein   Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'   London Symphony   Keith Lockhart   Anne Akiko Meyers, violin   eOne   7792
04:44:00   00:35:07   Carl Nielsen   Symphony No. 2 in B minor Op 16       Alan Gilbert   New York Philharmonic   DaCapo   220623
05:21:00   00:15:45   Dmitri Shostakovich   Ballet Suite No. 3       Neeme Järvi   Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch   Chandos   8730
05:39:00   00:06:40   Franz Schubert   Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major            Orli Shaham, piano   Canary   15
05:50:00   00:07:40   Robert Volkmann   Serenade No. 1 for Strings in C Op 62       Johannes Goritzki   German Chamber Academy Neuss   CPO   999159

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER

06:07:00   00:02:16   Kate Rusby   Underneath the Stars           Voces8   Decca   4785703
06:11:00   00:11:26   Ludwig van Beethoven   Scene by the Brook from Symphony No. 6 Op 68       Douglas Boyd   Manchester Camerata   Avie   2242
06:25:00   00:10:42   Felix Mendelssohn   Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave' Op 26       Herbert von Karajan   Berlin Philharmonic   DeutGram   4793449
06:40:00   00:07:51   George Frideric Handel   Music for the Royal Fireworks: Overture       Martin Pearlman   Boston Baroque   Telarc   80594
06:51:00   00:03:08   Andrea Luchesi   Piano Sonata in C [No. 2]           Roberto Plano, piano   Concerto   2069
06:55:00   00:02:41   Julius Fucik   American March 'The Mississippi River' Op 160       Neeme Järvi   Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch   Chandos   5158
07:05:00   00:05:57   Peter Tchaikovsky   The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers       Lorin Maazel   Cleveland Orchestra   Telarc   80068
07:10:00   00:07:16   Ferde Grofé   Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail   Seattle Symphony   Gerard Schwarz   Ilkka Talvi, violin   Delos   3104
07:20:00   00:03:59   Stephen Goss   Jasmine Flower from 'The Chinese Garden'           Xuefei Yang, guitar   EMI   6322
07:25:00   00:02:29   Aram Khachaturian   Gayaneh: Sabre Dance       Erich Kunzel   Cincinnati Pops Orchestra   Telarc   80625
07:29:00   00:05:45   Mark O'Connor   Appalachia Waltz   La Pietà   Angèle Dubeau   Angèle Dubeau, violin   Analekta   8737
07:40:00   00:03:09   Aaron Copland   Rodeo: Hoedown       Louis Lane   Cleveland Orchestra   Sony   62401
07:43:00   00:09:28   Johann Strauss Jr   Waltz 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube' Op 314       Franz Welser-Möst   Vienna Philharmonic   Sony   544071
07:55:00   00:03:21   Aaron Copland   Simple Gifts from 'Appalachian Spring'           Orpheus Chamber Orchestra   DeutGram   469376

BBC NEWS

08:07:00   00:05:42   Johann Sebastian Bach   Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3       Jeannette Sorrell   Apollo's Fire   Avie   2207
08:15:00   00:07:19   Morton Gould   American Ballads: Amber Waves       Theodore Kuchar   National Symphony of Ukraine   Naxos   559005
08:20:00   00:10:05   Antonio Vivaldi   Four Seasons: 'Summer' Concerto in G minor Op 8   English Chamber Orchestra   David Lockington   Anne Akiko Meyers, violin   E1 Music   7790
08:30:00   00:02:53   Jerome Moross   The Big Country: Theme       José Serebrier   Royal Philharmonic   Royal Phil   17
08:44:00   00:07:12   Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach   Variations on 'Les Folies d'Espagne' in D minor            Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord   Archiv   4794481
08:50:00   00:04:56   Ferde Grofé   Mississippi Suite: Mardi Gras       Steven Richman   Harmonie Ensemble New York   Bridge   9212
09:00:00   00:03:55   Maurice Jarre   Witness: Building the Barn       Paul Bateman   Royal Philharmonic   Royal Phil   33
09:08:00   00:14:08   Darius Milhaud   Suite provençale Op 152       Neeme Järvi   Detroit Symphony   Chandos   7031
09:26:00   00:09:11   John Williams   E.T.: Adventures on Earth       John Williams   Boston Pops Orchestra   Philips   411185
09:35:00   00:03:51   Camille Saint-Saëns   The Carnival of the Animals: The Swan   Orchestra of Paris   Semyon Bychkov   Mischa Maisky, cello   DeutGram   4795448

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA

10:00:00   00:05:30   Traditional   Red River Valley       Dale Warland   Dale Warland Singers; Kathryn Greenbank, oboe; Kathy Kienzle, harp   AmerChorCl   122
10:07:00   00:02:18   Percy Grainger   Spoon River           Marc-André Hamelin, piano   Hyperion   66884
10:12:00   00:16:25   William Grant Still   Wood Notes       John Jeter   Fort Smith Symphony   Naxos   559676
10:30:00   00:03:55   Domenico Scarlatti   Sonata in A major            Yevgeny Sudbin, piano   Bis   2138
10:37:00   00:06:25   Alessandro Scarlatti   Variations on 'La Folia'           Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord   Archiv   4794481
10:45:00   00:04:34   Sir Hamilton Harty   A John Field Suite: Rondo       Raymond Leppard   Indianapolis Symphony   Koss Class   3303
10:52:00   00:31:22   Ludwig van Beethoven   String Quartet No. 16 in F major Op 135       Leonard Bernstein   Vienna Philharmonic   DeutGram   435779
11:25:00   00:07:04   E. J. Moeran   In the Mountain Country       Vernon Handley   Ulster Orchestra   Chandos   8639
11:35:00   00:09:03   Giuseppe Verdi   La battaglia di Legnano: Overture       Riccardo Muti   La Scala Philharmonic   Sony   68468
11:46:00   00:10:49   Leonard Bernstein   On the Town: Three Dance Episodes       Leonard Slatkin   St. Louis Symphony   EMI   63905
11:59:00   00:01:05   Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov   The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the           Olga Kern, piano   Harm Mundi   907336

BBC NEWS

12:06:00   00:06:02   Steve Haun   Gateway to Grandeur       Steve Haun   Colorado Symphony   SNH Prod.   3001
12:14:00   00:12:04   Bedrich Smetana   Má vlast: From Bohemia's Woods and       Sir Colin Davis   London Symphony   LSO Live   516
12:28:00   00:02:59   Duke Ellington   The River: Giggling Rapids       JoAnn Falletta   Buffalo Philharmonic   Naxos   559737
12:34:00   00:03:53   Virgil Thomson   The River: Finale       Sir Neville Marriner   Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra   EMI   6612
12:41:00   00:12:54   Gustav Holst   St. Paul's Suite Op 29       Richard Hickox   City of London Sinfonia   Chandos   9270
12:54:00   00:05:02   Jean Sibelius   Kuolema: Valse triste Op 44       Daniel Barenboim   West-Eastern Divan Orchestra   Warner   62190

BIG WORK AT ONE WITH MARK SATOLA

13:01:00   00:50:13   Richard Strauss   An Alpine Symphony Op 64       Vladimir Ashkenazy   Cleveland Orchestra   Decca   425112
13:53:00   00:06:11   Wilhelm Stenhammar   Overture from Serenade in F major Op 31       Neeme Järvi   Gothenburg Symphony   DeutGram   445857
14:01:00   00:01:55   Robert Schumann   Forest Scenes: Wayside Inn Op 82           Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano   Decca   421290
14:03:00   00:04:35   Edward MacDowell   Suite No. 1: Forest Spirits Op 42       Takuo Yuasa   Ulster Orchestra   Naxos   559075
14:10:00   00:14:44   Antonín Dvorák   Overture 'In Nature's Realm' Op 91       Jun Märkl   Indianapolis Symphony   Telarc   32927
14:44:00   00:08:32   Ron Nelson   Savannah River Holiday       Howard Hanson   Eastman-Rochester Orchestra   Mercury   434324
14:54:00   00:04:17   Antonín Dvorák   Legend No. 2 in G major Op 59       Sir Charles Mackerras   Czech Philharmonic Orchestra   Supraphon   3533
15:01:00   00:15:07   Frederick Delius   In a Summer Garden       Sir Andrew Davis   BBC Symphony Orchestra   Teldec   90845
15:19:00   00:09:38   Hamish MacCunn   Overture 'The Land of the Mountain and       Osmo Vänskä   BBC Scottish Symphony   BBC   392
15:30:00   00:03:36   Johann Sebastian Bach   WTC-1: Prelude & Fugue No. 17 in A flat major            Till Fellner, piano   ECM   1853
15:37:00   00:05:52   Antonio Vivaldi   Concerto for Strings in C major            I Musici   Philips   438876
15:44:00   00:07:44   Gioacchino Rossini   L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture       George Szell   Cleveland Orchestra   IMG   75962
15:54:00   00:04:26   Aram Khachaturian   Masquerade: Waltz       Kirill Kondrashin   RCA Victor Symphony   RCA   300350
15:58:00   00:04:10   Leonard Bernstein   Candide: Overture       Zubin Mehta   Los Angeles Philharmonic   Decca   4785437

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL

16:06:00   00:03:43   Leonard Bernstein   Candide: Make Our Garden Grow   Boston Pops Orchestra   John Williams   Tanglewood Festival Chorus   Sony   48224
16:13:00   00:09:13   Aaron Copland   An Outdoor Overture       Gerard Schwarz   Seattle Symphony   Delos   3140
16:26:00   00:05:56   John Williams   Close Encounters of the Third Kind:       Erich Kunzel   Cincinnati Pops Orchestra   Telarc   80495
16:35:00   00:04:21   Paul Halley   Appalachian Morning       John Williams   Boston Pops Orchestra   Sony   48224
16:41:00   00:08:30   Henryk Górecki   Harpsichord Concerto Op 40   Concerto Cologne       Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord   Archiv   4794481
16:52:00   00:04:04   Steve Haun   Simple Abundance           Steve Haun, piano   SNH Prod.   3001
16:58:00   00:01:42   Henry Purcell   The Fairy Queen: Rondeau       William Christie   Les Arts Florissants   Harm Mundi   901308
17:05:00   00:04:59   Antonín Dvorák   Silent Woods Op 68           Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano   Decca   19765
17:13:00   00:11:42   Francesco Geminiani   Concerto Grosso No. 12 in D minor            Concerto Cologne   Archiv   4794481
17:27:00   00:07:08   Frédéric Chopin   Prelude No. 15 in D flat major Op 28           Grigory Sokolov, piano   DeutGram   4794342
17:40:00   00:05:07   Leonard Bernstein   On the Town: Times Square 1944       Arie Lipsky   CIM Orchestra   CIM   2003
17:47:00   00:03:35   Leonard Bernstein   Spring Will Come Again           Kyle Bielfield, tenor; Lachlen Glen, piano; Michael Samis, cello   Delos   3445
17:52:00   00:03:50   Franz Liszt   Two Concert Etudes: Waldesrauschen           Nelson Freire, piano   Decca   4782728
17:58:00   00:01:45   Jean-Philippe Rameau   Dardanus: Air gai 'Les Niais de       Nicholas McGegan   Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra   Conifer   51313

BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH BILL O'CONNELL

18:09:00   00:19:18   Einojuhani Rautavaara   Concerto for Birds & Orchestra Op 61       Leif Segerstam   Helsinki Philharmonic   Ondine   1041
18:30:00   00:05:38   Peter Tchaikovsky   The Seasons: June 'Barcarolle' Op 37           Lang Lang, piano   Sony   511758
18:38:00   00:03:21   Peter Tchaikovsky   The Seasons: August Op 37           Lang Lang, piano   Sony   511758
18:44:00   00:08:14   Johann Sebastian Bach   Finale from Keyboard Concerto No. 1   Concerto Cologne       Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord   Archiv   4794481
18:55:00   00:03:48   George Gershwin   Porgy and Bess: Summertime   London Symphony   Keith Lockhart   Anne Akiko Meyers, violin   eOne   7792

KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA

19:02:00   00:08:24   Richard Wagner   Siegfried: Forest Murmurs       Daniel Barenboim   Chicago Symphony Orchestra   Erato   45786
19:12:00   00:42:16   Ludwig van Beethoven   Symphony No. 6 in F major Op 68       Christoph von Dohnányi   Cleveland Orchestra   Telarc   80145
19:56:00   00:03:14   Frank Bridge   Cherry Ripe       William Boughton   English String Orchestra   Nimbus   5366

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA

20:02:00   00:18:48   Aaron Copland   Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes       JoAnn Falletta   Buffalo Philharmonic   Naxos   559240
20:23:00   00:33:21   Ferde Grofé   Grand Canyon Suite   Seattle Symphony   Gerard Schwarz   Ilkka Talvi, violin   Delos   3104
20:57:00   00:02:41   Sir Edward Elgar   Salut d'amour Op 12           Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano   Sony   510316

PITTSURGH SYMPHONY WITH JIM CUNNINGHAM - Krzysztof Urbański, conductor; Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin

21:06:00   00:14:02   Sergei Prokofiev       Russian Overture Op 72
21:30:00   00:37:00   Aram Khachaturian       Violin Concerto in D minor
22:10:00   00:36:30   Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel)    Pictures at an Exhibition (orig. 1874)

SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH JOHN SIMNA

23:02:00   00:04:35   Lyndol Mitchell   Kentucky Mountain Portraits: Ballad       Howard Hanson   Eastman-Rochester Orchestra   Mercury   434324
23:06:00   00:12:20   David Amram   Variations on 'Red River Valley'   Manhattan Chamber Orchestra   Richard Auldon Clark   Julius Baker, flute   Newport   85546
23:21:00   00:22:11   Alan Hovhaness   Sonata for Harp & Guitar           Yolanda Kondonassis, harp; Jason Vieaux, guitar   Azica   71297
23:45:00   00:07:59   E. J. Moeran   Lonely Waters   Ulster Orchestra   JoAnn Falletta   Rebekah Coffey, soprano   Naxos   573034
23:52:00   00:05:55   Frederick Delius   Summer Night on the River       Sir Charles Mackerras   Welsh National Opera Orchestra   Argo   433704
23:57:00   00:02:17   Johannes Brahms   Minnelied Op 71           Zuill Bailey, cello; Awadagin Pratt, piano   Telarc   32664