Program Guide 09-15-2016

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September 15

1858 Jenö Hubay – Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher (d.1937); performed chamber music on more than one occasion with Brahms, including the premiere of Brahms's Piano Trio No. 3; composed four violin concertos and a very large number of encore pieces.

1863 Horatio Parker – American composer, organist and teacher (d.1919); became chairman of the Yale music department in 1894, where he taught the young Charles Ives, among many others.

1890 Frank Martin – Swiss composer (d.1974); the Petite Symphonie Concertante of 1945 made his international reputation and is the best known of his orchestral works.

1913 Henry Brant – Canadian-born American composer (d.2008); expert orchestrator, and many works featured ‘spatialization’ techniques; composed, orchestrated, and conducted for radio, film, ballet, and jazz groups.

1933 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos – Spanish conductor and composer (d.2014); recorded the complete works of Manuel de Falla, as well a classic series of complete zarzuela recordings.

1945 Jessye Norman – American soprano (died September 30, 2019); Grammy award-winning opera singer and recitalist, associated in particular with Wagnerian repertoire, and with the roles of Ariadne, Alceste, and Leonore.

1946 first performance of Charles Ives’s String Quartet No. 2, at the Yaddo Music Festival in Saratoga, N.Y. by the Walden Quartet; the work had been completed in 1913.

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Philips Classics - The Stereo Years

Sep. 1, 2016

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Program Guide

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER

00:02:00   00:36:19   Antonín Dvorák   Symphony No. 8 in G major Op 88       Christoph von Dohnányi   Cleveland Orchestra   Decca   414422
00:40:00   00:34:02   Sergei Rachmaninoff   Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op 18   Chicago Symphony Orchestra   Fritz Reiner   Van Cliburn, piano   RCA   55912
01:16:00   00:36:02   Edvard Grieg   String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op 27           Auryn Quartet   CPO   999729
01:54:00   00:29:51   Frank Martin   Mass for Double Chorus       Robert Shaw   Robert Shaw Festival Singers   Telarc   80406
02:26:00   00:53:34   Peter Tchaikovsky   Manfred Symphony Op 58       Igor Markevitch   London Symphony   Philips   4788977
03:22:00   00:24:24   Carlos Surinach   Piano Concerto   Royal Philharmonic   Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos   Alicia de Larrocha, piano   Decca   4785437
03:48:00   00:26:37   Franz Joseph Haydn   Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major    Camerata Chicago   Drostan Hall   Wendy Warner, cello   Cedille   142
04:17:00   00:29:31   Édouard Lalo   Piano Trio No. 3 in A minor Op 26           Gryphon Trio   Analekta   3127
04:48:00   00:30:04   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Sinfonia Concertante for Winds in E flat   English Chamber Orchestra   Ralf Gothóni   Anthony Pike, clarinet; John Anderson, oboe; John Thurgood, horn; Julie Price, bassoon   Avie   35
05:20:00   00:17:31   William Wallace   Villon       Martyn Brabbins   BBC Scottish Symphony   Hyperion   66848
05:39:00   00:06:30   Emmanuel Chabrier   Bourrée fantasque           Angela Hewitt, piano   Hyperion   67515
05:53:00   00:05:04   Johann Sebastian Bach   Partita No. 2: Sinfonia           Simone Dinnerstein, piano   Sony   798943

BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER

06:04:00   00:03:45   Jean Sibelius   Karelia Suite: Intermezzo Op 11       Osmo Vänskä   Lahti Symphony Orchestra   Bis   918
06:14:00   00:07:06   Peter Tchaikovsky   Finale from Piano Concerto No. 1 Op 23   Chicago Symphony Orchestra   Daniel Barenboim   Lang Lang, piano   DeutGram   4795448
06:26:00   00:05:06   Franz Waxman   Taras Bulba: Ride to Dubno       Carl Topilow   Cleveland Pops Orchestra   ClevPops   2016
06:31:00   00:02:06   François Couperin   Suite No. 18: Le Tic-Toc-Choc           Angela Hewitt, piano   Hyperion   67440
06:36:00   00:01:31   Adriano Banchieri   Concerto No. 1 for Brass 'La Battaglia'           Empire Brass   Telarc   80204
06:44:00   00:06:47   Sir Arthur Sullivan   Ruddigore: Overture       Alexander Faris   Scottish Chamber Orchestra   Nimbus   5066
06:57:00   00:01:53   Karl King   March 'Rough-Riders'       Frederick Fennell   Dallas Wind Symphony   Reference   85
07:02:00   00:04:30   Jerome Kern   The Song is You           Manhattan String Quartet   Newport   60033
07:15:00   00:06:31   Hector Berlioz   Symphonie fantastique: A Ball       Steven Smith   Cleveland Orch Youth Orch   MAA   10706
07:28:00   00:04:30   Franz Joseph Haydn   Finale from Trumpet Concerto   English Chamber Orchestra   Raymond Leppard   Wynton Marsalis, trumpet   Sony   60804
07:33:00   00:01:32   Iosif Ivanovici   Waltz 'Danube Waves'           Daniell Revenaugh, piano   Seraphim   73300
07:42:00   00:04:37   Ralph Vaughan Williams   The Running Set       George Hurst   Bournemouth Sinfonietta   Chandos   2419
07:46:00   00:02:37   Gabriel Fauré   Après un rêve Op 7           Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano   Sony   510316

BBC NEWS

08:05:00   00:04:06   Duke Ellington   Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me           Center City Brass Quintet   Chandos   4554
08:13:00   00:07:01   Antonín Dvorák   Scherzo from Symphony No. 7 Op 70       Sir Colin Davis   Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra   Philips   4788977
08:28:00   00:04:45   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Menuetto from Symphony No. 40       Josef Krips   Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra   Philips   4788977
08:36:00   00:01:08   Felix Mendelssohn   Song without Words No. 28 in G major Op 62           Daniel Gortler, piano   Jerusalem   2006
08:43:00   00:07:13   Franz Schubert   Impromptu No. 4 in A flat major            Ingrid Haebler, piano   Philips   4788977
09:03:00   00:03:48   Gustav Holst   The Planets: Mercury Op 32       Zubin Mehta   Los Angeles Philharmonic   Decca   4785437
09:13:00   00:07:06   George Frideric Handel   Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major        Jeannette Sorrell   Apollo's Fire   ApolloFire   2002
09:28:00   00:04:50   Burt Bacharach   South American Getaway           Berlin Philharmonic Cellists   EMI   56981
09:42:00   00:06:45   Jacques Ibert   Trois pièces brèves           Reykjavik Wind Quintet   Chandos   9362
09:56:00   00:01:09   Jacques Offenbach   La vie Parisienne: Galop       Erich Kunzel   Cincinnati Pops Orchestra   Telarc   80625

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA

10:00:00   00:05:26   Peter Tchaikovsky   Swan Lake: Waltz       Valéry Gergiev   Mariinsky Theater Orchestra   Decca   10104
10:12:00   00:07:33   Franz Liszt   Transcendental Etude No. 4 in D minor            Claudio Arrau, piano   Philips   4788977
10:26:00   00:06:25   Léo Delibes   Coppélia: Prélude & Mazurka       Martin West   San Francisco Ballet Orchestra   Reference   125
10:41:00   00:06:30   Gabriel Fauré   Barcarolle No. 2 in G Op 41           Charles Owen, piano   Avie   2240
11:00:00   00:05:25   Ludwig van Beethoven   Scherzo from Symphony No. 3 Op 55       Gustavo Dudamel   Simón Bolívar Symphony   DeutGram   16869
11:15:00   00:07:37   Franz von Suppé   Beautiful Galatea: Overture       Leonard Bernstein   New York Philharmonic   Sony   61830
11:31:00   00:06:31   Maurice Ravel   Scherzo from String Quartet in F major            Quartetto Italiano   Philips   4788977
11:45:00   00:06:32   Luigi Boccherini   Symphony No. 1 in D major        Chiara Banchini   Ensemble 415   Harm Mundi   901291

BBC NEWS

12:05:00   00:02:00   Jean Joseph Mouret   First Suite of Symphonies: Rondeau   English Chamber Orchestra   Anthony Newman   Wynton Marsalis, trumpet   Sony   60804
12:12:00   00:08:21   Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov   May Night: Overture       Gerard Schwarz   Seattle Symphony   Naxos   572788
12:28:00   00:05:09   Francisco Tárrega   Recuerdos de la Alhambra           Jason Vieaux, guitar   Azica   71287
12:40:00   00:05:18   Johann Sebastian Bach   Prelude & Fugue in C major        Leonard Slatkin   BBC Philharmonic   Chandos   9835

BIG WORK AT ONE WITH MARK SATOLA

13:04:00   00:21:02   Franz Schubert   Fantasy in C major            Alfred Brendel, piano   Philips   4788977
13:38:00   00:06:47   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Adagio from Piano Concerto No. 23   Academy St. Martin in Fields   Sir Neville Marriner   Alfred Brendel, piano   Philips   4788977
13:49:00   00:09:38   Johannes Brahms   Finale from Symphony No. 2 Op 73       Kurt Masur   Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra   Philips   4788977
14:04:00   00:05:27   Eugène Gigout   Grand Chorus in Dialogue   Empire Brass       Michael Murray, organ   Telarc   80218
14:16:00   00:07:34   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Andante from Symphony No. 40       Josef Krips   Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra   Philips   4788977
14:29:00   00:06:27   August Soederman   Swedish Festival Music       Okko Kamu   Helsingborg Symphony   Naxos   553115
14:43:00   00:06:32   Antonio Vivaldi   Concerto for 4 Violins in E minor Op 3       Mathieu Lussier   Les Violons du Roy   Atma   2602
15:02:00   00:05:31   Antonín Dvorák   Scherzo from Serenade for Strings Op 22       Vladimir Ashkenazy   Cleveland Orchestra   Decca   433549
15:14:00   00:07:32   Tomaso Albinoni   Oboe Concerto in F major Op 7   London Virtuosi   John Georgiadis   Anthony Camden, oboe   Naxos   553002
15:28:00   00:06:34   Hector Berlioz   Harold in Italy: Serenade Op 16   London Symphony   Sir Colin Davis   Nobuko Imai, viola   Philips   4788977
15:43:00   00:06:33   Peter Tchaikovsky   Pezzo capriccioso Op 62   San Francisco Ballet Orchestra   Martin West   Zuill Bailey, cello   Telarc   80724

CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL

16:05:00   00:02:43   Jenö Hubay   Hejre Kati Op 32   London Festival Orchestra   Josef Sakonov   Josef Sakonov, violin   Decca   444786
16:14:00   00:05:03   Peter Tchaikovsky   The Nutcracker: Final Waltz & Apotheosis       Antal Doráti   Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra   Philips   4788977
16:30:00   00:10:35   Ludwig van Beethoven   Rondo from Violin Concerto Op 61   Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra   Bernard Haitink   Herman Krebbers, violin   Philips   4788977
16:47:00   00:05:02   Daniele Amfitheatrof   Salome: The Dance of the Seven Veils       Charles Gerhardt   National Philharmonic   RCA   2792
17:04:00   00:01:45   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   The Abduction from the Seraglio: Ha!   Netherlands Wind Ensemble       Members of   Philips   4788977
17:13:00   00:05:11   Horatio Parker   Scherzo for Strings       Reuben Blundell   Gowanus Arts Ensemble   New Focus   166
17:29:00   00:07:15   Béla Bartók   Suite No. 1: Allegro vivace Op 3       Antal Doráti   Detroit Symphony   Decca   4785437
17:43:00   00:10:02   Maurice Ravel   Four Movements from Schumann's       Eiji Oue   Minnesota Orchestra   Reference   79

BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH BILL O'CONNELL

18:05:00   00:03:56   Franz Schubert   Scherzo from Piano Sonata No. 21           Alfred Brendel, piano   Philips   4788977
18:16:00   00:08:32   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 39       Josef Krips   Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra   Philips   4788977
18:31:00   00:04:30   Gabriel Fauré   Impromptu No. 3 in A flat major Op 34           Kathryn Stott, piano   Hyperion   66911
18:43:00   00:07:10   Giuseppe Verdi   Nabucco: Overture       Riccardo Muti   La Scala Philharmonic   Sony   68468

KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA

19:02:00 00:16:48 César Franck Symphonic Variations London Philharmonic Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Alicia de Larrocha, piano Decca 4785437
19:21:00 00:35:10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Koch Intl 7574

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA

20:02:00   00:19:21   Franz Joseph Haydn   Symphony No. 93 in D       Marc Minkowski   Musicians of the Louvre   Naïve   5176
20:23:00   00:12:25   Antonio Vivaldi   Four Seasons: 'Autumn' Concerto in F major Op 8   I Musici   Felix Ayo   Felix Ayo, violin   Philips   4788977
20:37:00   00:19:49   Edvard Grieg   Holberg Suite Op 40       Domenico Boyagian   Ohio Philharmonic   Centaur   3311

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY with Jim Cunningham - Manfred Honeck, conductor; Lars Vogt, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (arr Honeck): Quartet for String Orchestra Op 18/4 - 1st Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Encore: Johannes Brahms: Waltz in A-Flat Op 39/15
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’
Bonus: Ludwig van Beethoven: Selections from Twelves Contredances

SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH JOHN SIMNA

23:02:00   00:08:37   Gabriel Fauré   Nocturne No. 6 in D flat Op 63           Kathryn Stott, piano   Hyperion   66911
23:10:00   00:11:10   César Franck   Allegretto from Symphony in D minor        Yannick Nézet-Séguin   Orchestre Métropolitaine   Atma   2647
23:24:00   00:05:28   Horatio Parker   Nocturne from Four Sketches Op 19           Peter Kairoff, piano   Albany   315
23:29:00   00:09:12   Charles Ives   Adagio cantabile from Symphony No. 2       Ludovic Morlot   Seattle Symphony   SeattleSM   1003
23:40:00   00:07:38   Padre Antonio Soler   Sonata No. 11 in B major            Martina Filjak, piano   Naxos   572515
23:47:00   00:06:10   Isaac Albéniz   Suite Española: Granada Op 47       Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos   London Symphony   MCA   25887
23:55:00   00:03:10   Edward MacDowell   Suite No. 1: The Shepherdess Song Op 42       Takuo Yuasa   Ulster Orchestra   Naxos   559075