Program Guide 09-15-2016
Almanac
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 (73 years old); 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.
Recording of the Week
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
