Program Guide 02-16-2017
Almanac
February 16
1709 Charles Avison baptized – English composer and organist (d.1770); best known for his 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti and his Essay on Musical Expression, the first music criticism published in English.
1892 premiere of Jules Massenet's opera Werther at the Imperial Theatre Hofoper in Vienna; loosely based on Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
1907 Alec Wilder – American composer of popular and classical music (d.1980); good friends with Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and other luminaries of American popular music; among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote was I'll Be Around (1942); author of the definitive book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900 – 1950.
1936 Eliahu Inbal – Israeli conductor (85 years old); won first prize at the 1963 Guido Cantelli conducting competition in Novara, Italy.
1938 John Corigliano – American composer (83 years old); his scores have won him the Pulitzer Prize (Symphony No. 2, 2001), five Grammy Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar (The Red Violin, 1997).
1952 Santiago Rodriguez – Cuban-American pianist (69 years old); his Rachmaninoff recordings on the Élan label received the Rosette award in The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music; Silver Medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ANGELA MITCHELL
00:02:00 00:21:08 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 88 in G major Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
00:25:00 00:16:29 Alec Wilder Carl Sandberg Suite Richard Auldon Clark Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Newport 85570
00:44:00 01:22:57 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
02:09:00 00:32:13 Herbert Howells Suite for Orchestra "The B's" Richard Hickox London Symphony Chandos 9557
02:43:00 00:29:50 Arnold Schoenberg Transfigured Night Op 4 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
03:15:00 00:31:40 Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 1 in E flat major Op 2 Eliahu Inbal Frankfurt Radio Symphony PentaTone 157
03:49:00 00:23:18 Carl Nielsen Aladdin Suite Op 34 Swedish Radio Symphony Esa-Pekka Salonen Swedish Radio Choir CBS 44934
04:15:00 00:32:21 Johannes Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G major Op 111 Cavani String Quartet Donald Weilerstein, viola Azica 71216
04:50:00 00:25:15 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Suite Concertino in F major Op 16 Rome Symphony Orchestra Francesco La Vecchia Giuseppe Giabocchi, bassoon Naxos 572921
05:17:00 00:17:12 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Concerto for Harpsichord & Fortepiano in E flat Cologne Musica Antiqua Reinhard Goebel Léon Berben, harpsichord; Robert Hill, fortepiano Archiv 471579
05:36:00 00:07:10 Frédéric Chopin Polonaise No. 2 in E flat minor Op 26 Rafal Blechacz, piano DeutGram 18883
05:56:00 00:02:30 George Frideric Handel Allegro from Concerto Grosso Op 3 Marc Minkowski Musicians of the Louvre Erato 94354
BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER
06:05:00 00:02:26 Jacques Offenbach La vie Parisienne: Cancan István Bogár Budapest Strauss Ensemble Naxos 550900
06:13:00 00:06:45 Ludwig van Beethoven Finale from String Quartet No. 5 Op 18 Cypress String Quartet Avie 2348
06:28:00 00:04:40 Dag Wirén March from Serenade for Strings Op 11 William Boughton English String Orchestra Nimbus 7020
06:42:00 00:05:51 Franz Joseph Haydn Andante from Symphony No. 94 Antal Doráti Philharmonia Hungarica Decca 4785437
06:57:00 00:02:12 Edwin Franko Goldman March "Bugles and Drums" Col. Lowell Graham USAF Heritage of America Band Klavier 11139
07:03:00 00:04:15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro: Overture Karl Böhm Berlin German Opera Orchestra DeutGram 4796018
07:14:00 00:06:00 Johannes Brahms Allegro giocoso from Symphony No. 4 Op 98 Eugen Jochum Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
07:28:00 00:04:48 Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique: March to the Igor Markevitch Orchestre Lamoureux DeutGram 4796018
07:42:00 00:07:54 Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Dance of the Lorin Maazel Berlin Radio Symphony DeutGram 4796018
BBC NEWS
08:05:00 00:02:25 Sir Arthur Bliss Checkmate: Dance of the Red Pawns David Lloyd-Jones Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Naxos 557641
08:13:00 00:07:30 Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek: The New Enterprise John Mauceri London Philharmonic LPO 86
08:28:00 00:04:36 Coldplay Viva la Vida Greg Anderson, piano; Elizabeth Joy Roe, piano Steinway 30006
08:42:00 00:07:05 Henry Purcell Abdelazer: Suite Jeanne Lamon Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Reference 2101
09:04:00 00:04:31 John Williams Olympic Fanfare & Theme Loras John Schissel Blossom Festival Band MAA 40601
09:14:00 00:07:10 Tylman Susato The Danserye: Renaissance Dances Ludwig Güttler Güttler Brass Ensemble BerlinClas 1090
09:29:00 00:02:48 Giuseppe Verdi Il trovatore: Anvil Chorus Orchestra of La Scala Claudio Abbado La Scala Chorus DeutGram 4796018
09:42:00 00:07:02 Blas Galindo Sones de Mariachi Enrique Bátiz Festival Orchestra of Mexico Naxos 550838
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA
10:01:00 00:05:04 Cécile Chaminade Etudes de concert: Fileuse Op 35 Joanne Polk, piano Steinway 30037
10:13:00 00:08:12 Gustav Holst Two Songs without Words Op 22 Richard Hickox City of London Sinfonia Chandos 9270
10:29:00 00:07:10 Camille Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale Daniel Barenboim Orchestra of Paris DeutGram 4796018
10:44:00 00:08:15 Peter Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin: Waltz Semyon Bychkov Berlin Philharmonic Philips 420237
11:01:00 00:05:03 Sergei Prokofiev Finale from Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op 55 Warsaw Philharmonic Witold Rowicki Sviatoslav Richter, piano DeutGram 4796018
11:14:00 00:08:22 Hector Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture Op 9 Mariss Jansons Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra EMI 54479
11:28:00 00:06:21 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo in D major Lars Vogt, piano EMI 36080
11:42:00 00:08:24 Richard Wagner Siegfried: Forest Murmurs Daniel Barenboim Chicago Symphony Orchestra Erato 45786
12:07:00 00:03:01 Leroy Anderson A Trumpeter's Lullaby BBC Concert Orchestra Leonard Slatkin Catherine Moore, trumpet Naxos 559357
12:17:00 00:07:48 Jean Sibelius Finlandia Op 26 Hans Rosbaud Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
12:31:00 00:06:20 Franz Liszt Paraphrase on Verdi's 'Rigoletto' Yundi, piano DeutGram 851
12:45:00 00:08:26 Charles Gounod Finale from Symphony No. 2 Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields Philips 462125
BIG WORK AT ONE WITH ROBERT CONRAD
13:03:00 00:20:12 Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
13:20:00 00:04:50 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Christmas Eve: Polonaise Robert Porco Cleveland Orchestra MAA 2014
13:25:00 00:10:14 Ludwig van Beethoven Consecration of the House Overture Op 124 Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 429762
14:00:00 00:04:01 Franz Joseph Haydn The Creation: The Heavens Are Telling Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Fritz Wunderlich, tenor; Walter Berry, baritone; Vienna Singverein DeutGram 4796018
14:04:00 00:08:06 Luigi Boccherini Symphony No. 12 in D major Op 21 Johannes Goritzki German Chamber Academy Neuss CPO 999174
14:12:00 00:06:22 Anatoly Liadov Polonaise No. 1 in C major Op 49 Enrique Bátiz Mexico City Philharmonic ASV 657
14:18:00 00:08:07 Richard Strauss Neapolitan Folk Life from 'Aus Italien" Op 16 Vladimir Ashkenazy Cleveland Orchestra Decca 425941
15:00:00 00:05:07 Edvard Grieg Cow-Call & Peasant Dance from 'Nordic Neeme Järvi Gothenburg Symphony DeutGram 437520
15:05:00 00:08:03 Gioacchino Rossini La Cenerentola: Overture Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe DeutGram 431653
15:13:00 00:06:21 William Boyce Symphony No. 2 in A major Op 2 Christopher Hogwood Academy of Ancient Music l'Oiseau 436761
15:19:00 00:08:40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondeau from Violin Concerto No. 5 Berlin Philharmonic Wolfgang Schneiderhan Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin DeutGram 4796018
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL
16:04:00 00:04:18 Camille Saint-Saëns Marche-Scherzo from Symphony No. 1 Op 2 Eliahu Inbal Frankfurt Radio Symphony PentaTone 157
16:15:00 00:07:50 Robert Schumann March from Fantasie in C major Op 17 Maurizio Pollini, piano DeutGram 4796018
16:31:00 00:05:33 Edward Ward Phantom of the Opera: Piano Concerto Fairfax Symphony Orchestra William Hudson Santiago Rodriguez, piano Elan 82268
16:45:00 00:05:41 Peter Tchaikovsky The Oprichnik: Act 4 Dances Theodore Kuchar National Symphony of Ukraine Naxos 554845
17:05:00 00:03:58 Franz Joseph Haydn The Creation: Sing to the Lord, All Ye Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan Gundula Janowitz, soprano; Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Fritz Wunderlich, tenor; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar.; Vienna Singverein DeutGram 4796018
17:16:00 00:07:17 George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 1: Allegro & Martin Pearlman Boston Baroque Telarc 80594
17:31:00 00:03:01 Jules Massenet Werther: Toute mon âme est la!..Pourquoi Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Marco Armiliato Jonas Kaufmann, tenor Decca 4788210
17:45:00 00:05:59 Albert Lortzing Zar und Zimmermann: Overture Lance Friedel Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Naxos 573418
BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH BILL O'CONNELL
18:04:00 00:09:42 Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischütz: Overture Carlos Kleiber Dresden State Orchestra DeutGram 4796018
18:20:00 00:04:49 Franz Liszt Paganini Etude No. 3 in G sharp minor Daniil Trifonov, piano DeutGram 4795529
18:32:00 00:04:41 Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride: Polka Cleveland Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Decca 444867
18:43:00 00:06:57 Camille Saint-Saëns La princesse jaune: Overture Op 30 José Serebrier BBC Concert Orchestra BBC 63
KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA
19:02:00 00:22:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major Cleveland Orchestra George Szell Robert Casadesus, piano Sony 780837
19:24:00 00:28:47 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No.104 in D major Antal Doráti Philharmonia Hungarica Decca 4785437
ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA
20:02:00 00:08:31 Frédéric Chopin Three Waltzes Op 64 Ingrid Fliter, piano EMI 14899
20:13:00 00:12:54 Gustav Holst St. Paul's Suite Op 29 Richard Hickox City of London Sinfonia Chandos 9270
20:28:00 00:29:58 Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 Warsaw Philharmonic Witold Rowicki Sviatoslav Richter, piano DeutGram 4796018
NIGHT MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER
21:03:00 00:26:54 Joseph Eybler Symphony No. 2 in D minor Michael Hofstetter Geneva Chamber Orchestra CPO 777104
21:32:00 00:04:22 Frédéric Chopin Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major Op 9 Arthur Rubinstein, piano RCA 300350
21:39:00 00:09:53 Alec Wilder Suite No. 2 for Tenor Saxophone & Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Richard Auldon Clark Gary Louie, saxophone Newport 85570
21:51:00 00:45:05 Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op 68 Eugen Jochum Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
22:39:00 00:08:16 John Corigliano Elegy Robert Spano Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Telarc 80673
22:50:00 00:03:31 Will Todd My Lord Has Come Voces8 Decca 22601
22:55:00 00:03:58 John Bull Dr. Bull's Goodnight Alan Feinberg, piano Steinway 30019
SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH ROB GRIER
23:02:00 00:05:57 Alec Wilder Air for Flute Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Richard Auldon Clark Eugenia Zukerman, flute Newport 85570
23:07:00 00:10:45 Frederick Delius Late Swallows Sir John Barbirolli Hallé Orchestra EMI 65119
23:21:00 00:05:52 John Field Nocturne No. 13 in C major Elizabeth Joy Roe, piano Decca 4789672
23:26:00 00:11:06 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio from Divertimento No. 15 Jeffrey Tate English Chamber Orchestra EMI 69823
23:40:00 00:06:21 Sergei Rachmaninoff Etude-tableau in A minor Op 39 Rustem Hayroudinoff, piano Chandos 10391
23:46:00 00:08:06 John Corigliano Voyage for Flute & Strings I Fiamminghi Rudolf Werthen Paul Edmund-Davies, flute Telarc 80421
23:56:00 00:03:20 Giuseppe Verdi La traviata: Act 3 Prelude Gianandrea Noseda BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10634
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