Program Guide 02-20-2017
Almanac
February 20
1763 Adalbert Gyrowetz – Bohemian composer (d.1850); mainly wrote instrumental works, with many string quartets and symphonies; his hometown is Budweis, known for its superior beer since the 13th century (and the true home of ‘Budweiser’ lager).
1770 Ferdinando Carulli - Italian composer (d.1841); wrote for classical guitar and was the author of the influential Méthode complète pour guitare (1810), which contains music still used by student guitarists today.
1791 Carl Czerny – Austrian composer, pianist and teacher (d.1857); his vast musical production amounted to over a 1,000 works; his books of studies are still widely used in piano teaching.
1816 premiere of Gioacchino Rossini's comedy Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) at the Teatro Argentina in Rome with the composer conducting; its original title was not The Barber of Seville, but Almaviva, or The Useless Precaution, because Giovanni Paisiello’s Barber had been very popular at the time; Paisiello’s version was eclipsed immediately and forever.
1827 first performance of Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture A Midsummer Night's Dream, written when the composer was 17 years, 6 months old; according to George Grove, founder of the famous dictionary of music and musicians, this is "the greatest marvel of early maturity that the world has ever seen in music".
1911 Robert McBride – American composer (d.2007); late in life he developed an ear disorder that caused him to hear pitches a half-step off, and so he was unable to listen to music at all.
1940 Christoph Eschenbach – German conductor and pianist (79 years old); studied conducting with George Szell; Herbert von Karajan was his mentor for nearly twenty-five years.
1948 Barry Wordsworth – English conductor (71 years old); principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra 1989-2006, and now holds the title of conductor laureate.
1953 Riccardo Chailly – Italian conductor (66 years old); first music director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, 1999-2005, and now has the title of Conductor Laureate with La Verdi; he is the music director of both the La Scala opera company in Milan and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
00:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Angela Mitchell
00:02:00 00:34:17 Peter Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C major Op 48
Christoph Eschenbach Philadelphia Orchestra Ondine 1150
00:38:00 00:28:34 Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream Incidental
Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Decca 4810778
01:10:00 00:26:06 Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D major Op 18
Cypress String Quartet Avie 2348
01:36:00 00:46:50 Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Fêtes d'Hébé: Ballet Music
English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Ursula Connors, soprano; Ambrosian Singers EMI 65732
02:26:00 00:46:27 Josef Suk Symphony No. 1 in E major Op 14
Václav Neumann Czech Philharmonic Supraphon 111964
03:14:00 00:23:28 Georg Philipp Telemann Suite for Recorder & Strings in A minor
Zagreb Soloists Antonio Janigro Julius Baker, flute Vanguard 42
03:40:00 00:40:09 Alexander Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau
Riccardo Chailly Deutsches Symphonie Berlin Decca 417450
04:22:00 00:25:45 Adalbert Gyrowetz Symphony in D Op 12
Matthias Bamert London Mozart Players Chandos 9791
04:51:00 00:13:49 Ralph Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country
Barry Wordsworth New Queen's Hall Orchestra Argo 440116
05:07:00 00:24:01 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 11 for Winds in E flat
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra DeutGram 431683
05:33:00 00:08:32 Johann David Heinichen Concerto Grosso in F major
Reinhard Goebel Cologne Musica Antiqua Archiv 437549
05:47:00 00:08:41 Franz Schubert Rondo from Piano Trio No. 1
Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Sharon Robinson, cello Bridge 9376
05:57:00 00:02:27 Edvard Grieg Norwegian Dance No. 2 Op 35
Petri Sakari Iceland Symphony Chandos 9028
06:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Jacqueline Gerber
06:07:00 00:03:08 Sergei Prokofiev Cinderella: Waltz
Marin Alsop São Paulo Symphony Naxos 573518
06:15:00 00:07:59 Gustav Holst The Planets: Venus Op 32
Sir Andrew Davis BBC Philharmonic Chandos 5086
06:23:00 00:02:13 Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Indes Galantes: Danse des Sauvages
Marc Minkowski Musicians of the Louvre DeutGram 4795448
06:28:00 00:05:25 Alexander Glazunov Ballet Scenes: Polonaise Op 52
Edo de Waart Minnesota Orchestra Telarc 80347
06:40:00 00:09:01 Ludwig van Beethoven Rondo from Violin Concerto Op 61
Cleveland Orchestra Paavo Järvi Christian Tetzlaff, violin TCO 908
06:51:00 00:02:43 Richard Nicholson Cantate Domino
Ross Duffin Quire Cleveland Quire 2013
06:54:00 00:01:24 Sven Einar Englund The Reindeer Race from "The White Reindeer'
Osmo Vänskä Lahti Symphony Orchestra Bis 575
06:55:00 00:03:02 John Philip Sousa March 'The New York Hippodrome'
Keith Brion Royal Artillery Band Naxos 559092
07:03:00 00:05:58 Sergei Rachmaninoff Suite No. 2: Waltz Op 17
Yefim Bronfman, piano; Emanuel Ax, piano Sony 61767
07:13:00 00:08:52 Johann Strauss Jr Waltz 'Roses from the South' Op 388
Franz Welser-Möst London Philharmonic Seraphim 73295
07:20:00 00:02:12 Jennifer Higdon Echo Dash
Hilary Hahn, violin; Cory Smythe, piano DeutGram 19103
07:28:00 00:05:20 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Finale from String Quintet No. 5
Sarah Kapustin, violin; Diana Cohen, violin; Mark Holloway, viola; Sebastian Krunnies, viola; David Soyer, cello Marlboro 80001
07:32:00 00:01:49 John Dowland My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Nigel North, lute Naxos 557586
07:40:00 00:08:45 Carl Friedrich Abel Symphony in F major Op 7
Adrian Shepherd Cantilena Chandos 8648
07:50:00 00:03:33 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Rondo from Piano Trio No. 4 Op 65
Beaux Arts Trio Philips 446077
07:55:00 00:03:15 Fritz Kreisler Miniature Viennese March
Gidon Kremer, violin; Oleg Maisenberg, piano DeutGram 453440
08:05:00 00:05:45 Mark O'Connor Appalachia Waltz
La Pietà Angèle Dubeau Angèle Dubeau, violin Analekta 8737
08:15:00 00:05:46 Bedrich Smetana Polka from String Quartet No. 1
Geoffrey Simon London Symphony Chandos 8412
08:20:00 00:05:06 Carl Stamitz Rondo from Cello Concerto No. 1
Prague Chamber Orchestra Christian Benda Christian Benda, cello Naxos 550865
08:28:00 00:05:42 Johann Sebastian Bach Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Avie 2207
08:40:00 00:11:29 Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture Op 21
George Szell Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Philips 4788977
08:55:00 00:04:17 Earle Hagen Harlem Nocturne
Quartet San Francisco ViolinJazz 105
09:05:00 00:16:54 Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque
Jun Märkl National Orchestra of Lyon Naxos 572583
09:35:00 00:04:23 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Così fan tutte: Overture
Rinaldo Alessandrini Norwegian Nat'l Opera Orch Naïve 30479
09:55:00 00:03:11 Robert Schumann Fantasy Pieces: Soaring Op 12
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano Centaur 3177
09:56:00 00:01:24 Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 21 in E minor
Marin Alsop London Philharmonic Naxos 557429
09:59:00 00:02:10 Dmitri Shostakovich The Gadfly: Galop Op 97
Riccardo Chailly Philadelphia Orchestra Decca 452597
10:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
10:02:00 00:01:43 Giacomo Puccini March 'Electric Shock'
Riccardo Chailly Verdi Symphony Milan Decca 2141
10:06:00 00:09:01 Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Charles Munch Boston Symphony Orchestra RCA 300350
10:15:00 00:03:49 Cécile Chaminade Les Sylvains Op 60
Joanne Polk, piano Steinway 30037
10:21:00 00:07:16 Richard Wagner Lohengrin: Act 1 Prelude
Franz Welser-Möst Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 4778773
10:30:00 00:03:30 Ludwig van Beethoven Minuet from Septet Op 20
Berlin Philharmonic Octet Members of Philips 4788977
10:37:00 00:03:52 Ludwig van Beethoven German Dance from String Quartet No. 13 Op 130
Cypress String Quartet Cypress 2012
10:42:00 00:05:01 Sir Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 in G major Op 39
Sir Adrian Boult London Philharmonic EMI 28379
10:50:00 00:22:16 Peter Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Christoph Eschenbach Philadelphia Orchestra Ondine 1150
11:13:00 00:07:14 Sir William Walton Richard III: Prelude & Coronation
Academy St. Martin in Fields Sir Neville Marriner Ian Watson, organ Chandos 8841
11:22:00 00:11:01 Robert McBride Mexican Rhapsody
Howard Hanson Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Mercury 434324
11:35:00 00:08:45 Isaac Albéniz Iberia: Fête-dieu à Séville
Soyeon Kate Lee, piano Koch Intl 7759
11:46:00 00:08:12 Franz Joseph Haydn Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 96
Marc Minkowski Musicians of the Louvre Naïve 5176
11:56:00 00:02:48 George Gershwin Promenade 'Walking the Dog'
Fazil Say, piano Teldec 26202
12:06:00 00:08:21 Frédéric Chopin Polonaise No. 1 in C sharp minor Op 26
Maurizio Pollini, piano DeutGram 4793449
12:16:00 00:07:30 Henri Sauguet La cigale et la fourmi
Daniel Swift CBC Radio Orchestra CBC 5152
12:24:00 00:04:33 Erik Satie Poudre d'or
Pascal Rogé, piano Decca 421713
12:31:00 00:03:33 Antonín Dvorák Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major Op 46
Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
12:39:00 00:05:17 Julius Fucik Florentine March Op 214
Neeme Järvi Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Chandos 5158
12:46:00 00:11:32 Sergei Prokofiev War and Peace: The Ball
Neeme Järvi Philharmonia Orchestra Chandos 10538
13:00 THE BIG WORK AT ONE
13:00:00 00:27:54 George Frideric Handel Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3
Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire ApolloFire 2002
13:29:00 00:19:17 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major
Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Decca 139230
13:50:00 00:08:48 Antonio Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Patrick Gallois, flute DeutGram 437839
14:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
14:00:00 00:03:11 Frédéric Chopin Etude No. 13 in A flat major Op 25
Lang Lang, piano Sony 771901
14:03:00 00:01:30 Alexander Scriabin Etude in C sharp Op 8
Garrick Ohlsson, piano Bridge 9287
14:07:00 00:13:06 Antonín Dvorák Scherzo capriccioso Op 66
Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
14:22:00 00:08:55 Leos Janácek Moravian Dances
Antoni Wit Warsaw Philharmonic Naxos 572695
14:33:00 00:10:14 Domenico Cimarosa I due Baroni di Rocazzura: Overture
Patrick Gallois Sinfonia Finlandia Naxos 572734
14:46:00 00:09:24 Johann Strauss Jr Waldmeister: Overture
Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 431628
14:56:00 00:03:03 Claude Debussy Petite Suite: Cortège
Jun Märkl National Orchestra of Lyon Naxos 572583
15:01:00 00:16:09 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata No. 22 for Piano & Violin in A major
Ray Chen, violin; Christoph Eschenbach, piano Sony 544775
15:20:00 00:07:10 Josef Myslivecek Symphony in C
Werner Ehrhardt Concerto Cologne Archiv 4776418
15:29:00 00:03:34 William Grant Still Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
New Zealand String Quartet Alexa Still, flute; Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Koch Intl 7192
15:37:00 00:04:28 George Gershwin Porgy and Bess: Bess, You is My Woman
Caroline Goulding, violin; Christopher O'Riley, piano Telarc 80744
15:43:00 00:10:10 Antonín Dvorák Finale from Symphony No. 6 Op 60
Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Naxos 572698
15:53:00 00:03:05 Scott Joplin The Cascades
Joshua Rifkin, piano Nonesuch 79159
16:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Bill O’Connell; COMPOSERS DATEBOOK: Harbison's "Olympic Dances"
15:58:00 00:03:56 Peter Tchaikovsky Waltz from Serenade for Strings Op 48
Christoph Eschenbach Philadelphia Orchestra Ondine 1150
16:06:00 00:03:26 Dmitri Shostakovich Moscow Cheryomushki: A Spin through
Riccardo Chailly Philadelphia Orchestra Decca 452597
16:13:00 00:09:51 Johan Wagenaar Overture to 'Twelfth Night' Op 36
Riccardo Chailly Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Decca 425833
16:27:00 00:08:51 Lord Berners Nicholas Nickleby: Suite
Barry Wordsworth Royal Liverpool Philharmonic EMI 65098
16:36:00 00:02:50 Giacomo Puccini La bohème: O Mimì tu più non torni
Orchestra of La Scala Riccardo Chailly Roberto Alagna, tenor; Simon Keenlyside, baritone Decca 466070
16:41:00 00:07:52 Johann Sebastian Bach Finale from Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Decca 139230
16:52:00 00:03:16 Stephen Paulus Prairie Songs: The Old Church
Dale Warland Dale Warland Singers Gothic 49243
16:57:00 00:02:30 George Gershwin Short Story Opus Two
William Terwilliger, violin; Andrew Cooperstock, piano Azica 71290
17:05:00 00:05:28 Ferdinando Carulli Polonaise from Guitar Concerto No. 1 Op 8
Academy St. Martin in Fields Iona Brown Pepe Romero, guitar Philips 426263
17:13:00 00:09:56 William Lloyd Webber Serenade for Strings
Richard Hickox City of London Sinfonia Chandos 9595
17:26:00 00:08:39 Jacques Offenbach La belle Hélène: Overture
Yan Pascal Tortelier BBC Philharmonic Chandos 9765
17:40:00 00:06:11 Gioacchino Rossini The Barber of Seville: Una voce poco fa
Orchestra of La Scala Riccardo Chailly Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano CBS 37862
17:48:00 00:02:17 Gioacchino Rossini The Barber of Seville: Act 2 Finale
Orchestra of La Scala Riccardo Chailly Leo Nucci, baritone; Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano; Paolo Barbacini, tenor; La Scala Chorus CBS 37862
17:52:00 00:02:35 Aram Khachaturian Masquerade: Mazurka
Neeme Järvi Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Chandos 8542
17:55:00 00:03:53 Federico Mompou Canción y Danza No. 3
Brazilian Guitar Quartet Delos 3466
18:00 DINNER CLASSICS
18:09:00 00:16:51 Ottorino Respighi The Fountains of Rome
Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
18:28:00 00:04:37 Johannes Brahms Ballade No. 1 in D minor Op 10
Emil Gilels, piano DeutGram 4796018
18:35:00 00:05:40 Peter Tchaikovsky Waltz from Symphony No. 5 Op 64
Evgeny Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
18:43:00 00:09:43 Luigi Cherubini Anacréon: Overture
Igor Markevitch Orchestre Lamoureux DeutGram 4796018
18:55:00 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
19:00 SYMPHONY AT SEVEN with John Simna
19:02:00 00:20:12 Adalbert Gyrowetz Symphony in F major Op 6
Matthias Bamert London Mozart Players Chandos 9791
19:24:00 00:31:08 Max Bruch Scottish Fantasy Op 46
London Symphony Jascha Horenstein David Oistrakh, violin Decca 4785437
19:58:00 00:01:13 Johann Sebastian Bach Fugue in C major
Alan Feinberg, piano Steinway 30034
20:00 WCLV ESSENTIAL CLASSICS
20:02:00 00:10:55 Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture Op 21
Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Decca 4810778
20:15:00 00:08:58 Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28
Royal Philharmonic Barry Wordsworth Janine Jansen, violin Decca 475011
20:26:00 00:30:56 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Avie 2159
20:58:00 00:01:06 Claude Debussy Page d'album
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Decca 460247
21:00 NIGHT MUSIC with Rob Grier; COMPOSERS DATEBOOK: Harbison's "Olympic Dances"
21:03:00 00:10:37 Felix Mendelssohn Overture 'The Fair Melusina' Op 32
Ilan Volkov BBC Scottish Symphony BBC 225
21:15:00 00:12:11 Carl Czerny Variations on a Theme by Rode Op 33
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano Centaur 3280
21:30:00 00:17:48 Adalbert Gyrowetz Symphony in E flat Op 6
Matthias Bamert London Mozart Players Chandos 9791
21:50:00 00:03:42 Frédéric Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Decca 16421
21:56:00 00:29:35 Antonín Dvorák Serenade for Strings in E major Op 22
Vladimir Ashkenazy Cleveland Orchestra Decca 433549
22:27:00 00:10:00 Antonio Vivaldi Guitar Concerto in A major
English Chamber Orchestra George Malcolm Eduardo Fernández, guitar Decca 417617
22:39:00 00:19:49 Clarice Assad Suite for Chamber Orchestra
New Century Chamber Orch Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, vn NSS Music 8
22:57:00 00:01:50 Sir Thomas Beecham The Gods Go a'Begging: Ensemble
Yehudi Menuhin Royal Philharmonic MCA 6231
23:00 QUIET HOUR
23:02:00 00:05:18 Frederick Delius Irmelin Prelude
George Szell Cleveland Orchestra IMG 75962
23:07:00 00:13:04 Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus'
Barry Wordsworth New Queen's Hall Orchestra Argo 440116
23:22:00 00:05:24 Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nocturne Op 61
Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Decca 4810778
23:27:00 00:07:54 George Gershwin Lullaby for Strings
Riccardo Chailly Cleveland Orchestra Decca 417326
23:37:00 00:05:25 Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op 34
Michael Tilson Thomas San Francisco Symphony SF Sym 60
23:42:00 00:11:13 Peter Tchaikovsky Elegy from Serenade for Strings Op 48
Christoph Eschenbach Philadelphia Orchestra Ondine 1150
23:56:00 00:03:15 Lili Boulanger Nocturne
Janine Jansen, violin; Itamar Golan, piano Decca 15249
23:57:00 00:02:27 Johan Halvorsen La Mélancolie
Neeme Järvi Bergen Philharmonic Chandos 10584
