Program Guide 05-11-2017
Almanac
May 11
1791 Jan Václav Vorísek – Bohemian composer, pianist and organist; died of tuberculosis in 1825 at the age of 34 and was buried at a Vienna cemetery, where within three years his idol Beethoven (in 1827) and his friend Schubert (in 1828) ended up as well.
1855 Anatoly Liadov – Russian composer, teacher and conductor (d.1914); along with his natural talent came indolence and a certain self-critical lack of confidence that stood in the way of his advancement, like when the commission he had received from Serge Diaghilev for the ballet The Firebird was finally transferred to Igor Stravinsky.
1888 Irving Berlin – Russian-born American composer (d.1989); born ‘Isidore Balin’ in present day Belarus; one of the greatest songwriters in American history, his music forming a significant part of ‘The Great American Songbook’.
1895 William Grant Still – American composer (d.1978); often referred to as ‘the Dean of African-American composers’.
1954 Judith Weir – English composer (65 years old); best known for her operas and theatrical works.
1961 Cecile Licad – Filipina virtuoso pianist (58 years old); The New Yorker dubbed her ‘a pianist's pianist’; studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with three of the greatest performer/pedagogues: Rudolf Serkin, Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski.
2000 first performance of Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews (as a new contribution to Gustav Holst's The Planets), in Manchester by the Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano conducting; Holst’s work had premiered 12 years before the discovery of Pluto, and ironically, six years after Matthews ‘completed’ Holst’s suite, Pluto was officially reclassified not a planet but a ‘dwarf planet’.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH ANGELA MITCHELL
00:02:00 00:23:14 E. J. Moeran Serenade in G major JoAnn Falletta Ulster Orchestra Naxos 573034
00:28:00 00:13:23 Jan Václav Vorísek Introduction & Rondo Brilliant Op 22 Prague Chamber Orchestra Ivan Parík Boris Krajný, piano Supraphon 3868
00:44:00 00:27:41 William Grant Still Africa John Jeter Fort Smith Symphony Naxos 559174
01:14:00 00:47:34 Franz Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; Sharon Robinson, cello Bridge 9376
02:04:00 01:13:28 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Sony 47654
03:20:00 00:15:31 Anatoly Liadov Eight Russian Folk Songs Op 58 Enrique Bátiz Mexico City Philharmonic ASV 657
03:38:00 00:46:27 Josef Suk Symphony No. 1 in E major Op 14 Václav Neumann Czech Philharmonic Supraphon 111964
03:42:00 00:04:20 Léo Delibes Sylvia: The Huntresses Martin West San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Reference 125
04:27:00 00:33:01 Robert Schumann Kreisleriana Op 16 Jonathan Biss, piano EMI 65391
05:03:00 00:23:19 Joseph Eybler Symphony No. 1 in C major Michael Hofstetter Geneva Chamber Orchestra CPO 777104
05:29:00 00:11:02 Charles Wakefield Cadman Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard Joel Fan, piano Reference 134
05:56:00 00:01:59 Percy Grainger Shepherd's Hey! Marc-André Hamelin, piano Hyperion 66884
BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER
00:03:08 Claude Pascal Ouverture from Wind Octet Robert J. Ambrose Atlanta Chamber Winds Albany 1127
06:12:00 00:08:32 Robert Schumann Finale from Symphony No. 2 Op 61 Robin Ticciati Scottish Chamber Orchestra Linn 450
06:25:00 00:03:11 Isaac Albéniz España: Tango Op 165 Jason Vieaux, guitar Azica 71224
06:28:00 00:03:47 Sir Charles Hubert H. Parry An English Suite: Prelude William Boughton English String Orchestra Nimbus 5366
06:30:00 00:03:57 Franz Joseph Haydn Il mondo della luna: Overture Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe DeutGram 4778117
06:40:00 00:09:03 Michael Torke Bright Blue Music David Zinman Baltimore Symphony Ecstatic 92201
06:51:00 00:03:26 Camille Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals: The Swan Angelika Bachmann, musical saw; Anne-Monika von Twardowski, pn Warner 554295
06:55:00 00:03:13 John Philip Sousa March 'Nobles of the Mystic Shrine' Keith Brion New Sousa Band Delos 3102
07:10:00 00:06:40 Felix Mendelssohn Finale from Piano Concerto No. 1 Op 25 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Barenboim Lang Lang, piano DeutGram 4795448
07:12:00 00:07:38 Francesco Geminiani Concerto Grosso No.11 in E major Andrew Manze Academy of Ancient Music Harm Mundi 907261
07:20:00 00:01:57 Leonard Bernstein Mass: Allelulia Canadian Brass RCA 68633
07:25:00 00:04:23 Max Reger Finale from Flute Serenade Op 77 Michel Debost, flute; Takako Masame, violin; Lynne Ramsey, viola Skarbo 4094
07:31:00 00:06:00 Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique: Waltz Op 14 Pierre Boulez Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 453432
07:40:00 00:09:14 Ludwig van Beethoven Shepherd's Song from Symphony No. 6 Op 68 Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Decca 16871
07:51:00 00:03:21 Samuel Barber Finale from Violin Concerto Op 14 St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Hugh Wolff Hilary Hahn, violin Sony 89029
07:55:00 00:02:57 Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Mélodie Yuja Wang, piano DeutGram 16606
BBC NEWS
08:07:00 00:06:36 Johannes Brahms Scherzo from String Sextet No. 2 Op 36 Dmitry Sitkovetsky NES Chamber Orchestra Nonesuch 79545
08:15:00 00:10:49 Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco Concerto a più Istrumenti in E minor Op 5 Concerto Cologne Martin Sandhoff, flute; Cordula Breuer, flute Teldec 22166
08:30:00 00:05:09 Stanislaw Moniuszko Verbum nobile: Overture Antoni Wit Warsaw Philharmonic Naxos 572716
08:40:00 00:09:04 Max Reger Fugue from Variations on a Theme of Neeme Järvi Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Chandos 8794
08:50:00 00:01:59 Anonymous Xácara from "Flores de Música" Matthias Maute Ensemble Caprice Analekta 9957
08:55:00 00:03:55 Maurice Jarre Witness: Building the Barn Paul Bateman Royal Philharmonic Royal Phil 33
09:05:00 00:17:30 Richard Strauss Don Juan Op 20 Vladimir Ashkenazy Cleveland Orchestra Decca 425941
09:27:00 00:04:50 Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes: Sea Interlude No. 4 Paavo Järvi Cincinnati Symphony Telarc 80660
09:35:00 00:04:14 Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in G major András Schiff, piano Decca 421422
09:42:00 00:01:26 William Grant Still If You Should Go Alexa Still, flute; Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Koch Intl 7192
09:45:00 00:07:51 Paul Creston Celebration Overture Op 61 Gerard Schwarz United States Marine Band Naxos 573121
09:55:00 00:03:25 Richard Rodgers Manhattan Joshua Bell, violin; Marvin Hamlisch, piano Sony 52716
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA
10:01:00 00:03:43 William Grant Still Summerland from 'Three Visions' Denver Oldham, piano Koch Intl 7084
10:05:00 00:02:08 William Grant Still Suite for Violin: Gamin Alexa Still, flute; Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Koch Intl 7192
10:10:00 00:11:20 Alessandro Marcello Guitar Concerto in D minor Academy St. Martin in Fields Kenneth Sillito Alexandre Lagoya, guitar Philips 446002
10:23:00 00:04:36 Tomaso Albinoni Concerto for Strings in B flat major Op 5 Simon Standage Collegium Musicum 90 Chandos 663
10:30:00 00:03:59 Johannes Brahms Capriccio in G minor Op 116 Stanislav Khristenko, piano Steinway 30032
10:37:00 00:05:30 Antonín Dvorák Scherzo from Serenade for Strings Op 22 Conrad van Alphen Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra Telarc 80623
10:44:00 00:03:31 Florent Schmitt La tragédie de Salomé: Dance of the Yannick Nézet-Séguin Orchestre Métropolitaine Atma 2647
10:52:00 00:24:05 William Grant Still Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" Neeme Järvi Detroit Symphony Chandos 9154
11:17:00 00:04:03 Leonard Bernstein On the Town: Lonely Town Philharmonia Orchestra David Zinman Joshua Bell, violin Sony 89358
11:23:00 00:08:40 Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger: Act 1 Prelude Franz Welser-Möst Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 4778773
11:33:00 00:09:03 Isaac Albéniz Iberia: Fête-dieu à Séville Lang Lang, piano Sony 771901
11:44:00 00:08:38 Christoph Willibald Gluck Alessandro: Chaconne Reinhard Goebel Cologne Musica Antiqua Archiv 445824
11:54:00 00:06:13 Jacques Offenbach Master Péronilla: Overture Antonio de Almeida Philharmonia Orchestra Philips 422057
BBC NEWS
12:07:00 00:09:40 Stanislaw Moniuszko Paria: Overture Antoni Wit Warsaw Philharmonic Naxos 572716
12:18:00 00:04:55 Sir Edward Elgar March of the Mogul Emperors Op 66 Sir Andrew Davis BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10570
12:25:00 00:06:48 Modest Mussorgsky Khovanshchina: Dance of the Persian Eiji Oue Minnesota Orchestra Reference 71
12:33:00 00:04:16 Anatoly Liadov Polonaise No. 2 in D major Op 55 Enrique Bátiz Mexico City Philharmonic ASV 657
12:41:00 00:05:22 Frédéric Chopin Polonaise No. 3 in A Op 40 Maurizio Pollini, piano DeutGram 4793449
12:48:00 00:08:43 Charles Tomlinson Griffes Poem for Flute & Orchestra Cleveland Sinfonietta Louis Lane Maurice Sharp, flute Epic 1116
12:58:00 00:01:30 George Gershwin Impromptu in Two Keys Fazil Say, piano Teldec 26202
BIG WORK AT ONE WITH MARK SATOLA
13:01:00 00:26:16 Antonín Dvorák The Golden Spinning Wheel Op 109 István Kertész London Symphony Decca 4785437
13:28:00 00:11:24 Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride: Three Dances George Szell Cleveland Orchestra CBS/Sony 215
13:40:00 00:17:50 Zdenek Fibich Zaboj, Slavoj and Ludek Op 37 Marek Stilec Czech National Symphony Naxos 573197
13:59:00 00:02:34 Charles-Valentin Alkan Barcarolle in G minor Op 65 Ronald Smith, piano Arabesque 6523
14:02:00 00:03:06 Franz Liszt Schubert Song 'Die Forelle' Daniil Trifonov, piano Mariinsky 530
14:08:00 00:13:23 Jan Václav Vorísek Introduction & Rondo Brilliant Op 22 Prague Chamber Orchestra Ivan Parík Boris Krajný, piano Supraphon 3868
14:24:00 00:06:57 Anatoly Liadov The Enchanted Lake Op 62 Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 447084
14:45:00 00:11:33 Jean Sibelius Overture in E Leif Segerstam Turku Philharmonic Naxos 573300
14:57:00 00:01:59 Francis Chagrin Parade of the Wooden Soldiers Robert J. Ambrose Atlanta Chamber Winds Albany 1127
15:01:00 00:16:25 William Grant Still Wood Notes John Jeter Fort Smith Symphony Naxos 559676
15:19:00 00:11:15 Frederick Delius A Song of Summer Sir John Barbirolli Hallé Orchestra EMI 65119
15:33:00 00:04:46 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart La finta giardiniera: Overture Hans Vonk Dresden State Orchestra Capriccio 10070
15:40:00 00:06:12 Franz Joseph Haydn Minuet & Finale from String Quartet #64 Op 76 Carmina Quartet Denon 78963
15:49:00 00:07:12 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Straussiana Kazuki Yamada Orch de la Suisse Romande PentaTone 518
15:57:00 00:01:30 Franz Liszt Years of Pilgrimage, 1st Year: Pastorale Lazar Berman, piano DeutGram 4779525
15:58:00 00:06:50 Jacques Offenbach Waltz 'American Eagle' Gulbenkian Orchestra Michel Swierczewski Nelson Rocha, trumpet Nimbus 5303
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL
16:09:00 00:01:09 Jacques Offenbach La vie Parisienne: Galop Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80625
16:13:00 00:10:50 Lars-Erik Larsson Little Serenade Op 12 Petter Sundkvist Swedish Chamber Orchestra Naxos 553715
16:27:00 00:06:12 Jimmy van Heusen Here's That Rainy Day Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Decca 455512
16:36:00 00:03:14 Erik Satie Sonatine bureaucratique Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Decca 470290
16:41:00 00:08:29 Stanislaw Moniuszko Halka: Overture Antoni Wit Warsaw Philharmonic Naxos 572716
16:52:00 00:03:03 William Grant Still Afro-American Symphony: Humor Neeme Järvi Detroit Symphony Chandos 9154
16:56:00 00:03:08 Cécile Chaminade Etudes de concert: Scherzo Op 35 Joanne Polk, piano Steinway 30037
17:04:00 00:02:43 Irving Berlin Puttin' on the Ritz Brandenburg State Orchestra Howard Griffiths Fine Arts Brass Klanglogo 1506
17:06:00 00:03:20 Irving Berlin Blue Skies Lara Downes, piano Sono Lumin 92207
17:13:00 00:11:15 George Frideric Handel Saul: Act 1 Sinfonia Paul McCreesh Gabrieli Players Archiv 474510
17:27:00 00:08:22 Frédéric Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp major Op 60 Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Decca 4830255
17:40:00 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
17:45:00 00:04:02 William Grant Still Bayou Home Alexa Still, flute; Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Koch Intl 7192
17:52:00 00:03:28 Louis Moreau Gottschalk La gallina Op 53 Cecile Licad, piano Naxos 559145
17:56:00 00:03:04 Alberto Ginastera Ollantay: The Warriors Op 17 Gisèle Ben-Dor BBC National Orch of Wales Naxos 570999
BBC NEWS; DINNER CLASSICS WITH BILL O'CONNELL
18:09:00 00:09:54 Stanislaw Moniuszko The Raftsman: Overture Antoni Wit Warsaw Philharmonic Naxos 572716
18:21:00 00:07:33 William Grant Still Folk Suite No. 1 New Zealand String Quartet Alexa Still, flute; Susan DeWitt Smith, piano Koch Intl 7192
18:30:00 00:01:52 William Grant Still Swanee River Denver Oldham, piano Koch Intl 7084
18:34:00 00:18:17 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat major Cleveland Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi David McGill, bassoon Decca 443176
18:56:00 00:03:03 William Grant Still Blues from 'Lenox Avenue' Denver Oldham, piano Koch Intl 7084
ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA
19:02:00 00:21:58 Antonín Dvorák Symphonic Variations Op 78 Sir Charles Mackerras Czech Philharmonic Supraphon 3533
19:26:00 00:29:23 Camille Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor Op 61 Philharmonia Orchestra Antonio Pappano Maxim Vengerov, violin EMI 57593
19:57:00 00:02:30 Frédéric Chopin Etude No. 13 in A flat major Op 25 Nikita Magaloff, piano Philips 4788977
20:00:00 JUBILATION CHURCH CHOIR FESTIVAL FROM THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST IN DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND
NIGHT MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER
22:08:00 00:09:17 Louis Moreau Gottschalk Bamboula Op 2 Cecile Licad, piano Naxos 559145
22:19:00 00:29:22 William Grant Still Symphony No. 2 in G minor Neeme Järvi Detroit Symphony Chandos 9226
22:51:00 00:10:12 William Grant Still The American Scene: The East Richard Auldon Clark Manhattan Chamber Orchestra Newport 85596
23:02:00 00:03:12 Frédéric Chopin Waltz No. 8 in A flat major Op 64 Ingrid Fliter, piano EMI 14899
QUIET HOUR WITH ROB GRIER
23:07:00 00:06:57 Anatoly Liadov The Enchanted Lake Op 62 Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 447084
23:14:00 00:05:16 Sergei Prokofiev Divertimento: Nocturne Op 43 Frederic Chiu, piano Harm Mundi 907195
23:19:00 00:07:13 Dmitri Shostakovich Andante from Piano Concerto No. 2 Op 102 BBC Symphony Orchestra Hugh Wolff Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Decca 460503
23:27:00 00:06:48 William Grant Still Land of Romance from 'Africa' Lara Downes, piano Steinway 30016
23:33:00 00:05:16 Jack Gallagher Berceuse JoAnn Falletta London Symphony Naxos 559652
23:41:00 00:04:11 Antonín Dvorák Lasst mich allein Op 82 Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Anna Polonsky, piano Decca 19765
23:45:00 00:07:24 Franz Liszt Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth Leif Ove Andsnes, piano EMI 57002
23:54:00 00:03:16 Mikhail Glinka Nocturne in F minor Jenny Lin, piano Hänssler 98037
23:56:00 00:03:41 Alfredo Catalani La Wally: Act 3 Prelude Riccardo Chailly La Scala Philharmonic Decca 4831148
23:57:00 00:02:43 Johann Sebastian Bach Lute Suite No. 1: Prelude & Presto Yolanda Kondonassis, harp Azica 71273
