Program Guide 06-12-2017
Almanac
June 12
1885 Werner Josten – German-born American composer (d.1963); best known for the symphonic poem Jungle (1928), inspired by African music.
1897 Alexandre Tansman – Polish-born French composer and virtuoso pianist (d.1986); best known for his guitar pieces, mostly written for Andrés Segovia.
1913 premiere of the Florent Schmitt ballet La tragédie de Salomé (The Tragedy of Salome) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées by the Ballets Russes, Pierre Monteux conducting.
1917 premiere of Hans Pfitzner's opera Palestrina in Munich; based on a legend about the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who saves the art of polyphony for the Church in the 16th century through his composition of the Pope Marcellus Mass.
1923 first public performance of Sir William Walton's Façade - An Entertainment in London, with Dame Edith Sitwell reciting her poems, the composer conducting.
1933 the first ‘concert’ performance of the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the London Palladium during the ensemble's first visit to England; previously the orchestra had only performed at night clubs, dance halls, hotels and other informal entertainment venues; it would be ten years before Ellington would present a concert performance at Carnegie Hall in New York (on January 23, 1943).
1941 Chick Corea – American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer (77 years old); has dabbled in many musical styles, including classical.
1952 Oliver Knussen – Scottish composer and conductor (66 years old); during the 1980s, wrote two ‘children's operas’, Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop! with librettos by Maurice Sendak, based on Mr. Sendak's own books.
2002 first performance of Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto for Orchestra in Philadelphia at the American Symphony Orchestra League National Convention (now the League of American Orchestras) by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
00:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Angela Mitchell
00:02:00 00:15:04 Aaron Copland Music for Movies
Leonard Slatkin St. Louis Symphony RCA 61699
00:20:00 00:07:31 Hans Pfitzner Palestrina: Act 1 Prelude
Christian Thielemann Berlin German Opera Orchestra DeutGram 449571
00:27:00 00:07:58 Hans Pfitzner Palestrina: Act 3 Prelude
Christian Thielemann Berlin German Opera Orchestra DeutGram 449571
00:38:00 00:48:08 Alexander Glazunov Symphony No. 3 in D major Op 33
José Serebrier Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Warner 68904
01:29:00 00:43:32 Igor Stravinsky The Fairy's Kiss
Oliver Knussen Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 449205
02:15:00 00:48:14 Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G major
Takács Quartet Decca 452854
03:06:00 00:29:10 Florent Schmitt La tragédie de Salomé Op 50
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Orchestre Métropolitaine Atma 2647
03:38:00 00:38:15 Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat
BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena Raquel Lojendio, soprano Chandos 10694
04:19:00 00:39:47 Sir William Walton Façade - An Entertainment
City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox Susana Walton, speaker; Richard Baker, speaker Chandos 8869
05:01:00 00:17:02 Jean Françaix The Flower Clock
Academy St. Martin in Fields Mathias Mönius Albrecht Mayer, oboe Decca 4782564
05:21:00 00:14:49 Jan Dismas Zelenka Capriccio No. 5 in G major
Daniel Abraham Bach Sinfonia Sono Lumin 92163
05:38:00 00:07:22 Gabriel Fauré Nocturne No. 1 in E flat minor Op 33
Kathryn Stott, piano Hyperion 66911
05:50:00 00:05:38 John Williams Jurassic Park: Main Themes
Carl Davis Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Naxos 572111
05:57:00 00:01:54 Michael Praetorius Terpsichore: La Bourée
New London Consort l'Oiseau 4759101
06:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Jacqueline Gerber
06:07:00 00:03:59 Johann Sebastian Bach Easter Oratorio: Sinfonia
Ton Koopman Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Erato 23416
06:15:00 00:07:37 Franz von Suppé Beautiful Galatea: Overture
Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Sony 61830
06:25:00 00:03:21 Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Fêtes d'Hébé: Sailors' Chorus
English Chamber Orchestra Raymond Leppard Ambrosian Singers EMI 65732
06:30:00 00:03:17 Miklós Rózsa Ben-Hur: Parade of the Charioteers
José Serebrier Royal Philharmonic Royal Phil 17
06:31:00 00:04:10 Peter Tchaikovsky Waltz from Serenade for Strings Op 48
East Coast Chamber Orch E1 Music 7784
06:40:00 00:07:24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondeau from Violin Concerto No. 4
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink Herman Krebbers, violin Philips 4788977
06:50:00 00:04:28 Claude Debussy Rêverie
Eiji Oue Minnesota Orchestra Reference 99
06:54:00 00:02:19 Leonard Bernstein West Side Story: Mambo
David Zinman Baltimore Symphony Argo 444454
06:55:00 00:02:16 John Philip Sousa March 'Manhattan Beach'
Timothy Foley Nonpareil Wind Band EMI 54130
07:03:00 00:07:19 Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture Op 62
Giovanni Antonini Basel Chamber Orchestra Sony 376362
07:10:00 00:09:48 Virgil Thomson The River: The Old South
Sir Neville Marriner Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra EMI 6612
07:20:00 00:04:34 Chick Corea Spain
Quartet San Francisco ViolinJazz 105
07:30:00 00:04:16 Robert Schumann Bunte Blätter: Novelette & Präludium Op 99
Vassily Primakov, piano LP Classic 1004
07:40:00 00:06:55 Ferruccio Busoni Comedy Overture Op 38
Francesco La Vecchia Rome Symphony Orchestra Naxos 572922
07:50:00 00:02:20 Stephen Goss The Chinese Garden: Red Flowers Blooming
Xuefei Yang, guitar EMI 6322
07:55:00 00:02:35 Morton Gould Gavotte from 'Interplay'
Albany Symphony Orchestra David Alan Miller Findlay Cockrell, piano Albany 1174
07:57:00 00:03:09 Alexandre Tansman Foxtrot from 'Sonatine Transatlantique'
Daniel Blumenthal, piano Cybelia 849
08:07:00 00:05:57 Sir Arnold Bax Russian Suite: Gopak
Bryden Thomson London Philharmonic Chandos 8669
08:15:00 00:03:37 Fritz Kreisler Tambourin chinois Op 3
Shannon Lee, violin; Pamela Mia Paul, piano Telarc 80695
08:20:00 00:09:11 Ludwig van Beethoven Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 1 Op 21
Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 4776409
08:30:00 00:02:39 Camille Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
08:33:00 00:02:38 Sergei Prokofiev Summer Night Suite: Minuet Op 123
Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 469376
08:40:00 00:09:35 Franz Schubert Finale from String Quartet No. 14
Franz Welser-Möst Camerata Salzburg EMI 56813
08:50:00 00:03:10 Erik Satie Gnossienne No. 3
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp Azica 71273
08:55:00 00:05:19 Michel Legrand Noelle's Theme
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Decca 455512
09:05:00 00:18:31 Jean Sibelius En saga Op 9
George Szell Cleveland Orchestra MAA 97
09:31:00 00:07:11 Gustav Holst The Planets: Mars Op 32
Franz Welser-Möst Vienna Philharmonic DeutGram 4763793
09:45:00 00:10:31 George Butterworth Rhapsody 'A Shropshire Lad'
Andrew Manze BBC Scottish Symphony BBC 392
09:57:00 00:02:31 Darius Milhaud Brasileira from 'Scaramouche'
Katia Labèque, piano; Marielle Labèque, piano Philips 426284
10:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
10:02:00 00:02:29 Claude Debussy Syrinx
Joshua Smith, flute Telarc 80694
10:05:00 00:03:00 Jacques Ibert Entr'acte
Paul Fried, flute; David Sussman, guitar GoldenTone 1
10:10:00 00:12:05 Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in F major
Les Violons du Roy Mathieu Lussier Pascale Giguére, violin Atma 2602
10:23:00 00:04:57 Max Richter Vivaldi Recomposed: Summer 3
Berlin Concert House Orch André de Ridder Daniel Hope, violin DeutGram 4792777
10:30:00 00:03:26 Felix Mendelssohn Song without Words No. 12 in F sharp minor Op 30
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
10:36:00 00:04:06 Franz Liszt Schubert Song 'Auf dem Wasser zu singen'
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
10:43:00 00:06:30 Ferdinand Hérold Le pré aux clercs: Overture
Wolf-Dieter Hauschild Swiss Italian Orch Dynamic 282
10:52:00 00:19:46 Paul Dukas La Péri
Jesús López-Cobos Cincinnati Symphony Telarc 80515
11:12:00 00:03:22 Gabriel Fauré Masques et bergamasques: Gavotte Op 112
Ludovic Morlot Seattle Symphony SeattleSM 1004
11:17:00 00:08:32 Peter Cornelius The Barber of Bagdad: Overture
Lance Friedel Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Naxos 573418
11:28:00 00:09:04 Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite
John Wilson Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Avie 2194
11:30:00 00:08:08 Daniel Auber Fra Diavolo: Overture
Lance Friedel Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Naxos 573418
11:39:00 00:10:12 Franz Joseph Haydn Trio for 2 Flutes & Bassoon in C major
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute; Wolfgang Schulz, flute; Gilbert Audin, bassoon Sony 48061
11:52:00 00:07:04 E. J. Moeran In the Mountain Country
Vernon Handley Ulster Orchestra Chandos 8639
12:06:00 00:08:48 Ralph Vaughan Williams The Wasps: Overture
Michael Stern Kansas City Symphony Reference 129
12:17:00 00:07:30 Henri Sauguet La cigale et la fourmi
Daniel Swift CBC Radio Orchestra CBC 5152
12:25:00 00:04:31 Eric Coates London Suite: Knightsbridge March
Ronald Corp New London Orchestra Hyperion 66968
12:32:00 00:03:25 Dmitri Shostakovich Tahiti Trot 'Tea for Two' Op 16
Mariss Jansons Philadelphia Orchestra EMI 55601
12:38:00 00:02:25 Sir William Walton Façade: Popular Song
Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields Philips 420155
12:43:00 00:12:08 Antonín Dvorák Slavonic Rhapsody No. 1 in D major Op 45
Kurt Masur Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Philips 416623
12:57:00 00:02:31 Julius Fucik Entry of the Gladiators Op 68
Neeme Järvi Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Chandos 5158
13:00 THE BIG WORK AT ONE
13:01:00 00:29:10 Florent Schmitt La tragédie de Salomé Op 50
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Orchestre Métropolitaine Atma 2647
13:31:00 00:09:24 César Franck Psyché and Eros
Armin Jordan Basle Symphony Orchestra Erato 88167
13:41:00 00:16:55 Camille Saint-Saëns La Jeunesse d'Hercule Op 50
Charles Dutoit Philharmonia Orchestra Decca 4785437
14:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Mark Satola
14:01:00 00:02:48 Johannes Brahms Two Waltzes in A major
Chamber Ensemble Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet Mercury 4811409
14:04:00 00:03:32 George Gershwin Two Waltzes in C major
Leonard Pennario, piano EMI 64668
14:10:00 00:10:34 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C major
I Solisti Veneti Claudio Scimone Emer Buckley, harpsichord; Claudio Scimone, harpsichord Erato 88172
14:22:00 00:09:09 Frédéric Chopin Barcarolle in F sharp major Op 60
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
14:36:00 00:10:41 Armstrong Gibbs Miniature Dance Suite Op 124
David Lloyd-Jones Royal Ballet Sinfonia Naxos 554186
14:49:00 00:09:16 Michel Corrette Concerto comique No. 25 in G minor
Arion Baroque Orchestra early-mus 7768
15:02:00 00:14:03 Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 Op 72
Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra Telarc 80145
15:18:00 00:08:04 Ottorino Respighi Suite for Strings: Burlesca & Rigaudon
Salvatore Di Vittorio Respighi Chamber Orchestra Naxos 572332
15:28:00 00:02:00 Morton Gould Boogie Woogie Etude
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Decca 4785334
15:32:00 00:03:09 Alexandre Tansman Foxtrot from 'Sonatine Transatlantique'
Daniel Blumenthal, piano Cybelia 849
15:38:00 00:05:14 Eugène Bozza Children's Overture
Timothy Reynish Royal NCM Wind Orchestra Chandos 9897
15:45:00 00:06:01 E. T. A. Hoffmann The Drink of Immortality: Overture
Johannes Goritzki German Chamber Academy Neuss CPO 999606
15:53:00 00:03:02 John Philip Sousa March 'The Gladiator'
Frederick Fennell Dallas Wind Symphony Reference 85
16:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC with Bill O’Connell; COMPOSERS DATEBOOK: Brahms and Liszt
15:58:00 00:05:19 Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E
Roberto Szidon, piano DeutGram 4779525
16:07:00 00:05:11 Johannes Brahms FAE Sonata: Scherzo in C minor
Zuill Bailey, cello; Awadagin Pratt, piano Telarc 32664
16:15:00 00:09:46 Frederick Delius La Quadroöne & Scherzo
David Lloyd-Jones English Northern Philharmonia Naxos 553535
16:29:00 00:09:07 Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain
Oliver Knussen Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 2123
16:41:00 00:07:17 Carlos Chávez Chapultepec
Keri-Lynn Wilson Simón Bolívar Symphony Dorian 90254
16:52:00 00:03:06 Franz Liszt Schubert Song 'Liebesbotschaft'
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
16:56:00 00:03:15 Traditional Shaker Song 'Peace'
Dale Warland Dale Warland Singers Gothic 49243
17:04:00 00:05:41 George Gershwin Girl Crazy: Overture
Yan Pascal Tortelier BBC Philharmonic BBC 63
17:13:00 00:10:29 Norman Dello Joio Scenes from the Louvre
Andrew Yozviak West Chester Univ. Winds MSR 1388
17:26:00 00:08:57 Franz Schubert Impromptu No. 9 in E flat minor
Alfred Brendel, piano Philips 4788977
17:40:00 00:04:28 Edvard Grieg Two Melodies: The First Meeting Op 53
Neeme Järvi Gothenburg Symphony DeutGram 437520
17:46:00 00:03:18 Edvard Grieg Lyric Suite: March of the Trolls Op 54
Neeme Järvi Gothenburg Symphony DeutGram 437524
17:52:00 00:01:44 Salvatore Sciarrino Anamorfosi
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
17:57:00 00:02:09 Franz Schubert Graz Galop
Vienna Ensemble Sony 47187
18:00 DINNER CLASSICS
18:09:00 00:11:04 Bedrich Smetana Má vlast: The Moldau
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
18:22:00 00:03:30 Jacob Praetorius Veni in hortum meum
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble Pablo Heras-Casado Balthasar Neumann Choir Archiv 4794522
18:27:00 00:03:43 Leonard Bernstein Candide: Make Our Garden Grow
Boston Pops Orchestra John Williams Tanglewood Festival Chorus Sony 48224
18:33:00 00:19:11 Manuel Rosenthal Gaîté parisienne: Suite
Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra DeutGram 423698
18:53:00 00:05:32 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Much Ado About Nothing: Garden Scene Op 11
Gil Shaham, violin; André Previn, piano DeutGram 439886
19:00 SYMPHONY AT SEVEN with John Simna
19:02:00 00:23:12 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 93 in D
George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Sony 768779
19:27:00 00:28:56 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Op 19
Symphony of the Air Josef Krips Arthur Rubinstein, piano RCA 300350
20:00 WCLV ESSENTIAL CLASSICS
20:02:00 00:08:46 Jaromir Weinberger Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka & Fugue
Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80595
20:13:00 00:15:45 Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Op 28
Gustavo Dudamel Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4791041
20:31:00 00:26:51 Frédéric Chopin Les Sylphides
Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops Orchestra RCA 300350
21:00 NIGHT MUSIC with Rob Grier; COMPOSERS DATEBOOK: Brahms and Liszt
21:03:00 00:15:08 Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields Decca 414595
21:19:00 00:04:30 Karl Jenkins I'll Make Music
Stephen Layton Polyphony DeutGram 4793232
21:25:00 00:18:20 Georges Bizet Chants du Rhin
Kotaro Fukuma, piano EDP 2
21:46:00 00:04:14 Aaron Copland Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz
Louis Lane Cleveland Orchestra Sony 62401
21:51:00 00:33:28 Eduard Tubin Symphony No. 3
Neeme Järvi Swedish Radio Symphony Bis 342
22:26:00 00:08:28 Joaquín Turina The Bullfighter's Prayer Op 34
Brodsky Quartet Chandos 10761
22:37:00 00:22:37 Leopold Stokowski Symphonic Synthesis from Mussorgsky's
Oliver Knussen Cleveland Orchestra DeutGram 2123
23:00 QUIET HOUR
23:02:00 00:09:13 Franz Schubert Andante from Symphony No. 4
Pablo Heras-Casado Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Harm Mundi 902154
23:11:00 00:10:08 Florent Schmitt La tragédie de Salomé: Prélude Op 50
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Orchestre Métropolitaine Atma 2647
23:23:00 00:10:12 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante from Symphony No. 41
Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Koch Intl 7574
23:33:00 00:05:47 Franz Joseph Haydn Adagio from Symphony No. 102
Marc Minkowski Musicians of the Louvre Naïve 5176
23:41:00 00:06:02 Leopold Stokowski Two Ancient Liturgical Melodies
José Serebrier Bournemouth Symphony Naxos 557883
23:47:00 00:07:58 Hans Pfitzner Palestrina: Act 3 Prelude
Christian Thielemann Berlin German Opera Orchestra DeutGram 449571
23:57:00 00:02:42 Giovanni Palestrina Sicut cervus
Jameson Marvin Quire Cleveland WCLV 2013
23:57:00 00:02:27 Johan Halvorsen La Mélancolie
Neeme Järvi Bergen Philharmonic Chandos 10584
