Classical Music Playlist, August 9, 2022
Sergei Rachmaninoff circa 1921 | photo: Library of Congress
In his final composition, Sergei Rachmaninoff looks back on his life and proposes a look forward after death. His "Symphonic Dances" from 1940 are in three movements with the first quoting his Symphony No. 1 from 1897 whose premiere was a disaster. In the final movement, the medieval chant for the dead, Dies irae, is heard but is ultimately triumphed over with a quotation from Rachmaninoff's 1915 "All Night Vigil," representing Resurrection. At this point in the score Rachmaninoff wrote, "Hallelujah." The last music he composed, the "Symphonic Dances" premiered in January 1941. He passed away in March 1943 just days before his 70th birthday. Rachmaninoff’s "Symphonic Dances" are today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in D major Opus 1/9
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
6:12 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 83 "The Hen" in G minor
Handel & Haydn Society; Harry Christophers, conductor
6:44 a.m.
John Duarte
Joan Baez Suite: Fantasia
Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:47 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Vivace in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
7:14 a.m.
Christoph Graupner
Orchestral Suite in F major GWV 450
Finnish Baroque Orchestra; Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, conductor
7:36 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Bethena: A Concert Waltz
Giovanni DeChiaro, guitar
7:42 a.m.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Souvenir de Porto Rico Opus 31
Alan Feinberg, piano
7:50 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco (Finale) in E minor Opus 95
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
8:02 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Mark Bennett, trumpet; Michael Harrison, trumpet
8:12 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:38 a.m.
Olafur Arnalds
Happiness Does not Wait
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
8:42 a.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Venus, Bringer of Peace Opus 32
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
8:53 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Tzimon Barto, piano
9:00 a.m.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: O fortuna
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor Atlanta Symphony Chorus; Robert Shaw Festival Singers
9:06 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1053
Australian Chamber Orchestra Angela Hewitt, piano
9:27 a.m.
Philip Glass
The Hours Suite: II. The Poet Acts
Janacek Philharmonic; Mark Shapiro, conductor Gregory Harrington, violin
9:32 a.m.
Manuel de Falla
Three-Cornered Hat Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
9:52 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester)
Frederic Chiu, piano
10:00 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C major Opus 48
East Coast Chamber Orchestra
10:32 a.m.
TRADITIONAL
Wild Mountain Thyme
Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:37 a.m.
Florence Price
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
10:42 a.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
10:49 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Havanaise Opus 83
New York Philharmonic; Zubin Mehta, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violin
10:59 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
11:11 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Dance Suite: Allegro vivace SZ 77
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
11:14 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 9 in E minor
Staatskapelle Berlin; Otmar Suitner, conductor
11:17 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Vernon Handley, conductor
11:29 a.m.
Amy Beach
Invocation in D major Opus 55
Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
11:34 a.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Suite in C major TWV 55:C6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto Opus 14
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Gil Shaham, violin
12:25 p.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata XX
The Wallace Collection; Simon Wright, conductor
12:32 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words "Spring Song" (Book V, No. 6) in A major Opus 62/6
Andras Schiff, piano
12:34 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Os Justi
Tenebrae; Nigel Short, conductor
12:41 p.m.
Enrique Soro
Three Chilean Airs (Tres aires chilenos)
Chile Symphony Orchestra; Jose Luis Dominguez, conductor
12:52 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Fantasie-impromptu in C# minor Opus 66
Olga Kern, piano
12:59 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 "Drum Roll" in Eb major
Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox, conductor
1:31 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2: Badinerie BWV 1067
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Karl Munchinger, conductor
1:32 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Re-Inventions: Re-Invention No. 1
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
1:38 p.m.
Claude Debussy
The Joyous Isle (L'Isle Joyeuse)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
1:45 p.m.
Hugo Alfven
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsummer Night Vigil" Opus 19
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances Opus 45
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
2:35 p.m.
Robert Ballard
Rustic Dance (Branles de village)
Ronn McFarlane, lute
2:40 p.m.
William Grant Still
Panamanian Dances (Danzas de Panama)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
2:55 p.m.
John Williams
Far and Away: Wedding Dance
Washington Symphonic Brass
3:00 p.m.
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Capriccio No. 1 in D major Z 182
Bern Camerata; Alexander van Wijnkoop, conductor
3:16 p.m.
Missy Mazzoli
Impromptu (Thomas's Piece)
The Kapralova Orchestra Joshua Bell, violin
3:20 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Quintet in Bb major Opus 34 J 182
Hagen Quartet Eduard Brunner, clarinet
3:46 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major Opus 3/6 HWV 317
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
3:54 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO: Va, pensiero
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus
4:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Polonaise from Act III
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
4:06 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Grand Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in F major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
4:30 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Ballade in G minor Opus 118/3
Helene Grimaud, piano
4:35 p.m.
Ari Pulkkinen
Angry Birds (Main Theme)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
4:38 p.m.
Yolanda Kondonassis
Liquid Shadows
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
4:45 p.m.
David Diamond
Rounds for String Orchestra
do.gma chamber orchestra; Mikhail Gurewitsch, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 4 in D minor Opus 120
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
5:35 p.m.
Pablo de Sarasate
Basque Caprice Op. 24
Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Enrico Pace, piano
5:42 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Solace
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
5:48 p.m.
Federico Moreno Torroba
Madronos
Narciso Yepes, guitar
5:53 p.m.
Ludovico Einaudi
I Giorni
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Simon Halsey, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Jacques Ammon, piano
6:00 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor Jorge Bolet, piano
6:33 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
6:42 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs: Une Barque sur l'Ocean (A Boat on the Ocean)
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Bruce Liu, piano
6:45 p.m.
Gustavo Santaolalla
Iguazu
Gustavo Santaolalla, ronroco
6:50 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
6:53 p.m.
Lou Harrison
Suite for Violin with American Gamelan: II. Estampie
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor Gabriela Diaz, violin
