Classical Music Playlist, July 28, 2023
Viktor Hartmann's design for the main façade of The Bogatyr Gates - AKA "The Great Gate of Kiev"
Russian architect and painter Viktor Hartmann was born in St Petersburg in 1834 and produced countless sketches, watercolors and even early photographs of cathedrals and other architectural wonders not only in Russia but France, Italy, Germany and Poland, as well as his own original designs. Through following a movement that sought to depict a distinctly Russian aesthetic, he met Russian composers pursuing the same ideal in music. This group of composers included Modest Mussorgsky, with whom Hartmann became close friends. Hartmann’s sudden death of a brain aneurysm at age 39 (1873) shook Mussorgsky (and other Russian artists) and an exhibition of over 400 of Hartmann’s artworks was assembled in his honor in early 1874. Moved by the exhibition, Mussorgsky composed a suite of ten “pictures” for solo piano inspired Hartmann's artworks on display. Nearly fifty years later, in 1922, Maurice Ravel brilliantly orchestrated the piano suite. Hear the orchestral color he added to Mussorgsky’s piano sketches in the orchestrated “Pictures at an Exhibition” for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Incidentally, of the more than 400 works displayed at the Exhibition, today only about sixty-five can be accounted for, and only images of six of the ten artworks that inspired Mussorgsky. Above is Hartmann’s proposed design that inspired Mussorgsky’s famous “Great Gate of Kyiv” final movement.
6:00 a.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Concerto for 3 Trumpets in Bb major
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
6:11 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Sonata in E minor
Althea Waites, piano
6:37 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Reverie
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
6:43 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Helsinki Philharmonic; Okko Kamu, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Linde-Consort; Hans-Martin Linde, conductor
7:17 a.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Earina Suite
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
7:39 a.m.
Hubert Bath
Cornish Rhapsody
BBC Concert Orchestra; Christopher Warren-Green, conductor Valentina Lisitsa, piano
7:46 a.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
8:00 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Opus 46
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
8:17 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Jahja Ling, conductor Rolf Smedvig, trumpet
8:34 a.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: VI. Coqueteos
Del Sol String Quartet
8:39 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": III. Molto Vivace in B minor Opus 74
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
8:48 a.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: II. Land of Romance
Lara Downes, piano
8:57 a.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 1 in G minor Opus 7
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Fabio Luisi, conductor
9:32 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 2. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Sharon Isbin, guitar
9:38 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann Opus 20
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
9:51 a.m.
Eric Whitacre
Sing Gently
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
10:00 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Coronation March Opus 65
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; James Judd, conductor
10:12 a.m.
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
Campania Chamber Orchestra; Luigi Piovano, conductor Francesco Nicolosi, piano
10:37 a.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 5 "Andaluza"
Narciso Yepes, guitar
10:43 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major Opus 101 HOB VIIb:2
Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Helmut Muller-Bruhl, conductor Maria Kliegel, cello
11:27 a.m.
Olivia Belli
Nocturne IV
Olivia Belli, piano
11:32 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 1 "Jota aragonesa"
Staatskapelle Dresden; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:42 a.m.
Andrea Zani
Cello Concerto No. 11 in E minor
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Martin Rummel, cello
11:53 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Michael Stern, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
12:00 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
WILLIAM TELL: Overture (GUILLAUME TELL)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
12:13 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals de Primavera
David Russell, guitar
12:19 p.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Concerto for horn and strings in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
12:29 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor
Nash Ensemble
12:55 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
My Neighbor Totoro
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; The Bach Choir; Joe Hisaishi, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Cassazione Opus 6
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Tuomas Ollila, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Sarah Kirkland Snider
The Currents
MIchael Mizrahi, piano
1:20 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Quintet in Bb major Opus 34 J 182
L'Archibudelli Charles Neidich, clarinet
1:48 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Oblivion
RTE Concert Orchestra [of Ireland] Fionnuala Hunt, violin
1:55 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Turkish Rondo (from Sonata No. 11 "Turkish March") in A major K 331
Canadian Brass
2:00 p.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:32 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Mi Teresita (Little Waltz)
Gabriela Montero, piano
2:38 p.m.
George Phillip Telemann
Concerto for 2 chalumeaux in D minor
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Eric Hoeprich, chalumeau; Lisa Klewitt, chalumeau
2:50 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish": IV. Allegro vivacissimo in A minor Opus 56
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
3:01 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
3:12 p.m.
John Field
Rondo for piano & strings in Ab major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
3:21 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Serenade for Winds in D minor Opus 44
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
3:47 p.m.
Hania Rani; Dobrawa Czocher
There Will Be Hope
Hania Rani, piano; Dobrawa Czocher, cello
3:53 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 "Drum Roll": IV. Presto [finale]
Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Bruggen, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
4:23 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Peggy's Rag
Sarah Cahill, piano
4:28 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": I. Allegro ma non troppo in F major Opus 68
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:40 p.m.
Nino Rota
The Godfather: Selections
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Riccardo Muti, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde Overture Opus 26 D 797 (The Magic Harp)
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
5:12 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
La Muerte del Angel (Death of the Angel)
Franz Halasz, guitar
5:16 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
SEMIRAMIDE: Overture
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor
5:30 p.m.
Franz Krommer
Oboe Concerto in F major Opus 37
Czech National Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman, conductor Alex Klein, oboe
5:53 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in Eb major Opus 117/1
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
6:00 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Violin Concerto in G minor Opus 80
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor Elena Urioste, violin
6:32 p.m.
Jon Terryl "Terry" Plumeri
Windflower
Moscow Philharmonic; Jon Terryl "Terry" Plumeri, conductor Sara Watkins, oboe
6:47 p.m.
Huang Huwei
Pictures of Sichuan
Li Fan, piano
6:55 p.m.
Sergio Assad
Farewell
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
