Classical Music Playlist, February 16, 2022
One critic called it the “Symphony of the Celestial City.” Less charitably, Aaron Copland once joked that "Listening to the fifth symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes."
Copland was kidding, but there’s no doubt that Vaughan Williams’s music was inspired by the green and peaceful English countryside. His work premiered in 1943 as World War II was raging, and the symphony intentionally looks away from that conflict to an alternate world of serenity, light, and even a little mystery.
Today, you too can step through this portal and lose yourself in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 5, your Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphonic Variations
Scottish National Orchestra; Andrew Penny, conductor
6:13 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major K 218
Polish Chamber Orchestra; Nigel Kennedy, conductor Nigel Kennedy, violin
6:40 a.m.
Henry Purcell
Overture, Rondeau & Incidental Music from Abdelazer ("The Moor's Revenge")
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor
6:53 a.m.
Elliott Carter
A Fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia upon one note
London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble; Christopher Larkin, conductor
6:58 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No. 3 in C major Opus 12/3 G 505
New Philharmonia Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor
7:38 a.m.
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz
Paradetas
The Harp Consort
7:42 a.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Tullio Serafin, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
7:58 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in D major Opus 6
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Catherine Mackintosh, conductor Catherine Mackintosh, violin
8:12 a.m.
Joseph Fiala
Concerto for Oboe in Bb major
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Frantisek Vajnar, conductor Jiri Krejci, oboe
8:31 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 1: I. Allegro in E major Opus 5
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
8:43 a.m.
Ruth Crawford (Seeger)
Piano Sonata
Jenny Lin, piano
8:49 a.m.
Otto Klemperer
Merry Waltz
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor Opus 56
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
9:37 a.m.
Elena Ruehr
String Quartet No. 3: III. How She Danced
Cypress String Quartet
9:42 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Overture in D major Hob 1a:7
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
9:47 a.m.
Amy Beach
Fireflies Opus 15
Joel Fan, piano
9:51 a.m.
William Grant Still
Folk Suite No. 2
Sierra Winds
10:00 a.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Joseph Kraus
Viola Concerto in Eb major VB 153c
Tapiola Sinfonietta David Aaron Carpenter, viola
10:35 a.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
10:44 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Giga
Horst Klee, guitar
10:47 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Summer (L'Estate) in G minor Opus 8 RV 315
Europa Galante Fabio Biondi, violin
11:00 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Outdoor Overture
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
11:09 a.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Ancient Suite (Suite ancienne) Opus 31a
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:35 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Mazurka No. 2 in A minor Opus 68
Mirian Conti, piano
11:40 a.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango: Bordel 1900
Manuel Barrueco, guitar; Emmanuel Pahud, flute
11:45 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in Bb major BWV 1051
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
12:16 p.m.
Leonard Bernstein
Love Theme from ON THE WATERFRONT (Symphonic Suite)
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:23 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
German Chamber Philharmonic; Thomas Klug, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
12:41 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Suite Espanola: No. 3 "Sevilla" Opus 47
Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano duo
12:47 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Lawrence Foster, conductor
12:58 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Fantasy Scenes
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Oboe Concerto in Eb major Wq 165 / H 468
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor Peter Westermann, oboe; Andreas Staier, harpsichord
1:35 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:52 p.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Notes of Gratitude
Lara Downes, piano
2:00 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D major
London Symphony Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
2:39 p.m.
Dario Marianelli
Pride & Predjudice Suite: The Living Sculptures of Pemberly
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
2:44 p.m.
David Diamond
Rounds for String Orchestra
do.gma chamber orchestra; Mikhail Gurewitsch, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Francois Joseph Fetis
Symphony No. 1 in Eb major
RTBF Orchestra, Brussels; Brian Priestman, conductor Anne Froidebise, organ
3:36 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 6 in G major Opus 10 RV 437
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Patrick Gallois, flute
3:44 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Suite No. 1
London Sinfonietta; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
3:50 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Harvest Hymn
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble
3:54 p.m.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
LE PROPHETE: Coronation March
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Zdenek Kosler, conductor
4:13 p.m.
Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony Opus 4
Guildhall String Ensemble; Robert Salter, conductor
4:30 p.m.
Erik Satie
Gnossienne No. 1
Lang Lang, piano
4:35 p.m.
John Ireland
Epic March
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
4:45 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Violin Concerto: III. Rondo - Allegro in D major Opus 61
The Knights; Eric Jacobsen, conductor Gil Shaham, violin
4:54 p.m.
Ruth Crawford (Seeger)
Rissolty Rossolty
Schonberg Ensemble; Oliver Knussen, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Masques and Bergamasques Opus 112
Seattle Symphony; Ludovic Morlot, conductor
5:13 p.m.
Nainita Desai
My Mind Is Still
Voces8
5:20 p.m.
Carl Stamitz
Symphonie Concertante for violin & viola in D major
Virtuosi of Prague; Rudolf Krecmer, conductor Oldrich Vlcek, violin; Josef Suk, viola
5:41 p.m.
Andrea Zani
Cello Concerto No. 10 in F major
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Martin Rummel, cello
5:54 p.m.
Gordon Getty
The Fiddler of Ballykeel
Conrad Tao, piano
5:58 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:34 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: The Moldau (Vltava)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
6:48 p.m.
Franz Schubert
"Wandering" (Die Schone Mullerin: No. 1 - Das Wandern) D 795
Leslie Howard, piano
6:50 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Lundu for the Marqueza de Santos (Lundu da Marqueza de Santos)
New York Chamber Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica
6:53 p.m.
Claude Debussy
The Joyous Isle (L'Isle Joyeuse)
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
