Classical Music Playlist, January 6, 2023
Composer-pianist Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
"No composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." That's how The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes the legacy of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. In his biography of Scriabin, Faubion Bowers wrote "No one was more famous during their lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after death."
During his lifetime his contemporaries noted that he showed signs of mental instability early on: he alienated his teachers like Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky who flunked him. Rimsky-Korsakov said he was “self-opinionated, warped, strange and distorted.” He began to announce to friends that he was the Messiah, and his visions grew increasingly bizarre (or simply artistic?). Later in life he planned a multimedia extravaganza at the foothills of the Himalayas to unite all inhabitants of the earth with his music.
Scriabin passed away in 1915 but contemporary pianists praise his only Piano Concerto as "like a dream" (Kiril Gerstein) and "unbelievably, insanely beautiful” (Nikolai Demidenko). For Scriabin’s birthday, it's today's Midday Masterpiece at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Francesco Durante
Concerto No. 1 in F minor
Concerto Koln
6:14 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 2 in C minor K 406/516b
Dover Quartet Michael Tree, viola [member of Guarneri Quartet]
6:41 a.m.
Madeleine Dring
Colour Suite: IV. Blue Air
Sarah Cahill, piano
6:45 a.m.
John Rutter
Folk Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in C minor Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro Molto in B minor Opus 61
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
7:32 a.m.
Arvo Part; Pat Metheny, arr.
Fur Alina
Pat Metheny, 42-string guitar
7:42 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No. 1 "Rain": I. Vivace ma no troppo in G major Opus 78
Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yuja Wang, piano
7:54 a.m.
Edouard Lalo
Scherzo in D minor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
8:01 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Overture
Philharmonic of La Scala; Riccardo Muti, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Opus 37
London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor Melvyn Tan, piano
8:45 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Concerto for Wind Quintet: I. Afro
Imani Winds
8:50 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop" in Db major Opus 28
Vanessa Perez, piano
8:57 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Abu Hassan Overture J 106
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
9:02 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
9:25 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Etude No. 5 in C# minor Opus 42
Gabriela Montero, piano
9:30 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
9:40 a.m.
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No. 1
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
9:53 a.m.
Clarice Assad
a Tide of Living Water
Lara Downes, piano
9:55 a.m.
Joni Mitchell
Favorite Color
Lara Downes, piano
10:00 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 30 "Alleluja" in C major
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Poetic Tone Pictures: I. Twilight Way Opus 85
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
10:21 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Hungarian Sketches SZ 97
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
10:33 a.m.
Florence Price
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
10:39 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Louis Lortie, conductor Louis Lortie, piano
11:01 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
11:15 a.m.
Amy Beach
Pastorale
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
11:20 a.m.
Josef Suk
Fantasy in G minor Opus 24
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Michael Ludwig, violin
11:45 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Etude No. 1 in C# minor Opus 2/1
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
11:49 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 3, No. 6 in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Angel Romero, guitar
11:59 a.m.
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto Opus 14
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Elmar Oliveira, violin
12:24 p.m.
Valentin Silvestrov
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": II. Largo in E minor Opus 95
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Konstantin Krimmel, baritone; Helene Grimaud, piano
12:29 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 8 in C minor Opus 6/8 HWV 326
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Terence Blanchard
25th Hour: Opening Title
Brussels Philharmonic; Dirk Brosse, conductor
12:47 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor
Weimar State Orchestra; Arthur Fagen, conductor
1:00 p.m.
William Grant Still
Panamanian Dances (Danzas de Panama)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
1:16 p.m.
Ernest Chausson
Viviane Opus 5
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
1:29 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4: I. Preludio W284 Introdu��o
Nelson Freire, piano
1:32 p.m.
Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor: II. Adagio in D minor
BBC Concert Orchestra; Richard Balcombe, conductor Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
1:37 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto in F# minor Opus 20
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
2:28 p.m.
Michael Tilson Thomas
You Come Here Often?
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; Lionel Bringuier, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
2:32 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
2:55 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Etude Pathetique Opus 124
Joanne Polk, piano
3:00 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; John Farrer, conductor
3:14 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Berceuse in Bb major Opus 38
Philippe Graffin, violin; Pascal Devoyon, piano
3:20 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
North German Radio Symphony; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
3:24 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 1
Xuefei Yang, guitar
3:30 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for winds and orchestra in Eb major K 297b (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Aurele Nicolet, flute; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Hermann Baumann, horn; Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
4:00 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
The Seasons: Autumn Opus 67
Minnesota Orchestra; Edo de Waart, conductor
4:13 p.m.
John Williams
E.T. The Extra Terrestial: Flying Theme
London Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:18 p.m.
Camilla de Rossi
Sinfonia from "Il Sacrifizio de Abramo"
Bay Area Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor JoAnn Falletta, lute/guitar
4:26 p.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in Bb major Opus 11
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Okko Kamu, conductor Martin Frost, clarinet
4:51 p.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
5:02 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Stewart Goodyear, piano
5:18 p.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata XIII
Canadian Brass and friends
5:22 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 31 "Hornsignal" in D major
Hanover Band; Roy Goodman, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Erik Satie
Gymnopedie No. 1
John Novacek, piano
5:56 p.m.
Roland Dyens
Tango En Skai (Immitation Leather Tango)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
6:00 p.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 4 "The Poem of Ecstasy" Opus 54
Cleveland Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
6:20 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor Netania Davrath, soprano; Carl Stern, cello
6:33 p.m.
John Williams
Devil's Dance (from the Witches of Eastwick)
Gil Shaham, violin; Jonathan Feldman, piano
6:37 p.m.
Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche
Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano duo
6:47 p.m.
Howard Shore
The Forest: 3rd movement
National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Milos Karadaglic, guitar
6:53 p.m.
Tania Leon
MAGGIE MAGALITA: La Conga de Maggie Magalita
Nestor Torres, flute; Jorge Luis Sosa, piano; Ranses Colon, double bass; Reinier Guerra, drums; Edwin Bonilla, percussion
