Classical Music Playlist, April 15, 2022



Swedish pianist, composer and conductor Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) completed his Piano Concerto No. 2 on his 36th birthday in 1907. As one of Sweden’s greatest pianists, he had performed his Piano Concerto No. 1 for years but had grown tired of it. , wrote the 2nd which is a much more mature work and still very popular in Sweden. But he didn’t perform the 2nd Concerto as much because he leaned more towards conducting for the rest of his life. With its intriguing clashes between piano and orchestra (often playing in different keys), Wilhelm Stenhammar’s inventive yet immensely listenable Piano Concerto #2 is today’s noon-2pm masterpiece.


6:00 am

Antonio Vivaldi

Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major Opus 4 RV 383

The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin

6:09

Antonin Dvorak

Serenade for strings in E major Opus 22

Prague Philharmonic; Jakub Hrusa, conductor

6:39

Joaquin Turina

Guitar Sonata Opus 61

Manuel Barrueco, guitar

6:50 am

Francois-Joseph Haydn

Piano Sonata No. 26 in A major HOB 16/26

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

07:00

George Friederich Handel

Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6/2 HWV 320

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor

7:13 a.m.

Charles Gounod

FAUST: Ballet Music

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor

7:31 am

Marc Antoine Charpentier

Trumpet Air No. 2 (Trumpet Air) in D major

Hannes Laubin, trumpet; Wolfgang Laubin, trumpet; Bernhard Laubin, trumpet; Simon Preston, organ; Norbert Schmitt, timpani

7:35 am

Mateo Albeniz

Sonata in D major

Alicia de Larrocha, piano

7:39

Ethel Smith

Serenade in D: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace in D major

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano

7:46

Johannes Brahms

Violin Concerto: III. Allegro giocoso in D major Opus 77

Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor Joshua Bell, violin

7:55

William Grant Again

Panamanian dances (Danzas de Panama)

Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor

8:12

Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16

Bergen Philharmonic; Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor Noriko Ogawa, piano

8:44

Philip Glass

String Quartet No. 3: “Mishima”: VI. Mishima Closure

Attacca Quartet

8:48

Luigi Cherubini

MEDEA: Opening

Munich Radio Orchestra; Kurt Redel, conductor

8:57

Robert Schuman

Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish” in Eb major Opus 97

Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

9:28

Edward Elgar

My love lived in a northern land Opus 18/3

; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers

9:32

Ludovic Einaudi

The wave

La Pieta Angèle Dubeau, violin

9:38

Antonio Vivaldi

Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537

Zefiro set; Alfredo Bernardini, conductor Gabriele Cassone, trumpet; Luca Marzana, trumpet

9:46

Scott Joplin

Bethena: a concert waltz

Giovanni DeChiaro, guitar

9:52

Wolfgang AmadeusMozart

Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C major K 373 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)

New Philharmonic Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor Henryk Szeryng, violin

10:00 a.m.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Five variants of dives and Lazarus

the new Queen’s Hall Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor

10:14 a.m.

Francois Danzi

Sinfonia Concertante for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra in Bb major Opus 41

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra; Allen Tinkham, conductor Anthony McGill, clarinet; Demarre McGill, flute

10:35 a.m.

Danny Elfman

Serenada Schizophrana: Pianos

workshop orchestra; Jean Mauceri, conductor

10:43 am

Cecile Chaminade

Concertino Opus 107

Residentie Orkest Den Haag; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Sharon Bezaly, flute

10:52

Samuel Barbier

Adagio for strings Opus 11

Kronos Quartet

11:00

Giovanni Paisiello

Piano Concerto No. 8 in F major

Sainte Cécile Chamber Orchestra; Pietro Spada, conductor Pietro Spada, piano

11:29

ANONYMOUS

Blacksmith tune

Scandinavian brass ensemble; Jorma Panula, conductor

11:35 a.m.

Arcangelo Corelli

Concerto Grosso No. 3 in C minor Opus 6

Philharmonie Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor

11:45 a.m.

Antonin Dvorak

Slavic Dance No. 4 in F major Opus 46

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor

11:53

Claude Debussy

Moonlight (“Moonlight”)

Tzimon Barto, piano

12:00 p.m.

Arnold Bax

Overture to a picaresque comedy

London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor

12:11 p.m.

Joaquin Rodrigo

Fantasy for a gentleman

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar

12:35 p.m.

Pierre Mascagni

Regina Coeli (Cavalleria Rusticana Easter hymn)

National Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor of the London Opera Chorus

12:41 p.m.

Johann Strauss, Jr.

Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)

Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra; Willi Boskovsky, conductor

12:51 p.m.

John Sibelius

Swan of Tuonela

Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor Marni J. Hougham, English horn

1:02 p.m.

Carl Maria Von Weber

DER FREISCHUTZ: Overture Opus 77 J 277

Philharmonic Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor

1:12 p.m.

Astor Piazzola

Spring in Buenos Aires

David Tanenbaum, guitar

1:18 p.m.

Baldassare Galuppi

Sonata in F major Illy 50

Matteo Napoli, piano

1:22 p.m.

Francois-Joseph Haydn

Symphony No. 22 “The Philosopher” in Eb major

Hanover Strip; Roy Goodman, conductor

1:45 p.m.

Bedritch Smetana

My Vlast: The Moldau (Vltava)

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn, conductor

2:00 p.m.

Guillaume Stenhammar

Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 23

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Stig Westerberg, conductor Janos Solyom, piano

2:30 p.m.

Henry Purcell

Indian Queen: Symphony

Instrument Parliament

2:36 p.m.

Maya Le Roux

Petite Suite pour un Prince: Prelude (Petite suite pour un Prince)

Maya Le Roux, guitar

2:40 p.m.

Bernard Crusell

Clarinet Quartet No. 1 in Eb major Opus 2

Allegri String Quartet (members of) Thea King, clarinet

3:01 p.m.

Henrietta Renee

Harp Concerto in C minor

Rhine Philharmonic Orchestra; Shao-Chia Lu, conductor Xavier de Maistre, harp

3:22 p.m.

William Byrd

O Magnum Mysterium

; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers

3:29 p.m.

benjamin britten

Musical Matinees (Suite after Rossini) Opus 24

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Okko Kamu, conductor

3:44 p.m.

Gioachino Rossini

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Overture (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA)

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

3:53 p.m.

Johann Friedrich Fasch

Trumpet Concerto in D major

English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

4:00 p.m.

Leo Delibes

Suite Sylvie

Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugène Ormandy, conductor

4:13 p.m.

Victor Herbert

Five pieces for cello and strings

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Lynn Harrell, cello

4:29 p.m.

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Procession of the Sardar Opus 10

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor

4:34 p.m.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Vivace in F# minor Opus 1

San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano

4:47 p.m.

Max Richter

Summer 1

Berlin Chamber Orchestra; André de Ridder, conductor Daniel Hope, violin

4:51 p.m.

Marianne Martinez

Harpsichord Concerto in E major: I. Allegro in E major

Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nicoleta Paraschivescu, harpsichord

4:59 p.m.

Claude Debussy

Bergamasque Suite

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; Émile Décou, conductor

5:19 p.m.

Therese Carreno

Nocturne n°10, “Memories of my country”

Alexandra Oehler, piano

5:27 p.m.

Luigi Boccherini

Symphony in A major Opus 37/4 G 518

German Chamber Academy in Neuss; Johannes Goritzki, conductor

5:50 p.m.

Florence Prize

Violin Concerto no. 1: II. Andante in D major

Janacek Philharmonic; Ryan Cockerham, Conductor Er-Gene Kahng

5:57 p.m.

Augustin Barrios

Paraguayan dance no. 1

David Russell, guitar

6:00 p.m.

Igor Stravinsky

Symphony in Eb major Opus 1

Saint Petersburg Philharmonic; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

6:36 p.m.

David Lyons

Short Suite

Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

6:47 p.m.

Edward K. (Duke) Ellington

sophisticated lady

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor Various soloists

6:53 p.m.

Enrique Granados

Danzas espanolas n° 5 “Andaluza”

Sharon Isbin, guitar