The storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël (1735-1813)
Today is July 14 in France and we celebrate it with the music of George Gershwin! (“Wait…what?”) Yes! Here’s how we figured it out: America’s war of independence against the British crown officially ended when a delegation of Americans in Paris, including John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, negotiated and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783 (The French had fought with the United States against Britain, which caused them financial difficulties which fomented problems contributing to the French Revolution.) There was another American in Paris since 1784, Thomas Jefferson, when on July 14, 1789 citizens stormed the Bastille in Paris which sparked the French Revolution and quickly led to more democracy in France. Jefferson helped the French draft documents that would eventually find their way into the first French Constitution of 1791. We will celebrate this legacy of Americans in France with George Gershwin’s musical reflections on his own journey in 1926 under the title “Un American in Paris”. This is today’s noon masterpiece at 2:00 p.m.
6:00 am
John Heinichen
Concerto in F major S 235
Musica Antiqua Cologne; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:17 am
Muzio Clementi
Symphony No. 3 “The Great National” in G major
Philharmonic Orchestra; Claudio Scimone, conductor
6:46
Marcel Grandjany
French popular song (Et ron ron, petit patapon)
Anne-Marguerite Michaud, harp
6:49
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
07:00
benjamin britten
Gloriana: courtly dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn, conductor
7:12
George Enesco
Dixtour for Opus 14 wind instruments
Oslo Wind Soloists
7:33 am
Scott Joplin
Comfort
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
7:39
Manuel de Falla
EL AMOR BRUJO: Ritual Fire Dance
Katia and Marielle Labèque, piano duo
7:43 am
koji kondo
The sequel to the legend of Zelda
London Philharmonic Orchestra
7:49
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugène Ormandy, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1: I. Allegretto-Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 10
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
8:12
Manuel Ponce
Southern Concerto (Concierto del Sur)
New York Philharmonic; Jose Serebrier, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
8:39
Valerie Colman
Umoja
Imani winds
8:43
Daniel Francois Auber
THE BRONZE HORSE: Overture (The Bronze Horse)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
8:51
Wolfgang AmadeusMozart
Piano Concerto No. 21: II. Andante in C major K 467
London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor Stephen Kovacevich, piano
09:00
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso “La Follia” in D minor
Baroque Boston; Martin Pearlman, conductor
9:11
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in Bb major Opus 60
Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
9:44
Howard Shore
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Fellowship of the Ring: About the Hobbits
The Pieta; Angèle Dubeau, conductor Angèle Dubeau, violin
9:48
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto: III. Finale in A minor Opus 7
the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Angela Cheng, piano
10:00 a.m.
Gerald Finzi
Eclogue for piano and string orchestra Opus 10
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor Martin Jones, piano
10:10 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 1 in D major Opus 43
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Stefan Sanderling, conductor
10:49
Alexandre Scarlatti
Sinfonia No. 1 in F major
The Soloists of Milan
10:57
Neil Gladd
The Goldberg Cloth
Ugo Orlandi, mandolin; Claudio Mandonico, piano; Daniele Bosio, tuba
11:00
Charles Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 5
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
11:15 a.m.
Bernard Crusell
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor Opus 5
Cologne Academy; Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
11:39
Harold Arlen
above the rainbow
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano
11:43 am
Stanley Myers
Cavatina
Jason Vieaux, guitar
11:48
Giacomo Puccini
Three minuets for strings in A major
Auvergne Orchestra; Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Paris Orchestra; Semyon Bychkov, conductor
12:30 p.m.
Robert Schuman
Carnival Opus 9
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
12:42 p.m.
george walker
Caprice
George Walker, piano
12:44 p.m.
John Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Helsinki Philharmonic; Okko Kamu, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Spanish Caprice Opus 34
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:18 p.m.
Francois-Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 88 in G major
Tafelmusik; Bruno Weil, conductor
1:38 p.m.
Nainita Desai
My mind is still
Voice8
1:45 p.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
1:54 p.m.
John Paderewski
Melody in G major Opus 16/2
Stephen Hough, piano
2:00 p.m.
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
the Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
2:19 p.m.
An Lun Huang
Saibei Suite No. 2: “Saibei Dance”
Chicago Sinfonietta; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
2:25 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat major BWV 525
The French Concert
2:40 p.m.
benjamin britten
PETER GRIMES: Four marine interludes Opus 33a
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Francois Liszt
Hungarian fantasy
London Symphony Orchestra; Jun’ichi Hirokami, conductor Barry Douglas, piano
3:15 p.m.
Mauro Giulani
Great Variations and Polonaise on a theme from Paisiello Opus 65
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
3:36 p.m.
John Williams
Memoirs of a Geisha: The President’s Waltz
The Pieta; Angèle Dubeau, conductor Angèle Dubeau, violin
3:39 p.m.
Roger Quilter
Where the Rainbow Ends: Continued
Northern England Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, conductor
3:55 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
The King’s Violins; Bernard Labadie, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in D major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
4:10 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
The Marseillaise
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor Sylvia McNair, soprano; Richard Leech, tenor; …with choir
4:20 p.m.
Francois Poulenc
piano concerto
Orchestra of the Paris Concert Society; Georges Prêtre, conductor Gabriel Tacchino, piano
4:41 p.m.
George Butterworth
Green willow benches
English Symphony Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
4:47 p.m.
Michael Nyman
If (from the Diary of Anne Frank)
BBC Concert Orchestra; Jessica Cottis, conductor Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
4:53 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
Black, brown and beige suite: II. Brown
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Iberia: I. Streets and Crossroads
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
5:08 p.m.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 (Eroica): I. Allegro con brio in Eb major Opus 55
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Ricardo Chailly, conductor
5:24 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 2. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Sharon Isbin, guitar
5:29 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
The tomb of Couperin (The tomb of Couperin)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
5:47 p.m.
Robert Schuman
Kreisleriana: I. Aussert Bewegt
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
5:51 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale in C major Opus 1
Norman Kriegger, piano
5:59 p.m.
William Dawson
Negro folk symphony
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:28 p.m.
William Grant Again
Folk Suite No. 2
Sierra Winds
6:37 p.m.
Kojiro Umezaki
If you come back…
Silk road set
6:44 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas n° 10 “Sad”
Angel Romero, guitar; Celedonio Romero, guitar
6:50 p.m.
johann johansson
The Theory of Everything sequel
La Pieta Angèle Dubeau, violin