Just after the First World War, the English composer Edward Elgar found himself in uncomfortable conditions. The war had afflicted him terribly; he was financially stressed and had lost dear friends. He suffered from throat problems and early in 1918 he had an infected tonsil removed. Soon after, Elgar and his wife Alice, who were also suffering from health problems, moved to the English countryside where he worked in a small studio separate from the cottage they were renting. He was walking in the woods and enthusiastically chopping firewood. In this environment he composed a number of remarkable chamber works which, according to Alice, were all splendid music with a new focus and a rejuvenated imagination. His Piano Quintet in A minor comes from this period and, although it partly expresses a new vision of relaxed country life, the music retains echoes of sadness. Edward Elgar’s 1919 Piano Quintet in A minor is today’s noon masterpiece at 2:00 p.m.
6:00 am
Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in D minor RV 407
Europa Galante Maurizio Naddeo, cello
6:10 a.m.
Theodore von Schacht
Clarinet Concerto in Bb major
Amsterdam Concerto; Jaap Schroder, conductor Dieter Klocker, clarinet
6:35 a.m.
Elena Ruehr
String Quartet No. 3: III. how she danced
Cypress String Quartet
6:41 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in C minor
Betty Ann Miller, piano
6:59
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in B flat major Opus 3/1 HWV 312
Musicians of the Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor
7:11
Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No. 4 “Sinfonia piccola” in G minor Opus 14
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ari Rasilainen, conductor
7:33 am
John Adson
Courteous Masking Air
The American Brass Quintet
7:34
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue “Little Fugue” in G minor BWV 578
Canadian copper
7:38
Ferdinand-David
Concertino for bassoon in Bb major Opus 12
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
7:48
benjamin britten
Musical Evenings (Suite after Rossini) Opus 9
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Okko Kamu, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Suite No. 1 in Eb major Opus 28
Symphony of North Texas Winds; Eugène Corporon, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Wolfgang AmadeusMozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
English baroque soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:38
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four folk songs: III. Serenata
Claremont Trio
8:44
Antonin Dvorak
Slavic Dance No. 7 in C major Opus 72
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:48
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto: III. Rondo – Allegro in D major Opus 61
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Henryk Szeryng, violin
09:00
Aaron Copland
Rodeo
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
9:20 a.m.
Robert Schuman
Widmung (Dedication) Opus 25
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
9:23
Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Concerto in D major D 34
Orfeo Orchestra; Gyorgy Vashegyi, conductor Laszlo Paulik, violin
9:41 a.m.
Carlos Chavez
Chapultepec Republican Overture
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Enrique Batiz, conductor
9:48
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale in C major Opus 1
Norman Kriegger, piano
10:08
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 1 “Symphony of the Sea”: III. (Scherzo) The Waves
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor of the BBC Symphony Chorus; Philharmonie Choir
10:16 a.m.
Juventino Roses
Along the waves (Sobre las olas)
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
10:23
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto in A major Wq 172 / H 439
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Richard Studt, conductor Timothy Hugh, cello
10:44 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor BWV 1060
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor John Abberger, oboe
10:59
Vincent d’Indy
Symphony on an Air from the French Mountains
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, piano
11:25 a.m.
Luigi Cherubini
MEDEA: Opening
Munich Radio Orchestra; Kurt Redel, conductor
11:35 a.m.
George Philippe Telemann
Suite “La Chasse” (The Hunt) in F major
Berlin Academy of Early Music
11:49
Alfonso Montes
Milonga in the style of Piazzolla (Milonga a Piazzolla)
Castellani Andriaccio Duo
11:54
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu No. 1 in A major Opus 29
Garrick Ohlson, piano
11:59
Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
Tokyo String Quartet Nancy Allen, harp; Ransom Wilson, flute; David Shifrin, clarinet
12:11 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 2 in C major Opus 53
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Neville Marriner, conductor
12:47
Vincenzo Bellini
Vaga luna che inargenti
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
12:51 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro Giocoso in D major Opus 77
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor Gidon Kremer, violin
1:00 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Frosoblomster, Suite No. 1 (The Flowers of Froso)
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
1:18 p.m.
Carlos Chavez
Symphony No. 2 “Sinfonia India”
Mexican State Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Batiz, conductor
1:31 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in D minor Opus 7/2
The Little Band; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
1:41 p.m.
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
1:49 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Church windows: IV. Saint Gregory the Great
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor Opus 84
Coull Quartet Allan Schiller, piano