At 17, a student at the Paris Conservatory, George Bizet composed a symphony which he quickly forgot and which he never mentioned in any of his notebooks or letters. Eighty years later – sixty years after his death – Bizet’s first symphony had its premiere in 1935 and caused a sensation. It was immediately hailed as a masterpiece of youth and the famous choreographer George Balanchine even choreographed it in a ballet in 1947. George Bizet’s First Symphony in C is today the masterpiece of noon to 2 p.m.
6:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn
Sinfonia for String Orchestra No. 7
Virtuoso Sphinx; Damon Gupton, conductor
6:22
George Philippe Telemann
Tafelmusik I: Concerto for flute, violin and strings in A major
Musica Antiqua Cologne; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:47
Antonio Lauro
Waltz No. 3: Natalia
Sharon Isbin, guitar; Colin Davin, guitar
6:51 a.m.
Philip Glass
Glassware: Opening
Viktor Olafsson, piano
07:00
Francois-Joseph Haydn
String quartet op. 76/3 “Emperor”: I. Allegro in C major Opus 76/3
Aeolian String Quartet
7:13 a.m.
Wolfgang AmadeusMozart
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor K 457
Andras Schiff, piano
7:35 am
Rachel Portman
Flight
The Pieta; Angèle Dubeau, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Edward Elgar
March of the Empire (1924) Opus
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; James Judd, conductor
7:45 am
Francois Schubert
Impromptu No. 2 in Eb major Opus 90/2 D 899
Radu Lupu, piano
7:51
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Morning Papers Opus 279 (Morgenblatter)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
8:11
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:37
Nice Montana
Colombian Suite No. 2: IV. Porro
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
8:41
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 11 “La Lyre” (La Cetra) in C minor Opus 9 RV 198
Academy of Early Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Simon Standage, violin
8:52
Gabriel Fauré
Chanson de Jean Racine (Cantique de Jean Racine) Opus 11
London Sinfonia; John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers
09:00
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major Opus 90
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
9:33 am
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
9:41 a.m.
Kevin Doherty
Artist Spotlight: Lara Downes
CapRadio Lara Downes, piano
9:47
Scott Joplin
A photo of his face
Lara Downes, piano; Will Liverman, baritone
9:51
Scott Joplin
The artist
Lara Downes, piano
9:55 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE: Spanish Dance Opus 20
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
10:00 a.m.
John Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Concierto del Sur for guitar and orchestra
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
10:44 am
Henry Purcell
DIDO AND AENEAS: Lamentation of Dido
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Jessye Norman, soprano
10:50 a.m.
Florence Prize
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
10:56
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melody (Allegretto) n° 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
10:59
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Royal Flemish Philharmonic; Phillippe Herreweghe, conductor Martin Helmchen, piano
11:23
Marine Swamp
Contradance (The Counterfeiters)
Pacific Music
11:25 a.m.
Giuseppe Torelli
allegro
The Primordial Brass
11:28
Alan Hovhaness
Alleluia & Fugue for string orchestra Opus 40
I Fiamminghi; Rudolf Werthen, conductor
11:37
Gioachino Rossini
SEMIRAMID: Opening
Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Opening Treemonisha
the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra; Gunther Schuller, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins (Double Concerto) in D minor BWV 1043
Friborg Baroque Orchestra Petra Mullejans, violin; Gottfried von der Goltz, violin
12:17 p.m.
Jeff Lambert
Chicago summer
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
12:22 p.m.
Ethel Smith
Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Sophie Langdon, violin; Richard Watkins, horn
12:51 p.m.
Adolf Adam
IF I WERE KING (If I Were King) Overture
Royal National Orchestra of Scotland; Lance Friedel, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Opus 101
Fine Arts Trio
1:21 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Waltz Act I
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
1:27 p.m.
Francesco Durant
Concerto No. 8 “La Pazzia” in A major
Concerto Cologne
1:40 p.m.
Enrique Granados
La Maja by Goya
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
1:46 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavic Rhapsody No. 3 in A major Opus 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
1:59 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
2:31 p.m.
Amjad Ali Khan
Avalanche of love
Sharon Isbin, guitar; Ayaan Ali Bangash, sarod; Amit Kavthekar, tablas
2:36 p.m.
Johann Albrechtsberger
Harp Concerto in C major
Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra; Paul Kuentz, conductor Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
2:55 p.m.
Francois Liszt
Consolation No. 3 in Db major G 172
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
15:00
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
3:26 p.m.
George Philippe Telemann
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Heinz Holliger, oboe
3:36 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Suite for piano (For the piano suite)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
3:51 p.m.
Mark O’Connor
butterfly day
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Edgar Meyer, bass; Mark O’Connor, mandolin
3:57 p.m.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ruins of Athens: Turkish March Opus 113/4
the Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Frédéric Chopin
Variations on “La ci darem la mano” by Mozart in Bb major Opus 2
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
4:18 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso “La Follia” in D minor
Baroque Boston; Martin Pearlman, conductor
4:29 p.m.
Dave Brubeck
Five pieces of two-part adventures
Jean Salmon, piano
4:36 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Valerie Colman
Rome
Western Kentucky University Wind Ensemble; Gary Schallert, conductor
4:59 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Saul: Sinfonia HWV 53
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Trevor Pinnock, organ
5:18 p.m.
Elena Kats Chernin
Re-inventions: Re-invention #1
The Pieta; Angèle Dubeau, conductor
5:23 p.m.
Dominique Argento
Valentino dances
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor William Schimmel, accordion
5:34 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Variations Saint-Antoine in Bb major Opus 56
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Ricardo Chailly, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGUINE: Waltz
Staatskapelle Dresden; Hans Vonk, conductor
6:00 p.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Tableau for Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor
6:25 p.m.
William Grant Again
Folk Suite No. 4
Sierra Winds
6:30 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Troubled Water
Althea Waites, piano
6:37 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro
Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:51 p.m.
Camargue Mozart Guarnieri
Enchantment (Encantamento)
Simon Bolivar Orchestra; Maximiano Valdez, conductor