Program Guide 12-07-2017
Almanac
December 7
1562 death of Flemish composer Adrian Willaert (age c.72); in force of personality and with his central position as maestro di cappella at St. Mark's in Venice, he became the most influential musician in Europe between the death of Josquin and the time of Palestrina.
1637 Bernardo Pasquini – Italian composer (d.1710); renowned virtuoso keyboard player and one of the most important Italian composers for harpsichord between Girolamo Frescobaldi and Domenico Scarlatti; one of his harpsichord pieces (The Cuckoo) was transcribed for orchestra by Ottorino Respighi for his suite The Birds.
1840 Hermann Goetz – German composer (d.1876); died of tuberculosis at age 35; George Bernard Shaw thought Goetz’s Symphony in F Major was better than anything in the genre by Mendelssohn, Schumann, or Brahms.
1842 first concert by the New York Philharmonic; home is David Geffen Hall (formerly, Avery Fisher Hall) in New York's Lincoln Center; Jaap van Zweden is Music Director Designate; he takes over as Music Director in the 2018-19 season.
1861 first performance of Johannes Brahms's Handel Variations in Hamburg, by pianist Clara Schumann; a set of 25 variations and a concluding fugue, all based on a theme from George Frideric Handel's Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in B-Flat HWV 434.
1863 Pietro Mascagni – Italian composer (d.1945); his masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana (1890) caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the verismo movement.
1879 Rudolf Friml – Czech-born American composer and pianist (d.1972); best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King, each of which enjoyed success on Broadway and in London and were adapted for film.
1887 Ernst Toch – Austrian-born American composer of concert and film scores (d.1964); professor at the University of Southern California, where he taught both music and philosophy; in 1930 invented Gesprochene Musik, the idiom of the ‘spoken chorus’ and his most performed work is the Geographical Fugue, which he himself regarded as an unimportant diversion.
Recording of the Week
Program Guide
WCLV ALL-NIGHT WITH ANGELA MITCHELL
00:02:00 00:31:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major Op 36 Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra DeutGram 4776409
00:36:00 00:28:38 Johannes Brahms Variations & Fugue on Theme by Handel Op 24 Vassily Primakov, piano LP Classic 1004
01:07:00 00:44:41 Joseph Joachim Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor Op 11 London Philharmonic Leon Botstein Elmar Oliveira, violin IMP 27
01:55:00 00:35:31 Jacob Clemens non Papa Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis Stile Antico Harm Mundi 807575
02:34:00 00:32:29 Hermann Goetz Symphony in F Op 9 Werner Andreas Albert NDR Radio Philharmonic CPO 999939
03:10:00 00:33:01 Aaron Copland Billy the Kid David Zinman Baltimore Symphony Argo 440639
03:46:00 00:29:08 Ernö Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor Op 1 Takács Quartet András Schiff, piano Decca 421423
04:18:00 00:38:04 Franz Schubert Symphony No. 7 in E major Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields Philips 412176
05:00:00 00:24:34 Claude Debussy La mer Paavo Järvi Cincinnati Symphony Telarc 80617
05:28:00 00:12:47 Václav Pichl Symphony in B flat major Matthias Bamert London Mozart Players Chandos 9740
05:43:00 00:06:32 Emile Waldteufel Waltz after Chabrier's 'España' Op 263 Michel Swierczewski Gulbenkian Orchestra Nimbus 5264
BBC NEWS; CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH JACQUELINE GERBER
06:05:00 00:02:31 Julius Fucik Entry of the Gladiators Op 68 Neeme Järvi Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch Chandos 5158
06:12:00 00:06:53 Ludwig van Beethoven Scherzo from Piano Trio No. 7 Op 97 Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; David Soyer, cello Marlboro 80001
06:23:00 00:05:05 Sir Arthur Sullivan The Yeoman of the Guard: Overture Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields Philips 434916
06:35:00 00:03:27 Franz Schubert Minuet from Symphony No. 4 Pablo Heras-Casado Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Harm Mundi 902154
06:44:00 00:05:07 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo from Concerto Swedish Chamber Orchestra Patrick Gallois Patrick Gallois, flute Naxos 503293
06:55:00 00:02:01 John N. Klohr Billboard March Loras John Schissel Virginia Grand Military Band WalkFrog 430
07:02:00 00:04:06 Johann Sebastian Bach Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Avie 2207
07:12:00 00:03:26 Richard Rodgers Victory at Sea: Beneath the Southern Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80175
07:15:00 00:03:08 Richard Rodgers Victory at Sea: Guadalcanal March Erich Kunzel Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80175
07:23:00 00:06:18 Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat major Martha Argerich, piano DeutGram 4793449
07:35:00 00:03:48 George Gershwin Porgy and Bess: Summertime London Symphony Keith Lockhart Anne Akiko Meyers, violin eOne 7792
07:44:00 00:06:33 Richard Wagner Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into George Szell Cleveland Orchestra CBS 46286
BBC NEWS
08:05:00 00:02:44 Elmer Bernstein The Great Escape: March Nic Raine Royal Philharmonic Royal Phil 33
08:12:00 00:07:13 Giuseppe Verdi Aïda: Grand March 'Gloria all' Egitto!' Orchestra of La Scala Claudio Abbado La Scala Chorus DeutGram 4796018
08:23:00 00:07:20 Jean Sibelius Finale from Violin Concerto Op 47 London Symphony Sir Colin Davis Salvatore Accardo, violin Philips 4788977
08:35:00 00:01:37 Traditional The Holly and the Ivy (English) Pittsburgh Symphony Brass Four Winds 3029
08:37:00 00:02:01 Kermit Poling A Holly and Ivy Calypso West Edge String Quartet Centaur 3087
08:44:00 00:03:43 Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel: Children's Prayer Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Sony 87771
08:48:00 00:03:18 Traditional Wexford Carol Paul O'Shaughnessy, fiddle Sony 87771
08:52:00 00:02:35 Henry J. Gauntlett Once in Royal David's City Valentin Radu Ama Deus Ensemble; Wesley Parrott, organ Sony 87771
09:03:00 00:03:26 Camille Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals: The Swan Angelika Bachmann, musical saw; Anne-Monika von Twardowski, pn Warner 554295
09:12:00 00:04:57 Paulo Bellinati Jongo Jason Vieaux, guitar Azica 71287
09:12:00 00:06:20 Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op 34 Brian Thornton, cello; Spencer Myer, piano Thornton 2013
09:26:00 00:07:17 Bernard Herrmann Vertigo: Prelude & Love Scene Richard Glazier, piano Centaur 3347
09:39:00 00:03:49 Ludwig van Beethoven Scherzo from Symphony No. 8 Op 93 Sir John Eliot Gardiner Révolutionaire et Romantique Soli Deo 721
09:44:00 00:07:31 Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Strings in A major Thomas Hengelbrock Freiburg Baroque Orchestra DHM 77289
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH MARK SATOLA
10:00:00 00:06:11 Enrique Granados Goyescas: El fandango de candil Jorge Luis Prats, piano Decca 4782732
10:12:00 00:04:52 Frederick Delius Air and Dance for Strings Royal Northern Sinfonia Richard Hickox Bradley Creswick, violin EMI 65067
10:23:00 00:06:11 George Frideric Handel Messiah: Comfort Ye...Every valley shall Orch del Teatro Comunale Michele Mariotti Juan Diego Flórez, tenor Decca 14875
10:35:00 00:03:06 Antonín Dvorák Slavonic Dance No. 15 in C major Op 72 Rafael Kubelik Bavarian Radio Symphony DeutGram 4793449
10:45:00 00:08:55 Richard Wagner Lohengrin: Act 1 Prelude Fabio Luisi Philharmonia Zürich Accentus 102
11:01:00 00:06:08 Henryk Wieniawski Capriccio valse Op 7 Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Enrico Pace, piano Decca 4789377
11:15:00 00:05:08 Peter Tchaikovsky Swan Lake: Danse générale & Coda Valéry Gergiev Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Decca 10104
11:25:00 00:02:01 James Pierpont Jingle Bells Cleveland Orchestra Gareth Morrell Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MAA 1996
11:27:00 00:01:20 Traditional Fum, fum, fum Cleveland Orchestra Robert Porco Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MAA 2011
11:28:00 00:05:59 Alan Silvestri The Polar Express: Suite Cleveland Orchestra Robert Porco Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MAA 2014
11:46:00 00:03:27 Traditional The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy Cleveland Orchestra Clayton H. Krehbiel Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MAA 1999
11:49:00 00:04:32 John Francis Wade O Come, All Ye Faithful Cleveland Orchestra Robert Porco Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MAA 2011
BBC NEWS
12:04:00 00:02:01 Traditional Ding Dong! Merrily on High Anthony Newman Choral Guild of Atlanta; Anthony Newman, organ Sony 87771
12:13:00 00:05:15 Traditional The First Nowell Fanfare Tpts, Welsh Guards John Hugh Thomas Huw Tregelles Williams, organ; BBC National Chorus of Wales Nimbus 5310
12:17:00 00:06:08 Gioacchino Rossini William Tell: Dance for Six Frederick Fennell London Pops Orchestra Mercury 434356
12:38:00 00:02:41 Charles Burney Hark, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Taverner Players Andrew Parrott Gill Ross, soprano; Lucy Carolan, organ; Taverner Choir Sony 87771
12:48:00 00:08:55 Robert Schumann Genoveva: Overture Op 81 Karl Münchinger Vienna Philharmonic Decca 4785437
BIG WORK AT ONE WITH MARK SATOLA
13:05:00 00:21:06 Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto in B flat major English Chamber Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis Matt Haimovitz, cello DeutGram 429219
13:42:00 00:05:11 Horatio Parker Scherzo for Strings Reuben Blundell Gowanus Arts Ensemble New Focus 166
13:51:00 00:09:11 Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Pas de deux Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra DeutGram 435619
14:03:00 00:06:21 Ludwig van Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus: Finale Op 43 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra DeutGram 437782
14:15:00 00:04:57 Modest Mussorgsky Solemn March 'The Capture of Kars' Jukka-Pekka Saraste Toronto Symphony Orchestra Finlandia 14911
14:17:00 00:02:52 Traditional The Holly and the Ivy (English) Ross Duffin Quire Cleveland Quire 105
14:20:00 00:08:57 Giuseppe Verdi I vespri siciliani: Overture Riccardo Muti La Scala Philharmonic Sony 68468
14:26:00 00:06:12 Moritz Moszkowski Torch Dance Op 51 Martin West San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Reference 138
15:00:00 00:06:28 Michel Corrette Symphonie des noëls No. 6 in A major Arion Baroque Orchestra early-mus 7768
15:13:00 00:05:05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mitridate: Overture Rinaldo Alessandrini Norwegian Nat'l Opera Orch Naïve 30479
15:20:00 00:08:57 Peter Tchaikovsky Scherzo from Symphony No. 6 Op 74 Semyon Bychkov Czech Philharmonic Decca 4830656
15:24:00 00:06:04 Antonio Vivaldi Sinfonia for Strings in G major Trevor Pinnock English Concert Archiv 415518
15:47:00 00:03:05 Agustín Barrios Villancico de Navidad John Williams, guitar Sony 87771
CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH BILL O'CONNELL
16:05:00 00:03:10 Felix Mendelssohn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy Temple Univ. Concert Choir Sony 87771
16:14:00 00:04:17 Francesco Manfredini Pastorale from Concerto Grosso Op 3 Rudolf Baumgartner Lucerne Festival Strings DeutGram 469376
16:25:00 00:03:37 Peter Tchaikovsky The Seasons: December Op 37 Lang Lang, piano Sony 511758
16:35:00 00:05:32 Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Final Waltz & Apotheosis Semyon Bychkov Berlin Philharmonic Philips 420237
16:47:00 00:08:03 Gioacchino Rossini La Cenerentola: Overture Claudio Abbado Chamber Orchestra of Europe DeutGram 431653
17:04:00 00:01:59 Heinrich Schütz The Christmas Story: The Hosts of Angels Musica Fiata Frieder Bernius Stuttgart Chamber Choir Sony 87771
17:13:00 00:07:33 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 35 Jeannette Sorrell Apollo's Fire Koch Intl 7574
17:27:00 00:04:29 Bob Chilcott Ave Maria Ralph Woodward Fairhaven Singers Guild 7380
17:37:00 00:02:32 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart German Dance in F Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Sony 87771
17:48:00 00:07:01 Franz Biebl Ave Maria Cantus Cantus 1211
BBC NEWS
18:06:00 00:03:28 John Rutter Mary's Lullaby City of London Sinfonia John Rutter Cambridge Singers Collegium 121
18:14:00 00:06:54 Michel Corrette Symphonie des noëls No. 2 in D major Arion Baroque Orchestra early-mus 7768
18:26:00 00:05:18 Adolphe Adam O Holy Night Andrew Carwood St. Paul's Cathedral Choir; Simon Johnson, organ Decca 4789225
18:36:00 00:04:42 Franz Schubert Ave Maria Symphony Orchestra Ayako Shinozaki, harp; Chorus Sony 87771
18:47:00 00:07:58 Philip Lane Wassail Dances Gavin Sutherland City of Prague Philharmonic Naxos 557099
KEYBANK SYMPHONY AT SEVEN WITH JOHN SIMNA
19:02:00 00:15:31 Anatoly Liadov Eight Russian Folk Songs Op 58 Enrique Bátiz Mexico City Philharmonic ASV 657
19:20:00 00:35:15 Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano in C major Op 56 CityMusic Cleveland James Gaffigan Daniel Shapiro, piano; Kyung Sun Lee, violin; Edward Arron, cello CityMusic 2
19:58:00 00:01:45 Gabriel Pierné Ramuntcho: Fandango Juanjo Mena BBC Philharmonic Chandos 10633
ESSENTIAL CLASSICS WITH JOHN SIMNA
20:02:00 00:15:15 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op 27 Peter Takács, piano Cambria 1175
20:19:00 00:04:10 Arcangelo Corelli Largo pastorale from Concerto Grosso Op 6 Richard Kapp Philharmonia Virtuosi of NY Sony 87771
20:25:00 00:31:09 Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Sony 93019
NIGHT MUSIC WITH ROB GRIER
21:03:00 00:20:34 Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Suite Op 71 Lorin Maazel Cleveland Orchestra Telarc 80068
21:26:00 00:03:23 Franz Gruber Silent Night Richard Westenburg Musica Sacra DeutGram 429732
21:29:00 00:03:37 David Conte Meditation on 'Silent Night' Todd Wilson, organ MAA 11009
21:35:00 00:06:32 Daryl Runswick Fantasia on 'The Coventry Carol' and Geoffrey Simon London Cello Sound Cala 55003
21:43:00 00:04:17 Jake Runestad Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep Patrick Dupré Quigley Seraphic Fire SFM 14
21:49:00 00:32:29 Hermann Goetz Symphony in F Op 9 Werner Andreas Albert NDR Radio Philharmonic CPO 999939
22:23:00 00:23:44 Claude Debussy Piano Trio Ensemble Vivant OpeningDay 9379
22:49:00 00:09:40 Daniel Pinkham Christmas Cantata Lenox Brass Donald Teeters Boston Cecilia; James David Christie, organ Koch Intl 7180
SHH! QUIET HOUR WITH ROB GRIER
23:02:00 00:03:35 Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs Suite No. 3: Italiana Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic DeutGram 4796018
23:05:00 00:08:22 Christopher Rouse Karolju: Finale 'Italian' BBC Symphony Orchestra David Zinman Philharmonia Chorus RCA 11561
23:13:00 00:06:55 Nicolò Paganini Caprice No. 6 in G minor Op 1 Brodsky Quartet Chandos 10761
23:23:00 00:06:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio: Pastoral Symphony Sir Neville Marriner Academy St. Martin in Fields EMI 47027
23:29:00 00:09:40 Johann Friedrich Fasch Air No. 1 from Suite for Winds & Strings in D minor Ludwig Güttler Virtuosi Saxoniae Capriccio 10218
23:40:00 00:05:25 Pietro A. Yon Gesu Bambino A. David Krehbiel Bay Brass Gothic 49120
23:40:00 00:03:12 Gloria Shayne Baker Do You Hear What I Hear? Cleveland Orchestra Robert Porco Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MAA 2005
23:43:00 00:03:01 Anonymous The Angel Gabriel (Gabriel's Message) Cleveland Orchestra Gareth Morrell Cleve Orch Children's Chorus MAA 1996
23:45:00 00:09:00 George Gershwin Lullaby for Strings Brodsky Quartet Chandos 10801
23:56:00 00:02:06 Miguel Llobet Catalan Folksong 'El noi de la mare' Christopher Parkening, guitar EMI 56730
23:57:00 00:02:04 Luciano Berio Wasserklavier Hélène Grimaud, piano DeutGram 24427
