Scheherazade by Paul Emile Detouche (1824)
The Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in 1888 his suite “Scheherazade”, inspired by the collected tales of the thousand and one nights (“One Thousand and One Nights”). While he originally included titles with every movement, he ultimately wanted the music to be only “clues to direct, but slightly the listener’s fancy” to the “many and varied fairy-tale wonders more vaguely described. But he included in the music a repetitive story: Scheherazade herself, represented by a solo violin accompanied by harp as she begins to tell another story to the cruel Sultan Shahryar who is represented by low brass and woodwinds. The entirety of Rimsky-Korsakov’s 45-minute “Scheherazade” is today’s noon-2 p.m. colorful masterpiece.
6:00 am
Edward Elgar
Introduction and Allegro Opus 47
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Colin Davis, conductor
6:16
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
Campania Chamber Orchestra; Luigi Piovano, conductor Francesco Nicolosi, piano
6:41 a.m.
Henrietta Renee
Legend
Xavier de Maistre, harp
6:51 a.m.
Alexander Reinagle
Overture in G major
Sinfonia Finlandia (Jyvaskyla); Patrick Gallois, conductor
6:59
John Rutter
folk suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Joseph Kraus
Viola Concerto in Eb major VB 153c
Tapiola Sinfonietta David Aaron Carpenter, viola
7:35 am
Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 3: “Mishima”: VI. Mishima Closure
Attacca Quartet
7:38
Gustav Holst
The planets: Mercury, the winged messenger Opus 32
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn, conductor
7:43 am
Grace Williams
Ballads: II. Alla marcia solenne
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
7:48
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2: III. Allegro Scherzando in C minor
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
8:00 a.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 10 in F major Opus 7/10
Academy of Early Music; Andrew Manze, conductor
8:12
Franz Krommer
Concerto for two clarinets in Eb major Opus 91
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Sillito, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet; Julian Bliss, clarinet
8:37
John Williams
Superman: main title
London Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
8:42
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise No. 6 “Eroica” in A major Opus 53
Lang Lang, piano
8:50 am
Gioachino Rossini
Overture to The Thieving Magpie (LA GAZZA LADRA)
classic London players; Roger Norrington, conductor
9:01
Claude Debussy
Sacred and Profane Dances (Sacred and Profane Dances)
National Orchestra of Lyon; Jun Markl, conductor Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
9:11
Wolfgang AmadeusMozart
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major K 595
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O’Conor, piano
9:43 am
Gunther Schuller
Suite for wind quintet: II. Blues
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
9:44
Erik Satie
Gymnopedia No. 1
John Novacek, piano
9:49
Ottorino Respighi
Church windows: IV. Saint Gregory the Great
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Hubert Pary
An English Suite
City of London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox, conductor
10:23
Nadia Baker
Three pieces for cello and piano
Amit Peled, cello; Lucy Mauro, piano
10:33 am
William Byrd
The Earl of Oxford’s March
Canadian brass; Robert Moody, conductor
10:37
Georges Bizet
The Arlesienne Suite n°2
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
10:55
Giuseppe Verdi
LA TRAVIATA: Act I. Prelude
National Philharmonic Orchestra; Richard Bonynge, conductor
11:00
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 1 “La Tempesta di Mare” (The Storm at Sea) in F major Opus 10 RV 433
Tokyo Bach-Mozart Ensemble Masahiro Arita, flute
11:08
johann johansson
A pile of dust
Voice 8
11:15 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Allegro di molto in E minor
Joanne Polk, piano
11:18 a.m.
Michio Miyagi
The Sea in Spring (Haru no Umi)
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
11:28
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in Bb major Opus 60
Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:01
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 9 “Retreat from Madrid” in C major G 453
Chamber ensemble of the Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields Pepe Romero, guitar
12:29
Cecile Chaminade
Concert Studies: Fall
Anna Shelest, piano
12:36 p.m.
Caesar Frank
The Cursed Hunter (The Cursed Hunter)
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
12:53 p.m.
John Adams
china gates
Gloria Cheng-Cochran, piano
12:59
Mikhail Glinka
RUSLAN AND LUDMILA: Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
1:05 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor Opus 104
Berlin Philharmonic; Lorin Maazel, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
