Franz Joseph Haydn playing a string quartet
Between 1768 to 1772 Haydn published three sets of string quartets, the Op 9, 17 and 20. He wrote no more quartets until his Op 33 in 1781, and these were more mature, creative and innovative in their design. For example, the inner graceful minuets of the earlier quartets were now replaced with joking scherzo movements, and instead of fugue finales, the Op 33 show a variety of alternatives, among other changes. A couple years before he composed the Op 33 Quartets, a change in Haydn’s employment contract with the Esterházy family allowed him to publish his music without prior approval from his employer. So in a letter to potential subscribers of the sheet music, Haydn described his Op 33 Quartets as “written in a new and special way, for I have not composed any for ten years.” The Op 33 No. 1, unusually in b-minor, is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Willem De Fesch
Concerto No. 5 in C minor Opus 5
Musica Ad Rhenum
6:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in Bb major K 191
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Danny Bond, bassoon
6:27 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano Opus 22
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
6:37 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Paul Dukas
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn
7:06 a.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
7:35 a.m.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
ARMIDE: Overture
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
7:37 a.m.
Antonio Valente
Galliarda napolitana
Daniel Hope, violin; and friends
7:40 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertpiece (Concertstuck) in C# minor Opus 40
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Rebecca Miller, conductor Danny Driver, piano
7:56 a.m.
Tielmann Susato
La Mourisque
University of Texas Wind Ensemble; Jerry Junkin, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in G major Opus 111
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
8:14 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K 488
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O’Conor, piano
8:40 a.m.
Xuefei Yang
Xinjiang Fantasy
Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:47 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio in C minor Opus 67
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:54 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement: III. Allegretto
Chineke! Orchestra; Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
9:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 7 in D minor Opus 70
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
9:37 a.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: I. El Margariteno (pasillo) The Song of the Dreamer
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
9:43 a.m.
John Williams
1941 (march)
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
9:49 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 3 “The Goldfinch” (Il Gardellino) in D major Opus 10 RV 428
Australian Chamber Orchestra Emmanuel Pahud, flute
10:00 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
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