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Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky
Born in 1904, Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky adopted the Soviet outlook and purpose and composed music that never met with censorship from authorities. Music that won favor in Russia included operas, patriotic vocal works and music for films, stage and for children as well as larger orchestral compositions. His Symphony #2 premiered in 1934 in Moscow but not until 1942 in the United States where it became one of his few very popular works in the west. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Tarantelas
Ensemble Kapsberger; Rolf Lislevand, conductor
6:08 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
6:42 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Chromatic Fugue in D minor BWV 903
Philip Hii, guitar
6:49 a.m.
Grace Williams
Carillons, for oboe and orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor Anthony Camden, oboe
7:01 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40: I. Molto Allegro in G minor K 550
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Georg Solti, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Serenade in C major Opus 10
NES Chamber Orchestra; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
7:31 a.m.
John Williams
Summon the Heroes
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
7:39 a.m.
Amy Beach
A Hermit Thrush at Eve Opus 92
Alan Feinberg, piano
7:45 a.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 2: IV. Finale – Allegro molto in G minor Opus 45
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola
8:01 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2: IV. Finale: Allegro vivace in E minor Opus 27
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
8:16 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb major Opus 74
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
8:39 a.m.
Percy Grainger
Mock Morris
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
8:43 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 1 in B major Opus 72
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:49 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne No. 2 in Eb major Opus 9/2
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Seong-Jin Cho, piano
8:54 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Zadok the Priest HWV 258
The English Concert; Simon Preston, conductor Choir of Westminster Abbey
9:01 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor
Nash Ensemble
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