Sergei Rachmaninoff around 1921 | photo: Library of Congress
In his final composition, Sergei Rachmaninoff looks back on his life and offers a look into the future after death. His “Symphonic Dances” of 1940 are in three movements, the first of which quotes his Symphony No. 1 of 1897, the premiere of which was a disaster. In the last movement, the medieval song for the dead, dies irae, is heard but is ultimately triumphed with a quote from Rachmaninoff’s 1915 “All Night Vigil”, depicting the Resurrection. At this point in the score, Rachmaninoff wrote: “Hallelujah”. The last music he composed, the “Symphonic Dances”, was premiered in January 1941. He died in March 1943 a few days before his 70th birthday. Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances” are today’s noon masterpiece at 2:00 p.m.
6:00 am
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in D major Opus 1/9
Baroque raglan players; Nicolas Kraemer, conductor
6:12
Francois-Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 83 “The Hen” in G minor
Handel & Haydn Company; Harry Christophers, conductor
6:44
John Duarte
Joan Baez Suite: Fantasy
Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:47
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
6:59
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Vivace in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
7:14 a.m.
Christopher Graupner
Orchestral Suite in F major GWV 450
Finnish Baroque Orchestra; Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, conductor
7:36
Scott Joplin
Bethena: a concert waltz
Giovanni DeChiaro, guitar
7:42
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Souvenir of Puerto Rico Opus 31
Alan Feinberg, piano
7:50 am
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”: IV. Allegro con fuoco (Finale) in E minor Opus 95
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
8:02
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Mark Bennett, trumpet; Michael Harrison, trumpet
8:12
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
8:38
Olafur Arnalds
Happiness doesn’t wait
La Pieta Angèle Dubeau, violin
8:42
Gustav Holst
The planets: Venus, bringer of peace Opus 32
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
8:53
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song without words Opus 8/1
Tzimon Barto, piano
09:00
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: O Fortune
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus; Robert Shaw Festival Singers
9:06
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1053
Australian Chamber Orchestra Angela Hewitt, piano
9:27
Philip Glass
The Suite Hours: II. The poet acts
Janacek Philharmonic; Mark Shapiro, conductor Gregory Harrington, violin
9:32
Manuel de Falla
Continuation of the three-cornered hat
Philharmonic Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
9:52
Maurice Ravel
Mirrors: Alborada del gracioso (morning song of the jester)
Frederic Chiu, piano
10:00 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for strings in C major Opus 48
East Coast Chamber Orchestra
10:32
TRADITIONAL
Wild mountain thyme
Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:37
Florence Prize
String Quartet No. 2: III. Juba in A minor
Catalyst Quartet
10:42
Isolina Carrillo
Back Gardenias
Havana High School Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
10:49
Camille Saint-Saëns
Havanese Opus 83
New York Philharmonic; Zubin Mehta, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violin
10:59
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Orchestra of St. Luke; Charles Mackerras, conductor
11:11 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Dance suite: Allegro vivace SZ 77
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
11:14 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 9 in E minor
Staatskapelle Berlin; Otmar Suitner, conductor
11:17 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite of English folk songs
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
11:29
Amy Beach
Invocation in D major Opus 55
Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
11:34 am
George Philippe Telemann
Suite in C major TWV 55:C6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
12:01
Samuel Barbier
Violin concerto op 14
London Symphony Orchestra; André Previn, conductor Gil Shaham, violin
12:25 p.m.
John Gabrieli
Sonata XX
The Wallace Collection; Simon Wright, conductor
12:32 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song without words “Chant du Printemps” (Book V, n° 6) in A major Opus 62/6
Andras Schiff, piano
12:34 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Os Justi
Dark; Nigel Short, conductor
12:41 p.m.
Enrique Soro
Three Chilean airs (Tres aires chileans)
Chilean Symphony Orchestra; José Luis Dominguez, conductor
12:52 p.m.
Frédéric Chopin
Fantaisie-impromptu in C# minor Opus 66
Olga Kern, piano
12:59
Francois-Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 “Drum Roll” in E flat major
Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox, conductor
1:31 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2: Badinerie BWV 1067
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Karl Munchinger, conductor
1:32 p.m.
Elena Kats Chernin
Re-inventions: Re-invention #1
The Pieta; Angèle Dubeau, conductor
1:38 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Joyful Island (Happy Island)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
1:45 p.m.
Hugo Alven
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 “Midsummer Night Vigil” Opus 19
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances Opus 45
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
2:35 p.m.
Louis Ballard
Rustic Dance (Branles de village)
Ronn McFarlane, lute
2:40 p.m.
William Grant Again
Panamanian dances (Danzas de Panama)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor
2:55 p.m.
John Williams
Far and Far: Wedding Dance
Washington Symphony Brass
15:00
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Capriccio No. 1 in D major Z 182
Bern Camerata; Alexandre van Wijnkoop, conductor
3:16 p.m.
Missy Mazzoli
Impromptu (Thomas play)
The Kapralova Orchestra Joshua Bell, violin
3:20 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Quintet for clarinets in Bb major Opus 34 J 182
Hagen Quartet Eduard Brunner, clarinet
3:46 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D major Opus 3/6 HWV 317
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
3:54 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO: Chorus of Hebrew Slaves
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus
4:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Polonaise Act III
London Symphony Orchestra; André Previn, conductor
4:06 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Grand Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in F major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
4:30 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Ballad in G minor Opus 118/3
Helene Grimaud, piano
4:35 p.m.
Ari Pulkkinen
Angry Birds (main theme)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
4:38 p.m.
Yolande Kondonassis
liquid shadows
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
4:45 p.m.
David Diamond
Rondes for string orchestra
do.gma chamber orchestra; Mikhail Gurewitsch, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Robert Schuman
Symphony No. 4 in D minor Opus 120
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
5:35 p.m.
Pablo de Sarasata
Basque caprice op. 24
Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Enrico Pace, piano
5:42 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Comfort
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
5:48 p.m.
Federico Moreno Torroba
Madronos
Narciso Yepes, guitar
5:53 p.m.
Ludovic Einaudi
I Giorni
Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Simon Halsey, conductor Daniel Hope, violin; Jacques Ammon, piano
6:00 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor Jorge Bolet, piano
6:33 p.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
Czech-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
6:42 p.m.
Dustin O’Halloran
Opus 17 (string quartet version)
Siggi String Quartet Dustin O’Halloran, piano
6:45 p.m.
Gustave Santaolalla
Iguazu
Gustave Santaolalla
6:50 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
6:53 p.m.
Lou Harrison
Suite for violin with American gamelan: II. Estampie
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor Gabriela Diaz, violin
