Happy Birthday Bach!

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We’ll celebrate Bach’s birthday with something of his in each hour, including the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and selections from the St. Matthew Passion.

 

 

Playlist:
9:02 am
  • Capriccio: Introduction & Moonlight music
  • Composer: Richard Strauss
  • Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Andre Previn
  • CD/Album: R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite U.A.
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 437790
9:18 am
  • Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D , BWV 1050
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ensemble: Orchestra Mozart
  • Soloists: Jacques Zoon, flute ; Giuliano Carmignola, violin ; Ottavio Dantone, harpsichord
  • Conductor: Claudio Abbado
  • CD/Album: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 4778908
9:39 am
  • Variations on "La ci darem la mano" in Bb , Op. 2 , B 22
  • Composer: Frederic Chopin
  • Ensemble: Warsaw Philharmonic
  • Soloists: Garrick Ohlsson, piano
  • Conductor: Kazimierz Kord
  • CD/Album: Chopin: The Complete Piano Works, Vol. 9
  • Record co./Cat #: Arabesque 6702
  • Note: (from Mozart's opera, "Don Giovanni")
10:01 am
  • St. Matthew Passion (excerpts) , BWV 244
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
  • Soloists: Monteverdi Choir ; Barbara Bonney, soprano ; Ann Monoyios, soprano ; Anne Sofie von Otter, alto ; Michael Chance, countertenor ; Howard Crook, tenor
  • Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
  • CD/Album: J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 427648
10:42 am
  • The Lark Ascending
  • Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Soloists: Hilary Hahn, violin
  • Conductor: Colin Davis
  • CD/Album: Elgar: Violin Concerto - Vaughan Williams: The Lark
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon B0003026
11:01 am
  • Horn Quintet in Eb , K 407
  • Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ensemble: Gewandhaus Quartet
  • Soloists: Hermann Baumann, horn
  • CD/Album: Mozart-Beethoven-Reicha-J. Haydn-M. Haydn
  • Record co./Cat #: Philips 426440
11:19 am
  • Passacaglia and Fugue in c , BWV 582
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: David Hamilton. organ
  • CD/Album: J.S. Bach: Organ Works
  • Record co./Cat #: Divine Art 25088
11:34 am
  • Czech Suite , Op. 39 , B 93
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Antal Dorati
  • CD/Album: Dvorak: Slavonic Dances-Czech Suite
  • Record co./Cat #: London 460293
11:57 am
  • Two-Part Invention #11
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: Bela Fleck, banjo ; Evelyn Glennie, marimba
  • CD/Album: Bela Fleck - Perpetual Motion
  • Record co./Cat #: Sony Classical 89610
12:05 pm
  • Donna Diana: Overture
  • Composer: Emil von Reznicek
  • Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • CD/Album: Panorama - Favorite Overtures
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 469322
12:11 pm
  • Toccata in c , BWV 911
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Soloists: Martha Argerich, piano
  • CD/Album: J.S. Bach: Toccata BWV 911; Partita BWV 826; English suite No. 2
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 463604
12:24 pm
  • Cantata #78: Wir eilen mit schwachen... , BWV 78 ("We hasten with faint but eager steps")
  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ensemble: The Bach Ensemble
  • Soloists: Julianne Baird, soprano ; Allan Fast, countertenor
  • Conductor: Joshua Rifkin
  • CD/Album: J.S. Bach: Cantatas 8, 78 & 99
  • Record co./Cat #: L'Oiseau-Lyre 421728
12:32 pm
  • Symphonic Poem #12: Die Ideale
  • Composer: Franz Liszt
  • Ensemble: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
  • Conductor: Kurt Masur
  • CD/Album: Liszt: Orchestral Works - Works for Piano and Orchestra
  • Record co./Cat #: EMI 85573

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