Friday, April 13 - Monday, April 23

Thanks, all who supported GPB during the membership campaign that wrapped up Monday. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Fund drives are always exceptional weeks here. We're all working and thinking and talking in overdrive, behind the scenes and on the air. It's a heightened state of being. It can be exhausting and frustrating at times, but it's a real high at others, when we get riffing on public broadcasting's purpose and those lines light up and the names roll in.

The five F's of membership campaigns, as I see them, are Funds, Feedback, Fellowship, Food, and . . . Fones.

Thanks again, music supporters in particular, for sustaining this unlikely, amazing institution.

For the drive I culled some of the most appealing recordings and rep from recent months' Midday Musics to re-air, then sprinkled in some concert tie-ins and new releases (including a sneak peek at the latest from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, music of Tallis and Vaughan Williams on Telarc). Each show also includes the recommended daily allowance of Mozart from our three-CD thank-you gift, Mozart 250: A Celebration, on Sony Classics. All Mozarts in this long post come from that set.

Working backwards:

Monday, April 23

• Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, excerpts. Boston Baroque, Pearlman (Telarc 80594)
• Foote: Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 23. Atlanta Chamber Players (ACA Digital 20082)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 35, "Haffner": 1st mvt. Bavarian Radio Sym, Kubelik
• Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise. Boston Pops, Williams (Philips 420 946)
• Bach: Cantata No. 34, "O Ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe." Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner (SDG 1212)
• Mozart: Piano Sonata in A, K. 331: Rondo alla Turca. Alicia de Larrocha
• Dvorak: Humoresque, Op. 101/7. I Salonisti (DHM 05472 77377)
• Rossini: William Tell, Overture. Atlanta Sym, Levi (Telarc 80334)
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 2: Mvts 3-4. San Francisco Sym, Blomstedt (London 433 810)
• Gliere: Bronze Horseman: Dancing Scene. BBC Philharmonic, Downes (Chandos 9379)

Friday, April 20

• Ravel: Tzigane. Grumiaux, Monte Carlo Opera Orch, Remoortel (Philips 422 274)
• Mozart: Clarinet Concerto: Adagio. Steffens, Bavarian Radio Sym, Davis
• Wagner: Parsifal: Good Friday Music. New York Phil, Mehta (Sony 45749)
• Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila, Overture. Augusta Symphony Orch (n/a)
• Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus. Augusta Choral Society (n/a)
• Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for two violins, cello and strings, RV 565. Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini (Naive 30301)
• Hovhaness: Symphony No. 60 "To the Appalachian Mountains": 1st mvt. Berlin Radio Sym, Schwarz (Naxos 8.559294)
• Saint-Saens: Violin Sonata No. 1. James Ehnes, Wendy Chen (CBC 1138)
• Mozart: Serenade K. 361, "Gran Partita": Romanze. Bavarian Radio Sym, Davis
• Liszt: La Campanella. Marc-Andre Hamelin (Hyperion 67370)
• Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien. Augusta Symphony Orch (n/a)
• Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp: Andantino. Galway, Robles, London Sym, Mata
• Traditional (W. African): Djandjon. John Williams, John Etheridge (Sony 89483)

Thursday, April 19

• Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence. Ying Quartet (Telarc 80685)
• Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte: "Soave sia il vento." Leontyne Price, Leinsdorf et al.
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture. Staatskapelle Dresden, Davis
• Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A: 1st mvt. Zukerman, Saint Paul Chamber Orch
• Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4: Rondo. Clevenger, Franz Liszt Chamber Orch, Rolla
• Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op. 131. Mutter, New York Phil, Masur (DG 457 075)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor: 1st mvt. Mozarteum Orch Salzburg, Kuhn
• Shostakovich: Gadfly: Youth (Romance). Ofer, Philadelphia Orch, Chailly (London 452 701)
• Bach: Oboe d'Amore Concerto in G. Abberger, Tafelmusik, Lamon (Analekta 9815)
• Chavez: Trio for flute, viola and harp. Southwest Chamber Music (Cambria 8853)
• Delibes: Coppelia: Act 2, selections. National Phil, Bonynge (London 414 502)

Wednesday, April 18

• Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus. Tolzer Knabenchor, European Baroque Soloists
• Tallis: "Why fum'th in fight?" Atlanta Sym Chamber Chorus (Telarc 80676). NOTE: This brief choral work by Tallis, setting the biblical phrase sometimes translated "Why do the nations so furiously rage," is the theme for the piece by Vaughan Williams that follows. Both performances come from the ASO's newest disc, just out this week.
• Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. Atlanta Sym Orch strings, Spano (Telarc 80676)
• Infante: Danzas Andaluzas. Karin Lechner, Sergio Tiempo. EMI 58472
• Mozart: Don Giovanni: "Deh, vieni alla finestra." Thomas Quasthoff et al.
• Sowerby: Festival Musick: Fanfare. David Mulbury et al. (Marco Polo 8.223725)
• Mozart: Clarinet Concerto: Rondo. Robert Marcellus, Cleveland Orch, Szell
• Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D. Wispelwey, Lazic (Channel 22605)
• Offenbach: Tales of Hoffman: Barcarolle. Johann Strauss Orch, Rieu (Philips 314 528 786)
• Grieg: Peer Gynt: Morning Mood. Iceland Sym Orch, Engeset (Naxos 8.557017)
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466: Romance. Alicia de Larrocha, English Chamber Orch, Davis
• Harbison: Gatsby Etudes. Aizawa (Naxos 8.559243)
• Harbison: Remembering Gatsby. Baltimore Sym, Zinman (Argo 444 454)
• Cobb: Rubber Plant Rag. Italian Mando-Rag Club (Naxos 8.557999)

Tuesday, April 17

• Mozart: Magic Flute, Overture. Mostly Mozart Festival Orch, Brico
• Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C minor. Mion, Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini (Naive 30301)
• Hatzis: Telluric Dances: Snake Dance. Lemieux, Symphony Nova Scotia, Gueller (CBC 5243)
• Mozart: Piano Sonata in F, K. 332: Adagio. Alicia de Larrocha
• Henestrosa: El libra de cifra nueva: Finale. King, Harp Consort (Harmonia Mundi 907316)
• Guarnieri: Four Pieces for Guitar Quartet. Brazilian Guitar Quartet (Delos 3245)
• Hahn: Venezia: "La barcheta." Joyce DiDonata, Julius Drake (Wigmore 0009)
• Mackenzie: Coriolanus: Entr'acte. BBC Scottish Sym, Brabbins (Hyperion 66764)
• Biber: Sonata "La Pastorella." Romanesca (Harmonia Mundi 907134.35)
• Chaplin: City Lights, Overture. City Lights Orch, Davis (Silva 1054)
• Sondheim: A Little Night Music, medley. Boston Pops, Williams (Philips 2606)
• Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364: Andante. Lin, Laredo, English Chamber Orch, Leppard

Monday, April 16

• Rontgen: Aus Jotunheim Suite. Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil, Porcelijn (CPO 777 119)
• Serra: Variations for orchestra and piano. Brugalla, El Valles Sym, Brotons (Naxos 8.555871)
• Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor: Mvts 3-4. Mork, Andsnes (Simax 1063)
• Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: romance. Tafelmusik, Weill
• Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor: 1st mvt. Cleveland Orch, Szell
• Sibelius: Karelia Suite. Atlanta Sym, Levi (Telarc 80320)
• Liadov: The Music Box. Cincinnati Pops, Kunzel (Telarc 60657)
• Wagner: Siegfried: Forest Murmurs. Met Orch, Levine (DG 447 764)
• Mozart: Marriage of Figaro: "Voi chi sapete." Price, English Chamber Orch, Lockhart
• Rameau: Le Temple de la Gloire, Overture. Tafelmusik, Lamon (CBC 5229)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 36, "Linz": 2nd mvt. Bavarian Radio Sym, Kubelik.
• Berlioz: Damnation of Faust: Rakoczy (Hungarian) March. Orch of the Swiss Romande, Ansermet (London 421 634)
• Smetana: Ma Vlast: Vltava (The Moldau). Vienna Phil, Harnoncourt (RCA 82876 54331)

Friday, April 13

• Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila, Overture. Cincinnati Pops, Kunzel (Telarc 60657)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor. Budapest Festival Orch, Fischer (Channel 21704)
• Mozart: Marriage of Figaro, Overture. Staatskapelle Dresden, Davis
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453: 1st mvt. Serkin, Columbia Sym, Schneider
• Bax: In the Faery Hills. BBC Phil, Handley (Chandos 10362)
• Shaw: Clarinet Concerto. Yeh, DePaul Univ Jazz Ensemble, Lark (Reference 55)
• Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165: Alleluia. Blegen, Mostly Mozart Festival Orch, Zukerman
• Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4: Rondo. Clevenger, Franz Liszt Chamber Orch, Rolla
• Fasch: Trio in F. Epocca Barocca (CPO 777 204)
• Ravel: Bolero. Royal Concergebouw Orch, Haitink (PentaTone 5186 167)