Tuesday, July 17

Some of today's pieces point you to further listening. If you like the opening overture by the "Spanish Mozart," Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, catch Saint Paul Sunday this Sunday at noon. If "Nessun dorma" on trombone leaves you yearning for an actual tenor, join us for Puccini's entire Turandot Saturday at 1:30. Multifaceted musician Mark O'Connor shares his violinistic and fiddlistic talents with teens on From the Top Sunday at 1:00. All shows air over GPB's 16 stations and stream online.

Let me point out a fewer other highlights too. My favorite discovery of the day is the Clarinet Sonata by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, with its bluesy opening, propulsive finale and good writing all in between. Love it. Gil Shaham playing Dvorak's Romance for violin and orchestra always sets the heart aflutter. (Well, mine anyway.) Also wonderful, and new: pianist Angela Hewitt playing Beethoven sonatas and Rolf Lislevand plucking Vivaldi concertos. And a perennial crowd-pleaser is Zoltan Kodaly's Dances of Galanta.

Italian Vintages Violin Romances Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 2/3, Op. 13 & Op. 28 Vivaldi: Musica per mandolino e liuto Zoltán Kodály: Háry János Suite / Dances of Galánta & Marosszék / Children's Choruses - Iván Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra

And now, the complete playlist.

11 AM

  • Arriaga: Los Esclavos Felices, Overture. Algarve Orch, Cassuto (Naxos 8.557207)
  • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Clarinet Sonata. Nicolas del Grazia, Chris Lysack (Centaur 2843)
  • Schubert: "Unfinished" Symphony (No. 8). San Francisco Sym, Blomstedt (London 433 072)
12 N
  • Puccini: Turandot: Nessun dorma. Joseph Alessi, Warren Jones (Naxos 8.570232)
  • Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave. Minneapolis Sym, Dorati (Mercury 434 305)
  • Beethoven: "Pastorale" Piano Sonata (No. 15 in D, Op. 28). Angela Hewitt (Hyperion 67605)
  • Dvorak: Romance in F minor, Op. 11. Gil Shaham, Orpheus Chamber Orch (DG 449 923)
  • O'Connor: Emily's Reel. Mark O'Connor, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer (Sony 66782)
1 PM
  • Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425. Rolf Lislevand and friends (Naive 30429)
  • Kodaly: Dances of Galanta. Budapest Festival Orch, Fischer (Philips 289 462 824)
  • Waxman: Tristan and Isolde Fantasia. Chloe Hanslip, Charles Owen, Royal Phil, Slatkin (Naxos 8.559302)
  • Bach, P.D.Q.: Last Tango in Bayreuth. Tennessee Bassoon Quartet (Telarc 80307)
  • Schickele: String Quartet No. 2 "In Memoriam": Scherzo. Lark Quartet (Endeavour 1018)

Posted by Sarah Zaslaw at 10:54 AM