Jokes, Earthquakes, and Big Hands

By VPR | April 1, 2010

A lot to cover this afternoon! It’s April Fools Day, Holy Thursday,
and Rachmaninoff’s Birthday. We’ll try to cover all the bases with music of P.D.Q. Bach, Mozart’s Musical Joke, settings of the text Timor et Tremor for Holy Thursday, and Rachmaninoff playing his own music and music by Chopin.

Playlist:

3:02 pm

Grand Serenade for An Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
Composer: Peter Schickele (aka: PDQ Bach)
Ensemble: National Symphonic Winds
Conductor: Peter Schickele
CD/Album: P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80307

3:14 pm

Symphony in d , Op. 48
Composer: Cesar Franck
Ensemble: Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
CD/Album: Franck/D'Indy: Symphonies
Record co./Cat #: London 430278

3:55 pm

Grande Piece Symphonique
Composer: Cesar Franck
Soloists: Michael Murray, organ
CD/Album: Michael Murray: An Organ Blaster Sampler
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80277

4:07 pm

Concerto Armonico #6 in Eb
Composer: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
Ensemble: I Musici de Montreal
Conductor: Yuli Turovsky
CD/Album: 'Pergolesi' Concerti
Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8481

4:16 pm

Piano Concerto #2 in c , Op. 18
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ensemble: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Soloists: Horacio Gutierrez, piano
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
CD/Album: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 3
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80259

4:50 pm

Polichinelle , Op. 3/4
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Soloists: Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
CD/Album: A Window in Time
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80489

4:53 pm

Polka V.R.
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Soloists: Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
CD/Album: A Window in Time
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80489

5:07 pm

Coriolan: Overture , Op. 62
Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
CD/Album: Beethoven: Symphony No. 6/Coriolan/Egmont
Record co./Cat #: L'Oiseau-Lyre 421416

5:14 pm

Timor et Tremor (motet: "Fear And Trembling")
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort
Soloists: Timothy Roberts, organ
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
CD/Album: Giovanni Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 449180

5:21 pm

Four Penitential Motets: Timor et Tremor ("Fear and trembling")
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Ensemble: Shaw Festival Singers
Conductor: Robert Shaw
CD/Album: Poulenc: Mass in G Major / Motets for Christmas and Lent
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80236

5:26 pm

Les barricades mysterieuses ("Mysterious Barricades")
Composer: Francois Couperin
Soloists: Nancy Allen, harp
CD/Album: Nancy Allen - A Celebration for Harp
Record co./Cat #: EMI 69070

5:30 pm

Symphony #1 in D , D 82
Composer: Franz Schubert
Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
CD/Album: Schubert: Symphonien Nr. 1 & 2
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 423652

6:07 pm

Concerto for Strings in g , RV 156
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
CD/Album: Vivaldi: Concerti & Sinfonie per Archi
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 6728

6:14 pm

A Musical Joke in F , K 522 (German: Ein Musikalischer Spass)
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
CD/Album: Mozart: A Little Light Music
Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 429783

6:37 pm

Waltz "Grande Valse Brilliante" in Eb , Op. 18
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Soloists: Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
CD/Album: A Window In Time
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80491

6:42 pm

Nocturne in F , Op. 15/1
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Soloists: Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
CD/Album: A Window In Time
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80491

6:47 pm

Scherzo #2 in bb , Op. 31
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Soloists: Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
CD/Album: A Window In Time
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80491

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