Classical Music with Walter Parker
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Weekdays
Schubert's String Quintet in C; Bach's Magnificat, which the Vermont Philharmonic will perform this weekend; Elgar's Enigma Variations; and Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart.
Live Performance by Wordstage, a chamber music theater
Wordstage, a chamber music theater, visits the VPR Performance Studio for a live preview of The Winter's Journey, music of Franz Schubert sung by Simon Chausse, with Eliza Thomas, piano, and Tim Tavcar, narrator.
Brahms' Clarinet Sonata in E flat; the String Quartet of Delius; Piano Concerto No. 3 of Prokofiev, played by Gary Graffman; La Boite a Joujou (The Toybox) by Debussy; and Murray Perahia plays Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat, D. 960.
The Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) of Vaughan Williams; Mazurkas, Op. 17, of Chopin, played by Artur Rubinstein; Arietta from In the Arms of the Beloved by Richard Danielpour, written for the 25th wedding anniversary of Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson; and the complete Firebird ballet of Stravinsky.
Piano Concerto No. 1 of Rachmaninoff, played by Nikolai Lugansky; Agnus Dei from the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, which the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will perform in Burlington and Rutland this weekend; Symphony No. 1 by Gounod and a symphony modeled on it by Bizet.
Concert Variants for Piano by Norman Dello Joio, who is 95 today; the Sanctus from the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven; the Symphony No. 1 of Charles Ives; Castor and Pollux Suite by Rameau; and The Happy Forest by Arnold Bax.
Sonata quasi Concerto by Clementi, played by Vladimir Horowitz; the Credo from the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven, which the Vermont Symphony and Chorus will perform this weekend; and Visions of Light by Eric Ewazen, inspired by photographs of Ansell Adams.
Serenade for Strings by Tchaikovsky; the Gloria from the Missa Solemnis
of Beethoven; the Trout Quintet of Schubert; and the Symphony in B flat
of Zemlinsky.
For Martin Luther King Day, both the Afro-American and Song of a New Race Symphonies by William Grant Still; Beethoven's Eroica Symphony; Robert DeCormier's They Called Her Moses (about Harriet Tubman); and Joseph Schwantner's New Morning for the World, with text by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Symphony No. 1 by Carl Nielsen; Symphony No. 4 "The Delights of Basel" by Arthur Honegger; and the Double Concerto of Brahms.
Mozart's Adagio for Glass Armonica, invented by Benjamin Franklin; Ravel's String Quartet in F; and Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"
The Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis; Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, played by Maurizio Pollini; The Tender Land Suite by Copland; and the Symphony in B flat by Ernest Chausson.
Mozart's last Piano Concerto (No. 27), played by Clifford Curzon; Sunday in Brooklyn, by Elie Siegmeister; Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, played by Joshua Bell; and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, played by Alfred Brendel.
The 3rd Symphony of Sibelius, conducted by Mariss Jansons, who is 65 today; The Poem of Ecstasy by Scriabin; The Temple of Glory Suite by Rameau; and the 9th Symphony of Shostakovich.
Beethoven's Quartet No. 12 in E flat, Op. 127, played by the Takacs Quartet, who will be at Middlebury College tonight; Four Motets on Gregorian Themes by Maurice Durufle; Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, played by Nelson Freire; and Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings, played by the Emerson Quartet times two.
Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, played by Nelson Freire, from a recent recording also containing the Piano Concerto No. 2, which we will hear on Friday.
Piano music of John Knowles Paine; Beethoven's String Quartet No. 9, played by the Takacs Quartet, coming to Middlebury College Friday; music for Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost by Gerald Finzi; and music of Antonio Lauro played by guitarist Sharon Isbin, coming to Dartmouth on Saturday.
Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper by Jaromir Weinberger; Appalachian Dreams by John Duarte, played by guitarist Sharon Isbin, coming to the Hopkins Center this Saturday; Winter Dreams (Symphony No. 1) by Tchaikovsky; and the Symphonic Etudes of Robert Schumann, played by Vladimir Feltsman at his Carnegie Hall debut in 1987.
The Concert-Serenade for Harp of Rodrigo; the Don Juan ballet of Gluck; Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Manuel de Falla; and a Summer Day in the Mountains by Vincent D'Indy.
The Divine Poem (Symphony No. 3) of Alexander Scriabin; Piano Concerto No. 2 of Chopin, played by Maria Joao Pires; and selections from the ballet Namouna by Lalo.
The Pastoral Symphony of Beethoven; the Cello Sonata of Rachmaninoff; piano music of Cecile Chaminade; and the Sinfonie Capricieuse of Berwald.
The Piano Concerto of Dvorak; the Linz Symphony (No. 36) of Mozart; Music for Movies by Copland; the last string quartet of Schubert; and the First Orchestral Serenade of Brahms.
Waltzes by Brahms, Wagenaar, Waldteufel, Ravel, and Chopin surrounding the annual Vienna New Year's Day concert at 11.
