Need help identifying piece

Hi -

I heard a piece yesterday morning on public radio that I liked quite a bit. Mind you, I was half asleep because the radio went on at 6:15 AM (and 6:25 and 6:35) telling me to get up. I went to my local station's website (http://www.wmht.org/fm/schedules/jan21.htm) and here's what is listed for the 6 AM hour.

6:00 AM DITTERSDORF,KARL DITTERS VON CONCERTO A - HARP

HP ZABALETA, NICANOR

CND KUENTZ, PAUL

KUENTZ, PAUL, CH ORCH

QDG439693 6:00 AM BERLIOZ, HECTOR CORSAIR, OP.21 OVERTURE

DETROIT SYM ORCH

CND PARAY, PAUL

QMR434328 6:00 AM HAYDN, (FRANZ) JOSEPH SYMPHONY 61 D

NORTHERN CH ORCH

CND WARD, NICHOLAS

QNX550723

Now, I don't know much classical, but what I heard (again, keep in mind I was groggy) sounded like chamber music, perhaps with piano and clarinet? I have some chamber music on CD by Poulenc and it reminded me of that a bit. Is it just me, or do none of these pieces seem to fit the description? I know it wasn't the Haydn - he's one of the few composers I'd recognize.

I'd appreciate any help you can provide! I don't *think* I was dreaming, but...

It must have been later than you thought, because none of those is chamber music. A harp might sound like a piano, but I wouldn't expect Dittersdorf to use clarinet. (And he'd sound sort of like baby Mozart, not like Poulenc.)

Try the 7:00 listings!

Why? He lived 1739-1799; by the time he was a mature composer, clarinets became quite common. And yes, he did use clarinets.

I'm afraid you've been listening to too much of 'Baby needs Mozart'. Dittersdorf's compositions are good, mature Classical music, certainly better written than Mozart's earliest efforts.

'Baby X' doesn't mean 'like what X did as a baby,' Ms. Grammarian, but 'unsophisticated version of X.'

Even so, he'd sound more like the Mozart of 1766 than like the Poulenc of 1950.

It's big news that Mozart used clarinets in a handful of late works