Classical Music Playlist, January 16, 2025
Mozart wrote his final three symphonies in quick succession over the summer of 1788 — his Symphonies 39, 40 and 41. He may have intended them as a trilogy to be published together, which they were not; there also has been speculation that he never heard any of them performed, which is doubtful though there is no record of their performance. Listen for the charming dance tune on the clarinet in the third movement (about 19 minutes into the symphony) in Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Joseph Fiala
Concerto for Oboe in Bb major
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Frantisek Vajnar, conductor Jiri Krejci, oboe
6:18 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Louis Lortie, conductor Louis Lortie, piano
6:40 a.m.
Peter Philips
Bassano Pavan and Galliard
Parley of Instruments
6:42 a.m.
Antonio Valente
Galliarda napolitana
Daniel Hope, violin; and friends
6:45 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Two Nordic Melodies Opus 63
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:59 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast" in C major HWV 318
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto para una fiesta
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Sachio Fujioka, conductor Craig Ogden, guitar
7:43 a.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Michelle Cann, piano
7:50 a.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Andre Previn, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major K 451 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Alfred Brendel, piano
8:36 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 2 Opus 72
German Chamber Philharmonic; Daniel Harding, conductor
8:50 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Blue Danube Waltz Opus 314
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D major
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Adrian Boult, conductor
9:38 a.m.
Gunther Schuller
Suite for Wind Quintet: II. Blues
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
9:40 a.m.
Philip Glass
Symphony No. 3: Movement IV
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
9:45 a.m.
Tielmann Susato
Galliardes Nos. 2,11,9,4,7,10,3,15
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
9:56 a.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Gayne: Sabre Dance
Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra; Aleksander Lazarev (Lah-ZARR-reff), conductor
10:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in D major Opus 6
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Catherine Mackintosh, conductor Catherine Mackintosh, violin
10:12 a.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Peace
Anthony McGill, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano
10:16 a.m.
Maria Newman
String Quartet No. 2 "LAUDS": finale in F major Op. 35
Malibu Coast String Quartet
10:21 a.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 2 "The Four Temperaments" Opus 16
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
10:54 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
MAZEPPA: Gopak
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 1/5
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
11:09 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Gladiolus Rag
Lara Downes, piano
11:13 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Russian Rag
Sydney Alpha Ensemble; David Stanhope, conductor
11:18 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances Opus 45
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
11:53 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
African Suite: African Dance Opus 35/4
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
12:16 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 9
Emanuele Arciuli, piano
12:19 p.m.
R. Carlos Nakai
Winter Solstice
R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flute
12:25 p.m.
Bela Bartok
Romanian Folk Dances SZ 56
Les Violons du Roy; Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor
12:34 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:59 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 6/5 HWV 323
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Aram Khachaturian, conductor
1:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major HOB VIIb:1
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Heinrich Schiff, cello
1:50 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2: IV. Allegro con spirito in D major Opus 73
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in Eb major K 543
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
2:30 p.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
La Follette (Hobgoblin)
Assad Brothers Sergio Assad, guitar; Odair Assad, guitar
2:31 p.m.
Antonio Lauro
Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 "Natalia" (Vals Venezolano)
Xuefei Yang, guitar
2:34 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5: III. Scherzo in C# minor
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Gerd Seifert, horn
2:53 p.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro in D major
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
2:59 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor BWV 1058
Australian Chamber Orchestra Angela Hewitt, piano
3:14 p.m.
Vassili Kalinnikov
Symphony No. 1: II. Andante commodamente in G minor
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:23 p.m.
Franz Krommer
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 40
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor
3:52 p.m.
Malcolm Forsyth
Golyardes' Grounde
Canadian Brass
3:55 p.m.
Sonny Kompanek
Killer Tango
Canadian Brass
4:00 p.m.
Ernest Chausson
Symphony in Bb major Opus 20
Philharmonia Orchestra; Francesco d'Avalos, conductor
4:32 p.m.
Grace Williams
Hiraeth for Harp
Sandrine Chatron, harp
4:34 p.m.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Melody in Gb major Opus 16/2
Stephen Hough, piano
4:39 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
4:43 p.m.
Stewart Goodyear
The Kapok
iSing Silicon Valley; Jennah Delp Somers, conductor Inbal Segev, cello; Stewart Goodyear, piano
4:50 p.m.
Mikhail Glinka
Spanish Overture No. 2
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR Overture
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:11 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
I Solisti Italiani
5:20 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 4 in D minor Opus 120
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
5:51 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tsar's Bride overture
Kirov Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Opus 92/2
Munich Piano Trio
6:36 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro giocoso ma non troppo (Finale) in A minor Opus 53
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
6:38 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Danzas Paraguayas
David Russell, guitar
6:45 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
The Gadfly: Romance Opus 97
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
6:49 p.m.
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Two Serenades: No. 2: Serenade pour la vie (Serenade for Life)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Mikko Franck, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
6:56 p.m.
Leonid Desyatnikov
My Happiness
Gidon Kremer, violin; Vadim Sakharov, piano; Alois Posch, double-bass; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon
