Classical Music Playlist, April 28, 2025
Danish composer Niels Gade circa 1850
A fortuitous delay in the premiere in Copenhagen of the Symphony No. 1 by Danish composer Niels Gade caused the manuscript to be sent to Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig where he was director of the respected Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Mendelssohn felt positively about the symphony and conducted its premiere in 1843 to enthusiastic public reaction. Gade soon moved to Leipzig where Mendelssohn (and Robert Schumann and others) became friends. Later, Gade conducted the premieres of what have remained important works to this day: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor and Robert Schumann's piano Concerto (with Clara Schumann as the soloist). Schumann also praised Gade in a long article as an exceptional talent and noted that the four letters of his name were those of the four strings of the violin. Gade's folk song inspired Symphony No. 1 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Henri-Joseph Rigel
Symphony No. 10 in D minor
Concerto Koln
6:16 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Opus 15
Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Yo Yo Ma, cello
6:48 a.m.
Hildur Gudnadottir
Chernobyl: Vichnaya Pamyat Memory Eternal
Homin Lviv Municipal Choir
6:53 a.m.
Claude Champagne
Rustic Dance (Dance Villageoise)
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Yoav Talmi, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in G minor BWV 1056
Amsterdam Bach Solisten; Thomas Zehetmair, conductor Thomas Zehetmair, violin
7:10 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 96 "Miracle" in D major HOB I:96
Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Fey, conductor
7:37 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Marche fun�bre (Funeral March) in Bb minor Opus 35
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
7:47 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
The Seasons: Autumn Opus 67
Minnesota Orchestra; Edo de Waart, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
8:17 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
8:41 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Quintet: III. Juba in A minor
Takacs Quartet Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
8:45 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture Opus 81
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22 in Eb major K 482
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor Sviatoslav Richter, piano
9:36 a.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Scherzo in Bb major
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
9:40 a.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 1
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Makela, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
9:46 a.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
10:00 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Nonette in E-flat: I. Adagio - Allegro in Eb major Opus 38
Minerva Chamber Ensemble; Kevin Geraldi, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Fantasy in B minor Opus 28
Oda Voltersvik, Piano
10:24 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet No. 12 "American" in F major Opus 96
Cypress String Quartet
10:50 a.m.
Michael Torke
Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Opus 18
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
11:32 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals de Primavera
David Russell, guitar
11:37 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in A minor Opus 6/4 HWV 322
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Lullaby (Berceuse) & Finale L'Oiseau de feu
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Dolly Suite Opus 56
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
12:18 p.m.
William Grant Still
Summerland
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
12:22 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
12:28 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
12:49 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
DIE FLEDERMAUS Overture (The Bat)
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra; Joseph Francek, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
1:17 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin The tomb of Couperin
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
1:36 p.m.
Mel Bonis
Suite in the Ancient Style Opus 127
Members of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony
1:50 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 1 in C minor Opus 5
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
2:32 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G minor in G minor Opus 23
Yuja Wang, piano
2:37 p.m.
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Lute Concerto in D minor
Tempesta di Mare Richard Stone, lute
2:53 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 3 in Ab major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in E minor Opus 11
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
3:10 p.m.
John Dowland
Queen Elizabeth's Galliard P 41
Nigel North, lute
3:11 p.m.
Gerald Finzi
Romance in Eb major Opus 11
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
3:19 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 "Linz" in C major K 425
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Hans Zimmer
The Frozen Planet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
3:59 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in F minor Opus 73
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
4:21 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Silito, conductor Alexandre Lagoya, guitar
4:26 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
MASS IN B MINOR: Cum Sancto Spiritu in B minor BWV 232
English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
4:31 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Fantasy Scenes
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa, conductor
4:43 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Alexander Arutiunian
Trumpet Concerto
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Lawrence Renes, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
5:16 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphonic Variations Opus 78
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
5:40 p.m.
Jose Moncayo
Sinfonietta
Mexico National Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Arturo Diemecke, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Scottish March (Marche Ecossaise)
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello & orchestra in C major Opus 56
Philharmonia Orchestra; Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Nicola Benedetti, violin; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
6:35 p.m.
Frederick Delius
Late Swallows
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Norman Del Mar, conductor
6:45 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Serenata in Vano
Athena Ensemble
6:53 p.m.
Hania Rani; Dobrawa Czocher
Con Moto
Hania Rani, piano; Dobrawa Czocher, cello
