Classical Music Playlist, July 10, 2025
Carl Off in 1940 | photo by Hans Holdt [public domain in the US - Wikipedia]
"Carmina Burana" from 1936 by Carl Orff is a cantata with text based on 24 poems from a collection written in the 11th to 13th centuries titled "Carmina Burana." The poems Orff selected address worldly pleasures such as springtime and love, drinking and gambling, gluttony and lust. And Fate; the hour-long work begins and ends with "O Fortuna" about the goddess who spins the wheel of fate for men and gods that randomly assigns some with fortune and others misfortune. Carl Orff was born on this date in 1895 and we’re celebrating with his complete hour-long “Carmina Burana” for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Quintet in Eb major K 407
Quadriga Quartet Wilhelm Bruns, natural horn
6:15 a.m.
Theodore Dubois
Piano Concerto No. 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Manze, conductor Cedric Tiberghien, piano
6:44 a.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in F major
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor
6:53 a.m.
Johan Wagenaar
El Cid: overture Opus 27
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
6:59 a.m.
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Lute Concerto in D minor
Tempesta di Mare Richard Stone, lute
7:16 a.m.
Victor Ewald
Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 5
Center City Brass Quintet
7:30 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in F minor Opus 73
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
7:53 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Overture in A minor
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 for winds "Gran Partita": I. Largo - Allegro Molto in Bb major K 361 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor Opus 44
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
8:38 a.m.
John Williams
Summon the Heroes
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
8:46 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor Opus 104
London Symphony Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor Raphael Wallfisch, cello
9:41 a.m.
Josef Suk
Piano Trio: II. Andante in C minor Opus 2
Neave Trio
9:47 a.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Marosszek Dances
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
10:14 a.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 1
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Makela, conductor Xuefei Yang, guitar
10:20 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 3 in C minor Opus 19
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
10:50 a.m.
Giacomo Puccini
Preludio Sinfonico
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in G major K 525
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
11:19 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Easter Sonata in A major H235 Ostersonate
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
11:43 a.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
11:52 a.m.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Bagatelle No. 3 (from Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet)
Albert Schweitzer Quintet
11:55 a.m.
Aaron Jay Kernis
100 Greatest Dance Hits: II. Salsa Pasada
Escher Quartet Jason Vieaux, guitar
12:00 p.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Charles Dutoit, conductor
12:18 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major
Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ivan Fischer, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
12:37 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
ALMIRA: Suite of instrumental music
Berlin Academy of Ancient Music
12:53 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Opus 81
Takacs Quartet Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
1:41 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40: I. Molto Allegro in G minor K 550
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic; Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
1:49 p.m.
Albert Dietrich
Introduction and Romance Opus 27
Oldenburg State Orchestra (Oldenburgische Staatsorchester); Alexander Rumpf, conductor Marie-Louise Neunecker, horn
2:00 p.m.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor Philharmonia Chorus; Arleen Auger, soprano; Jonathan Summers, baritone; John van Kesteren, baritone
3:01 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria Variata in A minor BWV 989
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
3:16 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 2 Opus 72
German Chamber Philharmonic; Daniel Harding, conductor
3:30 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B minor Opus 33/1 HOB 3/37
Quatuor Mosaiques
3:54 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
March from Tsar Saltan Suite Opus 57
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 7
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Holly Mathieson, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
4:22 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
4:35 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Corbeille de fleurs
Alan Feinberg, piano
4:40 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
String Quartet: II. Allegro molto leggiero in E minor
Mannheim String Quartet
4:47 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Suite No. 2 in F major Opus 28
North Texas Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
London Classical Players; Roger Norrington, conductor
5:09 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 25 in G minor K 183
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
5:31 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (The tomb of Couperin)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
5:48 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in G minor BWV 1056
Amsterdam Bach Solisten; Thomas Zehetmair, conductor Thomas Zehetmair, violin
5:59 p.m.
Dave and Chris Brubeck
Ansel Adams: America
Temple University Symphony Orchestra; Luis Biava, conductor
6:23 p.m.
Chris Brubeck
Affinity: Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
Maryland Symphony Orchestra; Elisabeth Schulze, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:40 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Poetic Tone Pictures: III. In the Old Castle Opus 85/3
Antonin Kubalek, piano
6:45 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
Eugene List, piano
6:49 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Prelude & Cube: II. Cube
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; Brandenburg Choir; Paul Dyer, conductor
6:56 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Beautiful Evening (Beau soir)
Karen Dreyfus, viola; Robert McDonald, piano
