Classical Music Playlist, July 22, 2025
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Eventually known as one of Sweden’s greatest pianists, in his professional debut season Wilhelm Stenhammar performed the monumental 4-movement Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1. The next year (1893) Stenhammar composed his own monumental 4-movement Piano Concerto No. 1 at age 23 and performed it with great success for about 15 years before he composed his Concerto No. 2 (which he didn’t perform as much because he had turned his career focus to conducting). That 45-minute Piano Concerto No. 1 by Wilhelm Stenhammar is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 13 in Eb major Opus 27/1
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
6:18 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 2 in G major Opus 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
6:44 a.m.
Tielmann Susato
Galliardes Nos. 2,11,9,4,7,10,3,15
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
6:55 a.m.
Frederick Delius
KOANGA: La Calinda
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Sinfonia in F minor
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Manuel de Falla
Three-Cornered Hat Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
7:33 a.m.
Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9
Scottish National Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor
7:43 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Concerto for Mandolin in G major
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor Avi Avital, mandolin
8:00 a.m.
Henry Litolff
Concerto Symphonique No. 4: II. Scherzo Opus 102
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
8:08 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
8:35 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: IV. From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows
Janacek Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
8:48 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G minor in G minor Opus 23
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
8:52 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Church Windows: II. Saint Michael the Archangel
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 2 (Symphonic Suite) "Antar" Opus 9
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:34 a.m.
Frederick Delius
In a Summer Garden
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
9:51 a.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G major Opus 6/1 HWV 319
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
10:12 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
10:14 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO: Va, pensiero
Academy of Saint Cecilia Orchestra; Carlo Rizzi, conductor Academy of St. Ceclia Chorus
10:19 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Sextet in D major Opus 110
Bartholdy Quartett and friends
10:51 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Farewell of the Guests/Waltz Opus 20
New York Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Egmont Overture Opus 84
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
11:08 a.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphony No. 3 "English" in C major
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Matthias Bamert, conductor
11:44 a.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: VI. Coqueteos
Del Sol String Quartet
11:47 a.m.
Andrew York
Sunburst
Jason Vieaux, guitar
11:53 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
12:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 1: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in F major Opus 88
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
12:12 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Sr.
Radetzky March Opus 228
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor
12:17 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 18 in Bb major K 456
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
12:48 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Josef Suk
Serenade for Strings in Eb major Opus 6
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
1:25 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Das Jahr (The Year): 9. September: At the River
Anna Shelest, piano
1:29 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Romance Opus 36
Hermann Baumann, horn; Reiko Honsho, piano
1:33 p.m.
Alessandro Scarlatti
Sonata (Concerto No. 9) for Recorder in A minor
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor Petr Zejfart, recorder
1:45 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 1 in D major Opus 45
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Sergiu Commissiona, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 1
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Manze, conductor Seta Tanyel, piano
2:46 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Opus 15
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Karina Canellakis, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
2:55 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
3:00 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture Opus 36
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
3:15 p.m.
John Williams
STAR WARS - ATTACK OF THE CLONES: Across the Stars (Love Theme)
London Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
3:22 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 21 "Waldstein" in C major Opus 53
Stewart Goodyear, piano
3:47 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Autumn (L'Autunno) in F major Opus 8/3 RV 293
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Jeanne Lamon, violin
3:59 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
German Chamber Philharmonic; Thomas Klug, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
4:18 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
4:40 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Deep River
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
4:44 p.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four Folk Songs: III. Serenata
Claremont Trio
4:50 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Iberia: Festival Day in Seville (Fete-Dieu a Seville)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior! Opus 13
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:14 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K 491
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O'Conor, piano
5:44 p.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in G minor
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
5:52 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
FIDELIO Overture Opus 72
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Louis Theodore Gouvy
Symphony No. 4 in D minor Opus 25
Saarbrucken Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacques Mercier, conductor
6:28 p.m.
Ferenc Farkas
Old Hungarian Dances
Vienna Quintet
6:38 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song without Words for cello and piano Opus 109
Haruma Sato, cello; Wataru Hisasue, piano
6:42 p.m.
Michael Nyman
In Re Don Giovanni
La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin
6:46 p.m.
Miguel Llobet
Six Catalan Folk Songs
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
6:53 p.m.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Aqua
Ryuichi Sakamoto
