Classical Music Playlist, August 5, 2025
Mozart was doing pretty well in his first years in Vienna up to about 1785. He was famous and mostly financially comfortable (except that he was a big spender); the city was full of generous patrons and a substantial music industry behind the scenes (publishers, etc) supported all the activity. But by the end of 1785 the scene started to look more grim as the Austro-Turkish War (1788-1791) seemed imminent and the aristocracy would have to shift their money to it and away from music patronage (they would also move themselves away from Vienna). Before things fell apart, Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 22 and there were still enough well funded music lovers to nearly sell out his subscription concerts for its premiere which was very well received (with an encore of the slow movement demanded). Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 14 in A major K 114
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
6:19 a.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 1 in G minor Opus 7
Royal Danish Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor
6:52 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Quartet No. 4 in G major
European Baroque Soloists
7:00 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6: I. Majestoso in A major
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:19 a.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia piccola" in G minor Opus 14
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ari Rasilainen, conductor
7:41 a.m.
ANONYMOUS
Carabanda
Chatham Baroque
7:43 a.m.
Marin Marais
Chaconne and Rondeau
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba; Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord; Thomas Boysen, baroque guitar; Pedro Estevan, percussion
7:50 a.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 32
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2: IV. Allegro con spirito in D major Opus 73
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major Opus 103
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
8:40 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Trio "Archduke": II. Scherzo in Bb major Opus 97
Esther Abrami Quintet Emanuel Ax, piano; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yo Yo Ma, cello
8:42 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Maxixe
Xuefei Yang, guitar
8:47 a.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 3 in C major Opus 32
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:36 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier I:01) in C major BWV 846
Angela Hewitt, piano
9:42 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 4 in Eb major K 495
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor Lowell Greer, natural horn
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Saul: Sinfonia HWV 53
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Trevor Pinnock, organ
10:17 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 3 in C major Opus 52
London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor
10:50 a.m.
Florence Price
"mini" Quintet for Piano and Strings in E minor
Catalyst Quartet Michelle Cann, piano
11:00 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite suite
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
11:14 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 1
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
11:30 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Opus 40
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Louis Lortie, conductor Louis Lortie, piano
11:52 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Overture (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Gustav Holst
Suite No. 1 in Eb major Opus 28
North Texas Wind Symphony; Eugene Corporon, conductor
12:12 p.m.
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Kristin Lee, violin; Jun Cho, piano
12:18 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata for Cello and Piano: II. Allegro scherzando in G minor Opus 19
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano
12:26 p.m.
Henry Purcell
THE FAIRY QUEEN Z 629
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor
12:51 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Overture
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Bear McCreary
Battlestar Galactica: The Shape of Things to Come
studio ensemble; Bear McCreary, conductor
1:15 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 11 in D major Opus 4/11 RV 204
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Monica Huggett, violin
1:22 p.m.
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
Symphony No. 1 in G minor
Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra; Jorge Rotter, conductor
1:50 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Overture Opus 10
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22 in Eb major K 482
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O'Conor, piano
2:34 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
2:44 p.m.
Manuel Ponce
Estrellita
Duo Sonidos
2:48 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 6
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
2:53 p.m.
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: Overture
Philharmonic of La Scala; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Anton Reicha
Wind Quintet No. 2 in Eb major Opus 88/2
Albert Schweitzer Quintet
3:26 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Zoltan Kocsis, piano
3:32 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
3:42 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Concert Waltz No. 1 (Valse de Concert) in D major Opus 47
Bamberg Symphony; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:52 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
THE KISS: Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex)
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Margaret Fingerhut, piano
4:08 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
4:40 p.m.
John Williams
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Raiders' March
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:46 p.m.
John Field
Piano Concerto No. 3: III. Rondo - Tempo di Polacca in Eb major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
5:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Summer (L'Estate) in G minor Opus 8 RV 315
...and friends Janine Jansen, violin
5:11 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations Opus 36
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor
5:41 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphonic Prelude in C minor
Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrusa, conductor Maria Duenas, violin
5:53 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 "Italian": IV. Saltarello (Presto) in A major Opus 90
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Serenade for Strings in E major Opus 22
Prague Philharmonia; Jakub Hrusa, conductor
6:30 p.m.
William Walton
Orb & Sceptre
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
6:38 p.m.
John Williams
The Cowboys: Overture
City of Prague Philharmonic; Paul Bateman, conductor
6:49 p.m.
Kevin Puts
Home
Conspirare; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor Mir� Quartet
6:55 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin: Gavotte en Rondeau in E major BWV 1006
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
