Classical Music Playlist, August 13, 2025
Richard Savino | photo: Sacramento State/Robert Neep
Mauro Giuliani began his music studies with the cello but soon discovered the guitar and mastered it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t very popular in his native Italy where opera was all the rage. So he toured throughout Europe and eventually settled in Vienna in his early 20s and through his performances, composing and teaching, became part of that city’s musical elite. Nearly alone he raised the esteem and popularity of the guitar. Giuliani’s Guitar Concerto No. 1, which he premiered in Vienna in 1808 when he was 26, is today’s Midday Masterpiece featuring Sacramento State professor of guitar Richard Savino as the soloist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra performing on period instruments.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 11 in D major Opus 8 RV 210
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin
6:12 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 40
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor
6:42 a.m.
Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Janine Jansen, violin; Itamar Golan, piano
6:46 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Andras Schiff, piano
7:01 a.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
7:18 a.m.
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 2 in E major Opus 10
Stockholm Sinfonietta; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Henry Purcell
Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune on a Ground
Parley of Instruments
7:50 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 3: III. Polonaise. Allegretto in F major Opus 70
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
7:59 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: IV. Finale. Allegro con brio in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
8:09 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K 478
Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Yo Yo Ma, cello
8:37 a.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Festival March
Latvian National Symphony; Terje Mikkelsen, conductor
8:41 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
March from Tsar Saltan Suite Opus 57
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
8:47 a.m.
Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes
Chicago Sinfonietta; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Philharmonia Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
9:37 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Marche fun�bre (Funeral March) in Bb minor Opus 35
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
9:48 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Autumn (L'Autunno) in F major Opus 8 RV 293
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor Christina Day Martinson, violin
10:00 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
10:11 a.m.
Howard Shore
The Forest: 3rd movement
National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Milos Karadaglic, guitar
10:19 a.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Symphony No. 2 "Fate" (Fatum) in D minor
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:48 a.m.
Benjamin Britten
Gloriana: Courtly Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Ludwig August Lebrun
Oboe Concerto No. 1 in D minor
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Paul Goodwin, oboe
11:20 a.m.
Philip Glass
Piano Quintet No. 1 "Annunciation" (Part 1)
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
11:32 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Symphony No. 2 in C major J 51
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre Opus 40
French Radio and Television Orchestra; Jean Martinon, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
12:11 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Spring in Buenos Aires (Primavera Portena)
David Tanenbaum, guitar
12:16 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor Opus 56
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
12:52 p.m.
Leon Minkus
Don Quixote: Grand pas de deux
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 "Rosamunde" in A minor Opus 29 D 804
Emerson String Quartet
1:46 p.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphonic Variations
Scottish National Orchestra; Andrew Penny, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
Portland Baroque Orchestra; Monica Huggett, conductor Richard Savino, guitar
2:31 p.m.
Sonny Kompanek
Killer Tango
Canadian Brass
2:35 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
2:41 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 4, No. 4 in A minor Opus 4/4 RV 357
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin
3:08 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Irish Symphony
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
3:43 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Elegy No. 1 Opus 17
Clara Rodriguez, piano
3:48 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR Overture
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
4:14 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
4:41 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana
BARTERED BRIDE: Dance of the Comedians
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture Opus 92
Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1: IV. Finale in C minor Opus 68
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
5:17 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ruins of Athens Overture Opus 113
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
5:22 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ruins of Athens: Turkish March Opus 113/4
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
5:25 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Opus 25
London Mozart Players; Jonathan Bloxham, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
5:46 p.m.
Michael Tilson Thomas
You Come Here Often?
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
5:59 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia expansiva" Opus 27
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Nadia Boulanger
Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Miriam K. Smith, cello; Sandra Wright Shen, piano
6:44 p.m.
Toumani Diabate; Nico Muhly, arr.; Ian Gardiner, arr.
Moon Kaira
London Symphony Orchestra Toumani Diabate, kora
6:51 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1: III. Moderato in D major Opus 19
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Klaus Makela, conductor Janine Jansen, violin
6:55 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
Danny Boy
Dave Brubeck, piano
