Classical Music Playlist, October 14, 2025
Sergei Prokofiev | Color by Klimbim (Olga Shirnina) who grants free use.
After Stalin’s cultural police banned Sergei Prokofiev’s 6th symphony as decadent, he wrote his 7th Symphony for Soviet Children’s Radio hoping it would be perceived as acceptable and awarded a hefty financial state prize. But now being older (in fact this was his final major composition), ill, and financially ruined by Soviet rejections, he composed his 7th Symphony in C-sharp-minor which tempers any intended fairy tale effervescence with a shadowy sense of melancholy. And, hoping it would help him win that state financial prize, for the premiere he added a very brief more cheerful ending which he hoped would never live on after the premiere or after his death. It didn’t help: he failed to win the financial prize. The original ending of the symphony presages his own death a year later with a “ticking down” rhythm like an unwinding clock that eventually just stops. That ending can be heard in recordings even with the added “happy” ending such as in today’s recording of the Prokofiev Symphony No. 7 for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Concerto No. 290 in G minor QV 196
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor Rachel Brown, flute
6:16 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 49 "La Passione" in F minor
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
6:42 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in G minor in G minor (1843) H395
Anna Shelest, piano
7:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto No. 1 (originally for violin) in A minor BWV 1041
Elias String Quartet Xuefei Yang, guitar
7:16 a.m.
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 in G minor Opus 26
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Jakub Hrusa, conductor Nicola Benedetti, violin
7:42 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop" in Db major Opus 28
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
7:48 a.m.
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique: V. Witches' Sabbath Opus 14
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Davis, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Richard Strauss
Serenade in Eb major Opus 7
Stockholm Philharmonic (members of); Paavo Berglund, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 54
Berlin Philharmonic; Mariss Jansons, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
8:41 a.m.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
March for the Turkish Ceremony
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
8:43 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Athalia: March of the Priests Opus 74
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:50 a.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Vassili Kalinnikov
Symphony No. 1 in G minor
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:38 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Soirees Musicales: II. Notturno Opus 6/2
Leanne Rees, piano
9:45 a.m.
Dobrinka Tabakova
Concerto for Cello and Strings: II. Longing
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Rysanov, conductor Kristina Blaumane, cello
9:54 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting) Opus 12
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Davis, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Louis Theodore Gouvy
Symphonie breve in G minor Opus 58
Saarbrucken Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacques Mercier, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon Duo Decimi Toni
Canadian Brass and friends
10:18 a.m.
Deadmau5
I Remember
Canadian Brass
10:25 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Cello sonata No. 1 in E minor Opus 38
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano
10:49 a.m.
Niels Gade
Hamlet Overture Opus 37
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Dmitri Kitayenko, conductor
11:01 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 12 in F major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
11:12 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Interrupted Intermezzo
Helsinki Philharmonic; Susanna Malkki, conductor
11:18 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K 466
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Richard Goode, piano
11:49 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Arturo Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
12:10 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for trumpet, violin and strings in D major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Friedemann Immer, Trumpet; Reinhard Goebel, violin
12:24 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
London Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Kondrashin, conductor Sviatoslav Richter, piano
12:46 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 4 in F major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
12:53 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Running Set
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; George Hurst, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in G major Opus 111
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
1:13 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons: June "Barcarolle" Opus 37
Bruce Liu, piano
1:19 p.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Flute Concerto in D minor H 426
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra; Janos Rolla, conductor Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
1:41 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 3
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 7 in C# minor Opus 131
Royal Scottish Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:32 p.m.
Grace Williams
Hiraeth for Harp
Sandrine Chatron, harp
2:34 p.m.
Leo Brouwer
Afro-Cuban Lullaby (Cancion de Cuna: Berceuse)
Pepe Romero, guitar
2:39 p.m.
Francesco Veracini
Overture No. 6 in G minor
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
2:51 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Nocturne (Notturno for Piano Trio) in Eb major Opus 148 D 897
Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio
3:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 3 "The Goldfinch" (Il Gardellino) in D major Opus 10 RV 428
Arion Claire Guimond, baroque flute
3:11 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Opus 34/14
Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Constantine Orbelian, conductor Nina Kotova, cello
3:19 p.m.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 17
Polish National Radio Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor Janina Fialkowska, piano
3:54 p.m.
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis: IV. March
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
4:00 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Bagatelles Opus 47
Takacs Quartet
4:17 p.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
4:39 p.m.
Madeleine Dring
Colour Suite: IV. Blue Air
Sarah Cahill, piano
4:42 p.m.
Aaron Jay Kernis
100 Greatest Dance Hits: II. Salsa Pasada
Escher Quartet Jason Vieaux, guitar
4:47 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D major: I. Allegro in D major BWV 972
Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrusa, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
5:01 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
German Chamber Philharmonic; Thomas Klug, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
5:17 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Marche fun�bre (Funeral March) in Bb minor Opus 35
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
5:27 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor Truls Mork, cello
5:47 p.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 5 "Neapolitan Scenes" (Scenes napolitaines)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Elias Parish Alvars
Harp Concerto in G minor in G minor Opus 81
Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra; Rossen Milanov, conductor Elizabeth Hainen, harp
6:31 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Ghost Variations Wo0 24
Igor Levit, piano
6:43 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Canzonetta for oboe and strings Opus 48
London Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor Julia Girdwood, oboe
6:52 p.m.
Frode Fjellheim
Under the Arctic Moon
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
6:55 p.m.
Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": VI. Mishima Closing
Kronos Quartet
