Classical Music Playlist, December 3, 2025
Composed the year after his "Rhapsody In Blue," George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F was, at the time, called a "jazz concerto" by critics and audiences. Indeed, with its Charleston rhythm, blues nocturne, sonata form and classical rondo, Gershwin brought together the two worlds of classical and jazz. And it premiered 100 years ago today! Gershwin was the soloist at Carnegie Hall on December 3rd, 1925 and the performance was a triumph. It’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Platee: Suite
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
6:19 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
Bassoon Concerto
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Karen Geoghegan, bassoon
6:38 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Impromptu No. 4 in F minor Opus 142 D 935
Murray Perahia, piano
6:46 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
7:01 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3: III. Finale - Alla breve in D minor
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
7:16 a.m.
Friedrich Witt
Concerto for Two Horns and Orchestra (No. 3) in F major
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Jacek Muzyk, horn; Daniel Kerdelewicz, horn
7:35 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior! Opus 13
Royal Scottish Orchestra; Petter Sundkvist, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Michael Torke
Bright Blue Music
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA: Dance of the Hours
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 15 in Bb major K 450
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
8:38 a.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: III. Bambuco
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
8:41 a.m.
Joe Hisaishi
A Town with an Ocean View (from Kiki's Delivery Service)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Joe Hisaishi, conductor
8:48 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Violin Concerto: III. Rondo - Allegro in D major Opus 61
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor Janine Jansen, violin
8:59 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
German Chamber Philharmonic; Thomas Klug, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
9:19 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Berlin Philharmonic; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
9:38 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
9:49 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Phaeton - Symphonic Poem Opus 39
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Fredrich Ernst Fesca
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 10
NDR Radio Philharmonic Hanover; Frank Beermann, conductor
10:27 a.m.
Florence Price
Fantasie Negre (No. 1) in E minor
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
10:39 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Saxophone Concerto in Eb major Opus 109
Russian National Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor Marc Chisson, alto saxophone
10:55 a.m.
Karen LeFrak
Miami Concerto: I. Bailamos
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Enrico Lopez-Ya�ez, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
11:02 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Concerto No. 3 in B minor Opus 89
English Chamber Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
11:39 a.m.
Amy Beach
Pastorale
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
11:44 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Iberia: Triana
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
11:50 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture Opus 101
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
12:01 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 trumpets in C major RV 537
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
12:12 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
St. Anthony Variations in Bb major Opus 56
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
12:33 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G minor in G minor Opus 23
Yuja Wang, piano
12:36 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Allegro in F major Opus 102
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
12:47 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
1:00 p.m.
John Ireland
Epic March
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" in G major
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
1:40 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
String Quartet: II. Assez vif. Tres Rythme in F major
Verona String Quartet
1:49 p.m.
Yoko Shimomura
Valse Di Fantastica
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Esther Abrami, violin
1:53 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade: Waltz
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
2:00 p.m.
George Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F major
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
2:33 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Maxixe
Xuefei Yang, guitar
2:36 p.m.
Arthur Benjamin
Jamaican Rumba
Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra; Yasuo Shinozaki, conductor Matthew Trusler, violin
2:41 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Sarah Cahill, piano
2:50 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Artist's Life Opus 316 Kunstlerleben
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 1 for four violins and orchestra in D major Opus 3 RV 549
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor Members of...
3:11 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3 in G minor Opus 36
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
3:45 p.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Asturias (Leyenda) - from "Suite Espanola" Opus 47
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
3:55 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Waltz from Act I
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
4:01 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 6: III. Scherzo (Furiant) in D major Opus 60
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:13 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
4:39 p.m.
Gustav Holst
St. Paul's Suite Opus 29/2
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
4:55 p.m.
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon: Overture
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor
5:01 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Opus 37
Staatskapelle Dresden; Hans Vonk, conductor Christian Zacharias, piano
5:37 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
5:43 p.m.
Xavier Dubois Foley
Shelter Island
Randall Goosby, violin; Xavier Dubois Foley, double bass
5:50 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 in D major
Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Serenade in F major Opus 31
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:34 p.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Piano Quintet No. 1: III. Scherzo in F major Opus 69
Carpe Diem String Quartet David Korevaar, piano
6:40 p.m.
Cesar Franck
Symphony: II. Allegretto in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Monteux, conductor
6:52 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Solace
Lara Downes, piano; Joe Brent, vihuela
