Classical Music Playlist, December 10, 2025
Composer Ottorino Respighi in 1903
In 1919 Ottorino Respighi wrote music for a new one-act ballet by orchestrating short piano pieces written late in life by Gioachino Rossini (about 60 years before). The resulting ballet numbers included a Tarantella, Mazurka, Can-Can, Waltz and more. The ballet premiered in June of 1919, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Léonide Massine. Respighi’s music for “The Fantastic Toyshop” is today's Midday Masterpiece
6:00 a.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in C minor Opus 2/5
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
6:10 a.m.
Carl Reinecke
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Opus 144
Sinfonieorchester St Gallen; Modestas Pitr�nas, conductor SImon Callaghan, piano
6:46 a.m.
Sebastian Iradier
La Paloma the dove
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
6:49 a.m.
Mykola Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Los Romeros; Concerto Malaga
6:51 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 16 in Ab major Opus 72
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Louis Theodore Gouvy
Symphonie breve in G minor Opus 58
Saarbrucken Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacques Mercier, conductor
7:15 a.m.
Antonio Rosetti
Concerto for Horn No. 2 in Eb major C 49
Prague Chamber Orchestra Radek Baborak, horn
7:36 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Africa-Fantasie Opus 89
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor Laura Mikkola, piano
7:47 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for diverse instruments in C major RV 558
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
BARTERED BRIDE: Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
8:07 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major Opus 92
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
8:47 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin: Gavotte en Rondeau in E major BWV 1006
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
8:51 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Overture (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in Eb major Opus 70
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:26 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Wood Dove (Die Waldtaube) Opus 110
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
9:46 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Vernon Handley, conductor
9:51 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro Scherzando in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
10:00 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:10 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Estrellita
Duo Sonidos
10:13 a.m.
Paulinho Nogueira
Bachianinha No. 1
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
10:18 a.m.
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 54
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor Martha Argerich, piano
10:49 a.m.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Overture
Polish National Radio Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 3 in C major Opus 32
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:36 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Scherzo No. 2 in C minor in C minor Opus 14
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
11:42 a.m.
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 12 (Quartet Movement) in C minor D 703
Emerson String Quartet
11:52 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams": III. Scherzo in G minor Opus 13
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
12:14 p.m.
Tomas Luis de Victoria
O Magnum Mysterium
Chanticleer
12:18 p.m.
Mateo Flecha
Riu, riu, chiu
stile antico
12:23 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 100 "Military" in G major
Philharmonia Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
12:46 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
12:59 p.m.
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
1:19 p.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Prelude in C Sharp Major
Alice Sara Ott, piano
1:22 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Five Negro Melodies: 2. I was way down a-yonder
Neave Trio
1:26 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Henning Kraggerud, violin
1:53 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 6: III. Intermezzo in C minor Opus 58
Bamberg Symphony; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
The Fantastic Toyshop (La Boutique Fantasque)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
2:43 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Merry-Go-Round of Life (from Howl's Moving Castle)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Joe Hisaishi, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
2:47 p.m.
Franz Berwald
Concert Piece in F major Opus 2
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
2:59 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": I. Allegro ma non troppo in F major Opus 68
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
3:11 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
3:31 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
El la don don (Basque carol)
Chanticleer; Joseph Jennings, conductor And various soloists
3:33 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
Sussex Carol
; Stephen Cleobury, conductor King's College Choir, Cambridge; Benjamin Bayl, organ
3:36 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Piano Concerto No. 2 in Eb major Opus 32
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Peter Rosel, piano
4:00 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
German Chamber Philharmonic; Thomas Klug, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
4:16 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphonic Variations Opus 78
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:38 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
4:52 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Running Set
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; James Judd, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
5:17 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
Medley of Christmas Carols
Empire Brass
5:22 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 10 (for two pianos) in Eb major K 365
English Chamber Orchestra; Murray Perahia, conductor Murray Perahia, piano; Radu Lupu, piano
5:47 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
WILLIAM TELL: Overture (GUILLAUME TELL)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Holiday Programming
A Chanticleer Christmas PART 1
Melissa Ousley, host
6:24 p.m.
Holiday Programming
A Chanticleer Christmas PART 2
Melissa Ousley, host
