Classical Music Playlist, February 5, 2026
The Hanover Square Rooms, London, where the chandelier was originally thought to have fallen.
Imagine you’re at the London premiere of a new symphony by Haydn in February, 1795. The symphony ends and so you and other audience members rush from your seats up to the stage to applaud the composer Franz Joseph Haydn. And just then a chandelier falls from the ceiling right where you were sitting. But, with everyone out of their seats, no one was injured and everyone calls it a miracle. Newspaper accounts from the time confirm it did happen, but the “miracle” somehow got attached to Haydn’s Symphony No. 96. It actually happened during the premiere of Haydn’s Symphony No. 102, today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for flute and strings in D major
Berlin Baroque Soloists; Rainer Kussmaul, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
6:13 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Piano Quintet in G minor Opus 1
Catalyst Quartet Stewart Goodyear, piano
6:40 a.m.
Giacomo Puccini
Capriccio Sinfonico
Philharmonic of La Scala; Riccardo Muti, conductor
6:54 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 14 in Bb major Opus 72
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1053
Hamburg Camerata; Ralf Gothoni, conductor Anastasia Injushina, piano
7:20 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
March from Tsar Saltan Suite Opus 57
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
7:25 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:29 a.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major Opus 99
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
7:50 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major HWV 349
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
8:00 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
LA CENERENTOLA: Overture "Cinderella"
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
8:09 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 45 "Farewell" in F# minor
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
8:35 a.m.
John Bull
Galliard
Alan Feinberg, piano
8:38 a.m.
Francesco Tristano
On John Bull's Galliard In D
Basel Chamber Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Francesco Tristano, piano
8:42 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin The tomb of Couperin
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Opus 15
Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Yo Yo Ma, cello
9:33 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D major: I. Allegro in D major BWV 972
Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrusa, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
9:47 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Violin and 3 Horns in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Hermann Baumann, horn; Timothy Brown, horn; Nicholas Hill, horn
10:00 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: I. Vysehrad
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
10:16 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Giga
Horst Klee, guitar
10:18 a.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Concert Waltz Opus 90
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
10:25 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 2 in G major Opus 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
10:51 a.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
10:59 a.m.
Theodore Dubois
Quintet for piano, oboe and strings in F major
Trio Hochelaga Philippe Magnan, oboe; Jean-Luc Plourde, viola
11:29 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
The Bees (Las Abejas)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
11:31 a.m.
Henriette Renie
Dance of the Elves (Danse des Lutins)
Xavier de Maistre, harp
11:36 a.m.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Symphony in G Major in G major
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
11:51 a.m.
Elmer Bernstein
The Magnificent Seven
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
11:58 a.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphonic Variations
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Adrian Boult, conductor
12:13 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 12
Connor Chee, piano
12:16 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Fields of Wonder: 6. New Moon
Cantus
12:20 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3 in G minor Opus 36
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
12:52 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Children's March "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor Arts District Chorale
1:00 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Comedy Overture
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
1:15 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major Opus 102
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
1:35 p.m.
Traditional Japanese
Sakura sakura cherry blossom
Xuefei Yang, guitar
1:42 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for three violins in D major BWV 1064R
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Petra Mullejans, violin; Gottfried von der Goltz, violin; Anne Katharina Schreiber, violin
2:00 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 102 in Bb major
Philharmonia Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Matthias Feile, cello
2:25 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 20: IV. Rondo in A major D 959
Paul Lewis, piano
2:39 p.m.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Allemande No. 1 (from the First Book for Harpsichord)
Assad Brothers Sergio Assad, guitar; Odair Assad, guitar
2:43 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 11 in D major Opus 4/11 RV 204
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin; Micaela Comberti, violin; Jane Coe, cello
2:51 p.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Symphony No. 3 "Ilya Muromets": III. At the Court of Vladimir the Mighty Sun in B minor Opus 42
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
3:00 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 3 in G major Opus 3/3 HWV 314
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
3:08 p.m.
Anthony Holborne
Fantasia for Lute No. 3
Ronn McFarlane, lute
3:10 p.m.
Juanjo Mosalini
Toma, Toca (Take it, Play it)
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor Juanjo Mosalini, bandoneon
3:15 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 4 "Inextinguishable" Opus 29
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Fabio Luisi, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Danse Slav (from Le Roi Malgre Lui)
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16
Berlin Philharmonic; Mariss Jansons, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:29 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin: Gavotte en Rondeau in E major BWV 1006
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
4:33 p.m.
John C. Williams
Aeolian Suite: Double Dance
Studio Orchestra; William Goodchild, conductor John Williams, guitar
4:36 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 2 Opus 72
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement in D major
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Helsinki Philharmonic; Okko Kamu, conductor
5:16 p.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon XIV
Empire Brass
5:20 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major HWV 348
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
5:49 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Outdoor Overture
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Anton Arensky
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Opus 32
Beaux Arts Trio
6:32 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Mark Ermler, conductor
6:42 p.m.
Michael Daugherty
Once Upon A Castle: Neptune Pool
The Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Paul Jacobs, organ
6:50 p.m.
John Rutter
Lullaby for Ana Gwen
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
6:54 p.m.
Pat Metheny
Last Train Home (Prelude)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
