Classical Music Playlist, April 21, 2026
Music writers have called Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C-minor his greatest ever and even THE greatest piano concerto ever written. One of only two piano concertos Mozart wrote in a minor key, Beethoven admired it and may have influenced his own Piano Concerto No. 3, also in C-minor, and Brahms referred to it as a "masterpiece of art and full of inspired ideas" and composed his own cadenza for the first movement. With the late Alfred Brendel [1931-2025] as the soloist, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in F major Opus 1/1
Raglan Baroque Players; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
6:08 a.m.
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor
Saint Cecilia Chamber Orchestra; Pietro Spada, conductor Pietro Spada, piano
6:35 a.m.
Traditional Japanese
Sakura sakura cherry blossom
Xuefei Yang, guitar
6:42 a.m.
Jules Massenet
Suite No. 4 "Picturesque Scenes" (Scenes pittoresques)
Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in E minor in E minor RV 484
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Milan Turkovich, bassoon
7:12 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 7
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Holly Mathieson, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
7:35 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus No. 9 BWV 1080
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
7:37 a.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 5 "Andaluza"
Maria Duenas, violin; Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
7:43 a.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor": III. Rondo in Eb major Opus 73
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Kurt Sanderling, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
8:10 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in Bb major D 485
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
8:39 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE MAGIC FLUTE: Overture (Die Zauberflote) K 620
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
8:47 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 3 trumpets in Bb major TWV 44:43
English Chamber Orchestra; Raymond Leppard, conductor Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
8:59 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orchestral Suite "Mozartiana" in G major Opus 61
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:25 a.m.
Caroline Shaw
Microfictions [volume 1]: I. Under the hot sun...
Mir� Quartet
9:28 a.m.
Pat Metheny
Last Train Home (Prelude)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
9:33 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
String Quartet No. 2 in G major Opus 153
Quatuor Viotti
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 9 in F major Opus 6/9 HWV 327
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Richard Wagner
GOTTERDAMMERUNG: Siegfried's Funeral Music
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
10:29 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 22 "The Philosopher" in Eb major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
10:49 a.m.
Enrique Granados
La Maja de Goya
Christopher Parkening, guitar
10:54 a.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Piano Quintet No. 1: III. Scherzo in F major Opus 69
Carpe Diem String Quartet David Korevaar, piano
10:59 a.m.
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Concerto in B minor
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor Rachel Brown, flute
11:14 a.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Prelude in C Sharp Major
Alice Sara Ott, piano
11:17 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Re-Inventions: Re-Invention No. 1
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor
11:23 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" in B minor D 759
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra; Sandor Vegh, conductor
11:49 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
DER FREISCHUTZ: Overture Opus 77 J 277
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor BWV 1060
Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood, conductor Stephen Hammer, oboe; Catherine Mackintosh, violin
12:14 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
The Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Nicola Benedetti, violin; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
12:17 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Cleveland Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, conductor
12:24 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
12:49 p.m.
Stanislaw Moniuszko
FLIS (The Raftsman): Overture
Warsaw Philharmonic; Antoni Wit, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol Opus 34
London Symphony Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
1:17 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in C minor Opus 2/5
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
1:28 p.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major Opus 30
English Chamber Orchestra; George Malcolm, conductor Eduardo Fernandez, guitar
1:52 p.m.
Leon Minkus
Don Quixote: Grand pas de deux
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K 491 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Alfred Brendel, piano
2:30 p.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 10 "Triste"
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
2:36 p.m.
Michel Mazuel
Orchestral Suite in G major
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
2:49 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro vivacissimo (Finale) in D major Opus 35
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor Henryk Szeryng, violin
3:00 p.m.
Catrin Finch
Celtic Concerto
Sinfonia Cymru; John Rutter, conductor Catrin Finch, harp
3:14 p.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Butterflying
Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano
3:18 p.m.
David Pritchard
Stairs
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
3:23 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Opus 64
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
3:48 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Concert Waltz No. 2 (Valse de Concert) Opus 51
Bamberg Symphony; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:59 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Occasional Suite in D major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
4:15 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HOB 18:11
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
4:34 p.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in A minor Opus 199
Brasil Guitar Duo
4:40 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E minor in E minor BWV 855
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
4:44 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3 Opus 72
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
4:58 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE: Overture (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor
5:06 p.m.
Joaquin Turina
Bullfighter's Prayer (Oracion del Torero) Opus 34
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
5:15 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Symphony No. 4 "Stockholm" (Holmia) in A major
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
5:40 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Philharmonia Orchestra; Giuseppi Sinopoli, conductor Mischa Maisky, cello
5:59 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Roman Festivals (Feste Romane)
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
6:24 p.m.
Peter Hope
Momentum Suite
Northern Sinfonia of England; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Flute Concerto: I. Allegro con Fermezza
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
6:51 p.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Folias Italianas Despacio
Richard Savino, guitar
