Classical Music Playlist, April 22, 2026
Richard Strauss at age 36 in early 1901.
Richard Strauss composed his F-minor second symphony between 18 and 20 years old. Its world premiere in New York City in December 1884 was the first music of Richard Strauss ever performed in America. After its European premiere the next year, the symphony and Strauss were quite in vogue in Germany and put the young composer on the map. Though he remained proud of it — with later reservations of his youthful inexperience but continued to conduct the symphony into his later years — he soon abandoned the symphonic form and moved onto his tone poems such as Don Juan. The early Symphony in F-minor by Richard Strauss is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Henry Purcell
Bonduca Suite
Parley of Instruments Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet
6:14 a.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
6:44 a.m.
Xuefei Yang
Xinjiang Fantasy
Xuefei Yang, guitar
6:50 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
EURYANTHE Overture Opus 81 J 291
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Franz Biber
Battalia � 10
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Sonata in G minor
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
7:32 a.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
7:46 a.m.
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: II. The Moldau (Vltava)
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; Libor Pesek, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 2
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
8:19 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1053
Australian Chamber Orchestra Angela Hewitt, piano
8:40 a.m.
Kevin Puts
Home
Conspirare; Craig Hella Johnson, conductor Mir� Quartet
8:48 a.m.
Joseph Kraus
AFVENTYRAREN: Overture VB 32 The Adventurer
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra; Aapo Hakkinen, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
9:34 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9: II. Scherzo in D minor WAB 109
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
9:46 a.m.
Johann Christian Bach
Sinfonia, Op. 6, No. 3 in Eb major Opus 6/3
Camerata Budapest; Hanspeter Gmur, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Virgil Thomson
Louisiana Story: Acadian Songs and Dances
New London Orchestra; Ronald Corp, conductor
10:15 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
Espana: No. 5 "Capriccio Catalan" Opus 165
Jason Vieaux, guitar
10:19 a.m.
Dag Wiren
Concert Overture No. 2 Opus 16
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
10:25 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major K 175
English Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Tate, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
10:48 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
John Field Suite
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
11:21 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Grand Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in F major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
11:46 a.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes: I. Singing River
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
11:53 a.m.
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Himari, violin; Chelsea Wang, piano
12:01 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mandolin (Violin) Concerto No. 1 in A minor BWV 1041
Potsdam Chamber Acadamy Avi Avital, mandolin
12:15 p.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Espana (Spanish Rhapsodie)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:21 p.m.
Georges Bizet
CARMEN: Toreador song
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
12:24 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphonic Variations Opus 78
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
12:49 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Symphony No. 4: IV. Finale in F major Opus 31
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Capriccio No. 1 in D major Z 182
Bern Camerata; Alexander van Wijnkoop, conductor
1:15 p.m.
Sonny Kompanek
Killer Tango
Canadian Brass
1:19 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Petite Suite de Concert: IV. La tarantelle fretillante Opus 77/4 wriggling
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
1:23 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 1 in D minor G 445
Artaria Quartet Richard Savino, guitar
1:51 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement in D major
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Symphony (No. 2) in F minor Opus 12 TrV 126
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:41 p.m.
Alberto Ginastera
Impressions of the Puna (Impresiones de la Puna)
Shanghai String Quartet Eugenia Zukerman, flute
2:49 p.m.
Michael Torke
Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor
3:15 p.m.
Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter Orchestra; Lorenz Dangel, conductor
3:23 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations Opus 36
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Overture K 492
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Christian Baldini, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Alfredo Casella
Italia: IV. Finale (Allegro molto vivace...) Opus 11
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
4:07 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor Opus 56
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:42 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Fall in Buenos Aires (Otono Porteno)
David Tanenbaum, guitar
4:47 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Staatskapelle Berlin; Otmar Suitner, conductor
4:52 p.m.
John Field
Rondo for piano & strings in Ab major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
5:00 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Janacek Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
5:15 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in G minor Opus 43
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
5:39 p.m.
William Grant Still
Romance
Sierra Winds Felix Viscuglia, alto saxophone; Carol Urban-Silvers, piano
5:43 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Studio Orchestra; William Goodchild, conductor John Williams, guitar
5:49 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Invitation to the Dance Opus 65
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581
Aston Magna Eric Hoeprich, basset clarinet
6:32 p.m.
William Schuman
New England Triptych: Chester
The President's Own U.S. Marine Band; Lt. Col. Jason K. Fettig, conductor
6:39 p.m.
Anatol Liadov
Berceuse in Gb major Opus 24/2
Stephen Coombs, piano
6:44 p.m.
Amy Beach
Scottish Legend Opus 54/1
Alan Feinberg, piano
6:48 p.m.
Andrew York
Quiccan
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
6:54 p.m.
David Bowie
Where Are We Now?
BBC Concert Orchestra; Richard Balcombe, conductor Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone; Ben Dawson, piano; John Harle, bass guitar
