Classical Music Playlist, May 27, 2026
Mozart’s String Quintets have been called his finest chamber music. No. 4 in g-minor is dark and dramatic, full of “inconsolable sorrow,” as Tchaikovsky said, until the music finally breaks out of the dark and into a sunny G-major conclusion. Enjoy this beautiful trip through lament and resignation to hope and optimism for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Guillaume Dumanoir
Orchestral Suite in F major
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
6:13 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Trio for clarinet, viola and piano "Kegelstatt" in Eb major K 498
Martin Frost, clarinet; Antoine Tamestit, viola; Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
6:33 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
New Queen's Hall Orchestra; Barry Wordsworth, conductor
6:47 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture Opus 32
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertino Opus 107
Residentie Orkest Den Haag; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Sharon Bezaly, flute
7:08 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Concert Rondo "Krakowiak" in F major Opus 14
Warsaw Philharmonic; Kazimierz Kord, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano
7:23 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
7:45 a.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR: Polovetsian Dances
Bavarian Radio Symphony & Chorus; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso "La Follia" in D minor
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
8:11 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Opus 18
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
8:43 a.m.
Adriano Banchieri
Concerti 1-3
Empire Brass
8:49 a.m.
Scott Joplin
Gladiolus Rag
Lara Downes, piano
8:54 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Studio Orchestra; William Goodchild, conductor John Williams, guitar
9:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Serenade for Strings in E major Opus 22
Prague Philharmonia; Jakub Hrusa, conductor
9:31 a.m.
Alfredo Catalani
Ero e Leandro (Hero and Leander) - Symphonic Poem
Rome Symphony Orchestra; Francesco La Vecchia, conductor
9:51 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
NABUCCO Overture (Sinfonia)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Downes, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in Bb major BWV 1051
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra; Jorge Rotter, conductor
10:45 a.m.
Isaac Albeniz
La Vega
London Symphony Orchestra; Elmer Bernstein, conductor Christopher Parkening, guitar
11:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major K 453
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
11:32 a.m.
Huang Tzu
Plum blossoms in the snow
Xuefei Yang, guitar
11:34 a.m.
Francesco Tristano
Toccata
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Francesco Tristano, piano
11:41 a.m.
Richard Strauss
Serenade in Eb major Opus 7
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
11:52 a.m.
Yoko Shimomura
Valse Di Fantastica
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Esther Abrami, violin
11:56 a.m.
Felipe Villanueva
Poetic Waltz (Vals Poetico)
State of Mexico Symphony; Enrique Batiz, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in G major Opus 111
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
12:14 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 1 "La Tempesta di Mare" (The Storm at Sea) in F major Opus 10 RV 433
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Lisa Beznosiuk, flute
12:22 p.m.
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 5 in D minor Opus 25
Stockholm Sinfonietta; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Roland Pontinen, piano
12:49 p.m.
Aaron Jay Kernis
100 Greatest Dance Hits: II. Salsa Pasada
Escher Quartet Jason Vieaux, guitar
12:53 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Polonaise from Act III
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
12:58 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 "Oxford" in G major
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
1:24 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Scarf Dance Opus 37b/2
Anna Shelest, piano
1:26 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Piano Trio: III. Scherzo. Presto con brio in D minor
Neave Trio
1:32 p.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
1:50 p.m.
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in E major Opus 7/11
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 4 in G minor K 516
Nash Ensemble w/ Philip Dukes Philip Dukes, viola
2:38 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Opus 46
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
2:55 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Andante for Horn Op. Posth. in C major AV 86a
Barry Tuckwell, horn; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
3:01 p.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
3:13 p.m.
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Capriccio for guitar
Alexandre Lagoya, guitar
3:16 p.m.
Steve Howe
Aire para un Dia (Mood for a Day)
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
3:21 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Opus 66
Claremont Trio
3:50 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in Bb major Opus 3/1 HWV 312
Handel & Haydn Society; Christopher Hogwood, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for lute and 2 violins in D major RV 93
Bach Sinfonia; Daniel Abraham, conductor Ronn McFarlane, lute; C. Ann Loud, violin; Marlisa del Cid Woods, violin
4:11 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in Bb major Opus 60
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Charles Mackerras, conductor
4:43 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Moments Musicaux No. 3 in F minor Opus 94 D 780
Radu Lupu, piano
4:45 p.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Perigoso
Estela Olevsky, piano
4:50 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Concert Waltz No. 1 (Valse de Concert) in D major Opus 47
Bamberg Symphony; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Masques and Bergamasques Opus 112
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
5:15 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor Opus 73
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Andrew Marriner, clarinet
5:37 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
OTELLO: Ballet Music
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor
5:43 p.m.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Symphony in G Major in G major
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Giovanni Paisiello
Piano Concerto No. 8 in F major
Saint Cecilia Chamber Orchestra; Pietro Spada, conductor Pietro Spada, piano
6:27 p.m.
Charles Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 1 in D minor Opus 78
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
6:42 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Venus, Bringer of Peace Opus 32
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
6:52 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin: Gavotte en Rondeau in E major BWV 1006
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
6:55 p.m.
Gentil Montana
Suite Colombiana No. 2: IV. Porro
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
