Classical Music Playlist, June 29, 2026
Gustav Mahler’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th symphonies are his “Wunderhorn symphonies,” each using music from songs he set to texts from the three-volume collection of German poems and folk songs, “Des Knaben Wunderhorn.” While the Second symphony explores death and resurrection and the Third contemplates existence and God, all this leads up to the final movement of the Fourth symphony which features a soprano singing a child’s vision of “Das himmlische Leben” or “Life in Heaven.” Mahler’s entire 54-minute Symphony No. 4 is today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 3 "The Goldfinch" (Il Gardellino) in D major Opus 10 RV 428
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Lisa Beznosiuk, flute
6:10 a.m.
Adolphe Adam
GISELLE: Suite
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:49 a.m.
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 12 (Quartet Movement) in C minor D 703
Verdi String Quartet
7:00 a.m.
Leos Janacek
Moravian Dances
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Libor Pesek, conductor
7:09 a.m.
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 4 in E minor WOO 20
English Chamber Orchestra; Alun Francis, conductor Thea King, clarinet
7:37 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Mi Teresita (Little Waltz)
Gabriela Montero, piano
7:42 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
"Military" Polonaise in A major Opus 40/1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
7:48 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture for Wind Instruments Opus 24
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Opus 45
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Lorin Maazel, conductor
8:15 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie; Bruno Weil, conductor Lena Neudauer, violin
8:44 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Arabesque No. 1 in E major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
8:48 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 3 in Ab major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
8:54 a.m.
Francis Poulenc
Sextet for wind quintet & piano: II. Divertissement FP 100
Pascal Roge, piano; Patrick Gallois, flute; Maurice Bourgue, oboe; Michel Portal, clarinet
9:00 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dances Opus 64
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:32 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Song Without Words Opus 8/1
Sarah Cahill, piano
9:37 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Papillon Opus 77
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano
9:41 a.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Guitar Sonata in D
Richard Savino, guitar
9:49 a.m.
John Field
Divertissement No. 2 in A major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
10:00 a.m.
Guillaume Dumanoir
Orchestral Suite in F major
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 4
Angelica Hairston, harp
10:17 a.m.
Joaquin Malats
Spanish Serenade (Serenata Espanola) in F major
Klaus Jackle, guitar
10:23 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Opus 37
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Maurizio Pollini, piano
11:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in Bb major Opus 6/7 HWV 325
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
11:13 a.m.
Isolina Carrillo
Dos Gardenias
Havana Lyceum Orchestra; Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor Sarah Willis, horn; Harold Madrigal Frias, trumpet
11:20 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3 in G minor Opus 36
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
11:52 a.m.
Philip Glass
Violin Concerto No. 1: Movement 1
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor Gidon Kremer, violin
12:00 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin The tomb of Couperin
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
12:17 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Trio No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 92
Neave Trio
12:30 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
12:50 p.m.
Clara Schumann
Scherzo No. 2 in C minor in C minor Opus 14
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
12:55 p.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: VI. Coqueteos
Del Sol String Quartet
12:59 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
King Lear Overture Opus 4
Scottish National Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Teng Yu-hsien
Spring Breeze
Xuefei Yang, guitar
1:18 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams": III. Scherzo in G minor Opus 13
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
1:26 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
1:45 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 20: IV. Rondo in A major D 959
Paul Lewis, piano
2:00 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
2:55 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Overture K 621
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
3:01 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV 1055
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Andras Schiff, piano
3:15 p.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals (Waltz) No. 4 in G major Opus 8/4
Pepe Romero, guitar
3:22 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" in Eb major Opus 97
Staatskapelle Dresden; Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
3:56 p.m.
Claude Debussy
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (from Preludes, Book I: No. 8) (La fille aux cheveux de lin)
Canadian Brass
4:00 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 70 in D major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra; Adam Fischer, conductor
4:18 p.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Melodie (Allegretto) No. 2 in C# minor Opus 4/2
Betty Ann Miller, piano
4:20 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Carissima
New London Orchestra; Ronald Corp, conductor
4:25 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major Opus 31/1
Richard Goode, piano
4:49 p.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
5:01 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 3, No. 6 in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
Venice Baroque Orchestra Avi Avital, mandolin
5:09 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 "Linz" in C major K 425
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic; Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
5:38 p.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
5:49 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Opus 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Maria Joao Pires, piano
6:33 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus No. 9 BWV 1080
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
6:36 p.m.
Jacques Ibert
Entr'acte
Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Mariko Anraku, harp
6:40 p.m.
Karen LeFrak
Miami Concerto
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Enrico Lopez-Ya�ez, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
