Classical Music Playlist, April 8, 2025
Väderöarna, Sweden | Photo by Ferhat Deniz Fors on Unsplash
Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg’s Symphony No. 3, titled “West Coast Pictures,” depicts a tiny coastal village on the western shore of an Island in Sweden. Atterberg completed the symphony in 1916 as a unified work that began as three stand-alone musical pictures: Sun-Smoke, Storm, and Summer Night. Take a little trip to Atterberg’s charming Swedish maritime village of a hundred years ago with the “West Coast Pictures” of his Symphony No. 3, today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Carl Fasch
Concerto for trumpet, oboe d'amore and violin in E major
Philharmonia Orchestra John Wallace, trumpet; John Anderson, oboe d'amore; Peter Thomas, violin
6:15 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 95 in C minor
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
6:36 a.m.
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz
Folias
The Harp Consort
6:42 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Suite Bergamasque
Lyon National Orchestra; Jun Markl, conductor
7:01 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major Opus 6/2 HWV 320
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor
7:12 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Concerto for two clarinets in Eb major Opus 91
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Sillito, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet; Julian Bliss, clarinet
7:37 a.m.
Erik Satie
Gymnopedie No. 1
John O'Conor, piano
7:39 a.m.
Agustin Bardi
Gallo Ciego blind rooster
Apollo Chamber Players Hector del Curto, bandoneon
7:44 a.m.
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posey
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Marianna Martines
Sinfonia in C major
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor
8:13 a.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Sextet in C major Opus 37
Takacs Quartet Andras Schiff, piano; Radovan Vlatkovic, horn; K�lm�n Berkes, clarinet
8:44 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
8:51 a.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE WALKURE: Ride of the Valkyries
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
8:58 a.m.
Ernest Chausson
Concert for Violin, Piano & String Quartet in D major Opus 21
Cleveland Quartet Lorin Maazel, violin; Israela Margalit, piano
9:39 a.m.
Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
9:48 a.m.
Ron Nelson
Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in Bb major Opus 6/7 HWV 325
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
10:13 a.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Prelude in C Sharp Major
Alice Sara Ott, piano
10:17 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Swan of Tuonela
Minnesota Orchestra; Eiji Oue, conductor Marni J. Hougham, English horn
10:28 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for violin & viola in Eb major K 364
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Yakov Kreizberg, conductor Julia Fischer, violin; Gordan Nikolic, viola
11:00 a.m.
John Field
Rondo for piano & strings in Ab major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
11:08 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto, Op. 3, No. 6 in A minor Opus 3/6 RV 356
Venice Baroque Orchestra Avi Avital, mandolin
11:16 a.m.
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings Opus 11
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
11:25 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 3 "Organ" in C minor Opus 78
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Berj Zamkochian, organ
12:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Serenade in Eb major Opus 7
Stockholm Philharmonic (members of); Paavo Berglund, conductor
12:10 p.m.
Henry Purcell
The Gordian Knot Untied Z 597
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
12:22 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
12:47 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; Sergiu Commissiona, conductor
12:59 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 20: IV. Rondo in A major D 959
Paul Lewis, piano
1:14 p.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 7 in D major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
1:24 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 "Italian" in A major Opus 90
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Overture K 492
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No. 3 "West Coast Pictures" in D Opus 10
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Sixten Ehrling, conductor
2:35 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Silito, conductor Alexandre Lagoya, guitar
2:41 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in G minor BWV 1026
Trio Settecento Rachel Barton Pine, violin; John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba; David Schrader, organ
2:46 p.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
3:00 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
3:15 p.m.
Connor Chee
Navajo Vocable No. 12
Connor Chee, piano
3:18 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet: II. Larghetto Affetuoso
Catalyst Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
3:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 82 "The Bear" in C major
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
3:53 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1: III. Rondo in F minor Opus 73
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
4:00 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Variations on Mozart's "La ci darem la mano" in Bb major Opus 2
Slovak State Philharmonic, Kozice; Robert Stankovsky, conductor Idil Biret, piano
4:20 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme Opus 33
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Mischa Maisky, cello
4:40 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE MAGIC FLUTE: Overture (Die Zauberflote) K 620
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Violin Concerto: III. Rondo - Allegro in D major Opus 61
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor Janine Jansen, violin
4:58 p.m.
Manuel de Falla
Three-Cornered Hat Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
5:18 p.m.
Astor Piazzolla
Spring in Buenos Aires (Primavera Portena)
David Tanenbaum, guitar
5:22 p.m.
Percy Grainger
The Gum Suckers March
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
5:27 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major BWV 1069
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
5:51 p.m.
Adolphus Hailstork
Three Spirituals
Virginia Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Teddy Abrams, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
6:41 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in Ab major Opus 87/17
David Jalbert, piano
6:48 p.m.
Randy Edelman
Gettysburg: Reunion and Finale
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor Timothy Berens. guitar
6:54 p.m.
Gaetano Donizetti
L'ELISIR D'AMORE: Una furtiva lagrima
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Michael Stern, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
