Classical Music Playlist, April 29, 2025
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) in 1888
Edvard Grieg wrote three string quartets. His first, written as a student, is now lost. His third was left incomplete at his death. Completed in 1878, his second in G-minor was groundbreaking and influential. Grieg uses the full sonority of the instruments for an almost orchestral fullness while also being folkloric in character with influence from songs and dance. It’s a quartet of textural variety and rhythmic vitality, and it’s today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
William Boyce
Symphony No. 1 in Bb major Opus 2
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
6:08 a.m.
George Enescu
Dixtour pour instruments a vent (Dectet for winds) Opus 14
Oslo Wind Soloists
6:29 a.m.
Jennifer Higdon
Amazing Grace
Serafin String Quartet
6:35 a.m.
Jan Dussek
Piano Concerto, Op. 29 in C major Opus 29
Ulster Orchestra; Howard Shelley, conductor Howard Shelley, piano
7:00 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
7:11 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor Opus 33
London Symphony Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Steven Isserlis, cello
7:31 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Cassazione Opus 6
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Tuomas Ollila, conductor
7:43 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C# minor Opus 27/2
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
8:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto No. 12 in C major RV 449
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Paul Goodwin, oboe
8:10 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Czech Suite Opus 39
Prague Philharmonia; Jakub Hrusa, conductor
8:35 a.m.
Danny Elfman
Percussion Concerto: II. D.S.C.H.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Colin Currie, percussion
8:39 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Opus 25
London Mozart Players; Jonathan Bloxham, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
9:01 a.m.
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3 in G minor Opus 36
North German Radio Symphony; Johannes Goritzki, conductor
9:33 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Sonata Movement (Sonatensatz) in E in E major (1822, age 16) H44
Leanne Rees, piano
9:41 a.m.
Julia Smith
String Quartet
Apollo Chamber Players
9:55 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement: III. Allegretto
Chineke! Orchestra; Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
10:00 a.m.
Karl Goldmark
Sakuntala Overture Opus 13
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
10:17 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in D minor
Wei Luo, piano
10:30 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 2 in G major Opus 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
10:56 a.m.
Manuel de Falla
EL AMOR BRUJO: Ritual Fire Dance
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
11:01 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
THE WRECKERS: Overture
Scottish National Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor
11:11 a.m.
John Rutter
Folk Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
11:25 a.m.
Claude Debussy
La Mer
Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
11:50 a.m.
Samuel Barber
School for Scandal Overture
New York Philharmonic; Thomas Schippers, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C minor Opus 26
English Chamber Orchestra; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Emma Johnson, clarinet
12:22 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quintet No. 2: III. Scherzo (Furiant) in A major Opus 81
Takacs Quartet Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
12:27 p.m.
Aaron Copland
The Red Pony Suite
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
12:52 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Running Set
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; James Judd, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Cesar Franck
Symphony: II. Allegretto in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Monteux, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for flute, strings and continuo in G major
Berlin Baroque Soloists; Rainer Kussmaul, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
1:21 p.m.
Fredrich Ernst Fesca
Symphony No. 3 in D major Opus 13
NDR Radio Philharmonic Hanover; Frank Beermann, conductor
1:51 p.m.
Bohuslav Martinu
The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon
Erik Entwistle, piano
1:54 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
Hayato Sumino, piano
2:00 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Opus 27
Guarneri Quartet
2:34 p.m.
Gustav Holst
The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity Opus 32
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
2:43 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 3: II. Scherzo. Allegro in C minor Opus 60
Krystian Zimerman, piano; Maria Nowak, violin; Katarzyna Budnik, viola; Yuya Okamoto, cello
2:47 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR Overture
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture in C minor Opus 62
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
3:07 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068
La Petite Bande; Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
3:28 p.m.
Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes
Althea Waites, piano
3:39 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb major
London Symphony Orchestra; Istvan Kertesz, conductor Barry Tuckwell, horn
4:00 p.m.
Fela Sowande
African Suite: Selections
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
4:11 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish" in A major K 219
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
4:40 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN: Polonaise
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
4:46 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3: III. Finale - Alla breve in D minor
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
5:01 p.m.
Howard Hanson
MERRY MOUNT suite
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
5:17 p.m.
Mark Isham
A River Runs Through It: Main Theme
Studio Orchestra
5:20 p.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
5:26 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 3 in Bb major G 447
Artaria Quartet Richard Savino, guitar
5:50 p.m.
Scott Joplin
Treemonisha Overture
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra; Gunther Schuller, conductor
5:59 p.m.
Manuel de Falla
Nights In the Gardens of Spain
Orchestre de Paris; Daniel Barenboim, conductor Martha Argerich, piano
6:25 p.m.
Marcel Tyberg
Symphony No. 2: III. Scherzo in F minor
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Edgar Meyer
Violin Concerto: I. Movement 1
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
6:47 p.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Voodoo Dolls
Apollo Chamber Players Hector del Curto, bandoneon
6:52 p.m.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Sheltering Sky
Ryuichi Sakamoto
