Classical Music Playlist, April 30, 2025
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
French composer Jules Massenet completed his only piano concerto in 1902. Perhaps because he was nearing 60, as was its dedicatee and soloist at the premiere, the music (and the playing, notably in at least one review) was seen as in an aging style and the concerto fell into obscurity after the composer's death in 1912. But thankfully, today, we appreciate older forms and styles and don't need our music always to be 'contemporary.' With that in mind, with all its charms of the Parisian Belle Époque, the Massenet Piano Concerto is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto No. 2 in E minor Opus 3/2
Avison Ensemble; Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
6:09 a.m.
Carel Anton Fodor
Symphony No. 3 in C minor Opus 19
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Halstead, conductor
6:38 a.m.
Cui Shiguang
Mountain Spring
Li Fan, piano
6:45 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite suite
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 11 in Bb major Opus 6
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major K 218
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Yakov Kreizberg, conductor Julia Fischer, violin
7:34 a.m.
Valentin Silvestrov
Bagatelle (Op. 1, No. 1) Opus 1/1
Dmytro Choni, piano
7:37 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1: Alla Hornpipe in F major Water Music Suite in F
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
7:43 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Coppelia: (Suite from the ballet)
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor
7:58 a.m.
Edward Elgar
Coronation March Opus 65
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Yondani Butt, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 100 "Military" in G major
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
8:33 a.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Romance Opus 35/6
Felix Klieser, horn; Christof Keymer, piano
8:37 a.m.
Ethel Smyth
Piano Trio: III. Scherzo. Presto con brio in D minor
Neave Trio Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
8:42 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Les Preludes (Symphonic Poem #3) S 97
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 3 "Polish" in D major Opus 29
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
9:40 a.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 2 "Sonata Fantasy" in G# minor Opus 19
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
9:53 a.m.
Dieterich Buxtehude
Praeludium in D minor BUX 140
The Paramount Brass
10:00 a.m.
August Soderman
Concert Overture in F major
Norrlands Opera Symphony Orchestra; Roy Goodman, conductor
10:09 a.m.
Adolfo Mejia
Bambuco en mi in E minor Bambuco in e minor
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
10:12 a.m.
Camargo Mozart Guarnieri
Brazilian Dance (Dansa Brasiliera)
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
10:16 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 14 "Spring" in G major K 387
Emerson String Quartet
10:47 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4: III. Rondo: Vivace in G major Opus 58
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
10:58 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 3 in Eb major Opus 10
Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
11:32 a.m.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet: IV. Finale Op 143
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
11:39 a.m.
Johann Heinichen
Concerto in F major S 231
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
11:47 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
SEMIRAMIDE: Overture
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Comedy Overture
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa, conductor
12:14 p.m.
George Gershwin
Piano Concerto in F major
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano
12:47 p.m.
Henry Purcell
Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune on a Ground
Collegium Musicum 90; Richard Hickox, conductor
12:49 p.m.
Francesco Tristano
On John Bull's Galliard In D
Basel Chamber Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Francesco Tristano, piano
12:53 p.m.
Ethel Smyth
Serenade in D: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace in D major
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano
1:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto No. 1 (originally for violin) in A minor BWV 1041
Elias String Quartet Xuefei Yang, guitar
1:15 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5: II. Allegretto in D minor Opus 47
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
1:22 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40: I. Molto Allegro in G minor K 550
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic; Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor
1:50 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne No. 7 in C# minor Opus 27/1
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
1:55 p.m.
Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": VI. Mishima Closing
Kronos Quartet
2:00 p.m.
Jules Massenet
Piano Concerto in Eb major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor Stephen Coombs, piano
2:32 p.m.
Esther Abrami
Transmissions
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Esther Abrami, violin
2:37 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
2:53 p.m.
John Williams
Themes from Jurassic Park
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Hubert Parry
Symphonic Variations
Scottish National Orchestra; Andrew Penny, conductor
3:13 p.m.
Benjamin Britten
PETER GRIMES: Four Sea Interludes Opus 33a
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
3:31 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D major HOB 18:11
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
3:51 p.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL UND GRETEL Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Vincent d'Indy
Symphony on a French Mountain Air
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, piano
4:26 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 2 (unfinished): II. Allegro scherzando in F major
Oslo Camerata; Stephan Barratt-Due, conductor
4:34 p.m.
Grace Williams
Penillion
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor
4:51 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.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major Opus 6
Musica Amphion; Pieter-Jan Belder, conductor
5:11 p.m.
Paulinho Nogueira; Luiz Gonzaga
Bachianinha No. 2 / Araponga
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
5:13 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Voces8; Eric Whitacre, conductor Nelson Freire, piano
5:18 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in Bb major Opus 38
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
5:49 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Guitar (or Mandolin) Concerto in D major RV 93
Parley of Instruments; Roy Goodman, conductor Paul O'Dette, mandolin
6:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major K 216
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
6:25 p.m.
Jacques Ibert
Three Brief Pieces (Trois Pieces Breves)
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
6:33 p.m.
Germaine Tailleferre
Concertino for harp and orchestra
The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor Gillian Benet, harp
6:50 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
