Classical Music Playlist, May 26, 2025
Composer Lowell Liebermann | photo: Joseph Moran
O glad, exulting, culminating song!
A vigor more than earth's is in thy notes,
Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!
Joy! joy! all over joy!
- The final stanza of text in Liebermann's Symphony No. 2.
Setting assorted lines of text adapted by the composer from the poems of Walt Whitman, the 1999 Symphony No. 2 by American composer Lowell Liebermann was written on a commission from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for their centennial anniversary and to mark the new millennium. To further celebrate the advance of modern times, the premiere concert in February 2000 was one of the first-ever orchestral concerts streamed live online. Liebermann’s Symphony No. 2 is today’s Memorial Day Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major BWV 1007
Yo Yo Ma, cello
6:19 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb major Opus 19
London Symphony Orchestra; Andreas Delfs, conductor John O'Conor, piano
6:49 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
El Decameron Negro: 2. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos
Sharon Isbin, guitar
6:54 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Turandot: Overture
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
7:00 a.m.
George W. Chadwick
Symphonic Sketches: Jubilee
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
7:09 a.m.
Florence Price
Piano Quintet in A minor
Takacs Quartet Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
7:36 a.m.
Jessie Montgomery
Voodoo Dolls
Apollo Chamber Players Hector del Curto, bandoneon
7:42 a.m.
George Gershwin
Second Rhapsody
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor Stewart Goodyear, piano
7:59 a.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
8:16 a.m.
Michael Torke
Sky
Albany Symphony Orchestra; David Alan Miller, conductor Tessa Lark, violin
8:41 a.m.
John Williams
The Cowboys: Overture
City of Prague Philharmonic; Paul Bateman, conductor
8:52 a.m.
John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, conductor
8:57 a.m.
Randall Thompson
Symphony No. 2 in E minor
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
9:26 a.m.
Tina Davidson
Blue Curve of Earth
Hilary Hahn, violin; Cory Smythe, piano
9:31 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid: Suite
Cincinnati Pops; Erich Kunzel, conductor
9:53 a.m.
Philip Glass
Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra: Movement 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Gerard Schwarz, conductor Evelyn Glennie, timpani; Jonathan Haas, timpani
10:00 a.m.
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdiana
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
10:08 a.m.
Amy Beach
Piano Concerto in C# minor Opus 45
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Rebecca Miller, conductor Danny Driver, piano
10:43 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra; Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
10:51 a.m.
Samuel Barber
First Essay for Orchestra Opus 12
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
11:01 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
11:11 a.m.
Virgil Thomson
Louisiana Story: Acadian Songs and Dances
New London Orchestra; Ronald Corp, conductor
11:27 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Opus 40
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
11:52 a.m.
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto No. 3: III. Polonaise. Allegretto in F major Opus 70
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
12:02 p.m.
John Ireland
Epic March
London Symphony Orchestra; Richard Hickox, conductor
12:12 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Opus 15
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Karina Canellakis, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
12:20 p.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 3
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
12:52 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 4 in F major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
1:00 p.m.
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor Earl Wild, piano
1:18 p.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:43 p.m.
Edward K. (Duke) Ellington
In a sentimental mood
Jason Vieaux, guitar
1:47 p.m.
Samuel Barber
Summer Music Opus 31
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
2:00 p.m.
Lowell Liebermann
Symphony No. 2 Opus 67
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor Dallas Symphony Chorus
2:38 p.m.
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan: Hymn to the Fallen
Boston Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Tanglewood Festival Chorus
2:45 p.m.
Amy Beach
Romance (1893) in D major Opus 23
Kristin Lee, violin; Jun Cho, piano
2:52 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
2:56 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
3:08 p.m.
Louise Farrenc
Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano in Eb major Opus 44
Linos Ensemble
3:32 p.m.
John Knowles Paine
Overture to Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Opus 28
Ulster Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
3:43 p.m.
Manuel de Falla
Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
Simon Bolivar Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor
3:57 p.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: Symphonic Poem
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
4:26 p.m.
Philip Glass
Etude 2
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
4:33 p.m.
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Opus 132
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Howard Shore
The Forest: 3rd movement
National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Milos Karadaglic, guitar
4:58 p.m.
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis: IV. March
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
5:14 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio
Neave Trio
5:31 p.m.
Arthur Foote
Suite for Strings in E major Opus 63
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
5:48 p.m.
Michael Daugherty
Once Upon A Castle: Neptune Pool
The Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Paul Jacobs, organ
5:56 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 3
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
6:40 p.m.
Amy Beach
Pastorale
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
6:44 p.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: VI. Coqueteos
Del Sol String Quartet
6:48 p.m.
Pat Metheny
Last Train Home (Prelude)
Jason Vieaux, guitar
6:52 p.m.
Mark Isham
A River Runs Through It: Main Theme
Studio Orchestra
6:55 p.m.
Chilly Gonzales
Prelude in C Sharp Major
Alice Sara Ott, piano
