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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Classical Music Playlist, June 3, 2025

 

Don Quixote, illustrator unknown (U.S. 1874)

“With too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. His fantasy filled with everything he had read in his books: enchantments as well as combats, battles, challenges, wounds, courtings, loves, torments, and other impossible foolishness.”

That's how Miguel de Cervantes describes what led the title character of his early 17th century novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" to embark on his adventurous fantasy life of a chivalrous knight.

The story inspired Richard Strauss to compose his tone poem "Don Quixote" in 1897. The music is written in a theme and variations format with the solo cello representing Don Quixote and the solo viola (and other instruments at times) depicting his squire Sancho Panza. "Don Quixote" is today's Midday Masterpiece.

6:00 a.m.
6:00 a.m.
Marianne Martinez
Concerto for Harpsichord in E major in E major
La Floridiana; Nicoleta Paraschivescu, conductor Nicoleta Paraschivescu, harpsichord
6:18 a.m.
Reynaldo Hahn
Quintet for strings and piano in F# minor
Parisii Quartet Alexandre Tharaud, piano
6:45 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams": III. Scherzo in G minor Opus 13
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
6:52 a.m.
Jacques Ibert
Three Brief Pieces (Trois Pieces Breves)
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in D major Opus 6
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major Opus 103
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Pascal Roge, piano
7:43 a.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
7:52 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Overture K 492
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
7:58 a.m.
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Opus 46
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
8:00 a.m.
8:14 a.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in Eb major
German Chamber Philharmonic; Thomas Klug, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet
8:33 a.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE MEISTERSINGER: Prelude
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
8:44 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3: III. Finale - Alla breve in D minor
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
8:59 a.m.
Louis Theodore Gouvy
Symphony No. 4 in D minor Opus 25
Saarbrucken Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Jacques Mercier, conductor
9:00 a.m.
9:28 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Cello Sonata (1915) in D minor L144
Adrian Brendel, cello; Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
9:41 a.m.
Pieter Hellendaal
Concerto Grosso in D minor Opus 3/2
Combattimento Consort; Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor
9:53 a.m.
Mikhail Glinka
RUSLAN AND LUDMILA: Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Morris Dance Tunes
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra; Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
10:12 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 8 in A minor
Staatskapelle Berlin; Otmar Suitner, conductor
10:15 a.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
African Suite: African Dance Opus 35/4
Chineke! Orchestra; Kevin John Edusei, conductor
10:23 a.m.
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
10:45 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
The Noon Witch Opus 108
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Bajka (The Fairy Tale): Overture
Warsaw Philharmonic; Antoni Wit, conductor
11:14 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne No. 7 in C# minor Opus 27/1
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
11:21 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 73 "La Chasse" (The Hunt) in D major
Heidelberg Symphony; Thomas Fey, conductor
11:44 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049
Academy of Ancient Music; Richard Egarr, conductor
12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik II: Concerto for 3 violins in F major
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor Members of...
12:14 p.m.
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Philharmonia Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor
12:28 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Suite Opus 66
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
12:54 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo in Bb major Opus 83
Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor Leon Fleisher, piano; Jules Eskin, cello
1:18 p.m.
Fernando Sor
Etude No. 17 in E minor Opus 6/11
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
1:20 p.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
1:26 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade for Winds in C minor K 388
Winds of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Alexander Schneider, conductor
1:50 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Mandolin Concerto in C major RV 425
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Iona Brown, conductor Pepe Romero, guitar
2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote Opus 35
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor Pierre Fournier, cello
2:45 p.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Perigoso
Estela Olevsky, piano
2:49 p.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Odeon - Tango Brasileiro
Richard Cionco, piano
2:53 p.m.
Juventino Rosas
Over the Waves (Sobre las olas)
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": III. Molto Vivace in B minor Opus 74
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
3:00 p.m.
3:08 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 2
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
3:29 p.m.
Ina Boyle
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Esther Abrami, violin
3:47 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA: Triumphal March from Act II
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus
4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
Masques and Bergamasques Opus 112
Lyon National Orchestra; Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
4:14 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
New York Philharmonic; Jose Serebrier, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
4:38 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture in C minor Opus 62
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
4:46 p.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 "Carnival in Pest" in D major
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
4:59 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio in G major Opus 111
Takacs Quartet Lawrence Power, viola
5:00 p.m.
5:13 p.m.
Marie Awadis
Etude No. 3: Ballade
Marie Awadis, piano
5:18 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 38 "Prague" in D major K 504
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
5:50 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Dance of the Knights Opus 64
Cleveland Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
5:53 p.m.
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Romeo at Juliet's Tomb Opus 64
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
6:00 p.m.
6:01 p.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Concertpiece for cello and orchestra (Konzertstuck) in D major Opus 12
London Symphony Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor Raphael Wallfisch, cello
6:26 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1: I. Allegretto-Allegro non troppo in E minor Opus 10
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
6:36 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier I:02) in C minor BWV 847
David Korevaar, piano
6:39 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Kenneth Silito, conductor Alexandre Lagoya, guitar
6:44 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5: IV. Adagietto in C# minor
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor
6:53 p.m.
Anatol Liadov
Barcarolle in F# major Opus 44
Kyoko Tabe, piano

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