Classical Music Playlist, August 21, 2025
It's said that the cello in the String Quartet No. 2 is the amorous “voice” of composer Alexander Borodin while the first violin represents his wife, to whom he dedicated the quartet as a 20th anniversary gift and recalls their courtship. The romantic String Quartet No. 2 by Alexander Borodin is today's Midday Masterpiece.
Though Borodin passed away in 1887, in 1954 he won a Tony Award because his music was used as the basis for new songs in the Broadway musical "Kismet" including a melody from today's String Quartet No. 2 that became the song that is now a jazz standard, "Baubles, Bangles and Beads."
6:00 a.m.
Johann Christian Bach
Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola & continuo in C major Opus 11/1
The English Concert
6:18 a.m.
Manuel Ponce
Piano Concerto No. 1 "Romantico" in A minor Opus 22
Orquesta Sinf�nica de Miner�a (OSM); Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
6:42 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Opus 15
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Karina Canellakis, conductor Alice Sara Ott, piano
6:50 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas: Overture Opus 95
London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Czech Suite Opus 39
Janacek Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
7:23 a.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
7:48 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
"Military" Polonaise in A major Opus 40/1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
7:55 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs
Northern Sinfonia of England; Richard Hickox, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Dorothy Howell
Lamia
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Rumon Gamba, conductor Sophie Langdon, violin; Richard Watkins, horn
8:11 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 7
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Holly Mathieson, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
8:34 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 31 "Paris" in D major K 297
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
8:52 a.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE WALKURE: Ride of the Valkyries
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Howard Hanson
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"
Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor
9:29 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
Lullaby for Nick
Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano; Elena Kats-Chernin, piano
9:33 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 10 in D minor Opus 6/10 HWV 328
Academy of Ancient Music; Andrew Manze, conductor
9:49 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Oberon Overture J 306
Philharmonia Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Florence Price
Violin Concerto No. 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Jonathon Heyward, conductor Rachel Barton Pine, violin
10:15 a.m.
Enrique Granados
Danzas espanolas No. 7 "Valenciana"
Angel Romero, guitar; Celedonio Romero, guitar
10:23 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 102 in Bb major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
10:48 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor": III. Rondo in Eb major Opus 73
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Kurt Sanderling, conductor Mitsuko Uchida, piano
11:00 a.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
11:32 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Piano: I. Andante Opus 11
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
11:36 a.m.
Bela Bartok
Hungarian Sketches SZ 97
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
11:48 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde Overture Opus 26 D 797 (The Magic Harp)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
12:10 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Opus 28
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
12:26 p.m.
John Field
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major
New Irish Chamber Orchestra; Janos Furst, conductor John O'Conor, piano
12:48 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Overture in F major
Russian National Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins (Double Concerto) in D minor BWV 1043
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ton Koopman, conductor Monica Huggett, violin; Alison Bury, violin
1:16 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Overture in A minor
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:24 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade for Winds in Eb major K 375
Winds of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
1:49 p.m.
Ernest Farrar
Rhapsody No. 1 "The Open Road" Opus 9
Philharmonia Orchestra; Alasdair Mitchell, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Borodin String Quartet
2:30 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Overture in G minor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
2:43 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Rhapsodie d'Auvergne Opus 73
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
2:54 p.m.
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto in F major
Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra)
2:59 p.m.
Richard Wagner
FLYING DUTCHMAN Overture (Der Fliegender Hollander)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
3:11 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
3:19 p.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Horn Concerto Opus 28
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Gerard Oskamp, conductor Albert Linder, horn
3:39 p.m.
Alfredo Catalani
Ero e Leandro (Hero and Leander) - Symphonic Poem
Rome Symphony Orchestra; Francesco La Vecchia, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 27 in Bb major K 595
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor John O'Conor, piano
4:30 p.m.
Paulinho Nogueira; Luiz Gonzaga
Bachianinha No. 2 / Araponga
Plinio Fernandes, guitar
4:33 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus No. 9 BWV 1080
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
4:37 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance No. 4 in F major Opus 46
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
4:44 p.m.
John Williams
Hook: Flight to Neverland
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4: IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco in F minor Opus 36
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite Opus 40
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
5:20 p.m.
Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture Opus 9
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor
5:30 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Sinfonia Concertante in Bb major HOB 105
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor Toru Yasunaga, violin; Georg Faust, cello; Jonathon Kelly, oboe; Stefan Schweigert, bassoon
5:52 p.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Prelude to Sveagaldrar (Forspel till)
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Pavel Vranicky
Symphony in D major Opus 52
Dvorak Chamber Orchestra; Bohumil Gregor, conductor
6:35 p.m.
Henri Vieuxtemps
Violin Concerto No. 4: II. Adagio Religioso in D minor Opus 31
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
6:43 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake) BWV 645
David Russell, guitar
6:49 p.m.
Florence Price
Memory Mist
Lara Downes, piano
6:51 p.m.
Rachel Portman
Flight
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Francine Kay, piano
