Classical Music Playlist, September 24, 2025
Viktor Hartmann's design for the main façade of The Bogatyr Gates - AKA "The Great Gate of Kyiv"
Russian architect and painter Viktor Hartmann was born in St Petersburg in 1834 and produced countless sketches, watercolors and even early photographs of cathedrals and other architectural wonders in Russia, France, Italy, Germany and Poland, as well as his own original designs. Hartmann’s sudden death of a brain aneurysm at age 39 (1873) shook his friend Modest Mussorgsky (and other Russian artists) and an exhibition of over 400 of Hartmann’s artworks was assembled in his honor in early 1874. Moved by the exhibition, Mussorgsky composed a suite of ten “pictures” for solo piano inspired by Hartmann's artworks on display. Nearly fifty years later, in 1922, Maurice Ravel brilliantly orchestrated the piano suite. Hear the orchestral color he added to Mussorgsky’s piano sketches in the orchestrated “Pictures at an Exhibition” for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
Above is Hartmann’s proposed design that inspired Mussorgsky’s famous “Great Gate of Kyiv” final movement.
6:00 a.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Concerto No. 12 in F major Opus 4/12
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
6:13 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata for Cello and Piano in Eb major Opus 19
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
6:49 a.m.
John Bull
Pavane
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
6:52 a.m.
Tielmann Susato
Pavane "Mille Regretz"
New London Consort; Philip Pickett, conductor
6:55 a.m.
Carl Nielsen
Masquerade Overture
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
7:01 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
7:15 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for winds and orchestra in Eb major K 297b (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Aurele Nicolet, flute; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Hermann Baumann, horn; Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
7:45 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) in C major BWV 846
Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
7:50 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Trio "Archduke": II. Scherzo in Bb major Opus 97
Esther Abrami Quintet Emanuel Ax, piano; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yo Yo Ma, cello
7:59 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Les Preludes (Symphonic Poem #3) S 97
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
8:15 a.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto Serenata for harp and orchestra
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ernst Marzendorfer, conductor Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
8:39 a.m.
Johann Heinichen
Concerto for 2 horns and 2 flutes in F major S 233
Musica Antiqua Koln; Reinhardt Goebel, conductor
8:49 a.m.
Theodore Dubois
Quintet for piano, oboe and strings: IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco in F major
Trio Hochelaga Philippe Magnan, oboe; Jean-Luc Plourde, viola
8:59 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 1 in D minor Opus 13
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
9:43 a.m.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four Folk Songs: III. Serenata
Claremont Trio
9:48 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Song without Words for cello and piano Opus 109
Haruma Sato, cello; Wataru Hisasue, piano
9:54 a.m.
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis: IV. March
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Randall Goosby, violin
10:00 a.m.
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior! Opus 13
Royal Scottish Orchestra; Petter Sundkvist, conductor
10:14 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons: June "Barcarolle" Opus 37
Bruce Liu, piano
10:19 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Das Jahr (The Year): 6. June: Serenade
Anna Shelest, piano
10:25 a.m.
Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia piccola" in G minor Opus 14
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ari Rasilainen, conductor
10:48 a.m.
Friedrich Kuhlau
Elf-Mound Overture Opus 100
Odense Symphony Orchestra; Othmar Maga, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Leo Delibes
Coppelia: (Suite from the ballet)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Heinz Fricke, conductor
11:25 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Nocturne, "Souvenirs de mon pays"
Alexandra Oehler, piano
11:33 a.m.
Jean Francaix
Wind Quintet No. 1
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
11:53 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Aleko: Men's Dance
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major Opus 92
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Murray Perahia, piano
12:15 p.m.
Stanley Myers
Cavatina
Jason Vieaux, guitar
12:18 p.m.
John Williams
Seven Years in Tibet: Seven Years in Tibet
Studio Orchestra; John Williams, conductor Yo Yo Ma, cello
12:27 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Czech Suite Opus 39
Prague Philharmonia; Jakub Hrusa, conductor
12:51 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro Giocoso (Finale) in D major Opus 77
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor Jascha Heifetz, violin
1:00 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
PRINCE IGOR Overture
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
1:11 p.m.
Felipe Villanueva
Poetic Waltz (Vals Poetico)
State of Mexico Symphony; Enrique Batiz, conductor
1:14 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Artist's Life Opus 316 Kunstlerleben
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
1:24 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 99 in Eb major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
1:50 p.m.
Erich Korngold
The Sea Hawk (1940) Suite
Oregon Symphony; James DePreist, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:32 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Marche fun�bre (Funeral March) in Bb minor Opus 35
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
2:42 p.m.
Bela Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Interrupted Intermezzo
Helsinki Philharmonic; Susanna Malkki, conductor
2:48 p.m.
Carl Nielsen
Violin Concerto: II. Rondo. Allegretto scherzando Opus 33
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Fabio Luisi, conductor Bomsori Kim, violin
3:00 p.m.
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdiana
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
3:09 p.m.
Alberic Magnard
Symphony No. 3 in Bb minor Opus 11
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor
3:47 p.m.
Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": VI. Mishima Closing
Attacca Quartet
3:51 p.m.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1: IV. Finale in C major Opus 1
Norman Krieger, piano
4:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 3 RV 578
Tafelmusik; Jeanne Lamon, conductor
4:09 p.m.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" in Eb major Opus 97
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
4:40 p.m.
Ernesto Nazareth
Perigoso
Estela Olevsky, piano
4:44 p.m.
Ernesto Lecuona
Andalusia Suite: Malaguena
Richard Cionco, piano
4:49 p.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE MEISTERSINGER: Prelude
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
5:00 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major Opus 93
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
5:25 p.m.
Percy Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
5:29 p.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
5:34 p.m.
Marianna Martines
Piano Concerto in A Major in A major
Orqueste Filarmonia Iberica; Melani Mestre, conductor Melani Mestre, piano
5:50 p.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wasps: Overture
English Symphony Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 4 in G minor K 516
L'Archibudelli Vera Beths, violin; Lucy van Dael, Violin/viola; Jurgen Kussmaul, viola; Gijs Beths, violin; Anner Bylsma, cello
6:32 p.m.
Dag Wiren
Concert Overture No. 1 Opus 2
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
6:41 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Arabesque Opus 61
Peter Jacobs, piano
6:45 p.m.
Reinhold Gliere
Romance Opus 35/6
Felix Klieser, horn; Christof Keymer, piano
6:50 p.m.
John Dowland
Flow My Tears (Lachrimae)
Attacca Quartet
6:54 p.m.
Esther Abrami
Transmissions
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Irene Delgado-Jimenez, conductor Esther Abrami, violin
