Classical Music Playlist, November 12, 2025
Background (Hammock) photo by James Ertl on Unsplash | Tchaikovsky: Library of Congress
Summering at a charming rural estate can be inspiring. Tchaikovsky’s sister married into a family with a beautiful estate in Ukraine, and it became the composer’s favorite refuge. He loved the land, he loved that he had family there, and found the whole thing inspiring enough that he composed a symphony while summering there in 1872 and included local folk songs including one sung to him by the family butler. The result of all this happiness is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet "Joke" in Eb major Opus 33/2 (HOB III: 38)
Kodaly Quartet
6:17 a.m.
Anton Reicha
Wind Quintet, Op. 88, No. 6 in F major Opus 88/6
Michael Thompson Wind Quintet
6:51 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Presto - Molto allegro e vivace in G minor Opus 25
London Mozart Players; Jonathan Bloxham, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
6:59 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for lute and 2 violins in D major RV 93
Il Giardino Armonico Luca Pianca, Archlute; Members of...
7:09 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb major K 493
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano; Elizabeth Wilcock, violin; Jan Schlapp, viola; Timothy Mason, cello
7:45 a.m.
Frederick Delius
KOANGA: La Calinda
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor
7:50 a.m.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Running Set
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; James Judd, conductor
7:58 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia Opus 26
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
8:07 a.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
8:40 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Horn Concerto No. 1: I. Allegro in D major
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Barry Tuckwell, horn
8:46 a.m.
Malcolm Arnold
Four Scottish Dances Opus 59
Dallas Wind Symphony; Jerry Junkin, conductor
8:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Violin Concerto in A minor Opus 53
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; William Steinberg, conductor Nathan Milstein, violin
9:30 a.m.
Teresa Carreno
Un reve en mer A dream at sea
Sarah Cahill, piano
9:37 a.m.
Leo Brouwer
Afro-Cuban Lullaby (Cancion de Cuna: Berceuse)
Pepe Romero, guitar
9:41 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6: I. Majestoso in A major
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major Opus 6/5 HWV 323
Aradia Ensemble; Kevin Mallon, conductor
10:16 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major Opus 58
Haruma Sato, cello; Wataru Hisasue, piano
10:43 a.m.
Marin Marais
Chaconne and Rondeau
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba; Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord; Thomas Boysen, baroque guitar; Pedro Estevan, percussion
10:50 a.m.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Habanera
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Herve Niquet, conductor
10:55 a.m.
Juanjo Mosalini
Toma, Toca (Take it, Play it)
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor Juanjo Mosalini, bandoneon
11:00 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 "Oxford" in G major
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
11:27 a.m.
Ricardo Castro
Plainte Opus 38/2
Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria (OSM) Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
11:30 a.m.
William Grant Still
Africa: II. Land of Romance
Lara Downes, piano
11:38 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
11:52 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE MAGIC FLUTE: Overture (Die Zauberflote) K 620
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 6: III. Scherzo (Furiant) in D major Opus 60
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
12:09 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 1
Pepe Romero, guitar
12:15 p.m.
Theodore Dubois
Quintet for piano, oboe and strings in F major
Trio Hochelaga Philippe Magnan, oboe; Jean-Luc Plourde, viola
12:45 p.m.
Florence Price
Symphony No. 4: III. Juba Dance in D minor
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
12:59 p.m.
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G major
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
1:07 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Opus 58
Berlin Philharmonic; Claudio Abbado, conductor Maurizio Pollini, piano
1:41 p.m.
Pietro Locatelli
Sinfonia in F minor
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor
1:54 p.m.
Andrew York
Sunburst
Jason Vieaux, guitar
2:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2 in C minor Opus 17
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:33 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Ballade No. 1 in G minor Opus 23
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
2:43 p.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Tarantelas
Ensemble Kapsberger; Rolf Lislevand, conductor
2:51 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
SAMSON ET DELILA: Bacchanale Opus 47
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
3:00 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 3 RV 578
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
3:10 p.m.
Juan Arriaga
Symphony in D minor
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
3:40 p.m.
Antonio Lauro
Venezuelan Waltzes (Valses Venezolanos)
Pepe Romero, guitar
3:49 p.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL UND GRETEL Overture
Bavarian Radio Symphony; Jeffrey Tate, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1: I. Vivace in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
4:11 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
4:41 p.m.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
March for the Turkish Ceremony
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
4:43 p.m.
Johannes Hanssen
Valdres March
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
4:48 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
DER FREISCHUTZ: Overture Opus 77 J 277
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
4:57 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann, conductor
5:13 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
2 Gavottes in G minor BWV 995
Sharon Isbin, guitar
5:16 p.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite: III. Alla Marcia Opus 11
Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
5:21 p.m.
Alexander Borodin
Petite Suite
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Ghennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
5:52 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro con brio in C minor Opus 67
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 6 in C minor Opus 58
Bamberg Symphony; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:37 p.m.
Hania Rani
Glass
Scoring Berlin; Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor Mari Samuelsen, violin
6:41 p.m.
Bela Bartok
Dance Suite: III. Allegro vivace SZ 77
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
6:45 p.m.
H. T. Burleigh
Deep River
PubliQuartet Lara Downes, piano
6:47 p.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
6:54 p.m.
Emilio Pujol
Guajira
Julian Bream, guitar
