Classical Music Playlist, December 9, 2025
Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)
After early music lessons from his local church organist father and then himself holding posts as church organist, Irish composer Hamilton Harty moved from his small town about 12 miles south of Belfast to Dublin at age 16 where he took music lessons, then to London at 20 where by 24 he was conductor of the Halle Orchestra (in Manchester) and, later, the London Symphony Orchestra. He was knighted in 1925 and passed away in 1941 at the age of 61. While many of his compositions are overtly “Irish,” some are more subtly so, such as his Piano Concerto from 1922. A 2005 recording of that Concerto has won rave reviews and has been said to “shed new light” on the Concerto itself. We'll play that recording for today’s Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in E minor in E minor RV 484
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Milan Turkovich, bassoon
6:12 a.m.
Ferdinand Ries
Piano Concerto No. 9 in G minor Opus 177
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Uwe Grodd, conductor Christoper Hinterhuber, piano
6:43 a.m.
Antonio Lauro
Venezuelan Waltzes (Valses Venezolanos)
Pepe Romero, guitar
6:53 a.m.
Hugo Alfven
Festival Overture Opus 25
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Niklas Willen, conductor
7:00 a.m.
Franz Schubert
Octet for strings & winds: I. Adagio - Allegro in F major Opus 166 D 803
Academy of Ancient Music Members of...
7:16 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 7 "Lodron" in F major K 242 "Lodron"
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano; Robert Levin, fortepiano; Melvyn Tan, fortepiano
7:40 a.m.
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite: Scherzo Opus 19
CBC Vancouver Orchestra; Mario Bernardi, conductor
7:44 a.m.
John Williams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
7:48 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor
7:59 a.m.
Richard Wagner
TANNHAUSER Overture
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
8:15 a.m.
Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor Opus 11
Nash Ensemble
8:41 a.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 "Romantic": III. Scherzo in Eb major
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Manfred Honeck, conductor
8:52 a.m.
Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen: Symphony (The 4th Act Suite) Z 629
Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
John Field Suite
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
9:21 a.m.
John Field
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb major
New Irish Chamber Orchestra; Janos Furst, conductor John O'Conor, piano
9:43 a.m.
Josquin des Pres
Ave Maria
The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips, conductor
9:49 a.m.
Michel Corrette
Symphonie des noels No. 4 in D minor
Arion
10:00 a.m.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture Opus 36
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:15 a.m.
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite Opus 190
English Chamber Orchestra; Steuart Bedford, conductor
10:25 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Sinfonia Concertante for clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra Opus 3
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Osmo Vanska, conductor Anna-Marja Korsimaa, clarinet; Laszlo Hara, bassoon; Ib Lanzky-Otto, horn
10:54 a.m.
Aaron Copland
Rodeo: Hoe-Down
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Vienna Blood Opus 354 Wiener Blut
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Jascha Horenstein, conductor
11:08 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor Opus 56
Cleveland Orchestra; Christoph Von Dohnanyi, conductor
11:44 a.m.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2
Chicago Symphony Brass; Mark Ridenour, conductor
11:48 a.m.
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual Suite: III. Troubled Water
Michelle Cann, piano
11:54 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1: Alla Hornpipe in F major Water Music Suite in F
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Hamilton Harty
Comedy Overture
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
12:15 p.m.
Jacques Ibert
Three Brief Pieces (Trois Pieces Breves)
Reykjavik Wind Quintet
12:23 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Pascal Roge, piano
12:48 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 violins in G major RV 516
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin; Elizabeth Wilcock, violin
12:59 p.m.
Josef Suk
Fantastic Scherzo Opus 25
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
1:15 p.m.
Alexander Scriabin
Prelude No. 11 in B major Opus 11/11
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
1:16 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in C Major (from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1) in C major BWV 846
Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
1:20 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in C major Opus 21
German Chamber Philharmonic; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
1:46 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 3: III. Allegro in A minor Opus 44
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
Piano Concerto in B minor
Ulster Orchestra; Takuo Yuasa, conductor Peter Donohoe, piano
2:31 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
Paradetas
Chatham Baroque
2:36 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Janacek Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
2:51 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
LA CENERENTOLA: Overture "Cinderella"
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Claudio Abbado, conductor
3:01 p.m.
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6: I. Majestoso in A major
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
3:19 p.m.
Teresa Carreno
Corbeille de fleurs
Alan Feinberg, piano
3:25 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 92 "Oxford" in G major
Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor
3:51 p.m.
Malcolm Arnold
Four Scottish Dances Opus 59
Philharmonia Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor
4:00 p.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
4:08 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 23
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor Stephen Hough, piano
4:41 p.m.
Francisco Tarrega
Capricho arabe (Arabian Caprice)
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
4:48 p.m.
Arturo Marquez
Danzon No. 2
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
4:59 p.m.
George Enescu
Dixtour pour instruments a vent (Dectet for winds) Opus 14
Oslo Wind Soloists
5:20 p.m.
Myroslav Skoryk
Three Extravagant Dances: II. Blues: Almost American
Anna Shelest, piano; Dmitri Shelest, piano
5:27 p.m.
Franz Schubert
Sonata "Arpeggione" in A minor D 821
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, conductor John Williams, guitar
5:50 p.m.
Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL UND GRETEL Overture
London Symphony Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Holiday Programming
Gaudete! Early Music for the Christmas Season PART 1
Sara Schneider, host
6:28 p.m.
Holiday Programming
Gaudete! Early Music for the Christmas Season PART 2
Sara Schneider, host
