Classical Music Playlist, April 24, 2026
Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides Islands, Scotland | Image by gren from Pixabay
London-born English composer Granville Bantock had a keen interest in his Scottish Heritage. So he toured the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides Islands, then in 1915 composed his "Hebridean Symphony." On the printed score of his symphony he wrote the poem,
From the lone shieling of the misty island
Mountains divide us and a waste of seas-
Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.
Bantock's "Hebridean Symphony" is today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Charles Avison
Concerto No. 1 in D major Opus 3/1
Avison Ensemble; Pavlo Beznosiuk, conductor
6:10 a.m.
Fredrich Ernst Fesca
Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 10
NDR Radio Philharmonic Hanover; Frank Beermann, conductor
6:37 a.m.
Johan Svendsen
Norwegian Rhapsody No. 3 (Norsk Rapsodi No. 3) Opus 21
Latvian National Symphony; Terje Mikkelsen, conductor
6:48 a.m.
Wilhelm van Wassenaer
Concerto Armonico No. 3 in A major
Brandenburg Consort; Roy Goodman, conductor
6:58 a.m.
Bernhard Crusell
Clarinet Quartet No. 1 in Eb major Opus 2
Allegri String Quartet (members of) Thea King, clarinet
7:19 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major K 201
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
7:46 a.m.
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata in C Major, K. 159 in C major K 159
Bela Fleck, banjo; Chris Thile, mandolin
7:48 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Finale of Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001
Bela Fleck, banjo; Evelyn Glennie, marimba
7:51 a.m.
Jose Moncayo
Huapango
Simon Bolivar Orchestra; Maximiano Valdez, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Arturo Sandoval
Wildflower (Yolanda's Song)
Catalyst Quartet Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
8:15 a.m.
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra: Iberia
Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
8:35 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 oboes in D major RV 563
Seattle Baroque Sand Dalton, oboe; Washington McClain, oboe; Ingrid Matthews, violin
8:42 a.m.
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No. 4: II. Scherzo in Eb major Opus 48
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
8:49 a.m.
Johan Wagenaar
Twelfth Night Overture Opus 36
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor
9:01 a.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 2 in G minor
Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
9:32 a.m.
Zenobia Powell Perry
Pavane for Piano
Josephine Gandolfi, piano
9:35 a.m.
Henry Purcell
Pavan a 3 in A major Z 748
London Baroque
9:40 a.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA: Triumphal March from Act II
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
9:48 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 76/3 "Emperor": I. Allegro in C major Opus 76/3
Aeolian String Quartet
10:00 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G major Opus 6/1 HWV 319
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor
10:12 a.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concert Etudes: Automne in Db major Opus 35/2
Anna Shelest, piano
10:20 a.m.
Franz Krommer
Clarinet Concerto in E minor Opus 86
English Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Pay, conductor Thomas Friedli, clarinet
10:47 a.m.
John Williams
Devil's Dance (from The Witches of Eastwick)
Boston Pops Orchestra; Keith Lockhart, conductor
10:52 a.m.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Violin Concerto: III. Finale "Rondo in the Lapland Style" in F# minor
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski, conductor Ulf Wallin, violin
11:00 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in D major in D major K 382
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
11:09 a.m.
Santiago de Murcia
Canarios
The Harp Consort Paul O'Dette, baroque guitar; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp
11:16 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in D major TWV 55:D19
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
11:42 a.m.
Elena Kats-Chernin
WILD SWANS: Eliza Aria
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Ola Rudner, conductor Jane Sheldon, soprano
11:47 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Africa-Fantasie Opus 89
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon, conductor Gwendolyn Mok, piano
12:00 p.m.
Local Artist Feature: Motoshi Kasako, jazz harp
Jennifer Reason, host
12:09 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Opus 37
Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vanska, conductor Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
12:46 p.m.
Manuel Ponce
Estrellita
Duo Sonidos
12:49 p.m.
Richard Wagner
LOHENGRIN: Prelude to Act III
Philadelphia Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, conductor
12:53 p.m.
Ottorino Respighi
Church Windows: II. Saint Michael the Archangel
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
1:01 p.m.
Grace Williams
Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor
1:13 p.m.
Frederic Chopin
Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic" in Ab major Opus 53
Lang Lang, piano
1:21 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major K 622
Staatskapelle Dresden; Hans Vonk, conductor Sabine Meyer, basset clarinet
1:49 p.m.
Gioachino Rossini
The Thieving Magpie (LA GAZZA LADRA): Overture
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Granville Bantock
Hebridean Symphony
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
2:36 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto No. 11 in D major Opus 8 RV 210
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor Simon Standage, violin
2:49 p.m.
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Vienna Blood Opus 354 Wiener Blut
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
2:59 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
MASS IN B MINOR: Kyrie in B minor BWV 232
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Monteverdi Choir
3:18 p.m.
Alexey Shor
Seascapes for Viola and Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry, conductor David Aaron Carpenter, viola
3:37 p.m.
John Williams
War Horse: Dartmoor, 1912
Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; John Williams, conductor
3:44 p.m.
George Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major Opus 11
National Orchestra of France; Cristian Macelaru, conductor Yuja Wang, piano
3:48 p.m.
Jacques Offenbach
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD: Overture
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Richard Strauss
Don Juan Opus 20
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
4:18 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 100 "Military" in G major
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Charles Mackerras, conductor
4:41 p.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Abu Hassan Overture J 106
Tapiola Sinfonietta; Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor
4:44 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet for guitar and strings No. 4: III. Fandango in D major G 448
Pacifica Quartet Sharon Isbin, guitar
4:59 p.m.
Adolphe Adam
SI J'ETAIS ROI (If I were King) Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
5:07 p.m.
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C major
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
5:36 p.m.
Joni Mitchell
Both Sides, Now
Canadian Brass
5:42 p.m.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Sexteto Mistico (Mystic Sextet)
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra Members of...
5:51 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20: III. Rondo in D minor K 466
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Jeremy Denk, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
6:00 p.m.
Local Artist Feature: Motoshi Kasako, jazz harp
Jennifer Reason, host
6:09 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 21 "Waldstein" in C major Opus 53
Paul Lewis, piano
6:37 p.m.
Edward Elgar
Three Bavarian Dances Opus 27
Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Norman Del Mar, conductor
6:51 p.m.
George Gershwin
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
6:54 p.m.
Philip Glass
The Hours Suite: II. The Poet Acts
Janacek Philharmonic; Mark Shapiro, conductor Gregory Harrington, violin
