Classical Music Playlist, June 3, 2026
As Director of the Paris Conservatory from 1896 to 1905, Théodore Dubois maintained a conservative curriculum strictly of the time. He excluded earlier French baroque music such as by Jean-Philippe Rameau and revolutionary forward-thinking music of Richard Wagner. He forbade Conservatory students to attend performances of Debussy's ground-breaking new opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, and was hostile to student Maurice Ravel when he did not conform to Dubois' anti-modernism (and was expelled twice after two admissions). Nonetheless, Dubois composed a considerable amount of music in the French Romantic tradition marked with fine melodies and refined taste. Hear this in his 1907 Piano Quartet in A-minor for today's Midday Masterpiece.
6:00 a.m.
Pieter Hellendaal
Concerto Grosso in F major Opus 3/3
Combattimento Consort; Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor
6:11 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major Opus 135
Emerson String Quartet
6:36 a.m.
Federico Moreno Torroba
Sonatina
David Russell, guitar
6:49 a.m.
Carl Maria Von Weber
Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra in Eb major Opus 26
Staatskapelle Dresden; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Sabine Meyer, clarinet
6:59 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 3: III. Allegro in A minor Opus 44
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
7:13 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintet for piano & winds in Eb major K 452
Academy of Ancient Music Robert Levin, fortepiano; Members of...
7:39 a.m.
Enrique Granados
La Maja de Goya
Christopher Parkening, guitar
7:44 a.m.
Frederic Chopin
Minute Waltz in Db major Opus 64/1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
7:47 a.m.
Gioachino Rossini
WILLIAM TELL: Overture (GUILLAUME TELL)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
8:00 a.m.
Richard Wagner
DIE MEISTERSINGER: Prelude
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
8:10 a.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in D major TWV 55:D19
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
8:37 a.m.
Anthony Holborne
The Fairie Round
Lutz Kirchhof, lute
8:41 a.m.
Karen LeFrak
Miami Concerto: I. Bailamos
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Enrico Lopez-Ya�ez, conductor Sharon Isbin, guitar
8:47 a.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": I. Allegro ma non troppo in F major Opus 68
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Opus 115
Pacifica Quartet Anthony McGill, clarinet
9:39 a.m.
Clara Schumann
Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann Opus 20
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
9:52 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 140 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" BWV 140 Wachet auf,ruft uns die Stimme
English Baroque Soloists; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Monteverdi Choir
10:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto No. 2 "The Night" (La Notte) in G minor Opus 10 RV 439
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, conductor Emmanuel Pahud, flute
10:09 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major K 459
Camerata Academica Salzburg; Sandor Vegh, conductor Andras Schiff, piano
10:38 a.m.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Serenade in C major Opus 10
NES Chamber Orchestra; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
11:00 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" in E minor Opus 95
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Jarvi, conductor
11:47 a.m.
John Field
Rondo for piano & strings in Ab major
London Mozart Players; Matthias Bamert, conductor Miceal O'Rourke, piano
11:55 a.m.
Johannes Hanssen
Valdres March
Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor
12:00 p.m.
Victor Ewald
Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor Opus 5
Center City Brass Quintet
12:15 p.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Opus 25
Quebec Symphony Orchestra; Louis Lortie, conductor Louis Lortie, piano
12:34 p.m.
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement in D major
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
12:43 p.m.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Concertgebouw Orchestra; David Zinman, conductor
1:00 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertpiece (Concertstuck) Opus 40
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor Anna Shelest, piano
1:15 p.m.
John Corigliano
Lullaby for Natalie
London Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
1:20 p.m.
Karl Jenkins
Palladio: I. Allegretto
London Philharmonic Strings; Karl Jenkins, conductor
1:25 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major K 313
Boston Baroque; Martin Pearlman, conductor Jacques Zoon, flute
1:49 p.m.
Arnold Bax
The Happy Forest
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
2:00 p.m.
Theodore Dubois
Piano Quartet in A minor
Trio Hochelaga Jean-Luc Plourde, viola
2:32 p.m.
Karl Goldmark
In Italy Overture Opus 49
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra; Andras Korodi, conductor
2:46 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2: IV. Finale: Allegro vivace in E minor Opus 27
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
3:01 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Occasional Suite in D major
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor
3:17 p.m.
Frode Fjellheim
Under the Arctic Moon
Arctic Philharmonic; Christian Kluxen, conductor Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin
3:20 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 14: V. Presto in C# minor Opus 131
Takacs Quartet
3:26 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Opus 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Pascal Roge, piano
3:51 p.m.
Michael Torke
Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
4:01 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Scherzo capriccioso Opus 66
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor
4:17 p.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 69 "Laudon" in C major
Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia; Bela Drahos, conductor
4:38 p.m.
Teng Yu-hsien
Spring Breeze
Xuefei Yang, guitar
4:42 p.m.
William Grant Still
Wood Notes: I. Singing River
Fort Smith Symphony; John Jeter, conductor
4:50 p.m.
Hamilton Harty
In Ireland
Ulster Orchestra; Bryden Thomson, conductor Colin Fleming, flute; Denise Kelly, harp
5:00 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio italien Opus 45
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor
5:17 p.m.
John Field
Nocturne No. 2 in C minor H 25
Alice Sara Ott, piano
5:20 p.m.
Joni Mitchell
Favorite Color
Lara Downes, piano
5:24 p.m.
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dances Opus 64
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor
5:54 p.m.
Johan Halvorsen
Entry March of the Boyars
Bergen Philharmonic; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
6:00 p.m.
Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit
Lyon National Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
6:23 p.m.
George Friederich Handel
Oboe Concerto No. 2a in Bb major HWV 302
The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, conductor David Reichenberg, oboe
6:32 p.m.
Nikos Skalkottas
Five Greek Dances
I Musici de Montreal; Yuli Turovsky, conductor
6:44 p.m.
John Williams
The Cowboys: Overture
City of Prague Philharmonic; Paul Bateman, conductor
6:54 p.m.
Joe Hisaishi
Princess Mononoke
La Pieta; Angele Dubeau, conductor Angele Dubeau, violin
