Playlist for Friday, December 26, 2025

Sun Yiquang: "Dance of Spring"

Lang Lang, p
Lang Lang * Dragon Songs

DG B0008233-00

An-Lun Huang: "Saibei Suite" #2

"Saibei Dance"

Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen
Delights & Dances

Cedille CDR-90000141

Chinese Trad: "Jasmine Flower"

Shanghai String Quartet
The Flowing Stream: Chinese Folk Songs And Tone Poems By Zhou Long

Delos DE-3233

Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop
Tchaikovsky * Symphony No 4

Naxos 8.555714

Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786

No. 9 in f minor

Ton Koopman, hc

Capriccio 10210

Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)"

V. "Le jardin féerique (The Fairy Garden)"

City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Ravel: Sheherazade/ Ma Mere L'Oye/ La Valse/ Alborada del Gracioso/ La Vallee des Cloches

EMI/Ang CDC7-54204-2

Claude Debussy: "La boîte à joujoux"

Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot
Stravinsky: Petrushka / Debussy: La Boîte à Joujoux

Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1010

Adolphe-Charles Adam: "Le Corsaire"

Act 1: Introduction & "Tarantella"

English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
Le Corsaire

London 430286-2 (2)

Percy Grainger: "Handel in the Strand" (Clog Dance)(1912)

BBC Phil/Richard Hickox
Grainger: Vol. 6 - Orchestral Works 2 'The Warriors'

Chandos CHAN-9584

George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1

Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6

DG 471758-2 (3)

George Frideric Handel: "Samson"

Sinfonia: Allegro

English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Overtures

DG Archiv 419219-2

Alfred Bartles: "When Tubas Waltz"

Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours

Crystal CD-420

Victor Herbert: "Babes in Toyland"

"March of the Toy Soldiers"

Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours

Crystal CD-420

Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in C, R 470

Daniel Smith, bn; English Chamber Orch/Philip Ledger
Bassoon Concertos Volume One

ASV CDDCA-571

Ralph Nicholson: "Miniature Suite" for contrabassoon and piano

3rd mvt, Waltz

Susan Nigro, contra-bn; Mark Lindeblad, p
The Big Bassoon - Muradian, Palider, Etc

Crystal CD-346

Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104

Mischa Maisky, vc; Berlin Phil/Zubin Mehta

DG B0002054-02

Alexander Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op 16

#4 in e-flat

Gary Karr, db; Harmon Lewis, p

VQR 2031

Alfred Schnittke: "Moz-Art"

Vladimir Malinin, v; Alexander Melnikov, v
Vladimir Malinin

Mobile Fidelity MFCD-905

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183

Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Mozart Symphonies

DMD Classics DMD-1272017

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve German Dances, K. 586

No. 1 in C

Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
Mozart: Deutsche Tänze

Sony SK-46696

Gustav Holst: Wind Quintet in A-Flat, Op 14

Vega Wind Quintet
Vega Wind Quintet

LDR LDRC-1002

Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32

"Neptune, the Mystic"

New York Choral Artists, New York Phil/Zubin Mehta
Holst: The Planets

Teldec 46316-2

Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2

2nd mvt, Ostinato

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Barber of Seville Overture

GHA 126016

Franz Schubert: "Three Military Marches," Op. 51, D. 733

No. 1 in D

Earl Wild, p
Concerto No. 2 In C Minor

Chesky CD-2

Igor Stravinsky: "L'histoire du soldat"

Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Gerard Schwarz
The Soldier's Tale

Delos D/CD-3021

Jessel: "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"

Dallas Wind Symphony/Frederick Fennell
"Marches I've Missed"

Reference Recordings RR-85-CD

Gabriel Pierné: Album pour mes petits amis, Op 14

#6, "March of the Little Lead Soldiers"

English Chamber Orch/Paul Tortelier
French Impressions

Virgin 90707-2

Thomas Ravenscroft: "Wee be Souldiers three"

Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley

Virgin 91217-2

Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Clavier Concerto No. 2 in C, BWV 1064

A Heiller, hc; E Heiller, hc; K Rapf, hc; Zagreb Soloists/Antonio Janigro
Historical Anthology: Johann Sebastian Bach - Concertos For One, Two, Three & Four Harpsichords & String Orchestra

Vanguard OVC-2523/24 (2)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Five Little Preludes, BWV 939-943

No. 5

Angela Hewitt, p
Bach

Hyperion CDA-67121/2 (2)

Hosted by Jan Weller.

George Walker: "Lyric for Strings"

London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7

Sony 19075862152 (10)

Fela Sowande: "African Suite"

London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7

Sony 19075862152 (10)

Santiago de Murcia: "Marionas"

Constantinople Ensemble
Early Dreams

Analekta AN2-9989

Edvard Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40

Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo
Grieg - Dvořák - Tchaikovsky

Archetype 60105

Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, Set 1, Op. 27

Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Malcolm Arnold for Band

Reference RR-66

Jessie Montgomery: "Hymn for Everyone"

Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti
Contemporary American Composers

CSO Resound 9012301

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Italian Concerto" in F, BWV 971

Corona Guitar Quartet
Corona Guitar Kvartet

Albany TROY-1084

Georges Bizet: "Jeux d'enfants," Op. 22

Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suite 1 and 2

DG 431778-2

Caitlin Edwards: "Faithful"

Caitlin Edwards, v & prod; Edward Smith, p
Exhale

Caitlin Edwards Exhale

Michael Abels: "Winged Creatures"

Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham
Winged Creatures

Cedille CDR-90000187

William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2 in G, "Song of a New Race"

II.-III.

Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Still, Dawson, Ellington: Orchestral Works

Chandos CHAN-9226

Brian Sibley: "And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree (A Cautionary Tale for Christmas)"

Penelope Keith & Timothy Graball, actors; Orch
And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree

BBC D-619.2

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folksong setting, "The Turtle Dove"

Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer
Holst & Vaughan Williams: Choral Music

Chandos CHAN-9425

Jean-Philippe Rameau: "La Poule"

Bruce Liu, p
Waves

DG 4864400

Jean-Philippe Rameau: "La Poule"

La Folia Baroque Orchestra/Stefan Temmingh, recorder
Birds

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88875141202

Traditional Catalan: "Song of the Birds"

Avi Avital, m; Between Worlds
Song of the Birds

DG 4867526

Engelbert Humperdinck: "The Blue Bird"

Prelude ("The Christmas Dream")

Bamberg Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music

Virgin 61128-2

Engelbert Humperdinck: "The Blue Bird"

"Star Dance"

Bamberg Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music

Virgin 61128-2

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66

"Bluebird" pas de deux

Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fée & Tchaikovsky: 'Bluebird' Pas de deux

Chandos CHAN-8360

Valerie Coleman: "Umoja, Anthem of Unity"

New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper
New York Youth Symphony: Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery

Avie AV-2503

Ethel Smyth: Piano Trio in D minor

IV. Finale, "Allegro vivace"

Neave Trio
A Room of Her Own

Chandos CHAN-20238

Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella"

Suite

Orpheus Chamber Orch
Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances, Dumbarton Oaks, Pulcinella Suite

DG 445541-2

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G, BWV 577, "The Jig"

Amherst Saxophone Quartet
Bach on Sax

MCA Classics MCAD-6264

Georg Philipp Telemann: Two-Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat

H Hardenberger & M Laird, tr's; St. Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
Telemann: Trumpet Concertos

Philips 420954-2

Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor

Juliette Herlin, vc; Kevin Ahfat, p
Dialogue - Debussy & Schumann

Orchid ORC-100382

Maurice Ravel: "La valse"

Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Ravel: La valse

Decca 4870959

Traditional Russian: "The troika speeds along"

Paul Hill Cho, Washington Balalaika Society/Paul Hill
Russia!

Centaur CRC-2230

Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60

IV. "Troika"

Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky - Lieutenant Kijé - Scythian Suite

DG 447419-2

Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat

Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Lev Markiz
Mendelssohn: Symphonies (Complete)

Brilliant Classics 93777 (7)

Isaac Albéniz: "Mallorca," Op. 202

Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, g
Soul of Spanish Guitar

Sony 19439786732

Richard Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"

Act 1 Prelude

Philadelphia Orch/Christian Thielemann
Thielemann - Wagner

DG 453485-2

George Gershwin: "Lullaby"

Brodsky Quartet
New World Quartets

Chandos CHAN-10801

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII:4

Marc-André Hamelin, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Haydn Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11

Hyperion CDA-67925

Charlie Chaplin: "City Lights"

"Reunited"

City Lights Orch/Carl Davis
Chaplin: City Lights

Carl Davis Collection CDC-015

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat, Op. 127

III. "Scherzando vivace"

Dover Quartet
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol 3

Cedille CDR-90000215

Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

Overture

Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel
Great Comedy Overtures

Naxos 8.573418

John Field: Nocturne in C, H 60

Elizabeth Joy Roe, p
Field: Complete Nocturnes

Decca 4789672

Gioachino Rossini: "Otello"

Ballet Music

Monte Carlo Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida
Rossini: Ballet Music

Philips 422843-2

Georg Philipp Telemann: "Concerto polonois" in G

Holland Baroque
Telemann: Polonoise

Pentatone PTC-5186878

Franz Schubert: Fantasy in C, D 934

Jennifer Koh, v; Reiko Uchida, p
Violin Fantasias * Jennifer Koh

Cedille CDR-90000073

Philip Lane: Suite of Cotswold Folkdances (1978)

Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Music Discoveries 2

ASV CDWHL-2126

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046

English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Panorama: Bach

Archiv 413629-2 (4)

Doreen Carwithen: "On the 12th Day"

BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth
The Night Before Christmas and other seasonal music for orchestra

Naxos 8.570331

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K. 284, "Dürnitz"

I. "Allegro"

Fazıl Say, p
Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas

Warner Classics 0825646942060 (6)

Frederick Delius: "A Village Romeo and Juliet"

"The Walk to the Paradise Garden"

London Sym Orch/John Barbirolli
Greensleeves

EMI CDZ7-62527-2

Edward Elgar: "Froissart" Overture, Op. 19

Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
Elgar: Overtures

Chandos CHAN-8309

Francesco Manfredini: Sinfonia in D, Op. 2, No. 12, "Christmas Pastorale"

English Chamber Orch/Simon Preston
Christmas Concertos

Novalis 150133-2 (2)

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in D, H XV:24

Vienna Piano Trio
Haydn: Piano Trios Nos. 32, 38, 39 & 45

Nimbus NI-5535

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

V. "Chaconne"

Cédric Tiberghien, p
Beethoven: Complete Variations for Piano, Vol. 2

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902435.36

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