Playlist for Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Purcell, Henry: "The Fairy Queen"

Excerpts

Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
Purcell: Ayres For The Theatre (Dioclesian / King Arthur / The Fairy Queen / The Indian Queen)

Sony SK-66169

Holst, Gustav: Symphony in F, Op. 8, "The Cotswolds"

Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
HOLST, G.: Symphony, "The Cotswolds" / Walt Whitman, Overture / Indra / Japanese Suite / A Winter Idyll (Ulster Orchestra, Falletta)

Naxos 8.572914

Finzi, Gerald: "I Said To Love," Op. 19b

No. 4, "In Five-Score Summers"

Stephen Varcoe, br; Clifford Benson, p
Earth And Air And Rain

Hyperion A-66161 (2)

Beach, Amy: "Summer Dreams," Op. 47

Deborah Moriarty; Zhihua Tang, p
Connecting Cultures

Blue Griffin BGR-633

Barber, Samuel: "Summer Music," Op. 31

Bergen Wind Quintet
Wind Quintets By Barber, Sæverud, Jolivet & Hindemith

BIS CD-291

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

No. 13 in a minor

Béla Fleck, banjo; Evelyn Glennie, marimba
Bela Fleck: Perpetual Motion

Sony SK-89610

Victoria, Tomas Luis de: Motet, "Alma Redemptoris Mater"

Chanticleer
Magnificat

Teldec 81829-2

Reinecke, Carl: Piano Concerto #1 in f-sharp, Op 72

Michael Ponti, p; Radio Luxembourg Orch/Pierre Cao

Vox CDX-5065 (2)

Tárrega, Francisco: Estudio in C

David Russell, g

Opera Tres CDS-1003/4 (2)

Granados, Enrique: "Escenas románticas"

Alicia de Larrocha, p
Granados: Escenas Romanticas, Bocetos, Cuentos de la Juventud

RCA 63368-2

Tsintsadze, Sulkhan: Six Quartet Miniatures

#1, "Shepherd's Dance"

Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch/Juha Kangas
NORDGREN, P.H.: Pelimannimuotokuvia / ELLER, H.: 5 Pieces / GRIEG, E.: 2 Nordic Melodies

Ondine ODE-766-2

Smith, Irene Britton: Fugue in g

Hague String Trio
Ethel Smyth

Cobra 0083

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Trio in G, K. 496

Gryphon Trio
Mozart * Complete Piano Trios * The Gryphon Trio

Analekta AN2-9827-8 (2)

Finzi, Gerald: "I Said To Love," Op. 19b

No. 1, "I Need To Go"

Stephen Varcoe, br; Clifford Benson, p
Earth And Air And Rain

Hyperion A-66161 (2)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph: "Norfolk Rhapsody" No. 1

New Philharmonia/Sir Adrian Boult
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music, The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on Greensleeves, English Folk Song Suite, In The Fen Country, Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

EMI CDC7-47218-2

Moeran, Ernest John: Rhapsody #1 (1922)

Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
MOERAN, E.J.: In the Mountain Country / Rhapsodies / Overture for a Masque (Frith, Ulster Orchestra, Falletta)

Naxos 8.573106

Moeran, Ernest John: Serenade in G (1947-8)

7th mvt, "Rigadoon (Rigaudon)"

Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley
Moeran: Serenade in G · Warlock: Serenade · Capriol Suite

Chandos CHAN-8808

Marini, Biagio: "Passacalio"

Irish Baroque Orch/Monica Huggett
Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music

Avie AV-2202

Copland, Aaron: "Passacaglia"

Ramon Salvatore, p
Copland Piano Music — Romantic & Modern

Cedille CDR-90000021

Sowerby, Leo: Passacaglia (1942)

Gail Quillman, p
Piano Works

New World NW-376-2

Frescobaldi, Girolamo: "Il primo libro di toccate" (1637)

"Passacagli"

Igor Kipnis, hc
A Treasury of Harpsichord Favorites

Music & Arts CD-243

Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"

Anima Eterna Orch/Jos van Immerseel
Mendelssohn: Symphonies No. 4 'Italian' and No. 5 'Reformation'

Channel Classics CCS-6694

ANON 16th c, German: La cara cosa

Convivium Musicum/Sven Berger
Still Smiling- From The Musical World Of Leonardo Di Vinci

Musica Rediviva MRCD-006

KRAFT, Nikolaus: Divertimento in G

Jörg Baumann, vc; Klaus Stoll, db

Koch CD-311056

Pleyel, Ignaz: Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat

Paul Meyer, cl; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/Jean-Pierre Rampal

Denon CO-78911

Françaix, Jean: Theme and Variations (1974)

Eduard Brunner, cl; Margarita Höhenrieder, p

Calig CAL-50907

Rosenthal, Manuel: "Juventas" for Clarinet and Strings (1988)

"Nostalgia"

Jean-Michel Charlier, cl; Daniel String Quartet; Korneel Le Compte, db
Rosenthal: Musique De Chambre

Calliope CAL-9894

Franck, César: "Symphonic Variations"

Alicia de Larrocha, p; London Phil/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Piano Concerto, Symphonic Variations

London 417583-2

Gervaise, Claude: Danceries

"Allemande"

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Music From The Royal Court

London B0000807-02 (2)

Mendelssohn, Felix: "Scherzo à capriccio" in f, No. E, Op 118

Martin Jones, p

Nimbus NI-5069

Reger, Max: Comedy Overture, Op 120

Louisville Orch/Jorge Mester
Reger: A Comedy Overture, Op. 120/ Bizet: Chromatic Variations / Moszkowski: Suite No. 3 For Orchestra, Op. 79 / Napravnik: Festive March

Louisville Recordings LS-734

Hurd, Michael: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy (1970)

Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Overtures - 1

ASV CDWHL-2133

Ibert, Jacques: "Cinq pièces en Trio"

#5

Chicago Chamber Musicians
20th Century French Wind Trios

Cedille CDR-90000040

Saint-Saens, Camille: Piano Trio No. 2 in e, Op. 92

Arden Trio
SAINT-SAENS, C.: Piano Trio No. 2 / RAVEL, M.: Piano Trio in A Minor (Arden Trio)

Delos D/CD-3055

Rebel, Jean-Féry: "La Fantaisie"

"Loure"

La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
Concert De Danse

Accent ACC-96122-D

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 50 in D, H XVI:37

Leif Ove Andsnes, p
Haydn: Piano Sonatas

EMI CDC5-56756-2

Ludwig van Beethoven: "Egmont," Op. 84

Overture

Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
Beethoven: The Overtures

DG 429762-2 (2)

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, "Trout"

V. Finale, "Allegro giusto"

The Kanneh-Masons
River of Music

Decca 4871265

Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6, No. 4

English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Corelli: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6

Archiv 423626-2 (2)

William Alwyn: Concerto grosso No. 1

City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Oboe Concerto, Concerti Grossi

Chandos CHAN-8866

Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto serenata"

III. Finale, "Sarao"

Nancy Allen, h; Royal Phil Orch/Enrique Bátiz
The Rodrigo Edition

EMI CZS7-67435-2 (4)

Aaron Copland: "Our Town"

London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland
Copland Conducts Copland

CBS MK-42429

Peter Sculthorpe: "Small Town"

Guy Henderson, ob; Sydney Sym Orch/Stuart Challender
Earth Cry

ABC Classics 426481-2

Florence Price: "Village Scenes"

No. 1, "Church Spires in Moonlight"

Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p
Scenes in Tin Can Alley

Blue Griffin BGR-615

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620

Overture

Columbia Sym Orch/Bruno Walter
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Overtures; Masonic Funeral Music

CBS MYK-37774

Pablo de Sarasate: Fantasy on Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Op. 54

Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fiddler of the Opera

DG 447640-2

Bedřich Smetana: "The Bartered Bride"

Dance of the Comedians

London Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon
Smetana: The Bartered Bride; String Quartet "My Life"

Chandos CHAN-8412

Christoph Graupner: Suite in F for flute, viola d'amore, chalumeau, strings and cembalo

"Ouverture, Air en Gavotte, Air en Polonese"

Soloists, Finnish Baroque Orch/Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, vi d'amore
Graupner: Orchestral Suites

Ondine ODE-1220

Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81

IV. Finale, "Allegro"

Emerson String Quartet; Menahem Pressler, p
Dvořák: Piano Quintet Op. 81, Piano Quartet Op. 87

DG 439868-2

Edward MacDowell: Orchestra Suite No. 2, Op. 48, "Indian"

V. Finale, "Village Festival"

Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa
Edward MacDowell: Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Hamlet and Ophelia

Naxos 8.559075

Richard Wagner: "The Flying Dutchman"

Overture

London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
Early Romantic Overtures

EMI CDC7-49889-2

Maurice Ravel: "Introduction and Allegro"

Isabelle Moretti, h; Quatuor Parisii
Musiques à Orsay

Naïve V-4919

Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b

No. 9, "September (The Hunt)"

Dudok Quartet
Tchaikovsky String Quartets Vol. 2

Rubicon RCD-1124

Kurt Weill: "September Song"

Daniel Hope, v; Jacques Ammon, p; Zürich Chamber Orch
For Seasons

DG 4796922

Francis Poulenc: "Suite française"

London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc

ASV CDWHL-2067

Edvard Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40

St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Grieg, Sibelius: Suites

Philips 412727-2

Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders"

Chicago Pro Musica
The Medinah Sessions

Reference RR-2102 (2)

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs

No. 2, "September"

Renee Fleming, s; Houston Sym/Christoph Eschenbach
Strauss: Four Last Songs, Orchesterlieder, Der Rosenkavalier Suite

RCA 68539-2

Jerry Orbach: "Try To Remember"

Jerry Orbach
The Fantasticks (Original Cast Album)

Polydor 821 943 2 Y 1

Jean Françaix: "L'Horloge de Flore (The Flower Clock)"

John de Lancie, ob; London Sym Orch/André Previn
Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Françaix: L'Horloge de flore; Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1; Ibert: Symphonie concertante

RCA 7989-2

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Fantasia in D

Stewart Goodyear, p
For Glenn Gould

Sono Luminus DSL-92220

François-Joseph Gossec: Symphony in G, Op. 12, No. 2

Orch National de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling
Gossec: Gavotte, Suite De Danses, 4 Symphonies

ASV CDDCA-1124

Cecil Coles: "From the Scottish Highlands"

BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins
Coles: Music from Behind the Lines

Hyperion CDA-67293

Traditional Scottish: "Ca' the yowes"

St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt
Bushes & Briars

MSR Classics MS-1606

José White: Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor

Rachel Barton Pine, v; Encore Chamber Orch/Daniel Hege
Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Cedille CDR-90000035

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

II. "Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)"

Danill Trifonov & Sergei Babayan, p's
Rachmaninoff for Two

DG 4864805

Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Tales from the Vienna Woods", Op. 325

Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Ein Straussfest

Telarc CD-80098

Antonio Vivaldi: String Concerto in G minor, R. 157

Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini
Vivaldi: Concerti per archi II

Naïve OP-30554

Mauro Giuliani: Six Irish National Airs with Variations, Op. 125

David Russell, g
Message of the Sea - Celtic Music for Guitar

Telarc CD-80492

Gioachino Rossini: "Il Viaggio a Reims"

Suite (aka "Overture")

Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Rossini: Overtures

EMI CDC7-47118-2

George Frideric Handel: "Tamerlano"

Overture & Minuet

English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Handel: Tamerlano

Erato 45408-2 (3)

Georg Philipp Telemann: Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A

I. "Siciliano"

Thomas Stacy, obda; Toronto Chamber Orch/Kevin Mallon
Bach, Telemann: Oboe d'amore Concertos

Naxos 8.570735

Giuseppe Verdi: "Otello"

"Ballabili" Dances (Ballet Music)

Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas

Naxos 8.572818-19 (2)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066

Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr
Bach Orchestral Suites BWV1066-69

AAM Records AAM-003 (2)

Alexandre Tansman: "Inventions (Hommage à Bach)"

Thibaut Garcia, g
Bach Inspirations

Erato 0190295605261

Hector Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique," Op. 14

V. Finale, "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath"

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

Decca 4870959

Sergei Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87

Act 2: No. 21, "Court Dance"

Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
Prokofiev: Cinderella

Decca 410162-2 (2)

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 71, No. 3

Takács Quartet
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 71

Hyperion CDA-67793

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