Playlist for Sunday, August 16, 2026

Franz Joseph Haydn: "The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross"

Introduction: "Maestoso ed adagio"

Emerson String Quartet
The Seven Last Words

DG B0002053-02

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat

Barry Douglas, p; London Sym Orch/Jun'ichi Hirokami
Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 and 2, Hungarian Fantasy

RCA 7916-2-RC

Franz Joseph Haydn: "The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross"

Finale, "Il Terremoto (The Earthquake)"

Emerson String Quartet
The Seven Last Words

DG B0002053-02

Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 8 in D

Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam/Lev Markiz
The Complete String Symphonies Volume 4

BIS 5481750 (4)

Samuel Scheidt: Sinfonia in d

Wenzinger, Mueller, Kallenberger, viga; Conant, hc
Viga,

Ex Libris EL-16981

Hans Pfitzner: "Die Rose vom Liebesgarten"

Blütenwunder

Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Pfitzner: Palestrina, Das Kathchen von Heilbronn, Die Rose vom Liebesgarten

Orfeo C-168881-A

Anonymous: In a garden so green

Circa 1500 Ensemble
A Handefull of Pleasant Delites: Elizabethan Ballads & Dances * Circa 1500

ASV CDGAU-163

Alan Hovhaness: "The Garden of Adonis," Op 245

Eugenia Zukerman, f; Yolanda Kondonassis, h
Hovhaness

Telarc CD-80530

Joaquín Rodrigo: "Música para un jardín" (1957)

London Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz

EMI/Ang CDC7-47869-2

Hugo Wolf: Song, "Der Gärtner"

Felicity Lott, s; Graham Johnson, p

Hyperion CDA-66937

Richard Strauss: "Don Juan," Op. 20

Suisse Romande Orch/Eliahu Inbal

Denon CO-18083

Peter Warlock: "Capriol" Suite

#6, "Mattachins" (Sword Dance)

Summit Brass
A Summit Brass Night

Summit DCD-500

Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo in C, Op 51/1

Radu Lupu, p
The Piano Concertos / 5 Sonatas / 2 Rondos

London 4757065 (4)

Ludwig van Beethoven: "King Stephen," Op 117

Overture

Czech Phil/Frantisek Vajnar
Beethoven: Overtures

Supraphon 111118-2

Mauro Giuliani: Introduction, Theme with Variations and Polonaise in A, Op 65

Richard Savino, g; Artaria String Quartet
Boccherini: Quintets VII & VIII for String Quartet & Guitar/ Giuliani: Gran Quintetto, Op. 65

Harmonia Mundi HMU-907069

Fernando Sor: "Huit pièces pour guitare seule"

#6, Menuet in F

David Starobin, g
Fernando Sor: Les Plus Belles Pages

Bridge 9166

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20

Suite

London Sym/André Previn
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker- Highlights

EMI CDM4-89485-2

Karol Szymanowski: "Kurpian Songs", Op 58

#1, "The Cranes Were Flying"

Juliana Gondek, s; Reinild Mees, p
Szymanowski: Complete Songs Voice & Piano

Channel Classics CCS-19398 (4)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Six Études, Op. 52

No. 6, "En forme de valse"

Alfred Cortot, p

Fon‚ 90F12-CD

Eugene Ysaÿe: Caprice after the Study by Saint-Saens, Op 52

Joshua Bell, v; Royal Phil/Andrew Litton

London 433519-2

Eugene Ysaÿe: Solo Violin Sonata in d, Op 27/3, "Ballade"

Maxim Vengerov, v

EMI/Ang CDC5-57384-2

George Enescu: Orchestra Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 20

IV. "Menuet grave"

Romanian Radio TV Orch/Josif Conta
Enescu: Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Concert Overture

Marco Polo 8.223144

George Enescu: "Suite châtelaine"

Timisoara Banatul Phil/Remus Georgescu
Enescu: Romanian Poem/ Romanian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2

Marco Polo 8.223145

Camille Saint-Saëns: Bassoon Sonata in G, Op. 168

David McGill, bn; Peter Serkin, p
Musique Francaise

Boston Records BR-1022-CD

Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes, Op. 34

No. 24 in d, Allegretto

Tchaikovsky Chamber Orch/Lazar Gosman
Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra

CBS MK-45529

Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in d, Kk 213 (L 108)

Albert Fuller, hc

Helicon Classics HE-1038

Charles Avison: Concerto grosso #3 in d, after Domenico Scarlatti

Café Zimmermann
Charles Avison * Concertos in Seven Parts Done from the Lessons of Domenico Scarlatti

Alpha 031

Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in C, Kk 72 (L 401)

Hédi Salànki, hc

Price-Less D-16565

Johannes Brahms: Symphony no.4 in e minor, Op.98

Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel

Vanguard SVC-19

Luigi Legnani: Caprices, Op 20

#7, "Prestissimo"

Raphaella Smits, g
Legnani: 36 Caprices/ Mertz: 6 Schubertian Songs

Accent ACC-21146

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hymn-Tune, "Sine Nomine (For All the Saints)" (1905)

Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Christopher Allsop, o
The Vaughan Williams Hymnal

Conifer 51249-2

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes

Nash Ensemble String Quartet
Ralph Vaughan Williams * The Early Chamber Music * The Nash Ensemble

Hyperion CDA-67381/2 (2)

Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan

Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos
Into The Light: Symphonic Expressions Of Spirit

Telarc CD-80462

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hymn, "Firmly I believe and truly"

Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Christopher Allsop, o
The Vaughan Williams Hymnal

Conifer 51249-2

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200

Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham

EMI/Ang CDM7-69750-2

Franz Schubert: Song, "Die Laube", D 214

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
Schubert: Lieder

DG 437215-2 (9)

Dario Marianelli: "Pride and Prejudice"

"The Secret Life of Daydreams"

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch
Pride & Prejudice (Music from the Motion Picture)

Decca B0005620-02

Arcangelo Corelli: Violin Sonata in F, Op. 5, No. 4

Frans Brüggen, r; Gustav Leonhardt, hc; Anner Bylsma, vc
Frans Brüggen Edition - Vol. 2 • Italian Recorder Sonatas

Teldec 93669-2

Carl Nielsen: Song, "Look about one summer day"

Ars Nova Copenhagen/Michael Bojesen
Songs for choir

Dacapo 6.220569

Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"

Suite

National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman
Puccini: Opera for Orchestra

Pro Arte CDS-3671

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10

Anthony McGill, cl; Catalyst Quartet
Uncovered, Volume 1

Azica ACD-71336

Claude Debussy: "L'isle joyeuse"

Pascal Rogé, p
Decca Sound: The Analogue Years

Decca 4785437

Florence Price: "Songs of the Oak"

Württemberg Phil/John Jeter
Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances

Naxos 8.559920

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Valse-Scherzo" in C, Op. 34

Jennifer Koh, v; Odense Sym Orch/Alexander Vedernikov
Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra

Cedille CDR-90000166

Georg Philipp Telemann: Flute, Oboe and Bassoon Suite in b

Soloists; European Baroque Soloists
Telemann: Suite in B; Concerto in G; Six Canonic Sonatas

Denon 81757-9614-2

Antonín Dvořák: "In Nature's Realm" Overture, Op. 91

Berlin Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner
Symphony no. 9. Berliner Staatskapelle. Otmar Suitner

Ars Vivendi 2100128

Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Pieces, Op. 72

No. 16, "Valse à cinq temps"

Yevgeny Sudbin, p
Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano

BIS 2198

Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From My Life"

II. "Alla polka"

Alban Berg Quartet
Dvořák, Smetana: String Quartets

EMI CDC7-54215-2

Henry Purcell: "King Arthur"

Instrumental Suite

Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre

Sony SK-66169

Francis Johnson: "The New Bird Waltz"

Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
The Music of Francis Johnson and His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers

Musicmasters MMD-60236-F

Felix Mendelssohn: "On Wings of Song," Op. 34, No. 2

Haruma Sato, vc; Wataru Hisasue, p
Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song

Universal 00028948586936

Christopher Tin: "The Lost Birds"

IV. "A Hundred Thousand Birds"

Voces8, Royal Phil Orch/Christopher Tin
The Lost Birds

Decca 4858030

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B-Flat, R. 367

La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v
A Tale of Two Seasons

Avie AV-2287

Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 5, Op. 64

III. 'Scherzo"

BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 4

Chandos CHAN-20319

Mel Bonis: Flute Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 64

Erin K. Murphy, f; Kirstin Ihde, p
Day & Night: Modern Flute & Piano Duos by Women Composers

Albany TROY-1829

Florence Price: "Fantasie Nègre" No. 1 in E minor

Michelle Cann, p
Revival

Platoon PLAT-18088

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Montreal Sym Orch/Kent Nagano
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies

Analekta AN2-9150-5 (11)

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Concertante" Quartet No. 4 in F

Arabella String Quartet
Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets

Naxos 8.574360

Conni Ellisor: "Blackberry Winter"

Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill
Ellisor: Conversations In Silence; Blackberry Winter; Barber: Canzonetta; Scearce: Endymion's Sleep; Mock: The Stone

Warner Classics 46739-2

Eric Ewazen: "Frost Fire"

Axiom Brass
New Standards

Axiom Brass [New Standards]

William Alwyn: Concerto grosso No. 1

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

Chandos CHAN-8866

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Abduction from the Seraglio," K. 384

Overture

Zürich Opera House Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Mozart: Overtures

Teldec 95523-2

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concertino in C, H XIV:12

Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman, hc
Haydn: Complete Harpsichord Concertos

Philips 446542-2 (2)

Niccolò Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7, "La Campanella"

III. Finale, Rondo

Alexander Markov, v; Saarbrücken Radio Sym Orch/Marcello Viotti
Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

Erato 45788-2

Franz Liszt: Grand Etude after Paganini No. 3, "La Campanella"

Inna Faliks, p
The Story of a Pianist

Delos DE-3540

Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonia in E-Flat

Concerto Köln
Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies

Archiv 4776418

Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano

II. "Sentimentale"

Jean-Pierre Rampal, f; Claude Bolling, p; Max Hediguer, db; Marcel Sabiani, dr
Marcel Sabiani, drums,
Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano

Frémeaux FA-443

Traditional Zulu: "Kadeni Kwazulu"

Kelly Petlane, f; Soweto String Quartet
Zebra Crossing

RCA 26865-2

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90

IV. Finale, "Allegro"

Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Brahms: The Symphonies

DG 4866000

Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Aleko"

Dance of the Women; Dance of the Men

Philharmonia Orch/Neeme Järvi
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances

Chandos CHAN-9081

Alberto Ginastera: "Estancia," Op. 8

"Danza del trigo"

Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel

DG B0011340-02

Alberto Ginastera: "Danzas argentinas," Op. 2

No. 2, "Danza de la moza donosa"

Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil String Quartet
Piazzolla Stories

Warner 0190295155636

Fanny Mendelssohn: Capriccio in B minor, H. 349

Claire Huangci, p
Piano Heroines

Alpha 1231

Jean-Joseph Mouret: "Sinfonies de Fanfares"

Rondeau

Pierre Cochereau, o; Brass Ensemble/Armand Birbaum
Musique à Notre-Dame de Paris

Philips 442473-2 (2)

Franz Joseph Haydn: "Scherzando" No. 2 in C, H II:34

Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss
Haydn: 6 Scherzandi

Koch 3-1443-2

Horace Ott, Bennie Benjamin, and Sol Marcus: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

Ashley Jackson, h
Cover Girl

Decca 4879986

Peter Tchaikovsky: "1812" Overture, Op. 49

Dallas Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata
1812 Overture

Pro Arte CDD-409

Amy Beach: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150

Neave Trio
Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke

Chandos CHAN-20139

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051

Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

L'Oiseau-Lyre 414187-2 (2)

Gabriel Fauré: "Clair de lune," Op. 46, No. 2

Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fauré Album

Canary Classic CC-03

Traditional Italian: "Tarantella napoletana"

Jacqueline Schwab, p
I Lift My Lamp: Illuminations from Immigrant America

Sono Luminus DSL-92257

Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G, Op. 13

Eldbjørg Hemsing, v; Simon Trpčeski, p
Grieg: The Violin Sonatas

BIS 2456

Roque Cordero: Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra

V. "Nocturno"

Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 4

Sony 19075862152 (10)

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