Playlist for Thursday, August 21, 2025

John Williams: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" film suite

Harry's Wondrous World

Orch/John Williams
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

Warner 83491-2

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Prince and the Pauper" film score

Suite

London Sym/André Previn
Previn Conducts Korngold * The Sea Hawk

DG 471347-2

John Williams: "Star Wars: A New Hope"

"Force Theme"

Alexandre Tharaud, p
Cinema

Erato 5419718461

Scott Joplin: "Ragtime Dance"

Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet
Cooler By the Lake

Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet

Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 74

Alexander Fiterstein, cl; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Alexander Fiterstein Performs Carl Maria von Weber

Bridge 9416

Carl Loewe: Song, "Allmacht Gottes," Op. 89/3

Ingeborg Danz, s; Cord Garben, p
Loewe: Lieder & Balladen Complete Edition

CPO 777355-2 (21)

Jules Massenet: "Thaïs"

"Méditation"

Zuill Bailey, vc; Roanoke Sym/David Wiley
Zuill Bailey in Concert * Live 10-17-05

Delos DE-3378

Peter Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso in b, Op. 62

Zuill Bailey, vc; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Russian Masterpieces for Cello and Orchestra

Telarc CD-80724

David Popper: Etudes, Op 73

#6 in F

Janos Starker, vc
The Road To Cello Playing

Parnassus PACD-97-008

Russell Garcia: Miniature Symphony for Saxophone

West Coast Saxophone Quartet
All The Sax You've Ever Dreamed Of

Cambria CD-1045

Erkki Melartin: Symphony No. 5, Op. 90, "Sinfonia brevis"

Tampere Phil/Leonid Grin
Melartin: The Six Symphonies

Ondine ODE-931-2 (3)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801

No. 8 in F

Ton Koopman, hc

Capriccio 10210

Debra Kaye: "Call of the Dance"

"Fantasy"

Carl Gutowski, f; Marcia Eckert, p
Ikarus Among the Stars: Music of Debra Kaye

Navona NV-6521

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique"

Emil Gilels, p

DG 400036-2

Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 German Dances, WoO 8

#2

Capella Istropolitana/Oliver Dohnanyi
BEETHOVEN, L. van: 11 Dances, "Mödlinger Tänze" / 12 German Dances / 12 Minuets (Capella Istropolitana, Dohnányi)

Naxos 8.550433

Friedrich Ernst Fesca: Symphony No. 3 in D, Op. 13

North German Radio Phil/Frank Beerman
Fesca

CPO 999869-2

Hugo Wolf: "Mörike Lieder"

"Gesang Weylas"

Anna Grevelius, ms; Sholto Kynoch, p
Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs Volume 2

Stone Records 5060192780086

Jacques Offenbach: "The Tales of Hoffmann"

Aria, "Les oiseaux dans la charmille"

Maurice André, tr; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
Opera Arias

EMI/Ang CDC7-49219-2

Josef Martin Kraus: Overture, "Olympia"

Örebro Chamber Orch/Göran W Nilson
Mozart & His Contemporaries

Bluebell ABCD-031

Gasparo Spontini: Olympie

Overture

Berlin Radio Sym/Gerd Albrecht
Spontini: Olympie

Orfeo C-137862-H (2)

Jacques Offenbach: "The Tales of Hoffmann"

"Presentation of Olympia"

Robert Shaw Cho, Orch/Robert Shaw
Operatic Choruses

RCA LSC-2416

Howard Hanson: Symphony #1 in e, Op 21, "Nordic"

Nashville Sym Orch/Kenneth Schermerhorn
HANSON: Symphony No. 1, 'Nordic' / Merry Mount Suite

Naxos 8.559072

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 12

No. 1, "Arietta"

Emil Gilels, p
Grieg: Lyric Pieces

DG 449721-2

Jacques Offenbach: Valse, "Souvenir d'Aix-les-Bains"

Gulbenkian Orch/Michel Swierczewski
Offenbach Music from the Operettas

Nimbus NI-5303

Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a minor, Op. 33

Laszlo Varga, vc; Westphalian Sym Orch/Siegfried Landau
The Romantic Cello

MMG CDX-5084 (2)

Jacques Ibert: "Carignane" for Bassoon and Piano

David McGill, bn; Peter Serkin, p
Musique Francaise

Boston Records BR-1022-CD

Edvard Grieg: String Quartet No. 2 in F (incomplete)

Chilingirian String Quartet
Grieg: String Quartets

Hyperion CDA-67117

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 43

No. 1, "Butterfly"

Emil Gilels, p
Grieg: Lyric Pieces

DG 449721-2

Johann Strauss II: "Frühlingsstimme-Walzer"

Grigory Ginzburg, p
The Grigory Ginzburg Legacy, Vol. 1

Arlecchino ARL-118

Jean-Marie Leclair: Flute Sonata in G, Op 9/7

Convivium
Leclair: Sonatas-2

Hyperion CDA-67068

Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les fêtes d'Hébé"

"Rigaudons"

Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen
Rameau: Acante Et Céphise, Les Fêtes D'Hébé

Glossa GCD-921103

George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F

Siegfried Stöckigt, p; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur

Berlin Classics 0091582-BC

Victor Frost: "American" Suite (1988)

"Gershwin"

Marc Shapiro, p
Twentieth Century Music for Flute and Piano

Cantilena Records 66015-2

Pablo de Sarasate: "Zigeunerweisen," Op. 20

Gil Shaham, v; Castilla y León Sym Orch/Alejandro Posada
Sarasate: Virtuoso Violin Works - ¡Sarasateada! Valladolid 2008

Canary Classics CC-07

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543

Alexis Weissenberg, p
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alexis Weissenberg

Philips 456988-2 (2)

Agustín Barrios Mangoré: "La Catedral"

Xuefei Yang, g
Guitar Favorites

Decca 4858195

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 2 in G, Op. 18, No. 2

I. "Allegro"

Miró Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 1-6, Op. 18

Vanguard 1655

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73

I. "Allegro non troppo"

Danish Chamber Orch/Ádám Fischer
Brahms: Complete Symphonies

Naxos 8.574465-67

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat, K. 495

III. Finale, Rondo: "Allegro vivace"

Barry Tuckwell, hn; London Sym Orch/Peter Maag
Ultimate Classics: The Essential Masterpieces

Decca 4758085

Franz Lehár: "The Merry Widow"

Overture

Cologne Radio Orch/Helmut Froschauer
Lehar: Die Lustige Witwe

Capriccio 60077-2 (2)

Giuseppe Clemente Dall'Abaco: Sonata in d minor, ABV 35

Elinor Frey, vc; Mauro Valli, vc; Federica Bianchi, hc; Giangiacomo Pinardi, lute
Giangiacomo Pinardi, lute,
Dall'Abaco Cello Sonatas

Passacaille 1069

Hector Berlioz: "Les francs-juges," Op. 3

Overture

Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Famous Overtures

Decca 460982-2 (2)

Gilbert & Sullivan: "Iolanthe"

"When I went to the bar as a very young man"

George Baker, br; Pro Arte Orch/Malcolm Sargent
Gilbert And Sullivan: Iolanthe, Overture di Ballo

EMI CMS7-64400-2 (2)

William Dawson: "Negro Folk Symphony"

I. "The Bond of Africa"

Vienna Radio Sym/Arthur Fagen
Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; Kay: Fantasy Variations - Umbrian Scene

Naxos 8.559870

Luigi Boccherini: Flute Quintet in G, G 438

I. "Allegro"

Rampal, f; R Pasquier, v; B Pasquier, vi; Pidoux & Sternat, vc's
Roland Pidoux, cello,
Luigi Boccherini: Flute Quintets

Sony SK-62679

Jessie Montgomery: "Hymn for Everyone"

Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti
Contemporary American Composers

CSO Resound 9012301

Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah," Op. 47

Aria, "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Kathryn Stott, p
Merci

Sony 19802822812

Gioachino Rossini: String Sonata No. 6 in D

I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Rossini: 6 Sonate a quattro

Erato ECD-75467

Frank Ticheli: "San Antonio Dances"

Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Playing with Fire

Reference RR-127

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Lute Concerto in D minor

I. "Allegro"

Miguel Rincón, l; Il Pomo d'Oro/Zefira Valova
Concertos for Baroque Lute

Aparté AP-376

Paul Schoenfield: "Café Music"

Eroica Trio
Eroica Trio

EMI CDC5-56482-2

Charles Gounod: "Funeral March of a Marionette"

Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Chiller

Telarc CD-80189

Franz Schubert: "Rondo brillant" in B minor, D 895

Isaac Stern, v; Daniel Barenboim, p
Schubert: 3 Sonatinas, Op. Posth. 137, Duo, Op. 162, Rondo, Op. 70, Fantaisie, Op. 159

Sony S2K-44504 (2)

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"

III. "Scherzo: Molto vivace"

Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
New World Symphony

Decca 410116-2

Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat

Adolph Herseth, tr; Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
The Chicago Principal

DG B0000025-02

Claire Cowan: "Ultra Violet"

Amalia Hall, v; Callum Hall, vc; Sarah Watkins, p
Ultra Violet

(Claire Cowan)

Gabriel Fauré: "Masques et Bergamasques", Op. 112

Orpheus Chamber Orch
Pavane

DG 449186-2

Ferdinand Hérold: "Zampa"

Overture

BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Tortelier's French Bonbons

Chandos CHAN-9765

Luigi Boccherini: Flute Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 19, No. 1 (G 425)

Sally Walker, f; Layton & Rayner, v's; King, vi; Marlin, vc
Stephen King, viola,
Boccherini: Chamber Works for Flute

Avie AV-2698

Elie Siegmeister: "Western Suite"

I. "Prairie Morning"

Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
Americana: 20th Century Works for Orchestra

Vox ACD-8155

Amy Beach: "From Grandmother's Garden," Op. 97

Joanne Polk, p
Amy Beach: Fire Flies

Arabesque Z-6721

Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in F, R. 433, "La tempesta di mare"

New Irish Chamber Orch/James Galway, f
Vivaldi: 6 Concerti, Op. 10

RCA RCD1-5316

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Capriccio italien," Op. 45

Dresden Staatskapelle/Neville Marriner
Ravel: Bolero; Chabrier: España; Glinka: Jota aragonesa; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien

Philips 410047-2

Eduard Tubin: Estonian Dance Suite (1938)

Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Tubin: String-Concertos

BIS CD-337

Lennon-McCartney: "Here, There, and Everywhere"

Anthony Molinaro, p
Here, There and Everywhere

Nineteen Eight 19/8 1031

Giuseppe Verdi: "Les Vêpres siciliennes"

Overture

La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti
Verdi: Preludes and Overtures

Sony SK-68468

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano and Wind Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 16

Schellenberger, ob; Combs, cl; Clevenger, hn; Damiano, bn; Barenboim, p
Daniele Damiano, bassoon,
Beethoven, Mozart: Quintets

Erato 96359-2

Akemi Naito: "Tsuki no Waka"

New York Polyphony
Sky of my Heart

BIS 2719

Gioachino Rossini: "La Cenerentola"

Overture

Royal Opera House Orch/Carlo Rizzi
Gioachino Rossini: Overtures

Conifer 55004-2

Mel Bonis: "Le Rêve de Cléopâtre," Op. 180

Lyon National Orch/Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems

Bru Zane BZ-2007

Francis Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata

Pablo Barragán, cl; Sophie Pacini, p
Boundless

Aparté AP-287

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56

Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
A German Requiem- Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Decca 436614-2

Anonymous 16th-century Italian: Improvisations on "Passa e mezzo"

Renaissonics
Dance!

Titanic TI-232

Howard Hanson: "Before the Dawn," Op. 17

Basque National Orch/Robert Treviño
Americascapes

Ondine ODE-1396-2

Franz Schubert: Violin Sonatina No. 3 in G minor, D. 408

Mark Kaplan, v; David Golub, p
Schubert: Works for Piano & Violin

Arabesque Z-6636

Max Bruch: Swedish Dances, Op. 63

Book 1 (Nos. 1-7)

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Bruch: Symphonies and Swedish Dances

Philips 420932-2 (2)

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049

Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4, 5, and 6

Telarc CD-80354

Arturo Márquez: "Conga del Fuego"

Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries

DG B0013458-02

Ernest John Moeran: Two Pieces for Small Orchestra (1931-2)

No. 2, "Whythorne's Shadow"

English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
The Banks of Green Willow

EMI CDM7-64200-2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43

Yuja Wang, p; Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody

DG 4864759

Franz Liszt: "Venezia e Napoli"

III. Finale, "Tarantella"

Stephen Hough, p
Stephen Hough Plays Liszt

Virgin 90700-2

Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"

Philharmonia Orch/Charles Groves
Sir Charles' Precious Music Box 1

Denon CO-73534

Johann Strauss II: "Champagne Polka," Op. 211

London Sym Orch/John Georgiadis
An Evening In Vienna

MCA Classics MCAD-25967

Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82

Gil Shaham, v; Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
Meeting in Moscow: Violin Concertos

DG 457064-2

Adolphe Adam: "Giselle"

Finale & "Lever du soleil"

Royal Opera House Orch/Richard Bonynge
Adam: Giselle - Ballet

Decca 417505-2 (2)

Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"

Entry of the Guests

Llŷr Williams, p
Wagner Without Words

Signum SIGCD-388 (2)

Leonard Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra

Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
American Classics

Philips 416360-2

Traditional English: "Early One Morning"

Tabernacle Choir/Richard P. Condie
The Lord Is My Shepherd

CBS MS-6019

Igor Stravinsky: "Petrushka"

Suite

Philharmonia Orch/Igor Markevitch
Stravinsky, Prokofiev: Ballets

EMI CZS7-62647-2 (2)

Edvard Grieg: "Scenes from Folk Life," Op. 19

No. 1, "Mountain Dance"

Eva Knardahl, p
Grieg: The Complete Piano Music

BIS CD-108

Roberto Sierra: "Cinco Bocetos"

No. 4, "Canción de la Montaña"

J Lawrie Bloom, bcl
Monologues

Bloom 2006

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Three Sephardic Songs

No. 1, "Montañas altas"

D'Anna Fortunato, s; Susan Miron, h
Harp Songs & Interludes

Northeastern NR-231-CD

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52

Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Complete Symphonies

Decca 4852256

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

Chorus of the Janissaries

Vienna State Opera Cho, Vienna Phil/Josef Krips
Amadeus: Best of Mozart

EMI 82164

Gabriel Fauré: "Pelléas et Mélisande," Op. 80

Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot
Fauré: Masques et bergamasques & Pelléas et Mélisande

Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004

Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance No. 2 in F, Op. 50

Itzhak Perlman, v; Berlin Phil/Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances

EMI CDC7-49567-2

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