Playlist for Thursday, February 26, 2026

Astor Piazzolla: "Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons in Buenos Aires)"

"Otoño Porteño (Autumn)"

Neave Trio
Tangos Among Friends

Azica ACD-71324

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, “Autumn”

Joshua Bell, v; St Martin's Academy
The Four Seasons

Sony 11013-2

Frantisek Janoska: "The Four Seasons in Janoska Style" (after Vivaldi)

Autumn: I. "7/8 Balkan Journey"

Janoska Ensemble
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons in Janoska Style

DG 9487617

Betty Jackson KING: "Four Seasonal Sketches"

No. 3, "Autumn Dance"

Rochelle Sennet, p
Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. 3

Albany TROY-1965-68 (3)

Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: Symphony #9 in b, Op 143, "The Seasons"

Swiss Italian Orch/Howard Shelley

Hyperion CDA-67939

Stephen Foster: Song, "Some Folks"

Robert Shaw Cho/Robert Shaw; John Cali, banjo
Stephen Foster Songbook * Robert Shaw Chorale

MHS 514489-H

Giovanni Gabrieli: "Canzon VIII a 8"

Concerto Palatino
Gabrieli: Sonate E Canzoni

Harmonia Mundi HMC-901688

Igor Stravinsky: "Suite italienne"

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, vc; Martin Helmchen, p

Alpha 827

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Flute Concerto in G

James Galway, f; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Italian Flute Concertos

RCA 61164-2

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: "Livietta e Tracollo"

Aria, "Ecco il povero Tracollo"

Dino Mantovani, br; Orch/Enio Gerelli
Livietta e Tracollo

Naxos 981073

Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in a, Op. 105

Shea-Kim Duo
All Roads

Blue Griffin BGR-643

Robert Schumann: Four Duets, Op 34

#3, "Unterm Fenster"

Dorothea Röschmann, s; Ian Bostridge, t; Graham Johnson, p
Songs of Robert Schumann 7

Hyperion CDJ-33107

Johann Strauss Sr: "Schäfer" Quadrille, Op. 217

Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Sony 88697914112

Johann Strauss II: Waltz, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”, Op. 314

Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Strauss Waltzes

RCA RCD1-5405

Johannes Brahms: "Liebeslieder Waltzes" Op. 52

No. 8, "Wenn so lind dein Augen mir"

Bonney, von Otter, Streit, Bär; Helmut Deutsch, Bengt Forsberg,p
Helmut Deutsch, piano,
Liebeslieder Waltzes

EMI/Ang CDC5-55430-2

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in f minor, Op 34

Casals Quartet; Claudio Martínez Mehner, p
Brahms: The Complete Quartets

Harmonia Mundi HMI-987074.75

Ferenc Farkas: "Contrafacta Hungarica" (1974)

#6, "Heiduckentanz"

Les Vents de Montréal/Jacques Lacombe

Radio Canada Int'l MVCD-1105

Maurice Ravel: "Gaspard de la nuit"

"Ondine"

Martha Argerich, p

EMI/Ang CDC5-57101-2

George Templeton Strong: "Ondine (Symphonic Poem)"

Moscow Sym Orch/ Adriano
Strong

Naxos 8.559078

Albert Lortzing: "Undine"

Chorus, "Auf, ihr Zecher"

RIAS Chamber Cho, Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Robert Heger

EMI/Ang CMS7-63208-2 (2)

Carl Reinecke: Flute Sonata in e, Op 167, "Undine"

Karen Kevra, f; Jeffrey Chappell, p
Romantic Music

Petrichor PTR-0001

Felix Mendelssohn: Three Preludes and Three Studies, Op 104

Etude #3 in a

Bertrand Chamayou, p
Mendelssohn

Naive V-5131

Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes, Op.34

no.1 in A-flat, "Valse brillante"

Samson François, p
Chopin: Piano Works

EMI/Ang 646106-2 (36)

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5

Panocha String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartets Op.76, Nos. 4-6

Supraphon 110362-2

William Walton: "Henry V" Suite (1944)

Passacaglia: Death of Falstaff

New Zealand Sym Orch/William Walton
Walton Conducts Walton: The 1964 New Zealand Tour

Bridge 9133-A/B (2)

William Walton: Viola Concerto

Maxim Vengerov, vi; London Sym/Mstislav Rostropovich

EMI/Ang CDC5-57510-2

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

No. 13 in a minor

Dave Camwell, sx; Stephen Page, sx
Dave Camwell * Bach-Centric

Teal Creek Music TC-2019

Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 50

No. 3 in c-sharp

Michel Block, p
Chopin: Mazurkas

Pro Piano PPR-224507

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat, K. 543

London Mozart Players/Jane Glover
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 37, 40 and 41

ASV CDDCA-615

Franz Xaver Mozart: Song, "Die Einsamkeit"

Barbara Bonney, s; Malcolm Martineau, p
F.X. Mozart: Lieder

London B0005505-02

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Twelve Little Pieces, Wq 82

Nancy Hadden, f; Elizabeth Walker, f; Lucy Carolan, hc; Erin Headley, viga
Elizabeth Walker,
C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas

ASV CDGAU-161

Giacomo Puccini: "Scossa elettrica"

Milan Verdi Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Puccini Discoveries

London B0002141-02

Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance No. 1 in G, Op. 40

Philippe Quint, v; Minería Sym Orch/Carlos Miguel Prieto
Bruch & Mendelssohn, Beethoven: Violin Concertos, Romances

Avanti 10362

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Op. 1

I. "Allegro con moto"

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet

Chandos CHAN-20242

Hugo Wolf: Scherzo and Finale

Finale

Orch de Paris/Daniel Barenboim
Hugo Wolf: Penthesilea, Der Corregidor, Italian Serenade, Scherzo & Finale

Warner 49582-2

Philip Stopford: "For the Beauty of the Earth"

Chicago Master Singers/Alan Heatherington
Do Not Be Afraid - Recorded in Performance

Chicago Master Singers Do Not Be Afraid

André Grétry: "Céphale et Procris"

"Suite de ballet"

Orch National de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling
Grétry: Suites & Overtures

ASV CDDCA-1095

Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C, D 956

III. Scherzo

Emerson String Quartet; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc
Schubert: String Quintet D 956

DG 431792-2

William Walton: "Henry V"

"Touch her soft lips and part"

English Sym Orch/William Boughton
Meditations for a Quiet Dawn

Nimbus NI-7009

Emmanuel Chabrier: "Bourrée fantasque"

Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi
Chabrier: Orchestral Works

Chandos CHSA-5122

Doppler Brothers: Fantasy on Verdi's "Rigoletto," Op. 38

Daniel Ottensamer & Andreas Ottensamer, cl's; Ernst Ottensamer, basset hn; Vienna Virtuosi
The Clarinotts

DG 4811917

Amy Beach: Romance, Op. 23

Augustin Hadelich, v; Orion Weiss, p
American Road Trip

Warner 5021732287908

Ferde Grofé: "Grand Canyon Suite"

III. "On the Trail"

Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel
Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite; Victor Herbert: Hero and Leander

Sony SK-52491

Aaron Copland: "From Sorcery to Science"

Eos Orch/Jonathan Sheffer
Celluloid Copland

Telarc CD-80583

Carlos Chávez: "Chapultepec (Obertura Republicana)"

Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Keri-Lynn Wilson
Danzón

Dorian XCD-90254

Robert Schumann: "Arabeske" in C, Op. 18

Vassily Primakov, p
Vassily Primakov: Schumann Recital

Bridge 9300

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219, "Turkish"

III. Finale, Rondeau

St. Paul Chamber Orch/Pinchas Zukerman, v
Mozart: Violin Concerti Nos. 3 & 5 / Pinchas Zukerman

CBS MK-37290

Jean Cras: String Trio

1st mvt

Black Oak Ensemble
Avant l'orage: French String Trios 1926-1939

Cedille CDR-90000212

Edward German: "Nell Gwyn"

Overture

Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/John Wilson
Made in Britain

Avie AV-2194

Charles Loeffler: Octet

I. "Allegro moderato"

Ensemble/Graeme Steele Johnson, cl
Stella Chen, violin,
Matthew Lipman, viola,
Forgotten Sounds

Delos DE-3603

Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64

No. 1, "Allegro moderato e marcato"

Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite

DG 419431-2

Ron Nelson: "Savannah River Holiday"

Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
American Visions

RCA 68786-2

Errollyn Wallen: "Mighty River"

Orchestra X/Andrew Morley
Errollyn Wallen: Mighty River (Live)

NMC NMCDL-2017-01

Florence Price: "Mississippi River Suite"

Vienna Radio Sym Orch/John Jeter
Price: Symphony No. 3; The Mississippi River; Ethiopia's Shadow in America

Naxos 8.559897

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin, Two-Oboe, Two-Horn & Bassoon Concerto in F, R. 569

Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi
Vivaldi - Concerti Con Molti Strumenti Vol. 2

Virgin 45723-2

Jerome Kern: "All the Things You Are"

Renée Fleming, s; BBC Concert Orch/Rob Fisher
Broadway

Decca B0028739-02

Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21

London Sym Orch/Peter Maag
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"

Decca 466990-2

Pehr Henrik Nordgren: "Portraits of Country Fiddlers," Op. 26

Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch/Juha Kangas
Folk Into Classic

Ondine ODE-766-2

Joachim Raff: String Octet in C, Op. 176

III. "Andante moderato"

St Martin's Academy Chamber Ensemble
Mendelssohn & Raff: Octets

Chandos CHAN-8790

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