Playlist for Monday, May 18, 2026

Vincenzo Bellini: "Norma"

Aria, "Casta Diva"

James Galway, f; London Sym Orch/Klauspeter Seibel
Wings of Song: Popular Classical Melodies for Flute and Orchestra * James Galway

DG B0003024-02

Antonio Pasculli: "Omaggio a Bellini" (Duo on themes from Bellini operas)

Heinz Holliger, eh; Ursula Holliger, h
Heinz Holliger at the Opera

Philips 426288-2

Louise Farrenc: "Rondeau brillant" on Bellini's Pirate Chorus, Op. 9

Maria Stratigou, p
Louise Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3: Rondeaux

Grand Piano GP-942

Bohuslav Martinu: "Borova" (Seven Czech Dances) (1929-30)

#6

Radoslav Kvapil, p
Anthology of Czech Piano Works, Vol. 3: Bohuslav Martinu

Unicorn-Kanchana DKPCD-9140

Bohuslav Martinu: Symphony #4 (1945)

Czech Phil/Vaclav Neumann
Martinu: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4

Supraphon 111967-2

Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39

#15 in A-Flat

Claire Aebersold, p; Ralph Neiweem, p
Brahms: Four Hands

Summit DCD-184

Nicolo Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op 1

#24 in a

Yo-Yo Ma, vc
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Paganini, Kreisler, Dvorak

CBS MK-37280

Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.35

Olga Kern, p
Johannes Brahms * Variations * Olga Kern

Harmonia Mundi HMU-907392

Johannes Brahms: "Hungarian Dances"

No. 19 in b

Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
Classic Abbado

DG 4792549

Georg Philipp Telemann: Divertimento in B-Flat

Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
String Concertos

DG Archiv 463074-2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wind Divertimento No. 16 in B-Flat, K. 289

London Wind Soloists/Jack Brymer
Mozart Complete Wind Music

London 455794-2 (3)

William Grant Still: Folk Suite #2

"El Zapatero"

Sierra Winds
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still

Cambria CD-1083

Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: "Festmarsch" in D

Swiss Italian Orch/Howard Shelley

Hyperion CDA-67939

Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: Flute and Harp Sonata in E-flat, Op 114

Maxence Larrieu, fl; Susanna Mildonian, h
N/A

Ars Classicum 1155482

John Cage: Sonata II for Prepared Piano

Joshua Pierce, p
Between The Keys: Microtonal Masterpieces Of The 20th Century

Newport Classic NPD-85526

Charlotte Sohy: Symphony in c-sharp (1917)

French National Orch/Deborah Waldman
Compositrices

Palazzetto Bru Zane BZ-2006 (8)

Louis Durey: "Le Bestiaire" (1919; text by Apollinaire)

#21, "Les sirènes"

Lionel Peintre, br; Ensemble Erwartung

Mandala MAN-4980/81 (2)

Gioachino Rossini: "L'inganno felice"

Overture

St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Rossini: Overtures

Philips 5361764 (3)

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in f, D 625

András Schiff, p
Schubert: Piano Sonatas

London 440310-2

Joseph Boudin de Boismortier: "Fragments melodiques"

"Courante"

Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
BOISMORTIER: Serenades Francaises / Fragments Melodiques

Naxos 8.554456

Arthur Bliss: "Checkmate" (1937)

Five Dances

West Australian Sym Orch/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler
Rubbra/ Bliss/Tippett: Orchestral Works

Chandos CHAN-6576

Andre Philidor: Suite in E-Flat

Le Temple du Goût

Ma Recordings M-075-A

Andre Philidor: La Marche des Dragons du Roy

Ensemble/Jean-Claude Malgoire

MHS 1080

Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo a capriccio in G, "Rage over a lost penny," Op 129

Alexis Weissenberg, p

EMI/Ang CDM7-69336-2

Antonin Dvorák: Rondo in g, Op 94

Peter Bruns, vc; Dresden Staatskapelle/Michael Helmrath
Bach: Transcriptions And Variations

Hänssler Classic CD-98.478

Felix Mendelssohn: "Rondo brillant" in E-Flat, Op 29

Christina Ortiz, p; Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Moshe Atzmon

Pantheon D-07094

Ole Bull: "Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso"

Arve Tellefsen, v; Trondheim Sym/Elvind Aadland

Simax PSC-1261

Christian Sinding: Song, "Poem", Op 77/2

Per Vollestad, br; Sigmund Hjelset, p
Sinding: Songs Vol 2

Simax PSC-1195

Edvard Grieg: Old Norwegian Romance With Variations, Op. 51

Bournemouth Sym Orch/Paavo Berglund

EMI/Ang CDFB5-68649-2 (2)

Borlet: Ma tredol rossignol

Hesperus
For No Good Reason At All

Golden Apple GACD-7553

Leo Délibes: "Lakmé"

Flower duet, "Dome épais, le jasmin"

Hei-Kyung Hong, Jennifer Larmore; Munich Radio Orch/Jesus López-Cobos
Bellezza Vocale * Hong * Larmore

Teldec 22801-2

Jean Françaix: "Flower Clock"

John de Lancie, ob; London Sym/André Previn
Strauss: Oboe Concerto/ Francaix: L'Horloge De Flore/ Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1/ Ibert: Symphonie Concertante

RCA 7989-2

Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Distribuiçao de flores" (1937)

John Anderson, ob; Simon Wynberg, g
Music For Oboe And Guitar

Chandos CHAN-6581

Emil Stolc: "Flowers' Whisper" Waltz

Czech Phil/Vaclav Neumann
Old Czech Marches

Supraphon 110725-2

Percy Grainger: Beautiful Fresh Flower

Martin Jones, p
Grainger: Country Gardens and Other Piano

Nimbus NI-5232

Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concerto in a

L'Arte dell'Arco/Giovanni Guglielmo, v

Dynamic CDS-196

William Byrd: "My Lord of Oxenfords Maske"

Baltimore Consort
Chamber and Vocal Music (16th-17th Centuries) – READE, R. / JOHNSON, J. RAVENSCROFT, T. / MORLEY, T. (The Ladyes Delight)

Dorian DOR-90252

Luigi Boccherini: Flute Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 19, No. 5 (G 429)

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

Avie AV-2698

Charles Gounod: Symphony No. 1 in D

I. "Allegro molto"

St. Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood
Bizet: L'Arlésienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Symphony No.1

Decca 430231-2

Antonín Kraft: Cello Concerto in C, Op 4

III. Finale, "Rondo alla Cosacca"

Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Ensemble Resonanz/Riccardo Minasi
Antonín Kraft & Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902392

Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Sexteto Místico"

OSESP Ensemble
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto / Harmonica Concerto / Sexteto místico

Naxos 8.574018

Fritz Kreisler: Violin Concerto in C, in the style of Vivaldi

Gil Shaham, v; Orpheus Chamber Orch

DG 439933-2

Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio in E-Flat, Op. 40

II. Scherzo: "Allegro"

Jenő Keveházi, hn; Ildikó Hegyi, v; Jenő Jandó, p
Heroic Horn: Best Loved Classical Music

Naxos 8.578177

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

Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Malcolm Arnold for Band

Reference RR-66

Meyer/Thile/Duncan: "Less is Moi"

Stuart Duncan, plectrum banjo; Chris Thile, man; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Edgar Meyer, db
Edgar Meyer, double bass,
The Goat Rodeo Sessions

Sony 84118-2

Peter Tchaikovsky: String Sextet, Op. 70, "Souvenir de Florence"

III. "Allegretto moderato"

Orch d'Auvergne/Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir De Florence; Serenade In C

Denon CO-75026

Karl Goldmark: Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 26, "Rustic Wedding"

V. Finale, "Dance"

Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony; Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2

Vanguard OVC-5002

Ernest Chausson: "Concert" in D, Op. 21

IV. Finale

Rachel Barton Pine, v; Orion Weiss, p; Pacifica Quartet
French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre

Cedille CDR-90000238

Antonín Dvořák: "Czech Suite," Op 39

V. Finale, "Furiant"

Polish National Radio Sym Orch/Antoni Wit
Festival! Music selected by WFMT

WFMT (Spring 2025 Festival)

Giovanni Sollima: "Il concerto perduto" (after Vivaldi R 787)

Giovanni Sollima, vc; Il Pomo d'Oro
Al-Bunduqiyya - The Lost Concerto

Erato 5419791752

Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 1 in F, Op. 18

IV. Finale, "Allegro"

Rembrandt Trio
Chaminade, Ravel, Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios

Dorian DOR-90187

James Curnow: "Rejouissance" (Fantasy on "Ein feste Burg")

Chicago Gargoyle Brass & Organ Ensemble/Stephen Squires
Ein' feste Burg: Music of the Reformation

MSR Classics MS-1735

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"

II. Scherzo

Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerto

DG 415358-2

Bright Sheng: "Suzhou Overture"

Suzhou Sym Orch/Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng: Let Fly - Zodiac Tales - Suzhou Overture

Naxos 8.570628

Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D

III. "Nocturne"

Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Romantic Favorites / Eugene Ormandy

CBS MBK-38919

Francis Poulenc: Piano and Wind Sextet

Nash Ensemble
Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music

Hyperion CDA-67255/6 (2)

Leonard Bernstein: "West Side Story"

Symphonic Dances

Lucerne Sym Orch/James Gaffigan
Americans

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902611

Dmitri Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 1

Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Shostakovich: Five Ballet Suites

Chandos CHAN-7000/1 (2)

Franz Schubert: Violin Sonatina No. 1 in D, D 384

Joseph Swensen, v; Jeffrey Kahane, p
Schubert: Violin Sonatas - Joseph Swensen / Jeffrey Kahane

RCA 7962-2

Giovanni Gabrieli: "Canzon Septimi Toni a 8"

London Brass
Gabrieli in Venice

Teldec 90856-2

Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61

Scherzo

London Brass
Romantic Journey

Teldec 246007-2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor"

I. "Allegro"

Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Constantine
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos

Orchid Classics ORC-100127

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Twenty-Four Negro Melodies," Op. 59

No. 10, "Deep River"

Ashley Jackson, h
Take Me to the Water

Decca 7572822

Heinrich Schütz: Madrigal, "O primavera," prima and seconda parte

Cantus Cölln/Konrad Junghänel
Schütz Italian Madrigals

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901686

Ulvi Cemal Erkin: Dance Rhapsody, "Köçekçe"

Borusan Istanbul Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Onyx 4124

George Frideric Handel: Aria, "Cara speme, questo core"

Quartetto Vanvitelli
Se in fiorito ameno prato - Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Arcana A-578

George Frideric Handel: Aria, "V'adoro pupille"

Quartetto Vanvitelli
Se in fiorito ameno prato - Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Arcana A-578

Peter Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55

IV. Finale, Theme and Variations

NDR Radio Phil/Stanislav Kochanovsky
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

Harmonia Mundi HMM-905392

Agathe Backer Grøndahl: "Norwegian Folk Tunes and Folk Dances," Op. 30

Three tunes after Myllarguten: "Spring Song; The Kivle Maids; Fanitullen"

Natalia Strelchenko, p
Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Norwegian Folk Tunes

Arena AR-06007

Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op. 45, No. 1

Slovak Phil Orch/Zdeněk Košler
Dvorák: Slavonic Dances

Marco Polo 8.223129

Johannes Brahms: Two Motets, Op. 74

No. 1, "Warum ist das Licht gegeben den Mühseligen"

Chicago Chamber Choir/Christopher Windle
Live Art

Chicago Chamber Choir Live Art

Emmanuel Chabrier: "España"

St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Encore!

RCA 68511-2

Gabriel Fauré: "Dolly" Suite, Op. 56

Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque, p
Katia & Marielle Labèque - Bizet, Fauré, Ravel

Philips 420159-2

Leopold Mozart: "Sinfonia pastorale" in G

New Zealand Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong
Leopold Mozart: Symphonies

Naxos 8.553347

James Horner: "First in Flight"

"Kitty Hawk"

Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/David Arnold
James Horner: Collage

Mercury 4812810

Gustav Holst: Suite No. 2 in F, Op. 28, No. 2

Cleveland Symphonic Winds/Frederick Fennell
Music for Wind Band

Telarc CD-80038

Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B, Op. 30

BBC National Orch of Wales/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4; Song for Orchestra; Knight in Armour

Chandos CHAN-20078

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Variations on Paisiello's "Nel cor più non mi sento," Op. 42

John Anderson, ob; Simon Wynberg, g
Summertime: Music for Oboe and Guitar

Chandos CHAN-6581

Virgil Thomson: "Louisiana Story"

Acadian Songs and Dances

New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp
Virgil Thomson: Louisiana Story, The Plow That Broke The Plains

Hyperion CDA-66576

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C, K. 465, "Dissonance"

Emerson String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet

DG 427657-2

Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16

I. "Allegro moderato"

New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Serenade No. 2

Sony SMK-60970

Astor Piazzolla: "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"

"Spring; Summer"

Daniel Barenboim, p; Rodolfo Mederos, bandoneon; Héctor Console, db
Mi Buenos Aires Querido - Tangos Among Friends

Teldec 13474-2

Camille Saint-Saëns: "Rapsodie d'Auvergne," Op. 73

Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sakari Oramo
Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra

Hyperion CDA-67331/2 (2)

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 74, No. 1

Takács Quartet
Haydn: Strings Quartets Op. 74

Hyperion CDA-67781

Claude Debussy: "Suite bergamasque"

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
Debussy: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 2: Images, Etudes

Decca 460247-2 (2)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Othello," Op. 79

Suite

Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor

Decca 4853322

Isaac Albéniz: "España," Op. 165

No. 3, "Malagueña"

Alicia de Larrocha, p
Spanish Encores

Decca 417639-2

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047

European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

Avie AV-2119 (2)

Francis Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata

Michael Collins, cl; Noriko Ogawa, p
La clarinette parisienne

BIS 2497

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

II. "Largo"

Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection

RCA 888837019828

Alexander Arutiunian: Trumpet Concerto in A-Flat

Paul Merkelo, tr; Russian National Orch/Hans Graf
Arutiunian, Weinberg & Shostakovich: Trumpet Concertos

Naxos 8.579117

Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"

"The Swan"

Antonio Ballista, p
Shortcuts: One-Minute-Plus Piano Pieces by 50 Composers

Brilliant Classics 95615

Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish
British Wind Band Classics

Chandos CHAN-9697

Oskar Nedbal: "The Tale of Simple Johnny"

"Valse triste"

Prague Sym Orch/Václav Smetáček
Small Czech Musical Gems

Supraphon 101429-2

Traditional Catalan: "Song of the Birds"

Wenting Kang, vi; Sergei Kvitko, p
Mosaic

Blue Griffin BGR-609

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Nocturne in B-Flat, Op. 16, No. 4

Ignacy Jan Paderewski, p
The Polish Virtuoso - Hofmann, Friedman, Ignaz Jan Paderewski

Nimbus NI-8802

Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Hope Amid Tears

Sony 886449139354

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