Playlist for Thursday, May 8, 2025

Henry Purcell: "Dido and Aeneas"

"When I am laid in earth"

Joyce DiDonato, ms; Il Pomo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev
In War & Peace

Erato 0190295928469

Ethel Smyth: "The Wreckers"

Overture

Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson

EMI/Ang CDM7-69206-2

Henry Purcell: "Dioclesian"

"Symphony"

Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess - Orchestral Suites ‎

Fontalis ES-8583

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.1 in C, Op.15

New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein, p
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 In C Major / Mozart: Piano Concerto No.25 In C Major

Sony SMK-47519

Leonard Bernstein: "Five Anniversaries"

No. 2, "For Lukas Foss"

Lara Downes, p
Some Other Time

Steinway & Sons 30025

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

IX. "The Angels Changed My Name"

Ashley Jackson, h
24 Negro Melodies

Bright Shiny Things BSTD-0188

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: "Toccata"

Nnenna Ogwo, p
Luminous

MSR Classics MS-1819

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Petite Suite de Concert"

RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
Coleridge-Taylor

Marco Polo 8.223516

Robert Schumann: "Album für die Jugend," Op. 68

#4, "Chorale"

Luba Edlina, p
Schumann: Album for the Young

Chandos CHAN-9731

Max Bruch: Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 28

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Max Bruch: The 3 Symphonies / Swedish Dances · Schwedische Tänze

Philips 420932-2 (2)

Aaron Copland: "Sentimental Melody: Slow Dance"

Lara Downes, p
America Again

Sono Luminus DSL-92207

Giacomo Puccini: "Madama Butterfly"

Aria, "Un bel di vedremo"

BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth
Opera Without Words

London 473371-2

Leo Délibes: "La Source"

"Variation"

Chicago Sym Woodwind Quintet

Audiophile AP-17

Josef Lanner: Ländler, "Die Schmetterlinge," Op 65

Ensemble Wien
Souvenir aus Wien/ Vienna Souvenir

Sony SK-47187

Gang/Hao: Violin Concerto, "The Butterfly Lovers"

Gil Shaham, v; Singapore Sym/Lan Shui
Chen/He: The Butterfly Lovers * Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Canary Classics CC-04

Franz Schubert: Song, "Der Schmetterling," D 633

Matthias Goerne, br; Graham Johnson, p
The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 27

Hyperion CDJ-33027

Alexander Scriabin: "Valse" in A-Flat, Op 38

Jeremy Thompson, p

MSR MS-1669

Niels Gade: Symphony #8 in b, Op 47

Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi
The Complete Symphonies, Volume 2 - No.1 In C Minor, No.8 In B Minor

BIS CD-339

Niels Gade: "Barcarolle"

Anker Blyme, p

Da Capo DCCD-9116

Leo Sowerby: "Two American Pieces" (1923)

Robert Murray, v; Gail Quillman, p

Premier PRCD-1049

Lukas Foss: Three Pieces

Carol Wincenc, f; Lukas Foss, p
Music Of Barber, Copland, Cowell, Del Tredici, Foss, Griffes

Nonesuch 79114-1

Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 1

IV. "Simple Gifts"

Thomas Hampson, br; St Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
Long Time Ago * Dawn Upshaw & Thomas Hampson * American Songs by Aaron Copland

Teldec 77310-2

Warren Benson: "Aeolian Song" (1953)

Ronald Caravan, sx; Sar-Shalom Strong, p
Single Reed Expressions

Mark 51602-MCD

Jean Sibelius: "Pohjola's Daughter," Op 49

Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Colin Davis

Radio Nederland RCO-12004 (14)

Jean Sibelius: Four Lyric PIeces, Op. 74

No. 3, "The Pleasures of the Dance"

Havard Gimse, p
SIBELIUS: Piano Music, Vol. 4

Naxos 8.555363

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat, K. 482

Jonathan Biss, p; Orpheus Chamber Orch
Piano Concertos 21 and 22

EMI 17270-2

Fernando Sor: Etudes, Op 6

#1

Goran Krivokapic, g
Sor - Opus 6, 7, 8, 9 Krivokapic

Naxos 8.570502

Emile Waldteufel: "Kamiesch March," Op 5

Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter
WALDTEUFEL : Vol. 10

Marco Polo 8.223688

Emmanuel Chabrier: "Marche joyeuse"

Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner
Chabrier: Espana, Suite Pastorale, Habanera, Marche Francaise, Fete Polonaise

DG 447751-2

François-Joseph Gossec: "March Lugubre"

Wallace Collection/John Wallace
Berlioz 'Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale'

MHS 515473-F

Louis Ganne: Marche lorraine

Philip Jones Ensemble/Elgar Howarth
Grand March

London 417329-2

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: "Marche de triomphe"

B, H, W Läubin, tr; Preston, o; Schmitt, ty
Hannes Läubin, trumpet,
Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound

DG 419245-2

Arnold Bax: Violin Concerto

Lydia Mordkovitch, v; London Phil/Bryden Thomson
Bax: Violin Concerto

Chandos CHAN-9003

Roger Quilter: Three Shakespeare Songs, Op 6

#2, "O Mistress Mine"

Bryn Terfel, b-br; Malcolm Martineau, p
Silent Noon

DG B0004216-02

Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11

I. "Allegro molto"

Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Brahms Serenades 1 & 2

Telarc CD-80522

Pablo de Sarasate: "Caprice basque," Op. 24

Leonidas Kavakos, v; Enrico Pace, p
Virtuoso

Decca 4789377

Johann Sebastian Bach: "St Matthew Passion," BWV 244

Aria, "Erbarme dich, mein Gott"

D Nemtanu, v; L Renaudin Vary, tr; Paris Chamber Orch/S Goetzel
Winter Gardens

Warner 2173241838

Franz Berwald: Symphony No. 3 in C, "Sinfonie singulière"

I. Allegro fuocoso

Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Berwald: 4 Symphonies

DG 415502-2 (2)

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D 960

IV. Finale, "Allegro ma non troppo"

Alfred Brendel, p
Philips Classics: The Stereo Years

Philips 4788977

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

Overture

Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/René Jacobs
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte / René Jacobs

Harmonia Mundi HMC-902068.70 (3)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonia No. 6 in E, BWV 792

Ton Koopman, hc
JS Bach: Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions & Six Little Preludes

Capriccio 10210

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

I. "Allegro con brio"

Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber
Carlos Kleiber: Complete Orchestral Recordings

DG 4792687

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5

Jan Lisiecki, p
Preludes

DG 4866018

Carlos Guastavino: "Jeromita Linares"

Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche
Impresiones

Dorian DOR-90202

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Grand Scherzo, Op. 57

Alan Marks, p
Gottschalk for 2 Hands

Nimbus NI-5014

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2

II. Scherzo

Pacifica Quartet
Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets * Pacifica Quartet

Cedille CDR-90000082 (3)

Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat

Guy Touvron, tr; Prague Chamber Orch
Classic Trumpet

RCA 60858-2

Antonio Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in C minor, R. 441

Amsterdam Vivaldi Players/Lucie Horsch, r
Lucie Horsch plays Vivaldi

Decca 4830896

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)"

Chorale, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Los Angeles Master Chorale/Grant Gershon; Jaebon Hwang, o
Mysterium

Avie AV-2585

Joaquín Turina: "Mujeres españolas" Set 2, Op. 73

Sara Davis Buechner, p
Turina: Mujeres Españolas, Woman of Spain -- Five Suites for Piano

Connoisseur CD-4186

Amilcare Ponchielli: "La Gioconda"

"Dance of the Hours"

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Stanley Black
Phase 4 Stereo Concert Series

Decca 4786769

Joseph Kreutzer: "Grand Trio," Op. 16

III. Finale, "Alla pollaca"

Alexa Still, f; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, g
The Viennese Guitar

Koch 3-7404-2H1

Sergei Prokofiev: "Overture on Hebrew Themes," Op. 34

Stefan Vladar, p; Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, March in B-Flat, Overture on Hebrew Themes, Classical Symphony

DG 429396-2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Allegro in G for mechanical clock, WoO 33/3

Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Lambert Orkis, p
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas

DG 457619-2 (4)

Francesco Geminiani: Concerto grosso in A, Op. 2, No. 6

Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
Geminiani: Concerti grossi

Sony SK-48043

Antonín Dvořák: Wind Serenade in D minor, Op. 44

III. "Andante con moto"

Orpheus Chamber Orch
Dvořák: Serenades Opp. 22 & 44

DG 415364-2

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri: Two-Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat

III. Rondo. Allegro

Dieter Klocker & Sandra Arnold, cl's, Czech Phil Chamber Orch
Cartellieri: Clarinet Concerto's, Vol. 2

MD+G 3010960-2

Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-Flat, Op. 20

I. "Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco"

Jupiter Quartet, Jasper String Quartet
Jupiter and Jasper String Quartets * Mendelssohn * Visconti * Golijov

Marquis 16132

Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

IV. Finale, "Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace"

London Sym Orch/Gianandrea Noseda
Tchaikovsky: Symphony 5; Rimsky-Korsakov: Kitezh Suite

LSO Live LSO-0858

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

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

Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004

Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasie

Maxim Vengerov, v; Israel Phil Orch/Zubin Mehta
Maxim Vengerov - The Road I Travel

Teldec 17045-2

Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 10, No. 3

Toronto Chamber Orch/Boyd Neel
The Pachelbel Canon And Other Baroque Favorites / Boyd Neel

MMG MCD-10012

Thomas Tallis: "O nata lux"

Voces8
Lux

Decca B0022601-02

Ēriks Ešenvalds: "Stars"

Voces8
Lux

Decca B0022601-02

Undine Smith Moore: Afro-American Suite

Mallarmé Chamber Players
Songs for the Soul

Albany TROY-1190

Franz Liszt: "Venezia e Napoli"

I. "Gondoliera"

Marc-André Hamelin, p
Liszt: Piano Sonata

Hyperion CDA-67760

Franz Liszt: "Venezia e Napoli"

II. "Canzone"

Marc-André Hamelin, p
Liszt: Piano Sonata

Hyperion CDA-67760

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

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; French National Orch/Lorin Maazel
Cello Concertos

CBS MK-35848

Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"

Act 4 Symphony

Music of the Baroque Orch/Thomas Wikman
With Clarion Voice

D'Note DND-1026

George Dyson: Overture, "At the Tabard Inn"

London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Dyson: The Canterbury Pilgrims

Chandos CHAN-9531 (2)

Girolamo Frescobaldi: "Aria della Balletto"

Eliot Fisk, g
Baroque Guitar

Musicmasters 67130-2

John Rutter: "Dancing Tree"

"Stone in the Water"

St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt; Erin Freund, h
The Passing of the Year

St. Charles Singers [April 2025 Concert]

John Rutter: "Dancing Tree"

"Foxglove"

St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt; Erin Freund, h
The Passing of the Year

St. Charles Singers [April 2025 Concert]

John Rutter: "Dancing Tree"

"Daniel Brent"

St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt; Erin Freund, h
The Passing of the Year

St. Charles Singers [April 2025 Concert]

George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in C, "Alexander's Feast"

La Stravaganza Cologne/Andrew Manze
Musick for the Royal Fireworks and Other Orchestral Masterpieces

Denon CO-79943

Igor Stravinsky: "Apollo (Apollon musagète)"

Birth of Apollo; Apollo's Variation ("Apollo and the Muses")

Royal Concertgebouw Orch Strings/Riccardo Chailly
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, Scherzo Fantastique, The Firebird Suite

Decca 458142-2

Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto No. 11 in E-Flat

Sabine Meyer, cl; St Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
Johann & Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos

EMI CDC7-54842-2

Daniel-François Auber: "Gustave III, ou le Bal Masqué"

Overture

English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
Auber: Le Domino Noir; Gustave III, ou Le Bal Masqué

Decca 440646-2 (2)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Mozart's "Bei Männern," WoO 46

Daniel Müller-Schott, vc; Angela Hewitt, p
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Op. 102, Variations

Hyperion CDA-67755

Carl Maria von Weber: "Invitation to the Dance," Op. 65

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

RCA 888837019828

Nino Rota: Harp Concerto

Luisa Prandina, h; I Virtuosi Italiani/Marzio Conti
Nino Rota: Concertos

Chandos CHAN-9954

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

Grace Davidson & Victoria Meteyard, s's; King's Singers
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

Signum SIGCD-887

Carlo Tessarini: Sonata in D for trumpet and strings

Guy Touvron, tr; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Carnival in Venice

RCA 61815-2

Alexander Glazunov: "Scènes de ballet," Op 52

No. 8, Polonaise

Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart
Glazunov: The Seasons

Telarc CD-80347

Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48

United Strings of Europe/Julian Azkoul
Tchaikovsky: Serenade, Souvenir de Florence

BIS 2569

Charlotte Sohy: "Histoire sentimentale," Op. 34

Avignon-Provence National Orch/Debora Waldman
Charlotte Sohy, Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

La Boîte à Pépites BAP01.03

Tomaso Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 7, No. 3

John Anderson, ob; Philharmonia Orch/Simon Wright
Venetian Oboe Concertos

Nimbus NI-5188

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," K. 525

Camerata Salzburg/Sándor Végh
Mozart: Salzburger Sinfonien

Capriccio 10185

Hans Gál: Serenade for string trio in D, Op. 41

Ensemble Epomeo
Hans Gál & Hans Krása: Complete String Trios

Avie AV-2259

Franz Joseph Haydn: Wind Divertimento in B-Flat, H II:46

Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Haydn - Danzi - Bozza - Ibert - Villa-Lobos

CBS MK-39558

Howard Hanson: "Pan and the Priest," Op 26 (1925-26)

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

Naxos 8.559072

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Grande Tarantelle," Op. 67

Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard
Dances for Piano and Orchestra

Reference RR-134

Ernesto Cordero: "Concierto Festivo"

Pepe Romero, g; I Solisti di Zagreb
Ernesto Cordero: Caribbean Concertos for Guitar and Violin

Naxos 8.572707

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G, R. 146

Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon
Antonio Vivaldi * Concerti e Sinfonie per Archi

Archiv B0006728-02

Franz Schubert: Two "Marches caractéristiques" in C, D 886

Jenő Jandó & Ilona Prunyi, p
Schubert: Piano Works for Four Hands, Vol. 1 / Jandó, Prunyi

Naxos 8.550555

Chick Corea: "The Hilltop"

Guitar4mation
Trans4mation

Gramola 99048

Shalom Hanoch: "Shir Lelo Shem"

Viktoria Mullova, v; Misha Mullov-Abado, db
Music We Love

Onyx 4220

Emilie Mayer: Symphony No. 3 in C, "Military"

Bremerhaven Phil Orch/Marc Niemann
Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3

Hännsler Classic HC-22016

George Gershwin: Three Preludes (1926)

Eroica Trio
Eroica Trio

EMI CDC5-56482-2

Felix Mendelssohn: "The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)" Overture, Op 26

Slovak Phil Orch/Oliver von Dohnányi
Famous Overtures

Naxos 8.553627

Edward Elgar: Four Dances for Winds (1879)

Athena Ensemble
Elgar: Music For Wind Quintet, Vol. 2

Chandos CHAN-6554

Pietro Locatelli: Violin Concerto in A, Op. 3, No. 11

Isabelle Faust, v; Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini
Locatelli: Il Virtuoso, Il Poeta

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902398

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

May; June; November; January

Sviatoslav Richter, p
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons; Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux

MMG MCD-10031

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

Lahti Sym Orch/Osmo Vänskä
Sibelius - Symphonies 1 & 4 / Osmo Vänskä

BIS CD-861

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 43

No. 1, "Butterfly"

Andrey Gugnin, p
Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite, Ballade & Lyric Pieces

Hyperion CDA-68424

He Zhanhao & Chen Gang: "The Butterfly Lovers"

I. "Falling in Love"

Xuefei Yang, g
40 Degrees North

EMI 06322-2

Josef Lanner: "Die Schmetterlinge" Ländler, Op. 65

Ensemble Wien
Souvenirs de Vienne

Sony SK-47187

Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat, D 898 (Op. 99)

Storioni Trio Amsterdam
Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2

Pentatone PTC-5186050