Playlist for Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Franz Liszt: Introduction and Polonaise after Bellini's "I Puritani"

Leslie Howard, p

MHS 525758-F (2)

Jean-Baptiste Arban: Variations on Bellini's "Norma"

Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tr; Kassia Ensemble
Rëverie

Summit DCD-743

Louise Farrenc: "Variations concertantes," Op. 20

Winfried Rademacher, v; Konstanze Eickhorst, p
Louise Farrenc

CPO 555538

Louise Farrenc: "Vingt Études de Moyenne Difficulté," Op. 42

No. 12

Maria Stratigou, p
Louise Farrenc - Complete Piano Works, Vol 1

Grand Piano GP-912-13 (2)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425, "Linz"

Prague Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras
Mozart: Symphony Nos. 36 & 38

Telarc CD-80148

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierstück in B-Flat, K. 15q

Lera Auerbach, p

Lyric Records 103

George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"

"Bess, you is my woman now"

Leontyne Price, s; William Warfield, b-br; Orch/Skitch Henderson
Porgy And Bess Highlights

RCA 5234-2-RG

George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess" Suite

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Rhapsody in Blue

Berlin Classics 0093012-BC

George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"

"Summertime"

Jascha Heifetz, v; Brooks Smith, p
Selections From The Heifetz Collection

RCA 62645-2

Johannes Brahms: String Sextet #1 in B-Flat, Op 18

Music@Menlo Ensemble
Music@Menlo Live: Through Brahms

Music@Menlo 2011 (7)

Johannes Brahms: "Neue Liebeslieder" Waltzes, Op 65

#14, "Flammenauge, dunkles Haar"

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

EMI/Ang CDC5-55430-2

François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 4 (1730): 25e ordre

"La Misterieuse"

Carole Cerasi, hc
Couperin: Complete Works for Harpsichord

Metronome METCD-1100 (10)

Francois Couperin: Pièces en concert

Jian Wang, vc; Camerata Salzburg String Quartet
The Baroque Album

DG 474236-2

Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concerto in B-Flat, Op 10/1

Monica Huggett, v; Arion Ensemble
Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin & Flute Concertos

Atma ACD-22143

Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Paladins"

"Loure"

La Chapelle Harmonique/Valentin Tournet
Rameau - "Les Paladins"

Chateau de Versailles CVS-054 (3)

Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 12 in g

Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies - Complete

RCA 68069-2 (3)

Fanny Mendelssohn: "Mélodie" in c-sharp, Op. 4/2

David Kadouch, p
Fanny Mendelssohn

Mirare MIR-532

Franz Lehár: "Giuditta"

Aria, "Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss"

Beverly Sills, s; London Phil/Julius Rudel

DG B0002469-02 (2)

Franz von Suppé: "Light Cavalry"

Overture

St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Suppe: Overtures

EMI/Ang CDZ7-67224-2

Johann Strauss II: "Die Fledermaus"

Overture

Orch/Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter Edition- Strauss, Brahms, Smetana

Sony SMK-64467

Franz Lehár: "The Land of Smiles"

Overture

Munich Radio Orch/Willi Boskovsky

EMI/Ang CDS7-47604-8 (2)

Franz Lehár: "Der Zarewitsch"

Duet, "Kiss me!"

Nancy Gustafson, s; Jerry Hadley, t; English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
The Czarevitch

Telarc CD-80395

Gabriel Fauré: String Quartet in e, Op 121

Ébène Quartet
Fauré: Complete Chamber Music for Strings and Piano

Virgin 070875-2 (5 CDs)

Gabriel Fauré: Songs, Op 18

#2, "Le Voyageur"

Håkan Hagegård, br; Warren Jones, p
Fauré: Requiem, Songs

RCA 68659-2

Traditional: "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond"

Nicola Benedetti, v; BBC Scottish Sym/Rory Macdonald

London B0021290-02

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in g minor, Op. 26

Nicola Benedetti, v (b 1987); Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa
Nicola Benedetti * Tchaikovsky * Bruch * Violin Concertos

DG 4764092

Antonio Salieri: "La grotta di Trofonio"

Aria, "La Ra La"

Cecilia Bartoli, ms; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Adam Fischer
The Salieri Album

London 470631-2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Salieri's "La stessa, la stessissima"

John Ogdon, p
Beethoven: Piano Variations

EMI/Ang 85761-2 (2)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations in C on Mozart's "La cì darem la mano," WoO 28

Consortium Classicum
Chamber Music for Winds Vol. 2

CPO 999437-2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527

Aria, "Hò capito, signor, si!"

Claudio Otelli, b; St Martin's Academy/Marriner
Mozart: Don Giovanni

Philips 432129-2 (3)

Jules Massenet: "Thaïs"

"Méditation"

Leila Josefowicz, v; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Violin For Anne Rice

Philips 462032-2

Jules Massenet: 10 "Pièces de genre," Op. 10

#2, "Marche"

Aldo Ciccolini, p
Massenet: Piano Music

EMI/Angel CDM7-64277-2

Antonio Salieri: Piano Concerto in d

Ciccolini, I Solisti Veneti/Scimone

Sound 3415

Erik Satie: "Musiques intimes et secrétes"

Fâcheux exemple

Aldo Ciccolini, p

EMI/Ang CDC7-49713-2

Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Armide"

Overture; Passacaille

Indianapolis Baroque Orch/Barthold Kuijken

Indy Baroque Music INDB-1401

Jean-Féry Rebel: Trio Sonata, "Le Tombeau de Monsieur de Lully"

Ensemble Rebel

RCA-DHM 77382-2

Albert Roussel: Three Piano Pieces, Op 49

#2, Allegro grazioso (Tempo di Valz)

Eric Parkin, p
Roussel: Piano Works

Chandos CHAN-8887

Giovanni Gabrieli: "Canzon in Double Echo"

Canadian Brass
Echo: Glory of Gabrieli

Opening Day ODR-7380

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sinfonia for Strings in F, F 67

Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Güttler
Virtuosi in Concert 2

Berlin Classics 0011382-BC

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36

II. "Larghetto"

Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Symphonies

DG 4863050

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two-Piano Suite No. 1 in G minor, Op. 5, "Fantasy"

I. "Barcarolle"

Emanuel Ax & Yefim Bronfman, p's
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances & Suites for Two Pianos

Sony SK-61767

Richard Strauss: Wind Sonatina No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 143, "Happy Workshop"

IV. Einleitlung (Andante) und Allegro

Armonia Ensemble
Strauss Wind Sonatinas

Berlin Classics 0300576-BC

Richard Wagner: "The Flying Dutchman"

Spinning Chorus, "Summ und brumm"

Leipzig Radio Cho, Dresden Staatskapelle/Silvio Varviso
German Opera Choruses

Philips 422410-2

Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32

"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"

Philharmonia Orch/Leonard Slatkin
The Planets, Arcana

RCA 68819-2

John Field: Nocturne in C, H 60

John O'Conor, p
Nocturnes of John Field

Telarc CD-80199

August Klughardt: Wind Quintet. Op. 79

IV. Finale

Quintet Attacca
Live from WFMT: Quintet Attacca (November 14, 2005)

WFMT

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Trumpet Concerto

I. "Allegro con spirito"

New York Chamber Sym/Gerard Schwarz, tr
The Classic Trumpet Concerti of Haydn/Hummel

Delos D/CD-3001

Virgil Thomson: "Five Ladies"

Philippe Quint, v; William Wolfram, p
Corigliano: Red Violin Caprices, Violin Sonata; Thomson: 5 Ladies, Portraits

Naxos 8.559364

Georges Bizet: Symphony in C

I. "Allegro vivo"

Orch de Paris/Semyon Bychkov
Bizet: Symphony in C; Franck: Symphony in D minor

Philips 432096-2

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, "Trout"

I. "Allegro vivace"

Thymos Quartet; Christoph Eschenbach, p; Yann Dubost, db
Schubert: Trout Quintet, Waltzes, Ländler

Avie AV-2416

Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," Op. 28

Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

DG B0018913-02

Edward Elgar: "The Spanish Lady," Op. 89

Suite

Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter
English Music for Strings

RCA 7761-2-RC

Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043

Anne Akiko Meyers, v's; English Chamber Orch/Steven Mercurio
Air: The Bach Album

eOne EOM-CD-7785

Claude Debussy: "Six épigraphes antiques"

No. 3, "Pour que la nuit soit propice"

Katia Skanavi & Kirill Gerstein, p's
Music in Time of War

Myrios MYR-905

Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 8 in B-Flat, D. 112

I. "Allegro ma non troppo"

Takács Quartet
Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D887; String Quartet in B-Flat major D112

Hyperion CDA-68423

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 30 in C, "Alleluia"

Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
Haydn: The Complete Symphonies

Decca 4781221 (33)

Giuseppe Verdi: "Aida"

Chorus, "Gloria all'Egitto" (Triumphal Scene)

Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Verdi: Choruses

Decca 430226-2

Franz Liszt: Paraphrase on Verdi's "Rigoletto"

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
Liszt Transcriptions

Decca 436736-2

Giuseppe Verdi: "Aida"

Ballet music

Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas

Naxos 8.572818-19 (2)

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p; Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez
Ravel: The Piano Concertos, Miroirs

DG B0014764-02

Ignaz Pleyel: "Symphonie concertante" in F, B 115

II. "Tempo di minuetto grazioso"

Möhring, f; Passin, ob; Cologne Chamber Orch/Müller-Brühl
Ignaz Pleyel: Sinfonia concertante No. 5, Symphonie périodique No. 6, Oboe Quartet Op. 25, No. 1

Koch CD-316038

Michael Praetorius: "Terpsichore"

5 Dances

Brass Ring
Brass Ring - Music For Brass Quintet

Crystal CD-561

George Gershwin: "Cuban Overture"

Dallas Sym Orch/Andrew Litton
Dayful of Song - Music of Gershwin

Delos DE-3216

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, "Fifths (Quinten)"

Takács Quartet
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 1-3

Decca 421360-2

Antonio Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons: Summer," RV. 315

Anne Akiko Meyers, v; English Chamber Orch/David Lockington
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

eOne EOM-CD-7790

Margaret Bonds: "Troubled Water"

Ashley Jackson, h
Take Me to the Water

Decca 7572822

Gaetano Donizetti: "Don Pasquale"

Overture

Santa Cecilia Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Italian Overtures

DG 471566-2

Alan Hovhaness: Four Motets, Op. 268

"Lord, Who Shall Abide"

William Ferris Chorale/Paul French
American Choral Premieres

Cedille CDR-90000109

Alan Hovhaness: Four Motets, Op. 268

"Blessed is the Man"

William Ferris Chorale/Paul French
American Choral Premieres

Cedille CDR-90000109

Antonio Salieri: Variations on "La Folia di Spagna"

London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
Salieri: Symphonies & Overtures

Chandos CHAN-9877

George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suite No. 2 in D

"Air and Hornpipe"

Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre - The Original Sound

L'Oiseau-Lyre 436445-2

Štěpán Rak: "Czech Fairy Tales"

Štěpán Rak, g
The Guitar of Štěpán Rak

Nimbus NI-5177

Antonín Dvořák: "The Noon Witch," Op. 108

Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Symphony No. 6 in D Major Op. 60, The Noon Witch

Chandos CHAN-8530

Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Maid of Orléans"

Ballet Music

Royal Opera House Orch/Colin Davis
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music

Philips 422845-2

Irene Britton Smith: Violin Sonata (1947)

Dawn Wohn, v; Emely Phelps, p
Unbounded: Music by American Women

Delos DE-3599

Howard Shore: "The Forest"

Movement II

Miloš, g; National Arts Centre Orch/Alexander Shelley
The Moon and the Forest

Decca 4851597

Alberto Ginastera: "Danzas criollas," Op. 15

Jerusalem Sym/Gisèle Ben-Dor
Ginastera: Popol Vuh: The Mayan Creation

Naxos 8.570999

Gabriel Fauré: Barcarolle No. 3 in G-Flat, Op. 42

Carol Rosenberger, p
Singing on the Water - Piano Barcarolles

Delos DE-3172

George Frideric Handel: Concerto "a due cori" No. 3 in F

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Handel: Concerti a Due Cori

Harmonia Mundi HMM-905272

Robert Schumann: "Fantasiestücke," Op. 73

Brian Thornton, vc; Spencer Myer, p
Schumann: Works for Cello & Piano

Steinway & Sons 30117

Paul Dukas: "La Péri"

New York Phil/Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez Conducts The New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Sony SMK-68333

John Dowland: "Flow my tears"

Stile Antico
In a Strange Land

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902266

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

Alfred Brendel, p
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Rondo in B-Flat, "Pathétique" Sonata

MMG MWCD-7107

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385, "Haffner"

Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conducts Mozart - 60th Anniversary Celebration

Sony 88883720682

Leopold Hofmann: Symphony in F

Northern Chamber Orch/Nicholas Ward
Hofmann: Five Symphonies

Naxos 8.553866

Edward Elgar: "Salut d'amour," Op. 12

Chee-Yun, v; Akira Eguchi, p
Vocalise - Violin Show Pieces

Denon CO-75118

Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Pièces de clavecin en concerts": Quatrième concert

Les Accents/Thibault Noally
Rameau: Concerts en Sextuor

Aparté AP-254

Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

Stockholm Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
A Swedish Serenade

BIS CD-285

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

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in c minor, BWV 1017

Rachel Barton Pine, v; Jory Vinikour, hc
Bach: The Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord

Cedille CDR-90000177

Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op. 67

No. 4 in C, "Spinning Song (The Bee's Wedding)"

Daniel Barenboim, p
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words

DG 423931-2 (2)

Michael Haydn: Horn Concertino in D

Barry Tuckwell, hn; St. Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
The Art of Barry Tuckwell

Decca B0006249-02 (2)

Manuel Cardoso: "Non mortui"

Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner
Santiago a cappella

Soli Deo Gloria SDG-710

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 60 in C, H XVI:50

II. "Adagio"

Jenő Jandó, p
The Best of Haydn

Naxos 8.556668

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D 845

Rudolf Firkušný, p
Rudolf Firkušný, Plays Schubert, Janáček & Debussy

Sugano SCD-83002

Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 100

Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yuja Wang, p
Brahms: The Violin Sonatas

Decca B0020329-02

Jean Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22

No. 2, "The Swan of Tuonela"

Anna Mattix, eh; Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
The Essential Sibelius

Beau Fleuve 094975

Eric Coates: "From Meadow to Mayfair"

BBC Phil/John Wilson
Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4

Chandos CHAN-20292

Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto de Aranjuez"

II. "Adagio" ("En Aranjuez con mi amor")

Göran Söllscher, g; Orpheus Chamber Orch
The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours

DG 4794648

Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon per sonare #2

Chicago Sym Orch Brass Quintet
Concert in Brass

Audiophile AP-21

Hosted by Robbie Ellis.

Gustave Charpentier: "Louise"

Aria, "Depuis le jour"

Nicole Cabell, s; London Phil Orch/Sir Andrew Davis
Divos & Divas

Decca B0013059-02 (2)

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, "Scottish"

Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Andrew Davis
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Scottish" & 4, "Italian"

Sony SBK-46536

Judith Weir: "Truly I Tell You"

Westminster Abbey Choir/James O'Donnell; Peter Holder, o
Dove, Weir, Martin

Hyperion CDA-68350

Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto in F, BWV 978

Rinaldo Alessandrini, hc
Vivaldi & Bach

Naïve OP-7367

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988

No. 15, Canone alla Quinta

Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations

Alpha 1116

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988

No. 16, "Ouverture"

Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations

Alpha 1116

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988

No. 17

Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations

Alpha 1116

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988

"Aria da Capo"

Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations

Alpha 1116

Krzysztof Penderecki: Three Pieces "in Olden Style"

Amadeus Chamber Orch Poznán/Agnieszka Duczmal
Penderecki: Viola Concerto, Capriccio

Wergo WER-60172

Jennifer Higdon: Harp Concerto

Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Rochester Phil Orch/Ward Stare
American Rapture

Azica AXA-71327

Francesco Alborea: Sonata in D

Bruno Cocset, vc; Emmanuel Jacques, violone; Les Basses Réunies
La nascita del violoncello: Napoli - Bologna - Modena

Alpha 1023

Josef Martin Kraus: "Soliman II"

Overture

Swedish Royal Opera Orch/Philip Brunelle
Kraus: Soliman II - A Gustavian Turkish Opera

Virgin 91496-2

Hosted by Robbie Ellis.

Philip Glass: "Closing"

La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
Philip Glass: Portrait

Analekta AN2-8727

Fela Sowande: "African Suite"

London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7

Sony 19075862152 (10)

Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 18

Music@Menlo Ensemble
Yura Lee, viola,
Eric Kim, cello,
Music@Menlo Live: Through Brahms

Music@Menlo 2011 (7)