Playlist for Thursday, August 7, 2025

Henry Purcell: Fantasia: Three parts on a ground, Z 731

Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen
Suite «Castor Et Pollux» / 3 Fantasias

Philips 426714-2

Pietro Locatelli: "L'Arte del Violino," Op 3

Concerto #10 in F

Suzanne Lautenbacher, v; Mainz Chamber Orch/Günter Kehr
Pietro Locatelli-L'Arte dei Violino

Pantheon D-20937 (4)

Simone Molinaro: Fantasia I

Eliot Fisk, g
Eliot Fisk Plays Guitar Fantasies

Musicmasters MMD-60169-F

Benjamin Britten: "Phantasy Quartet," Op. 2

Alex Klein, ob; Vermeer Quartet members
Britten & Bliss

Cedille CDR-90000093

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet (1912)

Maggini String Quartet; Garfield Jackson, vi
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Phantasy Quintet / String Quartets Nos. 1-2

Naxos 8.555300

Thomas McKinley: Fantasy Pieces for Piano (2005)

"The Tyger, Thy Fearful Symmetry"

Roberta Rust, p
Direct Contact

Navona NV-6229

Josef Strauss: "Schäfer-Quadrille," Op. 196

Slovak State Phil/Arthur Kulling
Josef Strauss Edition Vol 16

Marco Polo 8.223618

Johann Strauss II: Waltzes, "Morgenblätter," Op. 279

Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Strauss Family

DG 449768-2

Josef Strauss: Polka schnell, "Eingesendet," Op 24

Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons
New Year's Concert 2006

DG 4775566 (2)

Johannes Brahms: Srting Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 18

St Martin's Academy Chamber Ensemble
Brahms: Sextets

MHS 514494-Y

Johannes Brahms: "Liebeslieder Waltzes" Op. 52

#5, "Die grüne Hopfenranke"

Edith Mathis, s; Brigitte Fassbaender, ms; Peter Schreier, t; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br
Brahms

DG 423133-2

Aram Khachaturian: "Pepo" (1934)

Suite

Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian
KHACHATURIAN: Film Music

ASV CDDCA-966

Aleksander Arutyunian: Trumpet Concerto in A-Flat (1949)

Paul Johnson, tr; Dallas Wind Sym/Howard Dunn
The Brass And The Band

Crystal CD-431

Jean-François Dandrieu: Suite in D

"Duo sur trompettes"

André Isoir, o
Dandrieu; Pieces d'orgue

Adda 581052

Joseph Boudin de Boismortier: "Deuxième Sérénade ou Simphonie Françoise"

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

Naxos 8.554456

Ferdinand Hérold: Symphony #2 in D

Swiss Italian Orch/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild

Dynamic CDS-282

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Clavier Suite #4 in F

"Gigue"

Karen Flint, hc
de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord

Plectra PL2-1003 (2)

Aaron Copland: "The Red Pony" Suite

I, "Morning on the Ranch"

Phoenix Sym/James Sedares
Suite from "The Tender Land" / 3 Latin-American Sketches / Suite from "The Red Pony"

Koch 3-7092-2

Aaron Copland: "The Heiress" film music

St Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Music For Films

RCA 61699-2

Aaron Copland: "Our Town"

London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland
Copland Conducts Copland: Our Town, The Red Pony Suite, El Salon Mexico, Danzon Cubano, Three Latin American Sketches

CBS MK-42429

Virgil Thomson: "The Plow that Broke the Plains" Suite (1936)

Prelude

Sym of the Air/Leopold Stokowski

Vanguard SVC-1

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in d, Op 49

David Golub, p; Mark Kaplan, v; Colin Carr, vc
Mendelssohn: Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Trio No. 2 in C Minor

Arabesque Z-6599

Dmitri Kabalevsky: "The Comedians," Op 26

#8, Gavotte (Scherzo)

Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch

EMI/Ang CDD7-63893-2

Ambroise Thomas: "Hamlet"

Duet, "L'âme de votre fils est à jamais troublée"

Denyce Graves, ms; Samuel Ramey, b; London Phil/Antonio de Almeida

EMI/Ang CDC7-54820-2 (3)

Edward MacDowell: "Hamlet and Ophelia," Op 22

Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa
MACDOWELL: Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Hamlet and Ophelia

Naxos 8.559075

Horatio Parker: "Vathek" (1903)

Royal Phil/Karl Krueger
Orchestral Music of Hadley, Farwell, MacDowell, Herbert, Parker

Bridge 9124-A/C (3)

John Knowles Paine: "In the Country", Op 26

#1, "Woodnotes"

Denver Oldham, p
John Knowles Paine: Selected Piano Works

New World 80424-2 (2)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211

London Phil/Anne-Sophie Mutter, v
Mozart: The Violin Concertos * Sinfonia Concertante * Mutter * London Philharmonic Orchestra * Bashmet

DG B0005078-02 (2)

Henryk Wieniawski: "Etudes-Caprices," Op 18

#4

Michael Rabin, v; Leon Pommers, p

EMI/Ang CMS7-64123-2 (6)

Vittorio Monti: Czárdás #1

Black Dyke Mills Band/David Loukes
Concert Sound of Black Dyke Mills Band

Chandos CHAN-4520

Julius Röntgen: Theme with Variations, Op 17 (1878)

Wyneke Jordans, Leo van Doeselaar, p

NM Classics 92096

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong (1926)

No. 1

Eugene Dowling, tuba; Edward Norman, p

Pro Arte TBCDD-595

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D (1938-43, rev 1951)

Philharmonia Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

RCA 60556-2

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong (1926)

No. 2

Eugene Dowling, tuba; Edward Norman, p

Pro Arte TBCDD-595

Hosted by Robbie Ellis.

Gioachino Rossini: String Sonata No. 1 in G

Ensemble Explorations
Rossini: Sonate a Quattro

Harmonia Mundi HMC-901776

Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Martha Argerich, p
Argerich Plays Chopin

DG B0013960-02

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in B minor, R. 169, "Al Santo Sepolcro"

Berlin Academy of Ancient Music/Georg Kallweit
Vivaldi: Sacro furore

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902383

Antonio Vivaldi: Prelude in A minor (after R. 355)

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, v; Les Ombres
Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli: Violin Concertos

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902649

Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2 in E minor

IV. Finale, "Andante moderato"

Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Thompson: Symphony No. 2 / Chadwick: Overtures

Chandos CHAN-9439

Gabriel Pierné: "Voyage au Pays du Tendre"

Carol Wincenc, f; Vanessa McKeand, h; Allegri String Quartet
Introduction et Allegro: French Music for Harp

Virgin 90721-2

Emile Waldteufel: "The Skaters' Waltz," Op. 183

Philharmonia Orch/Herbert von Karajan
Best Loved Classics Vol. 8

EMI CDZ7-62507-2

Manuel Ponce: "Gavota"

Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz
Música Mexicana Vol. 6

ASV CDDCA-926

Maurice Ravel: "Introduction and Allegro"

Melos Ensemble
Icon: Melos Ensemble

EMI CDFB5-72646-2 (2)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 9 in D, K. 311

III. Finale, Rondeau

Orli Shaham, p
Mozart Complete Piano Sonatas Vols. 5 & 6

Canary Classics CC-24

Jung Jae-il: "Psalms"

XX. "34.21"

Budapest Scoring Cho
Psalms

Decca 4567825

Henry Charles Litolff: "Concerto symphonique" No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102

II. Scherzo

Cristina Ortiz, p; Royal Phil Orch/Moshe Atzmon
Addinsell, Rachmaninov, Litolff

Decca 414348-2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

II. "Allegro molto"

Orch de Paris/Semyon Bychkov
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2

Philips 432101-2

Lou Harrison: String Quartet Set

IV. "Rondeaux"

Del Sol Quartet
Zia

Sono Luminus DSL-92164

José Pablo Moncayo: "Huapango"

Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
Mi Alma Mexicana

Sony 88697755552

Miguel del Águila: "Barroqueada"

IV. "Samba Corrente"

Black Moon Trio
Principal

Black Moon Trio BMT-01

Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38

I. "Allegro non troppo"

Alisa Weilerstein, vc; Inon Barnatan, p
Brahms Cello Sonatas

Pentatone PTC-5187215

Konstantin Vassiliev: Two Russian Pieces

No. 1, "Vision"

Yuri Liberzon, g
Vassiliev: Guitar Works, Vol. 1

Naxos 8.574315

Gioachino Rossini: "L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)"

Overture

Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Gianluigi Gelmetti
Rossini: Favorite Overtures

Seraphim 73294-2

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

V. "Chaconne"

Hélène Grimaud, p
Bach

DG B0012504-02

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Harmonica Concerto

II. "Andante"

José Staneck, harm; São Paulo Sym Orch/Giancarlo Guerrero
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto / Harmonica Concerto / Sexteto místico

Naxos 8.574018

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd
Adagio Chillout

Naxos 8.556783

Aaron Copland: "El Salón México"

Joshua Pierce & Dorothy Jonas, p's
Joshua Pierce and Dorothy Jonas play Gould, Piston and Copland

Koch 3-7002-2

Michael Haydn: Symphony in F, MH 25

Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Michael Haydn, Joseph Haydn: 2 Flute Concertos; Symphony In F; Symphony No. 22

Nimbus NI-5392

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat, K. 361, "Gran Partita"

VI. "Tema con variazioni (Andante)"

London Wind Soloists/Jack Brymer
Decca Sound - The Analogue Years

Decca 4785437

Nadia Boulanger: "Cantique (Lux aeterna)"

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

Sony 19802822812

Lili Boulanger: Nocturne

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

Sony 19802822812

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in A-Flat, Op. 32, No. 2

Bergen Phil Orch/Andrew Litton
Stravinsky: The Firebird

BIS SACD-1874

Leó Weiner: Divertimento No. 1 on Old Hungarian Dances, Op. 20

I Virtuosi Italiani
I Virtuosi Italiani

Arcadia ARC-2002-2

Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 1

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

Decca 460247-2 (2)

Robert Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52

Overture

Dresden Staatskapelle/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Schumann: Symphonies 1 & 4; Overture, Scherzo & Finale

EMI CDM7-69471-2

Giovanni Ristori: Oboe Concerto in E-Flat

Albrecht Mayer, ob; I Musici de Roma
Tesori d'Italia

DG 4797144

Adolphus Hailstork: Two Romances

No. 1, "Moderato"

Beverly Baker, vi; Virginia Chamber Players
As Falling Leaves * The Virginia Chamber Players in Concert

Albany TROY-612

Elizabeth Maconchy: Overture, "Proud Thames"

London Phil Orch/Vernon Handley
Elizabeth Maconchy: Overture, Proud Thames; Geoffrey Bush: Music for Orchestra; Lennox Berkeley: Symphony No. 3; William Alwyn: Four Elizabethan Dances

Lyrita SRCS.57

Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Stewart Goodyear, p; Czech National Sym Orch/Stanislav Bogunia
Tchaikovsky, Grieg: Piano Concertos

Steinway & Sons 30035

Alan Hovhaness: Four Bagatelles, Op. 30

Shanghai Quartet
Spirit Murmur

Delos DE-3162

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Hamburg" Symphony No. 1 in G, Wq 182/1

Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902317

William Walton: "Crown Imperial"

Chicago Sym Orch Brass/Jay Friedman
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live

CSO Resound 9011101

Florence Price: Fantasy No. 2

Randall Goosby, v; Zhu Wang, p
Roots

Decca B0033878-02

Peter Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Sol Gabetta, vc; Munich Radio Orch/Ari Rasilainen
Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Ginastera

RCA 82876759512

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

III. Scherzo

Seoul Phil/Myung-Whun Chung
Mahler: Symphony No. 5

DG 4811540

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Quintet, Op. 143

I. "Allegro, vivo e schietto"

Sharon Isbin, g; Pacifica Quartet
Souvenirs of Spain & Italy

Cedille CDR-90000190

George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suite No. 1 in F

Overture; Menuet; Air; Bourrée; Andante

English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Handel: Water Music. Suite No. 1

DG B0005828-02 (2)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Festival "Te Deum" in F (1937)

Westminster Abbey Cho/Douglas Guest; Timothy Farrell, o
Vaughan Williams: Hymns / Choral

Chandos CHAN-6550

Edward Elgar: "Froissart" Overture, Op. 19

London Phil Orch/Sir Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Boult - Elgar: The Complete EMI Recordings

EMI CDM7-69200-2

Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 11

Isata Kanneh-Mason, p
Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann

Decca 4850020

Ludovico Einaudi: "Run"

La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

Analekta AN2-8738

Franz Liszt: "Les préludes," Symphonic Poem No. 3

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Liszt: Tasso, Les Préludes, Orpheus, Mazeppa

EMI CDM7-69022-2

Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concerto in G

Florian Deuter, vi; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
Telemann: String Concertos

Archiv 463074-2

Robert Nathaniel Dett: "Cinnamon Grove"

Clipper Erickson, p
My Cup Runneth Over - The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett

Navona NV-6013

Russell Peck: "Peace Overture"

London Sym Orch/Paul Polivnick
The Upward Stream

Albany TROY-040

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three-Piano Concerto No. 7 in F, K. 242

Alfred Brendel & Imogen Cooper, p's; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart: Concertos 2 & 3 Pianos / Alfred Brendel, Imogen Cooper/St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner

Philips 416364-2

Maurice Ravel: "Boléro"

Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Boléro

Telarc CD-80703

Pierre Gaultier (Gautier de Marseille): "Suite en trio" in C minor

La Simphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne
Gautier de Marseille: Symphonies

Astrée E-8637

Charles Gounod: "Faust"

Ballet music: "The Trojan Maidens"

Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth
Les Nuits de Paris - Dance Music from Folies Bergère to Opéra

Bru Zane BZ-2005

Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056

Chamber Orch of Europe/András Schiff, p
JS Bach: Complete Keyboard Concertos

Decca 4782363 (4)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 12, No. 2

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

DG 457619-2 (4)

Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 3

I Solisti Italiani
Respighi/Wolf/Malipiero: Ancient airs and dances. Suite No. 3

Denon 81757-9150-2

George Frideric Handel: "Ariodante"

Ballet Music

Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage
Handel at the Opera

Chandos CHAN-0650

Duke Ellington: "Prelude to a Kiss"

Chris Reynolds, p
Past is Prologue

Lexicon LC-2205

César Franck: "Symphonic Variations"

Alicia de Larrocha, p; London Phil Orch/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Ravel, Fauré, Franck - Piano Concertos, Fantaisie / Symphonic Variations

Decca 417583-2

William Goldstein: "Kandinsky Kandy"

Pei-Wen Liao, v; William Goldstein, p
Brushstrokes

New Gold Music NGM-0096

John Rutter: Anthem, "O praise the Lord of heaven"

Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia members/John Rutter; John Scott, o
John Rutter: Magnificat, The Falcon, Two Festival Anthems

Collegium COLCD-114

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485

Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9

Virgin 59273-2

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 59 in E-Flat, H XVI:49

Vladimir Horowitz, p
Horowitz: The Last Recording

Sony SK-45818

Franz von Suppé: "Poet and Peasant"

Overture

Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta
Suppé: Overtures

CBS MK-44932

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

Anne Battegay, v; François Robin, vc; Alessandro Tardino, p
The Essential Hebrew Violin

ARS Produktion ARS-38348

Ernest Chausson: "Poème," Op. 25

Lisa Batiashvili, v; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Secret Love Letters

DG 4860462

Gaspar Sanz: "Folías"

El Mundo/Richard Savino
Archivo de Guatemala

Naxos 8.574295

Benjamin Britten: Overture, "The Building of the House," Op. 79

City of Birmingham Sym Cho & Orch/Simon Rattle
Rattle Conducts Britten

EMI CZS5-73983-2 (2)

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Home Sweet Home," Op. 51

Alan Feinberg, p
The American Virtuoso

Argo 436121-2

Augusta Read Thomas: "Of Paradise and Light"

Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham
CYSO Symphony Orchestra Fall 2019 Concert (November 17, 2019)

CYSO

Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel
Dvořák: Cello Concerto, Op. 104, Rondo, Op. 94, Silent Woods Op. 68 No. 5

CBS MK-42206

Kate Moore: "Spin Bird"

Emily Granger, h
In Transit

Avie AV-2495

Igor Stravinsky: "The Firebird"

"Danse infernale" to Finale (1911 version)

Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird

Decca 4853946

Catherine McMichael: "August Beguine"

Mary Elizabeth Bowden, flugelhorn; Kassia Ensemble
Rêverie

Summit DCD-743

Rachel Portman: "Flight"

La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Elle

Analekta AN2-8754

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 64, No. 1

Lindsay String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 64, Nos. 1-3

ASV CDDCA-1083