Playlist for Friday, September 12, 2025

Lukas Foss: "Three American Pieces"

No. 2, "Dedication"

Nikki Chooi, v; Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta

Naxos 8.559938

Lukas Foss: "American Landscapes"

2nd mvt, Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger"

Sharon Isbin, g; St Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
American Landscapes

Virgin 55083-2

Joan Tower: "Made in America"

Nashville Sym/Leonard Slatkin
TOWER: Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra

Naxos 8.559328

Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 1

IV. "Simple Gifts"

Mormon Tabernacle Cho; Utah Sym Orch/M. Tilson Thomas
Greatest Hits: The Chorus

Sony MLK-62684

Antonin Dvorák: String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, "American"

Carmina String Quartet
Dvorak: String Quartets- F Major Op. 96 'American', A Flat Major Op. 105

Denon CO-18075

Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 2

V. "Ching-a-ring Chaw"

Chicago Brass Quintet
American Voices

Centaur CRC-3159

Franz Schubert: "Ellens Gesang" III: "Ave Maria," D 839

Maxim Vengerov, v; Vag Papian, p; Virtuosi Violin Ensemble

EMI/Ang CDC5-57164-2

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in b minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"

Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8

DG 449745-2

Franz Schubert: Song, "An den Frühling," D 283

Elly Ameling, s; Graham Johnson, p
The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 7

Hyperion CDJ-33007

Louis-Theodore Gouvy: Four-Hand Piano Sonata in d, Op 36

Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen, p
Louis-Theodore Gouvy: Piano Music For Four Hands

Sony SK-53110

Benjamin Godard: Song, "Te souviens-tu"

Tassis Chritoyannis, br; Jeff Cohen, p
Godard: Mélodies

Aparté AP-123

Johannes Brahms: Piano Pieces, Op 119

#4, Rhapsody in E-Flat

Hélène Grimaud, p
Brahms: Piano Pieces Op. 116-119

Erato 14350-2

Emmanuel Chabrier: "España" Rhapsody

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

DG 447751-2

Ernesto Lecuona: "Rapsodia negra"

Orch/Morton Gould
Lecuona Sinfonica

RCA 68922-2

Ernesto Lecuona: "19th-Century Cuban Dances"

"La Primera en la Frente"

Thomas Tirino, p

BIS CD-874

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Quintet in d, Op 74

Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet
Hummel Edition

Brilliant Classics 95792 (20)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert Aria, "Clarice cara," K. 256

Claes Haakan Ahnsjö, t; Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Leopold Hager
Mozart: Arias, Vocal Ensembles, Canons

Philips 422523-2 (8)

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

"October (Autumn Song)"

Barry Douglas, p
Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata, The Seasons

RCA 7887-2-RC

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Souvenir d'un lieu cher," Op. 42

Jennifer Koh, v; Odense Sym Orch/Alexander Vedernikov
Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra

Cedille CDR-90000166

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20

"Scène"

Maryinsky Theatre Orch
Swan Lake Highlights

London 4757669 (2)

George Gershwin: Piano Suite, "Blue Monday"

Alicia Zizzo, p
Gershwin Rediscovered

MSR Classics MS-1127

George Gershwin: Fantasy on themes from "Porgy and Bess"

Eroica Trio
An American Journey

EMI 07351-2

George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"

"Overflow"

New York Choral Artists, New York Phil/Zubin Mehta
Gershwin

Teldec 46318-2

Serge Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64

The Montagues and the Capulets

New York Phil/Kurt Masur
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, op. 100 / Romeo & Juliet, Excerpts from Suites Nos. 1 & 2, op. 64

Teldec 96301-2

Serge Prokofiev: Solo Cello Sonata (fragment), Op. 133

Raphael Wallfisch, vc

Black Box BBM-1027

Serge Prokofiev: Solo Violin Sonata in D, Op. 115

Gil Shaham, v
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos 1 and 2

DG 447758-2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Italian Polka"

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vovka Ashkenazy, p; Alastair Mackie, tr
Alastair Mackie,
Rachmaninov- Piano Transcriptions

London 470291-2

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"

New Philharmonia/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Mendelssohn: Complete Symphonies

Brilliant Classics 93777 (7)

Girolamo FANTINI: Prima Imperiale

John Wallace, tr, Wallace Collection

Nimbus NI-1405

Franz (Dresden) SCHUBERT: Die Biene (The Bee)

Maud Powell, v
The Complete Recordings 1904-17, Vol. 1

Naxos 8.110993

Sauret: Farfalla

Maud Powell, v
The Complete Recordings 1904-17, Vol. 1

Naxos 8.110993

Ferdinand Hiller: Konzertstück, Op 113

Jerome Rose, p; Luxembourg Radio Orch/Pierre Cao

Vox CDX-5064 (2)

Felix Mendelssohn: Songs, Op 71

No. 3, "An die Entfernte"

Peter Schreier, t; Karl Engel, p

Berlin Classics BC-1107-2

Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op 43

Galway, f; Nielsen, ob; Thomsen, cl; Tofte-Hansen, bn; Fosdal, fh
Tofte-Hansen,
James Galway Plays Nielsen

RCA 6359-2-RC

Johann Helmich Roman: The Golovin Music

#14

Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble

Caprice CAP-21325

Johann Christian Bach: Symphony in B-Flat, Op. 6, No. 4

Camerata Budapest/Hanspeter Gmür
JC Bach - Sinfonias Vol. 2 - Sinfonias, Op. 6, Nos. 1 - 6

Naxos 8.553084

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fughetta in G, BWV 902

Víkingur Ólafsson, p
Johann Sebastian Bach

DG 4835022

Gerald Finzi: "Eclogue," Op. 10

Martin Jones, p; English String Orch/William Boughton
Finzi, Bridge, Parry: An English Suite

Nimbus NI-5366

Traditional English: Folksong, "The Sailor and Young Nancy"

St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt
Bushes & Briars

MSR Classics MS-1606

Carl Maria von Weber: "Euryanthe"

Overture

Philharmonia Orch/Otto Klemperer
Klemperer Conducts German Opera Overtures

EMI CDM7-63917-2

Maurice Ravel: "Introduction and Allegro"

Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Jupiter Quartet
Ravel Intimate Masterpieces

Oberlin Music OC 13-04

Manuel de Falla: "La vida breve"

Interlude & Dance

Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Spain

RCA 62586-2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Lucio Silla," K. 135

Overture

La Cetra/Andrea Marcon
Mozart Overtures

DG 4779445

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

No. 10, "Deep River"

Isata Kanneh-Mason, p
Summertime

Decca B0034124-02

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88

III. "Allegretto grazioso"

Czech Phil/Jiří Bělohlávek
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 & The Golden Spinning Wheel

Chandos CHAN-9048

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat, "Symphony of a Thousand"

Final sections, "Blicket auf zum Retterblick...Alles Vergängliche"

Soloists; Vienna Cho's; Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano,
René Kollo, tenor,
Mahler: Symphony No. 8

Decca 414493-2 (2)

Ottorino Respighi: "The Birds"

IV. "The Nightingale"

Orpheus Chamber Orch
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds

DG 437533-2

Ottorino Respighi: "The Birds"

V. Finale, "The Cuckoo"

Orpheus Chamber Orch
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds

DG 437533-2

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

III. Finale, Rondo

Till Fellner, p; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Beethoven, Till Fellner, Sir Neville Marriner - Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 2

Erato 98539-2

Ola Gjeilo: "The Road"

III. "Hardangarvidda I"

Choir of Royal Holloway, Royal Phil Orch/Rupert Gough
Dreamweaver

Decca 4854635

Duane Allman: "Little Martha"

Ronn McFarlane, l; Carolyn Surrick, viga
Fermi's Paradox

Sono Luminus DSL-92244

Vítězslava Kaprálová: "Suite en miniature," Op. 1

University of Michigan Sym Orch/Kenneth Kiesler
Kaprálová: Waving Farewell / Suite en Miniature / Piano Concerto

Naxos 8.574144

George Frideric Handel: "Jephtha"

Chorus, "O God, behold our sore distress"

Music of the Baroque Cho & Orch/Jane Glover
Handel: Jephtha – Live in Chicago

Reference Recordings FR-755

Pablo de Sarasate: "Zigeunerweisen," Op. 20

Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; French National Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Plays Bach - Mozart - Lalo - Sarasate

EMI CMS7-69878-2 (3)

Johann Christoph Pezel: "German Dance Suite"

Canadian Brass
CBC Radio Years

Radio Canada Int'l PSCD-2016

Fanny Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op. 8

Nos. 1, 3, 4

Sylviane Deferne, p
Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: The Last Rose of Summer

Radio Canada Int'l MVCD-1122

Jacques Ibert: "Escales (Ports of Call)"

Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
Escales - French Orchestral Works

Chandos CHSA-5252

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

II. "Largo ma non tanto"

Alison Bury, v; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Elizabeth Wallfisch, v
Bach: Concertos for 1, 2, & 3 Violins

Virgin 59319-2

Modest Mussorgsky: "Pictures from the Crimea"

Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Pictures from the Crimea

Signum SIGCD-2095

Frederick Delius: "Air and Dance"

London Phil Orch/Vernon Handley
Vaughan Williams & Delius

Chandos CHAN-8330

Richard Strauss: "Salome," Op. 54

"Dance of the Seven Veils"

Suisse Romande Orch/Kazuki Yamada
Richard Strauss-Liszt-Korngold-Busoni-Schreker

Pentatone PTC-5186518

Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat, BWV 815

Murray Perahia, p
Bach: French Suites

DG 4796565 (2)

Cristóbal de Morales: "Parce mihi Domine"

Jan Garbarek, sx; Hilliard Ensemble
Officium

ECM 1525

Camille Saint-Saëns: "Henry VIII"

"Ballet et divertissement"

Royal Air Force College Band/Jun Märkl
Saint-Saëns: Music for Wind Ensemble

Naxos 8.574234

Josef Suk: String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6

IV. Finale, "Allegro giocoso"

I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky
Tchaikovsky & Suk: Serenades

Chandos CHAN-8659

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Hamburg" Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq 182/3

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

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902317

William Dawson: "Negro Folk Symphony"

III. Finale, "O, Le' Me Shine, Shine like a Morning Star!"

Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Still, Dawson, Ellington: Orchestral Works

Chandos CHAN-9226

Jan Václav Voříšek: "Grand rondeau concertant," Op. 25

Lobkowicz Trio, Janáček Phil/Petr Popelka
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Kakadu Variations; Voříšek: Grand Rondeau Concertant

Rubicon RCD-1075

William Walton: "Orb and Sceptre," Coronation March

City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Louis Frémaux
Walton: Façade Suite, Gloria, Te Deum

EMI CDC7-47512-2

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Lute Concerto in D minor

Hopkinson Smith, l; Chiara Banchini & David Plantier, v's; David Courvoisier, vi; Roel Dieltiens, vc
David Courvoisier, viola,
Fasch, Haydn, Kohaut, Hagen: Lute Concertos

Astrée E-8641

George Walker: "Lyric for Strings"

Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham
CYSO Symphony Orchestra Spring 2022 Concert (May 22, 2022)

CYSO

Teresa Carreño: Ballade, Op. 15

Clara Rodríguez, p
Teresa Carreño * Obras para piano * Piano Works

Fundación MMG FD-2522002237

Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"

Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 'The Great', Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'

Telarc CD-80502

Gordon Langford: "Prelude, Polonaise and Promenade"

Onyx Brass
Transatlantic

Chandos CHAN-20399

Nicola Matteis: "Sett of Ayres" in A

Chatham Baroque
The Scotch Humour: Music of Nicola Matteis

Dorian DOR-90256

Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C

Christian Poltéra, vc; Munich Chamber Orchestra
Haydn: Cello Concertos; Hindemith: Trauermusik

BIS 2507

Anton Webern: "Langsamer Satz"

Heath Quartet
Berg, Webern, Schoenberg: String Quartets

Signum SIGCD-712

Augusta Holmès: "Ouverture pour une comédie"

Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Samuel Friedmann
Augusta Holmès: Orchestral Works

Marco Polo 8.223449

George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6, No. 5

St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op 3 & Op 6

Decca 4758673 (3)

George Gershwin: "An American in Paris"

St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Gershwin: An American In Paris, Rhapsody In BLue, Catfish Row, Cuban Overture

EMI CDD7-64084-2

Enrique Granados: "Danzas españolas," Op. 37 (Op. 5)

"Minueto, Oriental, Andaluza, Jota"

Jorge Federico Osorio, p
Piano Español

Cedille CDR-90000075

Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas Brasileiras" No. 5

"Aria (Cantilena)"

Avi Avital, m; Richard Galliano, acc; Klaus Stoll, db
Between Worlds

DG B0019758-02

Hector Berlioz: "Béatrice et Bénédict"

Overture

London Phil Orch/Zubin Mehta
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Roman Carnival Overture, Overture to Beatrice et Benedict

Teldec 90855-2

Jean-Féry Rebel: "La Fantaisie"

La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
Concert de danse

Accent ACC-96122-D

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B-Flat, Op. 11

David Shifrin, cl; David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p
Clarinet Trios by Beethoven, Brahms & Bruch

ArtistLed 11101-2

Gwyneth Walker: Fantasy Etudes

Blue Violet Duo
Strike, Strum and Stride

Centaur CRC-3978

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35

Jae-hyuck Cho, p; Paul Merkelo, tr; Russian National Orch/Hans Graf
Arutiunian, Weinberg & Shostakovich: Trumpet Concertos

Naxos 8.579117

Béla Bartók: "Hungarian Sketches"

No. 3, "Melody"

Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta

RCA 61504-2

Easley Blackwood: "Rondo Caprice," Op. 35

Mary Stolper, f; Denis Azabagić, g
Chicago Duos For Flute

Cedille CDR-90000071

Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"

Elena Urioste, v; London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron
Colourise

Orchid Classics ORC-100200

Georges Delerue: "Jules et Jim"

Suite

Studio Orch/Georges Delerue
Jules et Jim/Les Deux Anglaises; Georges Delerue; François Truffaut

Universal UCCM-4094

Maddalena Sirmen: String Quartet No. 2 in B-Flat

Allegri String Quartet
Sirmen: The Six String Quartets

Cala CACD-1019

Darius Milhaud: "Saudades do Brasil," Op. 67

No. 1, "Sorocaba"

Windscape Wind Quintet
The Roaring 20s

Arabesque Z-6732

Georg Philipp Telemann: "Sinfonia Melodica"

Albrecht Mayer, ob; Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul
Sinfonia Melodica

DG B0005761-02

Peter Boyer: "Balance of Power"

III. "A Sense of Direction"

London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works

Naxos 8.559915

Erik Satie: Three "Gymnopédies"

No. 1

Daniel Varsano, p
A Century of French Music

Sony 88875192862

Claude Debussy: Three Nocturnes

"Fêtes"

Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p
Claude Debussy: Duo Piano Images

Berto

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

Joshua Bell, v; English Chamber Orch/Peter Maag
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 & 5, K. 216 & K. 219

Decca 436376-2

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048

Music of the Baroque Orch/Nicholas Kraemer
Kraemer Conducts Bach & Telemann

Music of the Baroque 2011

Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"

Overture

Philharmonia Zürich/Fabio Luisi
Wagner: Preludes and Interludes

Philharmonia Records PHR-0102 (2)

Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber

San Francisco Sym/Herbert Blomstedt
Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler, Symphonic Metamorphosis, Trauermusik

Decca 421523-2

Gustav Holst: "A Fugal Concerto," Op. 40, No. 2

E Beckett, f; M Messiter, ob; London Festival Orch Strings/Pople
Gustav Holst: Orchestral Music

Arte Nova 34022-2

Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"

Symphony While the Swans Come Forward; Dance for the Fairies; Dance for the Green Men

Les Arts Florissants
Purcell: The Fairy Queen * Les Arts Florissants

Harmonia Mundi HMC-1308/9 (2)

Gabriel Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13

Karisa Chiu, v; Zhu Wang, p
Home

Cedille CDR-90000239

Darius Milhaud: "Suite française," Op. 248

Edmonton Wind Ensemble/Harry Pinchin
Snake Fence Country - Edmonton Wind Ensemble

Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5165

Tomaso Albinoni: Trumpet Concerto in D minor

Maurice André, tr; Württemberg Chamber Orch/Jörg Faerber
Four Trumpet Concertos - Albinoni, Handel, Otto, Barsanti

EMI CDC7-49573-2

Sergei Prokofiev: "The Prodigal Son," Op. 46

Scene 1

São Paulo Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4; The Prodigal Son

Naxos 8.573186

Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34

Richard Stoltzman, cl; Tokyo String Quartet
Brahms & Weber Clarinet Quintets

RCA 68033-2

Charles-Valentin Alkan: Etude from "Encyclopédie du pianiste compositeur"

Mark Viner, p
Alkan: 11 Pièces dans le style religieux, Op. 72, Étude Alla-Barbaro

Piano Classics PCL-10197

Frederick Tillis: "Motherless Child"

Frederick Tillis, sx
Freedom

New World 80455-2

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: "Fantaisie Polonaise," Op. 19

Jonathan Plowright, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Łukasz Borowicz
The Romantic Piano Concerto - Vol 83

Hyperion CDA-68323

Antonín Dvořák: Bagatelles, Op. 47

Nos. 3-5

Takács Quartet
Dvorák: String Quartets, Op. 96 "The American" & 105; 5 Bagatelles, Op. 47

Decca 430077-2

Marin Marais: Viola da Gamba Suite in D

JM Quintana, viga; A Cremonesi, hc; D Costoyas, theorbo
Marin Marais: Suites pour viole de gambe et basse continue

Harmonia Mundi HMC-905248

Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra

Northern Sinfonia/Simon Rattle
Pulcinella Complete Ballet, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

EMI CDM7-69204-2

Florence Price: "Snapshots"

III. "Flame" (1949)

Samantha Ege, p
Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price

Lorelt LNT-144