Playlist for Friday, May 23, 2025

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

II. "Adagio cantabile"

Daniel Barenboim, p

DG 419408-2

Friedrich Witt: Septet in F

Consortium Classicum
Chamber Works For Winds & Strings: Friedrich Witt, Carl Friedrich Zu Lowenstein-wertheim-freudenberg

CPO 777486-2

Clara Schumann: Six Songs, Op. 13

No. 2, "Sie liebten sich beide (They once loved each other)"

Barbara Bonney, s, Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Robert And Clara Schumann: Lieder- Fauenliebe und Leben

London 452898-2

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

"Scherzo"

Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Rachmaninov- Piano Transcriptions

London 470291-2

Richard Strauss: "Duet-Concertino"

Dimitri Ashkenazy, cl; Kim Walker, bn; Berlin Radio Sym/Vldmr Ashkenazy

London 436415-2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Italian Polka"

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

London 470291-2

Luigi Cherubini: "Marche religieuse"

Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti

EMI/Ang CDC7-49302-2

Luigi Cherubini: String Quartet #6 in A

Melos String Quartet
The String Quartets

DG 429185-2 (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)

Richard Addinsell: "Warsaw Concerto"

Christina Ortiz, p; Royal Phil/Moshe Atzmon
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2/ Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto/ Litolff: Scherzo

London 414348-2

Miklos Rózsa: "Spellbound" Concerto (1945)

Leonard Pennario, p; Hollywood Bowl Sym Orch/Miklós Rózsa

EMI/Ang CDM7-63735-2

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "King's Row"

"Main Title"

Orch/Lionel Newman

Stanyan GZS-1094

Antonio Caldara: Sinfonia #3

Slovak Chamber Orch/Bohdan Warchal
Sinfonie a quattro

CPO 999137-2

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B-Flat, R 365

La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v
Vivaldi * The French Connection 2 * La Serenissima * Adrian Chandler

Avie AV-2218

Antonio Lauro: Three Venezuelan Waltzes (Valses Venezolanas)

#2

Marcelo Kayath, g

MCA Classics MCAD-25963

Antonio Ruiz-Pipo: Homenaje a Villa-Lobos

Narciso Yepes, g; Godelieve Monden, g
Guitar Duos

RCA 60764-2

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 1, "O Imprevisto" (1916)

Sao Paulo Sym Orch/Isaac Karabtchevsky
VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Complete Symphonies

Naxos 8.506039 (6)

Steven Sametz: "I Have Had Singing"

Chanticleer
Out Of This World

Teldec 96515-2

Heinrich von Biber: Two-Trumpet Sonata No. 7 in C

Chrispian Steele-Perkins, Stephen Keavy, tr's; Parley of Instruments
Twelve Sonatas For Trumpets, Strings, Timpani And Continuo

Hyperion CDA-66145

Georg Philipp Telemann: Two-Flute Concerto in a

Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul, v

EMI/Ang CDC5-57397-2

Wilhelm Friedemann WF Bach: Flute Duet (Sonata) #2 in G

2nd mvt, "Cantabile"

Wolfgang Schulz, f; Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob
Bach: Six Duets

Sony SK-58965

Charles H Roger Reynolds: "Two Poems in Homage to Delius"

Stephen Hough, p
Stephen Hough's English Piano Album

Hyperion CDA-67267

Frederick Delius: Violin Concerto

Yehudi Menuhin, v; Royal Phil/Meredith Davies
Violin Concerto in B Minor Op. 61

EMI CDM7-64725-2

Henry Purcell: "The Married Beau"

Jig

Bath Festival Orch/Yehudi Menuhin

EMI/Ang CDK5-65341-2

Johannes Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op 117

#2 in b-flat

Glenn Gould, p
Brahms: 4 Ballades, Op. 10 - 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79 - 10 Intermezzi

Sony SM2K-52651 (2)

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

Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2/ Mozart: Symphonies No. 35 and 40

Sony MHK-62344

Guillaume LASCEUX: Flûtes

Andre Isoir, o
Bach: Oeuvres pour Orgue et Hautbois

Calliope CAL-9917

Johann Joachim Quantz: Trio Sonata in c

Musica Poetica

Thorofon CTH-2073

Philippe Gaubert: "Nocturne et Allegro scherzando"

"Allegro scherzando"

Paula Robison, f; Samuel Sanders, p

Vanguard OVC-8089

Wilhelm Popp: Scherzo fantastique for Flute and Orchestra, Op 423

Solum, Philharmonia Orch/Dilkes
Romantic Music For Flute

Seraphim S-60356

Ingolf Dahl: Serenade for Four Flutes (1960)

Alla marcia

Flute Force
Flute Force

CRI CD-581

Giuseppe Verdi: "Falstaff"

Aria, "Ninfe! Elfi! Sul fil d'un soffio etesio"

Mirella Freni, s; Orch/Georg Solti

London OS-26387

Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

Overture

Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann
German Overtures

DG 474502-2

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

Eaken Piano Trio
CHRISTMAS Eaken Piano Trio: Home for the Holidays

Naxos 8.554099

English Trad: Greensleeves

Angel Romero, g
A Touch Of Class

Telarc CD-80134

Edward Elgar: "Falstaff" (Symphonic Study in c), Op 68

London Phil/Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Boult conducts Elgar

Testament SBT-1106

Emerson Whithorne: "The Drowsy Shepherdess"

John Kozar, p

Preamble PRCD-1786

Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"

"Largo al factotum"

Canadian Brass
More Greatest Hits

RCA 5628-2-RC

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2

Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Rachmaninov: Complete Works for Piano

Decca 4786348

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in C, K. 515

I. Allegro

Quatuor Ébène; Antoine Tamestit, vi
Mozart: String Quintet Nos. 3 & 4

Erato 5419721332

Carl Maria von Weber: "Andante e Rondo Ungarese," Op. 35

Bernard Garfield, bn; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Mozart, Strauss, Weber - Wind Concertos

Sony SBK-62652

William Boyce: Overture No. 5 in F

Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd
Boyce: Overtures 1-9

Chandos CHAN-6531

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, "Drum Roll"

I. "Adagio - Allegro con spirito"

Danish Chamber Orch/Ádám Fischer
Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 4

Naxos 8.574519

Richard Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13

II. Scherzo. Presto

New Jersey Chamber Music Society
Strauss: Piano Quintet, Op. 13; Dohnányi: Sextet, Op. 37

Pantheon D-23685

Johann Strauss II: Quadrille on Verdi's "Un ballo in Maschera," Op. 272

Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
New Year's Concert 1988

DG 423662-2

George Frideric Handel: "Almira"

Sarabande and Chaconne

Leslie Howard, p
Liszt at the Opera: The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 6

Hyperion CDA-66371/2 (2)

Isaac Albéniz: "España," Op. 165

No. 2, "Tango"

Alicia de Larrocha, p
Spanish Encores

Decca 417639-2

Isaac Albéniz: "España," Op. 165

No. 3, "Malagueña"

Alicia de Larrocha, p
Spanish Encores

Decca 417639-2

Lawrence Ashmore: "Four Seasons" (Suite of English Folk Songs)

III. Autumn; IV. Winter

Richard Stoltzman, cl; Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter
Finzi: Bagatelles, Op. 23 & Clarinet Concerto in C-Minor, Op. 31 & Ashmore: Four Seasons

RCA 60437-2-RC

Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 35

IV. Finale, "Andante-Allegro"

Solistes Européens Luxembourg/Christoph König
Louise Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3

Naxos 8.573706

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Sextet in D, Op. 10

IV. Finale, "Presto"

Flesch String Quartet; Ian Humphries, vi; David Bucknall, vc
Korngold: String Quartet No. 3 & String Sextet

ASV CDDCA-1062

Emmanuel Chabrier: "Gwendoline"

Overture

Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner
Chabrier: España, Suite pastorale, etc.

DG 447751-2

Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20

Benjamin Grosvenor, p
Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Liszt, Ravel

Decca 4783206

Malcolm Arnold: Four Cornish Dances, Op. 91

Queensland Sym Orch/Andrew Penny
Sir Malcolm Arnold: Dances

Naxos 8.553526

Andrea Casarrubios: Piano Quintet

III. "Golden Hour"

Andrea Casarrubios, vc; Manhattan Chamber Players
SEVEN

Odradek ODRCD-457

Francesco Geminiani: Concerto grosso in D, Op. 3, No. 1

Montreal Baroque Orch/Joël Thiffault
Geminiani, F: Concerti grossi, Op. 3

Atma ACD2-2122

Robert Schumann: "Kinderszenen," Op. 15

No. 1, "Of Foreign Lands and Peoples"

Leif Ove Andsnes, p
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhbition * Schumann: Kinderszenen * Andsnes

EMI 98360-2

Aaron Copland: "Fanfare for the Common Man"

BBC Phil/John Wilson
Explosive Classics

Chandos CHAN-10989

Luigi Boccherini: "Night Music in the Streets of Madrid," Op. 30, No. 6

Cuarteto Casals; Eckart Runge, vc
Boccherini: La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid

Harmonia Mundi HMC-902092

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 55, "Eroica"

III. Scherzo

Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies

Warner 0825646278299

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 54 in G, H XVI:40

Alfred Brendel, p
Haydn: Sonatas Hob. XVI: 37, 40 & 52; Andante Con Variazioni Hob.XVII: 6

Philips 416365-2

Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt," Op. 23

Suite No. 1, Op. 46

Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites/ Sibelius: Finlandia, Valse Triste

DG 410026-2

Georg Philipp Telemann: Divertimento in A

Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
Telemann: String Concertos

Archiv 463074-2

Franz Schubert: Twelve German Dances "(Ländler)," D. 790

Ensemble Wien
Schubert: 12 German Dances, Rondo, Overture, Concerto

Sony SK-48386

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

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Op. 46

Philips 416623-2

Scott Joplin: "Treemonisha"

Overture

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin
Scott Joplin: Treemonisha

New World 80720-2 (2)

Florence Price: Concert Overture No. 1 (on "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass")

Württemberg Phil/John Jeter
Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances

Naxos 8.559920

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

María Dueñas, v; Itamar Golan, p
Paganini: 24 Caprices

DG 4865708

Georges Bizet: "Carmen"

"Les voici!"

Atlanta Sym Cho & Orch/Robert Shaw
Grand and Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses

Telarc CD-80333

Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"

Pilgrim's Chorus, "Beglückt darf nun dich"

Atlanta Sym Cho & Orch/Robert Shaw
Grand and Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses

Telarc CD-80333

Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

I. "Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso"

Van Cliburn, p; RCA Sym Orch/Kiril Kondrashin
Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 / Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2

RCA 5912-2-RC

Luigi Cherubini: "L'Hôtellerie portugaise"

Overture

St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Cherubini: Overtures

EMI CDC7-54438-2

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Quintet, Op. 143

IV. Finale

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

Cedille CDR-90000190

Rebecca Clarke: "Midsummer Moon"

Janet Sung, v; Kuang-Hao Huang, p
Live from WFMT: Chamber Music Chicago: Janet Sung, violin & Kuang-Hao Huang, piano (February 19, 2024)

WFMT

Gustav Holst: Suite No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 28, No. 1

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

Chandos CHAN-9697

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 35, "Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Soul and Spirit)"

Sinfonia I

Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Anne Sofie von Otter: Bach

Archiv B0012820-02

Emmanuel Chabrier: "Suite pastorale"

Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
Chabrier: España, Suite pastorale, Joyeuse marche, Fête polonaise, Danse slave; Lalo: Rapsodie, Scherzo, Le Roi d'Ys ouverture

Decca 433720-2

George Frideric Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 5

La Rêveuse
London Circa 1740

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902613

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622

Sabine Meyer, cl; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
Mozart * / Debussy * / Takemitsu * - Sabine Meyer - Klarinettenkonzert

EMI CDC5-56832-2

Stephen Paulus: "And Give Us Peace"

Chicago Chorale/Bruce Tammen
And Give Us Peace

Chicago Chorale 2010

Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19, "Midsommarvaka"

Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue
Ports of Call

Reference RR-80

Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 8, No. 2

Howard Shelley, p
Clementi * The Complete Piano Sonatas * I

Hyperion CDA-67632 (2)

Dmitri Shostakovich: "The Gadfly," Op. 97

Suite

London Phil Orch/Mariss Jansons
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15, Piano Concerto No. 2, Romance & Folk Feast (The Gadfly)

EMI CDC5-56591-2

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op. 33, No. 5, "How Do You Do"

Cuarteto Casals
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 33

Harmonia Mundi HMX-2962022.23 (2)

William Alwyn: "Overture to a Masque"

London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Symphony No. 2, Overture to a Masque, The Magic Island, Derby Day, Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion

Chandos CHAN-9093

Maurice Ravel: "Introduction and Allegro"

Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Chamber Ensemble
Scintillation

Telarc CD-80361

Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas Brasileiras" No. 9

Nashville Sym Strings/Kenneth Schermerhorn
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (Complete)

Naxos 8.557460-62 (3)

Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E minor, R. 277, "Il Favorito"

Elizabeth Blumenstock, v; Philharmonia Baroque Orch/N McGegan
Vivaldi * The Four Seasons * Violin Concertos * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Philharmonia Baroque PBP-03

William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2 in G, "Song of a New Race"

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

Chandos CHAN-9226

Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 9 in E-flat, "Carnival in Pest"

Philharmonia Hungarica/Willi Boskovsky
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos.1-6, Rákóczy March, Hungarian Battle March / Willi Boskovsky

EMI CDM7-64627-2

Fritz Kreisler: "Bella Rosa-Maria (Schön Rosmarin)"

Marco Granados, f; Cheo Hurtado, g; David Peña, db
Amanecer

Hermes HR-001

Benjamin Britten: "Peter Grimes," Op. 33

Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a

London Sym Orch/André Previn
Spring Symphony: Four Sea Interludes From "Peter Grimes"

EMI CDM7-64736-2

Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Roses from the South," Op. 388

Vienna Phil/Karl Böhm
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Plays Strauss 1929 - 1990

DG 435335-2 (2)

Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28

No. 7 in A

Ivan Moravec, p
Ivan Moravec Plays Chopin

VAI VAIA-1039

Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"

Theme

London Sym Orch/John Williams
The Hollywood Sound

Sony SK-62788

Samuel Barber: "Adagio for Strings" (from Op. 11)

New York Phil Strings/Leonard Bernstein
Barber: Adagio for Strings, Violin Concerto; Schuman: In Praise of Shahn, To Thee Old Cause

Sony SMK-63088

Henry Bishop: "Home, Sweet Home"

Christopher Mallett, g
Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements

Naxos 8.559924

Frank Bridge: "There is a willow grows aslant a brook"

English String Orch/William Boughton
Finzi, Bridge, Parry: An English Suite

Nimbus NI-5366

César Franck: Piano Trio No. 4 in B minor, Op. 2

Bekova Sisters
Franck: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 / The Bekova Sisters

Chandos CHAN-9742

Traditional English: Sea Shanty, "A-Roving"

Robert Shaw Chorale Men/Robert Shaw
Sea Shanties * The Men of the Robert Shaw Chorale

RCA 63528-2

Michael Praetorius: "Terpsichore"

"Passameze" à 6

London Early Music Consort/David Munrow
Praetorius: Terpsichore dances; Motets from Musæ Sionæ

Virgin 61289-2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Song, "Zdes' khorosho (It's Peaceful Here)," Op. 21, No. 7

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Kathryn Stott, p
Songs of Comfort & Hope

Sony 19439822372

George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto

Decca B0014091-02

Michael Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in C

Crispian Steele-Perkins, tr; English Chamber Orch/Anthony Halstead
Trumpet Spectacular

MCA Classics 93772-2 (2)

Richard Strauss: "Burleske" in D minor

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Herbert Blomstedt
Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier Waltzes, Burleske, Capriccio Sextet

Decca B0004645-02

Maurice Ravel: "La valse"

Yekwon Sunwoo, p
Yekwon Sunwoo - Cliburn Gold 2017

Decca B0027008-02

Carlo Farina: "Capriccio Stravagante"

Irish Baroque Orch Chamber Soloists/Monica Huggett
Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music

Avie AV-2202

Gabriel Fauré: "Dolly" Suite, Op. 56

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

Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004

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)

Gretchen Yanover: "Willow Waltzes On"

Gretchen Yanover, vc's
Bridge Across Sound

Gretchen Yanover (2021)

Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71

No. 12d, Russian Dance (Trepak)

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Dances from Renaissance to Nutcracker

Delos DE-3132

Jonathan Dove: "Stargazer"

Peter Moore, tb; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Timothy Redmond
Beyond

Orchid Classics ORC-100368

Jean Françaix: Piano Concertino (1932)

Claude Françaix, p; London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
Dorati Conducts Satie, Milhaud, Auric, Françaix, Fetler

Mercury 434335-2

Claude Debussy: Saxophone Rhapsody

Alexandre Doisy, sx; Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl
Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 7

Naxos 8.572675

Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 22

Elena Urioste, v; Isata Kanneh-Mason, p
Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann

Decca 4850020

Max Richter: "On the Nature of Daylight"

Voces8
Nightfall

Decca 4870458

Barbara Harbach: "Following the Sacred Sun"

London Phil Orch/David Angus
Orchestral Music VII

MSR Classics MS-1742

Jennifer Higdon: "Blue Cathedral"

Atlanta Sym Orch/Robert Spano
Rainbow Body

Telarc CD-80596

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, K. 498, "Kegelstatt"

Richard Stoltzman, cl; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Trios for Piano, Clarinet & Cello

Sony SK-57499

Adolphus Hailstork: "Sonata da Chiesa"

Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman Introduces...

Albany TROY-499

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Petite Suite de Concert," Op. 77

III. "Un sonnet d'amour"

Chineke! Orch/Anthony Parnther
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor

Decca 4853322

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "Sonatina canonica," Op. 196

Amadeus Guitar Duo
Images from the South

Naxos 8.573442