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Thursday, October 8th, 2026

6:00 PM

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5:50 PM

Sonata K490 in D

Composer: Domenico Scarlatti [more info]
Performers: Sylvia Parker, piano
Length: 8:32

5:31 PM

Don Juan Op20

Composer: Richard Strauss [more info]
Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti
Length: 18:38

5:25 PM

Flowing Water and Floating Clouds

Composer: Tie-hong Xiao
Performers: Takako Nishizaki, violin; Cappella Istropolitana, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Length: 4:51

5:05 PM

Trumpet Concerto in D

Composer: Leopold Mozart [more info]
Performers: George Vosburgh, trumpet; Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Length: 17:54

5:00 PM

Prelude Op23 No 5 in G minor

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov [more info]
Performers: Paul Bisaccia, piano
Length: 3:50

4:55 PM

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4:50 PM

Ceremonial Fanfare

Composer: Aaron Copland [more info]
Performers: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
Length: 3:48

4:42 PM

Trio No 2 in C minor

Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann [more info]
Performers: Parnassi musici
Length: 6:54

4:31 PM

Invitation to the Dance Op65

Composer: Carl Maria von Weber [more info]
Performers: Czecho-Slovak Radio Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard
Length: 9:32

4:15 PM

Petite Suite

Composer: Claude Debussy [more info]
Performers: Pays de la Loire National Orchestra, Pascal Rophe
Length: 14:28

4:01 PM

Symphony in D

Composer: Franz Ignaz Beck [more info]
Performers: Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward
Length: 13:11

3:47 PM

Prelude, Sea, and Songs

Composer: Joseph-Guy Ropartz [more info]
Performers: Osian Ellis, harp; Melos Ensemble
Length: 11:54

3:28 PM

Orchestra Suite No 4 in D BWV1069

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach [more info]
Performers: Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Length: 17:36

3:22 PM

Requiebros

Composer: Gaspar Cassado [more info]
Performers: Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello; Robert Koenig, piano
Length: 4:41

3:07 PM

Wind Quartet G263/2 in F

Composer: Luigi Boccherini [more info]
Performers: Consortium Classicum
Length: 13:31

3:00 PM

Espana

Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier [more info]
Performers: Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Length: 6:05

2:49 PM

Fairy Queen: Act I Suite

Composer: Henry Purcell [more info]
Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Length: 9:36

2:15 PM

Cello Sonata in D minor Op40

Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich [more info]
Performers: Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano
Length: 32:09

2:09 PM

Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn [more info]
Performers: Jennifer Pike, violin; City of Birmingham Symphony, Edward Gardner
Length: 4:30

2:00 PM

Symphony Wq182 No6 in E

Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [more info]
Performers: C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen
Length: 8:51

1:46 PM

Saul Overture

Composer: George Frideric Handel [more info]
Performers: English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
Length: 12:08

1:34 PM

Celtic Suite

Composer: Buxton Orr [more info]
Performers: Royal Ballet Sinfonia, David Lloyd-Jones
Length: 10:42

1:04 PM

Violin Concerto No 5 in A K219 "Turkish"

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [more info]
Performers: Hilary Hahn, violin; German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen, Paavo Jarvi
Length: 29:03

1:00 PM

Waltz Op70 No3 in D flat

Composer: Frederic Chopin [more info]
Performers: Alessandro Deljavan, piano
Length: 3:00

12:51 PM

Demophoon Overture

Composer: Luigi Cherubini [more info]
Performers: Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung
Length: 6:49

12:35 PM

Caprice No 1

Composer: Michel Richard Delalande [more info]
Performers: Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Francois Paillard
Length: 15:21

12:20 PM

Capriccio Espagnol Op34

Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov [more info]
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
Length: 14:46

12:04 PM

Life Story

Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy [more info]
Performers: Manchester Camerata, John Andrews
Length: 14:55

12:01 PM

Thursday Composers Datebook

Performers: John Birge
Length: 2:00
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11:47 AM

Concerto Op9 No 2 in D minor

Composer: Tomaso Albinoni [more info]
Performers: Pierre Pierlot, oboe; Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Francois Paillard
Length: 12:43

11:22 AM

Violin Sonata No 6 in A Op30 No1

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven [more info]
Performers: Andrew Wan, violin; Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Length: 24:25

11:08 AM

Gayane Suite

Composer: Aram Khachaturian [more info]
Performers: Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jaervi
Length: 12:22

10:59 AM

Overture in D D590 "In the Italian Style"

Composer: Franz Schubert [more info]
Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Length: 8:11

10:00 AM

Planets Op32

Composer: Gustav Holst [more info]
Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Daniel Harding
Length: 56:40

9:43 AM

Capriccio No 3 in F

Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka [more info]
Performers: Bach Sinfonia, Daniel Abraham
Length: 16:01

9:15 AM

River Suite

Composer: Duke Ellington [more info]
Performers: Detroit Symphony, Neeme Jaervi
Length: 26:49

9:05 AM

Legend Op22 No3 The Swan of Tuonela

Composer: Jean Sibelius [more info]
Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
Length: 8:15

9:01 AM

Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance of the Furies

Composer: Christoph Willibald von Gluck [more info]
Performers: Royal Opera Orchestra, Georg Solti
Length: 3:47

8:49 AM

Bullfighter's Prayer Op34

Composer: Joaquin Turina [more info]
Performers: I Musici di Montreal, Yuli Turovsky
Length: 10:02

8:32 AM

Chaconne in D minor

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach [more info]
Performers: Awadagin Pratt, piano
Length: 14:49

8:27 AM

Parsifal: Prelude to Act III

Composer: Richard Wagner [more info]
Performers: Berlin Radio Symphony, Marek Janowski
Length: 4:39

8:07 AM

Symphony in D

Composer: Joseph Martin Kraus [more info]
Performers: Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Petter Sundkvist
Length: 18:07

8:00 AM

El Amor Brujo Suite

Composer: Manuel de Falla [more info]
Performers: Chicago Brass Quintet
Length: 6:14

7:55 AM

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7:50 AM

Hungarian Dance No 1

Composer: Johannes Brahms [more info]
Performers: Joshua Bell, violin; Samuel Sanders, piano
Length: 3:22

7:28 AM

Dance Symphony

Composer: Aaron Copland [more info]
Performers: Gothenburg Symphony, Barbara Hannigan
Length: 20:32

7:20 AM

Suite in C

Composer: Marin Marais [more info]
Performers: Musica Pacifica
Length: 6:32

7:06 AM

Introduction and Allegro Op47

Composer: Edward Elgar [more info]
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, John Eliot Gardiner
Length: 12:57

7:00 AM

Piano Sonata Op 1 No1 in E flat

Composer: Muzio Clementi [more info]
Performers: Howard Shelley, piano
Length: 5:16

6:51 AM

Flute Concerto RV435 in G

Composer: Antonio Vivaldi [more info]
Performers: Michala Petri, recorder; Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown
Length: 6:51

6:34 AM

Rapsodie Espagnole

Composer: Maurice Ravel [more info]
Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez
Length: 16:41

6:26 AM

Lakme: Dance Tunes

Composer: Leo Delibes [more info]
Performers: Radio Luxembourg Symphony, Louis de Froment
Length: 6:20

6:05 AM

Piano Trio No 36 in E flat

Composer: Joseph Haydn [more info]
Performers: Beaux Arts Trio
Length: 19:52

6:00 AM

Legend Op59 No 2 in G

Composer: Antonin Dvorak [more info]
Performers: Czech Philharmonic, Tomas Netopil
Length: 4:17

5:54 AM

Twelve Etudes for Guitar (1928)

Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performers: Eduardo Fern ndez, g
Length: 1:33

5:30 AM

Orchestral Suite No. 7, Sc nes alsaciennes

Composer: Jules Massenet
Performers: Paris Conservatory Orch, Albert Wolff
Length: 23:07

5:29 AM

Preludes, Op. 32

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Performers: Sergei Rachmaninoff, p
Length: 1:16

5:21 AM

Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta

Composer: Fritz Kreisler
Performers: Fritz Kreisler, v Orch, Donald Voorhees
Length: 8:30

5:05 AM

Rhapsodie espagnole (1863)

Composer: Franz Liszt
Performers: Madeleine Forte, p; Del Parkinson, p
Length: 15:54

5:00 AM

La vierge

Composer: Jules Massenet
Performers: Royal Phil, Thomas Beecham
Length: 5:15

4:54 AM

Tambourin

Composer: Fran ois Joseph Gossec
Performers: James Galway, f National Phil, Charles Gerhardt
Length: 1:22

4:22 AM

Violin Sonata in G (1891)

Composer: Guillaume Lekeu
Performers: Elmar Oliveira, v; Robert Koenig, p
Length: 32:03

4:20 AM

Fortuna desperata

Composer: Antoine Brumel
Performers: London Early Music Consort, David Munrow
Length: 1:39

4:05 AM

Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman)

Composer: C sar Franck
Performers: Philadelphia Orch, Riccardo Muti
Length: 15:21

4:00 AM

Cantata No. 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! (Hunt)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performers: Rolf Smedvig, tr; Michael Murray, o
Length: 5:18

3:54 AM

Three Shakespeare Songs, Op 28

Composer: Ernest Chausson
Performers: Ann Murray, ms; Graham Johnson, p
Length: 1:37

3:18 AM

Falstaff (Symphonic Study in c), Op 68

Composer: Edward Elgar
Performers: City of Birmingham Sym, Sir Simon Rattle
Length: 36:06

3:16 AM

Nature's Voices (1927)

Composer: Burleigh
Performers: Zina Schiff, v; Mary Barranger, p
Length: 1:34

3:05 AM

Pastorela

Composer: William Grant Still
Performers: Zina Schiff, v Royal Scottish National Orch, Avlana Eisenberg
Length: 11:56

3:00 AM

Three Visions

Composer: William Grant Still
Performers: Andrew Armstrong, p
Length: 5:00

2:54 AM

Le carnaval des animaux (Carnival of the Animals)

Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Performers: Slovak Radio Sym Orch, Ondrej Lenard
Length: 1:36

2:44 AM

Le Carnaval de Venise

Composer: Felix Godefroid
Performers: Isabelle Moretti, h
Length: 10:00

2:31 AM

Carnival (Suite of Five Dances)

Composer: Montague Ring
Performers: Rochelle Sennet, p
Length: 12:58

2:30 AM

Quatre morceaux, Op 56

Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Performers: Evgeny Zarafiants, p
Length: 1:35

2:05 AM

Piano Concerto No. 4 in g minor, Op. 40

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Performers: Leif Ove Andsnes, p London Sym, Antonio Pappano
Length: 24:55

2:00 AM

Poetic Tone Pictures, Op 85

Composer: Anton n Dvor k
Performers: Leif Ove Andsnes, p
Length: 5:24

1:54 AM

Queen Elizabeth's Galliard

Composer: John Dowland
Performers: Julian Bream, l
Length: 1:33

1:44 AM

Lute Concerto in D, R 93

Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Performers: Julian Bream, g Monteverdi Orch, John Eliot Gardiner; David Winfield, eh
Length: 9:44

1:26 AM

Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 2

Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Performers: Los Angeles Chamber Orch, Sir Neville Marriner
Length: 17:55

1:25 AM

What if a Day

Composer: John Dowland
Performers: Paul O'Dette, l
Length: 1:28

1:20 AM

Six Piano Pieces

Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Performers: Michael Landrum, p
Length: 4:25

1:05 AM

Notturno No. 7 in F, H II:28

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Performers: Vienna Concert-Verein
Length: 15:30

1:00 AM

Soir es musicales, Op. 6

Composer: Clara Schumann
Performers: Michael Landrum, p
Length: 5:21

12:54 AM

Beatles Concerto Grosso No. 4

Composer: Peter Breiner
Performers: CSSR State Phil, Peter Breiner
Length: 1:37

12:44 AM

Concerto grosso in a, Op. 6, No. 4

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performers: Boston Baroque Ensemble, Martin Pearlman
Length: 10:07

12:26 AM

Concerto for Orchestra (1948)

Composer: Ulysses Kay
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orch, Kellen Gray
Length: 18:09

12:24 AM

8 Inventions

Composer: Ulysses Kay
Performers: Rochelle Sennet, p
Length: 1:40

12:05 AM

Clavier Partita No. 2 in c, BWV 826

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performers: Rochelle Sennet, p
Length: 19:40

12:00 AM

Cello Suite No. 6 in D, BWV 1012

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performers: Phoebe Carrai, vc
Length: 5:14