Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Grigoras Dinicu
  "Hora Staccato"
  The New York Philharmonic with conductor Leonard Bernstein
  
• Richard Strauss
  "Quick Waltz" from "Der Rosenkavalier" Suite
  The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
  
• Leopold Godowsky
  Studies on the Chopin Etudes, Op. 10, No. 5 and Op. 25, No. 9 ("Badinage")
  Pianist Francesco Libetta
  Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery, Miami Beach, Florida
  
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Adagio in B-flat, KV 411
  David Shifrin and Todd Levy, clarinets; and Mark Dubac, Kyle Knox and James Moffitt, basset horns
  Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  
• Igor Stravinsky
  "The Song of the Nightingale"
  The New York Philharmonic with conductor Lorin Maazel
  Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
  
• Maurice Ravel
  "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
  Carol Wincenc, flute; William Bennett, oboe; Carey Bell, clarinet; William VerMeulen, French horn; and Dennis Godburn, bassoon
  Music@Menlo Festival, Palo Alto, California
  

hour 2

• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Introduction, theme and seven variations from "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
  Pianist Dmitri Alexeev with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yuri Temirkanov
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Three Fugues from "The Well-Tempered Klavier" for String Quartet, K. 405
  The Orion String Quartet
  Music@Menlo Festival, Palo Alto, California
  
• Anonymous
  "A New Tune"
  The Palladian Ensemble
  Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Third and fourth movements from Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
  The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Yuri Temirkanov
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
  
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Rondino in E-flat for Wind Octet, WoO. 25
  The Chicago Chamber Musicians
  Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois