Explore the music before you arrive! The BSO now offers insights about our concert selections in a digital podcast format. Our podcast presenters are Classical WETA 90.9 FM On-Air Hosts David Ginder and Marilyn Cooley, and WBJC 91.5 FM Program Director Jonathan Palevsky.

Podcast Archives by Composer
Select the icon next to each piece to listen to the podcast:

John Adams
     Absolute Jest 
     The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra 
     Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Bach
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major 
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major 
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major 

Barber
     Adagio for Strings 
     Symphony No. 1 

Beethoven
     Piano Concerto No. 2 
     Piano Concerto No. 4 
     Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" 
     Symphony No. 4 
     Symphony No. 7 
     Symphony No. 9 

Berlioz
     Symphonie fantastique Part One:  Part Two: 

Brahms
     Symphony No. 1 
     Piano Concerto No. 2 

Bruckner
     Symphony No. 4 

Chausson
     Poème for Violin and Orchestra 

Copland
     Lincoln Portrait 

Dukas
     The Sorcerer's Apprentice 

Dvořák
     Cello Concerto 

Gershwin 
     An American in Paris 

Glanert
     Fresnia 

Górecki
     Three Pieces in the Old Style for String Orchestra 

Haydn
     Trumpet Concerto 

Steven Mackey
     Beautiful Passing 

Mahler
     Symphony No. 6 

Mendelssohn
     Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 
     Symphony No. 4 

Messiaen
     Les Offrandes oubliées 

Mozart
     Piano Concerto No. 21 
     Piano Concerto No. 24 
     Symphony No. 29 
     Violin Concerto No. 3 

Paganini
     Violin Concerto No. 1

Arvo Pärt
     Credo 

Prokefiev
    Violin Concerto No. 2 

Rameau
     Suite from Dardanus 

Rachmaninoff
     Symphony No. 2

Ravel
     Le Tombeau de Couperin 
     Piano Concerto in G Major 
     Shéhérazade 
     Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra 

Rimsky-Korsakov
     Capriccio espagnol 
     Scheherazade 

Rodrigo
     Concierto de Aranjuez 

Saint Saëns
     Danse Macabre 
     Symphony No. 3, "Organ" Part One:   Part Two:  

Schubert
     Overture in the Italian Style 

Schumann
     Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish" 

Stravinsky
     Concerto in E-Flat, "Dumbarton Oaks" 
     Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete) 
     Petrushka 
     Symphony of Psalms 

Strauss
     Don Juan 
     Don Quixote 
     Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks 

Tchaikovsky
     Hamlet Fantasy-Overture After Shakespeare 
     Symphony No. 5 in E Minor 
     Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique" 
     The Nutcracker 

Walton
     Violin Concerto 

 Created by: 

Jonathan Palevsky

Jonathan Palevsky is the Program Director  at WBJC 91.5 FM. He has been with the station since 1986 when he became a part-time announcer, and has been the station’s Program Director since 1990. Originally from Montreal, Jonathan came to Baltimore in 1982 to study classical guitar at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He has hosted just about every conceivable time slot at WBJC, but can regularly be heard hosting the WBJC Operafest, the music review program "Face the Music" and the CD reissue program "Past Masters."

Jonathan's current off-air obsessions include skiing, playing guitar and being the host of Cinema Sundays at the Charles Theatre.