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
Violin Concerto in A Minor
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Symphony No. 1
Beethoven
Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 4
Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Symphony No. 1 in C Major
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 9
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique Part One: Part Two:
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 3 in F Major
Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 9
Chausson
Poème for Violin and Orchestra
Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
La Mer
Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Glass
Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists
Górecki
Three Pieces in the Old Style for String Orchestra
Steven Mackey
Beautiful Passing
Mahler
Symphony No. 1, "Titan"
Symphony No. 6
Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Symphony No. 4
The Hebrides Overture
Messiaen
Les Offrandes oubliées
Mozart
Concerto for Flute and Harp
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 21
Piano Concerto No. 22
Piano Concerto No. 24
Requiem
Symphony No. 41 in C Major, "Jupiter"
Symphony No. 29
Violin Concerto No. 3
Mussorgsky/Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1
Prokefiev
Violin Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninoff
Isle of the Dead
Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 2
Symphonic Dances
Ravel
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Piano Concerto in G Major
Shéhérazade
Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
Scheherazade
Saint Saëns
Carnival of the Animals
Danse Macabre
Symphony No. 3, "Organ" Part One: Part Two:
Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht (1943)
Schubert
Overture in the Italian Style
Schumann
Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Stravinsky
Concerto in E-Flat, "Dumbarton Oaks"
Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete)
Petrushka
Rite of Spring
Symphony of Psalms
Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Tchaikovsky
Hamlet Fantasy-Overture After Shakespeare
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Little Russian”
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor
Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
The Nutcracker
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Wagner
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major
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.