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 Host James Jacobs, 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. 3, "Eroica"  
     Symphony No. 2 in D Major 
     Symphony No. 4 
     Symphony No. 7 
     Symphony No. 9 

Berlioz
     Symphonie fantastique Part One:  Part Two: 

Bernstein
     Serenade  
     Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" 
     Three Dance Episodes from On The Town  

Brahms
     Piano Concerto No. 2  
     Symphony No. 1 
     Symphony No. 3 in F Major 

Bruch
     Scottish Fantasy 

Bruckner
     Symphony No. 4  
     Symphony No. 9 

Chausson
     Poème for Violin and Orchestra 

Copland
     Lincoln Portrait 
     Symphony No. 3 

Debussy
     Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun  
     La Mer 

Dukas
     The Sorcerer's Apprentice 

Dvořák
     Cello Concerto 

Elgar
     Falstaff 

Gershwin 
     An American in Paris   
     Concerto in F 

Glass 
     Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists 

Glanert
     Fresnia 

Górecki
     Three Pieces in the Old Style for String Orchestra 

Grieg
      Piano Concerto 

Haydn
     Trumpet Concerto 

Hummel
     Trumpet Concerto 

Ibert 
      Concertino da camera 

Liszt     
     Les Préludes  

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 

Milhaud
     Scaramouche 

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 

Nielsen
     Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable" 

Paganini
     Violin Concerto No. 1

Arvo Pärt
     Credo 

Poulenc
     Concerto for Two Pianos 

Prokefiev
    Violin Concerto No. 2  
    Piano Concerto No. 2   
    Piano Concerto No. 3 

Rameau
     Suite from Dardanus 

Rachmaninoff
    Isle of the Dead 
    Piano Concerto No. 2 
    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 
    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 

     May Night Overture     

     Scheherazade 

Rodrigo
     Concierto de Aranjuez 

Saint Saëns
     Carnival of the Animals  
     Danse Macabre 
     Symphony No. 3, "Organ" Part One:   Part Two:  
     Violin Concerto No. 3 

Schoenberg
     Verklärte Nacht (1943) 

Schubert
     Overture in the Italian Style 

Schumann
     Symphony No. 2 in C Major  
     Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish" 

Shostakovich
     Symphony No. 5 in D Minor  

Sibelius
     Finlandia Symphony No. 6  
     Symphony No. 7  

Stravinsky
     Concerto in E-Flat, "Dumbarton Oaks" 
     Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete) 
     Petrushka  
     Rite of Spring 
     Symphony of Psalms  
     The Firebird (1919) 

Strauss
     Der Rosenkavalier Suite 
     Don Juan 
     Don Quixote 
     Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks 

Tchaikovsky
     Hamlet Fantasy-Overture After Shakespeare 
     Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture  
     Serenade for Strings in C Major   
     Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Little Russian” 
     Suite from Swan Lake  
     Symphony No. 5 in E Minor 
     Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique" 
     The Nutcracker 
     Variations on a Rococo Theme 

Vivaldi
     The Four Seasons 

Wagner 
      Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major  

Walton
     Violin Concerto 

Williams
       Symphony No. 4 

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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.