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
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
Haydn
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
Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1
Arvo Pärt
Credo
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
Scheherazade
Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
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. 2 in C Major
Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
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
Wagner
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major
Walton
Violin Concerto
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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.