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 James Jacobs, David Ginder, Marilyn Cooley, Nicole Lacroix and Bill Bukowski, 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
Eroica
Leonore Overture No. 3 
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:
Le corsaire
Roman Carnival Overture
Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
Serenade
Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety"
Three Dance Episodes from On The Town
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3 in F Major
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Violin Concerto
Brahms arr. Schoenberg
Piano Quartet in G Minor
Bruch
Scottish Fantasy
Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 9
Chabrier
España
Chausson
Poème for Violin and Orchestra
Copland
Appalachian Spring
Lincoln Portrait
Symphony No. 3
Debussy
La Mer
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Rondes de printemps from Images
Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dvořák
Cello Concerto
Elgar
Cello Concerto
Falstaff
Gershwin
An American in Paris
Concerto in F
Porgy and Bess
Glass
Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists
Glanert
Fresnia
Górecki
Three Pieces in the Old Style for String Orchestra
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Haydn
Symphony No. 104, “London”
Trumpet Concerto
Hummel
Trumpet Concerto 
Ibert
Concertino da camera
Khachaturian
Violin Concerto
Liszt
Les Préludes
Piano Concerto No. 1
Steven Mackey
Beautiful Passing
Mahler
Symphony No. 1, "Titan"
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 9
Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Sinfonia No. 7 in D Minor
Symphony No. 4
The Hebrides Overture
Messiaen
Les Offrandes oubliées
Turangalîla-symphonie
Milhaud
Scaramouche
Mozart
Concerto for Flute and Harp
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Piano Concerto No. 1
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major
Piano Concerto No. 21
Piano Concerto No. 22
Piano Concerto No. 24
Requiem
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
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
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 3
Symphony No. 6
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
Bolero
La Valse
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Piano Concerto in G Major
Rhapsodie espagnole
Shéhérazade
Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra
Respighi
Brazilian Impressions
Pines of Rome
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
Pelleas und Melisande
Verklärte Nacht (1943)
Schubert
Overture in the Italian Style
Selections from Rosamunde
Schumann
Konzertstück for Four Horns in F Major
Symphony No. 2 in C Major
Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor
Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905" 
Sibelius
Finlandia
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 7
Violin Concerto
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
Ein Heldenleben
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
Violin Concerto
Villa-Lobos
Chôros No. 10
Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major
Walton
Violin Concerto
Vaughan 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.