Homage

The gift of immortality through the hands of great composers. How would you like to be the subject of a composition by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, or Mozart? In many cases, the fame of the music has outlasted that of its honoree, but we’ll explore some of these heartfelt gestures and the composers who made them. Works include Handel’s Water Music and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Week of April 6, 2026

Monday, April 6

Tuesday, April 7

Mozart, Wolfgang: K. 465 String Quartet, "Dissonant," I.
Juilliard String Quartet
Testament 1372
13:51

Reger, Max: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart
New York Philharmonic/Masur
Scheherazade – Flight of the Bumble Bee – Capriccio Espagnol Op. 34
Teldec 74007
10:42

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr: Suite for Orchestra “Mozartiana”
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner: The Stuttgart Recordings
Cap 51012
9:07

Arensky, Anton: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky
St. Petersburg Camerata/Saulius Sondeckis
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48; Elegy;
Anton Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky
Sony 58976
14:19

Ravel, Maurice: Minuet on the name Haydn
Margaret Fingerhut, piano
Margaret Fingerhut / Clifford Benson – Homages to Haydn, Roussel and Faure
Chan 8578
2:01

Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart 
New York Philharmonic/Masur
Scheherazade – Flight of the Bumble Bee – Capriccio Espagnol Op. 34
Teldec 74007
2:15 (excerpt)

Wednesday, April 8

Mussorgsky, Modest: Pictures at an Exhibition 
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Pictures At an Exhibition – Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
DG 437667
14:45 (excerpt)

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Russian Easter Festival Overture
London Symphony Orchestra/Dorati
Suite From “Le Coq D’Or” –  Capriccio Espagnol –
Russian Easter Overture – Polovtsian Dances From “Prince Igor”
Merc 339136
15:09

Stravinsky, Igor: "Fireworks"
St. Petersburg Philharmonic/Ashkenazy
The Firebird Suite / Symphony No. 1 / Fireworks / Scherzo Fantastique
Decca 418812
3:37

Stravinsky: "Fairy’s Kiss"
La Scala Philharmonic/Muti
The Fairy’s Kiss, Muti/La Scala
Sony 58949
8:58; 3:36 (excerpts)

Thursday, April 9

Handel, George Frederic: Water Music
Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt
Water Music – Organ Concertos
Teldec 93668
9:45 (excerpt)

Hindemith, Paul: Trauermusik
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Blomstedt Geraleine Walther, viola
Hindemith: Orchestral Works
Decca 000201102
8:39

Hindemith, Paul: Symphonic Metamorphosis on
Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Philadel-phia Orchestra/Ormandy
Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler – Symphonic Metamorphoses of
Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
EMI 86095
12:35 (excerpt)

Walton, William: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
Cleveland Orchestra/Szell
Symphony “Mathis Der Maler”
– Symphonic Metamorphoses / Variations on A Theme by Hindemith
Sony 62753
8:14 (excerpt)

Walton, William: Crown Imperial
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Previn
Walton: Symphony No. 1 – Crown Imperial – Orb and Sceptre
Telarc 80125
6:22

Friday, April 10

Bruckner, Anton: Symphony No. 7, I.
Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan
Symphonie No. 7
DG 439037
23:10

Berio, Luciano: Duets for Two Violins 
Various Artists
Cello Sonatas, Intermezzos
RCA 63064
1:13 (excerpt)

Brahms, Johannes: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, II.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Reiner; A. Rubenstein, piano
Piano Concerto No. 1
EMI 75239
13:15

Strauss II, Johannes: Emperor Waltzes
Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna/Boskovsky
Johann Strauss II Waltzes
EMI 2162
10:11