Quintessential Classics
Learn something new every week with Quintin’s Quintessential Classics. Classical music has never been more interesting!
# of Episodes
18
Host
Quintin
First Aired
September 27th, 2025
Last Episode
March 13th, 2026
Previous broadcasts
March 13th, 2026
Ichiko Aoba, Ludwig van Beethoven, and more.
March 6th, 2026
Giles Corey, The Cardigans, The Cure, Morphine, and more.
The Music of Jean Sibelius
In this episode, listen to two seminal works by the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, an appropriate selection for this snowy winter season. Pieces played include En Saga, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan, and Symphony No. 3 in C Major, performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis.
Lohengrin & Brahms
In this episode, listen to the luminous and powerful prelude to Wagner's early opera Lohengrin, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic and Horst Stein, followed by Brahms's magnificent 1878 Violin Concerto in D Major, widely regarded as one of the finest ever written, performed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, with soloist Vadim Repin.
February 13th, 2026
Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Alexander Scriabin, and more.
February 6th, 2026
Flotation Toy Warning, Failure, Emil Gilels, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum, and more.
January 30th, 2026
POiSON GiRL FRiEND, Pinegrove, Unwound, Sisters of Mercy, and more.
December 6th, 2025
Roedelius, Alice Coltrane, Vladimir Matetsky, Todd Terje, and more.
November 29th, 2025
Dummy, KAYTRANADA, Ari Balouzian, Grover Washington, Jr., and more.
November 22nd, 2025
Nagisa Ni Te, Yin Yin, Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, and more.
November 15th, 2025
Gorillaz, J Dilla, Vulfpeck, Grover Washington, Jr., and more.
November 8th, 2025
Talking Heads, L'Impératrice, Vieux Farka Touré, Jefferson Airplane, and more.
November 1st, 2025
Black Country, New Road, Todd Terje, Knxwledge, Vulfpeck, and more.
October 25th, 2025
Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, and more.
October 18th, 2025
Cortex, Talking Heads, Roedelius, Will Van Horn, and more.
October 11th, 2025
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Strauss II, Vulfpeck, and more.
October 4th, 2025
Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, J Dilla, and more.
September 27th, 2025
Alice Coltrane, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and more.