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Playlist for Friday, October 24, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fidelio," Op 72
Overture
Consortium Classicum
Chamber Music for Winds Vol. 2
12:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Serenade in D, Op 25
James Galway, f; Joseph Swensen, v; Paul Neubauer, vi
James Galway Plays Beethoven
12:30 am
François Joseph Gossec: "Tambourin"
James Galway, f; National Phil/Charles Gerhardt
James Galway: Dances for Flute
12:32 am
Mel Bonis: "Six pièces à quatre mains" (1930)
Roberto Prosseda; Alessandra Ammara, p
Compositrices
12:39 am
César Franck: "Le Chasseur maudit" ("The Accursed Huntsman")
Basel Sym Orch/Armin Jordan
Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit, Le Eolides, Psyche
12:55 am
Louis Couperin: Suite in g
No. 3, "Courante"
Blandine Verlet, hc
Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin
1:00 am
Henri Vieuxtemps: "Souvenir d'Amérique," Op 17 (Yankee Doodle variations)
Zuill Bailey, vc; Simone Dinnerstein, p
Cello Recital: Bailey, Zuill - FRANCOEUR, F. / BACH, J.S. / BEETHOVEN, L. / MENDELSSOHN, Felix / CHOPIN, F. / VIEUXTEMPS, H.
1:04 am
Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: Theme & Variations
Emily Beynon, f; members of Royal Concertgebouw Orch
"Emily Beynon: Flute & Friends"
1:25 am
Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: 3 Piano Pieces, Op 128
#1, Scherzino: "A Peterboro Chipmunk"
Joanne Polk, p
By The Still Waters
1:27 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103, "Egyptian"
Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym/Sakari Oramo
Saint-Saens * The Complete Piano Concertos
1:54 am
Jules Massenet: "Hérodiade" (1881)
"Les Egyptiennes"
New Zealand Sym Orch/Jean-Yves Ossonce
MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1- 3 / Herodiade
2:00 am
Malcolm Arnold: Four Scottish Dances, Op 59
#2, "Vivace" (Reel)
London Phil/Malcolm Arnold
Arnold: Symphony No. 3 & Four Scottish Dances
2:02 am
Malcolm Arnold: Four Scottish Dances, Op 59
#3, "Allegretto" (Hebridean Song)
London Phil/Malcolm Arnold
Arnold: Symphony No. 3 & Four Scottish Dances
2:05 am
Frank Bridge: Dance Rhapsody
London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite
2:24 am
Edward Elgar: "Lux Aeterna" (after "Nimrod")
Voces8
Lux
2:27 am
Thomas Tallis: Hymn, "O nata lux de lumine"
Chapelle du Roi/Alistair Dixon
Thomas Tallis Complete Works, Vol. 7
2:29 am
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Piano Trio in F-Sharp, Op 7
Munich Piano Trio
Wolf-Ferrari
2:55 am
Hugo Wolf: "Italienisches Liederbuch"
"Heb auf dein blondes Haupt"
Mark Stone, br; Sholto Kynoch, p
Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs Volume 3
3:00 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Opera, "Orfeo ed Euridice"
Chorus, "Ah, sposo infelice"
Academy of Ancient Music and Cho/Christopher Hogwood
L'amima Del Filosofo Ossia Orfeo Ed Euridice
3:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Opera, "Orfeo ed Euridice"
Overture
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
L'amima Del Filosofo Ossia Orfeo Ed Euridice
3:09 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in d, Op. 103 (incomplete)
Leipzig String Quartet
3:21 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Opera, "Orfeo ed Euridice"
Chorus, "Ah sposo infelice" (reprise)
Academy of Ancient Music and Cho/Christopher Hogwood
L'amima Del Filosofo Ossia Orfeo Ed Euridice
3:22 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D, "London"
English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
Haydn: London Symphonies
3:53 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "Fife and a' the lands about it", H XXXIa:29
Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
The Haydn Edition
4:00 am
Vincenzo Bellini: "Norma"
Aria, "Casta Diva"
Wolfgang Meyer, cl; Polish Radio Sym Orch/Wojciech Rajski
4:05 am
Elias Parish-Alvars: Introduction and Variations after Bellini's "Norma"
Isabelle Moretti, h
Cantare: La Voix de la Harpe * Isabelle Moretti * Felicity Lott
4:16 am
Franz Liszt: "Réminiscences de Norma," after Bellini (1841)
Michele Campanella, p
The Great Transcriptions
4:32 am
Vincenzo Bellini: Song, "Malinconia, ninfa gentile"
Cecilia Bartoli, ms
An Italian Songbook: Bellini * Donizetti * Rossini
4:33 am
Mikhail Glinka: "Russlan and Ludmila"
Overture
English Chamber Orch
Jewels From The Court of Imperial Russia
4:39 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Maid of Orléans"
Ballet Music
Royal Opera House Orch/Colin Davis
Ballet Music
4:53 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24
Entr'acte
Berlin Phil/Semyon Bychkov
The Nutcracker / Der Nussknacker / Casse-Noisette
5:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus," Op 43
Overture
Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
Symphonies, Missa Solemnis, Overtures
5:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations in D on the "Turkish March," Op.76
Sviatoslav Richter, p
Sviatoslav Richter Plays Beethoven
5:11 am
Carl Czerny: "Introduction, Variations and Finale in C," Op 80
Kaunori Seo, f; Makoto Ueno, p
CZERNY, C.: Flute and Piano Music - 3 Rondeaux Faciles et Brillans / Introduction, Variations and Finale / Duo Concertant (Kazunori Seo, Makoto Ueno)
5:28 am
Archduke Rudolph: Variations in F
Variation #4
Josef Suk, v; Susan Kagan, p
5:30 am
Ferdinand Ries: Clarinet Sonata in g, Op 29
Pierre-André Taillard, cl; Edoardo Torbianelli, forte-p
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant Op. 48 - Variations Op. 33 - Sonate Op; 29
5:54 am
Carl Czerny: Etudes, Op 740
#8 in a
Hans Kann, p
Czerny: Op. 345, 35, 33 & 92
6:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:03 am
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto de Aranjuez"
I. "Allegro con spirito"
Dale Kavanagh, g; International Phil Orch/Horst-Hans Bäcker
Spanish Night
6:12 am
Gordon Jacob: Five Pieces for Harmonica and Strings
Tommy Reilly, harmonica; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Vaughan Williams, Moody, Jacob: Classical Music for Harmonica
6:26 am
Maurice Ravel: "Le tombeau de Couperin"
Forlane
London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Ravel: Piano Concertos, Menuet Antique, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Fanfare
6:33 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Bourrée fantasque"
Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi
Chabrier: Orchestral Works
6:40 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin and Viola Duo No. 1 in G, K. 423
Finale, "Rondeau: Allegro"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Pinchas Zukerman, vi
Mozart: Duos for Violin & Viola / Sonata for 2 Violins / Itzhak Perlman/Pinchas Zukerman
6:48 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Berlin" Symphony No. 6 in F, Wq 181
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Oboe Concertos
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
7:00 am
WFMT Membership Drive
Until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 279-2100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Symphonies Numbered Nine
Bill takes a cross-section of the art form with symphonies numbered “nine.” These are varied works by seasoned composers, ranging from the young Mozart to the older Beethoven and into the nineteenth century, with compositions by Roger Sessions and Roy Harris. And for fun, we’ll hear Papa Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 9 and 99.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
8:01 pm
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Nouvelles suite de pièces de clavecin" (1728)
"Gavotte avec six doubles"
Bruce Liu, p
Waves
8:09 pm
Augusta Holmès: "Andromède"
Toulouse Capitole Orch/Leo Hussain
Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
8:25 pm
Catherine McMichael: "Asteria"
I. "Andromeda, The Chained Princess"
Seraph Brass
Asteria
8:29 pm
Juhi Bansal: "Mirror the Stars"
Lara Downes, p
Love at Last
8:31 pm
Aaron Copland: "Quiet City"
Wynton Marsalis, tr; Phillip Koch, eh; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
Eastman Wind Ensemble - Husa, Copland, Vaughan Williams, Hindemith
8:44 pm
Eric Ewazen: "Symphony in Brass"
Summit Brass
Summit Brass Live
9:27 pm
music continues...
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Music of the Great Depression (2/27/1992)
October 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday – the day of the colossal crash of the stock market which preceded the worldwide, decade-long, economic financial crisis known as the Great Depression. Studs first presented this hour of music from the era in 1992.
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