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Playlist for Thursday, December 11, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Bedrich Smetana: "The Bartered Bride"
Dance of the Comedians
London Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon
Smetana: The Bartered Bride · String Quartet "My Life"
12:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: Violin Sonata in F, Op 57
Gil Shaham, v; Orli Shaham, p
Dvořák For Two
12:26 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Visions fugitives," Op. 22
No. 8, "Commodo"
Gene Pokorny, tuba; Bradley Haag, p
12:28 am
Paul Hindemith: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" (1934)
Czech Phil/Jiri Belohlávek
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
12:55 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Visions fugitives," Op. 22
No. 20 (Finale), "Lento irrealmente"
Gene Pokorny, tuba; Bradley Haag, p
Big Boy
1:00 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G, R 146
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
Once Upon a Time... Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà
1:05 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, R 502
Sergio Azzolini, bs; L'Aura Soave Cremona
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos, Volume III
1:17 am
Francesco Geminiani: Concerto grosso #5 in a, after Corelli
Nicola Benedetti, v; Orch
Baroque
1:29 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in a, Kk 148 (L 64)
Hédi Salànki, hc
1:31 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in d, Op 11
Nash Ensemble
Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trios & String Quartet
1:55 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No.2 in b minor, BWV 1067
VII. Badinerie
William Bennett, f; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
Greatest Hits - Flute
2:00 am
David Diamond: Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
#2, Balcony Scene
Randall Ellis, ob; S Jolles, h; New York Chamber Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Diamond: Symphony No. 3, Kaddish for Cello and Orchestra, Romeo and Juliet, Psalm
2:05 am
Fela Sowande: "African Suite"
London Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
Sahdji / African Suite / Lyric For Strings
2:19 am
Cole Porter: Kiss Me, Kate
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare"
Alfred Drake, br, Orch
N/A
2:21 am
Bedrich Smetana: Shakespeare Festival March
Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Robert Stankovsky
SMETANA : Short Orchestral Pieces
2:27 am
Josef Bohuslav Foerster: "From Shakespeare" Suite, Op 76
Prague Sym Orch/Smetacek
From Shakespear- Foerster
2:54 am
John Dowland: "My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe"
David Russell, g
David Russell * Renaissance Favorites for Guitar
3:00 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Le coq d'or" (1906-7)
"Hymn to the Sun"
Viktoria Lukianets, s; Orch/Andrey Chistiakov
Glinka
3:05 am
Efrem Zimbalist: Fantasia on Themes fr Rimsky Korsakov's "Le Coq d'Or"
Dmitri Sitkovetsky, v; Olga Sitkovetsky, p
3:14 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1899-1900)
Suite
Philharmonia Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
3:34 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1899-1900)
"Flight of the Bumblebee"
Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
Trumpet Concertos
3:35 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Two-Trumpet Concerto in C, R 537
Wynton Marsalis, tr's; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
Baroque Music for Trumpets
3:42 am
Johann Friedrich Fasch: Two-Corni Concerto in D
Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Güttler
3:53 am
Anthony Plog: Fanfare
Anthony Plog, tr; Russell Kidd, tr
4:00 am
Cecile Chaminade: "Valse-Caprice"
Enid Katahn, p
Chaminade: Piano Music
4:05 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Wedding Cake (Caprice-Valse)," Op. 76
Jean-François Heisser, p; String Quintet
Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval Des Animaux, Wedding Cake, Caprice, Septuor
4:11 am
Henry Litolff: "Concerto symphonique" #4 in d, Op 102
Scherzo
Cristina Ortiz, p; Royal Phil/Moshe Atzmon
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2/ Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto/ Litolff: Scherzo
4:18 am
Gabriel Pierné: Poeme symphonique in d, Op 37
Stephen Coombs, p, BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Ronald Corp
The Complete Works For Piano And Orchestra
4:31 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Pièces brèves," Op 84
#7, "Allégresse"
Kathryn Stott, p
Faure: Piano Music
4:33 am
Gabriel Fauré: Ballade in F-Sharp, Op 19
Robert Casadesus, p; New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
4:45 am
Darius Milhaud: Ballade, Op. 61
Claude Helffer, p; French National Orch/David Robertson
Milahud: Le Carnaval d'Aix Op. 33b, 5 Etudes Op. 63, Concertos No. 1 and No. 4, Ballade Op. 61
4:53 am
Darius Milhaud: "Suite française," Op. 248
I. "Normandie"
Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell
Mozart Serenade No. 10 / Strauss Serenade in E-Flat / Milhaud Suite Francaise
5:00 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Les Sylphides"
Grande valse brillante
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Greatest Hits * The Ballet * Vol III
5:05 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Bolero," Op. 19
Andrew Rangell, p
Chopin Recital
5:13 am
Gioachino Rossini: "Bolero: Mi lagnerò tacendo"
Cecilia Bartoli, ms
An Italian Songbook: Bellini * Donizetti * Rossini
5:16 am
Maurice Ravel: "Boléro"
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
Ravel: Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, La Valse, Valse Nobles et Sentimentales
5:31 am
Mauro Giuliani: "Pièces faciles et agréables," Op 74
#14, Bolero
Mikael Helasvuo, f; Jukka Savijoki, g
Mauro Giuliani - The Complete Works for Flute and Guitar, Vol.3
5:33 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Duet, "El desdichado (Boléro)"(1871)
Felicity Lott, s; Ann Murray, ms; Graham Johnson, p
5:36 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Havanaise," Op. 83
Nicola Benedetti, v; London Sym/Daniel Harding
Szymanowski - Chausson - Saint-Saëns
5:47 am
Leo Brouwer: "Cuban Landscape with Rain"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
El amor brujo
5:53 am
Ernesto Lecuona: "Cuba at Arms (One-Step)"
Thomas Tirino, p
Lecuona: Complete Piano Music Vol 2
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:03 am
Hector Berlioz: "L'Enfance du Christ," Op. 25
Trio of the Young Ishmaelites
Doriot Anthony Dwyer, James Pappoutsakis, f's; Bernard Zighera, h
Munch conducts Berlioz
6:10 am
Hector Berlioz: "L'Enfance du Christ," Op. 25
The Shepherds' Farewell
Monteverdi Cho, Lyon Opera Orch/John Eliot Gardiner
Christmas with the Stars
6:17 am
Percy Grainger: "Shepherd's Hey"
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band by Percy Grainger
6:19 am
Henry Doktorski: "Gigue: Dance of the Shepherds"
Henry Doktorski, acc; Al Major, p; Don Evans, db
A Classical Christmas
6:21 am
Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Set 1
"Baïlèro (Shepherd's Song)"
Dawn Upshaw, s; Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano
Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne; Maurice Emmanuel: Chansons bourguignonnes
6:28 am
Hugo Alfvén: "The Mountain King," Op. 37
Dance of the Shepherdess
Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen
A Nordic Festival
6:33 am
Marc Bélanger: "Carols for Strings"
I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky
Tchaikovsky: Children's Album; L. Mozart: Toy Symphony
6:46 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Platée"
Dances
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Suites from Platée and Dardanus
6:54 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Suite pastorale"
IV. Finale, "Scherzo-valse"
Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
The Flag Series-France
7:03 am
Elizabeth DiSavino: Suite of English Carols
Solid Brass
Christmas With Solid Brass
7:12 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell, hc
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Harpsichord & Violin Concertos
7:23 am
Carlos Guastavino: "Diez cantilenas argentinas"
No. 10, "La Casa"
Camerata Bariloche
Impresiones
7:31 am
Hector Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture, Op. 9
Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
7:40 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude on an Old Carol Tune
Munich Sym Orch/Douglas Bostock
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'Job', A Masque for Dancing, Prelude on an Old Carol Tune, Variations for Orchestra
7:49 am
Astor Piazzolla: "María de Buenos Aires"
Suite
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Piazzolla Stories
8:04 am
William Grant Still: "Christmas in the Western World"
"A Maiden Was Adoring God; Ven, Niño Divino; Aguinaldo"
Toledo Clarinets; Greg Kostraba, p
The Toledo Clarinets
8:11 am
Traditional Ukrainian: "Shcho to za predivo (Oh, What a Wonder)"
Solomiya Ivakhiv, v; Lviv National Phil Sym Orch/S Khorovets
Ukrainian Christmas
8:16 am
Traditional Ukrainian: Carol, "Pavochka khodyt' (A Peacock Strolls)"
Solomiya Ivakhiv, v; Lviv National Phil Sym Orch/S Khorovets
Ukrainian Christmas
8:22 am
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D, "Titan"
II. "Kräftig bewegt"
Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Symphonie No. 1
8:31 am
Vince Guaraldi: "Christmastime is Here"
Vince Guaraldi, p, Monty Budwig, db, Colin Bailey, dr
A Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack
8:38 am
Gunnar de Frumerie: "Pastoral Suite," Op. 13b
Kathleen Rudolph, f; CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi
Northern Landscapes
8:52 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fidelio," Op. 72
Overture
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
9:03 am
Robert Russell Bennett: Christmas Medley No. 1
Robert Shaw Chorale & Orch/Robert Shaw
A Festival of Carols
9:15 am
Jean-Marie Leclair: Two-Violin Sonata in G, Op. 3, No. 1
Greg Ewer & Adam LaMotte, v's
Leclair: Complete Two-Violin Sonatas
9:24 am
Franz Schubert: "Military March" in D, D 733, No. 1
Vienna Phil/Hans Knappertsbusch
Weekend Classics - Weekend Marches
9:31 am
Philip Lane: "Old Christmas Music"
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
Another Night Before Christmas and Scrooge
9:45 am
Iván Erőd: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 21
III. Finale, "Allegro vivace"
Mithras Trio
Eros
9:53 am
Claude Debussy: "Marche écossaise"
Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn
Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am and "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.
10:00 am
Tomaso Albinoni: Trumpet Concerto in D minor
Maurice André, tr; Württemberg Chamber Orch/Jörg Faerber
Four Trumpet Concertos - Albinoni, Handel, Otto, Barsanti
10:14 am
Sally Beamish: "In the Stillness"
Tenebrae/Nigel Short
In Winter's House: Christmas with Tenebrae
10:16 am
Herbert Howells: "Sing Lullaby"
Tenebrae/Nigel Short
In Winter's House: Christmas with Tenebrae
10:21 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66
Suite
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Tchaikovsky - Highlights from The Three Grandest Ballets
10:41 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Mozart's "Bei Männern," WoO 46
Daniel Müller-Schott, vc; Angela Hewitt, p
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Op. 102, Variations
10:52 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
March of the Priests
St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart: The Magic Flute
10:55 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Chorus, "O Isis und Osiris"
Roland Bracht, b; Bavarian Radio Cho & Sym Orch/Bernard Haitink
The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!
11:00 am
Hector Berlioz: "Harold in Italy," Op. 16
III. "Serenade of an Abruzzo mountaineer"
Lise Berthaud, vi; Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Berlioz: Harold en Italie - Le carnaval romain
11:07 am
Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op. 39
Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung, p
Bax & Chung Piano Duo
11:26 am
Arnold Schoenberg: "Weihnachtsmusik" (1921)
London Sinfonietta members/David Atherton
Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24 · Ode To Napoleon · Die Eiserne Brigade · Weihnachtsmusik
11:32 am
Traditional English: Carol, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
Choral Scholars of University College Dublin/Desmond Earley
Be All Merry
11:35 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" Overture, Op. 27
Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
WFMT Spring Mix
11:47 am
Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64
No. 2, "Allegretto grazioso"
Bergen Phil Orch/Edward Gardner
Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Before a Southern Convent, Funeral March for Rikard Nordaak, Bergliot
11:55 am
Traditional Norwegian: "Se, solens skjønne lys og prakt (The Sun’s Fair Light)"
Norwegian Soloists Choir/Grete Pedersen; instrumental ensemble
Andreas Utnem, harmonium,
Veni: Songs of Christmas II
12:00 pm
Richard Wagner: "Albumblatt" in C for Princess Metternich
Esme Arias-Kim, v; Milana Pavchinskaya, p
Introductions Turns 15
12:05 pm
Florence Price: "Adoration"
Esme Arias-Kim, v; Milana Pavchinskaya, p
Introductions: Esme Arias-Kim, 18, violin (June 1, 2024)
12:09 pm
Erik Satie: "Parade"
Pascal Rogé & Ami Rogé, p's
Les Six & Satie
12:21 pm
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
I. "Allegro"
Kian Soltani, vc; Berlin Staatskapelle/Daniel Barenboim
Kian Soltani, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim - Dvořák: Cello Concerto
12:38 pm
Leroy Anderson: Suite of Carols for Woodwinds
BBC Concert Orch Winds/Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride & Other Holiday Favorites
12:50 pm
Peter Cornelius: "The Barber of Baghdad"
Overture
Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel
Great Comedy Overtures
1:00 pm
Josef Suk: "Fantastic Scherzo," Op. 25
Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Suk: Fairy Tale * Fantastic Scherzo
1:16 pm
William Grant Still: "Ennanga"
1st mvt
Ashley Jackson, h; Harlem Chamber Players
Ennanga
1:25 pm
Joaquín Turina: "Danzas fantásticas," Op. 22
London Phil Orch/Enrique Bátiz
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Albéniz: Iberia; Turina: Danzas fantásticas
1:44 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "In dulci jubilo," BWV 729
Berlin Trombone Quartet; Armin Thalheim, o
Music for Festive Occasions
1:47 pm
John Rutter: "Shepherd's Pipe Carol"
London Brass; Leslie Pearson, o
Christmas with London Brass
1:51 pm
Giuseppe Torelli: Sinfonia in C
La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler
The Italian Job
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, "Serioso"
Calidore String Quartet
Beethoven: The Middle Quartets
2:39 pm
music continues...
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Peter Tchaikovsky, part I (1840-1893)
Bill launches into the first part of a two-part series on the Russian Romantic composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Though shunned by some other Russian composers as sounding too Western, Tchaikovsky was loved throughout the world as a great Russian composer. Caught between East and West, he created his own sound that to this day is still treasured and that Russians are proud to call their own. Bill starts with Mikhail Glinka, who broke from the Italian school to create the Russian school of music, and ends with excerpts of Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake."
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The New York Philharmonic This Week
Nielsen Clarinet Concerto; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Ravel "Valses nobles et sentimentales;" Tchaikovsky Selections from "Swan Lake;" Alan Gilbert, conductor.
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