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      Playlist for Saturday, October 3, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Brahms, Johannes: "F-A-E Scherzo (Sonatensatz)"

      Anne Sophie Mutter, v; Lambert Orkis, p
      The Berlin Recital

      DG 445826-2

      12:05 am

      Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Violin Sonata in E-Flat, K. 302

      Anne Sophie Mutter, v; Lambert Orkis, p
      Mozart: The Violin Sonatas

      DG B0007102-02 (4)

      12:17 am

      Thomson, Virgil: "The Plow that Broke the Plains" Suite (1936)

      New London Orch/Ronald Corp
      Thomson: Louisiana Story, The Plow That Broke The Plains

      Hyperion CDA-66576

      12:33 am

      Thomson, Virgil: "Five Ladies"

      #4, "Yvonne de Casa Fuerte" (1940)

      Sharan Leventhal, v; Anthony Tommasini, p
      Portraits and Self Portraits

      Northeastern NR-240-CD

      12:35 am

      Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Violin Sonata No. 37 in B-Flat, K. 454

      Jascha Heifetz, v; Brooks Smith, p
      The Heifetz Collection, Volume 24: Bach: Concertos / Mozart / Paganini / Vitali

      RCA 88765440152 (9)

      12:55 am

      Tveitt, Geirr: Suite #1, "A Hundred Folk Tunes from Hardanger," Op 151

      "Going a-wooing"

      Royal Scottish National Orch/Bjarte Engeset
      A Hundred Hardanger Tunes - Suites Nos. 1 And 4

      Naxos 8.555078

      1:00 am

      Chopin, Frédéric: "Fantaisie-Impromptu" in c-sharp minor, Op. 66

      Charles Richard-Hamelin, p
      Chopin

      Analekta AN2-9145

      1:05 am

      Moeran, Ernest John: Sinfonietta (1944)

      London Phil/Adrian Boult
      Fugal Overture, Sinfonietta, November Woods

      Lyrita SRCD.247

      1:28 am

      Moeran, Ernest John: "Songs of Springtime"

      "Spring, the sweet Spring"

      King's Singers

      EMI/Ang CDC7-49765-2

      1:30 am

      Chopin, Frédéric: Ballade No. 2 in F, Op. 38

      Charles Richard-Hamelin, p
      Chopin

      Analekta AN2-9145

      1:38 am

      Berlioz, Hector: "Roméo et Juliette," Op. 17

      Love Scene (Adagio)

      Baltimore Sym/David Zinman
      Berlioz: La Marseillase, Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet, Three Excerpts from the Damnation of Faust

      Telarc CD-80164

      1:54 am

      Prokofiev, Serge: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64

      "Scene: The street awakens"

      Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi
      Romeo And Juliet (Complete Suites From The Ballet)

      Telarc CD-80597

      2:00 am

      Strauss, Richard: "Schlagobers," Op. 70

      "The Princess"

      Tokyo Metropolitan Sym/Hiroshi Wakasugi

      MHS 514507-L

      2:05 am

      Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: "The Prince and the Pauper" film score

      Suite

      London Sym/André Previn
      Previn Conducts Korngold * The Sea Hawk

      DG 471347-2

      2:27 am

      Rameau, Jean-Philippe: "La Princesse de Navarre"

      "Chaconne"

      English Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
      RAMEAU: La princesse de Navarre

      Erato 12986-2

      2:29 am

      Bon, Anna: Clavier Sonata #5 in b

      Barbara Harbach, hc
      Anna Bon

      MSR Classics MS-1241

      2:42 am

      Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No. 9 in C

      Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
      Haydn * The Complete Symphonies * Antal Dorati

      London 4781221 (33)

      2:54 am

      Haydn, Franz Josef: Song, "The Lady's Looking Glass"

      Julianne Baird, s; Lux Musica
      Celtic Caravans

      MSR Classics MS-1105

      3:00 am

      Purcell, Henry: Elegy on the Death of Thomas Farmer

      Tragicomedia/Stephen Stubbs
      Songs Of Welcome And Farewell

      Teldec 95068-2

      3:05 am

      Philidor, Andre: Suite in E-Flat

      Le Temple du Goût

      Ma Recordings M-075-A

      3:13 am

      Schnittke, Alfred: "Suite in the Old Style"

      Ilya Kaler, v; Leonid Blok, p
      Ilya Kaler: Violin Suites

      MCA Classics AED-10527

      3:29 am

      Martino, Donald: Suite in Old Form

      Air

      Haesun Paik, p

      Tonmeister 89

      3:31 am

      Reger, Max: "Concerto in the Old Style," Op 123

      Karl Suske, v; Heinz Schunk, v; Berlin Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner
      Balletsuite, Concerto, Beethoven-Variationen

      Berlin Classics 0091232-BC

      3:54 am

      Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon: Centone #9

      Trio, "Le just'Archer"

      Eastman Brass Quintet

      Pantheon D-07159

      4:00 am

      Godowsky, Leopold: 53 Studies on Chopin Etudes

      #13 in e-flat

      Geoffrey Douglas Madge, p

      Dante PSG-8903/4 (2)

      4:05 am

      Grieg, Edvard: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64

      Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi
      Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite

      DG 419431-2

      4:36 am

      Grieg, Edvard: 25 Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op. 17

      No. 16, "I Know a Little Maiden"

      Eva Knardahl, p
      Grieg - Complete Piano Music, Vol.6

      BIS LP-109

      4:38 am

      Handel, George Frideric: Violin Sonata in g, Op. 1, No. 6 (HWV 364a)

      Ryo Terakado, v; Christophe Rousset, hc; Kaori Uemura, viga

      Denon CO-75858

      4:44 am

      Lutoslawski, Witold: "Dance Preludes"

      Eduard Brunner, cl; Ursula Holliger, h; Bavarian Radio Sym/Witold Lutoslawski
      Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto; Double Concerto; Dance Preludes

      Philips 416817-2

      4:54 am

      Burleigh: "Characteristic Pieces" (1910)

      "Indian Snake-Dance"

      Zina Schiff, v; Mary Barranger, p
      BURLEIGH: Music for Violin and Piano

      Naxos 8.559061

      5:00 am

      Schubert, Franz: Chorus, "Mondenschein," D 875

      Neil Archer, t; Roger Vignoles, p; King's Singers
      Nightsong

      RCA 68646-2

      5:05 am

      Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight"

      Alexei Lyubimov, forte-p
      Works for the Piano by C. P. E. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven

      MCA Classics AED-68006

      5:20 am

      Strauss, Richard: "Capriccio," Op. 85

      Mondschein-Musik "(Moonlight Music)"

      Barry Tuckwell, fh; Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Horn Concertos

      London 430370-2

      5:24 am

      Nietzsche, Friedrich: "Im Mondschein auf der Puszta" (1862)

      John Bell Young, p
      Piano Music Of Friedrich Nietzsche

      Newport Classic NPD-85513

      5:25 am

      Stanford, Charles Villiers: Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Op 32

      Anthony Marwood, v; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins
      Stanford: Violin Concerto In D, Op. 74, Suite For Violin And Orchestra, Op. 32

      Hyperion CDA-67208

      5:53 am

      Brahms, Johannes: Waltzes, Op 39

      #15 in A-Flat

      Alexander Brailowsky, p
      Brailowsky Plays Virtuoso Showpieces

      RCA 68165-2 (2)

      6:00 am

      Persichetti, Vincent: "Pastoral," Op 21 (1943)

      Borealis Wind Quintet
      A LA CARTE- Short Works for Winds

      MSR Classics MS-1128

      6:05 am

      Carulli, Ferdinando: Guitar Concerto in A, Op 8a

      Pepe Romero, g; St Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
      Concertos; Mozart, Adagio Kv 261, Rondo Kv 373

      Philips 426263-2

      6:22 am

      Grieg, Edvard: 19 Norwegian Folksongs for Piano, Op. 66

      No. 13, "There Stood Two Girls"

      Paul Galbraith, g
      Guitar Music - NIN-CULMELL, J.M. / FRASER, M.K. / CONSTANTINIDIS, Y. / MORENO, T.F. / BARTOK , B. / GRIEG, E. (Galbraith)

      Delos DE-3236

      6:23 am

      Grofé, Ferde: "Grand Canyon Suite"

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite/ Gershwin: Porgy & Bess Symphonic Suite "Catfish Row"

      Telarc CD-80086

      6:54 am

      Bacon, Ernst: "Tumbleweeds" (1979)

      "The Oregon Trail"

      Dorothy Bales, v; Allan Sly, p
      Bacon: Remembering Ansel Adams, Etc

      CRI CD-779

      7:00 - 9:00 am

      7:00 am

      Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn

      With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.

      7:03 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527

      Overture

      La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Complete Edition

      Brilliant Classics 94051/161

      7:10 am

      Traditional American: "Amazing Grace"

      Randall Goosby, v; Carlos Simon, p
      Together

      Decca 4854768

      7:13 am

      Carlos Simon: "Memory of Summer"

      Carlos Simon, p
      Together

      Decca 4854768

      7:19 am

      Antonín Dvořák: "In Nature's Realm" Overture, Op. 91

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
      Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, In Nature's Realm, Scherzo capriccioso, Slavonic Dances

      Warner 66656

      7:35 am

      Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34

      Eddie Daniels, cl; Composers String Quartet
      Weber & Brahms

      Reference RR-40

      8:00 am

      Saturday Morning Listener's Choice

      8:01 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20

      Pas de deux

      Zürich Chamber Orch/Daniel Hope, v
      Dance!

      DG 4864994

      8:06 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "Tosca"

      Aria, "Vissi d'arte"

      Kiri Te Kanawa, s; Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano
      40 Most Beautiful Arias

      Warner 2564 69689-6

      8:10 am

      William Bolcom: "Graceful Ghost" Rag

      Euclid Quartet
      Breve

      Afinat AF-2401

      8:15 am

      Joe Hisaishi: "Spirited Away"

      "One Summer's Day"

      Joe Hisaishi, p; London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
      Melodyphony

      Decca 0873565

      8:21 am

      Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32

      "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age"

      New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
      The Planets

      CBS MYK-37226

      8:30 am

      Samuel Barber: "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," Op. 24

      First section

      Renée Fleming, s; Royal Stockholm Phil Orch/Sakari Oramo
      Distant Light

      Decca B0026096-02

      8:34 am

      John Scott: "Gathering Crowds"

      KPM Orch
      Gathering Crowds

      KPM Music KPM-1138

      8:39 am

      Gabriel Dupont: "La Maison dans les Dunes"

      I. "Dans les dunes par un clair matin"

      Ruti Abramovitch, p

      bandcamp [La Maison dans les Dunes]

      8:44 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Giulio Cesare"

      "Piangerò la sorte mia"

      Barbara Schlick, s; Concerto Köln/René Jacobs

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901458

      8:52 am

      John Williams: "Indiana Jones"

      "The Basket Chase"

      Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
      John Williams Conductor

      Sony 41779-2 (20)

      8:56 am

      John Williams: "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"

      "Over the Moon"

      Alexandre Tharaud, p; Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano
      Cinema

      Erato 5419718461

      9:00 - 11:00 am

      9:00 am

      Soundtrack

      9:00 am

      Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare

      London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
      The Genius of Film Music

      LPO 0086

      9:02 am

      Johnny Mandel: "The Americanization of Emily"

      "Vacation in Sussex"

      Studio Orch/Johnny Mandel
      The Americanization of Emily (Original Movie Soundtrack)

      Disques Cinémusique [The Americanization of Emily (Original Movie Soundtrack)]

      9:07 am

      RIchard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman: "Mary Poppins"

      Overture

      Studio Orch/Irwin Kostal
      Mary Poppins (Special Edition Soundtrack)

      Walt Disney Records 61202-7

      9:10 am

      Julie Andrews & Co.: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Sherman/Sherman)

      Julie Andrews
      Mary Poppins (Original Walt Disney Soundtrack)

      Walt Disney Records 60615-7

      9:12 am

      RIchard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman: "Mary Poppins"

      "Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)"

      Julie Andrews, singer; Studio Cho & Orch/Irwin Kostal
      Mary Poppins (Special Edition Soundtrack)

      Walt Disney Records 61202-7

      9:18 am

      Elmer Bernstein: "Hawaii"

      Overture

      City of Prague Phil Orch/James Fitzpatrick
      The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection

      Silva Screen Records SILCD-1178

      9:23 am

      Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"

      "Just You Wait"

      Julie Andrews, voice; Orch/Cyril Ornadel
      My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Cast)

      CBS CK-2015

      9:26 am

      Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"

      "The Rain in Spain"

      Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews & Robert Coote, voices; Orch/Cyril Ornadel
      My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Cast)

      CBS CK-2015

      9:28 am

      Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"

      "I Could Have Danced All Night"

      Julie Andrews, Betty Woolfe, voices; Orch/Cyril Ornadel
      My Fair Lady (Original Broadway Cast)

      CBS CK-2015

      9:33 am

      John Addison: "Torn Curtain"

      Main Titles

      BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba
      The Film Music of John Addison

      Chandos CHAN-10418

      9:35 am

      Bernard Herrmann: "Torn Curtain"

      Suite

      Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen
      Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores

      Sony 62700

      9:42 am

      John Barry: "The Tamarind Seed"

      Main Title

      Studio Orch/John Barry
      The Tamarind Seed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      Silva Screen SILCD-1647

      9:45 am

      John Debney: "The Princess Diaries"

      "The Princess Diaries Medley"

      Studio Orch/John Debney
      The Princes Diaries (The Score)

      Walt Disney [The Princes Diaries (The Score)]

      9:49 am

      Julie Andrews: My Favorite Things (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

      Julie Andrews
      The Best of Julie Andrews

      Rhino R2 - 72281

      9:51 am

      Richard Rodgers: "The Sound of Music"

      "Edelweiss"

      Christopher Plummer, Julie Andrews
      The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording

      RCA Victor LSOD-2005

      9:53 am

      Richard Rodgers: "The Sound of Music"

      "Do-Re-Mi"

      Julie Andrews; Movie cast; Studio Orch/Irwin Kostal
      Debbie Turner, voice,
      Heather Menzies, voice,
      The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording

      RCA Victor LSOD-2005

      9:59 am

      Richard Rodgers: "The Sound of Music"

      "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," Reprise

      Movie cast; Studio Orch & Cho /Irwin Kostal
      The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording

      RCA Victor LSOD-2005

      10:01 am

      Florence Price: Octet for Brasses and Piano

      Onyx Brass; Viv McLean, p
      Transatlantic

      Chandos CHAN-20399

      10:12 am

      Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonia in B-Flat (1778)

      Prague Chamber Orch
      Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonias

      Supraphon 110304-2

      10:24 am

      Richard Wagner: "Das Rheingold"

      Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

      Nikolai Lugansky, p
      Richard Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902393

      10:33 am

      Pehr Henrik Nordgren: "Portraits of Country Fiddlers," Op. 26

      Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch/Juha Kangas
      Folk Into Classic

      Ondine ODE-766-2

      10:52 am

      Joseph Turrin: "Fandango"

      Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tr; Zenas Kim-Banther, tb; Milana Strezeva, p
      Radiance

      Summit DCD-655

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      WFMT presents performances by finalists of the inaugural Nova Linea Musica Young Artists Chamber Music Competition. First place winners the Valinor Trio (violinist Cecilia O'Malley, cellist Gabriel Raviv, and pianist Joseph Gallwas) perform Arno Babajanian’s Piano Trio in F-sharp minor. Third place winners The Tessera Quartet (violinists Lucy Nemeth and Amina Knapp, violist Erin Bang, and cellist Daniel Dorsey) perform the first movement of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s String Quartet.

      11:15 am

      Ronn McFarlane: "Snapdragon"

      Ronn McFarlane, l; Willard Morris, db; Mattias Rucht, per
      One Morning

      Dorian DSL-92111

      11:19 am

      Ruth Gipps: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 34

      Murray McLachlan, p; Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Charles Peebles
      Piano Concertos by Dora Bright and Ruth Gipps

      Somm SOMMCD-273

      11:46 am

      Gioachino Rossini: "Otello"

      Ballet music, part 1

      Monte Carlo Opera Cho, Orch/Antonio de Almeida
      Rossini: Ballet Music

      Philips 422843-2

      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From National Centre for the Performing Arts

      Wagner's Das Rheingold

      Egils Silins (Wotan); Robert Bork (Donner); Wang Chuan (Froh); Christian Franz (Loge); Bettina Ranch (Fricka); Tanja Kuhn (Freia); Niu Shasha (Erda); Tomas Tomasson (Alberich); Arnold Bezuyen (Mime); Andrea Silvestrelli (Fasolt); Guan Zhijing (Fafner); Qin Kanru (Woglinde); Xu Xiaoying (Wellgunde); Zhang Yajie (Flosshilde); NCPA Chorus and Orchestra; Lü Jia, conductor. Sung in German.

      2:48 pm

      Dora Pejačević: Impromptu, Op. 9b

      Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
      Tom Poster, piano,
      Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 3

      Chandos CHAN-20364

      2:52 pm

      Alex Baranowski: "The Windermere Children"

      La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
      Portrait: Alex Baranowski

      Analekta AN2-8750

      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music

      3:01 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano," Op. 2

      Jan Lisiecki, p; North German Radio Sym Orch/Krzysztof Urbański
      Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra

      DG 4796824

      3:19 pm

      Florence Price: "Dances in the Canebrakes"

      Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen
      Project W

      Cedille CDR-90000185

      3:29 pm

      Julian Orbón: Concerto Grosso for String Quartet and Orchestra

      Cuarteto Latinoamericano; Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata
      Music of Latin American Masters

      Dorian DOR-90178

      3:56 pm

      music continues...

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      An interview with bass-baritone Christian Van Horn who stars in the title role of "Don Giovanni" at Lyric Opera.

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      From the archives: In 2024, local treasures, Emmy Bean and Ronnie Kuller performed “Her Only Light” songs and stories about elusive folk singer, Connie Converse. We reprise that concert just as the fully produced album is released.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Songs about skyscrapers, city skylines, and other things that are very tall.