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Playlist for Saturday, February 28, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Haydn Wood: "Moods Suite"
No. 6, Waltz, "Joyousness"
Michael Stairs, p
12:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, H VIIb:2 (Op. 101)
Wendy Warner, vc; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Haydn & Myslivecek Cello Concertos
12:31 am
John Ireland: "Songs of a Wayfarer"
#5, "I will walk on the earth"
Christopher Maltman, br; Graham Johnson, p
The Songs of John Ireland
12:33 am
Arnold Bax: "Lullaby" (1920)
Eric Parkin, p
Bax: Piano Music, Vol. 1
12:37 am
John Ireland: "A Downland Suite" (1932)
London Brass Virtuosi/David Honeyball
English Music for Brass
12:54 am
John Ireland: Song, "The Rat"
Lisa Milne, s; Graham Johnson, p
The Songs of John Ireland
1:00 am
William Walton: "Henry V" Suite
Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter
English Music For Strings
1:05 am
William Walton: "The Battle of Britain" (1969)
March and Siegfried Music
London Phil/Carl Davis
1:11 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "The Wise Virgins" Suite
Finale, "Praise be to God"
London Phil/Bryden Thomson
Walton: The Quest And The Wise Virgins Suite
1:13 am
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61
Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2 / Cellokonzert
1:56 am
Robert Schumann: "Lieder und Gesänge," Op. 77
No. 4, "Stiller Vorwurf"
Juliane Banse, s; Graham Johnson, p
The Songs of Robert Schumann, Volume 3
2:00 am
Giuseppe Torelli: Sinfonia con Tromba in D
Byron Pearson, tr; Arthur Vidrich, o
Voices of Trumpets and Organ
2:05 am
Tommaso Albinoni: "Il Nome Glorioso"
Overture
John Wallace, tr; Philharmonia Orch/Simon Wright
Trumpet Concertos and Fanfares
2:09 am
Petronio Franceschini: Two-Trumpet Sonata in D
Charles Geyer, Barbara Butler, tr's; Music of the Baroque Orch/T Wikman
2:15 am
John Dowland: "The King of Denmark's Galliard"
Baltimore Consort
The Food of Love
2:17 am
Carl Nielsen: Symphony #3, Op 27, "Sinfonia espansiva"
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
2:55 am
Johannes Brahms: "Neue Liebeslieder" Waltzes, Op 65
#14, "A Canoa Virou"
Silke-Thora Matthies, p; Christian Köhn, p
BRAHMS, J.: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Matthies, Köhn)
3:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Chorus, "The Nightingale"
Sveshnikov Cho
Tchaikovsky: Nine Choruses
3:05 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two-Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 17
Madeleine Forte, p; Del Parkinson, p
3:29 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude No. 5 in D
Renaud Capuçon, v; Gautier Capuçon, vc
Inventions * Renaud Capuçon - Gautier Capuçon
3:30 am
Antonin Dvorák: Wind Serenade in d minor, Op. 44
Marlboro Festival Wind Ensemble/Louis Moyse
3:54 am
Johannes Brahms: Eleven Chorale Preludes, Op 122
#4, "Herzlich tut mich erfreuen"
Kevin Bowyer, o
Brahms The Complete Organ Music
4:00 am
Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"
Song, "If love's a sweet passion"
Les Arts Florrisant/William Christie
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
4:05 am
Jules Massenet: Orchestra Suite No. 6, "Scènes de féerie"
New Zealand Sym/Jean-Yves Ossonce
MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 4 - 7
4:21 am
Gabriel Fauré: Two Songs, Op 27
#2, "La Fée aux chansons"
Barbara Hendricks, s; Michel Dalberto, p
Faure: Melodies
4:23 am
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Frank Peter Zimmermann, v; Philharmonia Orch/Mariss Jansons
4:55 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Duet, "Wasserfahrt"
Felicity Lott, s; Ann Murray, ms; Graham Johnson, p
5:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Elijah," Op 70
Aria, "It is Enough"
Thomas Quasthoff, b-br; Dresden Staatskapelle/Sebastian Weigle
Consider, My Soul * Sacred Arias * Thomas Quasthoff
5:05 am
George Frideric Handel: "Saul"
Act 1 Sinfonia
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock, o
Overtures
5:17 am
Edward Elgar: "The Dream of Gerontius," Op 38
Prelude
Orch/Edward Elgar
5:27 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Oratorio, "St Paul," Op 36
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Francesco d'Avalos
5:35 am
George Frideric Handel: "Jephtha" (1751)
"Menuet"
St Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Handel: With Valour Abounding
5:37 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat, K. 495
James Sommerville, fh; CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi
Mozart: Horn Concertos
5:54 am
Jean-Joseph Mouret: "Rondeau"
Empire Brass
Royal Brass: Brass Music From The Renaissance and Baroque
6:00 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: March, "Sea Songs "
Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Christopher Allsop, o
The Vaughan Williams Hymnal
6:05 am
Franz Krommer: Oboe Concerto #2 in F, Op 52
Alex Klein, ob; Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman
Oboe concertos by Krommer and Hummel
6:25 am
Jerome Moross: "The Big Country"
"The Terrill Ranch"
Orch/Jerome Moross
6:26 am
Ernst Bacon: "Tumbleweeds" (1979)
Dorothy Bales, v; Allan Sly, p
Bacon: Remembering Ansel Adams, Etc
6:47 am
Ferde Grofé: "Grand Canyon Suite"
"On the Trail"
Seattle Sym Orch/Gerard Schwarz
Out West! - Tone Poems Of The American West
6:54 am
Jerome Moross: "The Big Country"
"Old Thunder"
Orch/Jerome Moross
7:00 - 11:00 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
Hector Berlioz: "Roméo et Juliette," Op. 17
Queen Mab Scherzo
London Sym Orch/Sir Colin Davis
Berlioz: Complete Orchestral Music
7:11 am
Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute (Violin) and Piano
Alexa Still, f; Susan DeWitt Smith, p
Alexa Still - Flute
7:27 am
Karl Kohaut: Lute Concerto in F
I. "Allegro"
Miguel Rincón, l; Il Pomo d'Oro/Zefira Valova
Concertos for Baroque Lute
7:33 am
Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"
Medley
Richard Glazier, p
Broadway to Hollywood
7:41 am
Cécile Chaminade: "Callirhoé," Op. 37
Ballet Suite
Metz Grand Est National Orch/David Reiland
Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:01 am
Jon Batiste: "Ode to Joyful" (after Beethoven)
Jon Batiste, p
Beethoven Blues
8:03 am
Jon Batiste: "5th Symphony in Congo Square" (after Beethoven)
Jon Batiste, p
Beethoven Blues
8:08 am
Aaron Copland: "A Lincoln Portrait"
James Earl Jones, n; Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Portraits of Freedom
8:25 am
Mark Olivieri: "Spectacular Vernaculars"
III. "Stakes is Higher: hommage à Ahmad Jamal and De La Soul"
Nicholas Phillips, p
American Vernacular: New Music for Solo Piano
8:30 am
Max Steiner: "Mildred Pierce"
Fanfare & Main Title
City of Prague Phil Orch/Kenneth Alwyn
The Essential Max Steiner Film Music Collection
8:32 am
Alfred Newman: "How The West Was Won"
"No Goodbye"
Sebastian Knauer, p; Berlin German Sym Orch/David Newman
Hollywood
8:35 am
Franz Waxman: "A Place in the Sun"
Suite
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Vintage Cinema
8:41 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10
IV. Finale, "Allegro agitato"
Anthony McGill, cl; Catalyst Quartet
Uncovered, Volume 1
8:48 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Othello," Op. 79
"Dance"
RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite
8:52 am
Leslie Adams: Etudes, Part II
No. 13 in A-Flat
Thomas Otten, p
Thomas Otten * H. Leslie Adams * Piano Etudes, Part II
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:01 am
Alex North: "Spartacus"
Main Title
Studio Orch/Alex North
Alex North - Spartacus
9:06 am
John Williams: "1941"
March
Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
The Music of America
9:10 am
John Williams: "Midway"
Men of the Yorktown March
Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
Lights, Camera...Magic!
9:16 am
Howard Shore: "The Lord of the Rings"
"The Last March of the Ents"
Ben Del Maestro, tr; London Voices; London Phil Orch/H Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Complete Recordings)
9:18 am
Howard Shore: "The Lord of the Rings"
"Théoden Rides Forth"
Ben Del Maestro, tr; London Voices; London Phil Orch/H Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Complete Recordings)
9:26 am
Malcolm Arnold: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
The River Kwai March
Columbia Pictures Orch/Malcolm Arnold
The Bridge on the River Kwai
9:28 am
Kenneth Alford: "Colonel Bogey" March
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Vol. 1
9:33 am
John Williams: "Superman"
March
Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams
By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra
9:37 am
John Williams: "Indiana Jones"
Raiders March
Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
The Music of America
9:43 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Adventures of Robin Hood"
"March of the Merry Men"
National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Korngold
9:48 am
Elmer Bernstein: "The Great Escape"
Main Theme
Royal Phil Orch/Nic Raine
Filmharmonic
9:51 am
Jerry Goldsmith: "Patton"
Main Title
Studio Orch/Jerry Goldsmith
Patton (Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:54 am
David Arnold: "Stargate SG-1"
Main Title
Studio Orch/Joel Goldsmith
The Best of Stargate SG-1 Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
9:55 am
Joel Goldsmith: "Stargate SG-1"
End Credits
Studio Orch/Joel Goldsmith
The Best of Stargate SG-1 Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack)
9:56 am
John Williams: "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
Imperial March
Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra
10:01 am
George Bassman: "I'm Gettin' Sentimental over You" (1932)
Peter Moore, tb; Tredegar Town Band/Ian Porthouse
Shift
10:06 am
Claire Cowan: "Hansel and Gretel"
"Entry of the Dew Fairies" to Act I Finale
New Zealand Sym Orch/Hamish McKeich
Royal New Zealand Ballet * Hansel and Gretel * Music by Claire Cowan
10:23 am
Darius Milhaud: "Duo concertante," Op. 351
Paul Meyer, cl; Eric Le Sage, p
French Clarinet Art
10:31 am
William Grant Still: "A Deserted Plantation"
I. "Spiritual"
James Oesi, db; Djuwa Mroivili, p
Adoration
10:34 am
William Grant Still: "Danzas de Panama"
Berlin Sym Orch/Isaiah Jackson
William Grant Still: La Guiablesse, Danzas de Panama, Quit Dat Fool'nish, Summerland
10:49 am
Philip Glass: "Metamorphosis" No. 1
Third Coast Percussion
Perspectives
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Jeffrey Wang, piano
Jeffrey Wang, a piano student of Soo Young Lee, performs music of Bach, Mozart, Ravel, and Chopin in WFMT’s Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
11:47 am
Luke Howard: "Dappled Light"
Jess Gillam, sx; Jess Gillam Ensemble
Jess Gillam: Time
11:51 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique"
III. "Allegro molto vivace"
Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies
12:00 - 2:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Berlioz's Les Troyens, Part 1
Shirley Verett (Cassandre); John Vickers (Énée); Louis Quilco (Chorèbe); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Rafael Kubelik. Sung in French. Recorded March 16, 1974. "Artist's Choice" chosen by Yannick Nézet-Séguin to spotlight Rafael Kubelik.
1:40 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
Simone Dinnerstein, p
Bach: A Strange Beauty * Simone Dinnerstein
2:00 - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Afternoon Music
2:00 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, "Scottish"
Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 & Die erste Walpurgisnacht
2:36 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "Le Villi"
Prelude
Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Puccini: Orchestral Music
2:39 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "La rondine"
Aria, "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta"
Leontyne Price, s; Rome Opera Orch/Oliviero de Fabritiis
Arias From Il Trovatore, Madama Butterfly, La Rondine, Tosca, Turandot
2:43 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op. 64, No. 4
Angeles String Quartet
Haydn: Complete String Quartets
3:00 pm
Franz Schmidt: "Notre Dame"
Intermezzo
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Intermezzo
3:06 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Yundi Li, p
Chopin: Ballades, Berceuse, Mazurkas
3:18 pm
Traditional African-American: Spiritual, "A City Called Heaven"
Kenneth Overton, br; Elizabeth Hill, p
The Living Spiritual
3:24 pm
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88
Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel
Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
Celebrate the career of a living legend, Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) with a special episode curated and co-hosted by Grammy Award-winning baritone Kenneth Overton.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: Jimmy Burns & The Delmark Records Allstars played a memorable set in 2023 to mark the 70th anniversary of Chicago’s longest-lived jazz and blues label.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
We “march” to a different drummer with songs that celebrate ways we perambulate.
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