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      Playlist for Saturday, February 7, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "Wonderful Town"

      Overture

      Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Simon Rattle

      EMI/Ang CDC5-57691-2

      12:05 am

      Leonard Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata

      Richard Stoltzman, cl; London Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
      Copland: Clarinet Concerto/ Bernstein, Gershwin

      RCA 61790-2

      12:17 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"

      The Great Lover Displays Himself

      St Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin

      EMI/Ang CDM5-65654-2

      12:18 am

      Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat, Op 20

      Basel Sym Orch/Armin Jordan
      Ernest Chausson: Symphony Op. 20, Viviane Op. 5

      Erato ECD-88169

      12:55 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Cinq mélodies populaires grecques"

      No. 2, "Là-bas, vers l'église"

      Mischa Maisky, vc; Daria Hovora, p
      Après Un Rêve

      DG 457657-2

      1:00 am

      Paul Peuerl: Three Pieces

      Heritage of America Band Brass Quintet

      Us Air Force 0010

      1:05 am

      George Gershwin: Three Preludes (1926)

      Güher Pekinel, p; Süher Pekinel, p
      Bernstein: Symphonic Dances/ Bartok: THree Preludes/ Gershwin: Sonata

      Teldec 92143-2

      1:11 am

      George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture"

      Montreal Sym Orch

      London B0002156-02

      1:35 am

      Robert Russell Bennett: Five Studies in "Jitteroptera"

      #3, "Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes"

      Jascha Heifetz, v; Milton Kaye, p
      The Decca Masters, Vol. 2: Gershwin, Foster, Weill, Berlin

      MCA Classics MCAD-42212

      1:37 am

      Kurt Weill: "Lady in the Dark-Symphonic Nocturne"

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
      Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne

      Naxos 8.557481

      1:54 am

      Kurt Weill: "Lady in the Dark"

      "Tchaikovsky"

      Danny Kaye, vocals, w/cho & orch

      Music Club 233

      2:00 am

      Antonin Dvorák: "From the Bohemian Forest," Op 68

      #5, "Silent Woods (Klid)"

      Peter Bruns, vc; Dresden Staatskapelle/Michael Helmrath
      Bach: Transcriptions And Variations

      Hänssler Classic CD-98.478

      2:05 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata in e minor, BWV 1023

      Arthur Grumiaux, v; Christiane Jaccottet, hc; Philippe Mermoud,vc
      Bach: Complete Violin Sonatas

      Philips 454011-2 (2)

      2:18 am

      Max Reger: Chorale Preludes, Op 67

      #28, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen

      Graham Barber, o

      Hyperion CDA-66223

      2:19 am

      Ferde Grofé: "Grand Canyon Suite"

      Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel
      Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite / Victor Herbert: Hero and Leander

      Sony SK-52491

      2:55 am

      Ernst Bacon: "Tumbleweeds" (1979)

      "The Oregon Trail"

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

      CRI CD-779

      3:00 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "La bohème"

      Aria, "Che gelida manina"

      Fernando de la Mora, t; Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras
      The Artistry of Fernando de la Mor

      Telarc CD-80411

      3:05 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"

      "Potpourri"

      Maud Powell, v; Orch/Josef Pasternack
      The Complete Recordings 1904-17, Vol. 1

      Naxos 8.110963

      3:09 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "La bohème"

      Orchestral fantasy

      Salon Orch

      Pro Arte PAD-135

      3:21 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"

      Aria, "Vecchia zimarra, senti"

      José van Dam, br; Paris Orch Ensemble/Jean-Pierre Wallez
      Le Chant d'un Maître: Donizetti, Mahler, Mozart, Etc.

      Arcade 302269 (2)

      3:23 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Sinfonia Concertante" in E-Flat, K. 364

      Rafael Druian, v; Abraham Skernick, vi; Cleveland Orch/George Szell
      Clarinet Concerto - Sinfonia Concertante

      CBS MYK-37810

      3:54 am

      Thomas Lupo: Shewes and Nightly Revels

      Dowland Consort/Jakob Lindberg
      Heavenly Noyse

      BIS CD-451

      4:00 am

      Claude Debussy: "Sarabande"

      Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Boléro / Pictures At An Exhibition

      London 417611-2

      4:05 am

      Erik Satie: "Trois Sarabandes" (1887)

      Klara Koermendi, p
      SATIE, E.: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Kormendi)

      Naxos 8.550696

      4:17 am

      Leroy Anderson: "Saraband"

      BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin
      ANDERSON, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 - Sleigh Ride / The Typewriter / Plink, Plank, Plunk! / The Syncopated Clock

      Naxos 8.559357

      4:21 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Sarabande et rigaudon," Op. 93

      London Phil/Geoffrey Simon

      Cala CACD-1015

      4:30 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Agon" (1957)

      "Saraband Step"

      Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Michael Stern

      Denon CO-78972

      4:31 am

      Serge Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119

      Raphael Wallfisch, vc; John York, p

      Black Box BBM-1027

      4:54 am

      Richard Nicholson: The Jew's Dance

      Dowland Consort/Jakob Lindberg
      Heavenly Noyse

      BIS CD-451

      5:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Abduction from the Seraglio," K. 384

      Overture

      Royal Phil/Colin Davis

      EMI/Ang CDZ7-62858-2

      5:05 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 in a, K. 310

      Alexei Lubimov, forte-p
      Mozart: Sonatas, Vol. 3 - KV 309, 310, 311

      Erato 45590-2

      5:26 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three German Dances, K. 605

      No. 1 in D

      Philharmonia Orch/Colin Davis

      EMI/Ang CDZ7-62858-2

      5:28 am

      Alberto Ginastera: "Estancía" (Ballet Suite, 1943)

      Victoria Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
      N/A

      Mastersound DFCDI-015

      5:41 am

      Alberto Ginastera: "Panambi" (Ballet Suite, 1937)

      Lyon National Orch/David Robertson
      GINASTERA: Estancia, Op. 8a; Panambi, Op. 1a; Concerto for Harp. Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals

      Astrée V-4860

      5:54 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three German Dances, K. 605

      No. 2

      Philharmonia Orch/Colin Davis

      EMI/Ang CDZ7-62858-2

      6:00 am

      Edward MacDowell: Four Songs, Op 56

      Stephen Tharp, t; James Barbagallo, p
      MACDOWELL: Songs (Complete)

      Naxos 8.559032

      6:05 am

      music continues...

      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.

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      The Hemingway Quartet

      Robbie Ellis welcomes The Hemingway Quartet from the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. They perform music by Haydn, Brahms, and Prokofiev.

      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      Metropolitan Opera

      Massenet's Werther

      Alfredo Kraus (Werther); Régine Crespin (Charlotte); Kathleen Battle (Sophie); Lenus Carlson (Albert); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Richard Bonynge. Sung in French. Recorded February 3, 1979. "Artist's Choice" by Lawrence Brownlee to spotlight Alfredo Kraus.

      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      Tenor Zachary Wilder returns to WFMT to share his new album "Brooklyn Suite," which weaves together Yiddish song, Romantic lied, opera arias, jazz, and Broadway musicals. Wilder makes his debut with Haymarket Opera Company in their upcoming season.

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Live from the Levin Performance Studio: St. Louis-based songwriter Walter Parks serves up songs with grit. His famed guitar playing is the main course with a side of swamp cabbage.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Music honoring authors on the anniversary of the 1812 birth of Charles Dickens.