Thursday, May 21, 2026

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      Playlist for Thursday, May 21, 2026

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      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "The Dying Poet", Op 110

      Alan Mandel, p

      Vox CD3X-3033 (3)

      12:05 am

      Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Cakewalk"

      Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
      Hershy Kay - Stars And Stripes / Cakewalk

      RCA 61501-2

      12:30 am

      Francis Johnson: "Bingham's Cotillion"

      Tami Lee Hughues, v; Ellen Bottorff, p
      Legacy

      Albany TROY-1293

      12:32 am

      Germaine Tailleferre: Harp Sonata (1957)

      Maria Graf, h
      Maria Graf: Recital

      Philips 432103-2

      12:41 am

      Georg Christoph Wagenseil: Harp Concerto

      Roberta Alessandrini, h, Mantova Orch/Vittorio Parisi
      DUSSEK / WAGENSEIL / KRUMPHOLTZ: Harp Concertos

      Naxos 8.553622

      12:55 am

      Gordon Jacob: Five Pieces

      #3, "Country Dance"

      Tommy Reilly, harmonica; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Tommy Reilly - Vaughan Williams/ Moody/Jacob: Classical Music For Harmonica

      Chandos CHAN-8617

      1:00 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)"

      Chorale, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

      St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
      Pure Classics

      EMI/Ang CDM5-66646-2

      1:05 am

      Dag Wirén: String Serenade, Op 11

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Grieg / Sibelius / Nielsen / Wirén

      Argo 417132-2

      1:19 am

      Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Wagner: Siegfried Idyll and Works by Faure, Tchaikovsky, Greig, Dvorak, and Boccherini

      EMI/Ang CDD7-64107-2

      1:28 am

      Agathe Backer Grondahl: Three Piano Pieces, Op 53

      #2, "Albumblad"

      Natalia Strelchenko, p
      Agathe Backer-Grondahl: Complete Piano Music, Vol. IV

      Arena AR-07015

      1:30 am

      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Viola da gamba Sonata in D, Wq 137

      Paolo Pandolfo, viga; Rinaldo Alessandrini, hc
      Bach: Sonate Per Viola Da Gamba E Basso Continuo

      Tactus TC-71020501

      1:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"

      "Jesu, meine Freude"

      Joseph Payne, hc
      Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann

      Hänssler Classic CD-92.137 (2)

      2:00 am

      Franz von Suppé: Requiem

      "Lacrimosa Dies Illa"

      Barbara Gohl, ms; Zurich Chamber Och, Cho/Edmond de Stoutz
      Suppé: Requiem

      Novalis 150112-2

      2:05 am

      Franz von Suppé: "Light Cavalry"

      Overture

      Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta
      Suppe: Ouvertüren

      CBS MK-44932

      2:11 am

      John Cage: Sonata V for Prepared Piano

      Joshua Pierce, p
      Between The Keys: Microtonal Masterpieces Of The 20th Century

      Newport Classic NPD-85526

      2:13 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Two-Piano Concerto No. 2 in A-Flat

      Joshua Pierce & Dorothy Jonas, p's; Slovak State Phil/Bystrik Rezucha
      Mendelssohn: Concertos Nos 1 & 2 for Two Pianos * Pierce & Jonas * SSPO * Rezucha

      MSR Classics MS-1330

      2:54 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op 38

      No. 2 in c, "Allegro non troppo"

      Daniel Barenboim, p
      Lieder Ohne Worte

      DG 423931-2 (2)

      3:00 am

      Giuseppe Torelli: Trumpet Sonata in D

      Sandro Verzari, tr; Ensemble/Flavio Colusso

      Bongiovanni GB-10008-2

      3:05 am

      Edward Elgar: "In the South (Alassio)" Overture, Op. 50

      Royal Phil/Yondani Butt
      Elgar: In The South, Froissart, Meditation, Coronation March

      ASV CDDCA-619

      3:26 am

      Edward Elgar: "Canto popolare," originally from "In the South"

      Nigel Kennedy, v; Peter Pettinger, p
      Salut D'Amour & Other Elgar Favourites

      Chandos CHAN-8380

      3:29 am

      Landini: Ballata, La bionda treccia

      London Early Music Consort/David Munrow
      Early Music Festival

      London 452967-2 (2)

      3:31 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Oboe Concerto in C, H VIIg:C1

      Pierre Pierlot, ob; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/Janos Rolla

      CBS M2K-39772 (2)

      3:54 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "La clemenza di Tito," K. 621

      Chorus, "Che del ciel, che degli dei"

      RIAS Chamber Cho; Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
      La clemenza di Tito

      DG 4835210 (2)

      4:00 am

      Henry Kimball Hadley: "Cleopatra's Night," Op 90

      BBC Concert Orch/Rebecca Miller

      Dutton CDLX-7319

      4:04 am

      Ludvig Norman: "Antonius och Cleopatra," Op 57

      Overture

      Helsingborg Sym/Hans-Peter Frank
      Ludvig Norman

      Musica Sveciae MSCD-512

      4:13 am

      Domenico Cimarosa: "Cleopatra"

      Overture

      Esterhazy Orch/Alessandro Amoretti
      CIMAROSA, D.: Overtures, Vol. 1 (Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Amoretti)

      Naxos 8.570508

      4:18 am

      Muzio Clementi: "Monferrine", Op 49

      #6 in d

      Lilya Zilberstein, p
      Clementi

      Hänssler Classic CD-93.096

      4:19 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C, K. 330

      Mitsuko Uchida, p
      The Complete Piano Sonatas

      Philips 422115-2 (6)

      4:37 am

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      6:00 - 10:00 am

      6:00 am

      Mornings with Jan Weller

      Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.

      10:00 am - 2:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      What Else Ya Got?

      Have you ever wondered about those composers who succeeded in writing one smashing piece but were otherwise forgotten? This week, we’ll get to know some of these immortals and their other compositions, including Pachelbel’s Suite in G Major and Dukas’ Symphony in C Major. The program also presents Hermann Baumann in a rare performance of Glière's Horn Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 91.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Haydn "The Creation," Hob. XXI:2; Judith Raskin, soprano; Alexander Young, tenor; John Reardon, baritone; Camerata Singers; Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Trompet Concerto finale; Philip Smith, trumpet; Zubin Mehta, conductor.