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Playlist for Friday, December 12, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Marion Bauer: "Up the Ocklawaha," Op 6
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell
12:05 am
Frederick Delius: "Florida" Suite
English Sym Orch/William Boughton
Vaughan Williams and Delius Orchestral Music
12:42 am
Louis Couperin: Suite in b
No. 2, "Courante"
Blandine Verlet, hc
Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin
12:44 am
Jean-Marie Leclair: String Sonata in B-Flat, Op 4/2
Purcell Quartet
Leclair: Sonatas
12:55 am
Louis Couperin: Suite in C
No. 4, "Courante I"
Blandine Verlet, hc
Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin
1:00 am
Johannes Brahms: "F-A-E Scherzo (Sonatensatz)"
Pierre Amoyal, v; Frederic Chiu, p
Brahms: The Sonatas For Violin & Piano
1:05 am
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata #1 in f, Op 120/1
Jon Manasse, cl; Jon Nakamatsu, p
Brahms * Sonatas Op 120 * Jon Manasse * Jon Nakamatsu
1:27 am
Percy Grainger: "Lincolnshire Posy"
"The Brisk Young Sailor"
Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet
Cooler By the Lake
1:29 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Charterhouse Suite (1923)
English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 2
1:44 am
Douglas Lilburn: "Drysdale" Overture (1937)
New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd
Lilburn Orchestral Works
1:54 am
Gordon Jacob: Five Pieces
#1, Caprice
Tommy Reilly, harmonica; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Tommy Reilly - Vaughan Williams/ Moody/Jacob: Classical Music For Harmonica
2:00 am
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "The Dying Poet", Op 110
Alan Mandel, p
2:05 am
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"
Berlin Staatskapelle/Daniel Barenboim
Schumann * The Symphonies
2:39 am
Michael Praetorius: Chorale, "In dulci jubilo (Now sing we, now rejoice)"
Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow
Praetorius: In Dulci Jubilo
2:40 am
Stacy Garrop: "Jubilation"
Lincoln Trio
2:48 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Jubel" Overture, Op 59
Philharmonia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Weber: Overtures
2:55 am
Johann Michael BACH: Chorale Prelude, In dulci jubilo
Baltimore Consort
CHRISTMAS MUSIC (Bright Day Star - Music for the Yuletide Season)
3:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude & Fugue No. 12 in f minor
Keith Jarrett, p
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
3:05 am
Jaromir Weinberger: "Schwanda the Bagpiper"
"Polka and Fugue"
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Classics at the Pops
3:14 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Vanda," Op 25
Overture
Slovak Phil/Libor Pesek
3:23 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Silhouettes," Op 8
#11
Tomas Visek, p
Piano Music
3:24 am
Serge Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in g minor, Op. 16
Yundi Li, p; Berlin Phil/Seiji Ozawa
Piano Concertos
3:55 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Visions fugitives," Op. 22
No. 16, "Dolente"
Serge Prokofiev, p
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Vision Fugitives
4:00 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
4:05 am
Giacomo Puccini: "Preludio sinfonico" (1876)
Dallas Sym Orch/Andrew Litton
MARC, Alessandra: Arias (Opera Gala) -BELLINI, V. / DONIZETTI, G. / HOFMANNSTHAL, H. / BARBER, S. / PUCCINI, G.
4:13 am
Christopher Palmer: Fantasy on themes from Puccini's La Bohème
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
4:26 am
Giacomo Puccini: "Madama Butterfly"
Aria, "Addio, fiorito asil"
Salvatore Licitra, t; London Sym Orch/Carlo Rizzi
Salvatore Licitra- The Debut
4:27 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in g, K. 478
Evgeny Kissin, p; Emerson String Quartet
The New York Concert
4:54 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve German Dances, K. 586
No. 4
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
Mozart: Deutsche Tänze
5:00 am
Francis Johnson: "New Cotillions"
Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
The Music Of Francis Johnson And His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers
5:05 am
Samuel Livingston: "The Old Man is Dancing"
Arcadian Winds
Samuel Livingston
5:17 am
Francois Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 2 (1716-7): 8e ordre
"Gavotte"
Kenneth Gilbert, hc
Francois Couperin: Second Livre de Clavecin
5:51 am
music continues...
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.
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."
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Celebrating Beethoven (12/16/1968)
Beethoven's birthday has always been something of a holiday at WFMT. Tonight, the Best of Studs Terkel marks the composer’s birth anniversary with this radiophonic tribute from December 16, 1968.
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