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Playlist for Saturday, August 8, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Charles Wilfrid Orr: A Cotswold Hill Tune
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 1
12:05 am
Gustav Holst: Symphony in F, Op. 8, "The Cotswolds"
Munich Sym/Douglas Bostock
12:32 am
Philip Lane: Suite of Cotswold Folkdances (1978)
#5, "Ladies of Pleasure"
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Music Discoveries
12:34 am
Franz Schubert: "Three Military Marches," Op. 51, D. 733
No. 1 in D
Philip Jones Ensemble/Elgar Howarth
Grand March
12:38 am
Franz Schubert: Allegro in a, D 947, "Lebensstürme"
Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen, p
Complete Piano Music For Four Hands, VOl. 2
12:53 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Alone" film score, Op. 26
"Calm after the Storm"
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
The Film Album
1:00 am
Henry Cowell: "Hymn for String Orchestra"
City of London Sinfonia/David Amos
1:05 am
Leo Sowerby: "From the Northland: Suite for Orchestra"
Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman
Prairie: Tone Poems by Leo Sowerby
1:25 am
Anthony Philip Heinrich: The Musical Bachelor
American Music Group/Neely Bruce
Dawning of Music in Kentucky
1:27 am
Ernst von Dohnányi: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, Op 29
David Korevaar, p
David Korevaar: Dohnanyi
1:38 am
Jenö Hubay: "Variations sur un Thème Hongrois," Op 72
Hagai Shaham, v; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins
Hubay: Violin Concertos 3 & 4
1:54 am
Bela Bartók: "Mikrokosmos"
"Major Seconds Broken and Together"
Equale Brass
Sonata/ Equalisation
2:00 am
Pietro Mascagni: "L'Amico Fritz"
Intermezzo
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Opera Intermezzi * Berliner Philharmoniker * Karajan
2:17 am
music continues...
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.
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
An encore presentation of pianist Noah Kim's performance of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 18 in D, K.576. Originally broadcast December 9, 2023.
12:00 - 3:00 pm
12:00 pm
From La Scala
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Bernard Richter (Pelléas); Sara Blanch (Mélisande); Simon Keenlyside (Golaud); Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Geneviève); John Relyea (Arkel); La Scala Chorus and Orchestra; Maxime Pascal, conductor. Sung in French.
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
Introducing British tenor Laurence Kilsby including highlights from his 2026 BBC Proms program with Thomas Dunford's Jupiter Ensemble.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: One guitar, one accordion, two people whose songs are either funny or not so funny but with a twist. We re-broadcast Lou & Peter Berryman performing on Folkstage during the peak of their touring years.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Chicago baseball teams come out on top this weekend wherever they may be in the standings. And we look to the heavens for The Perseids and The New Moon.
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