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Playlist for Saturday, December 13, 2025
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Czech Trad: Carol, "Good King Wenceslaus"
Empire Brass; Mark Kroll, hc
Joy To The World: Music Of Christmas
12:02 am
English Trad: Carol, "What Child is this? (Greensleeves)"
Empire Brass; Nancy Allen, h; Mark Kroll, hc
Joy To The World: Music Of Christmas
12:05 am
François Boieldieu: Harp Concerto in C (in Three Tempi)
Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Handel, Boieldieu, Mozart: Concertos for Harp
12:27 am
English Trad: Carol, "The First Nowell"
Yolanda Kondonassis, h
Dream Season: The Christmas Harp
12:29 am
Marcel Dupré: "Variations on a Noël," Op 20
Jeremy Filsell, o
Dupre Organ works, Vol 2
12:40 am
Georges Bizet: "Variations chromatiques de concert"
San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Bizet: Symphony in C; Jeux d’Enfants, etc.
12:54 am
A Busnois: Cent mille escus
New York Kammermusiker
Chamber Music (Renaissance) - PHILIDOR, P.D. / BUSNOYS, A. / LUZZASCHI, L. / MONTEVERDI, C. (A Renaissance Tour of Europe) (New York Kammermusiker)
1:00 am
Franz Liszt: "Transcendental Etudes" (1851)
No. 12, "Chasse-neige"
Jenö Jandó, p
Etudes D'Execution Transcendante
1:05 am
Edward Elgar: "Snow," Op. 26/2
Royal Liverpool Philharmonia & Cho/Charles Groves
Elgar
1:11 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Der Schneemann" (1908)
Prelude and Serenade
Linz Bruckner Orch/Caspar Richter
The Piano Concertos
1:15 am
Markus Fricker: Carol, "Liislig fallt de Schnee"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
1:17 am
George Frideric Handel: "Water Music"
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Water Musick
1:55 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Let us break their bonds asunder"
Mendelssohn Cho, Toronto Sym Orch/A Davis
Messiah
2:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
Sinfonia "(Pastoral Symphony)"
St Martin's Academy/Philip Ledger
2:05 am
German Trad: Christmas Medley
Rita Streich, s; RIAS Sym/Kurt Gaebel
The Christmas Album
2:13 am
Max Reger: Song, "Uns ist geboren ein Kindlein"
Peter Schreier, t; Norman Shetler, p
Weihnachtslieder
2:14 am
Max Reger: "Aus der Jugendzeit," Op. 17
No. 9, "Weihnachtstraum"
Jeffrey Biegel, p
A Steinway Christmas Album * Jeffrey Biegel
2:16 am
Max Reger: Piano Concerto in f, Op 114
Marc-André Hamelin, p; Berlin Radio Sym/Ilan Volkov
The Romantic Piano Concerto 53 * Reger: Piano Concerto in F Minor * Strauss: Burleske
2:53 am
Peter Cornelius: "Weihnachtslieder," Op 8
No. 6, "Christkind"
Irngard Seefried, s; Erik Werba, p
The Christmas Album
3:00 am
Claude Debussy: "Le roi Lear" incidental music
"Fanfare; Le sommeil de Lear"
French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon
3:04 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "King Lear" (Incidental Music, 1940), Op. 58a
Jester's Songs
Korean Broadcasting System Sym Orch/Vakhtang Jordania
Dmitri Shostakovich – Suites For Film And Stage
3:12 am
James Pierpont: "Jingle Bells"
Robert Decormier Singers/Robert DeCormier
A Victorian Christmas
3:16 am
James Pierpont: "Jingle Bells"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
3:17 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat, D 898 (Op. 99)
Beaux Arts Trio
The Piano Trios
3:54 am
Franz Schubert: "Die Winterreise," D 911
No. 2, "Die Wetterfahne"
Olaf Bär, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p
4:00 am
Michel Corrette: "Messe pour le tems de Noël"
"Kyrie"
Daniel Leininger, o
Chants des Noels
4:05 am
Michel Corrette: "Symphonie de Noel #6"
La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen
Corrette: Les Six Symphonies De Noel
4:12 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Concert en Sextuor" #5
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
4:25 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"
"Contredanses"
Chapelle Royale Orch/Philippe Herreweghe
Les Indes Galantes - Suites D'Orchestre
4:27 am
Leopold Kozeluch: "Sinfonia Concertante" in E-Flat
Consortium Classicum/Dieter Klöcker
Sinfonies Concertantes
4:55 am
French Trad: Carol, "Angels We Have Heard on High"
The Pennsylvaians/Fred Waring
Now is the Caroling Season
5:00 am
Albert BECKER: Carol, "Joseph lieber, Joseph mein"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
5:02 am
André Sala: Carol, "Que j'aime ce divin enfant"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
5:05 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 12 in g
Northern Chamber Orch/Nicholas Ward
Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies and String Symphonies
5:27 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Sechs Sprüche (Six Liturgical Texts)," Op. 79
No. 1, "Weihnachten"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
5:28 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: "Das Jahr"
"December"
Martina Frezzotti, p
Fanny Mendelssohn PIano Music
5:32 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37
"December (Christmas)"
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Tchaikovsky - The Seasons
5:36 am
Michael Torke: "December" (1994)
Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi
Javelin: The Music Of Michael Torke
5:45 am
Henri Rabaud: "Merchant of Venice"
Suite #3
Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam
RABAUD : Orchestral Works
5:54 am
Johann Halvorsen: "The Merchant of Venice"
Intermezzo
Latvian National Sym Orch/Torje Mikkelsen
Stage Music 1
6:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Ave Maria"
Rasa Vitkauskaite, p
A Concert Piano Christmas
6:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Philharmonia Orch/Otto Klemperer
Mozart Symphonies
6:24 am
Daryl Runswick: "A Little Christmas Music" (Medley à la Mozart)
Kiri Te Kanawa, s; King's Singers; Richard Hickox, hc
6:28 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
#14b, Variation II, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
6:30 am
Leo Délibes: "Coppélia"
"Féte de la cloche" (Divertissement)
National Phil/Richard Bonynge
Delibes: The 3 Ballets
6:54 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
#14b, Variation II, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Rasa Vitkauskaite, p
A Concert Piano Christmas
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:02 am
Leroy Anderson: "Sleigh Ride"
Giovanni De Chiaro, g
The Sounds of Christmas on Guitar
7:09 am
Leroy Anderson: Piano Concerto in C
Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
American Piano Classics
7:29 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Dance Suite"
V. " M T V, For Jerry [Jerome Robbins]"
Onyx Brass
Transatlantic
7:31 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Peter Pan"
"Dream With Me"
Zuill Bailey, vc; Lara Downes, p
Some Other Time
7:35 am
Louise Héritte-Viardot: Piano Quartet No. 1 in A, Op. 9, "Im Sommer"
I. "Des Morgens, im Walde (Morning, in the Woods)"
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2
7:44 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Divertimento in B-Flat, K. 137
Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
Mozart: Divertimenti K. 136, 137, 138 & 251
7:57 am
Umberto Giordano: "Fedora"
Intermezzo
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Intermezzo
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:01 am
Carolyne M. Taylor: Medley, "What Child is This?"-Beethoven's Sonata Op. 27/2
Jeffrey Biegel, p
Classical Carols
8:06 am
Carolyne M. Taylor: Medley, "Silent Night"-Debussy's "Clair de lune"
Jeffrey Biegel, p
Classical Carols
8:12 am
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
III. "Nocturne"
Borodin Quartet
Ultimate Classical Dreams
8:22 am
Amy Carol Webb: "Ma'oz Tsur" (Trad.)
Amy Carol Webb
Breaking Light: Songs for the Season
8:25 am
César Franck: "Panis angelicus"
Hallé Cho & Orch/Maurice Handford
The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!
8:46 am
music continues...
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Tristan Zhu, 18, violin. Bach: Chaconne in D minor; Chaminade: Capriccio, Op. 18; Sibelius: Violin Concerto, 1st mvt; Roumain: "FILTER". With Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Giordano's Andrea Chénier
Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier); Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena di Coigny); Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Daniele Rustioni. Sung in Italian.
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with the artistic director of Opera Rara and world-renowned conductor Carlo Rizzi, who joins WFMT to share bel canto rarities and Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: This broadcast of excerpts from Archie Fisher’s Folkstage performances honors the memory of Scotland’s quintessential folksinger, songwriter, and folk radio host who died on November 1, 2025.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 today. We celebrate his incredible music career and broadcast a few tunes about TV.
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