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Playlist for Wednesday, May 13, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Imogen Holst: "On Westhall Hill"
BBC Concert Orchestra/Alice Farnham
Imogen Holst
12:05 am
Gustav Holst: "Walt Whitman" Overture, Op. 7
Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
HOLST, G.: Symphony, "The Cotswolds" / Walt Whitman, Overture / Indra / Japanese Suite / A Winter Idyll (Ulster Orchestra, Falletta)
12:12 am
Charles Villiers Stanford: "Songs of Faith," Op. 97
No. 6, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!"
Roderick Williams, br; Andrew West, p
Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense
12:14 am
Kern: "Mark Twain: Portrait for Orchestra"
Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart
American Visions
12:27 am
Richard Wetz: "Kleist" Overture, Op. 16
Rheinland-Pflaz Phil/Werner Andreas Albert
Richard Wetz
12:43 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen," Op.66
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Vasso Devetzi, p
12:54 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Six German Dances, K. 571
No. 1 in D
Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
1:00 am
Augustin Barrios Mangoré: "Vals de Primavera"
Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, g
Barrios Mangoré: Confesión * Alexander-Sergei Ramirez
1:05 am
Morton Gould: "Latin-American Symphonette"
Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
A Lincoln Portrait
1:26 am
Augustìn Barrios Mangoré: "Las Abejas"
Thibaut Garcia, g
El Bohemio
1:27 am
Joachim Raff: Piano Concerto in c, Op 185
Michael Ponti, p; Hamburg Sym Orch/Richard Kapp
1:55 am
Franz Liszt: "Responsories and Antiphons"
"Libera me, Domine, de morte"
Leslie Howard, p
Responsories and Antiphons
2:00 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Fantaisie-Impromptu" in c-sharp minor, Op.66
Maria-Joao Pires, p
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Fantasie Op. 49, Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66, Berceuse Op. 57
2:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 67 in F
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
2:30 am
Darius Milhaud: "Trois chansons de négresse", Op. 148b
No. 3, "Sans Feu ni Lieu"
Györgyi Dombradi, ms; Lambert Bumiller, p
Milhaud: Mélodies
2:31 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Suite algérienne," Op. 60
"Marche militaire française"
London Phil/Geoffrey Simon
2:36 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "African Suite," Op. 35
Rochelle Sennet, piano
Coleridge-Taylor
2:55 am
South African Trad: Njenge Bhadhi
Chicago Children's Cho/Josephine Lee
Chicago Children's Choir: Live From Vienna
3:00 am
music continues...
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 - 1:00 pm
12:15 pm
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
Trio Eris (Violinist K. J. McDonald, cellist Annie SeEun Hyung, and pianist Andrew Jun Chen) perform music by Reena Esmail and Feliz Mendelssohn, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
This week, Bill looks at the life and musical development of one of Hungary’s greatest composers. A musician’s musician, Bartok was supported by many of the great conductors of his era. Paul Sacher, who led the Basel Chamber Orchestra, asked him to write the Divertimento for Strings. Serge Koussevitsky and Fritz Reiner invited him to compose the Concerto for Orchestra. At the end of the week, we’ll hear Benny Goodman perform "Contrasts" for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, a piece he requested from Bartok.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Accademia Bizantina
Harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone leads Accademia Bizantina in musical jewels by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. Featuring Marcello Gatti playing the traverso flute and Alessandro Tampieri playing violin and viola d’amore. Recorded live in concert February 7, 2026 at Aula Magna Università La Sapienza, Rome.
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