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Playlist for Monday, May 11, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Clara Schumann: Prelude and Fugue in f-sharp
Jean-Pierre Armengaud, p
Clara Schumann: Piano Music, Vol. 1
12:05 am
Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op. 131
Anne Sophie Mutter, v; New York Phil/Kurt Masur
Violinkonzert/ Fantasie Op. 131
12:18 am
Robert Schumann: Introduction and Concert Allegro in d, Op. 134
Jan Lisiecki, p; Santa Cecilia National Academy Orch/Antonio Pappano
Schumann
12:30 am
Olivier Messiaen: Preludes (1928-29)
#3, "Le nombre léger"
Jan Lisiecki, p
Jan Lisiecki - preludes
12:32 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Anacréon"
Suite
Capella Savaria/Mary Térey-Smith
RAMEAU: Anacreon / Daphnis et Egle
12:54 am
Louis Couperin: "Trois Sarabandes"
No. 1
Blandine Verlet, hc
Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin
1:00 am
Leighton Lucas: "The Dam Busters"
"Prelude and Dam Blast"
BBC National Orch of Wales/Rumon Gamba
Love Story: Piano Themes from Cinema's Golden Age
1:05 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Coastal Command" (1942)
Philharmonia Orch/Kenneth Alwyn
The Red Shoes - Classic British Film Music
1:26 am
Arthur Bliss: "War in the Air"
Theme
BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba
Bliss: The Film Music of Sir Arthur Bliss
1:28 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "La Clemenza di Tito," K. 621
Overture
St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart Overtures
1:32 am
Antonio Salieri: Clavier Concerto in C
Andreas Staier, forte-p; Concerto Köln
Concertos For Fortepiano
1:55 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "La clemenza di Tito," K. 621
Chorus, "Che del ciel, che degli Dei"
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
La clemenza di Tito
2:00 am
Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
No. 15 in D-flat, "Raindrop"
Jan Lisiecki, p
Jan Lisiecki - preludes
2:05 am
Manuel Ponce: Six Preludes
Oscar Ghiglia, g
The Spanish Guitar Of Oscar Ghiglia
2:12 am
Mikalojus Ciurlionis: Prelude in a
Muza Rubackyte, p
Muza Rubackyte * Chopin, Ciurlionis, Prokofiev
2:14 am
Kurt Atterberg: Symphony #2 in F (Op 6)
Frankfurt Radio Sym Orch/Ari Rasilainen
Symphonies 2 & 5
2:55 am
Francisco Tárrega: Preludio #8
David Russell, g
3:00 am
Ignaz Holzbauer: "Günther von Schwarzburg"
Aria, "Schönster Sohn des Himmels"
Christoph Prégardien, t; La Stagione/Michael Schneider
Günther von Schwarzburg
3:05 am
Ludwig August Lebrun: Oboe Concerto #1 in d
Heinz Holliger, ob; Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri
Oboe Concertos
3:24 am
Carl Stamitz: Octet #2 in E-Flat
Menuetto
Consortium Classicum
Wind Symphonies
3:26 am
Johann Wenzel Stamitz: Trio Sonata in A, Op 1/2
Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
3:39 am
Ignaz Holzbauer: Sinfonia Concertante in A
Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri
3:54 am
Peruvian ANON 17th c: Zarabandas
Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King
Spanish Dances
4:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Ländler, WoO 15
Boskovsky Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky
The Willi Boskovsky Collection Vol. 2, The Charm of Old Vienna
4:05 am
Franz Schubert: Four Ländler, D 814
Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p
Schubert Four Hand Piano Works Volume 2 * Aebersold-Neiweem
4:09 am
Hermann Regner: Six Ländler (1986)
Les Vents de Montréal
4:17 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Six Ländler, K. 606
Salzburg Camerata Academica/Sandor Vegh
Mozart: Marches and Dances
4:22 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Gaîté Parisienne"
"Ländler"
Pittsburgh Sym Orch/André Previn
Gaité Parisienne
4:24 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64
Suite No. 2
Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons
4:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Romance
Steven Isserlis, vc; Thomas Adés, p
Cello World
5:00 am
Alexander Scriabin: Etudes, Op 8
#9 in g#
Chitose Okashiro, p
Scriabin: 26 Etudes Complete
5:05 am
Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto in a, Op 82
Julia Fischer, v; Russian National Orch/Yakov Kreizberg
5:25 am
Alexander Borodin: "Serenata alla spagnola"
Borodin String Quartet
Russian Miniatures
5:28 am
Isaac Albéniz: Improvisation in f-sharp minor
Isaac Albeniz, p
Catalan Piano Traditional
5:29 am
Isaac Albéniz: "Mallorca," Op. 202
Julian Bream, g
Music of Spain
5:36 am
Joaquín Turina: "Danzas fantásticas," Op 22
London Phil/Enrique Bátiz
5:54 am
Francisco Tárrega: "Maria"
Norbert Kraft, g
19TH CENTURY GUITAR FAVOURITES
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.
6:04 am
André Grétry: "Céphale et Procris"
"Suite de ballet"
Orch National de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling
Grétry: Suites & Overtures
6:15 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
II. "Andante"
Alon Goldstein, p; Fine Arts Quartet
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21
6:23 am
Aldemaro Romero: Suite for Strings No. 1
"Fuga con Pajarillo"
Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel
6:32 am
Anton Edvard Pratté: "Grand Concert" in G minor
III. "Rondo: Polacca à la Svedese"
Delphine Constantin-Reznik, h; Norrköping Sym Orch/Daniela Musca
Pratté: Harp Works
6:45 am
Francis Poulenc: "Gloria"
"Gloria; Laudamus Te"
Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Bernard Haitink
Daphnis et Chloé; Poulenc Gloria
6:52 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Danse macabre," Op. 40
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Once Upon A Time / Il Était Une Fois...
7:03 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Tänzchen im alten Stil"
Helsinki Phil Orch/John Storgårds
Korngold: Symphony in F-Sharp, etc
7:12 am
Gregorio Lambranzi: "Danze da Nuova e curiosa scuola de' balli teatrali"
Le Consort; Marie-Ange Petit, per
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
7:22 am
Dobrinka Tabakova: "Suite in Old Style"
III. "Riddle of the barrel-organ player"
Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė, hc; Lithuanian Chamber Orch/Maxim Rysanov, vi
Dobrinka Tabakova * String Paths
7:27 am
Edward Elgar: "The Wand of Youth" Suite No. 1, Op. 1a
III. Minuet, "Old Style"
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Vernon Handley
Elgar: Organ Sonata; Wand of Youth Suites No. 1 & No. 2
7:32 am
Anatoly Liadov: "The Enchanted Lake," Op. 62
Mexico City Phil Orch/Enrique Bátiz
Liadov: The Enchanted Lake and Other Orchestral Works
7:40 am
Paul Dukas: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Yuja Wang, p
Fantasia
7:50 am
Hamilton Harty: "In Ireland"
Colin Fleming, f; Denise Kelly, h; Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
Harty: John Field Suite, Etc.
8:03 am
Carlos Guastavino: "Jeromita Linares"
Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche
Impresiones
8:16 am
Pablo Casals: "Sant Martí del Canigó"
Barcelona Cellists/Lluis Claret
Music at the Time of Picasso
8:23 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66
"Bluebird" pas de deux
Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fée & Tchaikovsky: 'Bluebird' Pas de deux
8:30 am
Carl Friedrich Abel: Clavier Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 11, No. 2
David Owen Norris, square piano; Ensemble Sonnerie
The World's First Piano Concertos
8:40 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Variations for Orchestra
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, etc.
8:52 am
Thomas Arne: Overture No. 5 in D
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Arne: Eight Overtures
9:03 am
Stanisław Moniuszko: "Bajka (Fairy Tale)"
Overture
Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit
Stanisław Moniuszko: Overtures
9:18 am
Robert Schumann: "Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales)," Op. 132
Michael Collins, cl; Steven Isserlis, vc; Stephen Hough, p
Brahms, Frühling, Schumann - Clarinet Trios, Märchenerzählungen, Träumerei
9:33 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel"
"Evening Prayer"
Philharmonic Symphony of London/Nick Ingman
50 Classics for Relaxation
9:36 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel"
"Dream Pantomime"
RCA Victor Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Reiner Conducts Wagner
9:47 am
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade," Op. 35
III. "The Young Prince and the Young Princess"
Atlanta Sym Orch/Robert Spano
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Russian Easter Overture
9:57 am
Nikolai Medtner: Four Fairy Tales, Op. 26
No. 2 in E-Flat
Geoffrey Tozer, p
Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 7
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6, No. 4
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/Georg Kallweit
Corelli: Concerti Grossi Op. 6, 1-6
10:10 am
Óscar Esplá: "Cantos de Antaño"
Pedro Carboné, p
Esplá: Complete Works for Piano Vol. 1
10:18 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D, "London"
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Haydn: Symphonies No. 104 London, No. 88, No. 101 Clock / Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
10:47 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
There Is Sweet Music (English Choral Songs, 1890-1950)
10:54 am
Max Richter: "In the Garden"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Pulsations
11:00 am
Mily Balakirev: "Islamey"
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Balakirev: 1812, Polovtsian Dances, Islamey
11:11 am
Manuel de Falla: Four Spanish Pieces
Miguel Baselga, p
Manuel de Falla: Complete Solo Piano Music
11:28 am
Ron Nelson: "Courtly Airs and Dances"
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Holidays & Epiphanies - The Music of Ron Nelson
11:41 am
Antonio Caldara: Cello Concerto in D minor
Jan Vogler, vc; La Folia Baroque Orch
Concerti di Venezia
11:50 am
Gioachino Rossini: "Il turco in Italia"
Overture
National Phil/Riccardo Chailly
Rossini: Overtures
12:00 pm
Charles Villiers Stanford: "Beati quorom via"
Chicago a cappella
Cambridge Concert (February 2024)
12:03 pm
Charles Villiers Stanford: "The Blue Bird," Op. 119, No. 3
Chicago a cappella/John William Trotter
12:08 pm
Ricardo Castro: "Atzimba"
Intermezzo
Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
Mi Alma Mexicana
12:27 pm
music continues...
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.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Live from WFMT
Pianist Claire Huangci released her latest album titled HEROINES, featuring music of Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Florence Price earlier this year. Heard on WFMT broadcasts from Ravinia Festival and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Huangci makes her debut in the Levin Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The WFMT Orchestra Series
San Francisco Symphony
Dai Fujikura "Entwine;" Ravel Piano Concerto in G minor; Hélène Grimaud, piano; Fauré "Requiem," Op. 48; Liv Redpath, soprano; Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone; SFS Chorus; Kazuki Yamada, conductor.
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