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      Playlist for Friday, February 6, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Pièces de clavecin" (1724)

      "Les Niais de Sologne"

      Pieter-Jan Belder, hc
      Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works

      Brilliant 93903 (3)

      12:05 am

      Étienne-Nicolas Méhul: Symphony #1 in G

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8; Méhul: Symphony No. 1; Cherubini: Lodoïska Overture

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902448.49

      12:30 am

      Louis Couperin: "Trois Sarabandes"

      No. 1

      Blandine Verlet, hc
      Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin

      Astrée E-8819 (5)

      12:31 am

      Jennifer Higdon: "Trumpet Songs"

      Scott Meredith, trumpet; Rúbia Santos, p

      Albany TROY-1395

      12:40 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat, H VIIe:1

      Hakan Hardenberger, tr; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Famous Classical Trumpet Concertos

      Philips 420203-2

      12:55 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Italian Polka"

      Timofei Dokschitzer, tr
      The Incredible Trumpet Virtuosity Of Timofey Dokschutzer

      LP Classics 5638583260

      1:00 am

      Vernon Duke: "Autumn in New York"

      Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Reiko Uchida, p
      Anne Akiko Meyers: Seasons...Dreams

      E1 EOM-CD-7780

      1:05 am

      George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody

      Jeffrey Siegel, p; St Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
      Gershwin: Works For Piano And Orchestra- Rhapsody In Blue, Second Rhapsody, Concerto In F

      MMG MCD-10011

      1:20 am

      Ernesto Lecuona: "Rapsodia Argentina" (1937)

      Thomas Tirino, p; Polish National Radio Sym/Michael Bartos
      Lecuona: Complete Piano Music Vol 2

      BIS CD-774

      1:31 am

      Joaquim Nin-Culmell: 3 Tonadas

      "III. Ball pla i l'esquerrana"

      Jordi Masó, p
      The Catalan Piano Album

      Naxos 8.570457

      1:33 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano and Wind Quintet in E-flat, K. 452

      Alfons Kontarsky, p; Berlin Phil Winds
      Winds of the Berlin Philharmonic

      Denon 38C37-7090

      1:55 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve German Dances, K. 586

      No. 10 in F

      Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
      Mozart: Deutsche Tänze

      Sony SK-46696

      2:00 am

      Fanny Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op 8

      #1 in B

      Tzimon Barto, p
      Best Piano Classics 100

      EMI/Ang CDC7-54900-2

      2:05 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)" Overture, Op 26

      Bamberg Sym Orch/Claus Peter Flor
      Mendelssohn: Overtures

      RCA 7905-2-RC

      2:15 am

      Hugo Wolf: "Italienisches Liederbuch"

      "Gesegnet sei das Grün"

      Geraldine McGreevy, s; Sholto Kynoch, p
      Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs Volume 3

      Stone Records 5060192780116

      2:17 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70, "Souvenir de Florence"

      Stuttgart Chamber Orch/Dennis Russell Davies
      TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings; Souvenir of Florence

      MD+G Recordings 3211008-2

      2:55 am

      Guglielmo PESARO: La Spagna

      Calliope
      Dances (A Renaissance Revel)

      Nonesuch 79039-2

      3:00 am

      Marco Uccellini: "La Bergamasca"

      Sonata Decima Ottava

      Arcadian Academy
      Uccellini: La Bergamasca

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907066

      3:05 am

      Ottorino Respighi: "The Birds (Gli uccelli)"

      London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
      Dorati Conducts Respighi

      Mercury 432007-2

      3:24 am

      Arthur Sullivan: Song, "What does little Birdie Say"

      Jeanne Ommerlé, s; Gary Wedow, p
      Sweethearts (Songs Of Sir Arthur Sullivan)

      Northeastern NR-217

      3:26 am

      Morton Gould: Ballet, "Audubon"

      Concerto grosso for four violins and orchestra

      Soloists; Seattle Sym Orch/Gerard Schwarz
      The Music Of Morton Gould

      Delos DE-3166

      3:45 am

      Willem de Fesch: Concerto #2 in g

      Musica Ad Rhenum
      VI Concerti Opera Quinta

      NM Classics 92054

      3:54 am

      Pieter Hellendaal: Concerto Grosso in g, Op 3/1

      "Presto"

      Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan de Vriend
      Six Grand Concertos For Violins Etc. In Eight Parts Opus 3

      NM Classics 92019

      4:00 am

      Whitacre: "Sleep"

      Polyphony
      Eric Whitacre * Cloudburst and Other Choral Works

      Hyperion CDA-67543

      4:05 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Danses concertantes"

      Orpheus Chamber Orch

      DG 459644-2

      4:25 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Circus Polka"

      Aleck Karis, p
      Stravinsky: Music for Piano (1911-1942)

      Bridge BCD-9051

      4:29 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Le carnaval des animaux (Carnival of the Animals)"

      "The Elephant"

      Michael Copley, r; Ian Moore, accordion
      Micro Classics

      Newport Classic NPD-85559

      4:30 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Le carnaval des animaux (Carnival of the Animals)"

      Chamber Ensemble/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
      Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval Des Animaux, Wedding Cake, Caprice, Septuor

      Erato 45772-2

      4:54 am

      Irving Fine: "Childhood Fables for Grownups"

      Song, "Tigeroo"

      Susan Wyner, s; Yehudi Wyner, p

      CRI CD-574

      5:00 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes, Op.34

      no.2 in a minor

      Byron Janis, p
      Chopin Collection

      EMI/Ang CDC5-56196-2

      5:05 am

      Johann Strauss II: Waltzes, "Motoren," Op. 265

      Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti

      EMI CDC5-56393-2

      5:12 am

      Alexander Glazunov: Concert Waltz #2 in F, Op 51

      Philharmonia Orch/Svetlanov

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47847-2

      5:22 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24

      Waltz

      Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63412-2

      5:28 am

      Francis Poulenc: "Valse" from "Album des Six"

      French National Orch
      Poulenc: Aubade, Les Biches, Etc.

      London 452937-2

      5:30 am

      Francis Poulenc: Two-Piano Sonata (1953)

      Seta Tanyel, p; Jeremy Brown, p
      Poulenc: Works for Piano Duo

      Chandos CHAN-8519

      5:54 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Wedding March," from "Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel"

      Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon
      French Ballet Music of the 1920s

      Chandos CHAN-8356

      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

      Luigi Boccherini: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 35, No. 2 (G 510)

      London Festival Orch/Ross Pople
      Boccherini: Six Symphonies Op. 35

      Hyperion CDA-66903

      6:16 am

      Robert Schumann: "Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales)," Op. 132

      Michael Collins, cl; Steven Isserlis, vc; Stephen Hough, p
      Brahms, Frühling, Schumann - Clarinet Trios, Märchenerzählungen, Träumerei

      RCA 63504-2

      6:32 am

      Stanisław Moniuszko: "Bajka (Fairy Tale)"

      Overture

      Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit
      Stanisław Moniuszko: Overtures

      Naxos 8.572716

      6:47 am

      Antonín Dvořák: Romance in F minor, Op. 11

      Susanne Hou, v; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
      Valentine's Romance (February 2025)

      Camerata Chicago [February 2025]

      7:03 am

      William Grant Still: "American Suite"

      Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg
      William Grant Still: Summerland

      Naxos 8.559867

      7:12 am

      Scott Joplin: "Solace" (A Mexican Serenade)

      William Albright, p
      The Complete Rags of Scott Joplin

      Musicmasters 7061-2-C (2)

      7:18 am

      William Albright: "The Dream Rags"

      No. 1, "Sleepwalker's Shuffle"

      Gloria Cheng, p
      Piano Dance- A 20th Century Portrait

      Telarc CD-80549

      7:23 am

      Emmanuel Chabrier: "Le roi malgré lui"

      "Danse slave"

      Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
      Chabrier: España, Suite pastorale, Joyeuse marche, Fête polonaise, Danse slave; Lalo: Rapsodie, Scherzo, Le Roi d'Ys ouverture

      Decca 433720-2

      7:31 am

      Leo Arnaud: "Bugler's Dream"

      "Olympic Fanfare"

      Concert Arts Symphonic Band/Felix Slatkin
      The Military Band

      EMI CDC7-47422-2

      7:35 am

      John Williams: Olympic Fanfare and Theme (1984)

      Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
      By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra

      Philips 420178-2

      7:41 am

      Emile Waldteufel: "The Skaters' Waltz," Op. 183

      Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth
      Les Nuits de Paris - Dance Music from Folies Bergère to Opéra

      Bru Zane BZ-2005

      7:50 am

      Vince Guaraldi: "Skating"

      Canadian Brass
      Christmas Time is Here

      Steinway & Sons 30027

      7:52 am

      Gustav Holst: "A Winter Idyll"

      London Phil Orch/David Atherton
      Gustav Holst: A Winter Idyll, Elegy, Indra, A Song of the Night, Interlude (Sita), Invocation, The Lure, Morning of the Year Dances

      Lyrita SRCD.209

      8:03 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Serenade and "Allegro giocoso" in B minor, Op 43

      Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Lawrence Foster
      Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos

      Hyperion CDA-66969

      8:17 am

      Fritz Kreisler: "La Gitana"

      Himari, v; Chelsea Wang, p
      HIMARI

      Decca 4871302

      8:21 am

      Claude Debussy: "La plus que lente"

      I Salonisti
      The Last Dance - Music For A Vanishing Era

      RCA-DHM 77377-2

      8:27 am

      Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, "American"

      IV. Finale, "Vivace ma non troppo"

      Modern Mandolin Quartet
      Americana

      Sono Luminus DSL-92157

      8:35 am

      Johann Friedrich Fasch: Sinfonia in B-flat Major

      Tempesta di Mare
      Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4

      Chandos CHAN-0829

      8:48 am

      Amilcare Ponchielli: "Il Convegno"

      Larry Combs & Eddie Daniels, cl's; Chicago String Quartet; Brad Opland, db
      Crossing the Line

      Summit DCD-1022

      9:04 am

      Josef Suk: "Towards a New Life," Op. 35c

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      Pomp & Pizazz - Erich Kunzel / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

      Telarc CD-80122

      9:12 am

      James P. Johnson: "Yamekraw"

      Marcus Roberts, p; Lincoln Center Jazz Orch, Orch of St. Luke's/Robert Sadin
      Portraits in Blue

      Sony SK-68488

      9:34 am

      François Couperin: "Pièces en concert"

      Jian Wang, vc; Camerata Salzburg
      The Baroque Album

      DG 474236-2

      9:48 am

      Kevin Puts: "Contact"

      II. Scherzo, "Codes"

      Time for Three; Philadelphia Orch/Xian Zhang
      Letters for the Future

      DG 4863066

      9:53 am

      Alexander Glazunov: Five Novelettes, Op. 15

      No. 4, "Valse"

      Borodin Quartet
      Russian Miniatures

      Teldec 94572-2

      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.

      10:00 am

      Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "May Night"

      Overture

      Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
      Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol / Overtures

      Naxos 8.572788

      10:09 am

      Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D minor (C minor)

      Heinz Holliger, ob; Camerata Bern/Erich Höbarth
      Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe

      ECM 2229

      10:21 am

      Florence Price: Piano Quintet in A minor

      I. "Allegro non troppo"

      Catalyst Quartet; Michelle Cann, p
      Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price

      Azica ACD-71346

      10:36 am

      Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op..25

      IV. Finale, "Rondo alla zingarese"

      Houston Sym/Christoph Eschenbach
      Bach, Brahms - Schoenberg Orchestrations

      RCA 68658-2

      10:46 am

      David Amram: Variations on "Red River Valley"

      Julius Baker, f; Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark
      David Amram - An American Original

      Newport Classic NPD-85546

      11:00 am

      Antonín Dvořák: "Prague Waltzes"

      Detroit Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
      Dvořák: Czech Suite, Prague Waltzes / Dorati

      Decca 414370-2

      11:10 am

      Edward Elgar: "Sospiri," Op 70

      Tomoko Kato, v; Akira Eguchi, p
      Tomoko Kato Plays Elgar

      Denon CO-18078

      11:14 am

      Edward Elgar: "Lux Aeterna" (after "Nimrod," Op. 36, No. 9)

      Voces8
      Lux

      Decca B0022601-02

      11:19 am

      Charlotte Sohy: "Histoire sentimentale," Op. 34

      Avignon-Provence National Orch/Debora Waldman
      Charlotte Sohy, Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

      La Boîte à Pépites BAP01.03

      11:32 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite (from BWV 1067 & BWV 1068)

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Mahler: Symphony No. 3/ Bach Suite

      Decca B0002336-02 (2)

      11:51 am

      music continues...

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Music of Scandinavia

      The lighter these northern lands are in the summer just means the darker the winters will be, and these dark winters are in the living tissue of every Scandinavian. Bill features composers such as Wilhelm Stenhammar, Per Nørgård, and Lars-Erik Larsson, as well as music performed by contemporary Scandinavian artists.

      8:00 - 11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Best of Studs Terkel

      A Jazz Showcase (7/17/1991)

      One of Studs Terkel's greatest passions was the music of jazz. This varied program from 1991 features the musicians and sounds he loved so well.