Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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      Playlist for Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Virgil Thomson: "Two Sentimental Tangos"

      Craig Rutenberg, p
      Virgil Thomson: A Gallery of Portraits

      Everbest 1003 (2)

      12:05 am

      Virgil Thomson: "The River" Suite

      Sym of the Air/Leopold Stokowski

      Vanguard SVC-1

      12:29 am

      Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: 3 Piano Pieces, Op 128

      #1, Scherzino: "A Peterboro Chipmunk"

      Joanne Polk, p
      By The Still Waters

      Arabesque Z-6693

      12:30 am

      Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: "Pastorale," Op 151

      Ambache
      Beach: Quartet for Strings/ Sonata for Violin and Piano/Pastorale/Dreaming

      Chandos CHAN-10162

      12:34 am

      Johann Pez: Concerto pastorale in F

      Collegium Aureum

      RCA-DHM 77048-2-RG

      12:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801

      No. 12 in A

      Pieter-Jan Belder, hc
      Bach Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      1:00 am

      Leopoldo Miguez: "Suíte à antiga," Op. 25

      II. "Sarabanda (Andante)"

      English Chamber Orch/Neil Thomson
      Beyond Bossa Nova

      Naxos 8.574405

      1:05 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40

      Michala Petri, r; English Chamber Orch/Okko Kamu
      Grieg: Holberg Suite, Melodies and Dances

      RCA 61881-2

      1:22 am

      Johann Halvorsen: "Mascarade" Incidental Music

      "Holberg-Overture"

      Norwegian Radio Orch/Ari Rasilainen
      Halvorsen: uite Ancienne, Mascarade

      Norsk NKFCD-50033-2

      1:26 am

      Agathe Backer Grondahl: "In the Blue Mountains-A Fairy Tale Suite," Op 44

      #6, "Troll Dance"

      Natalia Strelchenko, p
      Agathe Backer-Grondahl: Complete Piano Music, Vol. IV

      Arena AR-07015

      1:28 am

      Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3

      Hélène Grimaud, p; London Sym/Pierre Boulez
      Bartok: The Piano Concertos * Zimerman * Andsnes * Grimaud * Boulez

      DG B0003885-02

      1:54 am

      Orlandus (Roland de) Lassus: Motet, "Sicut rosa"

      Charles Geyer, tr; Barbara Butler, tr

      D'Note DND-1026

      2:00 am

      Scott Joplin: "Ragtime Dance"

      Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet
      Cooler By the Lake

      Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet

      2:02 am

      Scott Joplin: "Elite Syncopations" (1902)

      Adam Abeshouse, v; Lara Downes, p
      Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered

      Rising Sun Music RS-016

      2:05 am

      Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 18

      Sarah Chang, v; Wolfgang Sawallisch, p

      EMI CDC5-56870-2

      2:33 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Elijah," Op 70

      Chorus, "Lift thine eyes"

      Atlanta Sym Cho, Orch/Robert Shaw
      Choral Masterpieces

      Telarc CD-80119

      2:35 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" Overture, Op 27

      Rotterdam Phil Orch/Lahav Shani

      Warner Classics 2173272325

      2:47 am

      Malcolm Arnold: Three Shanties, Op 4

      James Galway Wind Quintet
      James Galway Plays The Music Of Sir Malcolm Arnold

      RCA 68860-2

      2:54 am

      American Trad: Sea Shanty, Whup, Jamboree

      Robert Shaw Men's Cho/Shaw
      Sea Shanties * The Men of the Robert Shaw Chorale

      RCA 63528-2

      3:00 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37

      "May: White Nights"

      Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Solo Piano

      Decca 4834417 (10)

      3:05 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: Romances, Op. 73

      #2, "Night"

      Lisa Batiashvili, v; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, p
      Tchaikovsky: Pathétique

      DG 479 0835

      3:08 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37

      "July (Song of the Reaper)"

      Eleonora Bekova, p; Elvira Bekova, v; Alfia Bekova, vc
      Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio · The Seasons

      Chandos CHAN-9719 (2)

      3:10 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique"

      Czech Phil/Semyon Bychkov
      The Tchaikovsky Project

      London 4834942 (7)

      3:55 am

      Daniel Bacheler: "Galliard"

      Paul O'Dette, l
      Daniel Bacheler * The Bachelar's Delight * Lute Music

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907389

      4:00 am

      Marcel Grandjany: "In the Forest of Charm and Enchantment"

      Anne-Margeurite Michaud, h
      The Children's Hour- Harpworks For The Imagination

      Summit DCD-355

      4:05 am

      Vincent D'Indy: "La forêt enchantée (The Magic Forest)," Op 8

      Loire Phil/Pierre Dervaux
      D'INDY: Tone Poems

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63953-2

      4:19 am

      Rick Sowash: "Dark Forest"

      Josh Aerie, vc; Greg Kostraba, p
      Seasonal Breezes

      Rick Sowash RSP-13

      4:31 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Neue Liebeslieder" Waltzes, Op 65

      #12, "Schwarzer Wald, dien Schatten ist so düster"

      Rost, Kozená, Polenzani, Quasthoff, Bronfman
      Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone,
      Yefim Bronfman, piano,
      Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes

      DG 479 6044

      4:33 am

      Francesco Rosetti: Horn Concerto in D

      Michael Thompson, fh; Philharmonia Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
      Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat, Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, Horn Concerto No. 2 in D, Divertimento a Tre in E Flat

      Nimbus NI-5018

      4:54 am

      Antonin Reicha: 24 Horn Trios, Op 82

      #20

      German Natural Horn Soloists
      Anton Reicha

      MD+ G Productions 6050864-2

      5:00 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah"

      Aria, "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"

      Maria Callas, s; French National Radio Orch/Georges Prêtre
      The Incomparable Maria Callas

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63182-2

      5:05 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 1 in F, Op. 18

      Michael Ponti, p; Robert Zimansky, v; Jan Polasek, vc
      Saint-saëns: Piano Trios No 1 And 2

      Accord 149161

      5:30 am

      Jean Sibelius: "Cinq Esquisses," Op. 114

      "Landscape"

      Leif Ove Andsnes, p
      Leif Ove Andsnes: Sibelius

      Sony 88985408502

      5:32 am

      Jean Sibelius: "Finlandia," Op. 26

      Finnish Radio Sym Orch/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
      Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, "Karelia" Overture and Suite, "Finlandia"

      RCA 7765-2-RC

      5:40 am

      Bedrich Smetana: "Má Vlast (My Fatherland)"

      "Tábor"

      Vienna Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
      Má vlast

      RCA 82876-2 (2)

      5:54 am

      Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Cirandas" (1926)

      No. 4

      Christina Ortiz, p
      Villa-Lobos: Piano Music

      London 417650-2

      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: Rococo Suite

      France Springuel, vc; I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen
      Grétry, Ysaÿe, Vieuxtemps, Servais, Gossec, Léonard, Lekeu - I Fiamminghi / Rudolf Werthen

      Koch CD-311197

      6:15 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Suite española", Op. 47

      No. 5, "Asturias (Leyenda)"

      Jacob Reuven, m; Eyal Leber, g
      Delicate Delights: Best Loved Classical Mandolin and Lute Music

      Naxos 8.578183

      6:22 am

      Enrique Fernández Arbós: "Pequeña suite española," Op. 7

      I. "Ausencia"

      Madrid Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
      Arbós: Complete Orchestral Works

      Verso VRS-2027 (2)

      6:31 am

      William Alwyn: "Festival March"

      London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
      Alwyn: Symphony No. 4, Elizabethan Dances, Festival March

      Chandos CHAN-8902

      6:40 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Piano Quintet in E, Op. 15

      I. "Mässiges Zeitmass"

      Goldner String Quartet; Piers Lane, p
      Bartók & Korngold: Piano Quintets

      Hyperion CDA-68290

      7:04 am

      music continues...

      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.

      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

      Pacific Overtures II

      In the second week cruising the Pacific Rim, you’ll hear selections from Chile and Colombia. Then the tour heads up into Mexico, where we’ll hear Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez, before motoring to the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Then, we'll sail all the way down to the Philippines, to Java, to China, Korea, and Japan, and finally, the Hawaiian Islands.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

      Haydn Quartet in F major, Hob. III:82, Op. 77, No. 2; Orion String Quartet; Reicha Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 88, No. 2; Adam Walker, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe, David Shifrin, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; David Jolley, horn.

      11:00 pm