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Playlist for Saturday, May 23, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Richard Wagner: "Der fliegende Holländer"
Senta's Ballad
David Allen Wehr, p
Liszt: Transcriptions From Wagner
12:05 am
Richard Wagner: "Der fliegende Höllander (The Flying Dutchman)"
Overture
London Classical Players/Sir Roger Norrington
12:15 am
Robert Schumann: "Carnaval," Op. 9
No. 4, "Valse noble"
Canadian Brass
Carnaval
12:16 am
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op 9
Julius Katchen, p
Brahms: Works for Solo Piano
12:36 am
Robert Schumann: Andante and Variations in B-Flat, Op. 46
Argerich, D Schwarzberg, L Hall, Imai, Maisky
Mischa Maisky, cello,
Schumann
12:54 am
Johannes Brahms: Six Songs, Op. 3
#3, "Liebe und Frühling II"
Olaf Bär, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p
Brahms Lieder
1:00 am
Antonio Salieri: "Les Danaïdes"
Overture
Slovak Radio Sym/Michael Dittrich
SALIERI: Overtures
1:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No. 12 in E-Flat, K. 252
Chamber Orch of Europe
Intégrale des divertissements pour instruments à vent
1:15 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Notturno No. 4 in C, H II:31
The Music Party/Alan Hacker
8 Nocturnes
1:28 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Secular Canons, H XXVIIb:1-46
No. 2, "Auf einen adeligen Dummkopf"
Gyor Girls' Cho/Miklós Szabó
Haydn: Cannons
1:30 am
Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne in B-flat major, Op 37
Charles Owen, p
Fauré: The Complete Nocturnes
1:38 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Pelléas et Mélisande," Op. 80
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
Symphonie en si bémol / Pelléas et Mélisande ; Pénélope - Prélude ; Masques et bergamasques
1:54 am
Jean Sibelius: "Pelléas et Mélisande," Op. 46
"At the Seashore"
Tapiola Sinfonietta/Tuomas Ollila
2:00 am
Stephen Foster: "Old Folks at Home"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Samuel Sanders, p
2:03 am
George Gershwin: Three Preludes (1926)
#3, "Allegro ben ritmato"
Jascha Heifetz, v; Samuel Sanders, p
2:04 am
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Itzhak Perlman, v; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
2:27 am
Charles Ives: Song, "Mists"
Dora Ohrenstein, s; Phillip Bush, p
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 3
2:28 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C, K. 465, "Dissonance"
Guarneri String Quartet
Mozart: Six Quartets Dedicated To Haydn
2:54 am
Jean D'ASTREE: The Buffens
Baltimore Consort
Chamber Music (Renaissance) – D'ESTREE, J. / JOHNSON, J. / RAVENSCROFT, T. / ALLISON, R. / MORLEY, T. / BYRD, W. / DOWLAND, J.
3:00 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in G, Kk 144 (Spurious?)
Kim Heindel, lautenwerk
The Art of the Lautenwerk
3:04 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E, BWV 1042
Arve Tellefsen, v; Royal Phil/Paavo Berglund
N/A
3:22 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801
No. 5 in E-flat
Kathleen McIntosh, hc
Bach: Inventions, Sinfonia, Preludes
3:24 am
John Ireland: "The Overlanders" (1936)
Suite
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Ireland: Satyricon/ Tritons/The Overlanders
3:45 am
William Walton: "Spitfire" Prelude and Fugue
St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Walton: Battle Of Britain Suite
3:54 am
John JOHNSONE: Lavecheo galliard
Jakob Lindberg, Paul O'Dette, l's
English Lute Duets
4:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "Il Signor Bruschino"
Overture
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Rossini: Overtures
4:05 am
Mauro Giuliani: "La Rossiniana" #1, Op 119
Eliot Fisk, g
Bell'Italia: Four Centuries Of Italian Music
4:21 am
Benjamin Britten: "Soirées musicales," Op. 9
Helsingborg Sym/Okko Kamu
Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto
4:32 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Four Ariettas and a Duet, Op 82
#3, "L'amante impaziente (Arietta buffa)"
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Jörg Demus, p
An Die Ferne Geliebte
4:34 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata #5 in D, Op 102/2
Mischa Maisky, vc; Martha Argerich, p
Cellosonaten Opp. 69 & 102 / Variationen
4:53 am
Francois Couperin: "Les Nations"
"La Française: Courants 1 and 2"
Antiqua Musica Chamber Orch/Jacques Roussel
5:00 am
Richard Wagner: "Das Rheingold"
"Entry of the Gods into Valhalla"
Vienna Phil/Georg Solti
5:05 am
Frédéric Chopin: Cello Sonata in g minor, Op. 65
Jian Wang, vc; Carol Rosenberger, p
Cello Recital: Wang, Jian - CHOPIN, F. / BARBER, S. / SCHUMANN, R. (Presenting Jian Wang)
5:31 am
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata no.2 in b-flat minor, Op.35, "Funeral March"
III. "Marche funèbre"
BBC Phil/Mathias Bamert
Stokowski Encores
5:38 am
Jeremiah Clarke: Suite in D
Hornpipe
Hakan Hardenberger, tr; Simon Preston, o
Trumpet & Organ Spectacular At Sorø Church
5:40 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"
Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music
Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray
Paul Paray Conducts Wagner
5:54 am
Jacinto Guerrero: "Hermosa Catalina"
Hesperus
6:00 am
Claude Debussy: Three Nocturnes
"Fêtes"
Michel Béroff, Jean-Philippe Collard, p
6:05 am
Ernest Chausson: "Soir de fête," Op 32
Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
6:20 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Contredanse in G, "Les filles malicieuses," K. 610
Orpheus Chamber Orch
A Little Light Music
6:22 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 2 in C, K. 515
Jean Dupouy, vi; Fine Arts String Quartet
6:55 am
Josef Strauss: Polka schnell, Jokey-Polka, Op 278
Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel
New Year's Concert 1996
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:01 am
Ben Shirley: "High Sierra Sonata"
I. "Buttermilk Morning"
Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet
American Stories
7:10 am
Margaret Bonds: "Montgomery Variations"
VII. Finale, "Benediction"
Royal Scottish National Orch/Kellen Gray
African American Voices II
7:17 am
Mark O'Connor: "The American Seasons"
Spring
Mark O'Connor, v; Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo
Mark O'Connor: The American Seasons
7:26 am
Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275)
I Stern & CL Lin, v's; J Laredo, vi; Y Ma & S Robinson, vc's
Yo-Yo Ma, cello,
Quintets
7:48 am
Jean Françaix: Piano Concertino (1932)
Claude Françaix, p; London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
Dorati Conducts Satie, Milhaud, Auric, Françaix, Fetler
7:57 am
Claude Debussy: "Rêverie"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
Debussy: Preludes (Livres I Et II): The Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol. I / Jean-Yves Thibaudet
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:02 am
Samuel Barber: "Adagio for Strings" (from Op. 11)
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Music Of Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Orchestral Music
8:14 am
William Steffe: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Canadian Brass
Stars & Stripes
8:17 am
John Adams: "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"
San Francisco Sym/Edo de Waart
The Chairman Dances
8:22 am
Richard Strauss: "Metamorphosen"
United Strings of Europe/Julian Azkoul
Through the Night
8:49 am
Gerónimo Giménez: "La Boda de Luis Alonso"
Intermezzo
Burning River Brass
Romanza España
8:56 am
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Mercury, the Winged Messenger"
BBC Sym Orch/Andrew Davis
Holst: The Planets
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:01 am
Clint Eastwood: "Flags of Our Fathers"
End Titles
Bruce Forman, g; Studio Orch/Lennie Niehaus
Flags Of Our Fathers (Music from the Motion Picture)
9:07 am
Lee Holdridge: "The Tuskegee Airmen"
Main Title: "Leaving Home"
Studio Orch/Lee Holdridge
The Tuskegee Airmen (Original Motion Picture Score)
9:11 am
Lee Holdridge: "The Tuskegee Airmen"
"Losing a Buddy"
Studio Orch/Lee Holdridge
The Tuskegee Airmen (Original Motion Picture Score)
9:12 am
Lee Holdridge: "The Tuskegee Airmen"
Finale
Studio Orch/Lee Holdridge
The Tuskegee Airmen (Original Motion Picture Score)
9:16 am
John Williams: "Saving Private Ryan"
"Finding Private Ryan"
Boston Sym Orch/John Williams
Saving Private Ryan (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:20 am
John Williams: "Saving Private Ryan"
"Hymn to the Fallen"
CASF University Singers; Recording Arts Orch of Los Angeles/John Williams
John Williams Conductor
9:25 am
Hans Zimmer: "The Pacific"
"With the Old Breed"
Studio Orch/Blake Neely
The Pacific (Music From the HBO Miniseries)
9:30 am
Michael Kamen: "Band of Brothers"
"Headscarf"
London Metropolitan Orch/Michael Kamen
Band of Brothers (Music from the HBO Miniseries)
9:35 am
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Main Title
London Phil Orch/Franco Collura
The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
9:37 am
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
"The Elevator; Boone City; Peggy"
London Phil Orch/Franco Collura
The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
9:41 am
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
"The Nightmare"
London Phil Orch/Franco Collura
The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
9:48 am
Ennio Morricone: "Casualties of War"
"Elegy for Brown"
City of Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
Cinema Paradiso - The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone
9:52 am
Bronislaw Kaper: "The Red Badge of Courage"
Main & End Titles
Studio Orch/Bronislaw Kaper
Best JOHN HUSTON Movie Themes
9:54 am
Richard Rodgers: "Victory at Sea"
The Song of the High Seas
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Victory at Sea
10:02 am
Edward Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 1 in D, Op. 39, No. 1
London Phil Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Pomp & Circumstance Marches, Cockaigne Overture
10:09 am
Stephen Paulus: "And Give Us Peace"
Chicago Chorale/Bruce Tammen
And Give Us Peace
10:17 am
Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19, "Midsommarvaka"
Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue
Ports of Call
10:31 am
Rebecca Clarke: "Midsummer Moon"
Janet Sung, v; Kuang-Hao Huang, p
Live from WFMT: Chamber Music Chicago: Janet Sung, violin & Kuang-Hao Huang, piano (February 19, 2024)
10:38 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Suite pastorale"
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
Chabrier: España, Suite pastorale, Joyeuse marche, Fête polonaise, Danse slave; Lalo: Rapsodie, Scherzo, Le Roi d'Ys ouverture
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
WFMT features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area. Please visit wfmt.com for details on today’s program.
11:13 am
Florence Price: Concert Overture No. 1 (on "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass")
Württemberg Phil/John Jeter
Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances
11:25 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1, "Ghost"
Jupiter Trio
Live from WFMT: The Jupiter Trio (November 28, 2005)
11:51 am
Scott Joplin: "Treemonisha"
Overture
The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin
Scott Joplin: Treemonisha
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Puccini's Turandot
Anna Pirozzi (Turandot); Brian Jagde (Calaf); Angel Blue (Liu); John Relyea (Timur); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Oksana Lyniv. Sung in Italian.
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
3:30 pm
Ivor Gurney: "War Elegy"
BBC Sym Orch/David Lloyd-Jones
Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England
3:42 pm
Traditional American: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Canadian Brass
Stars & Stripes
3:49 pm
Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"
Three Dance Episodes
Philzuid/Duncan Ward
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein, and Peña Campo
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
A survey of songs based on A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad," including settings by George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Ian Venables.
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Grainger Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers;" Kirill Gerstein, piano; Andy Akiho "Spiel;" Colin Currie, glockenspiel; Beethoven Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 47, "Kreutzer," Chad Hoopes, violin; Katia Skanavi, piano.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
6:00 pm
Aaron Copland: "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Portraits of Freedom
6:35 pm
music continues...
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: To celebrate Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday this weekend, we’ll sample artists’ covers of his songs – and other songs – performed over the years on Folkstage.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Memorial Day weekend is a time to reflect on what we have lost and to honor those who gave “the last full measure of devotion.”
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