Thursday, July 16, 2026

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      Playlist for Thursday, July 16, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      William Byrd: Motet, "Visita, Quaesumus Domine"

      Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
      Lighten Our Darkness: Music for the Close of Day

      Collegium COLCD-131

      12:05 am

      James Hook: Piano Concerto in D

      David Owen Norris, p; Sonnerie
      The World's First Piano Concertos

      Avie AV-0014

      12:20 am

      James Nares: Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in D

      "Larghetto"

      Julian Perkins
      English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos

      Avie AV-2152

      12:22 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto no.2 in f minor, Op.21

      Daniel Barenboim, p; Berlin Staatskapelle/Andris Nelsons
      The Chopin Concertos * Daniel Barenboim * Staatskapelle Berlin * Andris Nelsons

      DG B0015387-02

      12:54 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op 30

      No. 2 in b-flat

      Daniel Barenboim, p
      Lieder Ohne Worte

      DG 423931-2 (2)

      1:00 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "War and Peace"

      "Waltz"

      Philharmonia Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Prokofiev: War & Peace Suite

      Chandos CHAN-9096

      1:05 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin"

      Act II, Entr'acte and Waltz

      BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Alpesh Chauhan

      Chandos CHSA-5352

      1:13 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "Lady Soubrette"

      Waltz

      USSR Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
      Waltzes And Polonaises By Russian Composers

      Melodiya SUCD-1000179

      1:19 am

      Valentin Silvestrov: "Three Waltzes with a Postlude," Op. 3

      I. "Allegretto"

      Alexei Lubimov, p
      Silvestrov: ...flowering Over Lethe...

      Fuga Libera FUG-846

      1:21 am

      Dora Pejacevic: Piano Trio in C, Op. 29

      TrioW
      Unheard-of Treasures: Music by Women Composers

      Naxos 8.551438

      1:55 am

      Valentin Silvestrov: Three Postludes, Op. 64

      I. "Andantino"

      Alexei Lubimov, p
      Silvestrov: ...flowering Over Lethe...

      Fuga Libera FUG-846

      2:00 am

      Richard Wagner: "Lohengrin"

      Bridal chorus, "Treulich geführt"

      Bavarian Radio Sym Cho and Orch/Rafael Kubelik
      Dies Irae: The Essential Choral Collection

      DG 457196-2 (2)

      2:04 am

      Richard Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde"

      Prelude and "Liebestod"

      New York Phil/Pierre Boulez
      Pierre Boulez: Wagner

      Sony SMK-64108

      2:21 am

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      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 - 3:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      3:00 - 7:00 pm

      3:00 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

      Symphony, Part IV

      We start this week featuring the symphonic form at its Romantic apex, with Austrian composers Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler. Then we’ll head over to Britain to enjoy the music of Edward Elgar. Together, these three composers wrote 22 symphonies, which is impressive considering Bruckner didn’t compose his first until his forties, and Elgar was turning fifty! Get ready for a week filled with vivid, colorful orchestral symphonies.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Vaughan-Williams Fantasia on "Greensleeves;" David Nadien, violin; Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, Movement I; Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Ravel "Tzigane;" Itzhak Perlman, violin; Itzhak Perlman, violin; Debussy "La Mer;" Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; Lorin Maazel, conductor; Copland "Appalachian Spring;" Alan Gilbert, conductor; Trad, arr. Berio "Loosin Yelav;" Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Brahms Adagio from Violin Concerto; Pinchas Zuckerman, violin; Berlioz "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" from "Symphonie fantastique;" Alan Gilbert, conductor;