Thursday, February 19, 2026

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      Playlist for Thursday, February 19, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Augustìn Barrios Mangoré: "Mazurca Apasionada"

      Thibaut Garcia, g
      El Bohemio

      Warner 5054197726170

      12:05 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "Mazurka-Obéreque"

      Itzhak Perlman, v; Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster

      EMI/Ang CDC5-55475-2

      12:15 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Four Mazurkas, Op. 33

      Maurizio Pollini, p
      Pollini/Chopin

      DG B0011939-02

      12:26 am

      Ole Olsen: Little Suite

      2nd mvt, "Masurka"

      Jorunn Bratlie, p, Norwegian Radio Orch/Christian Eggen
      Little Suite For Piano And String Orchestra And Piano Works By 7 Women Composers

      Norsk NKFCD-50024-2

      12:28 am

      Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64

      Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
      Peer Gynt Suites/ Lyric Suite/Piano Concerto

      Chandos CHAN-9113

      12:55 am

      Edvard Grieg: Six Songs, Op. 48

      No. 1 "Gruss (Greeting)"

      Anne Sofie von Otter, ms; Bengt Forsberg, p
      Songs - Lieder

      DG 437521-2

      1:00 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Wake)"

      Opening chorale, "Wake up, the voice calls us"

      Fine Arts Brass
      Fine Arts Brass Play Baroque

      Nimbus NI-5651

      1:05 am

      Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Lute Suite in d

      Ronn McFarlane, l
      Lute Recital: McFarlane, Ronn - BACH, J.S. / KELLNER, D. / WEISS, S.L. (A Distant Shore)

      Dorian DOR-90242

      1:21 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 70, "Wachet! betet! betet! Wachet!" (Advent)

      Chorale: "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele"

      Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
      Bach Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      1:23 am

      Gabriel Fauré: "Masques et Bergamasques", Op 112

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Pavane: Ravel, Satie and Faure

      DG 449186-2

      1:37 am

      Claude Debussy: "Suite bergamasque"

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Debussy: Images, Etudes

      London 460247-2 (2)

      1:54 am

      Jean-Baptiste Lully: "George Dandin"

      Overture

      Ensemble Marguerite Louise
      George Dandin

      Versailles CVS-027

      2:00 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61

      "Nocturne"

      Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Rafael Kubelik
      Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, Alborada Del Gracioso- Une Barque Sur L'Ocean, Pavane pour Une Infante Defunte

      DG 413656-2

      2:05 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in d, Op. 19/4

      Zuill Bailey, vc; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
      Russian Masterpieces for Cello and Orchestra

      Telarc CD-80724

      2:10 am

      Luis Jordà: "Danzas Nocturnas"

      No. 2

      Argentina Duràn, p
      Rapsodia Mexicana

      Bravo Music0

      2:11 am

      Guillaume Lekeu: Cello Sonata in f

      Luc Dewez, vc; Luc Devos, p
      Guillaume Lekeu Complete Works

      Ricercar RIC-351 (8)

      2:55 am

      Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Psyché"

      "Prelude en echo"

      Ensemble Marguerite Louise
      George Dandin

      Versailles CVS-027

      3:00 am

      Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op 50

      St Martin's Academy and Cho/Sir Neville Marriner
      Neville Marriner- The Argo Years

      Argo 410552-2

      3:05 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Pavane pour une infante défunte"

      Van Cliburn, p
      A Romantic Collection

      RCA 60414-2-RG

      3:12 am

      Daniel-François Auber: "Fra Diavolo"

      Overture

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      William Tell And Other Favorite Overtures

      Telarc CD-80116

      3:20 am

      Ferdinand Hérold: "Zampa"

      Overture

      BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
      BBC Philharmonic / Tortelier: French Bonbons

      Chandos CHAN-9765

      3:28 am

      Johann Strauss II: Zampa Galopp, Op. 62a

      Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
      The Strauss Album

      Black Box BBM-1059

      3:29 am

      Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: String Quartet Concerto in a, Op 131

      Lark String Quartet, San Francisco Ballet Orch/Jean-Louis LeRoux
      Handel / Schoenberg / Spohr / Elgar - Works For String Quartet And Orchestra

      Arabesque Z-6723

      3:54 am

      music continues...

      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 - 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

      Johannes Brahms, Part I

      The first of a two-week biography exploring the music and life of a defining voice of the German Romantic Era. In his formative years as a pianist, Brahms befriends Robert and Clara Schumann, and with their support and later with the violinist Joseph Joachim, develops his musical voice. Topics includes Brahms’s struggles to publish symphonies on the heels of Beethoven and writing the German Requiem.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Bernstein "Chichester Psalms" (World premiere performance); John Bogart, boy alto; Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish;" Camerata Singers; Columbus Boychoir; Felicia Montealgre, speaker; Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano; Suites 1 and 2 from the "Dybbuk;" Paul Sperry, tenor; Bruce Fifer, bass-baritone; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.