Sunday, March 22, 2026

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      Playlist for Sunday, March 22, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Horatio Parker: Scherzo

      Gowanus Arts Ensemble/Reuben Blundell
      American Romantics

      New Focus Recordings FCR-166

      12:05 am

      George Templeton Strong: "From a Notebook of Sketches"

      Suite #3

      Moscow Sym Orch/ Adriano
      Strong

      Naxos 8.559078

      12:21 am

      Edward MacDowell: "Woodland Sketches", Op 51

      Excerpts

      Eliot Fisk, g; Paula Robison, f
      Mountain Songs: A Cycle Of American Folk Music

      MHS 5173217

      12:26 am

      Edward MacDowell: "Woodland Sketches", Op 51

      #7, "From Uncle Remus"

      Dallas Wind Sym/Frederick Fennell
      Fennell Favorites!

      Reference Recordings RR-43-CD

      12:28 am

      Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: Clarinet Concerto #4 in e

      Thea King, cl; English Chamber Orch/Alun Francis
      Mozart: Clarinet Concerto/ Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No.4

      Meridian CDE-84022

      12:54 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 67

      No. 2 in g, "Cantabile"

      William Kapell, p
      Chopin Mazurkas

      RCA 68990-2

      1:00 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: "Giustino"

      Aria, "Vedro con mio diletto"

      Philippe Jaroussky, ct; Ensemble Artaserse
      Heroes

      Virgin 3634122-2

      1:05 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D, R 93

      Sharon Isbin, g; Pacifica String Quartet
      Souvenirs of Spain and Italy

      Cedille CDR-90000190

      1:16 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in f-sharp, Op. 108

      Pacifica Quartet
      The Soviet Experience Volume I: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries

      Cedille CDR-90000127

      1:28 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 1, No. 3

      Finale: Presto

      Kodaly String Quartet
      HAYDN: String Quartets Op. 1, Nos. 1- 4

      Naxos 8.550398

      1:30 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 54 in G

      Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer
      Haydn 'The Esterhazy Recordings' Symphonies Volume 3

      Nimbus NI-5530/4 (5)

      1:54 am

      François Joseph Gossec: "Tambourin"

      Maxence Larrieu, f; Ichiro Suzuki, g
      Nocturnal

      Camerata 32CM-148

      2:00 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Aleko" (1893)

      Aleko's Song "(Beneath the Moon)"

      Vassily Gerello, br; Moscow Ch Orch, Yurlov Capella/Constantine Orbelian
      RACHMANINOV, S.: Aleko [Opera] / PUSHKIN, A.: The Gypsies

      Delos DE-3269 (2)

      2:05 am

      Modest Mussorgsky: "Khovanshchina"

      "Dance of the Persian Slaves"

      Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue
      Exotic Dances From The Opera

      Reference Recordings RR-71-CD

      2:12 am

      Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Le coq d'or:" Orchestral Suite

      Pittsburgh Sym Orch/William Steinberg

      EMI/Ang CDM5-65424-2

      2:37 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Aleko" (1893)

      "Romance of a Young Gypsy"

      Vsevolod Grivnov, t; Moscow Chamber Orch/Constantine Orbelian
      RACHMANINOV, S.: Aleko [Opera] / PUSHKIN, A.: The Gypsies

      Delos DE-3269 (2)

      2:38 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Mazeppa"

      Cossack Dance

      Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel
      Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works

      Telarc CD-80541

      2:43 am

      Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor"

      Polovtsian Dances

      St Petersburg Kirov Orch
      White Nights: Romantic Russian Showpieces

      Philips 442011-2

      2:54 am

      Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor"

      Final Chorus

      Sofia National Theatre Cho and Orch/Jerzy Semkow

      EMI/Ang CDMB5-66814-2 (2)

      3:00 am

      Mauro Giuliani: Six Variations on "La Folia", Op 45

      Richard Savino, g

      Koch 3-7591-2 (2)

      3:05 am

      Antonio Salieri: Variations on "La Follia di Spagna"

      London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert

      MHS 5164941

      3:23 am

      Jean-Henri d'Anglebert: "Folies d'Espagne"

      Christophe Rousset, hc

      London 458588-2 (2)

      3:32 am

      Dusan Bogdanovic: Songs and Dances from the New Village (2004)

      #3, "Gankino Oro"

      Laura Gilbert, f, Antigoni Goni, g
      Laura Gilbert And Antigoni Goni: Songs And Dances From The New Villiage

      Koch KIC-CD-7652

      3:33 am

      Gabriel Fauré: "Pelléas et Mélisande," Op. 80

      Frederica von Stade, ms; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
      Faure: Orchestral Works, Incidental Music

      EMI CDC7-47938-2

      3:53 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Song, "The Dead Knight of the Forest"

      Mordecai Shehori, p
      Mordecai Shehori Plays Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt

      Connoisseur CD-4189

      4:00 am

      Richard Strauss: Five Songs, Op. 41

      No. 1, "Wiegenlied"

      Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, s; London Sym Orch/George Szell

      EMI/Ang CDC5-56241-2

      4:04 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in c minor, K. 388

      Marlboro Festival Musicians/Alexander Schneider
      Marlboro Fest 40th Anniversary- Mozart: Serenades

      Sony SMK-47295

      4:29 am

      John Phillip SOUSA: The Irish Dragoon

      "Circus Galop"

      Razumovsky Sym Orch/Keith Brion
      SOUSA: On Wings of Lightning

      Naxos 8.559029

      4:30 am

      Florence Price: "Fantasie Negre" (1929)

      Helen Walker-Hill, p
      Kaleidoscope: Music By African-American Women

      Leonarda LE-339

      4:39 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Danse nègre"

      Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman
      African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1

      Cedille CDR-90000055

      4:45 am

      Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Bamboula (Danses des negres)"

      Alan Feinberg, p
      Fascinatin' Rhythm: American Syncopation

      Argo 444457-2

      4:53 am

      Claude Debussy: "Le petit nègre"

      Reykjavik Wind Quintet
      French Wind Music

      Chandos CHAN-9362

      5:00 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty", Op. 66

      "Bluebird" pas de deux

      Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Le Baiser De La Fee (The Fairy's Kiss)

      Chandos CHAN-8360

      5:05 am

      Michael Haydn: Symphony No. 23 in D, P 43

      Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Harold Farberman

      MMG MCD-10026

      5:21 am

      Igor Stravinsky: Four Russian Songs (1918-19)

      #1, "The Drake"

      Lucy Shelton, s; John Constable, p

      Koch 3-7425-2

      5:23 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Suite italienne"

      Denise Djokic, vc; David Jalbert, p
      Denise Djokic * Folklore

      Endeavour Classics END-1013

      5:42 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Four Norwegian Moods"

      St Luke's Orch/Robert Craft
      Stravinsky, The Composer Volume V

      Musicmasters 67110-2

      5:50 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Scherzo à la russe" (1943-4)

      Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi
      Petrouchka / The Firebird Suite / Scherzo A La Russe

      Telarc CD-80587

      5:54 am

      Igor Stravinsky: Three Japanese Songs

      #3, "Tsaraiuki"

      Jane Manning, s; Nash Ensemble/Simon Rattle
      Stravinsky: Symphonies Of Wind

      Chandos CHAN-6535

      6:00 am

      6:00 am

      With Heart and Voice

      "Lent 5." Host Peter Dubois shares sacred choral and organ music evoking prayers of petition, repentance, thanksgiving, and longing during this season of Lent.

      7:00 am - 12:00 pm

      6:00 - 8:00 pm

      6:00 pm

      Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts

      Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 41: D7; Michael Haydn Esteban Batallán, trumpet; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Prokofiev "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60; R Strauss "Der Bürger als Edelmann," Op. 60; Fritz Reiner, conductor.

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

      Baroque Music from Mexico, Perú & Brazil The music written and performed in Latin America during the Colonial period has become more popular in recent years. Elbio explores the strong connections between Spanish music from the past and Latin American music as well as the multiple similarities with early and baroque music one can find in Latin American folk music.

      9:00 - 11:00 pm

      9:00 pm

      Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel

      Great Female pianists from the past – Program 2

      Including Olga Samaroff, Myra Hess, Marla Jona, Gina Bachauer, Guiomar Novaes, Tatiana Nikolaeva, Maria Yudina, Teresa Carreno, and Magda Tagliaferro.