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Playlist for Saturday, October 10, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Anonymous, Medieval: Codex Calixtinus
Kyrie trope, "Cunctipotens genitor"
Anonymous 4
Miracles of Sant'iago: Music From The Codex Calistinus
12:05 am
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No. 96 in D, "Miracle"
London Phil/Eugen Jochum
12 "London" Symphonies
12:27 am
Anonymous 17th century, English: A Jig (Grimstock)
Musicians of Swanne Alley
In The Streets and Theatres of London: Elizabethan Ballads and Theatre Music
12:29 am
Coates, Eric: "London Suite"
Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Adrian Leaper
Eric Coates
12:44 am
Blezard, William: Battersea Park Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
The Best Of British Light Music
12:54 am
Anonymous 16th century, English: Bony sweet boy
Lyle Nordstrom, pandora
In The Streets and Theatres Of London: Elizabethan Ballads and Theater Music
1:00 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: 25 Irish Songs, WoO 152
#9, "The Soldier's Dream"
Jens Hamann, br; Brahms Trio
Beethoven Complete Edition
1:05 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Wind Octet in E-Flat, Op 103
Leipzig Radio Sym Orch Wind Players
1:26 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: 25 Irish Songs, WoO 152
"When eve's last rays"
Eberhard Büchner, t; Brahms Trio
Beethoven Complete Edition
1:28 am
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Piano Trio No. 2 in e, Op. 67
Merling PIano Trio
Postcards in E
1:54 am
Gliere, Reinhold: "The Red Poppy"
"Restaurant"
St Petersburg State Sym/Andre Anichanov
GLIERE: Red Poppy (The) (Complete Ballet)
2:00 am
Bizet, Georges: "L'Arlésienne" incidental music
Act 2: Pastorale
Louvre Musicians/Marc Minkowski
2:03 am
Bizet, Georges: "L'Arlésienne" incidental music
Act 1: "Farandole"
Louvre Musicians/Marc Minkowski
2:05 am
Bizet, Georges: "L'Arlésienne"
Suite
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
La France!
2:22 am
Bennett, Richard Rodney: "Suite française"
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Music Discoveries 4
2:30 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: French Suite No. 5 in G, BWV 816
II. "Courante"
András Schiff, p
Bach: French Suites BWV 812-817, Italian Concerto
2:32 am
Krommer, Franz: Clarinet Concerto in E-Flat, Op 36
Walter Boeykens, cl; New Belgian Chamber Orch/Jan Caeyers
Krommer/ Hoffmeister: Concertos Pour Deux Clarinettes
2:54 am
Dvorák, Antonín: Four Romantic Pieces, Op 75
#3, Allegro appassionato
Charles Stier, cl; Molly Newton, p
Cameos
3:00 am
Handel, George Frideric: "Arminio"
Overture
English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
Handel Overtures Vol. 2
3:05 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Variations on "See the Conquering Hero Comes," WoO.45
Jan Vogler, vc; Bruno Canino, p
The Works for Cello and Piano Vol. II
3:17 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: 12 Irish Songs, WoO 154
#12, "He promised me at parting"
Victoria de los Angeles, s; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
3:19 am
Sullivan, Arthur: Symphony in E, "The Irish"
Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves
Gilbert & Sullivan: Operettas
3:55 am
Warlock, Peter: "Capriol" Suite
#6, "Mattachins" (Sword Dance)
Summit Brass
A Summit Brass Night
4:00 am
Salieri, Antonio: "Semiramide"
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Pietro Spada
Salieri: The 2 Piano Concertos
4:05 am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat, K. 238
Adam Neiman, p; Wisconsin Chamber Orch/Andrew Sewell
4:25 am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Aria, "Du feines Täubchen, nur herein"
Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob; Wolfgang Schulz, f
Opera Transcriptions: Duets for Flute and Oboe Don Giovanni/Le Nozze Di Figaro/Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail/Die Zauberflote
4:27 am
Schubert, Franz: "Beitrag zur fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier" for Salieri, D 407
Male sextet; Graham Johnson, p
The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 32
4:35 am
Salieri, Antonio: Piano Concerto in d
Ciccolini, I Solisti Veneti/Scimone
4:54 am
Debussy, Claude: "Le petit nègre"
Chamber Orch of Europe/James Galway, f
Clair de Lune: Music of Debussy
5:00 am
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario: "Alt Wien," Op 30
Michael Mcfrederick, p
5:05 am
Strauss II, Johann: Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song," Op. 333
Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky
Wiener Philharmoniker Spielen Johann & Josef Strauss 1929–1990
5:11 am
Strauss II, Johann: Polka francaise, I-Tipferl, Op. 377
Vienna State Opera Orch/Anton Paulik
The Strauss Dynasty
5:15 am
Godowsky, Leopold: 24 Tonfantasien (1912)
#24, Portrait (Joh. S.)
Ilona Prunyi, p
GODOWSKY: Walzermasken
5:21 am
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: "Tales of Strauss", Op. 21
Linz Bruckner Orch/Caspar Richter
Korngold: Fairytale Pictures and other orchestral music
5:32 am
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: "Unvergänglichkeit," Op. 27
"Das eilende Bächlein"
Dietrich Henschel, br; Helmut Deutsch, p
Korngold: Lieder
5:33 am
Poulenc, Francis: "Aubade" (1929)
Gabriel Tacchino, p; Paris Conservatory Orch/Georges Prêtre
5:54 am
Besard, Jean-Baptiste: Ballet
Liona Boyd, g
The Guitar Artistry of Liona Boyd
6:00 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cantata No. 80, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A mighty fortress is our God)"
Opening chorus, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
Tölz Boys' Cho, Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: Famous Choruse
6:05 am
Raff, Joachim: Overture, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott", Op 127
Slovak State Phil/Urs Schneider
RAFF : Symphony No. 5 ' Lenore '
6:24 am
Reger, Max: Thirty Little Chorale Preludes, Op 135a
#25, Wachet auf
Heinz Lohmann, o
Reger: 30 Little Chorale Preludes, Op. 135a
6:25 am
Mendelssohn, Felix: Oratorio, "St Paul," Op 36
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Francesco d'Avalos
6:33 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Age of Enlightenment Orch//Elizabeth Wallfisch
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6
6:54 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"
"Praeambulum No. 3"
Joseph Payne, hc
Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann
7:00 - 9:00 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.
7:03 am
Michael Fink: "Monteverdiana"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
For Thy Pleasure
7:11 am
Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B, Op. 30
IV. "Tempo di marcia"
Munich Sym Orch/Douglas Bostock
Arthur Butterworth: Symphony No. 1; Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2
7:16 am
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano and Wind Quintet in B-Flat (1876)
Finale, Rondo: "Allegretto"
Capricorn
Glinka: Grand Sextet; Rimsky-Korsakov: Quintet
7:26 am
Jonathan Dove: "The Magic Flute Dances"
Emily Beynon, f; BBC National Orch of Wales/Bramwell Tovey
British Flute Concertos
7:46 am
Cécile Chaminade: "Six pièces romantiques," Op. 55
Roberto Prosseda & Alessandra Ammara, p
Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:01 am
Scott Joplin: "Solace" (A Mexican Serenade)
Itzhak Perlman, v; André Previn, p
The Easy Winners and Other Rag-Time Music of Scott Joplin
8:09 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Etude No. 7 in E, "Très animé"
Alexander-Sergei Ramírez, g
Works by Villa-Lobos & Ginastera
8:11 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Etude No. 8, "Modéré"
Alexander-Sergei Ramírez, g
Works by Villa-Lobos & Ginastera
8:16 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "The Sea and the Gulls" (after Etude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 2)
BBC National Orch of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
Meditations for a Quiet Dawn
8:25 am
Alfredo Catalani: "La Wally"
Romance, "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana"
Grace Bumbry, s; Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Stefan Soltész
Grace Bumbry * Famous Opera Arias
8:30 am
Hans Abrahamsen: "Left, Alone"
VI. In a tempo from another time - In a time for a slow motion - Suddenly in flying time, "Fairy Tale Time"
Alexandre Tharaud, p; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Contemporary Concertos by Pesson, Abrahamsen & Strasnoy
8:38 am
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56
Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Symphony No. 2, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
9:00 - 11:00 am
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:02 am
Michael Giacchino: "The Incredibles"
"Adventure Calling"
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
The Incredibles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:04 am
Michael Giacchino: "The Incredibles"
"Life's Incredible Again"
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
The Incredibles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:05 am
Michael Giacchino: "The Incredibles"
"100 Mile Dash"
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
The Incredibles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:10 am
Michael Giacchino: "Spider-Man, No Way Home"
"All Spell Breaks Loose"
Orch/Michael Giacchino
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:13 am
Michael Giacchino: "The Batman"
"Catwoman"
Gloria Cheng, p; Orch/Cliff Masterson
The Batman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:17 am
Michael Giacchino: "Medal of Honor"
Main Theme
Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino
Medal of Honor (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
9:21 am
Michael Giacchino: "Medal of Honor"
"The Jet Aircraft Facility"
Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino
Medal of Honor (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
9:26 am
Michael Giacchino: "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"
"Your Father Would Be Proud"
Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:30 am
Michael Giacchino: "Star Trek Beyond"
"Logo and Prosper"
Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino
Star Trek Beyond (Music From The Motion Picture)
9:34 am
Michael Giacchino: "Inside Out"
"The Joy of Credits"
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
Inside Out: Original Soundtrack
9:42 am
Michael Giacchino: "The Family Stone"
Suite
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
The Family Stone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:52 am
Michael Giacchino: "Up"
"Luftballoons/Carl Goes Up"
Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino
Up (Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)
9:56 am
Michael Giacchino: "Up"
"Married Life"
Studio Orch/Michael Giacchino
Up (Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)
10:03 am
Josef Suk: String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6
London Chamber Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
Tchaikovsky, Suk, Dvořák: Serenades
10:30 am
William Grant Still: Miniatures for Flute, Oboe & Piano
Sierra Winds; Carol Urban-Stivers, p
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
10:44 am
Karl Jenkins: "Palladio"
London Phil Orch Strings/Karl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins: Diamond Music - The Smith Quartet
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.
11:17 am
Dani Howard: "Argentum"
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Michael Seal
Dani Howard Orchestral Works
11:25 am
Richard Strauss: String Quartet in A, Op. 2
IV. Allegro moderato
Ensō Quartet
Strauss: String Quartet in A; Puccini: Crisantemi, Three Minuets; Verdi: String Quartet
11:34 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
IV. Aria
Rochelle Sennet, p
Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. 2
11:36 am
Aaron Copland: "Rodeo"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Great Copland Ballets
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
From National Centre for the Performing Arts
Verdi's La traviata
Ekaterina Bakanova (Violetta Valery); Shi Yije (Alfredo Germont); Liao Changyong (Giorgio Germant); Zhang Yajie (Flora Bervoix); Jin Zhengjian (Gastone); Mei Jie (Baron Douphol); Zhao Ming (Marchese d'Obigny); Guan Zhijing (Doctor Grenvil); NCPA Chorus and Orchestra; Yu Long, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:14 pm
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Caprice americaine, Columbia," Op 34
Alan Feinberg, p
Fascinatin' Rhythm
2:20 pm
Craig Hella Johnson: "Considering Matthew Shepard"
Epilogue: "All of Us"
Soloists; Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson
Considering Matthew Shepard
2:27 pm
George Gershwin: "Love Is Here to Stay"
Tactus String Quartet
Tactus plays Gershwin
2:30 pm
Afternoon Music
2:30 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "Petrushka"
I. "The Shrovetide Fair", "Russian Dance"
Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä
Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
2:41 pm
Emilie Mayer: Cello Sonata in A Major
II. Andante cantabile
Raphaela Gromes, vc; Julian Riem, p
Fortissima
2:49 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Danses d'Polonié"
Holland Baroque
Telemann: Polonoise
3:00 pm
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel"
"Evening Prayer" and "Pantomime"
Cotrubas, von Stade; Gürzenich Orch/Pritchard
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
3:10 pm
Stanisław Moniuszko: "Bajka (Fairy Tale)"
Overture
Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit
Stanisław Moniuszko: Overtures
3:24 pm
Frédéric Chopin: "Grande valse brillante" in E-Flat, Op. 18
Hayato Sumino, p
Chopin Orbit
3:31 pm
Moritz Moszkowski: "From Foreign Lands," Op. 23
Polish National Radio Sym Orch/Antoni Wit
Moszkowski: Piano Concerto in E major; From Foreign Lands
3:54 pm
Alexandre Desplat: "Little Women"
"Little Women"
Orchestre de Paris/Alexandre Desplat
Paris - Hollywood
3:58 pm
Arthur Bliss: "Fanfare for a Jubilant Occasion"
Kneller Hall Trumpeters
Coronation Anthems and Hymns
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
A remembrance of Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubas (1939–2026), who was widely acclaimed for her portrayals of the fragile Romantic heroines, most notably Violetta in "La traviata," and Mimì in "La bohème."
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from St. Tim's Coffeehouse in Northfield: WFMT presents Nashville’s delightful and insightful husband-and-wife duo, The Twangtown Paramours.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
A cavalcade of covers and treasured recordings by John Prine on his 80th birth anniversary. Also, a nod to the late Chicago music icon Oscar Brown, Jr., on his centenary.
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