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Playlist for Monday, May 4, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Franz Liszt: Three Concert Etudes
No. 3, "Un sospiro"
Daniil Trifonov, p
Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov Plays Liszt
12:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 55 in E-Flat, "The Schoolmaster"
Lausanne Chamber Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
12:26 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "The bonnie wee thing," H XXXIa:102
Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
Haydn Edition
12:28 am
Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: "Scottish Legend," Op 54/1
Joanne Polk, p
12:31 am
Daniel Gregory Mason: Violin Sonata in c, Op 14
Kevin Lawrence, v; Phillip Bush, p
Daniel Gregory Mason and Frederick Shepherd Converse: Violin Sonatas
12:54 am
Burleigh: "Nature's Voices" (1927)
"Winding Stream"
Zina Schiff, v; Mary Barranger, p
BURLEIGH: Music for Violin and Piano
1:00 am
Sousa: "With Pleasure"
Wallace Collection/John Wallace
Stars And Stripes Forever- Great Marches an Incidental Music
1:05 am
Benjamin Britten: "An American Overture," Op. 27a
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle Conducts Britten
1:16 am
Louis Ballard: "Four American Indian Piano Preludes"
Emanuele Arciuli, p
Walk in Beauty
1:22 am
Kevin Puts: Concerto for Orchestra
III. "Music Box with Arietta"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Stéphane Denève
1:24 am
Johannes Brahms: Serenade no.2 in A, Op.16
Scottish Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras
Brahms Serenades 1 & 2
1:55 am
Johannes Brahms: Romances and Songs, Op 84
#4, "Vergebliches Ständchen"
Elly Ameling, s; Rudolf Jansen, p
On The Wings Of Song
2:00 am
Domenico Cimarosa: "Giannina e Bernardone"
Overture
Milan RAI Orch/Nino Sanzogno
Giannina e Bernardone
2:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "La Finta Semplice," K. 51
Overture
La Cetra/Andrea Marcon
Mozart Overtures * La Cetra * Andrea Marcon
2:12 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "La finta giardiniera," K. 196
Aria, "Una damina, una nipote"
Benelli, t; Theatre Royal de Monnaie Orch/Sylvain Cambreling
2:13 am
Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Cellokonzert • Rokoko-Variationen
2:55 am
Moleiro: "Children's Suite"
"The Birds"
Clara Rodriguez, p
Moleiro: Piano Music
3:00 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Nabucco"
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, "Va pensiero"
Atlanta Sym Cho, Orch/Robert Shaw
Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses
3:05 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "I Vespri Siciliani"
Overture
BBC Phil/Sir Edward Downes
Verdi: Preludes, Overtures, and Ballet Music Vol. 1
3:14 am
Antonio Pasculli: Grand Concerto on themes from Verdi's "I Vespri Siciliani"
Philippe Magnan, ob; I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky
I musici de Montreal - Verdi/ Dupin/Pasculli
3:27 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Ernani"
Chorus, "Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia"
Forum Opera Chor; Forum Phil/Gabriele Bellini
3:29 am
Johannes Brahms: Fantasias, Op 116
Robert Silverman, p
Piano Music of Brahms, Vol. 2
3:54 am
Arnold Schoenberg: Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op 35
#1, "Hemmung"
BBC Singers/Pierre Boulez
Das Chorwerk
4:00 am
Darius Milhaud: "Deux esquisses (Two Sketches)," Op. 227b
Athena Ensemble
Darius Milhaud: Music for Wind Instruments
4:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 86 in D
Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
The Paris Symphonies (Nos 82-87)
4:37 am
Louis Durey: "Trois poèmes de Pétrone," Op 15
#1, "La Boule de Neige"
François Le Roux, br; Graham Johnson, p
Songs By Louis Durey
4:38 am
Darius Milhaud: "Suite française," Op. 248
London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc
4:55 am
Claude Debussy: "Études," Bk 1
#6, "Pour les huit doigts"
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p
Images / Études
5:00 am
Thomas Arne: Overture #3 in G
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Arne: Eight Overtures * The A A M/Christopher Hogwood
5:05 am
Frederick Delius: Violin Sonata #1 (1914)
Ralph Holmes, v; Eric Fenby, p
The Delius Collection, Vol. 4
5:26 am
John Dowland: "M Bucton his Galiard"
Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley
Dowland: The Collected Works
5:27 am
Hector Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture, Op.9
Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Roman Carnival Overture
5:36 am
Daniel-François Auber: "Manon Lescaut"
Overture
Radio France Phil/Jean-Pierre Marty
5:44 am
Jules Massenet: Manon Ballet
Act 3, scene 3
Royal Opera House Orch/Richard Bonynge
Manon - Ballet
5:54 am
Giacomo Puccini: "Manon Lescaut" (1893)
Aria, "Tra voi belle, bruna e bionde"
Luciano Pavarotti, t; Royal Phil/Leone Magiera
Pavarotti Plus
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.
6:04 am
Henry Purcell: "Purcell Suite"
Canadian Brass
High, Light, Bright, and Clear: The Glory of Baroque Brass
6:15 am
Robert Fuchs: String Serenade in E minor, Op. 21, No. 3
Allegretto
RIAS Sinfonietta/Jiří Stárek
Serenades from Austria
6:22 am
Alexander Reinagle: "Miscellaneous Overture" in D
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois
The 18th Century American Overture * Hewitt * Carr * Reinagle * Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä
6:32 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622
III. Finale, Rondo, "Allegro"
Charles Neidich, basset cl; Orpheus Chamber Orch
The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours
6:42 am
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 in G, Op. 77
I. "Allegro con fuoco"
Calidore String Quartet; Xavier Foley, db
2023 Winter Chamber Music Festival: Calidore String Quartet with Xavier Foley (January 6, 2023)
6:54 am
Edward Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 2 in A minor, Op. 39, No. 2
London Phil Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Pomp & Circumstance Marches, Cockaigne Overture
7:04 am
Jean Françaix: Divertissement for Bassoon and Strings (1968)
Gaudier Ensemble
Françaix: A Huit, Divertissement, Clarinet Quintet
7:15 am
Germaine Tailleferre: "Suite burlesque"
Mark Clinton & Nicole Narboni, p
Germaine Tailleferre: Music for 2 Pianos & Piano 4 Hands / Mark Clinton / Nicole Narboni
7:22 am
Francis Poulenc: Brass Sonata
Nash Ensemble
Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music
7:32 am
John Williams: "Star Wars: A New Hope"
Main Title
Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra
7:40 am
Franz Waxman: "Hollywood Suite"
St Clair Trio; Lenore Sjoberg, v; James Van Valkenburg, vi; Steven Molina, db
Franz Waxman - Old Acquaintances
7:57 am
Thomas Newman: "The Thursday Murder Club"
"The Thursday Murder Club"
Studio Orch/Ben Parry
The Thursday Murder Club (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)
8:03 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B-Flat, Op. 11
I. "Allegro con brio"
Isaac Stern, v; Leonard Rose, vc; Eugene Istomin, p
Beethoven Piano Trios
8:14 am
Jean-Baptiste Arban: Variations on a Theme from Bellini's "Norma"
Alison Balsom, tr; Gothenburg Sym/Edward Gardner
Caprice: Trumpet Transcriptions
8:22 am
Eric Ewazen: Oboe Concerto, "Down a River of Time"
III. "...and memories of tomorrow"
Linda Strommen, ob; Sejong Soloists
Sejong Plays Ewazen
8:31 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Concerto polonois" in G
Holland Baroque
Telemann: Polonoise
8:41 am
Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise No. 3 in A, Op. 40, No. 1, "Military"
Maurizio Pollini, p
Chopin: Polonaises - Maurizio Pollini
8:47 am
Johan Svendsen: "Fest-Polonaise," Op 12
Trondheim Sym Orch/Ole Kristian Ruud
Johan Svendsen: Zorahayda; Karneval i Paris, Norsk kunstnerkarneval, Romeo og Jule
9:04 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
Dvořák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
9:23 am
Bedřich Smetana: "Blaník"
Milwaukee Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal
Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast
9:37 am
Alexander Scriabin: Waltz in F minor, Op. 1
Timofei Dokshizer, tr; pianist
Timofei Dokshizer - Russian Miniatures
9:44 am
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Flat, Op. 10
Evgeny Kissin, p; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in B-Flat, Op. 6, No. 7
Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze
Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
10:15 am
Henriette Renié: Cello Sonata
Victor Julien-Laferrière, vc; Théo Fouchenneret, p
Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
10:38 am
Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Rossini: Overtures
10:46 am
Nicola Matteis: "Ballo dei Bagatellieri"
Il Pomo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev
Facce d'Amore
10:54 am
Jean Sibelius: "Andante festivo"
Gothenburg Sym Orch Strings/Neeme Järvi
Nightmoods: Twilight Hour
11:00 am
Katsutoshi Nagasawa: "Hoshun (Ode to Spring)"
Susan Hoeppner, f; Rachel Gauk, g
Toward The Sea
11:10 am
Antonín Dvořák: String Serenade in E, Op. 22
Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Gerard Schwarz
Dvorak: Serenade Op. 22, Notturno Op. 40, Waldesruhe
11:40 am
Teresa Carreño: "Revue à Prague," Op 27
Clara Rodríguez, p
Teresa Carreño * Obras para piano * Piano Works
11:46 am
Emile Waldteufel: "Estudiantina" Waltzes, Op. 191
Gulbenkian Orch/Michel Swierczewski
Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz
11:53 am
Claudio Monteverdi: "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)
"Nisi dominus"
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
12:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Four-Hand Piano Sonata in D, K. 381
Gallwas Twins
Introductions: Gallwas Twins, 17, piano duet (November 23, 2024)
12:12 pm
Carl Maria von Weber: "Euryanthe"
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Weber: Overtures
12:22 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor, Op. 33
Chineke! Orch/Kalena Bovell
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
12:35 pm
Jean Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite, Op. 11
Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3, Finlandia, Karelia Suite, Swan of Tuonela
12:52 pm
Lawrence Ashmore: "Four Seasons" (Suite of English Folk Songs)
I. Spring
Richard Stoltzman, cl; Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter
Finzi: Bagatelles, Op. 23 & Clarinet Concerto in C-Minor, Op. 31 & Ashmore: Four Seasons
1:00 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"
The Kanneh-Masons
Carnival
1:24 pm
Alexandre Desplat: "Girl with the Pearl Earring"
Emmanuel Pahud, f; French National Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Airlines
1:32 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: Divertimento in A
Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
Telemann: String Concertos
1:44 pm
Antonio de Salazar: "Salve Regina"
Chanticleer
Then and There, Here and Now
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Claude Debussy, who once said he learned more from poets and painters than from the music conservatory, is considered the figurehead of Impressionist music (though he would vehemently argue against it). This week, Bill reflects on Debussy's peculiar upbringing, his studies at the Paris Conservatory, and his Prix de Rome win.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Live from WFMT
The Audire Quartet returns to the Levin Studio with a program that includes the String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3, by Beethoven, and the String Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden” by Schubert. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The WFMT Orchestra Series
San Francisco Symphony
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23; Conrad Tao, piano; Adès Three-Piece Suite from "Powder Her Face;" Elgar "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36; Nicholas Collon, conductor.
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