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      Playlist for Wednesday, August 12, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Yukijiro Yoko: Variations on an old Japanese folk tune, "Sakura"

      Timothy Walker, g

      Helios CDH-88027

      12:05 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No. 14 in B-Flat, K. 270

      Orpheus Chamber Orch members
      Serenata Notturna K.239, Divertimenti K.251 & K.270

      DG 415669-2

      12:17 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Divertissement en trois parties," Op. 299b

      Athena Ens
      Darius Milhaud: Music for Wind Instruments

      Chandos CHAN-6536

      12:28 am

      Mario Pilati: Divertimento for Brass

      IV. "Fanfara"

      Brass Soloists of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra
      Pilati: Four Italian Folk Songs

      Naxos 8.574168

      12:30 am

      Jean Sibelius: "Swanwhite" Incidental Music, Op. 54

      Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Swanwhite Suite, Op.54 / Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op.51

      BIS CD-359

      12:55 am

      Orlando Gibbons: Madrigal, "The Silver Swan"

      La Caccina
      Becoming

      La Caccina

      1:00 am

      Tarquinio Merula: Canzon, "La Lusignuola"

      Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
      Virtuoso Recorder Music

      L'Oiseau Lyre 414277-2

      1:05 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in a, R 445

      Pamela Thorby, r; La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler
      Vivaldi: Gods, Emperors & Angels * La Serenissima

      Avie AV-2201

      1:15 am

      Tomaso Albinoni: Balletto a cinque #3

      "Gigha"

      Savaria Sym Orch/Pàl Németh

      Hungaroton HCD-32006

      1:17 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23

      Benjamin Grosvenor, p
      Chopin: Sonatas 2 & 3; Ballade No. 1; Berceuse; Nocturnes

      London 4870958

      1:26 am

      Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphony No. 3

      BBC Sym Orch/Sakari Oramo

      Chandos CHSA-5316

      1:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Bk 1, BWV 846/69

      Prelude No. 19 in A

      Léon Berben, hc
      Bach Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      2:00 am

      Francoeur: "Zélindor, Roi des Sylphes"

      "Menuets" I & II

      Opera Lafayette/Ryan Brown
      Zelindor, Roi des Sylphes

      Naxos 8.660224

      2:05 am

      Emmanuel Chabrier: "Menuet pompeux"

      Lyon National Orch/Emmanuel Krivine
      Maurice Ravel Orchestrations

      Denon CO-78929

      2:11 am

      Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

      Alicia de Larrocha, p; St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
      Piano Concertos / Valses nobles et sentimentales / Sonatine

      RCA 60985-2

      2:33 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Les Soirées de Pétrograde," Op. 55 (1919)

      No. 12, "Le Colonel Romanoff"

      Györgyi Dombradi, ms; Lambert Bumiller, p
      Milhaud: Mélodies

      CPO 999408-2

      2:34 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Hamlet," Op. 67

      Oregon Sym Orch/James DePreist
      Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Etc

      Delos D/CD-3081

      2:54 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: "Hamlet" (Incidental Music, 1932), Op. 32

      "Cradle Song"

      Boston Sym Orch/Andris Nelsons
      Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow

      DG 479 5201 (2)

      3:00 am

      Frédéric Chopin: "Fantaisie-Impromptu" in c-sharp minor, Op.66

      Earl Wild, p
      EARL WILD AT 88!

      Ivory Classics 73005

      3:05 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Septet in E-Flat, Op. 65

      Sinfonia da Camera/Ian Hobson
      Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval Des Animaux, Septour, Allegro Appasionato and 6 Bagatelles

      Arabesque Z-6570

      3:21 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 - 1:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at 12:15 pm.

      12:15 pm

      Dame Myra Hess Concerts

      Violist Joseph Skerik and pianist Victor Santiago Asunción perform music by Dobrinka Tabakova, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Coleman Hawkins, and Samuel Barber, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

      1:00 - 3:00 pm

      1:00 pm

      Music for the Afternoon

      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

      Musical Dynasties

      This week’s topic, “Musical Dynasties,” was suggested by a station in Arizona. Andy Bade, Music Host for Classical 90.5 KUAT-FM in Tucson, wrote in with some program ideas. So, Musical Dynasties: Gabrieli, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Strauss: the Johanns and Richard, and ending with the Haydns: Joseph and Michael. Thanks so much for taking the time to write!

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Teresa Berganza

      Revel in the artistic legacy of Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza. While her unique vocal characteristics brought her accolades for her interpretations of Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, and in zarzuela, this program showcases her mastery of baroque and renaissance repertory.