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Playlist for Wednesday, May 13, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Imogen Holst: "On Westhall Hill"
BBC Concert Orchestra/Alice Farnham
Imogen Holst
12:05 am
Gustav Holst: "Walt Whitman" Overture, Op. 7
Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
HOLST, G.: Symphony, "The Cotswolds" / Walt Whitman, Overture / Indra / Japanese Suite / A Winter Idyll (Ulster Orchestra, Falletta)
12:12 am
Charles Villiers Stanford: "Songs of Faith," Op. 97
No. 6, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!"
Roderick Williams, br; Andrew West, p
Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense
12:14 am
Kern: "Mark Twain: Portrait for Orchestra"
Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart
American Visions
12:27 am
Richard Wetz: "Kleist" Overture, Op. 16
Rheinland-Pflaz Phil/Werner Andreas Albert
Richard Wetz
12:43 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen," Op.66
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Vasso Devetzi, p
12:54 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Six German Dances, K. 571
No. 1 in D
Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
1:00 am
Augustin Barrios Mangoré: "Vals de Primavera"
Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, g
Barrios Mangoré: Confesión * Alexander-Sergei Ramirez
1:05 am
Morton Gould: "Latin-American Symphonette"
Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
A Lincoln Portrait
1:26 am
Augustìn Barrios Mangoré: "Las Abejas"
Thibaut Garcia, g
El Bohemio
1:27 am
Joachim Raff: Piano Concerto in c, Op 185
Michael Ponti, p; Hamburg Sym Orch/Richard Kapp
1:55 am
Franz Liszt: "Responsories and Antiphons"
"Libera me, Domine, de morte"
Leslie Howard, p
Responsories and Antiphons
2:00 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Fantaisie-Impromptu" in c-sharp minor, Op.66
Maria-Joao Pires, p
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Fantasie Op. 49, Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66, Berceuse Op. 57
2:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 67 in F
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
2:30 am
Darius Milhaud: "Trois chansons de négresse", Op. 148b
No. 3, "Sans Feu ni Lieu"
Györgyi Dombradi, ms; Lambert Bumiller, p
Milhaud: Mélodies
2:31 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Suite algérienne," Op. 60
"Marche militaire française"
London Phil/Geoffrey Simon
2:36 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "African Suite," Op. 35
Rochelle Sennet, piano
Coleridge-Taylor
2:55 am
South African Trad: Njenge Bhadhi
Chicago Children's Cho/Josephine Lee
Chicago Children's Choir: Live From Vienna
3:00 am
Alexander Glazunov: Five Novelettes, Op 15
#2, Orientale
St Petersburg String Quartet
GLAZUNOV, A.: 5 Novelettes / String Quartet No. 5 (St. Petersburg String Quartet)
3:05 am
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 1 in D, D. 82
Berlin Phil/Daniel Barenboim
3:35 am
Franz Schubert: Six Ecossaisen, D 421
Michel Dalberto, p
3:37 am
Benjamin Britten: Prelude and Fugue for Eighteen Strings, Op. 29
Norwegian Chamber Orch/Iona Brown
Lachrymae, Frank Bridge Variations, Simple Symphony
3:46 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in c, K. 546
Griller String Quartet; William Primrose, vi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The String Quintets
3:54 am
GWE Friedrichs: Old Dog Tray March
Empire Brass
American Brass Band Journal: A Collection of New and Beautiful Marches, Quick-Steps, and Polkas Arranged in an Easy Mannor for Brass Bands of 12 Instruments
4:00 am
Gabriel Fauré: Romance in B-Flat, Op 28
Augustin Dumay, v; Jean-Philippe Collard, p
Faure: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
4:05 am
Maurice Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloé"
Suite No. 2
Hallé Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
4:21 am
Nicolle Des celliers de hesdi: Ung vray musicien
Ensemble Clement Janequin
Les Plaisirs du Palais: Chansons a boire de la Renaissance
4:23 am
Edward Elgar: "Concert Allegro," Op 46
Peter Pettinger, p
Elgar: Piano Works
4:33 am
Ferdinando Carulli: "Concerto-Allegro" for Guitar and Orchestra
Karl Scheit, g; Wiener Solisten/Wilfried Böttcher
4:42 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Allegro de Concert," Op. 46
Michael Ponti, p; Berlin Sym Orch/Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach
4:54 am
Paul Hindemith: Three Easy Pieces (1938)
#1
Anthony Cooke, vc; Armin Watkins, p
5:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Overture
Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel
Mozart: The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio
5:04 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen," Op.66
Joel Krosnick, vc; Gilbert Kalish, p
Cello Sonatas & Variations
5:15 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Aria, "Alles fühlt der Liebe freuden"
Helmut Wildhaber, t; Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Die Zauberflöte Highligts
5:16 am
Jean Sibelius: "Scènes historiques" Suite No. 1, Op. 25
Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
Sibelius: Scenes Historiques
5:35 am
Jean Sibelius: "Scenes historiques" Suite No. 2, Op. 66
Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham
5:53 am
Robert Schumann: "Album für die Jugend," Op. 68
No. 26
Leigh Howard Stevens, marimba
Marimba When...
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
Johann David Heinichen: Dresden Concerto in F, S 232
Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
Heinichen: Dresden Concerti
6:13 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E-flat, Op. 20
IV. "Tema con variazioni: Andante"
New Vienna Octet
Beethoven: Septet Op. 20 & Trio Op. 11 / New Vienna Octet
6:21 am
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op..25
II. Intermezzo, "Allegro ma non troppo"
Fort Worth Sym Orch/Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Lutosławski, Brahms-Schoenberg
6:31 am
Bach-Gounod: "Ave Maria"
Eaken Piano Trio
I'll Be Home for the Holidays
6:40 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D, "Clock"
II. "Andante"
London Phil Orch/Eugen Jochum
Haydn: The 12 'London' Symphonies
6:48 am
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C, D. 944, "Great"
IV. Finale, "Allegro vivace"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Hans Vonk
Schubert Symphony Nos. 3 and 9
7:04 am
William Alwyn: "Festival March"
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Symphony No. 4, Elizabethan Dances, Festival March
7:13 am
Jean Sibelius: "Scènes historiques" Suite No. 1, Op. 25
Finale, "Festivo"
Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
Sibelius: Scènes historiques I & II
7:21 am
Maurice Ravel: "L'Heure Espagnole"
I Salonisti
The Last Dance - Music For A Vanishing Era
7:31 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183
I. "Allegro con brio"
London Mozart Players/Jane Glover
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 25, 29 & 33 / London Mozart Players, Jane Glover
7:41 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Dardanus"
Suite: "Le Monstre sortant des flots; Gavotte; Chaconne"
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Suites from Platée and Dardanus
7:52 am
Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in A minor
I. Allegro
London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley
Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies
8:06 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Scherzo fantastique," Op. 3
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, Scherzo Fantastique, The Firebird Suite
8:19 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in D, R. 428, "The Goldfinch"
New Irish Chamber Orch/James Galway, f
James Galway plays Vivaldi* - 6 Concerti, Op. 10
8:29 am
Paul Pierné: "Suite pittoresque"
"Les oiseaux et le chat"
Aulos Wind Quintet
Aulos Bläserquintett - Jolivet, Pierné, Nielsen, Holst, Zemlinsky
8:31 am
Aaron Copland: "The Cat and the Mouse"
Isata Kanneh-Mason, p
Summertime
8:36 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op 49
IV. Finale, "Allegro assai appassionato"
Barcelona Trio
Mendelssohn: Trios for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 49 and 66
8:46 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
III. Finale, "Allegro vivacissimo"
Hilary Hahn, v; Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Vasily Petrenko
Higdon & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos
8:57 am
Alan Ridout: "Pigs (A Present for Gordon Jacob)"
Laurence Perkins, C McDermid, A Thompson, M Kitteringham, bn's
Matthew Kitteringham, bassoon,
Honey-Coloured Cow
9:03 am
Malcolm Arnold: Brass Quintet
Onyx Brass
Transatlantic
9:17 am
Ernst von Dohnányi: "Symphonic Minutes," Op. 36
West Australian Sym Orch/Jorge Mester
Dohnányi: Ruralia Hungaria, Symphonic Minutes, Suite in F-sharp minor
9:32 am
Amilcare Ponchielli: "Il Convegno"
Larry Combs & Eddie Daniels, cl's; Chicago String Quartet; Brad Opland, db
Crossing the Line
9:45 am
Augusta Holmès: "Irlande"
Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Samuel Friedmann
Augusta Holmès: Orchestral Works
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
10:00 am
Robert Schumann: "Papillons," Op. 2
András Schiff, p
Geistervariationen
10:16 am
Eric Coates: "Summer Days Suite"
BBC Phil/John Wilson
Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
10:28 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in F minor, Op. 2, "Gradus ad Parnassum"
I. "Allegro energico"
Chineke! Orch members
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
10:38 am
Zoltán Kodály: "Marosszék Dances"
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff
Divertimento, Romanian Folk-Dances, Marosszék Dances, Dances of Galánta
10:52 am
Claude Debussy: Two Arabesques
Paul Crossley, p
Debussy: Complete Works for Solo Piano
11:00 am
Johann Friedrich Fasch: Orchestra Suite (Overture) in G
Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht
Fasch: Ouvertures
11:22 am
George Frideric Handel: "Dixit Dominus"
Opening chorus, "Dixit Dominus"
La Nuova Musica/David Bates
Handel, Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus / Crowe, Bates, La Nuova Musica
11:37 am
music continues...
12:15 pm
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
Trio Eris (Violinist K. J. McDonald, cellist Annie SeEun Hyung, and pianist Andrew Jun Chen) perform music by Reena Esmail and Feliz Mendelssohn, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
This week, Bill looks at the life and musical development of one of Hungary’s greatest composers. A musician’s musician, Bartok was supported by many of the great conductors of his era. Paul Sacher, who led the Basel Chamber Orchestra, asked him to write the Divertimento for Strings. Serge Koussevitsky and Fritz Reiner invited him to compose the Concerto for Orchestra. At the end of the week, we’ll hear Benny Goodman perform "Contrasts" for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, a piece he requested from Bartok.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Accademia Bizantina
Harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone leads Accademia Bizantina in musical jewels by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. Featuring Marcello Gatti playing the traverso flute and Alessandro Tampieri playing violin and viola d’amore. Recorded live in concert February 7, 2026 at Aula Magna Università La Sapienza, Rome.
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