Tuesday, February 17, 2026

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      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: Fourteen Songs, Op. 34

      No. 14, "Vocalise"

      Renée Fleming, s; English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
      Renée Fleming: The Beautiful Voice

      London 458858-2

      12:05 am

      Conni Ellisor: "Blackberry Winter"

      Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill
      Nashville Chamber Orchestra * Conversations in Silence

      Warner Classics 46739-2

      12:22 am

      Anon 16th c, English: "My Lady Carey's Dompe"

      Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer; Brian Kay, theorbo
      Play, Music! Songs from Shakespeare's Plays

      Avie AV-2787

      12:26 am

      Thomas Morley: Song, "O Mistress Mine"

      Mark Cudek, cittern;Ronn McFarlane, l;Grabelle, treble viol
      Play, Music! Songs from Shakespeare's Plays

      Avie AV-2787

      12:27 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in f-sharp minor, Op. 1

      Simon Trpceski, p; Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko
      Rachmaninov * Piano Concertos 1 & 4 * Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

      Avie AV-2191

      12:54 am

      Alexander Scriabin: Two Pieces, Op 59

      #2, "Prelude"

      Piers Lane, p

      Hyperion CDA-67057/8 (2)

      1:00 am

      Antonin Dvorak: "Saint Ludmila," Op. 71

      Chorus, "Blossoms with which spring allures"

      Czech Phil Cho; Prague Sym/Vaclav Smetacek
      St. Ludmila

      Supraphon 50585 (2)

      1:05 am

      Johann (Jan)(Jiri) Benda: Harpsichord Concerto in D

      Josef Hala, hc; Ars Rediviva Ensemble
      Benda: Harpsichord Concertos

      Supraphon 111001-2

      1:20 am

      Viteslava Kapralova: "April Preludes," Op 13

      No. 4

      Antonio Oyarzábal, p
      Things Lived and Dreamt

      IBS Classical IBS-52021

      1:22 am

      Antonin Dvorák: String Quintet No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "American"

      Takács Quartet; Lawrence Power, vi
      Dvorak: String Quartet Op 105, String Quintet Op 97

      Hyperion CDA-68142

      1:55 am

      Charles Ives: Song, "I Travelled among Unknown Men"

      William Sharp, br; Steven Blier, p
      The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2

      Albany TROY-078

      2:00 am

      Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in E, Kk 216 (L 273)

      Scott Ross, hc
      Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works

      Erato 45309-2 (34)

      2:05 am

      Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in D, Kk 29

      Igor Kamenz, p

      Naive V-5399

      2:09 am

      Georg Philipp Telemann: "Don Quichotte" Suite

      "Sancho Panza Swindled"

      Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
      Bach's Coffeehouse

      Avie AV-2520

      2:11 am

      Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote," Op. 35

      Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Strauss, R: Don Quixote

      Chandos CHAN-8631

      2:55 am

      Richard Strauss: Six Songs, Op. 17

      #1, "Seitdem dein Aug' in meines schaute"

      Martin Mitterrutzner, b; Wolfram Rieger, p
      Strauss: Complete Songs

      Two Pianists TP-1039312 (9)

      3:00 am

      Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: Romance

      Paul Barritt, v; James Lisney, p
      Chanson D'amour

      BIS CD-1245

      3:05 am

      George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture"

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/John Farrer

      IMP Masters MCD-75

      3:26 am

      George Gershwin: George Gershwin's Song Book (1932)

      "Embraceable You"

      New York Phil/Zubin Mehta
      Music From The Woody Allen Film 'Manhattan'

      CBS MK-36020

      3:28 am

      Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op 12/2

      Malcolm Binns, forte-p

      L'Oiseau Lyre DSLO-540

      3:38 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D, K. 576

      Jean-Bernard Pommier, p

      Virgin 91095-2

      3:54 am

      John Bull: "Corranto Battle"

      Burning River Brass
      Of Knights And Castles

      Dorian XCD-90277

      4:00 am

      Witold Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini

      Anthony, Joseph Paratore, p's

      Koch CD-310088

      4:05 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Two-Piano Concerto No. 1 in E

      Anthony, Joseph Paratore, p's; Berlin RIAS Sym Orch/Uros Lajovic
      Mendelssohn: 2 Concertos For 2 Pianos & Orchestra

      CBS MK-42523

      4:33 am

      Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39

      #2 in E

      Anthony Paratore, p; Joseph Paratore, p
      Classic Romance - Piano Music

      Four Winds FW-3005

      4:35 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Tzigane"

      Lara St John, v

      Well-Tempered Productions WTP-5185

      4:45 am

      Pablo de Sarasate: "Zigeunerweisen," Op 20

      Joshua Bell, v; Royal Phil/Andrew Litton

      London 433519-2

      4:54 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Zigeunerlieder," Op 103

      #7, "Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn"

      RIAS Chamber Cho/Marcus Creed
      Brahms: Zigeunerlieder, Quartette

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901593

      5:00 am

      Max Reger: "Lyrisches Andante"

      Neuss German Chamber Academy/Johannes Goritzki
      Schoeck: Concerto for Cello and Strings

      Claves D-8502

      5:04 am

      Max Reger: Clarinet Sonata #1 in A-flat, Op 49/1

      Ron Chen-Zion, cl; Roglit Ishay, p
      Reger: Complete Works For Clarinet & Piano

      Kontrapunkt 32190

      5:24 am

      Franz Lehár: "Die lustige Witwe" (The Merry Widow)

      "Vilja-Lied"

      Richard Stoltzman, cl; Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen
      Aria

      RCA 68817-2

      5:30 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Canonic Adagio in F, K. 410

      Chicago Sym Winds

      CBS M2K-42144 (2)

      5:32 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201

      Lithuanian Chamber Orch/Saulus Sondeckis

      MCA Classics MLD-32110

      5:54 am

      English ANON 16th c: Tandernaken

      Karl-Ernst Schroder, l, Crawford Young, l
      Amours Amours Amours (Lautenduos Um 1500/ Duos De Luths Autour 1500/ Lute Duos Around 1500)

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-905253

      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

      Traditional Chinese: "Gong Xi Fa Cai (Happy New Year)"

      Brandon Cheng, vc
      Introductions: An Introductions Christmas (December 25, 2021)

      WFMT

      6:05 am

      Ren Guang: "Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon"

      Yundi Li, p
      Yundi: The Red Piano

      EMI 88658-2

      6:08 am

      Traditional Chinese: "Moon Reflection at Second Stream"

      Pacific Harmony String Quartet
      Melodies of the Far East

      Pacific Harmony 2000

      6:16 am

      Frédéric Chopin: "Grand Fantasy on Polish Airs," Op. 13

      Emanuel Ax, p; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras
      Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Grand Fantasia, Grande polonaise

      Sony SK-63371

      6:32 am

      Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Symphony No. 1, "A Night in the Tropics"

      II. Finale, "Festa Criolla"

      Hot Springs Music Festival Sym Orch/Richard Rosenberg
      Festival! Music selected by WFMT

      WFMT (Spring 2025 Festival)

      6:40 am

      Antonín Dvořák: "Carnival" Overture, Op. 92

      Czech Phil/Václav Neumann
      Dvořák: Cello Concerto, Carnival Overture, Polonaise

      Philips 422387-2

      6:50 am

      Jean Françaix: "Le gay Paris"

      Prague Wind Quintet
      Françaix: Le gay Paris; Wind Quintets; L'heure du berger

      Praga PRD-250126

      7:04 am

      Gordon Jacob: Five Pieces for Harmonica and Strings

      Tommy Reilly, harmonica; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Vaughan Williams, Moody, Jacob: Classical Music for Harmonica

      Chandos CHAN-8617

      7:19 am

      Stella Sung: "Dance of the White Lotus Under the Silver Moon"

      Susan Glaser, f; Emily Mitchell, h
      Under The Silver Moon

      Koch 3-7497-2

      7:32 am

      Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in B-Flat, Op. 6, No. 11

      Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi
      Opus 111 - 1996 - Autumn Releases

      Opus 111 OPS-30155

      7:41 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A-Flat, Op. 53, "Heroic"

      Jon Nakamatsu, p
      Fantasy on Polish Airs Op. 13, Four Impromptus Op. 29 36 51 66, Three Mazurkas Op. 59, Three Polonaises Op. 26 40 53, Berceuse Op. 57

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907244

      7:49 am

      Traditional Mongolian: "Love Story and Riding Horse"

      Xiaohui Ma, erhu
      Impromptu: Xiaohui Ma (August 13, 2010)

      WFMT

      7:53 am

      Jia-Hui Huang: "Galloping Horses"

      DaXun Zhang, db; Tomoko Kashiwagi, p
      Impromptu: DaXun Zhang & Tomoko Kashiwagi (December 1, 2006)

      WFMT

      7:55 am

      Kayhan Kalhor: "Gallop of a Thousand Horses"

      Silk Road Ensemble/Yo-Yo Ma, vc
      Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon

      Sony SK-93962

      8:05 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042

      Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze, v
      Bach: Solo and Double Violin Concertos

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907155

      8:21 am

      Paul Simon feat Rev. Claude Jeter: "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"

      Paul Simon feat Rev. Claude Jeter
      There Goes Rhymin' Simon

      Columbia CK 32280

      8:25 am

      Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No. 1, "At the Octoroon Balls"

      VII. Finale, "Rampart St. Row House Rag"

      Orion String Quartet
      Marsalis: At The Octoroon Balls; A Fidler's Tale Suite

      Sony SK-60979

      8:32 am

      Charles Wakefield Cadman: "Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras"

      Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard
      Dances for Piano and Orchestra

      Reference RR-134

      8:44 am

      Wang Yiping: "Pixiu Dance (Lion Dance)"

      Gunma Sym Orch/Lim Kek-Tjiang
      Popular Chinese Orchestral Music - The Yellow River Concerto

      Marco Polo 8.225805

      8:52 am

      Astor Piazzolla: "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"

      "Invierno Porteño (Winter)"

      Pays de la Loire National Orch/Karen Gomyo, v
      A Piazzolla Trilogy

      BIS 2385

      9:04 am

      Igor Stravinsky: Two Suites for Small Orchestra

      Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez
      Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite, Pulcinella Suite, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 for Small Orchestra

      Sony SMK-45843

      9:16 am

      Edward Joseph Collins: Mardi Gras (1923)

      Concordia Orch/Marin Alsop
      Music Of Edward Collins: Vol. 2

      Albany TROY-267

      9:33 am

      Traditional Chinese: "Spring Flowers in the Moonlit Night on the River"

      Fan Wei, pipa; Lang Lang, p
      Dragon Songs

      DG B0008233-00

      9:41 am

      Ferde Grofé: "Mississippi Suite"

      "Mardi Gras"

      Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
      American Visions

      RCA 68786-2

      9:47 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Carnaval à la Nouvelle Orléans," Op. 275 (1947)

      Stephen Coombs & Artur Pizarro, p's
      Milhaud: Music For Two Pianists

      Hyperion CDA-67014

      9:57 am

      William Grant Still: "American Suite"

      II. "Danse"

      Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg
      William Grant Still: Summerland

      Naxos 8.559867

      10:00 am - 2:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am and "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      10:00 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049

      Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman
      Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4, 5, and 6

      Telarc CD-80354

      10:16 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Trio

      Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
      Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet

      Chandos CHAN-20242

      10:25 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "The Firebird"

      Suite (1919)

      Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi
      Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka, Scherzo à la Russe, Firebird: Suite

      Telarc CD-80587

      10:46 am

      Astor Piazzolla: "Histoire du Tango"

      III. "Nightclub 1960"

      Emmanuel Pahud, f; Manuel Barrueco, g
      Cantos y Danzas

      Warner 5565782

      10:52 am

      Georgs Pelēcis: "Flowering Jasmine"

      Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer, v
      De Profundis

      Nonesuch 287228-2

      11:01 am

      Francis Poulenc: "Napoli" Suite

      "Caprice italien"

      Antonio Pompa-Baldi, p
      11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907292

      11:07 am

      music continues...

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 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

      Johannes Brahms, Part I

      The first of a two-week biography exploring the music and life of a defining voice of the German Romantic Era. In his formative years as a pianist, Brahms befriends Robert and Clara Schumann, and with their support and later with the violinist Joseph Joachim, develops his musical voice. Topics includes Brahms’s struggles to publish symphonies on the heels of Beethoven and writing the German Requiem.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

      Schubert "Der Tod und das Mädchen (Death and the Maiden);" Nikolay Borchev, baritone; Wu Qian, piano; Bloch "Suite hébraïque;" Matthew Lipman, viola; Henry Kramer, piano; Prokofiev Sonata in C major, Op. 56; Arnaud Sussmann, Alexander Sitkovetsky, violins; Tchaikovsky "Souvenir d’un lieu cher," Op. 42; Alexander Stovetsky, violin; Wu Han, piano.

      11:00 pm