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      Playlist for Saturday, February 7, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "Wonderful Town"

      Overture

      Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Simon Rattle

      EMI/Ang CDC5-57691-2

      12:05 am

      Leonard Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata

      Richard Stoltzman, cl; London Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
      Copland: Clarinet Concerto/ Bernstein, Gershwin

      RCA 61790-2

      12:17 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"

      The Great Lover Displays Himself

      St Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin

      EMI/Ang CDM5-65654-2

      12:18 am

      Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat, Op 20

      Basel Sym Orch/Armin Jordan
      Ernest Chausson: Symphony Op. 20, Viviane Op. 5

      Erato ECD-88169

      12:55 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Cinq mélodies populaires grecques"

      No. 2, "Là-bas, vers l'église"

      Mischa Maisky, vc; Daria Hovora, p
      Après Un Rêve

      DG 457657-2

      1:00 am

      Paul Peuerl: Three Pieces

      Heritage of America Band Brass Quintet

      Us Air Force 0010

      1:05 am

      George Gershwin: Three Preludes (1926)

      Güher Pekinel, p; Süher Pekinel, p
      Bernstein: Symphonic Dances/ Bartok: THree Preludes/ Gershwin: Sonata

      Teldec 92143-2

      1:11 am

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

      Montreal Sym Orch

      London B0002156-02

      1:35 am

      Robert Russell Bennett: Five Studies in "Jitteroptera"

      #3, "Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes"

      Jascha Heifetz, v; Milton Kaye, p
      The Decca Masters, Vol. 2: Gershwin, Foster, Weill, Berlin

      MCA Classics MCAD-42212

      1:37 am

      Kurt Weill: "Lady in the Dark-Symphonic Nocturne"

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
      Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne

      Naxos 8.557481

      1:54 am

      Kurt Weill: "Lady in the Dark"

      "Tchaikovsky"

      Danny Kaye, vocals, w/cho & orch

      Music Club 233

      2:00 am

      Antonin Dvorák: "From the Bohemian Forest," Op 68

      #5, "Silent Woods (Klid)"

      Peter Bruns, vc; Dresden Staatskapelle/Michael Helmrath
      Bach: Transcriptions And Variations

      Hänssler Classic CD-98.478

      2:05 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata in e minor, BWV 1023

      Arthur Grumiaux, v; Christiane Jaccottet, hc; Philippe Mermoud,vc
      Bach: Complete Violin Sonatas

      Philips 454011-2 (2)

      2:18 am

      Max Reger: Chorale Preludes, Op 67

      #28, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen

      Graham Barber, o

      Hyperion CDA-66223

      2:19 am

      Ferde Grofé: "Grand Canyon Suite"

      Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel
      Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite / Victor Herbert: Hero and Leander

      Sony SK-52491

      2:55 am

      music continues...

      7:00 - 11:00 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.

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      The Hemingway Quartet

      Robbie Ellis welcomes The Hemingway Quartet from the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. They perform music by Haydn, Brahms, and Prokofiev.

      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      Metropolitan Opera

      Massenet's Werther

      Alfredo Kraus (Werther); Régine Crespin (Charlotte); Kathleen Battle (Sophie); Lenus Carlson (Albert); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Richard Bonynge. Sung in French. Recorded February 3, 1979. "Artist's Choice" by Lawrence Brownlee to spotlight Alfredo Kraus.

      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      Tenor Zachary Wilder returns to WFMT to share his new album "Brooklyn Suite," which weaves together Yiddish song, Romantic lied, opera arias, jazz, and Broadway musicals. Wilder makes his debut with Haymarket Opera Company in their upcoming season.

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Live from the Levin Performance Studio: St. Louis-based songwriter Walter Parks serves up songs with grit. His famed guitar playing is the main course with a side of swamp cabbage.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Music honoring authors on the anniversary of the 1812 birth of Charles Dickens.