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      Playlist for Thursday, January 29, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Karol Szymanowski: "King Roger"

      Roxana's Song

      Renaud Capuçon, v; Jérôme Ducros, p
      Capriccio

      Virgin Classics 374087-2

      12:05 am

      Stanislaw Moniuszko: "Hrabina (The Countess)"

      Overture

      Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit
      Moniuszko Overtures

      Naxos 8.572716

      12:14 am

      Grazyna Bacewicz: "Oberek" No. 1

      Itamar Zorman, v; Ieva Jokubaviciute, p
      Dora Pejacevic

      First Hand Records FHR-119

      12:16 am

      Robert Schumann: "Kreisleriana," Op. 16

      Bruce Levingston, p
      Heart Shadow * Bruce Levingston, Piano

      Sono Luminus DSL-92137

      12:54 am

      Dmitri Kabalevsky: "The Comedians," Op 26

      "Galop"

      Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy
      Russian Sailor's Dance and Other Dazzling Dances

      Sony SFK-47282

      1:00 am

      Gareth Farr: "Wakatipu"

      Itamar Zorman, v
      Dora Pejacevic

      First Hand Records FHR-119

      1:05 am

      Douglas Lilburn: Tone Poem, "A Song of Islands" (1946)

      New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd
      Lilburn Orchestral Works

      Naxos 8.557697

      1:21 am

      Joseph Achron: "Children's Suite," Op. 57

      No. 4, "Mamma, Tell a Fairy Tale"

      Itamar Zorman, v; Kwan Yi, p
      Dora Pejacevic

      First Hand Records FHR-119

      1:23 am

      Edward Elgar: "Dream Children," Op 43

      English Chamber Orch/Paul Goodwin
      Elgar, Nursery Suite, Serenade, Dream Children, and Other Works

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907258

      1:30 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183

      CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi
      Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Symphonies Nos. 25 & 41

      Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5150

      1:54 am

      Joseph Achron: "Children's Suite," Op. 57

      No. 20, "Parade with Presents"

      Itamar Zorman, v; Kwan Yi, p
      Dora Pejacevic

      First Hand Records FHR-119

      2:00 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 1

      "Evocación"

      Julian Bream, John Williams, g's
      Together Again

      RCA 61452-2

      2:05 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 2

      "Rondeña"

      Cincinnati Sym/Jesus Lopez-Cobos
      Albéniz: Iberia - Complete

      Telarc 2CD-80470 (2)

      2:13 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 3

      "El Albaicín"

      Timo Korhonen, g, Tampere Phil/Tuomas Ollila
      Brouwer: Guitar Concerto No. 5 & Guitar Transcriptions

      Ondine ODE-979-2

      2:20 am

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      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 - 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.

      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

      American Masters, Part VI

      This week, we explore 20th-century American music under the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. Alongside celebrated figures such as Copland, Gershwin, and Schoenberg, we will weave in beautiful and intriguing music from Peter Menin, Augustus Hailstork, Joan Tower, Charlie Parker, and yes, Fats Domino. We conclude with an elegiac symphonic work by George Walker, the first African American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Brahms "A German Requiem;" Ying Fang, soprano; Matthias Goerne, baritone; Concert Chorale of NY; Jaap van Zweden, conductor.