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      Playlist for Friday, October 9, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Debussy, Claude: "Rêverie"

      Brodsky Quartet
      Premier Quatuor/Deux Danses/Premier Trio/Reverie

      Chandos CHAN-10717

      12:05 am

      Glazunov, Alexander: Two Pieces for Orchestra, Op 14

      USSR Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
      Anthology of Russian Symphony Music, Vol. 18

      Melodiya SUCD-1000028

      12:26 am

      Heller, Stephen: 24 Preludes, Op 81

      #13, "Rêverie"

      Jean Martin, p
      HELLER : Preludes Opp. 81 and 150

      Marco Polo 8.223434

      12:28 am

      Smyth, Ethel: Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 5

      Molly Gebrian, vi; Danny Holt, p
      Trailblazers

      Acis APL-54162

      12:48 am

      Smyth, Ethel: "The Wreckers"

      Act II Prelude, "On the cliffs of Cornwall"

      Lontano Ensemble/Odaline de la Martinez
      Ethel Smyth * The Boatswain's Mate

      Retrospect Opera RO-001

      12:55 am

      Rutter, John: "God be in my head"

      Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
      Gloria: The Sacred Music Of John Rutter

      Collegium COLCD-100

      1:00 am

      Poulenc, Francis: "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1918)

      Richard Stoltzman, cl; Nancy Allen, h
      Debussy, Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Satie: Romance

      RCA 60198-2-RC

      1:05 am

      Brahms, Johannes: Clarinet Sonata #1 in f, Op 120/1

      Richard Stoltzman, cl; Richard Goode, p
      The Sonatas For Clarinet And Piano, Op. 120

      RCA 60036-2-RG

      1:29 am

      Brahms, Johannes: "Neue Liebeslieder" Waltzes, Op 65

      #13, "Nein, Geliebter, setze dich"

      Bonney, s; von Otter, ms; Deutsch, p; Forsberg
      Helmut Deutsch, piano,

      EMI/Ang CDC5-55430-2

      1:31 am

      Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: "Ascanio in Alba," K. 111

      Overture

      Concerto Armonico/Jacques Grimbert
      MOZART, W.A.: Ascanio in Alba

      Naxos 8.660040-1 (2)

      1:34 am

      Myslivecek, Josef: Cello Concerto in C

      Wendy Warner, vc; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
      Haydn & Myslivecek Cello Concertos

      Cedille CDR-90000142

      1:55 am

      Popper, David: Etudes, Op 73

      #2 in G

      Janos Starker, vc
      The Road To Cello Playing

      Parnassus PACD-97-008

      2:00 am

      Yiquang, Sun: "Dance of Spring"

      Lang Lang, p
      Lang Lang * Dragon Songs

      DG B0008233-00

      2:05 am

      Sheng, Bright: "Shanghai Overture"

      San Diego Sym/Jahja Ling
      Bright Sheng: Never Far Away

      Telarc CD-80719

      2:13 am

      Trad, Chinese: "Jasmine Flower"

      Shanghai String Quartet
      The Flowing Stream: Chinese Folk Songs And Tone Poems By Zhou Long

      Delos DE-3233

      2:15 am

      Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 39

      Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä
      Sibelius: The Symphonies

      Decca 4852256

      2:55 am

      Scriabin, Alexander: Preludes, Op 15

      #4 in E

      Piers Lane, p

      Hyperion CDA-67057/8 (2)

      3:00 am

      Widor, Charles Marie: Organ Symphony #5 in F, Op 42/1

      Finale, "Toccata"

      Michael Murray, o
      The Complete Wedding Album: There is Love

      Telarc 2CD-80490

      3:05 am

      Delius, Frederick: Violin Sonata #1

      Royal Liverpool Phil/Sir Charles Groves
      Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82, Violin Concerto in B Minor Op. 61

      EMI CDM7-63171-2

      3:17 am

      Mendelssohn, Felix: Choral Songs, "Im Grünen," Op 59

      No. 4, "Die Nachtigall"

      National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensembl
      Four Centuries of Vocal Music

      Koch 3-7038-2

      3:18 am

      Handel, George Frideric: Organ Concerto No. 13 in F, "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"

      Nicholas Parle, o; London Baroque/Charles Medlam
      N/A

      EMI/Ang CDC7-49799-2

      3:31 am

      Handel, George Frideric: "Solomon"

      Nightingale Chorus, "May no rash intruder"

      Gabrieli Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh

      DG Archiv 459688-2 (3)

      3:36 am

      Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5, "Lark"

      Hagen String Quartet
      Three String Quartets

      DG 423622-2

      3:54 am

      Schubert, Franz: Song, "An die Nachtigall," D 196

      Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
      Schubert: Lieder

      DG 437215-2 (9)

      4:00 am

      Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai: "Le coq d'or" (1906-7)

      "Hymn to the Sun"

      Kennedy, v; John Lenehan, p

      EMI/Ang CDC5-56626-2

      4:04 am

      Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai: "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh" (1903-5)

      Introduction, "Hymn to Nature"

      Bolshoi Theatre Orch/Andrey Chistiakov

      Chant du Monde LDC-288053

      4:09 am

      Glazunov, Alexander: "To the Memory of a Hero", Op 8

      USSR Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
      From the Middle Ages, Elegie "To the Memory of a Hero", Slavonic Festival, Wedding Procession

      Melodiya SUCD-1000157

      4:25 am

      Liadov, Anatol: "Fanfares for the Jubilee of Rimsky-Korsakov"

      Metropolitan Brass Quintet
      Brass Bonanza - Gabrieli, Speer, Arnold, Hovhaness, Et Al

      Crystal CD-200

      4:26 am

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

      English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate

      EMI/Ang CDC7-49998-2

      4:54 am

      Locke, Matthew: "Music for His Majesty's Sackbuts and Cornetts"

      "Air"

      Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
      Music for the Kings and Queens of England

      Chandos CHAN-6560

      5:00 am

      Chopin, Frédéric: "Études," Op. 25

      No. 5

      Earl Wild, p
      Chopin: The Complete Etudes

      Chesky CD-77

      5:05 am

      Piston, Walter: Capriccio for Harp and Strings

      Therese Elder Wunrow, h; Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
      Piston: Symphony No. 4, Capriccio For Harp And String Orchestra, Serenata For Orchestra, Three New England Sketches

      Delos DE-3106

      5:15 am

      Levant, Oscar: "Caprice" (1940)

      Concordia Orch/Marin Alsop

      EMI/Ang CDC7-54851-2

      5:23 am

      Gershwin, George: Three Preludes (1926)

      #1, "Allegro ben ritmato e deciso"

      Vista Trio

      Vision Records 95022

      5:25 am

      Schumann, Robert: Piano Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 47

      A Rabinovitch, p; D Schwarzberg, v; N Imai, vi; N Gutman, vc
      Nobuko Imai, viola,

      EMI/Ang ZDCB5-55484-2 (2)

      5:54 am

      Galuppi, Baldassare: Magnificat in G

      "Sicut erat in principio"

      Soloists; Bern Chamber Cho, Southwest German Chamber Orch/Dähler
      Musiche Veneziane

      Claves CD-50-801

      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.

      6:03 am

      Nicola Matteis: Suite in D minor

      Arcadian Academy/Nicholas McGegan
      Matteis: Ayres for the Violin

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907067

      6:12 am

      Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

      II. "Allegretto"

      London Sym Orch/André Previn
      Prokofiev: Symphonies 5 & 7

      EMI CDM5-65181-2

      6:21 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10

      Nos. 1-4

      Maurizio Pollini, p
      Chopin: Etudes / Maurizio Pollini

      DG 413794-2

      6:31 am

      Antonio Casimir Cartellieri: Two-Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat

      III. Rondo. Allegro

      Dieter Klocker & Sandra Arnold, cl's, Czech Phil Chamber Orch
      Cartellieri: Clarinet Concerto's, Vol. 2

      MD+G 3010960-2

      6:40 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on "See the Conquering Hero Comes," WoO 45

      David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p
      Beethoven - Complete Works for Piano & Cello

      ArtistLed 19801-2 (2)

      6:53 am

      Emilie Mayer: Symphony No. 4 in B minor

      IV. Finale, "Presto"

      NDR Radio Phil/Jan Willem de Vriend
      Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6

      CPO 555615-2

      7:04 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66

      "Bluebird" pas de deux

      Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fée & Tchaikovsky: 'Bluebird' Pas de deux

      Chandos CHAN-8360

      7:10 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat, K. 493

      Finale, "Allegretto"

      Melos Quartet members; Georg Solti, p
      Mozart Piano Quartets

      Decca 417190-2

      7:21 am

      Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op..25

      IV. Finale, "Rondo alla zingarese"

      Houston Sym/Christoph Eschenbach
      Bach, Brahms - Schoenberg Orchestrations

      RCA 68658-2

      7:32 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Suite algérienne," Op. 60

      "Marche militaire française"

      Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray
      Marches and Overtures à la Française

      Mercury 434332-2

      7:37 am

      Ole Olsen: Little Suite for piano and string orchestra

      Jorunn Marie Bratlie, p, Norwegian Radio Orch/Christian Eggen
      Olsen: Little Suite for Piano and String Orchestra and Piano Works by 7 Women Composers

      Norsk NKFCD-50024-2

      7:51 am

      Florence Price: "In the Land o' Cotton"

      Kirsten Johnson, p
      Florence Price: Piano Music

      Guild GM2CD-7828

      8:04 am

      Johann Joachim Quantz: Two-Flute Concerto in G

      Jed Wentz & Marion Moonen, f's; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
      Concerti "per l'orchestra di Dresda"

      Archiv 447644-2

      8:17 am

      Dora Pejačević: Piano Trio in C, Op. 29

      II. Scherzo

      Neave Trio
      In Her Hands

      Chandos CHAN-20368

      8:24 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "African Suite," Op. 35

      IV. "Danse nègre"

      London Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
      Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 2

      Sony 19075862152 (10)

      8:31 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C

      III. Finale, "Allegro molto"

      Wendy Warner, vc; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
      Haydn & Mysliveček: Cello Concertos

      Cedille CDR-90000142

      8:38 am

      William Walton: "Spitfire" Prelude and Fugue

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Sir William Walton's Film Music, Vol. 2

      Chandos CHAN-8870

      8:48 am

      James Stephenson: "Spitfire"

      Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tr; Kassia Ensemble
      Rêverie

      Summit DCD-743

      8:54 am

      Modest Mussorgsky: Reverie

      Christopher Glynn, p
      Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music

      Avie AV-2457

      9:04 am

      Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta (1947)

      San Diego Chamber Orch/Donald Barra
      Jacques Ibert: Divertissement, Concertino; Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta

      Koch 3-7094-2

      9:34 am

      music continues...

      10:00 am - 3:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      3:00 - 7:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "Friday Afternoon at the Movies" at 4:30pm and "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music

      Les Cinq Plus

      This week’s theme: French composers from the generation before Les Six, that we are fondly calling Les Cinq Plus. Like Les Six, our composers did not have a great deal in common, and the way they have been grouped is a historical accident. Unlike Les Six, Les Cinq Plus grew up listening to the art songs of the 1800s, and each in their way carried this romantic torch forward: Chabrier, Massenet, Duparc, Chausson, Dukas, and perhaps Satie as “L’Autre.”

      8:00 - 11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Best of Studs Terkel

      John Prine and Steve Goodman

      Part one of this episode features music and conversation from the first of many times that the influential singer-songwriter John Prine (1946–2020) was Studs's guest. Born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois, WFMT remembers him on the eve of what would have been his 80th birthday. The second half of this program includes a portion of a 1976 interview with one of John Prine's good friends: the songwriter, performer, and incandescent guitarist, Steve Goodman (1948–1984).