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Playlist for Saturday, December 13, 2025
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Czech Trad: Carol, "Good King Wenceslaus"
Empire Brass; Mark Kroll, hc
Joy To The World: Music Of Christmas
12:02 am
English Trad: Carol, "What Child is this? (Greensleeves)"
Empire Brass; Nancy Allen, h; Mark Kroll, hc
Joy To The World: Music Of Christmas
12:05 am
François Boieldieu: Harp Concerto in C (in Three Tempi)
Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Handel, Boieldieu, Mozart: Concertos for Harp
12:27 am
English Trad: Carol, "The First Nowell"
Yolanda Kondonassis, h
Dream Season: The Christmas Harp
12:29 am
Marcel Dupré: "Variations on a Noël," Op 20
Jeremy Filsell, o
Dupre Organ works, Vol 2
12:40 am
Georges Bizet: "Variations chromatiques de concert"
San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Bizet: Symphony in C; Jeux d’Enfants, etc.
12:54 am
A Busnois: Cent mille escus
New York Kammermusiker
Chamber Music (Renaissance) - PHILIDOR, P.D. / BUSNOYS, A. / LUZZASCHI, L. / MONTEVERDI, C. (A Renaissance Tour of Europe) (New York Kammermusiker)
1:00 am
Franz Liszt: "Transcendental Etudes" (1851)
No. 12, "Chasse-neige"
Jenö Jandó, p
Etudes D'Execution Transcendante
1:05 am
Edward Elgar: "Snow," Op. 26/2
Royal Liverpool Philharmonia & Cho/Charles Groves
Elgar
1:11 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Der Schneemann" (1908)
Prelude and Serenade
Linz Bruckner Orch/Caspar Richter
The Piano Concertos
1:15 am
Markus Fricker: Carol, "Liislig fallt de Schnee"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
1:17 am
George Frideric Handel: "Water Music"
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Water Musick
1:55 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Let us break their bonds asunder"
Mendelssohn Cho, Toronto Sym Orch/A Davis
Messiah
2:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
Sinfonia "(Pastoral Symphony)"
St Martin's Academy/Philip Ledger
2:05 am
German Trad: Christmas Medley
Rita Streich, s; RIAS Sym/Kurt Gaebel
The Christmas Album
2:13 am
Max Reger: Song, "Uns ist geboren ein Kindlein"
Peter Schreier, t; Norman Shetler, p
Weihnachtslieder
2:14 am
Max Reger: "Aus der Jugendzeit," Op. 17
No. 9, "Weihnachtstraum"
Jeffrey Biegel, p
A Steinway Christmas Album * Jeffrey Biegel
2:16 am
Max Reger: Piano Concerto in f, Op 114
Marc-André Hamelin, p; Berlin Radio Sym/Ilan Volkov
The Romantic Piano Concerto 53 * Reger: Piano Concerto in F Minor * Strauss: Burleske
2:53 am
Peter Cornelius: "Weihnachtslieder," Op 8
No. 6, "Christkind"
Irngard Seefried, s; Erik Werba, p
The Christmas Album
3:00 am
Claude Debussy: "Le roi Lear" incidental music
"Fanfare; Le sommeil de Lear"
French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon
3:04 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "King Lear" (Incidental Music, 1940), Op. 58a
Jester's Songs
Korean Broadcasting System Sym Orch/Vakhtang Jordania
Dmitri Shostakovich – Suites For Film And Stage
3:12 am
James Pierpont: "Jingle Bells"
Robert Decormier Singers/Robert DeCormier
A Victorian Christmas
3:16 am
James Pierpont: "Jingle Bells"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
3:17 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat, D 898 (Op. 99)
Beaux Arts Trio
The Piano Trios
3:54 am
Franz Schubert: "Die Winterreise," D 911
No. 2, "Die Wetterfahne"
Olaf Bär, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p
4:00 am
Michel Corrette: "Messe pour le tems de Noël"
"Kyrie"
Daniel Leininger, o
Chants des Noels
4:05 am
Michel Corrette: "Symphonie de Noel #6"
La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen
Corrette: Les Six Symphonies De Noel
4:12 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Concert en Sextuor" #5
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
4:25 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"
"Contredanses"
Chapelle Royale Orch/Philippe Herreweghe
Les Indes Galantes - Suites D'Orchestre
4:27 am
Leopold Kozeluch: "Sinfonia Concertante" in E-Flat
Consortium Classicum/Dieter Klöcker
Sinfonies Concertantes
4:55 am
French Trad: Carol, "Angels We Have Heard on High"
The Pennsylvaians/Fred Waring
Now is the Caroling Season
5:00 am
Albert BECKER: Carol, "Joseph lieber, Joseph mein"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
5:02 am
André Sala: Carol, "Que j'aime ce divin enfant"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
5:05 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 12 in g
Northern Chamber Orch/Nicholas Ward
Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies and String Symphonies
5:27 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Sechs Sprüche (Six Liturgical Texts)," Op. 79
No. 1, "Weihnachten"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
5:28 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: "Das Jahr"
"December"
Martina Frezzotti, p
Fanny Mendelssohn PIano Music
5:32 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37
"December (Christmas)"
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Tchaikovsky - The Seasons
5:36 am
Michael Torke: "December" (1994)
Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi
Javelin: The Music Of Michael Torke
5:45 am
Henri Rabaud: "Merchant of Venice"
Suite #3
Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam
RABAUD : Orchestral Works
5:54 am
Johann Halvorsen: "The Merchant of Venice"
Intermezzo
Latvian National Sym Orch/Torje Mikkelsen
Stage Music 1
6:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Ave Maria"
Rasa Vitkauskaite, p
A Concert Piano Christmas
6:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Philharmonia Orch/Otto Klemperer
Mozart Symphonies
6:24 am
Daryl Runswick: "A Little Christmas Music" (Medley à la Mozart)
Kiri Te Kanawa, s; King's Singers; Richard Hickox, hc
6:28 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
#14b, Variation II, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
6:30 am
Leo Délibes: "Coppélia"
"Féte de la cloche" (Divertissement)
National Phil/Richard Bonynge
Delibes: The 3 Ballets
6:54 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
#14b, Variation II, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Rasa Vitkauskaite, p
A Concert Piano Christmas
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:02 am
Leroy Anderson: "Sleigh Ride"
Giovanni De Chiaro, g
The Sounds of Christmas on Guitar
7:09 am
Leroy Anderson: Piano Concerto in C
Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
American Piano Classics
7:29 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Dance Suite"
V. " M T V, For Jerry [Jerome Robbins]"
Onyx Brass
Transatlantic
7:31 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Peter Pan"
"Dream With Me"
Zuill Bailey, vc; Lara Downes, p
Some Other Time
7:35 am
Louise Héritte-Viardot: Piano Quartet No. 1 in A, Op. 9, "Im Sommer"
I. "Des Morgens, im Walde (Morning, in the Woods)"
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2
7:44 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Divertimento in B-Flat, K. 137
Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
Mozart: Divertimenti K. 136, 137, 138 & 251
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:00 am
Astor Piazzolla: "Oblivion"
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Piazzolla Stories
8:04 am
Carolyne M. Taylor: Medley, "Silent Night"-Debussy's "Clair de lune"
Jeffrey Biegel, p
Classical Carols
8:10 am
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
III. "Nocturne"
Borodin Quartet
Ultimate Classical Dreams
8:20 am
Truman Bullard: "Hanukkah Suite"
Eaken Piano Trio
Home for the Holidays
8:23 am
Amy Carol Webb: "Ma'oz Tsur" (Trad.)
Amy Carol Webb
Breaking Light: Songs for the Season
8:26 am
César Franck: "Panis angelicus"
Hallé Cho & Orch/Maurice Handford
The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!
8:32 am
Alfred Reed: Russian Christmas Music
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Horns for the Holidays
8:47 am
Christopher Larkin: "Hollow Knight"
"Dirthmouth"
Christopher Larkin, prod
Hollow Knight (Original Soundtrack)
8:49 am
Christopher Larkin: "Hollow Knight"
"Queen's Gardens"
Christopher Larkin, prod
Hollow Knight (Original Soundtrack)
8:52 am
André Grétry: "La fausse magie"
Aria, "Comme un éclair"
Christiane Karg, s; Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen
Amoretti - Arias by Mozart, Gluck and Gretry / Christiane Karg
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:01 am
Bernard Herrmann: "The Magnificent Ambersons"
"Snow Ride"
Australian Phil Orch/Tony Bremner
The Magnificent Ambersons (Original 1942 Motion Picture Score)
9:05 am
Bernard Herrmann: "The Snows of Kilamanjaro"
"The Memory Waltz"
Hollywood Bowl Sym Orch/John Mauceri
The Great Waltz
9:11 am
Kristen Anderson-Lopez; Robert Lopez: "Frozen"
"Frozen Heart"
Frozen Cast Cho; Studio Orch/Jasper Randall
Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:13 am
Cristophe Beck: "Frozen"
"Winter's Waltz"
Studio Orch/Tim Davies
Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:14 am
Cristophe Beck: "Frozen"
"Whiteout"
Studio Orch/Tim Davies
Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:19 am
Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind: "The Shining"
Main Title (The Shining)
Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind, prod's
The Shining (Original Soundtrack)
9:23 am
Harry Gregson-Williams: "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"
"The White Witch"
Abbey Road Cho; Hollywood Studio Sym/Harry Gregson-Williams
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Original Soundtrack)
9:30 am
Alfred Schnittke: "The Ascent"
Suite, II. "On the Sleigh"
Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Frank Strobel
Alfred Schnittke Film Music Vol. II
9:34 am
Alfred Schnittke: "The Ascent"
Suite, III, "Remorse"
Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Frank Strobel
Alfred Schnittke Film Music Vol. II
9:37 am
Marco Beltramic: "Snowpiercer"
"This is the Beginning"
Studio Orch
Snowpiercer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:41 am
Alex Wurman: "March of the Penguins"
"The March"
Studio Orch/Jeffrey Schindler
March of the Penguins (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:47 am
Ennio Morricone: "The Hateful Eight"
"Neve (Snow)" complete
Czech National Sym Orch/Ennio Morricone
Morricone - Quentin Tarantino's The H8ful Eight
10:01 am
Edgar Meyer: "Winter's Chill"
Modern Mandolin Quartet; Edgar Meyer, db
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
10:07 am
Traditional Scottish: "Loch Lomond"
Nicola Benedetti, v; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Rory Macdonald
Homecoming - A Scottish Fantasy
10:14 am
Robert Nathaniel Dett: "In the Bottoms"
V. Dance, "Juba"
Clipper Erickson, p
My Cup Runneth Over - The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett
10:16 am
Florence Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
III. "Juba"
Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Florence Price - Symphonies 1 & 3
10:22 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"
Pittsburgh Sym Orch/André Previn
Saint-Saëns, Ravel: Carnaval Des Animaux, Ma Mère L'Oye / André Previn
10:45 am
RIOPY (Jean-Philippe Rio-Py): "Falling Into a Dream"
RIOPY, p
Winter Impressions
10:49 am
Irving Berlin: "White Christmas"
Carlos Simon, p
Carlos Simon Christmas
10:54 am
Umberto Giordano: "Fedora"
Intermezzo
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Intermezzo
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Tristan Zhu, 18, violin. Bach: Chaconne in D minor; Chaminade: Capriccio, Op. 18; Sibelius: Violin Concerto, 1st mvt; Roumain: "FILTER". With Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
11:51 am
John Rox: "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
Tristan Zhu, v & voice; Robbie Ellis, melodica & voice
Introductions: Tristan Zhu, 18, violin (March 15, 2025)
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Giordano's Andrea Chénier
Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier); Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena di Coigny); Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Daniele Rustioni. Sung in Italian.
3:27 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G, R 436
I. Allegro
Anita Miller-Rieder, f; Chicago Baroque Ensemble
A Vivaldi Concert
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
3:31 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "Preludio sinfonico"
original version
Welsh National Opera Orch/Carlo Rizzi
Puccini Symphonic Suites Imagined by Carlo Rizzi
3:44 pm
George Frideric Handel: Organ Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 4, No. 2
Paul Nicholson, o; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman
Handel: Organ Concertos Opp. 4&7; Harp Concerto, Op. 4/6
3:55 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: "Nabucco"
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, "Va, pensiero"
Canadian Opera Company Cho and Orch/Richard Bradshaw
Rarities by Rossini and Verdi
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with the artistic director of Opera Rara and world-renowned conductor Carlo Rizzi, who joins WFMT to share bel canto rarities and Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: This broadcast of excerpts from Archie Fisher’s Folkstage performances honors the memory of Scotland’s quintessential folksinger, songwriter, and folk radio host who died on November 1, 2025.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 today. We celebrate his incredible music career and broadcast a few tunes about TV.
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