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      Playlist for Thursday, December 11, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Bedrich Smetana: "The Bartered Bride"

      Dance of the Comedians

      London Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon
      Smetana: The Bartered Bride · String Quartet "My Life"

      Chandos CHAN-8412

      12:05 am

      Antonin Dvorák: Violin Sonata in F, Op 57

      Gil Shaham, v; Orli Shaham, p
      Dvořák For Two

      DG 449820-2

      12:26 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Visions fugitives," Op. 22

      No. 8, "Commodo"

      Gene Pokorny, tuba; Bradley Haag, p

      Summit DCD-283

      12:28 am

      Paul Hindemith: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" (1934)

      Czech Phil/Jiri Belohlávek
      Hindemith: Mathis der Maler

      Chandos CHAN-9457

      12:55 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Visions fugitives," Op. 22

      No. 20 (Finale), "Lento irrealmente"

      Gene Pokorny, tuba; Bradley Haag, p
      Big Boy

      Summit DCD-283

      1:00 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G, R 146

      La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
      Once Upon a Time... Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà

      Analekta AN2-8719

      1:05 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, R 502

      Sergio Azzolini, bs; L'Aura Soave Cremona
      Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos, Volume III

      Naive OP-30539

      1:17 am

      Francesco Geminiani: Concerto grosso #5 in a, after Corelli

      Nicola Benedetti, v; Orch
      Baroque

      London B00034187-02

      1:29 am

      Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in a, Kk 148 (L 64)

      Hédi Salànki, hc

      Price-Less D-16565

      1:31 am

      Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in d, Op 11

      Nash Ensemble
      Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trios & String Quartet

      Hyperion CDA-68307

      1:55 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No.2 in b minor, BWV 1067

      VII. Badinerie

      William Bennett, f; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
      Greatest Hits - Flute

      CBS MLK-45523

      2:00 am

      David Diamond: Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"

      #2, Balcony Scene

      Randall Ellis, ob; S Jolles, h; New York Chamber Sym/Gerard Schwarz
      Diamond: Symphony No. 3, Kaddish for Cello and Orchestra, Romeo and Juliet, Psalm

      Delos DE-3103

      2:05 am

      Fela Sowande: "African Suite"

      London Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
      Sahdji / African Suite / Lyric For Strings

      CBS M-33433

      2:19 am

      Cole Porter: Kiss Me, Kate

      "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

      Alfred Drake, br, Orch
      N/A

      EMI/Ang ZDM7-64760-2

      2:21 am

      Bedrich Smetana: Shakespeare Festival March

      Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Robert Stankovsky
      SMETANA : Short Orchestral Pieces

      Marco Polo 8.223705

      2:27 am

      Josef Bohuslav Foerster: "From Shakespeare" Suite, Op 76

      Prague Sym Orch/Smetacek
      From Shakespear- Foerster

      Campion RRCD-1319

      2:54 am

      John Dowland: "My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe"

      David Russell, g
      David Russell * Renaissance Favorites for Guitar

      Telarc CD-80659

      3:00 am

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

      "Hymn to the Sun"

      Viktoria Lukianets, s; Orch/Andrey Chistiakov
      Glinka

      Chant du Monde LDC-288072

      3:05 am

      Efrem Zimbalist: Fantasia on Themes fr Rimsky Korsakov's "Le Coq d'Or"

      Dmitri Sitkovetsky, v; Olga Sitkovetsky, p

      EMI/Ang CDC5-57025-2

      3:14 am

      Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1899-1900)

      Suite

      Philharmonia Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

      London 417301-2

      3:34 am

      Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1899-1900)

      "Flight of the Bumblebee"

      Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
      Trumpet Concertos

      CBS MK-44726

      3:35 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Two-Trumpet Concerto in C, R 537

      Wynton Marsalis, tr's; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
      Baroque Music for Trumpets

      CBS MK-42478

      3:42 am

      Johann Friedrich Fasch: Two-Corni Concerto in D

      Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Güttler

      Capriccio 10223

      3:53 am

      Anthony Plog: Fanfare

      Anthony Plog, tr; Russell Kidd, tr

      Crystal S-362

      4:00 am

      Cecile Chaminade: "Valse-Caprice"

      Enid Katahn, p
      Chaminade: Piano Music

      Gasparo GSCD-247

      4:05 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Wedding Cake (Caprice-Valse)," Op. 76

      Jean-François Heisser, p; String Quintet
      Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval Des Animaux, Wedding Cake, Caprice, Septuor

      Erato 45772-2

      4:11 am

      Henry Litolff: "Concerto symphonique" #4 in d, Op 102

      Scherzo

      Cristina Ortiz, p; Royal Phil/Moshe Atzmon
      Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2/ Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto/ Litolff: Scherzo

      London 414348-2

      4:18 am

      Gabriel Pierné: Poeme symphonique in d, Op 37

      Stephen Coombs, p, BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Ronald Corp
      The Complete Works For Piano And Orchestra

      Hyperion CDA-67348

      4:31 am

      Gabriel Fauré: "Pièces brèves," Op 84

      #7, "Allégresse"

      Kathryn Stott, p
      Faure: Piano Music

      Hyperion CDA-67064

      4:33 am

      Gabriel Fauré: Ballade in F-Sharp, Op 19

      Robert Casadesus, p; New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein

      Sony SMK-47548

      4:45 am

      Darius Milhaud: Ballade, Op. 61

      Claude Helffer, p; French National Orch/David Robertson
      Milahud: Le Carnaval d'Aix Op. 33b, 5 Etudes Op. 63, Concertos No. 1 and No. 4, Ballade Op. 61

      Erato 45992-2

      4:53 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Suite française," Op. 248

      I. "Normandie"

      Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell
      Mozart Serenade No. 10 / Strauss Serenade in E-Flat / Milhaud Suite Francaise

      Mercury 434399-2

      5:00 am

      Frédéric Chopin: "Les Sylphides"

      Grande valse brillante

      Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
      Greatest Hits * The Ballet * Vol III

      CBS MLK-45660

      5:05 am

      Frédéric Chopin: "Bolero," Op. 19

      Andrew Rangell, p
      Chopin Recital

      Steinway & Sons 30038

      5:13 am

      Gioachino Rossini: "Bolero: Mi lagnerò tacendo"

      Cecilia Bartoli, ms
      An Italian Songbook: Bellini * Donizetti * Rossini

      London 455513-2

      5:16 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Boléro"

      Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
      Ravel: Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, La Valse, Valse Nobles et Sentimentales

      Telarc CD-80171

      5:31 am

      Mauro Giuliani: "Pièces faciles et agréables," Op 74

      #14, Bolero

      Mikael Helasvuo, f; Jukka Savijoki, g
      Mauro Giuliani - The Complete Works for Flute and Guitar, Vol.3

      BIS CD-413

      5:33 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Duet, "El desdichado (Boléro)"(1871)

      Felicity Lott, s; Ann Murray, ms; Graham Johnson, p

      EMI/Ang CDC7-49930-2

      5:36 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Havanaise," Op. 83

      Nicola Benedetti, v; London Sym/Daniel Harding
      Szymanowski - Chausson - Saint-Saëns

      DG B0006154-02

      5:47 am

      Leo Brouwer: "Cuban Landscape with Rain"

      Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
      El amor brujo

      GHA 126001

      5:53 am

      Ernesto Lecuona: "Cuba at Arms (One-Step)"

      Thomas Tirino, p
      Lecuona: Complete Piano Music Vol 2

      BIS CD-774

      6:00 - 10:00 am

      6:00 am

      music continues...

      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

      Peter Tchaikovsky, part I (1840-1893)

      Bill launches into the first part of a two-part series on the Russian Romantic composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Though shunned by some other Russian composers as sounding too Western, Tchaikovsky was loved throughout the world as a great Russian composer. Caught between East and West, he created his own sound that to this day is still treasured and that Russians are proud to call their own. Bill starts with Mikhail Glinka, who broke from the Italian school to create the Russian school of music, and ends with excerpts of Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake."

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Nielsen Clarinet Concerto; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Ravel "Valses nobles et sentimentales;" Tchaikovsky Selections from "Swan Lake;" Alan Gilbert, conductor.