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Playlist for Saturday, September 26, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Prokofiev, Serge: "War and Peace"
"Waltz"
Barry Douglas, p
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 7
12:05 am
Prokofiev, Serge: "Overture on Hebrew Themes," Op. 34
National Sym/Leonard Slatkin
Prokofiev: 6th Symphony; Suite from "The Love For Three Oranges"
12:13 am
Prokofiev, Serge: "Ballade" in c, Op. 15
Gary Hoffman, vc; Philippe Bianconi, p
IMEB Opus 30 Vol. 1 (1970-1983)
12:24 am
Prokofiev, Serge: "The Love for Three Oranges," Op. 33
March
Burning River Brass
Burning River Brass: Russian Carnival
12:25 am
Prokofiev, Serge: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64
Suite No. 1
Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons
12:54 am
Morley, Thomas: Madrigal, "Sweet Nymph"
Bernhard Böhm, r; Jürgen Hübscher, l
Greensleeves: Tanze, Lieder, and Fantasien der Renaissance
1:00 am
Mussorgsky, Modest: "Khovanshchina"
Act 1 Prelude, "Dawn on the Moskva River"
London Sym Orch/Georg Solti
Romantic Russia- Borodin, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky
1:04 am
Strauss, Richard: Violin Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 18
Sergei Stadler, v; Felix Gottlieb, p
Recital: Schubert / Schumann / Strauss
1:35 am
Goetz, Hermann: "Genrebilder", Op 13
#5
Adrian Ruiz, p
GOETZ: Lose Blätter, op.7; Sonatina in F, op. 8, No. 1; Sonatina in E Flat, op. 8, No. 2; Genrebilder, op.13
1:36 am
Liszt, Franz: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat
Emanuel Ax, p; Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto/ Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
1:54 am
Schubert, Franz: "Die schöne Müllerin," D 795
No. 3, "Halt!"
Håkan Hagegård, br; Emanuel Ax, p
Schubert: Die schone Mullerin
2:00 am
Reger, Max: Serenade Movement (1904)
National Chamber Players/Lowell Graham
Strauss, Brahms, Reger
2:05 am
Reger, Max: Serenade in G, Op 141a
Anna Noakes, f; Barry Wilde, v; George Robertson, vi
Max Reger: Serenades Vol. 1
2:20 am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Serenade No. 13 in G, K. 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (“A Little Night Music”)
Marlboro Festival Orch/Pablo Casals
Marlboro Fest 40th Anniversary- Mozart: Serenades
2:42 am
Rózsa, Miklós: "Bagatellen," Op 12
#4, "Ungarisch"
Sara Davis Buechner, p
2:43 am
Liszt, Franz: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 5 in e minor, "Héroïde-élégiaque"
Vienna State Opera Orch/Anatole Fistoulari
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No 1-6
2:54 am
Berlioz, Hector: Eight Scenes from "Faust," Op. 1
"Histoire d'un rat"
Soloists, Montreal Sym Cho and Orch
Berlioz: Huit Scènes De Faust, Etc
3:00 am
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: "Aleko" (1893)
Dance of the Men
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi
Rachmaninoff * Symphony No 2
3:04 am
Arensky, Anton: Two-Piano Suite #1 in F, Op 15
Madeleine Forte, p; Del Parkinson, p
3:17 am
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Ballet Suite No. 1 (1949)
Galop
Orch/André Kostelanetz
3:19 am
Délibes, Léo: "Sylvia"
Suite
London Sym/Anatole Fistoulari
Essential Ballet - 37 Of The Greatest Ballet Masterpieces
3:35 am
Gillis, Don: Symphony #8, "A Dance Symphony" (1949)
Sinfonia Varsovia/Ian Hobson
Gillis: Star-Spangled Symphony
3:54 am
Smith, Julia: American Dance Suite (1968)
"Chicken Reel"
Leanne Rees, p; Stephanie Stoyanoff, p
Duo-Pianists: Music By American Women Composers
4:00 am
Bossi, Enrico: "Due Scherzi," Op. 49
No. 2 in g minor
Gillian Weir, o (Uihlein Hall, Milwaukee)
Scherzo- Guilmant, Durufle, Bossi, Et Al
4:05 am
Otto, Luigi Valerius: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat
Ludwig Güttler, tr; Leipzig New Bach Collegium Musicum/Max Pommer
Klassische Trompetenkonzerte
4:18 am
Brahms, Johannes: Chorus, "Nächtens", Op 112/2
Cologne Chamber Cho/Peter Neumann
Liebeslieder-Walzer
4:20 am
Brahms, Johannes: String Quartet #2 in a, Op 51/2
Colorado String Quartet
4:55 am
Anderson, Leroy: "The Typewriter"
Capriccio Salon Ens
5:00 am
Chopin, Frédéric: Nocturnes, Op. 27
No. 1 in c-sharp
Evgeny Kissin, p
Chopin, Vol. 1
5:05 am
Smetana, Bedrich: "Má Vlast (My Fatherland)"
"T bor"
Milwaukee Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal
Smetana: Ma Vlast
5:17 am
Medtner, Nikolai: "Stimmungsbilder (Eight Mood Pictures)," Op 1
#2 in g-sharp, "Allegro con impeto"
Geoffrey Tozer, p
Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 3
5:19 am
Hérold, Ferdinand: "Zampa"
Overture
BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
BBC Philharmonic / Tortelier: French Bonbons
5:27 am
Schubert, Franz: Variations in C on a Theme from Hérold's opera "Marie," D 908
Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen, p
Piano Music for Four Hands
5:39 am
Neumann, Heinrich: Theme and Variations on a Theme of Schubert "(Sehnsuchtswalzer)"
Dieter Klöcker, cl; Sonja Prunnbauer, g
5:45 am
Schubert, Franz: Six German Dances, D 820
New York Chamber Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Schubert: Symphonies 5 & 8, Etc
5:54 am
Schulhoff, Erwin: Suite for Chamber Orchestra (1921)
"Ragtime"
Amsterdam Ebony Band/Werner Herbers
Ensemble Works Vol.1
6:00 am
Massenet, Jules: Orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 13
"Nocturne"
New Zealand Sym Orch/Jean-Yves Ossonce
MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1- 3 / Herodiade
6:05 am
Ravel, Maurice: "Introduction and Allegro"
Isabelle Moretti, h; Quatuor Parisii
6:16 am
Moran, Robert: Waltz, "In Memoriam Maurice Ravel"
Yvar Mikhashoff, p
The Waltz Project (17 Contemporary Waltzes For Piano)
6:18 am
Honegger, Arthur: "Trois pièces" (1919)
#2, "Hommage à Ravel"
Annette Middelbeek, p
Honegger: Klavierstücke
6:20 am
Honegger, Arthur: Piano Concertino (1925)
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Támas Vásáry, p
Honegger: Symphony No. 4, Pastorale D'ete, Piano Concertino
6:32 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Violin Sonata no.1 in D, Op.12/1
Pinchas Zukerman, v; Marc Neikrug, p
Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano and Violin
6:54 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestra Suite No.3 in D, BWV 1068
V. Gigue
Canadian Brass
Canadian Brass - Bach
7:00 - 9:00 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.
7:03 am
Henry Cowell: "Old American Country Set"
Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark
Henry Cowell: Persian Set
7:18 am
Mark O'Connor: "Appalachia Waltz"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
Blanc
7:25 am
Ferde Grofé: "Mississippi Suite"
Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
American Visions
7:40 am
Dana Suesse: "Blue Moonlight"
Sara Davis Buechner, p
Jazz Nocturne: The Piano Works of Dana Suesse
7:47 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C, Op. 56
III. Finale, "Rondo alla Polacca"
Benedetti; Kanneh-Mason; Grosvenor; Philharmonia Orch/Rouvali
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
8:00 am
George Gershwin: "I Got Rhythm"
Frederick Hemke, sx; Figard String Quintet
Fascinating Rhythm
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:05 am
Georges Bizet: "L'Arlésienne"
Carillon and Farandole
Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
Berlin Gala
8:13 am
Duke Ellington: "Night Creature"
III. "Dazzling Creature"
Courtney Bryan, p; Cincinnati Sym Orch/Louis Langrée
American Dreams
8:20 am
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Op. 314
Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta
2007 New Year's concert
8:31 am
Sting (Gordon Sumner): "Englishman in New York"
Philharmonix
Vienna Berlin Music Club, Vol. 1
8:37 am
George Gershwin: Three Preludes (1926)
Michael Tilson Thomas, p
Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue, Second Rhapsody, Preludes, Unpublished Piano Works
8:45 am
John Williams: "Star Wars: A New Hope"
Force Theme
Alexandre Tharaud, p
Cinema
8:47 am
John Williams: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
Rey's Theme
Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
Lights, Camera...Magic!
8:50 am
John Williams: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"
"The Rebellion is Reborn"
Orch/John Williams
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
8:55 am
Giacomo Puccini: "Gianni Schicchi"
Aria, "O mio babbino caro"
Kiri Te Kanawa, s; London Phil Orch/John Pritchard
Verdi & Puccini
8:57 am
Frank Bridge: Four Short Pieces
No. 2, "Spring Song"
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; Heath Quartet
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar
9:00 - 11:00 am
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:01 am
Giacomo Puccini: "La bohème"
Instrumental excerpts
Santa Cecilia Orch/Dick Hyman
Moonstruck (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:05 am
Dick Hyman: "Moonstruck"
"Conzone per Loretta"
Studio Ens/Dick Hyman
Moonstruck (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:09 am
Maurice Jarre: "Dead Poets Society"
"Keating's Triumph"
Studio Orch/Maurice Jarre
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:16 am
Elmer Bernstein: "Far from Heaven"
"Autumn in Connecticut"
Hollywood Studio Sym/Elmer Bernstein
Far From Heaven (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:19 am
Mark Isham: "October Sky"
"Coalwood"
String Ensemble/Ken Kugler
October Sky (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:22 am
Danny Elfman: "Good Will Hunting"
"Whose Fault"
Studio Cho & Orch/Danny Elfman
Good Will Hunting (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:24 am
Danny Elfman: "Good Will Hunting"
End Titles
Studio Orch/Danny Elfman
Good Will Hunting (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:30 am
Alexandre Desplat: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
"Mr. Fox in the Fields"
Studio Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack)
9:31 am
Alexandre Desplat: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
"High-Speed French Train"
Studio Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack)
9:32 am
Alexandre Desplat: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
"Whack-Bat Majorette"
Studio Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack)
9:35 am
Alexandre Desplat: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
"Great Harrowsford Square"
London Oratory Cho; Studio Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack)
9:39 am
Bruno Coulais: "Coraline"
"Fantastic Garden"
Hungarian National Radio Cho, Studio Orch/Laurent Petitgirard
Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:41 am
Bruno Coulais: "Coraline"
"Bobinsky"
Studio Orch/Laurent Petitgirard
Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:44 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
Prelude
Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:45 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"The Old Mill"
Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:47 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"Money for School"
Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:48 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"Potatoes and Molasses"
Colin Dean, voice; Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:49 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"Endicott Manor"
Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:50 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"Off to Bed"
Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:51 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"Forward, Oneiroi"
Deborah Voigt, s; Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:53 am
Blasting Company: "Over the Garden Wall"
"Black Train/End Credits"
Blasting Company
Over the Garden Wall Original Soundtrack
9:54 am
Nathan Johnson: "Knives Out!"
"On The Eve of Harlan's Demise"
Orchestra
Knives Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:58 am
Nathan Johnson: "Knives Out!"
"Knives Out!" (String Quartet in G)
String Quartet
Knives Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
10:01 am
Germaine Tailleferre: Harp Concertino
Gillian Benet, h; Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta
The Women's Philharmonic: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Tailleferre, Boulanger
10:18 am
Enrique Granados: "Goyescas" (piano suite)
No. 4, "Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor"
Orion Weiss, p
Presentiment
10:26 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
Utah Sym/Thierry Fischer
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kijé
10:46 am
Hilario Durán: "Aventura Afrocubana" Suite
Quartetto Gelato
All Original. 100% Canadian
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
WFMT welcomes violinist Cecilia O’Malley, the 17-year-old winner of the 2026 Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition. Accompanied by pianist Liang-Yu Wang, she performs Debussy's Violin Sonata and Witold Lutosławski's "Subito." Recorded in September 2026.
11:20 am
Charles Gounod: "Petite Symphonie" in B-Flat
St. Paul Chamber Orch Winds/Christopher Hogwood
Bizet: L'Arlésienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Symphony No.1
11:41 am
Stewart Goodyear: "Callaloo"
III. Ballad
Stewart Goodyear, p; Chineke! Orch/Wayne Marshall
Gershwin & Goodyear
11:48 am
John Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 2 in A, Op. 34, "In the Spring"
IV. Finale, "The Glory of Nature"
Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Paine: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
12:00 - 2:00 pm
12:00 pm
From LA Opera
James Conlon Farewell Concert
James Conlon performs excerpts from La forza del destino; The Marriage of Figaro; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; LA Opera Chorus and Orchestra; James Conlon, conductor. Sung in Italian and German.
2:00 - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Afternoon Music
2:00 pm
Erwin Schulhoff: Symphony No. 2, WV 101
I. "Allegro ma non troppo"
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/James Conlon
Erwin Schulhoff Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
2:05 pm
Ilse Weber: Song, "Wiegala"
Esther Abrami, v; string quintet
Karoline Hindelang, viola,
Okhee Lee, double bass,
Women
2:08 pm
Pauline Viardot: Song, "Hai luli!"
Esther Abrami, v; Lavinia Meijer, h; string quintet
Inka von Puttkamer, violin,
Lilia Keyes, cello,
Women
2:11 pm
Rita Strohl: "Solitude"
Esther Abrami, v; Kim Barbier, p
Women
2:15 pm
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104
Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
2:48 pm
Giorgio Mainerio: "Il primo libro di balli"
Dances Nos. 6-10
London Early Music Consort/David Munrow
Monteverdi's Contemporaries
3:00 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Wiener Blut," Op. 354
"Wiener Blut"
Fatma Said, s; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Kaleidoscope
3:03 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Northern Sinfonia/Imogen Cooper, p
Mozart * Piano Concertos 9 & 23 * Northern Sinfonia * Imogen Cooper
3:31 pm
Rebecca Dale: "Radiance" for Cello & Orchestra
Raphaela Gromes, vc; Deutsches Sym-Orch Berlin/Anna Rakitina
Fortissima
3:39 pm
George Frideric Handel: "Ariodante" Suite
Suite
Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage
Handel at the Opera
3:54 pm
Teresa Carreño: "Un rêve en mer," Op. 28
Sarah Cahill, p
The Future is Female, Vol. 1
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with legendary American baritone Thomas Hampson who is the soloist in Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" with Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra next month.
5:00 - 8:00 pm
5:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
5:00 pm
Roberto Sierra: "Folías"
Manuel Barrueco, g; Galicia Sym Orch/Victor Pablo Pérez
Concierto Barroco
5:14 pm
Francesco Geminiani: Concerto grosso in D, Op. 3, No. 1
Montreal Baroque Orch/Joël Thiffault
Geminiani, F: Concerti grossi, Op. 3
5:26 pm
Montague Ring: "Carnival" (Suite of Five Dances)
Rochelle Sennet, p
Bach to Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. 2
5:40 pm
Jean-Baptiste Arban: Variations on "The Carnival of Venice"
Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
Carnaval
5:48 pm
Max Richter: "The Four Seasons Recomposed"
Summer
Étienne Gara, v; Delirium Musicum
Seasons: Richter, Glass
6:00 pm
Ricardo Castro: "Vals capricho", Op. 1
Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard
Dances for Piano and Orchestra
6:08 pm
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Much Ado About Nothing," Op. 11
Orchestral Suite (Five Pieces)
Minería Sym Orch/Carlos Miguel Prieto
Korngold: Violin Concerto / Schauspiel Overture / Much Ado About Nothing Suite
6:35 pm
music continues...
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Abbie Gardner of Red Molly makes her long-awaited return to WFMT for a solo show, Dobro in hand.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
The anniversary of the 1960 Nixon/Kennedy debate in Chicago prompts a show centered on unusual pairings and compatible duos.
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