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      Playlist for Wednesday, January 28, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Jacques Gallot: "Folies d'Espagne"

      Toyohiko Satoh, l
      Chaconne

      Channel Classics CCS-0490

      12:05 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 22 in E-Flat, "Der Philosoph"

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Symphonies No. 22 (Philosopher) • No. 63 (La Roxelane) • No. 80

      DG 427337-2

      12:24 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "Polwarth on the green," H XXXIa:265

      Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
      Haydn Edition

      Brilliant Classics 95594 (160)

      12:26 am

      Manuel Ponce: Variations and Fugue on "Folias de España"

      Oscar Ghiglia, g
      Ponce: Guitar Collection, Vol. 3

      Stradivarius STR-33568

      12:55 am

      Manuel Ponce: "Four Mexican Dances"

      No. 1

      Argentina Duràn, p
      Rapsodia Mexicana

      Bravo Music0

      1:00 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "Komm, Heiliger Geist Herre Gott" BWV 651

      Lionel Rogg, o
      Bach: Complete Organ Works

      Harmonia Mundi HMX-290772.833 (12)

      1:05 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No.4 in D, BWV 1069

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      Bach: Orchestral Suites No 1-4

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901578/9 (2)

      1:30 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Partita No. 1 in B-Flat, BWV 825

      Prelude

      Francesco Tristano, p
      Bach: The 6 Partitas

      Naive V-8619

      1:31 am

      Darius Milhaud: Pastoral Fantasy, Op. 188

      Vlastimil Lejsek, p; Brno State Phil/Jiri Waldhans
      Milhaud: L'Esprit du Concerto

      Praga PR-250025

      1:41 am

      Germaine Tailleferre: Ballade for Piano and Orchestra

      Marciano, p; Radio Luxembourg Orch/de Froment
      Music In Paris In The 1920s

      Vox ACD-8157

      1:55 am

      music continues...

      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 - 1:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am.

      12:15 pm

      Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

      Pianist Joshua Mhoon performs music by Beethoven, Ravel, Ernesto Lecuona, and Scriabin, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

      1:00 pm

      1:00 pm

      Music for the Afternoon

      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

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Handel in Rome

      "Nisi Dominus," "Dixit Dominus," and "Salve Regina," three outstanding works of sacred music written during Handel's years in Italy, performed in concert by the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, and vocal soloists led by Václav Luks.