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      Playlist for Thursday, March 26, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "O Mensch bewein dein Sünde gross"

      BBC Phil/Sir Andrew Davis
      King of Kings: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions

      Chandos CHAN-20400

      12:05 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 815

      Murray Perahia, p
      Bach: French Suites

      DG 479 6565 (2)

      12:21 am

      Mignot de la Voye: Orchestra Suite in B-Flat

      Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
      Suites d'Orchestre, 1650-1660

      Fontalis ES-9908

      12:28 am

      Louis Couperin: Suite in C

      No. 5, "Courante II"

      Blandine Verlet, hc
      Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin

      Astrée E-8819 (5)

      12:29 am

      Aram Khachaturian: "Spartacus" Ballet Suite No. 3 (1957)

      Royal Phil/Yuri Temirkanov

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47348-2

      12:54 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87

      No. 39, "The Prince and the Cobblers"

      Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Sergei Prokofiev: Cinderella / Mazurka

      London 410162-2 (2)

      1:00 am

      Fela Sowande: "Two Preludes of Yoruba Sacred Folk Melodies"

      No. 1, "K'A Mura"

      Rebeca Omordia, p
      African Pianism, Vol. 2

      Somm SOMMCD-0688

      1:05 am

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

      Chineke! Orchestra/Kevin John Edusei
      Music by Composers of African Descent

      Decca 00028948533190

      1:24 am

      Robert Schumann: "Lieder-Album für die Jugend," Op. 79

      No. 23, "Er ist's"

      Jean-Pierre Armengaud, p
      Clara Schumann: Piano Music, Vol. 1

      Grand Piano GP-930

      1:26 am

      Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 54

      Jorge Federico Osorio, p; Royal Phil/Enrique Bátiz
      Schumann - Piano Concerto

      ASV CDQS-6092

      1:54 am

      Robert Schumann: Song, "Die Weinende (The Weeping)"

      Mark Padmore, t; Graham Johnson, p
      The Songs of Robert Schumann, Volume 8

      Hyperion CDJ-33108

      2:00 am

      Cécile Chaminade: "Automne"

      Joanne Polk, p
      The Flatterer: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade

      Steinway & Sons 30037

      2:05 am

      Cecile Chaminade: Flute Concertino, Op 107

      Timothy Hutchins, f; CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi

      Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5171

      2:12 am

      Jean Françaix: Piano Concertino

      Claude Françaix, p; London Sym/Antal Dorati
      Dorati Conducts Satie/Milhaud/Auric/Françaix/Fetler

      Mercury 434335-2

      2:20 am

      Jean Françaix: "Huit Danses Exotiques"

      "Samba lenta; Merengue"

      Sándor Rigó, sx; Christina Leeb-Grill, p
      Latin American Dances: Works for Saxophone and Piano

      Naxos 8.579078

      2:22 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 11 in E-Flat, K. 375

      Charles Neidich, cl; Mozzafiato
      Mozart, Pleyel: Serenades For Wind Instruments

      Sony SK-64306

      2:54 am

      Jean Françaix: "Huit Danses Exotiques"

      "Mambo"

      Sándor Rigó, sx; Christina Leeb-Grill, p
      Latin American Dances: Works for Saxophone and Piano

      Naxos 8.579078

      3:00 am

      Frederick Delius: "Air and Dance" (1915)

      English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones
      ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 2

      Naxos 8.555068

      3:04 am

      Claude Debussy: "Préludes", Book 1

      X. "La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)"

      Aldo Ciccolini, p
      Debussy: Dreams

      EMI/Ang CDM5-66753-2

      3:11 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suite

      London Sym Orch/George Szell
      The Water Music / Royal Fireworks Music (Excerpts) ‎

      London 417694-2

      3:30 am

      Thomas Morley: Madrigal, "When loe by breake of morning"

      Deller Consort
      The English Madrigal School

      Vanguard OVC-2533/34 (2)

      3:32 am

      Hamilton Harty: "A Comedy Overture" (1906)

      Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
      Harty: An Irish Symphony

      Chandos ABRD-1027

      3:46 am

      William Walton: "Scapino" Overture (1940)

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/Andrew Litton

      London 444114-2

      3:54 am

      Howard Skempton: "Piano Piece 1969"

      John Tilbury, p
      Well, Well, Cornelius

      Sony SK-66482

      4:00 am

      American Trad: Folksong, Cindy

      William Ferris Chorale/William Ferris
      To All, To Each: Part Songs From America And Britain

      WFC Live! WFC-869093

      4:05 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle No. 25, "Für Elise"

      Moura Lympany, p
      Piano Favorites

      EMI/Angel CDK7-65138-2

      4:08 am

      Erasmus Widmann: Dances and Galliards

      Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer
      Dance Music Of the High Renaissance

      Boston Skyline BSD-118

      4:17 am

      Stephen Foster: Song, "Jeannie with the light brown hair"

      Thomas Hampson, br, others; Folk Group
      Folk Group,

      EMI CDC7-54621-2

      4:22 am

      Robert Beaser: "Mountain Songs"

      #1, "Barbara Allen"

      Paula Robison, f; Eliot Fisk, g
      Mountain Songs: A Cycle Of American Folk Music

      MHS 5173217

      4:25 am

      John Farmer: Madrigal, Fair Phyllis I Saw

      Amaryllis Consort/Charles Brett
      English Madrigals

      Carlton Classics 30367-01752

      4:27 am

      Edward MacDowell: Piano Concerto #2 in d, Op 23

      Van Cliburn, p; Chicago Sym/Walter Hendl
      Brahms: Concerto No. 2/ MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2

      RCA 68480-2

      4:53 am

      Heitor Villa-Lobos: Twelve Etudes for Guitar (1928)

      No. 2 in A, Allegro

      Eduardo Fernàndez, g
      Villa-Lobos: 12 Etudes, 5 Preludes - Ginastera: Sonata

      London 414616-2

      5:00 am

      Henry Cowell: "Saturday Night at the Firehouse" (1948)

      Milwaukee Sym Orch/Lukas Foss
      American Festival

      Pro Arte CDD-102

      5:05 am

      Claude Debussy: Nocturne

      Aldo Ciccolini, p

      EMI/Ang CDC7-54451-2

      5:12 am

      Claude Debussy: Three Nocturnes

      Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini

      EMI CDM7-69184-2

      5:38 am

      Francis Poulenc: Eight Nocturnes (1929-38)

      #7 in E-Flat

      Flavio Varani
      8 Nocturnes, Intermezzo, Pastourelle, Suite Francaise, Trois Pieces, Valse-Improvisation sur le nom de Bach

      Orion ORS-83459

      5:40 am

      Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda: Three Nocturnes

      Yuko Inoue, vi; Kathron Sturrock, p
      Romanze: The Romantic Viola

      Black Box BBM-1034

      5:53 am

      Franz Schubert: "Rosamunde" Incidental Music, D 797

      "Hirtenlied"

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Classical Hits

      DG 437782-2

      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.

      6:04 am

      Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonia in C

      Concerto Köln
      Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies

      Archiv 4776418

      6:13 am

      Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Violin Sonata No. 5 in A minor (1707)

      Sophie de Bardonnèche, v; Lucile Boulanger, viga; Justin Taylor, hc
      Destinées

      Alpha 1078

      6:24 am

      Brenno Blauth: Oboe Concertino

      I. Animado

      Andrés Spiller, ob; Camerata Bariloche
      Death Of An Angel by Camerata Bariloche

      Dorian 90249

      6:32 am

      William Walton: "Johannesburg Festival" Overture

      London Phil Orch/Bryden Thomson
      Walton: Orchestral Works

      Chandos CHAN-8968

      6:40 am

      Charles Loeffler: Octet

      I. "Allegro moderato"

      Ensemble/Graeme Steele Johnson, cl
      Stella Chen, violin,
      Matthew Lipman, viola,
      Forgotten Sounds

      Delos DE-3603

      6:52 am

      Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10

      Celia Nicklin, ob; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
      Barber, Ives, Copland

      Argo 417818-2

      7:04 am

      Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64

      No. 3, "Allegro giocoso"

      Bergen Phil Orch/Edward Gardner
      Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Before a Southern Convent, Funeral March for Rikard Nordaak, Bergliot

      Chandos CHSA-5301

      7:09 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

      Seong-Jin Cho, p
      Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Ballades

      DG B0026046-02

      7:23 am

      Mikhail Glinka: "Ruslan and Lyudmila"

      Overture

      Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
      Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain and Other Russian Showpieces

      RCA 61958-2

      7:31 am

      Randall Thompson: "Frostiana"

      "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

      New York Choral Society, Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark
      Thompson: The Testament of Freedom, Frostiana

      Koch 3-7283-2

      7:38 am

      Percy Grainger: "Hill Song" No. 1

      Melbourne Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon
      Music of Percy Aldridge Grainger

      Koch 3-7003-2

      7:52 am

      Jens Kruger: "Roan Mountain Suite"

      VII. Finale, "Overmountain Men"

      Kruger Brothers; Kontras Quartet
      Roan Mountain Suite

      Double Time Music DTM-027

      8:03 am

      Gioachino Rossini: "Semiramide"

      Overture

      London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
      Rossini: Overtures

      EMI CDC7-54091-2

      8:17 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano and Wind Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 16

      III. Finale, Rondo

      Rosenberger, p; Vogel, ob; Shifrin, cl; Graham, hn; Munday, bn
      Robin Graham, horn,
      Mozart* / Beethoven: Piano And Wind Quintets In E-flat

      Delos D/CD-3024

      8:23 am

      Claude Debussy: "Marche écossaise"

      Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier
      Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

      Chandos CHAN-9129

      8:30 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 1

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Shostakovich: The Jazz Album

      Decca 433702-2

      8:39 am

      Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection"

      II. "Andante moderato"

      Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
      Mahler: Symphony No 2

      Decca 410202-2 (2)

      8:52 am

      Franz Lachner: Nonet in F for winds & strings

      IV. Finale, "Allegro ma non troppo"

      Ensemble Wien-Berlin; R Kussmaul; W Christ; G Faust; A Posch
      Alois Posch, double bass,
      Rheinberger, Lachner: Nonet in F major, Nonet in E-flat major, Op. 139

      Sony SK-58971

      9:04 am

      Manuel Infante: "Danses Andalouses"

      Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque, p's
      ¡España!

      Philips 438938-2

      9:20 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "Carnival," Op 45

      Moscow Sym Orch/Igor Golovschin
      Glazunov: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6

      Naxos 8.553838

      9:33 am

      Ernest Chausson: "Concert" in D, Op. 21

      IV. Finale

      Rachel Barton Pine, v; Orion Weiss, p; Pacifica Quartet
      French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre

      Cedille CDR-90000238

      9:45 am

      Gian Francesco Malipiero: "Vivaldiana"

      Veneto Phil Orch/Peter Maag
      Malipiero - Orchestral Works

      Marco Polo 8.223397

      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.

      10:01 am

      Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata in G minor

      Anna Shelest, p
      Donna Voce

      Sorel Classics SCCD-015

      10:19 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture, Op. 101

      Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
      Mendelssohn: Overtures

      Berlin Classics 0091572-BC

      10:29 am

      Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas Brasileiras" No. 9

      New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
      Alma Brasileira

      RCA 68538-2

      10:40 am

      Lukas Foss: Three American Pieces

      Duo Sonidos
      Wild Dance

      Naxos 8.574045

      10:53 am

      Giuseppe Verdi: "Luisa Miller"

      Overture

      European Wind Soloists/Patrick De Ritis
      Italian Opera Transcribed for Wind Ensemble

      Naxos 8.573259

      11:00 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Love in Bath"

      "The Pump Room; Beau Nash; The Linleys; Hunting Dance"

      Royal Phil Orch/Sir Thomas Beecham
      Handel: Arr. Beecham - Love In Bath Etc. / RPO

      EMI CDM7-63374-2

      11:09 am

      Francesco Maria Veracini: "Ouverture" (Suite) No. 3 in B-Flat

      Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
      Veracini: 5 Overtures

      Archiv 439937-2

      11:23 am

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

      BBC Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis
      Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6, Tallis Fantasia, The Lark Ascending

      Teldec 73127-2

      11:40 am

      Jacques Ibert: "Trois pièces brèves"

      Prague Wind Quintet
      Modern French Music for Wind Instruments

      Supraphon 110372-2

      11:48 am

      Jean Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22

      No. 4, "Lemminkäinen's Return" (1896 version)

      Lahti Sym Orch/Osmo Vänskä
      Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite

      BIS CD-1015

      12:01 pm

      Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 1

      No. 4, "Simple Gifts"

      Chicago Brass Quintet
      American Voices

      Centaur CRC-3159

      12:03 pm

      Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 2

      No. 4, "At the River"

      Chicago Brass Quintet
      American Voices

      Centaur CRC-3159

      12:06 pm

      Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 2

      No. 5, "Ching-a-ring Chaw"

      Chicago Brass Quintet
      American Voices

      Centaur CRC-3159

      12:08 pm

      Jan Dismas Zelenka: "Sinfonia a 8 Concertanti" in A minor, ZWV 189

      Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz
      Zelenka, Pisendel: Concerti et al.

      RCA-DHM 77339-2

      12:33 pm

      Juventino Rosas: "Sobre las olas (Over the Waves)"

      Mexico Festival Orch/Enrique Bátiz
      Latin American Classics, Vol. 1

      Naxos 8.550838

      12:40 pm

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in F minor, Op. 2, "Gradus ad Parnassum"

      IV. Finale, "Allegro vivace"

      Chineke! Orch members
      Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor

      Decca 4853322

      12:49 pm

      Johannes Brahms: Scherzo in E-flat minor, Op. 4

      Garrick Ohlsson, p
      Brahms: Late Piano Music

      Hyperion CDA-68226

      1:00 pm

      Josef Suk: "Fantastic Scherzo," Op. 25

      Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras
      Suk: Summer Tale, Fantastic Scherzo / Mackerras

      Decca 466443-2

      1:16 pm

      Marin Marais: "La Guitare"

      Trio Settecento
      A French Soirée

      Cedille CDR-90000129

      1:24 pm

      Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan

      Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
      American Adagios

      Telarc CD-80503

      1:33 pm

      Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3 in B minor, Op. 42, "Ilya Murometz"

      I. "Wandering Pilgrims: Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor"

      Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
      Glière: Symphony No. 3

      Naxos 8.573161

      1:55 pm

      Marc-Antoine Charpentier: "Second air de trompette"

      H, W & B Läubin, tr's; Simon Preston, o; Norbert Schmitt, tim
      Simon Preston, organ,
      Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound

      DG 419245-2

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      2:00 pm

      Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata

      Timothy Ridout, vi; James Baillieu, p
      A Lionel Tertis Celebration

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-905376.77

      2:24 pm

      Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fidelio," Op. 72

      Prisoner's Chorus, "O welche Lust"

      Berlin Deutsche Oper Cho, Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli
      Opera Choruses

      DG 415283-2

      2:35 pm

      Manuel de Falla: "Suite populaire espagnole"

      James Ehnes, v; Eduard Laurel, p
      Homage

      Onyx 4038

      2:48 pm

      George Frideric Handel: "Terpsichore"

      Suite: Air of Erato; Entreé (Jalousie); Ballo; Chaconne

      Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
      The Power of Love: Arias from Handel Operas

      Avie AV-2350

      3:00 pm

      Johannes Brahms: "Liebeslieder Waltzes," Op. 52

      Monteverdi Cho/John Eliot Gardiner; Robert Levin & John Perry, p
      Brahms: Choral Works

      Philips 4757558

      3:24 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

      Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
      Bach Favorites

      CBS MLK-39431

      3:35 pm

      Johann Friedrich Fasch: Orchestra Suite (Overture) in D

      Tempesta di Mare
      Fasch: Orchestral Works Vol. 4

      Chandos CHAN-0829

      3:57 pm

      Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2

      Dance I

      Frankfurt Radio Sym/Dmitri Kitayenko
      Shostakovich: Ballet Suites 1 & 3, Suites 1 & 2 for Jazz Orchestra

      RCA 68304-2

      4:00 pm

      Antonín Dvořák: "Carnival" Overture, Op. 92

      Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Mariss Jansons
      Mariss Jansons conducts Dvořák & Suk

      BR Klassik 900145

      4:11 pm

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII:4

      Norwegian Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p
      Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11

      EMI CDC5-56960-2

      4:30 pm

      Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, "Trout"

      I. "Allegro vivace"

      Domus; Chi-chi Nwanoku, db
      Mozart, Schubert: Piano Quartets; "Kegelstatt" Trio; "The Trout" Quintet

      Virgin 61454-2 (2)

      4:44 pm

      Alberto Ginastera: "Estancia," Op. 8

      Ballet Suite (Four Dances)

      Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
      Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel

      DG B0011340-02

      4:57 pm

      Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces for cello and piano

      No. 3

      Roland Pidoux, vc; Emile Naoumoff, p
      Boulanger, Lili and Nadia: In memoriam Lili Boulanger

      Marco Polo 8.223636

      5:00 pm

      Zoltán Kodály: "Dances of Galánta"

      Helsinki Phil Orch/János Fürst
      Kodály: Symphonic Works

      Kontrapunkt 32153/54 (2)

      5:16 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 17

      No. 4 in A minor

      Vassily Primakov, p
      Chopin: Complete Mazurkas

      LP Classics 1021

      5:22 pm

      Yolanda Kondonassis: "Liquid Shadows"

      Yolanda Kondonassis, h
      Pictures of the Floating World

      Telarc CD-80488

      5:28 pm

      Louis Vierne: Piano Quintet, Op. 42

      Trio Wanderer; Catherine Montier, v; Christophe Gaugé, vi
      Franck: Piano Trio & Quintet, Violin Sonata; Vierne: Piano Quintet

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902318.19

      6:00 pm

      Michael Haydn: Symphony in B-Flat, P 9

      London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
      Contemporaries of Mozart - Michael Haydn

      Chandos CHAN-9352

      6:16 pm

      music continues...

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Pacific Overtures II

      In the second week cruising the Pacific Rim, you’ll hear selections from Chile and Colombia. Then the tour heads up into Mexico, where we’ll hear Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez, before motoring to the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Then, we'll sail all the way down to the Philippines, to Java, to China, Korea, and Japan, and finally, the Hawaiian Islands.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Berg Violin Concerto; Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Pintscher "Towards Osiris:" Study for Orchestra; Schoenberg Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor.