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      Playlist for Friday, April 3, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Arthur Bird: "Valse Menuett and Gavotte"

      Gowanus Arts Ensemble/Reuben Blundell
      American Romantics

      New Focus Recordings FCR-166-B

      12:05 am

      Horatio Parker: Suite for Piano Trio, Op 35

      Rawlins Trio
      Three American Piano Trios

      Albany TROY-107

      12:25 am

      Francis Johnson: "Bingham's Cotillion"

      Tami Lee Hughues, v; Ellen Bottorff, p
      Legacy

      Albany TROY-1293

      12:27 am

      Johann Halvorsen: Symphony #2 in d, "Fatum"

      Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi
      Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol 2 -- Thorsen / Bergen PO / Järvi

      Chandos CHAN-10614

      12:55 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Heart's Melodies," Op. 5

      No. 3, "Jeg elsker dig (I love thee)"

      Anne Sofie von Otter, ms; Bengt Forsberg, p
      Songs - Lieder

      DG 437521-2

      1:00 am

      Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Sonata in A, "Easter"

      III. "Scherzo"

      Isata Kanneh-Mason
      Fanny Mendelssohn

      Decca 4870256

      1:05 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 in d, Op 40

      Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym/Lawrence Foster
      Piano Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor

      Hyperion CDA-66969

      1:26 am

      Emmanuel Chabrier: "Feuillet d'album"

      Stephen Hough, p
      Stephen Hough in Recital

      Hyperion CDA-67686

      1:28 am

      Felix Borowski: "Suite Rococo"

      Gowanus Arts Ensemble/Reuben Blundell
      American Romantics, Volume II

      New Focus Recordings FCR-166-B

      1:37 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

      Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; USSR State Sym Orch/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
      Rostropovich - The Russian Years

      EMI CDZM5-72016-2 (13)

      1:55 am

      Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)

      No. 3, "Alla czeca"

      Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Manfred Honeck
      Tchaikovsky: Symphony 5; Schulhoff: Five Pieces

      Reference FR-752

      2:00 am

      Giuseppe Verdi: "Macbeth"

      Chorus of Scottish refugees, "Patria oppressa"

      Chicago Sym Cho, Orch/Sir Georg Solti
      Verdi: Choruses * CSO * Solti

      London 430226-2

      2:04 am

      Ernest Bloch: "Macbeth"

      Two Interludes

      Royal Phil/Dalia Atlas
      Bloch: Symphony in E flat & other works

      ASV CDDCA-1019

      2:18 am

      Arthur Sullivan: "Macbeth" Incidental Music

      RTE Chamber Cho, Concert Orch/Andrew Penny
      SULLIVAN : Incidental Music

      Marco Polo 8.223635

      2:37 am

      Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Mikado"

      "For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum"

      Soloists; Orch/Carl Davis
      Topsy- Turvy

      Sony SK-61834

      2:39 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E, BWV 1042

      Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Joshua Bell, v
      Joshua Bell- Bach

      Sony 08779-2

      2:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale, "Als Jesus Christus in der Nacht," BWV 265

      Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
      Bach Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      3:00 am

      Antonin Reicha: 24 Horn Trios, Op 82

      #3

      German Natural Horn Soloists
      Anton Reicha

      MD+ G Productions 6050864-2

      3:05 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36

      Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
      Beethoven * 9 Symphonien * Berliner Philharmoniker * Claudio Abbado

      DG 469000-2 (5)

      3:37 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Neue Liebeslieder" Waltzes, Op 65

      #9, "Nagen am Herzen fühl ich"

      Christine Goerke, s; Norman Mackenzie, Wustman, p
      Christine Goerke,
      Brahms - Liebeslieder Waltzes

      Telarc CD-80326

      3:38 am

      Fritz Kreisler: "Liebesleid"

      Maxim Vengerov, v; Ian Brown, p
      Kreisler, Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski

      EMI/Ang CDC5-57916-2

      3:42 am

      Fritz Kreisler: "Liebesfreud"

      Maxim Vengerov, v; Ian Brown, p
      Kreisler, Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski

      EMI/Ang CDC5-57916-2

      3:45 am

      Franz Lehár: "Zigeunerliebe Walzer"

      Vienna Johann Strauss Orch/Willi Boskovsky
      Lehar: Waltzes

      EMI CDC7-47020-2

      3:54 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 - 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

      Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

      German composer Felix Mendelssohn has been hailed as one of the greatest musical minds of all time. This week, Bill ventures from his precocious youth to his early death surveying his great body of work including the beloved Violin Concerto, String Octet, and "Italian" Symphony.

      8:00 - 11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Best of Studs Terkel

      N. Scott Momaday (4/26/1993)

      Pulitzer prize winning author N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024) was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, to a father of Kiowa Indian heritage and a mother of European and Cherokee heritage. In April 1996, he shared some of his writing and life experiences with Studs including readings from his book of poetry, "In the Presence of the Sun."