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Playlist for Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Garrop: Oratorio, "Terra Nostra"
Chorus, "A Blade of Grass/I Bequeath Myself"
Northwestern Sym Orch, Alice Millar Choir; Uniting Voices/Alltop
12:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Cassation in G, Hob II:G1
Linde Consort/Hans-Martin Linde
12:20 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Polka"
Daniel Hope, v; Alexey Botvinov, p
Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano
12:21 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 in c-sharp, Op. 129
Daniel Hope, v; BBC Sym Orch/Maxim Shostakovich
Violin Concertos 1 & 2
12:54 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: Five Pieces for two violins and piano
No. 2, "Gavotte"
Gidon Kremer & Madara Petersone, v's; Georgijs Osokins, p
Shostakovich Discoveries: World Premiere Recordings and Rarities
1:00 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Hippolyte et Aricie"
Aria, "Rossignols amoureux"
Annick Massis, s; Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Hippolyte Et Aricie
1:05 am
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Clavier Suite in G
Carole Cerasi, hc
English Suites BWV 806- 811
1:13 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"
Symphonies
Pierre Hamon, f; Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
Corelli * Telemann * Rameau * Le Concerto Spirituel au Temps de Louis XV
1:23 am
François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 3 (1722): 14e ordre in D/d
"La Linote-éfarouchée"
Carole Cerasi, hc
Couperin: Complete Works for Harpsichord
1:25 am
Charles Gounod: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat
RAI Orch/Ernest Bour
Le médecin malgré lui
1:55 am
Charles Gounod: Song, "The Fountaint Mingles With the River"
Felicity Lott, s; Graham Johnson, p
Songs by Charles Gounod
2:00 am
Jean Sibelius: "Valse triste," Op. 44, No. 1
West-Eastern Divan Orch/Daniel Barenboim
Symphony No. 5, Overture, La Forza Del Destino, Valse Triste
2:05 am
Grazyna Bacewicz: Violin Sonata No. 1, "Sonata da camera"
Lydia Mordkovitch, v; Ian Fountain, p
Lydia Mordkovitch plays Bacewicz & Enescu
2:18 am
Jean Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite, Op. 11
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
2:33 am
Jean Sibelius: "King Christian II" Suite, Op. 27
"Menuetto"
Lahti Sym Orch/Osmo Vänskä
Karelia Suite / King Christian II / Pelléas Et Mélisande (Original Versions)
2:35 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata no.3 in E-Flat, Op.12/3
Itzhak Perlman, v; Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
The Violin Sonatas
2:55 am
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "Tango"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Samuel Sanders, p
Itzhak Perlman: Encores
3:00 am
Hector Berlioz: Eight Scenes from "Faust," Op. 1
"Le Roi de Thulé"
Angelika Kirchschlager, ms; Radio France Orch/Yutaka Sado
Faust * Berlioz * Liszt * Wagner * Yutaka Sado
3:23 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.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
The Russian Five
This group, also known as The Mighty Handful, includes Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Led by Balakirev, they helped create the Russian National School of Composers in Saint Petersburg from 1856 to 1870. Bill introduces each composer and shares important works performed by renowned musicians.
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Yehudi Menuhin, Part 2 (3/4/1986)
The second half of a two-part conversation with violinist, conductor, and musical mentor, Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin and author Karen Shaffer. This hour includes Menuhin's collaborations with Ravi Shankar and jazz violinist Stéphane Grappellim, and concludes with a selection of the Beethoven Violin Concerto featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Furtwangler.
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