Thursday, February 19, 2026

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      Playlist for Thursday, February 19, 2026

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      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Augustìn Barrios Mangoré: "Mazurca Apasionada"

      Thibaut Garcia, g
      El Bohemio

      Warner 5054197726170

      12:05 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "Mazurka-Obéreque"

      Itzhak Perlman, v; Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster

      EMI/Ang CDC5-55475-2

      12:15 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Four Mazurkas, Op. 33

      Maurizio Pollini, p
      Pollini/Chopin

      DG B0011939-02

      12:26 am

      Ole Olsen: Little Suite

      2nd mvt, "Masurka"

      Jorunn Bratlie, p, Norwegian Radio Orch/Christian Eggen
      Little Suite For Piano And String Orchestra And Piano Works By 7 Women Composers

      Norsk NKFCD-50024-2

      12:28 am

      Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64

      Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
      Peer Gynt Suites/ Lyric Suite/Piano Concerto

      Chandos CHAN-9113

      12:55 am

      Edvard Grieg: Six Songs, Op. 48

      No. 1 "Gruss (Greeting)"

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

      DG 437521-2

      1:00 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Wake)"

      Opening chorale, "Wake up, the voice calls us"

      Fine Arts Brass
      Fine Arts Brass Play Baroque

      Nimbus NI-5651

      1:05 am

      Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Lute Suite in d

      Ronn McFarlane, l
      Lute Recital: McFarlane, Ronn - BACH, J.S. / KELLNER, D. / WEISS, S.L. (A Distant Shore)

      Dorian DOR-90242

      1:21 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 70, "Wachet! betet! betet! Wachet!" (Advent)

      Chorale: "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele"

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

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      1:23 am

      Gabriel Fauré: "Masques et Bergamasques", Op 112

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Pavane: Ravel, Satie and Faure

      DG 449186-2

      1:37 am

      Claude Debussy: "Suite bergamasque"

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Debussy: Images, Etudes

      London 460247-2 (2)

      1:54 am

      Jean-Baptiste Lully: "George Dandin"

      Overture

      Ensemble Marguerite Louise
      George Dandin

      Versailles CVS-027

      2:00 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61

      "Nocturne"

      Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Rafael Kubelik
      Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, Alborada Del Gracioso- Une Barque Sur L'Ocean, Pavane pour Une Infante Defunte

      DG 413656-2

      2:05 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in d, Op. 19/4

      Zuill Bailey, vc; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
      Russian Masterpieces for Cello and Orchestra

      Telarc CD-80724

      2:10 am

      Luis Jordà: "Danzas Nocturnas"

      No. 2

      Argentina Duràn, p
      Rapsodia Mexicana

      Bravo Music0

      2:11 am

      Guillaume Lekeu: Cello Sonata in f

      Luc Dewez, vc; Luc Devos, p
      Guillaume Lekeu Complete Works

      Ricercar RIC-351 (8)

      2:55 am

      Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Psyché"

      "Prelude en echo"

      Ensemble Marguerite Louise
      George Dandin

      Versailles CVS-027

      3:00 am

      Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op 50

      St Martin's Academy and Cho/Sir Neville Marriner
      Neville Marriner- The Argo Years

      Argo 410552-2

      3:05 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Pavane pour une infante défunte"

      Van Cliburn, p
      A Romantic Collection

      RCA 60414-2-RG

      3:12 am

      Daniel-François Auber: "Fra Diavolo"

      Overture

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      William Tell And Other Favorite Overtures

      Telarc CD-80116

      3:20 am

      Ferdinand Hérold: "Zampa"

      Overture

      BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
      BBC Philharmonic / Tortelier: French Bonbons

      Chandos CHAN-9765

      3:28 am

      Johann Strauss II: Zampa Galopp, Op. 62a

      Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
      The Strauss Album

      Black Box BBM-1059

      3:29 am

      Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: String Quartet Concerto in a, Op 131

      Lark String Quartet, San Francisco Ballet Orch/Jean-Louis LeRoux
      Handel / Schoenberg / Spohr / Elgar - Works For String Quartet And Orchestra

      Arabesque Z-6723

      3:54 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)"

      I. "Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty)"

      Brodsky String Quartet
      Brodsky Unlimited

      Teldec 46015-2

      4:00 am

      Heinrich von Biber: Sonatae "tam aris quam aulis servientes"

      Sonata No. 12

      Rare Fruits Council/Manfredo Kraemer
      Biber: Sontatae- Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes

      Astrée E-8630

      4:05 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in d minor, BWV 1004

      V. "Chaconne"

      Leon Fleisher, p
      Leon Fleischer: Recital

      Sony SK-48081

      4:22 am

      Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand

      Leon Fleisher, p; Baltimore Sym Orch/Sergiu Comissiona

      Vanguard VCD-72002

      4:39 am

      Diomedes Cato: Galliarda I

      Konrad Ragossnig, l
      Works For Lute

      DG Archiv 2533294

      4:41 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Tragic" Overture, Op.81

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink
      Piano Concertos, Overtures, Haydn Variations

      Philips 442068-2 (4)

      4:55 am

      Geirr Tveitt: Suite #1, "A Hundred Folk Tunes from Hardanger," Op 151

      #4, "Berries of mountain and moor"

      Stavanger Sym Orch/Ole Kristian Ruud
      100 Folk-Tunes From Hardanger, Suites 1 & 2

      BIS CD-987

      5:00 am

      Emmanuel Chabrier: Song, "L'Invitation au Voyage"

      Felicity Lott, s; Graham Johnson, p
      Mélodies sur des poèmes de Baudelaire

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901219

      5:05 am

      Vincent D'Indy: "Tableaux de voyage," Op 36

      Württemberg Phil/Gilles Nopre
      D' INDY : Orchestra Works

      Marco Polo 8.223659

      5:22 am

      Joseph Boudin de Boismortier: "Les Voyages de l'Amour"

      Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
      BOISMORTIER: Serenades Francaises / Fragments Melodiques

      Naxos 8.554456

      5:27 am

      Jacques Ibert: "Carignane" for Bassoon and Piano

      David McGill, bn; Peter Serkin, p
      Musique Francaise

      Boston Records BR-1022-CD

      5:29 am

      Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in a, Op. 41, No. 1

      Eroica Quartet
      Schumann: String Quartets, Op. 41 Nos. 1-3

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907270

      5:54 am

      Gerald Finzi: Song, "Rollicum-Rorum"

      Brett Polegato, br; Iain Burnside, p

      Radio Canada Int'l MVCD-1134

      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

      Gerald Finzi: "Eclogue," Op. 10

      Tom Poster, p; Aurora Orch/Nicholas Collon
      Introit - The Music of Gerald Finzi

      Decca 4789357

      6:16 am

      Madeleine Dring: Trio for oboe, bassoon & keyboard

      III. Finale, "Allegro con brio"

      Nicholas Daniel, ob; Amy Harman, bn; Antonio Oyarzábal, p
      Complete Works for Oboe by Madeleine Dring

      Chandos CHAN-20344

      6:22 am

      Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in A minor

      I. Allegro

      London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley
      Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies

      Chandos CHAN-10283

      6:31 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Tänzchen im alten Stil"

      Helsinki Phil Orch/John Storgårds
      Korngold: Symphony in F-Sharp, etc

      Ondine ODE-1182-2

      6:40 am

      Luigi Boccherini: Sextet in E-Flat, Op. 38, No. 1 (G 467), "Divertimento notturno"

      Sally Walker, f; et al.
      Elizabeth Layton, violin,
      Robert Nairn, double bass,
      Boccherini: Chamber Works for Flute

      Avie AV-2698

      6:54 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 97 in C

      IV. Finale, "Presto assai"

      Cleveland Orch/George Szell
      Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 97, 98, 99

      Sony MHK-62979

      7:04 am

      Johann Adolf Hasse: Sinfonia, Op. 5, No. 6

      Concerto Köln/Pablo Heras-Casado
      El Maestro: Farinelli

      Archiv 4792050

      7:14 am

      Jessie Montgomery: "Strum"

      Catalyst Quartet
      Strum: Music for Strings

      Azica ACD-71302

      7:22 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11

      II. "Andante cantabile"

      Berlin Phil/Mstislav Rostropovich, vc
      Great Works for Cello & Orchestra

      DG 437952-2 (2)

      7:32 am

      Béla Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1

      Gil Shaham, v; Chicago Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
      Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2

      DG 459639-2

      7:45 am

      Ottorino Respighi: Six Little Pieces

      Tony Lenti & Mary Ann Lenti, p
      Forgotten Piano Duets, Vol. 1

      ACA 20009-9

      7:56 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt," Op. 23

      No. 16, "Anitra's Dance"

      Michala Petri, r; English Chamber Orch/Okko Kamu
      Grieg: Holberg Suite, Melodies and Dances

      RCA 61881-2

      8:03 am

      Pierre Muller: Valse, "Nuit étoilée"

      Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Jerome Cohen
      French Ballroom Favourites: Les succès de la danse

      Marco Polo 8.223801

      8:14 am

      Franz Schubert: "Notturno" in E-Flat, D 897

      Christian Tetzlaff, v; Tanya Tetzlaff, vc; Lars Vogt, p
      Schubert: Piano Trios, Notturno, Rondo, Arpeggione Sonata

      Ondine ODE-1394-2D

      8:22 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103, "Egyptian"

      III. Finale, "Molto allegro"

      Philippe Entremont, p; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
      A Century of French Music

      Sony 88875192862

      8:30 am

      Ferdinando Carulli: Serenade No. 1 in A, Op. 96

      Waller & Maxwell Guitar Duo
      Spain, Italy and the New World

      Senti SP-2810012

      8:40 am

      Mikhail Glinka: "Ruslan and Lyudmila"

      Dances in Naina's Castle (Act 3)

      Bolshoi Theatre Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
      Mikhail Glinka: Symphonic Operatic Excerpts

      Melodiya SUCD-1000166

      8:52 am

      Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio in E-Flat, Op. 40

      II. Scherzo: "Allegro"

      Jenő Keveházi, hn; Ildikó Hegyi, v; Jenő Jandó, p
      Heroic Horn: Best Loved Classical Music

      Naxos 8.578177

      9:04 am

      Aaron Copland: "Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)"

      Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
      Aaron Copland: Four Dances from Rodeo; The Red Pony (Suite); Prairie Journal; Letter from Home

      Naxos 8.559240

      9:17 am

      Avril Coleridge-Taylor: "Sussex Landscape," Op. 27

      Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor
      Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor

      Decca 4853322

      9:33 am

      Nino Rota: "The Clowns"

      Suite

      La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly
      Nino Rota: Music for the Films of Federico Fellini

      Decca 4832869

      9:48 am

      Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor"

      Polovtsian Dances

      Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
      Pops Caviar - Russian Orchestral Fireworks

      RCA 68132-2

      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.

      10:00 am

      Franz Schubert: Impromptu in B-Flat, D 935, No. 3

      Alfred Brendel, p
      Schubert: Impromptus

      Philips 422237-2

      10:12 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt," Op. 23

      Suite No. 2, Op. 55

      Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley
      Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2, Lyric Suite, Piano Concerto

      Chandos CHAN-8723

      10:30 am

      Jean-Baptiste Arban: "Fantaisie brillante" (Theme and Variations)

      Romain Leleu, cornet; Julien Gernay, p
      Folies Parisiennes - Paris, de l'Exposition Universelle aux années 1890

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-905381

      10:39 am

      Alan Hovhaness: "Alleluia and Fugue," Op. 40b

      Seattle Sym Strings/Gerard Schwarz
      Hovhaness Collection, Vol. 2

      Delos DE-3157

      10:49 am

      Arcangelo Corelli: Violin Sonata in C, Op. 5, No. 3

      Trio Settecento
      An Italian Sojourn

      Cedille CDR-90000099

      11:00 am

      Federico Moreno Torroba: "Castles of Spain"

      "Sigüenza; Manzanares el Real; Romance de los Pinos; Turégano"

      Christopher Parkening, g
      A Tribute to Segovia

      EMI CDC7-49404-2

      11:11 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor, "The Hen"

      London Mozart Players/Jane Glover
      Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 83 "The Hen", 84 & 88/Jane Glover

      ASV CDQS-6167

      11:35 am

      Louise Farrenc: Variations on Rossini's "La Cenerentola," Op. 5

      Maria Stratigou, p
      Louise Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2: Variations

      Grand Piano GP-934

      11:45 am

      Anton Bruckner: Overture in G minor

      Southwest German Radio Sym Orch/Leopold Hager
      Bruckner, Schumann, Spohr – Ouvertüre G-Moll, Konzert Für Violine & Orchester A-Moll, Sinfonie Nr. 3 C-Moll Op. 78

      Amati SRR-8904/1

      11:56 am

      Anton Bruckner: Motet, "Locus iste"

      Vienna Boys' Cho; Cho Viennensis/Hans Gillesberger
      A Ceremony of Carols

      Acanta 41232

      12:01 pm

      Leoš Janáček: "Pohádka (Fairy Tale)"

      Alexander Hersh, vc; Drew Petersen, p
      Absinthe

      Alexander Hersh (Absinthe)

      12:14 pm

      Tomaso Albinoni: Two-Oboe Concerto in F, Op. 9, No. 3

      Hans Peter Westermann & Helmut Hucke, ob's; Capella Clementina/Helmut Müller-Brühl
      Concerti Barocchi

      Koch 3-1615-2

      12:27 pm

      Robert Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52

      Orch Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner
      Schumann: Complete Symphonies

      Archiv 457591-2 (3)

      12:45 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Etudes, Op. 25

      No. 1 in A-Flat, "Aeolian Harp"

      Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
      Chopin: Etudes / Vladimir Ashkenazy

      Decca 414127-2

      12:48 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10

      No. 3 in E, "Tristesse"

      Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
      The Art Of Ashkenazy

      Decca 466462-2 (2)

      12:53 pm

      Antonín Dvořák: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46

      No. 3 in A-Flat, "Polka"

      Israel Phil Orch/Leonard Bernstein
      Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 'From The New World'

      DG 427346-2

      1:00 pm

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19

      Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orch of Wales/Andrew Constantine
      Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos

      Orchid Classics ORC-100127

      1:29 pm

      Eric Whitacre: "Lux Aurumque"

      Polyphony/Stephen Layton
      Eric Whitacre * Cloudburst and Other Choral Works

      Hyperion CDA-67543

      1:33 pm

      Karl Jenkins: "Healing Light"

      Polyphony/Stephen Layton
      Karl Jenkins: Motets

      DG 4793232

      1:37 pm

      Percy Grainger: "Green bushes" (Passacaglia on an English Folksong)

      English Chamber Orch/Steuart Bedford
      Salute to Percy Grainger

      Decca 425159-2

      1:46 pm

      Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat

      Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Lev Markiz
      Mendelssohn: Symphonies (Complete)

      Brilliant Classics 93777 (7)

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

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

      2:00 pm

      Charles-Valentin Alkan: Etude, "Le Festin d'Ésope," Op. 39, No. 12

      Bruce Liu, p
      Waves

      DG 4864400

      2:12 pm

      Joaquín Turina: Piano Trio No. 1 in D, Op. 35

      Eaken Piano Trio
      Masterpieces

      Excelcius 730172

      2:32 pm

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-Flat, K. 450

      I. "Allegro"

      Alfred Brendel, p; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Mozart: The Piano Concertos

      Philips 412856-2 (10)

      2:43 pm

      Tielman Susato: "The Danserye" (1551)

      Six Dances

      Millar Brass Ensemble/Vincent Cichowicz
      Brass Surround

      Delos DE-3171

      2:58 pm

      Count Basie: Jumpin' at the Woodside

      Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
      Labyrinth

      Delos DE-3163

      3:00 pm

      Enrique Granados: "Escenas románticas"

      Alicia de Larrocha, p
      Icon: Alicia De Larrocha

      EMI CMS7-64524-2 (2)

      3:24 pm

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71

      #12, Divertissement

      Milwaukee Sym Orch/Andreas Delfs
      Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

      Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 708761739923

      3:40 pm

      music continues...

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Johannes Brahms, Part I

      The first of a two-week biography exploring the music and life of a defining voice of the German Romantic Era. In his formative years as a pianist, Brahms befriends Robert and Clara Schumann, and with their support and later with the violinist Joseph Joachim, develops his musical voice. Topics includes Brahms’s struggles to publish symphonies on the heels of Beethoven and writing the German Requiem.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Bernstein "Chichester Psalms" (World premiere performance); John Bogart, boy alto; Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish;" Camerata Singers; Columbus Boychoir; Felicia Montealgre, speaker; Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano; Suites 1 and 2 from the "Dybbuk;" Paul Sperry, tenor; Bruce Fifer, bass-baritone; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.