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Playlist for Saturday, August 1, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Malcolm Arnold: "Solitaire" (Ballet, 1956)
Sarabande and Polka
Philharmonia Orch/Bryden Thomson
Arnold: Dances
12:05 am
Malcolm Arnold: Three Shanties, Op 4
Nash Ensemble
The Chamber Music Of Malcolm Arnold – 3
12:12 am
Edward MacDowell: "Sea Pieces," Op 55
"Nautilus"
Bohuslav Martinu Phil/Charles Anthony Johnson
MACDOWELL, E.: Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Sea Pieces
12:15 am
Edward MacDowell: "Sea Pieces," Op 55
#4, "Starlight"
James Barbagallo, p
MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1
12:17 am
Edward MacDowell: "Sea Pieces," Op 55
#8, "In Mid-ocean"
James Barbagallo, p
MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1
12:19 am
Gosta Nystroem: Symphony #3 (Sea Symphony)
Söderström, Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Westerberg
12:54 am
Dag Wirén: Three Sea Poems, Op 37
#3, "The Sea"
Jubilate Cho/Astrid Riska
Dag Wiren: Chamber Music, Vol. 2
1:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"
Trio, "Ah, qual colpo"
Munich Rococo Soloists
The Munich Rococo Soloists: The Barber of Seville
1:05 am
Gioachino Rossini: "L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)"
Overture
Montreal Sym Orch
Overtures
1:13 am
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata #2 in A, Op 100
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, v; Cecile Licad, p
1:33 am
Johannes Brahms: "Deutsche Volkslieder" WoO 33
No. 19, "Nur ein Gesicht auf Erden lebt (There’s only one face on earth)"
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
Brahms Volkslieder
1:34 am
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat
Eric Ruske, fh; Iris Chamber Orch/Michael Stern
The Romantic Horn Concerti
1:54 am
Hermann Goetz: "Genrebilder", Op 13
#5
Adrian Ruiz, p
GOETZ: Lose Blätter, op.7; Sonatina in F, op. 8, No. 1; Sonatina in E Flat, op. 8, No. 2; Genrebilder, op.13
2:00 am
Daniel-François Auber: "The Bronze Horse"
Aria, "O tourment du veuvage"
Huguette Tourangeau, s; Suisse Romande Orch/Richard Bonynge
Arias From Forgotten Operas
2:05 am
Daniel-François Auber: "The Bronze Horse"
Overture
BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
BBC Philharmonic / Tortelier: French Bonbons
2:13 am
François Boieldieu: "La dame blanche"
Overture
Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray
Marches and Overtures a la Fancaise
2:20 am
Daniel-François Auber: "Manon Lescaut"
Entr'acte
Radio France Phil/Jean-Pierre Marty
2:22 am
Serge Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 in d minor, Op. 40
Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2
2:55 am
Max Reger: "Romanze"
Issay Barmas, v
3:00 am
Cecile Chaminade: "Air de Ballet," Op 30
Eric Parkin, p
Chaminade: Piano Works
3:05 am
Maurice Ravel: "Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie" (1898)
Ulster Orch/Yan-Pascal Tortelier
Debussy & Ravel Orchestral Works
3:18 am
Johann Strauss II: A Thousand and One Nights
Intermezzo
Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe
Johann Strauss II: Waltzes
3:24 am
Robert Schumann: "Myrthen," Op. 25
No. 25, "Aus den östlichen Rosen"
Ian Partridge, t; Julius Drake, p
Schumann: Myrten · Lieder und Gesänge · Die Löwenbraut
3:26 am
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 44
Leif Ove Andsnes, p; Artemis String Quartet
Piano Quintets
3:54 am
Orlandus (Roland de) Lassus: Motet, "Sicut rosa"
Charles Geyer, tr; Barbara Butler, tr
4:00 am
Charles-Valentin Alkan: Twelve Studies, Op 39
#1, "Comme le vent"
Bernard Ringeissen, p
Alkan: 12 Etudes Op. 35 and 39, Nos. 3 and 12
4:05 am
Anton von Webern: "Im Sommerwind"
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Brahms, Symphony No. 2
4:18 am
Alban Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Mahler: The Symphonies
4:31 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Études," Op. 25
No. 3 in F, "The Horseman"
Lubov Timofeyevna, p
Etudes
4:32 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: "Sinfonia Concertante" in B-Flat, H I:105 (Op. 84)
Soloists; Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Haydn: Piano Concerto No. 11, Symphony No. 105, Il Mondo della Luna Overture in C
4:54 am
David VAN VACTOR: Scherzo
New York Wind Quintet
The Best Of The New York Woodwind Quintet, Vol. 2
5:00 am
Fauré-Messager: Souvenir of Bayreuth, Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Ring
Pierre-Alain Volondat & Patrick De Hooge, p
FAURE: Piano Music for Four Hands
5:04 am
Richard Wagner: "Das Rheingold"
Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
Bournemouth Sym/José Serebrier
Stokowski: Wagner Symphonic Syntheses
5:12 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"
Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music
Dresden Staatskapelle/Donald Runnicles
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Orchestral Highlights), Siegfried-Idyll
5:26 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"
"Ride of the Valkyries"
Cambridge Buskers
The Cambridge Buskers' Compact Classics
5:28 am
Richard Wagner: "Siegfried"
"Forest Murmurs"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Basic 100 Vol 32 - Wagner: Highlights From The Ring
5:37 am
Richard Wagner: "Götterdämmerung"
"Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music"
NBC Sym/Arturo Toscanini
Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts
5:50 am
Peter Schickele: "Last Tango in Bayreuth"
New York Bassoon Quartet
The New York Bassoon Quartet- Now & Then: Recorded works from 1979 and 1999
5:52 am
Peter Schickele: "Dances for Three" (1980)
"Gigue"
Trio Indiana
Trio Indiana - Defaye, Schickele, Kulesha, Kibbe, Fox
6:00 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Moments musicaux," Op. 16
No. 6 in C
Ian Hobson, p
Rachmaninoff: Early Piano Works
6:05 am
Modest Mussorgsky: "Night on Bald Mountain"
London Sym Orch/Yuri Ahronovitch
Russian Spectacular
6:17 am
Alexander Raskatov: "Prelude and Fugue in D minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier," BWV 851
Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer
The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould
6:20 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
For Thy Pleasure: J S Bach and Other Baroque Masters
6:24 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 2, BWV 870/91
Fugue No. 8 in d-sharp minor
Swingle Singers
Bach Hits Back
6:26 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude No. 5 in D
Renaud Capuçon, v; Gautier Capuçon, vc
Inventions * Renaud Capuçon - Gautier Capuçon
6:27 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude No. 22 in b-flat minor
Yale Cellos/Aldo Parisot
VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Bachianas brasileiras Nos. 1 and 5 / BACH, J.S.: Air / Prelude No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867 (Yale Cellos)
6:32 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas brasileiras" No. 1 (1930)
French National Radio Orch/Heitor Villa-Lobos
6:52 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Anna Magdalena Notebook"
Minuet in c minor, BWV. Anh 121
Eastern Brass Quintet
Baroque Brass
7:00 - 9:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:00 am
Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
7:02 am
Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "L'amant anonyme"
Act I, Scene 3: Ballet
Haymarket Opera Orch/Craig Trompeter
L'Amant Anonyme
7:11 am
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, Op. 35
No. 1, "Allegro marcato"
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite
7:18 am
Gaetano Donizetti: "La Favorite"
Ballet music
Philharmonia Orch/Antonio de Almeida
Donizetti: Complete Ballet Music From The Operas
7:38 am
Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A-Flat, Op. 53, "Heroic"
Yundi Li, p
Yundi Li: Live in Beijing
7:45 am
Claire Cowan: "Hansel and Gretel"
"The CanCan"
New Zealand Sym Orch/Hamish McKeich
Royal New Zealand Ballet * Hansel and Gretel * Music by Claire Cowan
7:50 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Orpheus in the Underworld"
"Can-Can (Galop infernal)"
Chicago Harp Quartet
Soirées d'été
7:53 am
John Williams: "Superman"
March
Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams
By Request... The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra
7:57 am
Claude Debussy: Prelude No. 8, "La fille aux cheveux de lin"
Philippe Entremont, p
Debussy's Greatest Hits
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:01 am
Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
No. 15 in D-flat, "Raindrop"
Martha Argerich, p
Nightmoods: Piano Dreams
8:06 am
Sergei Prokofiev: Waltzes, Op. 110
"Since We Met" from "War and Peace"
São Paulo Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 / Waltz Suite / São Paulo Symphony/Alsop
8:14 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Mass"
"Simple Song"
Thomas Hampson, br; Lara Downes, p
For Lenny
8:18 am
Kurt Weill: "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music)"
"Tango-Ballad"
Ebony Band/Werner Herbers
Ebony Band: Weill - Toch - Schulhoff
8:21 am
Jeremy Denk: "Happy Birthday à la Ligeti"
Jeremy Denk, p
8:22 am
Elmer Bernstein: "The Ten Commandments"
Overture to Act I
Studio Orch/Elmer Bernstein
The Ten Commandments 60th Anniversary Soundtrack Collection
8:27 am
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: "Sussex Landscape," Op. 27
III. "Largo-Maestoso"
Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
8:32 am
Bill McGlaughlin: "Bela's Bounce"
Texas All-State Sym Orch/Bill McGlaughlin
2003 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA): All-State Symphony Orchestra, All-State Philharmonic Orchestra & All-State String Orchestra
8:42 am
Mike Nichols: WFMT Announcers' Audition
Ray Nordstrand and Marty Robinson
WFMT: 70 Essential Years
8:44 am
Claude Debussy: "Ariettes oubliées"
No. 2, "Il pleure dans mon coeur"
Sylvia McNair, s; Roger Vignoles, p
Rêveries
8:48 am
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade," Op. 35
IV. Finale, "Festival at Baghdad-The Sea-Shipwreck"
Chicago Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa; Victor Aitay, v
Russian Classics
9:00 - 11:00 am
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:02 am
Jerome Moross: "The Golden Apple"
Overture
Orch/Jay Dias
9:03 am
Jerome Moross: "The Big Country"
Main Title
Orch/Jerome Moross
Moross: The Big Country
9:07 am
Jerome Moross: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Prelude
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Valley of Gwangi - Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:11 am
Jerome Moross: "The Valley of Gwangi"
"The Landscape"
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Valley of Gwangi - Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:17 am
Jerome Moross: "Seven Wonders of the World"
"The Holy Land"
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Cardinal - The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:22 am
Jerome Moross: "Seven Wonders of the World"
"The Mediterranean"
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Cardinal - The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:28 am
Jerome Moross: "A Tall Story"
New Zealand Sym Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Jerome Moross: Frankie and Johnny, A Tall Story for Orchestra, Biguine, Concerto for Flute with String Orchestra
9:38 am
Jerome Moross: "The Sharkfighters"
Overture
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Valley of Gwangi - Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:51 am
Jerome Moross: "The Jayhawkers"
Main Titles
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Cardinal - The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:53 am
Jerome Moross: "The Jayhawkers"
"The Lynching;" "The Two Brothers;" "The Jayhawkers"
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Cardinal - The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
9:59 am
Jerome Moross: "The Jayhawkers"
Finale
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Cardinal - The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
10:01 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Suite italienne"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Bruno Canino, p
Stravinsky: Works for Violin and Piano
10:19 am
Nicola Porpora: Cello Concerto in G
Pulcinella/Ophélie Gaillard, vc
A Night in London
10:37 am
Dani Howard: "Coalescence"
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Pablo Urbina
Dani Howard Orchestral Works
10:51 am
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C, D 956
IV. Finale, "Allegretto"
Alban Berg Quartet; Heinrich Schiff, vc
Schubert: Quintet in C
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
An encore presentation of cellist Jeffrey Tong's performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69 with pianist Liang-yu Wang. Originally broadcast April 27, 2024.
11:16 am
Gaetano Donizetti: Oboe Concertino in F
Günther Passin, ob; RIAS Sinfonietta/Jiří Stárek
Lindpaintner, Donizetti: Sinfonie Concertante, Concertini
11:24 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Othello," Op. 79
Suite
Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
11:40 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
11:49 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert Rondo in D, K. 382
English Chamber Orch/Murray Perahia, p
Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 537 "Coronation" / Rondos, K. 382 & 386
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
From Gran Teatre del Liceu
Donizetti's The Elixir of Love
Pretty Yende (Adina); Michael Spyres (Nemorino); Jan Antem (Belcore); Fabio Capitanucci (Dulcamara); Núria Vilà (Giannetta); Gran Teatre del Liceu Chorus and Orchestra; Diego Matheuz, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:18 pm
John Adams: "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"
Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
Adams: Shaker Loops
2:22 pm
Amy Beach: Romance, Op. 23
Himari, v; Chelsea Wang, p
HIMARI
2:30 pm
Afternoon Music
2:30 pm
David Del Tredici: "Final Alice"
"Acrostic Song"
Amy Conn, s; Grant Park Cho/Christopher Bell
Songs of Smaller Creatures and Other American Choral Works
2:35 pm
Aaron Copland: "The Red Pony" Suite
Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Aaron Copland: Four Dances from Rodeo; The Red Pony (Suite); Prairie Journal; Letter from Home
3:00 pm
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: String Sinfonietta No. 1
III. Finale, Rondo, "Allegro furioso"
Experiential Orch/James Blachly
American Counterpoints
3:07 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Op. 1
Catalyst Quartet; Stewart Goodyear, p
Uncovered, Volume 1
3:35 pm
Henry Purcell: "Dido and Aeneas"
Act III, Final scene, "But death, alas!...When I am laid in earth...With drooping wings"
Joyce DiDonato, ms; Il Pomo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
3:45 pm
Edward Elgar: "Salut d'amour," Op. 12
Ludwig Orch
Dance With Me
3:50 pm
Rebecca Clarke: "Dumka"
Hélène Collerette, v; Vinciane Béranger, vi; Dana Ciocarlie, p
Rebecca Clarke: Works for Viola
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
Conductor Christopher Bell joins WFMT to celebrate 25 years as director of the Grant Park Chorus in advance of the 2026 season finale.
5:00 - 8:00 pm
5:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
5:01 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano," Op. 2
Emanuel Ax, p; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Variations on Là ci darem la mano, Grande Valse Brillante
5:19 pm
Zygmunt Noskowski: Symphony No. 3 in F, "From Spring to Spring"
II. "Summer"
Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Antoni Wit
Zygmunt Noskowski: Symphony No. 3
5:29 pm
Henryk Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Bomsori Kim, v; Warsaw Phil Orch/Jacek Kaspszyk
Wieniawski & Shostakovich
5:54 pm
Maria Szymanowska: Nocturne in B-Flat
Natasha Stojanovska, p
Uncommon Voices: Women Composers from Eastern Europe
6:00 pm
Johanna Senfter: Symphony No. 1 in F Major, Op. 22
Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Chelsea Gallo
Johanna Senfter Symphonies No. 1 & 9
6:30 pm
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
I. "Allegro"
Vision String Quartet
Memento: Schubert & Mendelssohn
6:42 pm
Johannes Brahms: Song, "Unbewegte laue Luft," Op. 57, No. 8
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, ms; Peter Serkin, p
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Ravinia
7:00 pm
music continues...
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Louie Lou Louis is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn, New York, whose music lifts up his Caribbean heritage while lifting up everyone around him. He sings and plays like an island breeze.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Songs about The Dog Days of August, other mythical and earthly creatures. Also, a 95th birthday tribute to the unstoppable Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.
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