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Playlist for Saturday, January 10, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Ave Maria"
Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; English Chamber Orch/Nicholas Cleobury
Travels With My Cello
12:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Italian Concerto" in F, BWV 971
Kenneth Gilbert, hc
Bach: Italian Concerto
12:17 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale, "Gott sei gelobet und benedeiet," BWV 322
Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
Bach Edition: Complete Works
12:19 am
Franz Berwald: "The Queen of Golconda"
Overture
Royal Phil/Ulf Björlin
Berwald: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, Festival of the Bayaderes, Queen of Golconda Overture
12:26 am
Elfrida Andrée: "Fritiof" Suite
Norrkoping Sym Orch/Hermann Bäumer
Elfrida Andrée
12:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786
No. 5 in E-flat
Ton Koopman, hc
1:00 am
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Motet, "Tanto tempore vobiscum"
Netherlands Chamber Choir/Paul van Nevel
1:05 am
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto Armonico #3 in A
Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
6 Concerti Armonici
1:13 am
Bohuslav Martinu: "Cinq pièces brèves"
#4
Leonardo Trio
1:15 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.6 in D, Op. 61a
Tapiola Sinfonietta/Olli Mustonen, p
Beethoven: Piano Cto No 3 * Violin Cto (Piano Version)
1:54 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Six "Ecossaisen," WoO 83
Olli Mustonen, p
Beethoven: Variations, Dances and Bagatelles
2:00 am
William Grant Still: Folk Suite #4
Sierra Winds, Carol Urban-Stivers, p
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
2:05 am
William Grant Still: "Folk Suite" #3
Sierra Winds, Carol Urban-Stivers, p
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
2:10 am
William Grant Still: Folk Suite #2
"El Zapatero"
Sierra Winds
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
2:12 am
Franz Liszt: "Dante" Symphony
London Oratory School Schola; London Sym Orch/Leon Botstein
Liszt: Dante Symphony, Etc
2:54 am
Franz Liszt: "Responsories and Antiphons"
"Sepulto Domino"
Leslie Howard, p
Responsories and Antiphons
3:00 am
John Williams: "Star Wars" film music
Main title
London Phil/Dirk Brossé
The Genius of Film Music: Hollywood Blockbusters 1980s-2000s
3:05 am
Jerome Moross: "The Cardinal" (1963)
Suite
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
3:30 am
Elmer Bernstein: "Far From Heaven"
"Walking Through The Town"
Studio Orchestra/Elmer Bernstein
Far From Heaven (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3:32 am
Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet in E, Op.11 no.5, G 275
"Minuet"
Mischa Maisky, vc; Daria Hovora, p
Cellissimo
3:36 am
Luigi Boccherini: Symphony #16 in A, Op 37/4 (G 518)
I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Boccherini: Tre Sinfonie A Grande Orchestra Op. 21 No. 3 / No. 16: Op. 37 No. 4 / No. 4: Op. 12 No. 4 "La Casa del Diavolo"
3:57 am
Stephen Heller: 20 Preludes, Op 150
#2
Jean Martin, p
HELLER : Preludes Opp. 81 and 150
4:00 am
George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"
"It Ain't Necessarily So"
Simon Estes, b-br; Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Gershwin*, Simon Estes, Roberta Alexander, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Leonard Slatkin – Porgy And Bess (Highlights • Querschnitt)
4:05 am
Michel-Richard Delalande: "Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy (for the King's Supper)"
Deuxiéme Fantaisie ou Caprice que le Roy demandoit
Paillard Chamber Orch/Jean-François Paillard
Delande: Simphonies Pour Les Soupers Du Roy: Concert De Trompettes De Versailles, Trois Caprices
4:15 am
François Couperin: "Concert royal" #2
Clavecin en Concert
Couperin: Concerts Royaux - Luc Beauséjour
4:30 am
François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 3 (1722):16 ordre in G/g
"La Letiville"
Carole Cerasi, hc
Couperin: Complete Works for Harpsichord
4:31 am
George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture"
Pittsburgh Sym/Fritz Reiner
From Gershwin's Time: 1920-1945
4:55 am
Richard Rodney Bennett: "Suite for Skip and Sadie"
"Good Morning"
Richard Rodney Bennett, Carol Rosenberger, p
BENNETT, R.R.: Suite for Skip and Sadie / Partridge Pie / 7 Days a Week / WALTON, W.: Duets for Children
5:00 am
Jessie Montgomery: "Voodoo Dolls"
Apollo Chamber Players
Jessie Montgomery
5:05 am
Johann Samuel Endler: Sinfonia à 7 in F
Josh Cohen, tr; Ensemble Sprezzatura/Daniel Abraham
5:21 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Études," Op. 10
No. 5 in G-flat, "Black Key"
Vladimir Horowitz, p
Horowitz: Early Romantics
5:23 am
Georges Bizet: Variations on a Theme from "Carmen"
Arcadi Volodos, p
Volodos- Piano Transcriptions
5:27 am
Zoltán Kodály: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, "The Peacock"
London Phil/Franz Welser-Möst
5:54 am
Edvard Grieg: 25 Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op. 17
No. 6, "Wedding Tune"
Eva Knardahl, p
Grieg: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5
6:00 am
George Frideric Handel: "Amaryllis" Suite
Gavotte and Scherzo
Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham
6:05 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 3
Oregon Guitar Quartet
Realizations * Oregon Guitar Quartet
6:19 am
George Frideric Handel: "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato"
"Or Let the Merry Bells Ring Round"
Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York/Richard Kapp
Sleigh Ride!
6:20 am
Theodor Kullak: Piano Concerto in c, Op 55
Piers Lane, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Niklas Willén
Kullak: Piano Concerto In C Minor, Op 55 (First Recording)/ Dreyschock: Piano Concerto In D Minor, Op 137 (First Recording)
6:55 am
Stephen Heller: 20 Preludes, Op 150
#12
Jean Martin, p
HELLER : Preludes Opp. 81 and 150
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:03 am
William Grant Still: "Seven Traceries"
Denver Oldham, p
Africa: Piano Music of William Grant Still
7:21 am
Edward Elgar: "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36
No. 9, "Nimrod"
London Sym Orch/Adrian Boult
100 Best Classics
7:27 am
Caroline Shaw: Three Essays
No. 1, "Nimrod"
Calidore String Quartet
Babel
7:36 am
Ludovico Einaudi: "Divenire"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait
7:45 am
Antonio Pasculli: "Homage to Bellini"
Hansjörg Schellenberger, eh; Margit-Anna Süss, h
Duo Recital
7:55 am
Franz Schubert: Impromptu in G-Flat, D 899, No. 3
Jenő Jandó, p
Perfect Piano: Best Loved Classical Music
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:01 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43
Variation No. 18
Cécile Ousset, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Best Loved Classics Vol. 8
8:04 am
Claudio Monteverdi: "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)
"Deus in adiutorium/Domine ad adiuvandum"
La Cetra/Andrea Marcon
Monteverdi: Christmas Vespers
8:08 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24
Waltz
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Panorama: Peter Tchaikovsky II
8:16 am
Manuel Ponce: "Estrellita"
Renata Tebaldi, s; New Philharmonia Orch/Richard Bonynge
Renata Tebaldi - Voce d'angelo
8:18 am
Manuel Ponce: "Estrellita"
Manuel Barrueco, g
Cantos y Danzas
8:23 am
George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"
"Summertime"
Leontyne Price, s; RCA Victor Orch/Skitch Henderson
Porgy and Bess Highlights
8:29 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"
Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music
Berlin Phil/Klaus Tennstedt
Wagner: Music From The Ring
8:38 am
Ottorino Respighi: "The Birds"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds
8:57 am
Fela Sowande: "African Suite"
V. Finale, "Akinla"
Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman
African Heritage Symphonic Series - Vol. I
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:02 am
Bernard Herrmann: "Torn Curtain"
Prelude
Royal Phil Orch/Elmer Bernstein
Torn Curtain
9:05 am
Bernard Herrmann: "Torn Curtain"
"Valse lente"
Royal Phil Orch/Elmer Bernstein
Torn Curtain
9:08 am
Bernard Herrmann: "Torn Curtain"
"The Farmhouse"
Royal Phil Orch/Elmer Bernstein
Torn Curtain
9:11 am
John Corigliano: "Music from the Edge"
"Family Shave"
London Metropolitan Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Music From The Edge
9:14 am
John Corigliano: "Music from the Edge"
"Reunification/Breathe in the Dawn"
Hila Plitmann, s; London Metropolitan Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Music From The Edge
9:21 am
William Walton: "The Battle of Britain"
"Spitfire Music and Battle in the Air"
London Phil Orch/Carl Davis
Walton: The Battle of Britain (Suite)
9:28 am
Jerry Goldsmith: "Timeline"
"The Dig"
Hollywood Studio Sym/Jerry Goldsmith
Timeline - Music Inspired By The Film
9:32 am
Jerry Goldsmith: "Timeline"
"To My Friends"
Hollywood Studio Sym/Jerry Goldsmith
Timeline - Music Inspired By The Film
9:36 am
Alex North: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Main Title
National Phil Orch/Jerry Goldsmith
Alex North's 2001
9:37 am
Alex North: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"The Dawn of Man"
National Phil Orch/Jerry Goldsmith
Alex North's 2001
9:40 am
Alex North: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Space Station Docking; Trip to the Moon"
National Phil Orch/Jerry Goldsmith
Alex North's 2001
9:46 am
Alex North: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Moon Rocket Bus"
National Phil Orch/Jerry Goldsmith
Alex North's 2001
9:52 am
Maurice Ravel: "Don Quichotte à Dulcinée"
José van Dam, br; BBC Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
Ravel: Orchestral Songs; Roussel: Symphony No. 3
10:01 am
Hazel Scott: "Idyll"
Lara Downes, p
Holes in the Sky
10:03 am
Ysaÿe Barnwell: "Wanting Memories"
Cantus
That Eternal Day
10:08 am
Burt Bacharach: "I Say a Little Prayer"
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc
Song
10:12 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella"
III. Scherzino
London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Octet, Renard, Ragtime
10:19 am
Richard Strauss: "Don Juan," Op. 20
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Solti: A Passion for Music
10:37 am
Stephen Sondheim: "Sunday in the Park with George"
"Color and Light"
Anthony de Mare, p
Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano
10:43 am
Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin: "Move On" (Sondheim)
Bernadette Peters & Mandy Patinkin
Broadway's Showplace
10:48 am
Mary D. Watkins: "Five Movements in Color"
No. 2, "Soul of Remembrance"
New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie Dunner
Recorded Music of the African Diaspora
10:54 am
Florence Price: "Adoration"
James Oesi, db; Djuwa Mroivili, p
Adoration
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Jeffery Tong, 15, cello. Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33, 1st mvt; Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69, 1st mvt; Bach Cello Suite No. 4, Gigue; Perkinson "Song Form" from "Lamentation"; N Boulanger Three Pieces for cello and piano. With Liang-yu Wang, piano
11:47 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin, Two-Oboe, Two-Horn & Bassoon Concerto in F, R. 569
Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz
Vivaldi - I Concerti Di Dresda
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Bellini's I puritani
Lisette Oropesa (Elvira Walton); Lawrence Brownlee (Lord Arturo Talbot); Artur Ruciński (Riccardo Forth); Christian Van Horn (Giorgio Walton); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Marco Armillato. Sung in Italian.
3:44 pm
Alexander Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11
No. 23 in F, "Vivo"
Zara Lawler, f; Paul Fadoul, mar
Prelude Cocktail
3:46 pm
Shawn E. Okpebholo: "city beautiful"
III. "burnham"
Lincoln Trio
Trios from Contemporary Chicago
3:51 pm
Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonia in G
Concerto Köln
Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
Baritone Will Liverman on his Grammy-nominated album "The Dunbar/Moore Sessions."
5:00 - 8:00 pm
5:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
5:01 pm
Errollyn Wallen: "Mighty River"
BBC Concert Orch/John Andrews
Errollyn Wallen Orchestral Works
5:19 pm
Adam Pounds: Symphony No. 3
Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin; Berkeley: Divertimento; Pounds: Symphony No. 3
5:50 pm
William Lawes: "Royall Consort" No. 6 in D
Phantasm Viol Consort
William Lawes: The Royal Consorts
5:58 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Winter Is Gone"
Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh
Silence & Music
6:00 pm
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
Maurizio Pollini, p; Dresden Staatskapelle/Christian Thielemann in concert
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 * Pollini * Staatskapelle Dresden * Thielemann
6:48 pm
Julie Cooper: "Calliope"
Oculus Ensemble/Jessica Cottis
Julie Cooper: Continuum
6:52 pm
Richard Strauss: "Der Rosenkavalier," Op. 59
Waltz
Renaud Capuçon, v; Jérôme Ducros, p
Capriccio
7:00 pm
José Pablo Moncayo: "Huapango"
Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
Mi Alma Mexicana
7:10 pm
Carlos Guastavino: "Tres Romances Argentinos"
Martha Argerich & Mauricio Vallina, p's
Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2005
7:29 pm
César Guerra-Peixe: Violin Concertino
Abner Landim, v; Goiás Phil Orch/Neil Thomson
César Guerra-Peixe: A Retirada da Laguna, Concertino, Museu da Inconfidência
7:44 pm
Léa Freire: "Turbulenta"
Toomai String Quintet
Passos Brasileiros
7:52 pm
Jenny Peña Campo: Cuban Suite
IV. "Conga"
Philzuid/Duncan Ward
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein, and Peña Campo
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: Turn back the clock to a Midnight Special New Year’s Eve concert on December 31, 2004. John McCutcheon, Peggy Seeger, and Tom Dundee performed live at The Old Town School of Folk Music.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Joan Baez’s 85th birthday party continues with songs that she wrote, interpreted, and music by the artists she has lifted up over the years.
9:00 pm
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 2)
Lead Belly
Midnight Special
9:02 pm
Bob Gibson & Joan Baez: We Are Crossing Jordan River
Bob Gibson & Joan Baez
Joan Baez, Rare, Live & Classic Vol. 1
9:04 pm
Joan Baez: "You're Aging Well" (Dar Williams)
Joan Baez
Ring Them Bells (Live)
9:09 pm
Dar Williams: Olive Tree
Dar Williams
Hummingbird Highway
9:14 pm
Phil Ochs: William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed
Phil Ochs
Rehearsals for Retirement
9:18 pm
Joan Baez: "There But for Fortune" (Phil Ochs)
Joan Baez
Joan Baez 5
9:21 pm
Joan Baez: Hello In There (Prine)
Joan Baez
The Complete A&M Recordings, disc 3
9:24 pm
John Prine: It's A Big Old Goofy World
John Prine
The Missing Years
9:30 pm
Joan Baez: The Last Leaf (Waits/Brennan)
Joan Baez
Whistle Down The Wind
9:33 pm
Tom Waits: Heart of Saturday Night (live)
Tom Waits
Folkscene, Vol. 2
9:36 pm
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Trampled Rose (Brennan/Waits)
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Genuine Negro Jig
9:42 pm
Joan Baez: Strange Rivers (John Stewart)
Joan Baez
Play Me Backwards
9:46 pm
John Stewart: Daydream Believer
John Stewart
The Lonesome Picker Rides Again
9:50 pm
Josh Ritter: Silverblade
Josh Ritter
Fever Breaks
9:54 pm
Joan Baez: "Wings"
Joan Baez
Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
9:58 pm
Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.)
Owen Walsh
The Midnight Special "exclusive"
10:00 pm
Joan Baez: Rexroth's Daughter (Brown)
Joan Baez
Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
10:05 pm
Greg Brown: Who Woulda Thunk It?
Greg Brown
In The Dark With You
10:09 pm
Joe Jencks: It's Not For Sale
Joe Jencks
Folkstage – Joe Jencks 3.18.2023 (Encore)
10:13 pm
Diane Coll: In and Out of Time
Diane Coll
Strangely in Tune
10:17 pm
Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle: Here's To Tom Paine
Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle
All Under the Sun
10:22 pm
Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson: Common Sense
Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson
The Liberty Tree, Disk 1
10:23 pm
Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson: We All Said Stop the War
Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson
The Liberty Tree, Disk 1
10:27 pm
Graham & Barbara Dean w/Kim & Reggie Harris: Tom Paine's Blues
Graham & Barbara Dean w/Kim & Reggie Harris
Tom Paine's Blues: Common Sense Songs
10:35 pm
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