Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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      Playlist for Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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      12:00 - 6:00 am

      Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

      12:00 am

      Piotr Illyitch Tchaikovsky: Six Piano Pieces, Op. 21

      No .6, "Scherzo"

      Piers Lane, p
      Russian Variations

      Hyperion CDA-68428

      12:05 am

      Alexander Dreyschock: "Morceau de concert," Op. 27

      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)

      Hyperion CDA-67086

      12:22 am

      Alexander Scriabin: Four Preludes, Op 33

      #1 in E

      Piers Lane, p

      Hyperion CDA-67057/8 (2)

      12:23 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Morceau de concert" in G, Op. 154

      Isabelle Moretti, h; Southwest German Radio Sym Orch/Klaus Arp
      French Harp Concertos

      Koch 3-1142-2

      12:35 am

      Claude Debussy: Sonata (#2) for Flute, Viola and Harp

      Chicago Chamber Musicians

      Chicago Chamber Musicians

      12:55 am

      Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Boréades" (1764)

      "Pas de deux"

      Collegium 1704/Vaclav Luks
      Rameau: Les Boréades

      Versailles CVS-026 (3)

      1:00 am

      Hans Pfitzner: "Die Rose vom Liebesgarten"

      Blütenwunder

      Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
      Pfitzner: Palestrina, Das Kathchen von Heilbronn, Die Rose vom Liebesgarten

      Orfeo C-168881-A

      1:05 am

      Franz Schmidt: "Notre Dame"

      Introduction, Intermezzo & Carnival Music

      Budapest Sym Orch/Michael Halász
      SCHMIDT : Symphony No. 1

      Marco Polo 8.223119

      1:18 am

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      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.

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      10:00 am - 1:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am.

      12:15 pm

      Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

      Pianist Mackenzie Melemed performs music by Copland, Price, Ned Rorem, Arthur Foote, and Louis-Moreau Gottschalk, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

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      1:00 pm

      1:00 pm

      Music for the Afternoon

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      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

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

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      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.

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      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Evening Music

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      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Quartets & Motets

      Two young ensembles based in Basel, Cafebaum Banda Barocca and Voces Suaves present Johann Gottlieb Janitsch's Quartet in G minor, "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden;" Johann Bach's motet, "Unser Leben ist ein Schatten;" and J.S. Bach's motet, "Komm, Jesu, Komm" and Cantata 42, "Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats." Recorded at the 2018 Bach Festival in Switzerland.

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