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Playlist for Saturday, January 17, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Gwyneth Walker: "Full Circle"
II. "The Grace of the World"
Palisades Virtuosi
Strike, Strum and Stride
12:05 am
George Walker: "Folksongs for Orchestra"
Cleveland Chamber Sym/Edwin London
Walker: Orchestral Works
12:17 am
Gwyneth Walker: "Fantasy Etudes"
No. 3, "Rough Rhythms"
Blue Violet Duo
Strike, Strum and Stride
12:18 am
Max Bruch: Serenade, Op. 75
Jack Liebeck, v; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins
The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol. 19: Bruch
12:55 am
Vivian Fine: "Canzones y Dances"
"Tango: The Frog Prince & the Senorita"
Joel Browning, g; Jan Vinci, f
Five Premieres: Chamber Works With Guitar
1:00 am
Leroy Anderson: "The Waltzing Cat"
St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson Favorites * Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra * Leonard Slatkin
1:02 am
Leroy Anderson: "Bugler's Holiday"
St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson Favorites * Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra * Leonard Slatkin
1:04 am
Johann Neruda: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat
Guy Touvron, tr; Prague Chamber Orch
Classic Trumpet
1:21 am
Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"
Suite
Alison Balsom, tpt; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Sound The Trumpet (Royal Music Of Purcell & Handel)
1:35 am
Henry Purcell: "Sound the Trumpets"
Hannes, Wolfgang, Bernhard Läubin, tr's; Simon Preston, o
Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound
1:37 am
Arthur Foote: String Suite in E, Op 63
London Sym Orch Strings/Kenneth Klein
Skyscrapers
1:54 am
Richard Thompson: Prelude No. 3
Richard Thompson, p
Poetry Prelude
2:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Scherzo"
London Brass
2:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Scherzo capriccioso," Op. 66
Baltimore Sym/Marin Alsop
Dvorák: Symphony No 6
2:20 am
Giuseppe Martucci: Three Scherzos, Op 53
Francesco Caramiello, p
Giuseppe Martucci: The Piano Music Volume 1
2:33 am
Asako Hirabayashi: "Scherzo"
Gail Olszewski, fp; Asako Hirabayashi, hc
Asako Hirabayashi
2:35 am
William Walton: "The Wise Virgins" Suite (after J.S. Bach)
London Phil/Bryden Thomson
Walton: The Quest And The Wise Virgins Suite
2:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"
"Praeambulum" No. 11
Joseph Payne, clavichord
Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann
3:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" Suite, Op. 71a
"Waltz of the Flowers"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: The Nutcracker Suite / PRAETORIUS, M.: Terpsichore / WARLOCK, P.: Capriol Suite (arr. for guitar quartet) (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
3:05 am
Eduard Tubin: Balalaika Concerto
Emanuil Sheynkman, balalaika; Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Symphony No. 1 • Balaika Concerto • Music For Strings
3:25 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C, R 425
Pepe Romero, g; St Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
Mad About Vivaldi
3:32 am
Claude Debussy: Song, "Mandoline"
Gérard Souzay, br; Dalton Baldwin, p
3:34 am
Georges Bizet: "L'arlésienne" Incidental Music
St Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood
Bizet: L'Arlésienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie / Symphony No.1
3:54 am
François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 4 (1730): 21e ordre in e
"La Bondissante"
Carole Cerasi, hc
Couperin: Complete Works for Harpsichord
4:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37
"June (Barcarolle)"
Moscow Chamber Orch/Constantine Orbelian
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: Serenade in C Major / The Seasons (arr. A. Gauk) (Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Orbelian)
4:05 am
Jacques Offenbach: "The Tales of Hoffmann"
"Barcarolle" (Belle nuit)
Royal Liverpool Phil Cho, BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
BBC Philharmonic / Tortelier: French Bonbons
4:08 am
Jacques Offenbach: Two-Cello Suite No. 1
Ronald Pidoux, vc; Etienne Peclard, vc
Offenbach: Suites for 2 Cellos
4:29 am
Erik Satie: "Le Piccadilly" (Piano Rag, c 1904)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
The Magic of Satie
4:54 am
music continues...
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.
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Anna Huelke, 18, flute. Martinů: Flute Sonata, 1st mvt; Bach: Flute Sonata in E, BWV 1035, 1st mvt; Schocker: "The Further Adventures of Two Flutes"; Eben: Sonatina semplice. With Kay Kim, piano and Destina Sarussi, second flute.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Bizet's Carmen
Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen); Michael Fabiano (Don José); Janai Brugger (Micaëla); Christian Van Horn (Escamillo); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Pier Giorgio Morandi. Sung in French.
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with mezzo-soprano Joyce Di Donato, Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2025/26 Artist-in-Residence.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: Rev. Robert Jones and Matt Watroba traveled from Detroit to Hinsdale, Illinois, to perform on Folkstage live from Acoustic Renaissance Concerts on a wintry night in 2021.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Chicago has long been the epicenter of contemporary Gospel music. We’ll explore the impact of that music and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.






