Saturday, August 16, 2025

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      Playlist for Saturday, August 16, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Jacques Offenbach: "Un mari à la porte"

      Overture

      Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko
      Offenbach

      Liverpool Philharmonic LPOFFCD-00211

      12:05 am

      Ferdinand Hérold: "Zampa"

      Overture

      Munich Radio Orch/Kurt Redel
      Grandes ouvertures francaises

      Pierre Verany PV.786104

      12:13 am

      Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Naïs"

      Suite

      Jonathen Freeman-Attwood, tr; Daniel-Ben Pienaar, p
      La Trompette retrouvée

      Linn CKD-294

      12:30 am

      Pancrace Royer: "Pyrrhus"

      "Menuets"

      Les Enfants d'Apollon/Michael Greenberg
      Pyrrhus

      Alpha 953 (2)

      12:32 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in D, K 306

      Andrew Smith, v; Joshua Pierce, p
      Mozart: The Violin Sonatas

      MSR Classics MS-1800 (6)

      12:54 am

      Germaine Tailleferre: "Chansons populaires françaises" (1952-55)

      "Jean de la Réole"

      Patrice Michaels, s; Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
      La vie est une parade

      Cedille CDR-90000070

      1:00 am

      Giovanni Battista Tibaldi: Trio Sonata in c, Op 2/7

      Parnassi musici
      Tibaldi

      CPO 999633-2

      1:05 am

      Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in D, Op 6/1

      I Musici

      Philips 434110-2 (2)

      1:17 am

      Ernest Bloch: Concerto Grosso no.1

      Barton Weber, p; Amadeus Chamber Orch/Agnieszka Duczmal
      Ernest Bloch

      CPO 999096-2

      1:41 am

      Ernest Bloch: "Five Sketches in Sepia"

      #4, "Incertitude"

      Istvan Kassai, p
      BLOCH Complete Piano Works Vol. 1

      Marco Polo 8.223288

      1:43 am

      Luigi Boccherini: Oboe Quintet in A, Op. 55/4

      Lajos Lencses, ob; Parisii Quartet
      Boccherini: Oboe Quintets, Op. 55

      Capriccio 10454

      1:54 am

      Sebastiano FESTA: Madrigal, L'ultimo di di maggio

      King's Singers
      English And Italian Madrigals

      EMI/Ang CD-EMX-2129

      2:00 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119

      No. 1 in g minor

      András Schiff, p
      Beethoven's Broadwood Piano

      Hungaroton HCD-11885

      2:02 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119

      No. 6 in G

      András Schiff, p
      Beethoven's Broadwood Piano

      Hungaroton HCD-11885

      2:04 am

      Nikolaus Von Krufft: Horn Sonata in E

      Lowell Greer, fh; Steven Lubin, forte-p
      Brahms: Horn Trio, Op. 40/ Beethoven: Horn Sonata Op. 17/ Von Kufft: Horn Sonata

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907037

      2:25 am

      Nikolaus Von Krufft: Song, "Der Papagoy"

      Markus Schäfer, t; Christine Schornsheim, p
      ...vom küsslichen Mund...

      Crystal Classic N-67072

      2:26 am

      John Phillip SOUSA: "The Bride Elect"

      Suite

      United States Marine Band
      Sousa Original, Vol II

      MHS 515391-K

      2:37 am

      Joan Tower: "Rising" (2010)

      Carol Wincenc, f; Green Mountain Festival Quartet
      American Flute Quintets

      Bridge 9373

      2:53 am

      Victor Herbert: Three Pieces

      #1, "Serenade"

      Elmar Oliveira, v; Robert Koenig, p
      Elmar Oliveira Plays Favorite Encores

      Artek AR-0007-2

      3:00 am

      Lex van Delden: Marcia Pomposa

      Dutch National Youth Wind Orch/Jan Cober

      Radio Nederland 9

      3:05 am

      Friedrich Hartmann Graf: Flute Trio in D

      Ensemble Schönbrunn

      Globe GLO-5212

      3:16 am

      Georg Philipp Telemann: Song, "Der Spiegel"

      Klaus Mertens, br; Ludger Rémy, hc
      Singe-, Spiel- Und Generalbaß-Übungen 1733

      CPO 777045-2

      3:18 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78, "Organ"

      Michael Murray, o; Royal Phil/Christian Badea
      Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, 'Organ' and Phaeton

      Telarc CD-80274

      3:55 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Preludes and Fugues, Op. 109

      No. 2 in G: Prelude

      Odile Pierre, o
      Sämtliche Präludien Und Fugen

      RCA LSB-4088

      4:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Così fan tutte," K. 588

      Quintet, "Sento, O Dio, che questo piede"

      Cuberli, Bartoli, Streit, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, Cho, Berlin Phil/Barenb
      Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass,
      Mozart: Cosi fan tutte

      Erato 45475-2 (3)

      4:05 am

      Malcolm Arnold: Brass Quintet

      St Louis Brass Quintet
      Brass Bonanza - Gabrieli, Speer, Arnold, Hovhaness, Et Al

      Crystal CD-200

      4:16 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

      Katherine Schaufenbuel, 13, violin. Telemann Solo Violin Fantasia No. 9 in B minor; Mozart Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K 304; Brahms/Joachim Hungarian Dance No. 17; Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat, K 207, 1st mvt; Auerbach "T'Filah"; Wieniawski "Scherzo-Tarantelle," Op. 16. With Lyudmila Lakisova, piano.

      12:00 - 4:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From the Royal Ballet and Opera in London

      Wagner's Die Walküre

      Christopher Maltman (Wotan); Elisabet Strid (Brünnhilde); Natalya Romaniw (Sieglinde), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund); Soloman Howard (Hunding); Marina Prudenskaya (Fricka); Maida Hundeling (Helmwige); Kaie Lowe (Ortlinde); Lee Bisset (Gerhilde); Claire Barnett-Jones (Waltraute); Catherine Carby (Siegrune); Alison Kettlewell (Rossweisse); Monika-Evelin Liiv (Grimgerde); Rhonda Browne (Schwertleite); Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Antonio Pappano, conductor. Sung in German.

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      An interview with Sylvia McNair. The Grammy award-winning soprano discusses her varied career which has included success singing in styles that range from the baroque to the Great American Songbook.

      5:00 - 7:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Music with Jan Weller

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Sounds Classical

      Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael welcome composer and pianist Michael Oldham to discuss his distinct compositional style and his classical and non-classical influences. Oldham also performs in the Levin Studio.

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Bursting with talent and intensity, Owen Walsh is among the country’s most promising and intriguing new talents. He makes his Folkstage debut.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Star time! Grab the folk comet by the tail as the Perseids pass overhead and new releases sparkle.