Saturday, October 18, 2025

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      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Franz Schubert: Scherzo in B-Flat, D 593/1

      Maria-Joao Pires, p
      Schubert: Sonata D. 784, 6 Moments Musicaux D. 780, 2 Scherzi D. 593

      DG 427769-2

      12:05 am

      Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 1 in D, D. 82

      Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan

      EMI/Ang CMS7-69884-2 (4)

      12:36 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Saudades do Brasil," Op. 67

      No. 6, "Gavea"

      William Bolcom, p
      Milhaud: Piano Music

      Nonesuch 71316-2

      12:38 am

      Darius Milhaud: "La Cheminée du roi René," Op. 205

      Prague Wind Quintet
      Poulenc, Milhaud, Ibert, Francaix: Modern French Music for Wind Instruments

      Supraphon 110372-2

      12:50 am

      Arthur Honegger: "Napoléon" film music

      "Calme"

      Czech Radio Sym Orch, Bratislava/Adriano
      HONEGGER : Film Music

      Marco Polo 8.223134

      12:54 am

      Arthur Honegger: "Le Cahier Romand" (1921/22)

      1st mvt, Calme

      Annette Middelbeek, p
      Honegger: Klavierstücke

      Koch 3-1220-2

      1:00 am

      Hector Berlioz: "Irlande," Op. 2

      "L'origine de la harpe"

      Thomas Hampson, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p

      EMI/Ang CDC5-55047-2

      1:05 am

      Walter Piston: Capriccio for Harp and Strings

      Therese Elder Wunrow, h; Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
      Piston: Symphony No. 4, Capriccio For Harp And String Orchestra, Serenata For Orchestra, Three New England Sketches

      Delos DE-3106

      1:15 am

      George Frideric Handel: Prelude and Toccata for Harp

      Mariko Anraku, h

      EMI/Ang CDC5-67270-2

      1:20 am

      George Frideric Handel: Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in f-sharp

      I. "Prelude"

      Alan Cuckston, hc
      HANDEL: Harpsichord Suites Nos. 6 - 8

      Naxos 8.550416

      1:22 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suite No. 1 in F

      Pinnock, Gilbert, Mortensen, hc; English Concert
      Handel: Water Music

      DG Archiv 410525-2

      1:53 am

      Mischa LEVITZKI: Waltz in A, Op 2

      Stephen Hough, p
      The Piano Album 1 * Stephen Hough

      Virgin 59509-2

      2:00 am

      Edward German: "Romeo and Juliet" Incidental Music

      Pastorale

      Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Adrian Leaper
      GERMAN : British Light Music

      Marco Polo 8.223419

      2:05 am

      Edward German: Welsh Rhapsody (1904)

      Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson

      EMI/Ang CDM7-69206-2

      2:23 am

      Johannes Brahms: Two Rhapsodies, Op 79

      #1 in b

      Van Cliburn, p
      My Favorite Brahms - Van Cliburn

      RCA 60419-2

      2:33 am

      Johannes Brahms: Five Songs, Op 107

      #3, "Das Mädchen spricht"

      Elly Ameling, s; Dalton Baldwin, p
      Elly Ameling Sings Brahms Lieder

      Philips 9500398

      2:35 am

      Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 2

      Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
      Respighi: Orchestral Music * Antal Dorati

      Newton Classics 8802048 (2)

      2:54 am

      Sigismondo d'India: Song, "Sfere fermate"

      Emma Kirkby, s; Anthony Rooley, l
      Olympia's Lament

      Nonesuch 79125-2

      3:00 am

      Johann Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D

      English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
      Pachelbel • Canon & Gigue / Handel • The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba

      DG Archiv 415518-2

      3:05 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suite

      London Sym Orch/Charles Mackerras
      Music For The Royal Fireworks

      Testament SBT-1253

      3:13 am

      Hamilton Harty: "In Ireland"

      Colin Fleming, f; Denise Kelly, h; Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
      Harty: John Field Suite, Etc.

      Chandos CHAN-6583

      3:22 am

      John Ireland: "Three Pastels" (1941)

      #3, "Puck's Birthday"

      Eric Parkin, p
      Ireland: Piano Works, Vol. 3

      Chandos CHAN-9250

      3:24 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Two-Piano Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat, K. 365

      Radu Lupu, p; London Sym/André Previn, p
      Klavierkonzert No. 20, Konzert Fur Zwei Klaviere

      EMI CDM5-65180-2

      3:49 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Berenice"

      Overture

      London Sym Orch/Charles Mackerras
      Music For The Royal Fireworks

      Testament SBT-1253

      3:54 am

      French ANON 13th c: Dance, La doucours

      The Dufay Collective
      Music Of The Trouveres

      Chandos CHAN-9544

      4:00 am

      Edward Elgar: "Chanson de Matin," Op 15/2

      Tomoko Kato, v; Akira Eguchi, p
      Tomoko Kato Plays Elgar

      Denon CO-18078

      4:02 am

      Edward Elgar: "Salut d'amour," Op 12

      Tomoko Kato, v; Akira Eguchi, p
      Tomoko Kato Plays Elgar

      Denon CO-18078

      4:05 am

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Portraits from "The England of Elizabeth"

      RTE Concert Orch/Andrew Penny
      WILLIAMS V. : Film Music

      Marco Polo 8.223665

      4:21 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"

      Suite

      London Sym/André Previn
      Previn Conducts Korngold * The Sea Hawk

      DG 471347-2

      4:35 am

      Thomas Morley: Madrigal, "I Go Before, My Darling"

      Deller Consort
      The English Madrigal School

      Vanguard OVC-2533/34 (2)

      4:37 am

      Charles-Valentin Alkan: "Trois petites fantaisies", Op 41

      Ronald Smith, p
      The Alkan Project Etudes Op 39

      Arabesque 8127-3 (3)

      4:54 am

      Georg Philipp Telemann: "Tafelmusik," Bk 3

      Conclusion in B-Flat

      Musica Antiqua Köln/Reinhard Goebel
      Tafelmusik, Musique De Table-Auswahl, Selections

      DG Archiv 429774-2

      5:00 am

      Modest Mussorgsky: "Impressions of a Voyage in the Crimea"

      Kun Woo Paik, p
      Complete Piano Music Volume 2 Mussorgsky

      Arabesque 8093

      5:05 am

      Modest Mussorgsky: "Night on Bald Mountain"

      Cincinnati Sym/Paavo Järvi
      Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain/Pictures at an Exhibition/Khovanshchina * P Järvi

      Telarc CD-80705

      5:17 am

      Vasili Kalinnikov: Two Intermezzi (1896-7)

      London Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3

      Chandos CHAN-8614

      5:27 am

      Robert Schumann: Six Songs, Op. 107

      No. 6, "Abendlied (Evening Song)"

      Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Favourite Encores!

      Chandos CHAN-9227

      5:30 am

      Robert Schumann: Song, "Frühlingsgrüsse"

      Collegium Vocale Köln/Wolfgang Fromme
      Folk Songs

      CBS IM-39060

      5:32 am

      Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 7

      Angela Cheng, p; Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta
      The Woman's Philharmonic- Boulanger: D'un Soir Triste, D'un Matin de Printemps/ Schumann: Piano Concerto In A Minor Op. 7/ Tailleferre: Concertino For Harp And Orchestra/ Mendelssohn: Overture

      Koch 3-7169-2

      5:54 am

      Robert Schumann: "Album for the Young," Op. 68, part 2

      No. 41, "Nordic Song"

      Luba Edlina, p
      Schumann: Complete Solo Piano Works

      Brilliant Classics 94008 (13)

      6:00 am

      French Anon 16th c: L'Homme Armé

      Calliope
      Dances (A Renaissance Revel)

      Nonesuch 79039-2

      6:05 am

      Johann Joachim Quantz: Flute Concerto in G

      James Galway, f; Württemberg Chamber Orch
      Quantz: Four Concertos

      RCA 60247-2-RC

      6:21 am

      Claude Debussy: "Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans"

      #1, "Dieu! qu'il fait bon regarder"

      Vienna Flautists

      Discover Int'l DICD-920255

      6:23 am

      Albert Roussel: "Joueurs de flûte" (1924)

      Irena Grafenauer, f; Michael Grandt, p
      Debussy: 16 Preludes

      Philips 426248-2

      6:32 am

      Albert Roussel: Prelude and Fugue on BACH, Op 46

      Eric Parkin, p
      Roussel: Piano Works

      Chandos CHAN-8887

      6:36 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Violin Concerto in D, BWV 1064

      St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
      Four Concerti Transcribed

      Boston Skyline BSD-127

      6:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69

      Prelude No. 17 in A-flat

      Vladimir Feltsman, p
      Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

      Musicmasters 67105-2 (2)

      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.

      7:04 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor"

      I. "Allegro"

      Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Constantine
      Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos

      Orchid Classics ORC-100127

      7:25 am

      Caroline Shaw: Three Essays

      No. 1, "Nimrod"

      Calidore String Quartet
      Babel

      Signum SIGCD-850

      7:34 am

      Edward Elgar: "Enigma Variations," Op. 36

      No. 9, "Nimrod"

      Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; Cello Ensemble
      Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar

      Decca B0031491-02

      7:39 am

      Nino Rota: "Romeo and Juliet"

      Farewell Scene

      City of Prague Phil Orch/Nic Raine
      Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet - Nino Rota

      Silva SSD-1140

      7:42 am

      Sergei Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter

      V. "Romeo and Juliet Before Parting"

      Antwerp Sym Orch/Elim Chan
      All These Lighted Things

      Alpha 1038

      7:51 am

      Gabriel Fauré: "Pelléas et Mélisande," Op. 80

      "Sicilienne"

      Branford Marsalis, sx; English Chamber Orch/Andrew Litton
      Romances For Saxophone

      CBS M-42122

      7:55 am

      Florence Price: "Scenes in Tin Can Alley"

      Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p
      Scenes in Tin Can Alley

      Blue Griffin BGR-615

      8:00 am

      Saturday Morning Listener's Choice

      8:08 am

      Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Wiener Blut," Op. 354

      "Wiener Blut"

      Fatma Said, s; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel
      Kaleidoscope

      Warner Classics 5419713921

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      Edie Park, 15, piano. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in D, K.29; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 3 in C, 1st mvt; Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31; Jean Ahn Ongheya.

      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From Salzburg Festival

      Charpentier's Louise

      Elsa Dreisig (Louise); Adam Smith (Julien); Sophie Koch (Mother); Nicolas Courjal (Father); Grégoire Mour (Un Marchand d’habits); Annick Massis (Balayeuse); Marianne Croux (Irma); Carol Garcia (Gertrude); Karolina Bengtsson (Camille); Marie Thérèse Keller (Madeleine); Julie Pasturaud (Marguerite); Marion Bergez-Pascal (Élise); Marion Lebègue (Suzanne); Jennifer Courceir (Blanche); Céleste Pinel (L’Apprentie); Frédéric Caton (Le Bricoleur); Lyon Opera Children's Chorus, Opera Chorus, and Orchestra; Giacomo Sagripanti, conductor. Sung in French.

      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      A bicentennial celebration of Johann Strauss, Jr., born October 25, 1825 with favorite recordings of "Die Fledermaus," “Voices of Spring,” and other operettas and songs.

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Music with Jan Weller

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      From the archives: Phil Ochs Song Night featuring Sonny Ochs, Josh White, Jr., Bonnie Koloc, Greg Greenway, and more recorded at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 2009.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      The Great Northward Migration from the American South brought so much music with it that we will only be able to scratch the surface during this three-hour show.