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Playlist for Friday, December 26, 2025
1:00 - 6:00 am
1:00 am
Sun Yiquang: "Dance of Spring"
Lang Lang, p
Lang Lang * Dragon Songs
1:05 am
An-Lun Huang: "Saibei Suite" #2
"Saibei Dance"
Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen
Delights & Dances
1:09 am
Chinese Trad: "Jasmine Flower"
Shanghai String Quartet
The Flowing Stream: Chinese Folk Songs And Tone Poems By Zhou Long
1:10 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop
Tchaikovsky * Symphony No 4
1:55 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786
No. 9 in f minor
Ton Koopman, hc
2:00 am
Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)"
V. "Le jardin féerique (The Fairy Garden)"
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Ravel: Sheherazade/ Ma Mere L'Oye/ La Valse/ Alborada del Gracioso/ La Vallee des Cloches
2:05 am
Claude Debussy: "La boîte à joujoux"
Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot
Stravinsky: Petrushka / Debussy: La Boîte à Joujoux
2:38 am
Adolphe-Charles Adam: "Le Corsaire"
Act 1: Introduction & "Tarantella"
English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
Le Corsaire
2:39 am
Percy Grainger: "Handel in the Strand" (Clog Dance)(1912)
BBC Phil/Richard Hickox
Grainger: Vol. 6 - Orchestral Works 2 'The Warriors'
2:43 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
2:55 am
George Frideric Handel: "Samson"
Sinfonia: Allegro
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Overtures
3:00 am
Alfred Bartles: "When Tubas Waltz"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
3:03 am
Victor Herbert: "Babes in Toyland"
"March of the Toy Soldiers"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
3:05 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in C, R 470
Daniel Smith, bn; English Chamber Orch/Philip Ledger
Bassoon Concertos Volume One
3:15 am
Ralph Nicholson: "Miniature Suite" for contrabassoon and piano
3rd mvt, Waltz
Susan Nigro, contra-bn; Mark Lindeblad, p
The Big Bassoon - Muradian, Palider, Etc
3:17 am
Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104
Mischa Maisky, vc; Berlin Phil/Zubin Mehta
3:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op 16
#4 in e-flat
Gary Karr, db; Harmon Lewis, p
4:00 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Moz-Art"
Vladimir Malinin, v; Alexander Melnikov, v
Vladimir Malinin
4:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Mozart Symphonies
4:30 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve German Dances, K. 586
No. 1 in C
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
Mozart: Deutsche Tänze
4:32 am
Gustav Holst: Wind Quintet in A-Flat, Op 14
Vega Wind Quintet
Vega Wind Quintet
4:46 am
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Neptune, the Mystic"
New York Choral Artists, New York Phil/Zubin Mehta
Holst: The Planets
4:54 am
Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2
2nd mvt, Ostinato
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Barber of Seville Overture
5:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Three Military Marches," Op. 51, D. 733
No. 1 in D
Earl Wild, p
Concerto No. 2 In C Minor
5:29 am
music continues...
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn
Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am and "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Holiday Celebration
The sound of sleigh bells means that it's winter holiday time, and music is full of representations of celebratory music. All around the world, winter holidays of a wide variety are celebrated, and their music is wonderful to listen to regardless of which one you celebrate.
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Christmas Memories (12/22/1961)
A perennial favorite — Studs's holiday compendium of voices and memories of childhood Christmases originally aired in 1961.
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