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      Playlist for Wednesday, May 6, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Antonio Bazzini: "La Ronde des Lutins," Op 25

      Rachel Barton Pine, v; Patrick Sinozich, p
      Instrument of the Devil

      Cedille CDR-90000041

      12:05 am

      Henriette Renié: "Danse des lutins"

      Magdalena Hoffmann, h

      DG 00028948617340

      12:08 am

      Darius Milhaud: Symphony No. 2, Op. 247

      Basel Radio Orch/Alun Francis
      Milhaud

      CPO 999540-2

      12:35 am

      Jean Mouton: "Qui ne regrettoit"

      Gesualdo Six/Owain Park
      Josquin's Legacy

      Hyperion CDA-68379

      12:37 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Violin & "Echo Violin" Concerto in A, R 552

      Elliot Golub, v; Music of the Baroque Orch/Thomas Wikman

      Music of the Baroque MB-112

      12:54 am

      Orlandus (Roland de) Lassus: Motet, "Sicut rosa"

      Charles Geyer, tr; Barbara Butler, tr

      D'Note DND-1026

      1:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527 (opera in 2 acts)

      Overture

      London Phil/Georg Solti
      Mozart: Don Giovanni

      London 455500-2 (3)

      1:05 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" Op.2

      Jan Lisiecki, p; NDR Phil Orch/Krzysztof Urbanski
      Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra

      DG 479 6824

      1:23 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527

      "Champagne Aria", "Finch' han dal vino"

      Pilafian, tuba; Arizona State University Chamber Orch/Russell
      Brassy Night at the Opera

      Summit DCD-190

      1:24 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201

      Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado
      Mozart: Symphonies Nos 29, 33, 35, 38, 41 * Orchestra Mozart * Claudio Abbado

      Archive 4777598 (2)

      1:55 am

      Shawn E. Okpebholo: "Words Like Freedom"

      "Sing, O Black Mother"

      Will Liverman, br; Paul Sánchez, p
      Dreams of a New Day

      Cedille CDR-90000234

      2:00 am

      Claude Debussy: "Préludes," Book 2

      XII. "Feux d'artifice"

      Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle
      Debussy: La Mer, La boite a joujoux, Etc

      EMI/Ang CDC5-58045-2

      2:05 am

      Claude Debussy: "Préludes", Book 1

      I. "Danseuses de Delphes"

      Michel Dalberto, p
      Un siècle de musique française

      Sony 88867192682

      2:08 am

      Claude Debussy: "Préludes", Book 1

      X. "La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)"

      Long Beach Sym Orch/JoAnn Falletta
      Impressions of the Sea

      Albany TROY-364

      2:15 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach: "Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor," BWV 582

      Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin

      DG B0019032-02

      2:27 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam" BWV 684

      Lionel Rogg, o
      Bach Organ Works

      Harmonia Mundi HMX-290772.833 (12)

      2:29 am

      Daniel Steibelt: Piano Concerto #7 in e, "Grand concerto militaire"

      Ulster Orch/Howard Shelley, p
      Steibelt: Piano Concertos

      Hyperion CDA-68104

      2:54 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Song, "Das Blümchen Wunderhold," Op 52/8

      Peter Schreier, t; Walter Olbertz, p
      Lieder Vol. I

      Teldec 6.41997

      3:00 am

      Aaron Copland: "The Red Pony" Suite

      II. "The Gift"

      Phoenix Sym Orch/James Sedares
      Suite from "The Tender Land" / 3 Latin-American Sketches / Suite from "The Red Pony"

      Koch 3-7092-2

      3:05 am

      Aaron Copland: "Our Town"

      Suite

      St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
      Music For Films

      RCA 61699-2

      3:14 am

      Jerome Moross: Symphony #1 (1942)

      London Sym Orch/JoAnn Falletta

      Koch 3-7188-2

      3:34 am

      Jerome Moross: "The Big Country"

      "Still Waiting"

      Orch/Jerome Moross

      Sae SC-1R-JM

      3:35 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Flute Sonata in b minor, BWV 1030 (arranged for Oboe)

      Ray Still, ob; Thomas Still, hc
      Ray Still: A Chicago Legend

      Nimbus NI-5672

      3:54 am

      Richard Strauss: "Le bourgeois gentilhomme," Op. 60

      Act 2 Prelude "(Minuet de Lully)"

      Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
      Also Sprach Zarathustra / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite / Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes

      RCA 5721-2-RC

      4:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo in C, K. 373

      Susan Milan, f; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
      Mozart: Flute Concerti

      Chandos CHAN-8613

      4:05 am

      Franz Schubert: Rondo in A, D 951, "Grand Rondeau"

      Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire, p
      Martha Argerich * Nelson Freire * Salzburg

      DG 4778570

      4:16 am

      Henry Purcell: "The Gordian Knot Untied"

      Rondeau Minuet

      La Stravaganza Köln
      18th Century English Theatre Music

      Denon 81757-9250-2

      4:18 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture, Op. 80

      Houston Sym/Christoph Eschenbach
      Brahms: Symphony No. 1 and 2, Academic Festival Overture, Haydn Variations

      Virgin Classics 61360-2 (4)

      4:29 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"

      English Sinfonia/Charles Groves

      MCA Classics MCAD-25880

      4:54 am

      music continues...

      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.

      10:00 am - 1:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at 12:15 pm.

      12:15 pm

      Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

      Violinist Diomedes Saraza Jr. and pianist Victor Santiago Asunción perform music by Richard Strauss, Nicanor Abelardo, and Manuel Velez, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

      1:00 pm

      1:00 pm

      Music for the Afternoon

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

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

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

      Claude Debussy, who once said he learned more from poets and painters than from the music conservatory, is considered the figurehead of Impressionist music (though he would vehemently argue against it). This week, Bill reflects on Debussy's peculiar upbringing, his studies at the Paris Conservatory, and his Prix de Rome win.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Hildegard of Bingen’s "Ordo Virtutum"

      Twelfth-century mystic, writer, philosopher, and composer Hildegard von Bingen used all her gifts in the service of her unfaltering Christian faith which she channeled through her music in the morality play "Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues)." We’ll hear this 12th-century masterpiece performed by Seraphic Fire under the direction of Patrick Dupré Quigley.