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Playlist for Saturday, May 16, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah"
Aria, "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"
Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; National Phil/Charles Gerhardt
12:05 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah"
"Bacchanale"
Dresden Staatskapelle/Silvio Varviso
Overtures & Intermezzi
12:12 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Il Trovatore"
Ballet Music
Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida
Ballet Music
12:34 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Il Trovatore"
Aria, "Di quella pira"
Jussi Bjoerling, t; Orch/Nils Grevikllius
12:36 am
Walter Piston: "The Incredible Flutist" Suite
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
The Incredible Walter Piston
12:54 am
William Thomas McKinley: Six Romances (1990)
#5, "Pensiveness"
Robert Stallman, f; David Buechner, p
The American Flute
1:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527 (opera in 2 acts)
Overture
Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Mozart: Don Giovanni
1:05 am
Richard Strauss: "Don Juan," Op. 20
Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart
Don Quixote / Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel
1:22 am
Richard Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben," Op. 40
Love scene
Richard Strauss, p (Welte-Mignon piano roll)
Famous Composers Playing Their Own Works: Welte Mignon Piano
1:26 am
Friedrich Silcher: "Wohin mit der Freud"
Die Singphoniker
Deutsche Volkslieder
1:28 am
Benjamin Godard: "Suite de trois morceaux," Op 116
Virginia Sindelar, f; Richard Schilling, g
Romantic Music for Flute and Guitar Music of Giuliani, Diabelli, Doppler, Coste, Godard, and Fauré
1:39 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Dolly" Suite, Op. 56
Laurence Fromentin & Dominique Plancade, p
1:54 am
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 12
No. 2, "Waltz"
English Brass Ensemble
Grieg: Lyric Brass
2:00 am
Leo Délibes: "Lakmé"
Flower duet, "Dome épais, le jasmin"
Hei-Kyung Hong, Jennifer Larmore; Munich Radio Orch/Jesus López-Cobos
Bellezza Vocale * Hong * Larmore
2:05 am
Charles Gounod: "Faust"
Ballet music
Royal Opera House Orch/Sir Georg Solti
2:21 am
Charles Gounod: "Roméo et Juliette"
Interlude, "Le sommeil de Juliette"
Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham
2:24 am
Charles Gounod: "Funeral March of a Marionette"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
2:26 am
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto no.2 in f minor, Op.21
Yevgeny Kissin, p; Moscow Phil/Dmitri Kitayenko
The Legendary 1984 Moscow Concert
2:55 am
Karol Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50
#7, "Poco vivace"
Anna Kijanowska, p
3:00 am
Giacomo Meyerbeer: "L'Africaine"
"Sur mes genoux"
Leontyne Price, s; Orch/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Leontyne Price - The Prima Donna Collection
3:05 am
Félix-Charles Berthelemy: Fantasie Brillante on Themes from Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine'
Bert Lucarelli, ob, Manhattan String Quartet
The Bel Canto Oboe: Opera Paraphrases And Fantaisies
3:15 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Africa," Op. 89
Jean-Philippe Collard, p; Royal Phil/André Previn
Saint-Saens: Concerto Pour Piano No. 1
3:26 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Cadenza for 'Africa'"
Camille Saint-Saens, p
3:29 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"
"Air pour les Esclaves Africains"
Chapelle Royale Orch/Philippe Herreweghe
Les Indes Galantes - Suites D'Orchestre
3:30 am
George Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3 in a minor, Op. 25
Weilerstein Duo
Sonatas For Violin And Piano
3:54 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "The Oarsman of the St Francis River"
Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica; New York Chamber Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Villa-Lobos: Harmonica Concerto, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria
4:00 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "Pineapple Poll"
Grand Finale
Royal Phil/Charles Mackerras
Sullivan: Pineapple Poll
4:05 am
Bohuslav Martinu: "La Revue de Cuisine (Kitchen Revue)"
Chicago Pro Musica
Weill - Varèse - Bowles - Martinů
4:19 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Wasps" (1909)
"March past of the kitchen utensils"
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar
4:22 am
Johann Hermann Schein: "Banchetto Musicale"
Suite #4 in D
Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer
Dance Music Of the High Renaissance
4:29 am
Richard Strauss: "Schlagobers," Op. 70
Dance of the Little Pralines
Tokyo Metropolitan Sym Orch/Hiroshi Wakasugi
Strauss: Schlagobers, Ballet Music, Op. 70
4:31 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43
Peter Jablonski, p; Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy
4:54 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Oriental Sketch" (1917)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, p
Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Sergei Rachmaninoff
5:00 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Twelve Fantasias for solo violin
#8 in E
Patricia McCarty, vi
Telemann: Twelve Fantasias
5:05 am
Johann Wenzel Stamitz: Sinfonia in a
Janacek Chamber Orch/Zdenek Dejmek
5:15 am
Leos Janácek: "The Ballad of Blanik Hill" (1920)
Royal Stockholm Phil/Andrew Davis
Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba, FIddler's Child
5:23 am
Leos Janácek: "On an Overgrown Path" I
#6, "Words fail!"
Mikhaíl Rudy, p
5:25 am
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet #2 in a, Op 51/2
Alban Berg String Quartet
String Quartets Op. 51 No. 1 & 2
5:55 am
Hans Neusidler: "Ach Elselein"
Göran Söllscher, g
The Renaissance Album * Göran Söllscher
6:00 am
Johann Strauss II: Ägyptischer Marsch (Egyptian March), Op. 335
Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti
Best Of New Year's Concert
6:05 am
Richard Wagner: "Götterdämmerung"
"Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music"
Cleveland Orch/George Szell
Great Orchestral Music From "The Ring"
6:19 am
Richard Wagner: Piano Sonata for the Album of Frau M W
Bruce Hungerford, p
6:28 am
Johannes Brahms: "Altes Volkslied"
Die Singphoniker
Deutsche Volkslieder
6:30 am
Pietro Locatelli: "L'Arte del Violino," Op 3
Violin Concerto #2 in c
Suzanne Lautenbacher, v; Mainz Chamber Orch/Günter Kehr
Pietro Locatelli-L'Arte dei Violino
6:54 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in D, Kk 145 (L 369)
John Browning, p
Keyboard Sonatas
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:02 am
Marin Marais: "Alcyone"
Suite
Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
House of Dreams
7:20 am
Stephen Foster: "Beautiful Dreamer"
Robert Merrill, br; London Festival Cho & Orch/Stanley Black
Phase 4 Stereo Concert Series
7:24 am
Florence Price: "Dream Boat"
Michael Clark, p
Waltzes & Character Pieces of Florence Price
7:26 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Après un rêve," Op. 7, No. 1
Janine Jansen, v; Itamar Golan, p
Beau Soir
7:30 am
Antonín Dvořák: Wind Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart
Netherlands Wind Ensemble Greatest Hits
7:56 am
Antonín Dvořák: "Humoresque" in G-Flat, Op. 101, No. 7
James Oesi, db; Djuwa Mroivili, p
Adoration
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:00 am
PDQ Bach: "The Short-Tempered Clavier"
No. 1 in C
Christopher O'Riley, p
PDQ Bach: The Short Tempered Clavier
8:02 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 211, "Coffee Cantata"
Aria, "Ei, wie schmeckt der Coffee süsse (Ah! how sweet coffee tastes)"
Emma Kirkby, s; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Johann Sebastian Bach - Emma Kirkby - Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 / Peasant Cantata, BWV 212
8:07 am
PDQ Bach: "Eine Kleine Nichtmusik"
Orch/Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach - Portrait Of P.D.Q. Bach
8:19 am
Antonio Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons: Spring," RV. 269
Anne Akiko Meyers, v; English Chamber Orch/David Lockington
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
8:29 am
Peter Sculthorpe: "Port Arthur: In Memoriam" (1996)
Joseph Ortuso, ob; Tasmanian Sym Orch/David Porcelijn
The Fifth Continent
8:32 am
Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"
Overture
Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim
Wagner Overtures and Preludes
8:49 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Wedding March"
Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian"; A Midsummer Night's Dream / Charles Mackerras
8:55 am
Traditional Scottish: "Skye Boat Song"
Nicola Benedetti, v; Brìghde Chaimbeul, scottish smallpipe
Violin Café
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:02 am
Jerome Kern: "Swing Time"
"Waltz in Swing Time"
National Phil Orch/John McGlinn
Overtures & Film Music
9:06 am
Miklos Rózsa: "Madame Bovary"
Waltz
Hollywood Bowl Sym Orch/John Mauceri
The Great Waltz
9:10 am
John Lunn: "Downton Abbey"
"Sunset Waltz"
Chamber Orch of London/Alastair King
Downton Abbey Film Soundtrack
9:15 am
Alexandre Desplat: "The Painted Veil"
River Waltz
Lang Lang, p
The Painted Veil Soundtrack
9:18 am
Shigeru Umebayashi: "A Single Man"
George's Waltz
Brussels Phil/Dirk Brossé
Shigeru Umebayashi: Music For Film
9:22 am
Michael Giacchino: "The Family Stone"
"The Family Stone Waltz"
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
The Family Stone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:24 am
Hans Zimmer: "Matchstick Men"
"The Banker's Waltz"
Studio Orch/Hans Zimmer
Matchstick Men (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:28 am
John Lanchbery: "Tales of Beatrix Potter"
"The Mouse Waltz"
Royal Opera House Orch/John Lanchbery
Tales of Beatrix Potter: Music From the Royal Ballet Film
9:33 am
Lerner & Loewe: "My Fair Lady"
"Embassy Waltz"
Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady
9:37 am
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Op. 314
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Karajan Forever: The Greatest Classical Hits
9:50 am
Nino Rota: "The Godfather"
Waltz
Orch/Carlo Savina
The Godfather
9:54 am
Giacomo Puccini: "La bohème"
Musetta's Waltz Song, "Quando m'en vo'"
Dick Hyman, p; Dominic Cortese, acc; Moe Koffman, sx; Santa Cecilia Orch/Dick Hyman
Moonstruck (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
10:01 am
John Field: Nocturne in C, H 45, "Rêverie-Nocturne"
John O'Conor, p
John Field: Sonatas And Nocturnes
10:08 am
Maurice Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloé"
Part 3
Tenebrae, London Sym Orch/Antonio Pappano
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
10:25 am
Arnold Bax: Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1928)
No. 3, "Dance in the Sunlight"
English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
The Banks of Green Willow
10:31 am
Florence Price: "Five Folksongs in Counterpoint"
Apollo Chamber Players
Blurred Boundaries
10:50 am
James Stephenson: "The Storyteller"
Bowden & Dash, tr's; Lam, v; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Tinkham
Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
An encore presentation of violinist Henry Auxenfans and pianist Nathan Canfield's performance of Mozart's Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat, K. 378: I. Allegro moderato, Glazunov's Grand Adagio from "Raymonda," and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Louisiana Blues Strut." Originally broadcast June 14, 2025.
11:17 am
Jens Kruger: "Appalachian Concerto"
III. "Wild Horses"
Kruger Brothers; Kontras Quartet
The Kruger Brothers and Kontras Quartet Live in Concert (January 9, 2018)
11:21 am
Aaron Copland: "The Red Pony" Suite
St. Louis Sym Orch/André Previn
Copland: Orchestral Works
11:47 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro," K. 492
Overture
English Concert Winds
Mozart: Serenades K. 375 and K. 388, Overtures
11:51 am
Cécile Chaminade: Flute Concertino, Op. 107
Sharon Bezaly, f; Hague Residentie Orch/Neeme Järvi
Great Works for Flute and Orchestra
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Verdi's Don Carlo (Listener's Choice)
Jussi Björling (Don Carlo), Delia Rigal (Elisabeth of Valois), Cesare Siepi (Philip II), Fedora Barbieri (Princess Eboli), Robert Merrill (Rodrigo), Jerome Hines (Grand Inquisitor); Fritz Stiedry, conductor. Sung in Italian. Performance from November 11, 1950.
3:19 pm
Evgeny Kissin: Two Inventions
Evgeny Kissin, p
Russian Piano School, Vol. 4
3:22 pm
George Frideric Handel: Violin Sonata in G minor, HWV 368
Quartetto Vanvitelli
Se in fiorito ameno prato - Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
3:31 pm
Tan Dun: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
"The Eternal Vow"
Tim Gill, vc; Royal Philharmonic Orch/Paul Bateman
Film Music Gala
3:38 pm
Jacques Offenbach: "The Tales of Hoffmann"
Barcarolle ("Belle nuit")
Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
100 Classical Masterworks
3:43 pm
Zoltán Kodály: "Dances of Galánta"
Chicago Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Kodály: Háry János Suite, Peacock Variations, Dances of Galánta
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with Bruce Tammen, founder of Chicago Chorale, as he prepares to conduct his final concert as the ensemble's artistic director later this month.
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041; Joel Link, violin; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra musicians; Enescu Octet in C Major, Op. 7; Chad Hoopes, Ida Kavafian, Adam Barnett-Hart, James Thompson, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Pierre Lapointe, violas; Eric Kim, Brook Speltz, cellos.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
6:00 pm
Nicanor Abelardo: "Panoramas"
No. 3, "Afternoon Siesta (Lullaby)"
Norman Menzales, f; chamber ensemble
Haeyeun Jeun, celesta,
Panoramas - Flute Music of the Philippines
6:05 pm
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto andaluz"
Los Romeros; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
Los Romeros Golden Jubilee Celebration
6:30 pm
Robert Schumann: "Arabeske" in C, Op. 18
Evgeny Kissin, p
Schumann: Piano Concerto / Evgeny Kissin/Carlo Maria Giulini
6:44 pm
music continues...
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Raised in a one-room schoolhouse in Kansas, Sky Smeed’s songwriting balances humor, heart, and honesty. He makes his Folkstage debut.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
An early matchup between the Cubs v. Sox inspires a playlist about rivalries and competitions.
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