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      Playlist for Friday, December 12, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Marion Bauer: "Up the Ocklawaha," Op 6

      Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
      American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell

      Cedille CDR-90000097

      12:05 am

      Frederick Delius: "Florida" Suite

      English Sym Orch/William Boughton
      Vaughan Williams and Delius Orchestral Music

      Nimbus NI-5208

      12:42 am

      Louis Couperin: Suite in b

      No. 2, "Courante"

      Blandine Verlet, hc
      Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin

      Astrée E-8819 (5)

      12:44 am

      Jean-Marie Leclair: String Sonata in B-Flat, Op 4/2

      Purcell Quartet
      Leclair: Sonatas

      Chandos CHAN-0536

      12:55 am

      Louis Couperin: Suite in C

      No. 4, "Courante I"

      Blandine Verlet, hc
      Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin

      Astrée E-8819 (5)

      1:00 am

      Johannes Brahms: "F-A-E Scherzo (Sonatensatz)"

      Pierre Amoyal, v; Frederic Chiu, p
      Brahms: The Sonatas For Violin & Piano

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907272

      1:05 am

      Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata #1 in f, Op 120/1

      Jon Manasse, cl; Jon Nakamatsu, p
      Brahms * Sonatas Op 120 * Jon Manasse * Jon Nakamatsu

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907430

      1:27 am

      Percy Grainger: "Lincolnshire Posy"

      "The Brisk Young Sailor"

      Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet
      Cooler By the Lake

      Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet

      1:29 am

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Charterhouse Suite (1923)

      English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones
      ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 2

      Naxos 8.555068

      1:44 am

      Douglas Lilburn: "Drysdale" Overture (1937)

      New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd
      Lilburn Orchestral Works

      Naxos 8.557697

      1:54 am

      Gordon Jacob: Five Pieces

      #1, Caprice

      Tommy Reilly, harmonica; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Tommy Reilly - Vaughan Williams/ Moody/Jacob: Classical Music For Harmonica

      Chandos CHAN-8617

      2:00 am

      Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "The Dying Poet", Op 110

      Alan Mandel, p

      Vox CD3X-3033 (3)

      2:05 am

      Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"

      Berlin Staatskapelle/Daniel Barenboim
      Schumann * The Symphonies

      Teldec 61179-2 (2)

      2:39 am

      music continues...

      6:00 - 10:00 am

      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.

      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

      Peter Tchaikovsky, part I (1840-1893)

      Bill launches into the first part of a two-part series on the Russian Romantic composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Though shunned by some other Russian composers as sounding too Western, Tchaikovsky was loved throughout the world as a great Russian composer. Caught between East and West, he created his own sound that to this day is still treasured and that Russians are proud to call their own. Bill starts with Mikhail Glinka, who broke from the Italian school to create the Russian school of music, and ends with excerpts of Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake."

      8:00 - 11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Best of Studs Terkel

      Celebrating Beethoven (12/16/1968)

      Beethoven's birthday has always been something of a holiday at WFMT. Tonight, the Best of Studs Terkel marks the composer’s birth anniversary with this radiophonic tribute from December 16, 1968.