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      Playlist for Wednesday, December 10, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

      New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
      Bernstein Favorites: Twentieth Century

      Sony SMK-47638

      12:04 am

      Fernando Sor: Fantasia, Op Posth

      Alexander-Sergei Ramírez, g

      Denon CO-78975

      12:18 am

      Dana Suesse: "Swamp-Bird"

      Sara Davis Buechner, p
      Jazz Nocturne: The Collected Piano Music Of Dana Suesse

      eOne 7770

      12:19 am

      Arnold Bax: Violin Concerto

      Lydia Mordkovitch, v; London Phil/Bryden Thomson
      Bax: Violin Concerto

      Chandos CHAN-9003

      12:54 am

      John Dowland: "Galliard"

      Paul O'Dette, l
      Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol. 1

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907160

      1:00 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 9

      No. 1 in B-Flat

      Yundi Li, p
      Chopin: Nocturnes * Yundi

      EMI 08391-2 (2)

      1:05 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 97 in C

      London Phil/Eugen Jochum
      12 "London" Symphonies

      DG 437201-2 (4)

      1:30 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "If e'er ye do well it's a wonder," H XXXIa:95

      Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
      Haydn Edition

      Brilliant Classics 95594 (160)

      1:32 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Rhapsodic Dance, "Bamboula"

      Detroit Concert Band/Leonard B Smith
      Gems of the Concert Band

      Walking Frog Records WFR-306 (5)

      1:38 am

      Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: String Quartet No. 1, "Based on 'Calvary' (Negro Spiritual)" (1956)

      Catalyst Quartet
      Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Walker, William Grant Still

      Azica ACD-71357

      1:55 am

      Henry Thacker Burleigh: "Hard Trials"

      Alchemy Viols/Philip Spray
      Deep River: Spirituals' Cross-Currents

      Navona Records NV-6650

      2:00 am

      Percy Grainger: "Tribute to Foster"

      "Lullaby"

      Martin Jones, p
      Grainger: Dished Up For Piano Vol 4

      Nimbus NI-5255

      2:05 am

      Stephen Foster: "Hard Times"

      Oregon Guitar Quartet
      Something Wondrous Fair * Oregon Guitar Quartet

      Cube Squared Records C2R-601

      2:16 am

      Stephen Foster: "Camptown Races"

      Robert Shaw Chorale
      Stephen Foster Songbook * Robert Shaw Chorale

      MHS 514489-H

      2:18 am

      Frank Martin: "Petite Symphonie Concertante"

      Guibentif, h; Jaccottet, hc; Ruttimann, p; Suisse Romande Orch/Armin Jor
      Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante, Concerto Pour Sept Instruments À Vent, Six Monologues De Jedermann

      Erato 45694-2

      2:40 am

      Gaspard Fritz: Symphony in g, Op 6/6

      La Stagione/Michael Schneider
      Gaspard Fritz: 5 Sinfonias

      CPO 777696-2

      2:54 am

      Othmar Schoeck: "Unter Sternen," Op. 55

      No. 19, "In der Trauer"

      Roman Trekel, br; Christoph Keller, p
      Othmar Schoeck Complete Edition, Vol 8

      New Classical Adventure 234405 (12)

      3:00 am

      César Franck: Psalm 150

      Mormon Tabernacle Cho, Utah Sym Orch/Julius Rudel
      Hallelujah! Great Choral Classics

      London 425431-2

      3:05 am

      César Franck: Symphonic Poem, "Rédemption"

      "Symphonie"

      Netherlands Radio Phil/Jean Fournet
      Live - The Radio Recordings

      Radio Nederland 97019 (8)

      3:18 am

      Melchior Franck: Intrada

      London Brass

      Teldec D-144330

      3:20 am

      César Franck: Symphony in d minor

      Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray
      Rachmaninoff/Symphony No. 2 • Franck/Symphony In D Minor

      Mercury 434368-2

      3:54 am

      Francois Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 2 (1716-7): 8e ordre

      "Courante"

      Kenneth Gilbert, hc
      Francois Couperin: Second Livre de Clavecin

      Harmonia Mundi HMA-190354.56 (3)

      4:00 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Six German Dances, WoO 42

      Tristan Segal, Noa Saris, v; Aleck Belcher, db
      Beethoven Complete Edition

      Naxos 8.500250 (90)

      4:05 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata #21 in C, Op 53, "Waldstein"

      Dirk Herten, p
      Beethoven Piano Sonatas

      White 4 (10)

      4:32 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Song, "Ich liebe dich," WoO 123

      Hermann Prey, br; Leonard Hokanson, p
      Beethoven: Complete Edition

      Naxos 8.500250 (90)

      4:34 am

      Laszlo Rooth: Quiet Monday

      Meir Rimon, fh, Israel Phil/David Amos
      Dances, Moods, And Romances

      Crystal CD-513

      4:40 am

      Aaron Copland: "Quiet City"

      Philip SMith, tr; Thomas Stacy, eh; New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
      The Best of Bernstein

      DG B027991-02 (3)

      4:50 am

      Aaron Copland: "John Henry (A Railroad Ballad)"

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      Copland: Lincoln Portrait & Other Works

      Telarc CD-80117

      4:54 am

      Eldon Rathburn: Six "Railroad" Preludes

      #2, "Tiddles of Paddington"

      Stéphane Lemelin, p
      Mostly Railroad Music

      Crystal CD-520

      5:00 am

      Augustin Barrios Mangoré: "Confesón"

      Carlos Barbosa-Lima, g; Sofia Soloists/Plamen Djurov
      From Yesterday To Penny Lane

      Concord Concerto CCD-42041

      5:05 am

      Alberto Ginastera: Harp Concerto, Op 25 (1968)

      Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Oberlin Orch/Raphael Jiménez
      Ginastera: One Hundred

      Oberlin Music OC 16-04

      5:31 am

      Julio SAGRERAS: El Colibri

      Carlos Barbosa-Lima, g
      From Yesterday To Penny Lane: Contemporary Works For Solo Guitar And Guitar And Orchestra

      Concord Concerto CCD-42041

      5:32 am

      Jacques Offenbach: Overture to a Grand Orchestra (1843)

      Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
      Offenbach

      DG 471501-2

      5:45 am

      Hector Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture, Op.9

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      Classics at the Pops

      Telarc CD-80595

      5:54 am

      Francois Couperin: "L'art de toucher le clavecin"

      "Allemande" in d

      Kenneth Gilbert, hc
      Francois Couperin: Second Livre de Clavecin

      Harmonia Mundi HMA-190354.56 (3)

      6:00 - 10:00 am

      6:00 am

      Hosted by Jan Weller.

      6:04 am

      Michel-Richard Delalande: "Symphonies des noëls"

      Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
      Simphonies des Noëls

      Dorian DOR-90180

      6:10 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F, Op. 10, No. 2

      Stephen Kovacevich, p
      Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 10 & 28

      EMI CDC5-56761-2

      6:22 am

      Emilie Mayer: Symphony No. 5 in F minor

      III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

      Berlin Chamber Sym/Jürgen Bruns
      Works by 19th Century Women Composers

      Dreyer Gaido CD-21015

      6:30 am

      Leroy Anderson: Suite of Carols for String Orchestra

      BBC Concert Orch Strings/Leonard Slatkin
      Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride & Other Holiday Favorites

      Naxos 8.559621

      6:43 am

      Doppler Brothers: Fantasy on Verdi's "Rigoletto," Op. 38

      Daniel Ottensamer & Andreas Ottensamer, cl's; Ernst Ottensamer, basset hn; Vienna Virtuosi
      The Clarinotts

      DG 4811917

      7:04 am

      Traditional Provençal: Suite of Carols for Instruments

      Patrick Vaillant Ensemble
      La Bela Naissença: Christmas Carols from Provence

      L'empreinte Digitale ED-13113

      7:10 am

      Francis Poulenc: "Suite française"

      London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
      Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc

      ASV CDWHL-2067

      7:24 am

      Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto madrigal"

      IX. "Zapateado"

      Pepe, Angel Romero, g's; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Rodrigo: Concierto Madrigal / Concierto Andaluz

      Philips 400024-2

      7:31 am

      Ottorino Respighi: "Trittico botticelliano"

      II. "The Adoration of the Magi"

      St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
      Respighi

      Teldec 18970-2 (2)

      7:41 am

      Max Bruch: "Song of the Three Magi," Op. 21

      West German Radio Cho & Orch/Helmuth Froschauer
      100 Christmas Classics

      Capriccio C-7331

      7:46 am

      John Hopkins: "We Three Kings of Orient Are"

      Robin Bullock, g; Amy White, h; Al Petteway, per
      A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas

      Dorian DOR-93250

      8:04 am

      Michael Praetorius: "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen"

      Fareed Haque, g; KAIA String Quartet
      WFMT: 70 Essential Years

      WFMT (70 Essential Years)

      8:09 am

      Jan Sandström: "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" (after Praetorius)

      The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
      Carol of the Bells

      Coro COR-16188

      8:14 am

      Johannes Brahms: Eleven Chorale Preludes, Op. 122

      "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen; O Gott, du frommer Gott"

      Dallas Wind Sym/Frederick Fennell
      Fennell Favorites

      Reference RR-43

      8:22 am

      Henry Charles Litolff: "Concerto symphonique" No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 45

      IV. Allegro vivace

      Peter Donohoe, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Andrew Litton

      Hyperion CDA-67210

      8:30 am

      Michel Corrette: "Symphonie de Noël" No. 1

      La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen
      Corrette: Les Six Symphonies de Noël

      Brilliant Classics 93538

      8:40 am

      Oscar Roberto Casares: "Concierto Sefaradi"

      Quintetto Italiano
      Oscar Roberto Casares: Concierto Sefaradi

      Koch 3-1280-2

      9:04 am

      Giuseppe Valentini: Christmas Symphony

      New York Harp Ensemble, Pro Arte Chamber Orch/Aristid von Wurtzler
      A Christmas Celebration: A Collection of Classical Brass, String and Choral Favorites

      Musicmasters 67077-2

      9:10 am

      György Ligeti: "Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances"

      Asko Ensemble, Schoenberg Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw
      The Ligeti Project, Vol. 5

      Teldec 88262-2

      9:21 am

      Ferdinand Kauer: Twelve New Hungarian Dances

      Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay
      Hungarian Orchestral Music

      Capriccio 10528

      9:31 am

      Giuseppe Tartini: "Sinfonia pastorale" in D (Christmas Sinfonia)

      Collegium Aureum
      Christmas Concertos

      RCA 77048-2

      9:45 am

      Clémence de Grandval: "Trio de salon," Op. 8

      Lajos Lencsés, ob; Libor Šíma, bn; François Killian, p
      Clémence de Grandval: Works For Oboe

      Hänssler Classic 98295

      10:00 am - 1:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am.

      10:00 am

      Léo Delibes: "Sylvia"

      Suite

      London Sym Orch/Anatole Fistoulari
      Essential Ballet

      Decca 473171-2 (2)

      10:17 am

      Amy Beach: "Pastorale," Op. 151

      Borealis Wind Quintet
      A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet

      MSR Classics MS-1128

      10:19 am

      Vincent Persichetti: "Pastoral," Op. 21

      Borealis Wind Quintet
      A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet

      MSR Classics MS-1128

      10:27 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Rapsodie d'Auvergne," Op. 73

      Jean-Philippe Collard, p; Royal Phil Orch/André Previn
      Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 1, Wedding Cake Caprice-Valse, Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, Allegro appassionato, "Africa" Fantaisie

      EMI CDC7-49757-2

      10:39 am

      Will Todd: "My Lord Has Come"

      Music of the Baroque Chorus/William Jon Gray
      On This Night

      Music of the Baroque On This Night

      10:42 am

      Michael Praetorius: "Terpsichore"

      "Passameze and Gaillarde"

      Music of the Baroque Brass/William Jon Gray
      On This Night

      Music of the Baroque On This Night

      10:45 am

      Traditional: "Ding Dong Merrily on High"

      Music of the Baroque Chorus/William Jon Gray
      On This Night

      Music of the Baroque On This Night

      10:48 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E, R. 270, "Il Riposo, per il Natale"

      Rachel Podger, v; Brecon Baroque
      Vivaldi - Le Quattro Stagioni

      Channel Classics CCSSA-40318

      11:01 am

      Bedřich Smetana: "Vltava (The Moldau)"

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink
      The Art of Bernard Haitink

      Decca 4781429

      11:15 am

      Manuel Ponce: Four Mexican Dances

      Argentina Durán, p
      Rapsodia Mexicana

      Bravo Music (Rapsodia Mexicana)

      11:24 am

      music continues...

      12:15 pm

      Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

      Pianist Chloe Zhang performs music by Fauré, Grieg, Gershwin, and Scriabin, 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

      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 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Handel’s Judas Maccabeus

      Handel's gripping oratorio commemorates the story of Judas Maccabeus, who led the Maccabean Jews against the invasion by the Seleucids, thus preserving Jewish culture and religion by regaining control of Jerusalem and rededicating the Temple. Nicholas McGegan leads the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the U.C. Berkely Chamber Chorus, with tenor Guy de May, soprano Lisa Saffer, and countertenor Brian Asawa.