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      Playlist for Tuesday, February 3, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Uuno Klami: "Helsinki March" (1930)

      Finnish Radio Sym Orch/Jussi Jalas

      Finland Transcriptions FT-9602

      12:05 am

      Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in E-Flat

      Sibelius Academy Quartet
      Sibelius: Early Chamber Works

      Finlandia FACD-375

      12:23 am

      Jean Sibelius: "Kuolema," Op. 44, original theatre version

      "Valse triste" (original version)

      Nikita Magaloff, p
      La Valse

      Denon 81757-9346-2

      12:28 am

      Germaine Tailleferre: Two Pieces

      No. 2, "Valse lente"

      Quynh Nguyen, p
      Tailleferre

      Music & Arts MA-1306

      12:30 am

      Jean-Féry Rebel: Ballet, "Les Elémens"

      Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
      Jean-Fery Rebel: Les Elemens/ Destouches: Les Elemens

      L'Oiseau Lyre 421656-2

      12:54 am

      François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 3 (1722): 17e ordre in e

      "Les Petits Moulins à Vent"

      Carole Cerasi, hc
      Couperin: Complete Works for Harpsichord

      Metronome METCD-1100 (10)

      1:00 am

      Scott Joplin: "Bethena"- A Concert Waltz

      Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet
      Cooler By the Lake

      Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet

      1:04 am

      Scott Joplin: "Solace" (A Mexican Serenade)

      William Albright, p
      The Complete Rags Of Scott Joplin

      Musicmasters 7061-2-C (2)

      1:11 am

      Walter Piston: "Serenata" (1956)

      Louisville Orch/Robert Whitney

      First Edition FECD-0010

      1:22 am

      Ernest John Moeran: Serenade in G (1947-8)

      7th mvt, "Rigadoon (Rigaudon)"

      Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley
      Moeran: Serenade in G · Warlock: Serenade · Capriol Suite

      Chandos CHAN-8808

      1:24 am

      Antonin Dvorák: String Serenade in E, Op. 22

      I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky
      Borodin & Dvorak: Works For Strings

      Chandos CHAN-9484

      1:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786

      No. 7 in e minor

      Pieter-Jan Belder, hc
      Bach Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      2:00 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "Marg'ret's Ghost," H XXXIa:65

      Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
      Haydn Edition

      Brilliant Classics 95594 (160)

      2:05 am

      Vincent D'Indy: "Fantaisie sur des Thèmes populaires français," Op 31

      Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin's Academy/Mathias Mönius
      Bonjour Paris * Albrecht Mayer

      London 4782564

      2:20 am

      Germaine Tailleferre: "Chansons populaires françaises" (1952-55)

      #2, "Mon père toujours me crie"

      Patrice Michaels, s; Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
      La vie est une parade

      Cedille CDR-90000070

      2:21 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in C, H XVI:1

      Marc-André Hamelin, p
      Haydn * Piano Sonatas, Volume III * Marc-André Hamelin

      Hyperion CDA-67882 (2)

      2:31 am

      Ignaz Pleyel: Flute Concerto in C

      Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois, f
      PLEYEL: Symphonies in B-Flat Major and in G Major / Flute Concerto

      Naxos 8.572550

      2:55 am

      Astor Piazzolla: Six Tango Etudes for Flute Solo

      #5

      Patrick Gallois, f
      Piazzolla For Two - Tangos For Flute And Guitar

      DG 449185-2

      3:00 am

      Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonata in d

      Trio Settecento
      Trio Settecento: A German Bouquet

      Cedille CDR-90000114

      3:05 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata #14 in c-sharp, Op 27/2, "Moonlight"

      Dirk Herten, p
      Beethoven Piano Sonatas

      White 4 (10)

      3:20 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: "The Ruins of Athens," Op. 113

      "Turkish March"

      Berlin Phil/Bernhard Klee
      Beethoven

      DG B0029402-02 (3)

      3:22 am

      Gabriel Pierné: Ramuntcho (1907)

      Suite #2

      Lorraine Phil/Jacques Houtmann
      Pierne:Piano Concerto/Suites 1 and 2

      BIS CD-381

      3:37 am

      Georges Bizet: "L'Arlésienne"

      Suite #1

      Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski

      Naive V-5130

      3:55 am

      Georges Bizet: "L'Arlésienne" incidental music

      Act 1: "Farandole"

      Louvre Musicians/Marc Minkowski

      Naive V-5130

      4:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Sancta Maria," K. 273

      Vienna Academy Cho, Vienna State Opera Orch/René Leibowitz

      MCA Classics MCAD2-9816 (2)

      4:05 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 20, No. 2

      Tátrai String Quartet
      Haydn Quartets, Op 20

      Hungaroton HCD-11332-33 (2)

      4:26 am

      Anon 19th c, American: "Wo mit soll Ich Dich"

      Chestnut Brass Company
      Listen to the Mockingbird

      Newport Classic NPD-85516

      4:28 am

      Don Gillis: Symphony "X", "The Big D"

      Albany Sym Orch/David Alan Miller
      Gillis: Symphony X

      Albany TROY-391

      4:41 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony "A" in B-Flat

      Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer
      Haydn Symphonies 21-39

      MHS 5576550 (5)

      4:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Anna Magdalena Notebook"

      Chorale, "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten"

      Nicholas McGegan, hc
      Clavierbüchlein Für Anna Magdalena Bach

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907042

      5:00 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)" Op. 45

      IV. "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (How lovely are thy dwellings)"

      Atlanta Sym & Cho/Robert Spano
      Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem * Spano/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

      Telarc CD-80701

      5:05 am

      Clara Schumann: Piano Sonata in g minor

      Isata Kanneh-Mason, p
      Romance

      London 4850020

      5:25 am

      Robert Schumann: "Liederkreis (Song Cycle)," Op. 39 (texts by Eichendorff)

      #12, "Frühlingsnacht"

      Kyle Stegall, t; Eric Zivian, p
      Myrtle & Rose

      Avie AV-2407

      5:27 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "Spring," Op 34

      Hong Kong Phil/Kenneth Schermerhorn
      GLAZUNOV : Orchestral Works

      Marco Polo 8.220309

      5:37 am

      Franz Liszt: "Les Préludes," Symphonic Poem No. 3

      Hungarian State Orch/Janos Ferencsik
      Liszt

      Hungaroton HCD-12446-2

      5:54 am

      Franz Liszt: "Ave Maria"

      Leslie Howard, p
      The Complete Liszt Piano Music

      Hyperion CDS-44501/98 (98)

      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.

      6:04 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581

      I. "Allegro"

      Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet
      Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets

      Cedille CDR-90000147

      6:14 am

      Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonia in C

      Concerto Köln
      Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies

      Archiv 4776418

      6:22 am

      Carl Czerny: Piano Concerto in F, Op. 28

      III. Polonaise: Allegro vivace

      Tasmanian Sym Orch/Howard Shelley, p
      The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 71

      Hyperion CDA-68138

      6:32 am

      Edmond Dédé: "Chicago, grande valse à l'Américaine"

      Hot Springs Music Festival/Richard Rosenberg
      Dédé: Mon pauvre coeur- Françoise et Tirtillard- Méphisto masqué

      Naxos 8.559038

      6:42 am

      Enrique Granados: Piano Trio, Op. 50

      I. "Poco allegro con espressione"

      Beaux Arts Trio
      Beaux Arts Trio plays Turina, Granados

      Philips 446684-2

      6:51 am

      Alexander Borodin: "In the Steppes of Central Asia"

      Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
      Pops Caviar - Russian Orchestral Fireworks

      RCA 68132-2

      7:04 am

      Johann Gottlieb Graun: Overture and Allegro in D minor

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      Friedrich der Grosse: Music for the Berlin Court

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-902132

      7:17 am

      Percy Grainger: "Scandinavian Suite"

      V. Air and Finale on Norwegian Dances

      Stephen Orton, vc; Hamish Milne, p
      Grainger: Vol. 13 - Works for Chamber Ensemble 1

      Chandos CHAN-9746

      7:23 am

      Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64

      No. 2, "Allegretto grazioso"

      Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite

      DG 419431-2

      7:32 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Overture for Wind Instruments, Op 24

      London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
      Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, 7 Overtures / Abbado

      DG 471467-2 (4)

      7:42 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat

      Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
      Mendelssohn: String Symphonies

      RCA 68069-2 (3)

      7:54 am

      Hans Krása: "Tánec (Dance)"

      Black Oak Ensemble
      Silenced Voices

      Cedille CDR-90000189

      8:03 am

      Michael Torke: "Javelin"

      Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi
      Torke: Color Music

      Argo 452101-2

      8:13 am

      Florence Price: "Fantasie Nègre" No. 4 in B minor

      Samantha Ege, p
      Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price

      Lorelt LNT-144

      8:25 am

      Erik Satie: "Jack-in-the-Box"

      Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
      The Complete Ballets of Erik Satie

      Vanguard OVC-4030

      8:31 am

      Eric Ewazen: "Symphony in Brass"

      III. "Allegro vivace"

      Summit Brass
      Summit Brass Live

      Summit DCD-380

      8:38 am

      Anton Edvard Pratté: "Grand Concert" in G minor

      III. "Rondo: Polacca à la Svedese"

      Delphine Constantin-Reznik, h; Norrköping Sym Orch/Daniela Musca
      Pratté: Harp Works

      BIS 2570

      8:51 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052

      I. "Allegro"

      Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell, hc
      J.S. Bach Harpsichord Concertos - 25th Anniversary Edition

      Avie AV-2489

      9:04 am

      Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 1

      La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
      Once Upon A Time / Il Était Une Fois...

      Analekta AN2-8719

      9:20 am

      Carl Nielsen: Piano Trio in G

      Trio Ondine
      Carl Nielsen: Chamber Music, Vol. 1

      Dacapo 8.226064

      9:32 am

      Dmitri Kabalevsky: "The Comedians," Op. 26

      National Phil/Leonard Slatkin
      Leonard Slatkin - Conducts Russian Showpieces

      RCA 5661-2-RC

      9:48 am

      Richard Strauss: "Salome," Op. 54

      "Dance of the Seven Veils"

      Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Andris Nelsons
      Strauss Alliance

      DG 4862040

      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.

      10:00 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 100 in G, "Military"

      Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado
      Haydn: 7 "London" Symphonies

      DG 4778117 (4)

      10:24 am

      Carl Nielsen: "Moderen (The Mother)," Op. 41

      Three Pieces

      Aureole
      Aureole: Genzmer, Nielsen, Gubaidulina, Debussy

      Koch 3-7055-2

      10:32 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: "The Bolt," Op. 27

      Overture; Polka

      Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Shostakovich: The Dance Album

      Decca 452597-2

      10:42 am

      Tielman Susato: "The Danserye" (1551)

      "La Masque; Bergerette; Les quatre Branles; Fagot; Den hoboecken dans"

      U of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry Junkin
      Bells for Stokowski

      Reference RR-104

      10:53 am

      Antonio Estévez: "17 Piezas Infantiles"

      Nos. 6-10

      Clara Rodríguez, p
      Americas Without Frontiers

      Nimbus NI-6346

      11:00 am

      Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2

      Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter
      English Music for Strings

      RCA 7761-2-RC

      11:14 am

      Manuel De Zumaya: "De las Flores"

      Chanticleer
      Mission Road

      Warner Classics R2-512746

      11:21 am

      Pablo de Sarasate: Two Spanish Dances, Op. 26

      Aaron Rosand, v; Eileen Flissler, p
      Aaron Rosand plays Sarasate

      Vox ACD-8160

      11:34 am

      Gioachino Rossini: Introduction, Theme and Variations in E-Flat/B-Flat

      Sabine Meyer, cl; Zürich Opera Orch/Franz Welser-Möst
      A Night at the Opera

      EMI CDC5-56137-2

      11:47 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 Contredanses, WoO 14

      Capella Istropolitana/Oliver von Dohnányi
      Beethoven: Mödlinger Dances, Contredanses, German Dances, Minuets

      Naxos 8.550433

      12:01 pm

      Stephen Paulus: "And Give Us Peace"

      Chicago Chorale/Bruce Tammen
      And Give Us Peace

      Chicago Chorale 2010

      12:08 pm

      Nino Rota: "Concerto soirée"

      Benedetto Lupo, p; City of Granada Orch/Josep Pons
      Nino Rota: La Strada, Concerto Soirée, Il Gattopardo

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901864

      12:30 pm

      Gunnar de Frumerie: "Pastoral Suite," Op. 13b

      Kathleen Rudolph, f; CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi
      Northern Landscapes

      Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5157

      12:45 pm

      Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 1

      Vienna State Opera Orch/Anatole Fistoulari
      Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No 1-6

      Vanguard SVC-75

      12:56 pm

      Franz Liszt: Grand Etude after Paganini No. 5, "La Chasse"

      Daniil Trifonov, p
      Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov Plays Liszt

      DG 4795529 (2)

      1:01 pm

      Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 2

      Randall Goosby, v; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
      Max Bruch & Florence Price: Violin Concertos

      Decca 4854234

      1:18 pm

      Anonymous English: "Greensleeves"

      St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt
      Bushes & Briars

      MSR Classics MS-1606

      1:21 pm

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

      BBC Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis
      40 Most Beautiful Spring Classics

      Warner 256469667-7

      1:26 pm

      Igor Stravinsky: "Le Baiser de la fée"

      Divertimento

      London Sinfonietta/Riccardo Chailly
      Stravinsky: Divertimento, Fanfare for a New Theatre, Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

      Decca 417114-2

      1:51 pm

      Louise Farrenc: Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, Op. 44

      II. Adagio

      Romain Guyot, cl; François Salque, vc; Brigitte Engerer, p
      Louise Farrenc - Chamber Music

      Naïve V-5033

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

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

      2:00 pm

      Claude Debussy: "La Mer"

      Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth
      Debussy: La Mer, Orchestra Suite

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-905369

      2:24 pm

      Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in F, R. 572, "Il Proteo ò sea Il Mondo al rovescio"

      Gli Incogniti/Amandine Beyer
      Vivaldi: Il Mondo al rovescio

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902688

      2:34 pm

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545

      II. "Andante"

      Mitsuko Uchida, p
      Mozart: Mitsuko Uchida - 2 Sonatas / 2 Sonaten / Rondo

      Philips 412122-2

      2:42 pm

      Charlotte Sohy: "Triptyque champêtre," Op. 21

      Mathilde Calderini, f; Omer Bouchez, v; Lou Yung-Hsin Chang, vi; Yan Levionnois, vc; Constance Luzzati, h
      Yan Levionnois, cello,
      Charlotte Sohy, Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

      La Boîte à Pépites BAP01.03

      2:57 pm

      Mário Albanese: "Jequibach"

      Plínio Fernandes, g
      Bacheando

      Decca 4859359

      3:00 pm

      Sergei Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64

      Death of Tybalt, Friar Laurence, Romeo and Juliet Before Parting, Romeo at Juliet's Tomb

      Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti
      Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet

      CSO Resound 9011402

      3:25 pm

      Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52

      Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli
      Sibelius: Complete Symphonies, Orchestral Works

      EMI ZDME5-67299-2 (5)

      4:00 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54

      Evgeny Kissin, p
      Chopin: The Four Ballades, Berceuse Op. 57, Barcarolle Op. 60, Scherzo No. 4 Op. 54

      RCA 63259-2

      4:11 pm

      Jacques Offenbach: "Gaîté Parisienne"

      Suite

      Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
      Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Gounod: Faust Ballet Music; Chabrier: España; Thomas: Mignon

      DG 423698-2

      4:31 pm

      Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"

      Three Dance Episodes

      Israel Phil Orch/Leonard Bernstein
      Bernstein: Divertimento, A Musical Toast, Slava!, Facsimile, On The Town

      DG 427042-2

      4:43 pm

      Zoltán Kodály: "Marosszék Dances"

      St. Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff
      Divertimento, Romanian Folk-Dances, Marosszék Dances, Dances of Galánta

      Teldec 73134-2

      4:57 pm

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Fantasiestücke," Op. 5

      No. 3, Humoresque

      Takács Quartet
      Dvořák & Coleridge-Taylor: Quartets

      Hyperion CDA-68413

      5:00 pm

      Hubert Parry: "Hear my words, ye people"

      King's College Cho/Stephen Cleobury; Douglas Tang, o
      English Hymn Anthems - Alison Balsom/The Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge

      King's College Cambridge KGS-0004

      5:15 pm

      Lettie Alston: Variations on "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

      Lettie Alston, p
      Keyboard Maniac

      Albany TROY-439

      5:21 pm

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Ländler, WoO 15

      Boskovsky Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky
      The Willi Boskovsky Collection Vol. 2, The Charm of Old Vienna / The Boskovsky Ensemble

      Vanguard OVC-8016

      5:27 pm

      Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16

      Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
      Brahms Serenades 1 & 2

      Telarc CD-80522

      6:00 pm

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      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Music of Scandinavia

      The lighter these northern lands are in the summer just means the darker the winters will be, and these dark winters are in the living tissue of every Scandinavian. Bill features composers such as Wilhelm Stenhammar, Per Nørgård, and Lars-Erik Larsson, as well as music performed by contemporary Scandinavian artists.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

      Shostakovich Quartet No. 13, Op. 138; Ruben Aharonian, Sergei Lomovsky, violins; Igor Naidin, viola; Vladimir Balshin, cello; "From Jewish Folk Poetry," Op.79; Mané Galoyan, soprano; Sara Couden, alto; Miles Mykkanen, tenor; Gilbert Kalish, piano.

      11:00 pm