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Playlist for Saturday, December 13, 2025
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Czech Trad: Carol, "Good King Wenceslaus"
Empire Brass; Mark Kroll, hc
Joy To The World: Music Of Christmas
12:02 am
English Trad: Carol, "What Child is this? (Greensleeves)"
Empire Brass; Nancy Allen, h; Mark Kroll, hc
Joy To The World: Music Of Christmas
12:05 am
François Boieldieu: Harp Concerto in C (in Three Tempi)
Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Handel, Boieldieu, Mozart: Concertos for Harp
12:27 am
English Trad: Carol, "The First Nowell"
Yolanda Kondonassis, h
Dream Season: The Christmas Harp
12:29 am
Marcel Dupré: "Variations on a Noël," Op 20
Jeremy Filsell, o
Dupre Organ works, Vol 2
12:40 am
Georges Bizet: "Variations chromatiques de concert"
San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Bizet: Symphony in C; Jeux d’Enfants, etc.
12:54 am
A Busnois: Cent mille escus
New York Kammermusiker
Chamber Music (Renaissance) - PHILIDOR, P.D. / BUSNOYS, A. / LUZZASCHI, L. / MONTEVERDI, C. (A Renaissance Tour of Europe) (New York Kammermusiker)
1:00 am
Franz Liszt: "Transcendental Etudes" (1851)
No. 12, "Chasse-neige"
Jenö Jandó, p
Etudes D'Execution Transcendante
1:05 am
Edward Elgar: "Snow," Op. 26/2
Royal Liverpool Philharmonia & Cho/Charles Groves
Elgar
1:11 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Der Schneemann" (1908)
Prelude and Serenade
Linz Bruckner Orch/Caspar Richter
The Piano Concertos
1:15 am
Markus Fricker: Carol, "Liislig fallt de Schnee"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
1:17 am
George Frideric Handel: "Water Music"
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Water Musick
1:55 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Let us break their bonds asunder"
Mendelssohn Cho, Toronto Sym Orch/A Davis
Messiah
2:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
Sinfonia "(Pastoral Symphony)"
St Martin's Academy/Philip Ledger
2:05 am
German Trad: Christmas Medley
Rita Streich, s; RIAS Sym/Kurt Gaebel
The Christmas Album
2:13 am
Max Reger: Song, "Uns ist geboren ein Kindlein"
Peter Schreier, t; Norman Shetler, p
Weihnachtslieder
2:14 am
Max Reger: "Aus der Jugendzeit," Op. 17
No. 9, "Weihnachtstraum"
Jeffrey Biegel, p
A Steinway Christmas Album * Jeffrey Biegel
2:53 am
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7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Tristan Zhu, 18, violin. Bach: Chaconne in D minor; Chaminade: Capriccio, Op. 18; Sibelius: Violin Concerto, 1st mvt; Roumain: "FILTER". With Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Giordano's Andrea Chénier
Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier); Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena di Coigny); Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Daniele Rustioni. Sung in Italian.
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with the artistic director of Opera Rara and world-renowned conductor Carlo Rizzi, who joins WFMT to share bel canto rarities and Opera Rara's Donizetti Song Project.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: This broadcast of excerpts from Archie Fisher’s Folkstage performances honors the memory of Scotland’s quintessential folksinger, songwriter, and folk radio host who died on November 1, 2025.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 today. We celebrate his incredible music career and broadcast a few tunes about TV.
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