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Playlist for Friday, March 13, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Johannes Brahms: "Hungarian Dances"
No. 1 in g minor
Andreas Ottensamer, cl; Ensemble
Brahms: The Hungarian Connection
12:05 am
Johannes Brahms: "Hungarian Dances"
No. 21 in e minor
Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
Classic Abbado
12:06 am
Johannes Brahms: "Hungarian Dances"
No. 10 in F
London Phil/Marin Alsop
Brahms * Symphony No 2 * Hungarian Dances
12:08 am
William Wallace: "Creation Symphony" in c-sharp
BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins
Wallace: Creation Symphony, Pelléas And Mélisande, Prelude To The Eumenides
12:55 am
Robert Schumann: "Albumblätter," Op. 124
No. 6, "Wiegenliedchen"
Emmanuelle Bertrand, vc; Pascal Amoyel, p
1:00 am
Frederick Delius: "Fennimore and Gerda"
Intermezzo
English Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
1:05 am
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2 in d minor, Op. 44
Lydia Mordkovitch, v; London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2 · Symphony No. 3
1:34 am
American Trad: Folksong, "Black Sheep"
St Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt
Bushes & Briars
1:36 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Cantique de Jean Racine," Op 11
Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
Requiem (1893 Version) And Other Sacred Music
1:42 am
John Rutter: Suite
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 1
1:55 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
Allemande
Francesco Tristano, p
Bach: The 6 English Suites
2:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Church Sonata No. 10 in F, K. 244
Andras Viragh, o; Hungarian Chamber Orch/Alberto Santana
2:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in c minor, K. 491
Northern Sinfonia/Imogen Cooper, p
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25
2:35 am
Franz Schubert: Song, "Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass", D 478
John Mark Ainsley, t; Graham Johnson, p
The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 24
2:37 am
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Grand Caprice on Schubert's "Erlkönig," Op 26
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Patrick Sinozich, p
Instrument of the Devil
2:41 am
Franz Schubert: "Ellens Gesang" III: "Ave Maria," D 839
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Concert à la Carte
2:46 am
Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
Eaken Piano Trio
CHRISTMAS and HANUKAH: I'll Be Home for the Holidays
2:54 am
William Byrd: "Ave Maria"
Gesualdo Six/Owain Park
William Byrd
3:00 am
Franz Schubert: Polonaise in B-Flat, D 580
Chamber Orch of Europe/Gidon Kremer, v
Schubert-Soirée
3:05 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise" in E-Flat, Op. 22
Jon Nakamatsu, p
10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
3:20 am
Henryk Wieniawski: "Polonaise brillante" #2 in A, Op 21
Maxim Vengerov, v; Ian Brown, p
Kreisler, Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski
3:29 am
Johann Adolph Hasse: Polonaise in G, BWV Anh 130
Igor Kipnis, hc
The Note Book Of Anna Magdalena Bach
3:30 am
Darius Milhaud: Symphony No. 10, Op. 382
Basel Radio Orch/Alun Francis
Milhaud
3:55 am
Darius Milhaud: "Le Carnaval d'Aix," Op. 83b
"Polka"
Claude Helffer, p; French National Orch/David Robertson
Milahud: Le Carnaval d'Aix Op. 33b, 5 Etudes Op. 63, Concertos No. 1 and No. 4, Ballade Op. 61
4:00 am
Charles Gounod: "Faust"
Waltz
Pepe Romero, g; Wilhelm Hellweg, forte-p
Opera Fantasy For Guitar
4:05 am
Pablo de Sarasate: "Faust" Fantasy after Gounod
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Patrick Sinozich, p
Instrument of the Devil
4:18 am
Charles Gounod: "Faust"
"Variations de Cléopâtre"
Rotterdam Phil/David Zinman
Essential Ballet
4:20 am
Edouard Lalo: "Symphonie espagnole" in d, Op 21
Augustin Dumay, v; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
Lalo: Concerto Russe Op. 29, Concerto In F Major Op. 20
4:55 am
Federico MORENO TORROBA: Aires de la Mancha
#1, "Jerigonza"
Paul Galbraith, g
Guitar Music - NIN-CULMELL, J.M. / FRASER, M.K. / CONSTANTINIDIS, Y. / MORENO, T.F. / BARTOK , B. / GRIEG, E. (Galbraith)
5:00 am
George Templeton Strong: "From a Notebook of Sketches"
"Oriental Procession"
Moscow Sym Orch/ Adriano
Strong
5:05 am
Edward MacDowell: "Fireside Tales", Op 61
James Barbagallo, p
MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1
5:18 am
Benjamin Britten: "An American Overture," Op. 27a
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sir Simon Rattle
5:28 am
Ernesto Lecuona: "19th-Century Cuban Dances"
"La Danza Interrumpida"
Thomas Tirino, p
5:30 am
George Gershwin: "Cuban Overture"
New Zealand Sym/James Judd
Gershwin
5:41 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Russian Overture," Op. 72
French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon
5:54 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Visions fugitives," Op. 22
No. 8, "Commodo"
Frederic Chiu, p
Prokofiev: Works For Piano, Vol. V
6:00 am
6:05 am
Friedrich Kuhlau: "The Elf's Hill," Op 100
Overture
Danish National Radio Sym Orch/John Frandsen
The Best of Danish Golden Age Music
6:18 am
Florence Price: "Elfentanz"
Elena Urioste, v; Tom Poster, p
From Brighton to Brooklyn
6:22 am
Franz Berwald: "Elfenspiel"
Royal Phil Orch/Ulf Björlin
Berwald * Sinfonie Singulière / Sinfonie Sérieuse / Elfenspiel
6:32 am
Antonio Soler: "Fandango"
L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar
Los Pájaros Perdidos * The South American Project
6:43 am
Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphony in D, Op. 2, No. 1
Thirteen Strings Chamber Orch/Kevin Mallon
Beck: Symphonies, Op. 2
6:55 am
Percy Grainger: "Walking Tune"
Borealis Wind Quintet
A La Carte: Short Works for Wind Quintet
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
7:00 am
WFMT Membership Drive
Until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 279-2100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Triple Play
Trios have their own set of challenges for composers and performers, and this week, Bill demonstrates on the piano, pointing out their complex structure of voice harmonies. We will hear Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, the trio from Act III of "Der Rosenkavalier," and on Friday, Bill plays a wonderful treat from "Porgy and Bess" performed by the Bill Evans Trio. Join us for a delightful week of music for three, where the odd man is not left out.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Jaromír Weinberger: "Schwanda the Bagpiper"
Polka and Fugue
US Marine Band/Michael J Colburn
Monumental Works for Winds
8:10 pm
Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet Concerto (after Handel's Op. 6, No. 7)
Lark Quartet, San Francisco Ballet Orch/Jean-Louis LeRoux
Works for String Quartet and Orchestra
8:34 pm
George Frideric Handel: Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, No. 4
Bob van Asperen, o; Age of Enlightenment Orch
Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 4
8:49 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto
Arnold Jacobs, tuba; Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim
The Chicago Principal
9:01 pm
Vladimir Kobekin: "Ariadne's Lament" (Variations on a Theme by Monteverdi)
Anastasia Kobekina, vc's
Venice
9:13 pm
Claudio Monteverdi: "L'incoronazione di Poppea"
Final duet, "Pur ti miro, pur ti godo"
Emanuela Galli, s; Roberta Mameli, s; La Venexiana/Claudio Cavina
L'incoronazione di Poppea
9:20 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "Madama Butterfly"
Suite
National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman
Puccini: Opera for Orchestra
9:38 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Dumka," Op. 59
Yana Reznik, p
Novellas
9:47 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D minor, R. 243
Anton Steck, v; Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli
Vivaldi * Concerti per Violino II 'Di Sfida'
9:57 pm
Lili Boulanger: "Pie Jesu"
Pembroke College Girls’ Cho/Anna Lapwood; Owen Saldanha, o
Celestial Dawn
10:02 pm
Erik Satie: "Sonatine bureaucratique"
Pascal Rogé, p
Satie: 3 Gymnopédies & Other Piano Works
10:07 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Hee-Young Lim, vc; London Symphony Orchestra/Scott Yoo
French Cello Concertos
10:28 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, 7 Overtures
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Sylvia Woods, harper (9/2/1982)
In this musical hour, harper Sylvia Woods tells Studs about winning the 1980 All Ireland Harp Competition, her book, "Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp," and the interesting cultural and military history of this important Celtic instrument. Sylvia and Studs also discuss their participation in the 1982 documentary, Chicago’s Secret Wilderness.
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