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      Playlist for Saturday, May 30, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Antonin Dvorák: "Poetic Tone Pictures", Op 85

      #3, "At the Old Castle"

      Vassily Primakov, p
      Antonin Dvorak: Piano Concerto in G Minor Op. 33

      Bridge 9309

      12:05 am

      Antonin Dvorák: "Carnival" Overture, Op. 92

      Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Symphony No.9 (From The New World) / Carnival Overture

      London 421016-2

      12:15 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Scenes from Folk Life," Op. 19

      No. 3, "Carnival Scene"

      Mikhail Pletnev, p
      Lyric Pieces, Sonata, 7 Fugues

      DG 459671-2

      12:21 am

      Carl Olsen: "Six Old Village Songs from Lon in Norway"

      Henning Kraggerud, v; Dalasinfoniettan/Bjarte Engeset
      Nordic Violin Favorites

      Naxos 8.572827

      12:28 am

      Bela Bartók: Hungarian Folksongs

      No. 3, "Finding a Husband"

      Slovak Phil Cho/Miklos Szabo

      Hungaroton HCD-31047

      12:30 am

      Bela Bartók: Four Orchestral Pieces, Op 12

      London Phil/Leon Botstein
      Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

      Telarc CD-80564

      12:55 am

      Hungarian ANON 17th c: Chorea Tanz

      Clemencic Consort/Rene Clemencic
      Danses Anciennes De Hongrie Et De Transylvanie

      Harmonia Mundi HMA-1901003

      1:00 am

      Jules Massenet: "Thaïs"

      "Méditation"

      Michael Rabin, v; Hollywood Bowl Sym Orch/Felix Slatkin
      Michael Rabin

      EMI/Ang CMS7-64123-2 (6)

      1:05 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

      Michael Rabin, v; Hollywood Bowl Sym Orch/Felix Slatkin
      Icon: Young Genius of the Violin

      EMI/Ang CMS7-64123-2 (6)

      1:14 am

      Nicolo Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op 1

      #16 in g

      Michael Rabin, v

      EMI/Ang CMS7-64123-2 (6)

      1:16 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet no.7 in F, Op.59 no.1, "Razumovsky"

      Fine Arts Quartet

      Everest EVC-9053/55 (3)

      1:53 am

      André Campra: "Les Festes Vénitiennes"

      "Air pour la suite du Carnaval"

      Limoges Baroque Ensemble

      Lyrinx CD-069

      2:00 am

      George Gershwin: Prelude No. 6, "Spanish"

      Alicia Zizzo, p
      Gershwin Rediscovered

      MSR Classics MS-1127

      2:01 am

      George Gershwin: "Mexican Dance"

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      Gershwin: The Complete Orchestral Collection

      Telarc 2CD-80445 (2)

      2:05 am

      George Gershwin: "Cuban Overture"

      Rochester Phil/Jeff Tyzik
      George Gershwin * Nakamatsu * Rochester PO * Tyzik

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-807441

      2:15 am

      Ernesto Lecuona: "Diary of a Child"

      Thomas Tirino, p
      Lecuona: Complete Piano Music Vol 2

      BIS CD-774

      2:25 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Three Children's Songs", Op. 68

      No. 3, "The Little Pigs"

      Victoria Yevtodieva, s; Yuri Serov, p
      PROKOFIEV, S.: Songs and Romances (Complete)

      Delos DE-3275 (3)

      2:27 am

      Edward Elgar: "Nursery Suite" (1931)

      Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
      The Wand Of Youth Suites / Nursery Suite

      Chandos CHAN-10422

      2:53 am

      Viktor Kosenko: "24 Children's Pieces," Op 15

      #23, "March of Budyonyshes"

      Natalkya Shkoda, p
      Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko: Piano Music, Vol. 3

      Centaur CRC-3445

      3:00 am

      Oskar Nedbal: Serenade, Op 6/2

      Vladislav Linetzky, v; Carlsbad Sym Orch/Douglas Bostock
      Scherzo Capriccioso

      Classico CD-192

      3:05 am

      Vítezslav Novák: "In the Tatra Mountains," Op 26

      Royal Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek
      Slovak Suite • In The Tatra Mountains • Eternal Longing

      Virgin 45251-2

      3:21 am

      Zdenek Fibich: Theme and Variations in B-Flat

      Panocha String Quartet
      Fibich: String Quartets

      Supraphon SU-3470-2131

      3:33 am

      Josef Bohuslav Foerster: Deborah

      Polka

      Prague Sym Orch/Vàclav Smetàcek
      Salvne Ceske Malickosti

      Supraphon 101429-2

      3:36 am

      Oskar Nedbal: "Lullaby"

      Carlsbad Sym Orch/Douglas Bostock
      Scherzo Capriccioso

      Classico CD-192

      3:38 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Lira Organizzata Concerto No. 4 in F, H VIIh:4

      Jean-Pierre Rampal, f; Pierre Pierlot, ob; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/János Rolla

      CBS M2K-39772 (2)

      3:53 am

      Orlandus (Roland de) Lassus: "Echo Song"

      Canadian Brass, Berlin Phil Brass
      Brass In Berlin

      CBS MK-39035

      4:00 am

      George Walker: Lyric for Strings (1946)

      Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman
      CDR 8001 Serenely Cedille

      Cedille CDR-8001

      4:05 am

      Francis Johnson: "New Cotillions"

      Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
      The Music Of Francis Johnson And His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers

      Musicmasters 7029-2-C

      4:10 am

      William Grant Still: "Pastorela"

      Fritz Gearhart, v; Victor Steinhardt, p

      Koch 3-7546-2

      4:19 am

      James Hemmenway: Philadelphia Hop Waltz

      Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
      The Music Of Francis Johnson And His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers

      Musicmasters 7029-2-C

      4:21 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in g minor, Op. 80

      Philippe Graffin, v; Johannesburg Phil/Michael Hankinson
      Violin Concertos

      Avie AV-0044

      4:53 am

      Francis Johnson: "The New Bird Waltz"

      Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
      The Music Of Francis Johnson And His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers

      Musicmasters 7029-2-C

      5:00 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: Fourteen Songs, Op. 34

      No. 14, "Vocalise"

      Christian Lindberg, tb; Per Lundberg, p
      Songs For Sunset

      BIS CD-808

      5:05 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" Overture-Fantasy

      Royal Phil/Artur Rodzinski

      EMI/Ang CDZB5-68742-2 (2)

      5:25 am

      Juhani Komulainen: Four Ballads of Shakespeare

      #3, "Three Words"

      Chicago A Cappella
      Shall I Compare Thee? Choral Songs of Shakespear Texts

      Cedille CDR-90000085

      5:27 am

      Franz Danzi: Wind Quintet in e, Op 67/2

      Aulos Wind Quintet

      Koch CD-310011

      5:40 am

      Antonin Reicha: Wind Quintet in E-Flat, Op 88/2

      Bergen Wind Quintet
      Ibert: Trois Pieces Breves/ Reicha: Wind Quintet, Op. 88 No. 2/ Arnold: Three Shanties Op. 4/ Saeverud: Wind Quintet No. 2

      Simax PSC-1094

      5:54 am

      Edward MacDowell: "Amourette", Op 1

      James Barbagallo, p
      MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 2

      Marco Polo 8.223632

      6:00 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Deux mélodies hébraïques"

      No. 1, "Kaddish"

      Jaime Laredo, v; Joseph Kalichstein, p
      Ravel: Works For Piano, Violin And Cello

      Arabesque Z-6736-2 (2)

      6:05 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21

      Scottish Chamber Orch/Jaimé Laredo
      Mendelssohn 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

      Nimbus NI-5041/2 (2)

      6:17 am

      Clara Schumann: "Soirées musicales," Op. 6

      "Mazurka"

      Joseph Kalichstein, p
      Soirees Musicales, 6 pieces for piano, Op 6

      Koch KICCD-7732

      6:20 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61

      "Bergomask"

      Scottish Chamber Orch/Jaimé Laredo
      Mendelssohn 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

      Nimbus NI-5041/2 (2)

      6:21 am

      Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio #1 in B, Op 8

      Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

      Koch KIC-CD-7684 (2)

      6:54 am

      Serge Prokofiev: Ballet, "On the Dnieper," Op. 51

      "Epilogue"

      Monte Carlo Phil/James DePreist

      Koch 3-7349-2

      7:00 - 11:00 am

      7:00 am

      Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn

      With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.

      7:03 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Morceau de concert" in G, Op. 154

      Elizabeth Hainen, h; Bulgarian National Radio Orch/Rossen Milanov
      Harp Concertos by Parish Alvars, Albrechtsberger & Saint-Saëns

      Avie AV-2221

      7:19 am

      Meredith Monk: "Ellis Island"

      Lara Downes & Simone Dinnerstein, p's
      Holes in the Sky / Downes - Portrait

      Portrait 19075920792

      7:24 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Dumbarton Oaks"

      Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez
      Stravinsky Complete Edition

      DG 447405-2

      7:40 am

      Trollstilt: "Ricercar"

      Owls
      Rare Birds

      New Amsterdam Records NWAM-194

      7:46 am

      Gilbert & Sullivan: "Iolanthe"

      Overture

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures

      Philips 434916-2

      7:55 am

      Monika Stadler: "Away for a While"

      Lauren Scott, h
      Beyond the Horizon

      Avie AV-2417

      8:00 am

      Saturday Morning Listener's Choice

      8:00 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op. 19

      No. 1 in E, "Andante con moto"

      Glenn Gould, p
      The Glenn Gould Edition: Chopin, Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Prokofiev

      Sony SM2K-52622 (2)

      8:04 am

      Anonymous 14th-century English: De spineto nata rosa

      Jan Garbarek, sx, Hilliard Ensemble
      Officium

      ECM 1525

      8:07 am

      Max Richter: "The Leftovers"

      "The Departure"

      Lang Lang, p
      Piano Book

      DG 4797528

      8:11 am

      Karl Jenkins: "The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace"

      V. Sanctus

      National Youth Choir of Great Britain; London Phil Orch/Karl Jenkins
      Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man

      Decca 4817826

      8:19 am

      Antonín Dvořák: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46

      No. 4 in F

      Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel
      Dvořák: Slavonic Dances / Lorin Maazel

      EMI CDC7-49547-2

      8:28 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784

      Till Fellner, p
      Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias; French Suite No. 5

      ECM 2043

      8:29 am

      Joan Baez: Plaisir d'Amour (Martini/Claris de Florian, PD)

      Joan Baez
      Joan Baez, Vol. 2

      Vanguard 79595-2

      8:35 am

      Charles Ives: Symphony, "New England Holidays"

      III. "The Fourth of July"

      Chicago Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
      Ives: Holidays Symphony, The Unanswered Question, Central Park In The Dark

      CBS MK-42381

      8:42 am

      Léo Delibes: "Lakmé"

      Flower Duet, "Dôme épais, le jasmin"

      Renée Fleming, s; Susan Graham, ms; Philharmonia Orch/Sebastian Lang-Lessing
      Guilty Pleasure

      Decca B0019033-02

      8:46 am

      Gioachino Rossini: "Soirées musicales"

      No. 8, "La danza"

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

      DG 4811917

      8:51 am

      Aram Khachaturian: "Gayaneh"

      Sabre Dance

      Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Explosive Classics

      Chandos CHAN-10989

      8:55 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, K. 412

      II. Finale, "Allegro"

      Sarah Willis, hn; Havana Lyceum Orch/José Antonio Méndez Padrón
      Mozart y Mambo

      Alpha 878

      9:00 am

      Soundtrack

      9:00 am

      Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare

      London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
      The Genius of Film Music

      LPO 0086

      9:01 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Captain Blood"

      Main Title

      National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
      The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Korngold

      RCA 88697779322

      9:04 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Sea Hawk"

      Suite

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      Masters and Commanders: Music from Seafaring Film Classics

      Telarc CD-80682

      9:11 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Juarez"

      Overture

      Brandenburg Phil Orch/Richard Kaufman
      Historical Romances

      Marco Polo 8.223608

      9:18 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Escape Me Never"

      Ballet-Fantasy

      Moscow Sym Orch/William T. Stromberg
      Korngold: Another Dawn, Escape Me Never

      Marco Polo 8.223871

      9:26 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Constant Nymph" film music

      "Tomorrow"

      National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
      The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Korngold

      RCA 88697779322

      9:33 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Prince and the Pauper"

      Main Title

      London Sym Orch/André Previn
      Previn Conducts Korngold

      DG 471347-2

      9:35 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Anthony Adverse" (1936)

      "Casa de Bonnyfeather"

      Orch/Lionel Newman
      Lionel Newman - Music By Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Stanyan GZS-1094

      9:36 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Another Dawn"

      "The Stars"

      Moscow Sym Orch/William T. Stromberg
      Korngold: Another Dawn, Escape Me Never

      Marco Polo 8.223871

      9:39 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Devotion"

      Theme

      Brandenburg Phil Orch/Richard Kaufman
      Historical Romances

      Marco Polo 8.223608

      9:45 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"

      "Darling" (Love Scene); Finale

      London Sym Orch/André Previn
      Previn Conducts Korngold

      DG 471347-2

      9:49 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Adventures of Robin Hood"

      Suite

      Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri
      Hollywood Dreams

      Philips 432109-2

      10:01 am

      Florence Price: "Dances in the Canebrakes"

      Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen
      Project W

      Cedille CDR-90000185

      10:11 am

      Luke Howard: "Dappled Light"

      Jess Gillam, sx; Jess Gillam Ensemble
      Jess Gillam: Time

      Decca 4851062

      10:17 am

      Carl Nielsen: "Helios" Overture, Op. 17

      Chicago Sym Orch/Jean Martinon
      Symphony No. 4 'Inextinguishable', Helios Overture

      RCA 29255-2

      10:30 am

      Claude Debussy: "Petite Suite"

      I. "En bateau"

      Répercussion
      Fantaisies Classiques

      Atma ACD2-2141

      10:34 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Trois Chansons"

      No. 3, "Ronde"

      King's Singers
      Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

      Signum SIGCD-887

      10:36 am

      Benjamin Britten: "Simple Symphony," Op. 4

      II. "Playful Pizzicato"

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Lollipops

      Philips 442406-2

      10:41 am

      music continues...

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      An encore performance by Porphyrion String Quartet (Mingshi Xia and Sasha Varchenko, violins; Neena Agrawal, viola; Simon Updegraff, cello). Haydn String Quartet in C, Op. 33, No. 3, “The Bird:" IV. Finale, Rondo-Presto; Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 2, “From the Monkey Mountains:” IV. Finale, “Wild Night,” Vivace e con fuoco; Dvořák String Quartet No. 9 in D minor, Op. 34: IV. Finale, Poco allegro. Originally broadcast September 6, 2025.

      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      Metropolitan Opera

      Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

      Isabel Leonard (Frida); Carlos Álvarez (Diego); Gabriella Reyes (Catrina); Nils Wanderer (Leonardo); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Sung in Spanish.

      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      A preview of the upcoming festival season of Santa Fe Opera with general director Robert K. Meya.

      5:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

      Schumann "Carnival Scenes from Vienna," Op. 26; Kirill Gerstein, piano; Dvořák String Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105; Escher String Quartet.

      6:00 - 8:00 pm

      6:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      From the archives: Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem kept listeners on their toes in a 2001 performance that that ranged from Appalachian traditional tunes to Tin Pan Alley gems to their own finely crafted original songs, all played with skill and verve.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      School’s out. What does the summer hold? Find out in folk songs filled with nostalgia, good times and a little mischief.