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      Playlist for Sunday, November 8, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Handel, George Frideric: Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in B-Flat, Bk 2

      "Passacaille"

      Yolanda Kondonassis, h
      A New Baroque

      Telarc CD-80403

      12:05 am

      Handel, George Frideric: "Water Music" Suite No. 3 in G

      Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman
      Handel: Music For The Fireworks, Water Music

      Telarc CD-80594

      12:15 am

      Handel, George Frideric: "Music for the Royal Fireworks"

      "Bourrée"

      Tokyo New Koto Ensemble
      Koto Handel

      Angel S-37620

      12:16 am

      Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Symphony No. 5 in D (1938-43, rev 1951)

      London Sym Orch/Bryden Thomson
      Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5

      Chandos CHAN-8554

      12:55 am

      Wesley, Samuel: Twelve Short Organ Pieces and a Full Voluntary

      #9

      Margaret Phillips, o (Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England)

      York CD-111

      1:00 am

      Foote, Arthur: "At Dusk" (1920)

      Fenwick Smith, f; Ronald Thomas, vc; Caitriona Yeats, h
      Chamber Music with Flute by Aaron Copland, Arthur Foote

      Northeastern NR-227-CD

      1:05 am

      Beach, Amy: "A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother," Op 108

      Joanne Polk, p
      Amy Beach: Under the Stars- Solo Piano Music of Amy Beach, Vol. 2

      Arabesque Z-6704

      1:09 am

      Converse, Frederick: Endymion's Narrative: Romance for Orchestra, Op 10

      Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta
      CONVERSE: Mystic Trumpeter (The) / Flivver Ten Million / Endymion's Narrative

      Naxos 8.559116

      1:30 am

      MacDowell, Edward: "Woodland Sketches", Op 51

      #9, "By a Meadow Brook"

      Dallas Wind Sym/Frederick Fennell
      Fennell Favorites!

      Reference Recordings RR-43-CD

      1:31 am

      Mason, Daniel Gregory: Violin Sonata in c, Op 14

      Kevin Lawrence, v; Phillip Bush, p
      Daniel Gregory Mason and Frederick Shepherd Converse: Violin Sonatas

      New World 80591-2

      1:54 am

      Gilbert, Henry F: "Mazurka"

      Malcolm Frager, p
      Edward MacDowell and Company

      New World 80206-2

      2:00 am

      Bach, Johann Sebastian: "Das Orgelbüchlein," BWV 599/644

      "O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross" BWV 622

      Angela Hewitt, p
      Bach Arrangements * Angela Hewitt, Piano

      Hyperion CDA-67309

      2:05 am

      Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestra Suite No.1 in C, BWV 1066

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      Bach: Orchestral Suites No 1-4

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901578/9 (2)

      2:31 am

      Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)"

      Chorale, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

      Angela Hewitt, p
      Bach Arrangements * Angela Hewitt, Piano

      Hyperion CDA-67309

      2:35 am

      Bach, Jan: "Four 2-Bit Contraptions"

      #3, "Gramaphone"

      Jean Berkenstock, f; Jonathan Boen, fh

      Equilibrium EQ-79

      2:36 am

      Howells, Herbert: Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra

      Moray Welsh, vc; London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
      Howells: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

      Chandos CHAN-9410

      2:54 am

      Rosseter: Prelude

      Matthew Wadsworth, l
      When Laura Smiles- Lute Solos And Songs From Elizabethan England

      Avie AV-2074

      3:00 am

      Fibich, Zdeněk: "Poem," Op 41/14

      Czech Phil/Vaclav Neumann
      Smetana/ Fibich/ Dvorak: Orchestral Music

      Orfeo C-180891-A

      3:04 am

      Bach, Johann Sebastian: Clavier Concerto No. 5 in f minor, BWV 1056

      Zuzana Ruzickova, hc; Prague Chamber Soloists/Vaclav Neumann
      Bach: Harpsichord Concertos

      Supraphon 110673-2

      3:15 am

      Caltabiano, Ronald: Fanfares for Solo Harpsichord (1994)

      #1

      Mark Kroll, hc
      The Contemporary Harpsichord

      Albany TROY-668

      3:17 am

      Loeffler, Charles: Two Rhapsodies

      Harold Gomberg, ob; Milton Katims, vi; Dimitri Mitropoulos, p

      CBS ML-5603

      3:40 am

      Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

      New York Phil Strings/Dimitri Mitropoulos
      Transfigured Night / Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis

      Odyssey 32160298

      3:53 am

      Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Coronation Anthem, "O Taste and See" (1953)

      Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer
      Holst/Vaughan Williams: Choral Music - Finzi Singers/Spicer

      Chandos CHAN-9425

      4:00 am

      Franck, César: "Cantabile" in B

      Nicholas Danby, o
      Wedding Classics

      Virgin 61890-2 (2)

      4:05 am

      Handel, George Frideric: Organ Concerto No. 11 in g, Op. 7, No. 5

      Paul Nicholson, o (St Lawrence, Whitchurch, England); Brandenburg Consort
      Handel: Organ Concertos

      Hyperion CDA-67291/2 (2)

      4:17 am

      Franck, César: "Lied"

      Camille Maurane, br; Lily Bienvenu, p
      La bonne chansons

      Erato EPR-15570

      4:18 am

      Franck, César: Symphony in d minor

      Czech Phil/Charles Munch
      Franck: Symphony in D Minor/ Ferroud: Symphony In A

      Praga PR-250083

      4:54 am

      Rameau, Jean-Philippe: "Pygmalion"

      "Tambourin"

      Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
      Rameau: Pygmalion, Nélée Et Myrthis

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901381

      5:00 am

      Shostakovich, Dmitri: "The Age of Gold," Op. 22

      "Allegretto"

      Venice String Quartet

      Dynamic CDS-195

      5:02 am

      Thomas-Mifune, Werner: Comic String Quartet on Beethoven's 5th Symphony

      Venice String Quartet
      Fun Time With String Quartet Quartetto d'Archi di Venezia

      Dynamic CDS-195

      5:05 am

      Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 33, No. 2, "Joke"

      Lindsays
      String Quartets Op. 33 - Nos. 1, 2 & 4

      ASV CDDCA-937

      5:25 am

      Villa-Lobos, Heitor: String Quartet No. 1 (1915)

      II. "Brincadeira (A Joke)"

      Danubius String Quartet
      VILLA - LOBOS : String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 and 13

      Marco Polo 8.223389

      5:26 am

      Elgar, Edward: "The Sanguine Fan," Op 81

      London Phil/Adrian Boult

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63133-2

      5:43 am

      Holst, Gustav: "The Perfect Fool," Op. 39

      Ballet music

      Philharmonia Orch/William Boughton
      Holst: The Planets, The Perfect Fool

      Nimbus NI-5117

      5:53 am

      Anonymous 17th century, English: "The Miller of the Dee"

      Broadside Band/Jeremy Barlow
      Popular Tunes In 17th Century England

      Harmonia Mundi HMA-1901039

      6:00 am

      6:00 am

      With Heart and Voice

      "Remembrance." Host Peter DuBois shares sacred choral and organ music to honor national observances of Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in the UK, as well as music to mark the beginning of Diwali, a major religious holiday for Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists.

      7:00 am - 12:00 pm

      7:01 am

      Josef Fiala: English Horn Concerto in C

      Albrecht Mayer, eh; Potsdam Chamber Academy
      Albrecht Mayer: Lost and Found

      DG 4792942

      7:14 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

      Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Manfred Honeck
      Tchaikovsky: Symphony 5; Schulhoff: Five Pieces

      Reference FR-752

      8:01 am

      Traditional African-American: Spiritual, "My Lord, What a Morning'"

      Seraphic Fire/Patrick Dupré Quigley
      Steal Away: The African American Concert Spiritual

      Seraphic Fire Media Steal Away

      8:05 am

      Traditional African-American: Spiritual, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit"

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

      Navona NV-6650

      8:08 am

      Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11

      I. "Allegro molto vivace"

      Boulanger Trio
      Who's Afraid Of...? Boulanger Trio

      Berlin Classics 0303298-BC

      8:21 am

      Carl Nielsen: "Maskarade"

      Dance of the Cockerels

      Danish National Sym Orch/Thomas Dausgaard
      Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music

      Dacapo 6.220518

      8:28 am

      Aram Khachaturian: "Spartacus"

      Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Khachaturian: Piano Concerto

      Decca 4870877

      8:38 am

      José White: Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor

      Rachel Barton Pine, v; Encore Chamber Orch/Daniel Hege
      Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries

      Cedille CDR-90000035

      9:01 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Il pastor fido"

      Overture, "Largo - Allegro"

      English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
      Handel Overtures

      Archiv 419219-2

      9:08 am

      Michael Abels: "Winged Creatures"

      Demarre & Anthony McGill, f & cl; CYSO/Allen Tinkham
      Winged Creatures

      Cedille CDR-90000187

      9:21 am

      John Knowles Paine: "In the Country", Op. 26

      Denver Oldham, p
      John Knowles Paine: Selected Piano Works

      New World 80424-2 (2)

      9:40 am

      Aaron Copland: "Rodeo"

      Four Dance Episodes

      London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland
      Copland Conducts Copland

      CBS MK-42430

      10:01 am

      Ross Parker & Hughie Charles: "We'll Meet Again"

      Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Kathryn Stott, p
      Songs of Comfort & Hope

      Sony 19439822372

      10:05 am

      Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mandolin Concerto in G

      Julien Martineau, m; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Wilson Ng
      O Sole Mio

      Naïve V-8120

      10:23 am

      Florence Price: "The Oak"

      Württemberg Phil/John Jeter
      Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances

      Naxos 8.559920

      10:35 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53, "Waldstein"

      Andreas Haefliger, p
      Andreas Haefliger * Perspectives 4

      Avie AV-2173

      11:01 am

      Caroline Shaw: "Leonardo da Vinci"

      "Renaissance"

      Attacca Quartet; So Percussion
      Leonardo da Vinci

      Nonesuch 7559789841

      11:04 am

      Anonymous 16th-century: Suite of Dances

      Piffaro
      Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy

      Archiv 445883-2

      11:16 am

      Karl Jenkins: "Palladio"

      London Phil Orch Strings/Karl Jenkins
      Karl Jenkins: Diamond Music - The Smith Quartet

      Sony SK-62276

      11:34 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat, BWV 815

      Murray Perahia, p
      Bach: French Suites

      DG 4796565 (2)

      11:51 am

      Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D 703, "Quartettsatz"

      Juilliard String Quartet
      Miniatures

      CBS MP-39553

      12:00 - 6:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      Gioachino Rossini: "Il Signor Bruschino"

      Overture

      Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
      Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection

      RCA 888837019828

      12:05 pm

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on "See the Conquering Hero Comes," WoO 45

      Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
      Hope Amid Tears

      Sony 886449139354

      12:20 pm

      Tomás Bretón: "En la Alhambra"

      City of Granada Orch/Juan de Udaeta
      En la Alhambra: 19th Century Spanish Symphonic Music

      Almaviva DS-0107

      12:29 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D, BWV 1012

      IV. Sarabande

      Lodestar Trio
      Bach to Folk

      Naxos NXW76158-2

      12:34 pm

      Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

      Stefano Bollani, p; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Sounds of the 30s

      Decca 4764832

      12:55 pm

      Charlotte Sohy: Piano Sonata, Op. 6

      II. "Lent"

      Célia Oneto Bensaid, p
      Charlotte Sohy, Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

      La Boîte à Pépites BAP01.03

      1:02 pm

      Arnold Bax: "Cathaleen-ní-Hoolihan"

      BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins
      Bax: Orchestral Works

      Chandos CHAN-9879

      1:15 pm

      Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani

      Nigel Kennedy, v; John Lenehan, p
      Kennedy Plays Kreisler

      EMI CDC5-56626-2

      1:22 pm

      Scott Joplin: "Fig Leaf Rag"

      Alexander Peskanov, p
      Joplin: Piano Rags, Vol. 1 by Louis Chauvin, Scott Joplin

      Naxos 8.559114

      1:27 pm

      music continues...

      6:00 - 8:00 pm

      6:00 pm

      Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts

      Mahler "Songs of a Wayfarer;" Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano; Georg Solti; Symphony No. 6; Jaap van Zweden, conductor.

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

      Music for the Ballet Many of the most formidable pieces of the last hundred years have been dedicated to ballet or modern dance. Latin American music is not the exception. Fiesta will present some of the most beloved, magical and dramatic Latin American works for dance.

      9:00 - 11:00 pm

      9:00 pm

      Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel

      Bizet beyond Carmen

      Henry Fogel presents a historic recording of Georges Bizet's rarely performed Symphony in C as well as a survey of choral works, songs, and piano pieces from a recent compendium released by Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française.