Saturday, July 25, 2026

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      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 1

      "Evocación"

      Cincinnati Sym/Jesus Lopez-Cobos
      Albéniz: Iberia - Complete

      Telarc 2CD-80470 (2)

      12:05 am

      Enrique Arbós: Tres piezas, Op 6

      Ara Malikian, v, Madrid Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos
      Enrique Fernandez Arbos: La obra orquestal

      Verso VRS-2027 (2)

      12:30 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia" Suite

      "El Puerto"

      Madrid Sym Orch/Enrique Arbos
      Arbos - Complete Orchestral Works

      Verso VRS-2027 (2)

      12:34 am

      Joaquín Nin-Culmell: "Tonadas" (1956-61)

      "Baile de Burgos"

      Edmund Battersby, p
      Granados: Goyescas/ Nin-Culmell: Tondas

      Koch 3-7062-2

      12:36 am

      Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet #5 in D, G 449

      Pepe Romero, g; St Martin's Academy Chamber Ensemble
      The Guitar Quintets Including La Ritirata Di Madrid & Fandango

      Philips 438769-2 (2)

      12:54 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Song, "Piercing Eyes"

      Judith Nelson, s; Elaine Thornburgh, forte-p
      She Never Told Her Love: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Koch 3-7044-2

      1:00 am

      Thoinot Arbeau: "Orchésographie"

      "Les Bouffons"

      Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band
      Keeping The Watch: The Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band

      Newport Classic NPD-85527

      1:05 am

      Louis XIII: Ballet de la Merlaison

      Paris Ancient Instrument Ensemble/Rogeracotte
      Ballet De La Merlaison/ Messe Pour Plusieurs Instruments Au Lieu Des Orgues

      Nonesuch H-71130

      1:18 am

      Francis Poulenc: "Suite française"

      London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
      Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc

      ASV CDWHL-2067

      1:30 am

      Francis Poulenc: "The Story of Babar"

      "Babar et Céleste"

      Christopher O'Riley, p
      Christopher O'Riley at the Break

      CPI 3294112

      1:32 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Peter and the Wolf," Op. 67

      Basil Rathbone, n; All-American Orch/Leopold Stokowski
      Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/ Saint-saëns: Carnival Of The Animals

      Avid AMSC-601

      1:54 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Summer Day Suite," Op. 65

      No. 3, Waltz

      San Diego Chamber Orch/Donald Barra
      Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

      Koch 3-7042-2

      2:00 am

      Hugo Wolf: Song, "Prometheus"

      Dietrich Henschel, br; Berlin German Sym Orch/Kent Nagano
      Wolf: Prometheus, Etc

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901837

      2:05 am

      Karl Goldmark: "Prometheus Bound," Op 38

      Philharmonia Orch/Yondani Butt
      Goldmark: Symphony No. 2

      ASV CDDCA-934

      2:22 am

      Franz Liszt: "Prometheus," Symphonic Poem No. 5 (1850)

      Georgia Mangos, p; Louise Mangos, p
      Liszt: Complete Symphonic Poems for Two Pianos Vol. 2

      Cedille CDR-90000024

      2:35 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Ländler, WoO 15

      #6

      Berlin Chamber Orch/Helmut Koch
      Beethoven Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93525 (85)

      2:37 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, H VIId:3

      Ab Koster, horn; L'Archibudelli
      The Natural Horn

      Sony SK-68253

      2:54 am

      Howard Goodall: "Ecce Homo"

      Christ Church Cathedral Cho/Stephen Darlington
      Howard Goodall: Choral Works

      ASV CDDCA-1028

      3:00 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Der Schneemann" (1908)

      Prelude and Serenade

      Linz Bruckner Orch/Caspar Richter
      The Piano Concertos

      ASV CDDCA-1074

      3:04 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 in f, Op 57, "Appassionata"

      Annie Fischer, p

      Hungaroton HCD-31631

      3:28 am

      Morton Gould: "Fanfare for Freedom"

      London Phil/Jorge Mester
      Twenty Fanfares For The Common Man

      Koch 3-7012-2

      3:29 am

      Zoltán Kodály: "Háry János" Suite, Op. 35a

      Baltimore Sym Orch/Sergiu Comissiona
      Sergiu Comissiona Kodaly Alfven Enescu

      MMG MCD-10015

      3:54 am

      Zoltán Kodály: "Háry János"

      "The Jewish Family"

      Budapest Festival Orch/Ivan Fischer
      Zoltan Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite/ Dances Of Galanta And Marosszek

      Philips 462824-2

      4:00 am

      Max Reger: Preludes and Fugues, Op 131a

      #2 in d

      Mateja Marinkovic, v
      Reger: Preludes and Fugues

      ASV CDDCA-876 (2)

      4:05 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-Flat, K. 450

      Chamber Orch of Europe/Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p
      Piano Concertos 6, 15 & 27

      Warner Classics 62259-2

      4:30 am

      Edward MacDowell: "New England Idyls," Op 62

      #1, "An Old Garden"

      James Barbagallo, p
      MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1

      Marco Polo 8.223631

      4:31 am

      Elie Siegmeister: Western Suite (1945)

      #4, "Buckaroo"

      Buffalo Phil/Lukas Foss
      Americana: 20th Century Works For Orchestra

      Vox CDX-5182 (2)

      4:35 am

      Aaron Copland: Four Dance Episodes from "Rodeo"

      Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta
      American Classics * Aaron Copland * Four Dances from Rodeo

      Naxos 8.559240

      4:54 am

      Edward MacDowell: "Woodland Sketches", Op 51

      #3, "At An Old Trysting Place"

      James Barbagallo, p
      MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1

      Marco Polo 8.223631

      5:00 am

      Jean Sibelius: Romance in C, Op. 42

      Boston Sym Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Finlandia/Valse triste/Romance/Symphony No. 2

      London 436566-2

      5:05 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Sigurd Jorsalfar," Op. 22

      Suite

      CSR Sym/Stephen Gunzenhauser
      GRIEG, E.: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Lyric Pieces / 3 Orchestral Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar (CSSR State Philharmonic, Gunzenhauser)

      Naxos 8.550140

      5:23 am

      Wilhelm Stenhammar: "Allegro ma non tanto" in A

      Lucia Negro, p; Patrik Swedrup, v; Helena Nilsson, vc
      The Complete Solo Piano Music Volume 3 / Chamber Music With Piano

      BIS CD-764

      5:32 am

      Einar Englund: "The White Reindeer" film music suite (1952)

      Overture

      Finnish Radio Sym Orch/Petri Sakari

      Finland Transcriptions FT-9905

      5:33 am

      Niels Gade: Symphony #4 in B-Flat, Op 20

      Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi
      The Complete Symphonies, Volume 1 - No.3 In A Minor / No. 4 In B Flat

      BIS CD-338

      5:54 am

      Christian Sinding: Song, "From Afar at Night", Op 57/14

      Per Vollestad, br; Sigmund Hjelset, p
      Sinding: Songs Vol 2

      Simax PSC-1195

      6:00 am

      Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34

      No. 2, "The Last Spring"

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Classical Favorites: Mozart, Pachelbel, Et al.

      Seraphim 73289-2

      6:04 am

      Franz Schubert: Violin Sonatina No. 2 in a, D 385

      Gidon Kremer, v; Oleg Maisenberg, p
      Sonatinas For Violin And Piano D 384 · D 385 · D 408

      DG 437092-2

      6:30 am

      Franz Schubert: Song, "Der Traum", D 213

      Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
      Schubert: Lieder

      DG 437215-2 (9)

      6:31 am

      Arthur Benjamin: "North American Square Dance Suite"

      Joshua Pierce, p; Dorothy Jonas, p; Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Kirk Trevor
      Pierce & Jonas

      MSR Classics MS-1652 (2)

      6:43 am

      Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C

      Heinz Holliger, ob; I Musici
      Albinoni, Cimarosa, Marcello, Et Al: Oboe Concertos

      Philips 420189-2

      6:53 am

      Arthur Benjamin: "Jamaican Rhumba"

      Jascha Heifetz, v; Milton Kaye, p
      The Heifetz Collection, Volume 19: 51 Miniatures 1944-1946

      RCA 61750-2 (2)

      7:00 - 9:00 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.

      7:02 am

      Henry Mayer: "The Summer Wind"

      Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
      John Williams Conductor

      Sony 88985417792

      7:06 am

      Franz Krommer: Oboe Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 37

      III. Finale, Rondo

      Alex Klein, ob; Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
      Oboe Concertos of the Classical Era

      Cedille CDR-90000045

      7:13 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "Peter Pan"

      "Dream With Me"

      Zuill Bailey, vc; Lara Downes, p
      Some Other Time

      Steinway & Sons 30025

      7:17 am

      Augusta Holmès: "Andromède"

      Toulouse Capitole Orch/Leo Hussain
      Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

      Bru Zane BZ-2006

      7:34 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano and Wind Quintet in E-flat, K. 452

      Berlin Phil Winds; Alfons Kontarsky, p
      Mozart & Beethoven Quintets for Piano and Winds

      Denon 38C37-7090

      7:57 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40

      I. "Praeludium"

      Gothenburg Sym Orch Strings/Neeme Järvi
      Grieg: Holberg Suite, 2 Elegiac Melodies, 2 Nordic Melodies, 2 Melodies, 2 Lyric Pieces

      DG 437520-2

      8:00 am

      Saturday Morning Listener's Choice

      8:00 am

      Jules Massenet: "Thaïs"

      Meditation

      Nicola Benedetti, v; London Sym Orch/Daniel Harding
      Szymanowski, Chausson, Saint-Saëns

      DG B0006154-02

      8:07 am

      Marin Marais: "La sonnerie de Sainte Geneviéve du Mont de Paris"

      Les Concerts du Monde/Keith Clark
      Movies Go Baroque

      Telarc CD-80336

      8:13 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "Gianni Schicchi"

      Aria, "O mio babbino caro"

      Kiri Te Kanawa, s; London Phil Orch/John Pritchard
      Verdi & Puccini

      CBS MK-37298

      8:17 am

      Carl Maria von Weber: "Invitation to the Dance," Op. 65

      Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi
      Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique/ Weber: Invitation to the Dance

      Decca 430201-2

      8:25 am

      Benny Goodman; Carl Maria von Weber: "Let's Dance"

      Benny Goodman & His Orchestra

      CBS 463335-1

      8:29 am

      Eric Whitacre: "The Seal Lullaby"

      Voces8/Eric Whitacre; Christopher Glynn, p
      Home

      Decca 4853970

      8:34 am

      Claude Debussy: Two Arabesques

      Richard Stoltzman, cl; Nancy Allen, h
      Romance

      RCA 60198-2

      8:44 am

      Joshua Rifkin: "The Royal Beatleworks Music"

      Overture after "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

      Merseyside Kammermusikgesellschaft/Joshua Rifkin
      The Baroque Beatles Book

      Nonesuch 517948

      8:51 am

      José Pablo Moncayo: "Huapango"

      Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
      Mi Alma Mexicana

      Sony 88697755552

      9:00 - 11:00 am

      9:00 am

      Soundtrack

      Music of The Odyssey.

      9:00 am

      Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare

      London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
      The Genius of Film Music

      LPO 0086

      9:01 am

      Ludwig Göransson: "The Odyssey"

      "Odysseus"

      Studio Cho & Orch
      The Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      Back Lot [The Odyssey]

      9:11 am

      Traditional American: "Man of Constant Sorrow"

      John Hartford, fiddle
      O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Music from the film)

      Mercury 088170068-2

      9:14 am

      Traditional American: "Down to the River to Pray"

      Alison Krauss/Studio Cho

      Mercury 088170068-2

      9:18 am

      Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard: "The Dark Knight"

      "I'm Not a Hero"

      Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard, prods
      The Dark Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      WaterTower Music 511103-2

      9:25 am

      Max Steiner: "Helen of Troy"

      Main Title

      Orch/Elmer Bernstein
      A Summer Place & Helen of Troy

      Elmer Bernstein's Filmmusic Collection FMC-1

      9:27 am

      Max Steiner: "Helen of Troy"

      Love Theme

      Orch/Elmer Bernstein
      A Summer Place & Helen of Troy

      Elmer Bernstein's Filmmusic Collection FMC-1

      9:29 am

      Max Steiner: "Helen of Troy"

      "Bacchanal"

      Orch/Elmer Bernstein
      A Summer Place & Helen of Troy

      Elmer Bernstein's Filmmusic Collection FMC-1

      9:31 am

      Max Steiner: "Helen of Troy"

      Finale

      Orch/Elmer Bernstein
      A Summer Place & Helen of Troy

      Elmer Bernstein's Filmmusic Collection FMC-1

      9:36 am

      Hans Zimmer: "Interstellar"

      "Cornfield Chase"

      Roger Sayer, o; Studio Orch/Gavin Greenaway & Richard Harvey
      Interstellar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      WaterTower Music WTM-39546

      9:40 am

      Rachel Portman: "The Return"

      "The Hunt"

      Studio Orch/Emanuele Bossi
      The Return (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      Sony [The Return]

      9:42 am

      Rachel Portman: "The Return"

      "Forgive Me"

      Studio Orch/Emanuele Bossi
      The Return (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      Sony [The Return]

      9:48 am

      Hans Zimmer: "Inception"

      "Time"

      Anna Lapwood, o
      Firedove

      Sony 19802809272

      9:54 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Il ritorno di Ringo"

      Main Title (Instrumental)

      Studio Cho & Orch/Bruno Nicolai
      Una pistola per Ringo/Il ritorno di Ringo (Original Soundtracks)

      GDM GDM-2044

      9:55 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Il ritorno di Ringo"

      "Sheriff Carson"

      Studio Orch/Bruno Nicolai
      Una pistola per Ringo/Il ritorno di Ringo (Original Soundtracks)

      GDM GDM-2044

      9:56 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Il ritorno di Ringo"

      "The Funeral"

      Studio Orch/Bruno Nicolai
      Una pistola per Ringo/Il ritorno di Ringo (Original Soundtracks)

      GDM GDM-2044

      10:00 am

      Victor Herbert: Irish Rhapsody

      Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
      Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, Irish Rhapsody

      Naxos 8.573517

      10:17 am

      Franz Schubert: Two Scherzi, D 593

      Sergei Kvitko, p
      Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid

      Reference FR-753

      10:27 am

      Antonín Dvořák: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46

      No. 8 in G minor, "Furiant"

      St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
      Encore!

      RCA 68511-2

      10:32 am

      Edgar Olivero: "Rondo alla Rumba" (after Mozart’s Horn Concerto, K. 495)

      Sarah Willis, hn; Sarahbanda
      Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana

      Alpha 937

      10:38 am

      Aaron Copland: "Rodeo"

      Four Dance Episodes

      London Sym Orch/Aaron Copland
      Copland Conducts Copland

      CBS MK-42430

      10:58 am

      Traditional Irish: Whiskey, You're the Devil

      David Russell, g
      Message of the Sea - Celtic Music for Guitar

      Telarc CD-80492

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      Violist Callia Murray, 17, performs the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012 and Paul Hindemith's Viola Sonata, Op. 11, No. 4 with pianist Lyudmila Lakisova. Recorded in June 2026 in Levin Studio.

      11:21 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Romance of the Prairie Lilies," Op. 39

      RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
      Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite

      Naxos 8.555191

      11:29 am

      William Kroll: "Banjo and Fiddle"

      Elmar Oliveira, v; Robert McDonald, p
      The Virtuoso Violin

      MMG MCD-10027

      11:34 am

      Claude Debussy: "Petite Suite"

      Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon
      Claude Debussy Volume One

      Cala CACD-1001

      11:48 am

      Alma Deutscher: "Siren Sounds Waltz"

      Alma Deutscher, p
      From My Book of Melodies

      Sony 19075990192

      12:00 - 4:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From The Glyndebourne Festival

      Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

      Tommaso Barea (Figaro); Johanna Wallroth (Susanna); Huw Montague Rendall (Count); Louise Alder (Countess); Alessandro Corbelli (Bartolo); Madeleine Shaw (Marcellina); Adèle Charvet (Cherubino); Robert Forrest (Don Basilio); Elisabeth Boudreault (Barbarina); Alexander Vassiliev (Antonio); Vincent Ordonneau (Don Curzio); Glyndebourne Fistival Opera Chorus; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Riccardo Minasi, conductor. Sung in Italian.

      3:17 pm

      Carl Czerny: "Fantaisie brillant" on themes from "Figaro", Op. 493

      Cyprien Katsaris, p
      Mozartiana

      Sony SK-52551

      3:28 pm

      Lennon-McCartney: "Eleanor Rigby"

      Göran Söllscher, g
      Here, There, and Everywhere - The Beatles for Guitar

      DG 447104-2

      3:30 pm

      Afternoon Music

      3:31 pm

      Carlos Simon: "Tales: A Folklore Symphony"

      I. "Motherboxx Connection"

      National Sym Orch/Gianandrea Noseda
      Carlos Simon—Tales: A Folklore Symphony

      National Symphony Orchestra NSO-0014-D

      3:37 pm

      Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73

      Charles Neidich, cl; Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Rossini's Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet / Weber's Clarinet Concertos and Concertino

      DG 435875-2

      3:56 pm

      Florence Price: "Waltz of the Spring Maid"

      Claire Huangci, p
      Piano Heroines

      Alpha 1231

      3:59 pm

      George Gershwin: "Swanee"

      André Watts, p
      Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Andre Watts

      Philips 456985-2 (2)

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      Highlights of previous interviews with Frederica von Stade and Susan Graham. The legendary mezzo-sopranos give a joint recital with pianist Kevin Murphy next month at Ravinia.

      5:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

      Schubert "Ganymed," D. 544; Liv Redpath, soprano; George Fu, piano; Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26; Kirill Gerstein, piano; Joel Link, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Camden Shaw, cello.

      6:00 - 8:00 pm

      6:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Live from the Levin Performance Studio: A songwriter from England’s South Coast, Ruth Theodore began busking at age 14 and is now a Righteous Babe recording artist. from the UK.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      This date presents a confluence of historic events and celebrations including Steve Goodman's birthday, Bob Dylan plugging in at Newport, and the famous photo of a face on Mars snapped by NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft.