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Playlist for Saturday, October 17, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
No. 23 in F
Keith Jarrett, p
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87
12:05 am
Debussy, Claude: "Première rapsodie" (Clarinet Rhapsody)
Benny Goodman, cl; New York Phil/John Barbirolli
Clarinet Classics
12:12 am
Stravinsky, Igor: "Ebony Concerto"
Woody Herman and His Orchestra
Ebony Concerto, Symphony in Three Movements
12:21 am
Stravinsky, Igor: Double Canon for String Quartet (1959)
Guildhall String Ensemble
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète
12:23 am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: String Quartet No. 19 in C, K. 465, "Dissonant"
Juilliard String Quartet
Juilliard String Quartet: 50 Years Vol.3
12:54 am
Wilbye, John: Madrigal, "So Light Is Love"
New York Trumpet Ensemble
Art of the Trumpet
1:00 am
Harty, Hamilton: Three Pieces (1911)
#2, "Orientale"
Sarah Francis, ob; Peter Dickinson, p
1:05 am
Glazunov, Alexander: Oriental Rhapsody, Op 29
USSR Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
Forest, Sea, Oriental Rhapsody
1:30 am
Cui, Cesar: "Kaleidoscope," Op 50
#9, "Orientale"
Midori, v; Robert McDonald, p
Encore!
1:32 am
Mendelssohn, Felix: Violin Concerto in d (1822)
Kyoko Takezawa, v; Bamberg Sym Orch/Claus Peter Flor
Violin Concertos
1:55 am
Grasse, Edwin: Wellenspiel
Corey Cerovsek, v, Katja Cerovsek, p
Cerovsek
2:00 am
Chopin, Frédéric: Waltzes, Op.34
no.2 in a minor
Adam Harasiewicz, p
Survival and Beauty: The Heroic Music of Chopin
2:05 am
Dvorák, Antonín: "The Hero's Song," Op 111
Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Dvorak: Symphony No. 1 · The Hero's Song
2:26 am
Telemann, Georg Philipp: "Heldenmusik"
"La Majeste"
Hakan Hardenberger, tr; Simon Preston, o
Trumpet & Organ Spectacular At Sorø Church
2:28 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestra Suite No.1 in C, BWV 1066
La Stravaganza Köln/Andrew Manze
Four Ouvertures
2:55 am
Thomson, Virgil: "The Plow that Broke the Plains" Suite (1936)
"Pastorale"
St Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
The American Album
3:00 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in g minor, BWV 1001
"Fugue"
Christopher Parkening, g
The Artistry of Christopher Parkening
3:05 am
Bax, Arnold: "Spring Fire" (1913)
Royal Phil/Vernon Handley
Spring Fire / Symphonic Scherzo / Northern Ballad No. 2
3:35 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Mikado"
"The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la"
Soloists, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Cho, Orch/Jones
Gilbert And Sullivan: The Mikado
3:37 am
Webber, Wm Lloyd: "Three Spring Miniatures"
Ian Brown, p
William Lloyd Webber: Piano Music, Chamber Music And Songs
3:43 am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphony in B-Flat, Wq 179
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
Bach: Symphonies, Concertos
3:54 am
Schumann, Robert: "Liederkreis (Song Cycle)," Op. 39
No. 4, "Die Stille (The Silence)"
Marjana Lipovsek, ms; Graham Johnson, p
Schumann: Lieder
4:00 am
Heuberger, Richard: "Der Opernball"
"Midnight Bells"
Robert McDuffie, v; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Viennese Violin
4:03 am
Lehár, Franz: "Frasquita"
"Serenade"
Robert McDuffie, v; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Viennese Violin
4:05 am
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson: "Fantasy Pieces," Op 6
James Tocco, p
MacDowell: 4 Sonatas/ Griffes: Solo Works
4:21 am
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson: Song, "Könnt ich mit dir dort oben gehen"
Lucy Shelton, s; Margo Garrett, p
The Songs Of Charles T. Griffes
4:23 am
Zemlinsky, Anton: Symphony #1 in d minor
Gürzenich Orch/James Conlon
4:55 am
Goldschmidt, Berthold: "Scherzo"
Kalja Lessing, p
Retrospectrum
5:00 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Canzona in d minor, BWV 588
Ton Koopman, o (Grote Kerk, Maassluis, Holland)
Organ Works Vol. 1
5:05 am
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Flute Concerto in D
Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul, v
5:17 am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Overture
Royal Phil/Colin Davis
5:24 am
Alyabiev, Alexander: "The Magic Drum"
Overture
Moscow Phil Society Chamber Ensemble/Andrei Korsakov
Concertino: Fomin / Bortnyansky / Aliabiev
5:29 am
Schubert, Franz: "Die Zauberharfe," D 644
Overture
Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, Rosamunde Overture
5:39 am
Aliabiev, Alexander: The Magic Drum
Act 1, Scene 3
Moscow Phil Chamber Ensemble
Concertino: Fomin / Bortnyansky / Aliabiev
5:41 am
Blasius, Matthieu-frédéric: "Suite d'harmonie" #2 in E-Flat
Mozzafiato
Harmoniemusik: Music For Winds
5:54 am
Poulenc, Francis: Brass Sonata (1922)
Finale, Rondeau
Alan Civil, fh; John Wilbraham, tr; John Iveson, tb
6:00 am
Waxman, Franz: "Hollywood Suite"
"The Young in Heart"
St Clair Trio and Friends
6:05 am
Waxman, Franz: "Carmen Fantasy"
Maxim Vengerov, v; Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta
The Road I Travel
6:15 am
Busoni, Ferruccio: "Sonatina super Carmen" (Chamber Fantasy after Bizet)
Valerie Tryon, p
Ferruccio Busoni: Visionary
6:23 am
Busoni, Ferruccio: Clarinet Concertino in B-flat, Op. 48
Paul Meyer, cl; English Chamber Orch/David Zinman
6:33 am
Bach/Busoni: Chorale Prelude, Herr Gott, nun schleuss' den Himmel auf
Paul Jacobs, p
Legendary Busoni Recordings
6:35 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestra Suite No.3 in D, BWV 1068
German Bach Soloists/Helmut Winschermann
Bach: Ouvertüren Nos. 3 & 4; Concertos BWV 1060 & 1063
6:54 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"
"Praeambulum" No. 7
Joseph Payne, clavichord
Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
From National Centre for the Performing Arts
Puccini's Tosca
Monica Zanettin (Tosca); Han Peng (Cavaradossi); Ambrogio Maestri (Scarpia); NCPA Chorus and Orchestra; Xu Zhong, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:10 pm
Afternoon Music
2:10 pm
Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
2:12 pm
Henryk Wieniawski: "Polonaise brillante" No. 1 in D, Op. 4
Leonidas Kavakos, v; Péter Nagy, p
Leonidas Kavakos Plays
2:17 pm
Aldebrando Subissati: Violin Sonata No. 6, "Capriccio"
Joanna Morska-Osińska, v; FM Zieliński, theorbo; M Sawicki, o
Aldebrando Subissati: Sonate per violino solo e basso continuo
2:23 pm
Richard Strauss: "Capriccio," Op. 85
Prelude for String Sextet
R Capuçon & Koncz, v's; Caussé & V Hagen, vi's; J & C Hagen, vc's
Veronika Hagen, viola,
Clemens Hagen, cello,
Richard Strauss - Renaud Capuçon - Seiji Ozawa
2:36 pm
Gustav Holst: Suite No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 28, No. 1
I. "Chaconne"
Cleveland Symphonic Winds/Frederick Fennell
Music for Wind Band
2:41 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
BBC Phil/Sir Andrew Davis
King of Kings: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
2:55 pm
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etude No. 4, "Mazeppa"
Yunchan Lim, p
Yunchan Lim Live from The Cliburn
3:03 pm
Lita Grier: Flute Concertino, "Renascence"
Mary Stolper, f; Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
American Flute Concertos
3:15 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 1
Vadim Gluzman, v; Angela Yoffe, p
Ballet for a Lonely Violinist
3:24 pm
Zoltán Kodály: "Hungarian Rondo"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Summer Evening
3:36 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Boléro"
French National Orch/Cristian Măcelaru
Ravel Paris 2025
3:52 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera"
Elīna Garanča, ms; RAI National Sym Orch/Karel Mark Chichon
Habanera
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
On the "Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," an anthology which has introduced millions of beginning singers to Italian vocal literature.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from Acoustic Renaissance Concerts in Hinsdale: American songwriter Richard Shindell has made his home in Buenos Aires for more than 25 years. Solas, Joan Baez, Dar Williams and others have covered his cinematic songs.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
A celebration of music and other art forms “made in Chicago” during WFMT’s membership drive.
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