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      Playlist for Tuesday, May 12, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Ola Gjeilo: "Serenity (O magnum mysterium)"

      Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Los Angeles Master Chorale/Grant Gershon

      Platoon PLAT-AAM-01

      12:05 am

      Franz Schubert: Fantasy in C, D 934

      Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Akira Eguchi, p
      Anne Akiko Meyers * Smile * With Akira Eguchi

      Koch KIC-CD-7762

      12:30 am

      Henry Purcell: Ode on the Birthday of Queen Mary (1694), "Come ye sons of art"

      Chorus, "Come ye sons of art (da capo)"

      Strong Voices Cho, Music of the Baroque/Nicholas Kraemer
      Celebrating our 50th Season, 2020-21

      Music of the Baroque CD-2020

      12:32 am

      Henry Purcell: "King Arthur"

      Suite

      Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
      Purcell: Ayres For The Theatre (Dioclesian / King Arthur / The Fairy Queen / The Indian Queen)

      Sony SK-66169

      12:50 am

      Herbert Howells: Suite, "Pageantry"

      "King's Herald"

      London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
      Howells: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

      Chandos CHAN-9410

      12:54 am

      John Dowland: "The King of Denmark's Galliard"

      Julian Bream, l
      Julian Bream Edition, Volume 17: Two Loves

      RCA 61600-2

      1:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Mitridate, Re di Ponto," K. 87

      Overture

      La Cetra/Andrea Marcon
      Mozart Overtures * La Cetra * Andrea Marcon

      DG 4779445

      1:05 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K. 466

      Rudolf Serkin, p; London Sym/Claudio Abbado
      Konzerte für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 12 A-dur

      DG 400068-2

      1:38 am

      Mel Bonis: "Miocheries," Op. 126

      No. 13, "La toute petite s'endort"

      Bertrand Chamayou, p
      Mel Bonis Chamber Music

      Erato 0190295242435

      1:39 am

      Mel Bonis: Cello Sonata (1905)

      Victor-Julien Laferrière, vc; Théo Fouchenneret, p
      Compositrices

      Palazzetto Bru Zane BZ-2006 (8)

      1:55 am

      Robert Schumann: "Albumblätter," Op. 124

      No. 6, "Wiegenliedchen"

      Emmanuelle Bertrand, vc; Pascal Amoyel, p

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902387

      2:00 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24

      Polonaise

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Liszt: Opera Transcriptions

      London 436736-2

      2:05 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Maid of Orléans"

      Ballet Music

      Royal Opera House Orch/Colin Davis
      Ballet Music

      Philips 422845-2

      2:20 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Rodelinda"

      Suite

      Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage
      Handel at the Opera

      Chandos CHAN-0650

      2:31 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Giulio Cesare"

      Gigue

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      Handel: Ombra mai fú

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901685

      2:33 am

      Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 9 (1952)

      Sao Paulo Sym Orch/Isaac Karabtchevsky
      VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Complete Symphonies

      Naxos 8.506039 (6)

      2:55 am

      Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite XI in D

      "Courante"

      Ludger Rémy, hc
      The Strasbourg Manuscript

      CPO 999750-2

      3:00 am

      Antonin Dvorák: Polonaise in E-Flat, B 100

      Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky
      American Suite

      Naxos 8.557352

      3:04 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Introduction and "Polonaise brillante" in C, Op. 3

      Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Alexander Dedyukhin, p
      Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1; Schumann: Cello Concerto

      DG 4776505 (2)

      3:14 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Anna Magdalena Notebook"

      Polonaise in g minor, BWV. Anh 119

      Nicholas McGegan, clavichord
      Clavierbüchlein Für Anna Magdalena Bach

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907042

      3:15 am

      Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104

      Janos Starker, vc; St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
      Dvorak, Bartok

      RCA 60717-2-RC

      3:54 am

      David Popper: Etudes, Op 73

      #40 in D

      Janos Starker, vc
      The Road To Cello Playing

      Parnassus PACD-97-008

      4:00 am

      music continues...

      6:00 - 10:00 am

      6:00 am

      Mornings with Jan Weller

      Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.

      10:00 am - 2:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

      This week, Bill looks at the life and musical development of one of Hungary’s greatest composers. A musician’s musician, Bartok was supported by many of the great conductors of his era. Paul Sacher, who led the Basel Chamber Orchestra, asked him to write the Divertimento for Strings. Serge Koussevitsky and Fritz Reiner invited him to compose the Concerto for Orchestra. At the end of the week, we’ll hear Benny Goodman perform "Contrasts" for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, a piece he requested from Bartok.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

      Schubert, arr. Kreisler Ballet Music No. 2 from "Rosamunde;" Kristin Lee, violin; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; Schubert Quartet in G major, D. 887, Op. 161; Adam Barnett-Hart, Brendan Speltz, violins; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello.

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

      Messiaen "Le baiser de l'enfant-Jésus" from "Vingt regards sur;" Juho Pohjonen, piano; Boccherini Cello Concerto in B-flat Major, G. 482; Camden Shaw, cello; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra musicians. Bartók Sonata in C Major, Sz. 76; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Shai Wosner, piano.