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      Playlist for Saturday, September 13, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt" Suite No. 1, Op. 46

      "Ase's Death"

      San Francisco Sym Orch/Herbert Blomstedt
      Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites/ Nielsen: Aladdin

      London 425857-2

      12:05 am

      Dmitri Kabalevsky: "The Comedians," Op 26

      National Phil/Leonard Slatkin
      Elgar: Symphony No. 1/ In The South

      RCA 5661-2-RC

      12:20 am

      Dmitri Kabalevsky: Preludes, Op 38

      #3

      Alexandre Dossin, p
      KABALEVSKY, D.: Preludes (Complete) / 6 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 61 (Dossin)

      Naxos 8.570976

      12:21 am

      Johan Svendsen: Symphony #2 in B-Flat, Op 15

      Latvian National Sym/Terje Mikkelsen
      Svendsen Symphonic Works

      CPO 777372-2 (3)

      12:54 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt," Op. 23

      "Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter"

      London Sym Orch/Per Dreier
      Peer Gynt

      Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD-2003-4 (2)

      1:00 am

      Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"

      "Ride of the Valkyries"

      Berlin Phil/Klaus Tennstedt
      Tennstedt Conducts Wagner: Music From The Ring

      EMI CDC7-47007-2

      1:05 am

      Claude Debussy: Sonata (#1) in d for Cello and Piano

      Gary Hoffman, vc; David Golub, p
      DEBUSSY, C.: Chamber Music

      Delos DE-3167 (3)

      1:16 am

      Claude Debussy: "Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans"

      #1, "Dieu! qu'il fait bon regarder"

      Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
      Cambridge Singers A Cappella

      Collegium CSCD-509

      1:18 am

      Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"

      Overture and Venusberg Music

      Met Orch
      Wagner: Overtures & Preludes

      DG 435874-2

      1:40 am

      Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata (#3) in g

      Bomsori Kim, v; Rafal Blechacz, p
      Rafal Blechacz & Bomsori Kim

      DG 4836467

      1:54 am

      Gabriel Dupont: "Feuillets d'album"

      #1, "Valse"

      Bo Ties, p
      Gabriel Dupont

      MSR Classics MS-1699

      2:00 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Snow Maiden," Op. 12 (Incidental Music to Ostrovsky's Play)

      "Jester's Dance"

      Philharmonia à Vent

      Elf ELFCD-1012

      2:04 am

      Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Snow Maiden"

      Suite

      Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Donald Johanos
      RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

      Naxos 8.550486

      2:18 am

      Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Sadko"

      Song of the Hindu Guest (Song of India)

      Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
      The Fiddler of the Opera

      DG 447640-2

      2:20 am

      Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Le coq d'or" (1906-7)

      "Hymn to the Sun"

      Kennedy, v; John Lenehan, p

      EMI/Ang CDC5-56626-2

      2:25 am

      Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1899-1900)

      "Flight of the Bumblebee"

      New York Stadium Sym Orch/Raymond Paige
      Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Symphonic Suite After "The Thousand Nights And A Night"), Op.35

      Everest EVC-9047

      2:26 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E-Flat

      Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
      Haydn * The Complete Symphonies * Antal Dorati

      London 4781221 (33)

      2:52 am

      Dufaut: Lute Suite in C

      "Gavotte"

      Hopkinson Smith
      François Dufaut

      Astrée E-7735

      3:00 am

      Mily Balakirev: Music for "King Lear"

      Entr'acte to Act III

      USSR Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov

      Melodiya SUCD-1000153

      3:05 am

      Hector Berlioz: Overture, "Le Roi Lear," Op. 4

      San Diego Sym Orch/Yoav Talmi
      Berlioz: Overtures

      Naxos 8.550999

      3:20 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: "King Lear" (Incidental Music, 1940), Op. 58a

      March

      Leningrad Chamber Orch/Eduard Serov

      Melodiya MCD-182

      3:22 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Partita (French Overture) in b minor, BWV 831

      Piotr Anderszewski, p
      Bach: French Suite No. 5, French Overture

      Harmonia Mundi HMN-911679

      3:55 am

      Maurice Ravel: "L'Eventail de Jeanne"

      Fanfare

      London Sym/Claudio Abbado
      Chopin: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1/ Liszt: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1

      DG 423665-2

      4:00 am

      Alfredo Catalani: "Scherzo"

      Rome Sym Orch/Francesco La Vecchia
      CATALANI, A.: Ero e Leandro / Contemplazione / Il Mattino (Rome Symphony, La Vecchia)

      Naxos 8.573072

      4:05 am

      Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," Op. 28

      Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch

      EMI CDC5-55185-2

      4:21 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata no.5 in F, Op.24, "Spring"

      III. Scherzo

      Thomas Zehetmair, v; Malcolm Frager, forte-p
      Beethoven Violin Sonatas 5, 9

      Teldec 8.43251

      4:22 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in e, K. 304

      Dmitry Sitkovetsky, v; Antonio Pappano, p
      Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin Vol 1

      Hänssler Classic CD-98.251

      4:36 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Violin and Clavier Concerto in F, H XVIII:6

      Davidovich, p; Hudecek, v; Prague Chamber Orch/Sitkovetsky
      Sitkovetsky, Davidovich And Hudecek Play Haydn

      Supraphon SU-3265-2031

      4:54 am

      Alexander Scriabin: Two Mazurkas, Op 40

      #2 in F#

      Bella Davidovich, p
      Romeo And Juliet - Excerpts, Sonata No.3 Op. 28 / Sonata, Waltz, 2 Poèmes, 3 Mazurkas

      Philips 412742-2

      5:00 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "War and Peace"

      "Waltz"

      Barry Douglas, p
      Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 7

      RCA 60779-2-RC

      5:05 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Semyon Kotko" Overture, Op. 81a

      Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
      Russian Overtures

      DG 439892-2

      5:08 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges" Suite, Op. 33a

      National Sym/Leonard Slatkin
      Prokofiev: 6th Symphony; Suite from "The Love For Three Oranges"

      RCA 68801-2

      5:24 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87

      Act III, "Duet of the Sisters with their Oranges"

      London Sym Orch/André Previn
      Prokofiev: Cinderella

      EMI/Ang CDD7-64289-2

      5:26 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata #3 in C, Op 2/3

      Daniel Barenboim, p

      EMI/Ang CDZJ5-72912-2 (10)

      5:54 am

      Iain HAMILTON: Scottish Dances, Op 32

      #2

      Royal Ballet Sinfonia/John Wilson
      The Land Of The Mountain And The Flood: Scottish Orchestral Music

      ASV CDWHL-2123

      6:00 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: "La fida ninfa," R 714

      Aria, "Vanne, ingrata, e per vendetta"

      Veronica Cangemi, s; Ensemble Matheus/Jean-Christophe Spinosi
      Vivaldi Edition Vol 39 * Vivaldi * La Fida Ninfa

      Naive OP-30410 (3)

      6:05 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: Trumpet Concerto in B-Flat, R 548

      Maurice André, tr; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner

      EMI/Ang CDR5-69874-2

      6:14 am

      Frederick Converse: "The Mystic Trumpeter," Op 19

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

      Naxos 8.559116

      6:34 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Ode for St Cecilia's Day" (1739)

      "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound"

      New England Brass Ensemble

      CBS MLK-45525

      6:36 am

      Samuel Barber: "Souvenirs," Op. 28

      Leon McCawley, p

      Virgin 45270-2

      6:54 am

      music continues...

      7:00 - 11:00 am

      7:00 am

      Weekend Mornings

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

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      LIVE | Jaden Teague-Núñez, 17, steelpan & piano. Kevin Bobo "Rhapsody in Steel"; Liam Teague "A Visit to Hell", selections; Jan Bach "Bach Talk"; Sergei Rachmaninoff Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2; George Hamilton Green "The Whistler"; Lord Kitchener "Old Lady Walk a Mile and a Half". With Austyn Menk, piano & Neal Kotamarty Eisfeldt, violin.

      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From Bavarian State Opera in Munich

      Mascagni's Cavallaria rusticana & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

      "Cavalleria rustica" cast: Yulia Matochkina (Santuzza); Ican Gyngazov (Turiddu); Rosalind Plowright (Lucia); Wolfgang Koch (Alfio); Ekaterine Buachidze (Lola); "Pagliacci" cast: Ailyn Pérez (Nedda); Jonas Kaufmann (Canio); Wolfgang Koch (Tonio); Andres Agudelo (Beppe); Thomas Mole (Silvio); Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Daniele Rustioni, conductor. Sung in Italian.

      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      A Fall Choral Preview highlighting a wealth of upcoming performances across Chicagoland.

      5:00 - 7:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Sounds Classical

      Disney, Part 2

      Hosts LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn return with more sounds that served as the building blocks for their love of classical music.

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Live from St. Tim's Coffeehouse in Skokie: Catch Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sam Robbins. Eloquent songs, elaborate guitar stylings, and botomless charm ensure that his star will continue to rise.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Sing “Happy Birthday” to Bill Monroe and celebrate the sound of the mandolin and other spirits of bluegrass.