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Playlist for Saturday, May 16, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah"
Aria, "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"
Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; National Phil/Charles Gerhardt
12:05 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah"
"Bacchanale"
Dresden Staatskapelle/Silvio Varviso
Overtures & Intermezzi
12:12 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Il Trovatore"
Ballet Music
Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida
Ballet Music
12:34 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Il Trovatore"
Aria, "Di quella pira"
Jussi Bjoerling, t; Orch/Nils Grevikllius
12:36 am
Walter Piston: "The Incredible Flutist" Suite
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
The Incredible Walter Piston
12:54 am
William Thomas McKinley: Six Romances (1990)
#5, "Pensiveness"
Robert Stallman, f; David Buechner, p
The American Flute
1:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527 (opera in 2 acts)
Overture
Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Mozart: Don Giovanni
1:05 am
Richard Strauss: "Don Juan," Op. 20
Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart
Don Quixote / Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel
1:22 am
Richard Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben," Op. 40
Love scene
Richard Strauss, p (Welte-Mignon piano roll)
Famous Composers Playing Their Own Works: Welte Mignon Piano
1:26 am
Friedrich Silcher: "Wohin mit der Freud"
Die Singphoniker
Deutsche Volkslieder
1:28 am
Benjamin Godard: "Suite de trois morceaux," Op 116
Virginia Sindelar, f; Richard Schilling, g
Romantic Music for Flute and Guitar Music of Giuliani, Diabelli, Doppler, Coste, Godard, and Fauré
1:39 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Dolly" Suite, Op. 56
Laurence Fromentin & Dominique Plancade, p
1:54 am
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 12
No. 2, "Waltz"
English Brass Ensemble
Grieg: Lyric Brass
2:00 am
Leo Délibes: "Lakmé"
Flower duet, "Dome épais, le jasmin"
Hei-Kyung Hong, Jennifer Larmore; Munich Radio Orch/Jesus López-Cobos
Bellezza Vocale * Hong * Larmore
2:05 am
Charles Gounod: "Faust"
Ballet music
Royal Opera House Orch/Sir Georg Solti
2:21 am
Charles Gounod: "Roméo et Juliette"
Interlude, "Le sommeil de Juliette"
Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham
2:24 am
Charles Gounod: "Funeral March of a Marionette"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
2:26 am
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto no.2 in f minor, Op.21
Yevgeny Kissin, p; Moscow Phil/Dmitri Kitayenko
The Legendary 1984 Moscow Concert
2:55 am
Karol Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50
#7, "Poco vivace"
Anna Kijanowska, p
3:00 am
Giacomo Meyerbeer: "L'Africaine"
"Sur mes genoux"
Leontyne Price, s; Orch/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Leontyne Price - The Prima Donna Collection
3:05 am
Félix-Charles Berthelemy: Fantasie Brillante on Themes from Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine'
Bert Lucarelli, ob, Manhattan String Quartet
The Bel Canto Oboe: Opera Paraphrases And Fantaisies
3:15 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Africa," Op. 89
Jean-Philippe Collard, p; Royal Phil/André Previn
Saint-Saens: Concerto Pour Piano No. 1
3:26 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Cadenza for 'Africa'"
Camille Saint-Saens, p
3:29 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"
"Air pour les Esclaves Africains"
Chapelle Royale Orch/Philippe Herreweghe
Les Indes Galantes - Suites D'Orchestre
3:30 am
George Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3 in a minor, Op. 25
Weilerstein Duo
Sonatas For Violin And Piano
3:54 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "The Oarsman of the St Francis River"
Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica; New York Chamber Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Villa-Lobos: Harmonica Concerto, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria
4:00 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "Pineapple Poll"
Grand Finale
Royal Phil/Charles Mackerras
Sullivan: Pineapple Poll
4:05 am
Bohuslav Martinu: "La Revue de Cuisine (Kitchen Revue)"
Chicago Pro Musica
Weill - Varèse - Bowles - Martinů
4:19 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Wasps" (1909)
"March past of the kitchen utensils"
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar
4:22 am
Johann Hermann Schein: "Banchetto Musicale"
Suite #4 in D
Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer
Dance Music Of the High Renaissance
4:29 am
Richard Strauss: "Schlagobers," Op. 70
Dance of the Little Pralines
Tokyo Metropolitan Sym Orch/Hiroshi Wakasugi
Strauss: Schlagobers, Ballet Music, Op. 70
4:31 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43
Peter Jablonski, p; Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy
4:54 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Oriental Sketch" (1917)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, p
Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Sergei Rachmaninoff
5:00 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Twelve Fantasias for solo violin
#8 in E
Patricia McCarty, vi
Telemann: Twelve Fantasias
5:05 am
Johann Wenzel Stamitz: Sinfonia in a
Janacek Chamber Orch/Zdenek Dejmek
5:23 am
music continues...
7:00 - 11:00 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.
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
An encore presentation of violinist Henry Auxenfans and pianist Nathan Canfield's performance of Mozart's Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat, K. 378: I. Allegro moderato, Glazunov's Grand Adagio from "Raymonda," and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Louisiana Blues Strut." Originally broadcast June 14, 2025.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Verdi's Don Carlo (Listener's Choice)
Jussi Björling (Don Carlo), Delia Rigal (Elisabeth of Valois), Cesare Siepi (Philip II), Fedora Barbieri (Princess Eboli), Robert Merrill (Rodrigo), Jerome Hines (Grand Inquisitor); Fritz Stiedry, conductor. Sung in Italian. Performance from November 11, 1950.
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with Bruce Tammen, founder of Chicago Chorale, as he prepares to conduct his final concert as the ensemble's artistic director later this month.
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041; Joel Link, violin; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra musicians; Enescu Octet in C Major, Op. 7; Chad Hoopes, Ida Kavafian, Adam Barnett-Hart, James Thompson, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Pierre Lapointe, violas; Eric Kim, Brook Speltz, cellos.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Raised in a one-room schoolhouse in Kansas, Sky Smeed’s songwriting balances humor, heart, and honesty. He makes his Folkstage debut.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
An early matchup between the Cubs v. Sox inspires a playlist about rivalries and competitions.
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