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Playlist for Saturday, March 28, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Giacomo Puccini: "Madama Butterfly"
"Flower Duet"
de los Angeles, s; Pirazzini, ms; Rome Opera House Orch/Santini
Famous Duets From The Opera
12:05 am
Moritz Rosenthal: "Papillons"
Stephen Hough, p
The Piano Album
12:07 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Papillon," Op 77
Frédéric Lodéon, vc; Jean-Philippe Collard, p
Faure: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
12:10 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Le Papillon"
Act II
National Phil/Richard Bonynge
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker / Offenbach: Le Papillon
12:34 am
David Popper: "Papillon"
Antonio Janigro, vc; Antonio Beltrami, p
12:36 am
Ernst Köhler: Papillon
Don Bailey, f, Arcata String Quartet, Grace Paradise, h, Scott Pingel, b,
Irish H,
Voyage
12:39 am
Robert Schumann: "Papillons," Op. 2
Bernard d'Ascoli, p
Schumann 'Carnaval' and 'Papillons'
12:53 am
Boris Assafiev: Papillons
London Sym Orch/Richard Bonynge
Homage To Pavlova
1:00 am
Henry Purcell: "Don Quixote"
Duet, "Since times are so bad"
Kirkby, s; Thomas, b; Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood
Purcell: Theatre Music
1:05 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Don Quixote" (1909)
"Don Quixote's Dreams of Heroic Deeds"
Alexander Frey, p
1:10 am
Ludwig Minkus: Don Quixote
"Entrance of Gamache"
Orch/John Lanchbery
Don Quixote
1:12 am
Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote," Op. 35
Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart; Steven Isserlis, vc; Cynthia Phelps, vi
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Bloch: Schelomo / Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto no. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations / R. Strauss: Don Quixote
1:54 am
Jan Dismas Zelenka: "Reiterfanfare" #1
Hubert Laws, f; Philharmonia Virtuosi/Richard Kapp
Baroque Trumpetissimo
2:00 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"
"Ride of the Valkyries"
London Phil/Adrian Boult
2:05 am
Richard Wagner: "Götterdämmerung"
Siegfried's Rhine Journey & Funeral Music
Philharmonia Orch/Otto Klemperer
2:19 am
Richard Wagner: "Siegfried"
"Forest Murmurs"
Vienna Phil/Georg Solti
2:28 am
Fauré-Messager: Souvenir of Bayreuth, Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Ring
Pierre-Alain Volondat & Patrick De Hooge, p
FAURE: Piano Music for Four Hands
2:32 am
Franz Waxman: Three Waltzes, "Souvenirs de Paris"
#2
St Clair Trio
2:53 am
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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
WFMT features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area. Please visit wfmt.com for details on today’s program.
12:00 - 3:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Verdi's La traviata
Lisette Oropesa (Violetta Valéry); Piotr Buszewski (Alfrdo Germoont); Luca Salsi (Giorgio Germont); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Antonello Manacorda. Sung in Italian.
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
On Pauline Viardot, the renowned mezzo-soprano, composer, and 19th-century cultural influencer who inspired significant works from Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns (who wrote "Samson and Delilah" for her), Frédéric Chopin, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Johannes Brahms, in addition to composing five chamber operas and over 100 songs herself.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: Renowned traditionalists Tracy Schwarz and Ginny Hawker with Deborah Clifford play music that spans many generations.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
We believe in women. On the final weekend of National Women’s Month, we honor the accomplishments and the music of women in history and in folk music.
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