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Playlist for Friday, August 21, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Liszt, Franz: "Transcendental Etudes"
No. 3, "Paysage"
Daniil Trifonov, p
Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov Plays Liszt
12:05 am
Britten, Benjamin: "Simple Symphony," Op. 4
English Chamber Orch/G Levine
Les Illuminations ~ Bridge Variations ~ Simple Symphony
12:23 am
Purcell, Henry: Chacony in g
London Chamber Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
Prelude and Fugue, Simple Symphony, Lachrymae, Chacony
12:32 am
Grainger, Percy: "Lisbon (Dublin Bay)"
English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Britten
Salute To Percy Grainger
12:33 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cello Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009
Antonio Meneses, vc
Antonio Meneses * J S Bach * The 6 Cello Suites
12:54 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale, "O Gott, du frommer Gott," BWV 398
Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
Bach Edition: Complete Works
1:00 am
Hailstork, Adolphus: "Adagio for Strings"
Ambrosia Quartet
Adolphus Hailstork
1:05 am
Barber, Samuel: "Adagio for Strings" (from Op. 11)
London Sym/André Previn
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor Op. 27, Vocalise, Intermezzo and Dance
1:14 am
Strauss, Richard: Song, "Im Walde"
Christiane Libor, s; Nina Schumann, p
Strauss: Complete Songs
1:16 am
Raff, Joachim: Symphony #3 in F, Op. 153, "In the Forest"
Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Urs Schneider
RAFF : Symphonies Nos. 3 and 10
1:54 am
Liszt, Franz: "Responsories and Antiphons"
"Posuerunt me"
Leslie Howard, p
Responsories and Antiphons
2:00 am
Deutscher, Alma: "For Antonia (Variations on a melody in G major)"
Alma Deutscher, p
From My Book of Melodies
2:05 am
Dvorák, Antonín: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78
North German Radio Sym Orch/John Eliot Gardiner
9 Ungarische Tänze • Hungarian Dances / Symphonische Variationen • Böhmische Suite Symphonic Variations • Czech Suite
2:26 am
Thomas, Alan: Variations on Dvořák's "Song to the Moon"
Eugenia Moliner, f; Beilin Han, p
Song to the Moon
2:43 am
Deutscher, Alma: "Siren Sounds Waltz" (2019)
Waltz No. 2
Alma Deutscher, p
From My Book of Melodies
2:54 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.
3:00 - 7:00 pm
3:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree
Including "Friday Afternoon at the Movies" at 4:30pm and "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music
Curse of the Ninth! Ninth Symphonies
Why did so many great composers die after finishing their ninth symphony? This week, we look at the so-called curse of the Ninth Symphony, a legend that started with Beethoven in the mid-1820s. Over time, people began to believe that writing a ninth symphony could be a composer’s final work and maybe even mark their last year on Earth. We’ll listen to five famous ninth symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvořák, and Mahler.
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Unveiling Picasso’s Gift to Chicago
In 1967, Studs recorded Chicagoans' reactions to the then-new Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza. In 1997, he replayed the show along with some music and readings that muse on definitions of art.
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