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WFMT Schedule

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      Playlist for Saturday, August 8, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

      12:00 am

      Charles Wilfrid Orr: A Cotswold Hill Tune

      Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones
      ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 1

      Naxos 8.554186

      12:05 am

      Gustav Holst: Symphony in F, Op. 8, "The Cotswolds"

      Munich Sym/Douglas Bostock

      Classico CD-284

      12:32 am

      Philip Lane: Suite of Cotswold Folkdances (1978)

      #5, "Ladies of Pleasure"

      Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
      British Light Music Discoveries

      ASV CDWHL-2126

      12:34 am

      Franz Schubert: "Three Military Marches," Op. 51, D. 733

      No. 1 in D

      Philip Jones Ensemble/Elgar Howarth
      Grand March

      London 417329-2

      12:38 am

      Franz Schubert: Allegro in a, D 947, "Lebensstürme"

      Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen, p
      Complete Piano Music For Four Hands, VOl. 2

      Sony S2K-66256 (2)

      12:53 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: "Alone" film score, Op. 26

      "Calm after the Storm"

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      The Film Album

      London 460792-2

      1:00 am

      Henry Cowell: "Hymn for String Orchestra"

      City of London Sinfonia/David Amos

      Kleos Classics KL-5128

      1:05 am

      Leo Sowerby: "From the Northland: Suite for Orchestra"

      Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman
      Prairie: Tone Poems by Leo Sowerby

      Cedille CDR-90000033

      1:25 am

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      7:00 - 9:00 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.

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      9:00 - 11:00 am

      9:00 am

      Soundtrack

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      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      An encore presentation of pianist Noah Kim's performance of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 18 in D, K.576. Originally broadcast December 9, 2023.

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      12:00 - 3:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From La Scala

      Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

      Bernard Richter (Pelléas); Sara Blanch (Mélisande); Simon Keenlyside (Golaud); Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Geneviève); John Relyea (Arkel); La Scala Chorus and Orchestra; Maxime Pascal, conductor. Sung in French.

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      3:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music

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      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      Introducing British tenor Laurence Kilsby including highlights from his 2026 BBC Proms program with Thomas Dunford's Jupiter Ensemble.

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      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

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      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      From the archives: One guitar, one accordion, two people whose songs are either funny or not so funny but with a twist. We re-broadcast Lou & Peter Berryman performing on Folkstage during the peak of their touring years.

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      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Chicago baseball teams come out on top this weekend wherever they may be in the standings. And we look to the heavens for The Perseids and The New Moon.

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