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Playlist for Saturday, August 22, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Vine, Carl: "Slow Movement from Cembalo Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056"
Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer
The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould
12:05 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Violin Concerto in g (BWV 1056)
Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi, v
Bach: Concertos
12:15 am
Locatelli, Pietro: Violin Sonata in d, Op 6/12 (1737)
Fabio Biondi, v; Europa Galante
Italian Violin Sonatas
12:28 am
Geminiani, Francesco: "The Enchanted Forest"
Part 1: "Andante"
CBC Vancouver Orch/John Eliot Gardiner
Baroque Masterpieces
12:30 am
Kodály, Zoltán: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, "The Peacock"
Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti
Enigma Variations, The Peacock, Paganini Variations
12:54 am
Anonymous 13th century, German: Glogauer Liederbuch
Pfauenschwanz (Peacock's Tail)
Folger Consort
Carmina Burana and other Spirited songs from the German Middle Ages
1:00 am
Grieg, Edvard: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34
No. 2, "The Last Spring"
English Chamber Orch
1:05 am
Grieg, Edvard: "Peer Gynt" Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Czech State Phil/Stephen Gunzenhauser
GRIEG, E.: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Lyric Pieces / 3 Orchestral Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar (CSSR State Philharmonic, Gunzenhauser)
1:20 am
Martinu, Bohuslav: Eight Preludes, H 181
#2, "En forme de scherzo"
Eleonora Bekova,p
Martinu: Piano Works
1:22 am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony in D, K. 250/K 248b (Haffner Serenade)
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
Mozart: Six Symphonies after Serenades
1:55 am
Martinu, Bohuslav: Eight Preludes, H 181
#5, "En forme de Capriccio"
Eleonora Bekova,p
Martinu: Piano Works
2:00 am
Suppé, Franz von: "Fatinitza"
Overture
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Overtures
2:05 am
Dauprat, Louis François: Horn Quintet in E-Flat, Op 6/3
Zbigniew Zuk, fh, Camerata String Quartet
Il Corno Italiano
2:27 am
Bishop, Henry: Chorus, "Foresters sound the cheerful horn"
London Pro Cantione Antiqua
Sweet & Low - Glees & Partsongs
2:29 am
Saint-Saens, Camille: "Africa," Op. 89
Jean-Philippe Collard, p; Royal Phil/André Previn
Saint-Saens: Concerto Pour Piano No. 1
2:40 am
Saint-Saens, Camille: "Cadenza for 'Africa'"
Camille Saint-Saens, p
2:42 am
SOUSA, John Phillip: Three Quotations (1895)
Razumovsky Sym Orch/Keith Brion
SOUSA: On Wings of Lightning
2:55 am
Burleigh: Four Concert Pieces (1920)
"Tints"
Zina Schiff, v; Mary Barranger, p
BURLEIGH: Music for Violin and Piano
3:00 am
Chabrier, Emmanuel: "Le roi malgré lui" (1887)
"Danse slave"
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
Chabrier: Ansermet
3:05 am
Franck, César: Violin Sonata in A
Joshua Bell, v; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
Joshua Bell: French Chamber Works
3:32 am
Franck, Melchior: Brass Suite
"Allemande"
Opus 4
Von Bach Bis Broadway
3:33 am
Martin, Frank: Ballade for Flute and Strings (1941)
Johannes Walter, f; Dresden Staatskapelle/Siegfried Kurz
3:41 am
Martin, Frank: Ballade (1973)
Hong-Mei Xiao, vi; Bienne Société d'Orch/Grzegorz Nowak
3:54 am
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: "Te Deum"
"Prelude"
Les Arts Florissants Orch/William Christie
Te Deum - Grand Office des Morts
4:00 am
Kirchner, Theodor: Novelletten, Op 59
#3
Arcadia Trio
Brahms: Trio H-Dur, Op. 8/1/ Kirchner: Novelletten, Op 59
4:04 am
Reinecke, Carl: Symphony #2 in c, Op 134, "Hakon Jarl"
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Howard Shelley
Reinecke: Symphonies Nos 2 & 3
4:40 am
Brahms, Johannes: "Altes Volkslied"
Die Singphoniker
Deutsche Volkslieder
4:42 am
Leclair, Jean-Marie: Violin Sonata in a, Op 5/7
Les Folies Francoises
Le Tombeau
4:54 am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: "Dardanus" (1739)
"Air gai en rondeau"
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
Rameau: Platée & Dardanus Suites
5:00 am
Lehár, Franz: "Die lustige Witwe" (The Merry Widow)
Waltz
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Boston Tea Party
5:05 am
Strauss II, Johann: Waltzes, Du und Du, Op. 367 (fr Die Fledermaus)
Vienna Phil/Erich Kleiber
Wiener Philharmoniker Spielen Johann & Josef Strauss 1929–1990
5:12 am
Offenbach, Jacques: "Gaîté Parisienne"
"Grand Valse"
New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein: The Encore Collection Vol 2
5:16 am
Hindemith, Paul: Zwei kleine Klavierstücke (1934)
Hans Petermandl, p
HINDEMITH : Piano Works Vol. 2
5:18 am
Prokofiev, Serge: Sinfonietta, Op. 5, No. 48
Chicago Chamber Orch/Dieter Kober
Prokofiev: Clarinet Concerto, Etc
5:40 am
Tcherepnin, Nicolai: "Le Royaume enchanté (The Enchanted Kingdom)," Op 39
Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
The Enchanted Kingdom
5:53 am
Tcherepnin, Alexander: Ten Bagatelles, Op 5
#5, Dolce
Martha Braden, p
6:00 am
Shostakovich, Dmitri: "Moscow, Cheremushki," Op. 105
Dances (Polka; Galop)
Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Shostakovich: The Dance Album * Philadelphia Orchestra * Riccardo Chailly
6:05 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: French Suite No. 2 in c minor, BWV 813
Sergey Schepkin, p
Bach: The Six French Suites
6:18 am
Le Roux, Gaspard: Two-Clavier Suite #6 in f
"Courante"
William Christie, hc, Arthur Haas, hc
Suites Pour Deux Clavecins
6:19 am
Schnittke, Alfred: "Suite in the Old Style"
Dmitri Berlinsky, v; Svetlana Gorakhovich, p
Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher
6:35 am
Grieg, Edvard: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40
Virtuosi di Praga/Oldrich Vlcek
Grieg: Holberg Suite/ Respighi: Ancient Airs And Dances/ Elgar: Serenade In E Minor/ Roussel: Sinfonietta For String Orchestra
6:54 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: French Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 815
IV. "Gavotte"
Victoria Drake, h
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.
7:02 am
Johann Christian Bach: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 9, No. 2
Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead
JC Bach - Symphonies Op. 9
7:15 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, "Trout"
IV. Theme with Variations, "Andantino"
Takács Quartet members; Joseph Carver, db; Andreas Haefliger, p
Schubert: Trout Quintet; Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Wolf: Italian Serenade
7:24 am
Doreen Carwithen: Overture, "ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)"
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Carwithen: Orchestral Works
7:34 am
Leslie Adams: "Ecstasy of Love"
Jordan Bak, vi; Lara Downes, p
New Day Begun
7:42 am
Antonio Salieri: "Sinfonia Veneziana" in D, "La scuola de' gelosi"
London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
Salieri: Symphonies & Overtures
7:54 am
Joshua Davis & Yuniet Lombida: "Rondo alla Mambo" (after Mozart's K. 447)
Sarah Willis, hn; Havana Lyceum Orchestra/José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Mozart y Mambo
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:01 am
John Barry: "Out of Africa"
Main Title
Itzhak Perlman, v, Pittsburgh Sym Orch/John Williams
Cinema Serenade
8:05 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"
"The Elephant"
Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Ondrej Lenárd
My First Classical Music Album
8:08 am
Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3
IV. Finale
Kansas City Sym/William McGlaughlin
American Voices
8:23 am
James Horner: "Legends of the Fall"
The Ludlows
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/David Arnold
James Horner: Collage
8:31 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
III. "Kije's Wedding"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection
8:35 am
Jerry Goldsmith: "Alien"
Closing Title
Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams
Out Of This World
8:39 am
Ethel Smyth: "The March of the Women"
The Plymouth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Philip Brunelle
Ethel Smyth: Mass In D / Eiddwen Harrhy/Philip Brunelle
8:42 am
Richard Rodgers: "The Sound of Music"
"Edelweiss"
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Paris Chamber Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Winter Gardens
8:46 am
Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D
III. Finale, "Allegro"
Fanny Clamagirand, v; Malmö Opera Orch/John Jeter
Price: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Piano Concerto, and Dances in the Canebrakes
8:53 am
George Gershwin: "Embraceable You"
Richard Glazier, p
Broadway to Hollywood
8:54 am
Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 1
No. 1, "Reflets dans l'eau"
Pascal Rogé, p
50x Relaxing Classics
9:00 - 11:00 am
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:02 am
Jo Yeong-wook: "No Other Choice"
"Le badinage"
Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; The Soundtrackings
No Other Choice (Original Soundtrack)
9:10 am
Jo Yeong-wook: "Oldboy"
"Cries and Whispers"
Studio Orch
Oldboy (Music from the Motion Picture)
9:14 am
Jo Yeong-wook: "Oldboy"
"Farewell, My Lovely"
Studio Orch
Oldboy (Music from the Motion Picture)
9:17 am
Marco Beltrami: "Snowpiercer"
"Yona's Theme"
Studio Orch
Snowpiercer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:20 am
Jung Jae-il: "Mickey 17"
"Immigrant"
London Sym Orch/James Brett
Mickey 17 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:22 am
Jung Jae-il: "Mickey 17"
"Bon Appetit with Strings"
London Sym Orch/James Brett
Mickey 17 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:25 am
Jung Jae-il: "Parasite"
"The Belt of Faith"
Jung Jae-il, prod
Parasite (Original Soundtrack)
9:38 am
music continues...
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
A rebroadcast of a performance of the first movement of Ginastera's String Quartet No. 1 and Puccini's "Crisantemi" by Meraviglia Quartet (Elle Cho & Lauren Kim, violins; Emily Chen, viola; Lucy Wu, cello). The ensemble formed at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy and performed in the Levin Studio in 2024.
12:00 - 3:00 pm
12:00 pm
From Vienna State Opera
Verdi's Luisa Miller
Roberto Tagliavini (Graf von Walter); Freddie De Tommaso (Rodolfo); Daria Sushkova (Federica); Marko Mimica (Wurm); George Petean (Miller); Nadine Sierra (Luisa); Teresa Sales Rebordão (Laura); Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Michele Mariotti, conductor. Sung in Italian.
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
A preview of Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2026-27 season with music director Enrique Mazzola.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: Twenty years ago, Terri Hendrix performed on Folkstage. We revisit that concert. The spirited Texas songwriter and multi-instrumentalist recently released her 30-year retrospective, "Pen to Paper."
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Songs featuring “Little Boxes,” big circles, triangles, among other shapes and symbols commemorate Malvina Reynolds’ birth anniversary.
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