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Playlist for Saturday, December 6, 2025
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Reinhold Gliere: Two Pieces, Op 32
#2, "Scherzo"
Gary Karr, db; Harmon Lewis, p
12:04 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, R 504
Sergio Azzolini, bs; L'Aura Soave Cremona
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos Volume 2
12:17 am
Albert Roussel: Duo for Bassoon and Double-Bass (1925)
Czech Nonet Members
Roussel: Musique de Chambre
12:20 am
Arthur Honegger: "Hommage à Albert Roussel" (1928)
Annette Middelbeek, p
Honegger: Klavierstücke
12:22 am
Arthur Honegger: "Trois pièces" (1919)
#2, "Hommage à Ravel"
Annette Middelbeek, p
Honegger: Klavierstücke
12:24 am
Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)"
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
12:53 am
David Guion: "Mother Goose Suite" (1937)
"Hey, Diddle, Diddle"
Eugene Rowley, p
Prairie Echoes: Piano Music of David Guion
1:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro," K. 492
"Cinque-Dieci" (Opening Scene)
Mozzafiato/Charles Neidich
Harmoniemusik
1:02 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro," K. 492
Duet, "Canzonetta sull'aria"
Mozzafiato/Charles Neidich
Harmoniemusik
1:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio #1 in E-Flat, Op 1/1
Jacob Lateiner, p; Jascha Heifetz, v; Gregor Piatigorsky, vc
The Heifetz Collection, Vol. 30: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 / Beethoven Trio Op. 1, No. 1 / Vivaldi Concerto
1:31 am
Gordon Jacob: Divertimento (1956)
#8 (Finale), Jig
Tommy Reilly, harmonica; Hindar String Quartet
Tommy Reilly - Jacob/ Moody: Harmonica Music
1:33 am
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody
Oscar Levant, p; Orch/Morton Gould
Oscar Levant Plays Gershwin
1:46 am
Oscar Levant: "Caprice" (1940)
Concordia Orch/Marin Alsop
1:54 am
George Frideric Handel: Trumpet Suite in D
Overture
Ludwig Güttler, tr; Friedrich Kircheis, o
2:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio in E-Flat
Mary Lou Rylands, vc; Marilynn Mair, m; Mark Davis, g
Vienna Nocturne
2:05 am
Philippe Gaubert: Flute Sonata #3
Erich Graf, f; Ricklen Nobis, p
Flute Masterworks: Poulenc, Debussy, Varese, Borne, Nobis, Prokofiev
2:19 am
Francis Poulenc: "Pastourelle" for "L'éventail de Jeanne" (1927)
French National Orch
Poulenc: Aubade, Les Biches, Etc.
2:21 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C, Op 56
Badura-Skoda, forte-p; F Maier, v; Anner Bylsma, vc; Collegium Aureum
2:55 am
Jacob van Eyck: Bockxvoetje
Stefano Bet, f
J. Van Eyck: Fluyten Lust-Hof, Books 1 and 2
3:00 am
English Anon 16th c: "Watkin's Ale"
Ensemble Phoenix Munich/Joel Frederiksen, b
The Elfin Knight: Ballads and Dances from Renaissance England
3:09 am
Barbirolli: "An Elizabethan Suite"
BBC Sym/Sir John Barbirolli
3:22 am
Jean Sibelius: "Pohjola's Daughter," Op. 49
Hallé Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
3:36 am
John Dowland: "My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home"
Ensemble Phoenix Munich
The Elfin Knight: Ballads and Dances from Renaissance England
3:37 am
Carl Maria von Weber: Six Waltzes (1812)
Michael Endres, p
3:46 am
Maurice Ravel: "La valse"
Pittsburgh Sym Orch/William Steinberg
3:57 am
Maurice Ravel: "Valses nobles et sentimentales"
No. 4, "Assez animé"
Vladimir Spivakov, v; Sergei Bezrodny, p
Various: It Ain't Necessarily So! (Music by Gershwin, Ravel, Debussy, others)
4:00 am
Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 11 in a minor
Leslie Howard, p
The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 57 - Hungarian Rhapsodies
4:05 am
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: "Poem" (1918)
Carol Wincenc, f; Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta
GRIFFES: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan / The White Peacock
4:15 am
Kent Kennan: "Night Soliloquy" (1936)
Susan Levitin, f; Gerald Rizzer, p
4:19 am
Christopher Tye: "In Nomine XII"
Empire Brass
The Glory of Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music for Brass Choirs
4:21 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 77 in B-Flat
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Symphonies No. 44 "Trauer-Symphonie" • No. 77
4:41 am
Georges Bizet: "Carmen" Suite No. 1
Ljubljana Sym Orch/Marko Munih
Bizet: Carmen Suites 1 & 2/ Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Ballet Suite
4:54 am
Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Saltarello
Toronto Consort
The DaVinci Collection * Italian Music from the Time of Leonardo
5:00 am
Franz Liszt: "Liebestraum" No. 1 in A-flat
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Liszt's Greatest Hits
5:05 am
Victor Herbert: Suite of Serenades (1924)
Ensemble/Maurice Peress
The Birth Of Rhapsody In Blue
5:13 am
Victor Herbert: "Medley"
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Concert In The Park
5:23 am
Victor Herbert: "A la Valse"
Jascha Heifetz, v; Milton Kaye, p
The Decca Masters, Vol. 2: Gershwin, Foster, Weill, Berlin
5:25 am
Joey Sellers: "Four Seasons Medley"
St Louis Brass Quintet
Saint Louis Brass Quintet: Fascinating Rhythms
5:33 am
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, “Spring”
Alan Loveday, v; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
5:44 am
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, “Autumn”
Marion Verbruggen, r; Flanders Recorder Quartet
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
5:53 am
Asger Lund AL Christiansen: Recorder Sonatina #1, Op 15
4th mvt, "Presto scherzando"
Michala Petri, r; Hanne Petri, hc
The Modern Recorder
6:00 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Der Freischütz"
Aria, "Und ob die Wolke"
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, s; Philharmonia/Julius Rudel
6:04 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Der Freischutz", Overture
Overture
Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
Weber: Horn Concertino, Overtures, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
6:15 am
Pablo de Sarasate: "Der Freischütz" Fantasy after Weber, Op 14
Tianwa Yang, v; Navarra Sym Orch/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo
SARASATE, P. de: Violin and Orchestra Music, Vol. 4 (Tianwa Yang, Navarre Symphony, Martinez-Izquierdo)
6:27 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Der Freischütz"
March
Berlin German Sym Orch/Marek Janowski
Der Freischütz
6:28 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Overture
Berlin Staatskapelle/Herbert von Karajan
6:35 am
Pablo de Sarasate: "Magic Flute Fantasy"
Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fiddler of the Opera
6:46 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Duos on themes fr "The Magic Flute"
Heinz Holliger, ob's
Heinz Holliger at the Opera
6:53 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Oboe Concerto in D
Scherzando
Heinz Holliger, ob; St Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
Concerti Per Oboe
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:00 am
Hosted by Kristina Lynn.
7:03 am
Giacomo Puccini: Three Minuets (1892)
Ensō Quartet
Strauss: String Quartet in A; Puccini: Crisantemi, Three Minuets; Verdi: String Quartet
7:13 am
Max Richter: "The Four Seasons Recomposed"
Winter
Francisco Fullana, v; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Carlos Izcaray
Through the Lens of Time
7:25 am
Ola Gjeilo: "First Snow"
12 Ensemble/Ola Gjeilo, p
Winter Songs
7:28 am
Alexandre Desplat: "Little Women"
"Snow in the Garden"
Studio Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Little Women: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
7:32 am
Richard Strauss: "Burleske" in D minor
Marc-André Hamelin, p; Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Ilan Volkov
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 53
7:53 am
Florence Price: "Elfentanz"
Dawn Wohn, v; Esther Park, p
Perspectives
8:00 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1, "A Sea Symphony"
III. "The Waves"
BBC Sym Cho & Orch/Martyn Brabbins
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony; Darest thou now, O soul
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:08 am
Leonard Cohen: "Hallelujah"
Canadian Brass, Canadian Brass Past & Present
Canadiana
8:13 am
Traditional Spanish: Carol, "Canta, ríe, bebe"
Las Avemarianas Children's Chorus; Orch
Christmas in the Old World
8:17 am
Traditional English: "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Elmer Iseler Singers, Canadian Brass
The Christmas Album
8:26 am
Franz Biebl: "Ave Maria"
Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings
Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas
8:34 am
Claude Thomas Smith: Festival Variations
US Air Force Academy Band/Arnald D. Gabriel
The Speed of Heat
8:45 am
Mykola Leontovych: "Carol of the Bells"
Kyiv Chamber Choir; National Sym Orch of Ukraine/Volodymyr Sirenko
Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir
8:48 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538, "Dorian"
Toccata
Läubin Brass Ensemble
Bach for Brass
8:54 am
Giacomo Puccini: "Gianni Schicchi"
Aria, "O mio babbino caro"
Nicole Cabell, s; London Phil Orch/Sir Andrew Davis
Nicole Cabell - Soprano
8:56 am
Jule Styne: "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"
Kyiv Chamber Choir; National Sym Orch of Ukraine/Volodymyr Sirenko
Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:01 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Departures"
Suite
Joe Hisaishi, p; London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
Melodyphony
9:11 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Clouds Over the Hills"
Suite
London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
Melodyphony
9:23 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Spirited Away"
"One Summer's Day"
Joe Hisaishi, p; London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
Melodyphony
9:27 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Spirited Away"
"Reprise"
Mai Fujisawa, voice; Royal Phil Orch/Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi: A Symphonic Celebration
9:32 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Water Traveler-Samurai Kids"
Suite
London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
Melodyphony
9:40 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Kikujiro's Summer"
Suite
Joe Hisaishi, p; London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
Melodyphony
9:45 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Howl's Moving Castle"
Symphonic variation on "Merry-Go-Round Of Life;" "Cave of Mind"
Phil Cobb, tr; Royal Phil Orch/Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi: A Symphonic Celebration
9:57 am
Joe Hisaishi: "My Neighbor Totoro"
Suite
Joe Hisaishi, p; London Symphony Orch/Roman Simovic
Melodyphony
10:02 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
"Miniature Overture; March"
Martha Argerich & Nicolas Economou, p's
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, The Nutcracker Suite
10:09 am
Alexis Alrich: Marimba Concerto (2004)
I. "Con moto"
Evelyn Glennie, mar; Hong Kong Chamber Orch/Jean Thorel
Alrich - Jenkins - Rorem: Concertos for Mallet Instruments
10:21 am
Traditional American: "Bound for California" medley
James Galway, f, Jay Ungar, fiddle, Molly Mason, g
A Song of Home: An American Musical Journey
10:27 am
Ethel Smyth: Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 5
Molly Gebrian, vi; Danny Holt, p
Trailblazers
10:48 am
Cécile Chaminade: "Callirhoé," Op. 37
"Scarf Dance"
Metz Grand Est National Orch/David Reiland
Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
10:54 am
Antonín Dvořák: "Humoresque" in G-Flat, Op. 101, No. 7
Philharmonix
Vienna Berlin Music Club Vol. 3
10:57 am
James Pierpont: "Jingle Bells"
Imani Winds
This Christmas
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
The Caspian Quartet, The Minela Trio and Quartetto Speranza. Music by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Bartók, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Piazzolla, Debussy and Garrop.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Puccini's La bohème
Juliana Grigoryan (Mimi); Stephen Costello (Rodolfo); Mané Galoyan (Musetta); David Bizic (Marcello); Alexander Köpeczi (Colline); Iurii Samoilov (Schaunard); Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Daniele Rustioni. Sung in Italian.
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
Steppenwolf Ensemble member Ian Barford, currently starring as Antonio Salieri in Steppenwolf's production of Amadeus, joins WFMT to discuss the use of Mozart's vocal music in Peter Shaffer's award-winning play.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from Acoustic Renaissance Concerts in Hinsdale: Chicago native now based in Wisconsin, Anne Heaton has developed a truly unique, piano-based brand of folk. Sean Kiely, a rising star from New Jersey, weaves luminous songs from his vivid imagination. Both sing with uncommon beauty and will meet for the first time on Folkstage.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
No more procrastinating! It’s time to break out your cozy sweaters and warm footwear this week. Bundle up with folk songs to keep warm.
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