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      Playlist for Wednesday, March 4, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Edouard Lalo: "Namouna" (1882)

      "Valse de la cigarette"

      ORTF National Orch/Jean Martinon

      DG 2543803

      12:05 am

      Edouard Lalo: Piano Trio #1 in c, Op 7

      Eroica Trio

      Strings in the Mountains STM-921

      12:26 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786

      No. 9 in f minor

      Pieter-Jan Belder, hc
      Bach Edition: Complete Works

      Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

      12:28 am

      Ulysses Kay: 8 Inventions

      Nnenna Ogwo, p
      Luminous

      MSR Classics MS-1819

      12:42 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin and Oboe Concerto in c, BWV 1060

      Hilary Hahn, v; Allan Vogel, ob; Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Kahane
      Concertos

      DG B0000986-02

      12:55 am

      Nnenna Ogwo: "Benediction"

      Nnenna Ogwo, p
      Luminous

      MSR Classics MS-1819

      1:00 am

      Franz Schubert: Song, "Ave Maria"

      Benjamin Grosvenor, p
      Franz Liszt

      London 4851450

      1:05 am

      Franz Liszt: "Battle of the Huns," Symphonic Poem No. 11 (1857)

      London Phil/Bernard Haitink
      Liszt: Symphonic Poems

      Philips 438754-2 (2)

      1:20 am

      Franz Liszt: "Responsories and Antiphons"

      "Sepivi te"

      Leslie Howard, p
      Responsories and Antiphons

      Hyperion CDA-67161/2 (2)

      1:22 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87

      Act 3

      Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
      Sergei Prokofiev: Cinderella / Mazurka

      London 410162-2 (2)

      1:55 am

      Alexander Scriabin: Four Preludes, Op 22

      No. 1

      Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
      Scriabin

      Decca 028947881681

      2:00 am

      Georges Bizet: "Carmen"

      Toreador Song

      José van Dam, John Alldis Cho, London Phil/Sir Georg Solti
      The Greatest Opera Show on Earth

      London 458118-2 (2)

      2:05 am

      Franz Waxman: "Carmen Fantasie"

      Charlie Siem, v; Carolina Jaya-Ratnam, p
      Charlie Siem

      Warner Classics 67804-2

      2:16 am

      François Borne: "Fantaisie Brillante" on themes from Bizet's "Carmen"

      Mathieu Dufour, f; Kuang-Hao Huang, p
      Fantaisie

      Cedille CDR-90000121

      2:27 am

      Georges Bizet: "Carmen"

      "Seguidilla"

      Canadian Brass
      More Greatest Hits

      RCA 5628-2-RC

      2:29 am

      Béla Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

      Katia, Marielle Labèque, p's; Sylvio Gualda, Jean-Pierre Drouet, per
      Katia Labèque, piano,

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47446-2

      2:55 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.

      10:00 am - 1:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am.

      12:15 pm

      Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

      Violist Jay Julio and pianist Josh Tatsuo Cullen perform music by Nicanor Abelardo, James Lee III, Rebecca Clarke, and Astor Piazzolla, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

      1:00 pm

      1:00 pm

      Music for the Afternoon

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Arias and Barcarolles

      Taking a cue from President Eisenhower’s famous remark to Leonard Bernstein, “I like music with a theme, not all them arias and barcarolles,” this week features a mix of arias, overtures, barcarolles, and other melodic delights that deserve more airtime.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Christophe Rousset plays Couperin

      Harpsichordist Christophe Rousset performs selections from Couperin’s "L’Art de toucher le clavecin." Recorded live in concert January 8, 2025, in Madrid’s Fundación Juan March.