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      Playlist for Thursday, July 30, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Astor Piazzolla: "Histoire du Tango"

      3rd mvt "Night Club 1960"

      Similia
      Nota Del Sol

      Analekta AN2-9817

      12:05 am

      Kurt Weill: "Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)"

      "Tango Ballad"

      Marcel Worms, p
      Tangos for Piano

      Zefir 9647

      12:08 am

      Kurt Weill: "Lady in the Dark-Symphonic Nocturne"

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
      Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne

      Naxos 8.557481

      12:25 am

      Dan Visconti: "Lonesome Roads"

      "Nocturne"

      Lara Downes, p

      Sono Luminus DSL-92207

      12:27 am

      Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 8 in B-Flat, D. 112

      Takács Quartet
      Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D887; String Quartet in B-Flat major D112

      Hyperion CDA-68423

      12:54 am

      Franz Schubert: Song, "Die Liebe," D 210

      Elly Ameling, s; Graham Johnson, p
      The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 7

      Hyperion CDJ-33007

      1:00 am

      Jozsef Bengraf: "Ungarischer Tantz"

      Benkö Consort
      Tanzmusik aus Ungarn

      Teldec 8.42782

      1:05 am

      Franz Liszt: "Années de pèlerinage:" 2nd Year, Italy (1837-49)

      No. 7, "Après une lecture du Dante"

      Angela Hewitt, p
      Liszt: Piano Sonata & other works

      Hyperion CDA-68067

      1:23 am

      George Gershwin: "Girl Crazy"

      "Embraceable You"

      Richard Glazier, p
      Broadway to Hollywood

      Centaur CRC-3347

      1:25 am

      Alla Pavlova: "Old New York Nostalgia"

      "Broadway's Song"

      Globalis International Sym Orch/Konstantin Krimets
      Music Of Alla Pavlova

      Albany TROY-397

      1:28 am

      John Alden Carpenter: "Skyscrapers"

      Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose
      John Alden Carpenter: Complete Ballets

      BMOP 1100

      1:55 am

      Richard Thompson: Prelude No. 5

      Richard Thompson, p
      Poetry Prelude

      Albany TROY-830

      2:00 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Spirituals"

      "Deep River"

      Lara Downes, p
      America Again

      Sono Luminus DSL-92207

      2:05 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Petite Suite de Concert"

      RTÉ Concert Orchestra/Adrian Leaper
      Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite

      Naxos 8.555191

      2:21 am

      Claude Debussy: "Petite Suite"

      Laurence Fromentin & Dominique Plancade, p

      EMI/Ang CDZ5-72526-2

      2:34 am

      Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Pièces de clavecin" (1724)

      "Courante"

      Pieter-Jan Belder, hc
      Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works

      Brilliant 93903 (3)

      2:36 am

      Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartet #9 in d

      Orch d'Auvergne/Jean-Jacques Kantorow
      Crisantemi: For String Quartet, 3 Minuetti for String Quartet

      Denon 81757-3871-2

      2:54 am

      Franz Schubert: Twelve German Dances ("Ländler"), D 790

      No. 8

      Ensemble Wien
      Schubert: Rondo pour violon et orchestre à cordes en la

      Sony SK-48386

      3:00 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Six German Dances, WoO 42

      David Garrett, v; Bruno Canino, p
      Essential Beethoven

      DG B0009666-72 (23)

      3:04 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 German Dances, WoO 8

      Capella Istropolitana/Oliver Dohnanyi
      BEETHOVEN, L. van: 11 Dances, "Mödlinger Tänze" / 12 German Dances / 12 Minuets (Capella Istropolitana, Dohnányi)

      Naxos 8.550433

      3:23 am

      Richard Strauss: "Schlagobers," Op. 70

      Cocoa Dance

      Tokyo Metropolitan Sym Orch/Hiroshi Wakasugi
      Strauss: Schlagobers, Ballet Music, Op. 70

      MHS 514507-L

      3:24 am

      Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto in d, Op. 8

      Ulf Hoelscher, v; Dresden Staatskapelle/Rudolf Kempe

      EMI/Ang CMS7-64346-2 (3)

      3:54 am

      American Trad: Hymn, Freuen wir uns

      Martin Pearlman, forte-p
      Lost Early Music Of Early America

      Telarc CD-80482 (2)

      4:00 am

      Alexander Glazunov: Serenade #1, Op 7

      Royal Phil/Yondani Butt
      Glazunov: Symphony No. 6

      ASV CDDCA-699

      4:04 am

      Alexander Glazunov: Serenade #2, Op 11

      Anton Hammer, fh; RIAS Sinfonietta/Jiri Starek

      Koch 3-1611-2

      4:08 am

      Alexander Glazunov: Suite "On the Name Sascha," Op 2

      Tatjana Franov , p
      GLAZUNOV : Piano Music Vol. 1

      Marco Polo 8.223151

      4:22 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "Raymonda," Op 57

      Act 1, Waltz

      Jascha Heifetz, v; Samuel Chotzinoff, p
      The Heifetz Collection, Volume 1: The Acoustic Recordings 1917 - 1924

      RCA 61732-2 (3)

      4:23 am

      Alexander Borodin: "Petite Suite"

      Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
      Borodin: Symphony No. 2

      Chandos CHAN-9386

      4:53 am

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

      No. 3 in D

      Ton Koopman, hc

      Capriccio 10210

      5:00 am

      Arnold Bax: "Dance of the Wild Irravel"

      London Phil/Bryden Thomson
      Bax: Dance of Wild Irravel/ Paean/Symphony No. 3

      Chandos CHAN-8454

      5:05 am

      York Bowen: Piano Trio, Op. 118

      Endymion Ensemble

      Dutton CDLX-7115

      5:28 am

      Phillip Rosseter: Third Galliard of the Countess of Sussex

      Matthew Wadsworth, l
      When Laura Smiles- Lute Solos And Songs From Elizabethan England

      Avie AV-2074

      5:30 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Two-Piano Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat, K. 365

      Lyubov Bruk, p; Mark Taimanov, p; Leningrad Phil/Arnold Katz
      Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Lyubov Bruk and Mark Taimanov

      Philips 456736-2 (2)

      5:55 am

      Robert Schumann: "Liederkreis (Song Cycle)," Op. 39

      No. 4, "Die Stille (The Silence)"

      Marjana Lipovsek, ms; Graham Johnson, p
      Schumann: Lieder

      Sony SK-57972

      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.

      6:04 am

      Mauro Giuliani: Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A, Op 30

      I. Allegro maestoso

      Pepe Romero, g; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Philips Classics: The Stereo Years

      Philips 4788977

      6:14 am

      Antonio Lotti: Trio Sonata in G

      Eroica Trio
      Eroica Trio - Baroque

      EMI CDC5-56873-2

      6:31 am

      Franz Schubert: Impromptu in F minor, D 935, No. 4

      Daniel Barenboim, p
      Live in Vienna

      Erato 91700-2

      6:37 am

      Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C, D. 944, "Great"

      II. "Andante con moto"

      Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner
      Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Song of the Spirits Over the Waters

      DG 457648-2

      6:51 am

      Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2 in F, Op. 80

      I. "Sehr lebhaft"

      Trio Dichter
      An Invitation at the Schumanns'

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902509

      7:05 am

      Enrique Fernández Arbós: "Pequeña suite española," Op. 7

      I. "Ausencia"

      Madrid Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
      Arbós: Complete Orchestral Works

      Verso VRS-2027 (2)

      7:14 am

      César Cui: Two Pieces, Op. 36

      Steven Isserlis, vc; Chamber Orch of Europe/John Eliot Gardiner
      Rococo Variations

      Virgin 91134-2

      7:24 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Wind Octet in E-Flat, Op. 103

      I. "Allegro"

      Melbourne Windpower/Richard Runnels
      Melbourne Windpower - Wind Octets by Beethoven, Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, Bozza and Powning

      Move MD-3082

      7:34 am

      Franz Schubert: "Die schöne Müllerin," D 795

      No. 20, "Des Baches Wiegenlied"

      Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
      Schubert: Winterreise; Die schöne Müllerin; Schwanengesang

      EMI CMS7-63559-2 (3)

      7:41 am

      Aram Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D-Flat

      III. Finale, "Allegro brillante"

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel
      Khachaturian: Piano Concerto

      Decca 4870877

      7:50 am

      Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan

      Cincinnati Sym Orch Strings/Jesús López-Cobos
      Into The Light: Symphonic Expressions Of Spirit

      Telarc CD-80462

      8:04 am

      Alexander Glazunov: Triumphal March, Op. 40

      Royal Phil Orch/Yondani Butt
      Glazunov: Symphony No. 6; 2 Serenades; Triumphal March / LSO, RPO/Yondani Butt

      ASV CDDCA-699

      8:13 am

      Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34

      I. "Allegro"

      Arthur Stockel, cl; Quatuor Hanson
      Weber: Clarinet Concertos, Clarinet Quintet

      Aparté AP-354

      8:24 am

      Claude Debussy: "Marche écossaise"

      Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier
      Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

      Chandos CHAN-9129

      8:31 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F (1838)

      III. Finale, "Assai vivace"

      Alina Ibragimova, v; Cédric Tiberghien, p
      Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas

      Hyperion CDA-68322

      8:39 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"

      Three Dance Episodes

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
      Leonard Bernstein: On the Waterfront, Chichester Psalms

      Naxos 8.559177

      8:51 am

      John Rutter: "Cityscapes"

      I. "Big Apple"

      Royal Phil Orch/John Rutter
      John Rutter - Reflections

      Decca 4871478

      9:04 am

      Benjamin Britten: "Matinées musicales," Op. 24 (after Rossini)

      Helsingborg Sym Orch/Okko Kamu
      Britten: Piano Concerto, Soirées musicales, Matinées musicales

      Ondine ODE-825-2

      9:21 am

      John Adams: "Lollapalooza"

      Hallé Orch/Kent Nagano
      John Adams: Century Rolls, Lollapalooza, Slonimsky's Earbox

      Nonesuch 79607-2

      9:28 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Gipsy Suite," Op. 20

      RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
      Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite

      Naxos 8.555191

      9:42 am

      Zoltán Kodály: "Summer Evening"

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Summer Evening

      DG 447109-2

      10:00 am - 3:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      10:00 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 58 in F

      Heidelberg Sym Orch/Thomas Fey
      Joseph Haydn: Complete Symphonies Vol 6

      Hänssler Classic 98.236

      10:18 am

      Duke Ellington: "New World a-Comin'"

      Jeffrey Biegel, p; Brown U Orch/Paul Phillips
      Manhattan Intermezzo

      Naxos 8.573490

      10:33 am

      Samuel Scheidt: Suite for Brass

      London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
      The Splendour of Baroque Brass

      ASV CDQS-6013

      10:41 am

      Douglas Lilburn: "Festival Overture"

      New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd
      Lilburn Orchestral Works

      Naxos 8.557697

      10:50 am

      Mily Balakirev: "Islamey"

      Yefim Bronfman, p
      Tchaikovsky: The Seasons; Balakirev: Islamey

      Sony SK-60689

      11:00 am

      Virgil Thomson: Harp Concertino, "Autumn"

      Ann Mason Stockton, h; Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner
      American Miniatures

      EMI CDM7-64306-2

      11:11 am

      Antonín Dvořák: "American Suite" in A, Op. 98

      Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Libor Pešek
      Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 From The New World, American Suite / Libor Pešek

      Virgin 90723-2

      11:34 am

      Kim André Arnesen: "Cradle Hymn"

      Kantorei/Joel Rinsema; Alicia Rigsby, p
      Infinity: Choral Works

      Naxos 8.573788

      11:42 am

      Grace Williams: "Sea Sketches"

      Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch/Malin Broman
      Breaking Waves

      BIS 2702

      12:01 pm

      music continues...

      3:00 - 7:00 pm

      3:00 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

      Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

      Nadia Boulanger taught and influenced an entire generation of musicians, from Aaron Copland and Ástor Piazzolla to Philip Glass and Quincy Jones. This week, Bill shares some of her compositions and performances alongside those of her prolific students.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      The New York Philharmonic This Week

      Bernstein "Chichester Psalms;" John Bogart, alto; Camerata Singers; "Candide" Overture; Schumann "Manfred" Overture, Op. 115; JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1040; John Wummer, flute; Isaac Stern, violin; Thomson "Four Saints" Selections; Betty Allen, mezzo-soprano; McHenry Boatwright, bass; Lee Venora, soprano; Arnold Voketaitis, baritone; Robert Eckert, tenor; Choral Art Society; Debussy Rhapsody for Saxophone and Piano; Sigurd Rascher, saxophone; H. Brubeck II Andante-Ballad from "Dialogues" for Jazz Combo and Orchestra; Dave Brubeck Quartet;" Leonard Bernstein, conductor.