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Playlist for Wednesday, April 1, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Rebecca Clarke: "Midsummer Moon"
Laura Kobayashi, v; Susan Gray, p
Laura Kobayashi: Boldy Expressive!
12:05 am
Herbert Clarke: Rondo Caprice, "From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific"
Gerard Schwarz, cornet; William Bolcom, p
Cornet Favorites & Highlights From Cousins
12:11 am
Richard Strauss: "Intermezzo," Op. 72
Four Symphonic Interludes
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Strauss: Zarathustra, Dances of the Seven Veils, Intermezzo
12:36 am
Richard Strauss: "Mädchenblumen," Op. 22
#2, "Mohnblumen"
Anja-Nina Bahrmann, s; Nina Schumann, p
Strauss: Complete Songs
12:37 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat, K. 495
Dale Clevenger, fh; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/Janos Rolla
Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4
12:55 am
Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite II in D
"Courante"
Ludger Rémy, hc
The Strasbourg Manuscript
1:00 am
Alfredo Catalani: "La Wally"
Romanza di Wally, "Ebben? ne andrò lontana"
Renée Fleming, s; London Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras
By Request
1:05 am
Alfredo Catalani: "Contemplazione"
La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti
Puccini, Catalani e Puchinelli
1:15 am
Mauro Giuliani: Gran Pot-Pourri, Op 67
Waller and Maxwell Guitar Duo
1:31 am
Mauro Giuliani: "Pièces faciles et agréables," Op 74
#8
Mikael Helasvuo, f; Jukka Savijoki, g
Mauro Giuliani - The Complete Works for Flute and Guitar, Vol.3
1:32 am
Alexander Scriabin: Symphony #4, Op 54, "The Poem of Ecstasy"
Chicago Sym/Pierre Boulez
1:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Preludes, Op 51
No. 3, "Poème ailé"
Vladimir Sofronitski, p
Scriabin Piano Works
2:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37
"June (Barcarolle)"
Moscow Chamber Orch/Constantine Orbelian
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: Serenade in C Major / The Seasons (arr. A. Gauk) (Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Orbelian)
2:05 am
Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: "Trois morceaux caractéristiques", Op 28
No. 1, "Barcarolle"
Joanne Polk, p
By The Still Waters
2:12 am
Agathe Backer Grondahl: "Fantasy Pieces," Op 55
#10, "Barcarole"
Natalia Strelchenko, p
Agathe Backer-Grondahl: Complete Piano Music, Vol. IV
2:13 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D
BBC Sym/Sir Andrew Davis
2:54 am
John Ireland: Song, "I have twelve oxen"
Lisa Milne, s; Graham Johnson, p
The Songs of John Ireland
3:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"
Cavatina, "Largo al factotum"
Doc Severinsen, tr; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Trumpet Spectacular
3:05 am
Ottorino Respighi: "The Ballad of the Gnomes"
Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon
Respighi
3:20 am
David Popper: Gnomentanz
Janos Starker, vc; Shigeo Neriki, p
POPPER, D.: Cello Music (Romantic Cello Favorites) (Starker)
3:23 am
Harry Farjeon: "Some Goblins and Gnomes and Things"
Michael Lewin, p
Piano Phantoms * Michael Lewin
3:25 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Jascha Heifetz, v; Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner
The Supreme
3:54 am
Burleigh: "Pictures," Op 30
#4, "Giant Hills"
Jascha Heifetz, v; Emanuel Bay, p
The Decca Masters, Vol. 1: Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Brahms
4:00 am
Morton Gould: "American Caprice"
Lara Downes, p
America Again
4:05 am
Morton Gould: "American Salute"
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Kunzel
American Jubilee
4:09 am
John Alden Carpenter: "Krazy Kat" (1921)
Los Angeles Phil/Calvin Simmons
Carpenter/ Gilbert/ Powell/ Weiss
4:22 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Fancy Free"
Three Dances: Galop, Waltz & Danzon
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
An American Salute
4:28 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Rondo for Lifey"
Håkan Hardenberger, tr; Roland Pöntinen, p
At The Beach
4:30 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G, "Surprise"
Luxembourg European Soloists/Jack Martin Händler
Haydn Symphonies
4:53 am
William Schuman: "Mail-Order Madrigals" (1971)
#1, Attention, Ladies!
Gregg Smith Singers/Gregg Smith
5:00 am
George Frideric Handel: Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in B-Flat, Bk 2
"Passacaille"
Yolanda Kondonassis, h
A New Baroque
5:05 am
George Frideric Handel: Oboe Concerto No. 3 in g
Malcolm Messiter, ob; Guildhall String Ensemble
Baroque Oboe Concertos
5:14 am
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Ermanarich: Symphonische Dichtung"
John Bell Young, p
Piano Music Of Friedrich Nietzsche
5:23 am
Friedrich Nietzsche: Song, "Es winkt und neigt sich"
Songs
5:24 am
Richard Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra," Op. 30
Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti
Also Sprach Zarathustra / Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel
5:55 am
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Heldenklage"
John Bell Young, p
Piano Music Of Friedrich Nietzsche
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
PDQ Bach: "Eine Kleine Nichtmusik"
Orch/Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach - Portrait Of P.D.Q. Bach
6:18 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Berlin" Symphony No. 6 in F, Wq 181
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Oboe Concertos
6:32 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 33, No. 2, "Joke"
Spektral Quartet
Serious Business - Spektral Quartet
6:49 am
Jean Françaix: Divertissement for Bassoon and Strings (1968)
Gaudier Ensemble
Françaix: A Huit, Divertissement, Clarinet Quintet
7:04 am
Malcolm Arnold: "A Grand, Grand Overture," Op. 57
Royal Phil Orch/Vernon Handley
Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2, etc.
7:13 am
Traditional Jewish: "Zoghets and Freilach"
Alexander Fiterstein, cl; Muir String Quartet
Celebration Music: Klezmer Music for String Quartet & Clarinet
7:18 am
Traditional Jewish: "Dem Trisker Rebns Khosid"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Klezmer Conservatory Band/Russell Ger
Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul
7:22 am
Gabriel Pierné: "Scherzo-Caprice" in D, Op. 25
Stephen Coombs, p, BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Ronald Corp
Pierné: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
7:33 am
Allan Sherman: "The End of a Symphony"
Allan Sherman, n; Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Allan Sherman: Peter And The Commissar / Arthur Fiedler
7:43 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21
I. "Adagio molto-Allegro con brio"
Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1; Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost;" Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
7:53 am
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: "Pachelbel's Loose Cannon"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
For Thy Pleasure
8:04 am
PDQ Bach: "1712 Overture," S 1712
Greater Hoople Area Off-Season Phil/Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach - 1712 Overture & Other Musical Assaults
8:17 am
Alexander Borodin: Scherzo in E
Marco Rapetti & Giampaolo Nuti, p's
Borodin Edition
8:22 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Le roi malgré lui"
"Fête polonaise"
Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner
Chabrier: España, Suite pastorale, etc.
8:31 am
Lennon-McCartney: "The Fool on the Hill"
Miloš, g; String Ensemble/Christopher Austin
Blackbird: The Beatles Album
8:34 am
Lennon-McCartney: "The Fool on the Hill"
Peter Breiner Chamber Orch/Peter Breiner
Beatles Go Baroque, Vol. 1
8:38 am
Gustav Holst: "The Perfect Fool," Op. 39
Ballet music
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Britten & Holst: Orchestral Works
8:50 am
Srul Irving Glick: "The Rabbi's Wedding at the Palmerston Street Shul"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
Ovation
8:58 am
George Gershwin: "Fascinatin' Rhythm"
William Bolcom, p
George Gershwin: Piano Music
9:03 am
Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," Op. 28
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Richard Strauss - Sir Georg Solti*, Chicago Symphony Orchestra* - Also Sprach Zarathustra / Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel
9:20 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Passover Psalm"
Eva Urbanová, s; Slovak Phil Cho, Vienna Phil/Riccardo Chailly
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass; Korngold & Zemlinsky: Psalms
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
10:00 am
music continues...
12:15 pm
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
Violinist Claire Bourg and pianist Kyle Orth perform music by Mozart, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
German composer Felix Mendelssohn has been hailed as one of the greatest musical minds of all time. This week, Bill ventures from his precocious youth to his early death surveying his great body of work including the beloved Violin Concerto, String Octet, and "Italian" Symphony.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Music of Lamentation and Hope for Holy Week
Led by Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 present a program of sacred music for Holy Week including Jan Dismas Zelenka’s "Miserere in C minor" and selections from "Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta," Francesco Durante’s "Miserere in C minor" and Tommaso Traetta’s expressive "Stabat Mater." Recorded live in concert March 23, 2026 in Prague.
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