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      Playlist for Saturday, January 31, 2026

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Franz Schubert: Kyrie in F, D 66

      Capella Bavariae; Wolfgang Sawallisch, p
      Schubert: Sacred Works

      MHS 534447-T (2)

      12:05 am

      Franz Schubert: "Rosamunde" Incidental Music, D 797

      Entr'acte No. 1 in b

      Utah Sym Orch/Maurice Abravanel
      Music For The Theater: Beethoven: Incidental Music for Goethe's Egmont, The Creatures of Prometheus/ Schubert: Rusamunde

      Vanguard OVC-8084/85 (2)

      12:13 am

      Franz Schubert: "Rosamunde" Incidental Music, D 797

      Entr'acte No. 3 in B-Flat

      Czech Chamber Phil/Rudolf Krecmer

      Discover Int'l DICD-920520

      12:20 am

      Franz Schubert: "Rosamunde" Incidental Music, D 797

      "Hirtenlied"

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Classical Hits

      DG 437782-2

      12:21 am

      Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in a minor, D. 804 "Rosamunde"

      New Hungarian String Quartet

      Vox CDX-5022 (2)

      12:54 am

      Franz Schubert: Song, "Täglich zu singen," D 533

      Wolfgang, br; Ulrich Eisenlohr, p
      Schubert: Lieder

      Naxos 8.557568

      1:00 am

      Franz Schubert: Offertorium in C, D 136, "Totus in corde langueo"

      Capella Bavariae; Wolfgang Sawallisch, p
      Schubert: Sacred Works

      MHS 534447-T (2)

      1:05 am

      Johann Strauss II: Perpetuum mobile (Ein musikalischer Scherz), Op. 257

      Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
      New Year's Concert 1988

      DG 423662-2

      1:08 am

      Franz Lehár: "Gold and Silver" Waltzes, Op. 79

      Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel
      Viennafest

      Telarc CD-80547

      1:14 am

      Franz Lehár: The Merry Widow Ballet

      Mazurka

      Adelaide Sym Orch/John Lanchbery
      Highlights From The Merry Widow Ballet, Arranged And Conducted By John Lanchbery, The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra And The Adelaide Singers

      Angel S-37092

      1:16 am

      Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D 960

      Walter Hautzig, p
      Schubert: Sonata In Bb, Moments Musicaux, Waltzes

      Connoisseur CD-4209

      1:55 am

      Franz Schubert: Song, "Klage", D 436

      Wolfgang, br; Ulrich Eisenlohr, p
      Schubert: Lieder

      Naxos 8.557568

      2:00 am

      Ernest Tomlinson: "Fairy Coach"

      Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Ernest Tomlinson
      TOMLINSON : British Light Music

      Marco Polo 8.223413

      2:02 am

      Ernest Tomlinson: "Hornpipe"

      Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Ernest Tomlinson
      TOMLINSON : British Light Music

      Marco Polo 8.223413

      2:05 am

      Albert W Ketèlby: Wedgewood Blue

      Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Adrian Leaper
      KETELBEY : British Light Music

      Marco Polo 8.223442

      2:09 am

      Clive Richardson: "Beachcomber"

      Dallas Wind Sym/Frederick Fennell
      Beachcomber

      Reference Recordings RR-62-CD

      2:13 am

      Ernest Tomlinson: "Sweet and Dainty"

      Czecho-Slovak Radio Sym/Ernest Tomlinson
      TOMLINSON : British Light Music

      Marco Polo 8.223413

      2:15 am

      Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in b minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"

      St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
      Schubert: The 10 Symphonies

      Philips 412176-2 (6)

      2:55 am

      music continues...

      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.

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      Clara Zhang, 16, piano. Bach Prelude & Fugue in D minor, BWV 875; Chopin Ballade No. 3; Ravel "Pavane for a Dead Princess;" Haydn Sonata No. 62 in E-Flat, 3rd mvt; Walker Sonata No. 2, 2nd mvt; Rachmaninoff "Lilacs," Op. 21/5; Bowen Toccata, Op. 155.

      12:00 - 4:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      Metropolitan Opera

      R Strauss's Arabella

      Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Arabella); Tomasz Konieczny (Mandryka); Louise Adler (Zdenka); Pavol Breslik (Matteo); Brindley Sheratt (Waldner); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Nicholas Carter. Sung in German. Recorded November 22, 2025.

      3:34 pm

      Saturday Afternoon Music

      4:00 pm

      4:00 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      For the 229th anniversary of his birth, a program of Schubert lieder on texts of Johann Mayrhofer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Jim Bizer comes from the shores of Lake Saint Clare near Detroit Michigan to the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago to play his witty, winsome, and wise songs for the studio audience.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Visit the icy waters of The Great Lakes in song and bid a hearty happy birthday to Illinois songwriter Joe Jencks!