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Playlist for Sunday, August 16, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: "The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross"
Introduction: "Maestoso ed adagio"
Emerson String Quartet
The Seven Last Words
12:05 am
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat
Barry Douglas, p; London Sym Orch/Jun'ichi Hirokami
Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 and 2, Hungarian Fantasy
12:23 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: "The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross"
Finale, "Il Terremoto (The Earthquake)"
Emerson String Quartet
The Seven Last Words
12:25 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 8 in D
Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam/Lev Markiz
The Complete String Symphonies Volume 4
12:56 am
Samuel Scheidt: Sinfonia in d
Wenzinger, Mueller, Kallenberger, viga; Conant, hc
Viga,
1:00 am
Hans Pfitzner: "Die Rose vom Liebesgarten"
Blütenwunder
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Pfitzner: Palestrina, Das Kathchen von Heilbronn, Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
1:05 am
Anonymous: In a garden so green
Circa 1500 Ensemble
A Handefull of Pleasant Delites: Elizabethan Ballads & Dances * Circa 1500
1:08 am
Alan Hovhaness: "The Garden of Adonis," Op 245
Eugenia Zukerman, f; Yolanda Kondonassis, h
Hovhaness
1:23 am
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Música para un jardín" (1957)
London Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz
1:34 am
Hugo Wolf: Song, "Der Gärtner"
Felicity Lott, s; Graham Johnson, p
1:35 am
Richard Strauss: "Don Juan," Op. 20
Suisse Romande Orch/Eliahu Inbal
1:54 am
Peter Warlock: "Capriol" Suite
#6, "Mattachins" (Sword Dance)
Summit Brass
A Summit Brass Night
2:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo in C, Op 51/1
Radu Lupu, p
The Piano Concertos / 5 Sonatas / 2 Rondos
2:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "King Stephen," Op 117
Overture
Czech Phil/Frantisek Vajnar
Beethoven: Overtures
2:12 am
Mauro Giuliani: Introduction, Theme with Variations and Polonaise in A, Op 65
Richard Savino, g; Artaria String Quartet
Boccherini: Quintets VII & VIII for String Quartet & Guitar/ Giuliani: Gran Quintetto, Op. 65
2:30 am
Fernando Sor: "Huit pièces pour guitare seule"
#6, Menuet in F
David Starobin, g
Fernando Sor: Les Plus Belles Pages
2:31 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20
Suite
London Sym/André Previn
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker- Highlights
2:54 am
Karol Szymanowski: "Kurpian Songs", Op 58
#1, "The Cranes Were Flying"
Juliana Gondek, s; Reinild Mees, p
Szymanowski: Complete Songs Voice & Piano
3:00 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Six Études, Op. 52
No. 6, "En forme de valse"
Alfred Cortot, p
3:05 am
Eugene Ysaÿe: Caprice after the Study by Saint-Saens, Op 52
Joshua Bell, v; Royal Phil/Andrew Litton
3:13 am
Eugene Ysaÿe: Solo Violin Sonata in d, Op 27/3, "Ballade"
Maxim Vengerov, v
3:19 am
George Enescu: Orchestra Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 20
IV. "Menuet grave"
Romanian Radio TV Orch/Josif Conta
Enescu: Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Concert Overture
3:21 am
George Enescu: "Suite châtelaine"
Timisoara Banatul Phil/Remus Georgescu
Enescu: Romanian Poem/ Romanian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2
3:40 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Bassoon Sonata in G, Op. 168
David McGill, bn; Peter Serkin, p
Musique Francaise
3:54 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes, Op. 34
No. 24 in d, Allegretto
Tchaikovsky Chamber Orch/Lazar Gosman
Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra
4:00 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in d, Kk 213 (L 108)
Albert Fuller, hc
4:05 am
Charles Avison: Concerto grosso #3 in d, after Domenico Scarlatti
Café Zimmermann
Charles Avison * Concertos in Seven Parts Done from the Lessons of Domenico Scarlatti
4:15 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in C, Kk 72 (L 401)
Hédi Salànki, hc
4:16 am
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no.4 in e minor, Op.98
Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
4:54 am
Luigi Legnani: Caprices, Op 20
#7, "Prestissimo"
Raphaella Smits, g
Legnani: 36 Caprices/ Mertz: 6 Schubertian Songs
5:00 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hymn-Tune, "Sine Nomine (For All the Saints)" (1905)
Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Christopher Allsop, o
The Vaughan Williams Hymnal
5:05 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
Nash Ensemble String Quartet
Ralph Vaughan Williams * The Early Chamber Music * The Nash Ensemble
5:21 am
Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan
Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos
Into The Light: Symphonic Expressions Of Spirit
5:30 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hymn, "Firmly I believe and truly"
Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Christopher Allsop, o
The Vaughan Williams Hymnal
5:31 am
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200
Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham
5:54 am
Franz Schubert: Song, "Die Laube", D 214
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Gerald Moore, p
Schubert: Lieder
6:00 am
6:00 am
With Heart and Voice
"Psalm 23 and More." Host Peter DuBois shares various sacred choral and organ music based on Psalm 23 and others.
6:58 am
Dario Marianelli: "Pride and Prejudice"
"The Secret Life of Daydreams"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch
Pride & Prejudice (Music from the Motion Picture)
7:00 am - 12:00 pm
7:01 am
Arcangelo Corelli: Violin Sonata in F, Op. 5, No. 4
Frans Brüggen, r; Gustav Leonhardt, hc; Anner Bylsma, vc
Frans Brüggen Edition - Vol. 2 • Italian Recorder Sonatas
7:13 am
Carl Nielsen: Song, "Look about one summer day"
Ars Nova Copenhagen/Michael Bojesen
Songs for choir
7:17 am
Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"
Suite
National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman
Puccini: Opera for Orchestra
7:33 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10
Anthony McGill, cl; Catalyst Quartet
Uncovered, Volume 1
8:01 am
Claude Debussy: "L'isle joyeuse"
Pascal Rogé, p
Decca Sound: The Analogue Years
8:08 am
Florence Price: "Songs of the Oak"
Württemberg Phil/John Jeter
Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances
8:25 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Valse-Scherzo" in C, Op. 34
Jennifer Koh, v; Odense Sym Orch/Alexander Vedernikov
Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra
8:33 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Flute, Oboe and Bassoon Suite in b
Soloists; European Baroque Soloists
Telemann: Suite in B; Concerto in G; Six Canonic Sonatas
8:44 am
Antonín Dvořák: "In Nature's Realm" Overture, Op. 91
Berlin Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner
Symphony no. 9. Berliner Staatskapelle. Otmar Suitner
8:58 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Pieces, Op. 72
No. 16, "Valse à cinq temps"
Yevgeny Sudbin, p
Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano
9:01 am
Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From My Life"
II. "Alla polka"
Alban Berg Quartet
Dvořák, Smetana: String Quartets
9:08 am
Henry Purcell: "King Arthur"
Instrumental Suite
Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre
9:27 am
Francis Johnson: "The New Bird Waltz"
Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
The Music of Francis Johnson and His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers
9:29 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "On Wings of Song," Op. 34, No. 2
Haruma Sato, vc; Wataru Hisasue, p
Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
9:32 am
Christopher Tin: "The Lost Birds"
IV. "A Hundred Thousand Birds"
Voces8, Royal Phil Orch/Christopher Tin
The Lost Birds
9:36 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B-Flat, R. 367
La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v
A Tale of Two Seasons
9:51 am
Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 5, Op. 64
III. 'Scherzo"
BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 4
10:01 am
Mel Bonis: Flute Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 64
Erin K. Murphy, f; Kirstin Ihde, p
Day & Night: Modern Flute & Piano Duos by Women Composers
10:19 am
Florence Price: "Fantasie Nègre" No. 1 in E minor
Michelle Cann, p
Revival
10:30 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Montreal Sym Orch/Kent Nagano
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies
11:06 am
Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Concertante" Quartet No. 4 in F
Arabella String Quartet
Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets
11:14 am
Conni Ellisor: "Blackberry Winter"
Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill
Ellisor: Conversations In Silence; Blackberry Winter; Barber: Canzonetta; Scearce: Endymion's Sleep; Mock: The Stone
11:31 am
Eric Ewazen: "Frost Fire"
Axiom Brass
New Standards
11:48 am
William Alwyn: Concerto grosso No. 1
City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Oboe Concerto, Concerti Grossi
12:00 - 6:00 pm
12:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Abduction from the Seraglio," K. 384
Overture
Zürich Opera House Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Mozart: Overtures
12:05 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concertino in C, H XIV:12
Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman, hc
Haydn: Complete Harpsichord Concertos
12:18 pm
Niccolò Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7, "La Campanella"
III. Finale, Rondo
Alexander Markov, v; Saarbrücken Radio Sym Orch/Marcello Viotti
Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
12:25 pm
Franz Liszt: Grand Etude after Paganini No. 3, "La Campanella"
Inna Faliks, p
The Story of a Pianist
12:31 pm
Josef Mysliveček: Sinfonia in E-Flat
Concerto Köln
Il Divino Boemo: Josef Mysliveček Symphonies
12:40 pm
Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
II. "Sentimentale"
Jean-Pierre Rampal, f; Claude Bolling, p; Max Hediguer, db; Marcel Sabiani, dr
Marcel Sabiani, drums,
Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
12:48 pm
Traditional Zulu: "Kadeni Kwazulu"
Kelly Petlane, f; Soweto String Quartet
Zebra Crossing
12:52 pm
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90
IV. Finale, "Allegro"
Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Brahms: The Symphonies
1:02 pm
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Aleko"
Dance of the Women; Dance of the Men
Philharmonia Orch/Neeme Järvi
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
1:13 pm
Alberto Ginastera: "Estancia," Op. 8
"Danza del trigo"
Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel
1:16 pm
Alberto Ginastera: "Danzas argentinas," Op. 2
No. 2, "Danza de la moza donosa"
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Monte Carlo Phil String Quartet
Piazzolla Stories
1:21 pm
Fanny Mendelssohn: Capriccio in B minor, H. 349
Claire Huangci, p
Piano Heroines
1:26 pm
Jean-Joseph Mouret: "Sinfonies de Fanfares"
Rondeau
Pierre Cochereau, o; Brass Ensemble/Armand Birbaum
Musique à Notre-Dame de Paris
1:30 pm
Ravinia Festival 2026
Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan present a program featuring Falla’s "Suite populaire espagnole," several Shostakovich preludes, and sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Recorded June 7, 2026 in the Martin Theatre.
2:32 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: "Scherzando" No. 2 in C, H II:34
Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss
Haydn: 6 Scherzandi
2:41 pm
Horace Ott, Bennie Benjamin, and Sol Marcus: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Ashley Jackson, h
Cover Girl
2:46 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "1812" Overture, Op. 49
Dallas Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata
1812 Overture
3:01 pm
music continues...
6:00 - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts
R Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11; Dale Clevinger, horn; Wagner "Rienzi" Overture; Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Stravinsky "Fireworks," Op. 4; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1; Byron Janis, piano; Fritz Reiner, conductor; Mendelssohn "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21; Jean Martinon, conductor; Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari
Chamber Music by Heitor Villa-Lobos Known mostly for his orchestral, vocal, and guitar music, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos also composed gorgeous chamber music. Including string quartets and duo works with piano, Fiesta presents a selection of some of his often-overlooked gems.
9:00 - 11:00 pm
9:00 pm
Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel
Björling and Sayão sing Romeo and Juliet
Gounod "Roméo et Juliette;" Jussi Björling (Roméo); Bidú Sayão (Juliette); Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 1947.
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