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Playlist for Saturday, April 4, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Jules Massenet: "Devant la Madone"
Aldo Ciccolini, p
Massenet: Piano Music
12:04 am
Jules Massenet: "Papillons noirs" (1907)
Aldo Ciccolini, p
Massenet: Piano Music
12:05 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4 in c, Op. 44
Aldo Ciccolini, p; Orch de Paris/Serge Baudo
12:32 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Glory to God"
St Martin's Academy Cho, Orch/Neville Marriner
Messiah
12:34 am
Felix Alexandre Guilmant: "March on a Theme by Handel", Op 15/2
Carlo Curley, o
12:40 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Lift up your heads"
St Martin's Academy Cho, Orch/Neville Marriner
Messiah
12:43 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in a, Op. 6, No. 4
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
12:54 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Let us break their bonds asunder"
St Martin's Academy Cho, Orch/Neville Marriner
1:00 am
Joan Tower: "Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman" #3
Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop
Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman
1:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Fanfare for the Festive Opening of the Regional Exhibition in Prague"
London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
Music for Brass
1:07 am
Bedrich Smetana: "Má Vlast (My Fatherland)"
"Sarka"
Vienna Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Má vlast
1:18 am
Mily Balakirev: Symphonic Poem, "Russia" (Second Overture on Russian Themes)
Ussr State Academy Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
Symphonic Poems from Russia
1:31 am
Serge Prokofiev: Twelve Russian Folksongs, Op. 104
"Behind the Forest"
Lyubov Sokolova, ms; Yuri Serov, p
PROKOFIEV, S.: Songs and Romances (Complete)
1:33 am
Nikolaus Von Krufft: Horn Sonata in E
Lowell Greer, fh; Steven Lubin, forte-p
Brahms: Horn Trio, Op. 40/ Beethoven: Horn Sonata Op. 17/ Von Kufft: Horn Sonata
1:54 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 German Dances, WoO 8
#6
Capella Istropolitana/Oliver Dohnanyi
BEETHOVEN, L. van: 11 Dances, "Mödlinger Tänze" / 12 German Dances / 12 Minuets (Capella Istropolitana, Dohnányi)
2:00 am
Claude Debussy: "Deux arabesques"
No. 1 in E
Philadelphia Orch/William Smith
Quiet Night
2:05 am
Francisco Tárrega: "Capricho árabe (Serenata)"
Sharon Isbin, g
Alma Española
2:11 am
Richard Strauss: Arabischer Tanz (1893)
Amelia Piano Trio
STRAUSS, R.: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2 / Works for Piano Quartet (Amelia Piano Trio, Mandel)
2:13 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade," Op. 35
Orch/Erich Leinsdorf; Israel Baker, v
Scheherezade, Etc
2:55 am
Tielman Susato: "The Danserye" (1551)
"Entrée du Fol"
Musica Aurea Ensemble/ Jean Woltéche
3:00 am
Giovanni Gabrieli: "Canzon Duodecimi Toni á 10"
Hespèrion XX
3:05 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D
Albert Calvayrac, tr; Toulouse Chamber Orch/Louis Auriacombe
3:19 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Cancan"
Empire Brass
Class Brass - On The Edge
3:20 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in a minor, Op. 56, "Scottish"
Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'
3:54 am
Scottish Anon 17th c: Straloch Lute Book
A Port
Jakob Lindberg, l
Lute Music from Scotland and France
4:00 am
Amilcare Ponchielli: "La Gioconda"
Act I, Prelude
Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Italian Overtures
4:05 am
Amilcare Ponchielli: "La Gioconda"
"Dance of the Hours"
Dresden Staatskapelle/Silvio Varviso
Overtures & Intermezzi
4:15 am
Georges Bizet: "Carmen"
Toreador Song
Jose van Dam, b; Paris Opéra Cho, Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Carmen.Highlights
4:20 am
Georges Bizet: "Carmen"
Suite
Burning River Brass
Burning River Brass: Romanza Espana
4:34 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"
"Ride of the Valkyries"
Cambridge Buskers
The Cambridge Buskers' Compact Classics
4:36 am
Paul Pabst: Concert Paraphrase on Themes from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin"
Michael Ponti, p
4:48 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24
Waltz
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Dances From The Opera
4:54 am
J I Quinton: El Coqui (Danza)
Paul Gregory, g
Tango!
5:00 am
Heinrich von Biber: Sonata Sancti Polycarpi a 9 in C
New York Trumpet Ensemble/Gerard Schwarz
The Sound of Trumpets
5:05 am
Darius Milhaud: Suite for Violin, Viola, and Piano, Op. 157b (1936)
Catherine Tait, v; Howard Klug, cl
Milhaud: Creation du Monde and Other Works
5:16 am
Germaine Tailleferre: Overture
Paris Conservatory Orch/Georges Tzipine
Le Groupe Des Six
5:20 am
Georges Auric: "Ouverture"
London Sym/Antal Dorati
Dorati Conducts Satie/Milhaud/Auric/Françaix/Fetler
5:28 am
Darius Milhaud: "Saudades do Brasil," Op. 67
No. 2, "Botafogo"
Antonio Barbosa, p
Antonio Barbosa - Debussy, Milhaud
5:30 am
Francis Poulenc: "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1918)
Bennett, Daniel, Campbell, Gough, Watkins, et al
William Bennett, flute,
French Woodwind Music, Volume 2
5:37 am
Louis Durey: Flute Sonatine
Bonita Boyd, f; Kimberly Schmidt, p
5:47 am
Arthur Honegger: "Farinet ou L'Or dans La Montagne" (1938)
Suite
Slovak Radio Sym/ Adriano
HONEGGER : L' ldee / Crime et Chatiment
5:53 am
Darius Milhaud: "Saudades do Brasil," Op. 67
No. 5, "Ipanema"
Antonio Barbosa, p
Antonio Barbosa - Debussy, Milhaud
6:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "Komm, Heiliger Geist Herre Gott (Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord)" BWV 651
Christopher Herrick, o (Jesuitenkirche, Lucerne, Switzerland)
Wachet Auf! - Bach: The Schübler Chorales
6:05 am
George Frideric Handel: Organ Concerto No. 10 in d, Op. 7, No. 4
Paul Nicholson, o (St Lawrence, Whitchurch, England); Brandenburg Consort
Handel: Organ Concertos
6:19 am
Sousa: "Peaches and Cream" (Foxtrot)
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Peaches And Cream: Dances and Marches by John Philip Sousa
6:23 am
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "Le Bananier"
Alan Mandel, p
6:25 am
Igor Stravinsky: "The Firebird"
Scherzo: "The Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples"
London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
The Firebird (Complete Ballet) • Fireworks • Song Of The Nightingale • Tango • Scherzo Á La Russe
6:37 am
music continues...
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn
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
WFMT features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area. Please visit wfmt.com for details on today’s program.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Ponchielli's La gioconda
Renata Tebaldi (La Gioconda); Carlo Bergonzi (Enzo); Fiorenza Cossotto (Laura); Cornell MacNeil (Barnaba); Bonaldo Giaotti (Alvise); Mignon Dunn (La Cieca); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Fausto Cleva. Sung in Italian. Celebrating the opera's 150th anniversary from March 2, 1968.
3:30 pm
Afternoon Music
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
Countertenor Randall Scotting returns to WFMT to share the story of Nicolò Grimaldi, the castrato who conquered the opera world under the stage name Nicolini (1673–1732).
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: In 2024, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band played a rare Passover music concert with special guest vocalist, Cantor Pavel Roytman before a live studio audience at WFMT.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
We mark the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 assassination. Also, a birthday salute to Clive Davis whose impact on folk and popular music is immeasurable; and we honor the late poet/activist Maya Angelou born on this day in 1928.
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