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Playlist for Wednesday, December 31, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Abduction from the Seraglio," K. 384
Overture
London Phil/Bernard Haitink
Bernard Haitink- The Philips Years
12:05 am
Luigi Cherubini: "Ali Baba"
Overture
La Scala/Nino Sanzogno
Ali Baba
12:13 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Abu Hassan"
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Weber: Overtures
12:16 am
Josef Martin Kraus: "Soliman II"
Arioso, "Du som vår dyrkan vunnit"
Tord Wallström, br; Swedish Royal Opera Orch/Philip Brunelle
Kraus: Soliman II * A Gustavian Turkish Opera * Royal Opera of Sweden
12:18 am
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in b minor, Op.115
Chicago Chamber Musicians
The Chicago Chamber Musicians * Brahms
12:55 am
Johannes Brahms: "Neue Liebeslieder" Waltzes, Op 65
#14, "Flammenauge, dunkles Haar"
Bonney, von Otter, Streit, Bär; Helmut Deutsch, Bengt Forsberg, p
Bengt Forsberg, piano,
Helmut Deutsch, piano,
1:00 am
David N Baker: "Images of Childhood"
I. "Maypole"
Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman Introduces: Petering, Petering, Baker, Gemrot, Gemrot (Vol. 8)
1:05 am
Percy Grainger: "Youthful Suite" (1899)
BBC Phil/Richard Hickox
Grainger: Vol. 6 - Orchestral Works 2 'The Warriors'
1:31 am
Germaine Tailleferre: Two Pieces
No. 2, "Valse lente"
Quynh Nguyen, p
Tailleferre
1:32 am
Germaine Tailleferre: "Pastorale" (1942)
Susan C. Brown, v; Josephine Gandolfi, p
1:36 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Suite pastorale"
Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi
Chabrier: Orchestra Music
1:55 am
Germaine Tailleferre: "Pastorale" in D (1919)
Quynh Nguyen, p
Tailleferre
2:00 am
Claude Debussy: "Suite bergamasque"
III. "Clair de lune"
Nora Koch, h
Clair de lune: Virtuoso Music for Harp
2:05 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "La jeunesse d'Hercule," Op. 50
Vienna Sym Orch/Georges Prêtre
Symphonie N° 3 - La Jeunesse D'Hercule
2:23 am
Spanish Trad: The Icy December
Rachel Van Voorhees, h
Christmas Favorites
2:24 am
Elias Parish-Alvars: Harp Concerto in g, Op 81
Elizabeth Hainen, h; Bulgarian National Radio Orch/Rossen Milanov
Elizabeth Hainen * Harp Concertos * Albrechtsberger * Parish-Alvars * Saint-Saens
2:55 am
William Grant Still: Folk Suite #2
"El Zapatero"
Sierra Winds
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
3:00 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Much Ado About Nothing" incidental music, Op. 11
No. 3, Scene in the garden
Gil Shaham, v; André Previn, p
Violin Concertos • Much Ado About Nothing - Suite
3:05 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in d, Op 49
André Previn, p; Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Lynn Harrell, vc
Mendelssohn * Anne-Sophie Mutter
3:33 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Kinderstücke," Op 72
No. 5, Allegro assai
Daniel Barenboim, p
Lieder Ohne Worte
3:34 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: String Concerto in E-Flat
Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul
Sinfonia Melodica
3:42 am
Igor Stravinsky: String Concerto in D
Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov
Various: Modern Portraits: Hartmann: Concerto funebre; Stravinsky: Concerto in D; Penderecki: Capriccio; Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style; Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34
3:54 am
Paul Hindemith: "In einer Nacht," Op 15
"Müdigkeiten"
Werner Bärtschi, p
HINDEMITH : Piano Works
4:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sacred song, "Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh," BWV 487
String Orch/Leopold Stokowski
Music For Strings
4:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in a, BWV 1003
Johnny Gandelsman, v
BACH, J.S.: Sonatas and Partitas
4:25 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Gaîté Parisienne"
XVI. "Can-can"
Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
Gaîté Parisienne / Faust / España / Mignon
4:27 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Lieschen et Fritzschen"
Duet, "Je suis alsacien"
Anne Sofie von Otter, ms; Laurent Naouri, br; Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Offenbach
4:31 am
Jules Massenet: Orchestral Suite No. 7, "Scènes alsaciennes"
Paris Conservatory Orch/Albert Wolff
4:54 am
Jules Massenet: 10 pièces de genre," Op. 10
#9, "Fughetta"
Aldo Ciccolini, p
Massenet: Piano Music
5:00 am
Johann Ludwig Krebs: Chorale Prelude, "Gott der Vater, wohn' uns bei"
Ute Hartwich, tr; Franz Raml, o
Johann Ludwig Krebs
5:05 am
Carl Friedrich Abel: Symphony #2 in B-Flat
Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd
Abel
5:13 am
Johann Christian JC Bach: Flute and Oboe Quintet in C, Op 11/1
English Concert
3 Quintets / Sextet
5:30 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 2, BWV 870/91
Fugue No. 6 in d
Heidrun Holtmann, p
Well-Tempered Clavier
5:32 am
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 7
Isata Kanneh-Mason, p; Royal Liverpool Phil/Holly Mathieson
Romance
5:53 am
Robert Schumann: "Liederkreis," Op. 24 (texts by Heine)
#2, "Es treibt mich hin"
Kyle Stegall, t; Eric Zivian, p
Myrtle & Rose
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
Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 3
"Ibéria: Le matin d'un jour de fête"
Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Debussy: Images, Prelude, La Mer
6:09 am
Marcel Tournier: Suite, Op 34, for flute, harp and string trio
IV. "Fête"
Gaby Pas-Van Riet, f; string trio; Sophie Hallynck, h
Jan Pas, cello,
Impressions: French Music for Flute, Harp, and String Trio
6:14 am
Jules Massenet: Orchestral Suite No. 4, "Scènes pittoresques"
Finale, "Fête bohème"
Paris Conservatory Orch/Albert Wolff
Glazunov: The Seasons; Massenet: Scènes pittoresques, Scènes alsaciennes
6:20 am
Benjamin Britten: "Soirées musicales," Op. 9 (after Rossini)
London Phil Orch/Adrian Boult
Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra, Four Sea Interludes
6:33 am
Franz Waxman: "Auld Lang Syne" Variations
Kremerata Baltica
Happy Birthday
6:47 am
Ernest Chausson: "Soir de fête," Op. 32
BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat, Viviane, Soir de fête, La tempête
7:05 am
Francesco Corradini: "A Masked Ball"
Excerpts
Concerto Köln/Pablo Heras-Casado
El Maestro: Farinelli
7:10 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "War and Peace," Op. 91
"New Year's Eve Ball" (in Waltz Suite, Op. 110)
Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 · Waltz Suite / Neeme Järvi
7:17 am
Hector Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique," Op. 14
II. "A Ball"
Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Ravel: La valse
7:24 am
Joseph Hellmesberger Sr.: "Ball Scene"
Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons
New Year's Concert 2016
7:31 am
Silvestre Revueltas: "Sensemayá"
New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Tangazo - Music of Latin America
7:38 am
Shelton Brooks: "The Darktown Strutters' Ball"
Americus Brass Band
The Americus Brass Band Pays Tribute to James Reese Europe's Harlem Hell Fighter's Band
7:43 am
Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No. 1, "At the Octoroon Balls"
VII. Finale, "Rampart St. Row House Rag"
Orion String Quartet
Marsalis: At The Octoroon Balls; A Fidler's Tale Suite
7:49 am
Gian Carlo Menotti: "Amelia Goes to the Ball"
Overture
Columbia Sym Orch/Thomas Schippers
Samuel Barber - Thomas Schippers
7:54 am
Johann Strauss II: Quadrille on Verdi's "Un ballo in Maschera," Op. 272
Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti
2018 New Year's Concert
8:03 am
Robert Schumann: "Album for the Young," Op. 68
No. 43, "New Year's Eve (Sylvesterlied)"
Luba Edlina, p
Schumann: Complete Solo Piano Works
8:06 am
Claude Debussy: Three Nocturnes
"Fêtes"
Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez
Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Jeux, Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
8:12 am
György Ligeti: "Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances"
Asko Ensemble, Schoenberg Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw
The Ligeti Project, Vol. 5
8:25 am
Max Reger: Four Tone Poems After Arnold Böcklin, Op 128
IV. "Bacchanal"
Gävle Sym Orch/Jaime Martin
Max Reger: Four Tone Poems after Böcklin; Romantic Suite
8:31 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"
"The Swan"
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Philippe Entremont & Gaby Casadesus, p's
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma
8:34 am
Jean Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22
No. 2, "The Swan of Tuonela"
Felix Klieser, hn; German Radio Phil Orch/Jamie Phillips
Northern Colours
8:43 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20
Act 1, Waltz
Vienna Phil/Gustavo Dudamel
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Gustavo Dudamel
8:51 am
Catriona McKay: "The Swan"
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dances for Guitar
8:56 am
Josef Suk: "Pohadka (Fairy Tale)," Op. 16
Folk Dance: "The game of swans and peacocks"
Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Suk: Fairy Tale * Fantastic Scherzo
9:03 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah," Op. 47
"Bacchanale"
Orchestre de Paris/Daniel Barenboim
Panorama: À la française
9:11 am
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: "Bacchanale"
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
The Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes and Deems Taylor
9:16 am
Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"
Venusberg Music (Bacchanale)
Concert Arts Orch/Erich Leinsdorf
Great Works of Wagner
9:29 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Hamlet" (film score), Op. 116
"Ball at the castle"
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
The Film Album
9:33 am
Luigi Hugues: Concert Fantasy on Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera"
Jean-Pierre Rampal & Claudi Arimany, f's; John Steele Ritter, p
Romantic Music for Two Flutes and Piano
9:42 am
Carlos Surinach: "Hollywood Carnival" (1956)
Bronx Arts Ensemble
Ritmo Jondo
9:51 am
Jacques Ibert: "Bacchanale"
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Louis Frémaux
Ibert: Divertissement, Symphonie marine, Bacchanale, Louisville Concerto, Bostoniana
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "La forza del destino"
Overture
La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly
Viva Verdi
10:08 am
William Bolcom: "Dream Shadows"
Spencer Myer, p
William Bolcom: Piano Rags
10:15 am
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade," Op. 35
II. "The Tale of the Kalendar Prince"
Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Virtuoso- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade/ Stravinsky: Firebird
10:27 am
Francis Poulenc: Piano and Wind Sextet
Music@Menlo Ensemble
Peter Kolkay, bassoon,
Jon Kimura Parker, piano,
Music@Menlo 2018: Creative Capitals
10:46 am
Lukas Foss: Three American Pieces
Nikki Chooi, v; Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
American Classics - Lukas Foss
11:01 am
Pablo Casals: "Sant Martí del Canigó"
Barcelona Cellists/Lluis Claret
Music at the Time of Picasso
11:09 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Orpheus in the Underworld"
Overture
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
William Tell And Other Favorite Overtures
11:20 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Chamber Works
11:44 am
William Boyce: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
Boyce: Symphonies, Op. 2
11:52 am
John Rutter: "Te Deum"
Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
John Rutter - Te Deum
12:00 pm
Joaquín Turina: "The Bullfighter's Prayer" Op. 34
Pacifica Quartet
Souvenirs of Spain & Italy
12:09 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Miroirs"
"Alborada del gracioso"
Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez
A Century of French Music
12:18 pm
Ottorino Respighi: "Trittico botticelliano"
Lausanne Chamber Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances and Trittico Bottiecelliano
12:37 pm
William Grant Still: Violin and Piano Suite
II. "Mother and Child - Slowly and expressive"
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
Violin Lullabies
12:43 pm
William Grant Still: Violin and Piano Suite
III. "Gamin"
Zina Schiff, v; Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg
William Grant Still: Summerland
12:47 pm
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Berlin" Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat, Wq 179
Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Music of Bach's Sons
1:00 pm
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat
Martin Owen, hn; BBC Phil/John Wilson
Martin Owen Plays Strauss, Schumann, Weber
1:20 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Introduction and "Polonaise brillante" in C, Op. 3
Camille Thomas, vc; Julien Libeer, p
The Chopin Project: Trilogy
1:31 pm
William Walton: "Henry V"
Suite
London Phil Cho & Orch/Carl Davis
Walton: The Battle of Britain (Suite)
1:46 pm
George Frideric Handel: Harp Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 4, No. 6
Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Handel, Boieldieu, Mozart: Concertos pour harpe
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody
Anne-Marie McDermott, p; Dallas Sym Orch/Justin Brown
George Gershwin * Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra
2:25 pm
music continues...
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Mozart Piano Concertos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed numerous concertos, many of which are lively and pleasing to the ear, even when performed by an eight-year-old. The young Mozart was heavily influenced by the music of Johann Christian Bach. In addition to their mutual love for music, JC Bach and Mozart shared a passion for intricate keyboard games. This week features five episodes of exceptional piano performances, with Murray Perahia conducting while soloing Mozart’s early concertos. It also includes performances by Alfred Brendel, Maria João Pires, Rudolf Serkin, and Mitsuko Uchida.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
New Year’s Eve with WFMT
Whether you’re out and about or relaxing at home, ring in the new year with the voices you know and love. Lisa, Candice, Oliver, Kristina, and others share some of their favorite music and offer an entertaining soundtrack to keep you in good company for the last two hours of 2025.
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