Tuesday, August 18, 2026

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      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      "Incantation and Dance"

      Stephen Caplan, ob; Carol Urban-Stivers, p
      Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still

      Cambria CD-1083

      12:05 am

      "Grass: Poem for Piano, Strings, and Percussion"

      Joseph Joubert, p; Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman
      Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration

      Cedille CDR-90000087

      12:21 am

      "Carmen"

      "Seguidilla"

      National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman

      Pro Arte CDS-3670

      12:23 am

      Trumpet Concerto in D

      Rolf Smedvig, tr; Scottish Chamber Orch/Jahja Ling
      Rolf Smedvig: Virtuoso

      Telarc CD-80227

      12:36 am

      Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331

      Alfred Brendel, p
      Haydn: 11 Piano Sonatas, Etc.

      Philips 446921-2 (5)

      12:55 am

      Song, "Erntelied"

      Barbara Bonney, s; Malcolm Martineau, p
      F.X. Mozart: Lieder

      London B0005505-02

      1:00 am

      The Swan

      Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
      Aquarelle Guitar Quartet:Dances

      Chandos CHAN-10609

      1:04 am

      "Song of the Black Swan"

      Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; John Lenehan, p
      Cello Song

      Philips 434917-2

      1:08 am

      Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22

      No. 2, "The Swan of Tuonela"

      Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen
      Sibelius: Lemminkainen Legends Op. 22, En Saga Op. 9

      Sony SK-48067

      1:17 am

      "Swan Lake," Op. 20

      Pas de quatre

      Earl Wild, p
      Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Earl Wild

      Philips 456991-2 (2)

      1:19 am

      Piano Quartet no.3 in c minor, Op.60

      Isaac Stern, v; Jaimé Laredo, vi; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
      Isaac Stern, violin,
      Isaac Stern - A Life In Music. Brahms: Piano Trios & Piano Quintets

      Sony SM3K-64520 (3)

      1:54 am

      Song, "Vous l'arez s'il vous plaist"

      King's Singers
      Renaissance: The Music Of Josquin Desprez

      RCA 61814-2

      2:00 am

      Cantata, "Song of Alexis, Man of God"

      Chorus of the Moscow Academy of Choral Art & Moscow Symphony Orchestra/Vladimir Ziva
      Rimsky-Korsakov:Cantatas

      Brilliant Classics 94495

      2:05 am

      Allegro in B-Flat

      Camerata Bariloche/Elias Khayat

      Price-Less D-13191

      2:17 am

      Four Songs, Op. 41

      No. 2, "I am unhappy"

      Mikhail Lanskoy, ms; Ilya Scheps, p

      Chant du Monde LDC-288038/40 (3)

      2:19 am

      Symphony No. 3, "Pastoral" (1921)

      London Sym Orch/Bryden Thomson; Yvonne Kenny, s
      Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (No. 3)

      Chandos CHAN-8594

      2:55 am

      Spiritual, Saints Bound for Heaven

      Robert Shaw Festival Singers/Robert Shaw
      Amazing Grace (American Hymns And Spirituals)

      Telarc CD-80325

      3:00 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Athalia," Op 74 (Incidental Music for Racine's Drama)

      "War March of the Priests"

      Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnànyi
      Pomp & Circumstance: Magnificent Marches

      London 411954-2

      3:05 am

      Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata #2 in F, Op 99

      Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Rudolf Serkin, p
      Brahms: The Cello Sonatas

      DG 410510-2

      3:35 am

      Johannes Brahms: "Wiegenlied" Op.49, no.4, "Lullaby"

      Eroica Trio
      Trios Nos. 1 & 2

      EMI/Ang 5-57199-2

      3:37 am

      George Gershwin: "Lullaby"

      Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel
      American Adagios

      Telarc CD-80503

      3:46 am

      Leroy Anderson: "A Trumpeter's Lullaby"

      BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin
      ANDERSON, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 - Sleigh Ride / The Typewriter / Plink, Plank, Plunk! / The Syncopated Clock

      Naxos 8.559357

      3:49 am

      Terry Riley: Heaven Ladder, Book 7

      "Simone's Lullaby"

      Gloria Cheng-Cochran, p
      Piano Music Of John Adams And Terry Riley

      Telarc CD-80513

      3:54 am

      Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37

      No. 3, "Fairy Lullaby"

      Lauralyn Kolb, s; Don McMahon, p
      Songs by Clara Schumann, Poldowski, and Amy Beach

      Albany TROY-109

      4:00 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Morceaux de Fantaisie," Op. 3

      No. 2, Prelude in c-sharp minor

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p

      London 458930-2

      4:05 am

      George Butterworth: Rhapsody, "A Shropshire Lad" (1912)

      English Sym Orch/William Boughton
      A Shropshire Lad, The Banks of Green Willow

      Nimbus 5210/3 (4)

      4:15 am

      Williametta Spencer: Four Madrigals to Poems of James Joyce (1970)

      #1, "O Cool is the Valley"

      Emily Lowe Singers
      Choral Tapestries

      Northeastern NR-241-CD

      4:16 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto no.1 in e minor, Op.11

      Rosina Lhevinne, p; National Orchestral Association/John Barnett
      Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Sampler

      Philips 456889-2 (2)

      4:54 am

      Karol Szymanowski: Four Songs, Op 11

      #3, "Flying Over Me into the Sapphire of the Sea"

      Piotr Beczala, t; Reinild Mees, p
      Szymanowski: Complete Songs Voice & Piano

      Channel Classics CCS-19398 (4)

      5:00 am

      Franz Schubert: Allegretto in c, D 915

      Maria-Joao Pires, p
      Schubert: Impromptus- Le Voyage Magnifique

      DG 457550-2 (2)

      5:05 am

      Natanael Berg: Opera, "Birgitta" (1940)

      Suite

      Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Göran W Nilson
      Natanael Berg: Orchestral Works

      Sterling CDS-1019-2

      5:24 am

      Alban Berg: "Seven Early Songs"

      "Liebesode"

      Jessye Norman, s; London Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
      Seven Early Songs - Altenberg Songs - Youthful Songs ‎

      Sony SK-66826

      5:25 am

      Josef Hofmann: "Kaleidoskop," Op 40, #4

      Marc-André Hamelin, p
      Kaleidoscope

      Hyperion CDA-67275

      5:29 am

      Leopold Hofmann: Symphony in D

      Northern Chamber Orch/Nicholas Ward
      Beck: Symphonies

      Naxos 8.553866

      5:42 am

      Giovanni Hoffmann: Mandolin and Guitar Sonata in G

      Duo Capriccioso

      Thorofon CTH-2092

      5:55 am

      French Anon 15th c: Petits riens

      Allegorie
      L'Arbre de Mai- Cansons and Danses au temps de Guillaume Dufay

      Alpha 054

      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

      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony in E minor, Wq 177

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902317

      6:14 am

      Franz Liszt: Six Consolations

      No. 2 in E

      Leif Ove Andsnes, p
      Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works

      Sony 19802856672

      6:17 am

      Franz Liszt: Six Consolations

      No. 3 in D-Flat

      Leif Ove Andsnes, p
      Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works

      Sony 19802856672

      6:22 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in A-Flat, Op. 32, No. 2

      Bergen Phil Orch/Andrew Litton
      Stravinsky: The Firebird

      BIS SACD-1874

      6:31 am

      John Field: Divertissement No. 1 in E

      Míceál O'Rourke, p; London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
      Field: Piano Concertos

      Chandos CHAN-9534

      6:37 am

      Andrzej Panufnik: "Concerto in modo antico"

      Igor Cecocho, tr; Polish Chamber Orch/Mariusz Smolij
      Panufnik: Homage to Polish Music

      Naxos 8.570032

      6:52 am

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Petite Suite de Concert," Op. 77

      I. "Nanette's Caprice"; II. "Request and response"

      Philharmonia Orch/George Weldon
      Country Gardens

      EMI CDZ7-62529-2

      7:04 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons: Summer," RV. 315

      Anne Akiko Meyers, v; English Chamber Orch/David Lockington
      Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

      eOne EOM-CD-7790

      7:16 am

      Hans Gál: Variations on a Viennese 'Heurigen' Melody, Op. 9

      Briggs Piano Trio
      Gal, Shostakovich: Piano Trios

      Avie AV-2390

      7:24 am

      Ethel Smyth: Serenade in D

      2nd mvt, Scherzo: "Allegro vivace"

      BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez
      Ethel Smyth Concerto for Violin, Horn & Orchestra * Serenade

      Chandos CHAN-9449

      7:32 am

      Antonio Salieri: "Semiramide"

      Overture

      Philharmonia Orch/Pietro Spada
      Salieri: The 2 Piano Concertos

      ASV CDDCA-955

      7:39 am

      Gioachino Rossini: "Semiramide"

      Overture

      London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
      Rossini: Overtures

      EMI CDC7-54091-2

      7:52 am

      Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 2) in D, Op. 94

      IV. Finale, "Allegro con brio"

      Brandon Patrick George, f; Jacob Greenberg, p
      Brandon Patrick George: Flute Sonatas & Solo Works

      Profil PH-18039

      8:03 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"

      I. "Allegro vivace"

      Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Paavo Järvi
      Mendelssohn: Symphonies

      Alpha 1004

      8:14 am

      Scott Joplin: "Solace" (A Mexican Serenade)

      Itzhak Perlman, v; André Previn, p
      The Easy Winners and Other Rag-Time Music of Scott Joplin

      EMI CDC7-47170-2

      8:22 am

      Blas Galindo: "Sones de mariachi"

      Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz
      Ponce: Violin Concerto; Galindo: Sones de Mariachi; Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas; Moncayo: Huapango

      EMI CDC7-49785-2

      8:31 am

      Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht: Lute Concerto in C

      I. "Allegro con brio"

      Miguel Rincón, l; Il Pomo d'Oro/Zefira Valova
      Concertos for Baroque Lute

      Aparté AP-376

      8:40 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Much Ado About Nothing," Op. 11

      Suite (Four Pieces)

      Brinton Averil Smith, vc; Evelyn Chen, p
      Exiles in Paradise: Emigré Composers in Hollywood

      Naxos 8.579055

      8:52 am

      Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Pirates of Penzance"

      Overture

      St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
      Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures

      Philips 434916-2

      9:04 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901634/5 (2)

      9:24 am

      Jean Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22

      No. 3, "Lemminkäinen in Tuonela"

      Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen
      Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Legends & En Saga

      Sony SK-48067

      9:39 am

      Ernest Chausson: "Concert" in D, Op. 21

      IV. Finale

      Rachel Barton Pine, v; Orion Weiss, p; Pacifica Quartet
      French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre

      Cedille CDR-90000238

      9:51 am

      Herbert Clarke: Valse Brillante, "Sounds from the Hudson"

      Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
      Carnaval

      CBS MK-42137

      10:00 am - 3:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      10:00 am

      Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Wiener Blut," Op. 354

      Vienna Phil/Semyon Bychkov
      Vienna Philharmonic: Summer Night Concert 2016

      Sony 88985313542

      10:10 am

      Franz Liszt: Paraphrase on Verdi's "Rigoletto"

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Liszt Transcriptions

      Decca 436736-2

      10:17 am

      Giuseppe Verdi: "Aida"

      Ballet music

      Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
      Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas

      Naxos 8.572818-19 (2)

      10:27 am

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      3:00 - 7:00 pm

      3:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

      Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Curse of the Ninth! Ninth Symphonies

      Why did so many great composers die after finishing their ninth symphony? This week, we look at the so-called curse of the Ninth Symphony, a legend that started with Beethoven in the mid-1820s. Over time, people began to believe that writing a ninth symphony could be a composer’s final work and maybe even mark their last year on Earth. We’ll listen to five famous ninth symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvořák, and Mahler.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

      Saint-Saëns "Tarantelle" in A minor, Op. 6; Sooyun Kim, flute; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Gilbert Kalish, piano; Fauré "Dolly Suite," Op. 56; Anne-Marie McDermott, Gloria Chien, pianos; Thuille Sextet in B-flat major, Op. 6; Tara helen O'Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Wu Qian, piano.

      11:00 pm