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Playlist for Saturday, May 2, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Vincenzo Bellini: "Norma"
Aria, "Casta diva"
Maria Callas, s; La Scala Cho & Orch/Tullio Serafin
The Incomparable Maria Callas
12:05 am
Antonio Pasculli: "Omaggio a Bellini" (Duo on themes from Bellini operas)
Heinz Holliger, eh; Ursula Holliger, h
Heinz Holliger at the Opera
12:13 am
Moritz Moszkowski: "Fantasie 'Hommage à Schumann'," Op 5
Seta Tanyel, p
Moritz Moszkowski-3
12:22 am
Robert Schumann: "Kinderszenen," Op. 15
No. 11, "Frightening"
Canadian Brass
Carnaval
12:23 am
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 54
Hélène Grimaud, p; Dresden Staatskapelle/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Hélène Grimaud * Reflection
12:55 am
Johannes Brahms: Eight Songs, Op. 57
"In meiner Nächte Sehnen"
Olaf Bär, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p
Brahms Lieder
1:00 am
Hamilton Harty: "Londonderry Air"
Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
1:05 am
John Field: Nocturne #16 in C
Elizabeth Joy Roe, p
Field: Complete Nocturnes
1:14 am
Augusta Holmès: "Ireland"
Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Samuel Friedmann
Holmès
1:29 am
Turlough O'Carolan: "T mé 'mo chodladh"
Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King
Carolan's Harp
1:30 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E-Flat, K. 428
Guarneri String Quartet
Mozart: Six Quartets Dedicated To Haydn
1:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Etudes, Op 8
#3 in b
Lang Lang, p
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3/ Scriabin: Etudes
2:00 am
Jacques Gallot: "La belle Cromatique Sarabande"
Konrad Junghänel, l
European Lute Music Vol.1: Pièces De Luth, France 17, Siècle
2:05 am
George Frideric Handel: Sarabande
Les Concerts du Monde/Keith Clark
Movies Go Baroque
2:08 am
Henry Purcell: Harpsichord Suite #4 in a
"Saraband"
Terence Charlston, hc
PURCELL: Suites and Transcriptions for Harpsichord
2:10 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Czech Phil/Semyon Bychkov
The Tchaikovsky Project
2:55 am
Serge Bortkiewicz: Seven Preludes, Op 40
#1
Pierre Huybregts, p
Piano works of Serge Bortkiewicz
3:00 am
Johann Halvorsen: "Tordenskjold"
"Tordenskjold goes into Action"
Latvian National Sym Orch/Torje Mikkelsen
Stage Music 2
3:05 am
Johann Halvorsen: "Fossegrimen", Op 21 (1904)
Overture
Latvian National Sym Orch/Torje Mikkelsen
Fossegrimen Op.21 - Norway's Greeting To Theodore Roosevelt Op.31
3:11 am
Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt" Suite No. 2, Op. 55
Philharmonia Orch/Walter Susskind
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites, Etc.
3:28 am
Harald Saeverud: "The Mermaid"
Einar Steen-Nokleberg, p
SAEVERUD: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2
3:29 am
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Cello Sonata, Op 71
Anthony Cooke, vc; Armin Watkins, p
Rachmaninoff, Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
3:54 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty", Op. 66
"Pas de caractére"
Royal Phil/Don Jackson
4:00 am
Edouard Lalo: "Namouna" (1882)
Théme varié
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
4:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio #5 in c, Op 9/3
L'Archibudelli
Beethoven: Trios for Violin, Viola and Violoncello, Op. 9, 1-3
4:27 am
Maurice Ravel: "Deux mélodies hébraïques"
No. 2, "L'Énigme éternelle"
Suzanne Danco, s; Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
Shéhérazade / Deux Mélodies Hebraïques / Trois Poèmes De Mallarmé / Les Nuits D'Été
4:28 am
Claude Debussy: "Six Épigraphes antiques"
Quebec Sym/Yoav Talmi
Children's Corner * Debussy Orchestrations
4:44 am
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
Zbigniew Zuk, fh; Cracow Radio Sym Orch/Michael Höltzel
Horn Romantics
4:53 am
Georges Bizet: "Jeux d'enfants," Op. 22
XII. "Le bal" (The Ball)
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
5:00 am
Franz Schubert: Song, "Im Frühling," D 882
Renée Fleming, s; Christoph Eschenbach, p
The Schubert Album * Renee Fleming/Christoph Eschenbach
5:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 5 in G, K. 283
Christoph Eschenbach, p
The Piano Sonatas
5:17 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "La Muse et le Poète," Op. 132
Joshua Bell, v; Steve Isserlis, vc; North German Radio Sym/Christoph Eschenbach
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No 2, La Muse Et Le Poète, Romance Op 67, Cello Sonata No 2
5:32 am
Franz Schubert: Four Ländler, D 814
No. 4
Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz, p
5:34 am
Francoeur: Suite #4, Symphonies for the Count of Artois
Paillard Chamber Orch/Jean-François Paillard
Symphonies Du Festin Du Royal
5:54 am
Nicolle Des celliers de hesdi: Ung vray musicien
Ensemble Clement Janequin
Les Plaisirs du Palais: Chansons a boire de la Renaissance
6:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Wedding March"
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Best Loved Classics, Vol. 6
6:05 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21
London Phil/Andrew Litton
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6:17 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Scherzo"
Sergei Rachmaninoff, p
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff
6:21 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "This Day is Salvation Come"
Swedish Radio Cho/Tonu Kaljuste
6:23 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 18
William Kapell, p; Robin Hood Dell Orch/William Steinberg
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini/ Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
6:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801
No. 13 in a minor
Janine Jansen, v; Maxim Rysanov, vi; Torleif Thedéen, vc
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.
7:03 am
John Williams: "The Fabelmans"
"The Journey Begins" (after Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 48 in C, Hob. XVI:35)
Studio Orch/John Williams
The Fabelmans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
7:10 am
George Bassman: "I'm Gettin' Sentimental over You" (1932)
Peter Moore, tb; Tredegar Town Band/Ian Porthouse
Shift
7:16 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
"Waltz of the Flowers"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Nutcracker Ballet Suite
7:24 am
Eric Coates: "From Meadow to Mayfair"
BBC Phil/John Wilson
Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
7:37 am
Manuel Ponce: Guitar Sonata No. 3
Christopher Laughlin, g
Danza!
7:53 am
Manuel De Zumaya: "De las Flores"
Chanticleer
Mission Road
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:00 am
Eugenio Toussaint: "Concierto para piano improvisa"
2nd movement
Alex Brown, p; Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
Mi Alma Mexicana
8:08 am
Arthur Pryor: Variations on "The Blue Bells of Scotland"
Larry Zalkind, tb; Karlyn Bond, p
8:15 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Festive Overture," Op. 96
Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 and Festive Overture
8:23 am
Alan Menken: "Aladdin"
"A Whole New World"
Lang Lang, p
The Disney Book
8:28 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87
The Spring Fairy; The Summer Fairy
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Prokofiev: Cinderella (Highlights)
8:31 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
IV. "Troika"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kije - Fritz Reiner
8:35 am
Francisco Tárrega: "Estudio brillante de Alard"
Christopher Parkening, g
8:38 am
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
The Planets
8:46 am
Henry Mancini: "Moon River"
Romain Leleu, tr; Stuttgart Phil/Marcus Bosch
Move: The Trumpet as Movie Star
8:50 am
Leroy Anderson: "Plink, Plank, Plunk"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson Favorites
8:53 am
Johann Strauss Sr: "Radetzky" March, Op. 228
Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim
2022 New Year's Concert
8:57 am
Johann Strauss II: "Champagne Polka," Op. 211
Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
The Strauss Album
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:01 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Constant Nymph" film music
"Tomorrow"
National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Korngold
9:08 am
Bill Conti: "North and South"
Symphonic Suite
London Sym Orch/Bill Conti
Original Scores by Bill Conti: The Right Stuff, North and South
9:28 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Sport, Sport, Sport"
Minuet
State USSR Cinema Orch/Alfred Schnittke
Three Degrees of Freedom
9:29 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Sport, Sport, Sport"
Fugue
State USSR Cinema Orch/Alfred Schnittke
Three Degrees of Freedom
9:33 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"The Last Black Man In San Francisco"
Studio Cho & Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:36 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"King Jimmie"
Studio Cho & Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:37 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"A House, Haunted"
Studio Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:42 am
music continues...
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Esme Arias-Kim, 18, violin. Wieniawski "Fantasie Brillante" on themes from Gounod’s "Faust;" Tchaikovsky "Mélodie" from "Souvenir d’un lieu cher," Op. 42; with Milana Pavchinskaya, piano. Originally broadcast June 1, 2024.
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Iurii Samoilov (Onegin); Amik Grigorian (Tatiana); Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Lenski); Maria Barakova (Olga); Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Prince Gremin); Larissa Diadkova (Filippyevna); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Timur Zangiev. Sung in Russian.
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
A preview of the upcoming festival season at Des Moines Metro Opera with music director David Neely.
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Rachmaninoff "Lilacs," Op. 21, No. 5; Kirill Gerstein, piano; Dohnányi Serenade in C Major, Op. 10; Martin Beaver, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Shostakovich Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67; Giles Vonsattel, piano; Leila Josefowicz, violin; Paul Watkins, cello.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from Acoustic Renaissance Concerts: Folkstage brings you Chicago’s renowned Susan Werner from her sold-out concert in Hinsdale.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
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