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      Playlist for Tuesday, December 30, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Georges Bizet: "The Pearl Fishers"

      Duet, "Au fond du temple saint"

      John Aler, t; Gino Quilico, br; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson

      EMI/Ang CDS7-49837-2 (2)

      12:05 am

      Georges Bizet: "Carmen"

      Suite

      Burning River Brass
      Burning River Brass: Romanza Espana

      Dorian DOR-90316

      12:19 am

      Charles Gounod: "Faust"

      waltz

      Nikita Magaloff, p
      La Valse

      Denon 81757-9346-2

      12:26 am

      Charles Gounod: "Faust"

      Ballet Music: "Variation"

      CSR Sym Orch of Brataslava/Ondrej Lenard
      Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera

      Naxos 8.550924

      12:28 am

      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concerto in a, Wq 170

      Anner Bylsma, vc; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Gustav Leonhardt

      Virgin Classics 90800-2

      12:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach"

      "Praeludium" No. 8

      Joseph Payne, hc
      Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann

      Hänssler Classic CD-92.137 (2)

      1:00 am

      Bernard Herrmann: "Vertigo"

      "Scène d'amour"

      Studio Orch/Muir Mathieson
      Music From The Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers

      Varèse Sarabande VSD-5759

      1:05 am

      Bernard Herrmann: "Gulliver's Travels"

      Suite

      National Phil/Bernard Herrmann
      Great Film Music

      London 443899-2

      1:31 am

      Cecile Chaminade: "Pièces romantiques," Op 55

      #2, "La Chaise à Porteur"

      Roberto Prosseda; Alessandra Ammara, p
      Compositrices

      Palazzetto Bru Zane BZ-2006 (8)

      1:32 am

      Cécile Chaminade: Piano Trio #1 in g, Op 11

      Neave Trio
      A Room of Her Own

      Chandos CHAN-20238

      1:55 am

      Charles Gounod: "Faust"

      Ballet Music: Dance antique"

      CSR Sym Orch of Brataslava/Ondrej Lenard
      Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera

      Naxos 8.550924

      2:00 am

      Wynton MARSALIS: "At the Octoroon Balls"

      III. "Creole Contradanzas"

      Orion String Quartet
      Marsalis: At The Octoroon Balls/ A Fidler's Tale Suite

      Sony SK-60979

      2:04 am

      Herbert Clarke: Valse brillante (Sounds from the Hudson)

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

      CBS MK-42137

      2:13 am

      Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata (1919)

      Vinciane Béranger, vi; Dana Ciocarlie, p
      Rebecca Clarke

      Aparté AP-289

      2:35 am

      John Wilbye: Madrigal, "So Light Is Love"

      New York Trumpet Ensemble
      Art of the Trumpet

      MMG MCD-10001

      2:37 am

      Franz Liszt: "Festklänge"

      Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
      Liszt: Orchestral Works

      MHS 522171-L (2)

      2:55 am

      Franz Liszt: "Responsories and Antiphons"

      "Posuerunt me"

      Leslie Howard, p
      Responsories and Antiphons

      Hyperion CDA-67161/2 (2)

      3:00 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Judas Maccabaeus"

      Overture

      English Chamber Orch/Johannes Somary
      Handel: Judas Maccabeus (Highlights)

      Vanguard OVC-4073

      3:04 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on "See the Conquering Hero Comes," WoO.45

      Csaba Onczay, vc; Jeno Jando, p
      BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2

      Naxos 8.550479

      3:16 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Water Music"

      "Bourrée"

      Boston Baroque Orch/Martin Pearlman
      Handel: Music For The Fireworks, Water Music

      Telarc CD-80594

      3:18 am

      Paul Hindemith: Bassoon and Trumpet Concerto

      C Wilkening, bn; R Friedrich, tr; Frankfurt Radio Sym Orch/W A Albert

      CPO 999142-2

      3:34 am

      Max Bruch: Clarinet and Viola Concerto in e minor, Op. 88

      Paul Meyer, cl; Gérard Caussé, vi; Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano
      Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra/ 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano/ Romance for Viola and Orchestra

      Erato 45483-2

      3:53 am

      D'Arras: Ce fut en mai

      Folger Consort
      A Medieval Tapestry: Instrumental and Vocal Music from the 12th Through 14th Centuries

      Bard BDCD1-9003

      4:00 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight"

      I. Adagio

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      The Fantastic Stokowski Transcriptions For Orchestra

      Telarc CD-80338

      4:05 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata #27 in e, Op 90

      Robert Taub, p
      Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

      Vox 7532 (2)

      4:20 am

      William Byrd: Pavane and Gigue

      Bournemouth Sym/José Serebrier
      BACH, J.S. / PALESTRINA, G. / BYRD, W. / CLARKE, J. / BOCCERINI, L. / HAYDN, J. / MATTHESON, J.: Stokowski Transcriptions, Vol. 2

      Naxos 8.572050

      4:25 am

      Leopold Stokowski: "Balance Test" March

      Philadelphia Orch/Leopold Stokowski
      First Releases

      Cala CACD-0502

      4:26 am

      Arnold Schoenberg: "Verklärte Nacht," Op 4

      Orch/Leopold Stokowski

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47521-2

      4:55 am

      Stephen Foster: "Oh! Susanna"

      Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
      First Releases

      Cala CACD-0502

      5:00 am

      English Trad: God Save the King

      Accademia Monteverdiana Cho/Denis Stevens
      Beethoven: Folksong Settings

      Nonesuch H-71340

      5:04 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations in C on "God Save the King," WoO 78

      Melvyn Tan, forte-p

      EMI/Ang CDC7-54526-2

      5:12 am

      Ernest John Moeran: Two Pieces for Small Orchestra (1931-2)

      English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
      The Banks of Green Willow

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47945-2

      5:30 am

      Charles Villiers Stanford: 24 Preludes, Set II, Op 179

      #35 in F

      Peter Jacobs, p
      Stanford: Piano Music- 24 Preludes and 3 Rhapsodies

      Olympia OCD-638

      5:31 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in a minor, BWV 1003

      Sigiswald Kuijken, v

      RCA-DHM 77043-2-RG (2)

      5:53 am

      Elie Siegmeister: "Sunday in Brooklyn" (1946)

      "Children's Story"

      Vienna Sym Orch/F Charles Adler
      Siegmeister: Ozark Set / Sunday In Brooklyn

      Orion ORS-73116

      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

      Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D, "Fandango," Op. 50, G 448

      II. "Allegro maestoso"

      Jason Vieaux, g; Escher Quartet
      Dance

      Azica ACD-71328

      6:11 am

      Jean-Féry Rebel: "Les Plaisirs Champêtres"

      La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
      Concert de danse

      Accent ACC-96122-D

      6:22 am

      Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Septet in D minor, Op. 74

      Finale, "Vivace"

      Linos Ensemble
      Mozart, Hummel: Quintet & Septet

      Calig CAL-50895

      6:31 am

      William Alwyn: Seven Irish Tunes

      Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/David Lloyd-Jones
      Alwyn: Concerti Grossi Nos 2 and 3

      Naxos 8.570145

      6:41 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 33

      Maurizio Pollini, p
      Pollini, Chopin

      DG B0011939-02

      6:52 am

      Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 120, No. 2

      III. Finale, "Andante con moto"

      Daniel Ottensamer, cl; Berlin German Sym Orch/Stephan Koncz
      Brahms/Koncz: Sonatas for Clarinet and Orchestra

      Pentatone PTC-5187425

      7:03 am

      Emmanuel Chabrier: "Pièces pittoresques"

      No. 9, "Menuet pompeux"

      Lyon National Orch/Emmanuel Krivine
      Maurice Ravel Orchestrations

      Denon CO-78929

      7:10 am

      Maurice Ravel: Sonatine

      Orpheus Trio
      Debussy / Ravel / Fauré / Devienne

      Vanguard VBD-25002

      7:21 am

      Aaron Copland: "Rodeo"

      "Buckaroo Holiday"

      San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
      Copland The Populist

      RCA 63511-2

      7:31 am

      Dmitri Kabalevsky: "Colas Breugnon," Op. 24

      Overture

      Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
      Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain and Other Russian Showpieces

      RCA 61958-2

      7:38 am

      Bryan Kelly: "Suite Parisienne"

      Brass Ring
      Brass Ring - Music For Brass Quintet

      Crystal CD-561

      7:52 am

      William Grant Still: "Ennanga"

      1st mvt

      Ashley Jackson, h; Harlem Chamber Players
      Ennanga

      Bright Shiny Things BSTD-0188

      8:04 am

      Georg Philipp Telemann: "Sinfonia spirituosa" in D, TWV44:1

      Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
      Telemann: Sinfonia Spirituosa (String Concertos)

      Archiv 471492-2

      8:13 am

      Darius Milhaud: "Suite d'après Corrette," Op. 161b

      Chicago Chamber Musicians
      French Wind Trios

      Cedille CDR-90000040

      8:23 am

      Moritz Moszkowski: "Caprice espagnol," Op 37

      Ksenija Sidorova, acc
      Fairy Tales

      Champs Hill Records CHRCD-055

      8:33 am

      William Goldstein: "Qian Xuan's Watching Geese"

      Pei-Wen Liao, v; William Goldstein, p
      Brushstrokes

      New Gold Music NGM-0096

      8:39 am

      Hamilton Harty: "With the Wild Geese"

      Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
      Music of the Four Countries

      EMI CDM7-69206-2

      8:58 am

      Daniel Foley: "Oiseaux excentriques"

      #9, "The Goose"

      Louise Bessette, p
      Canadian Music for Piano

      Radio Canada Int'l MVCD-1064

      9:04 am

      Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Sinfonia in D, F 64

      Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
      WF Bach: Symphonies, Harpsichord Concerto

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901772

      9:13 am

      Johann Christian Bach: Sextet in C

      I. "Allegro"

      English Concert members
      JC Bach: 3 Quintets, Sextet

      Archiv 423385-2

      9:22 am

      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Hamburg" Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq 182/3

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

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902317

      9:32 am

      Peter Boyer: "Celebration Overture"

      London Phil Orch/Peter Boyer
      Boyer: Symphony No. 1, Silver Fanfare, Festivities, Three Olympians, Celebration Overture

      Naxos 8.559769

      9:41 am

      Giacomo Puccini: Three Minuets (1892)

      No. 1

      Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Puccini: Orchestral Music

      Decca 410007-2

      9:45 am

      Giacomo Puccini: Three Minuets (1892)

      No. 2

      Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Puccini: Orchestral Music

      Decca 410007-2

      9:48 am

      Giacomo Puccini: Three Minuets (1892)

      No. 3

      Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Puccini: Orchestral Music

      Decca 410007-2

      9:51 am

      William Walton: "Orb and Sceptre," Coronation March

      Royal Phil Orch/André Previn
      Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat minor, Crown Imperial, Orb and Sceptre

      Telarc CD-80125

      10:00 am - 2:00 pm

      10:00 am

      Midday with Lisa Flynn

      Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am and "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

      10:00 am

      Johann Adolf Hasse: Sinfonia, Op. 5, No. 6

      Concerto Köln/Pablo Heras-Casado
      El Maestro: Farinelli

      Archiv 4792050

      10:10 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24

      Polonaise

      Lara Downes, p
      Invitation to the Dance

      Postcards 772001-2

      10:18 am

      Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Prince and the Pauper"

      Suite

      London Sym Orch/André Previn
      Previn Conducts Korngold

      DG 471347-2

      10:41 am

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

      Briggs Piano Trio
      Gal, Shostakovich: Piano Trios

      Avie AV-2390

      10:50 am

      Giuseppe Verdi: "Les Vêpres siciliennes"

      Overture

      Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti
      Italian Masterworks

      CSO Resound 9011801

      11:00 am

      Howard Cable: "Quebec Folk Fantasy"

      Edmonton Wind Ensemble/Harry Pinchin
      Snake Fence Country

      Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5165

      11:07 am

      Giuseppe Sammartini: Cello Concerto in C

      Elinor Frey, vc; Rosa Barocca/Claude Lapalme
      Early Italian Cello Concertos

      Analekta AN2-9163

      11:20 am

      Amy Beach: "Trois morceaux caractéristiques", Op. 28

      Joanne Polk, p
      Amy Beach: By The Still Waters

      Arabesque Z-6693

      11:37 am

      Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"

      Three Dance Episodes

      Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart
      Garrick Ohlsson - Gershwin, Bernstein / Edo de Waart

      Virgin 91431-2

      11:49 am

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

      English String Orch/William Boughton
      Butterworth, Parry & Bridge: Music for String Orchestra

      Nimbus NI-5068

      12:00 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988

      Aria

      Jory Vinikour, hc
      Bach: Goldberg Variations

      Delos DE-3279 (2)

      12:06 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041

      Hilary Hahn, v; Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Kahane
      Bach: Concertos

      DG B0000986-02

      12:20 pm

      Antonín Dvořák: "Othello" Overture, Op. 93

      Czech Phil/Libor Pešek
      Dvořák: Symphony No. 4, Overture "Othello"

      Virgin 91144-2

      12:36 pm

      George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"

      "Summertime"

      Isata Kanneh-Mason, p
      Summertime

      Decca B0034124-02

      12:39 pm

      Claude Debussy: "Rêverie"

      Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tr; Kassia Ensemble
      Rêverie

      Summit DCD-743

      12:45 pm

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 27 in G, K. 199/161b

      Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
      Mozart: Symphonies 21, 23, 24, 27

      Erato 45544-2

      1:00 pm

      José Pablo Moncayo: "Huapango"

      Mexican Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz
      Ponce: Violin Concerto; Galindo: Sones de Mariachi; Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas; Moncayo: Huapango

      EMI CDC7-49785-2

      1:10 pm

      Pieter Hellendaal: Concerto Grosso in d minor, Op. 3, No. 5

      Andrew Manze, v; European Community Baroque Orch/Roy Goodman, v
      Pieter Hellendaal - 6 Concerti Grossi

      Channel Classics CCS-3492

      1:27 pm

      Franz Schubert: Octet in F, D 803

      V. Menuetto, "Allegretto"

      Chicago Chamber Musicians
      The Chicago Chamber Musicians - Celebrating 15 Years

      Chicago Chamber Musicians 001

      1:36 pm

      Howard Hanson: "Merry Mount," Op. 31

      Suite

      Nashville Sym/Kenneth Schermerhorn
      Hanson: Symphony No. 1, 'Nordic', Merry Mount Suite

      Naxos 8.559072

      1:55 pm

      Traditional Welsh: Lullaby, "Suo Gân"

      King's Singers
      Postcards

      Signum SIGCD-393

      2:00 - 7:00 pm

      2:00 pm

      Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

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

      2:00 pm

      Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): Violin Concerto in D, Op. 2, No. 2

      Fumika Mohri, v; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász
      Bologne: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 & 7

      Naxos 8.574452

      2:19 pm

      Carl Nielsen: "Maskarade"

      Overture & "Dance of the Cockerels"

      Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen
      A Nordic Festival

      Sony SK-46668

      2:30 pm

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op. 67

      Howard Shelley, p
      Mendelssohn: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 5

      Hyperion CDA-68344

      2:44 pm

      Malcolm Arnold: Four Irish Dances, Op. 126

      London Phil Orch/Malcolm Arnold
      Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances, Sarabande & Polka

      Lyrita SRCD.201

      2:54 pm

      Carl Maria von Weber: "Silvana"

      Overture

      Philharmonia Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Weber: Overtures

      Chandos CHAN-9066

      3:00 pm

      Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1

      Anthony McGill, cl; Gloria Chien, p
      Here With You

      Cedille CDR-90000207

      3:24 pm

      William Walton: "Troilus and Cressida"

      Symphonic Suite: II. Scherzo

      City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
      The British Project

      DG 4861547

      3:35 pm

      Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto de Aranjuez"

      Isabelle Moretti, h; Royal Seville Sym Orch/Edmon Colomer
      Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

      Valois V-4815

      3:58 pm

      Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"

      "Tambourins"

      Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
      Le Concert Spirituel - At the time of Louis XV

      Alia Vox AVSA-9877

      4:00 pm

      Maurice Ravel: "Gaspard de la nuit"

      Stewart Goodyear, p
      Stewart Goodyear: Ravel

      Orchid Classics ORC-100061

      4:21 pm

      Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"

      Overture

      Cleveland Orch/George Szell
      Great Performances: George Szell Conducts Wagner

      CBS MYK-38486

      4:35 pm

      Gaetano Donizetti: English Horn Concertino in G

      Günther Passin, eh; RIAS Sinfonietta/Jiří Stárek
      Lindpaintner, Donizetti: Sinfonie Concertante, Concertini

      Koch CD-311121

      4:47 pm

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219, "Turkish"

      III. Finale, Rondeau

      St. Paul Chamber Orch/Pinchas Zukerman, v
      Mozart: Violin Concerti Nos. 3 & 5 / Pinchas Zukerman

      CBS MK-37290

      4:56 pm

      Florence Price: "Adoration"

      Titus Underwood, ob; Lara Downes, p
      New Day Begun

      Rising Sun Music RS-012

      5:00 pm

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight"

      Maurizio Pollini, p
      Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas

      DG 4794120 (8)

      5:16 pm

      Francesco Navara: Sinfonia à 5 in A minor

      La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler
      Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto, 1690-1740

      Avie AV-2106

      5:22 pm

      Dana Suesse: "Blue Moonlight"

      Sara Davis Buechner, p
      Jazz Nocturne: The Piano Works of Dana Suesse

      eOne 7770

      5:29 pm

      Morten Lauridsen: "Lux Aeterna"

      Chamber Choir of Europe/Nicol Matt
      Morten Lauridsen * O Magnum Mysterium

      Hänssler Classic CD-98.272

      6:00 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.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

      Jessie Montgomery "Musings;" Paul Huang, Danbi Um, violins; Steven Stucky Sonata; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Barber Quartet, Op. 11; Erik Schumann, Ken Schumann; Liisa Randalu, viola; Mark Schumann, cello.

      11:00 pm