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Playlist for Saturday, January 25, 2025
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Luigi Cherubini: "Marche funèbre"
Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman
Cherubini * Requiem * Martin Pearlman * Boston Baroque
12:05 am
Mauro Giuliani: "Marcia di Cherubini Variata," Op 110
Inon Barnatan, p; David Starobin, g
12:19 am
Mauro Giuliani: "Divertimenti Notturni," Op 86
#10
Mikael Helasvuo, f; Jukka Savijoki, g
Giuliani: The Complete Works for Flute & Guitar, Vol. 2
12:21 am
Serge Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in c-sharp minor, Op. 131
French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon
12:54 am
Anatol Liadov: "Biryulki", Op 2
#9
Inna Poroshina, p
Lyadov - A Piano Anthology
1:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of My Old Age)," Vol V
#6, "Impromptu anodin"
Alessandro Mangoni, p
Rossini Complete Piano Music 3
1:05 am
Franz Schubert: Impromptus, D 935 (Op. 142)
No. 3 in b-flat
András Schiff, p
Impromptus, D935; Ländler, D790; Klavierstücke, D946
1:16 am
Gabriel Fauré: Harp Impromptu, Op 86
Marisa Robles, h
Masterworks for the Harp
1:25 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro," K. 492
Aria, "Se vuol ballare"
Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel
1:27 am
Charles Gounod: "Impromptu"
Roberto Prosseda, p
Gounod Piano Works
1:29 am
Francis Poulenc: Six impromptus (1920)
#3
Equale Brass
Bacchanales
1:30 am
Charles Gounod: "Souvenance"
Roberto Prosseda, p
Gounod Piano Works
1:35 am
Samuel Barber: "Souvenirs," Op. 28
Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop
BARBER, S.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Violin Concerto / Music for a Scene from Shelley (Buswell, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, M. Alsop)
1:55 am
Samuel Barber: Three Songs, Op. 2
No. 1, "The Daisies"
Thomas Hampson, br; John Browning, p
Complete Songs Of Samuel Barber (Secrets Of The Old)
2:00 am
Robert Ward: "Pantaloon-He Who Gets Slapped"
"Ballad"
William Parker, br; Dalton Baldwin, p
The Listeners
2:04 am
George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphonic Poem, Thalia"
Nashville Sym/Kenneth Schermerhorn
CHADWICK: Thalia / Melpomene / Euterpe
2:18 am
James Paisible: Mr Paisible's Airs in the Comedy The Humours of Sir John Falstaff
London Oboe Band/Paul Goodwin
Playhouse Aires: 18th Century English Theatre Music
2:31 am
Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"
"Dance for the Green Men"
English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
2:33 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto #2 in D, K 314
Rune Most, f; Odense Sym/Scott Yoo
2:54 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Cirandinhas" (1925)
#1
Sonia Rubinsky, p
VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Rubinsky) - A Prole do Bebe, No. 2 / Cirandinhas
3:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fidelio," Op 72
Duet, "O namenlose Freude"
Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel
Vol. 5- Beethoven: Fidelio
3:02 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Fidelio," Op 72
Marcia
Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel
Vol. 5- Beethoven: Fidelio
3:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique"
Anthony Newman, forte-p
Four Great Sonatas
3:21 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Song, "Zärtliche Liebe," WoO 123
Elly Ameling, s; Rudolf Jansen, p
On The Wings Of Song
3:22 am
Mikhail Glinka: "Trio pathétique" in d
Borodin Trio
Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1/ Glinka: Trio Pathetique
3:40 am
Gioachino Rossini: "William Tell"
Overture
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Thomas Schippers
Rossini: Favorite Overtures
3:54 am
Italian Anon 16th c: Passamezzo moderno
Lutz Kirchhof, l
The Lute In Dance And Dream
4:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Cosi fan tutte," K. 588
Quintet, "Sento, O Dio, che questo piede"
Cuberli, Bartoli, Streit, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, Cho, Berlin Phil/Barenboim
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
4:05 am
Max Bruch: String Quintet in a minor, Op. Posth
Vadim Gluzman & Sandis Steinbergs, v's; Maxim Rysanov & Ilze Klava, vi's; Reinis Birznieks, vc
Ilze Klava,
Bruch * Violin Concerto No 1 Etc * Gluzman
4:29 am
Max Bruch: Swedish Dances, Op. 63
No. 4
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Bruch: Violin Concerto, Swedish Dances, Symphony No. 1
4:31 am
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op 43
Melos Ensemble
4:55 am
Carl Nielsen: Song, "Jeg baerer med smil min byrde"
Canzone Vocal Ensemble/Frans Rasmussen
The Danish Song Treasury, Vol. 3
5:00 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Three-Oboe Overture (Suite) in C
1st mvt, Overture
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Suiten
5:05 am
Paul Hindemith: Double-Bass Sonata (1949)
Ensemble Villa Musica
Hindemith: Complete Sonatas Vol. 7
5:18 am
Paul Hindemith: Song, "Singet leise" (1936)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, br; Aribert Reimann, p
Hindemith: Lieder
5:19 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor, Op.37
Yevgeny Sudbin, p; Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä
Sudbin plays Beethoven & Mozart Concertos
5:55 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Military March #1
Minnesota Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Viennese Sommerfest!
6:00 am
Georges Bizet: "L'Arlésienne" Suite No. 2
I. "Pastorale"
N/A
6:05 am
Gabriel Pierné: Violin Sonata, Op 36
Olivier Charlier, v; Jean Hubeau, p
Pierné: Piano Quintet, Op. 41, Violin Sonata, Op. 36
6:27 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Paris Quartet #4 in b
3rd mvt, "Gai"
Masahiro Arita, f; Tokyo Baroque Trio
6:29 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture (Suite) in B-Flat, TWV 55:B10
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Suiten
6:55 am
Bartolomeo De Olague: Xacara
Jonathan Woods, hc
Battle Imperial
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:03 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Two-Piano Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat, K. 365
Alfred Brendel & Imogen Cooper, p's; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
The Art of Alfred Brendel, Vol. 1
7:29 am
Traditional American: "Amazing Grace"
Randall Goosby, v; Carlos Simon, p
Together
7:33 am
Angel Lam: "Little Snow"
Bokyung Byun, g
Guitar Recital: Bokyung Byun
7:43 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Otello"
Aria, "Ave Maria"
Krassimira Stoyanova, s; Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti
Verdi: Otello
7:49 am
Max Richter: "The Four Seasons Recomposed"
Winter
Francisco Fullana, v; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Carlos Izcaray
Through the Lens of Time
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:02 am
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1
Maurizio Pollini, p
Chopin: Nocturnes
8:06 am
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
I. "Adagio - Moderato"
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; London Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar
8:16 am
Alma Deutscher: "Siren Sounds Waltz"
Alma Deutscher, p
From My Book of Melodies
8:27 am
Carlos Simon: "Songs of Separation"
IV. "We Are All the Same"
J'Nai Bridges, ms; National Sym Orch/Gianandrea Noseda
Carlos Simon: Four Symphonic Works
8:32 am
Alexis Ffrench: "Guiding Light"
Alexis Ffrench, p
Truth
8:37 am
Hitoshi Sakimoto: "Final Fantasy XII"
"Ivalice Landscapes"
Chamber Ensemble
A New World: intimate music from Final Fantasy - Volume II
8:46 am
Richard Rodgers: "Carousel"
Waltz
Jenny Lin, p
Get Happy
8:54 am
George Frideric Handel: "Dixit Dominus"
Finale, "Gloria Patri et Filio"
Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Handel: Dixit Dominus, Salve Regina, Laudate pueri, Saeviat tellus
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:01 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:03 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "The Straight Story"
"Country Theme"
Smokey Hormel, g; Studio Orch/Angelo Badalamenti
The Straight Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:06 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "The Straight Story"
"Final Miles"
Studio Orch/Angelo Badalamenti
The Straight Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:11 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "The Straight Story"
"Rose's Theme"
Brussels Phil/Dirk Brossé
Angelo Badalamenti: Music for Film and Television
9:16 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "Blue Velvet"
Main Title Theme
Brussels Phil/Dirk Brossé
Angelo Badalamenti: Music for Film and Television
9:19 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "Wild at Heart"
"Dark Spanish Symphony"
Brussels Phil/Dirk Brossé
Angelo Badalamenti: Music for Film and Television
9:23 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "Mulholland Drive"
Main Title Theme
Brussels Phil/Dirk Brossé
Angelo Badalamenti: Music for Film and Television
9:28 am
Angelo Badalamenti: "Twin Peaks"
"Laura Palmer's Theme; Twin Peaks Theme"
Danish National Sym Orch/Sarah Hicks
Murder at the Symphony
9:37 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Magic Flute," K. 620
Overture
Columbia Sym Orch/Bruno Walter
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Overtures; Masonic Funeral Music
9:46 am
Lost Cousins Production Collective: "Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit"
"Daybreak Dreamer"
Lost Cousins Production Collective
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit (Soundtrack from the Netflix Game)
9:50 am
Lost Cousins Production Collective: "Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit"
"Moonlight Waltz"
Lost Cousins Production Collective
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit (Soundtrack from the Netflix Game)
9:54 am
Lost Cousins Production Collective: "Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit"
"A Cozy Mystery"
Lost Cousins Production Collective
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit (Soundtrack from the Netflix Game)
10:01 am
John Knowles Paine: Romanza and Humoreske, Op 30
Jules Eskin, vc; Virginia Eskin, p
John Knowles Paine: Chamber Music
10:15 am
Elena Kats-Chernin: "Re-invention" No. 5 (after Bach's BWV 777)
Genevieve Lacey, r; Flinders Quartet
The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection
10:21 am
Julius Fučík: "Winter Storms" Waltz, Op. 184
Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
A Festival of Fučík
10:32 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "I Lombardi"
Act III Ballet Music
Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas
10:55 am
Jlin: "Perspective"
VI. "Duality"
Third Coast Percussion
Perspectives
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Angelika Wang, 17, piano. Beethoven "Appassionata" Sonata, 1st mvt; Messiaen: "Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus"; Rachmaninoff Etude-tableau, Op. 39, No. 6; Bach-Busoni Chaconne in D minor.
11:49 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "La traviata"
Aria, "E strano!...Sempre libera"
Renata Scotto, s; Gianni Raimondi, t; La Scala Orch/Antonino Votto
Renata Scotto Sings Opera Arias
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Verdi's Aida
Angel Blue (Aida); Piotr Beczała (Radamés); Judit Kutasi (Amneris); Quinn Kelsey (Amonasro); Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis); Morris Robinson (King); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
3:27 pm
Henry Purcell: "The Old Bachelor" Incidental Music
II. Hornpipe
English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Purcell: Trumpet Sonata, Theatre Music
3:30 pm
Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller
3:30 pm
Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34
IV. "Rondo": Allegro giocoso
Arthur Stockel, cl; Quatuor Hanson
Weber: Clarinet Concertos, Clarinet Quintet
3:39 pm
James P. Johnson: "American Symphonic Suite"
Lament
Leslie Stifelman, p; Concordia Orch/Marin Alsop
Victory Stride: The Symphonic Music of James P. Johnson
3:49 pm
Claude Debussy: Saxophone Rhapsody
Kenneth Radnofsky, sx; New York Phil/Kurt Masur
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d’un faune, Rapsodie pour saxophone, La Mer; Ravel: La Valse, Boléro
5:00 - 7:00 pm
5:00 pm
Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller
5:00 pm
Emile Waldteufel: "Bella Bocca" Polka, Op. 163
Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth
Les Nuits de Paris - Dance Music from Folies Bergère to Opéra
5:06 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K. 414
Mitsuko Uchida, p; English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 11 & 12
5:33 pm
Gabriel Fauré: "Sérénade toscane," Op. 3, No. 2
Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fauré Album
5:36 pm
Gabriel Fauré: "Après un rêve," Op. 7, No. 1
Gil Shaham, v; Brinton Smith, vc; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fauré Album
5:41 pm
Leonard Bernstein: "Candide"
Suite
Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue
Bernstein:Suite From Candide, Etc
6:01 pm
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Dardanus"
"Chaconne"
Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Rameau: Dardanus
6:08 pm
Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Alisa Weilerstein, vc; Inon Barnatan, p
Brahms Cello Sonatas
6:31 pm
John Corigliano: "Promenade Overture"
Louisville Orch/Lawrence Leighton Smith
Music of John Corigliano
6:41 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Miroirs"
"Alborada del gracioso"
Seong-Jin Cho, p
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
6:50 pm
Johann Sigismund Kusser: "Erindo"
Suite
Daniel Hope, v; AIR Ensemble
Irish Roots
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Sounds Classical
Where is Today’s Mozart?
Conductor Michael Lewanski joins hosts LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn to explore the question of “Where is Today’s Mozart?” Recognizing the changes in classical music and the advancement in technology, Michael and the hosts make some interesting discoveries.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
From the archives: Highlights from "The Midnight Special" New Year’s Eve shows through the years.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Songs of miracle and wonder: In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson launched the era of long-distance with a telephone call from New York to San Francisco.
9:00 pm
Traditional: "Midnight Special THEME"
Leadbelly
Midnight Special
9:01 pm
Barnstar: “Boy in the Bubble” (Paul Simon)
Barnstar
C’Mon!
9:06 pm
Eddie From Ohio: Operator (Spivery)
Eddie From Ohio
The Portable EFO Show, Disc 1
9:09 pm
Richard Thompson: Alexander Graham Bell
Richard Thompson
Acoustic Rarities
9:13 pm
Twangtown Paramours: Showin' Off for their Girlfriends
Twangtown Paramours
The Wind Will Change Again
9:16 pm
John Mulaney: The Phone Used to Be A Wooden Box
John Mulaney
Kid Gorgeous
9:18 pm
Zoe Lewis: Rotary Phone
Zoe Lewis
Rotary Phone
9:23 pm
Len Spencer: "First recorded promotional messages on the Edison Phonograph"
Len Spencer
Great Speeches of the 20th Century - set 2
9:26 pm
Vienna Teng: "Radio"
Vienna Teng
Inland Territory
9:30 pm
Jim Photoglo: Sparks in the Radio
Jim Photoglo
Sparks in the Radio
9:35 pm
Kaia Kater: The Internet
Kaia Kater
Strange Medicine
9:38 pm
Jake Dewar: I'm Not a Robot
Jake Dewar
Unpopular Mixtape
9:39 pm
Steve Quelet: Dance of the Robots
Steve Quelet
Dance of the Robots
9:43 pm
Buffalo Rose: I'm a Machine Man
Buffalo Rose
Again, Again, Again
9:47 pm
Carla Ulbrich: "The Guy Who Changes the Lightbulbs"
Carla Ulbrich
Professional Smart Aleck
9:49 pm
Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That
Bonnie Raitt
Just Like That
9:54 pm
Heather Maloney: The Light You Leave Behind
Heather Maloney
Exploding Star
9:59 pm
Jonas Friddle: "The Midnight Special - fretless banjo"
Jonas Friddle
Midnight Special Collection
10:00 pm
Rise: "Green Grow the Rashes-o" (Robert Burns, 1783)
Rise
Posing as Human
10:05 pm
Jim Malcolm: Nae Gentle Dames Tho Ne'er Sae Fair (Burns)
Jim Malcolm
Resonance
10:10 pm
Nanci Griffith: Drive-in Movies and Dashboard Lights
Nanci Griffith
Storms
10:13 pm
The Don Stiernberg Quartet: The Best Things in Life are Free (Henderson)
The Don Stiernberg Quartet
The Swingin' est
10:17 pm
Lucy Kaplansky: "Small Dark Movie" (Greg Brown)
Lucy Kaplansky
Going Driftless: The Songs of Greg Brown
10:21 pm
The Band: "I Shall Be Released" (Bob Dylan)
The Band
Music From Big Pink (remastered)
10:24 pm
The Band: Across the Great Divide
The Band
The Remasters
10:27 pm
The Band: Whispering Pines
The Band
The Remasters
10:31 pm
The Coal Porters: Another Girl - Another Planet
The Coal Porters
No. 6
10:34 pm
Joni Mitchell: Electricity
Joni Mitchell
For the Roses
10:37 pm
Roy Book Binder: Electric Cigarette Blues
Roy Book Binder
The Good Book
10:40 pm
Fox Crossing Stringband: Good News (Pafralides)
Fox Crossing Stringband
Bluegrass on my Mind
10:47 pm
T'Monde: Les Amour et Les Beaux Jours (Trad.)
T'Monde
58th Annual University of Chicago Folk Festival
10:49 pm
T'Monde: Bombay Bounce (trad.)
T'Monde
58th Annual University of Chicago Folk Festival
10:52 pm
Steve Goodman: The Twentieth Century is Almost Over
Steve Goodman
Say It In Private
10:59 pm
Andrew Beyer: "The Midnight Special - organ"
Andrew Beyer
Midnight Special Collection
11:00 pm
Darrell Scott: "Looking Glass"
Darrell Scott
The Invisible Man
11:03 pm
Eliza Gilkyson: "Through the Looking Glass"
Eliza Gilkyson
Retrospecto
11:08 pm
The Steel Wheels: Morning Before Long
The Steel Wheels
Sideways
11:12 pm
David Roth: We Are the Stuff of Stars
David Roth
So Far, So Good
11:15 pm
Peter Mulvey: "Vlad the Astrophysicist"
Peter Mulvey
Letters from a Flying Machine
11:21 pm
Arielle Silver: Asteroids and Chaos
Arielle Silver
Watershed
11:25 pm
John Hartford: "Steam Powered Aereo Plane"
John Hartford
Aereo Plain
11:29 pm
Jill Sobule: Jetpack
Jill Sobule
Underground Victorious
11:32 pm
Fred Eaglesmith: Mighty Big Car
Fred Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels
Ralph's Last Show, Disc 1
11:36 pm
Kate McDonnell: "Car Broke Down on Memory Lane"
Kate McDonnell
Broken Bones
11:41 pm
Leonard Cohen: Waiting for the Miracle
Leonard Cohen
Songs From the Road
11:49 pm
Jesse Winchester: I'm Looking for a Miracle
Jesse Winchester
The Best of Jesse Winchester
11:54 pm
Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged)
Laura Love
She Loved Red
11:59 pm
Andrew Beyer: "The Midnight Special - cigar box slide"
Andrew Beyer
Midnight Special Collection
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