Playlist for Saturday, January 31, 2026

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

7:00 am

Weekend Mornings

With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.

11:00 am

Introductions

Clara Zhang, 16, piano. Bach Prelude & Fugue in D minor, BWV 875; Chopin Ballade No. 3; Ravel "Pavane for a Dead Princess;" Haydn Sonata No. 62 in E-Flat, 3rd mvt; Walker Sonata No. 2, 2nd mvt; Rachmaninoff "Lilacs," Op. 21/5; Bowen Toccata, Op. 155.

12:00 pm

Metropolitan Opera

R Strauss's Arabella

Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Arabella); Tomasz Konieczny (Mandryka); Louise Adler (Zdenka); Pavol Breslik (Matteo); Brindley Sheratt (Waldner); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Nicholas Carter. Sung in German. Recorded November 22, 2025.

4:00 pm

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

For the 229th anniversary of his birth, a program of Schubert lieder on texts of Johann Mayrhofer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

5:00 pm

Weekend Evening Music

8:00 pm

Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

Live from the Levin Performance Studio: Jim Bizer comes from the shores of Lake Saint Clare near Detroit Michigan to the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago to play his witty, winsome, and wise songs for the studio audience.

9:00 pm

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Visit the icy waters of The Great Lakes in song and bid a hearty happy birthday to Illinois songwriter Joe Jencks!