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      Playlist for Sunday, April 13, 2025

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Ragtime"

      Jenny Lin, p
      Stravinsky: Solo Piano Works

      Steinway & Sons 30028

      12:05 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "L'Histoire du Soldat"

      Suite

      Alaska Pro Musica
      Bartok, etc.

      MSR Classics MS-1230

      12:20 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Les cinq doigts" (Eight Pieces on Five Notes)

      #4

      Aleck Karis, p
      Stravinsky: Music for Piano (1911-1942)

      Bridge BCD-9051

      12:22 am

      Igor Stravinsky: "Petrouchka"

      Melbourne Sym Orch/Hiroyuki Iwaki

      Virgin 91101-2

      12:56 am

      Modest Mussorgsky: "Boris Godunov"

      "Prologue"

      Jenny Lin, p
      Stravinsky: Solo Piano Works

      Steinway & Sons 30028

      1:00 am

      Frederick Delius: "Fennimore and Gerda" (1909-10)

      Intermezzo

      Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras
      Violin Concerto / First Cuckoo / Dance Rhapsodies, Etc.

      Argo 433704-2

      1:05 am

      Frederick Delius: Cello Sonata

      Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; Bengt Forsberg, p
      Grieg & Delius: Complete Music For Cello And Piano

      Philips 454458-2

      1:19 am

      Henry Purcell: Trumpet Sonata in D

      John Wallace, tr; Philharmonia/Christopher Warren-Green

      MHS 512972-Y

      1:26 am

      Henry Purcell: "Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge"

      "Air"

      London Brass

      Teldec D-144330

      1:27 am

      Franz Liszt: "Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne," Symphonic Poem No. 1 (1848-9)

      Georgia Mangos, p; Louise Mangos, p
      Liszt: Symphonic Poems for 2 Pianos, Vol. I

      Cedille CDR-90000014

      1:55 am

      American Trad: Song, Down by the Old Mill Stream

      Tubadours
      The Mighty Tubadours

      Crystal CD-420

      2:00 am

      Giuseppe Torelli: Sinfonia con Tromba in D

      Sandro Verzari, tr; Ensemble/Flavio Colusso

      Bongiovanni GB-10008-2

      2:05 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B-Flat

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Haydn: Symphonies No. 78 and No. 102

      DG 429218-2

      2:30 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Secular Canons, H XXVIIb:1-46

      No. 2, "Auf einen adeligen Dummkopf"

      Gyor Girls' Cho/Miklós Szabó
      Haydn: Cannons

      Hungaroton HCD-12890-2

      2:32 am

      Joseph Schmitt: Symphony in B-Flat, Op 4/2

      New Dutch Academy Chamber Soloists/Simon Murphy
      Schmitt-Early Symphonies

      Pentatone PTC-5186039

      2:41 am

      Leo Smit: Viola Concerto (1940)

      Daniel Raiskin, vi; Netherlands Chamber Orch/Lucas Vis

      NM Classics 93003 (4)

      2:54 am

      Leo Smit: Twelve Pieces for Piano Four Hands (1941)

      #11, "Wiegelied"

      Frans Van Ruth, p; Marjes Benoist, p

      NM Classics 93003 (4)

      3:00 am

      Frédéric Chopin: "Études," Op. 25

      No. 7 in c-sharp minor, "Cello"

      Claudio Arrau, p
      Chopin: Etudes Op 10 & Op 25

      EMI/Ang CDH7-61016-2

      3:05 am

      Richard Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde"

      Prelude and "Liebestod"

      Berlin Phil/Seiji Ozawa
      Wagner: Overtures & Preludes

      Philips 426271-2

      3:22 am

      Francis Poulenc: "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1918)

      #1, Modéré

      Schmidt Verdery Duo
      Reverie: French Music For Flute And Guitar

      Newport Classic NC-60010

      3:24 am

      Ignace Jan Paderewski: Piano Sonata, Op 21

      Sang Mi Chung, p
      Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Melodie, Op. 8, No. 3' Chant d'amour, Op. 10, No. 2

      Centaur CRC-2758

      3:54 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Song Without Words" II

      Budapest Clarinet Quintet
      Clarinet Evergreens

      Naxos 8.553427

      4:00 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Adagio in F, H XVII:9

      Alfred Brendel, p
      3 Piano Sonatas

      Philips 412228-2

      4:05 am

      Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 11

      Vitaly Buyanovsky, fh; Leningrad Phil/Evgeny Mravinsky

      Russian Disc RDCD-11163

      4:22 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Part Song, "Alles hat seine Zeit"

      New York Vocal Arts Ensemble
      Mozart Nocturnes and Haydn Vocal Quartets

      Arabesque Z-6556

      4:23 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 54 in G, H XVI:40

      Thomas Brandis, v; Wolfgang Boettcher, vc; Eckart Besch, p

      DG Archiv 2533136

      4:35 am

      Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat

      Eric Ruske, fh; Iris Chamber Orch/Michael Stern
      The Romantic Horn Concerti

      Albany TROY-782

      4:54 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Judas Maccabaeus"

      Chorus, "Hallelujah, amen"

      Howard University Cho, Washington, DC Handel Festival Orch/Stephen Simon
      Hallelujah Handel: Handel Fesitval Orchestra

      Arabesque Z-6538

      5:00 am

      Carl Maria von Weber: "Oberon"

      Chorus, "Spirits of air, and earth and sea"

      Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner
      Weber: Oberon

      Philips 4756563 (2)

      5:05 am

      Johann Nepomuk Hummel: "Oberons Zauberhorn", Op 116

      Arens, p; Thüringisches Kammerorchester Weimar/Hoff

      Deutsche Schallplatten DS-1093-2

      5:25 am

      Alfonso FERRABOSCO II: The Masque of Oberon

      Almande

      Musicians of the Globe
      The Masque Of Oberon

      Philips 446217-2

      5:27 am

      Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"

      Suite

      New York Kammermusiker/Ilona Pederson
      A Baqroque Celebration

      Dorian DOR-90189

      5:41 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21

      Utah Sym Orch/Joseph Silverstein
      Mendelssohn: Concerto For Violin In E Minor, Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 61

      Pro Arte PAD-187

      5:53 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61

      Melodrama

      Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
      Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

      RCA RCD1-2084

      6:00 am

      6:00 am

      With Heart and Voice

      "Palm/Passion Sunday." Beginning with music to mark Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, followed by the Passion that unfolds, host Peter DuBois shares some of the most powerful music of the church year.

      7:00 am - 12:00 pm

      7:01 am

      Peter Boyer: "Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah)"

      London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer
      Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works

      Naxos 8.559915

      7:08 am

      Mauro Giuliani: "Rossiniana" No. 1, Op. 119

      Eliot Fisk, g
      Bell'Italia: Four Centuries of Italian Music

      Musicmasters 67079-2

      7:25 am

      Gabriel Jackson: "I Gaze Upon You"

      Polyphony/Stephen Layton
      Not No Faceless Angel: Choral Music by Gabriel Jackson

      Hyperion CDA-67708

      7:30 am

      Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22, Op. 236, "City of Light"

      Seattle Sym/Alan Hovhaness
      Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 50 "Mount St. Helens" & Symphony No. 22 "City Of Light"

      Delos DE-3137

      8:00 am

      Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection"

      IV. "Urlicht"

      L Hunt Lieberson, ms; San Francisco Sym/M Tilson Thomas
      Mahler: Symphony No. 2

      San Francisco Symphony 0006-2

      8:07 am

      Aram Khachaturian: "Spartacus"

      Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

      London Sym Orch/Stanley Black
      Weekend Classics: Ballet Weekend

      Decca 433880-2

      8:19 am

      Alec Wilder: Concerto for Oboe, Orchestra and Percussion

      Bert Lucarelli, ob; Brooklyn Phil Orch/Michael Barrett
      John Corigliano, Alec Wilder: Aria, Concerto for Oboe

      Koch 3-7187-2

      8:40 am

      Arnold Bax: "Into the Twilight"

      BBC Phil/Vernon Handley
      Bax Tone Poems, Vol. 2

      Chandos CHAN-10446

      8:55 am

      Arnold Bax: Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1928)

      No. 3, "Dance in the Sunlight"

      English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate
      The Banks of Green Willow

      EMI CDM7-64200-2

      9:01 am

      Guillaume de Machaut: Motet, "Christe qui lux es et dies"

      London Early Music Consort/David Munrow
      The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours

      DG 4794648

      9:06 am

      Marin Marais: Recorder Suite in F

      Quadro Hotteterre
      Marin Marais: 6 Suites

      Teldec 77617-2 (2)

      9:28 am

      George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

      Aria, "Eternal Source of Light Divine" (duet version)

      Lea Desandre, ms; Iestyn Davies, ct; Jupiter/Thomas Dunford
      Handel: Eternal Heaven

      Erato 5419719677

      9:32 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B-Flat, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise"

      Orlando String Quartet
      Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos 4 & 6 / Orlando Quartet

      Philips 410053-2

      9:58 am

      François-Joseph Gossec: "Gavotte"

      Orch National de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling
      Gossec: Gavotte, Suite De Danses, 4 Symphonies

      ASV CDDCA-1124

      10:01 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10

      No. 8 in F, “Sunshine”

      Anna Knight, p
      Introductions Turns 15

      WFMT (Introductions Turns 15)

      10:03 am

      Florence Price: "Clouds"

      Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p
      Scenes in Tin Can Alley

      Blue Griffin BGR-615

      10:10 am

      Alexey Shor: "Seascapes"

      III. "Gathering Storm"

      David Aaron Carpenter, vi; London Phil Orch/David Parry
      Motherland

      Warner 0190295697693

      10:14 am

      Eric Whitacre: "Cloudburst"

      Polyphony/Stephen Layton
      Eric Whitacre * Cloudburst and Other Choral Works

      Hyperion CDA-67543

      10:24 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Storm," Op. 76 (Overture to Ostrovsky's Drama)

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink
      Tchaikovsky: The Symphonies

      Philips 442061-2 (6)

      10:37 am

      Paul Chihara: "Four Reveries on Beethoven"

      No. 3, "Storm"

      Quynh Nguyen, p
      Paul Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Bagatelles, Reverie, Ami

      Naxos 8.559894

      10:42 am

      Keith Jarrett: "Bridge of Light"

      Patricia McCarty, vi; Fairfield Orch/Thomas Crawford
      Bridge of Light

      ECM 1450

      11:00 am

      Max Richter: "Sunlight"

      Baltic Sea Phil/Kristjan Järvi
      Max Richter: Exiles

      DG 4860445

      11:05 am

      Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two-Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 17

      Martha Argerich & Gabriela Montero, p's
      Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2005

      EMI 58472-2 (3)

      11:29 am

      Jonathan Besser: "Sun Rise"

      Jade String Quartet
      Besser String Quartets

      Rattle RAT-D103

      11:32 am

      Morten Lauridsen: "Lux Aeterna"

      Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton
      Lux aeterna & other choral works

      Hyperion CDA-67449

      12:00 - 5:00 pm

      12:00 pm

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

      RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
      Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite

      Naxos 8.555191

      12:17 pm

      Michael Daugherty: "Last Dance at the Surf"

      Albany Sym/David Alan Miller
      Michael Daugherty: Blue Electra, Last Dance at the Surf, To the New World

      Naxos 8.559955

      12:34 pm

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Song Without Words," Op. 109

      Pieter Wispelwey, vc; Paolo Giacometti, p
      Chopin and Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas

      Onyx 4078

      12:39 pm

      Jenö Hubay: "Scènes de la Csárda" No. 5, Op. 33, "Hullámzó Balaton"

      Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
      Alla Zingarese

      Cedille CDR-90000179

      12:47 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)"

      Chorale, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

      Eteri Andjaparidze, p
      Bach for Meditation

      Naxos 8.557650

      12:51 pm

      Stanisław Moniuszko: "Halka"

      Overture

      Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit
      Stanisław Moniuszko: Overtures

      Naxos 8.572716

      1:01 pm

      Léa Freire: "Mamulengo"

      Toomai String Quintet
      Passos Brasileiros

      Toomai String Quintet (Passos Brasileiros)

      1:08 pm

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Variations on an original theme in F, Op. 34

      Andreas Staier, fp
      Beethoven: Ein neuer Weg

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902327.28

      1:22 pm

      Aaron Zigman: "The Notebook"

      Overture

      Hollywood Studio Sym/Jerry Hey
      The Notebook (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

      New Line NLR-39031

      1:29 pm

      Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35

      Lise de la Salle, p; Gulbenkian Orch/Lawrence Foster
      Piano Concertos No. 1 - Shostakovich Liszt Prokofiev

      Naïve V-5053

      1:53 pm

      Luis de Narváez: "Diferencias sobre el himno O Gloriosa Domina"

      Pablo Márquez, g
      Luys de Narvaez: Musica del Delphin

      ECM 1958

      2:01 pm

      Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"

      Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink
      Schumann: The Symphonies

      Philips 442079-2 (2)

      2:35 pm

      Ruth Gipps: "Leviathan," Op. 59

      Bill Anderson, cbn; BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba
      Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 4

      Chandos CHAN-20319

      2:41 pm

      Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)"

      IV. "Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête (Beauty and the Beast Converse)"

      Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi
      Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, Pavane pour une infante défunte, La Valse, Ma mère l'oye, Boléro

      Telarc CD-80601

      2:46 pm

      Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Le printemps de Vivaldi"

      Lucie Horsch, r
      Lucie Horsch plays Vivaldi

      Decca 4830896

      2:50 pm

      William Lloyd Webber: "Three Spring Miniatures"

      Ian Brown, p
      William Lloyd Webber: Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs

      Hyperion CDA-67008

      2:57 pm

      César Franck: "Panis angelicus"

      Renée Fleming, s; London Voices, Royal Phil Orch/Andreas Delfs
      Sacred Songs

      Decca 4757177

      3:02 pm

      Darius Milhaud: "Le boeuf sur le toit," Op. 58

      "Cinéma-Fantaisie," Op. 58b

      Manon Galy, v; Jorge González Buajasán, p
      Nuits Parisiennes

      Aparté AP-306

      3:21 pm

      Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Indes Galantes"

      Overture

      Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
      Rameau: Ouvertures

      L'Oiseau-Lyre 4759107

      3:25 pm

      Johann Strauss II: "Pizzicato Polka" (1869)

      Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
      Strauss Family Waltzes

      RCA 61688-2

      3:28 pm

      Marin Marais: "Les Folies d'Espagne"

      Nancy Ambrose King, ob; Charlotte Mattax, hc
      Évocations

      Boston Records BR-1030

      3:39 pm

      Richard Danielpour: "Lamentations"

      Zodiac Trio; Ariel Barnes, vc
      Dreamtime

      Blue Griffin BGR-391

      3:51 pm

      Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry "(Londonderry Air)"

      Washington Choral Arts Soc, US Marine Band/Michael J. Colburn
      The Music Lover's Grainger

      Altissimo ALT-04042

      3:57 pm

      Percy Grainger: "I'm Seventeen Come Sunday"

      Washington Choral Arts Soc, US Marine Band/Michael J. Colburn
      The Music Lover's Grainger

      Altissimo ALT-04042

      4:01 pm

      Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quartet in G

      Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
      Hahn: Piano Quintet; Songs; Piano Quartet

      Chandos CHAN-20326

      4:26 pm

      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Hamburg" Symphony No. 5 in B minor, Wq 182/5

      Capella Istropolitana/Christian Benda
      CPE Bach - Hamburg Sinfonias Nos. 1 - 6

      Naxos 8.553285

      4:38 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: "Grande valse brillante" in E-Flat, Op. 18

      Lang Lang, p
      The Chopin Album

      Sony 48960-2

      4:44 pm

      Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor

      Berlin Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner
      Brahms: Hungarian Dances

      Denon 81757-4597-2

      4:48 pm

      David Lang: "the national anthems"

      V. "our common fate"

      Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet/Grant Gershon
      David Lang: The National Anthems & The Little Match Girl Passion

      Cantaloupe CA-21119

      4:53 pm

      Musekiwa Chingodza: "Dzoka Kumba (Come Back Home)"

      Musekiwa Chingodza, mbira & voice; Third Coast Percussion
      Standard Stoppages

      Cedille CDR-90000236

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Luigi Cherubini: Symphony in D

      Orch della Toscana/Donato Renzetti
      Cherubini: Symphony in D & Overtures

      Koch 350221

      5:31 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

      Martha Argerich, p
      Argerich Plays Chopin

      DG B0013960-02

      5:58 pm

      Henryk Wieniawski: "Etudes-Caprices," Op. 18

      No. 4 in A minor, "Saltarello"

      Charlie Siem, v; Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, p
      Charlie Siem

      Warner 67804-7

      6:01 pm

      Balys Dvarionas: Violin Concerto in B minor

      Vadim Gluzman, v; Hague Residentie Orch/Neeme Järvi
      Korngold & Dvarionas: Violin Concertos

      BIS CD-1822

      6:32 pm

      Dag Wirén: "Suite miniature," Op. 8b

      Torleif Thedéen, vc; Stefan Bojsten, p
      Dag Wirén: Chamber Music, Vol. 2

      BIS CD-797

      6:41 pm

      Jean Sibelius: "Scènes historiques" Suite No. 2, Op. 66

      Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
      Sibelius: Scènes historiques I & II

      Chandos CHAN-6591

      7:00 pm

      Henry Purcell: Song, "If music be the food of love"

      Barbara Bonney, s; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
      Fairest Isle

      Decca 466132-2

      7:04 pm

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Serenade to Music"

      Twelve Vocal Soloists, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
      Bernstein Favorites: Twentieth Century

      Sony SMK-47638

      7:18 pm

      Rhiannon Giddens: "Music and Joy"

      Rhiannon Giddens
      Songs of Our Native Daughters

      Songs of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways/SF CD 40232

      7:23 pm

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in G minor, K. 516

      Quatuor Ébène; Antoine Tamestit, vi
      Mozart: String Quintet Nos. 3 & 4

      Erato 5419721332

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts

      Bruckner Psalm 150; Ruth Welting, soprano; Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Bartók "Cantata profana;" John Aler, tenor; John Tomlinson, baritone; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Brahms "A German Requiem;" Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Bernd Weikl, baritone; Margaret Hillis, director; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Georg Solti, conductor.

      8:00 pm

      Thomas Adès: "Inferno Suite"

      "Souls in Limbo"

      London Phil Orch/Thomas Adès
      Thomas Adès Orchestral Suites

      LPO 0131-D

      10:00 pm

      10:00 pm

      Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

      Guitar Music from Argentina Fiesta presents original compositions for guitar by Argentine musicians from different generations. We will hear works from the 19th century composer Julián Aguirre to the present day including guitar music by Angel Lasala, Máximo Diego Pujol, Astor Piazzolla and more.

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel

      Music of Barbara Harbach

      Harbach Spirituals; Symphony No. 11, "Retourner; Choices and remembrances; Arabesque Noir; Suite Luther; Spandango," a Tango Caprice; Recitative and Aria.

      11:00 pm

      Continues to 1:00am Monday.