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Playlist for Friday, April 18, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Samuel Scheidt: Canzona a 10
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Baroque Brass
12:05 am
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul: Symphony #4 in E
Gulbenkian Foundation Orch/Michel Swierczewski
Mehul: Complete Symphonies
12:31 am
Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Song, "Sérénade"
Karin Ott, s; Christoph Keller, p
Songs
12:32 am
Charles Ives: Symphony #3, "The Camp Meeting"
Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot
Ives: Symphony No. 4, The Unanswered Question, Central Park In The Dark, Symphony No. 3
12:55 am
Charles Ives: Song, "Where the Eagle"
Dora Ohrenstein, s; Phillip Bush, p
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2
1:00 am
George Frideric Handel: "Solomon"
Overture
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Solomon
1:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 4 in A, K. 298
Susan Milan, f; Chilingirian String Quartet
Mozart: Quartets for Flue, Violin and Cello
1:16 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in A, Op. 9, No. 6
Angeles String Quartet
Haydn: The Complete String Quartets * Angeles String Quartet
1:31 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Welsh folksong, "Away, my herd, under the green oak", H XXXIb:11
Lorna Anderson, s; Jamie MacDougall, t; Haydn Trio
The Haydn Edition
1:32 am
Igor Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D (1931)
Gil Shaham, v; BBC Sym Orch/David Robertson
1:54 am
Serge Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges"
March
Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fiddler of the Opera
2:00 am
Carlos Antônio Gomes: "Joana de Flandres"
Act 1 Prelude
Minas Gerais Phil/Fabio Machetti
Gomes Overtures
2:05 am
Franz Schubert: "Quartettsatz," D 103
Juilliard String Quartet
Miniatures
2:12 am
Antonin Dvorák: String Quartet Movement in F, B 120
Panocha String Quartet
Dvorak: Miniatures
2:22 am
Edmund Haines: Toccata
Chicago Brass Quintet
Brassucopia
2:23 am
Philip Feeney: Cinderella
Suite
Northern Ballet Theatre Orch/John Pryce-Jones
20TH CENTURY ENGLISH BALLETS
2:54 am
Freda Swain: English Reel
Helen Callus, vi, Robert McDonald, p
A Portrait Of The Viola
3:00 am
Johann Strauss II: Prince Methusalem
Overture
Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter
Strauss: Famous Overtures
3:05 am
Emerich Kálmán: "Gräfin Mariza"
Overture
Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel
Viennafest
3:09 am
Emerich Kálmán: "The Gypsy Princess"
Potpourri
The Salon Orchestra
3:24 am
Franz Lehár: "Der Zarewitsch"
Act 3 Intermezzo
English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
The Czarevitch
3:27 am
Franz Lehár: "Der Zarewitsch"
Duet, "Kiss me!"
Nancy Gustafson, s; Jerry Hadley, t; English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
The Czarevitch
3:29 am
Vincent D'Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Op 25
Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, p; Boston Sym Orch/Charles Munch
Symphony In D Minor
3:54 am
Adrian WILLAERT: Baises moy tant tant
The King's Noyse/David Douglass
Le Jardin de Melodies: 16th Century French Dances And Songs
4:00 am
Alessandro A. Scarlatti: Concerto grosso #5 in d
Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi, v
Concerti & Sinfonie
4:05 am
Paul Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra, Op 38
Philharmonia Orch/José Serebrier
Kammermusik Nr. 3 op. 36 Nr. 2 für obligates Violoncello und zehn Solo-Instrumente
4:17 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in A, Op. 6, No. 11
II. Allegro
Dudley Moore, hc; Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orch/Georg Solti
Orchestra!
4:19 am
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Cleveland Orch/George Szell
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 Op.100 / Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra
4:54 am
Bela Bartók: "Mikrokosmos"
No. 142, "From the Diary of a Fly"
Jan Michiels, p
From The Diary Of Béla Bartók
5:00 am
Arthur Foote: "At Dusk" (1920)
Fenwick Smith, f; Ronald Thomas, vc; Caitriona Yeats, h
Chamber Music with Flute by Aaron Copland, Arthur Foote
5:05 am
Norman Dello Joio: "Bagatelles" (1945)
Elizabeth Richter, h
Looking Glass River: Music For Solo Harp
5:13 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle No. 25, "Für Elise"
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
The Art Of Ashkenazy
5:16 am
Gyorgy Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Winds
#5, "Bela Bartok in memoriam"
Westwood Wind Quintet
Barber, Ligeti, Mathias, Carlson
5:18 am
Gyorgy Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Winds
#6
Westwood Wind Quintet
Barber, Ligeti, Mathias, Carlson
5:20 am
Kurt Atterberg: Symphony #5 in d (Op 20) "Sinfonia funebre"
Frankfurt Radio Sym Orch/Ari Rasilainen
Symphonies 2 & 5
5:54 am
Pauline HALL: Suite for Five Winds
Tempo di valse
Bergen Wind Quintet
Verlaine Suite/ Julius Caesar Suite/ Suites For Winds/ 4 Tosserier
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Mornings with John Clare
Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.
6:02 am
Enrique Granados: "Danzas españolas," Op. 37 (Op. 5)
"Andaluza; Oriental"
Miloš, g
Mediterraneo
6:15 am
Christopher Simpson: Divisions on "John come kiss me now"
Palladian Ensemble
An Excess of Pleasure
6:20 am
Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34
Gothenburg Sym Orch Strings/Neeme Järvi
Grieg: Holberg Suite, 2 Elegiac Melodies, 2 Nordic Melodies, 2 Melodies, 2 Lyric Pieces
6:30 am
Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano
"Ukulele Serenade (to Samuel Dushkin)"
Elena Urioste, v; Tom Poster, p
From Brighton to Brooklyn
6:35 am
George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suite No. 2 in D
Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Gerard Schwarz
The Water Music (Complete) of George Frideric Handel
6:47 am
Erik Satie: Three "Gymnopédies"
Michel Legrand, p
Erik Satie By Michel Legrand
6:58 am
Edward MacDowell: "Woodland Sketches", Op 51
No. 1, "To a Wild Rose"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Dinner Classics: Romance
7:03 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Egmont," Op. 84
Overture
Slovak Phil Orch/Stephen Gunzenhauser
Famous Overtures
7:12 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Michael McHale, p
Portraits: Works for Flute, Clarinet & Piano
7:18 am
Hector Berlioz: "Rêverie et Caprice," Op. 8
Giovanni Radivo, v; Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Le carnaval romain, Benvenuto Cellini: Overture
7:30 am
Richard Wagner: "Parsifal"
Good Friday Spell
Philadelphia Orch/Christian Thielemann
Thielemann - Wagner
7:44 am
Vincent Youmans: "Tea for Two"
Jean Yves-Thibaudet & Michael Feinstein, p's
Gershwin Rhapsody
7:50 am
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht: Lute Concerto in C
I. "Allegro con brio"
Miguel Rincón, l; Il Pomo d'Oro/Zefira Valova
Concertos for Baroque Lute
7:58 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat, Op. 130
II. Presto
Dover Quartet
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol 3
8:02 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"
IV. Finale, "Saltarello: Presto"
American Sinfonietta/Michael Palmer
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto, Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
8:09 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in D, Op. 3, No. 6
Handel & Haydn Society/Christopher Hogwood
Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
8:17 am
Daniil Trifonov: "Rachmaniana"
Daniil Trifonov, p
Rachmaninov: Variations
8:30 am
Frederick Delius: "Florida" Suite
I. "Daybreak"
English Sym Orch/William Boughton
Vaughan Williams & Delius: Orchestral Works
8:42 am
Frederick Block: Piano Quintet, Op. 19
III. Finale, "Sehr lebhaft"
ARC Ensemble
Frederick Block Chamber Works
8:50 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony in E-Flat, Wq 122/2
Berlin Baroque Soloists/Reinhard Goebel
Symphonies of the Bach Family
9:02 am
Franz Liszt: "Les préludes," Symphonic Poem No. 3
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Liszt: Les Préludes
9:18 am
Igor Stravinsky: "The Soldier's Tale"
Tango; Waltz; Ragtime; "Devil's Dance"
Chicago Pro Musica
L'Histoire du soldat Suite, Capriccio espagnol
9:26 am
Aram Khachaturian: "Yerevan"
Ani Aznavoorian, vc; Marta Aznavoorian, p
Gems from Armenia
9:30 am
Tielman Susato: "The Danserye" (1551)
Six Dances
Millar Brass Ensemble/Vincent Cichowicz
Brass Surround
9:45 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: String Sextet, Op. 70, "Souvenir de Florence"
I. "Allegro con spirito"
Vermeer Quartet; Rami Solomonow, vi; John Sharp, vc
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 and Souvenir de Florence
9:57 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 14 in B-Flat, BWV 785
Beverley Johnston, mar
Marimbach - Bach Arranged for Marimba Solo
10:00 am - 3:00 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
Samuel Barber: "Souvenirs," Op. 28
London Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Britten: Les Illuminations, Young Apollo; Barber: Souvenirs, Canzonetta
10:19 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Vesperae Solennes de Confessore," K. 339
"Laudate Dominum"
Víkingur Ólafsson, p
From Afar
10:24 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "Christe, du Lamm Gottes," BWV 619
Víkingur Ólafsson, p
From Afar
10:27 am
Gustav Holst: "A Moorside Suite" (1928)
Dallas Wind Sym/Howard Dunn
Holst: Hammersmith & Suites
10:42 am
Jean Sibelius: Suite for Violin and Strings, Op. 117
James Ehnes, v; Bergen Phil Orch/Edward Gardner
Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Serenades; Humoresques; Earnest Melodies; Suite
10:51 am
Christoph Willibald Gluck: "Orpheus and Eurydice"
"Dance of the Blessed Spirits"
James Galway, f; National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
The Very Best of James Galway
11:00 am
Percy Grainger: "Scandinavian Suite"
V. Air and Finale on Norwegian Dances
Stephen Orton, vc; Hamish Milne, p
Grainger: Vol. 13 - Works for Chamber Ensemble 1
11:07 am
Johann Christian Bach: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat
Camerata Budapest/Hanspeter Gmür
JC Bach: Sinfonias, Vol. 3
11:30 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
"Crucifixus; Et resurrexit""
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Bach: Mass in B Minor
11:37 am
Richard Wagner: "Siegfried"
Forest Murmurs
Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti
Solti: A Passion for Music
11:47 am
Bedřich Smetana: "From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests"
Israel Phil Orch/Zubin Mehta
Smetana: Má Vlast
12:00 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Whimsical Symphony"
Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
Don Quixote: Concertos and Suites by Telemann / Apollo's Fire / Jeannette Sorrell
12:10 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, "Organ"
II. "Allegro moderato - Maestoso"
Carl Adam Landström, o; Malmö Sym Orch/Marc Soustrot
Saint-Saëns: Symphonies, Vol. 2
12:27 pm
François Couperin: "Concert royal" No. 4 in E minor
Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
François Couperin - Les Concerts Royaux
12:45 pm
Yukihiro Yoko: Variations on "Sakura"
John Williams, g
The Seville Concert
12:51 pm
Alan Hovhaness: "Celestial Fantasy," Op. 44
Seattle Sym Strings/Gerard Schwarz
Hovhaness Collection, Vol. 2
1:00 pm
Karol Szymanowski: Concert Overture in E, Op. 12
BBC Sym Orch/Edward Gardner
Szymanowski: Orchestral Works, Volume V
1:14 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, "Spring"
Andrew Wan, v; Charles Richard-Hamelin, p
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1,2,3,5
1:39 pm
Michael Abels: "Global Warming"
Sphinx Virtuosi
Songs for Our Times
1:49 pm
Antonín Dvořák: "Czech Suite," Op. 39
Romance; Finale, Furiant
The Knights
WFMT: 70 Essential Years
2:01 pm
Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in A minor
London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley
Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies
2:28 pm
Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor
VI. "Agnus Dei"
Ensemble Altera/Christopher Lowrey; James Kennerley, o
The Lamb's Journey: A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber
2:36 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, R. 577, "Per l'Orchestra di Dresda"
Les Violons du Roy/Mathieu Lussier
Vivaldi: Concertos
2:46 pm
John Field: Nocturne in E, H 54, "Grande Pastorale"
Alice Sara Ott, p
John Field: Complete Nocturnes
2:54 pm
Jean Sibelius: "King Christian II," Op. 27
"Élégie"
Norrköping Sym Orch/Mats Rondin
Midwinter Magic
3:00 - 7:00 pm
3:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree
Including "Friday Afternoon at the Movies" at 4:30pm and "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.
3:00 pm
Georges Bizet: "Carmen"
Suite
Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suite 1 and 2
3:21 pm
Antonio Pasculli: Concerto on themes from Donizetti's "La Favorita"
John Anderson, ob; Gordon Back, p
Capriccio: Classics for Oboe
3:36 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D
Chamber Orch of Europe/Mischa Maisky, vc
Haydn: Cello Concertos / Maisky
3:57 pm
Carl Nielsen: "Moderen (The Mother)," Op. 41
"The Fog is Lifting"
James Galway, f; Sioned Williams, h
James Galway Plays Nielsen
4:00 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "Le Baiser de la fée"
Divertimento
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Works by Stravinsky & Hovhaness
4:25 pm
Ricardo Castro: "Vals amoroso," Op. 31, No. 11
Jorge Federico Osorio, p
Salón Mexicano
4:28 pm
Alfred Newman: "The Robe"
Suite
20th Century Fox Studio Cho & Orch/Alfred Newman
The Robe - Alfred Newman
4:49 pm
John Field: Rondo in A-Flat
Míceál O'Rourke, p; London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
Field: Piano Concertos
4:56 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "Madama Butterfly"
Humming Chorus
Ambrosian Opera Cho, Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli
The Essential Choral Collection
5:00 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish
British Wind Band Classics
5:16 pm
Heinrich von Biber: String Sonata No. 9 in B-Flat
Seattle Baroque
Biber: Sonatas for Strings
5:21 pm
Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
I. Pastorale
Richard Adeney, f; Cecil Aronowitz, vi; Osian Ellis, h
Decca Sound: The Analogue Years
5:28 pm
Emil von Sauer: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 254
Simon Callaghan, p; St Gallen Sym Orch/Modestas Pitrėnas
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 87
6:00 pm
Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D, "Fandango," Op. 50, G 448
Jason Vieaux, g; Escher Quartet
Dance
6:20 pm
George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody in D, Op. 11, No. 2
BBC Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Enescu: Symphony No. 2, Romanian Rhapsody No. 2
6:35 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert Rondo in D, K. 382
English Chamber Orch/Murray Perahia, p
A Portrait of Murray Perahia
6:46 pm
Francis Poulenc: Oboe, Bassoon and Piano Trio
Maurice Bourgue, ob; Amaury Wallez, bn; Pascal Rogé, p
Poulenc Chamber Music
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace). Bill hopes that you find some peace in his selections including works by William Byrd, Edvard Grieg, as well as a performance of “Angel Eyes” by Ella Fitzgerald.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn
8:01 pm
Billy Strayhorn: "Lotus Blosssom"
Duke Ellington, p
Duke Ellington: Live at the Whitney
8:03 pm
Paul Chihara: "Ellington Fantasy"
Lark Quartet
Take the A Train
8:16 pm
Ferde Grofé: "Hudson River Suite"
Bournemouth Sym Orch/William Stromberg
Ferde Grofé: Death Valley Suite, Hudson River Suite, Hollywood Suite
8:36 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "Suite italienne"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Bruno Canino, p
Stravinsky: Works for Violin and Piano
8:54 pm
Duke Ellington: "Caravan"
Russian Renaissance
Russian Renaissance
9:01 pm
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American"
London Sym Orch/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 2
9:27 pm
John Rutter: "Suite Antique"
Waltz
Duke Dobing, f; Wayne Marshall, hc; City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
The Cambridge Singers Collection
9:30 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66
Waltz
Vienna Phil/Christoph Eschenbach
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017
9:36 pm
Paul Taffanel: Wind Quintet in G minor
Aulos Wind Quintet
Aulos-Bläserquintett - Vol. VI - Virtuoso Romantic Music
10:01 pm
Valerie Coleman: "Tracing Visions"
Sphinx Virtuosi
Songs for Our Times
10:13 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "The Firebird"
Chicago Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky: The Firebird; 4 Etudes; Fireworks
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Led by artistic director and founder Bill Chin, the Oriana Singers performed a collection of 18th and 19th century American parlor music on the Studs Terkel Program in 1989. The ensemble performs on Live from WFMT on April 21.
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