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Playlist for Wednesday, June 25, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
George Frideric Handel: "Semele"
"Where'er You Walk"
Mark Padmore, t; English Concert/Andrew Manze
As Steals the Morn * Handel Arias & Scenes for Tenor * Padmore
12:05 am
Doreen Carwithen: Concerto for Piano and Strings
Howard Shelley, p; London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Carwithen: Orchestral Works
12:34 am
William Alwyn: "Elizabethan Dances" (1957)
#3, "Allegro scherzando"
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Symphony No. 4
12:35 am
William Alwyn: Overture, "Derby Day" (1960)
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Symphony No. 2 · Magic Island
12:42 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in C, "Alexander's Feast"
La Stravaganza Cologne/Andrew Manze
Classics Exposed- Handel, Telemann: Overtures and Suites
12:54 am
George Frideric Handel: "Acis and Galatea"
"Happy We"
Atlanta Sym & Cho/Robert Shaw
Grand and Glorious: Great Operatic Choruses
1:00 am
Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Song, "Havanaise"
Cecilia Bartoli, ms; Myung-Whun Chung, p
Chant D'amour (Mélodies Françaises)
1:04 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Havanaise," Op. 83
Itzhak Perlman, v; New York Phil/Zubin Mehta
Itzhak Perlman: Fantaisie De Concert Sur 'Carmen'
1:14 am
Serge Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges"
March
Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p
The Fiddler of the Opera
1:15 am
Serge Prokofiev: Four Pieces, Op. 32
No. 4, Valse
Boris Berman, p
Prokofiev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
1:19 am
Nikolai Miaskovsky: Symphony #25 in D-Flat, Op 69
State Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
Miaskovsky Symphonies
1:54 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527
Chorus, "Giovinette, che fate"
Barbara Bonney, s; Drottningholm Court Theatre Orch/Arnold Östman
Barbara Bonney Sings Mozart
2:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 93, "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten"
Chorus, "Wer nur den lieben Gott"
Netherlands Bach Collegium/Pieter Jan Leusink
Bach Edition: Complete Works
2:05 am
Arnold Bax: "Into the Twilight"
Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
Bax Tone Poems, Volume 2
2:18 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Bk 1, BWV 846/69
Prelude No. 19 in A
Léon Berben, hc
Bach Edition: Complete Works
2:20 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Oboe Concerto in F, BWV 1053
Gonzalo Ruiz, ob; Portland Baroque Orch/Monica Huggett
Concertos for Oboe and Oboe d’amore
2:38 am
Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39
Bax & Chung Piano Duo
Stravinsky, Brahms & Piazzolla: Works For Piano-Four-Hands
2:55 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale, "Christ ist erstanden," BWV 276
Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
Bach Edition: Complete Works
3:00 am
Johann Strauss, Sr: "Contredanses," Op 44
Slovak Sinfonietta/Christian Pollack
Johann Strauss, Sr. Vol 5
3:05 am
Robert Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 2 in g, Op. 22
Beatrice Berrut, p
Robert Schumann * The Three Sonatas for Piano * Beatrice Berrut
3:24 am
Robert Schumann: Song, "Im Herbste (In Autumn)"
Mark Padmore, t; Graham Johnson, p
The Songs of Robert Schumann, Volume 8
3:25 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 1
Philharmonia Orch/Yondani Butt
Rimsky Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
3:55 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Four Songs, Op. 41
No. 1, "Sun of the sleepless"
Alexey Martynov, t; Aristote Konstantinidi, p
4:00 am
Enrique Granados: "Danzas españolas," Op 37 (Op 5)
#4, "Villanesca"
Manuel Barrueco, g
Works for Guitar by Albeniz and Granados
4:05 am
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Fantasía para un gentilhombre" (1954)
John Williams, g; Philharmonia Orch/Louis Frémaux
The Great Guitar Concertos
4:27 am
Gaspar Sanz: "Giga Ingles"
Rolf Lislevand, g
Encuentro
4:28 am
Muzio Clementi: Symphony in B-Flat, Op 18/1
Philharmonia Orch/Francesco D'Avalos
Muzio Clementi
4:43 am
John Field: Piano Sonata #1 in E-Flat, Op 1/1
John O'Conor, p
Classics - John Field: Sonatas, Nocturnes
4:55 am
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra," Op 207
"Peace Upon Them"
Chérie Hughes, s; Roberto Limón, g
On My People
5:00 am
Edward Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance" Marches, Op. 39
No. 4
New Zealand Sym/James Judd
Elgar Marches
5:05 am
Edward Elgar: "The Spanish Lady," Op 89
Suite
English String Orch/William Boughton
The Spirit of England
5:11 am
Haydn Wood: "Moods Suite"
Michael Stairs, p
5:32 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A, BWV 806
Courante I
David Schrader, hc
Bach A La Carte
5:34 am
Hubert Parry: "An English Suite"
Capella Istropolitana/Adrian Leaper
English String Festival
5:54 am
Thomas Tallis: Anthem, "Out of the Deep"
Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips
Tallis-Complete English Anthems
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
6:02 am
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in D-Flat, Op. 27, No. 2
Evgeny Kissin, p
Chopin, Vol. 1 - Recorded at Carnegie Hall
6:10 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "In the Fen Country"
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, etc.
6:25 am
Fritz Kreisler: "Liebesleid"
Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Lambert Orkis, p
Simply Anne-Sophie
6:31 am
Paul Taffanel: Fantasy on Weber's "Der Freischütz"
Cavatina Duo
Cavatina at the Opera
6:44 am
Inocente Carreño: "Margariteña"
Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Fiesta * Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela * Gustavo Dudamel
6:58 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Romances sans paroles," Op. 17
No. 3 in A-Flat
Kathryn Stott, p
Fauré: Piano Music
7:02 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
Janine Jansen, v; Royal Phil Orch/Barry Wordsworth
Janine Jansen
7:12 am
Franz Schubert: Song, "Frühlingsglaube," D 686
Lara Downes, p
Love at Last
7:16 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B-Flat, R. 370
La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v
Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto, Volume 2
7:28 am
Adolphus Hailstork: "Bassoon Set"
IV. "Allegretto"
Lecolion Washington, bn
Legacy * Works for Bassoon by African-American Composers
7:32 am
Igor Stravinsky: "The Firebird"
"Berceuse" & Finale
Chicago Sym Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini: The Chicago Recordings
7:41 am
George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody in A, Op. 11, No. 1
French National Orch/Cristian Măcelaru
George Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3, Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2
7:54 am
Claude Debussy: "L'Isle joyeuse"
Eduard Stan, p
Summer Moods - Special Moments of Classical Music
8:04 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, "Jupiter"
I. "Allegro vivace"
Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
The Last Sinfonies: Mozart's Instrumental Oratorium
8:17 am
Lili Boulanger: "D'un soir triste"
Neave Trio
A Room of Her Own
8:29 am
Thomas Tallis: "If Ye Love Me"
Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips
Sacred Music in the Renaissance * Volume 1 * The Tallis Scholars
8:32 am
Johann Helmich Roman: Sinfonia No. 20 in E minor
Drottningholm Chamber Orch/Stig Westerberg
Johan Helmich Roman: The Drottningholm Music
8:42 am
Florence Price: Piano Quintet (possibly unfinished)
Catalyst Quartet; Michelle Cann, p
Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price
8:52 am
John Mackey: "This Cruel Moon"
Dallas Winds/Jerry Junkin
Asphalt Cocktail: Music of John Mackey
9:02 am
Aaron Copland: "El Salón México"
Dallas Sym/Eduardo Mata
Great American Showpieces
9:14 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture, Op. 101
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Mendelssohn: Overtures
9:24 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Schübler Chorale, "Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake)," BWV 645
Solid Brass
Christmas With Solid Brass
9:30 am
Camilla de Rossi: "Il Sacrifizio de Abramo"
Sinfonia
Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta, l
Baroquen Treasures
9:38 am
Luigi Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 6 in D, G 479
I. Allegro
Age of Enlightenment Orch/Steven Isserlis, vc
Music of the Angels: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets by Luigi Boccherini
9:48 am
Leonard Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
Patrick Messina, cl; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p
Songs
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
10:00 am
Karl Kohaut: Lute Concerto in F
Miguel Rincón, l; Il Pomo d'Oro/Zefira Valova
Concertos for Baroque Lute
10:15 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Pièces pittoresques"
No. 9, "Menuet pompeux"
Lyon National Orch/Emmanuel Krivine
Maurice Ravel Orchestrations
10:22 am
Giles Farnaby: Suite of Six Dances
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Music from the Royal Court
10:30 am
Ottorino Respighi: "The Birds"
Atlanta Sym Orch/Louis Lane
Classical Zoo
10:49 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo in B-Flat, WoO 6
Sviatoslav Richter, p; Vienna Phil/Kurt Sanderling
Essential Beethoven
11:00 am
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: "Sussex Landscape," Op. 27
Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
11:15 am
Maurice Ravel: Sonatine
Debussy Trio
Works by Mendoza, Debussy and Ravel
11:27 am
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody
1931 original version
Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
American Piano Classics
11:43 am
Franz Schubert: "Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III)," D 839
Gautier Capuçon, vc; Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris Chamber Orch/Adrien Perruchon
Emotions
11:51 am
Gaspar Sanz: "Suite española"
Christopher Parkening, g
A Tribute to Segovia
12:00 pm
Arnold Schoenberg: String Suite in G (1934)
V. "Gigue"
I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht Op. 4 / Claudio Scimone
12:08 pm
Dmitri Kabalevsky: "Colas Breugnon," Op. 24
"A popular festivity"
Armenian Phil Orch/Loris Tjeknavorian
Kabalevsky: Suites from Romeo and Juliet, The Comedians & Colas Breugnon
12:15 pm
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
Trio Tokava (violinist Zi Yang Low, cellist Liav Kerbel, and pianist Nadia Azzi) performs music by Debussy, Lili Boulanger, and Shostakovich, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 - 3:00 pm
1:00 pm
Music for the Afternoon
1:03 pm
Margaret Bonds: "Troubled Water"
Ashley Jackson, h
Take Me to the Water
1:10 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: "Sinfonia concertante" in B-Flat
Soloists; Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Wolfgang Herzer, cello,
Haydn: Violin Concertos
1:33 pm
Max Richter: "In the Garden"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Pulsations
1:39 pm
Johan Svendsen: "Carnival in Paris," Op 9
Trondheim Sym Orch/Ole Kristian Ruud
Johan Svendsen: Zorahayda; Karneval i Paris, Norsk kunstnerkarneval, Romeo og Jule
1:52 pm
Traditional African-American: Spiritual, "Steal Away"
Imani Winds
Imani Winds: The Classical Underground
2:01 pm
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Karajan Master Recordings, Vol. 4: Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
2:34 pm
Enrique Granados: "Allegro de concierto," Op. 46
Alicia de Larrocha, p
Spanish Fireworks
2:43 pm
Jean Sibelius: "King Christian II," Op. 27
Nocturne
Lahti Sym Orch/Osmo Vänskä
Sibelius: Karelia Suite, King Christian II, Pelléas et Mélisande
2:51 pm
Otto Nicolai: Ecclesiastical Festival Overture on "A Mighty Fortress"
Chicago Gargoyle Brass & Organ Ensemble/Stephen Squires
Ein' feste Burg: Music of the Reformation
3:00 - 8:00 pm
3:00 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: "La Cetra" Concerto No. 2 in A, R. 345
Monica Huggett, v; Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer
Vivaldi: La Cetra Op. 9
3:12 pm
Miriam Hyde: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat minor
Miriam Hyde, p; West Australian Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon
Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers
3:45 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, BWV 552, "St Anne"
BBC Phil/Leonard Slatkin
Bach Transcriptions
4:00 pm
Gioachino Rossini: String Sonata No. 5 in E-Flat
Leningrad Chamber Orch/Eduard Serov
Rossini: String Sonatas 1 - 5
4:16 pm
Darius Milhaud: "Le boeuf sur le toit," Op. 58
"Cinéma-Fantaisie," Op. 58b
Manon Galy, v; Jorge González Buajasán, p
Nuits Parisiennes
4:35 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: "The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse" film score, Op. 56
Suite
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
The Film Album
4:50 pm
Gerald Finzi: "Eclogue," Op. 10
Joshua Pierce, p; Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Kirk Trevor
Joshua Pierce * Music for Piano and Orchestra
5:00 pm
Pablo de Sarasate: "Carmen" Fantasy, Op. 25
Hilary Hahn, v; Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Eclipse
5:14 pm
Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
III. "Javanaise"
Jean-Pierre Rampal, f; Claude Bolling, p; Max Hediguer, db; Marcel Sabiani, dr
Marcel Sabiani, drums,
Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
5:19 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10
II. "Largetto affettuoso"
Stephan Siegenthaler, cl; Leipzig String Quartet
Paradise
5:26 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Pavane for a Dead Princess"
Di Wu, p
Best of Live from WFMT
5:32 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8; Méhul: Symphony No. 1; Cherubini: Lodoïska Overture
5:58 pm
Gordon Jacob: Five Pieces for Harmonica and Strings
No. 3, "Country Dance"
Tommy Reilly, harmonica; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Vaughan Williams, Moody, Jacob: Classical Music for Harmonica
6:03 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wind Divertimento No. 16 in B-Flat, K. 289
Danzi Wind Quintet
Mozart: Wind Divertimentos / Danzi Quintet / Frans Vester
6:20 pm
Johannes Brahms: "Festive and Commemorative Music," Op. 109
Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
A Banquet of Voices
6:30 pm
Grant Park Music Festival 2025
Mozart Paris Symphony
Live from the Pritzker Pavilion, featuring the Imani Winds and Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. Valerie Coleman "Phenomenal Women;" Vaughan Williams "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis;" Mozart Symphony No. 31, "Paris." Hosted by Dave Schwan.
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
8:01 pm
Augusta Holmès: "Ouverture pour une comédie"
Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Samuel Friedmann
Augusta Holmès: Orchestral Works
8:12 pm
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in D, D 850
Paul Lewis, p
Schubert * Paul Lewis
8:52 pm
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
III. Scherzo
Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
9:00 pm
9:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Bushel of Fifths
Bill considers the fifth symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, Sibelius, and Shostakovich. He shares performances conducted by Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Eugene Ormandy.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
A Frescobaldi Musical Flower
Organist Lorenzo Ghielmi and the vocal ensemble Canticum perform Giralomo Frescobaldi's "Missa della Madonna" from the composer's 1635 collection of sacred music "Fiori musicali". Recorded in the Church of San Maurizio in Milan’s Monastero Maggiore.
11:12 pm
Francesco Tristano: "A Soft Shell Groove"
Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano, p's
Scandale
11:21 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Triple Concerto in A minor, BWV 1044
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Bach Cantatas Vol. 2 * Gardiner
11:43 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Four Characteristic Waltzes," Op. 22
RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture - Petite Suite
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