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      Playlist for Sunday, July 13, 2025

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Emile Waldteufel: "Estudiantina" Waltzes, Op 191

      Slovak Phil/Kurt Redel
      Le Bal de Paris

      Pierre Verany PV-787101

      12:05 am

      Franz Schubert: 12 Waltzes

      Vassily Primakov, p
      Franz Schubert * Impromptus & Dances *

      Bridge 9327

      12:14 am

      Franz Schubert: Song, "An Schwager Kronos," D 369

      Hermann Prey, br; Munich Phil/Gary Bertini
      Hermann Prey Sings Schubert Lieder

      RCA ARL1-3002

      12:17 am

      Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39

      #2

      Idil Biret, p
      J.: Waltzes / Cadenzas / Die schone Magelon

      Naxos 8.553426

      12:19 am

      Joseph Joachim: Violin Concerto #3 in G

      Takako Nishizaki, v; Stuttgart Radio Sym/Meir Minsky
      JOACHIM, J.: Violin Concerto No. 3 / Overtures, Opp. 4 and 13

      Naxos 8.554733

      12:54 am

      Nino Rota: 15 Preludes

      #5

      Danielle Laval, p
      Nino Rota

      Naive V-1003 (2)

      1:00 am

      Willem de Fesch: "Joseph"

      Aria, "Let Me Ever Look to Thee"

      Claron McFadden, s; Musica Ad Rhenum/Jed Wentz
      Joseph

      NM Classics 92079 (3)

      1:05 am

      George Frideric Handel: Flute Sonata in a, Op. 1, No. 4

      Michala Petri, r; Keith Jarrett, hc
      Handel Sonatas

      RCA 60441-2-RC

      1:15 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87

      "The Winter Fairy"

      West German Radio Orch/Mikhail Jurowski
      Cinderella

      CPO 999610-2 (2)

      1:17 am

      Alexander Glazunov: "The Seasons," Op 67

      Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier
      Symphony No.5 / The Seasons

      Warner Classics 61434-2

      1:55 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87

      "The Spring Fairy"

      West German Radio Orch/Mikhail Jurowski
      Cinderella

      CPO 999610-2 (2)

      2:00 am

      Francis Poulenc: "Mélancolie"

      Olivier Cazal, p
      Poulenc PIano Music, Vol 2

      Naxos 8.553930

      2:05 am

      Jean Sibelius: "Malinconia", Op. 20

      Truls Mork, vc; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Grieg/Sibelius: Cello & Piano Works

      Virgin Classics 45034-2

      2:18 am

      Miriam HYDE: "Happy Occasion" Overture (1957)

      West Australian Sym Orch/Richard Mills
      50: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Australian Youth Orchestra

      ABC Classics 442374-2 (2)

      2:22 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Chorus, "Der frohe Wandersmann," Op 75, No. 1

      Leipzig Radio Cho/Horst Neumann
      Mendelssohn: Choruses

      Philips 6514362

      2:24 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 3 in b, Op 3

      Domus Piano Quartet
      Mendelssohn: The Piano Quartets

      Virgin 91183-2

      2:55 am

      Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

      #6, "Tanz"

      Shanghai Sym Orch/Long Yu
      Orff: Carmina Burana

      DG 4836594

      3:00 am

      Igor Stravinsky: Concertino for Twelve Instruments

      Orch of St Luke's/Robert Craft
      Stravinsky: The Composer, Vol. 3

      Musicmasters 67103-2

      3:05 am

      Igor Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D

      Anne Sophie Mutter, v; Philharmonia/Paul Sacher
      Partita · Chain 2 / Violinkonzert · Violin Concerto

      DG 423696-2

      3:27 am

      Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty", Op. 66

      Act 3: Pas de caractére

      Katia Labéque, Marielle Labéque, p
      Piano Fantasy: Music For Two Pianos

      Philips 442778-2

      3:28 am

      Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody #1, Op 19, "Midsommarvaka"

      Baltimore Sym Orch/Sergiu Comissiona
      Sergiu Comissiona Kodaly Alfven Enescu

      MMG MCD-10015

      3:41 am

      Wilhelm Stenhammar: "Midvinter," Op 24

      Swedish Radio Sym Orch & Chor/Esa-Pekka Salonen
      Serenad / Midvinter / Chitra

      Musica Sveciae MSCD-626

      3:55 am

      Canadian Trad: "Huron Carol ('Twas in the moon of winter...')"

      Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
      Christmas With The Cambridge Singers

      Collegium COLCD-111

      4:00 am

      Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Caprice, "Midnight in Seville"

      John Arpin, p

      Pro Arte CDD-515

      4:05 am

      Joaquín Turina: "Sinfonia sevillana," Op 23

      London Phil/Enrique Bátiz

      EMI CDC7-49542-2

      4:29 am

      Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 1

      "El Corpus Christi en Sevilla"

      Alicia de Larrocha, p
      Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espanola

      London 417887-2 (2)

      4:38 am

      Joaquin Turina: "Mujeres de Sevilla", Op 89 (1935)

      #3, "La macarena de garbo"

      David Buechner, p
      Turina: Mujeres Española

      Connoisseur CD-4186

      4:40 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 21 in A, K. 134

      London Phil Sym/Leinsdorf
      Mozart: Symphonies 16-20

      MCA Classics MCAD2-9812 (2)

      4:54 am

      Antonio Vivaldi: "Corrente"

      Robin Hill, g; Peter Wiltschinsky, g

      ASV CDWHL-2094

      5:00 am

      Hugo Alfvén: Festival Music, Op 25

      Stockholm Phil/Stig Westerberg

      Discofil SCD-1003

      5:05 am

      Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Romance for Violin and Orchestra

      Nilla Pierrou, v; Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Stig Westerberg

      HMV CSDS-1083

      5:15 am

      Lars-Erik Larsson: Pastoral Suite, Op 19

      CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi

      Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5157

      5:28 am

      Swedish ANON 16th c: Tempus adest floridum

      Boston Camerata/Joel Cohen
      La Primavera - La Nature Dans La Musique De La Renaissance

      Erato STU-71545

      5:30 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata no.3 in b minor, Op.58

      William Kapell, p
      Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Mozart

      RCA 68991-2

      5:54 am

      Percy Grainger: "Country Gardens"

      Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra/Timothy Reynish
      Grainger: Vol. 4 - Works for Wind Orchestra 1

      Chandos CHAN-9549

      6:00 am

      6:00 am

      With Heart and Voice

      Host Peter DuBois shares a wonderful selection of sacred choral and organ music centered on hymns and psalms of faith and assurance in these uncertain times.

      7:00 am - 12:00 pm

      7:01 am

      Thomas Linley: "Ode on the Witches and Fairies of Shakespeare"

      Overture

      Musicians of the Globe
      Thomas Linley, Jr: A Shakespeare Ode

      Philips 446689-2

      7:09 am

      Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1707)

      VI. "Aria"

      Sophie de Bardonnèche, v; Lucile Boulanger, viga; Justin Taylor, hc
      Destinées

      Alpha 1078

      7:16 am

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3, "Pastoral"

      Margaret Price, s; New Philharmonia Orch/Sir Adrian Boult
      Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Pastoral," and 5

      EMI CDC7-47214-2

      7:51 am

      René Clausen: "In Pace"

      Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy
      Eternal Rest

      Chandos CHSA-5045

      8:01 am

      Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat

      Berlin Baroque Soloists/Reinhard Goebel
      Symphonies of the Bach Family

      Hännsler Classic HC-21029

      8:09 am

      Frédéric Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65

      I. "Allegro moderato"

      Inbal Segev, vc; Juho Pohjonen, p
      Chopin & Schumann Cello Sonatas; Schumann 3 Fantasiestücke

      Avie AV-2389

      8:26 am

      Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56

      Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Colin Davis
      Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn

      RCA 60382-2-RC

      8:46 am

      Adolphus Hailstork: Symphony No. 3

      II. Moderato

      Grand Rapids Sym/David Lockington
      Hailstork: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3

      Naxos 8.559295

      9:01 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 1 in D, K. 285

      L Beznosiuk, f; P Beznosiuk, v; T Dunn, vi; R Tunnicliffe, vc
      Richard Tunnicliffe, cello,
      Mozart Flute Quartets * Beethoven Serenade

      Avie AV-2108

      9:17 am

      Alejandro Tobar: "Kalamary"

      Norwegian Radio Orch/Miguel Harth-Bedoya
      Inca Trial Connections

      Naxos 8.574266

      9:27 am

      Poppy Ackroyd: "Murmurations"

      Anna Lapwood, o
      Firedove

      Sony 19802809272

      9:32 am

      Ivo Antognini: "Come to Me"

      Pembroke College Chapel Cho, Cambridge/Anna Lapwood
      Firedove

      Sony 19802809272

      9:40 am

      Giacomo Puccini: "Manon Lescaut"

      Act 3 Intermezzo

      Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Riccardo Chailly
      Puccini: Orchestral Music

      Decca 410007-2

      9:46 am

      Henri Herz: Fantasy on Donizetti's "La fille du régiment"

      Tasmanian Sym Orch/Howard Shelley, p
      Herz: Piano Concerto No. 2 & other works

      Hyperion CDA-68100

      10:01 am

      Gaetano Donizetti: "L'elisir d'amore"

      Aria, "Una furtiva lagrima"

      Luciano Pavarotti, t; English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
      Pavarotti: Music from the Motion Picture

      Decca B0030330-02

      10:07 am

      Matilde Capuis: "Tre Momenti"

      Raphaela Gromes, vc; Festival Strings Lucerne/Daniel Dodds
      Femmes

      Sony 19658710712

      10:23 am

      Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

      Munich Phil/Pablo Heras-Casado
      Schumann: Complete Symphonies

      Harmonia Mundi HMM-902664.65

      11:01 am

      Hector Berlioz: "Harold in Italy," Op. 16

      I. "Harold in the Mountains"

      Timothy Ridout, vi; Strasbourg Phil Orch/John Nelson
      Berlioz: Harold en Italie; Les Nuits d'été

      Erato 5419719685

      11:18 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah," Op. 47

      Aria, "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"

      Marilyn Horne, ms; Vienna Opera Orch/Henry Lewis
      Opera Gold

      Decca 4788210

      11:26 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807

      Francesco Tristano, p
      Bach: The 6 English Suites

      Naïve V-8828

      11:44 am

      Doreen Carwithen: Overture, "Bishop Rock"

      London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
      Carwithen: Orchestral Works

      Chandos CHAN-9524

      12:00 - 6:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      John Stanley: Trumpet Voluntary

      Wynton Marsalis, tr; English Chamber Orch/Anthony Newman
      In Gabriel's Garden

      Sony SK-66244

      12:03 pm

      Jeremiah Clarke: "Prince of Denmark's March" (Trumpet Voluntary)

      Wynton Marsalis, tr; English Chamber Orch/Anthony Newman
      In Gabriel's Garden

      Sony SK-66244

      12:07 pm

      Ferruccio Busoni: "Improvisation on a Bach Chorale (Wie wohl ist mir)"

      Veronica Jochum & Randall Hodgkinson, p's
      Piano Masterworks of Busoni

      GM Recordings 2042-CD

      12:22 pm

      Richard Wagner: "Siegfried"

      "Forest Murmurs"

      Dresden Staatskapelle/Donald Runnicles
      Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen Highlights

      Teldec 17109-2

      12:31 pm

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Sinfonia Concertante" in E-Flat, K. 364

      Nobuko Imai, vi; Brabant Orch/Philippe Graffin, v
      Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Duos for Violin & Viola, Violin Concerto No. 3, Rondo, Adagio

      Avie AV-2127

      1:02 pm

      Dobrinka Tabakova: "Insight"

      Black Oak Ensemble
      Dance of the Night Sky

      Cedille CDR-90000237

      1:13 pm

      George Gershwin: Three Preludes (1926)

      Michael Tilson Thomas, p
      Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue, Second Rhapsody, Preludes, Unpublished Piano Works

      CBS MK-39699

      1:21 pm

      Johann Adolph Scheibe: Sinfonia a 4 in B-flat, SchW A2:002

      Concerto Copenhagen/Andrew Manze
      Scheibe: Sinfonias

      Chandos CHAN-0550

      1:29 pm

      Einojuhani Rautavaara: "Canticum Mariae Virginis"

      Latvian Radio Cho/Sigvards Kļava
      Rautavaara: Sacred Choral Music

      Ondine ODE-1223-2

      1:39 pm

      Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D, "Fandango," Op. 50, G 448

      "Grave assai; Fandango"

      Jason Vieaux, g; Escher Quartet
      Dance

      Azica ACD-71328

      1:47 pm

      Germaine Tailleferre: Violin Sonata No. 2 (1951)

      Rachel Barton Pine, v; Orion Weiss, p
      French Impressions: Chmaber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre

      Cedille CDR-90000238

      2:00 pm

      Mason Bates: Piano Concerto

      Daniil Trifonov, p; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
      My American Story: North

      DG 4865756

      2:29 pm

      Claude Debussy: "Beau soir"

      Joshua Bell, v; Frederic Chiu, p
      Joshua Bell - The Classical Collection

      Sony 88985395202

      2:31 pm

      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Twenty-Four Negro Melodies," Op. 59

      No. 24, "Wade in the Water"

      David Shaffer-Gottschalk, p
      Samuel Coleridge-Taylor * 24 Negro Melodies Opus 59

      Albany TROY-930/31

      2:35 pm

      Marcel Dupré: "Poème héroïque," Op 33

      Dallas Wind Sym/Frederick Fennell; Paul Riedo, o
      Pomp and Pipes!

      Reference RR-58

      2:45 pm

      Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor

      London Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
      Brahms: Serenade No. 2, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Hungarian Dances

      Sony SK-47195

      2:48 pm

      Maria Szymanowska: Prelude No. 4 in g minor

      Anna Ciborowska, p
      Maria Szymanowska: Piano Works

      Dux 0450

      2:50 pm

      Herbert Howells: Concerto for String Orchestra

      III. "Allegro vivo: ritmico e giocoso"

      Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
      Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings

      Chandos CHSA-5291

      3:01 pm

      Mily Balakirev: Overture on the Theme of a Spanish March

      USSR Sym Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov
      Balakirev: King Lear, Suite in B Minor, Overture on the Theme of a Spanish March

      Melodiya SUCD-1000153

      3:15 pm

      Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in D minor, R. 431a, "Il Gran Mogol"

      Katy Bircher, f; La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler
      Vivaldi: The French Connection 2

      Avie AV-2218

      3:24 pm

      Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28

      No. 15 in D-flat, "Raindrop"

      Ensemble Wien-Berlin
      Concert à la Carte

      Sony SK-42175

      3:30 pm

      Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"

      Chicago Sym Orch/Jean Martinon
      Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso, Mother Goose, Introduction and Allegro, Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

      RCA 63683-2

      3:45 pm

      Emiliana de Zubeldía: "Esquisses d'une après-midi basque (Sketches of a Basque Afternoon)"

      Antonio Oyarzábal, p
      La Muse Oubliée

      IBS Classical IBS-52021

      3:52 pm

      Joaquín Turina: "La oración del torero," Op. 34

      Euclid Quartet
      Breve

      Afinat AF-2401

      4:01 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903

      Jeremy Denk, p
      c.1300-c.2000

      Nonesuch 563316-2

      4:14 pm

      Knut Nystedt: "Immortal Bach (Komm, süsser Tod)," Op. 153

      Berlin Radio Cho/Simon Halsey
      XL- Choral Works For 40 Voices

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-801873

      4:20 pm

      Johannes Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture, Op. 80

      New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
      Brahms: Symphony No. 4/ Academic Festival Overture/ Tragic Overture

      Sony SMK-47538

      4:31 pm

      Reynaldo Hahn: String Quartet in A minor (1939)

      Quatuor Parisii
      Hahn: Piano Quintet in F minor; String Quartets in A minor & in F

      Valois V-4848

      4:50 pm

      Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 24 in A minor

      Alison Balsom, tr
      Caprice: Trumpet Transcriptions

      EMI 53255-2

      4:55 pm

      George Frideric Handel: "Amadigi di Gaula"

      Aria, "Sento la gioia"

      Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
      Alistair Ross, harpsichord,
      Magic Trumpet

      Warner 515744

      5:01 pm

      Edward Elgar: "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36

      Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti
      Elgar: Enigma Variations; Kodály: The Peacock; Blacher: Paganini Variations

      Decca 452853-2

      5:30 pm

      Edward Elgar: "Salut d'amour," Op. 12

      Tasmin Little, v; John Lenehan, p
      50 Best Violin

      Warner 0190295481605

      5:34 pm

      Florence Price: Piano Concerto in D minor

      Han Chen, p; Malmö Opera Orch/John Jeter
      Price: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Piano Concerto, and Dances in the Canebrakes

      Naxos 8.559952

      5:52 pm

      Nigel Westlake: "Songs from the Forest"

      John Williams & Timothy Kain, g's
      The Mantis and Moon - Guitar Duets from Around the World

      Sony SK-62007

      6:00 - 8:00 pm

      6:00 pm

      Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts

      Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11; Dale Clevenger, horn; Wagner Overture to "Rienzi;" Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1; Byron Janis, piano; Fritz Reiner, conductor; Stravinsky "Fireworks," Op. 4; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Mendelssohn Overture to "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," Op. 21; Jean Martinon, conductor; Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.

      7:57 pm

      Astor Piazzolla: "María de Buenos Aires"

      "Milonga de la anunciación"

      Marina Gentile, voice; I Solisti Aquilani/Vittorio Antonellini
      Astor Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires

      Dynamic CDS-185

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

      Diaspora Elbio Barilari introduces Fiesta’s listeners to orchestral works highlighting the plight of immigrants from Latin America. With music by Cuban, Puerto Rican and Uruguayan composers who now reside in the USA: Roberto Sierra, Paquito D’ Rivera, and Elbio’s own work titled "Immigrant Music."

      9:00 - 11:00 pm

      9:00 pm

      Collectors' Corner with Henry Fogel

      Light Classics

      A program of overtures, waltzes, ballet suites, and other light classics.

      11:00 pm

      11:00 pm

      Maurice Ravel: "Miroirs"

      "La vallée des cloches"

      Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon
      Ravel: Five O'Clock Foxtrot, Bolero, La Valse

      Cala CACD-1004

      11:05 pm

      Henriette Renié: "Contemplation"

      Paris Harp Sextet
      The Paris Harp Sextet

      Adda 581124

      11:09 pm

      George Frideric Handel: Harp Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 4, No. 6

      Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
      Handel, Boieldieu, Mozart: Concertos for Harp

      Analekta AN 2 9990

      11:22 pm

      Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "Vom Himmel hoch (From the sky above)" BWV 738

      Lionel Rogg, o
      Bach Organ Works

      Harmonia Mundi HMX-290772.833 (12)

      11:24 pm

      Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

      Chicago Sym Orch Members/Pierre Boulez
      The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19, Sz 73 / Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta Sz 106

      DG 447747-2

      11:54 pm

      Ferenc Farkas: "Contrafacta Hungarica" (1974)

      #6, "Heiduckentanz"

      Les Vents de Montréal/Jacques Lacombe

      Radio Canada Int'l MVCD-1105