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Playlist for Thursday, September 4, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Morricone: "The Mission"
"Gabriel's Oboe; The Falls"
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Roma Sinfonietta/Ennio Morricone
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
12:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007
Yo-Yo Ma, vc
The Cello Suites: Inspired By Bach
12:23 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Trio Sonata No. 6 in G, BWV 530
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Chris Thile, man; Edgar Meyer, db
Bach Trios
12:36 am
Dietrich Buxtehude: Trio Sonata in G, Op 1/2
Catherine Manson, v; Paolo Pandolfo, viga; Ton Koopman, hc
Complete Chamber Music
12:43 am
Dietrich Buxtehude: "Puer natus in Bethlehem"
Nicholas Danby, o
12:44 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas brasileiras" No. 9
New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Music Of Villa-Lobos
12:54 am
Georg Böhm: Clavier Suite in F
"Allemande"
Rinaldo Alessandrini, hc
Harpsichord Music by Georg Bohm
1:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"
"Una voce poco fà"
Cecilia Bartoli, ms; Orch La Scintilla/Adam Fischer
Sospiri * Cecilia Bartoli
1:05 am
Gioachino Rossini: "L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)"
Overture
Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Gianluigi Gelmetti
Rossini: Favorite Overtures
1:12 am
Italian Anon 14th c: Trotto
Newberry Consort/Mary Springfels
Il Solazzo- Music For A Medieval Banquet
1:14 am
William Alwyn: Symphony #1 (1950)
London Sym Orch, Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Symphony No. 1
1:55 am
Doreen Carwithen: "Suffolk Suite"
#4, "Framlingham Castle"
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Carwithen: Orchestral Works
2:00 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Oratorio, "Der Tag des Gerichts (The Day of Judgment)"
Overture and Opening Chorus
Music of the Baroque Cho and Orch/Thomas Wikman
Telemann: The Day of Judgement
2:05 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D
Maurice André, tr; Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
2:14 am
Modest Mussorgsky: "Sorotchinsky Fair"
"Gopak"
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Rachmaninov- Piano Transcriptions
2:16 am
Modest Mussorgsky: "Boris Godunov"
Act 3, Scene 2: "Polonaise" (Sandomir castle)
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Dances From The Opera
2:19 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Mazeppa"
Cossack Dance
Indianapolis Sym Orch/Raymond Leppard
2:24 am
Eduard Napravnik: "Concerto symphonique," Op 27
Evgeny Soifertis, p; BBC Scottish Sym/Alexxander Titov
Romantic Concerto 37
2:55 am
Alexander Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op 74
#2
Piers Lane, p
3:00 am
Leo Délibes: "Sylvia"
Procession of Bacchus
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Greatest Hits * The Ballet * Vol III
3:05 am
Albert Roussel: Suite #2 fr "Bacchus et Ariane," Op 43
St Louis Sym Orch/Hans Vonk
3:23 am
Rudolph Ganz: St Louis Symphony March (1923)
St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
Classic Marches
3:26 am
Francis Johnson: "St Louis Fire Company's Anniversary Parade March"
Chestnut Brass Company/Tamara Brooks
The Music Of Francis Johnson And His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers
3:29 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "The Ruins of Athens," Op. 113
"Turkish March"
St Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Classic Marches
3:30 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight"
Igor Kipnis, forte-p
3:46 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Egmont," Op.84
I. Overture
London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
3:53 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Seven Bagatelles, Op 33
#7 in A-Flat, Presto
Melvyn Tan, forte-p
4:00 am
Thomas Arne: "Alfred, An English Masque" (1740)
"Rule, Britannia"
Peter Pears, t; Aldeburg Festival Cho, Orch/Imogen Holst
4:05 am
Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2
City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
Holst: St. Paul's Suite, Double Concerto, Fugal Concerto, Brook Green Suite
4:18 am
Malcolm Arnold: Brass Quintet
St Louis Brass Quintet
Brass Bonanza - Gabrieli, Speer, Arnold, Hovhaness, Et Al
4:29 am
Malcolm Arnold: Little Suite #2 for Brass Band, Op 93
3rd mvt (Finale), "Galop"
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry F Junkin
Arnold For Band
4:31 am
Franz Danzi: Wind Quintet in e, Op 67/2
Aulos Wind Quintet
4:44 am
Luigi Boccherini: Serenade for strings, "La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid"
Moscow Concertino/Yevgeni Bushkov
4:54 am
Tomaso Albinoni: Suite in G
3rd mvt, "Allegro"
Rolf Smedvig, tr
Virtuoso - Rolf Smedvig
5:00 am
Jean Sibelius: "Kuolema," Op. 44, No. 62
"Valse triste," Op 44/1
Hallé Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
5:05 am
Jean Sibelius: "Romance," Op. 24, No. 9
Ian Hominick, p
Off the Beaten Path * Ian Hominick, Piano
5:09 am
Jean Sibelius: "Finlandia," Op. 26
Helsinki Phil/Paavo Berglund
Sibelius: Finlandia, Tapiola, Etc.
5:16 am
Jean Sibelius: Five "Danses champêtres," Op. 106
Ruggiero Ricci, v; Sylvia Rabinoff, p
5:32 am
Jean Sibelius: Song, "Souda, souda sinisorsa (Swim, Duck, Swim)"
Tom Krause, br; Gustav Djupsjöbacka, p
Songs
5:33 am
Jean Sibelius: "Scènes historiques" II, Op. 66
New Zealand Sym/Pietari Inkinen
Sibelius: Scènes Historiques I and II
5:53 am
Jean Sibelius: Six Bagatelles, Op. 97
No. 6, Humoresque II
Erik Tawaststjerna, p
Sibelius - Complete Original Piano Music, Vol.5
6:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:04 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Orchestral Favorites
6:17 am
William Grant Still: Folk Suite No. 1
Alexa Still, f; Susan DeWitt Smith, p; New Zealand String Quartet
Still: Summerland
6:25 am
Gabriel Fauré: Barcarolle No. 2 in G, Op. 41
Charles Owen, p
Fauré: The Complete Barcarolles
6:33 am
Eduard Tubin: Estonian Dance Suite (1938)
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Tubin: String-Concertos
6:47 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G, H XV:25
Guarneri Trio Prague
Haydn: Piano Trios
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
7:00 am
WFMT's fourth annual "Bach to School" membership drive
Until 7:00 pm. Each year, WFMT's Bach to School program provides free musical instruments to hundreds of schools, supporting thousands of students in their musical journey. This fall, 100 Chicago schools will each receive two acoustic guitars -- new resource to help students and educators deepen their connection to the rich world of music. Tune in to learn how you can help advance a bright and accessible future for music in our community. Call (773) 279-2100 or visit wfmt.com.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Les Six
The members of the anti-Wagner and anti-Impressionist group of 1920’s Montparnasse called "Les Six" were Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983).
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:01 pm
Stephen Foster: "Hard Times Come Again No More"
Oregon Guitar Quartet
Something Wondrous Fair
8:12 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C, R 425
Avi Avital, m; Venice Baroque Orch
Vivaldi
8:22 pm
Franz Schreker: "Prelude to A Drama"
Cologne Gürzenich Orch/James Conlon
Schreker: Orchestral Music
8:41 pm
Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Bk VIII, "Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi" (1638)
"Hor che'l ciel e la terra"
Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen
Monteverdi: Madrigals of Love and Loss
8:51 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Introduction and "Polonaise brillante" in C, Op. 3
Steven Isserlis, vc; Dénes Várjon, p
Chopin: Cello Sonata; Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
9:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 27 in G, K. 199/161b
III. Presto
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Mozart: Symphonies 24, 25, 26, 27, 32
9:08 pm
Richard Wagner: "Albumblatt" in C for Princess Metternich
Danbi Um, v; Amy Yang, p
Much Ado – Romantic Violin Masterpieces
9:13 pm
Thomas Adès: Three Studies from Couperin
Chamber Orch of Europe/Thomas Adès
Adès: Tevot, Violin Concerto, etc
9:28 pm
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Beaux Arts Trio; Kim Kashkashian, vi
Fauré: Trio Op. 120, Quartet Op. 15 No. 1
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The New York Philharmonic This Week
Wagner, arr. Maazel "The Ring Without Words;" Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor.
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