Playlist for Saturday, September 6, 2025

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

7:00 am

Weekend Mornings

With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.

11:00 am

Introductions

The Porphyrion String Quartet and The Hemingway Quartet. Music by Haydn, Haas, Dvořák, Brahms and Prokofiev.

12:00 pm

From the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas & Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins

"Dido and Aeneas" cast: Danielle De Niese (Dido); Jóhann Kristinsson (Aeneas); Julie Roset (Belinda); Jasmin White (Sorceress); Sara Swietlicki (2nd Woman/2nd Witch); Katherine Koester (1st Witch); Lasse Flaaten Husmer (Spirit); Kieran Carrel (Sailor); "The Seven Deadly Sins" cast: Danielle De Niese (Anna I and Anna II); Kristoffer Appel (Father); Benjamin Nellemose (Brother); Mads Skovgaard Andersen (Brother); Per Hoyer (Mother). Malmö Opera Chorus and Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Geoffrey Paterson, conductor. Sung in English.

2:00 pm

Afternoon Music

4:00 pm

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield joins WFMT to pay tribute to the iconic Swedish tenor Jussi Björling (February 5, 1911–September 9, 1960).

5:00 pm

Weekend Evening Music

7:00 pm

Sounds Classical

Who Got Next Vol. 5

Hosts Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael share a playlist of their favorite composers taking the classical field by storm. They also share from an interview with composer-violinist Curtis Stewart.

8:00 pm

Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

From the archives: Anais Mitchell, currently of Bonny Light Horsemen, appeared solo on Folkstage years before her Hadestown musical became a Broadway phenomenon. Hear her distinctive voice as captured in 2010.

9:00 pm

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

September songs populate the playlist as “the days dwindle down” and summer wanes on the eve of the Harvest Moon.