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Playlist for Saturday, October 25, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Stephen Heller: "The Trout (after Schubert)"
Frank Glazer, p
Music of a Bygone Era
12:05 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, "Trout"
F Glazer, p; L Sorkin, v; I Ilmer, vi; G Sopkin, vc; H Siegel, db
George Sopkin, cello,
Quintet For Piano And Strings In A, D. 667 "The Trout" • String Quartet No. 14 In D Minor, D. 810 "Death And The Maiden"
12:41 am
Franz Schubert: Song, "An die Nachtigall," D 497
Lucia Popp, s; Graham Johnson, p
The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 17
12:43 am
Leo Smit: Piano Concerto (1937)
Ronald Brautigam, p; Netherlands Radio Chamber Orch/Ed Spanjaard
12:55 am
Leo Smit: Twelve Pieces for Piano Four Hands (1941)
#11, "Wiegelied"
Frans Van Ruth, p; Marjes Benoist, p
1:00 am
Maurice Ravel: "Miroirs"
"La vallée des cloches"
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sir Simon Rattle
Percy Grainger: In A Nutshell * City of Birmingham * Sir Simon Rattle
1:05 am
Marin Marais: "La sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris"
Les Concerts du Monde/Keith Clark
Movies Go Baroque
1:10 am
Georg Christoph Wagenseil: "Bells in the Vatican at Rome"
Joan Benson, clavichord
The Joan Benson Collection
1:12 am
Gordon Jacob: "William Byrd" Suite
#6, "The Bells"
Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell
British And American Band Classics
1:16 am
William Byrd: "My Lord of Oxenford's Masque"
Dowland Consort/Jakob Lindberg
Heavenly Noyse
1:18 am
George Whitefield Chadwick: "Suite symphonique"
Czech State Phil/José Serebrier
Chadwick: Aphrodite, Suite Symphonique, Elegy
1:54 am
Burleigh: "Four Rocky Mountain Sketches" (1913)
#4, "Avalanche"
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell
2:00 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Der Freischütz"
"Aria"
Horreaux-Trehard Duo
Two Guitars at the Opera
2:05 am
Carl Maria von Weber: Symphony #2 in c
Queensland Phil/John Georgiadis
WEBER: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Turandot Overture / Silvana
2:24 am
Paul Taffanel: Fantasy on themes from Weber's "Der Freischütz"
Mathieu Dufour, f; Kuang-Hao Huang, p
Fantaisie
2:36 am
Carl Maria von Weber: "Der Freischütz"
"Bauerwalzer"
Horreaux-Trehard Duo
Two Guitars at the Opera
2:38 am
Serge Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges" Suite, Op. 33a
Kansas City Sym/Michael Stern
Miraculous Metamorphoses
2:54 am
Serge Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges," Op. 33
March
Millar Brass Ensemble/Stephen Squires
MILLER BRASS ENSEMBLE: Brass Surround
3:00 am
Peter Philips: Dolorosa Pavan and Galliard
Parley of Instruments
Consort Music By Peter Philips
3:05 am
Anon 16th c: "Gagliarda"
New London Consort/Philip Pickett
Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection
3:09 am
John Dowland: Galliard
Paul O'Dette, l
Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol. 5
3:11 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in d, Op. 13
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Vasily Petrenko
3:55 am
Samuel Scheidt: "Galliard Battaglia"
St Louis Brass Quintet
Baroque Brass
4:00 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Rusalka," Op. 114
"Song to the Moon"
Ophélie Gaillard, vc; Royal Phil/Timothy Redmond
Ophélie Gaillard * Dreams
4:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: Serenade for Strings in E, Op 22
Appassionata/Daniel Myssyk
Appassionata / Myssyk * Serenades Tcheques
4:34 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Divertimento (Feldparthie) in B-Flat, H II:43
Finale, Rondo: "Allegretto"
Melbourne Windpower
4:35 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert Rondo in D, K. 382
Malcolm Bilson, p; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
The Piano Concertos
4:44 am
Carl Czerny: "Rondoletto concertant" in F, Op 149
Kaunori Seo, f; Makoto Ueno, p
CZERNY, C.: Flute and Piano Music - 3 Rondeaux Faciles et Brillans / Introduction, Variations and Finale / Duo Concertant (Kazunori Seo, Makoto Ueno)
4:54 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Wind Divertimento in B-Flat, H II:46
4th mvt, Rondo
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Haydn - Danzi - Bozza - Ibert - Villa-Lobos
5:00 am
Enrique Granados: Opera, "Goyescas" (1916)
Intermezzo
London Sym Orch/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
5:05 am
Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
London Sym/Leopold Stokowski
5:19 am
Carlo Munier: Capriccio Spagnuolo, Op 276
Duo Capriccioso
N/A
5:26 am
Manuel de Falla: "Canción" (1900)
Miguel Baselga, p
Complete Solo Piano Music
5:28 am
Franz Schubert: "Rosamunde" Incidental Music, D 797
Suite
Czech Phil/Zdenek Kosler
5:54 am
Charles Ives: Ballad from "Rosamunde"
Thomas Hampson, br; Armen Guzelimian, p
Lieder
12:00 - 2:00 pm
12:00 pm
From Aix-en-Provence Festival
Bizet's Pearl Fishers
Elsa Benoit (Leïla); Pene Pati (Nadir); Florian Sempey (Zurga); Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Nourabad); Grand Avignon Opera Chorus & Les Musiciens du Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor. Sung in French.
2:00 - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Saturday Afternoon Music
2:01 pm
Johann Strauss II: "Emperor Waltz," Op. 437
Berlin Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Johann Strauss in Berlin
2:15 pm
Cécile Chaminade: Three Pieces, Op. 31
No. 3, "Bohémienne"
Duo FAE
Dissidents of the Gilded Age
2:22 pm
Toby Hession: "She Walks in Beauty"
Voces8
Enchanted Isle
2:28 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
Mozart: Flute Concertos
2:54 pm
Johann Strauss II: "Die Fledermaus" Quadrille, Op. 363
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Strauss: Radetzky March
3:00 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring)," Op. 410
Sumi Jo, s; Vienna Volksoper Orch/Rudolf Bibl
A Tribute To Johann Strauss - Echoes From Vienna
3:08 pm
Sophie Menter: "Ungarische Zigeunerweisen" (Concerto in Hungarian Style)
Leslie Howard, p; Budapest Sym Orch/Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Liszt: The Complete Piano Music
3:27 pm
Miklos Rózsa: "Ben-Hur"
Love Theme
Daniel Hope, v; Royal Stockholm Phil Orch/Alexander Shelley
Escape to Paradise
3:30 pm
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "Sea Murmurs"
Daniel Hope, v; Maria Todtenhaupt, h
Escape to Paradise
3:33 pm
Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Cello Sonata No. 7 in D
Abel Selaocoe, vc; Elizabeth Kenny, th; Kadialy Kouyate, kora; Fred Thomas, db
Fred Thomas, double bass,
Where is Home / Hae Ke Kae
3:45 pm
Claude Debussy: "Suite bergamasque"
III. "Clair de lune"
Jess Gillam, ssx; Jess Gillam Ensemble
PRISM, Vol. 2
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
An interview with VOCES8 artistic director Barnaby Smith and alto Katie Jeffrie-Harris on the ensemble's twentieth anniversary season.
5:00 - 8:00 pm
5:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
5:01 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song," Op. 333
Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel
A nos amours
5:15 pm
Franz Schreker: Intermezzo for Strings, Op 8
Cologne Gürzenich Orch Strings/James Conlon
Schreker: Orchestral Music
5:23 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in E minor, H XV:12
Trio Ernest
Haydn All-Stars
5:43 pm
Charles Gounod: "Faust"
Recitative and cavatina, "Quel trouble...Salut, demeure chaste et pure"
Benjamin Bernheim, t; Prague Phil/Emmanuel Villaume
Benjamin Bernheim
5:50 pm
Charles Gounod: "Faust"
Waltz
Leslie Howard, p
Liszt at the Opera: The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 6
6:00 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Op. 314
Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber
Waltzes, Polkas, and Marches
6:12 pm
Maria Theresia von Paradis: "Erinnerung ans Schicksal"
Boulanger Trio
Who's Afraid Of...? Boulanger Trio
6:15 pm
Monique Serf: "Göttingen"
Boulanger Trio
Who's Afraid Of...? Boulanger Trio
6:18 pm
Rosa Linn: "Snap"
Boulanger Trio
Who's Afraid Of...? Boulanger Trio
6:23 pm
Stacy Garrop: "Terra Nostra"
Chorus, "A Blade of Grass/I Bequeath Myself"
Soloists; Cho's; Northwestern U Sym Orch/Stephen Alltop
David Govertsen, bass-baritone,
Terra Nostra: Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
6:29 pm
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Hilary Hahn, v; St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
Barber & Meyer: Violin Concertos
6:53 pm
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Septura
Brass Septet Music, Vol. 3
7:01 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Roses from the South," Op. 388
Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti
2018 New Year's Concert
7:12 pm
Cedric Adderley: "Allegro giocoso"
Meisha Adderley & Stacey Holliday, p's
Adderley & Holliday: Piano Duo Project
7:19 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C, R. 179a, "Per Anna Maria"
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, v; Les Ombres
Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli: Violin Concertos
7:35 pm
Maurice Ravel: "La valse"
Lara Downes, p
Invitation to the Dance
7:49 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Wiener Blut," Op. 354
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, s; Jonas Kaufmann, t; Vienna Phil/Ádám Fischer
Wien
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sample some of the fun to be had live on Folkstage with highlights from the past year.
8:00 pm
The Dangling Participles: I Put a Spell On You (Hawkins)/Isabel (Kaufmann)
The Dangling Participles
Folkstage: The Dangling Participles at St. Tim's
8:12 pm
Bobcat Opossum: This Land is Your Land (Guthrie)
Bobcat Opossum
Folkstage: Fox Valley Folk Festival Preview (2025)
8:22 pm
Andrew Sa: Always Been There
Andrew Sa
Folkstage: Haiku Milieu (2025)
8:27 pm
Emily Hurd: Easy on the Ice
Emily Hurd
Folkstage: Haiku Milieu (2025)
8:35 pm
Elexa Dawson: Riddle Song
Elexa Dawson
Stay Put
8:38 pm
Sons of the Never Wrong: What If?
Sons of the Never Wrong
Feather and the Starry Crown
8:43 pm
Mercedes Escobar: Such is Life in the Tropics
Mercedes Escobar
Folkstage: WFF Preview (2025)
8:45 pm
Joy Clark: Shine
Joy Clark
Folkstage: WFF Preview (2025)
8:54 pm
Owen Walsh: Goodnight, Irene (Lead Belly)
Owen Walsh
Folkstage: Owen Walsh (2025)
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Made in Chicago: a cavalcade of Windy City folksinger and songs about our hometown to accompany WFMT’s on-air membership drive.
9:00 pm
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1)
Lead Belly
Midnight Special
9:01 pm
Jason Benefield: Chicago Song
Jason Benefield
single
9:05 pm
Sons of the Never Wrong: Stand Up, Shout Out
Sons of the Never Wrong
Feather and the Starry Crown
9:14 pm
Elexa Dawson: Stay Put
Elexa Dawson
Stay Put
9:18 pm
Tom Dundee: Don't It Get Chilly When the Sun Goes Down
Tom Dundee
Fleeting Moment (Live 1973-2006), Disc 1
9:25 pm
Ernie Hendrickson: Do It For Love
Ernie Hendrickson
Roll On
9:29 pm
Claudia Schmidt: The Quiet Way
Claudia Schmidt
Reimagining
9:37 pm
Steve Goodman: You Never Even Call Me By My Name (Goodman/Prine)
Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman
9:41 pm
Fox Crossing Stringband: Good News (Pafralides)
Fox Crossing Stringband
Bluegrass on my Mind
9:50 pm
James McCandless: Red Bandanna (McCandless)
James McCandless
Sea of Freedom
10:01 pm
Sons of the Never Wrong: Feather and the Starry Crown
Sons of the Never Wrong
Feather and the Starry Crown
10:09 pm
Elexa Dawson: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Elexa Dawson
Stay Put
10:11 pm
John Prine: Caravan of Fools
John Prine
Tree of Forgiveness
10:19 pm
Corky Siegel: Deja Vous
Corky Siegel
Something Wrong
10:23 pm
Selken (Heather Styka): Wash Your Face
Selken (Heather Styka)
The Winds
10:30 pm
Aaron Kelly -and- Anne Heaton: Going Home - and - Amidst the Chaos
Aaron Kelly -and- Anne Heaton
Folkstage: Haiku Milieu (2025)
10:41 pm
Pierce Crask: Anybody Out There
Pierce Crask
Rising River
10:45 pm
Sons of the Never Wrong: Nowhere to Go (Song for the nihilist)
Sons of the Never Wrong
Feather and the Starry Crown
10:53 pm
Elexa Dawson: Roots Grow
Elexa Dawson
Stay Put
11:00 pm
Special Consensus ft. Greg Blake, Ashby Frank: The Singer (N. Allen)
Special Consensus ft. Greg Blake, Ashby Frank
Been All Around This World
11:03 pm
Sons of the Never Wrong: Sing, Sing, Sing
Sons of the Never Wrong
Feather and the Starry Crown
11:13 pm
Anne Hills: Sure Has Grown (M. Smith)
Anne Hills
Every Town - More Songs of Michael Smith
11:17 pm
Jamie O'Reilly: "Hey Kid"
Jamie O'Reilly
In Old Chicago
11:27 pm
Michael Smith: Famous in France [LIVE]
Michael Smith
Folkstage: Michael Smith 2003
11:31 pm
The Henhouse Prowlers: Space Man
The Henhouse Prowlers
Unravel
11:39 pm
Elexa Dawson: Baling Hay
Elexa Dawson
Stay Put
11:42 pm
Susan Werner: "Barbed Wire Boys"
Susan Werner
New Non-Fiction
11:50 pm
Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged)
Laura Love
She Loved Red
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