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      Playlist for Wednesday, October 30, 2024

      12:00 - 6:00 am

      12:00 am

      Jules Massenet: "Thais"

      "Meditation"

      Renaud Capuçon, v; Bordeaux Auitaine Orch/Yves abel
      Massenet Edition

      London 4783963 (23)

      12:05 am

      Camille Saint-Saëns: "Ascanio" (1890)

      "Ballet-Divertissement"

      Malmö Sym/Jun Märkl
      Saint-Saens: Ascanio

      Naxos 8.574033

      12:30 am

      Moise Weinberg: The Golden Key" (1955)

      "The Dance of the Cat and the Fox"

      St Petersburg State Sym/Vladimir Lande
      Weinberg

      Naxos 8.573085

      12:31 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8

      Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
      Shostakovich - The Complete Trios & Sonatas

      Arabesque Z-6698 (2)

      12:43 am

      George Frideric Handel: Trio Sonata in B-flat, Op. 2, No. 3

      The Brook Street Band
      Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2

      Avie AV-2282

      12:55 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Love in Bath"

      Hornpipe

      Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63374-2

      1:00 am

      George Butterworth: Two English Idylls (1911)

      No. 2, "The Banks of Green Willow"

      London Phil/Adrian Boult
      On the Banks of Green Willow

      London 4613542

      1:05 am

      Ernest Farrar: Rhapsody #1, Op 9, "The Open Road"

      Philharmonia Orch/Alasdair Mitchell
      Farrar: Orchestral Music

      Chandos CHAN-9586

      1:15 am

      Cecil Coles: From the Scottish Highlands

      BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins
      Coles: Music From Behind The Lines

      Hyperion CDA-67293

      1:27 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "Be kind to the young thing," H XXXIa:54

      Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
      Haydn Edition

      Brilliant Classics 95594 (160)

      1:29 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 96 in D, "Miracle"

      Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
      Symphony No. 94 'Surprise', Mit Dem Paukenschlag and Symphony No. 96 'Miracle'

      L'Oiseau Lyre 414330-2

      1:54 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Scottish Folksong, "Fife and a' the lands about it", H XXXIa:29

      Jamie MacDougall, t; Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
      Haydn Edition

      Brilliant Classics 95594 (160)

      2:00 am

      Fanny Mendelssohn: "Das Jahr"

      "November"

      Martina Frezzotti, p
      Fanny Mendelssohn PIano Music

      Piano Classics PCL-10238

      2:05 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: Violin and Piano Concerto in d (1923)

      Sidney Weiss, v; Jeanne Weiss, p; Orch/Sidney Weiss
      Haydn, Mendelssohn: Concertos

      Crystal CD-511

      2:35 am

      Josephine LANG: Song, "Wie, wenn die Sonn' aufgeht"

      Heike Hallaschka, s; Heidi Kommerell, p
      Josephine Lang-Lieder

      Audite 97.472

      2:36 am

      Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata in G (1923-7)

      Chantal Juillet, v; Pascal Rogé, p
      Ravel: 3 Sonatas For Violin; Tzigane; Habanera; Kaddish; Berceuse

      London 448612-2

      2:54 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Cinq mélodies populaires grecques"

      No. 2, "Là-bas, vers l'église"

      D'Anna Fortunato, s; Susan Miron, h
      D'Anna Fortunato: Harp Songs & Interludes

      Northeastern NR-231-CD

      3:00 am

      Edward Elgar: "Sospiri," Op 70

      Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst
      Elgar & Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Music

      Chandos CHAN-8432

      3:05 am

      John Lanchbery: "Tales of Beatrix Potter" film music

      "The Tale of Pigling Bland"

      Royal Opera House Orch/John Lanchbery

      EMI/Ang CDC7-54537-2

      3:20 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Album for Male Voices," Op 30

      #5, "Dae ae den storste Darleheit"

      Malmo Chamber Cho/Dan-Olof Stenlund

      Simax PSC-1027

      3:22 am

      Edvard Grieg: String Quartet in g, Op. 27

      Guarneri String Quartet
      String Quartets, Op. 56 "Voces Intimae", Op. 27

      Philips 426286-2

      3:55 am

      Edvard Grieg: "Album for Male Voices," Op 30

      #6, "Springdans"

      Malmo Chamber Cho/Dan-Olof Stenlund

      Simax PSC-1027

      4:00 am

      Serge Prokofiev: "Hamlet," Op 77

      "The Ghost of Hamlet's Father"

      Martha Argerich, p; Sergei Babayan, p
      Prokofiev

      DG 4799854

      4:05 am

      Edward MacDowell: "Hamlet and Ophelia," Op 22

      Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa
      MACDOWELL: Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Hamlet and Ophelia

      Naxos 8.559075

      4:18 am

      John Knowles Paine: "As You Like It" Overture, Op 28

      New York Phil/Zubin Mehta

      New World NW-374-2

      4:29 am

      Matthew Harris: Shakespeare Songs

      "Take, O Take Those Lips Away"

      Chicago A Cappella
      Shall I Compare Thee? Choral Songs of Shakespear Texts

      Cedille CDR-90000085

      4:30 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata no.7 in c minor, Op.30/2

      Robert Mann, v; Stephen Hough, p

      Musicmasters MMD-60182/3 (2)

      4:54 am

      John Hingeston: Fantasia

      Nick Norton, tr, Anthony Plog, tr, Ensemble
      Colors Of The Baroque

      Summit DCD-108

      5:00 am

      Franz Liszt: Song, "Oh! Quand je dors"

      Hein Jung, s; Grigorius Zamparas, p

      Centaur CRC-3386

      5:04 am

      Francesco Rosetti: Clarinet Concerto #2 in E-Flat

      Dieter Klöcker, cl; Baden-Baden Southwest GermanRadio Sym/Holger Schröter-Seebeck
      Antonio Rosetti: Clarinet Concertos 1 & 2 - Concerto For 2 Horns

      CPO 999621-2

      5:23 am

      Franz Liszt: "Années de pèlerinage:" 1st Year, Switzerland (1848-54)

      No. 8, "Le mal du pays (Heimweh)"

      Muza Rubackyte, p

      Lyrinx LYR-2216 (3)

      5:30 am

      Franz Liszt: "Années de pèlerinage:" 1st Year, Switzerland (1848-54)

      No. 3, "Pastorale"

      Jerome Lowenthal, p
      Franz Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage (Complete)

      Bridge 9307-A/C (3)

      5:32 am

      Frank Ticheli: Clarinet Concerto

      Nathan Williams, cl; University of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry Junkin
      Wine Dark Sea

      Reference Recordings RR-137

      5:54 am

      Francis Johnson: "Bingham's Cotillion"

      Chestnut Brass Company
      The Music Of Francis Johnson And His Contemporaries: Early 19th-Century Black Composers

      Musicmasters 7029-2-C

      6:00 am - 7:00 pm

      6:00 am

      Mornings with Lisa Flynn

      Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.

      6:30 am

      WFMT membership drive programming

      Until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 279-2100 or by visiting wfmt.com.

      7:00 pm

      7:00 pm

      Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

      Czech Out Those Bohemians. A survey of a wide range of music by composers from the regions around the present-day Czech Republic, from an Anonymous composer's "Nobis Est Natus Hodie" from the Codex "Speciálník" to Antonín Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, as well as works by Bedřich Smetana, Josef Suk, and many others.

      8:00 - 10:00 pm

      8:01 pm

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"

      Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs
      Haydn: Symphonies

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901849

      8:33 pm

      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Viola da gamba Sonata in D, Wq 137

      Paolo Pandolfo, viga; Rinaldo Alessandrini, hc
      CPE Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Basso Continuo

      Tactus TC-71020501

      9:01 pm

      Ernest Farrar: "The Forsaken Merman," Op. 20

      Philharmonia Orch/Alasdair Mitchell
      Farrar: Orchestral Music

      Chandos CHAN-9586

      9:30 pm

      Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles, Op. 23

      Todd Levy, cl; Jeannie Yu, p
      Rhapsodie: 20th-Century Clarinet Classics

      Avie AV-2367

      9:47 pm

      George Butterworth: Two English Idylls

      St. Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
      Warlock: Capriol Suite; Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

      Decca 421391-2

      9:58 pm

      George Butterworth: Song-Cycle, "A Shropshire Lad" (1911)

      No. 3, "Think no more, lad"

      Bryn Terfel, b-br; Malcolm Martineau, p
      The Vagabond

      DG 445946-2

      10:00 pm - 12:00 am

      10:00 pm

      Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

      Monteverdi Vespers

      Václav Luks leads Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 in Claudio Monteverdi’s masterful "Vespers for the Blessed Virgin." Recorded live in concert November 10, 2023 in Dvořák Hall, Prague.

      11:28 pm

      Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 2 in E, Op. 31

      Linos Ensemble
      Piano Quintets Op. 30 & 31

      CPO 999194-2