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Playlist for Friday, June 6, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Scott Joplin: "Bethena: A Concert Waltz"
William Bolcom, p
12:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 4 in G, BWV 1049
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
12:19 am
Paul Chihara: "Bagatelles" (2010)
No. 8, "Hommage aux trois B's (Bach, Beethoven, Bolcom)"
Quyhn Nguyen, p
Paul Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Bagatelles, Reverie, Ami
12:21 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet #12 in E-Flat, Op 127
Hagen String Quartet
String Quartets Op. 127, 132
12:54 am
Giovanni Paisiello: "Il Mondo della Luna"
Primo Balletto
Monteverdi Conservatory Orch/Fabio Neri
1:00 am
Hyacinthe Jadin: Overture in F
Wallace Collection/John Wallace
Berlioz 'Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale'
1:05 am
Hyacinthe Jadin: Piano Sonata in F, Op 5/3
Nicholas Fuller, forte-p
Sonates Pour Pianoforte
1:23 am
Hector Berlioz: "Béatrice et Bénédict"
Overture
London Phil/Zubin Mehta
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Le carnaval romain, Overture to Beatrice et Benedict
1:32 am
Louise Farrenc: "Douze Études Brillantes," Op. 41
No. 7
Maria Stratigou, p
Louise Farrenc - Complete Piano Works, Vol 1
1:33 am
Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
Symphony No. 1 / Piano Concerto
1:55 am
Samuel Barber: "Souvenirs," Op. 28
No. 4, Two-Step (Allegro molto)
Lara Downes, p
2:00 am
Carl Heinrich Graun: "Cesare et Cleopatra"
Overture
Concerto Cologne/René Jacobs
"Cesare et Cleopatra"
2:05 am
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "Julius Caesar," Op. 78
Overture
West Australian Sym Orch/Andrew Penny
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Shakespeare Overtures, Vol 1
2:17 am
Miklos Rózsa: "Julius Caesar" Film Score
National Phil/Bernard Herrmann
Music From Great Shakespearean Films
2:29 am
John Williams: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" film music
"Christmas at Hogwarts"
City of Prague Phil/James Fitzpatrick
The Essential Harry Potter Film Music Collection
2:31 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Glenn Dicterow, v; New York Phil/David Robertson
The Glenn Dicterow Collection
2:55 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Song, "Abendlandschaft"
Konrad Jarnot, br; Reinild Mees, p
Korngold: Lieder
3:00 am
Claude Debussy: "L'isle joyeuse"
Alexandra Silocea, p
Sound Waves
3:05 am
Claude Debussy: "Children's Corner" Suite
"Golliwog's Cakewalk"
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Concert à la Carte
3:08 am
Claude Debussy: "Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)"
Quebec Sym/Yoav Talmi
Children's Corner * Debussy Orchestrations
3:13 am
Claude Debussy: "Danses sacrée et profane"
Lisa Wellbaum, h; Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez
Shéhérazade / Le Tombeau De Couperin / Ballades De Villon
3:24 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Dance of the Clowns"
Rotterdam Phil/Jeffrey Tate
3:25 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"
Hanover Band/Roy Goodman
Mendelssohn: Symphonies No. 3 and 4, etc.
3:54 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op 102
Tarantella
Horn Club of Los Angeles
Music for Horns
4:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Die schöne Müllerin," D 795
"Der Müller und der Bach"
Alexandra Silocea, p
Sound Waves
4:05 am
Franz Schubert: "Die schöne Müllerin," D 795
"Wohin?"
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Rachmaninov- Piano Transcriptions
4:07 am
Franz Schubert: "Die schöne Müllerin," D 795
No. 7, "Ungeduld (Impatience)"
Barbara Moser, p
4:10 am
Franz Schubert: "Morgengrüss" from "Die schöne Müllerin"
Stephen Hough, p
Stephen Hough's New Piano Album
4:14 am
Franz Schubert: "Die schöne Müllerin," D 795
No. 1, "Das Wandern"
Vladimir Viardo, p
Liszt: Transcriptions, Schubert Ländler
4:15 am
Carl Maria von Weber: Polonaise brillante (after Weber's Polacca brillante, Op 72)
Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard
Dances for Piano and Orchestra
4:25 am
Franz Liszt: "A Faust Symphony" (1854-57)
1st mvt, "Faust"
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
A Faust Symphony
4:54 am
Johannes De Stokem: Brunette
Fretwork Viol Consort
Ottaviano dei Petrucci: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
5:00 am
Maurice Ravel: "Jeux d'eau"
Alexandra Silocea, p
Sound Waves
5:05 am
Ottorino Respighi: "The Fountains of Rome"
Minnesota Orch/Antal Dorati
Respighi: Orchestral Music * Antal Dorati
5:21 am
Reynaldo Hahn: Song, "Les Fontaines"
Rachel Yakar, s; Claude Lavoix, p
5:23 am
Reynaldo Hahn: "Le rossignol éperdu"
#44, "La Jeunesse et l'été ornent de fleurs le tombeau de Pergolesi"
Earl Wild, p
Earl Wild: Reynaldo Hahn - Le Rossignol Eperdu
5:25 am
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Flute Concerto in G
James Galway, f; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Italian Flute Concertos
5:37 am
Pietro Locatelli: "L'Arte del Violino," Op 3
Concerto #6 in g
Rodolfo Bonucci, v; Santa Cecilia Chamber Orch
L'Arte del Violino
5:54 am
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: "La serva padrona"
Aria, "Aspettare"
John Ostendorf, b; Philomel Baroque Chamber Orch/Rudolph Palmer
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:04 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Mutter's Virtuosi/Anne-Sophie Mutter, v
Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter’s Virtuosi
6:15 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-Flat, Op. 1, No. 1
I. "Allegro"
Luminos Piano Trio
Music Institute of Chicago Academy 2022-23 Chamber Recordings
6:24 am
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
III. Allegro giocoso
Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Brahms: Complete Symphonies
6:32 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 76, No. 3, "Emperor"
II. "Poco adagio"
Emerson String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet
6:39 am
Alfred Reed: "Punchinello," Overture to a Romantic Comedy
Tokyo Kosei Wind Orch/Alfred Reed
The Wind Music of Alfred Reed
6:48 am
Jean Sibelius: "Rakastava (The Lover)," Op. 14
Helsinki Phil Orch/Susanna Mälkki
Sibelius Suites
7:03 am
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op..25
IV. Finale, "Rondo alla zingarese"
Amadeus Quartet members; Murray Perahia, p
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1
7:12 am
Michael Haydn: Flute Concerto in D, MH 105
3rd mvt (Finale), "Allegro assai"
István-Zsolt Nagy, f; Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Michael Haydn, Joseph Haydn: 2 Flute Concertos; Symphony In F; Symphony No. 22
7:19 am
Roy Harris: Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony"
II. "Western Cowboy"
Utah Chorale, Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
Roy Harris: Folk-Song Symphony
7:33 am
Darius Milhaud: "Suite française," Op. 248
"Île-de-France; Alsace-Lorraine; Provence"
London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
Shepherd's Hey: Wind Music of Grainger, Milhaud and Poulenc
7:45 am
Frédéric Chopin: Introduction and "Polonaise brillante" in C, Op. 3
Camille Thomas, vc; Julien Libeer, p
The Chopin Project: Trilogy
7:55 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Scherzo à la russe"
Philharmonia Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
Portrait of Michael Tilson Thomas
8:02 am
Florence Price: "Colonial Dance"
Württemberg Phil/John Jeter
Florence Beatrice Price: Songs of the Oak, Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2, The Oak, Colonial Dance, Suite of Dances
8:08 am
Scott Joplin: "Solace" (A Mexican Serenade)
Joe Brent, man; Lara Downes, p
Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered
8:15 am
Henry Purcell: "Music for a While"
Dawn Upshaw, s; Myron Lutzke, vc; Arthur Haas, hc
Angels Hide Their Faces: Dawn Upshaw Sings Bach and Purcell
8:18 am
Robert Xavier Rodríguez: "Música, por un tiempo"
Soli Chamber Ensemble
Música, por un tiempo
8:34 am
Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber
IV. Finale, "Marcia"
Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses, Mathis der Maler, Nobilissima visione
8:39 am
Jacques Offenbach: "Gaîté Parisienne"
Overture; "Allegro brillante"; Polka; "Poco allegro"; Mazurka; Valse
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Ibert: Divertissement
8:53 am
Antonín Dvořák: Wind Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
IV. Finale, "Allegro molto"
London Phil Orch/Christopher Hogwood
Dvořák: Serenades Op. 22 & 44 / Christopher Hogwood
9:03 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Lisa Batiashvili, v; Hélène Grimaud, p
Echoes of Time
9:10 am
Modest Mussorgsky: "Khovanshchina"
Act 1 Prelude, "Dawn on the Moskva River"
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15; Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
9:15 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
V. "Chaconne"
José Fernández Bardesio, g
Bach & Barrios
9:31 am
Richard Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde"
Prelude and "Liebestod"
New York Phil/Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez: Wagner
9:49 am
Darius Milhaud: "Concertino de printemps," Op. 135
Michael Guttman, v; Royal Phil Orch/José Serebrier
Four Seasons
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
10:00 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn
Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am and "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.
10:00 am
Hosted by Dave Schwan.
10:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Divertimento in F, K. 138
Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
Mozart: Divertimenti K. 136, 137, 138 & 251
10:15 am
Arthur Bliss: "Conquest of the Air" (1936)
Philharmonia Orch/Kenneth Alwyn
The Red Shoes: Classic British Film Music
10:29 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D 960
IV. Finale, "Allegro ma non troppo"
Jorge Federico Osorio, p
Final Thoughts: The Last Piano Works of Schubert & Brahms
10:38 am
Anton Webern: "Im Sommerwind"
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Webern: Im Sommerwind
11:01 am
Peter Boyer: "Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah)"
London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works
11:07 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture (Suite) in B-Flat, "Völker"
La Stravaganza Cologne
Telemann: Orchestral Suites
11:33 am
William Grant Still: Violin and Piano Suite
II. "Mother and Child - Slowly and expressive"
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
Violin Lullabies
11:39 am
Amy Beach: Berceuse, Op. 40, No. 2
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
Violin Lullabies
11:45 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Danse macabre," Op. 40
Lyon National Orch/Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems
12:01 pm
Gregory W. Brown: "Twilight Hours"
Constellation Men's Ensemble
Nova III: the sounds of silence
12:08 pm
Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody in A-Flat, Op. 45, No. 3
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Op. 46
12:22 pm
George Frederick Mckay: String Quartet No. 1, "American Sketches"
III. "Allegro giocoso"
Formosa Quartet
The Music of George Frederick McKay
12:29 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"
Nigel Kennedy, v; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto; Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
12:46 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Bach: The Six Brandenburg Concertos - Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
1:01 pm
Henry Purcell: "The Gordian Knot Untied"
Suite
Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari
O Solitude: Songs and Arias by Henry Purcell
1:13 pm
Samuel Barber: "Souvenirs," Op. 28
Georgia Mangos & Louise Mangos, p
American Works for Piano Duo
1:31 pm
Josef Strauss: "Aquarellen" Waltzes, Op. 258
Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
New Year's Concert 1991
1:40 pm
Karol Szymanowski: "Nocturne and Tarantella," Op. 28
Ilya Kaler, v; Warsaw Phil Orch/Antoni Wit
Szymanowski: Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2
2:01 pm
Darius Milhaud: "Suite d'après Corrette," Op. 161b
Athena Ensemble
Milhaud: Music for Wind Instruments
2:11 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Egmont," Op. 84
Overture; Four Entr'actes; Victory Symphony
New York Phil/Kurt Masur
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5; Egmont, Incidental Music
2:38 pm
John Field: Nocturne in C, H 60
Alice Sara Ott, p
John Field: Complete Nocturnes
3:00 - 7:00 pm
3:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree
Including "Friday Afternoon at the Movies" at 4:30pm and "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.
3:00 pm
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 2
Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze
Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
3:14 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314
Ray Still, ob; Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
The Chicago Principal
3:37 pm
Paul Moravec: Cello Concerto, "Montserrat"
Matt Haimovitz, vc; Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose
Northern Lights Electric
4:00 pm
Astor Piazzolla: "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"
Cavatina Duo
Cavatina Duo Plays Astor Piazzolla
4:19 pm
Richard Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
Act 1 Prelude
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Wagner
4:30 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
Los Angeles Phil/André Previn
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Cantata, Lieutenant Kijé Suite
4:52 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: "Warum toben die Heiden," Op. 78, No. 1
Oregon Symphony Horns
The Oregon Symphony Horns and Friends
5:00 pm
Georg Anton Benda: Clavier Concerto in F minor
Il Pomo d'Oro/Francesco Corti, hc
The Age of Extremes
5:19 pm
Gottfried Reiche: Fanfare, "Albason (Abblasen)"
Josh Cohen, tr
Altissima
5:19 pm
Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 1
"Evocación"
Julian Bream & John Williams, g's
Together Again
5:26 pm
Edward Elgar: "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Falstaff, Grania and Diarmid
6:00 pm
Hamilton Harty: "With the Wild Geese"
Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
Music of the Four Countries
6:20 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
I. "Allegro maestoso"
Ivo Pogorelich, p
Pogorelich: Chopin
6:32 pm
Vincent d'Indy: "Chanson et danses," Op. 50
Les Vents de Montréal/Jacques Lacombe
Chansons et Danses
6:49 pm
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "Sonatina canonica," Op. 196
Amadeus Guitar Duo
Images from the South
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
It Takes Two to Tango
This week features remarkable performances of musicians working in tandem playing Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart; plus, duets of Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn
8:01 pm
Michio Miyagi: "Haru No Umi (The Sea in Springtime)"
Emmanuel Pahud, f; Mariko Anraku, h
Beau Soir: French and Japanese Melodies for Flute & Harp
8:09 pm
Francis Poulenc: "Les biches"
Suite
Ulster Orch/Yan-Pascal Tortelier
Poulenc, Ibert, Milhaud: Orchestral Works
8:30 pm
Béla Bartók: "Romanian Folk Dances"
Janoska Ensemble
The Big B's
8:46 pm
Ernest Chausson: "Soir de fête," Op. 32
BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat, Viviane, Soir de fête, La tempête
9:01 pm
Eugene Goossens: "Five Impressions of a Holiday," Op. 7
Huntingdon Trio
Collage
9:16 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Capriccio italien," Op. 45
Dresden Staatskapelle/Neville Marriner
Ravel: Bolero; Chabrier: España; Glinka: Jota aragonesa; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien
9:32 pm
Damien Geter: String Quartet No. 1, "Neo-Soul"
I Voglar Belgique & R Chen, v's; J Arnold, vi; N Ives, vc
Nancy Ives, cello,
Elevate - All Classical Radio's RII Vol. 2
9:51 pm
He Zhanhao & Chen Gang: "The Butterfly Lovers"
I. "Falling in Love"
Xuefei Yang, g
40 Degrees North
10:00 pm
Franz Liszt: "Années de pèlerinage:" 1st Year, Switzerland
"Vallée d'Obermann"
Jorge Federico Osorio, p
Jorge Federico Osorio: Debussy & Liszt
10:15 pm
Alex Shapiro: "Perpetual Spark"
Fifth House Ensemble
Fifth House Ensemble - Excelsior
10:22 pm
Florence Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
Women's Phil/Apo Hsu
Florence Price - Orchestral music
10:53 pm
Stephen Sondheim: "Passion"
"Perpetual Happiness" (after "Happiness")
Anthony de Mare, p
Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (2/29/1996)
Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962 – 2017), one of the great operatic voices of the late 20th and early 21st century, was Studs Terkel’s guest on WFMT in 1996.
11:55 pm
Traditional Russian: "Kalinka"
Gene Tucker, t; Paul Hill Chorale, Washington Balalaika Society/Paul Hill
Russia!
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