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      Playlist for Saturday, November 8, 2025

      Playing this hour

      12:00 - 7:00 am

      12:00 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia in d, K. 397

      Joan Benson, forte-p
      The Joan Benson Collection

      Clavier Classics CC-108 (2)

      12:05 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 17 in G, K. 129

      Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
      Mozart: Symphonies Nos 17, 18, 19, 22, 32

      Erato 45714-2

      12:16 am

      Josef Haydn: Piano Sonata in D, H XVI:24

      Joan Benson, forte-p
      The Joan Benson Collection

      Clavier Classics CC-108 (2)

      12:31 am

      Louise Farrenc: Etudes, Op. 26

      No. 3

      Gena Raps, p
      Louise Farrenc - Chamber Music

      MHS 3766

      12:33 am

      Jennifer Higdon: Harp Concerto (2018)

      Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Rochester Phil/Ward Stare
      American Rapture

      Azica AXA-71327

      12:54 am

      Johann Sebastian Bach: "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book 1, BWV 846/69

      Prelude No. 17 in A-flat

      Yolanda Kondonassis, h
      A New Baroque

      Telarc CD-80403

      1:00 am

      Richard Wagner: "Parsifal"

      Act 3 Prelude

      London Sym Orch/Adrian Boult

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63122-2

      1:05 am

      Richard Wagner: Prize song fr Wagner's "Die Meistersinger"

      Leslie Howard, p

      MHS 525758-F (2)

      1:15 am

      Richard Wagner: "Parsifal"

      Act I Prelude

      Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Andris Nelsons
      Bruckner - Wagner

      DG 4836659 (2)

      1:28 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes, Op. 34

      No. 19 in E-Flat

      Olli Mustonen, p

      London 433055-2

      1:29 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 in G, Op. 101 (1956)

      Manhattan String Quartet
      Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3: Nos. 6, 7, & 8

      Ess.a.y CD-1009

      1:54 am

      François Couperin: "L'atalante"

      Alexandre Tharaud, p
      Couperin

      Harmonia Mundi HMC-901956

      2:00 am

      Johann Helmich Roman: Drottningholm Wedding Music

      #24

      Uppsala Chamber Orch/Anthony Halstead
      Roman: Music for a Royal Wedding

      Naxos 8.553733

      2:05 am

      Johann Agrell: Flute Concerto in D

      Maria Bania, f; Concerto Copenhagen/Andrew Manze
      Flute Concertos By Scheibe, Agrelli, Hasse

      Chandos CHAN-0535

      2:20 am

      Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"

      "Sarabande"

      Andrew Lawrence-King, h
      Chorégraphie

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907335

      2:22 am

      Richard Strauss: "Le bourgeois gentilhomme," Op. 60

      Orpheus Chamber Orch
      Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Divertimento Op. 86

      DG 435871-2

      2:55 am

      Jean-Baptiste Lully: "Une Noce de Village"

      Overture

      Andrew Lawrence-King, h
      Chorégraphie

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907335

      3:00 am

      Edward Elgar: "Sospiri," Op 70

      New Philharmonia/Sir John Barbirolli

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47537-2

      3:05 am

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Two-Piano Sonata in D, K. 448

      Joshua Pierce, Dorothy Jonas, p's

      Pro Arte CDD-3475

      3:27 am

      Barbirolli: An Elizabethan Suite

      Farnaby: A Toye

      BBC Concert Orch/Sir John Barbirolli

      HMV ASD-2496

      3:29 am

      Barbirolli: Oboe Concerto in c on themes of Pergolesi

      Anthony Camden, ob; City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward
      Italian Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1

      Naxos 8.553433

      3:38 am

      Maurice Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloé"

      Suite No. 2

      Hallé Orch/Sir John Barbirolli

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63763-2

      3:54 am

      George Frideric Handel: "Rodrigo"

      Bourée

      Hallé Orch/Sir John Barbirolli

      EMI/Ang CDM7-63956-2

      4:00 am

      Giuseppe Verdi: "Rigoletto"

      Aria, "Gualtier Maldè...Caro nome"

      Hei-Kyung Hong, s; St Luke's Orch/John Fiore
      Arias

      RCA 68881-2

      4:05 am

      Giuseppe Verdi: "Rigoletto" Concert Paraphrase

      Earl Wild, p
      Liszt: Transcriptions

      Etcetera KTC-2011 (2)

      4:12 am

      Doppler brothers: Rigoletto Fantasy, Op 38

      Tomio Nakano, f, Mari Nakano, f
      N/A

      Diskart DACD-971

      4:22 am

      Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 6 in D-Flat (Orchestral Version: No. 3 in D

      London Phil/Willi Boskovsky
      Essential Liszt

      EMI/Ang CDM7-69011-2

      4:30 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: "Zingarese (Hungarian Gypsy Dances)"

      No. 8

      Boskovsky Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky
      The Willi Boskovsky Collection Vol. 2, The Charm of Old Vienna

      Vanguard OVC-8016

      4:31 am

      Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 11 in E-Flat

      Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer

      Nimbus NI-5426/30 (5)

      4:54 am

      Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes, Op. 34

      No. 10 in c-sharp

      Sarah Chang, v; Sandra Rivers, p

      EMI/Ang CDC7-54352-2

      5:00 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance cantabile in e, Hess 13

      Patrick Gallois, f; Pascal Gallois, bn; Philharmonia/MW Chung, p
      Triple Concerto, Romance in E Minor, Violin Romances Op. 40 and 50

      DG 453811-2

      5:04 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance No. 1 in G, Op. 40

      Frank Peter Zimmermann, p; English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate

      EMI/Ang CDC7-49737-2

      5:12 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance No. 2 in F, Op. 50

      National Arts Centre Orch/Pinchas Zukerman, v

      Radio Canada Int'l SMCD-5201

      5:20 am

      Ludwig van Beethoven: Music for a "Ballet of Old Germany"

      Romanze

      Basel Sym Orch/Helmut Müller-Brühl
      Suites de ballet

      Koch 3-1617-2

      5:22 am

      Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet #1 in c, Op 15

      Ax, p; Stern, v; Laredo, vi; Ma, vc
      Yo-Yo Ma, cello,
      Faure: Piano Quartets

      Sony SK-48066

      5:53 am

      Reynaldo Hahn: "Le bal de Béatrice d'Este"

      #1, Entrée pour Ludovic le More

      Orch de Paris/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat

      EMI/Ang CDC7-47647-2

      6:00 am

      Leevi Madetoja: "Elegy"

      Turku Phil/Jorma Panula
      FINNISH ORCHESTRAL FAVOURITES

      Naxos 8.555773

      6:05 am

      Edvard Järnefelt: Shooting the Rapids

      Finnish Radio Sym Orch/Ilpo Mansnerus
      N/A

      Finland Transcriptions FT-9701

      6:16 am

      Jean Sibelius: "Malinconia", Op. 20

      Torleif Thedeen, vc; Folke Gräsbeck, p
      Complete Music For Cello & Piano (Theme And Variations For Cello Solo)

      BIS CD-817

      6:28 am

      Vincenzo Bellini: Song, "Malinconia, ninfa gentile"

      Sumi Jo, s; Vincenzo Scalera, p
      La Promessa: Italian Songs

      Erato 23300-2

      6:29 am

      François Boieldieu: Harp Concerto in C (in Three Tempi)

      Claudia Antonelli, h; Innsbruck Chamber Ensemble/Hans Ludwig Hirsch

      Koch 350246

      6:54 am

      Arthur Honegger: "Sept pièces brèves"

      #5

      Annette Middelbeek, p
      Honegger: Klavierstücke

      Koch 3-1220-2

      7:00 - 11:00 am

      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.

      7:00 am

      Hosted by Jan Weller.

      7:04 am

      Arnold Bax: "In the Faery Hills"

      Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
      An Irish Rhapsody

      Chandos CHAN-6525

      7:19 am

      Bill Evans: "Peace Piece"

      Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
      Conversations with Bill Evans

      Decca 455512-2

      7:28 am

      Jake Heggie: "Facing Forward"

      Lara Downes, p
      This Land

      Pentatone PTC-5187200

      7:35 am

      Ethel Smyth: Violin and Horn Concerto

      III. Finale, "Allegro"

      Sophie Langdon, v; Richard Watkins, hn; BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez
      Ethel Smyth: Concerto for Violin, Horn & Orchestra; Serenade

      Chandos CHAN-9449

      7:47 am

      Sam Cooke: "A Change is Gonna Come"

      Joy Denalane, voice; Daniel Hope, v; Sylvia Thereza, p
      America

      DG 4861941

      7:51 am

      Stevie Wonder: "Love's in Need of Love Today"

      The String Queens
      Rise

      Passion Music Group 859764016327

      7:57 am

      George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"

      "Bess, you is my woman now"

      Jascha Heifetz, v; Brooks Smith, p
      The Magic of Jascha Heifetz Remastered

      RCA 88875032242

      8:00 am

      Saturday Morning Listener's Choice

      8:01 am

      Aaron Copland: "Fanfare for the Common Man"

      London Sym Orch Brass/Aaron Copland
      Copland Conducts Copland

      CBS MK-42430

      8:05 am

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

      London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
      Wind Music of Holst and Vaughan Williams

      ASV CDQS-6021

      8:17 am

      Leo Brouwer: "Un día de noviembre"

      Miloš, g
      Pasión

      DG B0017000-02

      8:21 am

      George Harrison: "Here Comes the Sun"

      Miloš, g; String Ensemble/Christopher Austin
      Blackbird: The Beatles Album

      Mercury B0024425-02

      8:26 am

      Bob Lowden: Armed Forces Salute

      Northshore Concert Band/John P Paynter
      Stars And Stripes: Music For A Summer Evening

      Brewster 4-4104-2

      8:33 am

      Gabriel Fauré: "Elégie" in C minor, Op. 24

      Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; Cello Ensemble
      Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar

      Decca B0031491-02

      8:41 am

      Luther Henderson: "Saints' Hallelujah" (after Trad African-American and Handel)

      Canadian Brass
      Canadian Brass Takes Flight

      Steinway & Sons 30008

      8:47 am

      Felix Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" Overture, Op. 27

      Rotterdam Phil Orch/Lahav Shani
      Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, "Scottish"

      Warner Classics 2173272325

      9:00 am

      Soundtrack

      9:01 am

      Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare

      London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
      The Genius of Film Music

      LPO 0086

      9:03 am

      Ennio Morricone: "The Mission"

      "Gabriel's Oboe"

      Renaud Capuçon, v; Brussels Philharmonic/Stéphane Denève
      Cinema

      Erato 0190295633936

      9:07 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Cinema Paradiso"

      Main Theme

      Gilda Buttà, p; Munich Radio Orch/Ennio Morricone
      Morricone Conducts Morricone

      EuroArts 8024211027

      9:11 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Giuseppe Tornatore"

      Suite

      Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Roma Sinfonietta/Ennio Morricone
      Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone

      Sony SK-93456

      9:26 am

      Ennio Morricone: "The Hateful Eight"

      Overture

      Czech National Sym Orch/Ennio Morricone
      Morricone - Quentin Tarantino's The H8ful Eight

      Decca 4770600

      9:29 am

      Ennio Morricone: "The Hateful Eight"

      "La musica prima del massacro (First Massacre Music)"

      Czech National Sym Orch/Ennio Morricone
      Morricone - Quentin Tarantino's The H8ful Eight

      Decca 4770600

      9:31 am

      Ennio Morricone: "The Hateful Eight"

      "Neve (Snow)" complete

      Czech National Sym Orch/Ennio Morricone
      Morricone - Quentin Tarantino's The H8ful Eight

      Decca 4770600

      9:46 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Chi Mai"

      Rob Millett, cimbalom; Orch of the Swan/David Le Page
      Light and Shadow

      Signum SIGCD-915

      9:49 am

      Ennio Morricone: "Maddalena"

      "Come Maddelena"

      Bavarian Radio Cho; Munich Radio Orch/Ennio Morricone
      Morricone Conducts Morricone

      EuroArts 8024211027

      9:54 am

      Ennio Morricone: "H2S/The Sicilian Clan"

      Main Themes

      Gilda Buttà, p; Munich Radio Orch/Ennio Morricone
      Morricone Conducts Morricone

      EuroArts 8024211027

      10:03 am

      Gustav Holst: Wind Quintet in A-Flat, Op. 14

      Elysian Wind Quintet
      Holst: Quintet in A minor Op. 3, Wind Quintet in A-Flat Op. 14; Jacob: Sextet in B-Flat Op. 6

      Chandos CHAN-9077

      10:20 am

      Hélène de Montgeroult: Piano Sonata No. 9 in F-sharp minor, Op. 5, No. 3

      Sarah Cahill, p
      The Future is Female, Vol. 3 At Play

      First Hand FHR-133

      10:41 am

      William Grant Still: "American Suite"

      Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg
      William Grant Still: Summerland

      Naxos 8.559867

      10:51 am

      William Schuman: "American Festival" Overture

      St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
      William Schuman: Symphony No. 10, New England Triptych, American Festival Overture / Leonard Slatkin

      RCA 61282-2

      11:00 am

      11:00 am

      Introductions

      Kashyap Prasad, 18, piano. Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in D, Op. 10, No. 3, 1st & 2nd mvts; Chopin: Etude in B minor, Op. 25, No. 10; Price: Sonata in E minor, 2nd mvt; Scriabin: Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp, Op. 30.

      11:51 am

      Bohuslav Martinů: Serenade No. 1 for clarinet, horn & string quintet

      Prague Chamber Orch members
      Martinů: 5 Serenades

      Supraphon 110098-2

      12:00 - 5:00 pm

      12:00 pm

      From Bayreuth Festival

      Wagner's Parsifal

      Andreas Schager (Parsifal); Michael Volle (Armfortas); Tobias Kehrer (Titurel); Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz); Jordan Shanahan (Klingsor); Ekaterina Gubanova (Kundry); Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor. Sung in German.

      4:05 pm

      Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

      An interview with Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique in advance of her Jewel Box recital at Northeastern Illinois University and performances in Mozart's Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra later this month.

      5:00 - 8:00 pm

      5:00 pm

      Weekend Evening Music

      5:06 pm

      Leonard Bernstein: "West Side Story"

      "I Feel Pretty; Maria; America"

      Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, g
      Americano

      Harmonia Mundi HMU-907649

      5:12 pm

      Roberto Sierra: "Fandangos"

      Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Domingo Hindoyan
      Roberto Sierra: Symphony No. 6, Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Two Pieces For Orchestra, Fandangos, Alegria

      Onyx 4232

      5:23 pm

      Maurice Ravel: "Miroirs"

      "Une barque sur l'océan"

      Seong-Jin Cho, p
      Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works

      DG 4866814

      5:31 pm

      Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 2

      "Ibéria"

      Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta
      The French in Spain

      Naxos 8.574615

      5:52 pm

      Jean-Baptiste Barrière: Cello Sonata in D minor, Book 3, No. 2

      UnderStories Ensemble
      A French Odyssey

      Challenge Classics CC-720016

      6:01 pm

      Clarice Assad: "Metamorfose"

      II. "Dança das Borboletas"

      Matthew Lipman, vi; Henry Kramer, p
      Ascent

      Cedille CDR-90000184

      6:09 pm

      John Alden Carpenter: "Adventures in a Perambulator"

      "The Lake; Dogs"

      Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson
      Pageant of P.T. Barnum, Adventures in a Perambulator, Once Upon a Time, Selections from McGuffey's Readers

      Mercury 434319-2

      6:19 pm

      George Gershwin: "An American in Paris"

      Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
      The Best of Gershwin

      Telarc CD-80542

      6:38 pm

      Alfred Schnittke: "Gratulationsrondo"

      Daniel Hope, v; Alexey Botvinov, p
      Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano

      DG 4839235

      6:46 pm

      Gordon Langford: Rhapsody for Trombone (1975)

      Peter Moore, tb; Tredegar Town Band/Ian Porthouse
      Shift

      Chandos CHSA-5366

      7:00 pm

      Ivor Gurney: "War Elegy"

      BBC Sym Orch/David Lloyd-Jones
      Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England

      Dutton CDLX-7172

      7:13 pm

      Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3, "Pastoral"

      Margaret Price, s; New Philharmonia Orch/Sir Adrian Boult
      Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Pastoral," and 5

      EMI CDC7-47214-2

      7:49 pm

      Väinö Raitio: Scherzo, "Felis domestica (Domestic Cat)"

      Oulu Sinfonia/Rumon Gamba
      Pictures from Finland

      Chandos CHAN-20401

      8:00 pm

      8:00 pm

      Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

      From the archives: With an elegant style and rich voice, Diana Jones brings the human condition into focus through the lens of her own complex heritage. She played Folkstage in 2018.

      9:00 pm - 12:00 am

      9:00 pm

      The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

      Honoring those who serve our nation with pride as Veterans Day approaches. Also, songs about the toll taken by wartime.

      9:00 pm

      Lead Belly: Midnight Special (Trad.)

      Leadbelly
      Midnight Special

      RCA Victor LPV-505

      9:03 pm

      Archie Fisher: "Witch of the West-mer-lands"

      Archie Fisher
      Man with a Rhyme

      Folk-Legacy CD-61

      9:08 pm

      Archie Fisher: "Merry England"

      Archie Fisher
      Sunsets I've Galloped Into

      Sunsets I've Galloped Into | Red House RHR CD 82

      9:11 pm

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