Performances marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, a Catholic at the pinnacle of the musical world of Protestant England.
Secret Byrd
Playlist
William Byrd: Fantasia a 6, T 391
Fretwork
William Byrd: Consort Songs
Harmonia Mundi – HMU907383
4:15
William Byrd: “O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth”
Stile Antico
The Phoenix Rising
Harmonia Mundi – HMU 857572
3:11
William Byrd: “Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink and Pen?”
Stile Antico and Fretwork
Tune Thy Musicke to Thy Hart
Harmonia Mundi – HMU807554
3:18
William Byrd: Mass in Five Voices
Gesualdo Six
William Byrd: Mass
Hyperion Records
22:00
William Byrd: “Ye Sacred Muses”
The King’s Singers, Fretwork & Patrick Dunachie
Tom and Will
Signum Classics – SIGCD731
3:18
Sir James MacMillan: “Ye Sacred Muses”
The King’s Singers, Fretwork & Patrick Dunachie
Tom and Will
Signum Classics – SIGCD731
7:04
William Byrd: Galliard a 6
Fretwork
William Byrd: Consort Songs
Harmonia Mundi – HMU907383
1:34
Celebrate!
In honor of Independence Day and Canada Day, host Peter DuBois delves into recordings of sacred choral and organ music celebrating the musical traditions of each country.
Live from Millennium Park: CSO Concert for Chicago
Celebrate Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti’s remarkable tenure with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at this free concert in Millennium Park.
Playlist
Florence Price: Andante moderato
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Juneteenth: Remembrance and Celebration
A special program commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans
Playlist
Remembrance
William Grant Still: And They Lynched Him on a Tree: No. 6 They Left Him Hanging
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers & Orchestra
William Grant Still: Darker America
American Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Bonds: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Darryl Taylor, tenor; Maria Corley, piano
Undine Smith Moore: Before I’d Be a Slave
Maria Corley, piano
Celebration
George Walker: Folk Songs for Orchestra I. Going to lay down my sword and shield
Cleveland Chamber Symphony
Regina Harris Baiocchi: ‘Hold Out for Joy’
Picasso Ensemble
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: African Suite: Danse Nègre
London Symphony Orchestra
Adolphus Hailstork: ‘Shout for Joy’
The Aeolians
Father’s Day Requests
Celebrate Father’s Day with WFMT. Honor the father or father figure in your life with a spoken dedication and musical request.
Trinity Sunday & Juneteenth
Music on Trinitarian themes and music to acknowledge the celebration of Juneteenth.
Let Freedom Ring: A Musical Celebration of Juneteenth with Lara Downes
A special program featuring the music of Black composers from Florence Price to Bob Marley, and performers like Jessye Norman and the Kanneh-Mason.
Season Finale: Music and Conversation with Randall Goosby
The American violinist comes to WFMT to share his new album—a collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra that showcases violin concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price.
Playlist
All selections feature violinist Randall Goosby.
Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D
I. Tempo moderato
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and Piano
II. Mother and Child
Zhu Wang, piano
Xavier Foley: Shelter Island
Xavier Foley, double bass
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
III. Finale: Allegro energico
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Price (rr. Jim Gray): Adoration
Price: Violin Concerto No. 2
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Music of the Baroque: Circles of Friends and ’23-24
We hear MOB’s May concert Circles of Friends — featuring selections by Haydn, Mozart, and contemporaries Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Johann Baptist Wanhal — with an intermission feature: Declan McGovern previews the 23-24 season.
War Letters
For this Memorial Day, Live From WFMT presents War Letters, an award-winning documentary WFMT created in 2001. The program was inspired by Andrew Carroll’s bestseller, War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars. Pulitzer prize-winning author Studs Terkel joins WFMT’s Lisa Flynn to share the most personal remembrances of war: letters sent home from the front by American soldiers, all of …
