Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, January 30, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Ernest Bloch: "From Jewish Life"
#1, "Prayer"
Christian-Pierre La Marca, vc; Paris Orchestra/Nathanaël Gouin
Ernest Bloch
12:04 am
Ernest Bloch: Violin Sonata No. 2, "Poème mystique"
Weilerstein Duo
Complete Music For Violin And Piano (Volume II)
12:25 am
Anthony Ritchie: "Poems of Spring," Op. 6
No. 3, "Gigue"
Tom McGrath, p
Anthony Ritchie
12:26 am
Franz Liszt: "Les préludes," Symphonic Poem No. 3
Rotterdam Phil/James Conlon
Liszt: Les Préludes, Procession Nocturne, Méphisto-Valse, 2 Légendes
12:43 am
Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite XV in a
Eliot Fisk, g
Virtuoso Guitar
12:54 am
Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite VIII in A
"Sarabande"
Ludger Rémy, hc
The Strasbourg Manuscript
1:00 am
Zdenek Fibich: Romance in B-Flat, Op 10
Josef Suk, v; Prague Sym/Vaclav Smetacek
Romance * Josef Suk
1:05 am
Franz Krommer: Flute Quintet in C, Op 63
Bruno Meier, f; Stamitz String Quartet
Krommer: Flute Quintets Op. 49, 63, 101
1:30 am
Viteslava Kapralova: "April Preludes," Op 13
No. 4
Antonio Oyarzábal, p
Things Lived and Dreamt
1:32 am
Josef Suk: Symphonic poem, "Prague," Op 26
Czech Phil/Libor Pesek
Suk: Praga, A Fairy-Tale
1:55 am
Bohuslav Martinu: "Borova" (Seven Czech Dances) (1929-30)
#5
Radoslav Kvapil, p
Anthology of Czech Piano Works, Vol. 3: Bohuslav Martinu
2:00 am
William Grant Still: "Incantation and Dance"
Stephen Caplan, ob; Carol Urban-Stivers, p
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
2:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A, BWV 1055
Heinz Holliger, ob; Camerata Bern/Erich Höbarth
Johann Sebastian Bach * Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe
2:19 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Viola d'amore Concerto in d, R 395
Rachel Barton Pine, vida; Ars Antigua
Vivaldi: The Complete Viola d’Amore Concertos
2:28 am
Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite XXVII in e
"Courante"
Ludger Rémy, hc
The Strasbourg Manuscript
2:30 am
Serge Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119
Bruno Philippe, vc; Tanguy de Williencourt, p
Prokofiev: Cello Sonata, Sinfonia Concertante / Bruno Philippe/Tanguy de Williencourt
2:54 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87
No. 39, "The Prince and the Cobblers"
Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy
Sergei Prokofiev: Cinderella / Mazurka
3:00 am
Berthold Goldschmidt: "Comedy of Errors" (1925)
Overture
City of Birmingham Sym/Berthold Goldschmidt
Goldschmidt
3:05 am
Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Overture
St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
3:14 am
Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Chorus, "O süsser Mond"
Leipzig Radio Cho, Dresden Staatskapelle/Silvio Varviso
German Opera Choruses
3:18 am
William Walton: "Henry V" Suite
Overture (The Globe Playhouse)
London Phil Cho, London Phil/Carl Davis
3:24 am
Hermann Goetz: "The Taming of the Shrew" Overture
Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Van Remoortel
GOETZ: The Complete Orchestral Works
3:30 am
Thomas Linley: "Ode on the Witches and Fairies of Shakespeare"
Chorus, "What Howling Winds"
Musicians of the Globe
A Shakespeare Ode On The Witches And Fairies
3:32 am
Berthold Goldschmidt: "Chronica" (1932)
Berlin Komische Opera Sym/Yakov Kreizberg
Goldschmidt
3:53 am
Hans Gál: Twenty-Four Preludes, Op 83 (1960)
#20 in d
Leon McCawley, p
Gal: The Complete Works For Solo Piano
4:00 am
Henryk Wieniawski: "L'Ecole moderne," Op 10
#9, "Variations on the Austrian National Anthem"
Ruggiero Ricci, v
Violin Recital: Ruggiero Ricci
4:05 am
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "The Union"
Eugene List, p; Vienna State Opera Orch/Igor Buketoff
4:13 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Six National Airs and Variations, Op 105
Olli Mustonen, p
Beethoven: Variations, Dances and Bagatelles
4:29 am
Wage Rudolf Supratman: Indonesian National Anthem
Millar Brass Ensemble/Stephen Squires
MILLAR BRASS ENSEMBLE: World Anthems
4:31 am
Aaron Copland: "Appalachian Spring"
Detroit Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
Appalachian Spring, Salon, Rodeo
4:54 am
George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"
"Oh Lord, I'm on My Way"
William Warfield, br; Orch/Skitch Henderson
Porgy And Bess Highlights
5:00 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: March, "Sea Songs "
Trinity College Cho, Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Christopher Allsop, o
The Vaughan Williams Hymnal
5:05 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
5:18 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong (1926)
No. 3
Eugene Dowling, tuba; Edward Norman, p
5:19 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor, Op.37
Murray Perahia, p; Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
5:55 am
Max Schönherr: Austrian Peasant Dances, Op 14
#3, "Guggu Polka"
Philharmonia Promenade Orch/Henry Krips
Champagne And Laughter: The Music Of Johann Strauss II
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Mornings with Jan Weller
Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.
6:04 am
Alessandro Scarlatti: String Sonata No. 22 in A
Musica Pacifica
Alessandro Scarlatti: Concerti da Camera
6:16 am
Anonymous 16th-century: Suite of Dances
Piffaro
Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
6:26 am
Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11
VI. Finale, Rondo, "Allegro"
London Sym Orch/István Kertész
Weekend Serenade - Serenades 1 & 2
6:34 am
Gretchen Yanover: "Willow Waltzes On"
Gretchen Yanover, vc's
Bridge Across Sound
6:40 am
Scott Joplin: "Weeping Willow"
William Albright, p
The Complete Rags of Scott Joplin
6:44 am
Edwin Finckel: Variations on a theme "Willow Weep for Me"
David Finckel, vc, Wu Han, p
Edwin Finckel: Music For Cello
6:53 am
George Butterworth: "The Banks of Green Willow"
English String Orch/William Boughton
Butterworth, Parry & Bridge: Music for String Orchestra
7:05 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in D minor, Kk 90 (L 106)
Monica Huggett, v; Scott Ross, hc; Christophe Coin, vc
Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works
7:16 am
Airat Ichmouratov: Concerto grosso No. 3, "Lichtenstein," Op. 68
I. "Allegro agitato"
LGT Young Soloists/Alexander Gilman
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14; Ichmouratov: Concerto Grosso No. 3
7:23 am
Antonín Dvořák: String Serenade in E, Op. 22
II. "Tempo di valse"
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Colin Davis
Tchaikovsky & Dvořák: Serenades for Strings
7:34 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
I. "Moderato"
Lynn Harrell, vc; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Haydn, Vivaldi: Cello Concertos
7:46 am
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song," Op. 333
Canadian Chamber Ensemble/Raffi Armenian
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian - Wine Women & Song · Aimer, Boire Et Chanter
7:57 am
Leopold Godowsky: "Alt Wien"
Lorin Maazel, v; Barton Weber, p
Virtuoso Violin
8:04 am
Agustín Barrios Mangoré: "La Catedral"
Manuel Barrueco, g
Cantos y Danzas
8:12 am
Richard Wagner: "Lohengrin"
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Northwestern U Sym Wind Ensemble/Mallory Thompson
Heroes, Dreams, & Icons: A Tribute to John P. Paynter
8:20 am
Jennifer Higdon: "All Things Majestic"
IV. "Cathedrals"
Nashville Sym/Giancarlo Guerrero
Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic
8:31 am
Claude Debussy: Two Arabesques
Richard Stoltzman, cl; Nancy Allen, h
Romance
8:41 am
Henry Charles Litolff: "Concerto symphonique" No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102
IV. Finale, Allegro impetuoso
Peter Donohoe, p; Bournemouth Sym Orch/Andrew Litton
Litolff: Concerto symphonique No. 2 in B minor, Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor
8:52 am
Fela Sowande: "African Suite"
I. "Joyful Day"
London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7
9:04 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Divertimento a 3 in E-Flat, H IV:5
Hermann Baumann, hn; Karl Suske, v; Jürnjakob Timm, vc
Mozart: Horn Quintet; Beethoven: Sextet; Reicha: Quintet; J. Haydn: Trio; M. Haydn: Romance
9:14 am
Ottorino Respighi: "Brazilian Impressions"
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
Respighi: Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Roman Festivals
9:35 am
Adolphus Hailstork: "Three Spirituals" (2005)
Virginia Sym Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call
9:44 am
Franz Schubert: "Moments musicaux," D 780
No. 6 in A-Flat
Daniele Pollini, p
Schubert - Maurizio Pollini, Daniele Pollini
9:53 am
Claude Debussy: "Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)"
Bohemia Chamber Phil/Douglas Bostock
French Orchestral Miniatures, Vol. 2
10:00 am - 2:00 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
Hector Berlioz: "Les Troyens"
"Royal Hunt and Storm" Music
Royal Opera House Cho & Orch/Sir Colin Davis
Berlioz: Complete Orchestral Music
10:11 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 13 in D minor, K. 173
American String Quartet
Mozart: The Complete String Quartets
10:27 am
Gioachino Rossini: "Otello"
Ballet Music
Monte Carlo Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida
Rossini: Ballet Music
10:47 am
John Field: Nocturne in E-Flat, H 56
John O'Conor, p
Nocturnes of John Field
10:54 am
Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 2
Finale, "Bergamasca"
Australian Chamber Orch/Christopher Lyndon Gee
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, The Birds
11:01 am
Morley Calvert: "Monteregian Hills" Suite
Chicago Brass Quintet
Virtuoso Brass
11:11 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto in A minor
David Theodore, ob; London Sym Orch/Bryden Thomson
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony, Oboe Concerto
11:32 am
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Morgenblätter," Op. 279
Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky
50x Waltz
11:43 am
Antonio Vivaldi: "L'estro armonico" Concerto No. 5 in A, R. 519
Soloists; Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini
Vivaldi & Bach
11:51 am
Josef Martin Kraus: "Aeneas in Carthage"
Prologue Overture
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois
Kraus: Aeneas in Carthage: Overtures, Ballet Music, Marches
12:01 pm
Traditional Scottish: "The Water is Wide (O Waly, Waly)"
Oriana Singers/William Chin
Live from WFMT: The Oriana Singers (January 27, 2020)
12:03 pm
Thomas Tomkins: Madrigal, "See, see, the shepheards Queene"
Oriana Singers/William Chin
Songs of Love and Old Age
12:06 pm
Orlando Gibbons: "The Silver Swan"
Oriana Singers/William Chin
Songs of Love and Old Age
12:08 pm
Hugo Wolf: "Italian Serenade" in G
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Wagner, Sibelius, Puccini, Wolf, Turina, Dvořák, Berlioz
12:16 pm
Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 3
"Ibéria"
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Debussy: Images for Orchestra, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
12:40 pm
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 2
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/Georg Kallweit
Corelli: Concerti Grossi Op. 6, 1-6
12:52 pm
Franz Liszt: "Années de pèlerinage:" 3rd Year, Rome
No. 4, "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este"
Jorge Federico Osorio, p
Jorge Federico Osorio: Debussy & Liszt
1:00 pm
Modest Mussorgsky: "Khovanshchina"
Prelude; Dance
Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain
1:15 pm
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Joshua Bell, v; Steven Isserlis, vc
Chausson, Ravel - Chausson Concert, Ravel Trio / Joshua Bell/Jean-Yves Thibaudet
1:42 pm
Carl Maria von Weber: "Oberon"
Overture
Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann
German Overtures
1:53 pm
Sydney Guillaume: "Gagòt"
Cantus
Manifesto
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216
Arabella Steinbacher, v; Lucerne Festival Orch/Daniel Dodds
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 and 5
2:24 pm
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Hamburg" Symphony No. 5 in B minor, Wq 182/5
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
CPE Bach Symphonies From Berlin to Hamburg
2:36 pm
Richard Wagner: "Tannhäuser"
Entrance of the Guests
David Allen Wehr, p
Liszt - Wagner Opera Transcriptions, Wehr
2:47 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: Three-Trumpet Concerto in D
Hannes, Wolfgang & Bernhard Läubin, tr's; English Chamber Orch/Simon Preston
Trumpet Concertos
2:58 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007
VI. Finale, Gigue
Paul Galbraith, g
Allemande
3:00 pm
Gustav Holst: "The Morning of the Year"
Dances
London Sym Orch/David Atherton
Gustav Holst: A Winter Idyll, Elegy, Indra, A Song of the Night, Interlude (Sita), Invocation, The Lure, Morning of the Year Dances
3:15 pm
Amy Beach: "Suite for Two Pianos Founded upon Old Irish Melodies," Op. 104
Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo
Amy Beach: Complete Works for Piano Duo
3:39 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D, H VIId:3
Michael Thompson, hn; Philharmonia Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
Haydn: Trumpet & Horn Concertos
3:57 pm
Giacomo Puccini: "Madama Butterfly"
Humming Chorus
Vienna State Opera Cho, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan
The World's Greatest Opera Album
4:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042
Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze, v
Bach: Solo and Double Violin Concertos
4:17 pm
John Hebden: String Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat
Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd
John Hebden: Six Concertos for Strings
4:28 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges," Op. 33
March
Midori, v; Robert McDonald, p
Encore!
4:30 pm
Nino Rota: "The Godfather"
A Symphonic Portrait
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
4:46 pm
Carl Michael Ziehrer: "Nachtschwärmer (Night Owls)," Op. 466
Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim
2022 New Year's Concert
4:57 pm
Alberto Williams: Epigram in A, Op. 40, No. 9
Valentín Surif, p
Alberto Williams: Música Para Piano, Volumen 3
5:00 pm
Ottorino Respighi: "Poema autunnale"
Julia Fischer, v; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/Yakov Kreizberg
Poème
5:15 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Prelude & Fugue No. 23 in F
Sviatoslav Richter, p
Richter: The Master, Vol. 3: Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
5:20 pm
Anthony Ritchie: "Autumn Moods," Op. 196
Heleen du Plessis, vc; Matthew Marshall, g
Brighter Than Blue
5:27 pm
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"
Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4
6:00 pm
Benjamin Britten: "Peter Grimes," Op. 33
Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a
BBC Sym Orch/Jiří Bělohlávek
Best of British: From the BBC Proms 2007
6:17 pm
Florence Price: "Fantasie Nègre" No. 1 in E minor
Maria Thompson Corley, p
Soulscapes 2: Piano Music by Women of African Descent
6:28 pm
Marin Marais: "Alcyone"
Suite
Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
House of Dreams
6:45 pm
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 83
IV. Finale, "Allegretto grazioso"
Nelson Freire, p; Frankfurt Radio Sym/Horst Stein
Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019
6:56 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: "Nabucco"
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, "Va, pensiero"
Berlin Deutsche Oper Cho and Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli
The History of Classical Music in 24 Hours
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
American Masters, Part VI
This week, we explore 20th-century American music under the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. Alongside celebrated figures such as Copland, Gershwin, and Schoenberg, we will weave in beautiful and intriguing music from Peter Menin, Augustus Hailstork, Joan Tower, Charlie Parker, and yes, Fats Domino. We conclude with an elegiac symphonic work by George Walker, the first African American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Hosted by Kristina Lynn.
8:00 pm
Traditional American: Medley, "Appalachian Barn Dance"
Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
Come to the River: An Early American Gathering
8:03 pm
Traditional Irish: "Lark in the Morning Medley"
Kathie Stewart, f; Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
Come to the River: An Early American Gathering
8:09 pm
Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No. 5 in G minor, Op. 147
Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley
Stanford: Symphony No. 3, Irish Rhapsody No. 5
8:24 pm
Hubert Parry: "Songs of Farewell"
No. 4, “There is an old belief”
Voces8
After Silence
8:30 pm
Ethel Smyth: Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 7
III. Romance
Duo FAE
Dissidents of the Gilded Age
8:41 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Le tombeau de Couperin"
Orch de Paris/Jean Martinon
Ravel: Boléro, La Valse, Piano Concerto in G, Pavane for a Dead Princess, Le tombeau de Couperin
9:00 pm
Josef Krips: On Mozart
Josef Krips
WFMT: 70 Essential Years
9:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat, K. 543
IV. Finale, "Allegro"
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Josef Krips
Mozart: The Singles - 66 Classic Tracks
9:06 pm
Johan Wagenaar: "Twelfth Night" Overture, Op. 36
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Johan Wagenaar: Saul en David, Amphitrion, Cyrano de Bergerac, De Getemde Feeks
9:17 pm
Grażyna Bacewicz: Violin Sonata No. 1, "Sonata da camera"
Lydia Mordkovitch, v; Ian Fountain, p
Lydia Mordkovitch plays Bacewicz & Enescu
9:32 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
London Phil Orch/Klaus Tennstedt
Kodály: Háry János Suite; Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
9:54 pm
Richard Rodgers: "My Funny Valentine"
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Lille National Orch/Roberto Rizzi Brignoli
The Voice of the Trumpet
10:00 pm
Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34
Arthur Stockel, cl; Quatuor Hanson
Weber: Clarinet Concertos, Clarinet Quintet
10:29 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Così fan tutte," K. 588
Trio, "Soave sia il vento"
The Clarinotts; Vienna Virtuosi
The Clarinotts
10:33 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Francesca da Rimini," Op. 32
Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 / Dudamel & Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Celebrating Mozart (1/25/1974)
The prolific and influential composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756. For this tribute, Studs brings together music and commentary by artists known for their Mozart performances.
