Schedule & Playlists

Playlist for Monday, February 2, 2026

12:00 - 6:00 am

12:00 am

Igor Stravinsky: "Élégie"

Isabelle Faust, v

Harmonia Mundi HMM-992671

12:05 am

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in F, K. 376

Isabella Faust, v; Alexander Melnikov, fp
Mozart: The Violin Sonatas

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902361

12:20 am

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Missa Brevis" in G, K. 140, "Pastoral"

"Benedictus"

Soloists; Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
Mozart: Complete Masses

Brilliant 96648

12:22 am

George Macfarren: Concert Overture, "Chevy Chace"

English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones

Hyperion CDA-66515

12:30 am

Dora Bright: Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor

Samantha Ward, p; Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Charles Peebles
Piano Concertos by Dora Bright and Ruth Gipps

Somm SOMMCD-273

12:54 am

Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Songs of Travel" (1901-04)

No. 8, "Bright Is the Ring of Words"

Bryn Terfel, br; Malcolm Martineau, p
Bryn Terfel * The Vagabond--English Songs by Vaughan Williams * Butterworth U A

DG 445946-2

1:00 am

Richard Wagner: "Götterdämmerung"

Siegfried's Rhine Journey

Nikolai Lugansky, p

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902393

1:05 am

Richard Wagner: "Siegfried"

"Forest Murmurs"

London Symphony Orchestra/Leopold Stokowski

Decca 028947868692

1:14 am

Richard Wagner: "Die Walküre"

"Ride of the Valkyries"

Oslo Phil/Maris Janssons
Wagner: Overtures And Orchestral Music

Seraphim 73299-2

1:19 am

Richard Wagner: "Das Rheingold"

Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta
Orchestral Music from 'Der Ring Des Nibelungen'

Naxos 8.573839

1:27 am

Othmar Schoeck: "Eichendorff Lieder," Op. 30

No. 12, "Auf dem Rhein"

Nathan Berg, br; Julius Drake, p
Othmar Schoeck Complete Edition, Vol 1

New Classical Adventure 234405 (12)

1:28 am

David Diamond: String Quartet #3 (1946)

Potomac String Quartet
Diamond: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 3 & 8, Concerto for String Quartet

Albany TROY-504

1:54 am

Carter Pann: "Differences"

V. "Song"

David Ying, vc; Elinor Freer, p
Music in the Loft

Cedille CDR-90000100

2:00 am

Ricardo Lorenz: "Bachangó"

Marta Aznavoorian, p
Music in the Loft

Cedille CDR-90000100

2:05 am

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043

Petra Müllejans, v; Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz, v
J S Bach * Violin Concertos * Freiburger Barockorchester

Harmonia Mundi HMC-902145

2:20 am

Johann Sebastian Bach: "St John Passion," BWV 245

Chorale, "Herzlich lieb hab' ich dich, O Herr"

Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
Bach Edition: Complete Works

Brilliant Classics 93102 (155)

2:22 am

Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in c

London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley
Alice Mary Smith

Chandos CHAN-10283

2:54 am

Johann Jakob Froberger: Suite XV in a

"Gigue"

Ludger Rémy, hc
The Strasbourg Manuscript

CPO 999750-2

3:00 am

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "La mélancolie"

Philip Martin, p
Gottschalk Vol 8

Hyperion CDA-67536

3:05 am

Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Symphony #1, "La Nuit de tropiques"

Vienna State Opera Orch/Igor Buketoff

Vox CDX-5009 (2)

3:25 am

Arthur Benjamin: "Jamaican Rhumba"

Jascha Heifetz, v; Milton Kaye, p
The Heifetz Collection, Volume 19: 51 Miniatures 1944-1946

RCA 61750-2 (2)

3:26 am

Johann Wenzel Stamitz: Symphony in G

New Zealand Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong
Jan Stamitz

Naxos 8.553194

3:34 am

Carl Stamitz: "Sinfonia Concertante" in D

Desirée Ruhstrat, v; Michael Strauss, vi; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Music by Johann & Carl Stamitz. Johann Stamitz: Mannheim Symphonies: Symphony in A Major

Centaur CRC-2860

3:54 am

Richard Farrant: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake

Voices of Ascension Cho/Dennis Keene
Choral Music - HILDEGARD OF BINGEN / PALESTRINA, G. / BYRD, W. / ISAAC, H. / JOSQUIN DES PREZ / DUFAY, G. (Voices of Ascension Chorus)

Delos DE-3174

4:00 am

Max Saunders: "A Cotswold Lament"

Leon Goossens, ob; David Lloyd, p
The Goossens Family

Chandos CHAN-7132

4:05 am

Malcolm Arnold: Oboe Quartet, Op 61

Nash Ensemble
The Chamber Music Of Malcolm Arnold – 3

Hyperion CDA-66173

4:16 am

Samuel Arnold: Overture in F, Op 9/3

Toronto Camerata/Kevin Mallon
ARNOLD, S.: 6 Overtures, Op. 8 / Macbeth (Incidental Music)

Naxos 8.557484

4:26 am

Franz Liszt: "Hungarian National Melodies"

#1

Leslie Howard, p
The Complete Liszt Piano Music

Hyperion CDS-44501/98 (98)

4:28 am

Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 4 in E-flat

Leslie Howard, p
The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 57 - Hungarian Rhapsodies

Hyperion CDA-67418/9 (2)

4:34 am

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat

Leslie Howard, p; Budapest Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher

Hyperion CDA-67401/2 (2)

4:54 am

Franz Liszt: "Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort"

Leslie Howard, p
Liszt: The Late Pieces

Hyperion CDA-66445

5:00 am

Heinrich von Biber: Sonata Sancti Polycarpi a 9 in C

New York Trumpet Ensemble/Gerard Schwarz
The Sound of Trumpets

Delos D/CD-3002

5:05 am

Georg Philipp Telemann: Three-Trumpet Concerto in D

Music of the Baroque/Thomas Wikman
Music of the Baroque

Mintel Archive 21

5:14 am

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

Prelude No. 10 in e

Keith Jarrett, p
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1

ECM 2627/28 (2)

5:16 am

Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concerto #2 in c, Op 50

Nikolai Demidenko, p; BBC Scottish Stm/Jerzy Maksymiuk
Romantic Piano Concerto-2

Hyperion CDA-66580

5:54 am

Marchetto Cara: "Cangia spera"

Doulce Mémoire/Denis Raisin-Dadre
L'Harmonie du Monde

Naive E-8883

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

Carlos Guastavino: "Jeromita Linares"

Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche
Impresiones

Dorian DOR-90202

6:17 am

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Italian Concerto" in F, BWV 971

Martin Stadler, ob; Marilyn Boenau, bn; Harp Consort/A Lawrence-King, hc
J. S. Bach - Italian Concerto - Andrew Lawrence-King

RCA-DHM 77366-2

6:32 am

Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 3 in D

London Phil Orch/Willi Boskovsky
Essential Liszt

EMI CDM7-69011-2

6:41 am

Henri Herz: Fantasy on Donizetti's "La fille du régiment"

Tasmanian Sym Orch/Howard Shelley, p
Herz: Piano Concerto No. 2 & other works

Hyperion CDA-68100

6:55 am

Chick Corea: Children's Song No. 6

Greene String Quartet
Bluegreene

Virgin 45133-2

7:04 am

Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestral Works: Vaughan Williams/ Elgar, Etc.

Decca 417778-2

7:25 am

George Fenton: "Groundhog Day"

Quartet No. 1 in D, "The Groundhog"

Bruce Dukov & Sheldon Sanov, v's; Pam Goldsmith, vi; Dennis Karmayzn, vc
Dennis Karmayzn, cello,
Groundhog Day (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Epic Soundtrax G010001222222N

7:27 am

George Fenton: "Groundhog Day"

"Some People Just Die"

Studio Orch/George Fenton
Groundhog Day (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Epic Soundtrax G010001222222N

7:28 am

George Fenton: "Groundhog Day"

"A New Day"

Studio Orch/George Fenton
Groundhog Day (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Epic Soundtrax G010001222222N

7:33 am

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77

III. Finale, "Allegro giocoso ma non troppo vivace"

Jascha Heifetz, v; Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Classical Fan Favorites

Sony (Classical Fan Favorites)

7:41 am

Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in C, R. 467

Sergio Azzolini, bn; L'Onda Armonica
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos Vol. 5

Naïve OP-30573

7:54 am

Michael Torke: "Unseen"

No. 1

East Coast Chamber Orch, Michael Torke Orch/Michael Torke
Unseen - Michael Torke

Ecstatic Records ER-092402

8:04 am

Johannes Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture, Op. 80

Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
The Symphonies

Decca 414488-2

8:15 am

Paul Taffanel: Wind Quintet in G minor

Finale, "Vivace"

Aulos Wind Quintet
Aulos-Bläserquintett - Vol. VI - Virtuoso Romantic Music

Koch CD-310087

8:23 am

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "African Suite," Op. 35

IV. "African Dance"

Chineke! Orch/Kevin John Edusei
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor

Decca 4853322

8:31 am

Douglas Lilburn: "Aotearoa" Overture

New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd
Lilburn Orchestral Works

Naxos 8.557697

8:41 am

Friedrich Kalkbrenner: "Grand Septuor" in A, Op. 132

I. "Allegro brillante"

Claudius Tanski, p; Consortium Classicum members
Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Chamber Works

MD+G 3010808-2

8:53 am

Frédéric Chopin: "Les Sylphides"

"Grande valse brillante" in E-Flat, Op. 18

National Phil/Richard Bonynge
Essential Ballet

Decca 436658-2

9:03 am

Igor Stravinsky: "Scherzo fantastique," Op. 3

Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, Scherzo Fantastique, The Firebird Suite

Decca 458142-2

9:16 am

Bryan Kelly: "Suite Parisienne"

Brass Ring
Brass Ring - Music For Brass Quintet

Crystal CD-561

9:31 am

Wynton Marsalis: "Blues Symphony"

IV. "Southwestern Shakedown"

Detroit Sym Orch/Jader Bignamini
Marsalis: Blues Symphony

Pentatone PTC-5187232

9:41 am

Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor

Steven Isserlis, vc; Pascal Devoyon, p
Debussy, Poulenc, Franck: Cello Sonatas

Virgin 61198-2

9:53 am

Mikhail Glinka: "Kamarinskaya"

San Diego Chamber Orch/Donald Barra
Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

Koch 3-7042-2

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

Alfred Schnittke: "Suite in the Old Style"

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

DG 4839235

10:16 am

Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 4 in A, BWV 1055

St. Martin's Academy/Murray Perahia, p
JS Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4

Sony SK-89245

10:30 am

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, "Drum Roll"

I. "Adagio - Allegro con spirito"

Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Haydn: Symphonies 99-104

Nimbus NI-5105

10:41 am

Traditional African-American: Spiritual, "Steal Away"

Imani Winds
Imani Winds: The Classical Underground

Koch 3-7599-2

10:48 am

Nino Rota: "Balli (Dances)"

Ferrara City Orch/Giuseppe Grazioli
Concerto soirée

Travelling K-1034

11:01 am

Josef Strauss: Waltz, "Village Swallows from Austria," Op. 164

Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Vienna

RCA 68160-2

11:09 am

Franz Liszt: "Mephisto Waltz" No. 1 ("Dance in the Village Inn")

Stephen Hough, p
Stephen Hough Plays Liszt

Virgin 90700-2

11:21 am

Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Old King Cole"

Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Andrew Manze
Vaughan Williams: Job, Old King Cole & The Running Set

Onyx 4240

11:43 am

Henry Purcell: Suite of Theater Music

Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott
A Baroque Festival

Virgin Classics 61304-2

11:52 am

Dan Locklair: "Arise in Beauty"

Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough; Martin Baker, o
Dan Locklair: Requiem & Other Choral Works

Convivium Records CR-070

12:00 pm

Shirley Thompson: "Dance of the Night Sky"

Black Oak Ensemble
Dance of the Night Sky

Cedille CDR-90000237

12:09 pm

Georg Philipp Telemann: "Tafelmusik," Book 1

Flute, Violin & Cello Concerto in A

Soloists; Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz
The Complete Tafelmusik

Harmonia Mundi HMC-902042.45 (4)

12:30 pm

Ernest John Moeran: Overture for a Masque (1944)

Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Moeran: In the Mountain Country

Naxos 8.573106

12:40 pm

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

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

Warner Classics 2173272325

12:54 pm

Samuel Arnold: "Polly"

"Dance of the Pirates"

Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon
Samuel Arnold: Polly

Naxos 8.660241

1:00 pm

Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Schubert: Trout Quintet, Arpeggione Sonata

Sony SK-61964

1:26 pm

Gabriel Fauré: "Cantique de Jean Racine," Op. 11

Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
Fauré: Requiem (1893 Version) and Other Choral Music

Collegium COLCD-109

1:34 pm

Arnold Bax: "The Happy Forest"

Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/John Wilson
Made in Britain

Avie AV-2194

1:45 pm

Laura Netzel: "Berceuse et Tarentelle," Op. 28

Paula Gudmundson, f; Tracy Lipke-Perry, p
Breaking Waves: Music by Swedish Women Composers

MSR Classics MS-1722

1:52 pm

James Horner: "Legends of the Fall"

The Ludlows

Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/David Arnold
James Horner: Collage

Mercury 4812810

2:00 - 7:00 pm

2:00 pm

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

2:00 pm

Peter Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" Overture-Fantasy

Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4, Romeo & Juliet

Naxos 8.555714

2:21 pm

Miguel Llobet: "Canciones populares catalanas"

Six Songs

Eduardo Fernández, g
Eduardo Fernandez

Decca 417618-2

2:31 pm

Antonín Dvořák: "The Noon Witch," Op. 108

Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle
Dvořák: Tone Poems

EMI CDC5-58019-2 (2)

2:45 pm

Benjamin Britten: "Gloriana," Op. 53

Courtly Dances

Bournemouth Sym Orch/Uri Segal
Britten: Gloriana: Symphonic Suite; The Prince Of The Pagodas: Prelude And Dances

EMI CDM7-69422-2

2:55 pm

Zeke Manners: The Pennsylvania Polka

Franki Yancovic and His Yanks
Various - Groundhog Day - Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Epic Soundtrax EK 53760

3:00 pm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three-Piano Concerto No. 7 in F, K. 242

Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale, p's; New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein, p
Bernstein Century - Bernstein Plays and Conducts Mozart

Sony SMK-60598

3:25 pm

Jules Massenet: "Cendrillon"

Suite

Hong Kong Phil Orch/Kenneth Jean
Massenet: Esclarmonde Suite, Suite No. 1, Cendrillon Suite

Marco Polo 8.223354

3:37 pm

Francis Poulenc: "Les biches"

Suite

Radio Luxembourg Orch/Louis de Froment
Music in Paris in the 1920s

Vox ACD-8157

3:57 pm

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G, BWV 577, "The Jig"

BBC Phil/Leonard Slatkin
Bach Transcriptions

Chandos CHAN-9835

4:00 pm

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade," Op. 35

IV. Finale, "Festival at Baghdad-The Sea-Shipwreck"

Chicago Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa; Victor Aitay, v
Russian Classics

EMI CDC7-47617-2

4:13 pm

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

St Luke's Collection SLC-0302 (2)

4:25 pm

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonata No. 1 in F, ZWV 181

Kleine Kammermusik
Fanfare and Filigree: Chamber Music from Paris and Dresden

Acis APL-00244

4:42 pm

Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat

Håkan Hardenberger, tr; St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Haydn, Hummel, Hertel, Stamitz: Trumpet Concertos

Philips 420203-2

4:57 pm

Manuel Ponce: "Scherzino mexicano"

John Williams, g
Romance of the Guitar

Sony SK-89141

5:00 pm

Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 14, Op. 194, "Ararat"

Trinity College of Music Wind Orch/Keith Brion
American Classics * Alan Hovhaness * Symphonies Nos 7, 14 and 23

Naxos 8.559385

5:15 pm

Johann Jakob Froberger: "Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher"

David Greilsammer, p
Baroque Conversations

Sony 88697929692

5:21 pm

Biagio Marini: "Balletto Secondo"

Romanesca
Curiose & Moderne Inventioni

Harmonia Mundi HMU-907175

5:27 pm

Alexander Glazunov: Five Novelettes, Op. 15

Fine Arts Quartet
Glazunov: String Quintet, Five Novelettes

Naxos 8.570256

6:00 pm

Richard Strauss: "Der Rosenkavalier," Op. 59

Waltzes

Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Strauss, R: Macbeth; Der Rosenkavalier; Notturno

Chandos CHAN-8834

6:21 pm

Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Concertante" Quartet No. 5 in G

Arabella String Quartet
Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets

Naxos 8.574360

6:33 pm

Claude Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"

New Philharmonia Orch/Pierre Boulez
Debussy: Orchestral Works

Sony 88876192862

6:43 pm

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14

I. "Allegro"

Hilary Hahn, v; St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
Barber & Meyer: Violin Concertos

Sony SK-89029

6:55 pm

Leoš Janáček: Lachian Dances

No. 4, "Starodavny (Old-time Dance)"

Czech State Phil/José Serebrier
SInfonietta/ 6 Lachian Dances/ Taras Bulba

Reference RR-65

7:00 pm

7:00 pm

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

Music of Scandinavia

The lighter these northern lands are in the summer just means the darker the winters will be, and these dark winters are in the living tissue of every Scandinavian. Bill features composers such as Wilhelm Stenhammar, Per Nørgård, and Lars-Erik Larsson, as well as music performed by contemporary Scandinavian artists.

8:00 - 10:00 pm

8:00 pm

Live from WFMT

The exquisite pianist Matt Hagle performs an all-Chopin program. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.

10:00 pm - 12:00 am

10:00 pm

The WFMT Orchestra Series

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Anna Clyne Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26; María Dueñas, violin; Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68; Anna Clyne "Restless Oceans;" Alan Gilbert, conductor.