Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Monday, February 23, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Antonio Salieri: "Armida"
Overture
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
SALIERI: Armida
12:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Sinfonia Concertante" in E-Flat, K. 297b
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Sinfonie Concertanti K. 297b And 364
12:35 am
Antonio Salieri: "Armida"
"Gavotta"
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
SALIERI: Armida
12:37 am
Darius Milhaud: "Le boeuf sur le toit," Op. 58
London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
Dorati Conducts Satie/Milhaud/Auric/Françaix/Fetler
12:55 am
Darius Milhaud: "Les Soirées de Pétrograde," Op. 55 (1919)
No. 11, "La Limousine"
Györgyi Dombradi, ms; Lambert Bumiller, p
Milhaud: Mélodies
1:00 am
Cecile Chaminade: "Scarf Dance"
Daniell Revenaugh, p
Piano Favorites
1:05 am
Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
Chicago Sym Orch/Jean Martinon
Ravel--Rapsodie Espagnole * Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No 2 * Others--Chicago Symphony * Martinon
1:19 am
Lee Dionne: "Zortziko / Fandango"
Merz Trio
Mel Bonis
1:21 am
Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet in C, Op 30/6 (G 324), Musica notturna...di Madrid
Casals String Quartet, Eckart Runge, vc
Boccherini * La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid * Cuarteto Casals
1:35 am
Enrique Arbós: Pequena suite espanola
Madrid Sym Orch/Jesus Lopez-Cobos
Enrique Fernandez Arbos: Orchestral Works
1:54 am
Manuel de Falla: "Siete canciones populares españolas"
"Polo"
Sharon Isbin, g; Isabel Leonard, ms
Alma Española
2:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Snow Maiden," Op. 12 (Incidental Music to Ostrovsky's Play
Prologue
BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Alpesh Chauhan
Tchaikovsky: Snow Maiden
2:05 am
Agathe Backer Grondahl: "Hungarian Studies," Op 38
Natalia Strelchenko, p
Complete Piano Music Vol III
2:15 am
Bela Bartók: Nine Hungarian Peasant Songs for Orchestra
Hungarian Peasant Dances
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard
Bela Bartók
2:24 am
Bela Bartók: "Hungarian Sketches"
No. 2, "Bear Dance"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Concerto For Orchestra / Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta / Hungarian Sketches
2:25 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Jascha Heifetz, v; Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
The Heifetz Collection, Volumes 11-15: The Concerto Collection
2:55 am
Edwin GRASSE: Wellenspiel
Jascha Heifetz, v, Emanuel Bay, p
The Decca Masters, Vol. 1: Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Brahms
3:00 am
Cecile Chaminade: "Air de Ballet," Op 30
Eric Parkin, p
Chaminade: Piano Works
3:05 am
Jacques Ibert: Flute Concerto (1933)
Emmanuel Pahud, f; Zürich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman
3:25 am
Jacques Ibert: "Histoires"
#2, "Le Petit Ane Blanc (The Little White Donkey)"
Shunske Sato, v; Takashi Sato, p
Preludes: Favorite Miniatures * Shunské Sato, Violin * Takashi Sato, Piano
3:26 am
Edward Elgar: "Chanson de Nuit," Op 15/1
Nigel Kennedy, v; Stephen Isserlis, vc; Peter Pettinger, p
Salut D'Amour & Other Elgar Favourites
3:30 am
Gustav Holst: "A Song of the Night," Op. 19, No. 1
Janice Graham, v; English Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths
Holst * Double Concerto * St Paul's Suite
3:38 am
Jean Sibelius: "Night Ride and Sunrise," Op. 55
Royal Stockholm Phil/Paavo Järvi
Lemminkäinen Suite / Luonnotar / Nightride And Sunrise
3:53 am
Johannes Brahms: Piano Pieces, Op 119
#3, Intermezzo in C
Lars Vogt, p
4:00 am
Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 15 in a minor, "Rakoczy March"
Misha Dichter, p
The 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies
4:05 am
David Popper: "Hungarian Rhapsody," Op 68
Maria Kliegel, vc; Esterhàzy Orch/Gerhard Markson
POPPER: Romantic Cello Showpieces
4:13 am
Tibor Serly: Rhapsody for Viola & Orchestra (1947-48)
Rivka Golani, vi; Budapest Sym Orch/András Ligeti
Viola Concertos
4:22 am
Béla Bartók: Rhapsody No. 2
Mark Kaplan, v; Bruno Canino, p
Bartok: Violin Works
4:33 am
Zoltán Kodály: "Háry János"
"The Old Woman"
Budapest Festival Orch/Ivan Fischer
Zoltan Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite/ Dances Of Galanta And Marosszek
4:35 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338
Sinfonia Varsovia/Emmanuel Krivine
4:54 am
Peter Warlock: "Capriol" Suite
#2, "Pavane"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.: The Nutcracker Suite / PRAETORIUS, M.: Terpsichore / WARLOCK, P.: Capriol Suite (arr. for guitar quartet) (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
5:00 am
Johann Sr Strauss: "Wiener-Carneval Walzer"
Vienna Waltz Ensemble
Flourish
5:04 am
Hector Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture, Op.9
London Sym/André Previn
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique * 3 Overtures * Bernstein * Previn
5:13 am
David Popper: Spanish Carnival
Janos Starker, vc; Shigeo Neriki, p
POPPER, D.: Cello Music (Romantic Cello Favorites) (Starker)
5:17 am
Oskar Morawetz: "Carnival Overture" (1946)
Winnipeg Sym Orch/Kazuhiro Koizumi
Carnival Overture / “Mozartina” Suite / Dances Of Galánta / Legend
5:23 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Carnival" Overture, Op. 92
Royal Phil/John Farrer
Dvorak: Nature, Life and Love
5:33 am
Amy (Mrs HHA) Beach: "Children's Carnival"
#2, "Columbine"
Sahan Arzruni, p
Childhood Memories: Music for Younger Pianists
5:34 am
Franz Krommer: Octet-Partita in F, Op 57
Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
5:53 am
Francois Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 1 (1713): 4e ordre in F
#4, "Le réveil-matin"
Equale Brass
Bacchanales
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
Michael Praetorius: "Dance Suite"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Dances from Renaissance to Nutcracker
6:15 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G, K. 387, "Spring"
IV. Finale, "Molto allegro"
Emerson String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartets K. 387 & 421
6:21 am
Charles Gounod: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat
IV. Finale, "Allegro leggiero assai"
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Gounod: Symphonies 1 & 2, Faust Ballet Music
6:31 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Sinfonia No. 3 in G
Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob; I Solisti Italiani
Italian Baroque Oboe Concerti / HansJörg Schellenberger
6:38 am
Clara Schumann: "Quatre Pièces fugitives," Op. 15
Angela Cheng, p
Piano Music of Clara and Robert Schumann
6:52 am
Georges Auric: "Ouverture"
London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
Dorati Conducts Satie, Milhaud, Auric, Françaix, Fetler
7:04 am
Anthony Holborne: Pavans, Galliards, Almaines and Other Short Airs
Five Pieces: The Marie-Golde; Patiencia; The Choise; Last Will and Testament; The New-Yeres Gift
Empire Brass
Royal Brass
7:15 am
Maurice Ravel: "Pavane for a Dead Princess"
Kebyart
Unraveled: Homage to Maurice Ravel
7:21 am
Ottorino Respighi: "Suite Rossiniana"
IV. Finale, Tarantella, "Puro sangue"
Royal Phil Orch/Antal Dorati
Phase 4 Stereo Concert Series
7:33 am
George Frideric Handel: "Music for the Royal Fireworks"
"Overture"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks
7:40 am
George Frideric Handel: "Music for the Royal Fireworks"
"Bourrée"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks
7:42 am
Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Symphonie concertante" in F, Op. 10, No. 1
Soloists; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies concertantes; Symphony in G major
7:54 am
Mikhail Glinka: "Ruslan and Lyudmila"
Overture
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain and Other Russian Showpieces
8:04 am
Gustav Holst: Suite No. 2 in F, Op. 28, No. 2
Cleveland Symphonic Winds/Frederick Fennell
Music for Wind Band
8:16 am
Moritz Moszkowski: Orchestral Suite No. 3, Op. 79
III. Tempo di valse
Sinfonia Varsovia/Ian Hobson
Moritz Moszkowski: Orchestral Music Volume 2
8:23 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Sexteto Místico"
Lontano Ensemble/Odaline de la Martínez
Villa-Lobos Chamber and Choral Music
8:31 am
Ernest John Moeran: Overture for a Masque (1944)
Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Moeran: In the Mountain Country
8:41 am
Madeleine Dring: Trio for flute, oboe & piano
Adam Walker, f; Nicholas Daniel, ob; Antonio Oyarzábal, p
Complete Works for Oboe by Madeleine Dring
8:54 am
Antonín Dvořák: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46
No. 6 in D, "Sousedská"
Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
9:04 am
Scott Joplin: "Treemonisha"
Overture
The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra/Rick Benjamin
Scott Joplin: Treemonisha
9:13 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Souvenir d'un lieu cher," Op. 42
Gil Shaham, v; Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
Meeting in Moscow: Violin Concertos
9:33 am
Gordon Langford: Rhapsody for Trombone (1975)
Peter Moore, tb; Tredegar Town Band/Ian Porthouse
Shift
9:47 am
Clara Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Robert, Op. 20
Benjamin Grosvenor, p
Schumann & Brahms
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
César Franck: "Le Chasseur maudit" ("The Accursed Huntsman")
Lyon National Orch/Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems
10:16 am
George Gershwin: "I Got Rhythm" Variations
Michael Boriskin, p; Eos Orch/Jonathan Sheffer
Gershwin: Concerto For Piano and Orchestra in F, Rhapsody in Blue, etc.
10:26 am
Johannes Brahms: "Wiegenlied" (Lullaby), Op. 49, No. 4
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
Violin Lullabies
10:28 am
Pauline Viardot: "Six Morceaux"
No. 3, "Berceuse"
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
Violin Lullabies
10:31 am
Richard Strauss: "Wiegenlied," Op. 41, No. 1
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p
Violin Lullabies
10:36 am
Bedřich Smetana: "The Bartered Bride"
Three Dances
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Libor Pešek
The Moldau
10:48 am
William Boyce: Concerto grosso in B-Flat
Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd
Boyce: Overtures Nos 10-12 · Concerti
11:00 am
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: "Four Roman Sketches," Op. 7
"Nightfall; The Fountain of the Acqua Paola"
James Tocco, p
Griffes: Four Roman Sketches; Three Preludes * MacDowell: Sonata No. 4, "Keltic"
11:12 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Aida"
Chorus, "Gloria all'Egitto" (Triumphal Scene)
Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Verdi: Choruses
11:25 am
Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 7 in E minor, G 451
Richard Savino, g; Artaria String Quartet
Boccherini: Guitar Quintets, Vol. 3
11:47 am
Antonín Dvořák: "From the Bohemian Forest," Op. 68
V. "Silent Woods"
Jan Vogler, vc; The Knights/Eric Jacobsen
New Worlds
11:54 am
Teresa Carreño: Waltz, "Corbeille de fleurs," Op. 9
Alan Feinberg, p
The American Virtuoso
12:00 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sérénade mélancolique," Op. 26
Robert Chen, v; NDR Radio Phil/Pavel Kogan
Chen Plays Tchaikovsky
12:12 pm
Peter Boyer: "Radiance"
London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works
12:22 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: Quartet in D major
Camerata Köln
Telemann: Concerti da Camera, Vol. 2
12:35 pm
Fela Sowande: "African Suite"
London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7
12:51 pm
Frederick Delius: "Idylle printemps"
English Northern Phil/David Lloyd-Jones
Delius: Florida Suite, Over the Hills and Far Away, Idylle printemps
1:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer
Mozart: Salzburg 1773 - Symphonies Nos 25, 26 & 29
1:22 pm
Eric Whitacre: "Her Sacred Spirit Soars"
Eric Whitacre Singers/Eric Whitacre
Water Night
1:30 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: "Konzertstück" in F minor, Op. 113
Daniel Ottensamer, cl; Andreas Ottensamer, basset hn; Vienna Virtuosi
The Clarinotts
1:39 pm
Béla Bartók: Hungarian Sketches
Chicago Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
Bartók: Divertimento, Dance Suite, Hungarian Sketches, Two Pictures
1:52 pm
Aram Khachaturian: "Masquerade" Suite
Waltz & Mazurka
Chicago Harp Quartet
Rush Hour Concerts: Chicago Harp Quartet (June 11, 2024)
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Bach: French Suites
2:14 pm
Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C major & C minor
Anthony Camden, ob; City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward
Italian Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1
2:26 pm
Amy Beach: Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60
Virginia Eskin, p
Amy Beach - Music for piano
2:43 pm
Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11
I. "Allegro molto"
Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
Brahms Serenades 1 & 2
2:56 pm
Stanley Myers: "The Deer Hunter"
Cavatina
Göran Söllscher, g
Essential Guitar - 34 Guitar Masterpieces
3:00 pm
George Frideric Handel: "Il pastor fido"
Suite
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Handel Overtures
3:27 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Tales from the Vienna Woods", Op. 325
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Viennese Waltzes and Polkas
3:40 pm
Georg Anton Benda: Clavier Concerto in B minor
Sebastian Benda, fp; Benda Musicians
Music of the Benda Family
4:00 pm
Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Danish Radio Sym Orch/James Galway, f
James Galway Plays Nielsen
4:19 pm
Marin Marais: "Les Folies d'Espagne"
Nancy Ambrose King, ob; Charlotte Mattax, hc
Évocations
4:31 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92
IV. Finale, "Allegro con brio"
Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Symphonies
4:40 pm
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "A prole do bebê," Set 1 (1918)
Helen Huang, p
For Children
4:57 pm
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 4, "Autochthonous"
III. "With a graceful lilt"
Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter
American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5
5:00 pm
Ernest Chausson: "Poème," Op. 25
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, v; London Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas
Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Chausson: Poème
5:18 pm
Ottorino Respighi: "Trittico botticelliano"
I. "La Primavera"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III, Three Botticelli Pictures, The Birds
5:23 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11
II. "Andante cantabile"
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1 & 3
5:32 pm
Richard Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration," Op. 24
Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Manfred Honeck
Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
6:00 pm
Matthew Locke: "The Flat Consort"
Suite No. 2 in B-Flat
Fretwork
Locke: The Flat Consort
6:14 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op. 74, No. 2
Takács Quartet
Haydn: Strings Quartets Op. 74
6:35 pm
Varvara Gaigerova: Suite for Viola and Piano, Op. 8
Eliesha Nelson, vi; Glen Inanga, p
Russian Viola Sonatas
6:51 pm
Antonio Bazzini: "La Ronde des lutins," Op. 25
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Patrick Sinozich, p
Instrument of the Devil
6:56 pm
Jesús Guridi: "Diez melodías vascas"
No. 9, "Elegíaca (Zorabiatua naiz)"
Bilbao Sym Orch/Juanjo Mena
Adagio Chillout
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Johannes Brahms, Part II
This is the second of two weeks exploring the music and life of the great German master. Brahms’s love of Hungarian Roma music and folksongs allowed him to create music that speaks to our inner souls. Scholars believe Brahms discarded more works than he published, so let us treasure the music we have from him.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Live from WFMT
The Grammy-winning, Chicago-based ensemble Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore) performs live in the Levin Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The WFMT Orchestra Series
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61; Joshua Bell, violin; Strauss "Don Juan," Op. 20; Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, “Classical;” Stravinsky "The Firebird" Suite; Alan Gilbert, conductor.
