Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, March 6, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Ruth Gipps: Horn Concerto, Op. 58
Finale
Martin Owen, hn; BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
12:05 am
Giovanni Punto: Horn Concerto #10 in F
Barry Tuckwell, fh; St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
12:21 am
Paul Dukas: "Villanelle"
Hermann Baumann, fh; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur
Works For Horn
12:27 am
Alexander Scriabin: Twenty-Four Preludes, Op 11
No. 19 in E-Flat
Jonathan Boen, hn; Craig Terry, p
French Horn Recital: Scriabin Preludes
12:29 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" Suite
Montagues and Capulets, The Young Juliet, Madrigal, Minuet, Masks, Romeo and Juliet
Chicago Sym/Riccardo Muti
Prokofiev * Suite from Romeo and Juliet * Riccardo Muti * Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12:55 am
Serge Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 75
II. "Scene"
Nikolai Demidenko, p
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition/ Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
1:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Valse-Scherzo" in C, Op. 34
David Oistrakh, v; Vladimir Yampolsky, p
Violin Classics
1:05 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Scherzo fantastique," Op. 3
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Scheherazade / Scherzo Fantastique
1:17 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Apollo (Apollon musagète)"
Variation de Terpsichore
United Strings of Europe members/Julian Azkoul
Hommages
1:19 am
George Frideric Handel: "Terpsichore"
Suite
Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
The Power of Love: Arias from Handel Operas
1:29 am
Johannes Brahms: Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24
Emanuel Ax, p
Brahms: Handel Variations, Six Piano Pieces Op. 118, and Rhapsodies Op. 79
1:55 am
George Frideric Handel: "Samson"
Sinfonia: Allegro
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Overtures
2:00 am
Heinrich von Biber: Eight-Trumpet Sonata in A
Wynton Marsalis, tr's; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
Baroque Music for Trumpets
2:05 am
Heinrich von Biber: Passacaglia for solo lute
Nigel North, l
Biber: Violin Sonatas
2:12 am
Heinrich von Biber: Fanfare No. 1
English Concert/Andrew Manze
Missa Christi resurgentis
2:13 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat, K. 361
American Sym Orch Wind Group/Leopold Stokowski
The Stokowski Collection Vol 1
2:55 am
William Grant Still: Little Folk Suite #3
"Wade in the Water"
Oregon String Quartet
3:00 am
William Alwyn: "Fantasy-Waltzes" (1956)
#9
Julian Milford, p
Alwyn
3:05 am
William Alwyn: Overture, "Derby Day" (1960)
London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox
Alwyn: Symphony No. 2 · Magic Island
3:11 am
John Ireland: "A London Overture" (1936)
London Sym Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
3:23 am
William Alwyn: "Fantasy-Waltzes" (1956)
#10
Julian Milford, p
Alwyn
3:25 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11
Borodin String Quartet
3:54 am
William Alwyn: "Fantasy-Waltzes" (1956)
#2
Julian Milford, p
Alwyn
4:00 am
Hector Berlioz: "Feuillets d'album," Op. 19
#1, "Zaíde (Boléro)"
Françoise Pollet, s; Thomas Lutz, castanets; Cord Garben, p
Melodies Songs Lieder
4:05 am
Hans Sitt: Album Leaves, Op 39
Zaslav Duo
Brahms & Friends
4:20 am
Carlos Chávez: Feulle d'album for Guitar
John Schneider, g
Chavez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 4
4:22 am
Steven Stucky: "Four Album Leaves" (2002)
#4
Gloria Cheng, p
Gloria Cheng - Music of Lutoslawski, Stucky & Salonen
4:24 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622
Thea King, cl; English Chamber Orch/Alun Francis
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto/ Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No.4
4:53 am
Anton Zemlinsky: Six Waltz Songs, Op 6, on folk texts from Tuscany
#1, "Liebe Schwalbe"
Hermine Haselböck, ms; Florian Henschel, p
5:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" incidental music, Op. 61
Scherzo
Bertrand Chamayou, p
Mendelssohn
5:04 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 1 in C
Northern Chamber Orch/Nicholas Ward
Mendelssohn: The Complete Symphonies and String Symphonies
5:16 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 23 in G
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer
Haydn Symphonies 21-39
5:32 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Three Preludes and Three Studies, Op 104
Prelude #2 in b
Bertrand Chamayou, p
Mendelssohn
5:34 am
Edward Elgar: "Severn Suite", Op 87
London Brass Virtuosi/David Honeyball
English Music for Brass
5:53 am
Thomas Morley: Madrigal, "I love, alas I love thee"
King's Singers
English Madrigals
6:00 am
6:04 am
Claude Champagne: "Danse Villageoise"
Quebec Sym Orch/Yoav Talmi
Dancing for 100 Years
6:10 am
Florence Price: "Village Scenes"
Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p
Scenes in Tin Can Alley
6:21 am
Aaron Copland: "Our Town"
Suite
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Music For Films
6:32 am
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto andaluz"
I. "Tiempo de Bolero"
Amadeus Guitar Duo, Eden Stell Duo, International Phil Orch/Horst-Hans Bäcker
Spanish Night
6:41 am
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 in G, Op. 77
I. "Allegro con fuoco"
Calidore String Quartet; Xavier Foley, db
2023 Winter Chamber Music Festival: Calidore String Quartet with Xavier Foley (January 6, 2023)
6:54 am
Gioachino Rossini: "La scala di seta"
Overture
Prague Chamber Orch/Oldřich Vlček
Famous Encores
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
7:00 am
WFMT Membership Drive
Community Day
Until 7:00 pm. Tune in for a day-long celebration of the artists, organizations, and music that comprise Chicagoâs classical music communityâand for a chance to claim tickets to see live performances from many of these community partners! Support WFMT by calling (773) 279-2100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Arias and Barcarolles
Taking a cue from President Eisenhower’s famous remark to Leonard Bernstein, “I like music with a theme, not all them arias and barcarolles,” this week features a mix of arias, overtures, barcarolles, and other melodic delights that deserve more airtime.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on an original theme in E-Flat, Op. 44
Daniel Barenboim, p; Pinchas Zukerman, v; Jacqueline Du Pré, vc
Beethoven: Piano Trios (complete) / Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline Du Pré
8:17 pm
Emilie Mayer: Symphony No. 6 in E
NDR Radio Phil/Jan Willem de Vriend
Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
8:54 pm
Leonard Bernstein: Medley of Themes
Lisa Friend, f; Rohan De Silva, p
An American Affair
9:01 pm
Aaron Copland: "The Tender Land"
Party Scene; Finale, "The Promise of Living"
Boston Sym Orch/Aaron Copland
Copland & Gould: Composers Conduct
9:12 pm
Florence Price: "Ethiopia's Shadow in America"
Vienna Radio Sym Orch/John Jeter
Price: Symphony No. 3; The Mississippi River; Ethiopia's Shadow in America
9:26 pm
Will Liverman: "Earth, I Thank You"
Devony Smith, ms; Danny Zelibor, p
In This Short Life
9:28 pm
Jennifer Higdon: "Little River Songs"
Devony Smith, ms; Michael Nicolas, vc; Danny Zelibor, p
In This Short Life
9:36 pm
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
James Ehnes, v; Vancouver Sym/Bramwell Tovey
Barber, Korngold, Walton
10:01 pm
Johannes Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Benjamin Grosvenor, p
Schumann & Brahms
10:18 pm
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"
The Knights/Eric Jacobsen
A Second of Silence
10:41 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
Chris Thile, m
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas Vol. 1
10:56 pm
Aaron Copland: "Down a Country Lane"
St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
Long Time Ago
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Aaron Copland (3/10/1961)
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1900, Aaron Copland devoted his creative life to creating and fostering distinctive American music. Studs Terkel spoke with the eminent twentieth-century composer in the WFMT studios in 1961.
