Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Thursday, April 23, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Erkki Melartin: "Sleeping Beauty," Op 22
Overture
Tempere Phil/Leif Segerstam
Melartin
12:04 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Dornröschen"
Overture
Munich Radio Orch/Ulf Schirmer
Dornröschen
12:11 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty", Op. 66
Suite for Two Pianos
Katia & Marielle Labèque, p
Piano Fantasy: Music For Two Pianos
12:28 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Dornröschen"
Interlude: "The Thorn Castle"
Munich Radio Orch/Ulf Schirmer
Dornröschen
12:30 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 9 in C
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Symphonies For Strings Nos. 8 • 9 • 10
12:54 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Piece in c
Sontraud Speidel, p
Fanny Mendelssohn
1:00 am
Aaron Copland: "Appalachian Spring"
"Variations on a Shaker melody"
Marcelo Bratke, Marcela Roggeri, p's
The Open Prairie - Music for Two Pianos
1:05 am
Gian-Carlo Menotti: "Sebastian"
Suite
Spoleto Festival Orch/Richard Hickox
Menotti: Apocalisse & Other Orchestral Works
1:30 am
Hugo Wolf: "Italienisches Liederbuch"
"Ich esse nun mein Brot"
Geraldine McGreevy, s; Sholto Kynoch, p
Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs Volume 3
1:31 am
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata #1 in f, Op 120/1
Richard Stoltzman, cl; Richard Goode, p
The Sonatas For Clarinet And Piano, Op. 120
1:55 am
Adèle Hugo: "Simple Melody" No. 1 in C
Anaïde Apelian, cl; Laurianne Corneille, p
Adèle Hugo: Mélodies sur des poèmes de Victor Hugo
2:00 am
Jorge Aragón: "Un Bolero para Sarah"
Sarah Willis, hn; Havana Lyceum Orch/José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Jorge Aragón
2:05 am
Maurice Ravel: "Boléro"
London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Mad about the Orchestra
2:19 am
Frédéric Chopin: "Boléro," Op. 19
Garrick Ohlsson, p
Chopin The Complete Works
2:27 am
Mauro Giuliani: "Pièces faciles et agréables," Op 74
#14, Bolero
Mikael Helasvuo, f; Jukka Savijoki, g
Mauro Giuliani - The Complete Works for Flute and Guitar, Vol.3
2:28 am
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op 43
Pahud, f; J Kelly, ob; S Meyer, cl; S Schweigert, bn; R Baborak, fh
Emmanuel Pahud, flute,
Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos * Meyer * Pahud * Rattle
2:54 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Six Songs, Op 1
#2, "Wanderlied"
Emmanuel Pahud, f; Eric Le Sage, p
Fannt Mendelssohn
3:00 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeoman of the Guard
Overture
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures
3:05 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Romance and Pastorale
Nash Ensemble
Ralph Vaughan Williams * The Early Chamber Music * The Nash Ensemble
3:14 am
Gustav Holst: Variations on Thaxted
Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
3:23 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op 120
#21
Claudio Arrau, p
Beethoven: Diabelli Variationen
3:25 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19
Jan Lisiecki, p; St Martin's Academy
Beethoven: Piano Concertos
3:54 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: 25 Scottish Songs, Op 108
#23, "The Shepherd's Song"
Günther Leib, br; Reinhard Ulbricht, v; Joachim Bischof, vc; Eva Ander, p
Beethoven Complete Edition
4:00 am
Carl Orff: "Carmina Burana"
"O, Fortuna"
Atlanta Sym Cho, Orch/Robert Shaw
The Power & The Majesty, Essential Choral Classics
4:05 am
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Suite
Indiana State University Faculty Winds
Carmina Burana
4:18 am
Carl Orff: Schulwerk
"Vier Stücke: #4
Karl Peinkofer Percussion Ensemble
Orff-Schulwerk Volume 1: Musica Poetica
4:20 am
Antonin Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in e minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"
Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray
Symphony No. 9 "New World", Symphony No. 2
4:54 am
Charles Ives: Song, "Her Gown was of Vermilion Silk"
Paul Sperry, t; Irma Vallecillo, p
The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2
5:00 am
Enrique Granados: "Goyescas"
Intermezzo
Janos Starker, vc; Shigeo Neriki, p
Virtuoso Music for Cello
5:05 am
Joaquín Turina: "Mujeres de Sevilla", Op 89 (1935)
David Buechner, p
Turina: Mujeres Española
5:19 am
Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"
Overture
Scottish Chamber Orch/Jaime Laredo
Rossini: Operatic Overtures Vol. 10
5:26 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Almaviva's Couplets from the Barber of Seville"
E Raikov, t; USSR TV & Radio Sym/E Akulov
5:28 am
Ernest Bloch: Violin Sonata No. 1
Jascha Heifetz, v; Emanuel Bay, p
The Heifetz Collection, Volume 8: 1950-1955
5:54 am
Michael Praetorius: "Terpsichore" (1612)
"La Sarabande"
New London Consort
Dances from Terpsichore
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.
6:03 am
Bernhard Joachim Hagen: Trio Sonata in E-Flat
I. "Allegro"
Miguel Rincón, l; Il Pomo d'Oro/Zefira Valova, v
Concertos for Baroque Lute
6:10 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Capriccio brillant" in B minor, Op. 22
Israela Margalit, p; London Sym Orch/Bryden Thomson
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brilliant
6:22 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21
II. "Andante cantabile"
Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1; Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost;" Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
6:31 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
III. Finale, "Alla breve"
Yunchan Lim, p; Fort Worth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition
6:47 am
Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 2) in D, Op. 94
IV. Finale, "Allegro con brio"
Brandon Patrick George, f; Jacob Greenberg, p
Brandon Patrick George: Flute Sonatas & Solo Works
6:55 am
Johan Halvorsen: "Mascarade" Incidental Music
"Holberg-Overture"
Norwegian Radio Orch/Ari Rasilainen
Johan Halvorsen: Suite Ancienne, Mascarade
7:04 am
Johann Adolf Hasse: Sinfonia, Op. 5, No. 6
Concerto Köln/Pablo Heras-Casado
El Maestro: Farinelli
7:15 am
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8
II. Scherzo
Joshua Bell, v; Steven Isserlis, vc; Jeremy Denk, p
For the Love of Brahms
7:24 am
Frederick Delius: "Florida" Suite
II. "By the river"
Zagreb Festival Orch/Michael Halász
Classical Moments 4: Classical Music for the Home
7:33 am
Hector Berlioz: "Béatrice et Bénédict"
Overture
London Sym Orch/Sir Colin Davis
Berlioz: Complete Orchestral Music
7:42 am
Franz Liszt: Fantasy on the Waltz from Gounod's "Faust"
Misha Dichter, p
The Best Of Liszt
7:53 am
Astor Piazzolla: "Histoire du Tango"
III. "Night Club 1960"
Augustin Hadelich, v; Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, g
Histoire du Tango: Music for Violin and Guitar
8:03 am
Edward German: "Nell Gwyn"
Overture
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/John Wilson
Made in Britain
8:11 am
Joe Hisaishi: "Howl's Moving Castle"
Symphonic variation on "Merry-Go-Round Of Life;" "Cave of Mind"
Phil Cobb, tr; Royal Phil Orch/Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi: A Symphonic Celebration
8:25 am
Lennon-McCartney: "All My Loving"
Trio Rococo
Trio Rococo Plays Beatles - Classical Mystery Tour
8:31 am
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52
I. "Allegro moderato"
Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
8:43 am
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F
I. "Allegro moderato - Très doux"
Juilliard String Quartet
A Century of French Music
8:53 am
Anton Bruckner: "Abendzauber"
phil Blech Wien/Anton Mittermayr; Olivier Latry, o
Live from Vienna
9:04 am
Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 3
"Ibéria"
Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez
Debussy: Images, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Printemps
9:24 am
Pablo Casals: "Sardana"
Cellos from London Phil Orch, Royal Phil Orch, BBC Phil & Philharmonia Orch/Simon
The London Cello Sound
9:32 am
Amadeo Roldán: "La Rebambaramba" Suite
New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Tangazo - Music of Latin America
9:42 am
Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 3
St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff
Respighi
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
Hosted by Kristina Lynn.
10:00 am
Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor"
Polovtsian Dances
London Sym Cho & Orch/Georg Solti
Weekend in Russia
10:15 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Andante con moto in E
Sontraud Speidel, p
Hensel Klaviermusik
10:23 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B-Flat
Danish Chamber Orch/Ádám Fischer
Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 4
10:47 am
Ariel Ramírez: "Misa Criolla"
V. Agnus Dei
Daniel Hope, v; Palau de la Música Vocal Quartet; Michael Metzler, per; Zürich Chamber Orch
Hope
10:54 am
Michael Tilson Thomas: "Upon Further Reflection"
I. "Bygone Beguine"
John Wilson, p
Upon Further Reflection
11:01 am
Bedřich Smetana: "Tábor"
Czech Phil/Jiří Bělohlávek
Smetana: Má Vlast
11:15 am
Adolf Schulz-Evler: Arabesques on Strauss's "Blue Danube"
Benjamin Grosvenor, p
Dances
11:26 am
Johann Wilhelm Hertel: Trumpet and Oboe Concerto in E-Flat
Hans Peter Westermann, ob; Friedemann Immer, tr; Cologne Chamber Orch/Helmut Müller-Brühl
Concerti Barocchi
11:42 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel"
Overture
Royal Phil Orch/Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe - Artist Profile
11:51 am
Caroline Shaw: Three Essays
No. 1, "Nimrod"
Calidore String Quartet
Babel
12:01 pm
Irene Britton Smith: Violin Sonata (1947)
Blue Violet Duo
Strike, Strum and Stride
12:17 pm
Jean-Féry Rebel: "Les caractères de la danse"
Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Rameau: Les éléments; Les caractères de la danse
12:26 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
No. 15 in D-flat, "Raindrop"
Ivan Moravec, p
Ivan Moravec Plays Chopin
12:32 pm
Hayato Sumino: "Raindrop Postlude"
Hayato Sumino, p
Chopin Orbit
12:39 pm
Inocente Carreño: "Margariteña"
Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Maximiano Valdés
Caramelos Latinos
1:01 pm
Georges Bizet: "Carmen"
Suite
Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suite 1 and 2
1:22 pm
Fernando Sor: Variations on a theme from Mozart's "Magic Flute," Op 9
Cavatina Duo
Cavatina at the Opera
1:31 pm
George Frideric Handel: Coronation anthem, "The King Shall Rejoice"
King's College Cho Cambridge, English Chamber Orch/D Willcocks
Coronation Anthems
1:45 pm
Jacques Offenbach: "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein"
Overture
Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi
Offenbach: Orchestral Works
1:52 pm
Frederick Delius: "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"
San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Masterpieces in Miniature
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Hilary Hahn, v; Swedish Radio Sym/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Schoenberg * Sibelius: Violin Concertos * Hahn * Swedish RSO * Salonen
2:34 pm
William Grant Still: Folk Suite No. 4
Sierra Winds; Carol Urban-Stivers, p
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
2:40 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: "Les Vêpres siciliennes"
Four Seasons Ballet: Winter
Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas
2:47 pm
George Whitefield Chadwick: "Suite symphonique"
No. 2, "Romanza"
Czech State Phil/José Serebrier
Chadwick Orchestral Works
2:57 pm
William White: Fantasia
New York Trumpet Ensemble
Art of the Trumpet
3:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique"
Alfred Brendel, p
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, Rondo in B-Flat, "Pathétique" Sonata
3:21 pm
Michael Haydn: String Quintet in C, P 108
Salzburg Haydn Quintet
Michael Haydn: The Complete String Quintets
3:46 pm
Johann Stamitz: Symphony in A
Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Music by Johann & Carl Stamitz
3:58 pm
Gaetano Donizetti: "La fille du régiment"
Soldier's chorus: "Rataplan, rataplan, rataplan"
Royal Opera House Cho & Orch/Richard Bonynge
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
4:00 pm
Igor Stravinsky: Wind Octet
London Sinfonietta/Riccardo Chailly
Stravinsky: Divertimento, Fanfare for a New Theatre, Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo, Suites Nos. 1 and 2
4:16 pm
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Bachianas Brasileiras" No. 9
New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Alma Brasileira
4:28 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Moscow, Cheryomushki," Op. 105
Suite from the operetta
Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Shostakovich: The Dance Album
4:50 pm
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 83
IV. Finale, "Allegretto grazioso"
Emil Gilels, p; Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection
5:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," K. 525
Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer
After Mozart
5:18 pm
Henri Casadesus: "Ronde de saisons"
Autumn, "Molto adagio"
Science Ficta
Ronde de Saisons: Musique pour quatuor de violes
5:23 pm
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Ronde champêtre"
Georges Rabol, p
Chabrier: Piano Works Vol. 2 / Georges Rabol
5:27 pm
Antonio Bazzini: "La Ronde des lutins," Op. 25
Maxim Vengerov, v; Vag Papian, p; Virtuosi Violin Ensemble
Vengerov & Virtuosi
5:34 pm
Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor
Paul Huang, v; Helen Huang, p
Kaleidoscope
6:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Wynton Marsalis, tr; English Chamber Orch/Anthony Newman
In Gabriel's Garden
6:13 pm
Robert Schumann: "Kinderszenen," Op. 15
Canadian Brass
Carnaval
6:33 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
Yuki Mack & Tomoko Mack, p
Live from WFMT: Yuki & Tomoko Mack (April 2, 2007)
6:47 pm
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata
I. "Impetuoso"
Vinciane Béranger, vi; Dana Ciocarlie, p
Rebecca Clarke: Works for Viola
6:57 pm
Georges Bizet: "Carmen"
Habanera
Atlantic Brass Quintet
Picture This: Artistic Transcriptions for Brass
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
The Russian Five
This group, also known as The Mighty Handful, includes Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Led by Balakirev, they helped create the Russian National School of Composers in Saint Petersburg from 1856 to 1870. Bill introduces each composer and shares important works performed by renowned musicians.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Jacques Offenbach: "Vert-vert (Kakadu)"
Overture
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Jaques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne, 5 Overtures
8:08 pm
Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Concerto (1925)
Josephine Gandolfi, p; UC Santa Cruz Orch/Nicole Paiement
La musique de Germaine Tailleferre Vol. II
8:26 pm
Anonymous 16th-century: Suite of Dances
Piffaro
Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
8:36 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"
Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth
Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems, Le Carnaval des animaux, L'Assassinat du duc de Guise
9:00 pm
Gioachino Rossini: "The Barber of Seville"
Overture
La Scala Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Il barbiere di Siviglia
9:08 pm
Carl Orff: "De temporum fine comoedia"
"Con sublima spiritualità"
West German Radio Sym Orch/Herbert von Karajan
Orff: Carmina Burana
9:14 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat, R. 502
Sergio Azzolini, bn; L'Aura Soave Cremona
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos, Volume III
9:27 pm
Isaac Albéniz: "Escenes simfòniques catalanes"
Barcelona Sym Orch/Jaime Martín
Isaac Albéniz - Catalonia
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The New York Philharmonic This Week
Stravinsky "Rite of Spring;" Debussy "La Mer;" Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Jaap van Zweden, conductor.
