Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Monday, May 18, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Vincenzo Bellini: "Norma"
Aria, "Casta Diva"
James Galway, f; London Sym Orch/Klauspeter Seibel
Wings of Song: Popular Classical Melodies for Flute and Orchestra * James Galway
12:05 am
Antonio Pasculli: "Omaggio a Bellini" (Duo on themes from Bellini operas)
Heinz Holliger, eh; Ursula Holliger, h
Heinz Holliger at the Opera
12:13 am
Louise Farrenc: "Rondeau brillant" on Bellini's Pirate Chorus, Op. 9
Maria Stratigou, p
Louise Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3: Rondeaux
12:19 am
Bohuslav Martinu: "Borova" (Seven Czech Dances) (1929-30)
#6
Radoslav Kvapil, p
Anthology of Czech Piano Works, Vol. 3: Bohuslav Martinu
12:21 am
Bohuslav Martinu: Symphony #4 (1945)
Czech Phil/Vaclav Neumann
Martinu: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
12:54 am
Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39
#15 in A-Flat
Claire Aebersold, p; Ralph Neiweem, p
Brahms: Four Hands
1:00 am
Nicolo Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op 1
#24 in a
Yo-Yo Ma, vc
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Paganini, Kreisler, Dvorak
1:05 am
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.35
Olga Kern, p
Johannes Brahms * Variations * Olga Kern
1:31 am
Johannes Brahms: "Hungarian Dances"
No. 19 in b
Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado
Classic Abbado
1:33 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Divertimento in B-Flat
Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
String Concertos
1:42 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wind Divertimento No. 16 in B-Flat, K. 289
London Wind Soloists/Jack Brymer
Mozart Complete Wind Music
1:54 am
William Grant Still: Folk Suite #2
"El Zapatero"
Sierra Winds
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
2:00 am
Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: "Festmarsch" in D
Swiss Italian Orch/Howard Shelley
2:05 am
Ludwig (Louis) Spohr: Flute and Harp Sonata in E-flat, Op 114
Maxence Larrieu, fl; Susanna Mildonian, h
N/A
2:24 am
John Cage: Sonata II for Prepared Piano
Joshua Pierce, p
Between The Keys: Microtonal Masterpieces Of The 20th Century
2:26 am
Charlotte Sohy: Symphony in c-sharp (1917)
French National Orch/Deborah Waldman
Compositrices
2:55 am
Louis Durey: "Le Bestiaire" (1919; text by Apollinaire)
#21, "Les sirènes"
Lionel Peintre, br; Ensemble Erwartung
3:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "L'inganno felice"
Overture
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Rossini: Overtures
3:05 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in f, D 625
András Schiff, p
Schubert: Piano Sonatas
3:23 am
Joseph Boudin de Boismortier: "Fragments melodiques"
"Courante"
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
BOISMORTIER: Serenades Francaises / Fragments Melodiques
3:25 am
Arthur Bliss: "Checkmate" (1937)
Five Dances
West Australian Sym Orch/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler
Rubbra/ Bliss/Tippett: Orchestral Works
3:45 am
Andre Philidor: Suite in E-Flat
Le Temple du Goût
3:54 am
Andre Philidor: La Marche des Dragons du Roy
Ensemble/Jean-Claude Malgoire
4:00 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo a capriccio in G, "Rage over a lost penny," Op 129
Alexis Weissenberg, p
4:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: Rondo in g, Op 94
Peter Bruns, vc; Dresden Staatskapelle/Michael Helmrath
Bach: Transcriptions And Variations
4:13 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Rondo brillant" in E-Flat, Op 29
Christina Ortiz, p; Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Moshe Atzmon
4:24 am
Ole Bull: "Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso"
Arve Tellefsen, v; Trondheim Sym/Elvind Aadland
4:32 am
Christian Sinding: Song, "Poem", Op 77/2
Per Vollestad, br; Sigmund Hjelset, p
Sinding: Songs Vol 2
4:34 am
Edvard Grieg: Old Norwegian Romance With Variations, Op. 51
Bournemouth Sym Orch/Paavo Berglund
4:54 am
Borlet: Ma tredol rossignol
Hesperus
For No Good Reason At All
5:00 am
Leo Délibes: "Lakmé"
Flower duet, "Dome épais, le jasmin"
Hei-Kyung Hong, Jennifer Larmore; Munich Radio Orch/Jesus López-Cobos
Bellezza Vocale * Hong * Larmore
5:05 am
Jean Françaix: "Flower Clock"
John de Lancie, ob; London Sym/André Previn
Strauss: Oboe Concerto/ Francaix: L'Horloge De Flore/ Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1/ Ibert: Symphonie Concertante
5:21 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Distribuiçao de flores" (1937)
John Anderson, ob; Simon Wynberg, g
Music For Oboe And Guitar
5:26 am
Emil Stolc: "Flowers' Whisper" Waltz
Czech Phil/Vaclav Neumann
Old Czech Marches
5:32 am
Percy Grainger: Beautiful Fresh Flower
Martin Jones, p
Grainger: Country Gardens and Other Piano
5:34 am
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concerto in a
L'Arte dell'Arco/Giovanni Guglielmo, v
5:54 am
William Byrd: "My Lord of Oxenfords Maske"
Baltimore Consort
Chamber and Vocal Music (16th-17th Centuries) – READE, R. / JOHNSON, J. RAVENSCROFT, T. / MORLEY, T. (The Ladyes Delight)
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
Luigi Boccherini: Flute Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 19, No. 5 (G 429)
Sally Walker, f; Layton & Rayner, v's; King, vi; Marlin, vc
Stephen King, viola,
Boccherini: Chamber Works for Flute
6:14 am
Charles Gounod: Symphony No. 1 in D
I. "Allegro molto"
St. Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood
Bizet: L'Arlésienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Symphony No.1
6:21 am
Antonín Kraft: Cello Concerto in C, Op 4
III. Finale, "Rondo alla Cosacca"
Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Ensemble Resonanz/Riccardo Minasi
Antonín Kraft & Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos
6:31 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: "Sexteto Místico"
OSESP Ensemble
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto / Harmonica Concerto / Sexteto místico
6:40 am
Fritz Kreisler: Violin Concerto in C, in the style of Vivaldi
Gil Shaham, v; Orpheus Chamber Orch
6:52 am
Johannes Brahms: Horn Trio in E-Flat, Op. 40
II. Scherzo: "Allegro"
Jenő Keveházi, hn; Ildikó Hegyi, v; Jenő Jandó, p
Heroic Horn: Best Loved Classical Music
7:04 am
Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, Set 1, Op. 27
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Malcolm Arnold for Band
7:15 am
Meyer/Thile/Duncan: "Less is Moi"
Stuart Duncan, plectrum banjo; Chris Thile, man; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Edgar Meyer, db
Edgar Meyer, double bass,
The Goat Rodeo Sessions
7:23 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: String Sextet, Op. 70, "Souvenir de Florence"
III. "Allegretto moderato"
Orch d'Auvergne/Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir De Florence; Serenade In C
7:33 am
Karl Goldmark: Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 26, "Rustic Wedding"
V. Finale, "Dance"
Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel
Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony; Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2
7:42 am
Ernest Chausson: "Concert" in D, Op. 21
IV. Finale
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Orion Weiss, p; Pacifica Quartet
French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre
7:54 am
Antonín Dvořák: "Czech Suite," Op 39
V. Finale, "Furiant"
Polish National Radio Sym Orch/Antoni Wit
Festival! Music selected by WFMT
8:04 am
Giovanni Sollima: "Il concerto perduto" (after Vivaldi R 787)
Giovanni Sollima, vc; Il Pomo d'Oro
Al-Bunduqiyya - The Lost Concerto
8:17 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 1 in F, Op. 18
IV. Finale, "Allegro"
Rembrandt Trio
Chaminade, Ravel, Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios
8:24 am
James Curnow: "Rejouissance" (Fantasy on "Ein feste Burg")
Chicago Gargoyle Brass & Organ Ensemble/Stephen Squires
Ein' feste Burg: Music of the Reformation
8:32 am
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"
II. Scherzo
Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerto
8:40 am
Bright Sheng: "Suzhou Overture"
Suzhou Sym Orch/Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng: Let Fly - Zodiac Tales - Suzhou Overture
8:50 am
Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
III. "Nocturne"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Romantic Favorites / Eugene Ormandy
9:03 am
Francis Poulenc: Piano and Wind Sextet
Nash Ensemble
Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music
9:22 am
Leonard Bernstein: "West Side Story"
Symphonic Dances
Lucerne Sym Orch/James Gaffigan
Americans
9:45 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 1
Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Shostakovich: Five Ballet Suites
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Franz Schubert: Violin Sonatina No. 1 in D, D 384
Joseph Swensen, v; Jeffrey Kahane, p
Schubert: Violin Sonatas - Joseph Swensen / Jeffrey Kahane
10:14 am
Giovanni Gabrieli: "Canzon Septimi Toni a 8"
London Brass
Gabrieli in Venice
10:17 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
Scherzo
London Brass
Romantic Journey
10:23 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor"
I. "Allegro"
Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Constantine
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos
10:45 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Twenty-Four Negro Melodies," Op. 59
No. 10, "Deep River"
Ashley Jackson, h
Take Me to the Water
10:53 am
Heinrich Schütz: Madrigal, "O primavera," prima and seconda parte
Cantus Cölln/Konrad Junghänel
Schütz Italian Madrigals
11:00 am
Ulvi Cemal Erkin: Dance Rhapsody, "Köçekçe"
Borusan Istanbul Phil Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
11:11 am
George Frideric Handel: Aria, "Cara speme, questo core"
Quartetto Vanvitelli
Se in fiorito ameno prato - Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
11:15 am
George Frideric Handel: Aria, "V'adoro pupille"
Quartetto Vanvitelli
Se in fiorito ameno prato - Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
11:18 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55
IV. Finale, Theme and Variations
NDR Radio Phil/Stanislav Kochanovsky
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
11:39 am
Agathe Backer Grøndahl: "Norwegian Folk Tunes and Folk Dances," Op. 30
Three tunes after Myllarguten: "Spring Song; The Kivle Maids; Fanitullen"
Natalia Strelchenko, p
Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Norwegian Folk Tunes
11:47 am
Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op. 45, No. 1
Slovak Phil Orch/Zdeněk Košler
Dvorák: Slavonic Dances
12:00 pm
Johannes Brahms: Two Motets, Op. 74
No. 1, "Warum ist das Licht gegeben den Mühseligen"
Chicago Chamber Choir/Christopher Windle
Live Art
12:10 pm
Emmanuel Chabrier: "España"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Encore!
12:18 pm
Gabriel Fauré: "Dolly" Suite, Op. 56
Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque, p
Katia & Marielle Labèque - Bizet, Fauré, Ravel
12:35 pm
Leopold Mozart: "Sinfonia pastorale" in G
New Zealand Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong
Leopold Mozart: Symphonies
12:49 pm
James Horner: "First in Flight"
"Kitty Hawk"
Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/David Arnold
James Horner: Collage
1:00 pm
Gustav Holst: Suite No. 2 in F, Op. 28, No. 2
Cleveland Symphonic Winds/Frederick Fennell
Music for Wind Band
1:12 pm
Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B, Op. 30
BBC National Orch of Wales/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4; Song for Orchestra; Knight in Armour
1:35 pm
Johann Baptist Vanhal: Variations on Paisiello's "Nel cor più non mi sento," Op. 42
John Anderson, ob; Simon Wynberg, g
Summertime: Music for Oboe and Guitar
1:44 pm
Virgil Thomson: "Louisiana Story"
Acadian Songs and Dances
New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp
Virgil Thomson: Louisiana Story, The Plow That Broke The Plains
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C, K. 465, "Dissonance"
Emerson String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet
2:30 pm
Johannes Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16
I. "Allegro moderato"
New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Serenade No. 2
2:41 pm
Astor Piazzolla: "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"
"Spring; Summer"
Daniel Barenboim, p; Rodolfo Mederos, bandoneon; Héctor Console, db
Mi Buenos Aires Querido - Tangos Among Friends
2:50 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Rapsodie d'Auvergne," Op. 73
Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sakari Oramo
Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
3:00 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 74, No. 1
Takács Quartet
Haydn: Strings Quartets Op. 74
3:23 pm
Claude Debussy: "Suite bergamasque"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
Debussy: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 2: Images, Etudes
3:41 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Othello," Op. 79
Suite
Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
3:56 pm
Isaac Albéniz: "España," Op. 165
No. 3, "Malagueña"
Alicia de Larrocha, p
Spanish Encores
4:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
4:12 pm
Francis Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Michael Collins, cl; Noriko Ogawa, p
La clarinette parisienne
4:27 pm
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"
II. "Largo"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Album Collection
4:40 pm
Alexander Arutiunian: Trumpet Concerto in A-Flat
Paul Merkelo, tr; Russian National Orch/Hans Graf
Arutiunian, Weinberg & Shostakovich: Trumpet Concertos
4:57 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals"
"The Swan"
Antonio Ballista, p
Shortcuts: One-Minute-Plus Piano Pieces by 50 Composers
5:00 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish
British Wind Band Classics
5:16 pm
Oskar Nedbal: "The Tale of Simple Johnny"
"Valse triste"
Prague Sym Orch/Václav Smetáček
Small Czech Musical Gems
5:21 pm
Traditional Catalan: "Song of the Birds"
Wenting Kang, vi; Sergei Kvitko, p
Mosaic
5:24 pm
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Nocturne in B-Flat, Op. 16, No. 4
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, p
The Polish Virtuoso - Hofmann, Friedman, Ignaz Jan Paderewski
5:30 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p
Hope Amid Tears
6:00 pm
Richard Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
Act 1 Prelude
Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst
Wagner: Preludes & Overtures, Wesendonck-Lieder
6:09 pm
Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 2
St. Charles Singers, Elgin Sym Orch/Robert Hanson
Copland: Piano Concerto, The Tender Land, Old American Songs
6:23 pm
Pablo de Sarasate: "Zigeunerweisen," Op. 20
Gil Shaham, v; London Sym Orch/Lawrence Foster
Mad About Violins - The Greatest Stars...The Greatest Music
6:33 pm
Antonio Salieri: Keyboard Concerto in C
Andreas Staier, fp; Concerto Köln
Salieri: Fortepiano Concertos in C and B
6:56 pm
Fritz Kreisler: "Liebesfreud"
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Patricia Zander, p
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
What Else Ya Got?
Have you ever wondered about those composers who succeeded in writing one smashing piece but were otherwise forgotten? This week, we’ll get to know some of these immortals and their other compositions, including Pachelbel’s Suite in G Major and Dukas’ Symphony in C Major. The program also presents Hermann Baumann in a rare performance of Glière's Horn Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 91.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Live from WFMT
The Chicago-based Kontras Quartet (violinists Eleanor Bartsch and Sherri Zhang, violist Ben Weber, and cellist Jean Hatmaker) returns to the Levin Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
9:40 pm
Antonio Giuliani: Two-Mandolin Concerto in E
Ugo Orlandi & Dorina Frati, m's; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
Concerti per mandolini
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The WFMT Orchestra Series
San Francisco Symphony
Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485; Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor.
