Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Saturday, May 2, 2026
12:00 - 7:00 am
12:00 am
Vincenzo Bellini: "Norma"
Aria, "Casta diva"
Maria Callas, s; La Scala Cho & Orch/Tullio Serafin
The Incomparable Maria Callas
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
Moritz Moszkowski: "Fantasie 'Hommage à Schumann'," Op 5
Seta Tanyel, p
Moritz Moszkowski-3
12:22 am
Robert Schumann: "Kinderszenen," Op. 15
No. 11, "Frightening"
Canadian Brass
Carnaval
12:23 am
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 54
Hélène Grimaud, p; Dresden Staatskapelle/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Hélène Grimaud * Reflection
12:55 am
Johannes Brahms: Eight Songs, Op. 57
"In meiner Nächte Sehnen"
Olaf Bär, br; Geoffrey Parsons, p
Brahms Lieder
1:00 am
Hamilton Harty: "Londonderry Air"
Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
1:05 am
John Field: Nocturne #16 in C
Elizabeth Joy Roe, p
Field: Complete Nocturnes
1:14 am
Augusta Holmès: "Ireland"
Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Samuel Friedmann
Holmès
1:29 am
Turlough O'Carolan: "T mé 'mo chodladh"
Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King
Carolan's Harp
1:30 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E-Flat, K. 428
Guarneri String Quartet
Mozart: Six Quartets Dedicated To Haydn
1:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Etudes, Op 8
#3 in b
Lang Lang, p
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3/ Scriabin: Etudes
2:00 am
Jacques Gallot: "La belle Cromatique Sarabande"
Konrad Junghänel, l
European Lute Music Vol.1: Pièces De Luth, France 17, Siècle
2:05 am
George Frideric Handel: Sarabande
Les Concerts du Monde/Keith Clark
Movies Go Baroque
2:08 am
Henry Purcell: Harpsichord Suite #4 in a
"Saraband"
Terence Charlston, hc
PURCELL: Suites and Transcriptions for Harpsichord
2:10 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Czech Phil/Semyon Bychkov
The Tchaikovsky Project
2:55 am
Serge Bortkiewicz: Seven Preludes, Op 40
#1
Pierre Huybregts, p
Piano works of Serge Bortkiewicz
3:00 am
Johann Halvorsen: "Tordenskjold"
"Tordenskjold goes into Action"
Latvian National Sym Orch/Torje Mikkelsen
Stage Music 2
3:05 am
Johann Halvorsen: "Fossegrimen", Op 21 (1904)
Overture
Latvian National Sym Orch/Torje Mikkelsen
Fossegrimen Op.21 - Norway's Greeting To Theodore Roosevelt Op.31
3:11 am
Edvard Grieg: "Peer Gynt" Suite No. 2, Op. 55
Philharmonia Orch/Walter Susskind
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites, Etc.
3:28 am
Harald Saeverud: "The Mermaid"
Einar Steen-Nokleberg, p
SAEVERUD: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2
3:29 am
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Cello Sonata, Op 71
Anthony Cooke, vc; Armin Watkins, p
Rachmaninoff, Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
3:54 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty", Op. 66
"Pas de caractére"
Royal Phil/Don Jackson
4:00 am
Edouard Lalo: "Namouna" (1882)
Théme varié
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
4:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio #5 in c, Op 9/3
L'Archibudelli
Beethoven: Trios for Violin, Viola and Violoncello, Op. 9, 1-3
4:27 am
Maurice Ravel: "Deux mélodies hébraïques"
No. 2, "L'Énigme éternelle"
Suzanne Danco, s; Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
Shéhérazade / Deux Mélodies Hebraïques / Trois Poèmes De Mallarmé / Les Nuits D'Été
4:28 am
Claude Debussy: "Six Épigraphes antiques"
Quebec Sym/Yoav Talmi
Children's Corner * Debussy Orchestrations
4:44 am
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
Zbigniew Zuk, fh; Cracow Radio Sym Orch/Michael Höltzel
Horn Romantics
4:53 am
Georges Bizet: "Jeux d'enfants," Op. 22
XII. "Le bal" (The Ball)
Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet
5:00 am
Franz Schubert: Song, "Im Frühling," D 882
Renée Fleming, s; Christoph Eschenbach, p
The Schubert Album * Renee Fleming/Christoph Eschenbach
5:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 5 in G, K. 283
Christoph Eschenbach, p
The Piano Sonatas
5:17 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "La Muse et le Poète," Op. 132
Joshua Bell, v; Steve Isserlis, vc; North German Radio Sym/Christoph Eschenbach
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No 2, La Muse Et Le Poète, Romance Op 67, Cello Sonata No 2
5:32 am
Franz Schubert: Four Ländler, D 814
No. 4
Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz, p
5:34 am
Francoeur: Suite #4, Symphonies for the Count of Artois
Paillard Chamber Orch/Jean-François Paillard
Symphonies Du Festin Du Royal
5:54 am
Nicolle Des celliers de hesdi: Ung vray musicien
Ensemble Clement Janequin
Les Plaisirs du Palais: Chansons a boire de la Renaissance
6:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Wedding March"
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Best Loved Classics, Vol. 6
6:05 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21
London Phil/Andrew Litton
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6:17 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Scherzo"
Sergei Rachmaninoff, p
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff
6:21 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "This Day is Salvation Come"
Swedish Radio Cho/Tonu Kaljuste
6:23 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 18
William Kapell, p; Robin Hood Dell Orch/William Steinberg
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini/ Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
6:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801
No. 13 in a minor
Janine Jansen, v; Maxim Rysanov, vi; Torleif Thedéen, vc
7:00 - 11:00 am
7:00 am
Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn
With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.
7:03 am
John Williams: "The Fabelmans"
"The Journey Begins" (after Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 48 in C, Hob. XVI:35)
Studio Orch/John Williams
The Fabelmans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
7:10 am
George Bassman: "I'm Gettin' Sentimental over You" (1932)
Peter Moore, tb; Tredegar Town Band/Ian Porthouse
Shift
7:16 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
"Waltz of the Flowers"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Nutcracker Ballet Suite
7:24 am
Eric Coates: "From Meadow to Mayfair"
BBC Phil/John Wilson
Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
7:37 am
Manuel Ponce: Guitar Sonata No. 3
Christopher Laughlin, g
Danza!
7:53 am
Manuel De Zumaya: "De las Flores"
Chanticleer
Mission Road
8:00 am
Saturday Morning Listener's Choice
8:00 am
Eugenio Toussaint: "Concierto para piano improvisa"
2nd movement
Alex Brown, p; Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
Mi Alma Mexicana
8:08 am
Arthur Pryor: Variations on "The Blue Bells of Scotland"
Larry Zalkind, tb; Karlyn Bond, p
8:15 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Festive Overture," Op. 96
Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 and Festive Overture
8:23 am
Alan Menken: "Aladdin"
"A Whole New World"
Lang Lang, p
The Disney Book
8:28 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87
The Spring Fairy; The Summer Fairy
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Prokofiev: Cinderella (Highlights)
8:31 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
IV. "Troika"
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kije - Fritz Reiner
8:35 am
Francisco Tárrega: "Estudio brillante de Alard"
Christopher Parkening, g
8:38 am
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
The Planets
8:46 am
Henry Mancini: "Moon River"
Romain Leleu, tr; Stuttgart Phil/Marcus Bosch
Move: The Trumpet as Movie Star
8:50 am
Leroy Anderson: "Plink, Plank, Plunk"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson Favorites
8:53 am
Johann Strauss Sr: "Radetzky" March, Op. 228
Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim
2022 New Year's Concert
8:57 am
Johann Strauss II: "Champagne Polka," Op. 211
Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green
The Strauss Album
9:00 am
Soundtrack
9:00 am
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch/John Mauceri
The Genius of Film Music
9:01 am
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "The Constant Nymph" film music
"Tomorrow"
National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Korngold
9:08 am
Bill Conti: "North and South"
Symphonic Suite
London Sym Orch/Bill Conti
Original Scores by Bill Conti: The Right Stuff, North and South
9:28 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Sport, Sport, Sport"
Minuet
State USSR Cinema Orch/Alfred Schnittke
Three Degrees of Freedom
9:29 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Sport, Sport, Sport"
Fugue
State USSR Cinema Orch/Alfred Schnittke
Three Degrees of Freedom
9:33 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"The Last Black Man In San Francisco"
Studio Cho & Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:36 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"King Jimmie"
Studio Cho & Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:37 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"A House, Haunted"
Studio Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:38 am
Emile Mosseri: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
"Driving Home with Stolen Treasures"
Studio Orch
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
9:42 am
Riccardo Broschi: "Artaserse"
Aria, "Son qual nave ch'agitata"
DL Ragin, ct; E Malas-Godlewska, s; Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset
Farinelli, II Castrato (Original Movie Soundtrack)
9:51 am
George Martin: "Live and Let Die"
Berlin Music Ensemble/Craig Leon
The Film Scores & Original Orchestral Music of George Martin
10:01 am
Vincent d'Indy: Fantasy on Popular French Themes, Op. 31
Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin's Academy/Mathias Mönius
Albrecht Mayer: Bonjour Paris
10:17 am
Ringo Starr: "Octopus’s Garden"
King's Singers
Cincinnati Pops Perform Music of the Beatles featuring King's Singers
10:20 am
Alexandre Desplat: "Little Women"
"Snow in the Garden"
Studio Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Little Women: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
10:22 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Candide"
XXXI. Finale, "Make Our Garden Grow"
Hadley, Anderson, Green, Ludwig, London Sym Cho, Orch/Leonard Bernstein
Adolph Green, baritone,
Bernstein: Candide
10:29 am
Susan Spain-Dunk: "Phantasy Quartet" in D minor
Archaeus Quartet
Smyth, Beach and Spain-Dunk - Archaeus String Quartets
10:44 am
Armstrong Gibbs: Suite "(Prelude, A Song of Sleep, The Promise of Spring)"
Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter
Gibbs: Dale and Fell & other chamber music
11:00 am
11:00 am
Introductions
Esme Arias-Kim, 18, violin. Wieniawski "Fantasie Brillante" on themes from Gounod’s "Faust;" Tchaikovsky "Mélodie" from "Souvenir d’un lieu cher," Op. 42; with Milana Pavchinskaya, piano. Originally broadcast June 1, 2024.
11:23 am
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Harmonica Concerto
José Staneck, harm; São Paulo Sym Orch/Giancarlo Guerrero
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto / Harmonica Concerto / Sexteto místico
11:42 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "Iolanthe"
Overture
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Gilbert and Sullivan: Overtures
11:51 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat
I. "Allegro"
Adolph Herseth, tr; Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
The Chicago Principal
12:00 - 4:00 pm
12:00 pm
Metropolitan Opera
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Iurii Samoilov (Onegin); Amik Grigorian (Tatiana); Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Lenski); Maria Barakova (Olga); Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Prince Gremin); Larissa Diadkova (Filippyevna); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Timur Zangiev. Sung in Russian.
4:00 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "The Rake's Progress"
Act I Prelude
London Sym Orch/John Eliot Gardiner
Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho
A preview of the upcoming festival season at Des Moines Metro Opera with music director David Neely.
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Rachmaninoff "Lilacs," Op. 21, No. 5; Kirill Gerstein, piano; Dohnányi Serenade in C Major, Op. 10; Martin Beaver, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Shostakovich Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67; Giles Vonsattel, piano; Leila Josefowicz, violin; Paul Watkins, cello.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm
Weekend Evening Music
6:00 pm
Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64
No. 2, "Allegretto grazioso"
Bergen Phil Orch/Edward Gardner
Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Before a Southern Convent, Funeral March for Rikard Nordaak, Bergliot
6:07 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
Alice Sara Ott, p; Netherlands Radio Phil Orch/Karina Canellakis
Beethoven
6:42 pm
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804, "Rosamunde"
II. "Andante"
Protean Quartet
Tempus omnia vincit
6:49 pm
Ruth Gipps: "Knight in Armour"
BBC National Orch of Wales/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4; Song for Orchestra; Knight in Armour
7:00 pm
William Walton: "Henry V"
"Touch her soft lips and part"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
John Williams Conductor
7:05 pm
Edward Elgar: "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36
London Sym Orch/Adrian Boult
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Cockaigne Overture
7:36 pm
George Frideric Handel: Sinfonia in B-flat, HWV 339
Opera Prima/Cristiano Contadin, viga
Handel: Italian Cantatas & Arias
7:47 pm
Will Gregory: "Orbit"
Jess Gillam, sx; Jess Gillam Ensemble
Jess Gillam: Time
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer
Live from Acoustic Renaissance Concerts: Folkstage brings you Chicago’s renowned Susan Werner from her sold-out concert in Hinsdale.
9:00 pm - 12:00 am
9:00 pm
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
The lovely month of May! The promise of May includes flowers, sunshine, and sweet surprises.
9:00 pm
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1)
Lead Belly
Midnight Special
9:01 pm
Tony Cuffe: "When Rosy May Comes in Wi’ Flowers" (Robert Burns)
Tony Cuffe
Complete Songs of Robert Burns
9:05 pm
Waterson:Carthy: "May Song"
Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Tim Van Eyken
Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man
9:08 pm
The Jones Family: Hal-an-tow (Trad.)
The Jones Family (Chuck, Brenda Jones & Chenoa Clark)
Unquiet
9:10 pm
Cordelia's Dad: May Blooming Field (Trad.)
Cordelia's Dad
Comet
9:13 pm
Salamander Crossing: Five Days In May (Cuddy/Keelor)
Salamander Crossing
Bottleneck Dreams
9:18 pm
Ed Snodderly: The Diamond Stream
Ed Snodderly
Chimney Smoke
9:21 pm
Ed Snodderly (aka ES Pearl): High in the Rhyme, ft. Amythyst Kiah
Ed Snodderly (aka ES Pearl)
Baggage Flies Free
9:26 pm
David Olney: Voices on the Water (Olney/Owen)
David Olney
The Wheel
9:30 pm
Maisy Owen: It All Ends the Same
Maisy Owen
Dark on a Sunny Day
9:34 pm
CornMaiz: Dance A Jig
CornMaiz
CornMaiz String Band: Fresh-picked Kentucky Music
9:37 pm
Malcolm Holcombe: One Leg at a Time
Malcolm Holcombe
To Drink the Rain
9:41 pm
Robin Bienemann: The Bug Dance
Robin Bienemann
Friday Night Live
9:44 pm
Cormac McCarthy: Ain't No Bee
Cormac McCarthy
Walking with the Shadows
9:47 pm
Geoff Bartley: "Welcome to the Spiral Dance"
Geoff Bartley
One Kind Word
9:51 pm
The Burns Sisters: "Dance Upon This Earth"
The Burns Sisters
In This World
9:54 pm
Mark Erelli: Sense of Wonder
Mark Erelli
Lay Your Darkness Down
9:59 pm
Colby Maddox: "The Midnight Special - fiddle"
Colby Maddox
Midnight Special Collection
10:00 pm
David Allan Coe: You Never Even Call Me By Name (Goodman)
David Allan Coe
The Essential David Allan Coe
10:05 pm
David Allan Coe: Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)
David Allan Coe
The Essential David Allan Coe
10:08 pm
David Allan Coe: Willie, Waylon and Me
David Allan Coe
The Essential David Allan Coe
10:12 pm
Mark Rubin: Horrors of the War
Mark Rubin
Dispatch: Songs from a World Gone Mad
10:14 pm
Dennis Warner w/James Lee Stanley: Golden Rule
Dennis Warner w/James Lee Stanley
Pilot Me
10:17 pm
The War and Treaty: From A Distance (Gold)
The War and Treaty
More Than a Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith
10:22 pm
Jake Shimabukuro: I'll Be There (Davis/Gordy/Hutch/West)
Jake Shimabukuro
Travels
10:26 pm
Garnet Rogers: After All (Lawson/G. Rogers)
Garnet Rogers
Speaking Softly In the Dark
10:35 pm
The Weavers: Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
The Weavers
Greatest Hits
10:36 pm
The Weavers: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
The Weavers
Greatest Hits
10:38 pm
Pete Seeger: To My Old Brown Earth
Pete Seeger
Pete
10:42 pm
Pete Seeger: Step By Step (trad./Waldemar Hille) & Greensleeves (trad.)
Pete Seeger
Live in '65 Disc 2
10:45 pm
Larry Long and Pete Seeger: "Well May the World Go" (Pete Seeger)
Larry Long and Pete Seeger
Well May the World Go
10:52 pm
Pete Seeger: "Turn, Turn, Turn"
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
10:55 pm
Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing? (Lowry)
Pete Seeger
Pete
10:58 pm
Pete Seeger: "Ode to Joy"
Pete Seeger
Dangerous Songs
11:00 pm
Cheeyang and original cast: Prologue / In The Beginning
Cheeyang and original cast
Legendary: The Myth of Creation
11:06 pm
David Broza: What Will You Do?
David Broza
Painted Postcard
11:11 pm
Ryan Burns & The Vocal Ghosts: Yang Pu Moving His Family
Ryan Burns & The Vocal Ghosts
The Institute
11:16 pm
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian: Hold Each Other Up
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian
From China to Appalachia
11:20 pm
Hugh Blumenfeld: Talking Island
Hugh Blumenfeld, ft. Lucy Kaplansky
Mozart's Money
11:23 pm
Twisted Pine: Papaya
Twisted Pine
Right Now
11:29 pm
Kamaka Camarillo with Anthony Pfluke: E Mama
Kamaka Camarillo with Anthony Pfluke
World Beach Party
11:32 pm
Girlyman: Bird on the Wire
Girlyman
Little Star
11:36 pm
Muriel Anderson: Hawaiian Lullaby, ft. Mark Kibbee
Muriel Anderson
Nightlight Daylight
11:42 pm
Willie Nelson: Dream Chaser (Tomberlin, Nelson, Cannon)
Willie Nelson
Dream Chaser
11:45 pm
Willie Nelson: Crazy (Nelson)
Willie Nelson
Crazy, The Demo Sessions
11:49 pm
Willie Nelson: Energy Follows Thought (Nelson/Cannon)
Willie Nelson
A Beautiful Time
11:53 pm
Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged)
Laura Love
She Loved Red
11:58 pm
Andrew Beyer: "The Midnight Special - cigar box slide"
Andrew Beyer
Midnight Special Collection
