Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, July 10, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
William Grant Still: "Ennanga" (1956)
2nd mvt
Ashley Jackson, h; Harlem Chamber Players
24 Negro Melodies
12:05 am
William Grant Still: Symphony #4, "Autochthonous"
Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter
American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5
12:32 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Six Songs, Op. 38
No. 5, "Sleep"
Andrey Baranov, v; Christoph Croisé, vc; Alexander Panfilov, p
12:33 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two-Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 17
Martha Argerich & Gabriela Montero, p's
Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2005
12:55 am
Thomas Morley: Madrigal, "When loe by breake of morning"
Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hiller
1:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in g, BWV 542 "(Great)"
Fugue
David Schrader, o
J S Bach: Fantasies & Fugues
1:05 am
Antonio Soler: Harpsichord Quintet #3 in G
David Schrader, hc; Verrette, Shelton, v's; Slowik, vi; Rozendaal, vc
Slowik,
Soler: Harpsichord Quintets Nos. 1-3
1:29 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in A, Kk 74 (L 94)
Scott Ross, hc
Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works
1:31 am
Claude Debussy: "Children's Corner" Suite
French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon
1:48 am
Moleiro: "Children's Suite"
Clara Rodriguez, p
Moleiro: Piano Music
1:54 am
Max Reger: "Mariä Wiegenlied"
Toronto Children's Cho, Judy Loman, h
Adeste Fideles
2:00 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Goin' Home"
Cantus
Cantus * That Eternal Day
2:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: "Rusalka," Op. 114
"Polonaise"
Czech Phil/Vaclav Neumann
Rusalka Highlights
2:09 am
Bohuslav Martinu: Concerto da Camera (String Quartet #7)
Stamitz Quartet
Martinu: Complete String Quartets
2:31 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Missa Brevis" in B-Flat, K. 194
"Kyrie"
Soloists; Chamber Cho of Europe/Nicol Matt
Mozart: Complete Masses
2:32 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three-Piano Concerto No. 7 in F, K. 242
Andras Schiff, Daniel Barenboim, English Chamber Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Concertos K242, K365, K466
2:54 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "Songs Without Words," Op 30
No. 5, "Andante grazioso"
Daniel Barenboim, p
Lieder Ohne Worte
3:00 am
Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings (1937)
"Marcia"
CBC Vancouver Orch Strings/Mario Bernardi
Entre Amis- Canadian And American Music For Chamber Orchestra
3:05 am
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Serenade in F, Op 31 (1911-13)
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Stenhammar: Symphonies 1 & 2, Etc
3:37 am
Stephen Foster: Chorus, "The Merry Month of May"
Rooke Chapel Cho/William Payn
3:39 am
Stephen Foster: "Old Folks at Home"
Jascha Heifetz, v; Milton Kaye, p
The Heifetz Collection, Volume 19: 51 Miniatures 1944-1946
3:42 am
Robert Challoner: Grand Concert Paraphrase on Foster's Old Folks at Home
Neely Bruce, p
Piano Music In America, Volume I - 19th Century Concert & Parlor Music
3:50 am
Stephen Foster: Song, "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"
Leila Josefowicz, v; John Novacek, p
Leila Josefowicz: Americana
3:53 am
Stephen Foster: "Oh! Susanna"
Robert Shaw Cho/Robert Shaw
Stephen Foster Songbook * Robert Shaw Chorale
4:00 am
George Frideric Handel: "Solomon"
Overture
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Solomon
4:05 am
George Frideric Handel: Flute Sonata in D, HWV 378
John Solum, f; Igor Kipnis, hc; Arthur Fiacco, vc
4:11 am
Norman Dello Joio: Flute, Cello and Piano Trio (1944)
Donald Peck, f; Katinka Kleijn, vc; Elizabeth Buccheri, p
Recital 2000 - Poulenc, Bloch, Etc
4:28 am
Norman Dello Joio: "Short Intervallic Etudes"
"Octaves and Unisons"
Debra Torok, p
Norman Dello Joio: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3 - Family Album, Five Images, Stage Parodies
4:30 am
Richard Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration," Op. 24
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Sinfonia domestica
4:54 am
Fritz Kreisler: "La Chasse"
Jascha Heifetz, v; Brooks Smith, p
Heifetz: The Final Recital
5:00 am
Felix Blumenfeld: Four Preludes, Op 12
Philip Thomson, p
Blumenfeld: Preludes & Impromptus
5:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G, K. 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (“A Little Night Music”)
Vienna Phil
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K. 525, Symphony No. 32 K. 318, Serenade K. 320 'Posthorn Serenade'
5:25 am
Felix Blumenfeld: 24 Preludes, Op 17
#12 in g#
Philip Thomson, p
Blumenfeld: Preludes & Impromptus
5:27 am
György Ranki: King Pomade's New Clothes (1958)
Suite
Louisville Orch/Jorge Mester
Suite From King Pomade's New Clothes
5:54 am
Matthew Locke: "Fantazia"
Charivari Agréable Ensemble
Two Upon a Ground
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
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "Hamburg" Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat, Wq 182/2
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
CPE Bach: Symphonies, Harpsichord Concerto
6:16 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, "Trout"
V. Finale, "Allegro giusto"
The Kanneh-Masons
River of Music
6:22 am
William Alwyn: Suite of Scottish Dances
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Music World Premieres
6:31 am
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Roses from the South," Op. 388
Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel
A nos amours
6:43 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, BWV 552, "St Anne"
BBC Phil/Leonard Slatkin
Bach Transcriptions
6:58 am
François-Joseph Gossec: "Tambourin"
James Galway, f; National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt
Dances for Flute
7:03 am
Traditional Jewish: Introduction and Two Klezmer Dances
Leo Chelyapov, cl; Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
L.A.G.Q.
7:13 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
II. "Allegretto"
Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä
Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
7:19 am
Michael Torke: Oboe Concerto, "South"
Ryan Roberts, ob; Albany Sym/David Alan Miller
Sky
7:32 am
Carl Orff: "Carmina Burana"
"Veni, veni, venias" to end
Soloists; Boys' Cho, Berlin Deutsche Oper Cho & Orch/Thielemann
Orff: Carmina Burana
7:45 am
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 18
IV. Finale, Rondo, "Poco allegretto e grazioso"
Music@Menlo Ensemble
Yura Lee, viola,
Eric Kim, cello,
Music@Menlo Live: Through Brahms
7:56 am
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6
London Phil Orch/Marin Alsop
Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 2, 4-9
8:04 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Suite algérienne," Op. 60
"Marche militaire française"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Passport to France
8:09 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103, "Egyptian"
III. Finale, "Molto allegro"
Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sakari Oramo
Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
8:16 am
William Schuman: "American Festival" Overture
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
William Schuman: Symphony No. 10, New England Triptych, American Festival Overture / Leonard Slatkin
8:26 am
George Enescu: "Aubade"
Trio 826
Mosaic
8:32 am
Carl Maria von Weber: Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 19
IV. Finale, "Presto"
London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
Weber: Symphonies 1 & 2, Konzertstück
8:40 am
Luigi Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 2 in A, G 475, "The Frog"
Age of Enlightenment Orch/Steven Isserlis, vc
Music of the Angels: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets by Luigi Boccherini
8:54 am
George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthem, "Zadok the Priest"
Music of the Baroque/Jane Glover
Journey to Our 50th Season
9:04 am
Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2
Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter
English Music for Strings
9:17 am
Charles Gounod: "Petite Symphonie" in B-Flat
St. Paul Chamber Orch Winds/Christopher Hogwood
Bizet: L'Arlésienne • Gounod: Petite Symphonie, Symphony No.1
9:38 am
Harold Arlen: "Over the Rainbow"
King's Singers; Liam Dunachie, p; Misha Mullov-Abbado, db
The King's Singers: The Library, Vol. 4
9:45 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
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
10:00 am
Gioachino Rossini: "L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)"
Overture
Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado
Rossini: Overtures
10:09 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Op. 1
Catalyst Quartet; Stewart Goodyear, p
Uncovered, Volume 1
10:36 am
Franz Liszt: "Rákóczy March"
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Hi-Fi Fiedler
10:44 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C, R 425
Avi Avital, m; Venice Baroque Orch
Vivaldi
10:52 am
Johann Strauss II: "Treasure Waltz," Op. 418 (from "Der Zigeunerbaron")
Alban Berg Quartet; A Mitterhofer, harmonium; H Medjimoreč, p
J. Strauss II, J. Strauss I, Lanner arr. Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Walzer
11:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)"
Chorale, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Choir of St John's College Cambridge/George Guest; P White, o
Ultimate Classics: The Essential Masterpieces
11:09 am
Evencio Castellanos: "El Río de las Siete Estrellas"
Venezuela Sym Orch/Jan Wagner
Castellanos: Santa Cruz de Pacairigua / El rio de las siete estrellas / Avilena Suite
11:24 am
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54
Seong-Jin Cho, p
Chopin: PIano Concerto No. 2; Scherzi
11:36 am
William Grant Still: "Pastorela"
Zina Schiff, v; Royal Scottish National Orch/Avlana Eisenberg
William Grant Still: Summerland
11:49 am
Svend S. Schultz: "Une Amourette" (Little Serenade)
Carion
Nielsen's Footsteps
12:01 pm
Andrea Casarrubios: "Afilador"
JB Yeh, cl; M Michal, v; D Lai, vi; A Casarrubios, vc
Andrea Casarrubios, cello,
SEVEN
12:11 pm
George Frideric Handel: Trumpet Suite in D, "Mr Handel's Water Piece"
Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Sound The Trumpet (Royal Music of Purcell & Handel)
12:20 pm
Cécile Chaminade: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 21
Joanne Polk, p
The Flatterer: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade
12:38 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Samson and Delilah," Op. 47
"Bacchanale"
Orchestre de Paris/Daniel Barenboim
Panorama: À la française
12:46 pm
Vincent d'Indy: "La forêt enchantée," Op. 8
Iceland Sym Orch/Rumon Gamba
d'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
1:01 pm
Giovanni Gabrieli: "Jubilate Deo"
Music of the Baroque Choir & Brass/Edward Zelnis
O Be Joyful - Renaissance Brass & Choral Music - Music of the Baroque
1:08 pm
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88
Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel
Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9
1:45 pm
Gerónimo Giménez: "La Boda de Luis Alonso"
Intermezzo
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, g
Soul of Spanish Guitar
1:52 pm
Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Set 1
Three Bourrées
Dawn Upshaw, s; Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano
Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne; Maurice Emmanuel: Chansons bourguignonnes
2:00 pm
Samuel Scheidt: Suite for Brass
German Brass/Enrique Crespo
Samuel Scheidt
2:11 pm
Carl Maria von Weber: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 32
Nikolai Demidenko, p; Scottish Chamber Orch/Charles Mackerras
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 10 - Weber
2:33 pm
Florence Price: Fantasy No. 2
Randall Goosby, v; Zhu Wang, p
Roots
2:40 pm
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan," Op. 8
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
The Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes and Deems Taylor
2:51 pm
Alexandre Desplat: "Girl with the Pearl Earring"
Emmanuel Pahud, f; French National Orch/Alexandre Desplat
Airlines
3:00 - 7:00 pm
3:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree
Including "Friday Afternoon at the Movies" at 4:30pm and "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.
3:00 pm
Jean Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22
No. 1, "Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari"
Helsinki Phil Orch/Susanna Mälkki
Sibelius Suites
3:19 pm
Claude Debussy: "Petite Suite"
Irina Kotlyar & Gregory Shifrin, p
Live from WFMT: Kotlyar-Shifrin Piano Duo (June 8, 2009)
3:32 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in c minor, K. 388
Orpheus Chamber Orch Winds
Mozart: Wind Serenades K. 375 & K. 388 / Orpheus Chamber Orch Winds
3:56 pm
Manuel Ponce: "Estrellita"
Lily Afshar, g
A Jug of Wine And Thou
4:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Motet, "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied," BWV 225
Sinfonia Voci, Bach Sinfonia/Daniel Abraham
Johann Sebastian Bach * Motets * The Bach Sinfonia
4:14 pm
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 83
IV. Finale, "Allegretto grazioso"
Stephen Hough, p; Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Mark Wigglesworth
Brahms - The Piano Concertos
4:24 pm
Traditional African-American: Spiritual, "Down by the Riverside"
Lara Downes, p
Some of These Days
4:28 pm
George Harrison: "Here Comes the Sun"
Göran Söllscher, g
Here, There, and Everywhere - The Beatles for Guitar
4:30 pm
Jerome Moross: "The Jayhawkers"
Suite
Prague Phil Orch/Paul Bateman
The Cardinal - The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross
4:48 pm
Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"
Three Dance Episodes
Israel Phil Orch/Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein: Divertimento, A Musical Toast, Slava!, Facsimile, On The Town
5:00 pm
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784
Barry Douglas, p
Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5
5:22 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
"Wedding March"
Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
5:27 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Twenty-Four Negro Melodies," Op. 59
No. 2, "The Stones are Very Hard"
David Shaffer-Gottschalk, p
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor * 24 Negro Melodies Opus 59
5:28 pm
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata da camera in C, Op. 2, No. 3
Purcell Quartet
Corelli: Sonatas for Strings Vol. 1
5:34 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Flute Sonata in E-Flat, BWV 1031
II. "Siciliano"
Paula Robison, f; Kenneth Cooper, hc
Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord
5:37 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314
Albrecht Mayer, ob; Mahler Chamber Orch/Claudio Abbado
In Search of Mozart - Albrecht Mayer / Claudio Abbado
6:00 pm
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Sonata, Op. 77, "Hommage à Boccherini"
Julian Bream, g
Sonata
6:19 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
III. Finale, Rondo, "Allegro scherzando"
Maurizio Pollini, p; Vienna Phil/Eugen Jochum
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
6:29 pm
George Frederick Mckay: String Quartet No. 2, "Appassionato"
Formosa Quartet
The Music of George Frederick McKay
6:46 pm
Nicola Matteis: "Sett of Ayres" in E
Palladian Ensemble
A Choice Collection
6:57 pm
Gabriel Fauré: "Messe basse"
"Benedictus"
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge/Richard Marlow; Stephen Johns, o
A Century of French Music
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Voices from the East
A single bell rings steadily, creating a calm, meditative mood. Gradually, the strings join in, playing canonic scales that shimmer through the music. This first piece in Voices from the East is 'Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten' by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Over the week, we’ll explore music by composers from the Baltic states, travel to Chistopol in western Russia, and finish in Georgia. You’ll hear works by Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaïdulina, and Giya Kancheli. Come join us on this musical journey!
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Emmanuel Chabrier: "España"
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Encore!
8:07 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: "La Cetra" Concerto No. 6 in A, R. 348
Rachel Podger, v; Holland Baroque Society
Vivaldi - La Cetra
8:19 pm
Carl Nielsen: Piano Trio in G
Trio Ondine
Carl Nielsen: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
8:30 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "Household Music" on Welsh Hymn Tunes (1941)
No. 3, "Aberystwyth"
Nash Ensemble
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Chamber Music
8:38 pm
Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 2
"Ibéria"
San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Debussy
9:00 pm
Antonín Dvořák: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 72
No. 8 in A-Flat
Chamber Orch of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Dvorák * Slavonic Dances
9:07 pm
Albertus Groneman: Flute Concerto in G
Jed Wentz, f; Musica Ad Rhenum
Baroque Concerti of the Netherlands
9:15 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations in C on "God Save the King," WoO 78
Angela Hewitt, p
Beethoven Variations
9:25 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17, "Little Russian"
Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons
Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies / Mariss Jansons
10:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Partita No. 1 in B-Flat, BWV 825
András Schiff, p
Johann Sebastian Bach * Six Partitas * Andras Schiff
10:17 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "In the Fen Country"
London Phil Orch/Bernard Haitink
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6; In the Fen Country; On Wenlock Edge
10:32 pm
Johann Baptist Vanhal: String Quartet in C, Op. 6, No. 3
Eybler Quartet
Johann Baptist Vanhal: Six Quartets, Op. 6
10:42 pm
Benjamin Britten: "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," Op. 34
English Sym Orch/William Boughton
Orchestral Favourites Vol. V - Britten's Four Sea Interludes
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Michael Tilson Thomas and Ted Thomas (10/08/1986)
WFMT remembers Michael Tilson Thomas (1944–2026), the beloved and deeply admired American conductor, who died earlier this year. "MTT" was the third generation of his family to pursue an artistic career in this country. His grandparents, immigrants Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, were founding members of the Yiddish Theater in America. His father, Ted Thomas, worked in Broadway and Hollywood. In 1986, Michael and Ted shared a lively hour of music and memories with Studs Terkel.
11:49 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 64
Excerpts
San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
MTT
