Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, July 3, 2026
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Ignaz Pleyel: Symphony in G
Finale, "Allegro"
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois
PLEYEL: Symphonies in B-Flat Major and in G Major / Flute Concerto
12:05 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in g, Op. 20, No. 3
Salomon String Quartet
Haydn: 'Sun' Quartets Op 20 Nos. 1, 2 & 3
12:33 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Welsh folksong, "Away, my herd, under the green oak", H XXXIb:11
Lorna Anderson, s; Jamie MacDougall, t; Haydn Trio
The Haydn Edition
12:34 am
Ruth Gipps: Symphony #2, Op 30
BBC Welsh National Orch/Rumon Gamba
Ruth Gipps
12:55 am
John Playford: "The English Dancing Master"
"Scotch Cap"
Baltimore Consort
Chamber and Vocal Music (16th-18th Centuries, Scottish) - CADEAC, P. / BLACKHALL, A. / LAUDER, J. (On the Banks of Helicon)
1:00 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Clavier Suite in G
"La Poule"
William Christie, hc
Rameau: Pieces De Clavecin
1:05 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Concert en Sextuor" #6, "La Poule"
Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
1:21 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Paladins"
"Gavotte"
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik/Konrad Junghänel
Rameau - "Les Paladins"
1:23 am
Carl Czerny: Wiener Marsch
Lars Roos, p
21 Piano Miniatures- The Magic of the Piano
1:26 am
Theodor Döhler: Piano Concerto in A, Op. 7
Howard Shelley, p; Tasmanian Sym
Romantic Piano Concerto: Vol. 61
1:54 am
Stephen Heller: 24 Preludes, Op 81
#6
Laurent Martin, p
HELLER : Preludes Opp. 81 and 150
2:00 am
Antonio Salieri: "Semiramide"
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Pietro Spada
Salieri: The 2 Piano Concertos
2:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro," K. 492
Overture
English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Le Nozze Di Figaro
2:09 am
Carl Czerny: "Fantaisie brillant" on themes from "Figaro", Op 493
Cyprien Katsaris, p
Mozartiana
2:19 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve German Dances, K 586
No. 5 in A
Slovak Sinfonietta/Taras Krysa
Mozart: Complete Edition
2:21 am
Florence Price: Symphony #4 in d
Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
2:55 am
Florence Price: "Three Miniature Portraits of Uncle Ned" (1932-41)
"At Age 70"
Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p
Scenes in Tin Can Alley
3:00 am
Christian Sinding: Romance in E-Flat, Op 9
Birgitte Staernes, v; Jorunn Bratlie, p
Sinding: Works For Violin And Piano
3:05 am
Antonin Dvorák: Romance in f minor, Op. 11
Itzhak Perlman, v; Boston Sym Orch/Erich Leinsdorf
Tchaikovsky/ Sibelius: Violin Concertos/ Dvorak: Romance
3:17 am
Claude Debussy: Song, "Romance"
Natalie Dessay, s; Philippe Cassard, p
Debussy * Clair de Lune * Natalie Dessay * Philippe Cassard
3:18 am
César Franck: Piano Quintet in f (1878-79)
Budapest String Quartet
Great Performances from the Library of Congress Vol. 23
3:55 am
Johannes Ghiselin: L'Alfonsina
Collegium Pro Musica
Songs And Dances Of The Renaissance
4:00 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Don Giovanni," K. 527
Overture
Prague Chamber Orch
Mozart: Operas Ouvertures
4:05 am
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Trio #1 in E-Flat, Op 12
Borodin Trio
Hummel: Piano Trios
4:26 am
Norwegian Trad: Folkdance after Myllarguten
Knut Buen, v
Nøkleberg Slåtter / Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op.72 With The Original Fiddle Tunes From Telemark
4:28 am
Franz Berwald: "Reminiscences from the Norwegian Mountains"
Royal Phil/Ulf Björlin
4:36 am
Geirr Tveitt: Hardanger Fiddle Concerto #2, "Three Fjords"
Sigbjorn Bernhoft Osa, Hardanger fiddle; Bergen Phil/Karsten Andersen
Geirr Tveitt: Piano Sonata No. 29 & Concerto No. 2 for hardanger fiddle
4:54 am
Norwegian Trad: Springdans
Knut Buen, fiddle
Nøkleberg Slåtter / Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op.72 With The Original Fiddle Tunes From Telemark
5:00 am
Oscar Straus: "The Last Waltz"
"Rose Song"
Magda Kalmàr, s; Budapest Sym Orch/Tamas Brody
5:05 am
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Roses from the South," Op. 388
Vienna Phil/Karl Böhm
Wiener Philharmoniker Spielen Johann & Josef Strauss 1929–1990
5:15 am
Johannes Brahms: Twelve Songs and Romances, Op 44
#7, "Nun stehn die Rosen in Blüte"
Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
Cambridge Singers A Cappella
5:16 am
Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Lute Suite in d
Eduardo Eguez, l
5:31 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No.1 in C, BWV 1066
La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
Suites (Overtures)
5:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Das Orgelbüchlein," BWV 599/644
"Wir Christenleut" BWV 612
Simon Preston, o
Bach: Orgelbüchlein
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
Edmond Dédé: "Chicago, grande valse à l'Américaine"
Hot Springs Music Festival/Richard Rosenberg
Dédé: Mon pauvre coeur- Françoise et Tirtillard- Méphisto masqué
6:14 am
Claude Debussy: "Danses sacrée et profane"
Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Oberlin 21/Bridget-Michaele Reischl
Air Music for harp, flute, and strings
6:24 am
Johan Halvorsen: "Suite ancienne," Op. 31
"Intrata"
Norwegian Radio Orch/Ari Rasilainen
Johan Halvorsen: Suite Ancienne, Mascarade
6:31 am
David Schiff: "Ducal Suite" (after Duke Ellington)
"Kinda Dukish/Rockin' in Rhythm"
David Shifrin, cl; Dover Quartet
Clarinet Quintets for Our Time
6:38 am
Edward Elgar: "Cockaigne" Overture ("In London Town"), Op. 40
Oregon Sym/Carlos Kalmar
This England
6:54 am
Peter Boyer: "Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah)"
London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works
7:04 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in B-Flat, R. 362 (Op. 8/10), "La caccia"
Accademia Bizantina/Carlo Chiarappa, v
Il Cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Vol. 2
7:13 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b
VI. "June (Barcarolle)"
Yunchan Lim, p
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
7:18 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b
VII. "July (Song of the Reaper)"
Yunchan Lim, p
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
7:19 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b
VIII. "August (The Harvest)"
Yunchan Lim, p
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
7:24 am
Edward MacDowell: Orchestra Suite No. 1 in D minor, Op. 42
III. "In October"
Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson
Hanson Conducts Chadwick, MacDowell & Peter
7:32 am
Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta
Mvts 4 & 5
Chicago Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
Bartók, Janáček, Lutosławski, Stravinsky
7:42 am
William Grant Still: Folk Suite No. 2
Sierra Winds; Kim DeLibero, h
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still
7:50 am
John Williams: "The Cowboys"
Suite
Dallas Winds/Jerry Junkin
John Williams: At the Movies
8:04 am
Aaron Copland: "Rodeo"
"Buckaroo Holiday"
San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas
Copland The Populist
8:12 am
Claude Debussy: Prelude No. 24, "Feux d'artifice"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p
Debussy: Preludes (Livres I Et II): The Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol. I / Jean-Yves Thibaudet
8:16 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Fireworks," Op. 4
Chicago Sym Orch/Pierre Boulez
Stravinsky: The Firebird; 4 Etudes; Fireworks
8:22 am
George Gershwin: "Strike Up the Band"
Overture
Philzuid/Duncan Ward
Gershwin, Montsalvatge, Bernstein, and Peña Campo
8:31 am
Arnold Bax: "The Happy Forest"
BBC Phil/Vernon Handley
Bax Tone Poems, Vol. 2
8:42 am
Mark O'Connor: "The American Seasons"
Summer
Mark O'Connor, v; Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo
Mark O'Connor: The American Seasons
8:52 am
Michael Torke: "Javelin"
Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi
Torke: Color Music
9:05 am
John Philip Sousa: "A Sousa Collection"
Canadian Brass
The Canadian Brass - Greatest Hits
9:13 am
Franz Lehár: "Gold and Silver" Waltzes, Op. 79
Grant Park Orch/Thomas Wilkins
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony (July 30, 2016)
9:22 am
Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta (1947)
San Diego Chamber Orch/Donald Barra
Jacques Ibert: Divertissement, Concertino; Francis Poulenc: Sinfonietta
9:53 am
Stephen Foster: "Foster's Ladies"
James Galway, f; Jay Ungar, fiddle; Molly Mason, g
A Song of Home: An American Musical Journey
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
10:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Oboe d'amore Concerto in A (after BWV 1055)
Gonzalo Ruiz, ob d'amore; Portland Baroque Orch/Monica Huggett
J.S. Bach: Concertos for Oboe and Oboe d’amore
10:14 am
John Adams: "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"
San Francisco Sym/Edo de Waart
The Chairman Dances
10:19 am
John Alden Carpenter: "Krazy Kat"
Los Angeles Phil/Calvin Simmons
Carpenter, Gilbert, Powell, Weiss
10:32 am
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: "The Union," Op. 48
Alan Marks, p
Gottschalk for 2 Hands
10:43 am
Giuseppe Verdi: "Don Carlos"
"Ballet de la Reine"
Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier
Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas
11:01 am
Peter Boyer: "Fanfare, Hymn and Finale"
London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works
11:09 am
Amy Beach: "From Grandmother's Garden," Op. 97
Joanne Polk, p
Amy Beach: Fire Flies
11:24 am
Leroy Anderson: Piano Concerto in C
I. "Allegro moderato"
Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
American Piano Classics
11:33 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat, K. 495
Dale Clevenger, hn; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/János Rolla
Mozart: Four Horn Concertos
11:51 am
William Bolcom: "Seattle Slew" Suite
"Preakness Promenade"
Louisville Orch/Lawrence Leighton Smith
Bolcom: Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, Seattle Slew Orchestral Suite
12:01 pm
Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 2
No. 3, "The Golden Willow Tree"
St. Charles Singers, Elgin Sym Orch/Robert Hanson
Copland: Piano Concerto, The Tender Land, Old American Songs
12:04 pm
Aaron Copland: "Old American Songs" Set 2
No. 4, "At the River"
St. Charles Singers, Elgin Sym Orch/Robert Hanson
Copland: Piano Concerto, The Tender Land, Old American Songs
12:08 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40
Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Lawrence Foster
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos
12:30 pm
Dudley Buck: Festival Overture on "The Star-Spangled Banner"
St. Louis Sym Cho & Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin Conducts American Portraits
12:38 pm
Arthur Foote: Nocturne and Scherzo (1918)
Fenwick Smith, f; Boston Chamber Music Society
Chamber Music with Flute
12:52 pm
Michael Fine: "At the Gate" Concert Overture
Royal Scottish National Orch/Philip Mann
Michael Fine: Seasons
1:00 pm
George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
No. 1, "Jubilee"
Grant Park Orch/David Loebel
Independence Day Eve at Grant Park
1:10 pm
Claude Debussy: "Pour le piano"
Jean-Bernard Pommier, p
Debussy: Children's Corner, Pour le Piano
1:24 pm
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2 in G, "Song of a New Race"
Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter
American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 2 and 3 * Wood Notes
1:52 pm
Leslie Adams: Etudes, Part II
No. 13 in A-Flat
Thomas Otten, p
Thomas Otten * H. Leslie Adams * Piano Etudes, Part II
2:00 pm
Ferde Grofé: "Grand Canyon Suite"
Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel
Porgy and Bess Suite & Grand Canyon Suite
2:32 pm
George Gershwin: "The Man I Love"
Barbara Hendricks, s; Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque, p's
Essential Gershwin
2:39 pm
Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"
Act 3 Instrumental Suite
Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
Purcell: The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess - Orchestral Suites
2:50 pm
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"
Kansas City Symphony/Michael Stern
Holst: The Planets
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
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 53 in D, "L'impériale"
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 40-54 - The Esterházy Recordings
3:23 pm
Bernard Herrmann: "Souvenirs de voyage"
I. Lento
David Jones, cl; Netanel Draiblate & Eva Cappelletti-Chao, v's; Philippe Chao, vi; Benjamin Capps, vc
Philippe Chao, viola,
Bernard Herrmann * Whitman * Souvenirs de voyage * Psycho
3:34 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F, K. 280
Grigory Sokolov, p
Sokolov: The Salzburg Recital
3:56 pm
Elena Kats-Chernin: "Re-invention" No. 6 (after Bach's BWV 781)
Genevieve Lacey, r; Flinders Quartet
The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection
4:02 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6
4:22 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: "Fantasiestücke," Op. 5
No. 5, Dance
Takács Quartet
Dvořák & Coleridge-Taylor: Quartets
4:28 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Prelude No. 8 in F-sharp minor
Yuja Wang, p
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
4:29 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes, Op. 34
No. 5 in D, "Allegro vivace"
Yuja Wang, p
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
4:29 pm
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Main Title
London Phil Orch/Franco Collura
The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4:31 pm
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
"The Elevator; Boone City; Peggy"
London Phil Orch/Franco Collura
The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4:35 pm
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
"The Nightmare"
London Phil Orch/Franco Collura
The Best Years of Our Lives - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4:41 pm
Hugo Friedhofer: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Theme
London Sym Orch/John Williams
The Hollywood Sound
4:45 pm
Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 7, No. 5
Leila Schayegh, v; La Cetra
Leclair: Violin Concertos
5:00 pm
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concerto in A, D. 96
Giuliano Carmignola, v; Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon
Vivaldi/Locatelli/Tartini Concerto Veneziano
5:19 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
No. 15 in D-flat, "Raindrop"
İdil Biret, p
WFMT Autumn Mix
5:26 pm
Aaron Copland: "Appalachian Spring"
Chamber Orch/Aaron Copland
Copland Conducts Copland
6:00 pm
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
II. "Adagio"
Gil Shaham, v; Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos
6:11 pm
Florence Price: String Quartet in G (unfinished)
Catalyst Quartet
Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price
6:29 pm
Antonín Dvořák: Wind Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
III. "Andante con moto"
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Dvořák: Serenades Opp. 22 & 44
6:40 pm
Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 1
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos
Albéniz: Iberia - Complete
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Gershwin was a true American original who broke musical boundaries, writing everything from Broadway musicals and popular songs to symphonic works and jazz. In just 38 years, he fearlessly explored new ideas and created a wide range of music. Bill shares how Gershwin’s life and work 'flashed across the world like a comet,' and gives fresh insights into the people and experiences that shaped him. We invite you to join us as we celebrate George Gershwin’s life and soulful music.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Gioachino Rossini: "La Cenerentola"
Overture
Philharmonia Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini
Rossini: Overtures
8:08 pm
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Neave Trio
French Moments
8:28 pm
Alexander Borodin: "In the Steppes of Central Asia"
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Balakirev: 1812, Polovtsian Dances, Islamey
8:36 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b
June; July; August
Vassily Primakov, p
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op 37bis, Grand Sonata, Op 37
8:47 pm
Maddalena Sirmen: String Quartet No. 2 in B-Flat
Allegri String Quartet
Sirmen: The Six String Quartets
9:00 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
9:13 pm
Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
Steven Isserlis, vc; Pascal Devoyon, p
Debussy, Poulenc, Franck: Cello Sonatas
9:24 pm
Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op. 64
Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite
9:56 pm
Franz Liszt: Six Consolations
No. 2 in E
Leif Ove Andsnes, p
Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works
10:00 pm
Frederick Delius: "A Village Romeo and Juliet"
"The Walk to the Paradise Garden"
Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras
Delius: Brigg Fair, In a Summer Garden, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, North Country Sketches / Sir Charles Mackerras
10:10 pm
Lucie Vellère: String Quartet No. 3
Crescent String Quartet
Vive la Différence - String Quartets by Women Composers
10:27 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19
Mahler Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p
The Beethoven Journey / Leif Ove Andsnes
10:57 pm
Francisco Tárrega: Preludio No. 6 in D minor
David Russell, g
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Michael Tilson Thomas (6/11/1985)
WFMT remembers Michael Tilson Thomas (1944–2026), the beloved and deeply admired American conductor, who died earlier this year. "MTT" spoke with Studs about his interest in American composers Gershwin, Ives, and Ruggles, all of whom he knew personally.
