Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, August 22, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 53, "Caractéristique"
II. Valse
Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Neville Marriner
12:05 am
John H. Robinson III: "Variations on a Theme of Valerie Capers"
Ensemble
Where Freedom Rings
12:14 am
Valerie Capers: Portraits in Jazz (1976)
No. 5, "Blues for the Duke"
Maria Thompson Corley, p
Soulscapes
12:18 am
Valerie Capers: Portraits in Jazz (1976)
No. 10, "Bossa Brasilia"
Maria Thompson Corley, p
Soulscapes
12:19 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 1 in d, Op. 43
Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 1
12:55 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo, Op. 7
Michael Ponti, p
Tchaikovsky Edition
1:00 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "Les Paladins"
Menuet et rondeau I-II
Age of Enlightenment Orch/Gustav Leonhardt
Rameau - Suite "Les Paladins"
1:05 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concerto in a, Wq 170
Anner Bylsma, vc; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Gustav Leonhardt
1:31 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Partita No. 2 in c, BWV 826
II. "Courante"
Gustav Leonhardt, hc
6 Partitas BWV 825-830
1:32 am
Florence Price: "Dances in the Canebrakes"
Althea Waites, p
Black Diamonds- African-American Composers
1:42 am
Leonard Bernstein: "On the Town"
Five Dances
Orch/Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein – The Early Years
1:55 am
Turrin: "Three Summer Dances"
#1, "Frolic"
Borealis Wind Quintet
A LA CARTE- Short Works for Winds
2:00 am
John Williams: Music for the film "Schindler's List"
"Remembrances"
Itzhak Perlman, v; Boston Sym Orch/John Williams
Schindler's List
2:05 am
Cyprien Katsaris: "Mozartiana"
Cyprien Katsaris, p
Mozartiana
2:17 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Ascanio in Alba," K. 111
Trio, "Che bel piacer io sento"
Soloists; Concerto Armonico/Jacques Grimbert
Ascanio in Alba
2:18 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, "Jupiter"
Berlin Phil/Itzhak Perlman
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 Etc * Perlman
2:55 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Ascanio in Alba," K. 111
Chorus, "Venga, de'sommi eroi"
Concerto Armonico/Jacques Grimbert
3:00 am
Frederick Delius: "Irmelin"
Prelude
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar
Delius
3:05 am
Frederick Delius: Caprice and Elegy
Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; Royal Phil/Eric Fenby
3:13 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso in b, Op. 62
Zuill Bailey, vc; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West
Russian Masterpieces for Cello and Orchestra
3:19 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Capriccio espagnol," Op. 34
London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati
Dorati Conducts Rimsky-Korsakov & Borodin
3:35 am
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Danzas de españa" (1941)
#3, "Serrana"
Artur Pizarro, p
Rodrigo Piano Music Vol 2
3:36 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G, Op. 30 No. 3
Jascha Heifetz, v; Emmanuel Bay, p
3:54 am
Johann Helmich Roman: Drottningholm Wedding Music
#21
Uppsala Chamber Orch/Anthony Halstead
Roman: Music for a Royal Wedding
4:00 am
Georges Bizet: "The Pearl Fishers"
Duet, "Au fond du temple saint"
Nicolai Gedda, t; Ernest Blanc, br; Paris Opéra-Comique Orch/Pierre Dervaux
4:05 am
Georges Bizet: "L'Arlésienne" Suite No. 2
French National Radio Orch/Thomas Beecham
4:22 am
Georges Bizet: Variations on a Theme from "Carmen"
Vladimir Horowitz, p
Horowitz Encores
4:26 am
Georges Bizet: "Jeux d'enfants," Op. 22
IX. "Colin-maillard" (Blind Man's Bluff)
Katia, Marielle Labéque, p
Jeux D'enfants / Ma Mère L'Oye / Dolly Suite
4:27 am
Reinhold Gliere: Harp Concerto in E-Flat, Op 74
Rachel Masters, h; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
Gliere & Ginastera: Harp Works
4:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Twelve Etudes, Op 8
#4 in E
Marta Denayova, p
Skriabin and Prokofiev Piano Music
5:00 am
Vincenzo Bellini: "I Puritani"
"A te, o cara, amor talora"
Freni, s; Pavarotti, t; Rome Sym & Cho/Muti
Pavarotti: The Early Years Vol 2
5:05 am
Franz Liszt: "Réminiscences des Puritains" (after Bellini)
Leslie Howard, p
5:25 am
Johannes Brahms: Five Songs, Op 49
#4, "Wiegenlied"
Thomas Allen, br; Sharon Isbin, g
5:27 am
Johannes Brahms: "Tragic" Overture, Op.81
Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnànyi
Johannes Brahms 4 Symphonien
5:40 am
Dmitri Kabalevsky: "The Comedians," Op 26
Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch
5:54 am
PDQ Bach: Six Contrary Dances
#2, Daintissimo
Orch/Peter Schickele
Music For An Awful Lot Of Winds And Percussion
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:04 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 31 in D, "Hornsignal"
I. Allegro
American Horn Quartet; Sinfonia Varsovia/Dariusz Wiśniewski
Heroic Horn: Best Loved Classical Music
6:09 am
Vincenzo Bellini: "Norma"
Aria, "Casta Diva"
James Galway, f; London Sym Orch/Klauspeter Seibel
Wings of Song
6:16 am
Claude Debussy: "Petite Suite"
Lang Lang & Gina Alice, p
Lang Lang - Saint-Saëns
6:32 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in e minor, Op. 6, No. 3
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
6:44 am
Franz Schubert: Octet in F, D 803
V. Menuetto, "Allegretto"
Chicago Chamber Musicians
The Chicago Chamber Musicians - Celebrating 15 Years
6:53 am
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 65
No. 6, "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen"
St Martin's Academy/Sir Neville Marriner
Grieg, Sibelius: Suites
7:03 am
Edward Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 1 in D, Op. 39, No. 1
London Phil Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Pomp & Circumstance Marches, Cockaigne Overture
7:11 am
Victor Ewald: Brass Quintet No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 5
Brass Ring
Brass Ring - Music For Brass Quintet
7:25 am
Johann Strauss II: "Ägyptischer Marsch (Egyptian March)," Op. 335
Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim
Johann Strauss Waltzes & Polkas
7:31 am
Claude Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
Clair De Lune- Music Of France
7:43 am
Jean-Marie Leclair: Two-Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 3, No. 5
Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, v's
Duets for Two Violins
7:54 am
Dave Brubeck: "Blue Rondo à la Turk"
Janoska Ensemble
The Big B's
8:03 am
Arno Babajanian: Elegy
Ani Aznavoorian, vc; Marta Aznavoorian, p
Gems from Armenia
8:08 am
Heinrich Biber: Eight-Trumpet Sonata in A
Wynton Marsalis, tr's; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard
Baroque Music For Trumpets
8:16 am
Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 1
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
Let's Dance
8:32 am
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
I. "Allegro ma non troppo"
Glenn Dicterow, v; James Kreger, vc; David Golub, p
Dvořák: Trio Op. 65, Quartet Op. 87
8:46 am
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
III. Finale, "Lento assai - Allegro vivace"
Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1, Symphonic Dances
9:05 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat, Op. 31, No. 3, "The Hunt"
II. Scherzo: "Allegretto vivace"
Yuja Wang, p
Yuja Wang: The Vienna Recital
9:08 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39
Four Dances
Borodin Quartet
Russian Miniatures
9:16 am
Morton Gould: "Folk Suite"
London Sym Orch/David Amos
Modern Masters I
9:32 am
Josef Mysliveček: Oboe Quintet No. 2 in D major
Michaela Hrabánková, ob; Dolezal Quartet
Myslivecek: Oboe Quintets, String Quartets
9:46 am
Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19, "Midsommarvaka"
Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen
A Nordic Festival
10:00 am - 3:00 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
Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Overture
Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel
Great Comedy Overtures
10:10 am
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in C, D 279
András Schiff, p
Schubert: Piano Sonatas
10:29 am
Joaquín Rodrigo: "Concierto andaluz"
I. "Tiempo de Bolero"
Amadeus Guitar Duo, Eden Stell Duo, International Phil Orch/Horst-Hans Bäcker
Spanish Night
10:38 am
Ricardo Castro: "Atzimba"
Intermezzo
Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra
Mi Alma Mexicana
10:44 am
Johann David Heinichen: Dresden Concerto in G, S 213
Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
Heinichen: Dresden Concerti
11:01 am
André Mathieu: "Été canadien (Canadian Summer)"
Alain Lefèvre, p
Hommage to André Mathieu - Solo Piano Works
11:07 am
Doug Lofstrom: "Midsummer Passage"
Russian String Orchestra/Misha Rachlevsky
Doug Lofstrom: Music for Strings
11:16 am
Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C major & C minor
André Lardrot, ob; I Solisti di Zagreb/Antonio Janigro
Little Big Oboe Box
11:28 am
Zoltán Kodály: "Háry János" Suite, Op. 35a
London Phil Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Georg Solti: Bartók
11:51 am
Charlie Chaplin: "City Lights"
Suite
Philippe Quint, v; Marta Aznavoorian, p
Chaplin's Smile
12:00 pm
Gabriel Fauré: "Fantaisie," Op. 79
Demarre McGill, f; Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot
Fauré: Masques et bergamasques & Pelléas et Mélisande
12:07 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Tafelmusik," Book 3
Overture (Suite) in B-Flat: Dances
Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel
Telemann: Tafelmusik Selections
12:21 pm
Dobrinka Tabakova: "Truro Canticles"
"Magnificat"
Truro Cathedral Cho/Christopher Gray; Joseph Wicks, o
Dobrinka Tabakova * Kynance Cove * On the South Downs * and works for choir
12:29 pm
Michael Haydn: Symphony No. 25 in G, P 16
London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
Contemporaries of Mozart - Michael Haydn
12:46 pm
Johan Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1 in A
Trondheim Sym Orch/Ole Kristian Ruud
Svendsen & Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsodies
1:01 pm
William Grant Still: Prelude for flute, string quartet, double-bass and piano
Alexa Still, f; Michael Steer, db; Susan DeWitt Smith, p; New Zealand SQ
Still: Summerland
1:12 pm
Franz Schubert: "Military March" in E-Flat, D 733, No. 3
Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen, p
Franz Schubert: Piano Music For Four Hands, Vol. 3
1:18 pm
Edward Elgar: "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 4 in G, Op. 39, No. 4
BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth
HM Queen Elizabeth II - The Commemorative Album
1:24 pm
Alexander Glazunov: "The Seasons," Op. 67
Summer
Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier
Glazunov: Symphony No. 5, The Seasons
1:37 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"
Michael Davis, v; London Sym Orch/Bryden Thomson
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, The Lark Ascending
1:53 pm
Petronio Franceschini: Two-Trumpet Sonata in D
Mathias Schmutzler, tr; Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Güttler, tr
Famous Trumpet Concertos
2:01 pm
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Angela Hewitt, p; Berlin German Sym Orch/Hannu Lintu
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto
2:33 pm
Valerie Coleman: Afro-Cuban Concerto for Wind Quintet
"Danza"
Imani Winds
The Classical Underground
2:40 pm
Francesco Geminiani: "La Follia" (after Corelli's Op. 5, No. 12)
Concerto Köln/Mahan Esfahani
Time Present and Time Past
2:53 pm
Reinhold Glière: "Taras Bulba"
Grand Adagio
Odessa Phil/Hobart Earle
Music of Ukraine: Taras Bulba, Rasputin
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
Christoph Graupner: Suite in F for flute, viola d'amore, chalumeau, strings and cembalo
Soloists, Finnish Baroque Orch/Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, vi d'amore
Graupner: Orchestral Suites
3:23 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 23 in D, K. 181
Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
Mozart: Symphonies 21, 23, 24, 27
3:33 pm
Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D
Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Janacek Phil/Ryan Cockerham
Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 | Violin Concerto No. 2
3:57 pm
Traditional Irish: Folksong, "Down by the Salley Gardens"
St. Charles Singers, Metropolis Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Hunt
I Know Where I'm Going
4:00 pm
George Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess"
A Symphonic Picture
London Sym Orch/André Previn
Previn Conducts Gershwin
4:19 pm
Anton Arensky: Fantasia on Russian Folksongs, Op. 48
Stephen Coombs, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Jerzy Maksymiuk
Arensky & Bortkiewicz: Piano Concertos
4:30 pm
Patrick Doyle: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
"Quidditch World Cup/The Foreigners Arrive; Neville's Waltz; Harry in Winter; The Golden Egg"
City of Prague Phil Orch/James Fitzpatrick
The Essential Harry Potter Film Music Collection
4:45 pm
Manuel de Falla: "The Three-Cornered Hat"
Suite No. 2
Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti
España!
4:57 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F, BWV 779
Glenn Gould, p
Glenn Gould Plays Bach: Two-Part Inventions and Three-Part Sinfonias & Toccatas
5:00 pm
Antonín Dvořák: "Scherzo capriccioso," Op. 66
Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8, Scherzo capriccioso
5:13 pm
Anonymous 18th-century French: Hunting Fanfare
Vienna Volksoper Chamber Orch/Christoph Campestrini
La Chasse
5:14 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 84 in E-Flat, "In nomine Domini"
IV. Finale: Vivace
Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 84 & Violin Concerto in A major
5:20 pm
Johann Neruda: Horn Concerto in E-flat
III. "Vivace"
Steven Gross, hn; Capella Istropolitana/Dale Clevenger
Baroque.horn
5:26 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"
Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony; Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony
6:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059R
Lucie Horsch, r; Academy of Ancient Music
Baroque Journey
6:13 pm
Robert Schumann: "Kinderszenen," Op. 15
Canadian Brass
Carnaval
6:32 pm
Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2
St. Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood
Tippett, Holst, Corelli, Bach
6:46 pm
Darius Milhaud: "Scaramouche," Op. 165b
Claude Hobson & Ian Hobson, p's
Milhaud: Création du Monde and Other Works
6:56 pm
Fritz Kreisler: "La Gitana"
Tasmin Little, v; John Lenehan, p
50 Best Violin
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Top Shelf, Part I
Many of Bill's favorite recordings don’t find their way into a thematic week. These are special recordings that wait and wait for the right theme – colorful, great performances of music that Bill adores.
8:00 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
8:01 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Hamlet," Op. 67
Overture-Fantasia
Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Gustavo Dudamel
Tchaikovsky & Shakespeare
8:21 pm
Joel Puckett: "Short Stories"
Soloists; London Sym Orch/Joseph Young
David Cohen, cello,
Short Stories in London
8:45 pm
Nikolai Medtner: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 25, No. 1, "Fairy Tale"
Marc-André Hamelin, p
Medtner: The Complete Piano Sonatas
8:57 pm
Wilma Alba Cal: "Guaguancó Sencillo"
Sarah Willis, hn; Havana Lyceum Orch/José Antonio Méndez Padrón
Mozart y Mambo
9:02 pm
Domenico Scarlatti: Clavier Sonata in E, Kk. 206
Angela Hewitt, p
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas, Vol. 2
9:12 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Tafelmusik," Book 3
Two-Horn Concerto in E-Flat
Teunis van der Zwart & Bart Aerbeydt, hn's; Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz
The Complete Tafelmusik
9:28 pm
Stacy Garrop: "Shadow"
CCPA Chamber Orch/Markand Thakar
Stacy Garrop: Mythology Symphony
9:38 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 2) in D, Op. 94
Augustin Hadelich, v; Robert Kulek, p
Echoes of Paris
10:02 pm
Amanda Lee Falkenberg: "The Moons Symphony"
Soloists; London Voices, London Sym Orch/Marin Alsop
The Moons Symphony
10:45 pm
Richard Strauss: "Capriccio," Op. 85
Moonlight Music
Vienna Phil/André Previn
Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite, Intermezzo, Salome, Capriccio
10:49 pm
Richard Strauss: "Im Sonnenschein"
Thomas Hampson, br; Wolfram Rieger, p
Songs by Richard Strauss
10:54 pm
Frédéric Chopin: "Les Sylphides"
Nocturne in A-flat, Op. 32, No. 2
National Phil Orch/Richard Bonynge
50x Relaxing Classics
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
André Watts (01/22/1986)
André Watts (1946-2023), the pioneering piano virtuoso and one of the first Black superstars in classical music, was Studs Terkel’s guest on WFMT in 1986.
11:54 pm
Jon Batiste: "American Symphony"
Theme
Jon Batiste, p
Beethoven Blues
