Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Monday, October 13, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin," Op. 24
Polonaise
Leslie Howard, p
12:05 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: "Le roi malgré lui" (1887)
"Féte polonaise"
Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Favourite Encores!
12:12 am
Emmanuel Chabrier: Song, "Villanelle des petits canards"
Ludovic de San, br; Diane Andersen, p
Chabrier: Complete Melodies
12:14 am
Ethel Smyth: String Quartet in e
Archaeus Quartet
Ethel Smyth
12:55 am
Henry Purcell: "Dioclesian"
"Symphony"
Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess - Orchestral Suites
1:00 am
Henry Purcell: "The Fairy Queen"
Excerpts
Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon
Purcell: Ayres For The Theatre (Dioclesian / King Arthur / The Fairy Queen / The Indian Queen)
1:05 am
Domenico Cimarosa: "La baronessa Stramba"
Overture
Esterhazy Orch/Alessandro Amoretti
CIMAROSA, D.: Overtures, Vol. 1 (Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Amoretti)
1:11 am
Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor"
Polovtsian Dances
Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
1:22 am
William Grant Still: Suite, "Prince and the Mermaid" (1965)
Oregon String Quartet
1:30 am
Jeremiah Clarke: "Prince of Denmark's march" (Trumpet Voluntary)
English Chamber Orch Brass/Donald Fraser
Baroque Brass
1:31 am
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19
Lisa Batiashvili, v; Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Visions of Prokofiev
1:54 am
Serge Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 75
II. "Scene"
Nikolai Demidenko, p
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition/ Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
2:00 am
Zdenek Fibich: "Poème," after "A Summer Evening," Op 41/4
Prague Sym Orch/Václav Smetácek
Salvne Ceske Malickosti
2:04 am
Zdenek Fibich: "A Night at Karlstejn Castle"
Overture
Czech National Sym Orch/Marek Stilec
FIBICH, Z.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Overtures / Hedy: Ballet Music (Czech National Symphony, Štilec)
2:14 am
Emil Von Reznicek: "Donna Diana"
Overture
Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel
William Tell And Other Favorite Overtures
2:20 am
Alexander Scriabin: Three Pieces, Op 52
#3, "Poéme languide"
Konstantin Lifschitz, p
Constantin Lifschitz Plays Scriabin and Rachmaninov
2:22 am
Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto in D, Op. 13
Steven Osborne, p; BBC Scottish Sym/Ilan Volkov
Britten: Piano Concerto * Diversions * Young Apollo * Steven Osborne
2:55 am
Louis Couperin: Suite in C
No. 1, "Prélude"
Blandine Verlet, hc
Louis Couperin: Les pièces de clavessin
3:00 am
Gerónimo Giménez: La Tempranica
"Cancion de la Tempranica"
Victoria de los Angeles, s, Spanish National Orch/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
The Very Best of Victoria de los Angeles
3:05 am
Franz Liszt: "Rhapsodie espagnole"
Stephen Hough, p
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, Rhapsodie Espagnole
3:18 am
Gerónimo Giménez: La Tempranica
"Zapateado"
Victoria de los Angeles, s, Spanish National Orch/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
The Very Best of Victoria de los Angeles
3:19 am
Ignaz Holzbauer: Sinfonia Concertante in A
Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri
3:35 am
Carl Stamitz: Cello Concerto in G
Claude Starck, vc; Southwest German Chamber Orch/Paul Angerer
Stamitz
3:54 am
Dufaut: Lute Suite in g
"Courante"
Hopkinson Smith
François Dufaut
4:00 am
Herbert Clarke: "The Bride of the Waves" (Polka brillante)
Richard Frazier, tuba; Dallas wind Sym/Howard Dunn
The Brass And The Band
4:05 am
Alec Wilder: Wind Quintet #3
New York Woodwind Quintet
4:17 am
Bela Bartók: "Hungarian Sketches"
No. 5, "Swineherd's Dance"
Chicago Brass Quintet
Chicago Brass Quintet
4:19 am
Bela Bartók: Suite No. 1, Op 3
Budapest Sym Orch/Miklos Erdelyi
Bela Bartok
4:55 am
Giovanni Gastoldi: "Il ballerino"
New York Early Music Ensemble/Frederik Renz
Music of Renaissance Love
5:00 am
Peter Philips: Dolorosa Pavan and Galliard
Edward Parmentier, hc
Musick as befitts a Quene
5:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Six German Dances, K. 571
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
Mozart: Deutsche Tänze
5:15 am
Johann Strauss II: "Emperor Waltz" Op. 437
Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel
A nos amours
5:27 am
Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39
#11
Idil Biret, p
J.: Waltzes / Cadenzas / Die schone Magelon
5:29 am
Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata #1 in e, Op 38
David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p
Brahms * David Finckel * Wu Han
5:54 am
Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op 39
#8
Idil Biret, p
J.: Waltzes / Cadenzas / Die schone Magelon
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:03 am
Aaron Copland: "Our Town"
Suite
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Music For Films
6:13 am
Peter Sculthorpe: "Small Town"
Guy Henderson, ob; Sydney Sym Orch/Stuart Challender
Earth Cry
6:20 am
Brian Baxter: "A Great Commercial City"
Gaudete Brass
Chicago Moves
6:27 am
Shawn E. Okpebholo: "city beautiful"
III. "burnham"
Lincoln Trio
Trios from Contemporary Chicago
6:31 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D, "London"
IV. Finale, "Spiritoso"
Orch of St. Luke's/Charles Mackerras
Haydn: Symphonies 101 & 104
6:39 am
Edward Elgar: "Cockaigne" Overture "(In London Town)," Op. 40
London Phil Orch/Sir Georg Solti
Pomp and Circumstance 1-5, Cockaigne Overture, God Save The Queen
6:54 am
Vernon Duke: "Autumn in New York"
Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Reiko Uchida, p
Seasons...Dreams
7:03 am
Otar Taktakishvili: Mingrelian Songs
"Chiche Tura"
Ensemble Rustavi Cho; Avi Avital, m; Shiran, acc; Between Worlds
Song of the Birds
7:07 am
Meyer/Thile/Duncan: "Waltz Whitman"
Stuart Duncan, v; Chris Thile, man; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Edgar Meyer, db
Edgar Meyer, double bass,
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
7:12 am
Gustav Holst: "Walt Whitman" Overture, Op. 7
Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta
Holst: Cotswolds Symphony, Walt Whitman Overture, Indra, Japanese Suite, A Winter Idyll
7:21 am
Louis Ballard: "Scenes from Indian Life"
Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter
Louis Wayne Ballard: The Four Moons, Devil's Promenade, Fantasy Aborigine No. 3 "Kokopelli", Scenes from Indian Life
7:32 am
Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"
Aria, "Che gelida manina"
Luciano Pavarotti, t; Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Luciano Pavarotti - The Greatest Hits
7:38 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony in E-Flat, Wq 183/2
Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
CPE Bach: Symphonies, Harpsichord Concerto
7:50 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "HMS Pinafore"
Overture
Pro Arte Orch/Malcolm Sargent
Gilbert And Sullivan: HMS Pinafore
7:54 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "HMS Pinafore"
Chorus, "We sail the ocean blue"
Glyndebourne Festival Cho, Pro Arte Orch/Malcolm Sargent
Gilbert And Sullivan: HMS Pinafore
7:57 am
Gilbert & Sullivan: "HMS Pinafore"
"When I was a lad"
Richard Suart, t, Welsh National Opera Cho and Orch/Charles Mackerras
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore
8:03 am
Richard Wagner: "Christoph Columbus" Overture
Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Jeffrey Tate
Wagner Overtures
8:13 am
Giuli Doyle: "From Graceful Fields"
I. "Angelica"
R. Carlos Nakai, Native American flute; Canyon Women's Voices/Tom Peterson
From Graceful Fields
8:21 am
R. Carlos Nakai: "Passages (La'igoo tádiíya'h)"
L Engelke, tr; R. C Nakai, f; W Eaton, harp g; W Clipman, per
Will Clipman, percussion,
From Graceful Fields
8:32 am
Antonín Dvořák: Romance in F minor, Op. 11
Susanne Hou, v; Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Valentine's Romance (February 2025)
8:45 am
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"
III. "Scherzo: Molto vivace"
Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi
Symphony No. 9 'From The New World'
8:54 am
Edward MacDowell: Orchestra Suite No. 2, Op. 48, "Indian"
V. Finale, "Village Festival"
Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa
Edward MacDowell: Suites Nos. 1 and 2, Hamlet and Ophelia
9:04 am
Charles Ives: Variations on "America"
Chicago Sym Orch/Morton Gould
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The Centennial Collection
9:12 am
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 4, "Autochthonous"
III. "With a graceful lilt"
Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter
American Classics * William Grant Still * Symphonies Nos 4 and 5
9:16 am
Amy Beach: "Eskimos (Four Characteristic Pieces)," Op. 64
Joanne Polk, p
Amy Beach: Fire Flies
9:27 am
Irene Britton Smith: Violin Sonata (1947)
I. "Allegro cantabile"
Blue Violet Duo
Strike, Strum and Stride
9:36 am
Louis Ballard: "Fantasy Aborigine" No. 3, "Kokopelli"
Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter
Louis Wayne Ballard: The Four Moons, Devil's Promenade, Fantasy Aborigine No. 3 "Kokopelli", Scenes from Indian Life
9:50 am
Brent Michael Davids: "The Un-Covered Wagon"
Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings
Our American Journey
10:00 am - 2:00 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
Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concerto in G
Antoine Tamestit, vi; Berlin Academy for Ancient Music
Telemann: Viola Concertos
10:13 am
Lars-Erik Larsson: "Little Serenade" for Strings, Op. 12
Stockholm Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
A Swedish Serenade
10:25 am
Dmitri Shostakovich: "Three Fantastic Dances," Op. 5
Vladimir Ashkenazy, p
Shostakovich Piano Works
10:30 am
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88
IV. Finale, "Allegro ma non tropo"
New York Phil/Kurt Masur
Dvorák: Symphony No. 8; Janáček: Sinfonietta
10:42 am
Alberto Ginastera: "Impresiones de la Puna"
Jessica Warren, f; Avalon String Quartet
Acentos
10:51 am
Frédéric Chopin: Rondo à la Mazurka, Op. 5
Daniil Trifonov, p
Daniil Trifonov Plays Frédéric Chopin
11:00 am
Andrew York: "Pacific Coast Highway"
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Labyrinth
11:06 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
Act 1 & Act 3 Preludes; Dance of the Apprentices; Entrance of the Mastersingers
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
Reiner Conducts Wagner
11:29 am
Eric Whitacre: "Her Sacred Spirit Soars"
Eric Whitacre Singers/Eric Whitacre
Water Night
11:37 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: London Trio No. 1 in C, H IV:1
Hanoverian Ensemble
Music for Lord Abingdon
11:47 am
Gabriel Pierné: "Fantaisie-Ballet" in B-Flat, Op. 6
Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard
Dances for Piano and Orchestra
12:00 pm
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Karisa Chiu, v; Zhu Wang, p
Home
12:15 pm
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Much Ado About Nothing," Op. 11
Orchestral Suite (Five Pieces)
Northwest German Phil/Werner Andreas Albert
Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
12:33 pm
Michael Praetorius: "Terpsichore"
Dances
Parley of Instruments
Michael Praetorius - Christmas Music
12:42 pm
Franz Biebl: "Ave Maria"
Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings
Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas
12:50 pm
Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Symphonie concertante" in A, Op. 10, No. 2
I. "Allegro"
Soloists; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies concertantes; Symphony in G major
1:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Andante favori" in F, WoO 57
Alfred Brendel, p
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 53, 54 & 101
1:11 pm
Alice Mary Smith: Symphony in A minor
London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley
Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies
1:38 pm
Giuseppe Torelli: Sinfonia à 4 for 4 Trumpets and Orchestra
Soloists; Music of the Baroque Orch/Thomas Wikman
Jeffrey Biancalana, trumpet,
With Clarion Voice
1:47 pm
Enrique Granados: "Tonadillas en estilo antiguo"
Tabea Zimmermann, vi; Javier Perianes, p
Cantilena
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: "Cinderella," Op. 87
Court Dance; Mazurka & Entrance of the Prince; Cinderella's Arrival; Grand Waltz
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Prokofiev: Cinderella (Suite) / Leonard Slatkin
2:15 pm
Aaron Copland: "Quiet City"
Nicholas Daniel, eh; Alison Balsom, tr; Britten Sinfonia/Scott Stroman
Quiet City
2:27 pm
Antonio Soler: "Fandango"
Alain Lefèvre, p
Alain Lefèvre, Soler, Rameau, Scarlatti - Fandango
2:40 pm
Leopold Hofmann: Flute Concerto in D
Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Haydn Ensemble
F.J. & J.M. Haydn: Flute Concertos & Scherzandi / Emmanuel Pahud
3:00 pm
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Jascha Heifetz, v; William Kapell, p
The Heifetz Collection, Vol. 8 - 1950-1955
3:20 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: "The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)" Overture, Op. 26
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Mendelssohn Discoveries * Symphony No 3 * Piano Concerto No 3 * Prosseda
3:33 pm
Ottorino Respighi: "The Pines of Rome"
Dallas Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata
Respighi: Roman Festivals, Brazilian Impressions & Pines of Rome
3:56 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: "La Traviata"
Chorus of Matadors, "Di Madride noi siam mattadori"
John Alldis Cho, Royal Phil Orch/Aldo Ceccato
The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!
4:00 pm
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Renaud Capuçon, v; Gautier Capuçon, vc; Nicholas Angelich, p
Fauré: Complete Chamber Music for Strings and Piano
4:22 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503
I. "Allegro maestoso"
Martha Argerich, p; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado
Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25
4:38 pm
Isaac Albéniz: "Iberia," Book 1
"El Corpus Christi en Sevilla"
Alicia de Larrocha, p
Iberia, Navarra, Suite española
4:49 pm
Jean Sibelius: "Finlandia," Op. 26
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Sibelius: Finlandia, Valse Triste, Tapiola, Der Schwan von Tuonela, The Swan Of Tuonela
4:59 pm
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne
Juliette Hurel, f; Hélène Couvert, p
Compositrices: À l'aube du XXe siècle
5:00 pm
George Gershwin: "Rhapsody in Blue"
Michael Boriskin, p; Eos Orch/Jonathan Sheffer
Gershwin: Concerto For Piano and Orchestra in F, Rhapsody in Blue, etc.
5:18 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988
Aria
Philippe Quint, v; Matt Herskowitz Trio
Bach XXI
5:24 pm
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Prelude & Fugue No. 4 in E minor
Olli Mustonen, p
Bach & Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues
5:30 pm
William Walton: Symphony No. 2
Bournemouth Sym Orch/Andrew Litton
Walton: Symphony No 2; Violin Concerto; Scapino. Tasmin Little (violin), Bournemouth SO / Andrew Litton
6:00 pm
John Rutter: Suite for Strings
Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
The English Connection (April 2023)
6:13 pm
Ernest Chausson: "Poème," Op. 25
Aaron Rosand, v; Southwest German Radio Orch/Rolf Reinhardt
Aaron Rosand Plays Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Lalo, Others
6:31 pm
Darius Milhaud: "Suite provençale," Op. 152b
Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson
Milhaud: Symphonies Nos, 1 & 2, Suite provençale
6:46 pm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Le coq d'or"
I. King Dodon in his Palace
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Hi-Fi Fiedler
6:57 pm
Isaac Albéniz: "España," Op. 165
No. 2, "Tango"
Alicia de Larrocha, p
Spanish Encores
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Top Shelf, Part II
Closing in on twenty years, Bill has been collecting and programming music for Exploring Music. However, many of his favorite recordings don’t find their way into a thematic week and end up orphaned on a top shelf in his back room. This is the second week of Bill featuring these special recordings that have become a theme of colorful, great performances that Bill adores.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Live from WFMT
A performance by the world-renowned, Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer live from the Levin Performance Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The WFMT Orchestra Series
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Brahms Violin Concerto; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Symphony No. 2; Zubin Mehta, conductor.
