Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Monday, December 22, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
Donald Fraser: "This Christmastide (Jessye's Carol)"
Duquesne University Chbr Singers/Brady R Allred
12:05 am
Claude Debussy: "Children's Corner" Suite
Ulster Orch/Yan-Pascal Tortelier
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
12:22 am
Robert Schumann: "Kinderball", Op. 130
Peter Frankl & András Schiff, p
12:35 am
African Trad: Carol, "O Come, Little Children"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
The Glorious Sound Of Christmas
12:37 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Orch/Bruno Walter
12:54 am
Austrian Trad: Carol, "Still, still, still"
Bielefeld Children's Cho/Friedrich Oberschelp
1:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude, "Vom Himmel hoch (From the sky above)" BWV 700
Philip Brunelle, o (Congregational Church, Plymouth, MN)
Serenade For A Christmas Night
1:02 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale prelude, "In Dulci Jubilo (In sweet rejoicing)" BWV 729
Philip Brunelle, o (Congregational Church, Plymouth, MN)
Serenade For A Christmas Night
1:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
Part 4
Soloists; Leipzig Radio Cho, Dresden Staatskapelle/Schreier
Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
1:28 am
Franz Gruber: Carol, "Stille Nacht (Silent Night)"
Offenbach Children's Cho/Werner Blum
1:29 am
Anton Arensky: Piano Trio #1 in d, Op 32
Rembrandt Trio
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Piano Trio, Op. 50 / ARENSKY, A.S.: Piano Trio No. 1
1:54 am
Welsh Trad: Carol, "Deck the Hall"
CSU Chamber Singers/Lee Egbert
Christmas At Colorado State University, Vol. IV
2:00 am
Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto grosso in g, Op 8/6, "Christmas Concerto"
English Chamber Orch/Simon Preston
Christmas Concertos
2:05 am
Domenico Scarlatti: Christmas Cantata, "O di Betlemme altera"
Nancy Argenta, s; Chandos Baroque Players
2:22 am
English Trad: Carol, "Rejoice and be Merry"
Chicago Brass Quintet
Merry Christmas
2:23 am
Friedrich Kuhlau: "Grand Trio" in G, Op 119
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Shigenori Kudo, f's; John Steele Ritter, p
Rampal & Kudo Play Telemann, Kuhlau, Bach, Mozart & Doppler
2:40 am
Gustav Holst: "Christmas Day"
Solid Brass
SOLID BRASS: Christmas with Solid Brass
2:46 am
William Walton: "Capriccio burlesco"
London Phil/Bryden Thomson
Walton: Orchestral Works
2:54 am
English Trad: The Wassail Song
The Western Wind
An Old-Fashioned Christmas (Caroling With The Western Wind)
3:00 am
French Trad: Carol, "Angels We Have Heard on High"
Mormon Tabernacle Cho/Jerold D Ottley
3:05 am
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: "Noël sur les instruments"
English Chamber Orch/Simon Preston
Christmas Concertos
3:22 am
Claude Balbastre: Noël, "Où s'en vont ces gais bergers?"
Marie-Claire Alain, o (Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit d'Uzés)
Noëls pour Orgue
3:27 am
English Trad: Carol, "Little Town of Bethlehem"
John Klein, carillon
3:29 am
French Trad: Carol, "Angels We Have Heard on High"
Baylor University A Capella Cho/Hugh Sanders
3:31 am
English Trad: Carol, "We Three Kings of Orient Are"
Baylor University A Capella Cho/Hugh Sanders
3:36 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hänsel und Gretel"
"Dream Pantomime"
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Pops Christmas Party
3:45 am
Johann Ernst Altenburg: Concerto for Seven Trumpets and Timpani
Wallace Collection, Philharmonia/Christopher Warren-Green
3:51 am
English Trad: Carol, "Away in a manger"
John Klein, carillon
4:00 am
Michael Praetorius: Carol, "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen"
Giovanni De Chiaro, g
The Sounds Of Christmas On Guitar
4:05 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-Flat, Op 20
Hausmusik
String Quintet In A Major, Op. 18/ Octet In E Flat Major, Op. 20
4:37 am
Anton Heiller: Setting of Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Marian Metson, o (Memorial Church, Harvard U)
Christmas Rhapsody: An Organ Tour in Boston
4:38 am
English Trad: Carol, "O Come All Ye Faithful"
Bach Cho; Philip Jones Brass Ens; John Scott, o/David Willcocks
The Magic of Christmas
4:43 am
French Trad: Carol, "Angels from the realms of glory"
Kiri Te Kanawa, s; Philharmonia Orch/Carl Davis
The Magic of Christmas
4:46 am
Richard Pygott: "Quid petis, o fili?"
King's Singers
4:54 am
English Trad: "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
Joseph Alessi, Mark Lawrence, Carl Lenthe, M Dee Stewart, tb
Tb,
Trombones Under The Tree
5:00 am
Richard WILLIS: Carol, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
Robert Decormier Singers/Robert DeCormier
Christmas Eve
5:03 am
English Trad: "The Boar's Head Carol"
Robert Decormier Singers/Robert DeCormier
Christmas Eve
5:05 am
Zoltán Kodály: "Dances of Galánta"
Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
Antal Dorati • Kodály • Bartók
5:20 am
English Trad: Carol, O Come All Ye Faithful
London Brass
Christmas with the London Brass
5:23 am
German Trad: Carol, "In dulci jubilo"
London Brass; Leslie Pearson, o
Christmas With London Brass
5:25 am
Franz Gruber: Carol, "Stille Nacht (Silent Night)"
London Brass
Christmas With London Brass
5:29 am
Welsh Trad: Carol, "Deck the Hall"
Oregon Repertory Singers/Gilbert Seeley
The Glory of Christmas * Oregon Repertory Singers
5:30 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 110, "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (May our mouth be filled with laughter)"
Soloists; Leipzig Thomaner Cho, New Bach Collegium Musicum/Rotzsch
5:54 am
John Reading: Carol, "O Come, All Ye Faithful"
Aaron Brask, fh
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:03 am
Antonio Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons: Winter," RV. 297
La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons etc.
6:12 am
Astor Piazzolla: "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"
"Invierno Porteño (Winter)"
New Century Chamber Orch/Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, v
Together
6:21 am
George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches
No. 2, "Noël"
Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson
Hanson Conducts Chadwick, MacDowell & Peter
6:32 am
Alexander Glazunov: "The Seasons," Op. 67
Winter
Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart
Glazunov: The Seasons
6:42 am
Traditional: Carol, "Angels We Have Heard on High"
Cantus
Into the Light
6:50 am
George F. Bristow: "A Winter's Tale" Overture
Royal Northern Sinfonia/Rebecca Miller
George Frederick Bristow: Orchestral Works
7:03 am
Morton Gould: "Serenade of Carols"
New Philharmonia Orch/Morton Gould
A Musical Christmas Tree
7:18 am
Edgar Meyer: "Winter's Chill"
Modern Mandolin Quartet; Edgar Meyer, db
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
7:23 am
Jay Ungar: "The Harvest Home Suite"
"Winter (The Solstice)"
Jay Ungar, v; Molly Mason, g; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill
Harvest Home: Music for All Seasons
7:31 am
Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"
Aria, "Che gelida manina"
Jussi Björling, t; RCA Victor Orch/Thomas Beecham
La Bohème
7:36 am
Giacomo Puccini: "La Bohème"
Aria, "Sì, mi chiamano Mimì"
de los Ángeles, s; Björling, t; RCA Victor Orch/Beecham
La Bohème
7:43 am
Lars-Erik Larsson: "The Winter's Tale"
Four Vignettes
Helsingborg Sym Orch/Andrew Manze
Larsson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
7:54 am
Hugh Martin: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Paris Chamber Orch/Sascha Goetzel
Winter Gardens
8:04 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b
November-December
Tampere Phil Orch/Leonid Grin
Tchaikovsky: Seasons Etc
8:13 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
IV. "Troika"
Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky - Lieutenant Kijé - Scythian Suite
8:15 am
Traditional Russian: "The troika speeds along"
Paul Hill Cho, Washington Balalaika Society/Paul Hill
Russia!
8:22 am
Victor Hely-Hutchinson: "Carol Symphony"
I. Allegro energico "(O Come All Ye Faithful)"
City of Prague Phil Orch/Gavin Sutherland
Hely-Hutchinson / Standford / Kelly - Carol Symphony
8:26 am
Victor Hely-Hutchinson: "Carol Symphony"
II. Scherzo ("God rest ye merry, gentlemen")
City of Prague Phil Orch/Gavin Sutherland
A Carol Symphony
8:33 am
Traditional English: "The Wassail Song"
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw
Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns & Carols
8:34 am
Traditional English: "Here We Come A-Wassailing"
King's Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
A Little Christmas Music * The King's Singers
8:36 am
Traditional English: "Somerset Wassail"
Cambridge Singers/John Rutter
Christmas With The Cambridge Singers
8:39 am
Traditional English: "Gloucestershire Wassail"
Quadriga Consort
Winter's Delights - Early Christmas Music & Carols from the British Isles
8:41 am
Traditional English: "The Wassail Song"
Smoking Bishop
Any Tune for a Tuppence
8:46 am
Conni Ellisor: "Blackberry Winter"
1st mvt
Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill
Ellisor: Conversations In Silence; Blackberry Winter; Barber: Canzonetta; Scearce: Endymion's Sleep; Mock: The Stone
8:51 am
Michel Corrette: "Symphonie de Noël" No. 1
La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen
Corrette: Les Six Symphonies de Noël
9:03 am
Julius Fučík: "Winter Storms" Waltz, Op. 184
Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
A Festival of Fučík
9:13 am
Frédéric Chopin: Etudes, Op. 25
No. 11 in a minor, "Winter Wind"
Murray Perahia, p
Frédéric Chopin: Études Opus 10, Opus 25 • Masterworks Expanded Edition / Murray Perahia
9:17 am
Bryan Kelly: Improvisations on Christmas Carols
City of Prague Phil Orch/Gavin Sutherland
Hely-Hutchinson / Standford / Kelly - Carol Symphony
9:32 am
Anonymous: "To Drive the Cold Winter Away"
Festivities in the Tavern
St George's Canzona/John Sothcott
To Drive the Cold Winter Away
9:42 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: "Caprice sur des airs danois et russes," Op. 79
Orsino Ensemble; Pavel Kolesnikov, p
Belle Époque - French Music for Wind
9:54 am
John Williams: "Call of the Champions" (2002 Winter Olympics theme)
Mormon Tabernacle Cho, Utah Sym/John Williams
John Williams Conductor
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
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel and Gretel"
Overture
Vienna Phil/Christoph Eschenbach
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017
10:09 am
Robert Russell Bennett: Christmas Medley No. 4
Robert Shaw Chorale & Orch/Robert Shaw
A Festival of Carols
10:23 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331
Alfred Brendel, p
The Art of Alfred Brendel, Vol. 1
10:43 am
Leopold Mozart: Toy Symphony In G
Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer
After Mozart
10:51 am
Aaron Copland: "The Heiress" film music
Suite
St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Music For Films
11:01 am
Marin Marais: "La sonnerie de Sainte Geneviéve du Mont de Paris"
Trio Sonnerie
A Portrait of Love
11:10 am
Traditional English: "Here We Come A-Wassailing"
Sym Brass of Chicago/Barry Faldner, Thomas Weisflog, o
Christmas with the Symphony Brass of Chicago
11:12 am
Marcel Tournier: "Six Noëls pour la harpe"
No. 5
Emily Mitchell, h
Rejoice! A String Quartet Christmas Vol. 3
11:14 am
Stephen Paulus: Three Nativity Carols
No. 1, "The Holly and the Ivy"
Washington Master Chorale/T Colohan; SN Key, ob; S Robinson, h
This Endris Night
11:18 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Andante favori" in F, WoO 57
András Schiff, p
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. V - András Schiff
11:28 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in C, "Alexander's Feast"
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Fireworks Music
11:42 am
Antonín Dvořák: Rhapsody in A minor, Op. 14
Slovak Phil Orch/Libor Pešek
Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsodies Op. 45, Nos. 1 - 3
12:01 pm
Gustaf Nordqvist: "Jul, jul, strålande jul"
St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt
12:03 pm
Donald Fraser: "This Christmastide (Jessye's Carol)"
St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt; Goran Ivanovic, g
12:09 pm
Traditional French: "Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabelle"
St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt; Goran Ivanovic, g
12:11 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Valses nobles et sentimentales"
Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Lionel Bringuier
Ravel: Complete Orchestral Music
12:27 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise No. 7 in A-Flat, Op. 61, "Polonaise-fantaisie"
Rafał Blechacz, p
Chopin: Polonaises
12:40 pm
Henry Purcell: "Abdelazer"
Suite
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
The Baroque Experience
12:53 pm
Traditional French: "Noël nouvelet (Sing We of Christmas)"
Cantus
Into the Light
12:56 pm
John Jacob Niles: "I Wonder As I Wander"
Cantus
Into the Light
1:01 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, "Drum Roll"
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Haydn: Symphonies 93-104
1:32 pm
Traditional: "O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)"
Carlos Simon, p
Carlos Simon Christmas
1:36 pm
Randol Alan Bass: "Gloria"
Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
Holiday Pops
1:43 pm
Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): "Concertante" Quartet No. 3 in C
Arabella String Quartet
Bologne: Six Concertante Quartets
1:51 pm
Louis Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 57
III. Finale, "Rondo alla Polacca"
Ernst Ottensamer, cl; Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Johannes Wildner
Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 2 & 4
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Christmas Eve"
Suite
Odense Sym Orch/Eduard Serov
Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites Vol. 3
2:30 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Months (The Seasons)," Op. 37b
June; July; August
Vassily Primakov, p
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op 37bis, Grand Sonata, Op 37
2:41 pm
Edward Elgar: String Serenade in E minor, Op. 20
English Chamber Orch/Yehudi Menuhin
Elgar: Music for Strings
2:54 pm
Arvo Pärt: "Peace upon you, Jerusalem"
Polyphony/Stephen Layton
Arvo Pärt: Choral Music
3:00 pm
Samuel Wesley: Symphony No. 4 in D
Milton Keynes Chamber Orch/Hilary Davan Wetton
Samuel Wesley: Symphonies 3-6
3:14 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet No. 4 in A, K. 298
Susan Milan, f; Chilingirian String Quartet members
Mozart: Flute Quartets
3:26 pm
Robert Schumann: "Carnaval," Op. 9
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p
Schumann: Carnaval, Études symphoniques
3:56 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 208, "Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd"
Aria, "Schafe können sicher weiden (Sheep May Safely Graze)"
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman
Simply Baroque II
4:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture No. 3 in C, Op. 72b
Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti - Beethoven Symphony No. 6
4:14 pm
Giuseppe Tartini: Cello Concerto in A
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Zürich Collegium Musicum/Paul Sacher
Vivaldi, Tartini, Boccherini: Cello Concertos
4:30 pm
Nigel Hess: A Christmas Overture
Royal Phil Orch/John Rutter
A Christmas Festival
4:38 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Le tombeau de Couperin"
Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: Orchestral Works
4:55 pm
Franz Schubert: Song, "Auf dem Wasser zu singen," D 774
Daniil Trifonov, p
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
5:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043
Janoska Ensemble
The Big B's
5:15 pm
Richard Averre: "Did Mary Know?"
Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg
Christmas Carols
5:18 pm
Olivier Messiaen: "La Nativité du Seigneur"
No. 2, "Les Bergers"
David MacDonald, o (Notre-Dame-du-Cap Basilica, Québec)
David MacDonald Plays the Casavant Organ at Basilique Notre-Dame-du-Cap
5:24 pm
Orlandus (Roland de) Lassus: "Omnes de Saba"
London Oratory Schola Cantorum/Charles Cole
Sacred Treasues of Christmas * London Oratory Schola Cantorum
5:28 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 2
Royal Liège Phil Orch/Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Saint-Saëns - Symphonies Nos 1, 2 and in A major
5:59 pm
Alfred Burt: "Caroling, Caroling"
Choral Guild of Atlanta
The Joy of Christmas
6:00 pm
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Neave Trio
French Moments
6:19 pm
Modest Mussorgsky: "Night on Bald Mountain"
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition, Khovanshchina
6:32 pm
Maddalena Sirmen: Violin Duet in D, Op. 5, No. 2
Shelby Yamin & Sarah Bleile Douglas, v's
Maddalena Lombardi: Violin Duets, Op. 5
6:45 pm
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, "Rhenish"
I. "Lebhaft"
Berlin Staatskapelle/Daniel Barenboim
Schumann: Complete Symphonies
6:55 pm
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Hallelujah"
John Alldis Cho, London Phil Orch/Karl Richter
The Essential Choral Collection
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Holiday Celebration
The sound of sleigh bells means that it's winter holiday time, and music is full of representations of celebratory music. All around the world, winter holidays of a wide variety are celebrated, and their music is wonderful to listen to regardless of which one you celebrate.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Holidays with Cantus
One of the nation’s few full-time vocal ensembles, Cantus is widely known for its trademark vocal blend, innovative programming, and diverse repertoire. In a special visit to the WFMT studios, the gentlemen of Cantus join Louise Frank to share a warm and inviting mix of music for the holidays.
9:35 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, "Tempest"
Annie Fischer, p
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 6
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
The WFMT Orchestra Series
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Caroline Shaw "The Observatory" (LA Phil commission); Strauss "Also sprach Zarathustra;" Teddy Abrams, conductor.
