Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Friday, December 26, 2025
1:00 - 6:00 am
1:00 am
Sun Yiquang: "Dance of Spring"
Lang Lang, p
Lang Lang * Dragon Songs
1:05 am
An-Lun Huang: "Saibei Suite" #2
"Saibei Dance"
Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen
Delights & Dances
1:09 am
Chinese Trad: "Jasmine Flower"
Shanghai String Quartet
The Flowing Stream: Chinese Folk Songs And Tone Poems By Zhou Long
1:10 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop
Tchaikovsky * Symphony No 4
1:55 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772/786
No. 9 in f minor
Ton Koopman, hc
2:00 am
Maurice Ravel: "Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)"
V. "Le jardin féerique (The Fairy Garden)"
City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle
Ravel: Sheherazade/ Ma Mere L'Oye/ La Valse/ Alborada del Gracioso/ La Vallee des Cloches
2:05 am
Claude Debussy: "La boîte à joujoux"
Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot
Stravinsky: Petrushka / Debussy: La Boîte à Joujoux
2:38 am
Adolphe-Charles Adam: "Le Corsaire"
Act 1: Introduction & "Tarantella"
English Chamber Orch/Richard Bonynge
Le Corsaire
2:39 am
Percy Grainger: "Handel in the Strand" (Clog Dance)(1912)
BBC Phil/Richard Hickox
Grainger: Vol. 6 - Orchestral Works 2 'The Warriors'
2:43 am
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
2:55 am
George Frideric Handel: "Samson"
Sinfonia: Allegro
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Overtures
3:00 am
Alfred Bartles: "When Tubas Waltz"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
3:03 am
Victor Herbert: "Babes in Toyland"
"March of the Toy Soldiers"
Tubadours
The Mighty Tubadours
3:05 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in C, R 470
Daniel Smith, bn; English Chamber Orch/Philip Ledger
Bassoon Concertos Volume One
3:15 am
Ralph Nicholson: "Miniature Suite" for contrabassoon and piano
3rd mvt, Waltz
Susan Nigro, contra-bn; Mark Lindeblad, p
The Big Bassoon - Muradian, Palider, Etc
3:17 am
Antonin Dvorák: Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104
Mischa Maisky, vc; Berlin Phil/Zubin Mehta
3:54 am
Alexander Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op 16
#4 in e-flat
Gary Karr, db; Harmon Lewis, p
4:00 am
Alfred Schnittke: "Moz-Art"
Vladimir Malinin, v; Alexander Melnikov, v
Vladimir Malinin
4:05 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Camerata Chicago/Drostan Hall
Mozart Symphonies
4:30 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Twelve German Dances, K. 586
No. 1 in C
Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil
Mozart: Deutsche Tänze
4:32 am
Gustav Holst: Wind Quintet in A-Flat, Op 14
Vega Wind Quintet
Vega Wind Quintet
4:46 am
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Neptune, the Mystic"
New York Choral Artists, New York Phil/Zubin Mehta
Holst: The Planets
4:54 am
Gustav Holst: "St Paul's Suite," Op. 29, No. 2
2nd mvt, Ostinato
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Barber of Seville Overture
5:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Three Military Marches," Op. 51, D. 733
No. 1 in D
Earl Wild, p
Concerto No. 2 In C Minor
5:05 am
Igor Stravinsky: "L'histoire du soldat"
Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Gerard Schwarz
The Soldier's Tale
5:29 am
Jessel: "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"
Dallas Wind Symphony/Frederick Fennell
"Marches I've Missed"
5:32 am
Gabriel Pierné: Album pour mes petits amis, Op 14
#6, "March of the Little Lead Soldiers"
English Chamber Orch/Paul Tortelier
French Impressions
5:36 am
Thomas Ravenscroft: "Wee be Souldiers three"
Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley
5:37 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Clavier Concerto No. 2 in C, BWV 1064
A Heiller, hc; E Heiller, hc; K Rapf, hc; Zagreb Soloists/Antonio Janigro
Historical Anthology: Johann Sebastian Bach - Concertos For One, Two, Three & Four Harpsichords & String Orchestra
5:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Five Little Preludes, BWV 939-943
No. 5
Angela Hewitt, p
Bach
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:04 am
George Walker: "Lyric for Strings"
London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7
6:11 am
Fela Sowande: "African Suite"
London Sym Orch Strings/Paul Freeman
Black Composers Series 1974-1978, Vol. 7
6:27 am
Santiago de Murcia: "Marionas"
Constantinople Ensemble
Early Dreams
6:32 am
Edvard Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40
Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo
Grieg - Dvořák - Tchaikovsky
6:50 am
Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, Set 1, Op. 27
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Malcolm Arnold for Band
7:04 am
Jessie Montgomery: "Hymn for Everyone"
Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti
Contemporary American Composers
7:16 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Italian Concerto" in F, BWV 971
Corona Guitar Quartet
Corona Guitar Kvartet
7:31 am
Georges Bizet: "Jeux d'enfants," Op. 22
Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung
Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suite 1 and 2
7:43 am
Caitlin Edwards: "Faithful"
Caitlin Edwards, v & prod; Edward Smith, p
Exhale
7:48 am
Michael Abels: "Winged Creatures"
Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/Allen Tinkham
Winged Creatures
8:04 am
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2 in G, "Song of a New Race"
II.-III.
Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi
Still, Dawson, Ellington: Orchestral Works
8:17 am
Brian Sibley: "And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree (A Cautionary Tale for Christmas)"
Penelope Keith & Timothy Graball, actors; Orch
And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree
8:33 am
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folksong setting, "The Turtle Dove"
Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer
Holst & Vaughan Williams: Choral Music
8:37 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "La Poule"
Bruce Liu, p
Waves
8:39 am
Jean-Philippe Rameau: "La Poule"
La Folia Baroque Orchestra/Stefan Temmingh, recorder
Birds
8:42 am
Traditional Catalan: "Song of the Birds"
Avi Avital, m; Between Worlds
Song of the Birds
8:47 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "The Blue Bird"
Prelude ("The Christmas Dream")
Bamberg Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music
8:52 am
Engelbert Humperdinck: "The Blue Bird"
"Star Dance"
Bamberg Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music
8:55 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Sleeping Beauty," Op. 66
"Bluebird" pas de deux
Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fée & Tchaikovsky: 'Bluebird' Pas de deux
9:04 am
Valerie Coleman: "Umoja, Anthem of Unity"
New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper
New York Youth Symphony: Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery
9:20 am
Ethel Smyth: Piano Trio in D minor
IV. Finale, "Allegro vivace"
Neave Trio
A Room of Her Own
9:33 am
Igor Stravinsky: "Pulcinella"
Suite
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances, Dumbarton Oaks, Pulcinella Suite
9:56 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G, BWV 577, "The Jig"
Amherst Saxophone Quartet
Bach on Sax
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: Two-Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat
H Hardenberger & M Laird, tr's; St. Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
Telemann: Trumpet Concertos
10:12 am
Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
Juliette Herlin, vc; Kevin Ahfat, p
Dialogue - Debussy & Schumann
10:24 am
Maurice Ravel: "La valse"
Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Ravel: La valse
10:38 am
Traditional Russian: "The troika speeds along"
Paul Hill Cho, Washington Balalaika Society/Paul Hill
Russia!
10:43 am
Sergei Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé" Suite, Op. 60
IV. "Troika"
Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky - Lieutenant Kijé - Scythian Suite
10:46 am
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat
Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Lev Markiz
Mendelssohn: Symphonies (Complete)
11:00 am
Isaac Albéniz: "Mallorca," Op. 202
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, g
Soul of Spanish Guitar
11:08 am
Richard Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
Act 1 Prelude
Philadelphia Orch/Christian Thielemann
Thielemann - Wagner
11:19 am
George Gershwin: "Lullaby"
Brodsky Quartet
New World Quartets
11:30 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII:4
Marc-André Hamelin, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Haydn Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11
11:52 am
Charlie Chaplin: "City Lights"
"Reunited"
City Lights Orch/Carl Davis
Chaplin: City Lights
12:01 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat, Op. 127
III. "Scherzando vivace"
Dover Quartet
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Vol 3
12:10 pm
Otto Nicolai: "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Overture
Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel
Great Comedy Overtures
12:20 pm
John Field: Nocturne in C, H 60
Elizabeth Joy Roe, p
Field: Complete Nocturnes
12:30 pm
Gioachino Rossini: "Otello"
Ballet Music
Monte Carlo Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida
Rossini: Ballet Music
12:51 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: "Concerto polonois" in G
Holland Baroque
Telemann: Polonoise
1:00 pm
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in C, D 934
Jennifer Koh, v; Reiko Uchida, p
Violin Fantasias * Jennifer Koh
1:26 pm
Philip Lane: Suite of Cotswold Folkdances (1978)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Music Discoveries 2
1:39 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Panorama: Bach
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Doreen Carwithen: "On the 12th Day"
BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth
The Night Before Christmas and other seasonal music for orchestra
2:21 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K. 284, "Dürnitz"
I. "Allegro"
Fazıl Say, p
Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
2:29 pm
Frederick Delius: "A Village Romeo and Juliet"
"The Walk to the Paradise Garden"
London Sym Orch/John Barbirolli
Greensleeves
2:40 pm
Edward Elgar: "Froissart" Overture, Op. 19
Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson
Elgar: Overtures
2:55 pm
Francesco Manfredini: Sinfonia in D, Op. 2, No. 12, "Christmas Pastorale"
English Chamber Orch/Simon Preston
Christmas Concertos
3:00 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in D, H XV:24
Vienna Piano Trio
Haydn: Piano Trios Nos. 32, 38, 39 & 45
3:14 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
V. "Chaconne"
Cédric Tiberghien, p
Beethoven: Complete Variations for Piano, Vol. 2
3:30 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake," Op. 20
Suite
New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
Nutcracker Suite; Swan Lake Suite
3:57 pm
Anonymous 16th-century English: "A Merry Mood"
Jakob Lindberg & Paul O'Dette, l's
English Lute Duets
4:00 pm
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Itzhak Perlman, v; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
The American Album
4:23 pm
Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri: Concerti da Chiesa e da Camera
"Concerto ottavo" in E-Flat
Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz
Zavateri: Concerti Da Chiesa e Da Camera/Von Der Goltz
4:35 pm
Dimitri Tiomkin: "It's a Wonderful Life"
Main Title through Father's Death
Royal Phil Orch/David Newman
Sundance Film Music Series Vol. 1
4:50 pm
Aaron Copland: "Our Town"
Three Pieces for Piano
Ian Gindes, p
American Visions
5:00 pm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Capriccio espagnol," Op. 34
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol / Overtures
5:17 pm
Nainita Desai: "My Mind is Still"
Voces8; Thomas Gould, v; Leif Kaner-Lidström, p; Elsa Bradley, vib
Infinity
5:22 pm
Blake Neely: "The Time Traveler's Wife"
"When Is My Love"
Studio Orch/Blake Neely
The Time Traveler’s Wife: Season 1 (Soundtrack from the HBO Original Series)
5:29 pm
Franz Liszt: "Hungarian Fantasy"
Louis Lortie, p; Residentie Orch/George Pehlivanian
Liszt: Works for Piano & Orchestra, Vol. 2
5:45 pm
Alfred Reed: Russian Christmas Music
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Horns for the Holidays
6:00 pm
Johannes Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Stephen Hough, p
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces
6:14 pm
Anton Arensky: String Quartet No. 1 in G, Op. 11
Ying String Quartet
Arensky: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2, Piano Quintet
6:36 pm
Antonín Dvořák: "Carnival" Overture, Op. 92
Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner
New World Symphony and Other Orchestral Masterworks
6:46 pm
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
III. Finale, Rondo
Daniil Trifonov, p; Mahler Chamber Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
Chopin Evocations
6:57 pm
Massimo Paris: "X'Mas Suite"
I. " Pastorale and Bells"
Los Romeros; Concerto Málaga/Massimo Paris
Christmas with Los Romeros
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 - 11:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Dave Brubeck: "Blue Rondo à la Turk"
Janoska Ensemble
The Big B's
8:06 pm
Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture (Suite) in A minor, TWV 55:a1
L'Orfeo Barockorchester/Carin van Heerden
Telemann: VI Ouvertures à 4 ou 6 TWV 55 (1736)
8:20 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Alice Sara Ott, p; Munich Phil/Thomas Hengelbrock
Liszt & Tchaikovsky: First Piano Concertos
8:56 pm
Hugh Martin: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Charles Vernon, tb; Sym Brass of Chicago/Barry Faldner
Christmas with the Symphony Brass of Chicago
9:01 pm
Florence Price: "Song for Snow"
Chloe Flower, p; ENO Chorus; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Jessica Cottis
She Composed: The Holidays
9:04 pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: "Diversions"
BBC Scottish Sym Orch/John Wilson
Richard Rodney Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
9:23 pm
Sergei Bortkiewicz: "A Thousand and One Nights," Op. 37
Anna Shelest, p
A Romantic from Kharkiv: Music of Sergei Bortkiewicz
9:49 pm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade," Op. 35
I. "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship"
Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel; Leon Spierer, v
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
10:00 pm
Daniel Knaggs: "The Joyful Mysteries"
III. "The Nativity"
Soloists; Houston Chamber Cho; Ensembles/Robert Simpson
The Joyful Mysteries Choral Symphony and Other Works
10:17 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988
No. 1
Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations
10:19 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988
No. 2
Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations
10:21 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Goldberg Variations," BWV 988
No. 5
Nevermind
Jean Rondeau, harpsichord,
Bach: Goldberg Variations
10:23 pm
Francis Poulenc: "Aubade"
Romain Descharmes, p; Malmö Opera Orch/Michael Halász
Fauré - Poulenc: Works for Piano & Orchestra
10:42 pm
Cécile Chaminade: "Le Noël des oiseaux"
Anne Sofie von Otter, ms; Bengt Forsberg, p
Noël
10:45 pm
Max Reger: "Mariä Wiegenlied," Op. 76, No. 52
Anne Sofie von Otter, ms; Bengt Forsberg, p
Noël
10:47 pm
Gustaf Nordqvist: "Jul, jul, strålande jul"
Anne Sofie von Otter, ms, Bengt Forsberg, p
Noël
10:50 pm
Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
María Dueñas, v; Berlin German Sym Orch/Mihhail Gerts
Paganini: 24 Caprices
11:00 pm
11:00 pm
Best of Studs Terkel
Christmas Memories (12/22/1961)
A perennial favorite — Studs's holiday compendium of voices and memories of childhood Christmases originally aired in 1961.
11:52 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: "La fida ninfa," R. 714
"Dolce fiamma"
Mhairi Lawson, s; La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler
Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto, Volume 2
