Schedule
Playlist for Thursday, December 31, 2020
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:05 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Quartet in E-Flat, WoO 36/1
12:29 am
Stanford, Charles Villiers: Song, "The Compleat Virtuoso"
Malcolm Martineau, piano,p,
12:39 am
Arnold, Malcolm: Two-Violin Concerto, Op 77
Mark Stephenson
Lyn Fletcher,v,
12:54 am
Bartók, Béla: 44 Duos for Two Violins
Andras Keller,v,
1:00 am
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero: "Pagliacci"
1:05 am
Tchaikovsky, Peter: "Capriccio italien," Op. 45
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Antal Dorati, conductor
1:28 am
Szymanowska, Maria: "Ballade"
Patrice Michaels,
1:31 am
Chopin, Frédéric: Mazurkas, Op. 33
Arthur Rubinstein, piano,p,
1:33 am
Szymanowski, Karol: Symphony #4, Op 60, "Symphonie concertante"
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Alfred Wallenstein, conductor
Arthur Rubinstein, piano,p,
1:54 am
Chopin, Frédéric: Mazurkas, Op. 63
Arthur Rubinstein, piano,p,
2:00 am
Bononcini, Giovanni Battista: Divertimento da camera in e
Konrad Ragossnig,r,
2:28 am
Giuliani, Mauro: "Divertimenti Notturni," Op 86
2:29 am
Saint-Saens, Camille: Violin Concerto No. 3 in b, Op. 61
New York Philharmonic / Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor
Zino Francescatti, violin,v,
2:54 am
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: "La naissance d'Osiris"
3:00 am
Rossini, Gioachino: "The Barber of Seville"
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra / Erich Kunzel, conductor
Doc Severinsen, trumpet,tr,
3:05 am
Dohnányi, Ernst von: "Ruralia Hungarica," Op 32b
West Australian Sym Orch / Jorge Mester
3:29 am
Bartók, Béla: Forty-Two Hungarian Folksongs
June de Toth,p,
3:31 am
Rossini, Gioachino: "The Barber of Seville"
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
3:54 am
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cantata No. 207a, "Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten (Come, resounding tones of merry trumpets)"
Empire Brass
4:00 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 Op 126
Denis Matthews, piano,p,
4:02 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
Denis Matthews, piano,p,
4:05 am
Walton, William: "Five Bagatelles"
Sharon Isbin, guitar,g,
4:19 am
Sibelius, Jean: Six Bagatelles, Op. 97 Op 97
Erik Tawaststjerna, piano,
4:21 am
Bizet, Georges: Symphony in C
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Donald Johanos, conductor
4:55 am
Bizet, Georges: "Little Duet"
Otto Eifert,bn,
5:00 am
Dvorák, Antonín: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 46 Op 46
Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
5:05 am
Brahms, Johannes: Clarinet Sonata #2 in E-Flat, Op 120/2
Romain Guyot, clarinet,
5:27 am
Grieg, Edvard: "Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak"
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Järvi, conductor
5:34 am
Czerny, Carl: Marcia Funebre at the Death of Beethoven, Op 146
Vivien Slater,p,
5:43 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: "The Consecration of the House" Overture, Op 124
The Hanover Band / Roy Goodman, conductor
5:53 am
Beethoven, Ludwig van: The Ruins of Athens arranged w/music from Creatures of Prometheus
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra / Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:03 am
Benjamin Godard: "Jocelyn"
"Berceuse (Lullaby)"
Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Neville Marriner
6:09 am
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in B-Flat, Op 6/5
Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan
6:19 am
George Martin: Incidental Music to "Under Milk Wood"
Berlin Music Ensemble/Craig Leon
6:27 am
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Sadko"
Song of the Hindu Guest "(Song of India)"
Michael Davis, v; London Sym Orch/Yan-Pascal Tortelier
6:35 am
Alma Deutscher: "I Think of You"
Alma Deutscher, piano
6:39 am
Carl Stamitz: Wind Octet #1 in B-Flat
Consortium Classicum
6:50 am
Nicolai Tcherepnin: "La Princesse lointaine (The Distant Princess)," Op 4
Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
7:04 am
Ottokar Novácek: "Perpetuum mobile", Op 5/4
Maxim Vengerov, v; Vag Papian, p; Virtuosi Violin Ensemble
7:08 am
Claudio Monteverdi: "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)
"Laetatus sum"
Music of the Baroque Cho and Orch/Thomas Wikman
7:17 am
Claude Debussy: "La plus que lente"
Dana Zemtsov, vi; Anna Fedorova, p
7:23 am
Richard Rodgers: "The King and I"
"March of the Siamese Children"
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
7:27 am
George Frideric Handel: "Music for the Royal Fireworks"
"Bourrée"
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
7:33 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 45 in f-sharp minor, "Farewell"
Finale, "Presto; Adagio"
English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
7:41 am
Traditional: "Banish Misfortune"
Ronn McFarlane, l
7:44 am
Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture, Op. 21
Bamberg Sym Orch/Claus Peter Flor
7:57 am
Kurt Weill: "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music)"
"The Ballad of Mack the Knife"
TenThing
8:04 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F, Op. 18
I. Allegro con brio
Jerusalem Quartet
8:14 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 6 in F, BWV 1057
St. Martin's Academy/Murray Perahia, p
8:32 am
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Rhapsodic Dance, "Bamboula"
Detroit Concert Band/Leonard B Smith
8:40 am
Hector Berlioz: "Rêverie et Caprice," Op. 8
Giovanni Radivo, v; Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin
8:49 am
Ottorino Respighi: "Brazilian Impressions"
Finale, "Song and Dance"
Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesus López-Cobos
8:54 am
Coldplay: "Viva la Vida"
Anderson & Roe Piano Duo
9:03 am
Aram Khachaturian: Incidental Music for Lermontov's "Masquerade" (1941)
Waltz
Brno State Phil/Jiri Belohlavek
9:09 am
Georges Bizet: Symphony in C, "Roma"
Finale, "Allegro vivacissimo"
Orch de Bordeaux Aquitaine/Roberto Benzi
9:16 am
Traditional: "Auld Lang Syne"
Choral Scholars of University College Dublin/Desmond Earley
9:22 am
Francisco Tárrega: "Recuerdos de la Alhambra"
Jason Vieaux, g
9:27 am
Johann Strauss II: Champagne Polka, Op. 211
London Sym Orch/John Georgiadis
9:31 am
François Joseph Gossec: Symphony in E-Flat, Op 5/2
Orchestre de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling
9:44 am
Franz Schubert: "Three Military Marches," Op. 51, D. 733
No. 1 in D
Vladimir Horowitz, p
9:51 am
Max Bruch: "Romanze (Romance)," Op. 85
Gérard Caussé, vi; Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Midday with Lisa Flynn
Including new releases this hour
10:01 am
Leonard Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
Patrick Messina, cl; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p
10:13 am
Claude Debussy: "Petite Suite"
Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon
10:27 am
Ruperto Chapí: "La Revoltosa"
Overture
Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons
10:33 am
Robert Schumann: "Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Sunrise)," Op. 133
Maurizio Pollini, p
10:43 am
Richard Rodney Bennett: "Reflections on A Sixteenth-Century Tune"
Philharmonia Strings/Richard Hickox
11:01 am
Astor Piazzolla: "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires"
"Invierno Porteño (Winter)"
Jason Vieaux, g; Julian Labro, bandoneon; A Far Cry
11:09 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in G, K. 301
Alina Ibragimova, v; Cédric Tiberghien, p
11:24 am
Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26, No. 3
Hymn of the Travellers
Thelma Owen, h; Holst Singers/Hilary Davan Wetton
11:26 am
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," Op. 32
"Venus, the Bringer of Peace"
Royal Phil/James Judd
11:35 am
Edward German: Incidental music for "Nell Gwynn"
Slovak Radio Sym/Adrian Leaper
11:54 am
Adam Drese: Sonata à 6 in C
ACRONYM
12:00 pm
Music in Chicago
12:01 pm
Maurice Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p
12:17 pm
Antonin Dvorák: Violin Concerto in a minor, Op. 53
Nathan Milstein, v; Pittsburgh Sym Orch/William Steinberg
12:47 pm
Philip van Wilder: "Pater Noster"
ORA Singers/Suzi Digby
12:52 pm
Alberic Magnard: Symphony #3 in b-flat, Op 11 (1902)
II. "Danses"
Malmö Sym Orch/Thomas Sanderling
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Music for the Afternoon
1:01 pm
Igor Stravinsky: "The Firebird"
Suite (1919)
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini
1:26 pm
Lettie Alston: Variations on "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Lettie Alston, p
1:31 pm
Craig Hella Johnson: "The Song That I Came to Sing"
Douglas Harvey, vc; Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson
1:35 pm
Pietro Denis: Mandolin Sonata No. 3
Duo Gervasio
1:46 pm
George Frideric Handel: Organ Concerto No. 13 in F, "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"
Simon Preston, o; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
2:00 pm
Afternoon Masterwork:
2:01 pm
Manuel de Falla: "Nights in the Gardens of Spain"
Alicia de Larrocha, p; Suisse Romande Orch/Sergiu Comissiona
2:26 pm
Giuseppe Clemente Dall'Abaco: Sonata in d, ABV 35
Elinor Frey, vc; Mauro Valli, vc; Federica Bianchi, hc; Giangiacomo Pinardi, lute
2:39 pm
Jean Sibelius: "Suite champêtre," Op. 98b
Virtuosi Di Kuhmo/Peter Csaba
2:48 pm
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat, "Romantic"
III. "Scherzo"
New York Phil/Kurt Masur
3:00 pm
Trad: "Auld Lang Syne"
Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison
3:03 pm
Franz Waxman: "Auld Lang Syne" Variations
Kremerata Baltica
3:19 pm
Josef Strauss: "Dynamiden" Waltz Op. 173
Vienna Phil/Andris Nelsons
3:31 pm
Strauss Family: "Blue Danube" Waltzes; "Radetzky March"
Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons
3:47 pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Viola d'amore and Lute Concerto in d, R. 540
Rachel Barton Pine, vi d'amore; Hopkinson Smith, l; Ars Antigua
4:00 - 7:00 pm
Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree
Including "The Unrush Hour" between 5:00 and 6:00
4:00 pm
Muriel Anderson: "Paprika" (instrumental)
Muriel Anderson w/Zoltan Baranyi, Rory Hoffman
4:00 pm
Johann Strauss II: "Die Fledermaus"
Overture
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
4:10 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestra Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Carol Wincenc, f; Kristin Lee & Ian Swensen, v's; Paul Neubauer, vi; Dane Johansen, vc; Scott Pingel, db; Wu Han, hc
Paul Neubauer, viola,
Wu Han, harpsichord,
4:29 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331
Alfred Brendel, p
4:49 pm
Antonin Dvorák: "Slavonic Dances," Op. 72
No. 2 in e minor
Cleveland Orch/George Szell
4:55 pm
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Mlada" (1872)
"Procession of the Nobles"
Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
5:00 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Andante, Scherzo, Capriccio, Fugue, Op 81
Pacifica Quartet
5:22 pm
Aaron Copland: "Appalachian Spring"
St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
6:00 pm
Richard Strauss: "Capriccio," Op. 85
Prelude for String Sextet
Brandis String Quartet; Walter Küssner, vi; Dietmar Schwalke, vc
6:14 pm
Jacques Offenbach: "Orpheus in the Underworld"
Overture
Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi
6:25 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 75
Folk Dance; The Street Awakens; Arrival of the Guests; The Young Juliet
Frederic Chiu, p
6:39 pm
César Franck: "Le Chasseur maudit" ("The Accursed Huntsman")
Basel Sym Orch/Armin Jordan
6:55 pm
Joaquín Turina: "Tres danzas andaluzas," Op 8
"Zapateado"
Brazilian Guitar Quartet
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
"You and the Night and the Music" looks at the ways novelists and poets have incorporated great music into their plots and verses.
8:00 pm - 12:00 am
The Best Is Yet to Come
Favorites of the WFMT Hosts
George Preston hosts an end-of-year broadcast featuring a multitude of varied music choices, classical, jazz, and folk, from WFMT's hosts and programmers, as we look back on the challenges and struggles of 2020 and forward with hope for the new year of 2021. We'll end as we traditionally do, with "If We Only Have Love" and "Auld Lang Syne."