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 12 AM
 
Music Through the Night
with Bob Christiansen
 
12:01 am Stephan Elmas: Nocturne No. 2
Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano
Grand Piano 914 Buy now
 
12:06 am Johann Kaspar Mertz: Song without Words
David Leisner, guitar
Azica 71368 Buy now
 
12:11 am Antonin Dvorak: Piano Concerto
Gianandrea Noseda
Rustem Hayroudinoff, piano
Chandos 10309 Buy now
 
12:52 am Jules Mouquet: Pan's Flute: Pan and the Birds
Philippe Auguin
Manuela Wiesler, flute
Bis 529 Buy now
 
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 1 AM
 
Music Through the Night
with Ward Jacobson
 
1:01 am Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No. 7
Philips 416362 Buy now
 
1:21 am Joe Hisaishi: Howl's Moving Castle: Symphonic Variation
Joe Hisaishi
DG 4877352 Buy now
 
1:33 am Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2
Mario Bernardi
James Ehnes, violin
CBC 5222 Buy now
 
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 2 AM
 
2:01 am Emil Hartmann: Serenade for Winds
 
2:22 am Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead
JoAnn Falletta
Beau Fleuve 4562 Buy now
 
2:43 am Anatol Liadov: Eight Russian Folk Songs
Enrique Batiz
ASV 657 Buy now
 
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 3 AM
 
3:01 am Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto
Andre Previn
Julian Bream, guitar
RCA 6525 Buy now
 
3:20 am Cecile Chaminade: Guitare
Eric Parkin, piano
Chandos 8888 Buy now
 
3:25 am Zdenek Fibich: Symphony No. 2
Neeme Jarvi
Chandos 9328 Buy now
 
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 4 AM
 
4:01 am Franz Schubert: Octet: 4th movement
Isabelle Faust, violin
Harmonia Mundi 902263 Buy now
 
4:14 am Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10
Fazil Say, piano
Atlantic 21970 Buy now
 
4:28 am Jean Sibelius: Pelleas and Melisande
Zubin Mehta
Sony 45870 Buy now
 
4:48 am Richard Wagner: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
Daniel Barenboim
Teldec 99595 Buy now
 
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 5 AM
 
5:01 am Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1: Menuetto
Christoph Konig
Naxos 574094 Buy now
 
5:14 am Wilhelm Stenhammar: Sentimental Romance No. 1
Stig Westerberg
Arve Tellefsen, violin
 
5:23 am Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 7
Pepe Romero, guitar
Philips 438769 Buy now
 
5:43 am Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Claudio Abbado
DG 415972 Buy now
 
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 6 AM
 
6:01 am Jessie Montgomery: Peace
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Cedille 207 Buy now
 
6:06 am Ludovico Einaudi: To Become (Divenire)
Clark Rundell
Mari Samuelsen, violin
Mercury 4811487 Buy now
 
6:14 am Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Barry Wordsworth
Argo 440116 Buy now
 
6:29 am Louis Theodore Gouvy: Petite Suite Gauloise
Lowell Graham
 
6:44 am Edward Elgar: Cockaigne Overture (In London Town)
Yehudi Menuhin
Virgin 61199 Buy now
 
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 7 AM - 9 AM
 
Performance Today Weekend
with Fred Child
This two hour weekly program features classical music in concert from studios and sites across the nation and around the world, as well as classical music news, interviews and features.
 
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 9 AM - 11 AM
 
Saturday Classics
 
9:01 am Agustin Barrios: Choro de Saudade
David Russell, guitar
Telarc 80612 Buy now
 
9:06 am Charles Gounod: Ave Maria
Stephen Hough, piano
Hyperion 68260 Buy now
 
9:12 am Ann Southam: Glass Houses: No. 15
Ravello 8027 Buy now
 
9:21 am Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 33
Jeffrey Tate
EMI 49317 Buy now
 
9:46 am Gustav Holst: Second Suite
Frederick Fennell
 
10:06 am Robert Schumann: Arabesque
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Orange Mountain 156 Buy now
 
10:14 am Georg Philipp Telemann: Violin Concerto
Elizabeth Wallfisch
Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
CPO 777881 Buy now
 
10:28 am Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
JoAnn Falletta
Naxos 574735 Buy now
 
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 11 AM
 
11:01 am Paul Anka: The Longest Day: March
Paul Bateman
Silva 1037 Buy now
 
11:07 am Michael Kamen: Band of Brothers: Main Titles
Michael Kamen
 
11:11 am Dimitri Tiomkin: Friendly Persuasion: Main theme
John Williams
Philips 411037 Buy now
 
11:17 am Randy Edelman: Gettysburg: Main Theme
Erich Kunzel
Timothy Berens, guitar
Telarc 80437 Buy now
 
11:20 am Randy Edelman: Gettysburg: Reunion and Finale
Erich Kunzel
Telarc 80440 Buy now
 
11:28 am James Horner: Glory: Closing Credits
James Horner
Virgin 86150 Buy now
 
11:36 am Stanley Myers: The Deer Hunter: Cavatina
John Williams
John Williams, guitar
Sony 63000 Buy now
 
11:37 am Richard Rodgers: Victory at Sea Suite
Erich Kunzel
Telarc 80175 Buy now
 
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 12 PM
 
12:01 pm John Williams: Midway: March
John Williams
 
12:07 pm Georges Delerue: Platoon: Theme
Georges Delerue
Varese Sarabande 66225 Buy now
 
12:15 pm John Williams: Born on the Fourth of July: Theme
John Williams
 
12:22 pm Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of Our Lives: Theme
John Williams
Sony 62788 Buy now
 
12:27 pm Jerry Goldsmith: Patton: Entr'acte
Jerry Goldsmith
Varese Sarabande 66225 Buy now
 
12:30 pm John Addison: A Bridge Too Far: Overture
Primary Wave 500609 Buy now
 
12:35 pm Malcolm Arnold: The Bridge on the River Kwai: Colonel Bogey
Richard Hickox
Chandos 9100 Buy now
 
12:39 pm Malcolm Arnold: The Bridge on the River Kwai: Finale
Richard Hickox
Chandos 9100 Buy now
 
12:43 pm John Williams: Saving Private Ryan: Omaha Beach
John Williams
 
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 1 PM - 5 PM
 
Saturday at the Opera
with the Metropolitan Opera
Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot"
 
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 5 PM
 
Saturday Afternoon Classics
 
5:01 pm Traditional: The Shining Shore
Harmonia Mundi 907400 Buy now
 
5:07 pm Georg Philipp Telemann: Heroic Music
Michael Murray, organ
Telarc 80218 Buy now
 
5:14 pm Charles Stanford: Verdun: Heroic Epilogue
Howard Shelley
Hyperion 68283 Buy now
 
5:23 pm Traditional: Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace)
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
 
5:25 pm Walter Leigh: Agincourt Overture
Rumon Gamba
Chandos 10898 Buy now
 
5:39 pm Florence Price: Remembrance
Lara Downes, piano
Flipside 18 Buy now
 
5:43 pm John Williams: War Horse: Suite
John Williams
 
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 6 PM
 
Saturday Evening Classics
 
6:01 pm Karl Jenkins: Dona nobis pacem
Stephen Layton
DG 4793232 Buy now
 
6:07 pm Antonin Dvorak: Goin' Home
Barry Wordsworth
Bryn Terfel, baritone
DG 1305 Buy now
 
6:12 pm Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell
SELF PROD 119 Buy now
 
6:18 pm Morton Gould: American Salute (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
Eugene Corporon
Klavier 11060 Buy now
 
6:25 pm Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Max Wilcox
John de Lancie, oboe
RCA 7989 Buy now
 
6:51 pm Charles Ives: Variations on America
Erich Kunzel
Telarc 80144 Buy now
 
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 7 PM
 
7:01 pm John Williams: Saving Private Ryan: Hymn to the Fallen
London/Decca 4785703 Buy now
 
7:07 pm Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Marin Alsop
Naxos 559147 Buy now
 
7:14 pm Stephen Paulus: The Road Home
Craig Hella Johnson
Harmonia Mundi
 
7:19 pm Keith Jarrett: Hymn of Remembrance
Keith Jarrett, organ
ECM 1416 Buy now
 
7:25 pm Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Hugh Wolff
Teldec 74006 Buy now
 
7:44 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Yakov Kreizberg
Julia Fischer, violin
London/Decca 15535 Buy now
 
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 8 PM - 10 PM
 
SymphonyCast
with Steve Seel
Andris Nelsons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Simon's Four Black American Dances, Zimmerman's Nobody knows de trouble I see, Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, and Ravel's La Valse.
 
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 10 PM
 
Music Through the Night
with Bob Christiansen
 
10:01 pm Stephan Elmas: Nocturne No. 5
Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano
Grand Piano 914 Buy now
 
10:06 pm Dawn Avery: Gratitude
Wilhelmina Smith, cello
Azica 71377 Buy now
 
10:15 pm Louis Ballard: The Four Moons
John Jeter
Naxos 559923 Buy now
 
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 11 PM
 
11:01 pm Helene de Montgeroult: Piano Sonata: 2nd movement
Sarah Cahill, piano
First Hand 133 Buy now
 
11:06 pm Frank Bridge: There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
Jeffrey Tate
EMI 47945 Buy now
 
11:18 pm Ruth Gipps: Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet and String Trio
Peter Cigleris, clarinet
Somm 641 Buy now
 
11:46 pm George Walker: Lilacs
Asher Fisch
Nicole Cabell, soprano
Seattle Symphony 1027 Buy now
 
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