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Nicholas Kraemer

Music of the Baroque Encore Chicago’s Music of the Baroque is planning a gala 50th anniversary season for 2020-21, including Bach’s St. Matthew Passion next March. To celebrate not only the anniversary but the organization itself, WFMT presents a weekly series of highlights from past MOB seasons. Led by the British conductor Jane Glover with Nicholas Kraemer as principal guest conductor, Music of the Baroque centers its repertory around the major choral and orchestral works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart, and generally performs in the Harris Theater and at Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. Music of the Baroque will select works from its most stellar programs for this radio series, to run into mid-October. Wednesdays beginning August 19, 8:00 pm

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Arias and Songs Encore:

Songs by George Gershwin

Evening Music on WFMT

Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK-36718. [17:17] Jacques Ibert Suite Élisabéthaine for A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark. Newport Classic NPD-85531. [23:42] Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61: Wedding March & Finale – Branagh, n; McNair, s; Kirchschlager, ms; Ernst-Senff Women’s Cho, Berlin Phil/Abbado. Sony SK-62826. [11:35] William Grant Still Five Preludes – Denver Oldham, p. Koch 3-7084-2. [12:14] Aaron Copland Billy the Kid Suite – London Sym/Aaron

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Copland. CBS MK-42431. [21:04] Kurt Weill Lost in the Stars – Lara Downes, p. Steinway & Son 30016. [4:27] Leonard Bernstein Peter Pan: Dream With Me – Zuill Bailey, vc; Lara Downes, p. Steinway & Sons 30025. [2:57] Copland Old American Songs: The Golden Willow Tree; Simple Gifts; At the River – St. Charles Singers, Elgin Sym/Robert Hanson. Naxos 8.559297. [8:05]

Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari:

Latin-American piano concertos

Folkstage hosted by Rich

Warren: A live performance by Dan Pelletier

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice:

Hymns and More Hymns

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 12:00 Weekend Music with Robbie Ellis • George Enescu

Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D – Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8947. [11:41] Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p. Summit DCD-456. [15:01] Ferdinand Hérold La Fille mal gardée: Tambourine Dance & Harvesters – Royal Liverpool Phil/Barry Wordsworth. EMI CDC7-49403-2. [8:35]

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Violin Sonata in e, K. 304 – Isabelle Faust, v; Alexander Melnikov, fortepiano. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902360. [17:15] Johann Strauss II Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony 88985477002. [12:29] Charlie Chaplin City Memories (Themes from Charlie Chaplin films) – Lisa Batiashvili, v; Berlin Radio Sym/ Nikoloz Rachveli. DG. [7:16] 2:00 Traditional Lullaby, Ntyilo Ntyilo – Soweto String Quartet. RCA 26865-2. [3:21] Various Les Larmes de Jacqueline; Carnival of the Animals: The Swan – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; City of Birmingham Sym. Decca 4832948. [9:41] Peter Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8556. [29:27] 3:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19 – Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orch of Wales/Andrew Constantine. Orchid Classics ORC-100127.

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[28:03] Beethoven Two Romances – Itzhak Perlman, v; Berlin Phil/Daniel Barenboim. EMI CDC7-49567-2. [16:01] Jens Kruger Roan Mountain Suite: Sacred Ground; Gather Round – Kruger Brothers & Kontras Quartet. Double Time Music DTM-027. [15:37] Elbio Barilari Canyengue – KAIA String Quartet. Delmark DE-5029. [8:15] Hector Berlioz Waverley Overture, Op. 1 – London Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Philips 456143-2 (6). [10:21] Franz Liszt Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor – Jorge Bolet, p. Philips 456724-2 (2). [6:24]

Evening Music on WFMT

Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in e, BWV 1034 – Avi Avital, mandolin; Potsdam Chamber Academy. DG B0016801-02. [13:49] Avital is the guest soloist on our mostlyBaroque Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto in D arr guitar – Andrés Segovia, g; Sym of the Air/Enrique Jorda. DG 471430-2 (4). [21:54] Giovanni Antonini guest-conducts Boccherini and more on the CSO tonight at 8:00. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 – Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Delos 3185. [10:56] Bach Anna Magdalena Notebook: Bist du bei mir – Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, ms; Nicholas McGegan, hc. Harmonia Mundi HCX-3957042. [2:49] Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52 – Utah Sym/ Maurice Abravanel. Vanguard SVC-3133 (3). [29:24] Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel – Viktoria Mullova, v; Liam Dunachie, p. Onyx 4201. [9:25] Alexander Scriabin Etude in gsharp; Poème in F-sharp – Yuja Wang, p. DG B0016606-02. [7:43] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Poem – Scott Goff, f; Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3099. [10:29] Darius Milhaud Scaramouche, Op. 165b – Branford Marsalis, sx; Orpheus Chamber Orch. Sony 89251. [11:20] Milhaud Saudades do Brasil: set 2 – William Bolcom, p. Nonesuch 71316-2. [11:10] Antônio Carlos Jobim The Girl from Ipanema – Milos Karadaglic, g. DG B0019383-02. [3:19]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts:

Giovanni Antonini, conductor & recorder; Avi Avital, mandolin – Boccherini: Symphony No. 6, La Casa del Diavolo. Vivaldi: Concerto in C, R. 425. Bach: Concerto in d, BWV 1052. Vivaldi: Concerto in C, R. 443. Haydn: Symphony No. 103, Drum Roll.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry

Fogel: The NBC Symphony conducted by George Szell in music by Dvorak and Smetana.

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore

9:00 Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Sea Hawk film music – Oregon Sym/JamesDePreist. Delos DE-3234. [8:06] Alexander Borodin Kismet Suite No. 2 – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80703. [9:14] Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition: he Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba Yaga); The Great Gate of

In the Spotlight

Alan Gilbert

The New York Philharmonic This Week New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert leads a performance of the first Mahler symphony from a 2014 concert. After Mahler conducted the first performance of his Symphony No. 1 in Budapest in 1889, it underwent a number of revisions, reaching its final four-movement form in 1896; the original fifth movement, Blumine (Flowers), survives as a separate composition. The first and third movements quote from the composer’s earlier song-cycle, Songs of a Wayfarer, and the third movement begins with an eerie, minor-mode rendition of the folksong Frère Jacques, and the second movement commences with an Austrian dance called the Landler. The concert opens with the Finnish clarinetist Kari Kriikku playing the U.S. premiere of a concerto by Unsuk Chin. Friday, August 21 9:00 pm