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Classics in the Morning 9am–noon, WGBH 89.7

Cathy Fuller, host. This program can be heard again at 4:00pm on our new all-classical HD radio channel, online at wgbh.org/classical, or find it though iTunes by clicking on Radio and then All-Classical WGBH. The playlist is the same, just add 7 hours to the times listed here.

Listed by composer: title of the piece, performers (label)

9:00am Traditional, arranged by Yiwen Jiang: Yao Dance from "China Song", Chinese folk songs arranged for string quartet Shanghai String Quartet Only on 89.7! Buy this CD 9:08am Foote: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 38 Mary Louise Boehm, piano; Kees Kooper, violin; Alvin Rogers, violin; Richard Maximoff, violin; Fred Sherry, cello (Albany 176) Buy this CD 9:37am Stravinsky, Igor: Apollon Musagète, Ballet in Two Scenes London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Craft (Koch 7359) Buy this CD 10:09am Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98 Boston Philharmonic/Benjamin Zander Only on 89.7! Buy this CD 10:51am Skalkottas, Nikos: Excerpts from Mayday Spell--A Fairy Drama, Symphonic Suite Iceland Symphony/Nikos Christodoulou (Bis 954) Buy this CD 11:05am Traditional, arranged by Yiwen Jiang: Chinese folk songs arranged for string quartet by Yiwen Jiang Shanghai Quartet Only on 89.7! Buy this CD 11:15am Liszt, Franz: Ernani--Première paraphrase de concert, S431a Leslie Howard, piano (Hyperion 67406) Buy this CD 11:48am Various: Morley: Now is the month of maying; Anonymous: Joan to the Maypole; Anonymous: Now the lusy spring is seen; William Byrd: All in a garden green Toronto Consort/David Fallis (Dorian 93172) Buy this CD

Classical Performances noon–4pm, WGBH 89.7

12:02pm Albeniz: four pieces from "Recuerdos de viaje" Guillermo Gonzáles, piano (Naxos 8.570553) Buy this CD 12:23pm Ned Rorem: Spring; Spring and Fall Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Donald Graham, baritone; Ned Rorem, piano (New World (LP) 229) Buy this CD 12:28pm Haydn: Piano Trio in G minor,Hob.XV:19 Leonid Kogan, violin; Mistislav Rostropovitch, cello; Emil Gilels, piano (Deutsche Grammophon 477 7476) Buy this CD 12:45pm Ernest Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1 for strings and piano obliggato Noam Elkes, piano; Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo (WGBH 002) Buy this CD 1:10pm Handel: Concerto Grosso in A major, OP. 6 No. 11 Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc 80688) Buy this CD 1:29pm Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Requiem in Our Time New Enlgand Conservatory Wind Ensemble Only on 89.7! Buy this CD 1:43pm Brahms: Piano Sonata No, 1 in C major, op. 1 Jon Nakamatsu (Harmonia Mundi 907218) Buy this CD 2:14pm Bach/Förster: Fugue XVIII, WTC 1 Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon B0010855) Buy this CD 2:21pm Britten : Spring Symphony, Op. 44 Alison Hagley, Catherine Robbin, & John Mark Ainsley, soloists; The Monteverdi Choir; The Boy and Girl Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral; Phiharmonia Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner (Deutsche Grammophon 453 433) Buy this CD 3:06pm Osvaldo Golijov: Omaramor, for solo cello Alisa Weilerstein, cello; LIVE PERFROMANCE; info on May 4th concert at: Celebrity Series of Boston Only on 89.7! Buy this CD 3:19pm Chopin: Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op. 65 Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano; LIVE PERFORMANCE; info on May 4th concert at Celebrity Series of Boston Only on 89.7! Buy this CD

Jazz with Eric in the Evening 8pm–midnight, WGBH 89.7

Larry Shind in for Eric tonight

Listed by artist: selection, album (label)

8:00pm Tommy Flanagan: peace 8:08pm Sonny Criss: black coffee, this is criss (prestige) 8:15pm Sarah Vaughan: key largo, ballads (roulette) 8:19pm Grant Green: god bless the child, sunday mornin (blue note) 8:28pm Miles Davis: someday my prince will come, someday my prince will come (columbia) 8:37pm Dianne Reeves: my little brown book, billy strayhorn: lush life (blue note) 8:41pm Ray Drummond feat. Hank Jones: things ain't what they used to be, the essence (dmp) 8:49pm Abdullah Ibrahim: dindela, mantra mode (enja) 8:55pm Andy Bey: it ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so (12th street) 9:05pm Tana Reid: city slicker, passing thoughts (concord) 9:12pm Shirley Horn: hard hearted hannah, light out of darkness (verve) 9:15pm Cyrus Chestnut: blues for nita, revelation (atlantic) 9:24pm Stanley Turrentine: tain't what ya do , let it go (impulse) 9:30pm Joe Williams: how sweet it is to be loved by you, presenting joe williams and the jones/lewis orchestra (blue note) 9:32pm Dee Dee Bridgewater: let's do it let's fall in love, dear ella (verve) 9:35pm Bobby Timmons: dat dere, this here is bobby timmons (riverside) 9:43pm Donald Brown: phineas, sources of inspiration (muse) 9:50pm Carmen McRae: they long to be close to you, the great american songbook (atlantic) 9:55pm Dave Stryker: solid, guitar on top (ken music) 10:04pm Wayne Shorter: oriental folk song, night dreamer (blue note) 10:10pm Harold Mabern: mr. stitt, straight street (columbia) 10:17pm Sonny Stitt: blues for prez and bird, tune up (muse) 10:25pm Roy Hargrove: a day in vienna, nothing serious (verve) 10:30pm Karrin Allyson: hum drum blues, in blue (concord) 10:35pm Roy Haynes feat. Phineas Newborn: sugar ray, we three (prestige) 10:43pm Teddy Edwards: sensitive, midnight creeper (high note) 10:50pm Nancy Wilson: old folks, turned to blue (mcg) 10:55pm Stanley Turrentine: deep purple, let it go (impulse) 11:03pm Ron Blake: more today than yesterday, lest we forget (mack avenue) 11:09pm Gary Burton: poinciana, departure (concord) 11:18pm Kurt Elling: i love you for sentimental reasons, live in chicago (blue note) 11:25pm Ken Peplowski: blue room, a rodgers and hart songbook (concord) 11:31pm Marcus Roberts: misterioso, alone with three giants (novus) 11:35pm David Sanchez: falling in love with love, sketches of dreams (columbia) 11:45pm Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer: mood indigo, gingerbread (mainstream) 11:52pm Mal Waldron: j.m.'s dream doll, mal-4 trio (prestige) 11:56pm Joe Pass: willow weep for me, original jazz classics sampler (pablo)

Airtimes are approximate.

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