Thursday, May 1, 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

Airtimes are approximate.

Only on 89.7! performances and recordings are exclusive WGBH Radio productions and are not commercially available.

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