FRIDAYS 8 PM
beginning September 26
September 2025
On WFMT, listen for a new series of performances from the New York Philharmonic featuring Yuja Wang as both soloist and orchestra leader, Gustavo Dudamel’s debut as music and artistic director designate, and the world premiere of a work by soprano Kate Sopers, Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus.
Dear Member,
This month, we’re excited to launch a new season of Chicago Stories, WTTW’s awardwinning documentary series that uncovers the sweeping history, rich diversity, and breadth of human experience that has shaped our great American city. Each Friday night, we’ll premiere one of five new original films, beginning with Legendary Blizzards, a look back at two epic Chicago snowstorms, how Chicagoans experienced them, and the political fallout that resulted. Turn to page 4 for reflections from the producer, and explore the companion website on September 26.
Also on WTTW this month, we’ll bring you new episodes of America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Country, and Pati’s Mexican Table. As Hispanic Heritage Month commences, watch for profiles of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and Cuban entertainer Omara Portuondo of the Buena Vista Social Club, plus the 38th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards Also, you won’t want to miss a new miniseries from NOVA that traces the origins of the human species ; Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan, which explores the effects of climate change on sacred places; and another season of Big Cats 24/7 that returns to Boswana to observe – up close and personal – more lions, cheetahs, and leopards in the wild.
On WFMT, listen for a new series of performances by the New York Philharmonic – in September, these will include a truly unique program in which the NYP’s artist-in-residence Yuja Wang serves as both soloist and orchestra leader; the season debut of conductor Gustavo Dudamel as music and artistic director designate; and a world premiere of a work by soprano Kate Soper, Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus, in which she also performs as soloist. Also join us for weekly programs recorded at this year’s Ravinia Festival, and from the Chicago Symphony, a special showcase for the orchestra’s principal trumpet Esteban Batallán, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
On behalf of all of us at WTTW and WFMT, we invite you to enjoy our new fall season of outstanding public media programming, made possible by your support. We hope you’ll share the benefits of membership with a friend and, if you’re not already a monthly sustainer, consider becoming one today. It’s a simple, convenient way to help ensure these programs continue throughout the year.
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September 2025 Volume 36, Number 325
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Becoming Thurgood Marshall: America’s Social Architect
Explore the life and legacy of the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice. Follow Justice Marshall from his legal career to his 1967 appointment to the nation’s highest court.
Tuesday, September 9, 9:00 pm
In March of 2021, the union members of United Steelworkers Local 1196 struck, citing unfair labor practices. From conversations on the picket lines to fiery debates at the union hall to growing anxiety in the homes of the members, experience what it’s like on the ground during a strike.
Monday, September 1 2:00 pm
Monday 1
Labor Day
12:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: A Beautiful World [R]
1:00 Father Brown: The Chedworth Cyclone [R]
1:58 Queens of Mystery: The Modern Art of Murder (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) [R]
2:42 Queens of Mystery: The Modern Art of Murder (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) [R]
3:30 Death in Paradise [R]
4:30 Around the Corner with John McGivern
Rick Steves shares lessons from a lifetime of European travel. Get tips on packing light, avoiding crowds, outsmarting scams, and eluding pickpockets, while maximizing your cultural and culinary experiences.
Thursday, September 11, 7:00 pm
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Virginia Beach (Part 2 of 3)
2:00 Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike
3:00 Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion
4:00 Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 BBC News The Context
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Salt Lake City 2020 Finds include a Philip Margetts archive, Patek Philippe ladies’ watches, and a Japanese silk needlework made around 1910.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Los Angeles 2020 Finds include Charles Schulz comic strip art, a 15th-century Ming Dynasty celadon dish, and a Eugene Sartory bow and French violin.
9:00 POV: Driver
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 2
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Professor T: September Gardens (Season 4, Part 2 of 6) [R]
1:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 2 of 6) [R]
2:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 2 of 6) [R]
3:00 In Their Own Words: Princess Diana [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News [R]
5:30 Jay’s Chicago: Past in Present
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
As season two begins, it’s Christmas in the beautiful town of Sainte Victoire. When the Chief of Police’s wife is brutally murdered, Jean races to prove his innocence and bring the real murderer to justice.
Saturday, September 13, 8:00 pm
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Louisville 2021, Part 1
2:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: A Beautiful World [R]
3:00 Father Brown: The Chedworth Cyclone [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nixon: American Experience Examine the complex life and career of Richard Nixon, whose legacy includes both ending America’s involvement in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 3
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Salt Lake City 2020 See Mon. Sept. 1 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Los Angeles 2020 See Mon. Sept. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Mystery of Mr. E [R]
3:30 Wild Travels [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Louisville 2021, Part 2
2:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Marked for Murder [R]
3:00 Death in Paradise [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Downtown Disasters
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean Nature offers a neverbefore-seen look at how life
underwater co-exists in a marriage of necessity.
8:00 NOVA: Decoding da Vinci Journey to Florence to discover how Leonardo da Vinci used science, from human dissections to innovative painting techniques, to create his legendary artwork.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: Hidden in the Amazon Recent discoveries and technological advances shed new light on our understanding of pre-Columbian societies in the Amazon.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
POV: Driver
After losing it all, Desirée Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul trucker. In a rapidly changing labor landscape, she and her sisterhood of truckers rally against the crushing forces of an industry that is indifferent to their survival.
Monday, September 1 9:00 pm
Anew season of WTTW’s documentary series Chicago Stories launches this month, and includes a look back at a notorious unsolved murder case that still impacts our everyday lives; the saga of a governor whose insatiable thirst for wealth and influence led to his downfall; the origins of many of the foods that are synonymous with Chicago; and the history of Marshall Field’s department store and its whimsical holiday decorations.
The season kicks off with a tale of two deadly blizzards – one of which dealt a fatal blow to the political career of one mayor and jumpstarted the campaign of another, changing the city’s political landscape forever. The film’s producer, Eddie Griffin, explains what makes this a quintessential Chicago story, and what he learned about our city along the way.
The Guide: Why did you feel it was important to tell this story?
Eddie Griffin: When people talk about legendary blizzards in Chicago, they usually do it with a smile. Even if you hate the cold or shoveling the sidewalk, there’s something charming about snowfall. We romanticize our memories of snow days, of building snow forts, of climbing snow banks. There’s a nostalgic bond we share as a city when we experience a blizzard. Chicago Stories strives to paint the full picture. There were real consequences, real tragedies, and real lives changed in these blizzards. We want
to make sure everyone gets the full scope of these iconic moments.
The Guide: The film focuses mostly on the blizzards of 1967 and 1979. How were those storms similar, and how were they different?
Griffin: They were pretty close in total snowfall. You see the same sort of obstructions in both; abandoned cars, clogged expressways, the airports were closed, the CTA shut down, and the Loop ground to a halt. But the difference, and this is what the film is about, was the reaction from City Hall. In 1967, Mayor Richard J. Daley was calm and collected. He basically said “yeah, there’s a lot of snow, we’ll get rid of it as soon as we can. In the meantime, grab a shovel and help your neighbor dig out.” And people pretty much fell in line. It was a different story in 1979. Patience had run out. That quaint charm of taking a “snow day” had disappeared. People in Chicago didn’t cut Mayor Michael Bilandic the same amount of
slack afforded earlier to Mayor Daley. Bilandic was not the same strong personality as Daley. Bilandic was like a deer in headlights, and frustrated citizens ate him up.
The Guide: The city’s best-known meteorologist, Tom Skilling, is interviewed in the documentary. How did his unique insights contribute to this story?
Griffin: All the nice things said, all the praise, all the love shown to Tom Skilling is 100% deserved. He’s thoughtful. When I interviewed him, you could tell how much he loves Chicago. It’s completely authentic. And his memory recall is insane. He was able to take us step by step, moment by moment, through the 1979 blizzard…it was 45 years ago and he can describe the conditions like it was yesterday. That’s priceless – it helped us give the story a personal touch.
The Guide: What do you think city officials – and Chicagoans who experienced them – learned from these epic snowstorms?
" Everyone thought spring had arrived early. And then…all hell broke loose.
Temperatures plummeted, the snow followed, and the rest is history."
Griffin: I think city officials in Chicago, and around the country too, learned that this could happen anywhere. I don’t mean the snow – I mean the political fallout. Mayor Bilandic lost reelection because his snow removal plan failed. Now, I’d like to say that city officials realized that they needed to have a better plan, but more than likely they realized they needed to have the appearance of a better plan.
The Guide: You touch briefly on the 2011 “Snowmageddon” blizzard as well. What was unique about this storm?
Griffin: That was all about timing, and in this case, the timing was terrible. The blizzard hit during rush hour. We knew the snow was coming, it wasn’t a surprise, and still people didn’t take all the precautions. Jumping on Lake Shore Drive during a blizzard…probably not a great idea. But on the bright side, we were in the social media age, so we got to follow the chaos in real time. People were able to post photos of their cars buried under the snow and tweet
clever names like Snowmageddon, Snowpocalpyse, and SnOMG.
The Guide: In the course of producing this film, did you learn anything that surprised you?
Griffin: Haha! I learned that the old adage “if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes” is true for Chicago! The day before the blizzard of 1967 hit, the temperature in Chicago was 60+ degrees. We have film of people biking and picnicking in Lincoln Park. Everyone thought spring had arrived early. And then… all hell broke loose. Temperatures plummeted, the snow followed, and the rest is history.
The Guide: What do you hope viewers take away from this story?
Griffin: You can’t help but feel a little sympathy for Mayor Michael Bilandic. Every other mayor, every other civic leader, likely couldn’t have done much better. Weather conditions during the blizzard of 1979 were just too nasty. All that snow layered into all that ice – there was no way to keep the city running. But that’s the job of the mayor, that’s the job of our elected officials. It’s okay to hold our politicians to high standards. It’s nothing personal – you make it work or you take the heat. Bilandic couldn't make it work, so he paid the price.
Watch Chicago Stories on Fridays beginning September 26 at 8:00 pm on WTTW, wttw.com, and the PBS app.
This interview was edited for length and clarity.
La Frontera with Pati Jinich
Saturday, September 13, 9:00 pm
Watch as acclaimed chef and James Beard Award-winning host Pati Jinich takes viewers on a trek from El Paso and Juarez to Big Bend National Park. She discovers the people, places, and food that make this region truly unique.
Watch on WTTW Prime, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
Friday, September 5, 8:00 pm
Leave the back-to-school stress behind and join WTTW Create hosts for a weekend of calming yoga and stretching exercises in a variety of programs that will leave you feeling refreshed, relaxed, energized, and ready to seize the day.
Watch on WTTW Create, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
Mademoiselle Holmes
Friday, September 12
Enjoy season one of this engaging French detective series. Shy cop Charlie Holmes is the great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes, and she uses her hereditary brilliance to solve baffling crimes with the aid of Samy Vatel, her Dr. Watson.
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Chicago Mysteries/ Touring Chicago’s Lakefront
Enjoy this double bill of recent specials hosted by Geoffrey Baer as he takes us inside some of the city’s most baffling mysteries, and tells the untold stories of the Chicago’s legendary “front yard.”
Thursday, September 4
7:00 pm
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nixon: American Experience See Tues. Sept. 2 at 7:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: Global Plan (Season 3, Part 1 of 8) [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 Hour 1
2:00 NOVA: Decoding Da Vinci See Wed. Sept. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Secrets of the Dead: Hidden in the Amazon See Wed. Sept. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Mysteries
8:30 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Voces: American Historia – The Untold History of Latinos
Mondays beginning September 15, 9:00 pm
Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer
Thursday, September 18
7:00 pm
Velvet
Saturdays beginning September 20, 10:00 pm
Finding Your Roots: Mexican Roots
Tuesday, September 23
7:00 pm
Orozco: Man of Fire –American Masters
Tuesday, September 23
8:00 pm
Joseph Rosendo’s Cuba: A Journey of Heritage & Heart
Thursday, September 25
9:30 pm
38th Hispanic Heritage Awards
Friday, September 26
10:00 pm
Pati’s Mexican Table (New Season)
Saturdays beginning September 27, 4:00 pm
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It –American Masters
Sunday, September 28
2:00 pm
Voces: Omara –Cuba’s Legendary Diva
Sunday, September 28 4:00 pm
Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots
Tuesday, September 30 7:00 pm
Next at the Kennedy Center: Ballet Hispánico’s Doña Perón
Friday, September 12 9:00 pm
La Frontera with Pati Jinich
Saturdays beginning September 13, 9:00 pm
Voces: American Historia – The Untold History of Latinos
Tuesdays beginning September 16, 12:00 pm
Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer
Friday, September 19
10:00 am
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined –American Masters
Sunday, September 21 8:00 am
Pati’s Mexican Table
Tuesdays beginning September 23, 6:00 pm
38th Hispanic Heritage Awards
Friday, September 26 9:00 pm
Voces: Omara –Cuba’s Legendary Diva
Friday, September 26 10:00 pm
Dia de Los Muertos
Saturday, September 27 11:00 pm
Omara Portuondo
Voces: Omara –Cuba’s Legendary Diva
(New Kids Series)
This new series for children ages 5-8 featuring the voices of Al Roker, Holly Robinson Peete, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and LeVar Burton centers on Lily Hunter, an 8-year-old weather detective who shares her investigations with her family and friends. The series encourages kids to make observations, collect data, and investigate the weather where they live.
Weekdays beginning September 8, 7:30 am
Friday 5
EARLY MORNING
12:00 To be announced
3:00 POV: A New Kind of Wilderness On a small farm in Norway, the Paynes lead a purposefully isolated life. But when tragedy strikes, they must adapt to the demands of modern society.
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Los Angeles 2020 [R]
2:00 Professor T: September Gardens (Season 4, Part 2 of 6) [R]
3:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean See Wed. Sept. 3 at 7:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Deadly Alliance – Leopold and Loeb
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Blood at the Wheel In an all-women’s motorcar garage, Phryne’s mechanic Ailsa is preparing for an annual rally. Everything changes when the driver for the ladies’ team is found dead in her roadster.
9:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Drunkards (Part 1 of 3) In 1917 the 18th Amendment sails through both Houses of Congress. But Americans are about to discover that making Prohibition the law of the land has been one thing; enforcing it will be another.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 6
EARLY MORNING
12:30 POV: Driver See Mon. Sept. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now: Rescuing Freighters and Busting Swamps
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required: Seattle
8:00 The Great American Recipe: First Impressions (Season 4, Part 1 of 6) [R]
9:00 To Dine For with Kate Sullivan: Bobby Healy, Founder and CEO of Manna
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Spinner, Wisconsin
10:00 This Old House: Ridgewood –Flooring Features and a Rocking Fountain
10:30 Ask This Old House: Paint Wainscoting, Sandbox
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Social Distance Tailgating
11:30 America the Bountiful: Honey in North Dakota
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Short Ribs and Baked Potatoes
12:30 Cook’s Country: Cast Iron Everything
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Time to Evolve
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Cooking from Pelican
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Roast Chicken and Sprouts
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Burgers and Chips
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk
Street Television: The Real Spaghetti and Meatballs
3:30 The Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets – A Date with a Date in the Desert
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Revolutionary Bites
4:30 Check, Please! Sensational Seafood
5:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Arnold and Patrick Schwarzenegger, Seth Rogan and Jason Segal
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Arthur
6:30 Nature Cat
7:00 Wild Kratts
7:30 Weather Hunters
8:00 Lyla in the Loop
8:30 Carl the Collector
9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
9:30 Rosie’s Rules
10:00 Sesame Street
10:30 Work it Out Wombats! 11:00 Donkey Hodie 11:30 Elinor Wonders Why 12:00 Alma’s Way 12:30 Molly of Denali
Weather Hunters • 7:30 AM
to a murder case.
8:41 Queens of Mystery: The Raven (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) As Matilda inches closer to solving the murders and the connection to her mother’s disappearance, her aunts try to distract her; Dr. Lynch attempts to confess his love.
9:30 Death in Paradise After an island-wide blackout causes havoc in Honore, the team trace the source to a local substation and discover an electrocuted dead body.
6:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: Toast to the Newly Dead A village resident makes an unexpected and unwelcome cameo at a wedding rehearsal.
7:00 Father Brown: The Hand of Lucia As notorious author Lucia Morrell shouts at some men outside her new house, a vase is dropped on her head from high above.
8:00 Queens of Mystery: The Raven (Season 2, Part 5 of 6)
A raven feather replaces an Edgar Allan Poe manuscript stolen before its sale; when Jane finds a body hidden in the museum, the theft investigation switches
10:30 POV: Union Up against one of the world’s most powerful companies, Amazon workers fight to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island. This gripping human drama explores power and dignity in today’s globalized economic landscape.
Sunday 7
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean [R]
1:00 NOVA: Decoding Da Vinci [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Hidden in the Amazon [R]
3:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Drunkards (Part 1 of 3) See Fri. Sept. 5 at 9:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean [R]
MORNING
6:00 Jay’s Chicago: Past in Present
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Timberline Homestead
7:00 This Old House: Ridgewood –Flooring Features and a Rocking Fountain [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Paint Wainscoting, Sandbox [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Bok Choi
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: The Taste of Trees
9:00 A Chef’s Life: Shake, Rattle, and Pole (Beans)
9:30 A Chef’s Life: Prolific Peppers
10:00 Make a Circle This film follows a group of childcare providers who are determined to change how society values the education of its youngest citizens.
11:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 1 of 6) A team of local and international wildlife filmmakers uses the latest technology to follow a group of African big cats in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, day and night for six months.
AFTERNOON
12:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 2 of 6)
The team follows lions, leopards, and cheetahs after a massive wildfire.
1:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 3 of 6)
A fight with intruders leaves the lion pride males injured and the mothers with cubs vulnerable to attack.
2:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 4 of 6) The Okavango Delta is transformed by the arrival of the flood, bringing new challenges for the big cats.
3:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 5 of 6) The team witnesses a baby boom in the Delta.
4:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 6 of 6) As lion numbers rise, the competition for food becomes fierce.
5:00 Opportunity, Access, & Uplift: The Evolving Legacy of HBCUs Examine the changes, misconceptions, and current state of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through the personal stories of five HBCU students, the family of a Chicago high school senior debating his future, and insights from experts. Hosted by HBCU graduate Brandis Friedman.
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Blood at the Wheel See Fri. Sept. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Professor T: The Inspection (Season 4, Part 3 of 6) When a school inspector is stabbed at home and a number
of items are stolen, the team assumes it’s a burglary gone wrong and races to catch the perpetrator.
8:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) When a body is found in the middle of a suburban street with no apparent connection to Marlow, the trio is drawn into the case.
9:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 3 of 6) The team uncovers Gerry’s nationalist views, his connections to the suspects, and his violent tendencies. Meanwhile, Jess reaches out to her sister, and Leanne’s bond with Sunny grows more complex.
10:00 Astrid: Memento Mori (Season 3, Part 2 of 8) Father Louis Desforges is found stabbed to death in a monastery. Astrid and Raphaëlle soon discover that the Father was living under a false identity and that he had stigmata.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Chris Stapleton
Monday 8
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: Toast to the Newly Dead See Sat. Sept. 6 at 6:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Father Brown: The Hand of Lucia See Sat. Sept. 6 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Queens of Mystery: The Raven (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) See Sat. Sept. 6 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:41 Queens of Mystery: The Raven (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) See Sat. Sept. 6 at 8:41 pm. [R]
3:30 Death in Paradise See Sat. Sept. 6 at 9:30 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Spinner, Wisconsin [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Salt Lake City 2020, Part 1
2:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: Toast to the Newly Dead [R]
3:00 Father Brown: The Hand of Lucia [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Our Soldiers, Our Lady of Guadalupe
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 1 Finds include Plains &
Prairie American Indian art, a presentation sword with a Lincoln-signed appointment, and an 1885 Opening Day baseball program.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 2 Finds include a Johnny Unitas Baltimore Colts championship jacket, a B. J. O. Nordfeldt two-sided oil, and a Klondike Gold Rush archive.
9:00 9/11 Inside the Pentagon On September 11, 2001, Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, killing 184 people. Survivors and first responders shed light on that tragic day.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 9
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Professor T: The Inspection (Season 4, Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: Memento Mori (Season 3, Part 2 of 8) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021, Part 2
2:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 1:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 2:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Birth of Gospel
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 FDR: The Center of the Universe/Fear Itself –American Experience (Part 1 of 2) Part one explores Roosevelt’s family background and education, looking for clues as to how the coddled child of rich parents managed to climb the ladder to political success.
9:00 Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect
Explore the life and legacy of the nation’s first African American Supreme Court justice. The film follows Justice Marshall, known as “Mr. Civil Rights,” from his legal career with the NAACP to his 1967 appointment to the nation’s highest court.
Tuesday, September 9 9:00 pm
Big Cats 24/7 (New Season)
A team of local and international wildlife filmmakers uses the latest technology to follow a group of African big cats as they return to Botswana’s awe-inspiring Okavango Delta. Follow them day and night for six months and gain unprecedented insight into their lives as never before.
Wednesdays beginning September 10, 7:00 pm
Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Kahn (New Miniseries)
Examine the impact of climate change on sacred places around the world with journalist Gulnaz Khan. Meet faith leaders drawing on ancient wisdom and spiritual resilience to confront the crisis with hope and action in this powerful four-part series.
Wednesdays beginning September 10, 9:00 pm
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 1 See Mon. Sept. 8 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 2 See Mon. Sept. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 9/11 Inside the Pentagon See Mon. Sept. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Blood at the Wheel [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Louisville 2021, Part 2
2:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 3:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 7 at 4:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Angels Too Soon – The School Fire of ‘58
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Season 2, Parts 1 and 2 of 6) Leopardess Xudum moves on and the new mom Lediba takes charge.
9:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: The Heart of the World (Part 1 of 4) Join Gulnaz Khan in the sacred mountains of Colombia with the Arhuaco people.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 FDR: The Center of the Universe/Fear Itself –American Experience (Part 1 of 2) See Tues. Sept. 9 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect See Tues. Sept. 9 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Make a Circle See Sun. Sept. 7 at 10:00 am. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Hartford 2023, Part 2
2:00 Death in Paradise [R]
3:00 9/11 Inside the Pentagon [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Race to Reverse the River
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Rick Steves Experiencing Europe
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Scared to Death
9:30 Opportunity, Access, & Uplift: The Evolving Legacy of HBCUs See Sun. Sept. 7 at 5:00 pm. [R]
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 12
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Season 2, Parts 1 and 2 of 6) See Wed. Sept. 10 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: The Heart of the World (Part 1 of 4) See Wed. Sept. 10 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Race to Reverse the River See Thurs. Sept. 11 at 4:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 2 [R]
2:00 Professor T: The Inspection (Season 4, Part 3 of 6) [R]
3:00 Rick Steves Experiencing Europe See Thurs. Sept. 11 at 7:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer Join Geoffrey on a lively exploration of Chicago’s legendary "front yard."
9:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Scofflaws (Part 2 of 3) In 1920, Prohibition goes into effect, making it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 13
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors [R]
1:00 Rick Steves Experiencing Europe [R]
2:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Scared to Death See Thurs. Sept. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Opportunity, Access, & Uplift: The Evolving Legacy of HBCUs [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required: Los Angeles
8:00 The Great American Recipe: Pass the Dish (Season 4, Part 2 of 6) [R]
9:00 Jay’s Chicago: Out in Nature
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota
10:00 This Old House: Ridgewood –Sugar Maple Revival
10:30 Ask This Old House: 3-D Printed Homes, Square Bowl
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Little Italy
11:30 America the Bountiful: Lobster in Maine
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country: New England for Everyone
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Dinner and a Song
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Chef in Training
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: PubStyle Favorites, Revisited
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Simple Chicken Dinner
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: New Salad
3:30 The Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets – A Twist on Tradition
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Cowboy Life
4:30 Check, Please! Forbidden Root, Miss Saigon, Sofi
5:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Sterling K. Brown and Natasha Rothwell, Kathryn Hahn and Kate Hudson, Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer See Fri. Sept. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Father Brown: The Eagle and the Daw Father Brown hears a confession from a woman
Rick Steves shares lessons from a lifetime of European travel so that viewers can learn from his experiences and travel with minimal hiccups. Get Rick’s tips on packing light, avoiding crowds, outsmarting scams, and eluding pickpockets – all while maximizing the opportunities for cultural and culinary experiences.
Thursday, September 11 7:00 pm
waiting to be hanged for the murder of her husband.
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries
9:00 Death in Paradise Marlon receives a mysterious phone call from his old boss, who sounds gravely injured.
10:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Scared to Death [R]
11:30 POV: The Age of Water When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican town, two mothers and a scientist discover radioactivity in the water.
Sunday 14
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Chicago Stories: Angels Too Soon – The School Fire of ‘58 See Wed. Sept. 10 at 4:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion [R]
3:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Scofflaws (Part 2 of 3) See Fri. Sept. 12 at 9:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect [R]
MORNING
6:00 Jay’s Chicago: Out in Nature [R]
The Brokenwood Mysteries (New Season)
With the assistance of Detective Kristin Sims, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) attempts to solve mysterious murders in Brokenwood, a small town in New Zealand. In the opener, Sims and Shepherd investigate when a man appears to die of fright.
Thursdays beginning September 11, 8:00 pm
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Midday Dunes
7:00 This Old House: Ridgewood –Sugar Maple Revival [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: 3-D Printed Homes, Square Bowl [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Okonomiyake
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: An Edible Park
9:00 A Chef’s Life: A Food Truck and a Pear Tree
9:30 A Chef’s Life: Wanted – Broccoli
10:00 Rick Steves Experiencing Europe [R]
11:00 Chicago Stories: The Black Sox Scandal Eight Chicago White Sox players were charged with throwing the World Series in 1919. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
AFTERNOON
12:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss & The Bulldozer Chicago mayor Richard J. “Boss” Daley’s urban renewal initiatives displaced the poor and people of color. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
1:00 Chicago Stories: The Young Lords of Lincoln Park The now-upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood once housed a band of Puerto Rican revolutionaries known as the Young Lords. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
2:00 Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants Trace the histories of Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
4:00 Chicago Stories: Al Capone’s Bloody Business Follow Al Capone’s rise and ignominious fall. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
5:00 Embracing Ireland’s County Clare Every September, Ireland’s tiny village of Lisdoonvarna hosts an international matchmaking festival. But in 2024, the hotels were filled with refugees from the war in Ukraine.
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: The Blood of Juana the Mad The fresh corpse of Professor Katz turns up in place of a cadaver in Dr. Mac’s anatomy lecture.
7:00 Professor T: You Can’t Kill Me (Season 4, Part 4 of 6) While investigating an actress’s stabbing on stage, a young girl is attacked. Jasper grows closer to Helena.
8:00 The Marlow Murder Club
on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) Is the new body a coincidence, or could the killer responsible for Louis Oldham’s death have struck before?
9:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 4 of 6) With a clearer picture of Gerry’s life, and one suspect already under questioning, the team begins to trace other leads.
10:00 Astrid: Natives (Season 3, Part 3 of 8) A young woman under the influence of a powerful drug is found with the weapon used to commit a crime 25 years earlier.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Kacey Musgraves
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Father Brown: The Eagle and the Daw See Sat. Sept. 13 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Sept. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Death in Paradise See Sat. Sept. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Scared to Death [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Eagle and the Daw [R]
3:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: The Heart of the World (Part 1 of 4) [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss & the Bulldozer See Sun. Sept. 14 at 12:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Part 1 Finds include Picasso Madoura pottery, an early 20thcentury Cartier necklace & brooch, and an 1861 Charles Dickens letter.
9:00 Voces: American Historia – The Untold History of Latinos: Echoes of Empires (Part 1 of 3) Join host John Leguizamo as he examines the rise and legacy of the Great Empires and civilizations of Mexico, South America and the Caribbean.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
The
Mysteries (New Season)
As season two begins, It’s Christmas in the beautiful town of Sainte Victoire – lights are twinkling, and choirs are singing. But when the Chief of Police’ wife is brutally murdered, Jean (Sally Lindsay) races to prove his innocence as well as bring the real murderer to justice.
Saturdays beginning September 13, 8:00 pm
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 16
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Professor T: You Can’t Kill Me (Season 4, Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 14 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: Natives (Season 3, Part 3 of 8) See Sun. Sept. 14 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Chattanooga, Part 1
2:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Season 2, Parts 1 and 2 of 6) [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
NOVA: Human (New Miniseries)
This stunningly cinematic five-part series takes us back in time to meet the inventors of the modern world. Discover how closely related we are to the other, nowvanished human species, and how the traces they left behind reveal just how “human” our prehistoric ancestors really were.
Wednesdays beginning September 17, 8:00 pm
New How-To Seasons
New episodes of Cook’s Country and America’s Test Kitchen begin September 20, and Pati’s Mexican Table on September 27. This season on Cook’s Country, check out recipes for coastal Gullah Lowcountry red rice and more. America’s Test Kitchen brings you more of what it does best, and Pati Jinich explores Mexico City.
Various dates and times
beginning September 20
7:00 FDR: The Grandest Job in the World/The Juggler –American Experience (Part 2 of 2) Part one focuses on the first two terms of Roosevelt’s presidency.
9:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look Learn about the process of creating this landmark documentary.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 17
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Part 1 See Mon. Sept. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos – Echoes of Empires (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. Sept. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: The Blood of Juana the Mad See Sun. Sept. 14 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Chattanooga, Part 2
2:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
3:00 Death in Paradise [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Candy Capital
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Big Cats 24/7: A Pride Divided (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) Under attack from a growing number of intruder male lions, the moms must find the rest of the pride.
8:00 NOVA: Human – Origins (Part 1 of 5) Discover the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens.
9:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: Stopping the Desert (Part 2 of 4) Travel across Africa’s Sahel, where Muslims and Christians join forces with scientists.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 18
EARLY MORNING
12:00 FDR: The Grandest Job in the World/The Juggler –American Experience (Part 2 of 2) See Tues. Sept. 16 at 7:00 pm. [R]
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required
8:00 Great American Recipe
9:00 To Dine For with Kate Sullivan
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets 10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 11:30 America the Bountiful
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 The Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table 4:30 Check, Please!
2:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look See Tues. Sept. 16 at 9:30 pm. [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss & the Bulldozer [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Dallas, Part 1
2:00 NOVA: Human – Origins (Part 1 of 5) See Wed. Sept. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Pioneers of Television: Westerns
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Outrage of Danny Sotomayor
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer Join Geoffrey Baer as experiences the beautiful and seductive city of Havana.
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Bride Not to Be A popular tennis star is found dead following her bachelorette party.
9:30 Embracing Ireland’s
County Clare See Sun. Sept. 14 at 5:00 pm. [R] 10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Big Cats 24/7 (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) See Wed. Sept. 17 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Human – Origins (Part 1 of 5) [R]
2:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: Stopping the Desert (Part 2 of 4) See Wed. Sept. 17 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise See Tues. Sept. 16 at 4:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Part 1 [R] 2:00 Professor T: You Can’t Kill Me (Season 4, Part 4 of 6) [R] 3:00 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer See Thurs. Sept. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants See Sun. Sept. 14 at 3:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Mysteries See Thurs. Sept. 4 at 7:00 pm. [R]
9:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Hypocrites (Part 3 of 3) Support for Prohibition diminishes amid growing disenchantment.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer [R]
1:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Bride Not to Be See Thurs. Sept. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Outrage of Danny Sotomayor See Thurs. Sept. 18 at 4:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now: Old Boats and New Adventures
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required: Houston
8:00 The Great American Recipe: The Bakes are High (Season 4, Part 3 of 6) [R]
9:00 Jay’s Chicago: Song and Dance
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Ludington, Michigan
10:00 This Old House: Ridgewood – Colonial Revival with Modern Flair
10:30 Ask This Old House: Stair Treads, Sconce Install
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Cured and Smoked
11:30 America the Bountiful: Cherries in Michigan
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Pork and Pierogi
12:30 Cook’s Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Cook Everyday
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Autumn Leaves
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Cast Iron Staples
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen (New Season)
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk
Street Television: Best Romanian Desserts
3:30 The Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets – Rising Stars
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Paquime & Pecans
4:30 Check, Please! QXY, Milwalky Trace, Señor Pan
5:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Javier Bardem and Diego Luna, Kristen Bell and Adam Scott, Lisa Kudrow and Parker Posey
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Mysteries [R]
7:00 Father Brown: The Smallest of Things Father Brown arrives at a police event and Mrs. McCarthy is shocked to see dioramas of murder scenes.
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries Jeremy stumbles upon the body of a dead woman with a Victorian comb in her pocket.
9:00 Death in Paradise The team are confounded when a tourist is stabbed while traveling down one floor, all alone, in a hotel lift.
10:00 Velvet: The Night of the Pins Alberto is back from his honeymoon in Rome and Ana has a handsome new suitor.
11:30 POV: Black Snow In a remote Siberian coal town, local journalist Natalia Zubkova investigates an abandoned mine fire.
Sunday 21
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards [R]
2:00 Chicago Stories: The Black Sox Scandal See Sun. Sept. 14 at 11:00 am. [R]
3:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Hypocrites (Part 3 of 3) See Fri. Sept. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Sunflower Beauty
5:30 Yoga in Practice: Love Yourself As You Are
MORNING
6:00 How Are We Today? This new series focuses on expanding the conversation about mental health.
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Appalachian Atmospheres
7:00 This Old House: Ridgewood –Colonial Revival with Modern Flair [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Stair Treads, Sconce Install [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Miso Salmon
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Summer on a Plate
9:00 A Chef’s Life: Bourbon Country
9:30 A Chef’s Life:
Persimmon Style
10:00 Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants [R]
11:00 Chicago Stories: Al Capone’s Bloody Business See Sun. Sept. 14 at 4:00 pm. [R]
AFTERNOON
12:00 Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago See Thurs. Sept. 4 at 4:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Chicago Stories: Candy Capital See Wed. Sept. 17 at 4:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Chicago Stories: Amusement Parks
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Race to Reverse the River [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Deadly Alliance – Leopold and Loeb See Fri. Sept. 5 at 4:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Chicago Stories: Angels Too Soon – The School Fire of ’58 [R]
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Framed for Murder Phryne gets involved when the lead actor is murdered on a movie set.
7:00 Professor T: The Perfect Murder (Season 4, Part 5 of 6) Adelaide’s painting is vandalized and the gallery owner is killed, but Jasper is distracted.
8:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) When a member of the Marlow Sailing Club is killed, Tanika quickly enlists the services of Judith, Becks, and Suzie.
9:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 5 of 6) Lies unravel as Mel and Asif are taken into police custody.
10:00 Astrid: The Open Room (Season 3, Part 4 of 8) A former murderer is found dead in the psychiatric hospital room where he was interned.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Foo Fighters
Velvet (New Season)
In late 1950s Madrid, the golden age of haute couture, there is one place everyone would like to shop: the Galerias Velvet. Enjoy this love story between a humble seamstress and the young man destined to inherit the fashion empire owned by his father. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Saturdays beginning September 20, 10:00 pm
Monday 22
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Father Brown: The Smallest of Things See Sat. Sept. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Sept. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Death in Paradise See Sat. Sept. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Velvet: The Night of the Pins See Sat. Sept. 20 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Ludington, Michigan [R]
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins
7:00 This Old House
7:30 Ask This Old House
8:00 Simply Ming
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking
9:00 A Chef’s Life
9:30 A Chef’s Life
NEW SERIES WED SEPT 10 9PM
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Baltimore 2021, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Eagle and the Daw [R]
3:00 Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies
4:00 Chicago Stories: The Black Sox Scandal [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Part 2 Finds include a Mexican charro saddle, Gaston Chaissac artwork, and a collection of 1956 Olympics USA Basketball memorabilia.
9:00 POV: The Bitter Pill
10:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors See Sat. Sept. 13 at 5:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Professor T: The Perfect Murder (Season 4, Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 21 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Dallas, Part 2
2:00 Death in Paradise [R]
3:00 Pioneers of Television: Superheroes
4:00 Chicago Stories: Amusement Parks [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Mexican Roots Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and guests Mario Lopez and Melissa Villaseñor look at the Mexican American experience.
8:00 Orozco: Man of Fire –American Masters Follow the story of Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco,
a life filled with drama, adversity, and triumph.
9:00 Frontline
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 24
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Jay’s Chicago: Song and Dance [R]
12:30 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors See Sat. Sept. 20 at 5:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow [R]
2:00 Astrid: The Open Room (Season 3, Part 4 of 8) See Sun. Sept. 21 at 10:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Framed for Murder See Sun. Sept. 21 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Palm Springs, Part 1
2:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
3:00 Pioneers of Television: Doctors and Nurses
4:00 Chicago Stories: Chicago Stories: Young Lords of Lincoln Park See Sun. Sept. 14 at 1:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Big Cats 24/7: Reunion (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) Reunited, leopard mom Lediba and cheetah mom Pobe each fight to keep their cubs alive.
8:00 NOVA: Human – Journeys (Part 2 of 5) Follow Homo Sapiens as they venture farther than any other human species.
9:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: Saving the World’s Forests (Part 3 of 4) Venture to Japan, where global warming is upending centuries-old Shinto and Buddhist traditions.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 25
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Mexican Roots See Tues. Sept. 23 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Orozco: Man of Fire –American Masters See Tues. Sept. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Frontline [R]
3:00 This Old House: Ridgewood –Colonial Revival with
Modern Flair [R]
3:30 Ask This Old House: Stair Treads, Sconce Install [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Palm Springs, Part 2
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Mexican Roots [R]
3:00 Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction
4:00 Chicago Stories: When the West Side Burned
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago People from all over the city and suburbs take Geoffrey Baer to the places they find most breathtaking.
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Tontine A multiple beneficiary will appears to be related to the death of a cyclist.
9:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out: Cuba – A Journey of Heritage and Heart Joseph dives into the vibrant culture of his family’s past.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Big Cats 24/7: Reunion (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) See Wed. Sept. 24 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Human – Journeys (Part 2 of 5) See Wed. Sept. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: Saving the World’s Forests (Part 3 of 4) See Wed. Sept. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Part 2 See Mon. Sept. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tucson 2021, Part 2 [R]
2:00 Professor T: The Perfect Murder (Season 4, Part 5 of 6) [R]
3:00 Pioneers of Television: Sitcoms
4:00 Chicago Stories: Al Capone’s Bloody Business [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
POV: The Bitter Pill
Attorney Paul Farrell, Jr. takes on pharmaceutical giants to fight the opioid epidemic in his West Virginia hometown. His local battle grows into the largest civil litigation in U.S. history, raising the stakes as he fights for justice nationwide.
Monday, September 22 9:00 pm
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards (New Season)
9:00 Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire On October 10, 1871, the citizens of Chicago awoke to a smoking pile of rubble that stretched for miles on end.
10:00 38th Hispanic Heritage Awards Honoring the country’s most celebrated Hispanic artists and visionaries.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 27
EARLY MORNING
12:30 POV: The Bitter Pill See Mon. Sept. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Tontine See Thurs. Sept. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Jay’s Chicago: Song and Dance [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now: Deep Dives and Rising Waters
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required:
a group of girls attempts to free their car from a snow drift
It takes a lot to stop the city of Chicago in its tracks. But two deadly blizzards in 1967 and 1979, both of which seemingly came out of nowhere, did just that. The city’s woefully inadequate response to the second one dealt a fatal blow to the political career of one mayor, Michael Bilandic, and jumpstarted the nascent campaign of another: Jane Byrne. Audionarrated descriptions are available.
Friday, September 26
8:00 pm
Philadelphia
8:00 The Great American Recipe: A Test of the Best (Season 4, Part 4 of 6) [R]
9:00 Jay’s Chicago: Good Deed Doers
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: West Bend, Wisconsin
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House: NOLA Lantern, Rusty Patio Set
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: The Improbable Grill
11:30 America the Bountiful: Grapes in New York
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Spicy and Sour for Supper
12:30 Cook’s Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Easygoing Recipes
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – La Cocina Ole
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Two Modern Stews
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Tomato Makeovers
3:30 The Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets –Camel Magic
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: My Heart, My Home
4:30 Check, Please! Band of Bohemia, Turquoise, Dancing Marlin
5:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Danny DeVito and Colin Farrell, Keri Russell and Scott Speedman, Charlie Cox and Joe Locke
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards See Fri. Sept. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Father Brown: The Crimson Feather Father Brown suspects there’s something untoward about Mrs. McCarthy's daughter's unscheduled visit.
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries Jean uncovers a deadly family drama when tragedy strikes twice in Sainte Victoire.
9:00 Death in Paradise The team investigates the mysterious death of a British tourist.
10:00 Velvet: Taking Flight When the designers are commissioned to design clothing for an airline, Ana struggles to formulate an idea.
11:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Tontine [R]
Sunday 28
EARLY MORNING
1:00 The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago See Thurs. Sept. 25 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire See Fri. Sept. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Finding Your Roots: Mexican Roots [R]
4:00 38th Hispanic Heritage Awards See Fri. Sept. 26 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Panoramic Seascape
5:30 Yoga in Practice: How to Get Going
MORNING
6:00 How Are We Today?
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Cascading Stream in the Woods
7:00 This Old House [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: NOLA Lantern, Rusty Patio Set [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Pound Cake
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Fisherman’s Harbor
9:00 A Chef’s Life: Chasing Trout
9:30 A Chef’s Life: Liver Lover
10:00 61st Annual Lincoln Laureates Convocation and Investiture
11:00 Pioneers of Television: Superheroes [R]
AFTERNOON
12:00 Pioneers of Television: Doctors and Nurses [R]
1:00 Pioneers of Television:
Sitcoms [R]
2:00 Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided to Go for It – American Masters Discover how Rita Moreno became one of a select group of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winners.
4:00 Voces: Omara Meet the beloved Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, part of the Buena Vista Social Club.
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Greek Islands – Santorini, Mykonos, and Rhodes
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Death on the Vine When Phryne arrives at an idyllic vineyard to investigate a suspicious death in the past, she lands in the middle of an annual wine festival.
7:00 Professor T: The Perfect Murder (Season 4, Part 6 of 6) In the run-up to Zelda’s wedding, Dan becomes obsessed with a dying man’s final words.
8:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) Believing the murder is connected to the ongoing thefts, Judith enlists Becks and Suzie to catch the thieves.
9:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 6 of 6) Who killed Gerry Cooper? Jess and Sunny dig deeper, exposing the truth about Asif, Marty, Mel, and Juliet.
10:00 Astrid: Witness (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) Astrid and Raphaëlle investigate a crime perpetrated right in the middle of Paris’s Gare du Nord.
11:00 ACL Presents: Willie Nelson & Family
Monday 29
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Father Brown: The Crimson Feather See Sat. Sept. 27 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Sept. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Death in Paradise See Sat. Sept. 27 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Velvet: Taking Flight See Sat. Sept. 27 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: West Bend, Wisconsin [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow [R]
2:00 The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen
3:30 Cook’s Country
4:00 Father Brown: The Crimson Feather [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 1
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Part 1 Finds include James McNeill Whistler artwork, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson-signed photos, and a Jonas Weber painted box.
9:00 Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos – Threads in the American Tapestry (Part 2 of 3) Host John Leguizamo explores how Latino DNA has been pivotal to the identity of the U.S.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 30
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Professor T: The Perfect Murder (Season 4, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 28 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Season 6, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Sept. 28 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: Witness (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) See Sun. Sept. 28 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage New York
2:00 Big Cats 24/7: Reunion (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen
3:30 Cook’s Country
4:00 Death in Paradise [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of musician Ruben Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
8:00 Hard Hat Riot: American Experience
9:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look [R]
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Arts • Performance
38th Hispanic Heritage Awards
Friday, 10:00 pm (9/26)
Sunday, 4:00 am (9/28)
ACL Presents: Willie Nelson & Family
Sunday, 11:00 pm (9/28)
Austin City Limits
Sundays, 11:00 pm (9/7, 9/14, 9/21)
Drama • Mystery
Astrid
Sundays, 10:00 pm
Thursday, 3:00 am (9/4)
Tuesdays, 3:00 am (9/9, 9/16, 9/30)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (9/24)
Brokenwood Mysteries
Thursdays, 8:00 pm (9/11, 9/18, 9/25)
Saturdays, 2:00 am (9/13, 9/20)
Saturday, 10:00 pm (9/13)
Monday, 3:00 am (9/15)
Saturday, 1:30 am (9/20)
Saturday, 2:00 am, 11:30 pm (9/27)
Death in Paradise
Wednesdays, 3:00 pm (9/3, 9/17)
Saturday, 9:30 pm (9/6)
Monday, 3:30 am (9/8)
Friday, 3:00 pm (9/12)
Saturdays, 9:00 pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27)
Mondays, 2:00 am (9/15, 9/22, 9/29)
Tuesday, 2:00 pm (9/23)
Tuesday, 4:00 pm (9/30)
Father Brown
Tuesday, 3:00 pm (9/2)
Saturdays, 7:00 pm
Monday, 1:00 am, 3:00 pm (9/8)
Mondays, 12:00 am, 4:00 pm (9/15, 9/22, 9/29) Madame Blanc Mysteries
Saturdays, 8:00 pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27)
Mondays, 1:00 am (9/15, 9/22, 9/29)
Wednesdays, 2:00 pm (9/17, 9/24)
Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece
Tuesdays, 1:00 am (9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/30)
Sundays, 8:00 pm
Tuesday, 2:00 am (9/23)
Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
Wednesday, 2:00 pm (9/3)
Friday, 8:00 pm (9/5)
Sundays, 6:00 pm
Wednesdays, 3:00 am (9/10, 9/17, 9/24)
Mystery of Mr. E
Wednesday, 2:00 am (9/3)
Professor T
Tuesdays, 12:00 am (9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/30)
Fridays, 2:00 pm
Sundays, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, 1:00 am (9/23)
Queens of Mystery
Saturday, 8:00 pm, 8:40 pm (9/6)
Monday, 2:00 am, 2:40 am (9/8) Sister Boniface Mysteries
Tuesday, 2:00 pm (9/2)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (9/6)
Monday, 12:00 am, 2:00 pm (9/8)
Unforgotten on Masterpiece
Tuesdays, 2:00 am
Sundays, 9:00 pm
Velvet
Saturdays, 10:00 pm (9/20, 9/27)
Mondays, 3:00 am (9/22, 9/29)
Food • Travel • How to
America the Bountiful
Saturdays, 11:30 am
America’s Test Kitchen
Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm
Monday, 3:00 pm (9/29)
Tuesday, 3:00 pm (9/30)
Antiques Roadshow
Mondays, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm
Mondays-Fridays, 1:00 pm
Wednesdays, 12:00 am, 1:00 am (9/3, 9/10, 10/1)
Wednesdays, 1:00 am (9/17, 9/24)
Friday, 3:00 am (9/26)
Ask This Old House
Saturdays, 10:30 am
Sundays, 7:30 am
Thursday, 3:30 am (9/25)
Check, Please!
Saturdays, 4:30 pm
Chef’s Life
Sundays, 9:00 am, 9:30 am
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street
Television
Saturdays, 3:00 pm
Cook’s Country
Saturdays, 12:00 pm, 12:30 pm
Monday, 3:30 pm (9/29)
Tuesday, 3:30 pm (9/30)
The Great American Recipe
Saturdays, 8:00 am
Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr
Sundays, 5:00 am (9/21, 9/28)
How Are We Today?
Sundays, 6:00 am (9/21, 9/28)
Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul
Saturdays, 1:30 pm
John McGivern’s Main Streets
Saturdays, 9:30 am
Mondays, 4:30 am (9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29)
Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins
Sundays, 6:30 am
Lidia’s Kitchen
Saturdays, 1:00 pm
Life of Loi: Mediterranean Secrets
Saturdays, 3:30 pm
New Scandinavian Cooking
Sundays, 8:30 am
No Passport Required
Saturdays, 7:00 am
Pati's Mexican Table
Saturdays, 4:00 pm
Rick Steves’ Europe
Sunday, 5:00 pm (9/28)
Rick Steves Experiencing Europe
Thursday, 2:00 pm, 7:00 pm (9/11)
Saturday, 1:00 am (9/13)
Sunday, 10:00 am (9/14)
Simply Ming
Sundays, 8:00 am
Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
Saturdays, 11:00 am
This Old House
Saturdays, 10:00 am
Sundays, 7:00 am
Thursday, 3:00 am (9/25)
Wild Travels
Wednesday, 3:30 am (9/3)
Yoga in Practice
Sundays, 5:30 am (9/21, 9/28)
9/11 Inside the Pentagon
Monday, 9:00 pm (9/8)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (9/10)
Thursday, 3:00 pm (9/11)
American Experience
Tuesdays, 7:00 pm (9/2, 9/9, 9/16)
Thursdays, 12:00 am (9/4, 9/11, 9/18)
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (9/30)
American Masters
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (9/23)
Thursday, 1:00 am (9/25)
Sunday, 2:00 pm (9/28)
American Revolution: An Inside Look
Tuesdays, 9:30 am (9/16, 9/30)
Thursday, 2:30 am (9/18)
Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (9/9)
Thursday, 2:00 am (9/11)
Sunday, 5:00 am (9/14)
Chicago Mysteries
Thursday, 7:00 pm (9/4)
Friday, 8:00 pm (9/19)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (9/20)
Chicago Stories: Al Capone’s Bloody Business
Sunday, 4:00 pm (9/14)
Sunday, 11:00 am (9/21)
Friday, 4:00 pm (9/26)
Chicago Stories: Amusement Parks
Sunday, 2:00 pm (9/21)
Tuesday, 4:00 pm (9/23)
Chicago Stories: Angels Too Soon, The School Fire of ‘58
Wednesday, 4:00 pm (9/10)
Sunday, 1:00 am (9/14)
Sunday, 5:00 pm (9/21)
Chicago Stories: The Birth of Gospel
Tuesday, 4:00 pm (9/9)
Chicago Stories: The Black Sox
Scandal
Sunday, 11:00 am (9/14)
Sunday, 2:00 am (9/21)
Monday, 4:00 pm (9/22)
Chicago Stories: The Boss & the Bulldozer
Sunday, 12:00 pm (9/14)
Monday, 4:00 pm (9/15)
Thursday, 3:00 am (9/18)
Chicago Stories: Candy Capital Wednesday, 4:00 pm (9/17)
Sunday, 1:00 pm (9/21)
Chicago Stories: Deadly Alliance, Leopold and Loeb Friday, 4:00 pm (9/5)
Sunday, 4:00 pm (9/21)
Chicago Stories: Downtown Disasters Wednesday, 4:00 pm (9/3)
Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire Friday, 9:00 pm (9/26)
Sunday, 2:00 am (9/28)
Chicago Stories: Jane Addams, Together We Rise Tuesday, 4:00 pm (9/16) Friday, 3:00 am (9/19)
Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne Tuesday, 4:00 pm (9/2)
Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards Friday, 8:00 pm (9/26)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (9/27)
Chicago Stories: Our Soldiers, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monday, 4:00 pm (9/8)
Chicago Stories: The Outrage of Danny Sotomayor Thursday, 4:00 pm (9/18)
Saturday, 3:00 am (9/20)
Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion Monday, 3:00 pm (9/1) Friday, 4:00 pm (9/12)
Sunday, 2:00 am (9/14)
Chicago Stories: The Race to Reverse the Chicago River Thursday, 4:00 pm (9/11)
Friday, 3:00 am (9/12)
Sunday, 3:00 pm (9/21)
Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago
Thursday, 4:00 pm (9/4)
Sunday, 12:00 pm (9/21)
Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants
Sunday, 3:00 pm (9/14)
Friday, 4:00 pm (9/19)
Sunday, 10:00 am (9/21)
Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards Monday, 4:00 pm (9/1)
Sunday, 2:00 pm (9/14)
Sunday, 1:00 am (9/21)
Chicago Stories: When the West Side Burned
Thursday, 4:00 pm (9/25)
Chicago Stories: Young Lords of Lincoln Park
Sunday, 1:00 pm (9/14)
Wednesday, 4:00 pm (9/24)
Finding Your Roots
Tuesdays, 7:00 pm (9/23, 9/30)
Thursday, 12:00 am, 2:00 pm (9/25)
Sunday, 3:00 am (9/28) In Their Own Words
Tuesday, 3:00 am (9/2)
Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love
Saturday, 2:00 am (9/6)
Jay’s Chicago
Tuesday, 5:30 am (9/2)
Sundays, 6:00 am (9/7, 9/14)
Saturdays, 9:00 am (9/13, 9/20, 9/27)
Wednesday, 12:00 am (9/24)
Saturday, 3:30 am (9/27)
Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike
Monday, 2:00 pm (9/1)
Make a Circle
Sunday, 10:00 am (9/7)
Thursday, 3:00 am (9/11)
The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago
Thursday, 7:00 pm (9/25)
Sunday, 1:00 am (9/28)
Monday, 2:00 pm (9/29)
Opportunity, Access & Uplift: The Evolving Legacy of HBCUs
Sunday, 5:00 pm (9/7)
Thursday, 9:30 pm (9/11)
Saturday, 3:30 am (9/13)
Pioneers of Television
Thursdays, 3:00 pm (9/18, 9/25)
Monday, 3:00 pm (9/22)
Tuesday, 3:00 pm (9/23)
Wednesday, 3:00 pm (9/24)
Friday, 3:00 pm (9/26)
Sunday, 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm (9/28)
POV
Mondays, 9:00 pm (9/1, 9/22)
Friday, 3:00 am (9/5)
Saturdays, 12:30 am (9/6, 9/27)
Saturdays, 11:30 pm (9/13, 9/20)
Prohibition
Fridays, 9:00 pm
Sundays, 3:00 am
Secrets of the Dead
Wednesday, 9:00 pm (9/3)
Thursday, 3:00 pm (9/4)
Sunday, 2:00 am (9/7)
To Dine For with Kate Sullivan
Saturday, 9:00 am (9/6)
Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer
Thursday, 8:30 pm (9/4)
Friday, 8:00 pm (9/12)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (9/13)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Saturdays, 5:00 pm
Saturday, 12:30 am (9/13)
Tuesday, 12:30 am (9/23)
Wednesday, 12:30 am (9/24)
Voces: American Historia –The Untold History of Latinos
Mondays, 9:00 pm (9/15, 9/29)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (9/17)
Voces: Omara – Cuba’s Legendary Diva
Sunday, 4:00 pm (9/28)
Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer
Thursday, 7:00 pm (9/18)
Friday, 3:00 pm (9/19)
Saturday, 12:30 am (9/20)
News • Public Affairs Amanpour and Company
Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm
BBC News
Mondays-Fridays, 10:30 pm, 5:00 am
BBC News America
Mondays-Fridays, 5:00 pm
BBC News The Context
Monday, 5:30 pm (9/1)
Chicago Tonight
Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30 pm, 10:00 pm
Tuesdays-Fridays, 5:30 am
Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review Fridays, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm
Saturdays, 5:30 am
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Mondays, 5:30 am
PBS News Hour
Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm
PBS News Weekend
Saturdays, 5:30 pm
Sundays, 5:30 pm (9/7, 9/14, 9/28)
Washington Week Fridays, 7:30 pm Saturdays, 5:00 am
Science • Nature
Big Cats 24/7
Sunday, 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm (9/7)
Tuesdays, 2:00 pm (9/9, 9/16, 9/30)
Tuesday, 3:00 pm (9/9)
Wednesday, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm (9/10)
Wednesdays, 7:00 pm (9/10, 9/17, 9/24)
Fridays, 12:00 am (9/12, 9/17, 9/26)
Great Lakes Now
Saturdays, 6:00 am
Nature
Wednesday, 7:00 pm (9/3)
Friday, 3:00 pm (9/5)
Sunday, 12:00 am, 5:00 am (9/7) NOVA
Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (9/3, 9/17, 9/24)
Thursdays, 2:00 pm (9/4, 9/18)
Sunday, 1:00 am (9/7)
Fridays, 1:00 am (9/19, 9/26)
Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (9/10, 9/17, 9/24)
Fridays, 2:00 am (9/12, 9/19, 9/26)
Monday, 3:00 pm (9/15)
Mark your calendars for WFMT’s annual Fall Choral Preview of upcoming events in the Chicagoland area, including performances by local and touring ensembles. Saturday, September 13, 4:00 pm
Mornings at 6:00 am
With news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
Midday with Lisa Flynn at 10:00 am
With Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm ( Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert on Wednesdays at 12:15 pm).
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree at 3:00 pm
With The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm and Friday Afternoon at the Movies on Fridays at 4:30 pm.
Labor Day
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Robert Nathaniel Dett Magnolia: Part I: Magnolias; The Deserted Cabin; My Lady Love – Clipper Erickson, p. Navona NV-6013. [10:48]
11:00 Cecil Coles From the Scottish Highlands – BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA-67293. [12:31]
12:00 Handel Water Music Suite No. 3 in G – Philharmonia
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads Uniting Voices Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and soloist Wiebke Lehmkuhl in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.
Sunday, September 21, 6:00 pm
Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907010. [9:39]
1:00 Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 – Isata KannehMason, p; London Mozart Players/Jonathan Bloxham. Decca 4870256. [19:50]
2:00 Wolf Italian Serenade in G – Takács Quartet. Decca 460034-2. [6:35]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Mozart String Divertimento in D, K. 136 – Dresden Staatskapelle/Herbert Blomstedt. Ars Vivendi 2100215. [11:14]
4:00 Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 –Johannes Moser, vc; Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/ Fabrice Bollon. Hänssler Classic 93.222. [19:31]
5:00 Stravinsky Suite italienne – Matt Haimovitz, vc; Christopher O’Riley, p. Oxingale OX-2019. [17:32]
6:00 Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain – Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim. DG 419407-2. [10:31]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Les Six The members of the anti-Wagner and anti-Impressionist group of 1920’s Montparnasse called Les Six were Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983).
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; Lilacs,
All prerecorded music on WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.
Most live performances on WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
LA Opera: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Quinn Kelsey, the leading Verdi baritone of his generation, sings the title role with fellow Ryan Opera Center alum René Barbera as the Duke, and Lisette Oropesa as Gilda. Saturday, September 27, 12:00 pm
Op. 21, No. 5; Prokofiev Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet; Nelson Goerner, piano; Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite, Op. 21a; Elim Chan, conductor.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Nadia Boulanger Three Pieces for cello and piano – Antonio Meneses, vc; Celina Szrvinsk, p. Avie AV-2162. [7:18]
11:00 Saint-Saëns Rapsodie d’Auvergne, Op. 73 – JeanPhilippe Collard, p; Royal Phil Orch/André Previn. EMI CDC7-49757-2. [10:12]
12:00 Richard Strauss Duet Concertino – Dimitri Ashkenazy, cl; Kim Walker, bn; Berlin Radio Sym Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 436415-2. [19:46]
1:00 Edward MacDowell Fireside Tales, Op. 61 – James Barbagallo, p. Marco Polo 8.223631. [12:01]
2:00 Tielman Susato The Danserye (1551): La Masque; Bergerette; Les quatre Branles; Fagot; Den hoboecken dans – U of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry Junkin. Reference RR-104. [10:10]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bach English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 –Rochelle Sennet, p. Albany TROY-1869-71 (3). [21:05]
4:00 Dvorák Romance in F minor, Op. 11 – Gil Shaham, v; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 449923-2. [11:54]
5:00 Pablo de Sarasate Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 (after Bizet) –Hilary Hahn, v; Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Andrés OrozcoEstrada. DG 4862383. [14:05]
6:00 Mozart Piano Sonata No. 18 in D, K. 576 – Orli Shaham, p. Canary Classics CC-21. [13:42]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Les Six See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Nikolay
Myaskovsky Quartet No. 13 in A minor, Op. 86; Borodin Quartet; Dohnányi Quintet No. 1 in C minor; Alessio Bax, piano; Ida Kavafian, Alexi Kenney, violins; Yura Lee, viola; Dmitri Atapine, cello.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 3
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
9:00 Price Piano Concerto in D minor – Han Chen, p; Malmö Opera Orch/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559952. [16:51]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including François Couperin Concert royal No. 4 in E minor – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AV-9840. [16:35]
11:00 Manuel Ponce Balada Mexicana – Eva Suk, p; Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz. ASV CDDCA-926. [11:18]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Pianist Han Chen performs music by Price, Ligeti, and Rachmaninoff, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago. 1:00 Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 – Gil Shaham, v; New York Phil/David Robertson. Canary Classics CC-12 (2). [22:48]
2:00 Byrd The Fitzwilliam Suite – Canadian Brass. CBS MK-45792. [11:17] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Boccherini Symphony in D minor, Op. 12, No. 4 (G 506), La Casa del Diavolo –Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon. RCA 7867-2-RC. [16:50]
4:00 Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: First Waltz Sequence – Cincinnati Sym Orch/Thomas Schippers. Vox CDX-5140 (2). [11:30]
5:00 Cécile Chaminade Konzertstück, Op. 40 – Danny Driver, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Rebecca Miller. Hyperion CDA-68130. [14:56]
6:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36 – Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim.
DG 419407-2. [14:08]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Les Six See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Mozart Piano and Wind Quintet in E-flat, K. 452 – Berlin Phil Winds; Alfons Kontarsky, p. Denon 38C37-7090. [22:39]
9:00 Puccini La Bohème: Suite – National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman. Pro Arte CDS-3671. [14:13]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Jaap Schröder A celebration of violinist Jaap Schröder, one of the first pioneers to present performances of baroque, and later, classical works, on period instruments.
11:00 Traditional Irish The Wild Rose of the Mountain –Carol Thompson, h. Dorian DOR-90273. [5:09]
Thursday 4
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT’s fourth annual Bach to School membership drive until 7:00 pm. Each year, WFMT’s Bach to School program provides free musical instruments to hundreds of schools, supporting thousands of students in their musical journey. This fall, 100 Chicago schools will each receive two acoustic guitars—a new resource to help students and educators deepen their connection to the rich world of music. Tune in to learn how you can help advance a bright and accessible future for music in our community. Call (773) 279-2100 or visit wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Les Six See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Stephen Foster Hard Times Come Again No More –Oregon Guitar Quartet. Cube Squared C2R-601. [10:47]
9:00 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 – Beaux Arts Trio; Kim Kashkashian, vi. Philips 422350-2. [31:15]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Wagner, arr. Maazel The Ring Without Words; Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor.
Friday 5
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Bologne Concertante Quartet
No. 6 in B-Flat – Arabella String Quartet. Naxos 8.574360. [9:50]
11:00 Dvorák From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68: V. Silent Woods – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa. Sony SK-46687. [6:19]
12:00 Price Dances in the Canebrakes – Malmö Opera Orch/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559952. [9:15]
1:00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 – English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 413629-2 (4). [20:02]
2:00 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79, No. 2 –Hélène Grimaud, p. DG B0006904-02. [7:06]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Marianna Martines Sinfonia in C – Women’s Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Newport Classic NCD-60102. [14:56]
4:00 Ravel Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose): Suite – Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon. Cala CACD-1004. [16:24]
5:00 Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 – Augustin Hadelich, v; Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Hannu Lintu. Avie AV-2276. [32:04]
6:00 Manuel Ponce Guitar Sonata No. 3 – Christopher Laughlin, g. Peregrine (Danza). [14:53]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Les Six See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: This Train, Part 2 (c. 1963) Part two of “This Train,” WFMT’s annual remembrance of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. Studs joined hundreds of Chicagoans on a train bound for Washington, D.C. He recorded their thoughts and experiences on his portable tape recorder, and wove those historic voices into this award-winning documentary.
Saturday 6
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am. Bologne Violin Concerto in G, Op. 8 – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Renaud Capuçon, v. Erato 5419718972. [18:26]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Gottschalk Home Sweet Home, Op. 51 – Alan Feinberg, p. Argo 436121-2. [6:15]
11:00 Introductions. The Porphyrion String Quartet and The Hemingway Quartet , two ensembles from the
Music Institute of Chicago Academy, perform music by Haydn, Haas, Dvorák, Brahms and Prokofiev. Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
12:00 From the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas & Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins Dido and Aeneas cast: Danielle De Niese (Dido); Jóhann Kristinsson (Aeneas); Julie Roset (Belinda); Jasmin White (Sorceress); Sara Swietlicki (2nd Woman/2nd Witch); Katherine Koester (1st Witch); Lasse Flaaten Husmer (Spirit); Kieran Carrel (Sailor); The Seven Deadly Sins cast: Danielle De Niese (Anna I and Anna II); Kristoffer Appel (Father); Benjamin Nellemose (Brother); Mads Skovgaard Andersen (Brother); Per Hoyer (Mother). Malmö Opera Chorus and Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Geoffrey Paterson, conductor. Sung in English.
2:00 Afternoon Music including Michel Corrette Concerto, Le Phénix – Soloists; UnderStories Ensemble. Challenge Classics CC-720016. [9:48]
3:00 Joseph Horovitz Music Hall Suite – Onyx Brass. Chandos CHAN-20399. [10:54]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho Conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield joins WFMT to pay tribute to the iconic Swedish tenor Jussi Björling (February 5, 1911–September 9, 1960).
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Elfrida Andrée Frithiof Suite – Norrkoping Sym Orch/Hermann Bäumer. CPO 555589-2. [27:39]
6:00 Rossini The Barber of Seville: Overture – Orch National d’Île de France/Enrique Mazzola. NoMadMusic B07JL6485B. [6:56]
7:00 Sounds Classical: Who Got Next Vol. 5 Hosts Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael share a playlist of their favorite composers taking the classical field by storm. They also share from an interview with composerviolinist Curtis Stewart
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: Anais Mitchell, currently of Bonny Light Horsemen, appeared solo on Folkstage years before her Hadestown musical became a Broadway phenomenon. Hear her distinctive voice as captured in 2010.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer September
Hear world-class soloists in performances from leading orchestras in Paris, Dresden, Munich, Manchester, and Frankfurt. On September 1, the poetic Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner performs Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Radio France Philharmonic conducted by Elim Chan. On the 8th, Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta , who recently debuted with the CSO, plays Shostakovich’s witty First Cello Concerto with the Dresden Staatskapelle under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev. On 15th, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen is the soloist when James Gaffigan conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato’s Symposium.” On the 22nd, English pianist Paul Lewis, a Beethoven specialist, performs the composer’s Third Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor John Storgårds. The final program of the month on the 29th features former CSO Artist-inResidence Hilary Hahn performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Alain Altinoglu.
Mondays, 10:00 pm
songs populate the playlist as “the days dwindle down” and summer wanes on the eve of the Harvest Moon.
Sunday 7
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Back to School. Host Peter DuBois shares sacred choral and organ music from a variety of scholastic and collegiate musicians.
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Mark O’Connor Butterfly’s Day Out – Mark O’Connor, m; Yo-Yo Ma,
A native of the town of Barri in Galicia, Esteban Batallán was appointed principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Riccardo Muti in 2019. The Spaniard succeeded Christopher Martin and his own “idol of youth,” the legendary Adolph “Bud” Herseth. Prior to his appointment, Batallán had already performed with the CSO as a guest musician and gained recognition for his powerful, expressive playing. In 2023, he took a brief hiatus from Chicago to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra, stepping in as guest principal trumpet during a transitional period in their brass section. Despite speculation about a permanent move, Batallán returned to his post in Chicago. This concert from earlier this summer celebrates his commitment to CSO with his first subscription appearance as concerto soloist (trumpet concertos by Telemann and Michael Haydn conducted by Muti) and builds upon his reputation as one of the leading orchestral trumpeters of his generation.
Sunday, September 7
6:00 pm
vc; Edgar Meyer, db. Sony S2K-93927 (2). [4:40]
8:00 Henriëtte Bosmans Piano Concertino – Ronald Brautigam, p, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orch/ Ed Spanjaard. NM Classics 92095. [14:41]
9:00 Carlo Tessarini Flute Concerto in D – Lyon Leifer, f; Music of the Baroque/ Thomas Wikman. Music of the Baroque . [8:30]
10:00 Debussy Jeux (Poème dansé) – City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Simon Rattle. EMI CDC7-49947-2. [19:24]
11:00 Clarice Assad Familia – Yo-Yo
Ma, vc; Assad family, g’s and vocals. Sony 24414-2. [3:57]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Rossini La gazza ladra: Overture – Royal Opera House Orch/Carlo Rizzi. Conifer 55004-2. [9:57]
1:00 Shostakovich Selections from Five Days and Five Nights, Op. 111 – Ukraine National Sym Orch/Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.553299. [11:55]
2:00 Haydn Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, Drum Roll – Danish Chamber Orch/Ádám Fischer. Naxos 8.574519. [28:49]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025 Steans Music Institute alumni the Isidore Quartet (Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violins; Devin Moore, viola; Joshua McClendon, cello) perform Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465, Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit, and Ravel’s String Quartet in F major. Recorded June 22, 2025 in Bennett Gordon Hall.
5:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series Baritone Ian Rucker, bass-baritone Christopher Humbert, Jr. , and pianist Michael Banwarth perform arias and songs by Korngold, Still, Schubert, Poulenc, and Stevie Wonder. Hosted by Candice Agree.
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Haydn Symphony No. 48 in C Major, Maria Theresa; Schubert Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417, Tragic; Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 41: D7; Michael Haydn Concerto for Trumpet in D Major, MH 104; Esteban Batallán, trumpet; Riccardo Muti, conductor; JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BMV 1048; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BMV 1050.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Mexican Composer Gabriela Ortiz Gabriela Oritz is one of the most important and intriguing living composers. Elbio presents a selection of her, music, including her monumental violin concert Altar de Cuertas (String Altar) recorded by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel A program featuring the wide and varied repertoire of the innovative Third Coast Percussion ensemble.
11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
Monday 8
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Gabriel Pierné Voyage au Pays du Tendre –Carol Wincenc, f; Vanessa McKeand, h; Allegri String Quartet. Virgin 90721-2. [11:01]
11:00 Elgar Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40 – London Phil Orch/ Sir Georg Solti. Decca 443856-2 (2). [14:12]
12:00 Manuel Ponce Four Mexican Dances – Argentina Durán, p. Bravo Music (Rapsodia Mexicana). [7:10]
1:00 Corelli Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 5 – Barton Pine, v; Rozendaal, viga; Acker, archl & g; Schrader, o & hc. Cedille CDR-90000232. [10:19]
2:00 Schubert Rosamunde, D 797: Overture; Entr’acte No. 1 – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 431655-2. [18:08]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 12, No. 3 – Shea-Kim Duo. Blue Griffin BGR-643. [20:07]
4:00 Doppler Brothers Fantasy on Verdi’s Rigoletto, Op. 38 –Daniel Ottensamer & Andreas Ottensamer, cl’s; Ernst Ottensamer, basset hn; Vienna Virtuosi. DG 4811917. [10:01]
5:00 Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne – Miloš, g. Sony 19658822942. [15:08]
6:00 Dora Bright Variations for Piano and Orchestra: Variation 7, Scherzo-Finale – Samantha Ward, p; Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Charles Peebles. Somm SOMMCD-273. [6:24]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: School Days A week dedicated to children’s songs, young composers and performers including music by Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ferde Grofé, Muzio Clementi, and Edward Elgar.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Dresden Staatskapelle Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107; Sol Gabetta, cello; Bruckner Symphony No. 7; Tugan Sokhiev, conductor.
Tuesday 9
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Chopin Polonaise
No. 6 in A-Flat, Op. 53, Heroic – Daniel Barenboim, p. DG B0015384-02. [7:20]
11:00 Copland Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Melody – Christina & Michelle Naughton, p’s. Warner 0190295562298. [5:36]
12:00 Jean-Marie Leclair Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 7, No. 5 – Leila Schayegh, v; La Cetra. Glossa GCD-924206. [14:17]
1:00 Liszt Les préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 –Berlin Phil/Zubin Mehta. Sony SK-66834. [16:07]
2:00 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor – Steven Isserlis, vc; Pascal Devoyon, p. Virgin 61198-2. [10:47]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Rachmaninoff Five Etudes-Tableaux – San Diego Sym/Yoav Talmi. Pro Arte CDS-3450. [22:39]
4:00 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77 – Virginia Eskin, p. Koch 3-7056-2. [11:54]
5:00 Rebecca Clarke Midsummer Moon – Laura Kobayashi, v, Susan Keith Gray, p. Albany TROY-372. [5:55]
6:00 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29, From Old Notebooks – Barbara Nissman, p. Newport Classic NCD-60092. [15:56]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: School Days See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. David Ludwig Aria Fantasy; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; Bella Hristova, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Mihai Marica, cello; Arensky Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32; Wu Qian, piano; Bella Hristova, violin; Dmitri Atapine, cello.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 10
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Vivaldi Flute, Bassoon and Violin Concerto in F, R 100 – Katy Bircher, f; Peter Whelan, bn; La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v. Avie AV-2178. [7:43]
11:00 Ferdinand Ries Piano Concerto No. 8 in A-Flat, Op. 151, Gruss an den Rhein: III. Rondo: Allegro molto – Piers Lane, p; The Orchestra Now/Leon Botstein. Hyperion CDA-68217. [11:22]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Cellist William Suh and pianist Kyunga
Lee perform music by Price, Debussy, and Poulenc, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Frank Bridge The Sea – Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN-8473. [21:38]
2:00 Anthony Holborne Five Dances – Paul O’Dette, l. Nonesuch 79123-2. [8:40]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Still Violin and Piano Suite – Zina Schiff, v; Royal Scottish National Orch/ Avlana Eisenberg. Naxos 8.559867. [16:56]
4:00 Grieg Symphonic Dances, Op. 64: No. 4, Andante-Allegro molto e risoluto – Bergen Phil Orch/Edward Gardner. Chandos CHSA-5301. [11:01]
5:00 Johann Nepomuk Hummel Trumpet Concerto –German Chamber Phil Bremen/Alison Balsom, tr. EMI 16213-0. [17:40]
6:00 Price Village Scenes – Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p. Blue Griffin BGR-615. [9:35]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: School Days
See Monday’s listing
8:00 Evening Music including Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Pentatone
PTC-5186188. [46:55]
9:00 Traditional Danish Where were you so late last night?; Traditional English As I Walked Out – Danish String Quartet. ECM 2785. [6:33]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: The Spanish Palestrina Swiss vocal ensemble Corund presents a concert of madrigals and sacred works by Tomás Luis de Victoria, called the greatest of all Iberian composers. Recorded live at Switzerland’s St. Gallen Festival on June 27, 2014.
11:00 Bernard Andrès Soirées d’été – Chicago Harp Quartet. Chicago Harp Quartet 748252899439. [10:53]
Thursday 11
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Boccherini Cello Concerto No. 7 in G, G 480 – Mischa Maisky, vc; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 447022-2. [15:50]
11:00 Ferde Grofé Grand Canyon Suite: III. On the Trail – St. Louis Sym Orch/ Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60778-2-RC. [7:58]
12:00 Aram Khachaturian Masquerade Suite – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8542. [16:17]
1:00 Mozart Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, K. 498, Kegelstatt – Patrick Messina, cl; Lise Berthaud, vi; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p. Aparté AP-332. [17:56]
2:00 Rossini Semiramide: Overture – Vienna Phil/ Riccardo Muti. Orfeo C-867121-B. [12:00]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Clémence de Grandval Oboe Concerto, Op. 7 –Lajos Lencsés, ob; Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/ Andrey Boreyko. Hänssler Classic 98295. [17:00]
4:00 Barber Adagio for Strings (from Op. 11) – Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein. DG 439521-2. [10:01]
5:00 Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod – Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 99595-2. [17:10]
6:00 Adolphus Hailstork Sonata da Chiesa – Czech National Sym Orch/Paul Freeman. Albany TROY-499. [19:19]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: School Days See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Johann Christian Bach Symphony in D, Op. 18, No. 1 – Hanover Band/ Anthony Halstead. CPO 999488-2. [9:36]
9:00 Meredith Monk Ellis Island; Schubert Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817 – Julia Hamos, p. Naïve V-8674. [6:43]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments; Janácek Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Winds; Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version); Yuja Wang, piano & conductor.
Friday 12
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Richard Strauss Salome, Op. 54: Dance of the Seven Veils – Suisse Romande Orch/Kazuki Yamada. Pentatone PTC-5186518. [9:44]
11:00 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Hamburg Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq 182/3 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902317. [9:14]
12:00 Teresa Carreño Ballade, Op. 15 – Clara Rodríguez,
Steelpan virtuoso and pianist Jaden Teague-Núñez is a senior at DeKalb High School. Jaden’s mother, Lorena Núñez, is the former principal viola of the Panama National Symphony and his father is the renowned pannist and educator Liam Teague. Born in Panama City, Panama, Jaden and his family moved to the United States in 2011. Jaden began studying both steelpan and piano (classical and jazz) at ages 8 and 10, respectively, and has added drums and other percussion instruments to his skillset. Jaden made history in 2024 by being the first steelpan player to win the Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition. As last year’s competition winner, Jaden made his CSO debut earlier this spring. Jaden continues to develop as a performer, balancing school and performance, while steadily building an international profile as one of the steelpan’s most promising young ambassadors. He returns to Introductions for a live solo recital on which he will perform as both pianist and pannist. Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
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1:00 Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C – Christian Poltéra, vc; Munich Chamber Orchestra. BIS 2507. [22:58]
2:00 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena) – Avi Avital, m; Richard Galliano, acc; Klaus Stoll, db. DG B0019758-02. [5:17]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Beethoven Trio in B-Flat, Op. 11 – David Shifrin, cl; David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p. ArtistLed 11101-2. [21:12]
4:00 Vaughan Williams The Lark
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Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm.
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Mornings News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Mornings News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree Friday Afternoon at the Movies at 4:30 pm The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Afternoon Music Ravinia Festival 2025
Listening to Singers …
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel
10 pm WFMT Orchestra Series Chamber Music … Baroque&Before The New York Philharmonic This Week 11 pm Evening Music … Studs Terkel ... Through the Night …
12 am Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night …
Ascending – Elena Urioste, v; London Choral Sinfonia/ Michael Waldron. Orchid Classics ORC-100200. [15:54]
5:00 Telemann Sinfonia Melodica – Albrecht Mayer, ob; Berlin Baroque Soloists/ Rainer Kussmaul. DG B0005761-02. [10:08]
6:00 Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture – Philharmonia Zürich/Fabio Luisi. Philharmonia Records PHR-0102 (2). [15:37]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: School Days See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Music of the Baroque with Tom Wikman (4/22/1976) A conversation with the founder of Chicago’s treasured Music of the Baroque. MOB’s new season begins Sunday, September 14.
Saturday 13
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am. Still Miniatures for Flute, Oboe & Piano – Sierra Winds; Carol Urban-Stivers, p. Cambria CD-1083. [11:50]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Frank Bridge Phantasie Trio in C minor – Bernard Roberts Piano Trio. Black Box BBM-1028. [15:39]
11:00 Introductions LIVE | Jaden Teague-Núñez, 17, steelpan & piano. Kevin Bobo Rhapsody in Steel; Liam Teague Selections from A Visit to Hell; Jan Bach Bach Talk; Rachmaninoff Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2; George Hamilton Green The Whistler; Lord Kitchener Sugar Bum Bum. With Austyn Menk, piano and Neal Kotamarty Eisfeldt, violin.
12:00 From Bavarian State Opera in Munich: Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci Yulia Matochkina (Santuzza); Ican Gyngazov (Turiddu); Rosalind Plowright (Lucia); Wolfgang Koch (Alfio); Ekaterine Buachidze (Lola); Ailyn Pérez (Nedda); Jonas Kaufmann (Canio); Wolfgang Koch (Tonio); Andres Agudelo (Beppe); Thomas Mole (Silvio); Bavarian State Opera Chorus and
Orchestra; Daniele Rustioni, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:30 Afternoon Music including Ludovico Einaudi Maria Callas – Redi Hasa, vc; Ludovico Einaudi, p. Decca 6806162. [5:06]
3:00 Haydn Symphony No. 59 in A, Fire : I. Presto – Music of the Baroque/Jane Glover. Music of the Baroque CD-2020. [6:30]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho A Fall Choral Preview highlighting a wealth of upcoming performances across Chicagoland including three local groups featured in the Ear Taxi Festival, Consonance in River Forest, the St. Charles Singers, and Cappella Pratensis at University of Chicago.
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Ernest Guiraud Ouverture d’Arteveld, Op. 10 – Lyon National Orch/ Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Bru Zane BZ-2007. [9:09]
6:00 Gluck Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance of the Furies – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 410553-2. [4:00]
7:00 Sounds Classical: Disney, Part 2 Hosts LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn return with more sounds that served as the building blocks for their love of classical music.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer Live from St. Tim’s Coffeehouse in Skokie : Catch Nashville-based singersongwriter Sam Robbins Eloquent songs, elaborate guitar stylings, and bottomless charm ensure that his star will continue to rise.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Sing “Happy Birthday” to Bill Monroe and celebrate the sound of the mandolin and other spirits of bluegrass.
Sunday 14
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Big Birthdays! Host Peter DuBois commemorates major birthdays of living composers this month, including John Rutter, celebrating 80 years, and Arvo Pärt, celebrating 90!
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Brahms Symphony
No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 –Hamburg State Phil/Kent Nagano. BIS 2374. [41:17]
8:00 Eric Whitacre Cloudburst –Polyphony/Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA-67543. [8:22]
9:00 Giuseppe Tartini Violin Concerto in E, D. 51 – La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler, v. Avie AV-2371. [16:37]
10:00 David Grisman Mondo Mando – David Grisman Quintet; Kronos Quartet. Zebra Acoustic Records ZEAD-42248. [8:54]
11:00 Jessie Montgomery Strum – Catalyst Quartet. Azica ACD-71302. [6:52]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Ethel Smyth The Wreckers: Overture – Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson. EMI CDM7-69206-2. [9:24]
1:00 Giovanni Paisiello Mandolin Concerto in C – Alon Sariel, m; Cologne Academy/Michael Alexander Willens. Pentatone PTC-5187364. [13:01]
2:00 Carl Reinecke Flute Concerto in D, Op. 283 – Sharon Bezaly, f; Hague Residentie Orch/ Neeme Järvi. BIS 1679. [18:08]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025: Tony Siqi Yun, piano The Canadian-born Juilliard graduate, Gold Medalist at the inaugural China International Music Competition, performs Robert Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, Brahms’s Theme and Variations in D minor, and more. Recorded June 21, 2025 in Bennett Gordon Hall.
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 – Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4870959. [54:58]
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Robert Schumann Overture to Manfred, Op. 115; Brahms Schicksalslied, Op. 54; Holst The Planets; Op. 32; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Jenny Wong, director; Daniel Harding, conductor; Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duaine Wolfe, director; Georg Solti, conductor.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Baroque Composers from Mexico, Spain, and Cuba For over 300 years there was a constant transatlantic musical exchange during the reign of the Elbio brings to light this phenomenon through the music of Mexican composer Manuel de Zumaya, Spaniard Juan Manuel de la Puente and Cuban Esteban Salas.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel A survey of Australian pianist, Percy
Grainger specialist, and composer, Penelope Thwaites
11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
Monday 15
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Giuseppe Tartini Pastorale in A – National Arts Centre Orch/Pinchas Zukerman, v. Analekta AN2-8783. [12:07]
11:00 Alexander Glazunov Overture No. 1 on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 – Hong Kong Phil Orch/ Kenneth Schermerhorn. Records Int’l 7001-2. [13:16]
12:00 Chopin Nocturne in G minor, Op. 37, No. 1 – Earl Wild, p. Brilliant Classics 94930. [7:43]
1:00 Copland Billy the Kid – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. EMI CDC7-47382-2. [32:26]
2:00 Dvorák Violin Sonatina in G, Op. 100 – Gil Shaham, v; Orli Shaham, p. DG 449820-2. [17:31]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Michael Haydn Horn Concertino in D – Anthony Halstead, hn; Hanover Band/Roy Goodman. Nimbus NI-5190. [15:24]
4:00 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Fantasiestücke, Op. 5 –Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68413. [19:38]
5:00 Percy Grainger Lincolnshire Posy – Dallas Wind Sym/ Jerry Junkin. Reference RR-117. [17:14]
6:00 Albert Franz Doppler Hungarian Pastoral Fantasy, Op. 26 – Mathieu Dufour, f; Kuang-Hao Huang, p. Cedille CDR-90000121. [12:15]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Caucasian Sketches: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea This week’s journey starts in Armenia and Azerbaijan, continues through Georgia and Ukraine, and ends on the western banks of the Black Sea with composers including Giya Kancheli, Aram Khachaturian, and Richard Yardumian.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Bernstein Serenade, after Plato’s Symposium; Janine Jansen, violin; Still Mother and Child; Dvorák American Suite, Op. 98b; Gershwin An American in Paris; James Gaffigan, conductor.
Tuesday 16
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Monteverdi Selva morale e spirituale : Beatus vir (Psalm 112) – Les Arts Florissants/William Christie. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2908546.47. [7:23]
11:00 Leo Brouwer Cuban Landscape with Rain – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. GHA 126001. [6:45]
12:00 Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 471627-2 (2). [10:05]
1:00 Britten Gloriana, Op. 53: Courtly Dances – Royal Phil Orch/André Previn. Telarc CD-80126. [10:18]
2:00 Schubert 16 German Dances, D 783 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 446923-2 (5). [10:42]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Mozart Piano Concerto No. 5 in D, K. 175 – Robert Levin, o; Academy of Ancient Music/Laurence Cummings. AAM Records 042. [21:53]
4:00 Ruth Gipps Ambarvalia –Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/ Charles Peebles. Somm SOMMCD-273. [7:49]
5:00 Robert Schumann Konzertstück in F, Op. 86 –Owen, Parkes, Frank-Gemmill & Willis, hn’s; BBC Phil/ John Wilson. Chandos CHAN-20168. [17:25]
6:00 Alfred Schnittke Suite in the Old Style – Shea-Kim Duo. Blue Griffin BGR-643. [18:18]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Caucasian Sketches: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Fauré La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61; Meigui Zhang, s; Arnaud Sussmann & Paul Huang, v’s; Matthew Lipman, vi; David Requiro, vc; Tim Cobb, db; Gloria Chien, p; Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52; Susanna Phillips, s; Tamara Mumford, ms; Nicholas Phan, t; Nathan Gunn, br; Sebastian Knauer & Anne-Marie McDermott, p.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 17
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Robert Schumann Arabeske in C, Op. 18 –Vladimir Ashkenazy, p.
Decca 414474-2. [6:29]
11:00 Elizabeth Maconchy Overture, Proud Thames –London Phil Orch/ Vernon Handley. Lyrita SRCS.57. [5:44]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Cellist Dilshod Narzillaev and pianist Victor Santiago Asunción perform music by Chopin, Brahms, and Afanasyevich Varelas, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Bach Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 – Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902113.14 (2). [25:25]
2:00 Henryk Wieniawski Polonaise brillante No. 1 in D, Op. 4 –Leila Josefowicz, v; St Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Philips 454440-2. [5:31]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Sergei Taneyev Oresteia: Overture, Op. 6 – Helsinki Phil Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Ondine ODE-959-2. [16:45]
4:00 Fanny Mendelssohn Das Jahr: February; March; May; September; December – Jennifer Eley, p. Koch 3-7197-2. [18:22]
5:00 Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien, Op. 45 – Pittsburgh Sym Orch/William Steinberg. EMI CDM5-67249-2. [17:34]
6:00 Haydn Andante con variazioni in F minor, H XVII:6 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 416365-2. [15:23]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Caucasian Sketches: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Malcolm Williamson Santiago de Espada Overture – Iceland Sym Orch/Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN-10359. [6:03]
9:00 Kevin Puts Symphony No. 4, From Mission San Juan – Baltimore Sym Orch/ Marin Alsop. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907580. [28:28]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: The World of Ramon Llull Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, and guest artists in a program focused on Ramon Llull (1232-1316), one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia. Recorded in the Saló del Tinell de Barcelona on November 28, 2015.
Thursday 18
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Alexander Borodin
Three unique artists lead the Philharmonic in four dynamic programs this month. On September 4th, Nathalie Stutzmann conducts The Ring Without Words, a 75-minute distillation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle created by Lorin Maazel. The French conductor and contralto, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is only the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. On the 11th, Yuja Wang is billed as “pianist/leader” for a unique program of 20th-century works: Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, Janáček’s Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in its original jazz-band version. On the 18th, Gustavo Dudamel takes the podium for a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth with performances of his Mother Goose Suite, a suite from Daphnis et Chloé; and the world premiere of a work Ravel wrote in his student days. Dudamel, the orchestra’s Music and Artistic Director Designate, returns on the 25th to lead symphonies by Stravinsky and Philip Glass, plus the world premiere of Kate Soper’s Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus with the composer as soprano soloist.
Thursdays, 10:00 pm
Prince Igor: Overture – Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 68132-2. [10:01]
11:00 Ron Nelson Aspen Jubilee –Women’s Cho of Dallas, Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin. Reference RR-76. [10:37]
12:00 Price Fantasie Nègre No. 1 in E minor – Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, p. Sony 19802889462. [8:04] 1:00 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Tafelmusik/ Jeanne Lamon. Sony SK-63073. [19:03]
2:00 Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: II. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) –Joseph Moog & Kai Adomeit, p’s. Onyx 4229. [8:38]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Beethoven Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op. 80 – R Serkin, p; Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Sym Orch/S Ozawa. Telarc CD-80061/5. [20:03]
4:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Finale, Festival at BaghdadThe Sea-Shipwreck – London Phil Orch/Zubin Mehta. LPO 0117. [12:23]
5:00 Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042 – Brecon Baroque/Rachel Podger, v. Channel Classics
CCSSA-30910. [15:38]
6:00 Wagner Siegfried Idyll – New York Phil/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 419169-2. [19:22]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Caucasian Sketches: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Zoltán Kodály Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, The Peacock – London Phil Orch/Franz WelserMöst. EMI CDC7-54858-2. [27:37] } – Marc-André Hamelin, p. Hyperion CDA-67554 (2). [20:27]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Varèse Amériques; Gershwin An American in Paris; Ravel Mother Goose Suite; Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2; Prélude et Danse de Sémiramis (World Premiere); Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
Friday 19
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Ernest Chausson Poème, Op. 25 – Julia Fischer, v; Monte Carlo Phil Orch/ Yakov Kreizberg. Decca B0015535-02. [16:05]
11:00 Traditional Chinese Moon Reflection at Second Stream – Pacific Harmony String Quartet. Pacific Harmony 2000. [6:47]
12:00 Verdi La forza del destino: Overture – Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 4794648. [7:46]
1:00 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5, Lark – Hagen Quartet. DG 423622-2. [18:10]
2:00 Robert Schumann
Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G, Op. 92 –Jan Lisiecki, p; Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano.
DG 4795327. [14:25]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 –Lindsay String Quartet. ASV CDDCA-712. [24:46]
4:00 François-Adrien Boieldieu Harp Concerto in C (in Three Tempi) – Marisa Robles, h; St Martin’s Academy/Iona Brown. Argo ZRG-930. [20:13]
5:00 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A, Op. 101 –Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 438472-2. [21:13]
6:00 Ravel Gaspard de la nuit –Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, p. Philips 456901-2 (2). [21:26]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Caucasian Sketches: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Kris Kristofferson (4/30/1971) The American singer, songwriter, and actor was born in Brownsville, Texas, in June 1936. He passed away in Maui, Hawaii, in September 2024.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am Falla La vida breve: Interlude & Dance – Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD-80149. [7:01]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Gabriela Lena Frank Danza de los Saqsampillos –Christopher Norton & Todd Kemp, marimbas. Naxos 8.559645. [6:55]
11:00 Introductions LIVE | Elle Cho, 16, violin. Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001, Fuga; Vitali: Chaconne in G minor; Beach: Romance in A, Op. 23; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, 1st mvt. With Milana Pavchinskaya, piano. Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
12:00 From Bavarian State Opera in Munich: Fauré’s Pénélope Brandon Jovanovich (Ulysse); Thomas Mole (Eumée); Loïc Felix (Antinoüs); Leigh Melrose (Eurymaque); Joel Williams (Léodès); Zachary Rioux (Ctésippe); Dafydd Jones (Pisandre); Victoria Karkacheva (Pénélope); Rinat Shaham (Eryclée); Valerie Eickhoff (Cléone); Seonwoo Lee (Mélantho); Marina Myskohlid (Alkandre); Ena Pngrac (Phylo); Eirin Rognerud (Lydie); Elene Gvritishvili (Eurynome); Bavarian State Opera
Orchestra; Susanna Mälkki, conductor. Sung in French.
2:00 Afternoon Music including Berlioz Rêverie et caprice, Op. 8 – María Dueñas, v; Berlin German Sym Orch/Mihhail Gerts. DG 4865708. [8:26]
3:00 Biagio Marini Sonata sopra Fuggi dolente core, Op. 22; Passacaglia à 4, Op. 22 –Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2544. [5:54]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho An interview with French baritone Florian Sempey who made his American debut at Santa Fe Opera this summer.
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Rameau Acante et Céphise: Overture –Orch of the 18th Century/ Frans Brüggen. Glossa GCD-921103. [4:02]
6:00 Chopin Grande valse brillante in E-Flat, Op. 18 – Alice Sara Ott, p. DG 4828050. [5:42]
7:00 Sounds Classical Kristina and LaRob bring the all-Black music collective D-Composed into the studio for a live performance and a closer look at their mission to amplify the music of Black composers and share that history with communities!
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: Charming, powerful and modest, Californian Jackson Emmer came to WFMT in 2023, enthusiastically recommended by Tom Paxton with sideman Martin Gilmore, a 2025 Kerrville New Folk winner.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Autumn arrives with honey, almonds and raisins.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice We Praise Thee, O God. Host Peter DuBois shares sacred choral and organ music of praise, focusing on the great Canticles of the Church, including the Te Deum, Jubilate Deo, Magnificat, and others.
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Pablo de Sarasate Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43 – Midori, v; Robert McDonald, p. Sony SK-52568. [4:52]
8:00 Trollstilt Ricercar – Owls. New Amsterdam Records NWAM-194. [4:12]
9:00 Anonymous 18th-century Bolivian Pastoreta Ychepe Flauta – Ashley Solomon, r; Florilegium. Channel Classics CCSSA-22105 (2). [8:58]
10:00 Rodrigo Concierto
serenata – Isabelle Moretti, h; Royal Seville Sym Orch/Edmon Colomer. Valois V-4815. [24:11]
11:00 Errollyn Wallen Mighty River – BBC Concert Orch/ John Andrews. Resonus RES-10358. [16:48]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Ferruccio Busoni Comedy Overture, Op. 38 – Rome Sym Orch/Francesco La Vecchia. Naxos 8.572922. [7:01]
1:00 Bongani Ndodana-Breen Safika - Three Tales of African Migration – Castle of our Skins; Samantha Ege, p. Lorent LNT-147. [12:17]
2:00 Mozart Violin Sonata No. 35 in A, K. 526 – Alina Ibragimova, v; Cédric Tiberghien, p. Hyperion CDA-68175. [25:38]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025: Mendelssohn’s Octet The Juilliard Quartet and the Isidore Quartet perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130, Jörg Widmann’s String Quartet No. 8, and Felix Mendelssohn’s String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20. Recorded June 25, 2025 in the Martin Theatre.
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Tchaikovsky Grande Sonata in G, Op. 37a – Vassily Primakov, p. Bridge 9283. [32:22]
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D Minor; Wiebke Lehmkuhl, contralto; Chicago Symphony Chorus; James Bass, director; Uniting Voices Chicago; Josephine Lee, director; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: The Other Joaquín Rodrigo The tremendous popularity of Concierto de Aranjuez has made Joaquín Rodrigo almost a “one piece composer” or just a “composer for the guitar,” but it couldn’t be farther from the truth. in this program, Fiesta reviews vocal, piano and chamber music by this eclectic composer.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Historic New York Philharmonic Broadcasts – Program 1 of 3 Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D; Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin; Fauré Requiem; Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla; Stravinsky Fireworks.
11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
Monday 22
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Pablo de Sarasate Fantasy on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Op. 51 – Tianwa Yang, v; Navarra Sym Orch/ Ernest Martínez Izquierdo. Naxos 8.572276. [10:29]
11:00 Emmanuel Chabrier España –Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa. DG 423698-2. [6:10]
12:00 Respighi The Birds –Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 437533-2. [18:14]
1:00 Beethoven Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119 – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902416. [14:52]
2:00 Ethel Smyth Serenade in D: 1st mvt, Allegro non troppo – BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez. Chandos CHAN-9449. [14:23]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Robert Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 –Gidon Kremer, v; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa. DG 439890-2. [22:30]
4:00 Mozart Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313 – Michel Débost, f; Orch de Paris/ Daniel Barenboim. EMI CZS7-67306-2 (2). [23:50]
5:00 William Walton Façade: Suites Nos. 1 & 2 – City of Birmingham Sym Orch/ Louis Frémaux. EMI CDC7-47512-2. [22:47]
6:00 Copland Rodeo – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. EMI CMS764315-2 (2). [23:02]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 1 Bill shares performances from Earl Wild, Imogen Cooper, Marian Anderson, and members of the Vienna Philharmonic to communicate their intimate connections with Schubert through his songs and other works.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: BBC Philharmonic Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37; Paul Lewis, piano; Grace-Evangeline Mason Ablaze the Moon; Holst The Planets, Op. 32; John Storgårds, conductor.
Tuesday 23
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Byrd The Bells – Kit Armstrong, p. DG 4861364. [6:08]
11:00 Dimitri Tiomkin The Alamo: Suite – London Voices, London Sym Orch/ Richard Kaufman. LSO
Live LSO-0720. [12:56]
12:00 Bologne Symphony No. 1 in G, Op. 11, No. 1 – Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász. Naxos 8.574306. [12:21]
1:00 Mozart Violin Sonata No. 18 in G, K. 301 – Hilary Hahn, v; Natalie Zhu, p. DG 4775572. [14:15]
2:00 Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances – Utah Sym/Keith Lockhart. Reference RR-105. [22:09]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216 – Camerata Salzburg/Leonidas Kavakos, v. Sony 82876842412. [23:05]
4:00 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, Spring –Isabelle Faust, v; Alexander Melnikov, p. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902025.27 (4). [23:04]
5:00 Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43 –Yuja Wang, p; Mahler Chamber Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG B0015338-02. [22:59]
6:00 Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals – Les Siècles/ François-Xavier Roth. Harmonia Mundi HMM902614.15. [23:05]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 1 See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Debussy Cello Sonata; David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p; Chausson Concerto in D major, Op. 21; Arnaud Sussmann, violin solo; Wu Han, p; Kristin Lee & Yura Lee, v’s; Richard O’Neill, vi; Nicholas Canellakis, vc.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 24
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op. 96 –Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/ Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0013458-02. [5:59]
11:00 Luigi Boccherini Night Music in the Streets of Madrid, Op. 30, No. 6 – United Strings of Europe/Julian Azkoul. BIS 2529. [11:02]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. Cerus Quartet (saxophonists Roberto Campa, Laura Ramsay, Kyle Kato, and Samuel Dishon) perform works by Glazunov, Chaminade, Pedro Iturralde, and Karalyn Schubring live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake,
Op. 20: Suite – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8556. [29:27]
2:00 David Popper Three Pieces, Op. 11 – Wendy Warner, vc; Eileen Buck, p. Cedille CDR-90000111. [12:31]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Dvorák Czech Suite, Op. 39 – Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Rudolf Krecmer. Discover International DICD-920520. [23:03]
4:00 Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite – Teatre Lliure Chamber Orch Barcelona/Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901609. [22:59]
5:00 Verdi String Quartet in E minor – Vermeer Quartet. Teldec 8.43105. [23:03]
6:00 Dvorák Wind Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 – Vienna Phil Winds/Myung-Whun Chung. DG 471613-2. [23:00]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 1 See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Mozart Adagio in E, K. 261 –Berlin Phil/David Oistrakh, v. EMI CDM7-69653-2. [8:23]
9:00 Michael Torke Bliss –University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Paul W. Popiel. Ecstatic Records ER-092261. [11:30]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Les chemins hébraïques du baroque Ensemble XVIII-21 Le Baroque Nomade presents selections from Benedetto Marcello’s settings of the Psalms of David. Recorded in 1999 in the Church of Saint-Quirin in the Moselle, France. 11:00 Marc-Antoine Charpentier Overture, H. 536 – Ensemble Correspondances/Sébastian Daucé. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902169. [5:27]
Thursday 25
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Thomas Arne Overture No. 5 in D –Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 4759117. [7:08]
11:00 Vernon Duke Autumn in New York – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Reiko Uchida, p. WFMT . [5:35]
12:00 Alberto Ginastera Danzas criollas, Op. 15 – Jerusalem Sym/Gisèle Ben-Dor. Naxos 8.570999. [9:19]
1:00 Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D, Miracle – Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer.
Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin on November 23, 1955. After graduating from conservatories in Turin and Milan, he went on to study with the avant-garde Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen, a pioneer of electronic music. In 1982, Einaudi’s talents won him a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he first encountered American minimalism. He spent the next several years composing for the ballet, the cinema, and the theater, until his first solo album, Le Onde (1996), brought him to the world’s attention. Einaudi is now the most streamed classical artist of all time, averaging 9 billion streams a year. He joins WFMT to discuss his career in film and tv scores, and to share his new album The Summer Portraits. Einaudi’s North American concert tour of The Summer Portraits reaches Chicago later this month.
Saturday, September 27
9:00 am
Nimbus NI-5135. [23:25]
2:00 Price Piano Sonata in E minor – Michelle Cann, p. Platoon PLAT-18088. [24:06]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Telemann Tafelmusik, Book 1: Overture (Suite) in E minor – Pierre Hamon, f; Le Concert des Nations/ Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9877. [23:00]
4:00 Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11 –Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Chandos CHAN-20256. [22:58]
5:00 Louise Farrenc Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, Op. 44 –Linos Ensemble. CPO 777256. [22:55]
6:00 Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1919) – Chicago Sym
Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini. Warner 431752-2 (4). [22:59]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 1 See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music including Tchaikovsky Marche slave, Op. 31 – Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim. DG 400035-2. [10:24]
9:00 Alex Shapiro Perpetual Spark – Fifth House Ensemble. Cedille CDR90000148. [6:53]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Soper Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus (World Premiere, NYP Commission); Kate Soper, soprano; Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements; Glass Symphony No. 11; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
Friday 26
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Daniel-François Auber Fra Diavolo: Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel. Naxos 8.573418. [8:13]
11:00 Vincent d’Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Op. 25: III. Finale, Animé –Catherine Collard, p; Radio France Phil/Marek Janowski. Erato 45821-2. [7:21]
12:00 Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op. 3, No. 4 – Vienna Concentus Musicus/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 8.35545 (2). [12:55]
1:00 Vaughan Williams The Wasps – Kansas City Sym/ Michael Stern. Reference RR-129. [25:11]
2:00 Arcangelo Corelli Violin Sonata in A, Op. 5, No. 9 – Avison Ensemble/ Pavlo Beznosiuk, v. Linn CKD-412 (2). [10:25]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Ernesto Lecuona Andalucía, Suite española – Louise Bessette, p. Analekta AN2-9963. [23:01]
4:00 Carl Reinecke Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano, Op. 188 –Stephen Taylor, ob; David Jolley, hn; Sarah Rothenberg, p. Arabesque Z-6641. [23:04]
5:00 Henriëtte Bosmans Violin Sonata – Alexandra Raikhlina, v; Daniel Grimwood, p. Fineline FL-72416. [22:57]
6:00 Raffaele Calace Mandolin Concerto No. 1 in E minor –Julien Martineau, m; Toulouse Capitole Orch/Wilson Ng. Naïve V-8120. [22:56]
7:00 Exploring Music with
Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 1 See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Max Janowski and Basia Polischuk (9/21/1962)
These two distinguished figures in the field of Jewish music met as students at a renowned conservatory in Berlin in the years before World War II. Mr. Polischuk was a violinist with a worldwide career. Mr. Janowski was an internationally respected composer of Jewish liturgical music, who also served as the longtime music director at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in Hyde Park.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am. Eric Ewazen Ballade, Pastorale and Dance (1993): Dance – Barli Nugent, f; David Wakefield, hn; Eric Ewazen, p. Well-Tempered Productions WTP-5189. [5:41]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack A conversation with pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi in advance of his performances in Chicago next week. Einaudi is currently on tour with his latest album The Summer Portraits
10:00 Poulenc Les biches: Suite – Ulster Orch/YanPascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN-9023. [20:09]
11:00 Introductions Evelyn Zhang, 17, guitar. Brouwer: Canción de cuna; Estudio Sencillo No. 6; Lauro: Venezuelan Waltz No. 2; Mertz: Nocturne; Capriccio; Scarlatti: Sonata in A, Kk 322; Linnemann: Murmures; Soledad; Villa-Lobos: Preludes Nos. 3 & 4; Giuliani: Sonatina, Op. 71, No. 1, 3rd mvt. Hosted by Robbie Ellis.
12:00 From LA Opera: Verdi’s Rigoletto Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto); Lisette Oropesa (Gilda); René Barbera (Duke of Mantua); Blake Denson (Count Monterone); Peixin Chen (Sparafucile); Sarah Saturnino (Maddalena); LA Opera Chorus & Orchestra; James Conlon, conductor. Sung in Italian.
3:00 Afternoon Music José Elizondo Estampas Mexicanas – Black Moon Trio. Black Moon Trio BMT-01. [9:26]
4:00 Listening to Singers with
Oliver Camacho An interview with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in advance of her return to Lyric Opera as Cherubini’s Medea next month. Originally broadcast February 1, 2025.
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Luigi Cherubini Anacréon: Overture – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM7-64629-2. [10:59]
6:00 Barber Adagio for Strings (from Op. 11) – Royal Scottish National Orch Strings/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559088. [7:47]
7:00 Sounds Classical: Sounds Like Chicago A playlist inspired by the Windy City, including works by Shawn E. Okpebholo, Sofiane Pamart,
For almost a decade, Jenny Bienemann has captured the extraordinary in the everyday through haiku and photography. In Bienemann’s Haiku Milieu Concerts, acclaimed songwriters bring the images and poetry to life. Each performer selects one of her haiku and accompanying photographs, then creates an original song inspired by it. The new song need not include the haiku’s words or reference the image directly. It simply must grow from the place where the haiku takes the artist. The result is an evening of wholly original music, sometimes poignant, sometimes playful, each piece growing from the spark of a single haiku. Host Marilyn Rea Beyer welcomes Naomi Ashley, Jenny Bienemann, Robin Bienemann, Anne Heaton, Emily Hurd, Aaron Kelly, and Andrew Sa to the Levin Performance Studio for the debut of Haiku Milieu live on Folkstage Saturday, September 27 8:00 pm
Tomeka Reid, and more.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer Live from the Levin Performance Studio : “Haiku Milieu.” Jenny Bienemann leads an evening of music inspired by her evocative haiku with songsters Naomi Ashley, Robin Bienemann, Anne Heaton, Emily Hurd, Aaron Kelly, and Andrew Sa.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer On the anniversary of the Wreck of the Old ’97, we’ll hear railroad ballads and tales of other disasters that make for good folk songs.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice High Holy Days. Host Peter DuBois shares sacred music from the Jewish High Holy Days, which span from Rosh Hashanah (September 23) through Yom Kippur (October 1).
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Ellington Come Sunday – Lara Downes, p; PUBLIQuartet. Rising Sun Music RS-012. [3:09]
8:00 Ben Shirley High Sierra Sonata: I. Buttermilk Morning – Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet. Cedille CDR-90000216. [8:13]
9:00 Mozart Idomeneo ballet music, K. 367 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2159. [16:20]
10:00 Michael Abels Winged Creatures – Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/ Allen Tinkham. Cedille CDR-90000187. [11:38]
11:00 Harold Arlen Over the Rainbow – Lucienne Renaudin Vary, tr; Lille National Orch/Roberto Rizzi Brignoli. Warner Classics 0190295888329. [5:17]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Granville Bantock Comedy Overture, The Frogs –Grimethorpe Colliery Band/ Peter Parkes. Chandos CHAN-4553. [8:24]
1:00 Bach Trio Sonata in G, BWV 1039 – Kaspar Zehnder & Ana Olltean, f’s; Vital Julian Frey, hc. Ars Produktion ARS-38582. [11:27]
2:00 Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 82 – Danish National Sym Orch/Leif Segerstam. Chandos CHAN-9055. [34:56]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025 Soprano Ana María Martínez and pianist Kevin Murphy perform Manuel de Falla’s Seven Popular Spanish Songs,
Joaquín Turina’s Poema en forma de canciones, and more. Recorded July 30, 2025 in the Martin Theatre.
5:00 Weekend Evening Music including Gian Carlo Menotti Piano Concerto in F – Earl Wild, p; Sym of the Air/Jorge Mester. Vanguard SVC-3. [33:33]
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Ginastera String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20; Stephanie Jeong, Simon Michal, violins; Weijing Michal, viola; Kenneth Olsen, cello; Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3; Op. 72b; Recorded in Trinity Cathedral Cleveland in November 2014. Nielsen Symphony No. 5, Op. 50; Paavo Järvi, conductor.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Music from the Basque Country Euzkadi, also known as the Basque country, represents one of the several ways of being a Spaniard. Euzkera (or Basque) people have their own language and a longstanding cultural tradition, including music. This program presents historical Basque composers like Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Jesús Guridi, and more.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Historic New York Philharmonic Broadcasts – Program 2 of 3 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1; Richard Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1.
11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
Monday 29
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21 – Vienna Phil/André Previn. Philips 420161-2. [12:04]
11:00 Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerto in G, S 215 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 437549-2 (2). [11:55]
12:00 Nino Rota Balli (Dances) –Ferrara City Orch/ Giuseppe Grazioli. Travelling K-1034. [10:52]
1:00 Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout – Sussman, v; Chang, vi; Robinson, vc; Pingel, db; Kahane, p. Music@ Menlo 2015(1). [33:39]
2:00 Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 – National Sym Orch members/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68801-2. [8:34]
3:00 Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree including Ravel String Quartet in F –Emerson String Quartet. DG 445509-2. [28:02]
4:00 Franz Ignaz Beck Symphony in G, Op. 4, No. 5 – Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Marek Štilec. Naxos 8.573249. [17:57]
5:00 Samuel Wesley Violin Concerto No. 2 in D –Elizabeth Wallfisch, v; Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman. Hyperion CDA-66865. [18:05]
6:00 Louise Farrenc Grandes variations on Le premier pas, Op. 4 – Maria Stratigou, p. Grand Piano GP-934. [18:02]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 2 Bill continues his tribute by sharing the works of Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt with performances by Arthur Rubinstein alone, Charles Rosin and Richard Goode accompanied by orchestras, plus Yo-Yo Ma, Evgeny Kissin, the Juilliard Quartet with Leonard Bernstein, Dawn Upshaw, George Szell, Emanuel Ax, and Van Cliburn.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Beethoven Violin Concerto, Op. 61; Hilary Hahn, violin; Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, Op. 65; Alain Altinoglu, conductor.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Elizabeth Hainen, h; IRIS Orch/Michael Stern. Avie AV-2285. [9:53]
11:00 Alexander Borodin in the Steppes of Central Asia –Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 68132-2. [7:37]
12:00 Chopin Barcarolle in F-Sharp, Op. 60 – Marc-André Hamelin, p. Hyperion CDA-67706. [8:39]
1:00 Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 –Kremerata Baltica/ Gidon Kremer. Nonesuch 79633-2. [17:19]
2:00 Doreen Carwithen Overture, Bishop Rock – London Sym Orch/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9524. [8:14]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Leoš Janácek Violin Sonata – Frank Almond, v; William Wolfram, p. Avie AV-2113. [18:05]
4:00 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Viola da gamba Sonata in G
Grammy Award-winner Ana María Martínez is one of the foremost sopranos of her time. In addition to an international career that spans the world’s most important opera houses and concert halls, Ms. Martínez continues to explore her role as a leader in the industry and as an advocate and educator to the next generation of musicians. Lyric Opera audiences have had the chance to experience her in ten leading roles, and she returns to Chicago to add two more (Despina in Così fan tutte and Catrina in El último sueño de Frida y Diego) in the upcoming season. Her Ravinia recital with pianist Kevin Murphy showcased one of her passions outside of opera – popular song and art song in Spanish.
Sunday, September 28 3:00 pm
minor, Wq 88 – Siegfried Pank, viga; Christiane Jaccottet, fp. Berlin Classics 0092642-BC. [18:03]
5:00 Debussy Sonata for flute, viola, and harp – Philippe Bernold, f; Gérard Caussé, vi; Isabelle Moretti, h. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901647. [17:57]
6:00 Howard Hanson Merry Mount, Op. 31: Suite – Nashville Sym/ Kenneth Schermerhorn. Naxos 8.559072. [17:59]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 2 See Monday’s listing. 8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mozart Andante and Five Variations in G major, K. 501; Gloria Chien & Michael Stephen Brown, p; Divertimento in E-flat major. K. 563; Arnaud Sussmann, v; Paul Neubauer, vi; David Finckel, vc. 11:00 Evening Music
