The Drive-Time Elixir with Peter Whorf Playlist May 06, 2026

90.9 WRCJ

Song/Show Name/Composer

Start Time

Location/Orchestra/Artist

Label/Spine Number

90.9 FM WRCJ

5:10 am

20260506

Symphony No 1 “Afro-American”

Still, William Grant

2:01 pm

Chicago Sinfonietta

CEDILLE

90000055

Theme and Variations in B flat, Op. 33 (arranged by Rainer Schottstadt for clarinet and orchestra)

Weber, Carl Maria von

2:25 pm

Zurich Opera Orchestra

EMI

556137

“Rodeo” (Four Dance Episodes)

Copland, Aaron

2:38 pm

San Francisco Symphony

RCA

63511

Double Violin Concerto in a, RV. 523

Vivaldi, Antonio

3:00 pm

Collegium Musicum 90

CHANDOS

0528

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV 1068: “Air” (for violin and orchestra)

Bach, Johann Sebastian

3:10 pm

English Chamber Orchestra

ENTERTAINMENT ONE

7785

Mazurka in B Flat, Op. 32

Faure, Gabriel

3:16 pm

20260506

HYPERION

66911

“Clair de lune” from “Suite Bergamasque”

Debussy, Claude

3:22 pm

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

MHS

512594

Symphony: “A Night in the Tropics” (“Festa Criolla”)

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

3:28 pm

Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

NAXOS

8.559036

“Far From the Madding Crowd” (for violin and chamber orchestra)

Armstrong, Craig

3:36 pm

La Pieta

ANALEKTA

8748

Nocturne in b (originally c sharp), Op. Posth. (arranged for cello and piano by Mischa Maisky)

Chopin, Frederic

3:41 pm

20260506

459136

Piano Concerto No. 3 in d, Op. 30 (finale)

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

3:46 pm

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

CHANDOS

7114

“Roman Carnival” Overture, Op 9

Berlioz, Hector

4:00 pm

Scottish National Orchestra

CHANDOS

8316

Romance (for flute and piano)

Gaubert, Philippe

4:09 pm

20260506

CRYSTAL

715

“Elephant Rag” (after Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals”)

Hayes, William R.

4:18 pm

River Raisin Ragtime Revue

RIVER RAISIN RAGTIME REVUE

“Carnival of the Animals”: “The Swan”

Saint-Saens, Camille

4:21 pm

London Symphony Orchestra (members)

DECCA

468580

Blues Symphony: VI. Danzon y Mambo, Choro y Samba

Marsalis, Wynton

4:25 pm

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

PENTATONE

5187 232

The Carousel Waltz from “Carousel”

Rodgers, Richard

4:38 pm

Boston Pops Orchestra

RCA

63835

Unruhe (for two guitars)

Mertz, Johann Kaspar

4:46 pm

20260506

NAXOS

8.573055

Symphony No. 4 in f, Op. 36 (finale)

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

4:50 pm

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

LONDON

430745

“William Tell”: Overture

Rossini, Gioacchino

5:00 pm

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

UNIVERSAL

B0002920

“Vocalise”, Op 34, No 14 (for orchestra)

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

5:11 pm

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

NAXOS

8.572458

Three Two-Part Inventions (arranged by Edgar Meyer and Bela Fleck)

Bach, Johann Sebastian

5:18 pm

20260506

SONY CLASSICAL

89610

The Music Man (selections)

Willson, Meredith

5:24 pm

Richard Hayman Orchestra

NAXOS

8.555012

“Rotunde-Quadrille”, Op. 360

Strauss, Johann II

5:36 pm

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

SONY

88985376182

“Ride of the Valkyries” from “Die Walkure”

Wagner, Richard

5:44 pm

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

LONDON

458118

Keyboard Pieces, from Book II, Suite 10: “La Mezangere”

Couperin, Francois

5:47 pm

20260506

HYPERION

67520

Concerto for Violin in a, Op 82: III.

Glazunov, Alexander

5:52 pm

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

PHILIPS

464059