This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical and WETA VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Piano Concerto #20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Mar 31
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Salzburg Mozarteum Academic Camerata | Sandor Vegh (conductor)
London 430.510 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K466 & K467) -
Brandenburg Concerto #3
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Delos 3185 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos) -
Tsar Saltan Suite
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Friday
Mar 31
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Erato 4509-91717 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Tsar Saltan) -
Symphony #94 "Surprise"
Joseph Haydn
Friday
Mar 31
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5159 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94 & 100, Sinfonia Concertante) -
Zigeunerweisen
Pablo de Sarasate
Friday
Mar 31
Joshua Bell (violin) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Decca 0005185 (The essential Joshua Bell) -
Four Pieces, Op. 17: #2. Appassionato
Josef Suk
Friday
Mar 31
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Concerto After Scarlatti #5 in D Minor
Charles Avison
Friday
Mar 31
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Grand Triumphal Fantasy on Brazilian Nat'l Hymn
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Friday
Mar 31
Christina Ortiz (piano) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Moshe Atzmon (conductor)
London 414.348 (Addinsell: "Warsaw" Concerto - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, etc.) -
Sinfonia #2: I
Franz Ignaz Beck
Friday
Mar 31
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra | Donald Armstrong (conductor)
Naxos 554.071 (Beck: Six Symphonies, Op. 1) -
The Roman Carnival
Hector Berlioz
Friday
Mar 31
Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI 69466 (Karajan conducts Orchestral Favourites, Vol. 2) -
Contredanses
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Mar 31
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 80.7470 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica") -
Swan Lake: Russian Dance
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Friday
Mar 31
Joshua Bell (violin) | Berlin Philharmonic | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Sony 94832 (Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #1 in A Major (HWV 396)
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Mar 31
The Brook Street Band
Avie 2068 (Handel: Trio Sonatas Op. 5) -
Symphony #4 in E Minor, Op. 98: I. Allegro non troppo
Johannes Brahms
Friday
Mar 31
Houston Symphony Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Virgin Classics 61360 (Brahms: The Symphonies) -
Clarinet Concerto #3 B-flat Major: I
Bernhard Henrik Crusell
Friday
Mar 31
Thea King (clarinet) | London Symphony Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor)
Hyperion 66708 (English Music for Viola) -
Waltz A-flat Major (Op. 64 #3)
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
Mar 31
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 14899 (Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, etc.) -
Cello Concerto #1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: I. Moderato
Joseph Haydn
Friday
Mar 31
Sergei Istomin (cello) | Apollo Ensemble | David Rabinovich (conductor)
Passacaille 960 (Haydn: Cello Concertos) -
Sonata, BWV 1031 for Flute and Continuo in E-flat Minor: III. Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Irena Grafenauer (flute) | Maria Graf (harp)
Philips 422.061 (Bach: 3 Sonatas for Flute and Harp, Partita, Suite) -
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro vivace
Aram Khachaturian
Friday
Mar 31
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Teddy Abrams (conductor)
Avie 2411 (Dvorak Khachaturian Violin Concertos) -
Sinfonia, H. 663 in D Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
Warner Classics 463.492 (CPE Bach Collection) -
Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)
Fritz Kreisler
Friday
Mar 31
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
EMI 47467 (My Favourite Kreisler) -
Concerto, RV 558
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Mar 31
Venetian Soloists | Claudio Scimone (conductor)
Erato 55013 (Vivaldi: Concertos) -
Piano Concerto: III
Edvard Grieg
Friday
Mar 31
Krystian Zimerman (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.021 (Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos) -
Rondo Brillante, Op. 52
Carl Maria von Weber
Friday
Mar 31
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Symphony #6 in E-flat Major
Carl Friedrich Abel
Friday
Mar 31
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8648 (Abel: Six Symphonies) -
Academic Festival Overture
Johannes Brahms
Friday
Mar 31
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 422.334 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Academic Festival Overture) -
Guitar Concerto A Major
Mauro Giuliani
Friday
Mar 31
Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar) | Janacek Chamber Orchestra
RCA 5914 (Guitar Concertos) -
Symphony #3 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Mar 31
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 439.900 (Beethoven: 9 Symphonies) -
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Mar 31
London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures) -
Symphony #50
Christian Cannabich
Friday
Mar 31
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Uwe Grodd (conductor)
Naxos 554.340 (Cannabich: Symphonies Nos. 47 - 52) -
Krakowiak
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
Mar 31
Bella Davidovich (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 410.042 (Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2) -
Quintet, G. 448 in G Major for Guitar and String Quartet "Fandango"
Luigi Boccherini
Friday
Mar 31
Artaria Quartet | Richard Savino (guitar)
Harmonia Mundi 907026 (Boccherini: Quintets 4, 5 & 6) -
Banquet Music, Part 3: Suite in B-flat Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
Mar 31
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Symphony #1
Max Bruch
Friday
Mar 31
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 420.932 (Bruch: The 3 Symphonies) -
Piano Trio, Op. 96 in E-flat Major
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Friday
Mar 31
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 446.077 (Hummel: Piano Trios) -
Coppélia Suite
Léo Delibes
Friday
Mar 31
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Heinz Fricke (conductor)
Capriccio 10.073 (Delibes: Copélia - Chopin: Les Sylphides) -
Symphony #78
Joseph Haydn
Friday
Mar 31
Stockholm Chamber Ensemble | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sony 45972 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 22, 78, 82) -
Holberg Suite
Edvard Grieg
Friday
Mar 31
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.727 (Grieg: "Holberg" Suite - Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite) -
Symphony #29
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Mar 31
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.954 (Mozart: The Late Symphonies, 21-41) -
Concerto, BWV 1055
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Sir András Schiff (conductor)
London 425.676 (Bach: Concertos BWV 1052 - 1058) -
Symphony in A Major
Camille Saint-Saëns
Friday
Mar 31
Orchestre National de France | Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 62643 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Roméo et Juliette: Act III
Charles Gounod
Friday
Mar 31
Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Roméo] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Juliette] | José van Dam (baritone) [Frère Laurent] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Stéphano] | Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Mercutio] | Alain Fondary [Capulet] | Claire Larcher [Gertrude] | Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Tybalt] | Guy Flechter [Benvolio] | Didier Henry [Pâris] | Till Fecnher [Grégorio] | Alain Vernhes [Le Duc] | Christophe Fel [Frère Jean] | Anne Constantin [Manuela] | Doris Lamprecht [Pepita] | Yann Beuron [Angelo] | Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 56123 (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette) -
Missa Longa in C Major, K 262
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Mar 31
Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kammerorchester Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Cantata, BWV 213. Dramma per music. "Hercules at the Crossroads". Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen (Let us take care. Let us take watch)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Edith Mathis (soprano) [Pleasure] | Carolyn Watkinson (alto) [Hercules] | Peter Schreier (tenor) [Virtue] | Siegfried Lorenz (bass) [Mercury] | Kammerorchester Berlin | Berlin Soloists | Peter Schreier (conductor)
Brilliant 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Il duca d'Alba: Recitative & romanza. "Inosservato.Angelo casto e bel"
Gaetano Donizetti
Friday
Mar 31
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Vienna Opera Orchestra | Edward Downes (conductor)
Decca 475.6414 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Lamentationes Jeremiæ
Thomas Crecquillon
Friday
Mar 31
New York Polyphony
Bis 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act III
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Friday
Mar 31
Mark Padmore (tenor) [Hippolyte] | Anna-Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Aricie] | Lorraine Hunt (mezzo-soprano) [Phèdre] | Laurent Naouri (bass) [Thésée] | Eirian James (mezzo-soprano) [Diane] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [L'Amour | Une Matelote] | Nathan Berg (bass) [Jupiter | Pluton | Neptune] | Paul Agnew (tenor) [Un Amour] | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Une Prêtresse | Une Bergère] | Mireille Delunsch (soprnao) [La Grande Prêtresse | Une Chasseresse] | Katalin Károlyi (mezzo-soprano) [Œnone] | Yann Beuron (tenor) [Arcas] | François Piolino (tenor) [Tisiphone] | Christopher Josey (tenor) [Première Parque] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Deuxième Parque]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Motezuma: Act 2, scene 3, aria (Ramiro). "Quel rossor che in volto miri" (The blushes you see on my cheeks)
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Mar 31
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 645452 (Venezia) -
Songs. Nacht und Träume; Der blinde Knabe; Hoffnung; Totengräberweise; Tiefes Leid; Greisengesang (Night and Dreams; The Blind Boy; Hope; Gravedigger's Song; Deep Sorrow; Old Man's Song)
Franz Schubert
Friday
Mar 31
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 902063 (Nacht und Träume) -
Cantata, BWV 212. Peasant Cantata. Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet (We have a new governor)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Edith Mathis (soprano) | Peter Schreier (tenor) | Theo Adam (bass) | Kammerorchester Berlin | Peter Schreier (conductor)
Brilliant 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Bist du! (You are!)
Franz Liszt
Friday
Mar 31
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Virgin Classics 70928 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Aria. "Piangerò la sorte mia"
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Mar 31
Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor)
DG 477. 8763 (Rosso) -
Pénélope: Act III
Gabriel Fauré
Friday
Mar 31
Jessye Norman (soprano) [Pénélope] | Jocelyne Taillon [Euryclée] | Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Alkandre] | Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Phylo] | Danielle Borst [Lydie] | Michelle Command [Mélantho] | Norma Lerer [Cléone] | Alain Vanzo [Ulysse] | Jean Dupouy [Antinoüs] | Paul Guigue [Ctésippe] | Gérard Friedmann [Léodès] | Philippe Huttenlocher [Eurymaque] | José van Dam (baritone) [Eumée] | François Le Roux [Pisandre] | Ensemble Vocal Jean LaForge
Erato 88205 (Fauré: Pénélope) -
Coronation Mass in C Major, K 317
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Mar 31
Pamela Heuvelmans (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Videte miraculum (Behold the miracle)
Thomas Tallis
Friday
Mar 31
The Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood (conductor)
Hyperion 68026 (Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis) -
Il trovatore: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
Mar 31
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Ingvar Wixell [Il Conte di Luna] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Ferrando] | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Leonora] | Marilyn Horne [Azucena] | Graham Clark [Ruiz] | Norma Burrowes (soprano) [Ines] | Peter Knapp [Un vecchio zingaro] | Wynford Evans [Un messo] | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 417.137 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Poème de l'amour et de la mer
Ernest Chausson
Friday
Mar 31
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Les Pêcheurs de perles
Georges Bizet
Friday
Mar 31
Janine Micheau [Leïla] | Nicolai Gedda [Nadir] | Ernest Blanc [Zurga] | Jacques Mars [Nourabad] | Chours du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Pierre Dervaux (conductor)
EMI 69704 (Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles) -
L'Africaine: Grand Aria. "Pays merveilleux.O paradis" [Act IV/15]
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Friday
Mar 31
Ben Heppner (tenor) [Vasco de Gama] | London Voices | London Symphony Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DG 471.372 (French Opera Arias) -
Rodelinda: Act III, Finale
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Mar 31
Sophie Danemann [Rodelinda] | Daniel Taylor [Bertarido] | Adrian Thompson [Grimoaldo] | Catherine Robbin [Eduige] | Robin Blaze [Unulfo] | Christopher Purves [Garibaldo] | Raglan Baroque Players | Nicholas Kraemer
Virgin 45277 (Handel: Rodelinda) -
The Cunning Little Vixen: Act I
Leos Janácek
Friday
Mar 31
Thomas Allen (baritone) [Forester] | Stephen Wallder [Cricket] | Shelley Nash [Caterpillar] | Robert Tear (tenor) [Mosquito/Schoolmaster] | Piers Lawrence [Frog] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Vixen Cub] | Gillian Knight [Forester's Wife/Owl] | Lillian Watson [Vixen Sharp-Ears] | Karen Shelby [Doganiere] | Fiona Dobie [Pepík] | Anna Lorimer [Frantík] | Mary King [Rooster/Jay] | Glenys Groves [Chief Hen] | Gwynne Howell [Badger/Priest] | John Dobson [Pásek] | Diana Montague (alto) [Fox] | Pat Purcell [Woodpecker] | Nicholas Folwell [Harasta] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 54212 (Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen) -
Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Mar 31
Marina Ulewicz (soprano) | Barbara Hölzl (mezzo-soprano) | Jörg Hering (tenor) | Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor)
Sony Classical 60764 (Mozart: Requiem, K. 626) -
Mass in F Major for Male Choir and Organ, Op. 190
Josef Rheinberger
Friday
Mar 31
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | David Chalmers (organ) | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Elias (Elijah): Part II, Opening
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Mar 31
Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Chorus Musicus Köln | Das Neue Orchester | Christoph Spering (conductor)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Miserere: Aria. Et secundum multitudinem
Johann Christian Bach
Friday
Mar 31
Colin Balzer (tenor) | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #28. Duet and Chorus. "Von deiner Güt, o Herr und Gott.Der Sterne hellster"
Joseph Haydn
Friday
Mar 31
Ruth Ziesak (soprano) [Eva] | Anton Scharinger [Adam] | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 443.445 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Mar 31
Mignon Dunn | Margarita Zimmermann | Bruno Beccaria (tenor) | Tom Krause | Kammerchors Ernst Senff | RIAS Chamber Chorus | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
London 455.014 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Mass in C) -
La Juive: Act III, Finale
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy
Friday
Mar 31
José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] | Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] | June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] | René Massis [Ruggiero] | Renè Schirrer [Albert] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
Philips 420.190 (Halévy: La Juive) -
La Tombe et la Rose [Victor Hugo]
Franz Liszt
Friday
Mar 31
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Guillaume Tell: Act IV, Scenes 3-11
Gioachino Rossini
Friday
Mar 31
Gerald Finley [Guillaume Tell] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Hedwige] | Elena Xanthoudakis [Jemmy] | Malin Byström [Mathilde] | John Osborn [Arnold] | Frédéric Caton [Melchtal] | Matthew Rose [Walter] | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Carlos Bosi [Rodolphe] | Celso Albelo [Ruodi] | Dawid Kimberg [Leuthold] | Davide Malvestio [Hunstman] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell)