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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Brandenburg Concerto #5
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
May 15
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102.2 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Triple Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wednesday
May 15
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Mark Zeltser (piano) | Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 457.861 (Face to Face with Beethoven) -
Concerto, RV 208 in D Major "Grosso Mogul"
Antonio Vivaldi
Wednesday
May 15
Nicola Benedetti (violin) | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Decca 0016412 (Italia) -
Ruy Blas, Op. 95
Felix Mendelssohn
Wednesday
May 15
London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Médée: Aria. "Ah! nos peines seront communes" ("Ah! our sorrows will be shared")
Luigi Cherubini
Wednesday
May 15
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) [Néris] | Orchestre National de France | Fabien Gabel (conductor)
Naïve 5201 (Ne me refuse pas) -
Orlando: Recitative and aria. "Ah! stigie larve...Già latra Cerbero...Ma la furia...Vaghe pupille"
George Frideric Handel
Wednesday
May 15
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2077 (Handel: Ombra cara) -
Motet, RV 629. Longe mala, umbrae, terrores (Begone evils, shadows, terrors)
Antonio Vivaldi
Wednesday
May 15
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Ensemble Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 625810 (Pietà, Sacred Works for Alto) -
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs): Nicht wiedersehen (Never to Meet Again)
Gustav Mahler
Wednesday
May 15
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) | Julius Drake (piano)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
Drei Gedichte (3 Poems), Op. 30 after Geibel
Robert Schumann
Wednesday
May 15
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)