This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical, WETA VivaLaVoce and WETA Virtuoso. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante, K. 364
Sunday
Aug 2
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Isaac Stern (violin) | New York Philharmonic | Pinchas Zukerman (viola)
CBS 36692 (Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration) -
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade #3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47
Sunday
Aug 2
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 64399 (Chopin: 4 Ballades) -
Franz Liszt
A Faust Symphony (after Goethe): Part III. Mephistopheles
Sunday
Aug 2
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10375 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #7 "Razumovksy"
Sunday
Aug 2
Juilliard Quartet
CBS 37869 (Beethoven: The Middle String Quartets) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #7
Sunday
Aug 2
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.171 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1044
Sunday
Aug 2
Marieke Schneemann (flute) | Liz Perry (violin) | Menno van Delft (harpsichord) | Netherlands Bach Ensemble
Brilliant Classics 93102.9 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Luigi Boccherini
String Quintet (G. 397)
Sunday
Aug 2
Ensemble 415
Harmonia Mundi 90.1402 (Boccherini: Quintettes avec deux altos) -
Franz Schubert
Overture in D Major (D. 12)
Sunday
Aug 2
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paul Angerer (conductor)
Pantheon 1841 (Schubert: Overtures, Vol. 2)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: Act III
Sunday
Aug 2
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori | His Majestie's Sagbutts | Cornetts
Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo) -
Franz Schubert
Auf der Donau, D 553
Sunday
Aug 2
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act I
Sunday
Aug 2
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 14 #1. "Ya Zhdu Tebya" (I Await You)
Sunday
Aug 2
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Per pietá, non ricercate, K 420 (I beg you, do not seek)
Sunday
Aug 2
London Symphony Orchestra | Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)
DG 479.1054 (Mozart: Concert Arias) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act II, Finale. "Tu?! Indietro! fuggi!!".
Sunday
Aug 2
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. John Passion, BWV 245: Part I
Sunday
Aug 2
Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Max von Egmond (bass) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | René Jacobs (alto) | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) [Evangelist] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Jesus] | Chorus and Orchestra of La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77041-2 (Bach: St. John Passion)
WETA Virtuoso
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony #3 in D Minor
Sunday
Aug 2
Anna Larsson (alto) | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) | Women of The Los Angeles Master Chorale | The Paulist Boy Choristers of California
Sony 60250 (Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor) -
Giacomo Puccini
Sole e amore
Sunday
Aug 2
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
William Byrd
Motet. Quis est homo
Sunday
Aug 2
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto #2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Sunday
Aug 2
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 440.331 (Prokofiev: Violin Concertos 1 & 2) -
Ned Rorem
Symphony #3
Sunday
Aug 2
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 559.149 (Rorem: Three Symphonies) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3in C Major, BWV 1005: IV. Allegro assai
Sunday
Aug 2
Rachel Podger (violin)
Channel 14498 (Johann Sebastian Bach) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #6 in F Minor, Op. 80
Sunday
Aug 2
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Howard Hanson
Symphony #2 "Romantic"
Sunday
Aug 2
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
EMI 47850 (Hanson: Symphony No. 2 - Barber: Violin Concerto)