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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George Frideric Handel
Water Music
Saturday
Sep 12
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor)
CPO 777.312 (Händel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Polonaise from "Boris Godunov"
Saturday
Sep 12
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Vox 5130 (The Dance) -
George Whitefield Chadwick
Symphony #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 21
Saturday
Sep 12
Albany Symphony Orchestra | Julius Hegyi (conductor)
New World 339 (Chadwick: Symphony No. 2 - Parker: A Northern Ballad) -
Claude Arrieu
Wind Trio in C Major
Saturday
Sep 12
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Ambache Recordings 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers
Saturday
Sep 12
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 49043 (Haydn: String Quartets Hob. III:81 - 83) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #1
Saturday
Sep 12
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
London 410.009 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #25 in C Major
Saturday
Sep 12
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 380)
Saturday
Sep 12
John Williams (guitar)
CBS 44518 (The Baroque Album) -
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
An English Suite
Saturday
Sep 12
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Lyrita 220 (Parry: Symphonic Variations, English & Lady Radnor Suites) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #1. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (What is heard on the mountain) (Bergsymphonie)
Saturday
Sep 12
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
Antonio Vivaldi
La Griselda: Overture
Saturday
Sep 12
Modo Antiquo | Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94030 (Vivaldi: Opera Overtures) -
Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite
Saturday
Sep 12
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
DG 437.506 (Brahms & Dvořák) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #19 in F Major, K 459
Saturday
Sep 12
Cleveland Orchestra | Mitsuko Uchida (piano and conductor)
Decca 478.6763 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 18, K456 & 19, K549) -
Franz von Suppé
The Queen of Spades Overture
Saturday
Sep 12
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 54056 (Suppé: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Gioachino Rossini
Guglielmo Tell
Saturday
Sep 12
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo Tell] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] | Franco de Grandis [Melchthal] | Amelia Felle [Jemmy] | Luciana D'Intino [Edwige] | Vittorio Terranova [Un pescatore] | Alberto Noli [Leutoldo] | Luigi Roni [Gessler] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Matilde] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Rodolfo] | Ernesto Panariello [Un cacciatore]
Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La Battaglia di Legnano: Act I
Saturday
Sep 12
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | ORF Symphony Orchestra | Nicolai Gedda [Federico Barbarossa] | Hannes Lichtenberger [First Consul of Milan] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Second Consul of Milan] | Franz Handlos [The Mayor of Como] | Matteo Manuguerra [Rolando] | Katia Ricciarelli [Lida] | José Carreras [Arrigo] | Jonathan Summer [Marcovaldo] | Ann Murray [Imelda] | Mieczyslaw Antoniak [A herald | One of Arrigo's squires] | ORF Chorus [Knights of Death, magistrates | leaders of Como, maidservants of Lida, Milanese people | senators, warriors of Verona, Brescia, Novara, Piacenza | Milan]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Domenico Sarro
Valdemaro: Alvida's aria. "Un cor che ben ama" (A heart that loves well)
Saturday
Sep 12
Riccardo Minasi (conductor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Naïve 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Joseph Haydn
Missa Cellensis (in honorem Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ)
Saturday
Sep 12
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Johanna Winkel (soprano) | Sophie Harmsen (alto) | Benjamin Bruns (tenor) [Evangelist] | Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass) | RIAS Chamber Choir | Justin Doyle (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2300 (Haydn: Missa Cellensis) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Ob auch finstere Blicke glitten (Even though dark glances were cast)
Saturday
Sep 12
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Richard Strauss
Daphne: "Was blendet so.Ich komme -- ich komme"
Saturday
Sep 12
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Beverly Sills (soprano) | Aldo Ceccato (conductor)
DG 471.766 (The Art of Beverly Sills) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act III
Saturday
Sep 12
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Lucia Popp [Countess Almaviva] | Barbara Hendricks (soprano) [Susanna] | José van Dam (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cherubino] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Marcellina] | Aldo Baldin [Don Basilio] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Don Curzio] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Bartolo] | Donald Maxwell (bass) [Antonio] | Cathryn Pope (soprano) [Barbarina]
Philips 416.370 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 34 #1. "Muza" (The Muse)
Saturday
Sep 12
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs)
WETA Virtuoso
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Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto
Saturday
Sep 12
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
EMI 49486 (Brahms: Double Concerto, etc.) -
Giacomo Puccini
Avanti Urania!
Saturday
Sep 12
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Saturday
Sep 12
James Levine (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DG 431.625 (Gershwin) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 33 #5 in G Major
Saturday
Sep 12
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Piece, Op. 68/5 "At the Cradle"
Saturday
Sep 12
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.727 (Grieg: "Holberg" Suite - Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #8 in E-flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand"
Saturday
Sep 12
Vienna Boys Choir | José van Dam (baritone) | Vienna Singverein | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Agnes Baltsa (alto) | Judith Blegen (soprano) | Hermann Prey (baritone) | Margaret Price (soprano) | Gerti Zeumer (soprano) | Trudeliese Schmidt (alto) | Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
DG 435.102 -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in A Major, Op. 32 #9
Saturday
Sep 12
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
Saturday
Sep 12
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
DG 4870835D (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Shostakovich & Britten) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Trio #3 in B-flat Major, K. 502
Saturday
Sep 12
Kungsbacka Trio
Naxos 570.518 (Mozart: Piano Trios Vol. 1) -
Dora Pejačević
Impromptu, Op. 9
Saturday
Sep 12
Quatuor Sine Nomine | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777.421 (Dora Pejacevic: Chamber Works) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in Three Movements
Saturday
Sep 12
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto B Minor
Saturday
Sep 12
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
DG 413.819 (Dvořák & Tchaikovsky)