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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Frédéric Chopin
Fantasie-Impromptu C-sharp Minor
Sunday
May 31
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 417.476 (Chopin: Preludes & Impromptus) -
Franz Schubert
Octet in F Major, D. 803
Sunday
May 31
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 416.497 (Schubert: Octet) -
William Boyce
Symphony #6
Sunday
May 31
Aradia Ensemble | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.278 (Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op. 2) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #24
Sunday
May 31
English Chamber Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
RCA 60989 (Mozart: Concertos Nos. 23 & 24) -
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Sunday
May 31
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.060 (Grieg & Tchaikovsky) -
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118 #2
Sunday
May 31
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 779469 (Brahms: Handel Variations, Rhapsodies, Piano Pieces) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1041 in A Minor
Sunday
May 31
Avi Avital (mandolin) | Kammerakademie Potsdam
DG 0016801 (Bach) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #3 in D Major, Op. 29 "Polish"
Sunday
May 31
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
Chandos 8672-78 (Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies) -
Johann Christian Bach
Overture #5 in G Major
Sunday
May 31
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto
Sunday
May 31
Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra | Viktoria Mullova (violin) | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 473.872 (Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #48 in C Major "Maria Theresia"
Sunday
May 31
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Claude Debussy
Sacred and Profane Dances
Sunday
May 31
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Skaila Kanga (harp)
Chandos 8621 (Ravel, Debussy, Saint_Saëns & Roussel)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Giacomo Puccini
Turandot
Sunday
May 31
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | John Alldis Choir | Joan Sutherland [Turandot] | Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] | Montserrat Caballé [Liù] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] | Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Tom Krause [Ping] | Pier Francesco Poli [Pang | Il Principe di Persia] | Piero de Palma [Pong] | Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
London 414.274 (Puccini: Turandot) -
Leoš Janáček
The Lord's Prayer
Sunday
May 31
Stephen Darlington (conductor) | Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford | Clive Driskill-Smith (organ) | Victoria Davies (harp)
Griffin 4042 (Janacek: The Lord's Prayer) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms: III "Alleluia"
Sunday
May 31
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Decca 458.898 (Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. John Passion, BWV 245: Nr 7, Aria. "Von den Stricken meiner Sünden entbinden"
Sunday
May 31
Marjana Lipovsek (alto) | Staatskapelle Dresden | Peter Schreier (conductor)
Philips 422.088 (Bach: St. John Passion) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123
Sunday
May 31
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Jennifer Johnson (mezzo-soprano) | Matthew Rose (bass)
SDG 718 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Eric Whitacre
This Marriage
Sunday
May 31
Elora Festival Singers | Noel Edison (conductor)
Naxos 559.677 (Whitacre: Choral Music) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il turco in Italia: Act I, Opening
Sunday
May 31
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] | Michele Pertusi [Selim] | Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] | Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] | Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] | Laura Polverelli [Zaida] | Francesco Piccoli [Albazar]
London 458.924 (Rossini: Il Turco in Italia) -
George Frideric Handel
Atalanta: Act II
Sunday
May 31
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Capella Savaria | Éva Farkas [Atalanta] | Éva Bártfai-Barta [Meleagro] | Éva Lax [Irene] | János Bándi [Aminta] | József Gregor [Nicandro] | László Polgár [Mercury] | Savaria Vocal Ensemble
Hungaroton 12612-14 (Handel: Atalanta) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #7. Aus dem Flusse (On the Stream)
Sunday
May 31
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2107 (Schubert: Winterreise)
WETA Virtuoso
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Zdeněk Fibich
Symphony #1 in F Major, Op. 17
Sunday
May 31
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 572.985 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 1) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 38 #6 in A-flat Major "Duetto"
Sunday
May 31
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite
Sunday
May 31
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
RCA 7765 (Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Karelia, Finlandia) -
Ottorino Respighi
Burlesca, P. 59
Sunday
May 31
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10388 (Respighi: Rossiniana, etc.) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights
Sunday
May 31
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68288 (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #5 in C-sharp Minor
Sunday
May 31
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 423.608 (Mahler: Symphony No. 5) -
Henry Cowell
Variations on Thirds for Two Violas and String Orchestra: II. Allegro non troppo
Sunday
May 31
Northwest Chamber Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor) | Ruth Sereque (viola) | Eileen Swanson (viola)
CPO 999.222 (Cowell) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Sextet, Op. 37
Sunday
May 31
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Takács String Quartet members | Kálmán Berkes (clarinet) | Radovan Vlatković (horn)
London 421.423 (Dohnányi: Piano Quintet, No., Sextet) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Variations on a Theme of Chopin
Sunday
May 31
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Alexander Scriabin
Mazurka, Op. 3 #4 in E Major
Sunday
May 31
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Antonín Dvořák
The Water Goblin, Op. 107
Sunday
May 31
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8552 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, etc.) -
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 1
Sunday
May 31
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Love Derwinger (piano) | Malmö Symphony Orchestra
BIS 550