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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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #4, Op. 7
Sunday
Aug 23
Sir András Schiff (piano)
ECM 1940-41 (Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1) -
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Sunday
Aug 23
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 415.972 (Ravel: Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole, Ma Mère l'Oye, Pavane) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Violin Sonatine
Sunday
Aug 23
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Ambache Recordings 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio #3
Sunday
Aug 23
Borodin Quartet
Chandos 8320 (Dvořák: Piano Trio No.3, Op. 65) -
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Lute Sonata #22 in G Major, Sm 141: Allegro
Sunday
Aug 23
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 80693 (Air on a G String) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Sonata in F Minor, Op. 4
Sunday
Aug 23
Shlomo Mintz (violin) | Paul Ostrovsky (piano)
DG 419.244 (Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata #1 in G Major, Op. 78
Sunday
Aug 23
Stefan Jackiw (violin) | Max Levinson (piano)
Sony 63769 (Brahms: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Robert Schumann
Genoveva, Op. 81: Overture
Sunday
Aug 23
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 459.680 (Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" etc.)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Jules Massenet
Hérodiade: Act II Finale
Sunday
Aug 23
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salomé] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Hérodiade] | Martine Olmeda [Une jeune Babylonienne] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hérode] | José van Dam (baritone) [Phanuel] | Marcel Vanaud [Vitellius] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Grand Prêtre] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Une voix dans le temple]
EMI 55378 (Massenet: Hérodiade) -
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne: Series V: Là-haut, sur le rocher
Sunday
Aug 23
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos: Opera
Sunday
Aug 23
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor) | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Primadonna/Ariadne] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [The Composer] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerbinetta] | Gary Lakes [The Tenor/Bacchus] | Hermann Prey (baritone) [A Music Master] | Otto Schenk [The Major-domo] | Ewald Aichberger [An Officer] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [A Dancing Master] | Günter von Kannen [A Wig-Maker] | Alfred Sramek [A Footman] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Harlequin] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Scaramouche] | Kurt Rydl [Truffaldino] | Hans Sojer [Brighella] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Naiad] | Helga Müller Molinari [Dryad] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Echo]
DG 419.225 (Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxus) -
Charles Tournemire
3 Lieder, Op. 46: #2. Il pleut des pétales de fleurs (It rains flower petals)
Sunday
Aug 23
Michael Bundy (baritone) | Helen Crayford (piano)
Naxos 572.347 (Tournemire, Sagesse, Poème) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Recitative and Aria. "Tombe degli avi mei.Fra poco"
Sunday
Aug 23
Rolando Villazón | Marcello Viotti (conductor) | Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Virgin 45626 (Italian Opera Arias) -
Gioachino Rossini
Maometto Secondo: Act II, Scene 9
Sunday
Aug 23
Philharmonia Orchestra | Margarita Zimmermann [Calbo] | Ernesto Palacio [Paolo Erisso] | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
Franz Schubert
Fierrabras: Act III
Sunday
Aug 23
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Robert Holl (bass) [König Karl] | Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Roland] | Peter Hofmann (tenor) [Ogier] | Jörg Schluckebier [Olivier] | Rainer Brandstetter [Gui von Burgund] | Claus Kühbacher [Richard von der Normandie] | Michael Weber [Gérard von Mondidur] | Robert Gambill [Eginhard] | László Polgár [Boland] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Fierrabras] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Florinda] | Brigitte Balleys [Maragond] | Hartmut Welker [Brutamonte] | Brigitte Pinter [Eine Jungfrau] | Arnold Schoenberg Choir [Fränkische und maurische Ritter und Krieger, Emmas Fräuleins, Volk]
DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras) -
Henri Duparc
Le Galop (At the galop)
Sunday
Aug 23
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies)
WETA Virtuoso
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony #4 in E-flat Major "Romantic"
Sunday
Aug 23
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.099 (Bruckner) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 68 #2 in A Minor
Sunday
Aug 23
Lukas Geniušas (piano)
Mirare 508 (Lukas Geniusas: Chopin) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Suite #2 for 2 Pianos, Op. 17
Sunday
Aug 23
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | André Previn (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Édouard Lalo
Cello Concerto
Sunday
Aug 23
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Han-Na Chang (cello) | Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia
EMI 82390 (Romance) -
Adolph Martin Foerster
On the Sea
Sunday
Aug 23
Malcolm Frager (piano)
New World 80206 (Edward MacDowell & Company) -
Ottorino Respighi
Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor
Sunday
Aug 23
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 427.617 (Strauss) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
Sunday
Aug 23
Telarc 80215 (Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 5 & No. 9)