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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Symphony #3
Johannes Brahms
Wednesday
May 1
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 410.083 (Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Haydn Variations) -
Symphony #1 in B-flat Major
William Boyce
Wednesday
May 1
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
CRD 3413A (William Boyce) -
Cello Concerto
Robert Schumann
Wednesday
May 1
Lynn Harrell (cello) | Cleveland Orchestra | Neville Marriner (conductor)
London 410.019 (Schumann & Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos) -
Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K 466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wednesday
May 1
Seong-Jin Cho (piano) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.5522 (Mozart) -
Concertino
Cécile Chaminade
Wednesday
May 1
Susan Milan (flute) | City of London Sinfonia | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 8840 (La Flûte enchantée) -
Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
May 1
La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77008 (Bach: Suites) -
Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33
Antonín Dvorák
Wednesday
May 1
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10309 (Dvorak) -
Concerto, RV 178
Antonio Vivaldi
Wednesday
May 1
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
Chandos 6578 (Vivaldi: Six Concertos, Op.8, Nos. 7-12)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Zoroastre (Tragédie en musique): Act II
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Wednesday
May 1
Mark Padmore (haute-contre) [Zoroastre, instituteur des Mages (Zoroaster, founder of the Magi)] | Nathan Berg (bass) [Abramane, Grand Prêtre d'Ariman (Abramane, High Priest of Ariman)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Amélite, héritière présomptive du trône de la Bactriane (presumptive heiress to the throne of Bactria)] | Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Érinice, princesse du sang des rois de la Bactriane (princess of the blood of kings of Bactria)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Zopire, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | François Bazola (bass) [Narbanor, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Oromasès. roi des Génies (king of the Genii)] | Stéphanie Révidat (soprano) [Céphie, jeune Bactrienne de la Cour d'Amélite (Bactrian girl of Amélite's court)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [La Vengeance] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Ariman (voix souterraine)] | Les Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furiest | Esprits des Éléments | Démons | Esprits infernaux | Troupes différentes de peuples | Montagnards | Prêtres] | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Deux Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire. Dans le jardin d'Anna; Allons plus vite (In Anna's Garden; Come Along Make Haste)
Francis Poulenc
Wednesday
May 1
Holger Falk (baritone) | Alessandro Zuppardo (piano)
MDG 603.1658 (Poulenc: Mélodies sur poèmes de Apollinaire) -
Mefistofele: Act III
Arrigo Boito
Wednesday
May 1
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Mefistofele] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Faust] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Margherita] | Nucci Condò [Marta] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Wagner] | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Elena] | Alan Jones [Pantalis] | Robin Leggate [Nereo] | London Opera Chorus | Trinity Boys' Choir | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
Decca 475.6666 (Boito: Mefistofele) -
Les Troyens: Act II
Hector Berlioz
Wednesday
May 1
Jon Vickers [Enée] | Josephine Veasey [Didon] | Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] | Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] | Heather Begg [Anna] | Roger Soyer [Narbal] | Anthony Raffell [Panthée] | Anne Howells [Ascagne] | Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] | Pierre Thau [Priamus] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] | Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] | Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] | Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] | David Lennox [Hélénus] | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 475.6661 (Berlioz: Les Troyens) -
Solovei (Nightingale), Op. 60 #4
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Wednesday
May 1
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Delos 3392 (Romances) -
Hamlet: Aria. Ophelia's mad scene. "A vos jeux, mes amis"
Ambroise Thomas
Wednesday
May 1
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
London 414.450 (The Art of the Prima Donna) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wednesday
May 1
Charlotte Margiono (soprano) | Catherine Robbin (alto) | William Kendall (tenor) | Alastaire Miles (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Exsultate, jubilate in F Major, K 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wednesday
May 1
Annemarie Kremer (soprano) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #08. Morgengruß [The Fair Miller-Maid: Morning greetings]
Franz Schubert
Wednesday
May 1
Barbara Hendriks (soprano) | Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Arte Verum 008 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
La Cenerentola: Recitative & Aria. De la fortuna istabile...Nacqui all'affanno...Non più mesta (Fickle fortune...I was born to affliction and tears...No longer sadly)
Gioachino Rossini
Wednesday
May 1
Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Sinfonia Varsovia | Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Naïve 5221 (Rossini)