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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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Sunday
Dec 14
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 506096 (Igor Levit) -
Daniel Bacheler
Courantes (3) from Lord Herbert's Lute Book
Sunday
Dec 14
Paul O'Dette (lute)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8250 (The 50th Anniversary Boxed Set) -
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 14
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 427.656 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG 483.7071 (Beethoven Complete Symphonies) -
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde: Entr'acte #3
Sunday
Dec 14
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony, K 19a in F Major
Sunday
Dec 14
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Concentus Musicus of Vienna
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 63970 (Mozart: Early Symphonies) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto
Sunday
Dec 14
Minnesota Orchestra | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Edo de Waart (conductor)
EMI 49429 (Brahms & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
George Frideric Handel
Aria & Variations
Sunday
Dec 14
Simon Preston (organ) | Läubin Brothers (trumpets)
DG 419.245 (Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #4
Sunday
Dec 14
Kurt Masur (conductor) | London Philharmonic
Teldec 2292.46445 (Schumann: Symphonien Nos. 1 & 4) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Symphonie Concertante in A Major (Benton 114)
Sunday
Dec 14
David Perry (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor) | Isabella Lippi (violin)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Pirates of Penzance: Overture
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] | José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] | Jonathan Summers [Le Grand Prêtre] | Simon Estes [Abimelech] | Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] | Robert Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] | Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Deuxième Philistin]
Philips 426.243 (Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Act I, scena. "Pari siamo! Io la lingua" (We're two of a kind! I have a tongue)
Sunday
Dec 14
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Sony 373312 (Verdi) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Aria & Chorus - "Quoniam tu solus Sanctus.Cum Sancto Spiritu"
Sunday
Dec 14
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chorus Viennensis | Vienna Boys Choir | Max von Egmond (bass)
Teldec 35019 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Gustav Mahler
Das klagende Lied (revised version)
Sunday
Dec 14
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Recorded live on May 2, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam | Julia Faulkner (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (alto) | Gary Lakes (tenor) | Städtischer Musikveriein zu Düsseldorf
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part III, Conclusion. "O glücklich Paar, und glücklich immerfort...Singt dem Herrn alle Stimmen" (O happy pair, and always happy yet...Sing the Lord, ye voices all!)
Sunday
Dec 14
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel] | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Raphael]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Frederick Delius
A Mass of Life: Part II
Sunday
Dec 14
Alan Opie (baritone) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezz-soprano) | Andrew Kennedy (tenor) | The Bach Choir | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | David Hill (conductor)
Naxos 572.861-62 (Delius: A Mass of Life, Prelude and Idyll) -
Walter Braunfels
Die Trommel gerühret (Beat the drum!), Op. 29 #2
Sunday
Dec 14
Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (You now have sadness)
Sunday
Dec 14
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Janet Williams (soprano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Erato 4509.92856 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Aria. "Ach, Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Edita Gruberova [Konstanze]
London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli
Sunday
Dec 14
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro 16014 (Allegri: Miserere) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act II, Alessandro's aria. "Pur sento, oh Dio! che l'alma" (And yet, oh god, I feel my soul)
Sunday
Dec 14
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Romina Basso [Alessandro]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo)
WETA Virtuoso
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Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 16
Sunday
Dec 14
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9) -
Alexander Scriabin
Four Pieces, Op. 51: No. 3. Poème ailé
Sunday
Dec 14
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 427.485 (Yevgeny Kissin) -
Béla Bartók
String Quartet #3
Sunday
Dec 14
Emerson String Quartet
DG 423.657 (BARTOK 6 String Quartets) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1034 in E Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Avi Avital (mandolin) | Kammerakademie Potsdam
DG 0016801 (Bach) -
Franz Liszt
Romance. "Ô pourquoi donc" (O why)
Sunday
Dec 14
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 789141 (Liszt) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 in C Minor "Resurrection"
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) | Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Christa Ludwig (alto)
DG 477.9260 (Mahler, The People's Edition) -
Claude Debussy
Hommage à Haydn
Sunday
Dec 14
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Duke Ellington
Suite from "The River"
Sunday
Dec 14
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 9154 (Still) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata, K 27 in B Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Mily Balakirev
Symphonic Poem. Tamara
Sunday
Dec 14
BBC Philharmonic | Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
Chandos 9727 (Balakirev) -
Richard Strauss
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64
Sunday
Dec 14
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64350 (Richard Strauss)