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
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Sunday
Apr 19
Gil Shaham (violin) | The Knights | Eric Jacobsen (conductor)
Canary Classics 20 (Beethoven Brahms Violin Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Scenes from Childhood
Sunday
Apr 19
Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 410.653 (Schumann: Scenes from Childhood, Kreisleriana) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Overture in F Major
Sunday
Apr 19
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1042
Sunday
Apr 19
Emmy Verhey (violin) | Camerata Antonio Luco
Brilliant Classics 93102.5 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Sunday
Apr 19
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
CBS 39446 (Prokofiev's Greatest Hits) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #21
Sunday
Apr 19
English Chamber Orchestra | Murray Perahia (piano) | Murray Perahia (conductor)
CBS 34562 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 21 & 9) -
Emilia Giuliani
Prelude, Op. 46 #1
Sunday
Apr 19
Federica Artuso (guitar)
Tactus 810790 (Emilia Giuliani: Complete Guitar Works) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #6 in C Major, D 589
Sunday
Apr 19
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Sir Edward Elgar
Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 62
Sunday
Apr 19
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Teldec 4509.98436 (Elgar: Falstaff) -
Bedřich Smetana
Ma Vlast
Sunday
Apr 19
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
George Frideric Handel
Aria & Variations
Sunday
Apr 19
Simon Preston (organ) | Läubin Brothers (trumpets)
DG 419.245 (Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound) -
Franz Liszt
Totentanz (Dance of Death)
Sunday
Apr 19
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 423.571 (Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Sunday
Apr 19
Beethoven Orchestra, Bonn | Stefan Blunier (conductor)
MDG 937.1995 (Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, No. 7) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Treasure Waltz
Sunday
Apr 19
Alban Berg Quartet | Alfred Mitterhofer (harmonium) | Heinz Medjimorec (piano)
EMI 54881 (Strauss & Lanner: Walzer) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Overture
Sunday
Apr 19
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia
Warner Classics 624344 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Sunday
Apr 19
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449.967 (Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6) -
Fritz Kreisler
Liebesleid
Sunday
Apr 19
Maxim Vengerov (violin) | Ian Brown (piano)
EMI 57916 (Kreisler, Sarasater, Wieniawski, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite #5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
Sunday
Apr 19
Zuill Bailey (cello)
Telarc 31978 (Bach Cello Suites) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet Suite #1
Sunday
Apr 19
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 49289 (Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" Suites Nos. 1 & 2) -
Johannes Brahms
Ballade, Op. 10 #4 in B Major
Sunday
Apr 19
Lars Vogt (piano)
Ondine 1330 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Four Ballades, Op. 10)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Antonio Vivaldi
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act II, Scenes 7-12
Sunday
Apr 19
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | Vivica Genaux [Antiope] | Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] | Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] | Diana Damrau [Martesia] | Rolando Villazón [Ercole] | Romina Basso [Teseo] | Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] | Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] | Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Frederick Delius
Three Songs, The Words by Shelley: To the queen of my heart
Sunday
Apr 19
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80062 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 1) -
Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem, Op. 45: #1. Blest are they that mourn
Sunday
Apr 19
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Act II
Sunday
Apr 19
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] | Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] | Walter Gullino [Ruiz] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] | Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci]
DG 413.355 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice: "Che farò senza Euridice?"
Sunday
Apr 19
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Piero Gamba (conductor)
London 414.454 (Mattinata) -
Robert Schumann
Spanische Liebeslieder (Spanish Love Songs), Op. 138 after Spanish poets (selections)
Sunday
Apr 19
Peter Schreier (tenor) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Sunday
Apr 19
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor | Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77380 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Gioachino Rossini
L'italiana in Algeri
Sunday
Apr 19
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Mustafà] | Patrizia Pace [Elvira] | Anna Gonda [Zulma] | Alessandro Corbelli [Haly] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Lindoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella] | Enzo Dara [Taddeo]
DG 427.331 (Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri) -
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere [Springtime]
Sunday
Apr 19
Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Christian Gerhaher
EMI 57888 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Manuel de Falla
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (7 Popular Spanish Songs)
Sunday
Apr 19
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Betulia Liberata: Act II, aria (Achior). "Te solo adoro"
Sunday
Apr 19
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Nahuel Di Pierro [Achior]
Aparté 235 (Mozart: Betulia Liberata) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Sunday
Apr 19
John Aler | Kaaren Erickson (soprano) | Claudine Carlson | John Cheek (bass) | Westminster Symphonic Choir | New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | Zdenek Macal (conductor)
Delos 3161 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Anonymous
Music from Las Huelgas: Sequence. Virgines egregie (Illustrious virgins)
Sunday
Apr 19
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 80.7510 (Secret Voices) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (You now have sadness)
Sunday
Apr 19
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Gundula Janowitz | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Philips 411.436 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motet, RV 627 In turbato mare irato
Sunday
Apr 19
Patrizia Ciofi (soprano) | Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor)
Virgin 45704 (Vivaldi: Motets) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le Prophète: Act V
Sunday
Apr 19
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Marilyn Horne [Fidès] | James McCracken [Jean de Leyden] | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Berthe] | Jules Bastin [Le Comte d'Oberthal] | Jerome Hines [Zacharie] | Jean Dupouy [Jonas] | Christian du Plessis [Mathisen] | Oliver Broome [Paysan] | John Noble [Paysan] | Patricia Clark (soprano) [Paysanne] | Shirley Minty [Paysanne] | Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree | Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS 34340 (Meyerbeer: Le Prophete) -
Carl Nielsen
Tyve folkelige Moldier (Twenty Folk Melodies): Frihed er det bedste guld (Freedom is the purest gold)
Sunday
Apr 19
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir)
WETA Virtuoso
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Benjamin Britten
Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Sunday
Apr 19
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) | Elizabeth Watts (soprano) | London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Tiffin Children's Choir | Allan Clayton (tenor)
LSO 830 (Britten) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 380)
Sunday
Apr 19
John Williams (guitar)
CBS 44518 (The Baroque Album) -
Gabriel Fauré
Élégie in C Minor, Op. 24
Sunday
Apr 19
Josephine Knight (cello) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) | Caroline Dearnley (cello) | Ashok Klouda (cello) | Hannah Roberts (cello) | Ben Davies (cello) | Rowena Calvert (cello) | Robert Max (cello) | Chris Murray (cello) | Desmond Neysmith (cello) | Nicholas Trygstad (cello) | Jo Cole (cello)
Decca 485.0241 (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar) -
Dora Pejačević
Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 26
Sunday
Apr 19
Oliver Triendl (piano) | Andrej Bielow (violin)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #10 in G Major, Op. 14 #2
Sunday
Apr 19
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
George Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
Sunday
Apr 19
William Boughton (conductor) | English Symphony Orchestra
Nimbus 5210-13 (The Spirit of England) -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters"
Sunday
Apr 19
Guarneri Quartet
Philips 456.574 (Leos Janacek: String Quartets) -
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Sunday
Apr 19
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
DG 423.576 (Strauss) -
Alexander Glazunov
Rèverie in D-flat Major, Op. 24
Sunday
Apr 19
Russian National Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor) | Alexey Serov (horn)
Warner Classics 4679465 (Glazunov: Complete Concertos) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto #2 in G Major, Oop. 126
Sunday
Apr 19
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) | Sinfonia of London | John Wilson (conductor)
DG 4870835D (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Shostakovich & Britten) -
Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Sunday
Apr 19
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 443.173 (BARTOK) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Omphale's Spinning Wheel
Sunday
Apr 19
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | French National Orchestra
DG 400.070 (Franck: Symphony in D Minor - Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d'Omphale) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Sarcasms, Op. 17
Sunday
Apr 19
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8881 (Prokofiev Vol. 2 of the complete piano music) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1020 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in G Minor
Sunday
Apr 19
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Claude Debussy
Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
Sunday
Apr 19
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy: Images, Études, etc.) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #6 in A Minor
Sunday
Apr 19
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
Ondine 1084 (Mahler) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Étude-tableau in E-flat Minor, Op. 33 #5
Sunday
Apr 19
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E Major
Sunday
Apr 19
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Stephen Coombs (piano) | Jean-Yves Ossonce (conductor)
Hyperion 66897 (Hahn & Massenet: Piano Concertos) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in Three Movements
Sunday
Apr 19
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Clara Wieck Schumann
Romance, Op. 11 #3 in A-flat Major
Sunday
Apr 19
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Decca 485.0020 (Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann) -
Louis Spohr
Violin Concerto #11 in G Major, Op. 70
Sunday
Apr 19
Simone Lamsma (violin) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 570.528 (Spohr: Violin Concertos, Nos. 6, 8 & 11) -
Dora Pejačević
Piano Quintet in B Minor, Op. 40
Sunday
Apr 19
Quatuor Sine Nomine | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777.421 (Dora Pejacevic: Chamber Works)