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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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 74 #3 in G Minor "Rider"
Thursday
Feb 26
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #2
Thursday
Feb 26
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Barry Douglas (piano)
RCA 61633 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Thursday
Feb 26
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 416.361 (Pops in Love) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #4 in G Major
Thursday
Feb 26
Barbara Hendricks (soprano) | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sony 48380 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4) -
Franz Schubert
Impromptu, Op. 90 #2 in E-flat Major
Thursday
Feb 26
Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 457.550 (Le Voyage Magnifique) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #3 in E Minor
Thursday
Feb 26
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 9004-5-6 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 "Eroica"
Thursday
Feb 26
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Telarc 80090 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 3) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue #11 in F Major, BWV 880
Thursday
Feb 26
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Cello Sonata
Thursday
Feb 26
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) | Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Philips 412.732 (Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, "Vocalise" - Sibelius: "Malinconia" - Dvořák: Polonaise) -
François Devienne
Flute Concerto #2 D Major
Thursday
Feb 26
Marc Grauwels (flute) | Walloon Chamber Orchestra | Bernard Labadie (conductor)
Syrinx 92101 (Devienne: Flute Concertos) -
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Thursday
Feb 26
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
CBS 39439 (Ravel's Greatest Hits) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #6. Mazeppa
Thursday
Feb 26
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10417 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 3) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #13
Thursday
Feb 26
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 410.214 (Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 12, K414 & No. 13, K415) -
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lady Radnor's Suite
Thursday
Feb 26
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Lyrita 220 (Parry: Symphonic Variations, English & Lady Radnor Suites)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Ambroise Thomas
Hamlet
Thursday
Feb 26
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Antonio de Almeida (conductor) | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hamlet] | June Anderson [Ophélie] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Claudius, Roi du Danemark] | Gregory Kunde [Laërte] | Denyce Graves [La Reine Gertrude] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Spectre] | Gerard Garino [Marcellus] | François Le Roux [Horatio] | Michel Trempot [Polonius] | Thierry Felix [Premier Fossoyeur] | Jean-Pierre Furlan [Second Fossoyeur]
EMI 54820 (Thomas: Hamlet) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Missa quatuor vocum: Credo
Thursday
Feb 26
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30248 (Scarlatti: Stabat Mater a dieci voci) -
Gaspare Spontini
La Vestale: Act II
Thursday
Feb 26
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Licinius] | J. Patrick Raftery [Cinna] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Le Souveraine Pontife] | Aldo Bramante [Le chef des aruspices] | Silvestro Sammaritano [Un consul] | Karen Huffstodt [Julia] | Denyce Graves [La Grande Vestale]
Sony 66357 (Spontini: La Vestale) -
Giuseppe Verdi
I lombardi: O Signore, dal tetto natio
Thursday
Feb 26
Staatskapelle Dresden | Chor der Staatsoper Dresden | Silvio Varviso (conductor)
Philips 412.235 (Opera Choruses) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957 [poems by Rellstab, Heine, Seidl]
Thursday
Feb 26
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch: Heut Nacht erhob ich mich um Mitternacht (Last night I rose at midnight)
Thursday
Feb 26
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7: Le spectre de la rose
Thursday
Feb 26
John Nelson (conductor) | David Daniels (countertenor) | Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
Virgin 45646 (Berlioz: Nuits d'été - Fauré & Ravel) -
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème: Act II
Thursday
Feb 26
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) | Anna Moffo (soprano) | Richard Tucker (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Robert Merrill [Marcello] | Mary Costa [Musetta] | Giorgio Tozzi [Colline] | Philip Maero (baritone) [Schaunard] | Fernando Corena [Benoît] | Giorgio Onesti [Alcindoro] | Adelio Zagonara (tenor) | Flavio Tosin [Doganiere] | Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus
RCA 63179 (Puccini: La Bohème) -
Gioachino Rossini
Maometto Secondo: Act II, Opening
Thursday
Feb 26
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | June Anderson [Anna Erisso] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Maometto] | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Scene 6, Aria. "Volate, amori"
Thursday
Feb 26
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Ginevra]
Archiv 457.271 (Handel: Ariodante)
WETA Virtuoso
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Maurice Ravel
Miroirs: Une barque sur l'ocean
Thursday
Feb 26
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 472.464 (Naida Cole) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #13 "Rosamunde"
Thursday
Feb 26
Cherubini Quartet
EMI 49900 (Schubert: String Quartets No. 9, D173 & No. 13, D804) -
Amy Beach
Valse-Caprice, Op. 4
Thursday
Feb 26
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Cyprès et Lauriers, Op. 156 (Cypresses and Laurels)
Thursday
Feb 26
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor) | Matthias Eisenberg (organ)
EMI 56362 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonie avec orgue) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata #19 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis
Thursday
Feb 26
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Chandos 10668 (Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2) -
Jean Sibelius
La tristesse du printemps, Op. 16 (Spring Song)
Thursday
Feb 26
BIS 384 (Sibelius) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #9
Thursday
Feb 26
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 439.024 (Mahler: Symphony No. 9) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 53 #4 in F Major
Thursday
Feb 26
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
John Adams
Berceuse élégiaque
Thursday
Feb 26
Naxos 559.031 (ADAMS: Shaker Loops) -
Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid Suite
Thursday
Feb 26
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 0001 (Dvorak Symphony No. 9, Copland Billy the Kid; Noseda/NSO) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #12 "American"
Thursday
Feb 26
Takács String Quartet
London 430.077 (Dvořák: Quartets Op. 96 & 105, bagatelles Op. 47) -
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János: Intermezzo
Thursday
Feb 26
Iván Fischer (conductor) | Budapest Festival Orchestra
Philips 462.824 (Kodaly) -
Arthur Foote
Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Minor, Op. 20
Thursday
Feb 26
Gilbert Kalish (piano) | Joseph Silverstein (violin)
New World 80542 (Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Arthur Farwell & Preston Ware Orem) -
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony #2 "The Age of Anxiety"
Thursday
Feb 26
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 60697