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 #90
Joseph Haydn
Tuesday
Mar 19
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 54297 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 60, 70 & 90) -
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
Tuesday
Mar 19
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 555.924 (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky) -
Symphony #4
Johannes Brahms
Tuesday
Mar 19
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 435.349 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Haydn Variations) -
Overture in A Minor, FWV K:a1
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Tuesday
Mar 19
Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Symphony #41 in C Major, K 551 "Jupiter"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Mar 19
Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor)
Analekta 9834 (Mozart: Symphones Nos. 40 & 41) -
Piano Concerto #2
Camille Saint-Saëns
Tuesday
Mar 19
Philippe Entremont (piano) | Toulouse Orchestra | Michel Plasson (conductor)
CBS 45624 (Saint-Saëns: The 5 Piano Concertos) -
Overture #6 in G Major
Johann Christian Bach
Tuesday
Mar 19
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures) -
Waltzes
Johannes Brahms
Tuesday
Mar 19
Santiago Rodriguez (piano)
Elan Recordings 2200 (Rodriguez Plays Brahms) -
Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
Mar 19
National Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
NSO 0013 (Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies) -
Concerto, RV 236
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Mar 19
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
Chandos 6578 (Vivaldi: Six Concertos, Op.8, Nos. 7-12)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Hippolyte et Aricie
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Tuesday
Mar 19
Véronique Gens [Aricie] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Hippolyte] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Phèdre] | Russell Smythe [Thésée] | Thérèse Feighan [Diane] | Annick Massis [L'Amour] | Laurent Naouri [Pluton/Neptune/Jupiter] | Florence Katz [Onone] | Jean-Lous Georgel [Mercure/Arcas] | Luc Coadou [Tisiphone] | Jean-Louis Meunier [Parque] | Jacques-François Loiseleur des Longchamps [Parque] | Jérôme Varnier [Parque] | Monique Simon [La Grande-Prêtresse] | Stephan Van Dyck [Un Suivant de l'Amour] | Kiyoko Okada [Une Prêtresse] | Meredith Hall [Une Chasseresse] | Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius [Nymphes de Diane, habitants de la forêt, suivants de l'Amour, prêtresses de Diane, divinités infernales, Trézéniens, matelots, chasseurs et chasseresses, bergers et bergères] | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 445.853 (Hippolyte et Aricie) -
La traviata: "Pura siccome un angelo" [Act II, Scene 1]
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
Mar 19
Matteo Manuguerra (baritone) [Giorgio Germont] | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 400.057 (Verdi: La Traviata, Highlights) -
Motet. Tribulationes civitatum
William Byrd
Tuesday
Mar 19
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
The Bells, Op. 35
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Tuesday
Mar 19
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Svetla Vassileva (soprano) | Misha Didyk (tenor) | Alexei Tanovitski (bass) | Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater
Chandos 10706 (Rachmaninoff: The Bells; Spring) -
Cantata. Bella, s'io t'amo
Alessandro Scarlatti
Tuesday
Mar 19
Clara Rottsolk (soprano) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0768 (Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music) -
Il Signor Bruschino: Conclusion
Gioachino Rossini
Tuesday
Mar 19
Samuel Ramey (bass) [Gaudenzio] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Sofia] | Claudio Desderi [Bruschino, padre] | Octavio Arévalo [Bruschino, figlio] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Florville] | Octavio Arévalo [Commissario di polizia] | Michele Pertusi [Filiberto] | Jennifer Larmore [Marianna] | English Chamber Orchestra | Ion Marin (conductor)
DG 435.865 (Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino) -
Tamerlano: Act III, Opening (Scenes 1-6)
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Mar 19
Derek Ragin [Tamerlan] | Nigel Robson [Bajazet] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Asteria] | Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] | Jane Findlay [Irène] | Renè Schirrer [Léon] | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 88220 (Handel: Tamerlano) -
Villanelle
Eva Dell'Acqua
Tuesday
Mar 19
Olga Peretyatko (soprano) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Enrique Mazzola (conductor)
Sony 373.859 (Arabesque) -
Nachtlied, Op. 108
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Mar 19
The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Rienzi: Act I Finale
Richard Wagner
Tuesday
Mar 19
René Kollo (tenor) [Rienzi] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Irene] | Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Steffano Colonna] | John Janssen [Adriano] | Bodo Brinkmann [Paolo Orsini] | Hans Helms [Kardinal Orvieto] | Norbert Orth [Baroncelli] | Kieth Engen [Cecco del Vecchio] | Carmen Anhorn [Ein Friedensbote] | Raimund Grumbach [Der Gesandte Mailands] | Hans Wilbrink [Der Gesandte der lombardischen Städte] | Friedrich Lenz [Der Gesandte Neapels] | Alfred Kuhn [Der Gesandte Bayerns] | Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper | Bayerisches Staatsorchester | Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
Orfeo 346.953 (Wagner: Rienzi) -
Shéhérazade
Maurice Ravel
Tuesday
Mar 19
Renée Fleming (soprano) | French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Alan Gilbert (conductor)
Decca 001654302 (Poemes) -
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Part 4, Scene 2, Romeo's aria. "Tu sola, o mia Giulietta...Deh! tu, bell'anima" (You alone, my own Juliet...I pray you, sweet spirit)
Vincenzo Bellini
Tuesday
Mar 19
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Romeo] | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli) -
Requiem, K. 626: IV. Offertorium
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Mar 19
Arleen Augér (soprano) | Delores Ziegler (mezzo-soprano) | Jerry Hadley (tenor) | Tom Krause | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80128 (Mozart: Requiem)