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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Bassoon Concertino in B-flat Major: III. Polacca
Bernhard Henrik Crusell
Thursday
May 2
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10613 (Bassoon Concertos) -
Symphony #8 in E-flat Major, WoO 30: IV. Finale. Allegro
Ferdinand Ries
Thursday
May 2
Zurich Chamber Orchestra | Howard Griffiths (conductor)
CPO 999.904 (Ries: Symphonies 7 & 8) -
Flute Quartet, TWV 43 a3 in A Minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
May 2
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0004283 (Telemann: Flute Quartets) -
Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18: III. Allegro scherzando
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Thursday
May 2
Yuja Wang (piano) | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0015338 (Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody, Piano Concerto No. 2) -
Concerto, RV 347
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
May 2
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Israel Philharmonic | Itzhak Perlman (conductor)
EMI 47076 (Vivaldi: Violin Concertos) -
Prague Waltzes
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
May 2
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Antal Dorati (conductor)
London 414.370 (Dvorák: Czech Suite, Prague Waltzes, etc.) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #1 in B Minor
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
May 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Sonata in D Major, B. 36: I. Allegro assai
Johann Christian Bach
Thursday
May 2
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1621 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 1) -
L'Arlésienne Suite #2: IV. Farandole
Georges Bizet
Thursday
May 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 415.106 (Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Carmen Suite) -
Tsar Saltan: Three Wonders
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Thursday
May 2
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8327/8/9 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Suites) -
Sinfonia, H. 662 in E Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Thursday
May 2
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.106 (CPE Bach: Six Symphonies for Strings) -
Ma Vlast: The Moldau
Bedrich Smetana
Thursday
May 2
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor)
DG 419.768 (Smetana) -
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
May 2
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
Virgin 94589 (Beethoven & Korngold: Violin Concertos) -
Symphony #104 "London"
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
May 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.517 (Haydn: Symphonies No. 103 "Drum Roll" & No. 104 "London") -
Piano Quartet #1 C Minor
Gabriel Fauré
Thursday
May 2
Jean Hubeau & friends
Erato 71564 (Fauré: Quatuors pour piano et cordes) -
Cello Concerto (G. 480)
Luigi Boccherini
Thursday
May 2
Anner Bylsma (cello) | Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 7867 (Boccherini: Concerti da Violoncello, Sinfonie) -
Symphony #4
Johannes Brahms
Thursday
May 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 427.602 (Brahms: 4 Symphonies, etc.) -
Banquet Music, Part 2: Concerto in F Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
May 2
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Violin Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
May 2
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
EMI 49486 (Brahms: Double Concerto, etc.) -
Concerto, RV 454 in D Minor (Op. 8/9)
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
May 2
I Solisti Italiani
Denon 1520 (Vivaldi: Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione, Vol. 2) -
Sinfonia concertante, K. 364
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
May 2
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Kim Kashkashian (viola) | Vienna Philharmonic | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
DG 413.461 (Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante K. 364) -
The Water Goblin, Op. 107
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
May 2
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8552 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 5, etc.) -
Brandenburg Concerto #4
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
May 2
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102.2 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Symphony #5
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
May 2
Los Angeles Philharmonic | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DG 410.028 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 5) -
Zigeunerweisen
Pablo de Sarasate
Thursday
May 2
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor)
DG 437.544 (Carmen Fantasie)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Les Troyens: Act I, Opening (Nr 1-3)
Hector Berlioz
Thursday
May 2
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) -
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Excerpts
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
May 2
Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Sonia Prina (contralso) [Giulio Cesare] | Stephen Wallace (counter-tenor) [Nireno] | Le Concert d'Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
Virgin 07572 (Arias for Cleopatra) -
Jérusalem: Act IV
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
May 2
Marcello Giordano [Gaston] | Philippe Rouillon [Count of Toulouse] | Roberto Scandiuzzi [Roger] | Marina Mescheriakova [Hélène] | Daniel Borowski [Adhémar de Monteil] | Simon Edward [Raymond] | Hélène Le Corre [Isaure] | Slobodan Stankovic [The Emir of Ramla | Wolfgang Barta [A soldier] | Jovo Reljin [An officer of the Emir] | Chœur de Grand Opera Théâtre de Genève [Nights, ladies, soldiers, pilgrims, penitents, women of the harem, people of Ramla] | Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
May 2
Lella Cuberli | Trudeliese Schmidt | Vinson Cole (tenor) | José van Dam (baritone) | Vienna Singverein | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419.166 (Beethoven: Missa solemnis) -
Il Pirata
Vincenzo Bellini
Thursday
May 2
Maria Callas [Imogene] | Constantino Ego [Ernesto] | Pier Miranda Ferraro [Gualtiero] | Glade Peterson [Itulbo] | Chester Watson [Goffredo (Solitario)] | Regina Sarfaty [Adele] | Chorus and Orchestra of the American Opera Society | Nicola Rescigno (conductor)
EMI 66432 (Bellini: Il Pirata) -
L'italiana in Algeri: Act II, No. 10, Chorus, recitative and aria. "Viva il grande Kaimakan"; "Kaimakan!"; "Ho un gran peso sulla testa"
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
May 2
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] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 427.331 (Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri) -
Armida abbandonata (Armida abandoned), HWV 105
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
May 2
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7559 (Handel in Italy) -
Werther: Act II
Jules Massenet
Thursday
May 2
Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] | Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] | Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] | Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] | James Savage-Hanford [Hans] | Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] | Christopher Waine [Karl] | Sally Cannon [Clara] | Joel Gunger [Max] | Sarah Baillie [Fritz] | Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] | London Symphony Orchestra | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Cantata 82 "Ich habe genug", BWV 82
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
May 2
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Berlin Baroque Soloists | Rainer Kussmaul (conductor)
DG 0003458 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Poème, Op. 32
Charles Tournemire
Thursday
May 2
Michael Bundy (baritone) | Helen Crayford (piano)
Naxos 572.347 (Tournemire, Sagesse, Poème) -
Dardanus (Tragédie en musique): Act I
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
May 2
Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano) [Vénus] | Frederica von Stade (soprano) [Iphise, fille de Teucer (Iphise, daughter of Teucer)] | Georges Gautier (tenor) [Dardanus, fils d'Electra et Jupiter (Dardanus, son of Elektra and Jupiter)] | Michaël Devlin (Anténor, roi d'un pays voisin (Antenor, king of a neighboring country)] | Roger Soyer (bass-baritone) [Teucer, roi de Phrygie (Teucer, King of Phrygia)] | José van Dam (bass) [Isménor, un magicien] | Véronique Dietschy (soprano) [Une Phrygienne] | Hélène Garetti (soprano), Annick Dutertre (soprano), Monique Marandon (soprano), Jean-Philippe Courtis (bass) [Les Songes (Dreams)] | Chœurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris [Ministres, les grands, le peuple (Ministers, princes, and people)] | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris | Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Some Times of Day (songs for mezzo-soprano and piano trio)': Simple
Jake Heggie
Thursday
May 2
Zheng Cao (mezzo-soprano) | Dawn Harms (violin) | Emil Miland (cello) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Ich möchte hingehn [Georg Herwegh]
Franz Liszt
Thursday
May 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
La Fille du Régmient: Recitative and aria. C'en est donc fait...Par le rang et par l'opulence...Salut à la France! (It's settled then...They thought they could dazzle me...Here's to France!)
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
May 2
Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Marie] | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias) -
La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel)
Claude Debussy
Thursday
May 2
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano) [Narrator] | Le Jeune Chœur de Paris | Philippe Cassard (piano)
Virgin 750769 (Clair de Lune) -
Carmen: Aria. "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" ("Love is a rebellious bird")
Georges Bizet
Thursday
May 2
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) [Carmen] | Orchestre National de France | Fabien Gabel (conductor)
Naïve 5201 (Ne me refuse pas) -
Farnace: Act II, Aria. Perdona, o figlio amato (Forgive me beloved son)
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
May 2
Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Virgin 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace)