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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Cello Concerto (G. 482)
Luigi Boccherini
Sunday
May 5
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6056 (Boccherini: Concerti per Violoncello Viol. 2) -
Symphony #2
Johannes Brahms
Sunday
May 5
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 422.334 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Academic Festival Overture) -
Cantata, BWV 42: Sinfonia
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 5
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
Piano Concerto #17
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 5
Maria João Pires (piano) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 439.941 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 21) -
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 234
Johann David Heinichen
Sunday
May 5
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Symphony #101 "Clock"
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
May 5
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.869 (Haydn: Symphonies No. 94 "Surprise" & No. 101 "The Clock") -
Rondo à la Krakowiak, Op. 14
Frédéric Chopin
Sunday
May 5
Jan Lisiecki (piano) | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
DG 479.6824 (Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra) -
Symphony #5
Franz Schubert
Sunday
May 5
Berlin Philharmonic | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
CBS 39671 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5) -
Violin Concerto, TWV 51:E3
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sunday
May 5
Rainer Kussmaul (violin) | Berlin Baroque Soloists | Rainer Kussmaul (conductor)
DG 0005761 (Telemann: Sinfonia Melodica) -
Piano Concerto #3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 5
Evgeny Kissin (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Colin Davis (conductor)
EMI 06311 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5) -
William Tell: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
May 5
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80116 (William Tell & Other Favorite Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner
Sunday
May 5
Thomas Moser [Tristan] | Deborah Voigt [Isolde] | Petra Lang [Brangäne] | Peter Weber [Kurwenal] | Robert Holl [König Marke] | Markus Nieminen [Melot] | Michael Roider [Ein Hirt] | In-Sung Sim [Ein Steuermann] | John Dickie [Ein junger Seemann] | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 0002250 (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) -
Duet. Antigone und Oedip, D 542
Franz Schubert
Sunday
May 5
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Gerald Moore (piano)
Brilliant Classics 94082 (Schubert: Vocal Duets, Trios & Quartets) -
Le Prophète: Act IV, Beginning
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Sunday
May 5
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] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS 34340 (Meyerbeer: Le Prophete) -
Le Cid: Act II, Scene 2
Jules Massenet
Sunday
May 5
Grace Bumbry [Chimene] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] | Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] | Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] | Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] | Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] | Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] | Jake Gardner [Le Roi] | Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] | John Adams [St. Jacques] | Byrne Camp Chorale | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler (conductor)
CBS 79300 (Massenet: Le Cid) -
Orphée et Euridice: Act III
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Sunday
May 5
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Orphée] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Euridice] | Suzie LeBlanc [Amour] | Opera Lafayette Orchestra and Chorus | Ryan Brown (conductor)
Naxos 660.185-86 (Gluck: Orphée et Euridice) -
Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Part 1. Excerpts from Les Indes Galantes, Pigmalion, Les Paladins, Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sunday
May 5
Sabine Devieilhe (soiprano) | Aimery Lefèvre (baritone) | Le Jeune Chœur de Paris | Les Ambassadeurs | Alexis Kossenko (conductor)
Erato 34149 (Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour) -
Faust: Act I
Charles Gounod
Sunday
May 5
Richard Leech (tenor) [Le docteur Faust] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Marguerite] | José van Dam (baritone) [Méphistophélès] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Valentin] | Martine Mahé (mezzo-soprano) [Siébel] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Marthe] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [Wagner] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 54228 (Gounod: Faust) -
Cantata, BWV 150. Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 5
Gillian Keith (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Liederkreis, Op. 24: #5. Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden (Lovely cradle of my sorrows)
Robert Schumann
Sunday
May 5
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7521 (Schumann: Dichterliebe) -
Joseph and His Brethren: Aria. "Prophetic raptures swell my breast"
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 5
Karina Gauvin (soprano) | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Naïve 5261 (Handel, Streams of Pleasure)