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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The Hours
Kevin Puts
Saturday
May 18
Metropolitan Opera
Private Recording (Private Recording) -
Flute Sonata, HWV 376 in B Minor (Halle #3)
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
May 18
William Bennett (flute) | Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichord) | Denis Vigay (cello)
Philips 412.606 (Handel: Flute Sonatas) -
Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33
Antonín Dvorák
Saturday
May 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10309 (Dvorak) -
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 233
Johann David Heinichen
Saturday
May 18
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Saturday
May 18
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra | Kees Bakels (conductor)
BIS 1387 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole, Piano Concerto) -
Une Symphonie Imaginaire: #6-9
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Saturday
May 18
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 0004478 (Rameu: Une Symphonie Imaginaire) -
Sextet in E-flat Major
Luigi Gatti
Saturday
May 18
Calamus Ensemble
MDG 603.1589 (Luigi Gatti: Chamber Music) -
Concert Piece (Horn)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Saturday
May 18
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 416.380 (Gliere, Saint-Saëns, Dukas & Chabrier: Works for Horn) -
Serenade, K. 320 "Posthorn"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
May 18
Salzburg Mozarteum Academic Camerata | Sándor Végh (conductor)
Philips 422.413 (Mozart: "Posthorn Serenade", K. 320, 2 Marches, K. 335) -
Concert Piece in D Minor, Op. 134 (Introduction and Allegro Concertante)
Robert Schumann
Saturday
May 18
Murray Perahia (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Sony 64577 (Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54, Concert Pieces) -
Symphony #98
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
May 18
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 2292.46331 (Haydn: Symphonien No. 98 & 99) -
Piano Trio, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
May 18
New Vienna Ensemble
London 414.576 (Beethoven: Septet Op. 20, Trio Op. 11) -
Symphony #1
Johannes Brahms
Saturday
May 18
London Philharmonic | Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
EMI 47029 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1) -
Cello Concerto in B Minor, RV 424
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
May 18
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | George Kallweit (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2095 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Suite for Cello and Piano, Op. 69
David Popper
Saturday
May 18
Wendy Warner (cello) | Eileen Buck (piano)
Cedille 90000.111 (Wendy Warner Plays Popper & Piatigorsky) -
Sinfonia, H. 656 in F Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Saturday
May 18
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.103 (CPE Bach: Berliner Sinfonien) -
Symphonic Poem #3. Les Préludes
Franz Liszt
Saturday
May 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K. 466
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
May 18
Martha Argerich (piano) | Orchestra Mozart | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 479.1033 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 503 & K. 466) -
The Birds
Ottorino Respighi
Saturday
May 18
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Edo de Waart (conductor)
Philips 411.419 (Respighi: Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Gli Uccelli) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #1 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
May 18
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7415 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Blue Danube
Johann Strauss Jr.
Saturday
May 18
London Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 54089 (J. Strauss II: Waltzes & Overtures) -
Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 26
Dora Pejacevic
Saturday
May 18
Andrej Bielow (violin) | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Cello Concerto #4
Leonardo Leo
Saturday
May 18
Josephine Knight (cello) | English Chamber Orchestra | Stephanie Gonley (conductor)
ASV 1169 (Leo: Six Cello Concertos) -
Piano Sonata #15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastorale": IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo; Più allegro quasi presto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
May 18
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Symphony #3 in C Major, Op. 20
Louis Théodore Gouvy
Saturday
May 18
German Radio Philharmonic of Saarbrücken & Kaiserslautern | Jacques Mercier (conductor)
CPO 777.379 (Gouvy: Symphonies 3 & 5) -
L'incoronazione di Dario: Sinfonia
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
May 18
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz
Saturday
May 18
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 410.895 (Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique) -
Symphony #92 "Oxford"
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
May 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 413.777 (Haydn: Symphonies No. 88 & 92 "Oxford") -
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Johannes Brahms
Saturday
May 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 410.083 (Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Haydn Variations) -
Banquet Music, Part 1: Quartet in G Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Saturday
May 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Symphony #4 "Italian"
Felix Mendelssohn
Saturday
May 18
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
CBS 37760 (Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4) -
Cello Concerto (G. 474)
Luigi Boccherini
Saturday
May 18
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6057 (Boccherini: Concerti per Violoncello Viol. 3) -
Symphony #1 "Spring"
Robert Schumann
Saturday
May 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 447.408 (Brahms: Symphonie Nr. 1) -
Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
May 18
Ensemble Caprice | Matthias Maute (conductor)
Analekta 299967 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Norwegian Dances, Op. 35
Edvard Grieg
Saturday
May 18
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Piano Concerto #9
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
May 18
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Voyevoda: Overture
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Saturday
May 18
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Otello: Willow Song. Assisa a' pie d'un salice (Seated at the foot of a willow)
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
May 18
Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Sinfonia Varsovia | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Naïve 5221 (Rossini) -
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #06. Der Neugierige [The Fair Miller-Maid: Curiosity]
Franz Schubert
Saturday
May 18
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Three Shakespeare Songs
Roger Quilter
Saturday
May 18
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) | Julius Drake (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2093 (Down by the Salley Gardens) -
Symphony #8 in E-flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand": Part Two
Gustav Mahler
Saturday
May 18
Christine Brewer (soprano) | Soile Isokosi (soprano) | Juliane Banse (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (soprano) | Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) | Jon Villars (tenor) | David Wilson-Johnson (bass) | John Relyea (bass) | City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus | London Symphony Chorus | City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus | Toronto Children's Chorus | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57945 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8) -
Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": IV. Presto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
May 18
Jane Eaglen (soprano) | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Ben Heppner (tenor) | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Swedish Radio Choir | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Sony 62634 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9) -
Vier Duette (4 Duets), Op. 78
Robert Schumann
Saturday
May 18
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Cantata, BWV 140. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake up, cries the watchmen's voice)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
May 18
Susan Hamilton (soprano) | William Kendall (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 171 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 12) -
Maria Stuarda: Act III, scene 8, duet (Anna, Maria, Chorus). "Deh! Tu di un'umile preghiera"
Gaetano Donizetti
Saturday
May 18
Diana Damrau (soprano) [Maria] | Sara Rocchi (mezzo-soprano) [Anna] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 52809 (Tudor Queens) -
Hungarian Coronation Mass: II. Gloria
Franz Liszt
Saturday
May 18
Irén Szecsödy (soprano) | Magda Tiszay (contralto) | József Simándy (tenor) | András Faragó (bass) | Budapest Chorus | Sándor Margittay (organ) | Hungarian State Orchestra | János Ferencsik (conductor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Messiah: Part 2
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
May 18
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) | Susan Gritton (soprano) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | Neal Davies | Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 453.464 (Handel: Messiah) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
May 18
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Sarah Fox (soprano) | Deborah Norman (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Jonathan Lemalu (bass) | Academy of Ancient Music | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Tosca: Act III
Giacomo Puccini
Saturday
May 18
Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Floria Tosca] | José Carreras (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] | Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Cesare Angelotti] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Spoletta] | Fernando Corena [Un sagrestano] | Victor von Halem (baritone) [Sciarrone] | Victor von Halem (baritone) [Un carceriere] | Wolfgang Bünten (tenor) [Un pastore] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin | Schöneberger Sängerknaben | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 413.815 (Puccini: Turandot) -
La Belle Dame Sans Merci [text by John Keats]
Charles Villiers Stanford
Saturday
May 18
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) | Julius Drake (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2093 (Down by the Salley Gardens) -
Exsultate, jubilate, K 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
May 18
Christine Schäfer (soprano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 457.582 (Mozart: Arias) -
Messa da Requiem: II. Dies Irae
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday
May 18
Alessandra Marc (soprano) | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Erato 4509.96357 (Verdi: Requiem) -
Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'amours [The Court of Love]
Carl Orff
Saturday
May 18
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) | Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Harding (conductor)
DG 477.8778 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Cantata, BWV 49. Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (I go and seek with longing)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
May 18
Magdalena Kozená (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 168 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 11) -
Te Deum, Op. 32
Walter Braunfels
Saturday
May 18
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honneck (conductor)
Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum) -
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss
Saturday
May 18
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Der Kaiser] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Die Kaiserin] | Reinhild Runkel [Die Amme] | Albert Dohmen [Der Geisterbote] | José van Dam (baritone) [Barak, der Färber] | Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Baraks Frau] | Sumi Jo [Die Stimme des Falken] | Robert Gambill [Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings] | Alzbieta Ardam [Eine Stimme von oben] | Eva Lind [Der Hüter der Schwelle] | Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Der Einäugige] | Hans Franzen [Der Einarmige] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Der Bucklige] | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 436.243 (Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten) -
Winterreise: #8-Rückblick
Franz Schubert
Saturday
May 18
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 57790 (Schubert: Winterreise) -
Abramo: Part II, aria (Isacco). "Perché più franco"
Pietro Torri
Saturday
May 18
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) | Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 51789 (La Vanita del Mondo) -
Hamlet: Act III
Ambroise Thomas
Saturday
May 18
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] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
EMI 54820 (Thomas: Hamlet) -
Guillaume Tell: Act III, Scenes 3-4
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
May 18
Gerald Finley [Guillaume Tell] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Hedwige] | Elena Xanthoudakis [Jemmy] | Malin Byström [Mathilde] | John Osborn [Arnold] | Frédéric Caton [Melchtal] | Matthew Rose [Walter] | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Carlos Bosi [Rodolphe] | Celso Albelo [Ruodi] | Dawid Kimberg [Leuthold] | Davide Malvestio [Hunstman] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
Cantata, BWV 187. Es wartet alles auf dich (They all wait upon thee)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
May 18
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | RIchard Wyn Roberts (alto) | Stephan Loges (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 156 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 4)