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

  • 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

  • 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)