This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical, WETA VivaLaVoce and WETA Virtuoso. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #13 in E-flat Major "Quasi una Fantasia"
Friday
Feb 27
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6773 (Beethoven: Piano Sonatas) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar Saltan: March
Friday
Feb 27
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80107 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5) -
Florian Leopold Gassmann
One Madman Makes Many: Overture
Friday
Feb 27
Eclipse Chamber Orchestra | Sylvia Alimena (conductor)
Naxos 570.421 (Gassmann: Opera Overtures) -
Frédéric Chopin
Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22
Friday
Feb 27
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
James Brooks
Violin Concerto #1: III
Friday
Feb 27
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) | Parley of Instruments | Peter Holman (conductor)
Hyperion 66865 (English Classical Violin Concertos) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20: I. Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco
Friday
Feb 27
Daniel Hope (violin) | Soloists of Chamber Orchestra Europe
DG 477.6634 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Octet & Songs) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto in D Major, G 479
Friday
Feb 27
Yuli Turovsky (cello) | I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 8408 (Boccherini & Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Hector Berlioz
The Roman Carnival
Friday
Feb 27
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 452.480 (Berlioz: 8 Overtures, Le Carnaval romain, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #2: I
Friday
Feb 27
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 80.7461-62 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #1 in E Major, Op. 5 "Slavic": I. Allegro
Friday
Feb 27
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9) -
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony, Op. 6 #6 in G Minor: I. Allegro
Friday
Feb 27
Concerto of Cologne
Capriccio 10.283 (Musik der Bach Söhne) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": V. Lebhaft
Friday
Feb 27
Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto B-flat Major (K. 191)
Friday
Feb 27
Milan Turkovic (bassoon) | Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Martin Sieghart (conductor)
Orfeo 223.911 (Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major, Symphony No. 104) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 268 in E Major
Friday
Feb 27
I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor) | Duilio M. Galfetti (violin)
Naïve 30474 (Vivaldi: Concerti per violino III "Il ballo") -
Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Concerto #1
Friday
Feb 27
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
RCA 68219 (Weber: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Konzertstuck) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #11 in A Major
Friday
Feb 27
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 410.048 (Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi) -
Franz Liszt
Réminiscences de Don Juan (fantasy on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni): III. Presto
Friday
Feb 27
Anderson | Roe Piano Duo
Steinway & Sons 30022 (An Amadeus Affair) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #86
Friday
Feb 27
Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Philips 426.169 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 86 & 88) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Friday
Feb 27
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Sir Stephen Hough (piano) | Hannu Lintu (conductor)
Hyperion 68291 (Beethoven: The Piano Concertos) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise, Op. 34 #14
Friday
Feb 27
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1031 for Flute and Continuo in E-flat Minor
Friday
Feb 27
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Frédéric Chopin
Preludes (24)
Friday
Feb 27
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413.796 (Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28) -
Mikhail Glinka
Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
Friday
Feb 27
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra
Philips 442.011 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 - Borodin & Glinka) -
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose
Friday
Feb 27
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Sony 46670 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #22
Friday
Feb 27
Berlin Philharmonic | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Teldec 9031.72024 (Mozart: The Late Piano Concertos Nos. 20 - 27) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Il Teuzzone: Overture
Friday
Feb 27
Modo Antiquo | Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94030 (Vivaldi: Opera Overtures) -
Lars-Erik Larsson
Pastoral Suite, Op. 19
Friday
Feb 27
Stockholm Sinfonietta | Jan-Olav Wedin (conductor)
BIS 165 (A Swedish Pastorale) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony in F Major "Urbs Roma"
Friday
Feb 27
Orchestre National de France | Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 62643 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies) -
Fritz Kreisler
Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)
Friday
Feb 27
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
EMI 47467 (My Favourite Kreisler) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. Posth.
Friday
Feb 27
Eroica Quartet
Harmonia Mundi 90.7245 (Mendelssohn: String Quartets) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #8
Friday
Feb 27
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Telarc 80198 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #3 in G Major
Friday
Feb 27
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 413.727 (Handel: Six Concerti Grossi Op. 3)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Bedřich Smetana
Libuse: Act II
Friday
Feb 27
Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Eva Urbanová [Libuse] | Vratislav Kriz [Premysl of Stadice] | Ludek Vele [Chrudos from Otava] | Jan Markvart [Stahlav from Radbuza] | Miloslav Podskalsky [Lutobor from Dobroslavsky Chlumec] | Pavel Cervinka [Radovan from the Stone Bridge] | Helena Kaupova [Krasava] | Miroslava Volkova [Radmila] | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre | Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
Supraphon 3200-2632 (Smetana: Libuše) -
Frederick Delius
Eleven Early Songs - Danish: Two brown eyes [Frederick Corder after Hans Christian Andersen]
Friday
Feb 27
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Gabriel Fauré
Messe basse
Friday
Feb 27
Cambridge Singers | John Rutter (conductor) | John Scott (organ)
Collegium 520 (Faure: Requiem and other sacred music) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 92. Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn (I have surrendered to God's heart and mind)
Friday
Feb 27
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto) | Jonathan Brown (bass) | Miah Persson (soprano) | James Oxley (tenor)
SDG 153 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 20) -
Franz Schubert
Der Sieg, D 805 (Victory)
Friday
Feb 27
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlos: Act V, scene 1. Élisabeth de Valois' aria. "Toi qui sus le néant des grandeurs de ce monde" (You who knew the emptiness of the world's splendors)
Friday
Feb 27
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Véronique Gens (soprano)
Virgin 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Reinhard Keiser
Croesus: Act II, Scene 11
Friday
Feb 27
René Jacobs (alto) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Elmira] | Werner Güra (tenor) [Atis]
Harmonia Mundi 90.1714-16 (Keiser: Croesus) -
William Byrd
The Great Service
Friday
Feb 27
The Tallis Scholars | Peter Philips (conductor)
Gimell 343.4 (William Byrd) -
Charles Gounod
Faust
Friday
Feb 27
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] | Francisco Araiza [Faust] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] | Pamela Coburn [Siébel] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Philips 420.164 (Gounod: Faust) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part II
Friday
Feb 27
Jörg Hering (tenor) [Uriel] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Raphael] | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor) | Anne Monoyios (soprano) [Gabriel]
Sony 57965 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Nr 8, Aria. "Blute nur, du liebes Herz"
Friday
Feb 27
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor) | Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano) | The Netherlands Bach Society Orchestra
Channel 32511 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) -
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly: Act II
Friday
Feb 27
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) | Leontyne Price (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] | Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] | Richard Tucker (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Kate Pinkerton] | Philip Maero (baritone) [Sharpless] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Goro] | Robert Kerns (baritone) [Il principe Yamadori] | Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Il Bonzo] | Arturo La Porta (baritone) [Il commissario imperiale] | Mario Rinaudo (bass) [L'ufficiale del registro] | Leo Pudis (bass) [Lo zio Yakusidè] | Fernanda Cadoni (mezzo-soprano) [La madre di Cio-cio-san] | Gianna Lollini (soprano) [La zia di Cio-cio-san] | Silvia Bertona (soprano) [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] | Orchestra e coro RCA Italiana
RCA 68884 (Puccini: Madama Butterfly) -
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch: Wenn du mich mit den Augen streifst und lachst (When you turn your eyes to me and laugh)
Friday
Feb 27
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Roger Quilter
Seven Elizabethan Lyrics: Weep you no more
Friday
Feb 27
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | Malcolm Martineau (piano)
DG 0004216 (Britten: Folksong Arrangements from British Isles) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa brevis in C Major, K 220 "Spatzenmesse"
Friday
Feb 27
Barbara Werner (alto) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Daniel Sans (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Petra Labitzke (soprano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Iphigénie en Tauride: Act II
Friday
Feb 27
Christine Goerke (soprano) [Iphigénie] | Rodney Gilfry [Oreste] | Stephen Salters [Thoas] | Mark Andrew Cleveland [A Scythian] | Mark Risinger [Minister of Thoas] | Boston Baroque Chorus [Priestesses, Scythians, Eumenides, and Greeks] | Boston Baroque Orchestra | Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Vinson Cole [Pylade] | Sharon Baker [First Priestess | Greek Woman] | Jayne West [Second Priestess
Telarc 80546 (Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ("Va, pensiero")
Friday
Feb 27
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 415.283 (Opera Choruses)
WETA Virtuoso
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Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto #2, Sz 112
Friday
Feb 27
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 459.639 (BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 2) -
Leoš Janáček
Jealousy (original overture to "Jenufa")
Friday
Feb 27
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Pro Arte Orchestra
EMI 63779 (Leos Janacek) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #2
Friday
Feb 27
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8589 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Polacca de concert, Op. 72 #7
Friday
Feb 27
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0004284 (Tchaikovsky: 18 Piano Pieces, Op. 72) -
Conradin Kreutzer
Grand Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 62 for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass
Friday
Feb 27
Nash Ensemble
CRD 3390 (Hummel) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms
Friday
Feb 27
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 500)
Friday
Feb 27
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
William Byrd
Motet. Exsurge Domine
Friday
Feb 27
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Gabriel Fauré
Violin Sonata #1 in A Major, Op. 13
Friday
Feb 27
Gil Shaham (violin) | Akira Eguchi (piano)
Canary Classics 1239 (The Fauré Album) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 71 #1 in B-flat Major "Apponyi"
Friday
Feb 27
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Jean Sibelius
Valse Chevaleresque
Friday
Feb 27
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
BIS 384 (Roman: Sinfonias & Violin Concertos) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Moment Musicale in B Minor, Op. 16 #3
Friday
Feb 27
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Sonata #1 in B Minor, BWV 1014
Friday
Feb 27
Viktoria Mullova (violin) | Bruno Canino (piano)
Philips 434.084 (J.S. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Violin Sonatas) -
Arthur Foote
Piano Trio #1
Friday
Feb 27
Arden Trio
Naxos 559.039 (Foote: Chamber Music Vol. 3) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #7 C Major
Friday
Feb 27
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413.794 (Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10 & Op. 25) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Friday
Feb 27
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80059 (Vaughn Williams, Barber, Grainger, Faure & Satie) -
Richard Strauss
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor
Friday
Feb 27
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor) | Malcolm Frager (piano)
EMI Classics 64342 (Richard Strauss) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 376
Friday
Feb 27
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) | Clara Haskil (piano)
Philips 412.253 (Mozart: 4 Sonatas for Piano and Violin, K.301, 304, 376 & 378) -
François Couperin
Les Baricades Mistérieuses
Friday
Feb 27
John Williams (guitar)
CBS 44518 (The Baroque Album) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #9 in D Minor
Friday
Feb 27
New Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer (conductor)
EMI Classics 63916 (Bruckner) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 102 #2 in D Major
Friday
Feb 27
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Impressions from the Countryside, Op. 54
Friday
Feb 27
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 572.985 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 1) -
Benjamin Godard
Piano Trio, Op. 32 in G Minor
Friday
Feb 27
Trio Parnassus
MDG 303.1615 (Godard: Piano Trios) -
Samuel Barber
Twelfth night, Op. 42 #1
Friday
Feb 27
Conspirare
Harmonia Mundi 80.7522 (Barber: Conspirare) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Six Pieces, Op. 52
Friday
Feb 27
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Benjamin Britten
Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Friday
Feb 27
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) | Elizabeth Watts (soprano) | London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Tiffin Children's Choir | Allan Clayton (tenor)
LSO 830 (Britten)