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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George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, HWV 394 in E Major
Sunday
May 17
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5) -
Bedřich Smetana
Festive Symphony in E Major, Op. 6
Sunday
May 17
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Dorilla in Tempe RV 709: Sinfonia
Sunday
May 17
Berlin Academy for Old Music | George Kallweit (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2095 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Scenes from Childhood
Sunday
May 17
Lang Lang (piano)
DG 0005827 (Mozart, Chopin, Schumann & Liszt) -
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Lute Sonata in B-flat Major
Sunday
May 17
Bernhard Hofstötter (lute)
Querstand 1011 (Dresden Moskau) -
George Gershwin
Cuban Overture
Sunday
May 17
James Levine (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DG 431.625 (Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, etc.)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: Act III
Sunday
May 17
Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | 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] | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 0002250 (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) -
Franz Schubert
An die Geliebte, D 303 (To the Beloved)
Sunday
May 17
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2063 (Nacht und Träume) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: VI. Benedictus
Sunday
May 17
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Karl Böhm (conductor) | Edith Mathis | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano) | Karl Ridderbusch
DG 413.553 (Mozart: Requiem) -
George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Act 2, Scene 8
Sunday
May 17
Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Le Concert d'Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
Virgin 07572 (Arias for Cleopatra) -
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur: Act IV
Sunday
May 17
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | James Levine (conductor) | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Adriana Lecouvreur] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Maurizio] | Sherill Milnes [Michonnet] | Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [La Principessa di Bouillon] | Giancarlo Luccardi [Il Principe di Bouillon] | Florindo Andreoli [L'Abate di Chazeuil] | Lillian Watson [Mlle. Jouvenot] | Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) [Mlle. Dangeville] | Paul Crook [Poisson] | Paul Hudson [Quinault] | Paul Crook [Un Maggiordomo]
CBS 79310 (Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Nr 42, Aria. "Gebt mir meinem Jesum wieder!"
Sunday
May 17
Peter Kooij (bass) | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) | Orchestra of Collegium Vocale, Ghent
Harmonia Mundi 90.1155-57 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion)
WETA Virtuoso
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Ned Rorem
Symphony #3
Sunday
May 17
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 559.149 (Rorem: Three Symphonies) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in C
Sunday
May 17
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve (After a dream)
Sunday
May 17
Bruno Canino (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
Decca 0002334 (Cello Adagios) -
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B Minor
Sunday
May 17
Jorge Bolet (piano)
London 444.851 (Liszt: Liebestraum, Favourite Piano Works) -
Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Sunday
May 17
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.959 (Strauss)