This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on Classical WETA 90.9 FM and VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
Classical WETA
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Six Polish Songs: #1. The Maiden's Wish (transcription by Franz Liszt)
Frédéric Chopin
Wednesday
Aug 4
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.3206 (Chopin, Liszt & Ravel) -
Prince Igor: Overture
Alexander Borodin
Wednesday
Aug 4
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80039 (Stravinsky: The Firebird) -
Brandenburg Concerto #5: I
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 49806 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos, etc.) -
Daphnis and Chloe: General Dance
Maurice Ravel
Wednesday
Aug 4
Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
EMI 66342 (Ravel: Ballet and Dance Music) -
Symphonie Concertante in A Major (Benton 114): I. Allegro
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Wednesday
Aug 4
David Perry (violin) | Isabella Lippi (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
Mephisto Waltz #1
Franz Liszt
Wednesday
Aug 4
La Pietà
Analekta 28723 (Infernal Violins) -
Scherzo-valse
Emmanuel Chabrier
Wednesday
Aug 4
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 748.021 (Fauré, Chabrier, Satie & Ravel) -
Doce Piezas Caracteristicas, Op. 92: Minueto a Sylvia
Isaac Albéniz
Wednesday
Aug 4
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 32712 (Spanish Music for Classical Guitar) -
Symphony #8 in G Major, Op. 88: IV. Allegro ma non troppo
Antonín Dvorák
Wednesday
Aug 4
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor)
Naxos 572.112 (Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8) -
Suite from Violin Partita #3 (transcription by Rachmaninoff)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Ma Vlast: The Moldau
Bedrich Smetana
Wednesday
Aug 4
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
CBS 36716 (Smetana: Moldau - Dvorák: 4 Dances) -
Flute Concerto #1 in E Major, Op. 49: I. Allegro maestoso
Saverio Mercadante
Wednesday
Aug 4
Patrick Gallois (flute) | Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.731 (Mercadante: Flute Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4) -
Piano Concerto #3: III
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wednesday
Aug 4
Yefim Bronfman (piano) | Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich | David Zinman (conductor)
Arte Nova 640100 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4) -
Scherzo Capriccioso
Antonín Dvorák
Wednesday
Aug 4
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | John Farrer (conductor)
ASV 794 (Dvorák: Nature, Life, and Love) -
Concerto, RV 265
Antonio Vivaldi
Wednesday
Aug 4
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Mikado: Overture
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Wednesday
Aug 4
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures) -
Rage Over a Lost Penny
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wednesday
Aug 4
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 68911 (Bach/Busoni: Chaconne - Schumann: Kreisleriana - Beethoven: Rondos, Op. 51, No. 2 & 129) -
Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus
Léo Delibes
Wednesday
Aug 4
San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Four Pieces, Op. 17: #2. Appassionato
Josef Suk
Wednesday
Aug 4
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Sergei Prokofiev
Wednesday
Aug 4
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.624 (Prokofiev, Britten & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Symphony #4
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
MusicMasters 7062 (J. C. F. Bach: Four Early Symphonies) -
Symphony #3 "Rhenish"
Robert Schumann
Wednesday
Aug 4
Revolutionary & Romantic Orchestra | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Sonata #5
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Wednesday
Aug 4
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 474.550 (Mondonville: 6 Sonatas Op. 3) -
Piano Concerto
Alexander Scriabin
Wednesday
Aug 4
Garrick Ohlsson (piano) | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Supraphon 2047 (Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Poeme de l'extase; Reverie) -
Brandenburg Concerto #1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.1634/5 (Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte) -
Piano Sonata #29 "Hammerklavier"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wednesday
Aug 4
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 412.575 (Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Norwegian Festival Overture
Johan Halvorsen
Wednesday
Aug 4
Bergen Philharmonic | Karsten Andersen (conductor)
NKF 50013 (Johan Halvorsen) -
Sinfonia, H. 658 in B-flat Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Camerata Bern | Thomas Füri (conductor)
Denon 73326 (C.P.E. Bach: 6 Hamburg Symphonies, wq.182) -
Serenade for Winds, K 361 "Gran Partita"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wednesday
Aug 4
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 902627 (Mozart: Gran Partita) -
Violin Concerto #3
Camille Saint-Saëns
Wednesday
Aug 4
Gil Shaham (violin) | New York Philharmonic | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 429.786 (Paganini & Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos) -
Banquet Music, Part 3: Concerto
Georg Philipp Telemann
Wednesday
Aug 4
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Russian Easter Overture
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Wednesday
Aug 4
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 411.732 (Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830) -
Concert Piece for 4 Horns
Robert Schumann
Wednesday
Aug 4
Revolutionary & Romantic Orchestra | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Concerto G Major (S. 215)
Johann David Heinichen
Wednesday
Aug 4
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti)
VivaLaVoce
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Cantata, BWV 114. Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost (Ah, dear Christians, be comforted)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Charles Humphries (alto) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephan Loges (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Allhelgonakyrkan, Lund, Oct 14, 2000]
SDG 159 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 9) -
Mazeppa: Mazeppa's arioso: "O Mariya, Mariya!" (O Maria, Maria!)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Wednesday
Aug 4
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Don Carlo: Act V, scena & aria (Elisabetta). "Tu che le vanità...Francia, nobile suol" (You who knew the vanities of the world...France, noble land)
Giuseppe Verdi
Wednesday
Aug 4
Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0018735 (Verdi) -
Médée: Act I
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Wednesday
Aug 4
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | Les Arts Florissants Chours et Orchestre | William Christie (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 901139.41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
Farnace: Act I, Scenes 1-7
Antonio Vivaldi
Wednesday
Aug 4
Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] | Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] | Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] | Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] | Karina Gauvin [Gilade] | Daniel Behle [Pompeo] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Aquilio] | Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Virgin Classics 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace) -
Agrippina: Act II, Scenes 1-5
George Frideric Handel
Wednesday
Aug 4
Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo] | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088.90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Les Huguenots: Act IV, Aria. "Parmi les fleurs mon rêve se ranime"
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Wednesday
Aug 4
Françoise Pollet [Valentine] | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor)
Erato 2292-45027 (Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots) -
Aleko: Aleko's recitative and cavatina. "Ves' tabar spit...Kak nezhna priklan'as'ka mne" (The camp is asleep...How tenderly she caressed)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Wednesday
Aug 4
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act I Scene 2
Gioachino Rossini
Wednesday
Aug 4
Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Bruno Praticò [Bartolo] | Susanne Mentzer [Rosina] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Figaro] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Basilio] | Josè Fardilha [Fiorello] | Mauro Utzeri [Ambrogio | Ufficiale] | Amelia Felle [Berta] | Coro e Orchestra della Toscana | Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor)
EMI 54863 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia) -
Litaniæ Laurentanæ in D Major, K 195
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wednesday
Aug 4
Annemarie Kremer (soprano) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Cantata, BWV 33. Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (In thee alone, Lord Jesus Christ)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Jonathan Brown (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt, Sep 17, 2000]
SDG 134 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 6) -
Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Wednesday
Aug 4
Gary Lakes [Oberon] | Ben Heppner [Hüon von Bordeaux] | Deborah Voigt [Rezia] | Delores Ziegler [Fatime] | Dwayne Croft [Scherasmin] | Victoria Livengood [Puck] | Machiko Obata [Meermädchen] | Ludwig Boettger [Narrator] | Cologne Opera Chorus | Cologne Philharmonic | James Conlon (conductor)
EMI 54739 (Weber: Oberon) -
Die drei Zigeuner [Nikolaus Lenau]
Franz Liszt
Wednesday
Aug 4
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto) | Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Hamlet: Ophelia's mad scene. "A vos jeux, mes amis"
Ambroise Thomas
Wednesday
Aug 4
Natalie Dessay [Ophélie] | Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
Virgin Classics 99469 (Mad Scenes) -
Norma: Act II/3
Vincenzo Bellini
Wednesday
Aug 4
Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Norma] | Fiorenza Cossotto [Adalgisa] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Pollione] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Oroveso] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Clotilde] | Kenneth Collins [Flavio] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)
RCA 6502 (Bellini: Norma) -
Cantata, BWV 101. Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott (Take from us, Lord, thou faithful God)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wednesday
Aug 4
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Gotthold Schwarz (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Dom, Braunschweig, Aug 27, 2000]
SDG 147 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 5) -
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)
Giuseppe Verdi
Wednesday
Aug 4
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Virgin Classics 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Agrippina: Act I, Scenes 1-5
George Frideric Handel
Wednesday
Aug 4
Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo] | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088.90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Stabat Mater a dieci voci: "Fac ut animae donetur.Amen"
Domenico Scarlatti
Wednesday
Aug 4
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve/Opus 111 30248 (Scarlatti: Stabat Mater a dieci voci) -
Lucio Vero ossia il vologeso: Vologeso's aria. "Cara ti lascio, addio" (Dearest, I must leave you, farewell)
Gennaro Manna
Wednesday
Aug 4
Franco Fagioli (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Naive 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Adriano in Siria: Farnaspe's aria. "Lieto così talvolta" (Thus, joyful still)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Wednesday
Aug 4
Franco Fagioli (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Naive 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Boris Godunov: Act IV, Scene 2
Modest Mussorgsky
Wednesday
Aug 4
Alexander Vedernikov [Boris Godunov] | Glafira Koroleva [Feodor] | Elena Shkolnikova [Xenia] | Nina Grigorieva [Nurse] | Andrei Sokolov [Shuisky] | Alexander Voroshilo [Shchelkalov] | Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] | Vladisolav Piavko [Grigory/Dmitri] | Irina Arkhipova [Marina Mnishek] | Yuri Masurok [Rangoni] | Artur Eisen [Varlaam] | Anatoli Mishutin [Missail] | Ludmila Simonova [Hostess] | Janis Sporgis [Simpleton] | Vladimir Filippov [Nikitich] | Nikolaï Nizinenko [Mitiukha] | Yuri Elnikov [Boyar/Khrushchov/Lavitsky] | Vladimir Silaev [Chernikovsky] | USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
Philips 412.281 (Mussorgsky: Boris Godounov) -
Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia: Psalm 126/127. Nisi Dominus
Alessandro Scarlatti
Wednesday
Aug 4
Philharmonia Chorale | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Avie 0048 (Scarlatti: Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia) -
Missa in Angustis "Lord Nelson Mass": II. Gloria
Joseph Haydn
Wednesday
Aug 4
Mary Wilson (soprano) | Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano) | Keith Jameson (tenor) | Kevin Deas (baritone) | Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor)
Linn Records 426 (Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass)