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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Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Selections
Wednesday
Nov 11
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Passe lointain, Op. 72 #17
Wednesday
Nov 11
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0004284 (Tchaikovsky: 18 Piano Pieces, Op. 72) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto a due cori #3 in F Major
Wednesday
Nov 11
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik
Sony 63073 (Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #4
Wednesday
Nov 11
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Berlin State Symphony Orchestra
Teldec 2564.61179 (Schumann: The Symphonies) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata da Camera a Tre in E Minor, Op. 1 #2
Wednesday
Nov 11
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Wednesday
Nov 11
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Shlomo Mintz (violin)
DG 423.064 (Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Rhapsody #1
Wednesday
Nov 11
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 416.623 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 500)
Wednesday
Nov 11
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano and Violin, K 526
Wednesday
Nov 11
Hilary Hahn (violin) | Natalie Zhu (piano)
DG 0004771 (Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376, 526) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #8 "Unfinished"
Wednesday
Nov 11
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic
London 414.371 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 5) -
Gioachino Rossini
La gazza ladra: Overture
Wednesday
Nov 11
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431.653 (Rossini: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel
Wednesday
Nov 11
Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow | Artur Eisen [King Dodon] | Arkadiy Mishenkin [Prince Gvidon] | Vladimir Redkin (baritone) [Prince Afron] | Nikolaï Nizinenko [Commander Voyevoda Polkan] | Nina Gaponova [Housekeeper Amelfa] | Oleg Biktimirov [The Astrologer] | Elena Brileva [Queen of Shemakha] | Irena Udalova [The Golden Cockerel] | Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow [Boyars, Soldiers, Warriors, Crowd, Slaves, Guards] | Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
MCA 10391 (Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel) -
Gabriel Fauré
Pénélope: Act I, Finale
Wednesday
Nov 11
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Jessye Norman (soprano) [Pénélope] | Jocelyne Taillon [Euryclée] | Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Alkandre] | Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Phylo] | Danielle Borst [Lydie] | Michelle Command [Mélantho] | Norma Lerer [Cléone] | Alain Vanzo [Ulysse] | Jean Dupouy [Antinoüs] | Paul Guigue [Ctésippe] | Gérard Friedmann [Léodès] | Philippe Huttenlocher [Eurymaque] | José van Dam (baritone) [Eumée] | François Le Roux [Pisandre] | Ensemble Vocal Jean LaForge
Erato 88205 (Fauré: Pénélope) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act II, Countess Almaviva's aria. "Porgi, amor" (Grant, love)
Wednesday
Nov 11
Marina Rebeka (soprano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Speranza Scappucci (conductor)
Warner Classics 15497 (Mozart: Opera Arias) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Die Götter Griechenlands; Philoktet; Fragment aus dem Aischylos; Der entsühnte Orest; Aus Helopolis; Heliopolis (Greek Gods; Philoctetes; Fragment from Aeschylus; Orestes Purified; From Heliopolis; Heliopolis)
Wednesday
Nov 11
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Ingo Metzmacher (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2035 (Schubert: Heliopolis) -
Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust: Part IV
Wednesday
Nov 11
Richard Leech (tenor) [Faust] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Méphistophélès] | Françoise Pollet [Marguerite] | Michel Philippe [Brander] | Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Charles Dutoit (conductor)
London 444.812 (Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust) -
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur: Aria. "Poveri fiori"
Wednesday
Nov 11
Mirella Freni (soprano) | Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice | Roberto Abbado (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: III. Credo
Wednesday
Nov 11
Collegium Musicum 90 | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Richard Hickox (conductor) | Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Gioachino Rossini
Maometto Secondo: Act I
Wednesday
Nov 11
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | June Anderson [Anna Erisso] | Margarita Zimmermann [Calbo] | Ernesto Palacio [Paolo Erisso] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Maometto] | Laurence Dale [Condulmiero | Selimo] | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
Richard Strauss
Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 #1 (Dream in the twilight)
Wednesday
Nov 11
Christian Thielemann (conductor) | Diana Damrau (soprano) | Munich Philharmonic
Virgin 628664 (Strauss: Orchestral Songs)
WETA Virtuoso
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 71 #2 in D Major "Apponyi"
Wednesday
Nov 11
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Folk Dance
Wednesday
Nov 11
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68288 (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet) -
Arthur Foote
Three Character Pieces, Op. 9: Morning Song
Wednesday
Nov 11
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #1 in D Major "Titan"
Wednesday
Nov 11
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 459.610 (Mahler: Symphony No. 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 54
Wednesday
Nov 11
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
DG 4864898 (Alice Sara Ott: Beethoven) -
Zdeněk Fibich
A Night at Karlstejn Castle: Overture
Wednesday
Nov 11
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.310 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 4) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Wednesday
Nov 11
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major
Wednesday
Nov 11
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 423.665 (Ravel) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Wednesday
Nov 11
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 416.361 (Pops in Love) -
Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes
Wednesday
Nov 11
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
London 444.338 (Schumann & Brahms: Piano Works) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 5
Wednesday
Nov 11
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 339 (Gade)