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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Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Sunday
Mar 22
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Luigi Gatti
Serenata a più stromenti di Concerto in D Major
Sunday
Mar 22
Calamus Ensemble
MDG 603.1589 (Luigi Gatti: Chamber Music) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #11 in D Major, Hob. XVIII:11
Sunday
Mar 22
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | Emanuel Ax (piano) | Emanuel Ax (conductor)
Sony 89853 (Haydn: Piano Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #3 "Polish"
Sunday
Mar 22
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin 90761 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Capriccio Italien) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #3. Les Préludes
Sunday
Mar 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #12
Sunday
Mar 22
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 422.458 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 11 & 12) -
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde: Entr'acte #3
Sunday
Mar 22
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia, BWV 1045
Sunday
Mar 22
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2335-36 (Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Claude Debussy
Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra
Sunday
Mar 22
Marek Janowski (conductor) | Barry Douglas (piano) | French Radio Philharmonic
RCA 68127 (Debussy: Fantaisie - Britten: Piano Concerto) -
Pierre Rode
Violin Concerto #7 in A Minor, Op. 9
Sunday
Mar 22
Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
Naxos 570.469 (Rode: Violin Concertos, Nos. 7, 10 & 13) -
Frank Bridge
Spring Song
Sunday
Mar 22
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) | The Heath Quartet
Decca 485.0241 (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar) -
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Sunday
Mar 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 435.349 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Haydn Variations) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony #3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ"
Sunday
Mar 22
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra | Gillian Weir (organ)
Chandos 8822 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies 2 & 3) -
William Boyce
Symphony #2
Sunday
Mar 22
Aradia Ensemble | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.278 (Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, Op. 58
Sunday
Mar 22
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
Chandos 8672-78 (Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 #1
Sunday
Mar 22
John O'Conor (piano)
Telarc 80313 (Popular Works for Solo Piano) -
Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto #1 in C Major, Hob. VIIa:1
Sunday
Mar 22
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor) | Federico Guglielmo (violin)
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #8 "Razumovsky"
Sunday
Mar 22
Quartetto Italiano
Philips 420.797 (Beethoven: The Middle String Quartets) -
Bedřich Smetana
The Secret: Overture
Sunday
Mar 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10518 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio #5 (1718)
Sunday
Mar 22
Camerata Cologne
CPO 999.957 (Telemann: Six Trios 1718) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Sunday
Mar 22
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Decca 475.7550 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 4) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 #1
Sunday
Mar 22
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.171 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento, K. 334
Sunday
Mar 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 423.375 (Mozart: Divertimento K. 334, Serenata Notturna) -
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Sunday
Mar 22
Junhong Kuang (guitar) | Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice | Darrell Ang (conductor)
Naxos 579.053 (Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez) -
George Frideric Handel
Keyboard Suite #5 in E Major, HWV 430
Sunday
Mar 22
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
Sunday
Mar 22
London Symphony Orchestra | London Symphony Chorus | Valery Gergiev | Viktoria Yastrebova (soprano) | Ailish Tynan (soprano) | Liudmila Dudinova (soprano) | Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano) | Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano) | Sergey Semishkur (tenor) | Alexey Markov (baritone) | Evgeny Nikitin (bass) | Choir of Eltham College | Choral Arts Society of Washington | Recorded live in London, July 2008
LSO Live 669 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots: Act V
Sunday
Mar 22
Ghylaine Raphanel [Marguerite de Valois] | Françoise Pollet [Valentine] | Danielle Borst [Urbain] | Richard Leech (tenor) [Raoul de Nangis] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Le Comte de Nevers] | Boris Martinovic [Le Comte de Saint-Bris] | Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcel] | Jean-Luc Maurette [De Tavannes] | Christian Jean [De Cossé/Bois Roé/Un Moine] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [De Thoré] | Antoine Garcin [De Retz] | Herve Martin [De Meru/Un Moine/Un Archer] | Christian Boulay [Maurevert/Un Moine] | Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor) | Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcellus]
Erato 2292.45027 (Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 112. Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (The Lord is my faithful shepherd)
Sunday
Mar 22
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Katharine Fuge (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | Norbert Meyn (tenor)
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre
Sunday
Mar 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Josephine Veasey [Fricka] | Jon Vickers [Siegmund] | Martti Talvela [Hunding] | Thomas Stewart (baritone) [Wotan] | Gundula Janowitz [Sieglinde] | Régine Crespin (soprano) [Brünnhilde] | Liselotte Rebmann [Gerhilde] | Carlotta Ordassy [Ortlinde] | Ingrid Steger [Waltraute] | Lilo Brockhaus [Schwertleite] | Daniza Mastilovic [Helmwige] | Barbro Ericson [Siegrune] | Cvetka Ahlin [Grimgerde] | Helga Jenckel [Roßweisse]
DG 415.145 (Wagner: Die Walküre) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Catone in Utica: Act II, Aria. "Degli Elisi dal soggiorno"
Sunday
Mar 22
Claudio Scimione (conductor) | Lucrezia Lendi [Fulvio] | I Solist Veneti
Erato 88142 (Vivaldi: Catone in Utica) -
Emmanuel Chabrier
3 Songs. L'Île heureuse (The happy isle); Chanson pour Jeanne (Song for Jeanne); Les Cigales (The Cicadas)
Sunday
Mar 22
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs (Opéra pour la paix [pastorale héroïque]): Prologue. L'Accord des Dieux (The gods' agreement)
Sunday
Mar 22
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra | Ian Caddy (baritone) [Jupiter] | Ian Caley (tenor) [Neptun] | English Bach Festival Singers [Titans et Géants (Titans | Giants) | Dieux du Ciel (gods and goddesses) | Ann Mackay (soprano) [Flore] | Peuples de la terre (people of the earth)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Karol Szymanowski
Krol Roger (King Roger): Final scene. Hymn to Apollo
Sunday
Mar 22
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Elias (Elijah): Part II
Sunday
Mar 22
Das Neue Orchester | Chorus Musicus Köln | Christoph Spering (conductor) | Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Traditional
Paño murciano (A dance from Murcia) (folk song arr. Joaquin Nin)
Sunday
Mar 22
Corinne Winters (soprano) | Steven Blier (piano)
GPR Records 70013 (Songs of Spain) -
Francesco Cavalli
Magnificat
Sunday
Mar 22
Ensemble Correspondances | Sébastien Daucé (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2640 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe a quatre choeurs) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore: Act III
Sunday
Mar 22
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Alastaire Miles [Don Fernando] | Matthew Best [Don Pizarro] | Kim Begley [Florestan] | Hillevi Martinpelto [Leonore] | Franz Hawlata [Rocco] | Christiane Oelze [Marzelline] | Michael Schade [Jaquino] | Rob Burt [Erster Gefangener] | Colin Campbell [Zweiter Gefangener] | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Archiv 453.461 (Beethoven: Leonore) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: All we, like Sheep, have gone astray
Sunday
Mar 22
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 453.464 (Handel: Messiah)
WETA Virtuoso
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Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Sunday
Mar 22
Emanuel Ax (piano)
RCA 4275 (Schumann: Humoreske, Fantasiestücke, Op. 12) -
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Sunday
Mar 22
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 437.826 (BARTOK) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Patria oppressa!
Sunday
Mar 22
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 415.283 (Opera Choruses) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Sunday
Mar 22
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 49114 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From The New World") -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #5 E Minor
Sunday
Mar 22
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 47452 (Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & 25) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Omphale's Spinning Wheel
Sunday
Mar 22
Philharmonia Orchestra | Charles Dutoit (conductor)
London 414.460 (Saint-Saëns: Carnival of The Animals, etc.) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #2 in A Minor, Op. 13
Sunday
Mar 22
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Trio for oboe, horn and piano, Op. 61
Sunday
Mar 22
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Markus Becker (piano) | Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn)
Decca 001653202 (Song of the Reeds) -
Renaissance
Dances by Caroubel (Tk. 25-28)
Sunday
Mar 22
Ulsamer Collegium
Archiv 415.294 (Renaissance and Early Baroque Dance Music) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #2 in A Major, Op. 39
Sunday
Mar 22
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Leoš Janáček
Capriccio
Sunday
Mar 22
András Schiff (piano) | Musiktage Mondsee
London 440.312 (Janacek) -
Albert Roussel
Sinfonietta, Op. 52
Sunday
Mar 22
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 9072 (Roussel) -
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Sunday
Mar 22
James Levine (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DG 431.625 (Gershwin) -
Aaron Copland
Symphony #3
Sunday
Mar 22
Minnesota Orchestra | Eiji Oue (conductor)
Reference Recordings 93 (Copland: Third Symphony, etc.) -
Erik Satie
Le "Piccadilly"
Sunday
Mar 22
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Myroslav Skoryk
Carpathian Rhapsody
Sunday
Mar 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor) | Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin)
Centaur 3799 (Poems and Rhapsodies) -
Robert Schumann
Papillons
Sunday
Mar 22
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 34539 (Schumann: Symphonic & Posthumous Etudes) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
14 Variations, Op. 44
Sunday
Mar 22
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Alexander Glazunov
Méditation in D Major, Op. 32
Sunday
Mar 22
Russian National Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor) | Rachel Barton Pine (violin)
Warner Classics 4679465 (Glazunov: Complete Concertos) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #5 in C-sharp Minor
Sunday
Mar 22
David Zinman (conductor) | Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich
RCA 31450 (Mahler: Symphony No. 5) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #2 in F Minor "Dragonfly"
Sunday
Mar 22
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Sunday
Mar 22
London Symphony Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
EMI 47162 (Ravel: Boléro, Daphnis et Chloé, Pavane) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphonic Variations
Sunday
Mar 22
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 54320 (Dvořák: Cello Concerto, Symphonic Variations) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 45
Sunday
Mar 22
Sergei Istomin (cello) | Viviana Sofronitsky (piano)
Passacaille 947 (Felix Mendelssohn: Complete works for Cello and Pianoforte) -
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János: Intermezzo
Sunday
Mar 22
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor) | Toni Koves-Steiner (cimbalom)
CBS 38527 (Prokofiev: Lt. Kijé Suite) -
Benjamin Britten
Cello Sonata
Sunday
Mar 22
David Finckel (cello) | Wu Han (piano)
ArtistLed David Finckel Wu Han (David Finckel; Wu Han) -
César Franck
Symphony in D Minor
Sunday
Mar 22
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | French National Orchestra
DG 400.070 (Bernstein)