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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Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata #3 in D Minor, Op. 108: IV. Presto agitato
Thursday
May 28
Stefan Jackiw (violin) | Max Levinson (piano)
Sony 63769 (Brahms: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Trio in E Minor: IV. Vivace
Thursday
May 28
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Aram Khachaturian
Gayane: Dances
Thursday
May 28
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8542 (Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, etc.) -
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Concerto in G Major
Thursday
May 28
Peter Schreier (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Patrick Gallois (flute)
DG 439.895 (Flute Concertos from Sanssouci) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5: III
Thursday
May 28
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449.967 (Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 505 in B-flat Major for Bassoon, Strings and Continuo
Thursday
May 28
Mathieu Lussier (bassoon) | Arion
Early Music 7764 (Vivaldi) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Dardanus: Overture
Thursday
May 28
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
CBC 5229 (Rameau: Dardanus, Le temple de la gloire) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 "Rhenish": V
Thursday
May 28
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Berlin State Symphony Orchestra
Teldec 2564.61179 (Schumann: The Symphonies) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 234
Thursday
May 28
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Trio, Op. 65 in G Major
Thursday
May 28
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 446.077 (Hummel: Piano Trios) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro
Thursday
May 28
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1: I. Vivace
Thursday
May 28
Simon Trpceski (piano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Avie 2191 (Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Trio in D Major, K 442: III. Allegro (fragments completed by Maximilian Stadler)
Thursday
May 28
Kungsbacka Trio
Naxos 570.519 (Mozart: Piano Trios Vol. 2) -
Miklós Rózsa
Madame Bovary: Waltz
Thursday
May 28
John Mauceri (conductor) | Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Philips 438.685 (The Great Waltz) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #4 in G Major (HWV 399)
Thursday
May 28
The Brook Street Band
Avie 2068 (Handel: Trio Sonatas Op. 5) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #21 in A Major
Thursday
May 28
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
John Dowland
Lady Hunsdon's Almain (P54); A lute piece without title (P51); The Shoemaker's Wife (P58)
Thursday
May 28
Goeran Soellscher (guitar)
DG 0006497 (The Renaissance Album) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano and Violin, K 526
Thursday
May 28
Hilary Hahn (violin) | Natalie Zhu (piano)
DG 0004771 (Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376, 526) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #2
Thursday
May 28
Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor) | Mikhail Pletnev (piano) | The Philharmonia
Virgin 91202 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Carl Davidoff
At the Fountain, Op. 20 #2
Thursday
May 28
Amit Peled (cello) | Eliza Ching (piano)
Centaur 3047 (Cellobration) -
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Thursday
May 28
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 436.839 (Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - Liszt) -
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries
Thursday
May 28
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic
London 410.137 (Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Excerpts) -
Zdeněk Fibich
The Tempest, Op. 46
Thursday
May 28
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.197 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 3) -
Franz Schubert
Piano Trio #2
Thursday
May 28
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 412.620 (Schubert: The Piano Trios) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Thursday
May 28
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 420.946 (Pops Britannia) -
Louis Spohr
Violin Concerto #8 in A Minor, Op. 47 "in modo di scena cantante"
Thursday
May 28
Simone Lamsma (violin) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 570.528 (Spohr: Violin Concertos, Nos. 6, 8 & 11) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K 466
Thursday
May 28
Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Kremerata Baltica
EMI 26645 (Mozart: Piano Concerto 20 & 27) -
Émil Waldteufel
Estudiantina
Thursday
May 28
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5264 (Waldteufel: The Skater's Waltz) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quintet for Piano and Winds
Thursday
May 28
Radu Lupu (piano) | Han de Vries (oboe) | George Pieterson (clarinet) | Vicente Zarzo (horn) | Brian Pollard (bassoon)
London 414.291 (Mozart & Beethoven: Quintets) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #71 in B-flat Major
Thursday
May 28
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Preciosa: Overture
Thursday
May 28
Antoni Wit (conductor) | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 570.296 (Weber: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Alessandro Scarlatti
Griselda: Aria. "Se il mio dolor t'offende"
Thursday
May 28
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor) | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Griselda]
DG 477. 8763 (Rosso) -
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot: Aria. "In questa reggia"
Thursday
May 28
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Jane Eaglen (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sony 89443 (Italian Opera Arias) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act I, Scenes 7-12
Thursday
May 28
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | Vivica Genaux [Antiope] | Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] | Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] | Diana Damrau [Martesia] | Rolando Villazón [Ercole] | Romina Basso [Teseo] | Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] | Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] | Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Amy Beach
Canticle of the Sun
Thursday
May 28
Capitol Hill Choral Society | Betty Buchanan (director) | Paul Hardy (organ)
Albany 295 (Amy Beach: Canticle of the Sun) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang, D 957: #4. Ständchen
Thursday
May 28
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca 475.6011 (Beethoven & Schubert) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 2. Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein (Ah God, look down from heaven)
Thursday
May 28
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Daniel Taylor (alto)
SDG 165 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 2) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Tudor Portraits
Thursday
May 28
Philharmonia Orchestra | Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) | Henry Herford (baritone) | Guildford Choral Society | Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
Hyperion 66306 (Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante
Thursday
May 28
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Denis Sedov [Il Re di Scozia] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Ariodante] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Ginevra] | Richard Croft [Lurcanio] | Ewa Podles [Polinesso] | Verónica Cangemi [Dalinda] | Luc Coadou [Odoardo]
Archiv 457.271 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Deus tu conversus
Thursday
May 28
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | Martin Baker (conductor)
Hyperion 67396 (Palestrina) -
Antonio Salieri
Armida: Act I
Thursday
May 28
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) [Armida] | Florie Valiquette (soprano) [Rinaldo] | Teresa Iervolino (mezzo-soprano) [Ismene] | Ashley Riches (baritone) [Ubaldo]
Aparté 244 (Salieri: Armida) -
Joaquín Rodrigo
Tres canciones españolas (Three Spanish Songs)
Thursday
May 28
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2133 (Canciones españolas) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il turco in Italia: Act I
Thursday
May 28
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] | Michele Pertusi [Selim] | Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] | Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] | Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] | Laura Polverelli [Zaida] | Francesco Piccoli [Albazar]
London 458.924 (Rossini: Il Turco in Italia) -
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op. 48: #14. Allnächtlich im Traume seh ich dich (Every night I see you in my dreams)
Thursday
May 28
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7521 (Schumann: Dichterliebe) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: I-II. Introitus and Kyrie
Thursday
May 28
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Chorus of the Netherlands Bach Society
Erato 2292.45472 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: VII. Selig sind die Toten (Blessed are the dead)
Thursday
May 28
San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
London 443.771 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Scenes 6-12
Thursday
May 28
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
George Frideric Handel
Theodora: Duet. To Thee, Thou glorious Son
Thursday
May 28
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Drew Minter (countertenor) | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471-72 (A Tribute)
WETA Virtuoso
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Robert Schumann
Papillons
Thursday
May 28
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 49235 (Schumann: Carnaval, Papillons, Faschingsschwank aus Wien) -
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony #2 "The Age of Anxiety"
Thursday
May 28
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 60697 -
Amy Beach
Les Rêves de Columbine, Op. 65: #5. Harlequin's Dance
Thursday
May 28
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Marin Marais
Couplets de Folies
Thursday
May 28
Thomas Dunford (lute) | Lucie Horsch (recorder)
Decca 483.4722 (Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey) -
Charles Villiers Stanford
Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 181
Thursday
May 28
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor) | Gillian Weir (organ)
Chandos 8861 (Stanford) -
Dora Pejačević
Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 35
Thursday
May 28
Oliver Triendl (piano) | Christian Poltéra (cello)
CPO 777.419 (Dora Pejacevic: Piano Trio; Cello Sonata) -
Jean Sibelius
Romance in C Major for Strings, Op. 42
Thursday
May 28
Wojciech Rajski (conductor) | Musica Vitae
BIS 460 (Sibelius) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1031 for Flute and Continuo in E-flat Major
Thursday
May 28
Irena Grafenauer (flute) | Maria Graf (harp)
Philips 422.061 (Bach: 3 Sonatas for Flute and Harp, Partita, Suite) -
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Thursday
May 28
Junhong Kuang (guitar) | Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice | Darrell Ang (conductor)
Naxos 579.053 (Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #1 in C Minor, Op. 37
Thursday
May 28
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Gabriel Fauré
Sicilienne
Thursday
May 28
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80084 (Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été - Fauré: Pélleas et Mélisande) -
John Adams
The Wound Dresser
Thursday
May 28
Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Naxos 559.031 (ADAMS: Shaker Loops) -
Ernest Chausson
Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, Op. 21
Thursday
May 28
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin) | Takács String Quartet
London 425.860 (Chausson: Concerto - Ravel: Trio) -
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude #17 A-flat Major
Thursday
May 28
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413.796 (Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
String Quartet in E-flat Major
Thursday
May 28
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Thomas Selle
A Domino factum est illud (This has been doen by the Lord)
Thursday
May 28
Weser-Renaissance Ensemble of Bremen | Manfred Cordes (conductor)
CPO 777.396 (Thomas Selle: Sacred Concertos and Motets for Easter) -
Alexander Scriabin
Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
Thursday
May 28
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8849 (Mussorgsky) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 9)
Thursday
May 28
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #4 in G Major
Thursday
May 28
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | Laura Claycomb (soprano) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60004 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major) -
Robert Schumann
Blumenstück (Flower Piece), Op. 19
Thursday
May 28
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 425.109 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 4) -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters"
Thursday
May 28
Melos Quartet
Harmonia Mundi 901380 (Janacek) -
Richard Strauss
Duet Concertino for clarinet, basson, and strings
Thursday
May 28
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Kim Walker (bassoon) | Dmitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
Decca 460.296 (Strauss: The Concertos) -
Amy Beach
Dreaming, Op. 15 #3
Thursday
May 28
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Johannes Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Thursday
May 28
Van Cliburn (piano)
RCA 60357 (Brahms: Concerto No. 1) -
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 16
Thursday
May 28
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9)