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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Franz Schubert
String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden"
Friday
May 8
Orlando Quartet
Philips 412.127 (Schubert: String Quartet, Death and the Maiden) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Sinfonia, G. 2
Friday
May 8
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Friday
May 8
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 425.109 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 4) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #3 in B-flat Major
Friday
May 8
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Friday
May 8
André Previn (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
Philips 416.382 (Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Glinka & Moussorgsky)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Friday
May 8
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | James Levine (conductor) | Håkan Hagegård (baritone)
RCA 60861 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act II, Aria. Ei nel volto ha un non so che (His face has something)
Friday
May 8
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | Diana Damrau [Martesia]
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: III. Eia, mater, fons amoris (O mother, fount of love)
Friday
May 8
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 "Resurrection": V. Final Chorus. "Auferstehung" (Resurrection)
Friday
May 8
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 821936-0006 (Mahler: Symphony No. 2) -
Aaron Copland
The Tender Land: Act II
Friday
May 8
Elisabeth Comeaux [Laurie] | Janis Hardy [Ma Moss] | Maria Jette [Beth] | LeRoy Lehr [Grandpa Moss] | Dan Dressen [Martin] | James Bohn [Top] | Vern Sutton [Mr Splinters] | Agnes Smuda [Mrs Splinters] | Merle Fristad [Mr Jenks] | Sue Herber [Mrs Jenks] | Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series, Minnesota | Philip Brunelle (conductor)
Virgin 91113 (Copland: The Tender Land) -
Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème: Mimì's aria. "Addio...Donde lieta uscì al tuo grido d'amore" (Goodbye...From whence she left so happily at your loving call)
Friday
May 8
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Arturo Chacón-Cruz [Rodolfo]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo)
WETA Virtuoso
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John Adams
On the Transmigration of Souls
Friday
May 8
Lorin Maazel (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | New York Choral Artists | Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Nonesuch 78916 (John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls) -
Amy Beach
A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, Op. 108
Friday
May 8
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
Friday
May 8
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
DG 4870835D (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Shostakovich & Britten) -
Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata #2 in D Minor, Op. 121
Friday
May 8
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 419.235 (Schumann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2)