Playlists

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

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet #10

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    DG 419.171 (Schubert: String Quartets)

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Piano Concerto #1

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Nikolai Lugansky (piano) | Sakari Oramo (conductor)

    Warner Classics 47941 (Lugansky: Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture for Wind Instruments, Op. 24

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra

    DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures)

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • George Frideric Handel

    My heart is inditing

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    Simon Preston (conductor) | The English Concert | Choir of Westminster Abbey | Trevor Pinnock (organ)

    Archiv 410.030 (George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems)

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: Act III

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Floria Tosca] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Cesare Angelotti] | Anthony Lacuira [Spoletta] | Angelo Veccia [Un sagrestano] | Ralf Lukas [Sciarrone] | Bryan Secombe [Un carceriere] | Lee Tiernan [Un pastore] | Children's Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

    DG 431.775 (Puccini: Tosca)

  • John Bennet

    Venus' birds whose mournful tunes

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Julian Behr (lute) | Concerto di Viole

    Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2)

WETA Virtuoso

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto #2 in E-flat Major

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    London Symphony Orchestra | István Kertész (conductor) | Barry Tuckwell (horn)

    Decca 460.296 (Strauss: The Concertos)

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem

    Thursday
    Oct 22

    Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Stephen Layton (conductor) | Harrison Cole (organ)

    Hyperion 67436 (Duruflé: Requiem)