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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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #2
Tuesday
Dec 16
Alfred Brendel (piano) | James Levine (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Philips 411.189 (Beethoven: The Piano Concertos) -
Léo Delibes
Lakme: Dances
Tuesday
Dec 16
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Vox 5130 (The Dance) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #5 in A Major, Op. 18 #5: IV. Allegro
Tuesday
Dec 16
Miró Quartet
Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #24: I. Allegro
Tuesday
Dec 16
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Orli Shaham (piano) | David Robertson (conductor)
Canary Classics 18 (Mozart Piano Concertos 17 & 24) -
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto #2 in E-flat Major: II. Rondo (Allegro molto)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor) | Hermann Baumann (horn)
Philips 412.237 (R. Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #8 in F Major, Op. 93
Tuesday
Dec 16
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 0013 (Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelles, Op. 33: #5 in C Major. Allegro ma non troppo
Tuesday
Dec 16
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2416 (Beethoven: Fur Elise; Bagatelles) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 235
Tuesday
Dec 16
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #96 "Miracle": III. Menuetto
Tuesday
Dec 16
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips 442.611 (Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. 1) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1054 in D Major: I. Allegro
Tuesday
Dec 16
Bernard Labadie (conductor) | Les Violons du Roy | Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Virgin 70913 (Bach: Keyboard Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #1
Tuesday
Dec 16
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Telarc 80187 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 537 for 2 Trumpets in C Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
English Chamber Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor) | Hannes Läubin (trumpet) | Wolfgang Läubin (trumpet)
DG 431.817 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture #3
Tuesday
Dec 16
Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 429.762 (Beethoven: Overtures) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 543 in F Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
La Serenissima | Adrian Chandler (conductor)
Avie 2218 (The French Connection 2) -
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Polish Fantasy
Tuesday
Dec 16
Antoni Wit (conductor) | Janina Fialkowska (piano) | National Polish Radio Symphony Orch.
Naxos 554.020 (Paderewski: Piano Concerto, Polish Fantasy) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #6 in G Minor
Tuesday
Dec 16
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 410.048 (Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi) -
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Tuesday
Dec 16
Jérôme Ducros (piano) | Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Erato 521413 (Gautier Capucon: Emotions) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 320 "Posthorn"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Prague Chamber Orchestra
Telarc 80108 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, "Posthorn" Serenade) -
Giacomo Puccini
Storiella d'amore
Tuesday
Dec 16
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Bedřich Smetana
Ma Vlast
Tuesday
Dec 16
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
Ottorino Respighi
La Boutique Fantasque, P. 120: Galop
Tuesday
Dec 16
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10081 (Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite #3 in B Minor, BWV 814
Tuesday
Dec 16
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 49860 (Dvořák: Symphonie No. 9 - Smetana: The Moldau) -
Antonio Vivaldi
L'incoronazione di Dario: Sinfonia
Tuesday
Dec 16
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #100 in G Major "Military"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Amy Beach
Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45
Tuesday
Dec 16
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Danny Driver (piano) | Rebecca Miller (conductor)
Hyperion 68130 (The Romantic Piano Concerto 70) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne, Op. 9 #1 in B-flat Minor
Tuesday
Dec 16
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #3
Tuesday
Dec 16
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Giuliano Carmignola (violin) | Orchestra Mozart
Archiv 477.7371 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite #4 "Mozartiana"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Capriccio 10.200 (Tchaikowsky: Suiten 3 & 4 "Mozartiana") -
Giuseppe Verdi
La Forza del Destino: Overture
Tuesday
Dec 16
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic
Philips 411.469 (Verdi: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II
Tuesday
Dec 16
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Lucia] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Edgardo] | Sherill Milnes [Enrico] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Raimondo] | Ryland Davies [Arturo] | Huguette Tourangeau [Alisa] | Pier Francesco Poli [Normanno]
London 410.193 (Donizett: Lucia di Lammermoor) -
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op. 48: #4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' (When I look into your eyes)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Philippe Sly (bass/baritone) | Michael McMahon (piano)
Analekta 29836 (In Dreams) -
Carl Heinrich Graun
Cleopatra e Cesare: "Tra le procelle assorto"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
CBC 5233 (Cleopatra) -
Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem, Op. 45: #1. Blest are they that mourn
Tuesday
Dec 16
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Josef Rheinberger
Mass in E-flat Major, Op. 109 (Cantus Missæ): Credo
Tuesday
Dec 16
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
George Frideric Handel
Arias (selections from Radamisto, Ottone, Giulio Cesare, and Arianna)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471-72 (A Tribute) -
Alphons Diepenbrock
Kennst du das Land (Do you know the land?)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act III
Tuesday
Dec 16
Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Edita Gruberova [Violetta Valéry] | Patricia Spence [Flora Bervoix] | Monica Bacelli [Annina] | Neil Shicoff [Alfredo Germont] | Giorgio Zancanaro [Giorgio Germont] | Kim Begley [Gastone, Visconte de Létorières] | Peter Sidhom [Barone Douphol] | David Barrell [Marchese d'Obigny] | Alastaire Miles [Dottore Grenvil] | Peter Bronder [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] | Fabrizio Visentin [Domestico di Flora] | Nicholas Folwell [Commissionario] | Ambrosian Singers | Marc Barrard (baritone) [Marchese d'Obigny] | Ambrosian Singers [Signori e signore | Amici di Violetta e Flora | Mattadore | Piccadori e zingare
Teldec 9031.76348 (Verdi: La Traviata) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Fra cento affanni, K 88
Tuesday
Dec 16
Staatskapelle Dresden | Sylvia Geszty (soprano) | Otmar Suitner (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 139. Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott (Happy is he who can trust in God)
Tuesday
Dec 16
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | William Kendall (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Gillian Keith (soprano) | Hilary Summers (alto)
SDG 171 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 12) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
Tuesday
Dec 16
Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg | Valery Gergiev | Nicolai Ohotnikov [Prince Yury Vsevolodich] | Yuri Marusin [Prince Vsevolod] | Galina Gorchakova [Fevroniya] | Vladimir Galuzin [Grishka Kuter'ma] | Nikolai Putilin [Feodor Poyarok] | Olga Korzhenskaya [Page] | Evgeny Boitsov [Well-off Person] | Evgeny Fedorov [Well-off Person] | Mikhail Kit [Gusli Player] | Nikolai Gassiev [Bear Leader] | Grigory Karasev [Singing Beggar] | Bulat Minjilkiev [Bedyay] | Vladimir Ognovienko (bass) [Burunday] | Tatiana Kravtsova [Sirin] | Larissa Diadkova [Alkonost]
Philips 462.225 (Rimsky-Korsakov: The Invisible City of Kitezh) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 140. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake up, cries the watchmen's voice): Chorale. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Tuesday
Dec 16
The English Concert | Trinity Baroque | Albrecht Mayer (conductor) | Albrecht Mayer (oboe d'amore)
Decca 478.1517 (Voices of Bach) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il turco in Italia: Act I, Opening
Tuesday
Dec 16
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
Vier Duette (4 Duets), Op. 34
Tuesday
Dec 16
Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Josquin des Prez
Absalon fili mi (Absalom, my son)
Tuesday
Dec 16
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act I
Tuesday
Dec 16
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus a 8
Tuesday
Dec 16
Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew (conductor)
Virgin 70907 (Lamentazione) -
Gabriel Fauré
Super flumina Babylonis
Tuesday
Dec 16
Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris | Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Virgin 70921 (Fauré: Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Act II, Nr 16, Finale. "Heil sei dem Tag, Heil sei der Stunde"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Rundfunkchor Leipzig | Staatskapelle Dresden | Theo Adam (bass) [Don Pizarro] | Martti Talvela [Don Fernando] | James King (tenor) [Florestan] | Gwyneth Jones [Leonore] | Franz Crass [Rocco] | Edith Mathis [Marzelline] | Peter Schreier [Jaquino] | Eberhard Büchner [Erster Gefangener] | Günter Leib [Zweiter Gefangerer] | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 0004590 (Beethoven: Fidelio) -
Umberto Giordano
Fedora: Act II
Tuesday
Dec 16
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Magda Olivero [La Principessa Fedora Romazoff] | Mario del Monaco [Il Conte Loris Ipanoff] | Tito Gobbi [M. de Siriex] | Leonardo Monreale [Lorek] | Lucia Cappellino [La Contessa Olga Sukarev] | Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Boroff] | Silvio Maionica [Grech] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Il Barone Rouvel] | Peter Binder [Cirillo] | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Dimitri] | Ricardo Cassinelli [Désiré] | Athos Cesarini [Sergio] | Leonardo Monreale [Nicola] | Aron Bokatti [Michele] | Sergio Caspari [Un piccolo Savoiardo] | Pascal Rogé [Boleslao Lazinski] | Chœur de l'Opéra de Monte Carlo | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
London 433.033 (Giordano: Fedora) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Decio's aria. "Che giova il trono al Re" (What good is his throne to a king)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa)
WETA Virtuoso
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony #1 in C Minor
Tuesday
Dec 16
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 448.898 (Bruckner) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #1 in D Major "Titan"
Tuesday
Dec 16
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 477.9260 (Mahler, The People's Edition) -
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Triumphal March, H. 547/1
Tuesday
Dec 16
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Six Pieces,Op. 52: No. 5. Andante
Tuesday
Dec 16
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Édouard Lalo
Cello Concerto
Tuesday
Dec 16
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Han-Na Chang (cello) | Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia
EMI 82390 (Romance) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Tuesday
Dec 16
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10475 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Viktor Kosenko
Impromptu, Op. 4 #2
Tuesday
Dec 16
Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin) | Angelina Gadeliya (piano)
Labor 095 (Ukraine - Journey to Freedom) -
Antonín Dvořák
My Home Overture
Tuesday
Dec 16
André Previn (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
Telarc 80173 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, Overture, My Home) -
Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto #1
Tuesday
Dec 16
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG B0003885 (BARTOK The Piano Concertos) -
Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42
Tuesday
Dec 16
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 8996 (Roussel) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 30 #1 in E-flat Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
George Frideric Handel
Sonata for Two Oboes and Continuo, HWV 384 in G Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
Ingo Goritzki (oboe) | Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone) | Walter Heinz Bernstein (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.066 (Handel: Die Oboensonaten Vol. 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 302
Tuesday
Dec 16
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) | Alexander Lonquich (piano)
EMI 49712 (Mozart: Sonatas for violin and piano K. 306, 302, 296 & 377) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82
Tuesday
Dec 16
Oslo Philharmonic | Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
Decca 485.2256 (Klaus Mäkelä: Sibelius) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude & Fugue #21 B-flat Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
Till Fellner (piano)
ECM 0002285 (Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1) -
William Byrd
Mass Propers for Pentecost
Tuesday
Dec 16
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Remo Giazotto
Adagio after Tomaso Albinoni
Tuesday
Dec 16
I Musici
Philips 410.606 (Mozart, Pachelbel & Albinoni) -
Amy Beach
Four Sketches, Op. 15
Tuesday
Dec 16
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op.28
Tuesday
Dec 16
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 426.262 (Richard Strauss) -
Arthur Foote
Two Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 74: A Song of Sleep
Tuesday
Dec 16
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
Claude Debussy
Ballade
Tuesday
Dec 16
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Sir Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 55
Tuesday
Dec 16
Philharmonia Orchestra | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
EMI 47673 (Elgar Symphony No 1 in A Flat) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #8 in F Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
William Schuman
American Festival Overture
Tuesday
Dec 16
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
DG 413.324 (Bernstein) -
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major
Tuesday
Dec 16
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 423.665 (Ravel) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #10 (Adagio)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60021 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major) -
Robert Schumann
Widmung (arr. Liszt)
Tuesday
Dec 16
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 60443 (Evgeny Kissin, Carnegie Hall Debut Concert) -
Sergei Prokofiev
The Gambler: Four Portraits from the Opera, Op. 49
Tuesday
Dec 16
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8803 (Prokofiev) -
Felix Draeseke
Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 36
Tuesday
Dec 16
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Markus Becker (piano) | Michael Sanderling (conductor)
Hyperion 67636 (Jadassohn & Draeseke: Piano Concertos)