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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Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"
Friday
Dec 19
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet A Major
Friday
Dec 19
Walter Boeykens (clarinet) | Therese-Marie Gilissen (viola) | Marjeta Korosec (violin) | Peter Despiegelaere (violin) | Roel Dieltiens (cello)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1384 (Mozart: Quintette pour Clarinette) -
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu, Op. 36
Friday
Dec 19
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 39708 (Chopin: Impromptus) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 3: Suite in B-flat major: I. Ouverture: Lentement - Presto - Lentement
Friday
Dec 19
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #2
Friday
Dec 19
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Barry Douglas (piano)
RCA 61633 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Friday
Dec 19
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 9031.74006 (Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, Le tombeau de Couperin) -
Léon de Saint-Lubin
Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 49
Friday
Dec 19
Anastasia Khitruk (violin) | Elizaveta Kopelman (piano)
Naxos 572.019 (Saint-Lubin: Virtuoso Works for Violin, Vol. 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #4 in C Minor, Op. 18 #4
Friday
Dec 19
Miró Quartet
Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets) -
Antonín Dvořák
Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55: #4. Songs My Mother Taught Me
Friday
Dec 19
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2
Friday
Dec 19
Lorin Maazel (conductor) | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Horacio Gutierrez (piano)
Telarc 80259 (Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #4 in D Major, BWV 1069
Friday
Dec 19
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
AAM Records 003 (JS Bach: Orchestral Suites) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Ballet Scenes
Friday
Dec 19
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande
Friday
Dec 19
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] | Didier Henry [Pelléas] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] | Pierre Thau [Arkel] | Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] | Françoise Golfier [Yniold] | Phillip Ens [Un berger | Un médecin] | Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants]
London 430.502 (Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande) -
Ernest Chausson
Poème de l'amour et de la mer: II. La Mort de l'amour
Friday
Dec 19
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Jean-Marie Leclair
Scylla et Glaucus: Act IV, Scenes 4-6
Friday
Dec 19
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Donna Brown [Scylla] | Howard Crook (tenor) [Glaucus] | Rachel Yakar (soprano) [Circé] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Dorine] | Françoise Golfier [L'Amour] | Agnes Mellon [Vénus] | Renè Schirrer [Licas] | Elisabeth Vidal (soprano) [Témire] | Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) [Un Propetide] | Nicolas Robertson [Un Propetide] | Philip Salmon [Un berger] | Richard Stuart (baritone) [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Hécate]
Erato 2292.45277 (Leclair: Sylla et Glaucus) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Zaide: Act II, Aria. "Wer hungrig bei der Tafel sitzt"
Friday
Dec 19
Christopher Purves [Osmin] | The Academy of Ancient Music | Paul Goodwin (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7205 (Mozart: Zaide) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I
Friday
Dec 19
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) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ja byl u nej (I was with her), Op. 14 #4
Friday
Dec 19
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Hector Berlioz
Requiem, Op. 5: II. Dies irae
Friday
Dec 19
London Symphony Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | London Symphony Chorus
Philips 416.283 (Berlioz: Requiem) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 21. Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (My heart was deeply troubled)
Friday
Dec 19
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Erato 4509.98536 (Bach: Cantatas) -
John Bennet
Venus' birds whose mournful tunes
Friday
Dec 19
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Julian Behr (lute) | Concerto di Viole
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2)
WETA Virtuoso
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Amy Beach
Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45
Friday
Dec 19
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Danny Driver (piano) | Rebecca Miller (conductor)
Hyperion 68130 (The Romantic Piano Concerto 70) -
Erik Satie
Le "Piccadilly"
Friday
Dec 19
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
John Dowland
In darkness let me dwell
Friday
Dec 19
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Jakob Linberg (lute)
Archiv 0003460 (Music for a While) -
Dmitri Lvovich Klebanov
String Quartet #4 (in memory of Mykola Leontovych)
Friday
Dec 19
ARC Ensemble
Chandos 20231 (Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov) -
John Alden Carpenter
Symphony #1
Friday
Dec 19
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | John McLaughlin Williams (conductor)
Naxos 559.065 (Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator) -
Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata #1 in A Minor, Op. 105
Friday
Dec 19
Jennifer Koh (violin) | Reiko Uchida (piano)
Cedille 90000.095 (Schumann: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 109
Friday
Dec 19
Sergei Istomin (cello) | Viviana Sofronitsky (piano)
Passacaille 947 (Felix Mendelssohn: Complete works for Cello and Pianoforte) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #4 in G Major
Friday
Dec 19
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Christine Schäfer (soprano)
RC Live 07003 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4) -
Jacques Ibert
Impromptu
Friday
Dec 19
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Nadia Boulanger
Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Friday
Dec 19
The Fisher Duo
Northeastern 238 (Imaginées) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #10
Friday
Dec 19
DG 419.171 (Schubert: String Quartets) -
Sofia Gubaidulina
Violin Concerto #3 "Dialog: Ich und Du"
Friday
Dec 19
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Vadim Repin (violin) | Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG 486.1458 (Sofia Gubaidulina) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 320)
Friday
Dec 19
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
Johannes Brahms
Horn Trio, Op. 40
Friday
Dec 19
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Gunter Hogner (horn) | Erich Binder (violin
London 410.114 (Brahms: Clarinet Trio, Horn Trio) -
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #1 in E Major, Op. 5 "Slavic"
Friday
Dec 19
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9)