This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical and WETA VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Violin Concerto #10 in B Minor, Op. 19
Pierre Rode
Saturday
Apr 20
Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
Naxos 570.469 (Rode: Violin Concertos, Nos. 7, 10 & 13) -
Symphony in D Major
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Saturday
Apr 20
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10351 (Hoffmeister: Symphonies) -
Piano Concerto #2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Saturday
Apr 20
Mikhail Pletnev (piano) | The Philharmonia | Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
Virgin 91202 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #3 in G Major
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Apr 20
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7415 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Gypsy Baron: Overture
Johann Strauss Jr.
Saturday
Apr 20
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.022 (J. Strauss: Emperor Waltz) -
The Flying Dutchman: Overture
Richard Wagner
Saturday
Apr 20
Philharmonia Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
CBS 36699 (Wagner: Overtures) -
Symphony #3
Johannes Brahms
Saturday
Apr 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DG 431.681 (Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Haydn Variations) -
Symphony #34 in C Major, K. 338
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Apr 20
Prague Chamber Orchestra | Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80190 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31, 33 & 31) -
Symphony #5 in B-flat Major, D 485
Franz Schubert
Saturday
Apr 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Symphony, Op. 3 #1 in D Major
Johann Christian Bach
Saturday
Apr 20
Hanover Band | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.268 (J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3) -
Symphony #1
Camille Saint-Saëns
Saturday
Apr 20
French National Radio Orchestra | Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 62643 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies) -
Symphony #95
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
Apr 20
Philharmonia Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
RCA 68426 (Haydn: The London Symphonies Nos. 95, 97 & 101) -
Symphony #5
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Saturday
Apr 20
Cleveland Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
CBS 36700 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5) -
Orchestral Suite #4
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Apr 20
La Stravaganza | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102.4 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"
Robert Schumann
Saturday
Apr 20
London Symphony Orchestra | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3) -
Concerto, RV 356
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Apr 20
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Symphony #25
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Apr 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 429.221 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 25 & 29, Clarinet Concerto) -
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 235
Johann David Heinichen
Saturday
Apr 20
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Apr 20
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 3984.28144 (Beethoven) -
Water Music Suite #2
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Apr 20
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)
Erato 4509.91716 (Handel: Water Music)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs), Op. 98a after Geothe's "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre"
Robert Schumann
Saturday
Apr 20
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
La Sonnambula: Act I
Vincenzo Bellini
Saturday
Apr 20
Natalie Dessay [Armina] | Francesco Meli [Elvino] | Carlo Colombara [Il conte Rodolfo] | Sara Mingardo [Teresa] | Jaël Azzaretti [Lisa] | Paul Gay [Alessio] | Gordon Gietz [Un notaro] | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Evelino Pidò (conductor)
Virgin 395138 (Bellini: La Sonnambula) -
Te Deum, Op. 32
Walter Braunfels
Saturday
Apr 20
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honneck (conductor)
Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum) -
Platée (Comédie lyrique)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Saturday
Apr 20
Gilles Ragon (tenor) [Platée (Plataea)] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [La Folie (Folly) | Thalie (Thalia)] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Thespis | Mercure] | Vincent Le Texier (bass-baritone) [Jupiter | Un Satire (A Satyr)] | Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano) [Junon (Juno)] | Bernard Delétré (bass) [Cithéron | Momus (in Prologue)] | Véronique Gens (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid) | Clarine] | Michel Vershaeve (baritone) [Momus (in Acts II & III)] | Caroline de Corbiac (soprano), Myriam Sosson (soprano) [Deux Ménades (Two Maenads) | Ensemble Vocal Françoise Herr | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Chérubin: Aria. Je suis gris! (I am tipsy!)
Jules Massenet
Saturday
Apr 20
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Chérubin] | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Kazushi Ono (conductor)
Virgin 41986 (Diva Divo) -
Cantata pastorale. Non so qual più m'ingombra
Alessandro Scarlatti
Saturday
Apr 20
Clara Rottsolk (soprano) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0768 (Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music) -
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Apr 20
Chorus Viennensis | Vienna Boys Choir | Rotraud Hansmann | Helen Watts (alto) | Max von Egmond (bass) | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 35019 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Messa da Requiem: I. Requiem & Kyrie
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday
Apr 20
Alessandra Marc (soprano) | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Erato 4509.96357 (Verdi: Requiem) -
Apollo et Hyacinthus: Act II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Apr 20
John Dickie [Oebalus, King of Lacedemonia] | Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger [Melia] | Arno Raunig [Hyacinthus] | Ralf Popken [Apollo] | Axel Köhler [Zephyrus] | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Leipzig Radio Orchestra | Max Pommer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42
Robert Schumann
Saturday
Apr 20
Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Brentano Lieder, Op. 68: #3 "Säusle, liebe Myrte"
Richard Strauss
Saturday
Apr 20
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Virgin 45705 (Amor) -
La costanza combattuta in amore: Act 3, scene 8, aria (Eumene). "Mormorando quelle fronde" (The rustling of the leaves)
Giovanni Porta
Saturday
Apr 20
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin 645452 (Venezia) -
Poema en forme de canciones
Joaquín Turina
Saturday
Apr 20
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
Settings from "Hashirim asher lish'lomo" ("The Songs of Solomon")
Salamone Rossi
Saturday
Apr 20
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118
Franz Schubert
Saturday
Apr 20
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0000049 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Three Male Choruses with Piano, B 76, Op. 43
Antonín Dvorák
Saturday
Apr 20
Cantus | Timothy Cheek (piano) | Sonja Kaye Thompson (piano)
Cantus 1213 (Song of a Czech) -
Maometto Secondo: Giusto ciel, in tal periglio
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
Apr 20
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Erisso] | Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice | Ion Marin (conductor)
London 436.075 (Rossini Heroines)