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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Symphony, G. 518 in A Major (Op. 37 #4)
Luigi Boccherini
Wednesday
Apr 24
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8414-15 (Boccherini: Seven Symphonies) -
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22
Frédéric Chopin
Wednesday
Apr 24
Jan Lisiecki (piano) | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
DG 479.6824 (Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra) -
Piano Concerto #25 in C Major, K 503
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wednesday
Apr 24
Martha Argerich (piano) | Orchestra Mozart | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 479.1033 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 503 & K. 466) -
Trio in D Minor, Op. 3 #2
John Antes
Wednesday
Apr 24
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Two Dickinson Songs (Good Morning Midnight; Wider Than The Sky) (Text from poems of Emily Dickinson)
Lori Laitman
Wednesday
Apr 24
Jennifer Check (soprano) | Warren Jones (piano)
Albany 1118 (Within These Spaces) -
Der Rosenkavalier: Act III, Trio & final duet "Marie Theres', wie gut Sie ist..Ist ein Traum.Spür' nur dich"
Richard Strauss
Wednesday
Apr 24
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Angelika Kirschschlager (mezzo-soprano) | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Thomas Allen (baritone) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Virgin 45705 (Amor) -
Audi, filia (Gradual for St. Cecilia's Day)
Alessandro Scarlatti
Wednesday
Apr 24
Philharmonia Chorale | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Dominique Labelle | Susanne Rydén | Ryland Angel | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Avie 0048 (Scarlatti: Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia) -
Otello: Act III, Finale. "Quest'è il segnale".
Giuseppe Verdi
Wednesday
Apr 24
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Desdemona] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Denyce Graves [Emilia] | Ramon Vargas [Cassio] | Michael Schade [Roderigo] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Lodovico] | Giacomo Prestia [Montano] | Philippe Duminy [Un Araldo] | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello) -
Nuit d'Espagne
Jules Massenet
Wednesday
Apr 24
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Jérôme Ducros (piano)
Virgin 16621 (Opium - Mélodies françaises) -
Don Pasquale: Act II, Opening
Gaetano Donizetti
Wednesday
Apr 24
Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] | Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] | Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] | Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] | Henry Newman [Un Notaro] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Sarah Caldwell (conductor)
EMI 66030 (Donizetti: Don Pasquale) -
Plainte d'amour (after Mazurka #1 F-sharp Minor, Op. 6 #1 by Frédéric Chopin)
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Wednesday
Apr 24
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Serouj Kradjian (piano)
Analekta 29903 (Viardot-Garcia: Songs)