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 #90
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
Dec 3
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 54297 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 60, 70 & 90) -
Piano Concerto #1
Carl Maria von Weber
Saturday
Dec 3
Gerhard Oppitz (piano) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
RCA 68219 (Weber: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Konzertstuck) -
Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 3
Vienna Philharmonic | Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG 483.7071 (Beethoven: Complete Symphonies) -
Rienzi: Overture
Richard Wagner
Saturday
Dec 3
Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
DG 477.8773 (Wagner: Preludes & Overtures) -
Sinfonia, H. 656 in F Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Saturday
Dec 3
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.103 (CPE Bach: Berliner Sinfonien) -
Carnival of the Animals
Camille Saint-Saëns
Saturday
Dec 3
Ian Brown (piano) | Susan Tomes (piano) | Nash Ensemble
Virgin Classics 90751 (Saint-Saëns: Trio Op. 18, Septet, Le Carnaval des animaux) -
Andante with Variations (Op. 34)
Louis Spohr
Saturday
Dec 3
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | Consortium Classicum
Orfeo 213.901 (Meyerbeer, Spohr & Bärmann: Clarinet Quintets) -
Faust Ballet Music
Charles Gounod
Saturday
Dec 3
Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Charles Dutoit (conductor)
London 411.708 (Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Gounod: Faust (ballet)) -
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
Saturday
Dec 3
Canadian Brass
CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas) -
Concerto for 3 Trumpets D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Saturday
Dec 3
Läubin Brothers (trumpets) | English Chamber Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor)
DG 431.817 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Symphony #2 in C Major, Op. 61
Robert Schumann
Saturday
Dec 3
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Virgin Classics 61884 (Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 4) -
Concerto, BWV 1041
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 3
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 411.108 (Bach: The Violin Concertos) -
Piano Quartet, K. 478
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 3
Domus
Virgin Classics 91485 (Mozart: The Piano Quartets, Trio K498) -
Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in C-sharp Minor
Franz Liszt
Saturday
Dec 3
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Iván Fischer (conductor)
DG 001571102 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Symphony #98
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
Dec 3
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5199 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 98, 97 & 27) -
String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 44/1
Felix Mendelssohn
Saturday
Dec 3
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0003888 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Concerto, RV 428 "The Goldfinch"
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Dec 3
Scott Reiss (recorder) | Hesperus
Golden Apple 7550 (Baroque Recorder Concerti) -
Bagatelles, Op. 33: #1 in E-flat Major. Andante grazioso quasi allegretto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 3
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2416 (Beethoven: Fur Elise; Bagatelles) -
Selanka. Idyll in B-flat Major for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 16
Zdenek Fibich
Saturday
Dec 3
Irvin Venys (clarinet) | Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Stilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Concerto, BWV 1061 for 2 Keyboards in C Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 3
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Justus Frantz (piano) | Hamburg Philharmonic | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
DG 415.655 (J. S. Bach: Klavierkonzerte) -
Grand Serenade #1
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Saturday
Dec 3
Consortium Classicum
Schwann 310.006 (Hummel: Serenaden & Serenades) -
Symphony #85 "The Queen of France"
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
Dec 3
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Virgin Classics 90844 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 85, 86 & 87) -
Triumphal March, Op. 110
Carl Reinecke
Saturday
Dec 3
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Symphony #1 in C Minor, Op. 23
John Knowles Paine
Saturday
Dec 3
New York Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
New World 374 (John Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 1, Overture to "As You Like It") -
Piano Concerto #22
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 3
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Symphony in A Major
Camille Saint-Saëns
Saturday
Dec 3
Orchestre National de France | Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 62643 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies) -
Flute Quartet, TWV 43/G10
Georg Philipp Telemann
Saturday
Dec 3
Musica Antiqua Köln | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0004283 (Telemann: Flute Quartets) -
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Alexander Borodin
Saturday
Dec 3
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Telarc 80072 ("Marche Slav" and other Russian Favorites) -
The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Dec 3
Alan Loveday (violin) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Decca 0006627 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
String Quartet #1 in E Minor "From My Life"
Bedrich Smetana
Saturday
Dec 3
Endellion String Quartet
Virgin Classics 90807 (Smetana & Dvorák: Quartets) -
French Overture (Partita) in B Minor, BWV 831
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 3
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto) -
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Antonín Dvorák
Saturday
Dec 3
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 414.421 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "New World") -
Sinfonie #5 F Major
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello
Saturday
Dec 3
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel | David Plantier (director)
Harmonia Mundi 90.5262 (G.A. Brecianello) -
The Fair Melusina, Op. 32
Felix Mendelssohn
Saturday
Dec 3
London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Dec 3
Dawn Upshaw (soprano) | Penelope Jensen (soprano) | Marietta Simpson (mezzo-soprano) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80194 (Bach: Magnificat) -
Les Fêtes d'Hébé (Opéra-ballet) [The Festivities of Hebe]: Prologue
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Saturday
Dec 3
Sophie Daneman (soprano) [Hébé (Hebe)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid)] | Paul Agnew (tenor) [Momus] | Les Arts Florissants [Mariniers, Lacédémoniennes, bergers, bergères, nymphes, faunes, et sylvains (Rivermen, Lacedaemonian women, shepherds, shepherdesses, nymphs, fauns, and sylvans)] | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Tannhäuser: Act III
Richard Wagner
Saturday
Dec 3
Matti Salminen (bass) [Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Tannhäuser] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Wolfram von Eschenbach] | William Pell [Walther von der Vogelweide] | Kurt Rydl [Biterolf] | Clemens Bieber [Heinrich der Schreiber] | Oskar Hillebrandt [Reinmar von Zweter] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elisabeth] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Venus] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Ein Junger Hirt] | Margaret Stobart [Erster Edelknabe] | Jeanette Wilson [Zweiter Edelknabe] | Ingrid Baier [Dritter Edelknabe] | Karen Shelby [Vierter Edelknabe] | Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [Thüringische Ritter, Grafen und Edelleute | Edelfrauen | Ältere und jungere Pilger] | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 427.625 (Wagner: Tannhäuser) -
Eine kleine deutsche Kantate, K. 619 (A Little German Cantata): Liebt mich in meinen Werken! (Love me in my works!)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 3
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | Peter Serkin (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7500 (Recital at Ravinia) -
Ernani: Part III. Clemency
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday
Dec 3
Luciano Pavarotti [Ernani] | Leo Nucci [Don Carlo] | Paata Burchuladze [Don Ruy Gomez de Silva] | Joan Sutherland [Elvira] | Linda McLeod [Giovanna] | Richard Morton [Don Riccardo] | Alastaire Miles [Jago] | Chorus of Welsh National Opera [Mountain people and bandits, knights, members of Silva's household, maids in attendance on Elvira, knights of Don Carlo's suite, members of the "Holy Alliance," Spanish and German nobles and their ladies] | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs), Op. 77 (selections)
Robert Schumann
Saturday
Dec 3
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7
Hector Berlioz
Saturday
Dec 3
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Chants d'Auvergne: Series II: Deux Bourrées: N'aï pas iéu de mîo - Lo Calheé
Joseph-Marie Canteloube
Saturday
Dec 3
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Médée: Act I, Finale
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Saturday
Dec 3
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | Les Arts Florissants Chours et Orchestre | William Christie (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 901139.41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 3
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor | Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472-77380 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Mass in F Major for Male Choir and Organ, Op. 190: Credo
Josef Rheinberger
Saturday
Dec 3
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | David Chalmers (organ) | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Thésée: Act V
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Saturday
Dec 3
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Atalanta: Act II, Scenes 1-4
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Dec 3
Dominique Labelle [Atalanta] | Susanne Rydén [Meleagro] | Cécile van de Sant [Irene] | Michael Slattery [Aminta] | Philip Cutlip [Nicandro] | Corey McKern [Mercurio] | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Philharmonia Baroque 4 (Handel: Atalanta) -
La Clemenza di Tito: Act II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 3
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Tito Vespasiano] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Vitellia] | Sylvia McNair [Servilia] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Sesto] | Catherine Robbin [Annio] | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Publio] | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 431.806 (Mozart: La clemenza di Tito) -
Elias (Elijah): Part II, Conclusion
Felix Mendelssohn
Saturday
Dec 3
Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Chorus Musicus Köln | Das Neue Orchester | Christoph Spering (conductor)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Saturday
Dec 3
Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] | Nicolai Gedda [Don José] | Janine Micheau [Micaëla] | Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] | Denise Monteil [Frasquita] | Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] | Monique Linval [Mercédès] | Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] | Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] | Bernard Plantey [Moralès] | Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] | Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française | Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française | Petits Chanteurs de Versailles | Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI 56214 (Bizet: Carmen) -
La Clemenza di Tito: Aria. "Deh per questo istante solo"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 3
Michael Maniaci (male soprano) | Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor)
Telarc 31827 (Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano) -
Il Signor Bruschino: Nr 5, Aria. "Ah! voi condur volete" -- "Ah! donate il caro sposo"
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
Dec 3
Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Sofia] | English Chamber Orchestra | Ion Marin (conductor)
DG 435.865 (Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino) -
La Forza del Destino: Act IV
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday
Dec 3
John Tomlinson [The Marquis of Calatrava] | Rosalind Plowright [Donna Leonora] | Renato Bruson [Don Carlo di Vargas] | José Carreras [Don Alvaro] | Agnes Baltsa [Preziosilla] | Paata Burchuladze [The Father Superior] | Juan Pons [Fra Melitone] | Jean Rigby [Curry] | RIchard Van Allan [Mayor] | Mark Curtis [Mastro Trabuco] | Petteri Salomaa [A Spanish military surgeno] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus [Muleteers, Italian & Spanish soldiers, peasants & vivandières, orderlies, Italian recruits, pilgrims, Franciscan monks, beggars] | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 57
Robert Schumann
Saturday
Dec 3
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Thésée: Act III
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Saturday
Dec 3
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Herminie
Hector Berlioz
Saturday
Dec 3
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Cantata. Bella dama di nome Santa: Aria. "Il nome non vanta di santa colei"
Alessandro Scarlatti
Saturday
Dec 3
Clara Rottsolk (soprano) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0768 (Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music) -
Spem in alium (I never put my hope in any other)
Thomas Tallis
Saturday
Dec 3
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 478.2734 (Striggio: Missa Ecco sì beato giorno) -
Ein deutsches Requiem: 6. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
Johannes Brahms
Saturday
Dec 3
Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Erato 4509-92856 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Le Jardin clos (The Walled Garden)
Gabriel Fauré
Saturday
Dec 3
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Zig Zag 90902 (Fauré: Le Jardin clos, La Chanson d'Ève, Mélodies) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589: Aria. "Domine Deus"
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Dec 3
Sarah Fox (soprano) | Academy of Ancient Music | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
Dieterich Buxtehude
Saturday
Dec 3
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Ensemble Guadagni
Wigmore Live 38 (Handel: Nine German Arias)