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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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #3
Sunday
Feb 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90797 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 3, Scherzo Capriccioso, Carnival Overture) -
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance #1
Sunday
Feb 1
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8885 (Brahms: Hungarian Dances) -
Franz Schubert
Violin Sonata D Major, D 384
Sunday
Feb 1
Goeran Soellscher (guitar) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 471.568 -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #24
Sunday
Feb 1
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 422.331 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Andante Cantabile
Sunday
Feb 1
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 85072 (Stokowski Transcriptions) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #2. Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo
Sunday
Feb 1
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #7 "Razumovksy"
Sunday
Feb 1
Cleveland Quartet
Telarc 80229 (Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18, No. 6 & Op. 59, No. 1) -
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu A-flat Major (Op. 29)
Sunday
Feb 1
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 417.476 (Chopin: Preludes & Impromptus) -
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier: Suite
Sunday
Feb 1
Antal Dorati (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
London 411.893 (R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite, etc.) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #44 in E Minor "Funeral"
Sunday
Feb 1
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Omphale's Spinning Wheel
Sunday
Feb 1
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | French National Orchestra
DG 400.070 (Franck: Symphony in D Minor - Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d'Omphale)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Vincenzo Bellini
La sonnambula
Sunday
Feb 1
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Amina] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Elvino] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Rodolfo] | Isobel Buchanan [Lisa] | John Tomlinson [Alessio] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Notaro] | Della Jones [Teresa] | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra
London 417.424 (Bellini: La Sonnambula) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957: #3. Frühlingssehnsucht (Longing in Springtime) [poem by Ludwig Rellstab]
Sunday
Feb 1
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa Brevis in G Major, K 140
Sunday
Feb 1
Barbara Werner (alto) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Daniel Sans (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Petra Labitzke (soprano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 19. Es erhub sich ein Streit (There arose a war)
Sunday
Feb 1
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Malin Hartelius (soprano)
SDG 124 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 7) -
Gioachino Rossini
La promesa
Sunday
Feb 1
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Piero Gamba (conductor)
London 414.454 (Mattinata) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Sunday
Feb 1
Tom Krause | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Gundula Janowitz | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Philips 411.436 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Elias (Elijah): Duet. "Herr, höre unser Gebet!" (Lord, hear our prayer!)
Sunday
Feb 1
Das Neue Orchester | Chorus Musicus Köln | Christoph Spering (conductor) | Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Antonio Caldara
La clemenza di Tito: Recitative and aria. Numi assistenza...Opprimete i contumaci (Gods, assist me...Crush the rebellious ones)
Sunday
Feb 1
Concerto Köln | Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord/conductor)
Virgin 41927 (Caldara in Vienna) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Recitative and aria. Ancor non giunse!...Regnava nel silenzio...Quando rapito in estasi (Still he has not come...At dead of night...When carried away by the ecstasy)
Sunday
Feb 1
Michele Mariotti (conductor) | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Lucia] | Milena Storti (mezzo-soprano) [Alisa]
Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act I
Sunday
Feb 1
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille | 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] | Chours et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello) -
Gustav Mahler
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs): Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz' (On the Ramparts of Straussburg)
Sunday
Feb 1
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works)
WETA Virtuoso
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony #6 in A Minor
Sunday
Feb 1
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60001 (Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 19 #5 in F-sharp Minor
Sunday
Feb 1
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Jérusalem: Ballet Music (Act III)
Sunday
Feb 1
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Sunday
Feb 1
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 0007433 (Alfred Brendel, Steinway Legends) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Airs de ballet d'Ascanio: Adagio et Variation
Sunday
Feb 1
Susan Milan (flute)
Chandos 8840 (La Flute Enchantee) -
Ottorino Respighi
Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor
Sunday
Feb 1
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 427.617 (Strauss) -
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote. Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35
Sunday
Feb 1
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor) | Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Philips 426.262 (Richard Strauss)