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 #1
Niccolò Paganini
Monday
May 20
Hilary Hahn (violin) | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Eiji Oue (conductor)
DG 0007188 (Paganini & Spohr: Violin Concertos) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #1 in G Major
George Frideric Handel
Monday
May 20
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 9004-5-6 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture
Jacques Offenbach
Monday
May 20
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5303 (Offenbach: Music from the Operettas) -
Oprichnik: Dances
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Monday
May 20
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky) -
The Four Seasons: Winter
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
May 20
Pina Carmirelli (violin) | I Musici
Philips 410.001 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Symphony #3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ"
Camille Saint-Saëns
Monday
May 20
Philadelphia Orchestra | Olivier Latry (organ) | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Ondine 1094 (Barber, Poulenc & Saint-Saëns) -
Symphonic Dance, Op. 64 #1. Allegro moderato e marcato
Edvard Grieg
Monday
May 20
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Clarinet Concerto B-flat Major: III
Theodor von Schacht
Monday
May 20
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Hans Stadlmair (conductor)
Orfeo 290.931 (Schacht: Klarinettenkonzerte) -
Carmen Fantasy
Pablo de Sarasate
Monday
May 20
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Lawrence Foster (conductor)
EMI 47101 (Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 - Sarasate: Carmen Fantasie) -
Symphony, K 45b in B-flat Major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
May 20
Concentus Musicus of Vienna | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 63970 (Mozart: Early Symphonies) -
La Boutique Fantasque, P. 120: Galop
Ottorino Respighi
Monday
May 20
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10081 (Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, etc.) -
Oboe Concerto in G Minor: III. Rondo. Allegro
Ludwig August LeBrun
Monday
May 20
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Kammerakademie Potsdam | Albrecht Mayer (conductor)
DG 479.2942 (Lost and Found) -
The Reluctant King: Festival Polonaise
Emmanuel Chabrier
Monday
May 20
Vienna Philharmonic | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 447.751 (Chabrier: España, Suite Pastorale, etc.) -
Symphony in E Major, Op. 13/3, WV 393
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Monday
May 20
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Johannes Goritzki (conductor)
CPO 777.112 (Wagenseil: Symphonies, Vol. 2) -
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro vivace
Aram Khachaturian
Monday
May 20
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Teddy Abrams (conductor)
Avie 2411 (Dvorak Khachaturian Violin Concertos) -
Horn Concerto in F Major
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Monday
May 20
Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Max Pommer (conductor)
Capriccio 10.008 (Corno da caccia) -
Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors: Overture
Carl Maria von Weber
Monday
May 20
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | Antoni Wit (conductor)
Naxos 570.296 (Weber: Overtures) -
Sinfonia with 2 Trumpets, G. 22
Giuseppe Torelli
Monday
May 20
Thomas Hammes (trumpet) | Peter Leiner (trumpet) | European Chamber Soloists | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Widmung (arr. Liszt)
Robert Schumann
Monday
May 20
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 60443 (Evgeny Kissin, Carnegie Hall Debut Concert) -
Concerto grosso in B-flat Major, SC 57
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Monday
May 20
Richard Stone (lute) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Calabrese, Op. 34/6
Antonio Bazzini
Monday
May 20
Chloe Hanslip (violin) | Caspar Frantz (piano)
Naxos 570.800 (Bazzini: Works for Violin and Piano) -
Contredanses
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
May 20
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 80.7470 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica") -
Trio Sonata #4 in C Major
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
Monday
May 20
Parnassi musici
CPO 777.383 (Neruda: Trio Sonatas) -
Valse Scherzo
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Monday
May 20
Midori (violin) | London Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Philips 420.943 (Paganini: Violin Concerto - Tchaikovsky: Sérénade Mélancolique, Valse Scherzo) -
Concerto, RV 522
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
May 20
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Swedish Dances, Op. 63
Max Bruch
Monday
May 20
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 420.932 (Bruch: The 3 Symphonies) -
Cello Concerto, H. 439 in A Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Monday
May 20
Matt Haimovitz (cello) | English Chamber Orchestra | Andrew Davis (conductor)
DG 429.219 (Boccherini, Haydn & C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto) -
Violin Concerto #5 "Turkish"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
May 20
Cho Liang Lin (violin) | English Chamber Orchestra | Raymond Leppard (conductor)
CBS 42364 (Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5) -
Scherzo #4 in E Major, Op. 54
Frédéric Chopin
Monday
May 20
Emanuel Ax (piano)
CBS 44544 (Chopin: Scherzos and Maurkas) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #7 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Monday
May 20
Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7228-29 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Symphony #6 in C Major, D 589
Franz Schubert
Monday
May 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Rienzi: Overture
Richard Wagner
Monday
May 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 474.5022 (German Overtures) -
Overture C Major "Water Music"
Georg Philipp Telemann
Monday
May 20
New London Consort | Philip Pickett (director)
Decca 455.621 (Telemann: Wassermusik, Alster Overture) -
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Monday
May 20
Andrei Gavrilov (piano) | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 49966 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, etc.) -
Symphony #6 in D Major
John Marsh
Monday
May 20
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10458 (Marsh: Symphonies) -
Piano Trio #2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Felix Mendelssohn
Monday
May 20
Claremont Trio
Arabesque 6786 (Mendelsshon: Trios Op. 49 & 66) -
Water Music Suite #2
George Frideric Handel
Monday
May 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Argo 414.596 (Handel: Fireworks/Water Music) -
Symphony #39
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
May 20
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 423.374 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 39) -
Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano" in B-flat Major, Op. 2
Frédéric Chopin
Monday
May 20
Claudio Arrau (piano) | London Philharmonic | Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Symphony #2
Robert Schumann
Monday
May 20
London Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 54898 (Schumann: Symphonies 2 & 3) -
Egmont: Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
May 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 413.778 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica", "Egmont")
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Agrippina: Act III
George Frideric Handel
Monday
May 20
Sally Bradshaw [Agrippina] | Wendy Hill [Nerone] | Lisa Saffer [Poppea] | Nicholas Isherwood [Claudio] | Drew Minter [Ottone] | Michael Dean [Pallante] | Ralf Popken [Narciso] | Béla Szilágyi [Lesbo] | Gloria Banditelli [Giunone] | Capella Savaria | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7063-65 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Ernani: "Ernani, Ernani involami"
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
May 20
Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) | Academy of Choral Arts, Moscow | Philharmonia of Russia | Constantine Orbelian (conductor)
Delos 3404 (Radvanovsky sings Verdi) -
Herminie
Hector Berlioz
Monday
May 20
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Requiem, K. 626: IV. Offertorium
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
May 20
Arleen Augér (soprano) | Delores Ziegler (mezzo-soprano) | Jerry Hadley (tenor) | Tom Krause | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80128 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Thésée: Act I, Conclusion
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Monday
May 20
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) -
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957: #6. In der Ferne (Far Away) [poem by Ludwig Rellstab]
Franz Schubert
Monday
May 20
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Act III, Finale
Jacques Offenbach
Monday
May 20
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] | Edita Gruberova [Antonia] | Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] | Harald Stamm [Crespel] | James Morris (bass) [Miracle] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [La voix de la mère d'Antonia] | Orchestre National de France | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
DG 427.682 (Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann) -
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
May 20
Jennifer Smith (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Netherlands Chamber Choir | Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Philips 426.238 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Songs of Farewell
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Monday
May 20
Manchester Cathedral Choir | Christopher Stokes (conductor)
Naxos 572.104 (Parry: Songs of Farewell) -
Ottone in villa: Act III
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
May 20
Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio] | Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Alcina: Act I
George Frideric Handel
Monday
May 20
Renée Fleming (soprano) [Alcina] | Susan Graham [Ruggiero] | Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Morgana] | Kathleen Kuhlmann [Bradamante] | Timothy Robsinson [Oronte] | Laurent Naouri [Melisso] | Juanita Lascarro [Oberto] | Les Arts Florissants | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 8573.80233 (Handel: Alcina) -
Thésée: Prologue
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Monday
May 20
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) -
La Chanson d'Ève (The Song of Eve)
Gabriel Fauré
Monday
May 20
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Zigzag 90902 (Fauré: Le Jardin clos, La Chanson d'Ève, Mélodies) -
Mefistofele
Arrigo Boito
Monday
May 20
Samuel Ramey (bass) [Mefistofele] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Faust] | Eva Marton [Margherite | Sergio Tedesco [Wagner] | Tamara Takács [Marta] | Éva Farkas [Pantalis] | Antal Pataki [Nereo] | Hungaroton Opera Chorus [Celestial host | Mystic Chorus | Cherubim | Penitents | Promenaders | Crossbow Shooters | Huntsmen | Students | Countrymen | Townsfolk | Burghers | Witches | Warlocks
Sony 44983 (Boito: Mefistofele) -
Per pietá, non ricercate, K 420 (I beg you, do not seek)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
May 20
Rolando Villazón (tenor) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)
DG 479.1054 (Mozart: Concert Arias) -
Don Pasquale: Act I, Scene 2
Gaetano Donizetti
Monday
May 20
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) -
Aida: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
May 20
Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [King of Egypt] | Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [Amneris] | Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Aida] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Radamès] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Ramfis] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Amonasro] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Messenger] | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 410.092 (Verdi: Aida) -
Cantata #10. Oh se fosse il mio core (Ah, if only my heart)
Nicola Porpora
Monday
May 20
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Cantata, BWV 180. Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, beloved soul)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
May 20
Magdalena Kozená (soprano) | Sara Mingardo (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 168 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 11) -
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (A woman's love and life)
Robert Schumann
Monday
May 20
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act I, Aria. Con aspetto lusinghiero (With a flattering look)
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
May 20
Vivica Genaux [Antiope] | Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor)
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Tristitia obsedit me...Infelix ego (Sadness has besieged me...Wretch that I am)
Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Monday
May 20
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Six Moravian Choruses
Leoš Janácek
Monday
May 20
Cappella Amsterdam | Philip Mayers (piano) | Daniel Reuss (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2097 (Janácek: Choral Works) -
Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Epilogue
Mikhail Glinka
Monday
May 20
Nicola Ghiuselev [Ivan Susanin] | Elena Stoyanova [Antonida] | Hristina Angelakova [Vanja] | Roumen Doikov [Bogdan Sobinin] | Nikolai Stoilov [Russian Soldier] | Angel Petkov [Polish Messenger] | Dimiter Stanchev [Sigizmund the Third] | Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir [Peasants, Russian volunteers, ladies-in-waiting, Polish knights, soldiers, etc.] | Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ivan Marinov (conductor)
Balkanton 010032-34 (Glinka: Ivan Susanin) -
Requiem: III. Sequenz: Aria. Quantus tremor
Johann Christian Bach
Monday
May 20
Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Jesu, mercy, how may this be?
John Browne
Monday
May 20
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart)