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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Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Friday
May 3
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Vox 5130 (The Dance) -
Bassoon Concerto, RV 486 in F Major
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 3
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Onda Armonica | Sergio Azzolini (conductor)
Naïve 30573 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto V) -
Bergensiana
Johan Halvorsen
Friday
May 3
Bergen Philharmonic | Karsten Andersen (conductor)
NKF 50013 (Johan Halvorsen) -
Concerto, BWV 1060
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 3
Andrew Manze (violin) | Rachel Podger (violin) | Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7155 (Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Madame Bovary: Waltz
Miklós Rózsa
Friday
May 3
Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra | John Mauceri (conductor)
Philips 438.685 (The Great Waltz) -
Keyboard Suite #5 in E Major, HWV 430
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 3
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Offertory for Two Instrumental Choirs (from Mass for Woodwinds and Strings)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Friday
May 3
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée) -
Piano Trio #1 in B Major, Op. 8: I. Allegro con brio
Johannes Brahms
Friday
May 3
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 416.838 (Brahms; The Piano Trios) -
String Quartet #13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130: VI. Finale. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
May 3
Guarneri Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93525 (Beethoven: Complete Works) -
Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 3
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.1634-35 (Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte) -
Symphony #3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ": IV
Camille Saint-Saëns
Friday
May 3
Philadelphia Orchestra | Olivier Latry (organ) | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Ondine 1094 (Barber, Poulenc & Saint-Saëns) -
Concerto in C Minor for Bassoon & 2 Oboes: III. Allegro
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Friday
May 3
Dominic Teresi (bassoon) | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 9815 (Concerti Virtuosi) -
Sinfonia, H. 661 in B Minor
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Friday
May 3
Camerata Bern | Thomas Füri (conductor)
Denon 73326 (C.P.E. Bach: 6 Hamburg Symphonies, wq.182) -
Andante spianato in G Major and Grande Polonaise brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 22
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
May 3
Claudio Arrau (piano) | London Philharmonic | Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Lute Concerto in F Major, SC 53
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Friday
May 3
Richard Stone (lute) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Capriccio italien, Op. 45
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Friday
May 3
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 555.923 (Tchaikovsky) -
Ouverture in C Minor, TWV 55:c4
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
May 3
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra | Barthold Kuijken (flute, conductor)
Naxos 573.900 (The Colourful Telemann) -
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Friday
May 3
Daniil Trifonov (piano) | Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 479.4970 (Rachmaninov Variations: Trifonov) -
Orchestral Suite #2
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 3
La Stravaganza | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102.3 (Bach: Complete Works) -
String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 44/1
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
May 3
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0003888 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Harp Concerto
François Adrien Boieldieu
Friday
May 3
Lily Laskine (harp) | Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Erato 88069 (Mozart & Pierné) -
Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius
Friday
May 3
Gil Shaham (violin) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 437.540 (Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto) -
Clarinet Concerto A Major (K. 622)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 3
Charles Neidich (basset clarinet) | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.377 (Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 4) -
Norwegian Dance, Op. 35 #1. Allegro marcato
Edvard Grieg
Friday
May 3
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Symphony #6 in E-flat Major
Carl Friedrich Abel
Friday
May 3
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8648 (Abel: Six Symphonies) -
Piano Quintet
Robert Schumann
Friday
May 3
Emanuel Ax (piano) | Cleveland Quartet
RCA 6498 (Schumann: Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 44, Quartet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 47) -
Harp Concerto in G Minor, Op. 81
Elias Parish Alvars
Friday
May 3
Elizabeth Hainen (harp) | Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rossen Milanov (conductor)
Avie 2221 (Harp Concertos) -
Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
May 3
Revolutionary & Romantic Orchestra | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 439.900 (Beethoven: 9 Symphonies) -
Banquet Music, Part 3: Trio in E-flat Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
May 3
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Don Quichotte: Act I
Jules Massenet
Friday
May 3
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] | José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] | Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] | Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] | Christian Papis [Rodriguez] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] | Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 54767 (Massenet: Don Quichotte) -
Atalanta: Act II, Scenes 5-8
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 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) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 3
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Sarah Fox (soprano) | Deborah Norman (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Jonathan Lemalu (bass) | Academy of Ancient Music | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Gustav Mahler
Friday
May 3
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | London Symphony Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
Carmina Burana
Carl Orff
Friday
May 3
Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Hans-Werner Bunz (tenor) | Christian Gerhaher (baritone) | Tölzer Knabenchor | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Harding (conductor)
DG 477.8778 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Friday
May 3
Gary Lakes [Oberon] | Ben Heppner [Hüon von Bordeaux] | Deborah Voigt [Rezia] | Delores Ziegler [Fatime] | Dwayne Croft [Scherasmin] | Victoria Livengood [Puck] | Machiko Obata [Meermädchen] | Ludwig Boettger [Narrator] | Cologne Opera Chorus | Cologne Philharmonic | James Conlon (conductor)
EMI 54739 (Weber: Oberon) -
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7: #3. Sur les lagunes (On the lagoons)
Hector Berlioz
Friday
May 3
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act II, Scenes 1-6
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 3
Anna Dennis [Mirtillo] | Lucy Crowe [Amarilli] | Katherine Manley [Eurilla] | Madeleine Shaw [Dorinda] | Clint van der Linde [Silvio] | Lisandro Abadie [Tirenio] | La Nuova Musica | David Bates (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7585-86 (Handel: Il pastor fido) -
Aida: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
May 3
Fernando Corena [The King of Egypt] | Giulietta Simionato [Amneris] | Renata Tebaldi [Aida] | Carlo Bergonzi [Radamés] | Arnold van Mill [Ramfis] | Cornell MacNeil [Amonasro] | Piero de Palma [A Messenger] | Eugenia Ratti [A Priestess] | Vienna Singverein [Priests, priestesses, ministers, soldiers, captains, Ethiopian slaves & prisoners, Egyptian people, etc.] | Vienna Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Poème de l'amour et de la mer
Ernest Chausson
Friday
May 3
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Médée: Act IV
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Friday
May 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 90.1139-41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
Cantata #7. Veggo la selva e il monte (I see the forests and the mountain)
Nicola Porpora
Friday
May 3
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Cantata, BWV 79. Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild (The Lord God is a sun and shield)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 3
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 110 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 10) -
Lux aurumque (Light of Gold)
Eric Whitacre
Friday
May 3
Elora Festival Singers | Noel Edison (conductor)
Naxos 559.677 (Whitacre: Choral Music) -
Erlkönig, D 328
Franz Schubert
Friday
May 3
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0000049 (Schubert: Lieder)