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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PBS News Hour
Thursday
Oct 31
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Charles Gounod
Funeral March of a Marionette
Thursday
Oct 31
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80189 (Chiller) -
Felix Draeseke
Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 36: III. Allegro molto vivace
Thursday
Oct 31
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Markus Becker (piano) | Michael Sanderling (conductor)
Hyperion 67636 (Jadassohn & Draeseke: Piano Concertos) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #9 in C Major "The Great", D 944: IV. Allegro vivace
Thursday
Oct 31
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Sinfonia, G. 23
Thursday
Oct 31
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony #3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ": II. Allegro moderato - Presto - Allegro moderato - Presto - Allegro moderato - Maestoso - Allegro - Più Allegro - Molto Allegro
Thursday
Oct 31
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille | Michael Matthes (organ)
DG 435.854 (Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" - Messiaen: L'Ascension) -
Amy Beach
Phantoms, Op. 15 #2
Thursday
Oct 31
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Edward MacDowell
Witches' Dance (Hexentanz)
Thursday
Oct 31
Stephen Prutsman (piano) | National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland | Arthur Fagen (conductor)
Naxos 559.049 (MacDowell: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto #1 in F Minor, Op 73
Thursday
Oct 31
Berlin Philharmonic | Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
DG 483.6069 (Blue Hour) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #1 "Spring": IV. Allegro animato e grazioso
Thursday
Oct 31
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Philips 416.126 (Schumann: The Four Symphonies) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonia, H. 661 in B Minor
Thursday
Oct 31
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77187 (C.P.E. Bach: Hamburg Symphonies, Concerti) -
Georges Bizet
Symphony in C Major: IV. Finale (Allegro vivace)
Thursday
Oct 31
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.624 (Prokofiev, Britten & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite C Major: Harlequinade
Thursday
Oct 31
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 437.558 (Telemann: Suiten) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Thursday
Oct 31
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K 448: I. Allegro con spirito
Thursday
Oct 31
Anderson | Roe Piano Duo
Steinway & Sons 30022 (An Amadeus Affair) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
"On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Waltz
Thursday
Oct 31
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony, G. 514 in B-flat Major (Op. 35 #6): I. Allegro vivace
Thursday
Oct 31
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8414-15 (Boccherini: Seven Symphonies) -
Heinrich Marschner
The Vampyr: Overture
Thursday
Oct 31
BBC Philharmonic | David Parry (conductor)
Virgin 59294 (The Vampyr, A Soap Opera) -
William Bolcom
Graceful Ghost Rag
Thursday
Oct 31
Paul Jacobs (piano)
Nonesuch 79006 (Paul Jacobs plays Blues, Ballads & Rags) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite
Thursday
Oct 31
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Flute, Oboe & Viola E Major
Thursday
Oct 31
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Elizabeth Mann (flute) | Stephen Taylor (oboe d'amore) | Louise Schulman (viola d'amore)
Musicmasters 60210 (Telemann: Don Quixote Suite) -
Adolphe Adam
If I Were King: Overture
Thursday
Oct 31
Munich Radio Orchestra | Kurt Redel (conductor)
Pierre Verany 786104 (French Overtures) -
François Couperin
Pièces en Concert: Air de Diable
Thursday
Oct 31
Amit Peled (cello) | Eliza Ching (piano)
Centaur 3047 (Cellobration) -
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Sonata #273
Thursday
Oct 31
Verena Fischer (transverse flute) | Klaus-Dieter Brandt (baroque cello) | Léon Berben (harpsichord)
Naxos 557.805 (Quantz: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272 - 277) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #2
Thursday
Oct 31
David Zinman (conductor) | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80182 (Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Thursday
Oct 31
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 61394 (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky & Borodin) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Thursday
Oct 31
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Virgin 66349 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Klavierstücke, Op. 76) -
Ottorino Respighi
The Birds
Thursday
Oct 31
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 437.533 (Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances 1 & 3, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" K. 265
Thursday
Oct 31
Lise de la Salle (piano)
Naïve 5080 (Mozart & Prokofiev) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 70 #1 in D Major "Ghost"
Thursday
Oct 31
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue D Minor (BWV 565)
Thursday
Oct 31
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Philips 432.092 (20th Century Bach) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #2
Thursday
Oct 31
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Teldec 2292.44943 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, Romeo & Juliet) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #46 in B Major
Thursday
Oct 31
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25
Thursday
Oct 31
JoAnn Falletta (conductor) | Buffalo Philharmonic | Eldar Nebolsin (piano)
Naxos 572.303 (Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #5 "Spring"
Thursday
Oct 31
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 419.787 (Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4 & 5 "Spring) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Thursday
Oct 31
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8587 (Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, etc) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale
Thursday
Oct 31
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 421.527 (Fête À La Française) -
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto #1 in G Minor, Op. 26
Thursday
Oct 31
Sakari Oramo (conductor) | Daniel Hope (violin) | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
DG 0015312 (The Romantic Violinist, A Celebration of Joseph Joachim) -
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade #2 in F Major, Op. 38
Thursday
Oct 31
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Sony 90758.22932 (Chopin: Leif Ove Andsnes) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #9 in C Major, D 944 "Great": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
Thursday
Oct 31
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Örebro
BIS 1656 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9) -
Antonio Bazzini
Dance of the Goblins
Thursday
Oct 31
Gil Shaham (violin) | Jonathan Feldman (piano)
DG 463.483 (Devil's Dance) -
François-Joseph Gossec
Trio in F Major, Op. 9 #3
Thursday
Oct 31
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11: IV. Finale. Allegretto moderato
Thursday
Oct 31
Nash Ensemble
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #3
Thursday
Oct 31
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102.1 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Philippe Gaubert
3 Aquarelles: #1. Par un clair matin
Thursday
Oct 31
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Horn Concerto in F Major
Thursday
Oct 31
Max Pommer (conductor) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia)
Capriccio 10.008 (Corno da caccia) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish": III. Tempo di menuetto
Thursday
Oct 31
Baiba Skride (violin) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Eivind Aadland (conductor)
Orfeo 997.201 (Baiba Skride: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5) -
Johan Wagenaar
Vienna Three-Quarter Time
Thursday
Oct 31
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
London 425.833 (Wagenaar: Orchestral Works) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto in D Major, G 479: I. Allegro
Thursday
Oct 31
Yuli Turovsky (cello) | I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 8408 (Boccherini & Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 3: Suite in B-flat major: I. Ouverture: Lentement - Presto - Lentement
Thursday
Oct 31
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Witches' Song (Hexenlied)
Thursday
Oct 31
Daniel Hope (violin) | Sebastian Knauer (piano)
DG 477.6634 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Octet & Songs) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67: III. Allegro & IV. Allegro
Thursday
Oct 31
New York Philharmonic | Jaap van Zweden (conductor)
Decca 279.560 (Jaap Van Zweden, New York Philharmonic, Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": II. Scherzo. Sehr mässig
Thursday
Oct 31
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #6 in G Minor
Thursday
Oct 31
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Gioachino Rossini
L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture
Thursday
Oct 31
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad
Thursday
Oct 31
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | London Philharmonic
LPO 0117 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: R Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade) -
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for 2 Organ Lyres #4 in F Major, Hob. VIIh:4 (arr. for flute & oboe)
Thursday
Oct 31
Lajos Lencés (oboe) | Robert Dohn (flute) | Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.182 (Haydn, Lira Concerti 1 - 5) -
Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53: III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo
Thursday
Oct 31
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E Major
Thursday
Oct 31
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Stephen Coombs (piano) | Jean-Yves Ossonce (conductor)
Hyperion 66897 (Hahn & Massenet: Piano Concertos) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto, RV 489 in F Major
Thursday
Oct 31
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Onda Armonica | Sergio Azzolini (conductor)
Naïve 30573 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto V) -
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Thursday
Oct 31
Berlin Philharmonic | Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
EMI 47030 (Wagner: Overtures) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony #2
Thursday
Oct 31
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8822 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies 2 & 3) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet, K. 516
Thursday
Oct 31
Berg Quartet | Markus Wolf (viola)
EMI 49085 (Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & K. 516) -
William Grant Still
Vignettes: II. Carmela
Thursday
Oct 31
Sierra Winds
Cambria 1083 (Get on Board) -
Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Concerto #1
Thursday
Oct 31
London Symphony Orchestra | Lawrence Foster (conductor) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 431.815 (Wieniawski: Violion Concertos - Sarate: Zigeunerweisen) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Oboe Concerto D Minor
Thursday
Oct 31
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.879 (Telemann: Concerti per Oboe) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #12 in A-flat Major, Op. 26
Thursday
Oct 31
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Folk Dance
Thursday
Oct 31
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68288 (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #4 in G Major
Thursday
Oct 31
Dawn Upshaw (soprano) | Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 440.315 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Six Morceaux: V. Old Song
Thursday
Oct 31
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) | Barbara Moser (piano)
Gramola 98966 (Den Männer ebenbürtig) -
Johann Gottlieb Graun
Viola da Gamba Concerto in A Minor
Thursday
Oct 31
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.2132 (Frederick the Great) -
Louise Farrenc
Variations on a Swiss Air, Op. 20
Thursday
Oct 31
Chamber Musicians of the Louvre
Naïve 5033 (Louise Farrenc: Chamber Music) -
Robert Schumann
6 Études in Canonic Form, Op. 56
Thursday
Oct 31
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Christian Tetzlaff (violin) | Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
EMI 94180 (Schumann: Piano Trios) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B-flat Major, K 269
Thursday
Oct 31
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra | Julia Fischer (violin) | Jakov Kreizberg (conductor)
Pentatone 5186.453 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #11. Hunnenschlacht (Battle of the Huns)
Thursday
Oct 31
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10490 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 4) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Op. 58
Thursday
Oct 31
Rotterdam Philharmonic | Lahav Shani (conductor) | Lahav Shani (piano)
Warner Classics 51776 (Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Piano Concerto No. 4; Lahav Shani) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Trio Concertant in G Major, Op. 11 #3
Thursday
Oct 31
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Umberto Giordano
Fedora: Act I
Thursday
Oct 31
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Magda Olivero [La Principessa Fedora Romazoff] | Mario del Monaco [Il Conte Loris Ipanoff] | Tito Gobbi [M. de Siriex] | Leonardo Monreale [Lorek] | Lucia Cappellino [La Contessa Olga Sukarev] | Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Boroff] | Silvio Maionica [Grech] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Il Barone Rouvel] | Peter Binder [Cirillo] | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Dimitri] | Ricardo Cassinelli [Désiré] | Athos Cesarini [Sergio] | Leonardo Monreale [Nicola] | Aron Bokatti [Michele] | Sergio Caspari [Un piccolo Savoiardo] | Pascal Rogé [Boleslao Lazinski] | Chœur de l'Opéra de Monte Carlo | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
London 433.033 (Giordano: Fedora) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Act I, scena. "Pari siamo! Io la lingua" (We're two of a kind! I have a tongue)
Thursday
Oct 31
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Sony 373312 (Verdi) -
Mikhail Glinka
Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Act II
Thursday
Oct 31
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) -
Charles Gounod
Faust: Recitative and aria. Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre?...Salut! demeure chaste et pure (With what unknown emotion am I filled? Greetings, chaste and pure abode)
Thursday
Oct 31
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0010837 (Romantic Arias) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Paride ed Elena: Act V
Thursday
Oct 31
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor) | Magdalena Kozená [Paride] | Susan Gritton (soprano) [Elena] | Carolyn Sampson [Amore] | Gillian Webster [Pallade]
Archiv 477.5415 (Gluck: Paride ed Elena) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 26 #5. "Pokinem, Milaya" (Let Us Leave, My Sweet)
Thursday
Oct 31
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
Franz Schubert
Mass in E-flat Major, D 950: III. Credo
Thursday
Oct 31
Andreas Schmidt (baritone) | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Ruth Ziesak (soprano) | Jard Van Nes (alto) | Herbert Lippert (tenor) | Wolfgang Bünten (tenor)
Sony 69290 (Schubert: Mass in E-Flat Major) -
Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust: Marguerite's aria. "D'amor l'ardente flamme" (The burning flame of love)
Thursday
Oct 31
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Yves Abel (conductor)
DG 0017522 (Romantique) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Thursday
Oct 31
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Lucia Popp | Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) | Mallory Walker (tenor) | Gwynne Howell
London 455.014 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Mass in C) -
Jules Massenet
Werther: Act III, Werther's aria (Ossian's Song). "Toute mon âme est là! Pourqoui me réveiller" (My very soul lies in these words! Why awaken me)
Thursday
Oct 31
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Il Pirata: Act I
Thursday
Oct 31
Maria Callas [Imogene] | Constantino Ego [Ernesto] | Pier Miranda Ferraro [Gualtiero] | Glade Peterson [Itulbo] | Chester Watson [Goffredo (Solitario)] | Regina Sarfaty [Adele] | Chorus and Orchestra of the American Opera Society | Nicola Rescigno (conductor)
EMI 66432 (Bellini: Il Pirata) -
Frederick Delius
Eleven Early Songs - Danish: Two brown eyes [Frederick Corder after Hans Christian Andersen]
Thursday
Oct 31
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Emmanuel Chabrier
3 Songs. L'Île heureuse (The happy isle); Chanson pour Jeanne (Song for Jeanne); Les Cigales (The Cicadas)
Thursday
Oct 31
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser: Act II Scenes 1-2
Thursday
Oct 31
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | 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]
DG 427.625 (Wagner: Tannhäuser) -
Alfred Bruneau
L'Attaque du moulin: Act II, Domique's aria. "Le jour tombe...Adieu, forêt profonde" (Daylight fades...Farewell, deep forest)
Thursday
Oct 31
Bryan Hymel (tenor) | PKF-Prague Philharmonia | Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)
Warner Classics 2564617950 (Héroïque) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part II, Gabriel's recitative and aria. "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe das Wasser...Auf starkem Fittiche schwinget sich" (And God said: Let the waters bring forth...On might wings uplifted)
Thursday
Oct 31
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: I. Uf dem Anger [On the Lawn]
Thursday
Oct 31
Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57888 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Carl Nielsen
Ti danske Smaasange (Ten Little Danish Songs): Den danske sang er en ung, blond pige (The Danish song is a fair young maiden)
Thursday
Oct 31
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il turco in Italia: Act I, Opening
Thursday
Oct 31
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] | Michele Pertusi [Selim] | Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] | Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] | Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] | Laura Polverelli [Zaida] | Francesco Piccoli [Albazar]
London 458.924 (Rossini: Il Turco in Italia) -
Edward Elgar
The Music Makers, Op. 69
Thursday
Oct 31
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Royal Liverpool Choir | Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Onyx 4206 (Elgar: Sea Pictures, The Music Makers) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act II, Germont's aria. "Di Provenza il mar, il suol" (Who erased the land and sea)
Thursday
Oct 31
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Sony 373312 (Verdi) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act II, Countess Almaviva's aria. "Porgi, amor" (Grant, love)
Thursday
Oct 31
Marina Rebeka (soprano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Speranza Scappucci (conductor)
Warner Classics 15497 (Mozart: Opera Arias) -
Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème: Aria. Che gelida manina (What a frozen little hand)
Thursday
Oct 31
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0010837 (Romantic Arias) -
Amilcare Ponchielli
La gioconda: Act IV, Finale
Thursday
Oct 31
National Philharmonic Orchestra | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [La Gioconda] | Alfreda Hodgson [La Cieca] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Enzo Grimaldo] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Alvise Badoero] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Laura] | Sherill Milnes [Barnaba] | John Del Carlo [Zuane] | Regolo Romani [Isepo] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Pilota | Prima voce dalla laguna] | Geoffrey Shaw [Seconda voce dalla laguna] | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Cantore] | Rodney Macann [Barnabotto] | London Opera Chorus [Barnabotti | arnsenalotti, gentiluomini e dame, mascere, marinai e mozzi, cantori, popolo] | Bruno Bartoletti (conductor) | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Pilota] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Prima voce dalla laguna] | London Opera Chorus [Popolo]
London 414.349 (Ponchielli: La Gioconda) -
Charles Gounod
Saint Cecilia Mass: Sanctus
Thursday
Oct 31
Karel Mark Chichon (conductor) | Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Latvian Radio Choir | German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
DG 21327 (Meditation) -
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Psalm 126. Nisi Dominus (Ulness the Lord)
Thursday
Oct 31
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen: Act I
Thursday
Oct 31
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 419.221 (Purcell: The Fairy Queen) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 26 #3. "Mi Otkokhnyom" (We Shall Rest)
Thursday
Oct 31
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act II, No. 6, Cavatina. "O nube che lieve per l'aria"
Thursday
Oct 31
Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy]
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Alessandro Scarlatti
Cantata Pastorale "Non so qual piu m'ingombra"
Thursday
Oct 31
Matthew White (countertenor) | Les Voix Barouqes
Analekta 29904 (Scarlatti: Cantatas) -
Franz Liszt
Via Crucis
Thursday
Oct 31
Collegium Vocale Gent | Reinbert de Leeuw (piano and conductor)
Alpha 390 (Liszt: Via Crucis) -
Franz Schubert
Auf dem See, D 543 (On the Lake)
Thursday
Oct 31
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Jules Massenet
Don Quichotte: Act II
Thursday
Oct 31
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | 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]
EMI 54767 (Massenet: Don Quichotte) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (How lovely are thy dwellings)
Thursday
Oct 31
Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | Otto Klemperer
EMI 56218 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Thomas Tallis
Missa Puer natus est nobis (Mass. Unto us a boy is born)
Thursday
Oct 31
The Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood (conductor)
Hyperion 68026 (Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis) -
Frederick Delius
Songs to Poems by Paul Verlaine: Avant que tu ne t'en ailles (Before you go away)
Thursday
Oct 31
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Franz Schubert
Gesänge des Harfners, D 478
Thursday
Oct 31
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Philips 411.421 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Antonio Salieri
Armida: Act II
Thursday
Oct 31
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) [Armida] | Florie Valiquette (soprano) [Rinaldo] | Teresa Iervolino (mezzo-soprano) [Ismene] | Ashley Riches (baritone) [Ubaldo]
Aparté 244 (Salieri: Armida) -
Joseph Haydn
Missa in Angustis "Lord Nelson Mass": IV. Sanctus
Thursday
Oct 31
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Keith Jameson (tenor) | Kevin Deas (baritone) | Mary Wilson (soprano) | Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Linn 426 (Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass) -
Gaspare Spontini
La Vestale: Act I, Finale
Thursday
Oct 31
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Licinius] | J. Patrick Raftery [Cinna] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Le Souveraine Pontife] | Aldo Bramante [Le chef des aruspices] | Silvestro Sammaritano [Un consul] | Karen Huffstodt [Julia] | Denyce Graves [La Grande Vestale]
Sony 66357 (Spontini: La Vestale) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Aria. Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum
Thursday
Oct 31
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band | Jan Van der Crabben (bass)
Challenge 72316 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Nicolai Vaccai
Giulietta e Romeo: Romeo's aria. "Oh, vista è dessa!..Ah! se tu dormi, svegliati!" (Oh, what sight is this?...Ah! if you are sleeping, awake!)
Thursday
Oct 31
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Yves Abel (conductor)
DG 0017522 (Romantique) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 24
Thursday
Oct 31
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Emilio de' Cavalieri
Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (The Representation of the Soul and the Body): Act I, Scene 3
Thursday
Oct 31
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Mark Milhofer [Intelletto]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2200 (Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo) -
Dame Ethel Smyth
The Prison (Symphony for soprano, bass-baritone, chorus, and orchestra)
Thursday
Oct 31
Dashon Burton (bass-baritone) [The Prisoner] | Sarah Brailey (soprano) [His Soul] | Experiential Orchestra and Chorus | James Blachley (conductor)
Chandos 5279 (Dame Ethel Smyth: The Prison) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 21 #10. "Pred Ikonoy" (Before the Icon)
Thursday
Oct 31
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I puritani: Mad Scene. "O rendetemi la speme -- Qui la voce sua soave.Ah! tu sorridi e asciughi il pianto!...Vien, diletto, è in ciel la luna!"
Thursday
Oct 31
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Concerto Köln | Natalie Dessay [Elvira] | Franck Ferrari [Riccardo] | Matthew Rose [Giorgio]
Virgin 99469 (Mad Scenes) -
Giacomo Puccini
La rondine: Magda's aria. "Denaro nient'altro che denaro!...Ore dolci e divine" (Money, nothing but money!...Sweet, heavenly hours)
Thursday
Oct 31
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Saito Kaoru [Bianca] | Lucia Mencaroni [Suzy] | Barbara Vignudelli [Yvette]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Ab aeterno ordinata sum (I was ordained from everlasting)
Thursday
Oct 31
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Mystical Songs
Thursday
Oct 31
Vasari Singers | Jeremy Backhouse (conductor) | Roderick Williams (baritone) | Martin Ford (organ)
Naxos 574.416 (Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems) -
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch: Schon streckt' ich aus im Bett die müden Glieder (I had already stretched my weary limbs in bed)
Thursday
Oct 31
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Act III
Thursday
Oct 31
Zdenek Kroupa [Savel P. Dikoi] | Beno Blachut [Boris Grigorievich] | Ludmila Komancova [Marpha I. Kabanova] | Bohumir Vich [Tikhon I. Kabanov] | Drahomira Tikalova [Katya Kabanova] | Viktor Koci [Vania Kudriash] | Ivana Mixova [Varvara] | Rudolf Zedlicka [Kuligin] | Eva Hlobilova [Glasha] | Marcela Lemariova [Feklusha] | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre [Town-dwellers] | Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor)
Supraphon 10.8016 (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Blessed are they who bear suffering)
Thursday
Oct 31
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Philips 432.140 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Il re pastore: Act II, Scene 1
Thursday
Oct 31
Reri Grist [Aminta] | Lucia Popp [Elisa] | Arlene Saunders [Tamiri] | Nicola Monti [Agenore] | Luigi Alva [Alessandro] | Orchestra of Naples | Denis Vaughan (conductor)
RCA 50165 (Mozart: Il Re Pastore) -
Frederick Delius
Songs to Poems by Paul Verlaine: Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (The sky, above the roof)
Thursday
Oct 31
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act IV
Thursday
Oct 31
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Véronique Gens [Aricie] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Hippolyte] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Phèdre] | Russell Smythe [Thésée] | Thérèse Feighan [Diane] | Annick Massis [L'Amour] | Laurent Naouri [Pluton/Neptune/Jupiter] | Florence Katz [Onone] | Jean-Lous Georgel [Mercure/Arcas] | Luc Coadou [Tisiphone] | Jean-Louis Meunier [Parque] | Jacques-François Loiseleur des Longchamps [Parque] | Jérôme Varnier [Parque] | Monique Simon [La Grande-Prêtresse] | Stephan Van Dyck [Un Suivant de l'Amour] | Kiyoko Okada [Une Prêtresse] | Meredith Hall [Une Chasseresse] | Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius [Nymphes de Diane, habitants de la forêt, suivants de l'Amour, prêtresses de Diane, divinités infernales, Trézéniens, matelots, chasseurs et chasseresses, bergers et bergères]
Archiv 445.853 (Rameau: Hippolyte et Arice) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alceste: Act III, scene 3, Alceste's aria. "Grands Dieux, soutenez mon courage...Ah! Divinités implacables" (Lofty gods, uphold my courage...Ah! Implacable deities)
Thursday
Oct 31
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Véronique Gens (soprano)
Virgin 16574 (Tragédiennes, Vol. 2) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen: Act IV
Thursday
Oct 31
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) -
Thomas Tallis
Salvator mundi
Thursday
Oct 31
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Decca 0004531 (Music for Inner Peace) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco
Thursday
Oct 31
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) [Nabucco] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ismaele] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Zaccaria] | Ghena Dimitrova [Abigaille] | Lucia Valentini Terrani [Fenena] | Kurt Rydl [Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo] | Volker Horn [Abdallo]
DG 410.512 (Verdi: Nabucco) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 26 #6. "Khristos Voskres" (Christ is Risen)
Thursday
Oct 31
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
George Frideric Handel
Joseph and His Brethren: Aria. "Prophetic raptures swell my breast"
Thursday
Oct 31
Sophie Junker (soprano) | Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu | Franck-Emmanuel Comte (conductor/harpsichord)
Aparté 233 (La Francesina. Handel's Nightingale) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 82. Ich habe genug (I have enough)
Thursday
Oct 31
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music | Craig Smith (conductor)
Nonesuch 79692 (Bach: Cantatas, BWV 82 and 199) -
Carl Nielsen
Strofiske Sange (Strophic Songs): Hvem sidder der bag skærmen (Who's there behind the shelter)
Thursday
Oct 31
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony
Thursday
Oct 31
André Previn (conductor) | Heather Harper (soprano) | John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) | London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
RCA 60580 (Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony) -
Joseph Haydn
Missa in Angustis "Lord Nelson Mass": I. Kyrie
Thursday
Oct 31
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Keith Jameson (tenor) | Kevin Deas (baritone) | Mary Wilson (soprano) | Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Linn 426 (Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Act II
Thursday
Oct 31
Zdenek Kroupa [Savel P. Dikoi] | Beno Blachut [Boris Grigorievich] | Ludmila Komancova [Marpha I. Kabanova] | Bohumir Vich [Tikhon I. Kabanov] | Drahomira Tikalova [Katya Kabanova] | Viktor Koci [Vania Kudriash] | Ivana Mixova [Varvara] | Rudolf Zedlicka [Kuligin] | Eva Hlobilova [Glasha] | Marcela Lemariova [Feklusha] | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre [Town-dwellers] | Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor)
Supraphon 10.8016 (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act III, Scene 8, Maria's aria. "Io vi rivedo alfin...Deh! Tu di un'umile preghiera" (I see you again at last...Ah, to the words of this humble prayer)
Thursday
Oct 31
Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Riccardo Minasi (conductor) | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Maria]
Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria: Act II
Thursday
Oct 31
Concerto Vocale | René Jacobs (conductor) | Dominique Visse [L'Umana Fragilità] | Michael Schopper [Tempo] | Martina Bovet [Amore] | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) [Fortuna] | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) [Ulisse] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Penelope] | Christina Högman [Telemaco] | Martyn Hill [Eumete] | Jocelyne Taillon [Ericlea] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Anfinomo] | David Thomas [Antinoo] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Iro] | Faridah Subrata [Melanto] | Jörg Dürgmüller [Eurimaco] | Olivier Lallouette [Giove] | Claron McFadden [Giunone] | Francesca Congiu [Naiadi] | Elisabeth Scholl [Nereidi]
Harmonia Mundi 90.1427-29 (Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria) -
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch: Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden (What song should be sung for you)
Thursday
Oct 31
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks)