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
Monday
Oct 28
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Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Ballet Music (Act III): Ballo I
Monday
Oct 28
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #38 "Prague": Ib. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.954 (Mozart: The Late Symphonies, 21-41) -
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite #2
Monday
Oct 28
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 415.106 (Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Carmen Suite) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 361 in A Major (Op. 1 #3): IV. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Frédéric Chopin
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65: IV. Finale. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5: I. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
Jaap ter Linden (conductor) | Arion
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
Antonín Dvořák
Festival March
Monday
Oct 28
Czech Philharmonic | Václav Neumann (conductor)
Orfeo 180.891 (Galakonzert aus Prag) -
Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Violin Concerto #3 in E Minor, Op. 44: III. Rondo: Allegretto - Allegro vivace
Monday
Oct 28
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kirk Trevor (conductor) | Philippe Quint (violin)
Naxos 570.360 (Bériot: Violin Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 5) -
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold) & V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat (Dream of a Sabbath Night)
Monday
Oct 28
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68930 (Bach: Concertos, BWV 1041, 1042, 1055, 1059 & 1056) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quintet #1 in A Major, Op. 18: IV. Allegro vivace
Monday
Oct 28
L'Archibudelli
Sony 60766 (Mendelssohn: Quintets for Strings Nos. 1 & 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19: I. Allegro con brio
Monday
Oct 28
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Martha Argerich (piano) | Mito Chamber Orchestra
Decca 485.059 (Seiji Ozawa, Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg Holberg Suite) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers
Monday
Oct 28
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 49043 (Haydn: String Quartets Hob. III:81 - 83) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite for 2 Horns F Major
Monday
Oct 28
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor) | Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #2 in C Major, Op. 61: IV. Allegro molto vivace
Monday
Oct 28
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 453.482 (Schumann: Symphonie No. 2, "Manfred" Overture, etc.) -
Louise Farrenc
Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40: III. Allegro vivace
Monday
Oct 28
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Violin Concerto in D Major (Benton 103/103A): III. Rondo. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
David Perry (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18: III. Allegro scherzando
Monday
Oct 28
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Yuja Wang (piano)
DG 0015338 (Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody, Piano Concerto No. 2) -
Frédéric Chopin
Andante spianato & grande polonaise
Monday
Oct 28
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 459.634 (Hommage a Rachmaninov) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #98 in B-flat Major
Monday
Oct 28
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Slavic March
Monday
Oct 28
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
DG 415.379 (Tchaikovsky: 1812, Capriccio Ialien, Hamlet, etc.) -
Franz Liszt
Concert Etude in D-flat Major "Un sospiro" (A sigh)
Monday
Oct 28
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 789141 (Liszt) -
George Frideric Handel
Oboe Sonata, HWV 363a in F Major
Monday
Oct 28
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Thomas Reinhardt (bassoon) | Walter Heinz Bernstein (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.067 (Handel: Die Oboensonaten Vol. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92
Monday
Oct 28
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 469.000 (Beethoven: Die Symphonien) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite #3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Monday
Oct 28
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 421.640 (Bach: English Suites BWV 806-11) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto
Monday
Oct 28
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor) | Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Teldec 4509.90875 (Bruch & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos) -
Charles Avison
Concerto after Scarlatti #3 in D Minor
Monday
Oct 28
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #3
Monday
Oct 28
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Teldec 244.972 (Brahms: 4 Symphonien) -
Franz Schubert
German Dances, D. 783 (16)
Monday
Oct 28
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 422.229 (Schubert: Piano Sonata, D.959, Hungarian Melody, German Dances, Allegretto) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sinfonia melodica, TWV 50:2
Monday
Oct 28
Berlin Baroque Soloists | Rainer Kussmaul (conductor)
DG 0005761 (Telemann: Sinfonia Melodica) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #1
Monday
Oct 28
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
London 417.613 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1, Paganini Rhapsody) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #36 in E-flat Major
Monday
Oct 28
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1033 for Flute and Continuo in C Major
Monday
Oct 28
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord) | Etienne Peclard (cello)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Viennese Bonnbons
Monday
Oct 28
Johann Strauss Orchestra | Jack Rothstein (conductor)
Chandos 8434 (A Strauss Gala) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #41 "Jupiter"
Monday
Oct 28
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Musicians of the Louvre
Archiv 0006506 (Mozart: Symphones Nos. 40 & 41) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Concerto for 2 Trumpets D Major
Monday
Oct 28
St. James' Baroque Players | Ivor Bolton (conductor)
Teldec 4509.91192 (Baroque Music of Bologna) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Fair Melusina Overture
Monday
Oct 28
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 417.541 (Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo: Ballet Music
Monday
Oct 28
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Avie 2159 (Mozart: Symphony No. 40, Ballet Music from Idomeneo) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Monday
Oct 28
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CBS 44911 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #13 in E-flat Major, Op. 28 #1 "Quasi una Fantasia"
Monday
Oct 28
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1906-08 (Beethoven #3) -
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie, Op. 3 #3: I. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre
Archiv 474.550 (Mondonville: 6 Sonatas Op. 3) -
Franz von Suppé
Lady Mistress: Overture
Monday
Oct 28
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 54056 (Suppé: Overtures) -
Domenico Cimarosa
Concertante G Major
Monday
Oct 28
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Jean-Pierre Rampal (conductor) | Shigenori Kudo (flute) | Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Sony 45930 (Mozart, Cimarosa, Vivaldi & Stamitz) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 85 #6. Allegretto con moto (arr. Ottensamer)
Monday
Oct 28
Yuja Wang (piano) | Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
DG 483.6069 (Blue Hour) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #6 in G Minor
Monday
Oct 28
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5 in E Minor, Op 64: IV. Finale. Andante maestoso; Allegro vivace; Moderato assai e molto maestoso; Presto; Molto meno mosso
Monday
Oct 28
London Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
LSO Live 0858 (Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5) -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Characteristic Waltz #1
Monday
Oct 28
Adrian Leaper (conductor) | RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin
Marco Polo 223.516 (Coleridge-Taylor) -
William Boyce
Symphony #2
Monday
Oct 28
Aradia Ensemble | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.278 (Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op. 2) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Overture
Monday
Oct 28
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 429.984 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Marche Slave - Rimsky-Korsakov: Borodin) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
"Brandenburg" Concerto #8: III. Allegro (arr. Bruce Haynes from Cantata 65)
Monday
Oct 28
Montreal Baroque Band | Eric Milnes (conductor)
ATMA Classique 2565 (Bach: Brandebourgeois Nos. 7 à 12) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro
Monday
Oct 28
Ensemble Caprice | Matthias Maute (conductor)
Analekta 299967 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Monday
Oct 28
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (piano)
DG 410.025 (Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Bernstein: "West Side Story") -
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: Finale. "Di sì felice innesto" (May love and faith eternal)
Monday
Oct 28
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Pentatone 5186.190 (Mozart & Rossini) -
Bedřich Smetana
Grand Overture in D Major
Monday
Oct 28
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10413 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1) -
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for 2 Organ Lyres #2 in G Major, Hob. VIIh:2 (arr. for flute & oboe)
Monday
Oct 28
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor) | Pierre Pierlot (oboe)
CBS 39772 (Haydn: Concertos for Flute & Oboe) -
Franz Schubert
Octet in F Major, D. 803: V. Menuetto. Allegretto
Monday
Oct 28
Sabine Meyer (clarinet) | Modigliani String Quartet | Bruno Schneider (horn) | Dag Jensen (bassoon) | Knut Erik Sundquist (double bass)
Mirare 438 (Schubert: Octet) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, K. 498 "Kegelstatt": II. Menuetto
Monday
Oct 28
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Martin Fröst (clarinet) | Antoine Tamestit (viola)
BIS 1893 (Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Kegelstatt Trio) -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Monday
Oct 28
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 426.247 (Pops a la Russe) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 56/3 in C Minor
Monday
Oct 28
Emanuel Ax (piano)
CBS 44544 (Chopin: Scherzos and Maurkas) -
Jacques-Christophe Naudot
Concerto, Op. 17 #1
Monday
Oct 28
Academy of Ancient Music | Lucie Horsch (recorder) | Bojan Cičić (conductor)
Decca 483.4722 (Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey) -
Charles Gounod
Faust Ballet Music
Monday
Oct 28
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 411.708 (Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Gounod: Faust (ballet)) -
Michael Haydn
Symphony #6
Monday
Oct 28
Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.152 (M. Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 4 - 6) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir of a Beloved Place
Monday
Oct 28
Russian National Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin) | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 457.064 (Glazunov & Kabalevsky: Violin Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #20
Monday
Oct 28
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Leif Ove Andsnes (conductor) | Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
EMI 00281 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 & 18) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #2 in A Major, Op. 12 #2
Monday
Oct 28
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Lambert Orkis (piano)
DG 457.619 (Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #5
Monday
Oct 28
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8552 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, etc.) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 537 for 2 Trumpets in C Major
Monday
Oct 28
English Chamber Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor) | Hannes Läubin (trumpet) | Wolfgang Läubin (trumpet)
DG 431.817 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade #4 in F Minor, Op. 52
Monday
Oct 28
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 14899 (Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #1 in C Major, BWV 1066
Monday
Oct 28
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77008 (Bach: Suites) -
Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Monday
Oct 28
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8756 (Debussy: Petite Suite, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 250 "Haffner"
Monday
Oct 28
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Erato 75497 (Mozart: Sérénade "Haffner") -
Amy Beach
Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87
Monday
Oct 28
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
George Frideric Handel
Harp Concerto, Op. 4 #6 in B-flat Major
Monday
Oct 28
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Maxine Eilander (harp)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cappriccio italien
Monday
Oct 28
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
DG 415.379 (Tchaikovsky: 1812, Capriccio Ialien, Hamlet, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor"
Monday
Oct 28
Berlin Philharmonic | Maurizio Pollini (piano) | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 439.770 (Beethoven: Die 5 Klavierkonzerte) -
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Monday
Oct 28
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431.653 (Rossini: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 2. Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein (Ah God, look down from heaven)
Monday
Oct 28
Daniel Taylor (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 165 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 2) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act I, Scenes 1-3
Monday
Oct 28
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Giacomo Puccini
Edgar: Act I
Monday
Oct 28
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Edgar] | Adriana Damato [Fidelia] | Marianne Cornetti [Tigrana] | Juan Pons [Frank] | Rafal Siwek [Gualtiero] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Alberto Veronesi (conductor)
DG 0006427 (Puccini: Edgar) -
Libby Larsen
Missa Gaia. Mass for the Earth
Monday
Oct 28
Oregon Repertory Singers | Gilbert Seeley (conductor)
Koch 7279 (Mass for the Earth) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Pietra del Paragone: Act II, Finale. "Voi Clarice?
Monday
Oct 28
José Carreras (tenor) [Giocondo] | Beverly Wolff (mezzo-soprano) [Marchesina Clarice] | Elaine Bonazzi [Baronessa Aspasia] | Anne Elgar [Donna Fulvia] | John Reardon [Conte Asdrubale] | Andrew Foldi [Macrobio] | Justino Diaz [Pacuvio] | Raymond Murcell [Fabrizio] | The Clarion Concerts Orchestra and Chorus | Newell Jenkins (conductor)
Vanguard 9031 (Rossini: La Pietra del Paragone) -
Maurice Ravel
Cinq mélodes populaires grecques
Monday
Oct 28
Karina Gauvin (soprano) | Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
ATMA Classique 2642 (Fete Galante) -
Claude Debussy
Trois Ballades de François Villon
Monday
Oct 28
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Antonio Salieri
Armida: Act III, scene 5, recitative & trio (Armida, Rinaldo, Ubaldo). "Fermati, aspetta...Strappami il cuor dal seno"
Monday
Oct 28
Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) [Armida] | Florie Valiquette (soprano) [Rinaldo] | Ashley Riches (baritone) [Ubaldo] | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Aparté 244 (Salieri: Armida) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Three Russian Songs, Op. 41: #3. Allegro moderato
Monday
Oct 28
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater
Chandos 10706 (Rachmaninoff: The Bells; Spring) -
George Frideric Handel
Orlando: Recitative and aria. "Ah! stigie larve...Già latra Cerbero...Ma la furia...Vaghe pupille"
Monday
Oct 28
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2077 (Handel: Ombra cara) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Amidst the day
Monday
Oct 28
Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 477.8867 (In the still of the night) -
Alexander Borodin
Knyaz' Igor (Prince Igor): Igor's aria. "Ni sna, ni otdyha izmuchennaj dushe" (No sleep, no rest)
Monday
Oct 28
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626
Monday
Oct 28
Christine Schäfer (soprano) | Bernarda Fink (alto) | Kurt Streit (tenor) | Gerald Finley (baritone) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 58705 (Mozart: Requiem, K. 626) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Monday
Oct 28
Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Franco Fagioli (countertenor) | Choir of Radio and Television of Italian Switzerland | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Decca 483.3874 (Vivialdi Gloria) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Act IV, Duet. "Madre, non dormi?...Ai nostri monti"
Monday
Oct 28
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DG 413.355 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen: Act IV
Monday
Oct 28
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Carmen] | José Carreras (tenor) [Don José] | José van Dam (baritone) [Escamillo] | Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Micaëla] | Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Frasquita] | Jane Berbié (soprano) [Mercédès] | Alexander Malta (bass) [Zuniga] | Mikael Melbye (baritone) [Moralès] | Chour de l'Opéra de Paris | Schöneberger Sängerknaben | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.088 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Gabriel Fauré
Dans la forêt de Septembre, Op. 85/1
Monday
Oct 28
Sanford Sylvan (baritone) | David Breitman (piano)
Nonesuch 79371 (Fauré: L'horizon chimérique) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part III, Uriel's recitative and Adam & Eve's duet. "Aus Rosenwolken bricht...Von deiner Güt', o Herr und Gott" (In rosy mantle appears...By thee with bliss, o bounteous Lord)
Monday
Oct 28
Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Eve] | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Adam]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Monday
Oct 28
Judith Nelson | Jeffrey Dooley | Jan Opalach | The Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Nonesuch 79036 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Anton Bruckner
Motet. Ave Maria
Monday
Oct 28
Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
King's College 35 (Bruckner: Mass in E Minor; Motets) -
Emmanuel Chabrier
3 Songs. L'Île heureuse (The happy isle); Chanson pour Jeanne (Song for Jeanne); Les Cigales (The Cicadas)
Monday
Oct 28
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus): Aria. Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (If ever you feel a soft breath)
Monday
Oct 28
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Sextus] | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Kazushi Ono (conductor)
Virgin 41986 (Diva Divo) -
George Frideric Handel
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act II, Scenes 1-6
Monday
Oct 28
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) -
Jake Runestad
Alleluia
Monday
Oct 28
Kantorei | Joel Rinsema (conductor)
Naxos 559.892 (Jake Runestad: Sing, Wearing the Sky; Choral Music) -
John Sheppard
Responsory. Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria
Monday
Oct 28
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7509 (Sheppard: Media vita) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: "Spargi d'amoro pianto"
Monday
Oct 28
Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0002999 (Sempre Libera) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert Aria, K 255. "Ombra felice!...Io ti lascio"
Monday
Oct 28
David Daniels (countertenor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Harry Bicket (conductor)
Virgin 45365 (Mozart, Gluck & Handel: Operatic Arias) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
La Guirlande ou Les Fleurs enchantés (Acte de ballet)
Monday
Oct 28
Sophie Daneman (soprano) [Zélide] | Paul Agnew (countertenor) [Myrtil] | François Bazola (bass) [Hylas] | Chœur des Arts Florissants | Cappella Coloniensis des WDR | Les Arts Florissants | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Scott Perkins
A New England Requiem
Monday
Oct 28
Da Capo Players & Choir | Tom Mueller (organ) | Brett Alan Judson (conductor)
Gothic 49322 (A New England Requiem) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus
Monday
Oct 28
Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: Act II/1
Monday
Oct 28
Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Norma] | Fiorenza Cossotto [Adalgisa] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Pollione] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Oroveso] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Clotilde] | Kenneth Collins [Flavio] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)
RCA 6502 (Bellini: Norma) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Stiffelio: Act I
Monday
Oct 28
José Carreras [Stiffelio] | Sylvia Sass [Lina] | Matteo Managuerra [Stankar] | Ezio di Cesare [Raffaele] | Wladimor Ganzarolli [Jorg] | Thomas Moser [Federico] | Maria Venuti [Dorotea] | ORF Chorus [Friends of the Count, disciples of Stiffelio, Ahasuerian people] | ORF Symphony Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Randall Thompson
Frostiana
Monday
Oct 28
New York Choral Society | Manhattan Chamber Orchestra | Richard Auldon Clark (conductor)
Koch 7283 (Thompson: Frostiana; The Testament of Freedom) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Aria. "Ach, Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"
Monday
Oct 28
Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens: Act II
Monday
Oct 28
Jon Vickers [Enée] | Josephine Veasey [Didon] | Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] | Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] | Heather Begg [Anna] | Roger Soyer [Narbal] | Anthony Raffell [Panthée] | Anne Howells [Ascagne] | Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] | Pierre Thau [Priamus] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] | Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] | Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] | Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] | David Lennox [Hélénus] | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 475.6661 (Berlioz: Les Troyens) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mazeppa: Mazeppa's arioso: "O Mariya, Mariya!" (O Maria, Maria!)
Monday
Oct 28
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act II, Scenes 1-3
Monday
Oct 28
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] | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 445.853 (Rameau: Hippolyte et Arice) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale: Act II
Monday
Oct 28
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) -
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum
Monday
Oct 28
Mary Beverly (soprano) | Kevin Smith (counter-tenor) | James Griffett (tenor) | David Thomas (bass) | Choir of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in Warwick | La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy | Jean-Claude Malgoire (conductor)
Sony 46344 (Mozart: Requiem; Charpentier: Te Deum) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tsar's Bride: Act IV
Monday
Oct 28
Gennady Bezzubenkov [Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin] | Marina Shaguch [Marfa] | Dmitri Hvorostovsky [Grigory Grigoryevich Gryaznoy] | Sergei Alexashkin [Grigory Lukyanovich Malyuta-Skuratov] | Evgeny Akimov [Ivan Sergeyevich Lykov] | Olga Borodina [Lyubasha] | Nikolai Gassiev [Yelisey Bomelius] | Irina Loskutova [Domna Ivanovna Saburova] | Olga Markova-Mikhailenko [Dunyasha] | Lyubov Sokolova [Petrovna] | Yuri Shkliar [Stoker] | Lyudmila Kasjanenko [Serving Girl] | Viktor Vikhrov [Lad] | Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg | Valery Gergiev
Philips 462.618 (Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio: Act II
Monday
Oct 28
Violeta Urmana [Cuniza] | Stuart Neil [Riccardo] | Samuel Ramey [Oberto] | Maria Guleghina [Leonora] | Sona Ghazarian [Imelda] | London Voices [Knights, ladies, and vassals] | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Ma, che vi fece, o stelle, K 368
Monday
Oct 28
Sylvia Geszty (soprano) | Staatskapelle Dresden | Otmar Suitner (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Nicola Porpora
Cantata #9. Recitative and aria. "Tomerò fra le gregge...Silvio amante disperato" (I shall return to my flock...Silvio, desperate lover)
Monday
Oct 28
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Charles Gounod
Faust
Monday
Oct 28
Richard Leech (tenor) [Le docteur Faust] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Marguerite] | José van Dam (baritone) [Méphistophélès] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Valentin] | Martine Mahé (mezzo-soprano) [Siébel] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Marthe] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [Wagner] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 54228 (Gounod: Faust) -
Franz Liszt
Missa solemnis: I. Kyrie
Monday
Oct 28
Mária Werner (soprano) | Olga Szönyi (contralto) | Alfonz Bartha (tenor) | András Faragó (bass) | Budapest Chorus | Sándor Margittay (organ) | Hungarian State Orchestra | János Ferencsik (conductor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Antonio Cesti
Orontea: Orontea's aria. "Intorno all'idol mio" (Hover around my beloved)
Monday
Oct 28
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin 02654 (Drama Queens) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act II
Monday
Oct 28
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra] | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy] | Francisco Araiza [Roberto, Conte di Leicester] | Simone Alaimo [Lord Guglielmo Cecil] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Munich Radio Orchestra | Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Charles Tournemire
3 Lieder, Op. 46
Monday
Oct 28
Michael Bundy (baritone) | Helen Crayford (piano)
Naxos 572.347 (Tournemire, Sagesse, Poème) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": IV. Finale: Presto -- "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" -- Allegro assai
Monday
Oct 28
Luba Orgonasova (soprano) | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 439.900 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9) -
Antonio Caldara
La clemenza di Tito: Aria. Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (If ever you feel a soft breath)
Monday
Oct 28
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Concerto Köln | Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord/conductor)
Virgin 41927 (Caldara in Vienna) -
George Frideric Handel
Atalanta: Act I, Scenes 5-9
Monday
Oct 28
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) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act I, Scene 5
Monday
Oct 28
William Shimmel [Don Giovanni] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Leporello] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Donna Anna] | Carol Vaness [Donna Elvira] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Don Ottavio] | Susanne Mentzer [Zerlina] | Natale de Carolis [Masetto] | Vienna Philharmonic | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 54255 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 167. Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe (Ye mortals, extol God's love)
Monday
Oct 28
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto) | Paul Agnew (tenor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 101 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 1) -
Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier: Aria. "Un di all'azzurro spazio" (One day I stood raptly gazing)
Monday
Oct 28
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Chénier] | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Decca 0015463 (Verismo Arias) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act IV, gran scena del sonnambulismo (Lady Macbeth). "Una macchia è tuttora" (There is still a spot here)
Monday
Oct 28
Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0018735 (Verdi)