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WETA Classical

  • Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25

    Ernst von Dohnányi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Eldar Nebolsin (piano) | Buffalo Philharmonic | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)

    Naxos 572.303 (Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song)
  • PBS News Hour

    News

    Monday
    Jul 15

  • Nocturne

    John Alden Carpenter

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Denver Oldham (piano)

    New World 328-329 (John Alden Carpenter: Collected Piano Works)
  • Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave; Allegro di molto e con brio

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Igor Levit (piano)

    Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas)
  • Overture in D Major (D. 12)

    Franz Schubert

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paul Angerer (conductor)

    Pantheon 1841 (Schubert: Overtures, Vol. 2)
  • Flute Concerto G Major

    Giuseppe Tartini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    James Galway (flute) | Venetian Soloists | Claudio Scimone (conductor)

    RCA 61164 (Italian Flute Concertos)
  • Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Monday
    Jul 15

    London Symphony Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)

    Chandos 8828 (Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 8, etc.)
  • Octet #3 in B-flat Major

    Carl Stamitz

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Consortium Classicum

    CPO 999.081 (Stamitz: Wind Symphonies)
  • Etude, Op. 10 #3 E Major

    Frédéric Chopin

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

    EMI 47452 (Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & 25)
  • Orchestral Suite #3: Air

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)

    Sony 60680 (Simply Baroque)
  • Violin Concerto #1 in D Major: III. Allegro

    Florence Price

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Er-gene Kahng (violin) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra | Ryan Cockerham (conductor)

    Albany 1706 (Florence Price Violin Concertos)
  • Trio in F Major, Op. 9 #3

    François-Joseph Gossec

    Monday
    Jul 15

    The Vivaldi Project

    MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2)
  • Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": III. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Sir Stephen Hough (piano) | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu (conductor)

    Hyperion 68291 (Beethoven: The Piano Concertos)
  • Concerto, RV 540

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Pepe Romero (guitar) | I Musici

    Philips 434.082 (Vivaldi: Concertos for Guitar and Strings)
  • Sonata a 12 in D Minor

    Francesco Cavalli

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Ensemble Correspondances | Sébastien Daucé (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2640 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe a quatre choeurs)
  • Piano Concerto #1: I

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Nikolai Lugansky (piano) | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Sakari Oramo (conductor)

    Warner Classics 47941 (Lugansky: Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
  • Symphony #3

    Thomas Augustine Arne

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)

    Chandos 8403 (Arne: Symphonies 1 - 4)
  • Spanish Dances: El Gran Duque & Baylete

    Traditional

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Harp Consort | Andrew Lawrence-King (conductor)

    Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77340 (Spanish Dances)
  • Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 #2

    Antonín Dvorák

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Berlin Philharmonic | Lorin Maazel (conductor)

    EMI 49547 (Dvorák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72)
  • Water Music Suite #3

    George Frideric Handel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Orchestra of St. Luke's | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    Telarc 80279 (Handel: Water Music)
  • In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Alexander Borodin

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

    Philips 412.552 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 - Borodin: Polovstian Dances)
  • Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Daniel Barenboim (piano) | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

    DG 483.8242 (Triple Concerto)
  • String Symphony #3 in E Minor

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Monday
    Jul 15

    English String Orchestra | William Boughton (conductor)

    Nimbus 5141 (Mendelssohn: Complete String Symphonies, Vol. 1)
  • Sacred and Profane Dances

    Claude Debussy

    Monday
    Jul 15

    St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

    Telarc 80071 (Debussy: La Mer, Faune, Danses)
  • English Horn Concerto in C Major

    Joseph Fiala

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Kammerakademie Potsdam | Albrecht Mayer (conductor)

    DG 479.2942 (Lost and Found)
  • Tsar Saltan Suite

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    Chandos 8327/8/9 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Suites)
  • Concerto for Oboe d'Amore, Strings and Continuo, after BWV 209

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Albrecht Mayer (oboe d'amore) | The English Concert | Albrecht Mayer (conductor)

    Decca 478.1517 (Voices of Bach)
  • Cello Sonata #2 in F Major, Op. 99

    Johannes Brahms

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) | Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

    Orfeo 979.201 (Johannes Brahms: The Cello Sonatas)
  • Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #2 in D Major (HWV 397)

    George Frideric Handel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5)
  • Three Settings of Traditional Tunes

    Percy Grainger

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Guitar Trek

    ABC 432.698 (Guitar Trek)
  • Concerto, RV 447

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Heinz Holliger (oboe) | I Musici

    Philips 411.480 (Vivaldi: Concerti per oboe)
  • Piano Concerto #23

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Mitsuko Uchida (piano and conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra

    Decca 0013276 (Mozart: Piano Concerto 23, K488 & 24, K491)
  • Romance for Viola and Orchestra

    Max Bruch

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gérard Caussé (viola) | Opera Orchestra of Lyon | Kent Nagano (conductor)

    Erato 2292.45483 (Bruch: Works for Clarinet and Viola)
  • Barcarolle

    Frédéric Chopin

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Murray Perahia (piano)

    CBS 39708 (Chopin: Impromptus)
  • Andante with Variations (Op. 34)

    Louis Spohr

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | Consortium Classicum

    Orfeo 213.901 (Meyerbeer, Spohr & Bärmann: Clarinet Quintets)
  • Sextet in D Major for Violin, 2 Violas, Cello, Bass and Piano, Op. 110

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

    Delos 3266 (Mendelssohn: Sextet Op. 110, Octet, Op. 20)
  • Symphony in D Major, Op. 3/1, WV 374

    Georg Christoph Wagenseil

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Johannes Goritzki (conductor)

    CPO 777.112 (Wagenseil: Symphonies, Vol. 2)
  • Violin Concerto #1

    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    London 411.952 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole - Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 1)
  • Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Op. 58

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Evgeny Kissin (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

    EMI 06311 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5)
  • Patience: Overture

    Sir Arthur Sullivan

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures)
  • Dances for violin & guitar

    Franz Schubert

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gil Shaham (violin) | Goeran Soellscher (guitar)

    DG 471.568
  • Water Music Suite #1

    George Frideric Handel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)

    Erato 4509.91716 (Handel: Water Music)
  • Siegfried Idyll

    Richard Wagner

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    Philips 412.465 (Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: Siegfried Idyll)
  • The Maiden's Prayer, Op. 4

    Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Lang Lang (piano)

    DG 479.7528 (Lang Lang Piano Book)
  • Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92: IV. Allegro con brio

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Monday
    Jul 15

    New York Philharmonic | Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

    Decca 279.560 (Jaap Van Zweden, New York Philharmonic, Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7)
  • King Manfred: Overture

    Carl Reinecke

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)

    CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1)
  • Violin Concerto #5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish": I. Allegro aperto; Adagio; Allegro aperto

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Baiba Skride (violin) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Eivind Aadland (conductor)

    Orfeo 997.201 (Baiba Skride: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5)
  • Turkish Rondo

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    John O'Conor (piano)

    Telarc 80313 (Popular Works for Solo Piano)
  • Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Monday
    Jul 15

    London Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)

    LPO 0117 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: R Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade)
  • Turkish March, Op. 55

    Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Monday
    Jul 15

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Arthur Fagen (conductor)

    Naxos 553.405 (Ippolitov-Ivanov Orchestral Works)
  • Sinfonia concertante E-flat Major: I. Allegro assai

    Johann Christian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    The Parley of Instruments | Peter Holman (conductor)

    Hyperion 66896 (English Classical Clarinet Concertos)
  • Orchestral Suite in G Major

    Johann Ludwig Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

    Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures)
  • Concertino: IV. Rondo

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Ambache Chamber Ensemble

    Ambache Recordings 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite)
  • Characters of the Dance

    Jean-Féry Rebel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    Musifrance 2292.45974 (Rebel: Les elemens, Les caracteres de la danse)
  • Piano Concerto #1 in D Minor, Op. 15: III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo

    Johannes Brahms

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Lars Vogt (piano) | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Lars Vogt (conductor)

    Ondine 1330 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Four Ballades, Op. 10)
  • The Enchantress: Dance of the Histrions

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Monday
    Jul 15

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)

    Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky)
  • Symphony in G Major, B 130: I. Allegro assai

    Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)

    Naxos 572.550 (Pleyel: Symphonies in B-Flat and G)
  • Piano Concerto #1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1: I. Vivace

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Daniil Trifonov (piano) | Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)

    DG 483.6617 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival)
  • Quintet in F Major, Op. 81: II. Scherzo. Energico

    George Onslow

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Les Vents Français

    Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique)
  • Serenade for Winds, K 361 "Gran Partita": VI. Tema con variazioni

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Berlin Academy for Old Music

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2627 (Mozart: Gran Partita)
  • Fair Melusina Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2369 (Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 1)
  • Entry of the Boyars

    Johan Halvorsen

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Bergen Philharmonic | Karsten Andersen (conductor)

    NKF 50013 (Johan Halvorsen)
  • Cello Concerto in F Major : IV

    Nicola Fiorenza

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gaetano Nasillo (cello) | Ensemble 415 | Chiara Banchini (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 050302 (Concerti Napoletani per Violoncello)
  • The Bartered Bride: Dances

    Bedrich Smetana

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic

    Chandos 10518 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2)
  • Bassoon Concerto, RV 486 in F Major

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Onda Armonica | Sergio Azzolini (conductor)

    Naïve 30573 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto V)
  • Hedy: Ballet Music

    Zdenek Fibich

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)

    Naxos 573.310 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 4)
  • Gymnopédie #1

    Erik Satie

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Naida Cole (piano)

    Decca 748.021 (Fauré, Chabrier, Satie & Ravel)
  • Rossiniana, P. 148

    Ottorino Respighi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic

    Chandos 10388 (Respighi: Rossiniana, etc.)
  • Piano Concerto #25

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Martha Argerich (piano) | Orchestra Mozart | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 479.1033 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 503 & K. 466)
  • Serenade to Music

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Monday
    Jul 15

    London Philharmonic | Vernon Handley (conductor)

    Chandos 8330 (Vaughan Williams & Delius)
  • Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Jeremy Denk (piano)

    Azica Records 71262 (Bach: Partitas 3, 4 & 5)
  • Symphonie fantastique

    Hector Berlioz

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Lamoureux Orchestra | Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    DG 447.406 (Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Etc.)
  • La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista: Part II, Sinfonia

    Antonio Maria Bononcini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)

    Erato 51789 (La Vanita del Mondo)
  • Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44

    Louise Farrenc

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Linos Ensemble

    CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios)
  • Gayane: Dances

    Aram Khachaturian

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    Chandos 8542 (Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, etc.)
  • Trio Concertant in G Major, Op. 3 #3

    Paul Wranitzky

    Monday
    Jul 15

    The Vivaldi Project

    MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3)
  • Piano Sonata #1 in C Major, Op. 24

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

    Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas)
  • Symphonies pour un reposoir, H. 508 (Ceremonial music for the Feast of Corpus Christi)

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée)
  • Piano Sonata #3 B Minor

    Frédéric Chopin

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Ingrid Fliter (piano)

    EMI 14899 (Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, etc.)
  • Symphony in D Major

    Franz Anton Hoffmeister

    Monday
    Jul 15

    London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)

    Chandos 10351 (Hoffmeister: Symphonies)

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • Khovanshchina

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Aage Haugland (bass) | Vladimir Atlantov [Prince Andrei Khovansky] | Vladimir Popov [Prince Vasili Golitsyn] | Anatoly Kotcherga (bass) | Paata Burchuladze [Dosifei] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marfa] | Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano) | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Scribe] | Joanna Borowska [Emma] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Kuzka] | Peter Köves [Strelyets] | Goran Simic [Strelyets] | Peter Köves [Varsonofiev] | Bojidar Nikolov (tenor) | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina)
  • Il Trovatore: "D'amor sull'ali rosee"

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) | Philharmonia of Russia | Constantine Orbelian (conductor)

    Delos 3404 (Radvanovsky sings Verdi)
  • Te Deum, Op. 32: IV. Dignare Domine

    Walter Braunfels

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honneck (conductor)

    Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum)
  • La bohème: Act I

    Giacomo Puccini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Anna Moffo (soprano) | Richard Tucker (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Robert Merrill [Marcello] | Mary Costa [Musetta] | Giorgio Tozzi [Colline] | Philip Maero (baritone) [Schaunard] | Fernando Corena [Benoît] | Giorgio Onesti [Alcindoro] | Adelio Zagonara (tenor) | Flavio Tosin [Doganiere] | Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus | Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

    RCA 63179 (Puccini: La Bohème)
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act II, Scene 7, Duet (Figaro, Almaviva). "All'idea di quel metallo"

    Gioachino Rossini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Lawrence Brownlee (tenor) | Michael Spyres (tenor) | I Virtuosi Italiani | Corrado Rovaris (conductor)

    Erato 52694 (Amici e Rivali)
  • Don Quichotte: Act III

    Jules Massenet

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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)
  • Le Livre de Baudelaire: I. Le Balcon (orch. John Adams)

    Claude Debussy

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy)
  • Naïs (Opéra pour la paix [pastorale héroïque]): Prologue. L'Accord des Dieux (The gods' agreement)

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Ian Caddy (baritone) [Jupiter] | Ian Caley (tenor) [Neptun] | Ann Mackay (soprano) [Flore] | English Bach Festival Singers [Titans et Géants (Titans & Giants) | Dieux du Ciel (gods and goddesses) | Peuples de la terre (people of the earth)] | English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

    Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau)
  • Swimmers on the Shore (Text from a poem of David Mason)

    Lori Laitman

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Randall Scarlata (baritone) | Lori Laitman (piano)

    Albany 1118 (Within These Spaces)
  • Poème de l'amour et de la mer: I. La Fleur des eaux

    Ernest Chausson

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy)
  • Offertorium. "Intende voci"

    Franz Schubert

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Scot Weir (tenor) | Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart | Bach-Collegium Stuttgart | Helmuth Rilling (conductor)

    Hänssler 98172 (Schubert: Messe Es-dur D 950)
  • Cantata, BWV 99. Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (What God does, is well done)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Malin Hartelius (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    SDG 104 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 8)
  • Three Russian Songs, Op. 41: #1. Moderato

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater

    Chandos 10706 (Rachmaninoff: The Bells; Spring)
  • Idomeneo: Ilia's recitative and aria. "Quando avran fine omai...Padre, germani, addio!" (When will my dreadful misery ever come to an end?...Father, brothers, farewell!)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Danielle de Niese (soprano) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    Decca 0013277 (The Mozart Album)
  • Der Rosenkavalier: Act II

    Richard Strauss

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Die Feldmarschallin] | Otto Edelmann [Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau] | Christa Ludwig [Octavian] | Eberhard Wächter [Herr von Faninal] | Teresa Stich-Randall [Sophie] | Ljuba Welitsch [Marianne] | Paul Kuen [Valzacchi] | Kerstin Meyer [Annina] | Nicolai Gedda [Ein Sänger] | Philharmonia Chorus | Loughton High School for Girls & Bancroft's School | Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    EMI 56242 (Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier)
  • Alcina: Act III, Opening

    George Frideric Handel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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)
  • Guillaume Tell: Act I, Scenes 9-11

    Gioachino Rossini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Gerald Finley [Guillaume Tell] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Hedwige] | Elena Xanthoudakis [Jemmy] | Malin Byström [Mathilde] | John Osborn [Arnold] | Frédéric Caton [Melchtal] | Matthew Rose [Walter] | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Carlos Bosi [Rodolphe] | Celso Albelo [Ruodi] | Dawid Kimberg [Leuthold] | Davide Malvestio [Hunstman] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell)
  • Carmen: Act IV

    Georges Bizet

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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)
  • Carol. Veni redemptor gencium

    Anonymous

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Anonymous 4

    Harmonia Mundi 80.7453 (The Cherry Tree)
  • Cantata. Questo è il piano (This is the plain)

    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Marianna Pizzolato (alto) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    DG 0015444 (Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Cantatas)
  • La Rondine: Act I

    Giacomo Puccini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Magda] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ruggero] | Mariana Nicolesco [Lisette] | David Rendall [Prunier] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Rambaldo] | Lillian Watson [Yvette] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus [Bianca] | London Symphony Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)

    CBS 37852 (Puccini: La Rondine)
  • La vanità del Mondo: Part I, aria (Piacere). "Esiliatevi pene funeste"

    Pietro Torri

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) | Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)

    Erato 51789 (La Vanita del Mondo)
  • A German Requiem, Op. 45: #1. Blest are they that mourn

    Johannes Brahms

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)

    Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem)
  • Euristeo: Erginda's aria (Act III, Scene 1). "Sotto un faggio o lungo un rio"

    Antonio Caldara

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) | Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)

    Erato 520955 (Contralto)
  • Cantata, BWV 25. Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe (There is no soundness in my flesh)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Malin Hartelius (soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    SDG 124 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 7)
  • Die Sterne

    Pauline Viardot-Garcia

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Serouj Kradjian (piano)

    Analekta 29903 (Viardot-Garcia: Songs)
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Aria. "Martern aller Arten"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

    London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
  • La Vestale: Act III

    Gaspare Spontini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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] | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Muti (conductor)

    Sony 66357 (Spontini: La Vestale)
  • Andrea Chénier: Act II

    Umberto Giordano

    Monday
    Jul 15

    José Carreras (tenor) [Andrea Chénier] | Eva Marton [Maddalena di Coigny] | Giorgio Zancanaro [Carlo Gerard] | Tamara Takács [La Contessa di Coigny] | Tullio Pane [L'Incredibile] | Franco Federici [Jean-Antoine Roucher] | Gábor Vághelyi [Pietro Fleville] | Klára Takács [Bersi] | Istvan Rozsos [L'Abate] | József Gregor [Mathieu] | Éva Farkas [La Vecchia] | Kázmér Sárkány [Dumas] | Tamás Bátor [Antoine Fouquier-Tinville] | János Tóth [Schmidt] | József Moldvai [Maestro di Casa] | Chorus of the Hungarian State Radio and Television | Children's Choir of the Hungarian State Opera | Hungarian State Orchestra | Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)

    CBS 42369 (Giordana: Andrea Chenier)
  • Manon: Act II

    Jules Massenet

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Manon] | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] | Earle Patriarco [Lescaut] | José van Dam (baritone) [Le Comte des Grieux] | Gilles Ragon [Guillot de Morfontaine] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [De Brétigny] | Anna Maria Panzarella [Poussette] | Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano) [Javotte] | Susanne Schimmack [Rosette] | Nicolas Cavalllier [L'hôtelier] | Orchestre Symphonique et Chours de la Monnaie | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    EMI 57005 (Massenet: Manon)
  • The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #3. Aria and Chorus. "Nun Schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle"

    Joseph Haydn

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Herbert Lippert (tenor) [Uriel] | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

    London 443.445 (Haydn: The Creation)
  • La forza del destino: Act IV, Aria. "Pace, pace mio Dio!"

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Birgit Nilsson (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Argeo Quadri (conductor)

    Decca 475.6413 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne)
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act II

    Gioachino Rossini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] | Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] | Sally Burgess [Berta] | Matthew Best [Fiorello] | John Noble [Ufficiale] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    Philips 411.058 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia)
  • Faust: Act V

    Charles Gounod

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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)
  • L'elisir d'amore: Act II, Scenes 1-6

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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)
  • Final Monologue from McNally's "Master Class"

    Jake Heggie

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)

    Avie 2198 (Passing By)
  • Vier Duette (4 Duets), Op. 34

    Robert Schumann

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

    DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)
  • Turandot: Act III

    Giacomo Puccini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Joan Sutherland [Turandot] | Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] | Montserrat Caballé [Liù] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] | Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Tom Krause [Ping] | Pier Francesco Poli [Pang | Il Principe di Persia] | Piero de Palma [Pong] | Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] | John Alldis Choir | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Zubin Mehta (conductor)

    London 414.274 (Puccini: Turandot)
  • Elias (Elijah): Part I, Opening (Nr. 1-7)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Elijah] | Andrea Rost (soprano) [The Widow] | Cornelia Kallisch [The Angel] | Deon van der Walt [King Ahab] | Johannes Dietzel [The Youth] | Cornelia Kallisch [Queen Jezebel] | Deon van der Walt [Obadiah] | Chor des Städt. Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf | Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor)

    EMI 56475 (Mendelssohn: Elias)
  • La forza del destino: Act III, scena & Carlos' aria. "Morir! Tremenda cosa...Urna fatale del mio destino" (To die! A terrible thing!...Fateful draw of destiny...What if I could discover other proof?)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Gianluca Buratto (bass) | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

    Sony 373312 (Verdi)
  • Hérodiade: Act IV Finale

    Jules Massenet

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salomé] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Hérodiade] | Martine Olmeda [Une jeune Babylonienne] | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hérode] | José van Dam (baritone) [Phanuel] | Marcel Vanaud [Vitellius] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Grand Prêtre] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Une voix dans le temple] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)

    EMI 55378 (Massenet: Hérodiade)
  • Guglielmo Tell: Act II

    Gioachino Rossini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo Tell] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] | Franco de Grandis [Melchthal] | Amelia Felle [Jemmy] | Luciana D'Intino [Edwige] | Vittorio Terranova [Un pescatore] | Alberto Noli [Leutoldo] | Luigi Roni [Gessler] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Matilde] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Rodolfo] | Ernesto Panariello [Un cacciatore] | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Muti (conductor)

    Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell)
  • Songs. Fahrt zum Hades; Freiwilliges Versinken; Das Weinen; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Winterabend (Journey to Hades; Voluntary Oblivion; Weeping; Fisherman's Luck in Love; Winter Evening)

    Franz Schubert

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.1988 (Schubert: Sehnsucht)
  • Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Jennifer Smith (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) | Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Netherlands Chamber Choir | Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)

    Philips 426.238 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor)
  • Werther

    Jules Massenet

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] | Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] | Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] | Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] | James Savage-Hanford [Hans] | Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] | Christopher Waine [Karl] | Sally Cannon [Clara] | Joel Gunger [Max] | Sarah Baillie [Fritz] | Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] | London Symphony Orchestra | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther)
  • Les Elfes (The elves)

    Claude Debussy

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Philippe Cassard (piano)

    Virgin 750769 (Clair de Lune)
  • Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Act II, Mazurka and Finale

    Mikhail Glinka

    Monday
    Jul 15

    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)
  • Maometto Secondo: Act II, Opening

    Gioachino Rossini

    Monday
    Jul 15

    June Anderson [Anna Erisso] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Maometto] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Claudio Scimione (conductor)

    Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo)
  • Requiem, Op. 5: VII. Domine Jesu Christe

    Hector Berlioz

    Monday
    Jul 15

    London Symphony Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

    Philips 416.283 (Berlioz: Requiem)
  • Orphée et Euridice: Act II, Scenes 1-2

    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Orphée] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Euridice] | Suzie LeBlanc [Amour] | Opera Lafayette Orchestra and Chorus | Ryan Brown (conductor)

    Naxos 660.185-86 (Gluck: Orphée et Euridice)
  • Agrippina: Act II, Scenes 13-21

    George Frideric Handel

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo] | Berlin Academy for Old Music | René Jacobs (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2088-90 (Handel: Agrippina)
  • Simon Boccanegra: Act I, Scene 2. "Abbasso le spade!...Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo dalla feroce storia!...Ecco la spada" (Lower your swords!...Plebeians! Patricians! A people with a fierce history!...Here is my sword)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Angel Joy Blue (soprano) | Gianluca Buratto (bass) | Fernando Piqueras (baritone) | Aquiles Machado (tenor) | Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

    Sony 373312 (Verdi)
  • Cantata, BWV 69a. Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Bless the Lord, O my soul)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Robin Tyson (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    SDG 134 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 6)
  • Juditha Triumphans, RV 645: Aria. "Noli ò cara te adorantis"

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Matthew White (countertenor) | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

    Analekta 9813 (Scarlatti: Cain, overo Il primo omicidio)
  • Concert aria. Bella mia fiamma, addio!...Resta, oh cara, K 528

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Monday
    Jul 15

    Christiane Oelze (soprano) | Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)

    Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works)