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WETA Classical
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony #4: I
Tuesday
Jul 8
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Teldec 244.972 (Brahms: 4 Symphonien) -
Saverio Mercadante
Flute Concerto #4 in G Major: III. Polacca brillante
Tuesday
Jul 8
Patrick Gallois (flute) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.731 (Mercadante: Flute Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4) -
Johann Strauss Sr.
Chain Bridge Waltz
Tuesday
Jul 8
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Kim Kashkashian (viola) | Peter Guth (violin) | Georg Hortnagel (double bass)
Philips 410.395 (J. Strauss & Lanner: Waltzes and Polkas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1052: I
Tuesday
Jul 8
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Murray Perahia (piano) | Murray Perahia (conductor)
Sony 89245 (Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1 in D Minor, Op. 13: IV. Allegro con fuoco
Tuesday
Jul 8
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.9839 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1; Symphonic Dances) -
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Sinfonia, HW I/10 in E-flat Major
Tuesday
Jul 8
Concerto of Cologne
Capriccio 10.283 (Musik der Bach Söhne) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": I. Allegro
Tuesday
Jul 8
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Georg Caspar Schurmann
Suite "Ludovicus Pius"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.1852 (Ouvertüren für die Hamburger Oper) -
Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet
Tuesday
Jul 8
Schubert Ensemble of London
Hyperion 66657 (Schumann: Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Quartet in G Major: II. Vivace - Moderato - Vivace
Tuesday
Jul 8
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonia in E Minor, H 653 "Fandango"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) | Concerto of Cologne
Archiv 479.2050 (El Maestro Farinelli) -
Carl Reinecke
Symphony #3 in G Minor, Op. 227
Tuesday
Jul 8
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Trio #4 in E Major, K. 542
Tuesday
Jul 8
Kungsbacka Trio
Naxos 570.519 (Mozart: Piano Trios Vol. 2) -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music
Tuesday
Jul 8
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor)
CPO 777.312 (Händel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Tuesday
Jul 8
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Teldec 244.920 (Mussorgsky: Bilder Einer Ausstellung, Eine Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge) -
Johann Christian Bach
Oboe Concerto #2 in F Major
Tuesday
Jul 8
Hanover Band | Anthony Robson (oboe) | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.347 (J.C. Bach: Woodwind Concertos, Vol. 2) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #4
Tuesday
Jul 8
Berlin Philharmonic | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
EMI 49547 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir of a Beloved Place
Tuesday
Jul 8
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #2
Tuesday
Jul 8
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Teldec 4509.91184 (Schubert: The Symphonies) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25
Tuesday
Jul 8
JoAnn Falletta (conductor) | Buffalo Philharmonic | Eldar Nebolsin (piano)
Naxos 572.303 (Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #5 "Turkish"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Giuliano Carmignola (violin) | Orchestra Mozart
Archiv 477.7371 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: "Casta Diva" ("O pure goddess")
Tuesday
Jul 8
Camille Thomas (cello) | Brussels Philharmonic | Matthieu Herzog (conductor)
DG 483.856 (Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope) -
Isaac Albéniz
Doce Piezas Caracteristicas, Op. 92: Torre Bermeja
Tuesday
Jul 8
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 32712 (Spanish Music for Classical Guitar) -
Mikhail Glinka
Ivan Susanin: Dances
Tuesday
Jul 8
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor) | USSR Symphony Orchestra
Melodiya 10.00166 (Glinka: "Ivan Susanin" & "Ruslan and Ludmila") -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 1 #1 in E-flat Major
Tuesday
Jul 8
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Joseph Fiala
English Horn Concerto in C Major: III. Allegro assai
Tuesday
Jul 8
Albrecht Mayer (conductor) | Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Kammerakademie Potsdam
DG 479.2942 (Lost and Found) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #2 in A Major: I. Moderato; Allegro non troppo
Tuesday
Jul 8
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Concerto for 2 Trumpets, G. 24
Tuesday
Jul 8
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists | Thomas Hammes (trumpet) | Peter Leiner (trumpet)
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #3 in D Major, Op. 33: IV. Finale. Allegro moderato
Tuesday
Jul 8
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9) -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite #2
Tuesday
Jul 8
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80279 (Handel: Water Music) -
Robert Schumann
Concert Piece for 4 Horns, Op. 86: I. Lebhaft
Tuesday
Jul 8
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 453.482 (Schumann: Symphonie No. 2, "Manfred" Overture, etc.) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto F Major (S. 232)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
Tuesday
Jul 8
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | London Philharmonic
LPO 0117 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: R Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata #29: III
Tuesday
Jul 8
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 89363 (Haydn: Piano Sonatas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5: III
Tuesday
Jul 8
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniele Gatti (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7381 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Romeo and Juliet) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons: Autumn
Tuesday
Jul 8
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Michel Schwalbe (violin)
DG 415.301 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Albinoni: Adagio) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 27: II. Allegro molto
Tuesday
Jul 8
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10589 (Rachmaninoff) -
Johannes Brahms
Cello Sonata #2 in F Major, Op. 99: IV. Allegro molto
Tuesday
Jul 8
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) | Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Orfeo 979.201 (Johannes Brahms: The Cello Sonatas) -
Ludwig August LeBrun
Oboe Concerto #1 in D Minor: I. Allegro
Tuesday
Jul 8
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | The English Concert | Paul Goodwin (oboe)
Archiv 431.821 (Oboe Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 10: III. Finale. Allegro vivace
Tuesday
Jul 8
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90797 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 3, Scherzo Capriccioso, Carnival Overture) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1043
Tuesday
Jul 8
Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (violin) | Rachel Podger (violin) | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7155 (Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19: III. Rondo. Molto allegro
Tuesday
Jul 8
Stewart Goodyear (piano) | BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Andrew Constantine (conductor)
Orchid Classics 100127 (Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano and Violin, K 379 (373a) in G Major: II. Theme and Variations
Tuesday
Jul 8
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.229 (Mozart: Violin Sonatas, K. 378, 379 & 380) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Dardanus: Menuets
Tuesday
Jul 8
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
CBC 5229 (Rameau: Dardanus, Le temple de la gloire) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #1 in C Minor, Op. 37: III. Finale. Allegro vivace
Tuesday
Jul 8
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Ignaz Holzbauer
Flute Concerto in D Major
Tuesday
Jul 8
Karl Kaiser (flute) | La Stagione Frankfurt | Karl Kaiser (conductor)
CPO 777.358 (Holzbauer: Flute Concertos) -
Hector Berlioz
Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March
Tuesday
Jul 8
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 411.954 (Pomp and Circumstance) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 379
Tuesday
Jul 8
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) | Walter Klien (piano)
Philips 412.141 (Mozart: The Great Sonatas for Piano and Violin) -
George Frideric Handel
Amadigi di Gaula: Overture: Gavotta
Tuesday
Jul 8
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Dora Pejačević
Phastasie Concertante in D Minor, Op. 48
Tuesday
Jul 8
Ari Rasilainen (conductor) | German State Philharmonic, Rheinland-Pfalz | Volker Banfield (piano)
CPO 777.418 (Dora Pejacevic: Symphony & Phantasie Concertante) -
Frédéric Chopin
Préludes, Op. 28 (24)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Brian Ganz (piano)
Maestoso (Ganz) (Chopin: Preludes) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Abu Hassan: Overture
Tuesday
Jul 8
Dresden State Symphony Orchestra | Gustav Kuhn (conductor)
Capriccio 10.052 (Weber: Overtures) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #9 "Great"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Teldec 4509.91184 (Schubert: The Symphonies) -
Igor Stravinsky
Firebird: Finale
Tuesday
Jul 8
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80625 (Ballet Favorites) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #16 in B-flat Major
Tuesday
Jul 8
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #2
Tuesday
Jul 8
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
Philips 422.334 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Academic Festival Overture) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir of a Beloved Place, Op. 42: #3. Melody
Tuesday
Jul 8
Daniel Lozakovich (violin) | Stanisłav Soloviev (piano)
DG 483.6086 (Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Trio, Op. 65 in G Major
Tuesday
Jul 8
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 446.077 (Hummel: Piano Trios) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #9 in E-flat Major, K 271 "Jeunehomme"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Florian Leopold Gassmann
Philosophy and Love: Overture
Tuesday
Jul 8
Eclipse Chamber Orchestra | Sylvia Alimena (conductor)
Naxos 570.421 (Gassmann: Opera Overtures) -
Mauro Giuliani
Guitar Concerto in A Major, Op. 30
Tuesday
Jul 8
John Williams (guitar) | Australian Chamber Orchestra | Richard Tognetti (conductor)
Sony 63385 (Schubert & Giuliani) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Sonata #3 in D Minor, Op. 49
Tuesday
Jul 8
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Maurice Ravel
Alborada del Gracioso
Tuesday
Jul 8
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
CBS 39439 (Ravel's Greatest Hits)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in G Minor, BWV 235
Tuesday
Jul 8
Washington Bach Consort | J. Reilly Lewis (conductor)
Loft 1068 (Bach: Mass in F-Major) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Haï luli!
Tuesday
Jul 8
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Serouj Kradjian (piano)
Analekta 29903 (Viardot-Garcia: Songs) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Act II
Tuesday
Jul 8
Rundfunkchor Leipzig | Staatskapelle Dresden | Theo Adam (bass) [Don Pizarro] | Martti Talvela [Don Fernando] | James King (tenor) [Florestan] | Gwyneth Jones [Leonore] | Franz Crass [Rocco] | Edith Mathis [Marzelline] | Peter Schreier [Jaquino] | Eberhard Büchner [Erster Gefangener] | Günter Leib [Zweiter Gefangerer] | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 0004590 (Beethoven: Fidelio) -
Franz Liszt
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder (Poisoned are my songs)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Virgin 70928 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #19. Trio and Chorus with Soloists. "In holder Anmut stehn.Der Herr ist groß"
Tuesday
Jul 8
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Michael Schade [Uriel] | Gerard Finley (bass) [Raphael] | Sylvia McNair [Gabriel]
Archiv 449.217 (Haydn: The Creation) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act III, Scenes 1-3
Tuesday
Jul 8
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Tolomeo] | Karina Gauvin [Seleuce] | Pietro Spagnoli [Araspe] | Anna Bonitatibus [Elisa] | Romina Basso [Alessandro]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville): Aria. Una voce poco fa (A voice a while back)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano) | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
Decca 0015746 (Gioia!) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Act III
Tuesday
Jul 8
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) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in D Major, RV 589: Chorus. "Cum Sancto Spiritu"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
Virgin 59326 (Bach: Magnificat) -
Johann Christian Bach
Requiem: III. Sequenz: Chorus. Lacrimosa
Tuesday
Jul 8
RIAS Chamber Chorus | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Das Heimweh; Auf der Donau; Wie Ulfru fischt; Die Sternennächte; Rückweg (Homesickness; On the Danube; Ulfru Fishing; Starry Nights; The Return Journey)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Gabriel Fauré
Requiem, Op. 48
Tuesday
Jul 8
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Judith Blegen (soprano) | James Morris (bass)
Telarc 80135 (Fauré Requiem) -
Anonymous
Music from Las Huelgas: Benedicamus domino (à 2) (Let us bless the Lord)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 80.7510 (Secret Voices) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: IV. Fac ut ardeat cor meum (Make my heart blaze)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir | Peter Rose (bass)
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 14. Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (If it had not been the Lord who was on our side)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Katharine Fuge (soprano)
SDG 115 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 19) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act II
Tuesday
Jul 8
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) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act III, Scene 4, Count Almaviva's aria. "Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro" (Shall I live to see)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Andrei Bondarenko (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | MusicAeterna | Teodor Currentzis (conductor)
Sony 370926 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov: Prologue
Tuesday
Jul 8
Alexander Vedernikov [Boris Godunov] | Glafira Koroleva [Feodor] | Elena Shkolnikova [Xenia] | Nina Grigorieva [Nurse] | Andrei Sokolov [Shuisky] | Alexander Voroshilo [Shchelkalov] | Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] | Vladisolav Piavko [Grigory/Dmitri] | Irina Arkhipova [Marina Mnishek] | Yuri Masurok [Rangoni] | Artur Eisen [Varlaam] | Anatoli Mishutin [Missail] | Ludmila Simonova [Hostess] | Janis Sporgis [Simpleton] | Vladimir Filippov [Nikitich] | Nikolaï Nizinenko [Mitiukha] | Yuri Elnikov [Boyar/Khrushchov/Lavitsky] | Vladimir Silaev [Chernikovsky] | USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
Philips 412.281 (Mussorgsky: Boris Godounov) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act III
Tuesday
Jul 8
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Desdemona] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Denyce Graves [Emilia] | Ramon Vargas [Cassio] | Michael Schade [Roderigo] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Lodovico] | Giacomo Prestia [Montano] | Philippe Duminy [Un Araldo] | Chours et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello) -
Richard Strauss
Brentano Lieder, Op. 68: #1. An die Nacht (To the night)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Christian Thielemann (conductor) | Diana Damrau (soprano) | Munich Philharmonic
Virgin 628664 (Strauss: Orchestral Songs) -
Frederick Delius
Songs to Poems by Paul Verlaine
Tuesday
Jul 8
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Act II (Olympia)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Orchestre National de France | Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] | Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Lindorf] | Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] | James Morris (bass) [Miracle] | Justino Diaz [Dapertutto] | Robert Gambill [Andrès] | Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Frantz] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [La voix de la mère d'Antonia] | Robin Leggate [Nathanaël] | Gérard Friedmann [Spalanzani] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Hermann] | Richard Van Allan [Schlémil] | Kurt Rydl [Luther] | Harald Stamm [Crespel] | Chœurs de Radio France [Esprits invisibles, étudiants, garçons de taverne, invités de Spalanzani, laquais, invitétes de Giulietta] | Edita Gruberova [Olympia] | Paul Crook [Cochenille]
DG 427.682 (Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #20. Der Wegweiser (The Signpost)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2107 (Schubert: Winterreise) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 62. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles)
Tuesday
Jul 8
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | Jan Kobow (tenor)
SDG 162 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 13) -
Antonio Vivaldi
L'incoronazione di Dario: Act III
Tuesday
Jul 8
John Elwes [Dario] | Gerard Lesne [Statira] | Henri Ledroit [Argene] | Michel Verschaeve [Niceno] | Isabelle Poulenard [Alinda] | Agnes Mellon [Oronte] | Isabelle Poulenard [Arpago] | Dominique Visse [Flora Bervoix] | John Elwes [Le Fantôme de Ciro] | Michel Verschaeve [L'Oracle d'Apollo] | Ensemble Baroque de Nice | Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1235-37 (Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario) -
Anonymous
Music from Las Huelgas: Song. Omnium in te Christe (For all of us who believe in you, Christ)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 80.7510 (Secret Voices) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part II, Raphael's recitative and aria. "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe die Erde hervor...Nun scheint in vollem Glanze der Himmel" (And God said: Let the earth bring forth...Now heaven in fullest glory shone)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Raphael]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act IV, Finale
Tuesday
Jul 8
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Opera Chorus | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Lucia Popp [Susanna] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Figaro] | Frederica von Stade [Cherubino] | Jane Berbié (soprano) [Marcellina] | Kurt Moll [Bartolo] | Robert Tear (tenor) [Don Basilio] | Philip Langridge [Don Curzio] | Yvonne Kenny [Barbarina] | Giorgio Tadeo (bass) [Antonio] | Lynda Russell (soprano) [Contadina] | Anne Mason [Contadina]
London 410.150 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
George Frideric Handel
Judas Maccabaeus: Excerpts
Tuesday
Jul 8
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.733 (Handel: Coronation Anthems) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act I
Tuesday
Jul 8
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) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera: Act I, scena & entrance aria (Riccardo, Oscar). "Amici miei, soldati...La rivedrà nell'estasi" *My friends, soldiers...In ecstasy I shall see her again)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Mojca Erdmann (soprano) | Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Coro Teatro Regio Torino
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi) -
Carl Nielsen
Maskarade: Act III
Tuesday
Jul 8
The Danish National Radio Choir | The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Aage Haugland (bass) [Jeronimus] | Susanne Resmark [Magdelone] | Gert-Henning Jensen [Leander] | Bo Skovhus [Henrik] | Michael Kristensen [Arv] | Kurt Ravn [Leonard] | Henriette Bonde-Hansen [Leonora] | Marianne Rorholm [Pernille] | Christian Christiansen (bass) [Tutor] | Johan Reuter [Nightwatchman] | Johan Reuter [Master of the Masquerade] | Bo Anker Hansaen [Doorman] | Ulf Schirmer (conductor)
Decca 460.227 (Nielsen: Maskarade) -
Johann Christian Bach
Requiem: III. Sequenz: Quartet. Confutatis maledictis
Tuesday
Jul 8
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) | Ruth Sandhoff (alto) | Colin Balzer (tenor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Giacomo Puccini
La rondine: Magda's aria. "Denaro nient'altro che denaro!...Ore dolci e divine" (Money, nothing but money!...Sweet, heavenly hours)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Saito Kaoru [Bianca] | Lucia Mencaroni [Suzy] | Barbara Vignudelli [Yvette]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #3 in D Minor: IV.Sehr langsam; misterioso; durchaus ppp & V. Lustig in Tempo und keck im Ausdruck
Tuesday
Jul 8
San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano) | Women of the San Francisco Smphony Chorus | Pacific Boychoir | San Francisco Girls Chorus
SFS Media 60003 (Mahler: Symphony No. 3) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Torna, vezzosa Fillide
Tuesday
Jul 8
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | James Levine (piano)
London 455.513 (An Italian Songbook) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 101. Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott (Take from us, Lord, thou faithful God)
Tuesday
Jul 8
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Paul Agnew (tenor) | Michael Chance (alto) | Caroline Stam (soprano)
Erato 8573.80220 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Astyanax: Act II, scene 4. Andromaque's recitative and aria. "Oh, ces perfides grecs...Deiux, à qui recourir" (Ah, these treacherous Greeks...Gods, whom can I turn to)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Véronique Gens (soprano)
Virgin 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Tuesday
Jul 8
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Jennifer Johnson (mezzo-soprano) | Matthew Rose (bass)
SDG 718 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorite: Act II
Tuesday
Jul 8
Marcello Viotti (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] | Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] | Abbie Furmansky [Inès] | Ramon Vargas [Fernand] | Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] | Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] | Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur]
RCA 66229 (Donizetti: La Favorite) -
Adolphe Adam
Le Postillon de Lonjumeau: Act I, Song of the Coachman. "Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire d'un jeune et galant postillon" (My friends, listen to the tale of a fine young coachman)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [village men]
Decca 0020307 (L'Amour) -
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: "Dixit Dominus Domino meo"
Tuesday
Jul 8
Lynne Dawson (soprano) | Arleen Augér (soprano) | Diana Montague (alto) | Leigh Nixon (tenor) | Simon Birchall (bass) | Choir of Westminster Abbey and Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor)
Archiv 423.594 (Handel: Dixit Dominus) -
Franz Schubert
Gesänge des Harfners, D 478 (Song of the Harper)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs (Opéra pour la paix [pastorale héroïque]): Act II
Tuesday
Jul 8
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra | Ian Caley (tenor) [Neptun] | Linda Russell (soprano) [Naïs] | Ian Caddy (baritone) [Télénus] | John Tomlinson (bass) [Pluton] | Richard Jackson (baritone) [Tirésie] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Premère Bergère (First Shepherdess)] | English Bach Festival Singers [Titans et Géants (Titans | Giants) | Dieux du Ciel (gods and goddesses) | Peuples de la terre (people of the earth) | Divinités de la Mer (sea divinities) | Brian Parson (haute-contre) [Astérion] | Antony Ransome (baritone) [Palémon] | Ann Mackay (soprano) [Deuxième Bergère (Second Shepherdess)] | Bergers, Bergères, Pastres (Shepherds, shepherdesses, huntsmen)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act II, scena & aria (Alfredo). "Lunge da lei...De' miei bollenti spiriti" (There's no pleasure in life..My passionate spirit)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi) -
Josef Rheinberger
Mass in F Major for Male Choir and Organ, Op. 190
Tuesday
Jul 8
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor) | David Chalmers (organ)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Joseph Haydn
L'isola disabitata
Tuesday
Jul 8
Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)
Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte: Act II, Queen of the Night's aria. "Der Hölle Rache" (Hell's vengeance)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Marina Rebeka (soprano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Speranza Scappucci (conductor)
Warner Classics 15497 (Mozart: Opera Arias) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 81. Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? (Jesus sleeps, what hope is there for me?)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | William Towers (alto)
SDG 115 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 19) -
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne: Series III
Tuesday
Jul 8
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Decca 410.004 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens: Act IV, Scene 2, Iopas's aria. "Ô blonde Cérès" (O Ceres so fair)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna
Decca 0020307 (L'Amour) -
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre: Act III
Tuesday
Jul 8
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | Mariinsky Orchestra | René Pape [Wotan] | Anja Kampe [Sieglinde] | Nina Stemme [Brünnhilde] | Zhanna Dombrovskaya [Gerhilde] | Irina Vasilieva [Ortlinde] | Natalia Evstafieva [Waltraute] | Lyudmila Kanunnkova [Schwertleite] | Tatiana Kravtsova [Helmwige] | Ekaterina Sergeeva [Siegrune] | Anna Kiknadze [Grimgerde] | Elena Vitman [Roßweiße]
Mariinsky 0527 (Wagner: Die Walküre) -
Johann Christian Bach
Requiem: III. Sequenz: Aria. Oro supplex
Tuesday
Jul 8
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor) | Ruth Sandhoff (alto)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Prisoners' Chorus ["O welche Lust"]
Tuesday
Jul 8
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 415.283 (Opera Choruses) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Teuzzone: Act II, Scenes 1-8
Tuesday
Jul 8
Paolo Lopez [Teuzzone] | Raffaella Milanesi [Zidiana] | Delphine Galou [Zelinda] | Roberta Mameli [Cino] | Furio Zanasi [Sivenio] | Antonio Giovannini [Egaro] | Makoto Sakurada [Troncone | Argonte] | Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall (conductor)
Naïve 30513 (Vivaldi: Teuzzone) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Attila: Act I
Tuesday
Jul 8
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | Ruggero Raimondi [Attila] | Sherrill Milnes [Ezio] | Christina Deutekom [Odabella] | Carlo Bergonzi [Foresto] | Ricardo Cassinelli [Uldino] | Jules Bastin [Leone] | Ambrosian Singers [Leaders, kings | soldiers, Huns, Gepids, Ostrogoths, Heruls, Thuringians, Quadi, Druids, priestesses, men | women of Aquileia, Aquileian maidens in warlike dress, Roman officers | soldiers, Roman virgins | children, hermits, slaves] | Finchley Children's Music Group
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #24. Der Leiermann (The Hurdy-Gurdy Man)
Tuesday
Jul 8
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2107 (Schubert: Winterreise)