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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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
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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
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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)