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WETA Classical
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Friday
Mar 14
Cleveland Quartet | Meliora Quartet
Telarc 80142 (Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Octet in E-flat Major) -
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus Suite #1
Friday
Mar 14
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8927 (Khachaturian: Ballet Suites 1 - 3) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria and Variations in the Italian Style, BWV 989
Friday
Mar 14
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Hyperion 67499 (Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor) -
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2
Friday
Mar 14
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 49964 (Respighi, Ravel & Dukas) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 379
Friday
Mar 14
Augustin Dumay (violin) | Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 431.771 (Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin K. 301, 304, 378 & 379) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Slavic March
Friday
Mar 14
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DG 400.035 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien) -
PBS News Hour
Friday
Mar 14
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Ernest Chausson
Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet: II. Sicilienne
Friday
Mar 14
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin) | Takács String Quartet
London 425.860 (Chausson: Concerto - Ravel: Trio) -
Johann Christian Bach
Sonata in G Major, B. 37
Friday
Mar 14
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #3 in C Minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio
Friday
Mar 14
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Sir Stephen Hough (piano) | Hannu Lintu (conductor)
Hyperion 68291 (Beethoven: The Piano Concertos) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #5 in D Major
Friday
Mar 14
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 9004-5-6 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Franz von Suppé
Light Cavalry Overture
Friday
Mar 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 54056 (Suppé: Overtures) -
Louise Farrenc
Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40: III. Allegro vivace
Friday
Mar 14
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
William Boyce
Symphony #5 in D Major
Friday
Mar 14
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
CRD 3413A (William Boyce) -
Franz Schubert
German Dances, D. 783 (16)
Friday
Mar 14
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 422.229 (Schubert: Piano Sonata, D.959, Hungarian Melody, German Dances, Allegretto) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1032 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in A Major
Friday
Mar 14
Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord) | Aurele Nicolet (flute)
Denon 7331 (Bach: The Complete Sonatas for Flute) -
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto: III
Friday
Mar 14
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Martha Argerich (piano)
Teldec 4509.90696 (Schumann: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #102: III
Friday
Mar 14
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra
RCA 68424 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42
Friday
Mar 14
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1927 (Chopin Valses) -
Johann Christian Bach
Wind Symphony #3 in E-flat Major
Friday
Mar 14
Consortium Classicum
MDG 301.0434 (J.C. Bach: Wind Symphonies) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite
Friday
Mar 14
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 415.106 (Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Carmen Suite) -
Gioachino Rossini
The Marriage Contract: Overture
Friday
Mar 14
Haydn Philharmonia | Ezio Rojatti (conductor)
Nuova Era 6726 (Cimarosa, Paisiello & Rossini: Overtures Italiane Vol. 1) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:20 in C Minor: III. Allegro
Friday
Mar 14
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
In Nature's Realm
Friday
Mar 14
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90791 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 6) -
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances Suite #2
Friday
Mar 14
Australian Chamber Orchestra | Christopher Lyndon Gee (conductor)
Omega 1007 (Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, The Birds) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #23
Friday
Mar 14
English Chamber Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
RCA 60989 (Mozart: Concertos Nos. 23 & 24) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Name Day Overture, Op. 115
Friday
Mar 14
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.2721 (Beethoven: The Symphonies) -
Alexander Scriabin
Waltz in F Minor, Op. 38
Friday
Mar 14
Bella Davidovich (piano)
Philips 412.742 (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Sonata - Scriabin: Sonata Fantasy) -
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Gustav III: Ballet Music
Friday
Mar 14
English Chamber Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 440.646 (Auber: Le Domino noir) -
Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto #1
Friday
Mar 14
Isabelle van Keulen (violin) | Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Philips 412.718 (Haydn & Mozart: Violin Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #8
Friday
Mar 14
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Sony 46670 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite #3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Friday
Mar 14
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 60276 (Bach: English Suites) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #14
Friday
Mar 14
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Prague Chamber Orchestra
Telarc 80242 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Friday
Mar 14
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi (conductor)
Telarc 80296 (Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 447
Friday
Mar 14
Max Pommer (conductor) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe)
Capriccio 10.116 (Vivaldi: Oboenkonzerte Vol. 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Friday
Mar 14
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
EMI 49737 (Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Flute Concerto, H. 435 in B-flat Major
Friday
Mar 14
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor)
CBS 44690 (C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Flute Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite #4 "Mozartiana"
Friday
Mar 14
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | The Philharmonia
Chandos 8777 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Percy Grainger
Children's March
Friday
Mar 14
Martin Jones (piano) | Richard McMahon (piano)
Nimbus 5286 (Garinger: Dished up for Piano, Vol. 5) -
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Friday
Mar 14
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
CBS 39438 (Wagner's Greatest Hits) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #1
Friday
Mar 14
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Delos 3185 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #38 "Prague"
Friday
Mar 14
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Erato 2292.45857 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31, 34, 35, 36, 38 & 41) -
Arthur Foote
Two Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 74: Canzonetta
Friday
Mar 14
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
Thomas Linley
Ode on the Witches & Fairies of Shakespeare: Overture
Friday
Mar 14
Musicians of the Globe | Philip Pickett (director)
Philips 446.689 (Linley Jr.: A Shakespeare Ode) -
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54: I. Allegro affettuoso
Friday
Mar 14
Howard Shelley (conductor) | Howard Shelley (piano) | Orchestra of Opera North
Chandos 10509 (Schumann, Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Symphony in G Major, B 130: I. Allegro assai
Friday
Mar 14
Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.550 (Pleyel: Symphonies in B-Flat and G) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": III. Scherzo. Molto vivace
Friday
Mar 14
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 414.421 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "New World") -
Giuseppe Tartini
Trumpet Concerto D Major
Friday
Mar 14
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Rolf Smedvig (trumpet) | Jahja Ling (conductor)
Telarc 80232 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20: I. Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco
Friday
Mar 14
Daniel Hope (violin) | Soloists of Chamber Orchestra Europe
DG 477.6634 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Octet & Songs) -
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie, Op. 3 #5: I. Allegro
Friday
Mar 14
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre
Archiv 474.550 (Mondonville: 6 Sonatas Op. 3) -
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto: I
Friday
Mar 14
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 410.021 (Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos) -
Germaine Tailleferre
Concertino: IV. Rondo
Friday
Mar 14
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Ambache Recordings 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 440 for Flute in A Minor
Friday
Mar 14
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) | Australian Chamber Orchestra | Richard Tognetti (conductor)
EMI 47212 (Vivaldi: Flute Concertos) -
Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride: Skocna (Dance of the Comedians)
Friday
Mar 14
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10518 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Sonata #272: III. Vivace
Friday
Mar 14
Verena Fischer (transverse flute) | Klaus-Dieter Brandt (baroque cello) | Léon Berben (harpsichord)
Naxos 557.805 (Quantz: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272 - 277) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
"On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Waltz
Friday
Mar 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #2 in D Major (HWV 397)
Friday
Mar 14
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #5 in B-flat Major, D 485: III. Menuetto. Allegro molto
Friday
Mar 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 76 #1 in G Major: I. Allegro con spirito
Friday
Mar 14
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Friday
Mar 14
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
CBS 39446 (Prokofiev's Greatest Hits) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet, K. 298 in A Major
Friday
Mar 14
Claire Guimond (flute) | Trio Sonnerie
Early Music 7754 (Mozart) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto (G. 481)
Friday
Mar 14
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6057 (Boccherini: Concerti per Violoncello Viol. 3) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Friday
Mar 14
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Sinfonia, G. 3
Friday
Mar 14
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Friday
Mar 14
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.873 (Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, "The Nutcracker") -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830
Friday
Mar 14
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.2163 (Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825 - 830) -
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Sentimental Romance #1
Friday
Mar 14
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Malmö Symphony Orchestra | Ulf Wallin (violin)
BIS 550 (Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor (original version), Sentimental Romances, Florez & Blanzefor) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #2
Friday
Mar 14
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor) | Horacio Gutierrez (piano)
Telarc 80197 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Haydn Variations, Op. 56a) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 364a in G Minor (Op. 1 #6)
Friday
Mar 14
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Thomas Dunhill
Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 20
Friday
Mar 14
Goldner String Quartet | Piers Lane (piano)
Hyperion 68296 (D'Erlanger; Dunhill: Piano Quintet) -
Bedřich Smetana
Hakon Jarl. Symphonic Poem after Oehlenschläger
Friday
Mar 14
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10413 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata, K 247 in C-sharp Minor
Friday
Mar 14
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Friday
Mar 14
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 423.665 (Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #36 "Linz"
Friday
Mar 14
English Baroque Soloists | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 422.419 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 32, 35 & 36) -
Niccolò Paganini
Cantabile
Friday
Mar 14
Joshua Bell (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
Decca 0002783 (The Romantic Violin) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:20 in C Minor
Friday
Mar 14
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Rebecca Clarke
Piano Trio
Friday
Mar 14
Neave Trio
Chandos 20139 (Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 104 in G Minor "La Notte"
Friday
Mar 14
La Serenissima | Adrian Chandler (conductor)
Avie 2218 (The French Connection 2)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Richard Strauss
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Friday
Mar 14
Vienna Boys Choir | Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Der Kaiser] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Die Kaiserin] | Reinhild Runkel [Die Amme] | Albert Dohmen [Der Geisterbote] | José van Dam (baritone) [Barak, der Färber] | Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Baraks Frau] | Sumi Jo [Die Stimme des Falken] | Robert Gambill [Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings] | Alzbieta Ardam [Eine Stimme von oben] | Eva Lind [Der Hüter der Schwelle] | Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Der Einäugige] | Hans Franzen [Der Einarmige] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Der Bucklige]
London 436.243 (Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten) -
Franz Schubert
Fierrabras: Act I, Duet. "O mög' auf froher Hoffnung Schwingen"
Friday
Mar 14
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] | Robert Gambill [Eginhard]
DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras) -
Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Act I
Friday
Mar 14
Orchestre National de France | Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] | Edita Gruberova [Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta] | Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Lindorf] | Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] | James Morris (bass) [Miracle] | Justino Diaz [Dapertutto] | Robert Gambill [Andrès] | Paul Crook [Cochenille/Pitichinaccio] | 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] | Paul Crook [Cochenille]
DG 427.682 (Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 41. Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Jesus, now be praised)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Charles Humphries (alto)
SDG 150 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 17) -
Ruggero Leoncavallo
La bohème: "Non parlate così...Io non ho che una povera stanzetta"
Friday
Mar 14
Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Bucharest Opera Orchestra | Mark Elder (conductor)
EMI 57627 (Nessun Dorma) -
George Frideric Handel
La Resurrezione (The Resurrection), HWV 47: Angel's aria. "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno (Be unbarred, you gates of Avernus)
Friday
Mar 14
Harry Bicket (conductor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert
Harmonia Mundi 90.7559 (Handel in Italy) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act II, Finale. "Tu?! Indietro! fuggi!!".
Friday
Mar 14
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello) -
Jules Massenet
Werther: Act I
Friday
Mar 14
London Symphony Orchestra | 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] | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, K 427: Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu
Friday
Mar 14
Harry Christophers (conductor) | Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Coro 16084 (Mozart: Mass in C Minor) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: Act V
Friday
Mar 14
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Roméo] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Juliette] | José van Dam (baritone) [Frère Laurent] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Stéphano] | Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Mercutio] | Alain Fondary [Capulet] | Claire Larcher [Gertrude] | Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Tybalt] | Guy Flechter [Benvolio] | Didier Henry [Pâris] | Till Fecnher [Grégorio] | Alain Vernhes [Le Duc] | Christophe Fel [Frère Jean] | Anne Constantin [Manuela] | Doris Lamprecht [Pepita] | Yann Beuron [Angelo] | Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
EMI 56123 (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette) -
Gaspare Spontini
La Vestale: Act I, Finale
Friday
Mar 14
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Licinius] | J. Patrick Raftery [Cinna] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Le Souveraine Pontife] | Aldo Bramante [Le chef des aruspices] | Silvestro Sammaritano [Un consul] | Karen Huffstodt [Julia] | Denyce Graves [La Grande Vestale]
Sony 66357 (Spontini: La Vestale) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 143. Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Praise the Lord, O my soul)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor)
SDG 150 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 17) -
Franz Schubert
Erlkönig, D 328
Friday
Mar 14
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0000049 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act I
Friday
Mar 14
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Carl Nielsen
Fem sange fra L.C. Nielsens skuespil 'Willemoes' (Five Songs from L.C. Nielsen's play 'Willemoes'): Havet omkring Danmark (Seas surrounding Denmark)
Friday
Mar 14
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir) -
George Frideric Handel
Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno, HWV 96: Chlori's recitative and aria. "Barbaro, tu non credi" (Barbarous man, you do not believe)
Friday
Mar 14
Harry Bicket (conductor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert
Harmonia Mundi 90.7559 (Handel in Italy) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms
Friday
Mar 14
London Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | English Bach Festival Chorus
CBS 44710 (Bernstein, Stravinsky) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: II. Gloria
Friday
Mar 14
RIAS Chamber Chorus | Mignon Dunn | Margarita Zimmermann | Bruno Beccaria (tenor) | Tom Krause | Kammerchors Ernst Senff | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
London 455.014 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Mass in C) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 190. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied! (Sing unto the Lord a new song!)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Daniel Taylor (alto)
SDG 137 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 16) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, K 427: Gloria: Quoniam
Friday
Mar 14
Harry Christophers (conductor) | Handel and Haydn Society of Boston | Gillian Keith (soprano) | Tove Dahlberg (mezzo-soprano) | Thomas Cooley (tenor)
Coro 16084 (Mozart: Mass in C Minor) -
Johannes Brahms
Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 #2 (Spiritual Lullaby)
Friday
Mar 14
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Daniel Hope (viola) | Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 0015312 (Hope) -
Gerald Finzi
Magnificat, Op. 36
Friday
Mar 14
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Alexander Hamilton (organ) | Stephen Layton (conductor)
Hyperion 68222 (Finzi: Choral Works) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc): Act I
Friday
Mar 14
London Symphony Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | Plácido Domingo [Carlo VII] | Montserrat Caballé [Giovanna] | Sherrill Milnes [Giacomo] | Keith Erwin [Delil] | Robert Lloyd [Talbot] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus [King's officers, villagers, people of Reims, French | English soldiers, blessed spirits, evil spirits, nobles, heralds, pages, young girls, marshals, deputies, knights | ladies, magistrates, halberdiers, guards of honor]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch: Gesegnet sie, durch den die Welt entstund (Blessed be He through whom the world arose)
Friday
Mar 14
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Jules Massenet
Werther: Act II
Friday
Mar 14
London Symphony Orchestra | 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] | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Gustav Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Friday
Mar 14
San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
SFS Media 60036 (Mahler: Lieder) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 28. Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende (Praise God! the year now draws to a close)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto)
SDG 137 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 16) -
Franz Liszt
Ihr Glocken von Marling
Friday
Mar 14
Hildegard Behrens (soprano) | Cord Garben (piano)
DG 419.240 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Memnon; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Der Schiffer; Sehnsucht; Der Jüngling am Bache (Memnon; Seaman's Song to the Dioscuri; The Boatman; Longing; The Youth by the Brook)
Friday
Mar 14
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1988 (Schubert: Sehnsucht) -
Leoš Janáček
The Cunning Little Vixen: Act II
Friday
Mar 14
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Forester] | Stephen Wallder [Cricket] | Shelley Nash [Caterpillar] | Robert Tear (tenor) [Mosquito/Schoolmaster] | Piers Lawrence [Frog] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Vixen Cub] | Gillian Knight [Forester's Wife/Owl] | Lillian Watson [Vixen Sharp-Ears] | Karen Shelby [Doganiere] | Fiona Dobie [Pepík] | Anna Lorimer [Frantík] | Mary King [Rooster/Jay] | Glenys Groves [Chief Hen] | Gwynne Howell [Badger/Priest] | John Dobson [Pásek] | Diana Montague (alto) [Fox] | Pat Purcell [Woodpecker] | Nicholas Folwell [Harasta] | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 54212 (Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen) -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die tote Stadt: Act III
Friday
Mar 14
Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Tölzer Knabenchor | René Kollo (tenor) [Paul] | Carol Neblett (soprano) [Marietta/Apparition of Marietta] | Benjamin Luxon (baritone) | Rose Wagemann (mezzo-soprano) [Brigitta] | Hermann Prey (baritone) [Fritz Kothner] | Gabriele Fuchs (soprano) [Juliette] | Patricia Clark (soprano) [Lucienne] | Anton de Ridder (tenor) | Willi Brokmeier (tenor) [Count Albert] | Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
RCA 7767 (Korngold: Die tote Stadt) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 122. Das neugeborne Kindelein (The newborn infant child)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Katharine Fuge (soprano)
SDG 137 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 16) -
Léo Delibes
Les Filles de Cadix
Friday
Mar 14
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
London 452.667 (Chant d'amour) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Zéphyre (Acte de ballet)
Friday
Mar 14
William Christie (conductor) | Les Arts Florissants | Chœur des Arts Florissants | Cappella Coloniensis des WDR | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Zéphyre] | Rebecca Ockenden (soprano) [Cloris | Sophie Decaudaveine (soprano) [Diane]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Lili Boulanger
Psalm 24
Friday
Mar 14
Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur | J. J. Grunenwald (organ) | Orchestre Lamoureux | Igor Markevitch (conductor)
Everest 9034 (Lili Boulanger: Du Fond de L'abime) -
Jules Massenet
Manon: Act III, Scene 1
Friday
Mar 14
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | 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
EMI 57005 (Massenet: Manon) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act IV, Willow Song and Ave Maria. "Piangea cantando nell'erma landa.Ave Maria"
Friday
Mar 14
Mirella Freni (soprano) | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 152. Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn (Tread the path of faith)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Gillian Keith (soprano)
SDG 137 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 16) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang, D 957: #3. Frühlingssehnsucht
Friday
Mar 14
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca 475.6011 (Beethoven & Schubert) -
Vincenzo Bellini
La Sonnambula: Act I, Scene 1
Friday
Mar 14
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Natalie Dessay [Armina] | Francesco Meli [Elvino] | Carlo Colombara [Il conte Rodolfo] | Sara Mingardo [Teresa] | Jaël Azzaretti [Lisa] | Paul Gay [Alessio] | Gordon Gietz [Un notaro]
Virgin 395138 (Bellini: La Sonnambula) -
Hugo Wolf
Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Allerschönste wiet und breit (You are the fairest far and wide)
Friday
Mar 14
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa Longa in C Major, K 262
Friday
Mar 14
Barbara Werner (alto) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Kammerorchester Mannheim
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Richard Wagner
Der fliegende Holländer: "Die Frist ist um"
Friday
Mar 14
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor)
DG 445.866 (Opera Arias) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 133. Ich freue mich in dir (I rejoice in Thee)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Robin Tyson (alto)
SDG 127 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 15) -
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana: "Intanto amici.Viva il vino spumeggiante"
Friday
Mar 14
Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | José Carreras (tenor) | Astrid Varnay (alto)
EMI 74971 (Opera Arias) -
Gioachino Rossini
La donna del lago: Aria. Tanti affetti (So many emotions)
Friday
Mar 14
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Sinfonia Varsovia | Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir
Naïve 5221 (Rossini) -
Claude Debussy
Les Elfes (The elves)
Friday
Mar 14
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Philippe Cassard (piano)
Virgin 750769 (Clair de Lune) -
Morten Lauridsen
Lux Aeterna
Friday
Mar 14
Master Chorale of Washington | Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra | Donald McCullough (conductor)
Master Chorale of Washington 0101A (Tour 2000) -
Vicente Martín y Soler
La Capricciosa Corretta: Act I, Scene 4, Aria. "La prima notte del martrimonio"
Friday
Mar 14
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Enrique Baquerizo (baritone) [Bonario]
Naïve 8887 (Martín y Soler: La Capricciosa Coretta) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: I. Kyrie
Friday
Mar 14
English Chamber Orchestra | Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) | Carol Vaness | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Hans Tschammer (bass) | Tallis Chamber Choir | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
EMI 49950 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
George Frideric Handel
Atalanta: Act I, Scene 3, Meleagro's aria. Lascia, ch'io parta solo (Let me leave by myself)
Friday
Mar 14
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Susanne Rydén [Meleagro]
Philharmonia Baroque 4 (Handel: Atalanta) -
Jules Massenet
Don Quichotte: Act IV
Friday
Mar 14
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] | José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] | Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] | Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] | Christian Papis [Rodriguez] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] | Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits]
EMI 54767 (Massenet: Don Quichotte) -
Franz Schubert
Alfonso und Estrella: "Schon wenn es beginnt zu tagen"
Friday
Mar 14
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Decca 0014132 (Mozart: Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner) -
Heinrich Schütz
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (How lovely are thy dwellings)
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Edmund Connolly (organ)
SDG 706 (Brahms: Requiem) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: VII. Libera me
Friday
Mar 14
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra | Ilva Ligabue (soprano) | Grace Bumbry | Sandor Konya (tenor) | Raffaele Arié (bass)
BBC 4144 (Verdi: Messa da Requiem) -
Georges Bizet
Les Pêcheurs de perles
Friday
Mar 14
Janine Micheau [Leïla] | Nicolai Gedda [Nadir] | Ernest Blanc [Zurga] | Jacques Mars [Nourabad] | Chours du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Pierre Dervaux (conductor)
EMI 69704 (Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles) -
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Se tu m'ami
Friday
Mar 14
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | György Fischer (piano)
London 436.267 (If You Love Me, 18th-Century Songs) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Magnificat, RV 610
Friday
Mar 14
Michael Chance (alto) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor) | Academy of Ancient Music | The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Sarah Fox (soprano) | Deborah Norman (soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Jonathan Lemalu (bass)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 215. Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Praise your good fortune)
Friday
Mar 14
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Paul Agnew (tenor) | Els Bongers (soprano)
Erato 0630.15562 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
L'Africaine: "Sur mes genoux" [Act II]
Friday
Mar 14
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Selika]
London 417.253 (Bel Canto Arias) -
Hector Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette: Finale
Friday
Mar 14
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) | Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano) | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)
Philips 454.454 (Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette) -
Jules Massenet
Don Quichotte: Act I
Friday
Mar 14
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] | José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] | Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] | Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] | Christian Papis [Rodriguez] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] | Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits]
EMI 54767 (Massenet: Don Quichotte) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, K 427: Credo: Sanctus
Friday
Mar 14
Harry Christophers (conductor) | Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Coro 16084 (Mozart: Mass in C Minor) -
Frederick Delius
A Mass of Life: Part II
Friday
Mar 14
Alan Opie (baritone) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezz-soprano) | Andrew Kennedy (tenor) | The Bach Choir | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | David Hill (conductor)
Naxos 572.861-62 (Delius: A Mass of Life, Prelude and Idyll) -
Carl Nielsen
En Snes danske Viser (A Score of Danish Songs): Nu er dagen fuld af sang (Now the day is full of song)
Friday
Mar 14
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir)