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WETA Classical
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio #1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Thursday
Jan 23
Klaviertrio Amsterdam
Brilliant Classics 94039 (Mendelssohn: Piano Trios) -
Carl Stamitz
Concerto for 2 Clarinets B-flat Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Erwin Klein (clarinet) | Franz Klein (clarinet) | Urs Schneider (conductor)
Schwann 311.001 (Stamitz & Backofen: Clarinet Concertos) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Gadfly: Romance
Thursday
Jan 23
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Leonid Grin (conductor)
Capriccio 10.298 (Shostakovitch: Hamlet, The Gadfly) -
Johann Gottlieb Graun
Overture and Allegro in D Minor
Thursday
Jan 23
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.2132 (Frederick the Great) -
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
Thursday
Jan 23
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Joshua Bell (violin and conductor)
Sony 84200 (Joshua Bell: Bruch Scottish Fantasy) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Grand Serenade #1
Thursday
Jan 23
Consortium Classicum
Schwann 310.006 (Hummel: Serenaden & Serenades) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Thursday
Jan 23
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen
RCA 713066 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto B-flat Major (K. 191)
Thursday
Jan 23
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Marc Vallon (bassoon)
Erato 4509.91724 (Mozart: Concertos for Flute & Harp, Bassoon, Oboe) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto #1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Thursday
Jan 23
Krystian Zimerman (piano) | Polish Festival Orchestra | Krystian Zimerman (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Trumpet Concerto D Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Rolf Smedvig (trumpet) | Jahja Ling (conductor)
Telarc 80227 (Virtuoso Trumpet) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite #6 in E Major, BWV 817
Thursday
Jan 23
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #2
Thursday
Jan 23
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Teldec 4509.91184 (Schubert: The Symphonies) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings
Thursday
Jan 23
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 400.020 (Dvořák: Serenades Op. 22 & 24) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #95
Thursday
Jan 23
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra
RCA 68426 (Haydn: The London Symphonies Nos. 95, 97 & 101) -
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János: Intermezzo
Thursday
Jan 23
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor) | Toni Koves-Steiner (cimbalom)
CBS 38527 (Prokofiev: Lt. Kijé Suite) -
Gabriel Fauré
Dolly
Thursday
Jan 23
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Boston Symphony Orchestra
DG 423.089 (Faure: Pelleas et Melisande, Dolly) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia, RV 131
Thursday
Jan 23
Cologne Concert
Capriccio 10.304 (Vivaldi: Concerti "La Tempesta di Mare" & "La Notte") -
Benjamin Godard
Piano Trio, Op. 72 in F Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Trio Parnassus
MDG 303.1615 (Godard: Piano Trios) -
John Playford
Dancing Master: Prince Rupert March, Masco
Thursday
Jan 23
Les Witches
Alpha 502 (Nobody's Jig) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture for Wind Instruments, Op. 24 {edit}
Thursday
Jan 23
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet in G Minor, K 478: I. Allegro
Thursday
Jan 23
Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Emerson String Quartet members
DG 483.6574 (The New York Concert) -
Adolf Schulz-Evler
Arabesques on Johann Strauss's "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"
Thursday
Jan 23
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #4 in F Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7415 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #1 in G Minor: III. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
Thursday
Jan 23
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Flute Concerto, H. 435 in B-flat Major: III. Allegro assai
Thursday
Jan 23
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor)
CBS 44690 (C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Flute Concertos) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35: IV. Festival at Baghdad
Thursday
Jan 23
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | London Philharmonic
LPO 0117 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: R Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade) -
Johann Christian Bach
Overture #1 in D Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures) -
Johannes Brahms
Cello Sonata #2 in F Major, Op. 99: III. Allegro passionato
Thursday
Jan 23
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) | Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Orfeo 979.201 (Johannes Brahms: The Cello Sonatas) -
François Couperin
Les Baricades Misterieuses (Ordre 6, #5)
Thursday
Jan 23
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 80693 (Air on a G String) -
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence #1
Thursday
Jan 23
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8834 (R. Strauss: Macbeth, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Serenade in D Major, Op. 25: I. Entrada. Allegro
Thursday
Jan 23
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) | Daishin Kashimoto (violin) | Amihai Grosz (viola)
Warner Classics 51397 (Emmanuel Pahud: Beethoven) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #2: III
Thursday
Jan 23
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor) | Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Virgin 91202 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite for 2 Horns F Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor) | Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dance #1
Thursday
Jan 23
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8524 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1055
Thursday
Jan 23
Rob Visser (oboe d'amore) | Amsterdam Bach Soloists
Brilliant Classics 93102.9 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Poisoned Kiss Overture
Thursday
Jan 23
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | George Hurst (conductor)
Chandos 8432 (Music of Elgar & Vaughan Williams) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 400 for Cello in C Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Han-Na Chang (cello) | London Chamber Orchestra | Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
EMI 34791 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #21
Thursday
Jan 23
Salzburg Mozarteum Academic Camerata | Géza Anda (piano)
DG 447.436 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 17 & 21) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Trio, Op. 65 in G Major
Thursday
Jan 23
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 446.077 (Hummel: Piano Trios) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto, RV 497 in A Minor: III. Allegro
Thursday
Jan 23
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Onda Armonica | Sergio Azzolini (conductor)
Naïve 30573 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto V) -
Bedřich Smetana
Richard III. Symphonic Poem after Shakespeare
Thursday
Jan 23
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10413 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Thursday
Jan 23
Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra | Viktoria Mullova (violin) | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 473.872 (Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos) -
George Onslow
Quintet in F Major, Op. 81: II. Scherzo. Energico
Thursday
Jan 23
Les Vents Français
Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique) -
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for 2 Organ Lyres #2 in G Major, Hob. VIIh:2 (arr. for flute & oboe)
Thursday
Jan 23
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor) | Pierre Pierlot (oboe)
CBS 39772 (Haydn: Concertos for Flute & Oboe) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #1
Thursday
Jan 23
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 427.602 (Brahms: 4 Symphonies, etc.) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Enchantress: Dance of the Histrions
Thursday
Jan 23
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky) -
Luigi Boccherini
Trio in D Major, Op. 2 #4
Thursday
Jan 23
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1621 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 1) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #3
Thursday
Jan 23
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8614 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, etc.) -
John Johnson
Chi Passa
Thursday
Jan 23
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #35 "Haffner"
Thursday
Jan 23
Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Philips 416.490 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31 & 35) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 44/3
Thursday
Jan 23
Melos Quartet
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Antonín Dvořák
From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68: #5. Silent Woods (arranged for solo cello and cello ensemble by Kian Soltani)
Thursday
Jan 23
Kian Soltani (cello) | Cellists of Berlin Staatskapelle
DG 483.6090 (Kian Soltani: Dvorak) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite #6 in D Minor, BWV 811
Thursday
Jan 23
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 60276 (Bach: English Suites) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto
Thursday
Jan 23
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Pinchas Zukerman (violin) | Pinchas Zukerman (conductor)
Philips 412.212 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto) -
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Les Amazones: Overture
Thursday
Jan 23
Les Siècles | François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2421 (Beethoven Symphony no. 3 'Eroica')
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Walter Braunfels
Te Deum, Op. 32: I. Te Deum laudamus
Thursday
Jan 23
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Manfred Honneck (conductor)
Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #15-16. Recitative and Aria. "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe das Wasser.Auf starkem Fittige schwinget sich"
Thursday
Jan 23
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Edith Mathis [Gabriel]
Philips 416.449 (Haydn: Die Schöpfung) -
Reinhard Keiser
Croesus: Act III, Conclusion
Thursday
Jan 23
RIAS Chamber Chorus | René Jacobs (alto) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Roman Trekel [Croesus] | Johannes Mannov [Cyrus] | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Elmira] | Werner Güra (tenor) [Atis] | Klaus Häger [Orsanes] | Markus Schäfer [Eliates] | Salomé Haller [Clerida] | Kwangchul Youn [Solon] | Graham Pushee [Halimacus] | Brigitte Eisenfeld [Trigesta] | Kurt Azesberger [Elcius] | Jörg Gottschick [Hauptmann] | Johanna Stojkovic [Nerillus] | Knabenchor Hannover
Harmonia Mundi 90.1714-16 (Keiser: Croesus) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Catone in Utica: Act II, Aria. "Doveva svenarti"
Thursday
Jan 23
Claudio Scimione (conductor) | Ernesto Palacio [Catone] | I Solist Veneti
Erato 88142 (Vivaldi: Catone in Utica) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus
Thursday
Jan 23
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | William Kendall (tenor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | Charlotte Margiono (soprano) | Catherine Robbin (alto) | Alastaire Miles (bass)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Act I
Thursday
Jan 23
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Il Duca di Mantova] | Vladimir Chernov [Rigoletto] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Gilda] | Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass) [Sparafucile] | Denyce Graves [Maddalena] | Jane Shaulis [Giovanna] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Il Conte di Monterone] | Dwayne Croft [Marullo] | Paul Groves [Borsa Matteo] | Yannis Yannissis [Il Conte di Ceprano] | Heidi Grant Murphy [La Contessa di Ceprano] | Robert Maher [Usciere di corte] | Elyssa Lindner [Paggio della Duchessa] | The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Cavalieri,Dame, Paggi, Alabardieri]
DG 447.064 (Verdi: Rigoletto) -
Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (A woman's love and life): Du Ring an meinem Finger (O ring on my finger)
Thursday
Jan 23
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #14. Der greise Kopf (The Grey Head)
Thursday
Jan 23
Werner Güra (tenor) | Christoph Berner (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2066 (Schubert: Die Winterreise) -
Léo Delibes
Lakmé: Bell Song. "Où va la jeune indoue"
Thursday
Jan 23
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Patrick Fournillier (conductor)
EMI 56159 (French Opera Arias) -
Salamone Rossi
Settings from "Hashirim asher lish'lomo" ("The Songs of Solomon")
Thursday
Jan 23
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: VIII. Fac ut portem Christi mortem (Make me bear the death of Christ)
Thursday
Jan 23
Edith Mathis | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 453.025 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Legends) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia
Thursday
Jan 23
Helen Watts (alto) | Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Robert Tear (tenor) | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | John Shirley-Quirk (bass) | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Argo 417.133 (Mozart: Requiem) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act II, Aria. Se l'inganno sortisce felice (Should I in this deceit be blessed)
Thursday
Jan 23
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 123. Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen (Dearest Emmanuel, Lord of the righteous)
Thursday
Jan 23
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Sally Bruce-Payne (alto)
SDG 174 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 18) -
Josquin des Prez
Missa Mater Patris
Thursday
Jan 23
The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips (director)
Gimell 052 (Josquin: Missa Mater Patris) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act I, Aria. "Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera"
Thursday
Jan 23
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet: Duet. "Do you not hear the nightingale?"
Thursday
Jan 23
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Suzanne Murphy (soprano) | Keith Lewis (tenor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8476 (Rachmaninov: The Bells, etc.) -
Jules Massenet
Le Cid: Act I, Scene 1
Thursday
Jan 23
Grace Bumbry [Chimene] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] | Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] | Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] | Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] | Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] | Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] | Jake Gardner [Le Roi] | Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] | John Adams [St. Jacques] | Byrne Camp Chorale | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler (conductor)
CBS 79300 (Massenet: Le Cid) -
Thomas Morley
It was a lover and his lass
Thursday
Jan 23
The Folger Consort | Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Bard 9207 (When Birds do Sing) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Der Jüngling und der Tod; Das Lied im Grünen; Wehmut; Ins stille Land; Der Herbstabend (The Youth and Death; Song of the Countryside; Melancholy; To the Land of Calm; Autumn Evening)
Thursday
Jan 23
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act I
Thursday
Jan 23
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Macbeth] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Banco] | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Anna Caterina Antonacci [Dama] | Veriano Luchetti [Macduff] | Antonio Barasorda [Malcolm] | Sergio Fontana [Medico] | Gianfranco Casarini [Servo] | Gastone Sarti [Sicario] | Giuseppe Morresi [Araldo] | Natale de Carolis [Prima apparizione] | Barbara Briscik [Seconda apparizione] | Marco Fanti [Terza apparizione] | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [Streghe, messaggeri del re, nobili e profughi scozzesi, sicari, soldati inglesi, bardi] | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
London 417.525 (Verdi: Macbeth) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Oni otvechali (They replied), Op. 21 #4
Thursday
Jan 23
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: VI. Fac me vere tecum flere (Make me truly weep with thee)
Thursday
Jan 23
Bavarian Radio Chorus | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 453.025 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Legends) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 131. Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee)
Thursday
Jan 23
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Kobie van Rensburg (tenor)
SDG 141 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 3) -
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly: Aria. "Un bel dì vedremo"
Thursday
Jan 23
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Jane Eaglen (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sony 89443 (Italian Opera Arias) -
Richard Wagner
Parsifal: Act III
Thursday
Jan 23
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | James Morris (bass) [Amfortas] | Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Titurel] | Kurt Moll [Gurnemanz] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Parsifal] | Ekkehard Wlaschiha [Klingsor] | Jessye Norman (soprano) [Kundry] | The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Knights of the Grail | Esquires | Flower Maidens | Voice from Above | Youths and Boys]
DG 437.501 (Wagner: Parsifal) -
Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (A woman's love and life): Ich kann's nich fassen, nicht glauben (I cannot grasp it, cannot believe it)
Thursday
Jan 23
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Catone in Utica: Act II, Aria. "Degli Elisi dal soggiorno"
Thursday
Jan 23
Claudio Scimione (conductor) | Lucrezia Lendi [Fulvio] | I Solist Veneti
Erato 88142 (Vivaldi: Catone in Utica) -
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere [Springtime]
Thursday
Jan 23
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | John Shirley-Quirk (bass) | Brighton Festival Chorus | Antal Dorati (conductor)
Decca 473.842 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Gioachino Rossini
L'italiana in Algeri: Act II, No. 10, Chorus, recitative and aria. "Viva il grande Kaimakan"; "Kaimakan!"; "Ho un gran peso sulla testa"
Thursday
Jan 23
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Mustafà] | Patrizia Pace [Elvira] | Anna Gonda [Zulma] | Alessandro Corbelli [Haly] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Lindoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella] | Enzo Dara [Taddeo]
DG 427.331 (Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La finta giardiniera: Act III
Thursday
Jan 23
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Thomas Moser [Don Anchise] | Edita Gruberova [La Marchesa Violante Onesti/Sandrina] | Uwe Heilmann [Il Contino Belfiore] | Charlotte Margiono [Arminda] | Monica Bacelli [Il Cavalier Ramiro] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Serpetta] | Anton Scharinger [Roberto/Nardo]
Teldec 9031.72309 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #21. Das Wirtshaus (The Inn)
Thursday
Jan 23
Werner Güra (tenor) | Christoph Berner (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2066 (Schubert: Die Winterreise) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act IV, Sleepwalking Scene. "Una macchia è qui tutt'ora"
Thursday
Jan 23
Birgit Nilsson (soprano) | Argeo Quadri (conductor) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Decca 475.6413 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Nr 56-68
Thursday
Jan 23
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | The Netherlands Bach Society | Julian Podger (tenor) | Gerd Türk (tenor) [Evangelist] | Peter Harvey (bass) [Christ] | Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano) | Tim Mead (alto) | Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano) | Matthew White (alto) | Sebastian Noack (bass)
Channel 32511 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina
Thursday
Jan 23
William Christie (conductor) | 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
Erato 8573.80233 (Handel: Alcina) -
Robert Schumann
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs), Op. 27
Thursday
Jan 23
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Fromental Halévy
La Juive: Act IV
Thursday
Jan 23
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] | Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] | June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] | René Massis [Ruggiero] | Renè Schirrer [Albert] | Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
Philips 420.190 (Halévy: La Juive) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act IV, Scene 7, Basilio's aria. "In quegl'anni, in cui val poco" (In those years when callow reason)
Thursday
Jan 23
Krystian Adam (tenor) [Don Basilio] | MusicAeterna | Teodor Currentzis (conductor)
Sony 370926 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Francesca da Rimini
Thursday
Jan 23
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Gennady Bezzubenkov (bass) [The Shade of Virgil] | Evgeny Akimov (tenor) [Dante] | Sergey Murzaev (baritone) [Lanceotto Malatesta] | Svetla Vassileva (soprano) [Francesca] | Misha Didyk (tenor) [Paolo] | BBC Singers [Spectres of Hell; the retinues of Malatesta and of the Cardinal]
Chandos 10442 (Francesca da Rimini) -
Gustav Holst
Hymn to the Waters (from Rig Veda)
Thursday
Jan 23
University of Washington Chorale | Giselle Wyers (conductor) | Sophie Baird-Daniel (harp) | Serena Chin (piano)
MSR Classics 1642 (Voice of Earth and Air, Vol. III) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Les Vèpres siciliennes: Act IV, Henri's aria. "C'est Guy de Montfort!...Ô jour de peine et de souffrance" (It is Guy Montfort!...O day of sorrow and suffering)
Thursday
Jan 23
Bryan Hymel (tenor) | PKF-Prague Philharmonia | Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)
Warner Classics 2564617950 (Héroïque) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 108. Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe (It is expedient for you that I go away)
Thursday
Jan 23
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Robin Tyson (alto)
SDG 107 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 24) -
Aaron Copland
The Tender Land: Act II
Thursday
Jan 23
Elisabeth Comeaux [Laurie] | Janis Hardy [Ma Moss] | Maria Jette [Beth] | LeRoy Lehr [Grandpa Moss] | Dan Dressen [Martin] | James Bohn [Top] | Vern Sutton [Mr Splinters] | Agnes Smuda [Mrs Splinters] | Merle Fristad [Mr Jenks] | Sue Herber [Mrs Jenks] | Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series, Minnesota | Philip Brunelle (conductor)
Virgin 91113 (Copland: The Tender Land) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Il pirata: Aria. Col sorriso d'innocenza (With the smile of innocence)
Thursday
Jan 23
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
EMI 31509 (Homage to Maria Callas)