This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical, WETA VivaLaVoce and WETA Virtuoso. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon a 7
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
There is no rose of such virtue
Monday
Dec 22
King's Singers
Signum Two 502 (King's Singers, Christmas) -
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Monday
Dec 22
Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 54902 (Carol Album 2) -
Elizabeth Poston
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Monday
Dec 22
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
Franz Biebl
Ave Maria
Monday
Dec 22
Cathedral Choral Society | Chanticleer
Private Recording -
Veni,veni, Emanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)
Monday
Dec 22
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Nowell, Nowell, Tydings Trew
Monday
Dec 22
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Jesse Blumberg (baritone) | Ensemble La Nef
Avie 2269 (Sacrum Mysterium) -
Michel Corrette
Noel Allemande
Monday
Dec 22
Aulos Ensemble
Musical Heritage Society 51340 (A Baroque Christmas) -
John Rutter
Candlelight Carol
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Shepherds, in the field abiding
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
A Christmas Medley
Monday
Dec 22
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Monday
Dec 22
Huddersfield Choral Society | John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band | Roy Newsome (conductor)
Chandos 8679 (Christmas Fantasy) -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: Swedish
Monday
Dec 22
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Monday
Dec 22
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Max Reger
The Virgin's Slumber Song
Monday
Dec 22
Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano) | Tedd Firth (piano)
Sono Luminus 70003 (Holiday Harmonies, Songs of Christmas) -
The Coventry Carol (Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child)
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Once in Royal David's City
Monday
Dec 22
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
Joy to the World
Monday
Dec 22
Eugene Ormandy (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus
RCA 6430 (Joy to the World) -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Monday
Dec 22
Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players
Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Chorus. "Hallelujah!"
Monday
Dec 22
Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra
Private Recording -
In the Bleak Midwinter
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Monday
Dec 22
Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)
Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas) -
Hans Leo Hassler
Canzon
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Monday
Dec 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 3. Chorus. "Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen" (Ruler of the heavens, hear our stammering tones)
Monday
Dec 22
Dresdner Philharmonie | Martin Flämig (conductor) | Dresdner Kreuzchor
Berlin Classics 1117 (Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen) -
Christmastide: Part 4
Monday
Dec 22
Jessye Norman (soprano) | New York Choral Society | American Boychoir | Robert DeCormier (conductor) | Empire Chamber Ensemble
Philips 420.180 (Christmastide) -
Quittez, pasteurs
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
I Saw Three Ships
Monday
Dec 22
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Sandra Simon (soprano)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
The First Nowell
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
Masters in this Hall
Monday
Dec 22
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Chinese Dance
Monday
Dec 22
Stewart Goodyear (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30040 (The Nutcracker) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Prokofiev "Troika"; O Little Town of Bethlehem
Monday
Dec 22
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
The Seven Joys of Mary
Monday
Dec 22
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 90.7325 (Wolcum Yule) -
Auld Lang Syne
Monday
Dec 22
The Frederick Chorale | Kiley Mead (soloist) | Heidi Ackerman (artistic director)
Private Recording -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air. "Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted"
Monday
Dec 22
John Aler (tenor) | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) | Toronto Symphony
EMI 49407 (Handel: Messiah, Highlights) -
What Child Is This?
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor) | Catrin Finch (harp)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 3. Duet. "Herr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen" (Lord, thy compassion, thy mercy)
Monday
Dec 22
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) | Klaus Häger (bass)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Silver Bells
Monday
Dec 22
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Monday
Dec 22
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Nicoletta Mezzini (organ) | Michele Mariotti (conductor) | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Decca 0014875 (Santo: Sacred Songs) -
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Monday
Dec 22
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Monday
Dec 22
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 63303 (The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein) -
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 106 (Christmas Night) -
Johann Crüger
Wie soll ich dich empfangen
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Monday
Dec 22
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | David Briggs (organ) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Monday
Dec 22
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Monday
Dec 22
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Here We Come A-wassailing
Monday
Dec 22
The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor)
d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas) -
Once in Royal David's City
Monday
Dec 22
Elora Festival Singers | Noel Edison (conductor) | Michael Bloss (organ)
Naxos 573.421 (The Wonder of Christmas) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Leontyne Price (soprano)
London 421.103 (Price: Christmas Songs) -
Michael Praetorius
He is Born Emmanuel
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Deck the Halls in 7/8
Monday
Dec 22
Children's Chorus of Washington | Margaret Nomura Clark (artistic director)
Private Recording -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Monday
Dec 22
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Michael Praetorius
How Brightly Shines the Morning Star
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
O du fröhliche! O du selige!
Monday
Dec 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Monday
Dec 22
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 4
Monday
Dec 22
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas) -
Samuel Scheidt
O Jesulein zart
Monday
Dec 22
Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Monday
Dec 22
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 111 (Christmas wih the Cambridge Singers) -
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen
Monday
Dec 22
Los Romeros
DG 477.9365 (Christmas with Los Romeros) -
Gabriel's Message
Monday
Dec 22
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Uns ist geborn ein Kindelein
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
The First Nowell
Monday
Dec 22
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | David Briggs (organ) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: French
Monday
Dec 22
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Monday
Dec 22
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Rejoice and Be Merry
Monday
Dec 22
J. Reilly Lewis (conductor) | Cathedral Choral Society | Eric Plutz (organ) | Washington Symphonic Brass
Gothic 49227 (Welcome All Wonders!) -
Reena Esmail
A Winter Breviary: 1. We Look for You
Monday
Dec 22
Washington Master Chorale | Thomas Colohan (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Deck the Hall
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Away in a Manger
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Monday
Dec 22
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Christmastide: Part 1
Monday
Dec 22
Jessye Norman (soprano) | New York Choral Society | American Boychoir | Robert DeCormier (conductor) | Empire Chamber Ensemble
Philips 420.180 (Christmastide) -
Pietro Yon
Gesu Bambino
Monday
Dec 22
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Christopher Parkening (guitar)
Sony 62723 (Angels' Glory) -
Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Tawels Nos (Silent Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor) | Catrin Finch (harp)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Once As I Remember
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 106 (Christmas Night) -
Joy to the World
Monday
Dec 22
Los Romeros
DG 477.9365 (Christmas with Los Romeros) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Monday
Dec 22
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
O du fröhliche! O du selige!
Monday
Dec 22
Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 54902 (Carol Album 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Russian Dance
Monday
Dec 22
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 1: Chorus. "Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage" (Rejoice, exult! arise, glorify the day)
Monday
Dec 22
Washington Bach Consort | Dana Marsh (conductor)
Private Recording -
Franz Biebl
Ave Maria
Monday
Dec 22
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar) | Peter Mattei (baritone)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Michael Praetorius
Jubilate Domino
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Monday
Dec 22
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Monday
Dec 22
The Galliard Brass
MusicMasters 67175 (Carols for Brass) -
A Feast of Carols
Monday
Dec 22
Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)
Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols) -
What Child Is This?
Monday
Dec 22
Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players
Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song) -
Away in a Manger
Monday
Dec 22
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
John Rutter
What Sweeter Music
Monday
Dec 22
Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor) | Jacqueline Kerrod (harp)
Seraphic Fire Media 14 (Candlelight Carols) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Monday
Dec 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Kiev Chamber Choir | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Dotcom 2013 (Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Here We Come A-Wassaling
Monday
Dec 22
The Choral Arts Society of Washington | Norman Scribner (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra
Choral Arts 10108 (There Shall a Star, Choral Jewels for Christmas) -
Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)
Monday
Dec 22
The Monteverdi Choir | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 462.050 (Once as I Remember) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Monday
Dec 22
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Jeff Tyzik
Holiday Moods Suite
Monday
Dec 22
Annapolis Chorale | J. Ernest Green (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Masters in this Hall
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Excerpts from Part I
Monday
Dec 22
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque
Telarc 80348 (Handel: Messiah, Highlights) -
Away in a Manger
Monday
Dec 22
London Cello Sound | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge | Geoffrey Simon (conductor) | Helen Swift (soprano)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
A la nanita nana
Monday
Dec 22
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
George Frideric Handel
March from "Joshua"
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Wassail! Wassail! All Over the Town
Monday
Dec 22
The Galliard Brass
MusicMasters 67175 (Carols for Brass) -
Personent hodie
Monday
Dec 22
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
Charles Villiers Stanford
Nunc Dimittis in C
Monday
Dec 22
Choir of The Church of the Epiphany | Jinsun Cho (conductor) | Monica Berney (organ) | Forrest Sonntag (trumpet) | Michael Barranco (timpani)
Private Recording -
In the Bleak Midwinter
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
I Saw Three Ships
Monday
Dec 22
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Trilogy for Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine | Robert Grogan (organ) | Leo Nestor (conductor)
VQR 2021 (A Child is Born, Christmas at the National Shrine) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Monday
Dec 22
Julian Wachner (conductor) | The Washington Chorus | National Capital Brass and Percussion
Dorian 92117 (Christmas with The Washington Chorus) -
César Franck
Panis angelicus
Monday
Dec 22
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Nicoletta Mezzini (organ) | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Decca 0014875 (Santo: Sacred Songs) -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Monday
Dec 22
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
A Christmas Medley
Monday
Dec 22
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Ensemble La Nef | Meredith Hall (soprano)
Avie 2269 (Sacrum Mysterium) -
La Marche des rois (The March of the Kings)
Monday
Dec 22
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Away in a Manger
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Pa Fab Yw Hwn? (What Child Is This?)
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor) | Catrin Finch (harp)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Felix Bernard
Winter Wonderland
Monday
Dec 22
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Monday
Dec 22
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
London Cello Sound | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Monday
Dec 22
Children's Chorus of Washington | Margaret Nomura Clark (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 111 (Christmas wih the Cambridge Singers) -
Rejoice and Be Merry
Monday
Dec 22
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 5. Chorus. "Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen" (Let thy glory be sung, God)
Monday
Dec 22
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor) | Netherlands Bach Society
Channel 20103 (Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248) -
A Maiden Most Gentle
Monday
Dec 22
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Good King Wenceslas
Monday
Dec 22
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 3
Monday
Dec 22
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas) -
Veni,veni, Emanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)
Monday
Dec 22
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 63303 (The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein) -
Mel Tormé
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)
Monday
Dec 22
Canadian Brass
CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas) -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Monday
Dec 22
Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor) | Jacqueline Kerrod (harp)
Seraphic Fire Media 14 (Candlelight Carols) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Monday
Dec 22
CORO 16188 (Carol of the Bells; The Sixteen) -
I Orwedd Mewn Preseb (Away in a Manger)
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor) | Nidus Children's Choir
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
William Billings
Methinks I see an Heav'nly Host
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Sarah Quartel
A Winter Day: 4th movement
Monday
Dec 22
Capitol Hill Chorale | John Moran (cello) | Raymond Rinaldo (piano) | Frederick A. Binkholder (conductor)
Private Recording -
Deck the Hall
Monday
Dec 22
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 121 (Christmas Day in the Morning) -
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Monday
Dec 22
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Peter Breiner (conductor)
Naxos 550.670 (Christmas Goes Baroque, Vol. 2) -
Here We Come A-Wassaling
Monday
Dec 22
Canadian Brass
CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Monday
Dec 22
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Monday
Dec 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Kiev Chamber Choir | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Dotcom 2013 (Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air & Chorus. Why do the nations so furiously rage together?; Let us break their bonds asunder
Monday
Dec 22
Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra | Steven Eddy (baritone)
Private Recording, 2024 -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Monday
Dec 22
London Cello Sound | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge | Geoffrey Simon (conductor) | Helen Swift (soprano) | Chris DIxon (bass) | Gabriella Dall'Olio (harp) | Rachel Gledhill (percussion)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: Latin
Monday
Dec 22
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
Awake, and join the cheerful choir
Monday
Dec 22
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 90.7325 (Wolcum Yule) -
In dulci jubilo
Monday
Dec 22
Washington Master Chorale | Thomas Colohan (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Cwsg, Cwsg, Cwsg (Still, still, still)
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Monday
Dec 22
Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)
Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Monday
Dec 22
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Telarc 80377 (Songs of Angels) -
A Feast of Carols
Monday
Dec 22
Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)
Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Monday
Dec 22
Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor)
Seraphic Fire Media 2011 (Silent Night) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Franz Schubert
Ave Maria, D 839
Monday
Dec 22
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Deck the Hall
Monday
Dec 22
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Joy to the World
Monday
Dec 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square | John Longhurst (organ)
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: March
Monday
Dec 22
Stewart Goodyear (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30040 (The Nutcracker) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Monday
Dec 22
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Monday
Dec 22
The Choral Arts Society of Washington | Norman Scribner (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra | J. Reilly Lewis (organ)
Choral Arts 10102 (Christmas with The Choral Arts Society of Washington) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Chorus. "For unto us a Child is born"
Monday
Dec 22
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque
Telarc 80348 (Handel: Messiah, Highlights) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake)
Monday
Dec 22
Washington Saxophone Quartet
Americus 2011.060 (Tis the Season) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata #1 in E-flat Major, BWV 525
Monday
Dec 22
Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord) | Thomas Demenga (cello)
Philips 422.328 (Bach: The Trio Sonatas) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto #1
Monday
Dec 22
London Symphony Orchestra | Han-Na Chang (cello) | Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
EMI 56126 (Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Fauré & Bruch) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K. 533
Monday
Dec 22
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 412.122 (Mozart: 2 Sonatas K.533/494 & K.545, Rondo K.511) -
All my heart this night rejoices
Monday
Dec 22
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 503 (Christmas Star) -
Maurice Ravel
Noble and Sentimental Waltzes
Monday
Dec 22
Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
EMI 66342 (Ravel: Ballet and Dance Music) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #1 in C Major, Op. 15
Monday
Dec 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Jan Lisiecki (piano) | Jan Lisiecki (conductor)
DG 483.7637 (Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Monday
Dec 22
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Caucasian Sketches Suite #2 "Iveria", Op. 42
Monday
Dec 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Arthur Fagen (conductor)
Naxos 553.405 (Ippolitov-Ivanov Orchestral Works) -
Niccolò Paganini
Violin Concerto #1 in D Major, Op. 6
Monday
Dec 22
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 429.786 (Paganini & Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Chorus. "For unto us a Child is born"
Monday
Dec 22
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro 16062 (Handel: Messiah) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio #27 C Major
Monday
Dec 22
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Dorian 90164 (Haydn Piano Trios) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #8 in G Major, Op. 88
Monday
Dec 22
London Symphony Orchestra | István Kertész (conductor)
Decca 475.7517 (Dvořák: Symphonies 8 & 9 "From The New World") -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Monday
Dec 22
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Franz Danzi
Flute Concerto #2 D Minor
Monday
Dec 22
Munich Chamber Orchestra | Andras Adorjan (flute) | Hans Stadlmair (conductor)
Orfeo 003.812 (Danzi: The 4 Flute Concertos) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Monday
Dec 22
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Alan Loveday (violin)
Decca 0006627 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
A wassail, a wassail throughout all this town!
Monday
Dec 22
Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices
Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #3 in D Major, D 200
Monday
Dec 22
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2154 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto #4
Monday
Dec 22
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Philippe Entremont (piano) | Toulouse Orchestra
CBS 45624 (Saint-Saëns: The 5 Piano Concertos) -
Angels from the Realms of Glory; Away in a Manger; O Christmas Tree; Deck the Hall
Monday
Dec 22
Canadian Brass
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass)
WETA VivaLaVoce
-
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 12. Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, wailing, fretting, fearing)
Monday
Dec 22
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | William Towers (alto) | Julian Clarkson (bass)
SDG 107 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 24) -
Franz Liszt
Des Tages laute Stimmen [Ferdinand von Saar]
Monday
Dec 22
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Ernest Chausson
Le Roi Arthus (King Arthur): Act III
Monday
Dec 22
Teresa Zylis-Gara [Guenièvre] | Gino Quilico (baritone) [Arthus] | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Lancelot] | Annick Massis [Mordred] | Gérard Friedmann [Lyonnel] | François Loup [Allan] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Merlin] | Thierry Dran [Un Laboureur] | Renè Schirrer [Un Chevalier] | Alexandre Laitter [Un Ecuyer] | Michel Focquenoy [Soldat] | Francis Dudziak [Soldat] | Renè Schirrer [Soldat] | Chours de Radio France [Soldat] | Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique [Chevaliers, Ecuyers, Pages, Bardes, Femmes de la suite de Guenièvre] | Armin Jordan (conductor)
Erato 88213 (Chausson: Le Roi Arthus) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Iolanta: Robert's aria. "Kto mozhet stavnitsa s Matil'da mojej" (Who can compare with my Mathilde)
Monday
Dec 22
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Nicola Porpora
Cantata #9. Recitative and aria. "Tomerò fra le gregge...Silvio amante disperato" (I shall return to my flock...Silvio, desperate lover)
Monday
Dec 22
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Salamone Rossi
Settings from "Hashirim asher lish'lomo" ("The Songs of Solomon")
Monday
Dec 22
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Psalm 109. Dixit Dominus (The Lord said)
Monday
Dec 22
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
George Frideric Handel
Rodelinda: Act I, Scenes 6-8
Monday
Dec 22
Sophie Danemann [Rodelinda] | Daniel Taylor [Bertarido] | Adrian Thompson [Grimoaldo] | Catherine Robbin [Eduige] | Robin Blaze [Unulfo] | Christopher Purves [Garibaldo] | Raglan Baroque Players | Nicholas Kraemer
Virgin 45277 (Handel: Rodelinda) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act II, Scene 1, Countess Almaviva's cavatina. "Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro" (Grant, love, that relief)
Monday
Dec 22
Simone Kermes (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] | MusicAeterna | Teodor Currentzis (conductor)
Sony 370926 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Claude Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis
Monday
Dec 22
Dawn Upshaw (soprano) | Gilbert Kallish (piano)
Nonesuch 79812 (Voices of Light) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: III. Herr, lehre doch mich (Lord, teach me)
Monday
Dec 22
Tom Krause | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Philips 411.436 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Act IV
Monday
Dec 22
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [King of Egypt] | Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [Amneris] | Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Aida] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Radamès] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Ramfis] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Amonasro] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Messenger]
DG 410.092 (Verdi: Aida) -
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Halka: Janusz's aria. "Pwena, jak wiatr wzdycha" (As sure as the wind sighs)
Monday
Dec 22
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Hector Berlioz
Herminie: #3. Air. Allegro impetuoso vivace
Monday
Dec 22
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Robert Schumann
Drei Gesänge (3 Airs), Op. 83
Monday
Dec 22
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Franz Schubert
Das Lied im Grünen, D 917 (Song of the Countryside)
Monday
Dec 22
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: Act I Finale. "Conciossiacosacché.Zitto, zitto.Parlar, pensar, vorrei"
Monday
Dec 22
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] | Simone Alaimo [Dandini] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] | Carol Malone [Clorinda] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] | John Del Carlo [Alidoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cenerentola (Angiolina)]
Philips 420.468 (Rossini: La Cenerentola) -
Antonín Dvořák
Three Male Choruses with Piano, B 76, Op. 43: I. Grief
Monday
Dec 22
Cantus | Timothy Cheek (piano) | Sonja Kaye Thompson (piano)
Cantus 1213 (Song of a Czech) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 199. Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (My heart swims in blood)
Monday
Dec 22
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music | Craig Smith (conductor)
Nonesuch 79692 (Bach: Cantatas, BWV 82 and 199) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La fille du régiment: Act II
Monday
Dec 22
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Marie] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Tonio] | Monica Sinclair [La marquise de Berkenfield] | Jules Bruyère [Hortensius] | Spiro Malas [Sulpice] | Eric Garrett [Le caporal] | Edith Coates [La duchesse de Crakentorp] | Alan Jones [Un paysan] | Omar Gorde [Un notaire]
London 414.520 (Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment) -
Carl Nielsen
Fire sange fra Ludvig Holsteins skuespil 'Tove' (Four Songs from Ludvig Holstein's play 'Tove'): Vi sletternes sønner har drømme i sind (We, sons of the plains carry dreams in our minds)
Monday
Dec 22
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act IV, Finale
Monday
Dec 22
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry [Count Almaviva] | Hillevi Martinpelto [Countess Almaviva] | Alison Hagley [Susanna] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Figaro] | Pamela Helen Stephen [Cherubino] | Susan McCulloch [Marcellina] | Carlos Feller [Bartolo] | Francis Egerton [Basilio] | Francis Egerton [Don Curzio] | Julian Clarkson [Antonio] | Constanze Backes [Barbarina] | Lucinda Houghton [Contadina] | Sarah Connolly [Contadina]
Archiv 439.871 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs (Opéra pour la paix [pastorale héroïque]): Act I
Monday
Dec 22
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) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Tullia's aria. "Due tiranni ho nel mio core" (Two tyrants have I in my heart)
Monday
Dec 22
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
George Frideric Handel
Cantata, HWV 96. Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno: Aria. Va col canto lusingando (With his flattering singing)
Monday
Dec 22
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471-72 (A Tribute) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Un giorno di regno: "Pietoso al lungo pianto alfin m'arride amore.Deh! lasciate a un'alma amante"
Monday
Dec 22
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Decca 0003136 (Great Tenor Arias) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act III
Monday
Dec 22
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Max Emanuel Cencic [Emperor Valentiniano III] | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia] | Sonia Prina [Ezio] | Mayuko Karasawa [Onoria] | Topi Lehtipuu [Massimo] | Julian Prégardien [Varo]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus a 10
Monday
Dec 22
Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew (conductor)
Virgin 70907 (Lamentazione) -
Richard Wagner
Götterdämmerung: Prologue and Act I
Monday
Dec 22
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] | Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] | Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] | Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Hagen] | Claire Watson [Gutrune] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Gunther] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute] | Lucia Popp [Woglinde] | Della Jones [Wellgunde] | Maureen Guy [Flosshilde] | Helen Watts (alto) [Erste Norn] | Grace Hoffman [Zweite Norn] | Anita Välkki [Dritte Norn]
London 414.115 (Wagner: Götterdämmerung) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39: In der Fremde (In a Foreign Land)
Monday
Dec 22
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal: Act II, Dom Sébastien's aria. "Seul sur la terre...Ange céleste" (Alone on earth...Angel of heaven)
Monday
Dec 22
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Monday
Dec 22
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Eva Mei (soprano) | Robert Holl (bass) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 9031.74884 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tsar's Bride: Act III
Monday
Dec 22
Gennady Bezzubenkov [Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin] | Marina Shaguch [Marfa] | Dmitri Hvorostovsky [Grigory Grigoryevich Gryaznoy] | Sergei Alexashkin [Grigory Lukyanovich Malyuta-Skuratov] | Evgeny Akimov [Ivan Sergeyevich Lykov] | Olga Borodina [Lyubasha] | Nikolai Gassiev [Yelisey Bomelius] | Irina Loskutova [Domna Ivanovna Saburova] | Olga Markova-Mikhailenko [Dunyasha] | Lyubov Sokolova [Petrovna] | Yuri Shkliar [Stoker] | Lyudmila Kasjanenko [Serving Girl] | Viktor Vikhrov [Lad] | Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg | Valery Gergiev (conductor) | Valery Gergiev
Philips 462.618 (Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act III, Scene 3, Polinesso's aria. "Dover, giustizia, amor" (Duty, justice, love)
Monday
Dec 22
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 623.177 (Heroes from the Shadows) -
Thomas Tallis
Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Monday
Dec 22
The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips (director)
Gimell 007 (Tallis: The Complete English Anthems) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt (For here we have no lasting place)
Monday
Dec 22
Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | Otto Klemperer
EMI 56218 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626
Monday
Dec 22
Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor) | Marina Ulewicz (soprano) | Barbara Hölzl (mezzo-soprano) | Jörg Hering (tenor)
Sony 60764 (Mozart: Requiem, K. 626) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette
Monday
Dec 22
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) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 51. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! (Praise unto God in all lands!)
Monday
Dec 22
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Malin Hartelius (soprano)
SDG 104 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 8) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: Act III
Monday
Dec 22
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) -
Amy Beach
Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37
Monday
Dec 22
Emma Kirkby (soprano) | James Lisney (piano)
BIS 1245 (Beach: Chanson d'amour) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen: Act I
Monday
Dec 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Agnes Baltsa [Carmen] | José Carreras [Don José] | José van Dam [Escamillo] | Katia Ricciarelli [Micaëla] | Christine Barbaux [Frasquita] | Jane Berbié [Marcellina] | Alexander Malta [Zuniga] | Mikael Melbye [Moralès] | Gino Quilico [Le Dancaïr] | Heinz Zednik [Le Remendado] | Michel Marinpouille [Andrès] | Chœur de l'Opéra de Paris
DG 410.088 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Yevgeniy Onegin (Eugene Onegin): Onegin's aria. "Uzhel' ta samaya Tatyana" (Can it be the same Tatyana?)
Monday
Dec 22
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act III, Nos. 16-17, Hymn of the dead woman & Prayer of the Scots. "Vedeste? Vedemmo. Oh truce apparato!"."Anna! Qui più sommessi"
Monday
Dec 22
Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy]
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Benjamin Britten
Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Monday
Dec 22
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Catherine Robbin (alto) | Monteverdi Choir | Alison Hagley (soprano) | Boy and Girl Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral
DG 453.433 (Britten: Spring Symphony) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang, D 957: #3. Frühlingssehnsucht
Monday
Dec 22
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca 475.6011 (Beethoven & Schubert)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Monday
Dec 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.508 (Richard Strauss) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude, Op. 3 #2 in C-Sharp Minor
Monday
Dec 22
Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano, as recreated by Zenph Studios)
RCA 748.971 (Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #2 in A Major, Op. 39
Monday
Dec 22
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Leoš Janáček
Glagolitic Mass
Monday
Dec 22
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Sergei Leiferkus (baritone) | Thomas Trotter (organ) | Natalia Troitskaya (soprano) | Eva Randova (mezzo-soprano) | Kaludi Kaludov (tenor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
London 436.211 (Leos Janacek) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #5 in G Major, BWV 829
Monday
Dec 22
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 411.732 (Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830) -
Howard Hanson
Symphony #2 "Romantic"
Monday
Dec 22
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
EMI 47850 (Hanson: Symphony No. 2 - Barber: Violin Concerto) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Scherzo. Allegro con brio
Monday
Dec 22
Hyperion 67381-2 (Vaugh Williams: The Early Chamber Music) -
Carl Reinecke
Symphony #3 in G Minor, Op. 227
Monday
Dec 22
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters"
Monday
Dec 22
Hagen Quartet
DG 427.669 (Janacek: String Quartets) -
Renaissance
Dances by Caroubel (Tk. 25-28)
Monday
Dec 22
Ulsamer Collegium
Archiv 415.294 (Renaissance and Early Baroque Dance Music) -
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Broadcast
Monday
Dec 22
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Richard Strauss
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64
Monday
Dec 22
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Philips 416.156 (Richard Strauss) -
Charles Ives
A Concord Symphony: The Alcotts
Monday
Dec 22
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Dora Pejačević
Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 26
Monday
Dec 22
Oliver Triendl (piano) | Andrej Bielow (violin)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Semyon Kotko: Suite from the Opera, Op. 81 bis
Monday
Dec 22
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8803 (Prokofiev) -
Eduard Schütt
Canzonetta, Op. 28 #2
Monday
Dec 22
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30017 (Grand Romance) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 376
Monday
Dec 22
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) | Clara Haskil (piano)
Philips 412.253 (Mozart: 4 Sonatas for Piano and Violin, K.301, 304, 376 & 378) -
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto
Monday
Dec 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Antonio Meneses (cello)
DG 410.603 (Brahms: Double Concerto, Tragic Overture) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 59 #1 in A Minor
Monday
Dec 22
Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 477.7483 (Frederic Chopin) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12
Monday
Dec 22
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto #2, Sz 112
Monday
Dec 22
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 459.639 (BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 2) -
Harold Shapero
Nine-Minute Overture
Monday
Dec 22
André Previn (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
New World 373 -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Monday
Dec 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Philips 432.996 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, In der Natur) -
Erik Satie
Gnossienne No. 5
Monday
Dec 22
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Louis Spohr
Violin Concerto #11
Monday
Dec 22
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Christian Froehlich (conductor) | Ulf Hoelscher (violin)
CPO 999.196 (Spohr: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 11) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 76 #1 in G Major
Monday
Dec 22
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude #5 in B-flat Major "Feux follets" (Will o' the wisps)
Monday
Dec 22
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 416.458 (Liszt: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante) -
Leoš Janáček
Capriccio
Monday
Dec 22
András Schiff (piano) | Musiktage Mondsee
London 440.312 (Janacek) -
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen (arranged for string septet by Rudolf Leopold)
Monday
Dec 22
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Gérard Caussé (viola) | Alois Posch (double bass) | Julia Hagen (cello) | Christoph Koncz (violin) | Veronika Hagen (viola) | Clemens Hagen (cello)
DG 4867082 (Richard Strauss: Renaud Capucon) -
Alexander Glazunov
Méditation in D Major, Op. 32
Monday
Dec 22
Russian National Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor) | Rachel Barton Pine (violin)
Warner Classics 4679465 (Glazunov: Complete Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #10 in G Major, Op. 14 #2
Monday
Dec 22
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Bridge 9207 (Beethoven: Sonatas, Vol. 3) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #15
Monday
Dec 22
Quatuor Sine Nomine
Erato 2292.45484 (Schubert: String Quartets D 94 & 887) -
Amy Beach
From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97: #3. Mignonette
Monday
Dec 22
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite #2 in D Minor, BWV 1008
Monday
Dec 22
Anner Bylsma (cello)
Sony 48047 (Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo) -
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Monday
Dec 22
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
RCA 60382 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Haydn Variations) -
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu #1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29
Monday
Dec 22
Bella Davidovich (piano)
Philips 411.427 (Chopin: Ballades, Impromputs) -
Claudio Monteverdi
The "Lost" Vespers (arr. Matthew Robertson)
Monday
Dec 22
The Thirteen | Matthew Robertson (conductor)
Acis 54148 (Monteverdi: The "Lost" Vespers) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 85 #1 in F Major
Monday
Dec 22
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht
Monday
Dec 22
English Chamber Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 410.111 (Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Sonata #2 in D Major, Op. 94a
Monday
Dec 22
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 431.803 (Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas, 5 Melodies) -
Adolph Martin Foerster
On the Sea
Monday
Dec 22
Malcolm Frager (piano)
New World 80206 (Edward MacDowell & Company) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintet for Piano and Winds
Monday
Dec 22
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Eduard Brunner (clarinet) | Hermann Baumann (horn) | Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
Philips 420.182 (Mozart & Beethoven: Quintets) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony #1
Monday
Dec 22
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi (conductor)
Telarc 80246 (Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & No. 5)