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WETA Classical
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Symphony #3 in D Major, D 200
Franz Schubert
Sunday
May 22
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2154 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4) -
The Four Seasons: Spring
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
May 22
Joshua Bell (violin) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | John Constable (harpsichord)
Sony 88697-11013 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
God is gone up, Op. 27 #2
Gerald Finzi
Sunday
May 22
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Asher Oliver (organ) | Stephen Layton (conductor)
Hyperion 68222 (Finzi) -
Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11. Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Laud to God in All his Kingdoms)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Ann Monoyios (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Frederick Urrey (tenor) | Christòpheren Nomura (bass) | Bach Choir of Bethlehem | Bach Festival Orchestra | Greg Funfgeld (conductor)
Dorian 90306 (J.S. Bach: The Ascension Oratorio) -
Motet. Viri Galilei
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Sunday
May 22
Westminster Cathedral Choir | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66316 (Palestrina: Missa O Rex Gloriae) -
Cantata 43. Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen (God is gone up with a shout)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Catherine Patriasz (alto) | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) | Peter Kooij (bass) | Collegium Vocale Gent | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 901479 (J.S. Bach: Himmelfahrts-Oratorium) -
The head that once was crowned with thorns
Jeremiah Clarke
Sunday
May 22
Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Philip Ledger (conductor) | Thomas Trotter (organ)
EMI 65102 (Choral Evensong for Ascension Day) -
Psalm 24
Joseph Barnby
Sunday
May 22
Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Philip Ledger (conductor) | Thomas Trotter (organ)
EMI 65102 (Choral Evensong for Ascension Day) -
Introit. Alleluia, Ascendit Deus
William Byrd
Sunday
May 22
Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Philip Ledger (conductor) | Thomas Trotter (organ)
EMI 65102 (Choral Evensong for Ascension Day) -
Piano Concerto
Clara Wieck Schumann
Sunday
May 22
Veronica Jochum (piano) | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Joseph Silverstein (conductor)
Pro Arte 395 (C. Schumann: Piano Concerto) -
Semiramide: Overture
Antonio Salieri
Sunday
May 22
Philharmonia Orchestra | Pietro Spada (conductor)
ASV 955 (Salieri: Piano Concertos) -
Academic Festival Overture
Johannes Brahms
Sunday
May 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80155 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Academic Festival Overture) -
Concerto, K. 313
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
James Galway (flute) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
RCA 7861 (James Galway Plays Mozart) -
Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sunday
May 22
Daniil Trifonov (piano) | Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Consecration of the House Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer (conductor)
EMI 47190 (Beethoven: Overtures) -
Oboe Concerto #3
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
Annette Berryman (oboe) | La Ricordanza
MDG 505.1381 (Foreign Insult) -
Piano Concerto #1
Franz Liszt
Sunday
May 22
Claudio Arrau (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 416.461 (Liszt: The Piano Concertos, 3 Etudes de concert) -
Suite D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sunday
May 22
Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | Leipzig New Bach Collegium Musicum | Max Pommer (conductor)
Capriccio 10.055 (Trompetenkonzerte des Barock) -
Clarinet Concerto #2 B-flat Major
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Sunday
May 22
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | South German Chamber Orchestra | Sebastian Tewinkel (conductor)
CPO 777.241 (Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos) -
Trio Sonata, BWV 1038 in G Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Jed Wentz (flute) | Igor Ruhadze (violin) | Michael Borgstede (harpsichord) | Job ter Haar (cello)
Brilliant 93814 (Bach Complete Chamber Music for Flute) -
Piano Trio #2 in F Major, Op. 80
Robert Schumann
Sunday
May 22
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Christian Tetzlaff (violin) | Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
EMI 94180 (Schumann: Piano Trios) -
Symphony #36 "Linz"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 422.419 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 32, 35 & 36) -
Sinfonia with Trumpet and Violin, G. 16
Giuseppe Torelli
Sunday
May 22
Thomas Hammes (trumpet) | European Chamber Soloists | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Blue Danube
Johann Strauss II
Sunday
May 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony Classical 45808 (News Year's Concert 1990) -
Symphony #95
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
May 22
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5216 (Haydn: Symphonies 93 & 95) -
Faust Ballet Music
Charles Gounod
Sunday
May 22
Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Charles Dutoit (conductor)
London 411.708 (Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Gounod: Faust (ballet)) -
Piano Sonata #12 in A-flat Major, Op. 26
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 412.575 (Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Symphony #3 "Scottish"
Felix Mendelssohn
Sunday
May 22
London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 415.353 (Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, Overtures) -
Suite española, Op. 47: #3. Sevilla
Isaac Albéniz
Sunday
May 22
Milos Karadaglic (guitar)
DG 0015579 (Mediterráneo) -
Skater's Waltz
Emil Waldteufel
Sunday
May 22
Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5264 (Waldteufel: The Skater's Waltz) -
Water Music: Excerpts
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor)
CPO 777.312 (Händel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks) -
Piano Concerto A Minor
Edvard Grieg
Sunday
May 22
Radu Lupu (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
London 414.432 (Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos) -
Concerto, BWV 1055
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Rob Visser (oboe d'amore) | Amsterdam Bach Soloists
Brilliant 93102/9 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Canon and Gigue
Johann Pachelbel
Sunday
May 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 416.386 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Pachelbel: Canon) -
Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Louise Farrenc
Sunday
May 22
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Flute Concerto, H. 431 in A Minor
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sunday
May 22
Konrad Hünteler (flute) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)
Warner Classics 463.492 (CPE Bach Collection) -
Violin Concerto #5 "Turkish"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) | Berlin Philharmonic | Wolfgang Schneiderhan (conductor)
DG 447.403 (Beethoven: Violin Concerto - Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5) -
Piano Trio, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Concerto, RV 531
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
May 22
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Jonathan Manson (cello) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)
Sony 90916 (Vivaldi's Cello) -
Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Jest from Vienna)
Robert Schumann
Sunday
May 22
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London 421.525 (Schumann: Carnaval, etc.) -
Flute Quartet, Op. 38 in G Major
Friedrich Ernst Fesca
Sunday
May 22
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.126 (Fesca: Flute Quartets) -
String Symphony #1 in C Major
Felix Mendelssohn
Sunday
May 22
English String Orchestra | William Boughton (conductor)
Nimbus 5141 (Mendelssohn: Complete String Symphonies, Vol. 1) -
Symphony #3 (Divertimento) in G Major
Michael Haydn
Sunday
May 22
Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.101 (Michael Haydn: Symphonies 1 - 3) -
Finlandia
Jean Sibelius
Sunday
May 22
New York Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
CBS 36718 (Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2) -
Symphony #90
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
May 22
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5269 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88, 90 & 92) -
Piano Trio #1 in B-flat Major, D 898
Franz Schubert
Sunday
May 22
Klaviertrio Amsterdam
Brilliant 93798 (Schubert: Piano Trios) -
Tancredi: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
May 22
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Jaime Laredo (conductor)
Nimbus 5078 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Oboe Concerto (D Minor)
Tomaso Albinoni
Sunday
May 22
David Reichenberg (oboe) | English Concert | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 415.518 (Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue) -
Spartacus Suite #3
Aram Khachaturian
Sunday
May 22
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
Chandos 8927 (Khachaturian: Ballet Suites 1 - 3) -
Symphony #40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 413.776 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 40) -
Concerto, RV 178
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
May 22
I Musici
Philips 422.386 (Vivaldi: 6 Concertos, Op. 8 Nos 7 - 12) -
King Manfred: Romance
Carl Reinecke
Sunday
May 22
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Piano Sonata #6 in F Major, Op. 10 #2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Violin Sonata in G Minor "Devil's Trill"
Giuseppe Tartini
Sunday
May 22
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin and conductor) | Trondheim Soloists
DG 463.259 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Les Sylphides
Frédéric Chopin
Sunday
May 22
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Heinz Fricke (conductor)
Capriccio 10.073 (Delibes: Copélia - Chopin: Les Sylphides) -
Water Music Suite #3
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Argo 414.596 (Handel: Fireworks/Water Music) -
Piano Trio #3
Antonín Dvorák
Sunday
May 22
Trio Fontenay
Teldec 9031-76458 (Dvorák: Piano Trios) -
Concerto grosso in B-flat Major, SC 57: I. Allegro
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Sunday
May 22
Richard Stone (lute) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
Robert Schumann
Sunday
May 22
Emanuel Ax (piano) | Cleveland Quartet
RCA 6498 (Schumann: Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 44, Quartet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 47) -
Symphony #1
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Sunday
May 22
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
MusicMasters 7062 (J. C. F. Bach: Four Early Symphonies) -
Ancient Airs and Dances Suite #3
Ottorino Respighi
Sunday
May 22
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra | Jesus Lopez-Cobos (conductor)
Telarc 80309 (Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Trittico Botticelliano) -
English Suite #3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 421.640 (Bach: English Suites BWV 806-11) -
Meistersinger: Dance of Apprentices/Procession
Richard Wagner
Sunday
May 22
Halle Orchestra | Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
EMI 64141 (Wagner: Overtures & Preludes) -
String Quartet #9 "Razumovsky"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Cleveland Quartet
Telarc 80268 (Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 59, No. 2 and No. 3) -
Symphony #94 "Surprise"
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
May 22
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5200/4 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Camille Saint-Saëns
Sunday
May 22
Joshua Bell (violin) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
London 433.519 (Chausson: Poème - Massenet: Méditiation de Thaïs) -
Piano Concerto #14
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Concerto a due cori #3 in F Major
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 411.122 (Händel: Music for the Royal Fireworks) -
Symphony #3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sunday
May 22
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 410.231 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, Youth Symphony) -
Sinfonia, H 666 in G Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sunday
May 22
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Bernhard Forck (concertmaster)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2420 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss
Sunday
May 22
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] | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 436.243 (Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten) -
Ariodant: Act II, scene 6. Ina's melodarama, recitative and aria. "Quelle fureur barbare!...Mais, que dis-je?...Ô des amants le plus fidèle" (What barbarous fury!...What am I saying?...O, most faithful of lovers)
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Sunday
May 22
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Virgin Classics 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Le Cid: Act III, Scenes 2-4
Jules Massenet
Sunday
May 22
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) -
L'elisir d'amore: Act I, Scenes 1-3
Gaetano Donizetti
Sunday
May 22
Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Maometto Secondo: Act I, Scene 4
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
May 22
Samuel Ramey (bass) | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
Cantata, BWV 100. Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (What God does, is well done)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Malin Hartelius (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Unser Lieben Frauen, Bremen, Sep 28, 2000]
SDG 104 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 8) -
Agrippina: Act I, Scenes 1-5
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo] | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088.90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt [Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage]
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Quatre poèmes d'après l'intermezzo d'Heinrich Heine
Guy Ropartz
Sunday
May 22
Philippe Sly (bass/baritone) | Michael McMahon (piano)
Analekta 29836 (In Dreams) -
Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia: Magnificat
Alessandro Scarlatti
Sunday
May 22
Philharmonia Chorale | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Avie 0048 (Scarlatti: Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia) -
Les Huguenots: Act IV, Finale
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Sunday
May 22
Ghylaine Raphanel [Marguerite de Valois] | Françoise Pollet [Valentine] | Danielle Borst [Urbain] | Richard Leech (tenor) [Raoul de Nangis] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Le Comte de Nevers] | Boris Martinovic [Le Comte de Saint-Bris] | Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcel] | Jean-Luc Maurette [De Tavannes] | Christian Jean [De Cossé/Bois Roé/Un Moine] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [De Thoré] | Antoine Garcin [De Retz] | Herve Martin [De Meru/Un Moine/Un Archer] | Christian Boulay [Maurevert/Un Moine] | Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor)
Erato 2292-45027 (Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots) -
Exultet iam angelica turba
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sunday
May 22
The Sixteen | The Symphony of Harmony and Invention | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Decca 0004531 (Music for Inner Peace) -
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Aria. "Martern aller Arten"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
London 414.450 (The Art of the Prima Donna) -
Requiem, Op. 48: Pie Jesu
Gabriel Fauré
Sunday
May 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andreas Delfs (conductor)
Decca 0005193 (Sacred Songs) -
L'esule (The Exile) (orch. Luciano Berio)
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
May 22
Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi) -
Ottone in villa: Act I
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
May 22
Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio] | Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
Naive 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Missa quatuor vocum: Credo
Domenico Scarlatti
Sunday
May 22
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve/Opus 111 30248 (Scarlatti: Stabat Mater a dieci voci) -
Thésée: Act II
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Sunday
May 22
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Cantata, BWV 80. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A mighty fortress is our God)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Schlosskirche, Wittenberg, Oct 31, 2000]
SDG 110 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 10) -
La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61: #9. "L'hiver a cessé"
Gabriel Fauré
Sunday
May 22
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Julius Drake (piano) | Belcea Quartet | Leon Bosch (double bass)
EMI 57609 (Französische Lieder) -
L'elisir d'amore: Act I, Duet. "Caro elisir!...Esulti pur la barbara"
Gaetano Donizetti
Sunday
May 22
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Stephen Costello (tenor) | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Patrick Summers (conductor)
Warner Classics 633485 (Love Duets) -
Castor et Pollux (Tragédie en musique): Act V
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sunday
May 22
Jeanette Scovotti (soprano) [Télaïre, fille du Soleil (Telaira, daughter of the Sun)] | Norma Lerer (soprano) [Phébé, princesse de Sparte (Phoebe, Princess of Sparta)] | Zeger Vandersteene (tenor) [Castor, fils de Tindare (Castor, son of Tyndareus)] | Gérard Souzay (baritone) [Pollux, fils de Jupiter et de Léda (Pollux, son of Jupiter and Leda)] | Jacques Villisech (bass-baritone) [Jupiter] | Sven-Erik Alexandersson (tenor) [Le Gran-Pretre de Jupiter (The high priest of Jupiter) | Un Athlète] | Rold Leanderson (baritone) [Un Athlète] | Helga Reiter (soprano) [Une Suivante d'Hébé (A follower of Hebe)] | Märta Schéle (soprano) [Une Suivante d'Hébé (A follower of Hebe) | Une Ombre heureuse (A blessed spirit) | Une Planète (A planet)] | Stockholm Kammerkören [Athlètes, combattants et Spartiates | Prêtres de Jupiter (priests of Jupiter) | Plaisirs célestes | Démons | Ombres heureuses (blessed spirits) | Astres (stars) | Constellations, Planètes, Satellites | Les Dieux (gods)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Martha: Aria. "M'appari"
Friedrich von Flotow
Sunday
May 22
Marcelo Alvarez (tenor) | Staatskapelle Dresden | Marcello Viotti (conductor)
Sony Classical 92937 (The Tenor's Passion) -
Requiem, Op. 5: VI. Lacrymosa
Hector Berlioz
Sunday
May 22
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Robert Spano (conductor)
Telarc 80627 (Berlioz: Requiem) -
Serse (Xerxes): Act II, Aria. "Il core spera e teme"
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)] | Hanover Band | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Conifer 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Karita Mattila (soprano) | Sara Mingardo (contralto) | Michael Schade | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | Swedish Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 463.181 (Mozart: Requiem) -
La forza del destino: Act III, scena & Carlos' aria. "Morir! Tremenda cosa...Urna fatale del mio destino" (To die! A terrible thing!...Fateful draw of destiny...What if I could discover other proof?)
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
May 22
Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Gianluca Buratto (bass) | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Sony 373312 (Verdi) -
Cantata "Ombre tacite e sole"
Alessandro Scarlatti
Sunday
May 22
Matthew White (countertenor) | Les Voix Barouqes
Analekta 29904 (Scarlatti: Cantatas) -
Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Antonin Dvorák
Sunday
May 22
Dagmar Pecková (mezzo-soprano) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Peter Auty (tenor) | Peter Rose (bass) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
LPO 0062 (Dvorák: Stabat Mater) -
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (A woman's love and life)
Robert Schumann
Sunday
May 22
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naive 5159 (Schumann) -
Atalanta: Act III, Scenes 4-7
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
May 22
Dominique Labelle [Atalanta] | Susanne Rydén [Meleagro] | Cécile van de Sant [Irene] | Michael Slattery [Aminta] | Philip Cutlip [Nicandro] | Corey McKern [Mercurio] | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Philharmonia Baroque 4 (Handel: Atalanta) -
Mörike Lieder (26)
Hugo Wolf
Sunday
May 22
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Imogen Cooper (piano)
WH Live 0029 (Wolf Songs) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: II. Gloria
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Don Giovanni] | Matti Salminen (bass) [Commendatore/La Statua] | Carmela Remigio [Donna Anna] | Uwe Heilmann [Don Ottavio] | Soile Isokosi (soprano) [Donna Elvira] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Leporello] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Masetto] | Miti Trucato Pace [Zerlina] | Coro di Ferrara Musica | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 457.601 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Ein deutsches Requiem: 3. Herr, lehre doch mich
Johannes Brahms
Sunday
May 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Erato 4509-92856 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Cantata, BWV 47. Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden (For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Stephan Loges (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Allhelgonakyrkan, Lund, Oct 14, 2000]
SDG 159 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 9) -
Norma: "Casta diva"
Vincenzo Bellini
Sunday
May 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Voices | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Decca 0001024 (By Request) -
Rusalka: Song to the Moon ["Mesicku na nebi hlubokém"]
Antonin Dvorák
Sunday
May 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
Decca 0001024 (By Request) -
Don Pasquale: Act II
Gaetano Donizetti
Sunday
May 22
Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] | Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] | Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] | Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] | Henry Newman [Un Notaro] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Sarah Caldwell (conductor)
EMI 66030 (Donizetti: Don Pasquale) -
Thésée: Act I, Conclusion
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Sunday
May 22
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Liederkreis, Op. 39
Robert Schumann
Sunday
May 22
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naive 5159 (Schumann) -
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 [The Fair Miller-Maid]
Franz Schubert
Sunday
May 22
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 901995 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin) -
Messa da Requiem: I. Requiem & Kyrie
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
May 22
Ilva Ligabue (soprano) | Grace Bumbry | Sandor Konya (tenor) | Raffaele Arié (bass) | Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
BBC 4144 (Verdi: Messa da Requiem) -
Cantata, BWV 187. Es wartet alles auf dich (They all wait upon thee)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
May 22
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | RIchard Wyn Roberts (alto) | Stephan Loges (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: St Mary's, Haddington, Aug 5-6, 2000]
SDG 156 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 4) -
Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
Sunday
May 22
Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] | Boris Christoff [Prince Galitsky | Khan Konchak] | Todor Todorov [Vladimir] | Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] | Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] | Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] | Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] | Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] | Radka Gaeva [Nurse] | Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] | Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor)
EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor) -
L'Ipermestra: "Rendimi più sereno" (Pray calm those eyes)
Pasquale Cafaro
Sunday
May 22
Franco Fagioli (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Naive 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Triptyque, Op. 39
Charles Tournemire
Sunday
May 22
Michael Bundy (baritone) | Helen Crayford (piano)
Naxos 572.347 (Tournemire, Sagesse, Poème) -
Anna Bolena: Act II, Scene 1
Gaetano Donizetti
Sunday
May 22
Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Anna Bolena] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Enrico VIII] | Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Lord Riccardo Percy] | Susanne Mentzer [Giovanna Seymour] | Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Smeton] | Giorgio Surian [Lord Rochefort] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Sir Hervey] | Chorus of the Welsh National Opera [Cortigiani, dame, paggi, scudieri, cacciatori, sceriffi, guardie] | Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 421.096 (Donizetti: Anna Bolena) -
Requiem, Op. 5: IX. Sanctus
Hector Berlioz
Sunday
May 22
Ronald Dowd (tenor) | London Symphony Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 416.283 (Berlioz: Requiem) -
Thésée: Prologue
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Sunday
May 22
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Missa in C Major, K 167 "Trinity Mass"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
May 22
Chamber Choir of Europe | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Camerata Würzburg | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Panis angelicus
César Franck
Sunday
May 22
The Boys of King's College Choir, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57812 (Heavenly Voices) -
Don Carlo: Act IV, Death of Rodrigo. "Son io, mio Carlo...Per me giunto è il dì supremo...Che parli tu di morte?" (Carlo, it is I...For me, the final day has come...Why are you talking of death?)
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
May 22
Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Aquiles Machado (tenor) | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Sony 373312 (Verdi) -
Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Part 1. Excerpts from Les Indes Galantes, Pigmalion, Les Paladins, Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sunday
May 22
Sabine Devieilhe (soiprano) | Aimery Lefèvre (baritone) | Le Jeune Chœur de Paris | Les Ambassadeurs | Alexis Kossenko (conductor)
Erato 34149 (Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour) -
Leonore: Act III, Finale
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
May 22
Marlis Petersen (soprano) [Leonore] | Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) [Florestan] | Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass) [Rocco] | Robin Johannsen (soprano) [Marzelline] | Johannes Weisser (bass) [Don Pizarro] | Tareq Nazmi (bass) [Don Fernando] | Johannes Chum (tenor) [Jaquino] | Zürcher Sing-Akademie | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 902414.15 (Beethoven: Leonore) -
Missa Mirabiles elationes maris: Sanctus; Agnus Dei
Francesco Beretta
Sunday
May 22
Ensemble Correspondances | Sébastien Daucé (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 902640 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe a quatre choeurs) -
La Cenerentola: Act II Sextet. "Siete voi?"
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
May 22
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] | Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] | Simone Alaimo [Dandini] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] | Carol Malone [Clorinda] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] | John Del Carlo [Alidoro] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 420.468 (Rossini: La Cenerentola)