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PBS NewsHour
News
Thursday
Apr 22
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Notturno, Op. 12
Joseph Joachim
Thursday
Apr 22
Daniel Hope (violin) | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Sakari Oramo (conductor)
DG 0015312 (The Romantic Violinist, A Celebration of Joseph Joachim) -
Trio Sonata, BWV 1038 in G Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Jed Wentz (flute) | Igor Ruhadze (violin) | Michael Borgstede (harpsichord) | Job ter Haar (cello)
Brilliant 93814 (Bach Complete Chamber Music for Flute) -
Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 73
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Apr 22
Martin Ostertag (cello) | Kalle Randalu (piano)
MDG 304.1648 (Schumann: Chamber Music Vol. 2) -
Clarinet Quintet A Major: IV
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Eduard Brunner (clarinet) | Hagen Quartet
DG 419.600 (Mozart & Weber: Clarinet Quintets) -
Four Pieces, Op. 17: #4. Burleska
Josef Suk
Thursday
Apr 22
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Die Fledermaus: Overture
Johann Strauss II
Thursday
Apr 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
DG 400.040 (New Year's Concert) -
Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": III. Rondo. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 22
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8456.57 (Sonata) -
Symphony #98: IV. Finale
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 442.611 (Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. 1) -
Piano Quartet #1: IV-Rondo alla zingarese
Johannes Brahms
Thursday
Apr 22
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Isaac Stern (violin) | Jaime Laredo (viola) | Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 93927 (The Essential Yo-Yo Ma) -
Bassoon Concerto B-flat Major: III
Johann Christian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Jeremy Ward (bassoon) | Hanover Band | Anthony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.347 (J.C. Bach: Woodwind Concertos, Vol. 2) -
Symphonic Poem. Mephisto Waltz #1
Franz Liszt
Thursday
Apr 22
Paris Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
DG 001571102 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #4 in F Major
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 22
Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Sony 52553 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Trio in F Major, Op. 9 #3: II. Tempo di Minuetto
François-Joseph Gossec
Thursday
Apr 22
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 22
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures) -
The Four Seasons: Spring
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Fabio Biondi (violin) | Europa Galante
Virgin Classics 45465 (Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione) -
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Edvard Grieg
Thursday
Apr 22
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 57296 (Grieg: Lyric Pieces) -
Brandenburg Concerto #2
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 27: II. Allegro molto
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Thursday
Apr 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10589 (Rachmaninoff) -
Tales from Vienna Woods
Johann Strauss II
Thursday
Apr 22
Johann Strauss Orchestra | Willi Boskovsky (conductor)
EMI 47052 (J. Strauss II: Famous Waltzes) -
Piano Concerto #2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 22
Leon Fleisher (piano) | Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
CBS 42445 (Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos) -
1812 Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thursday
Apr 22
Oslo Philharmonic | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
EMI 49141 (Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, 1812, etc.) -
Cantata #42: Sinfonia
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Brandenburg Consort | Roy Goodman (conductor)
Hyperion 22002 (Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites) -
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53
Antonin Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 22
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Symphony #9
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5321 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 9, 12, 13 & 40) -
Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 22
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Zurich Sing-Akademie | Christiane Karg (soprano) | Sophie Harmsen (alto) | Werner Güra (tenor) | Florian Boesch (bass) | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 902431.32 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral") -
The Four Seasons: Spring: I
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Trondheim Soloists
DG 463.259 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Polonaise A-flat Major "Heroic" (Op. 53)
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Apr 22
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 460.614 (Chopin: Favourite Piano Works) -
Piano Concerto #21: I-Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Claude Debussy
Thursday
Apr 22
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Philips 416.444 (Debussy: Orchestral Works) -
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major, BWV 1050: I. Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Harmonia Mundi 90.1634-35 (Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte) -
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104: III. Finale. Allegro moderato
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 22
Gautier Capuçon (cello) | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 519035 (Dvorák & Herbert: Cello Concertos) -
Triumphal March #1 (H. 547 #1)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Thursday
Apr 22
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée) -
Festive Overture
Dmitri Shostakovich
Thursday
Apr 22
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Meditation from "Thais"
Jules Massenet
Thursday
Apr 22
Joshua Bell (violin) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
London 433.519 (Chausson: Poème - Massenet: Méditiation de Thaïs) -
Concerto, RV 151 "Alla Rustica"
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Rebel | Joerg-Michael Schwarz (conductor)
Bridge 9173 (Shades of Red) -
Aladdin Suite: Final Dance
Carl Nielsen
Thursday
Apr 22
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Swedish Radio Chorus | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
CBS 44934 (Nielsen: Symphony No. 2) -
Orchestral Suite #4 in D Major, BWV 1069: I. Ouverture
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77008 (Bach: Suites) -
Les Indes galantes: Danse des sauvages
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Apr 22
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 0004478 (Rameu: Une Symphonie Imaginaire) -
Bartered Bride: Skocna
Bedrich Smetana
Thursday
Apr 22
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
English Horn Concerto in C Major: III. Allegro assai
Joseph Fiala
Thursday
Apr 22
Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Kammerakademie Potsdam | Albrecht Mayer (conductor)
DG 479.2942 (Lost and Found) -
Karelia Suite, Op. 11: III. Alla marcia
Jean Sibelius
Thursday
Apr 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.727 (Grieg: "Holberg" Suite - Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite) -
Trumpet Sonata, G. 13
Giuseppe Torelli
Thursday
Apr 22
Thomas Hammes (trumpet) | European Chamber Soloists | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Richard Wagner
Thursday
Apr 22
Philadelphia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 453.485 (Wagner: Preludes & Orchestra Music) -
Hungarian Dance #5 in G Minor
Johannes Brahms
Thursday
Apr 22
Steven and Stijn Kolacny (piano 4-hands)
Et'cetera 5250 (Brahms: Hungarian Dances) -
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thursday
Apr 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
EMI 47375 (Tchaikovsky: 1812, Francesca da Rimini) -
Cello Concerto, H. 436 in B-flat Major: III. Allegro assai
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Balázs Máté (cello) | Concerto Armonico
Hungaroton 31337 (C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos Nos. 1, 3 & 2) -
Etude, Op. 10 #4 in C-sharp Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Apr 22
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony Classical 61885 (Chopin: Études) -
Concerto, RV 190: III
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Giuliano Carmignola (violin) | Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor)
Archiv 0006504 (Vivaldi: Concertos) -
Russlan & Ludmilla: Overture
Mikhail Glinka
Thursday
Apr 22
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Sinfonies de Fanfares: Rondeau
Jean-Joseph Mouret
Thursday
Apr 22
Läubin Brothers (trumpets) | Simon Preston (organ)
DG 419.245 (Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound) -
Scherzo Tarantelle
Henryk Wieniawski
Thursday
Apr 22
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
EMI 49514 (Encores) -
Concerto G Major (S. 214 Venezia): I-Vivace
Johann David Heinichen
Thursday
Apr 22
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Cello Sonata #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 45: III. Allegro assai
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Apr 22
Steven Isserlis (cello) | Melvin Tan (fortepiano)
RCA 62553 (Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano) -
The Bells of St. Genevieve
Marin Marais
Thursday
Apr 22
Munich Pro Arte Orchestra | Kurt Redel (conductor)
Peters International PLE 044 (Marais: Bells of St. Geneviève) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 in F Major: II. Allegro
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 22
Guildhall String Ensemble | Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
RCA 7921 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 9 - 12) -
Sicilienne, Op. 78
Gabriel Fauré
Thursday
Apr 22
Albrecht Mayer (oboe d'amore) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
English Suite #6 in D Minor, BWV 811: V. Gavottes I & II
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 60276 (Bach: English Suites) -
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #1
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 22
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi (conductor)
Telarc 80497 (Dvorák: Slavaonic Dances, Op. 46 & Op. 72) -
The Elements: Caprice & Tambourins
Jean-Féry Rebel
Thursday
Apr 22
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 445.824 (Rebel: Les Elemens - Gluck: Alessandro) -
Gaite parisienne: #2-3
Jacques Offenbach
Thursday
Apr 22
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80294 (Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Ibert: Divertissement) -
Banquet Music, Part 2: Suite: IV-Presto
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 22
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Hary Janos: Intermezzo
Zoltán Kodály
Thursday
Apr 22
Toni Koves-Steiner (cimbalom) | Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
CBS 38527 (Prokofiev: Lt. Kijé Suite) -
Gustav III: Galop
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Thursday
Apr 22
English Chamber Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 440.646 (Auber: Le Domino Noir) -
Oboe Concerto (D Minor): III-Allegro
Tomaso Albinoni
Thursday
Apr 22
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) | Peterborough String Orchestra
Helios 88014 (Five Italian Oboe Concertos) -
Festival Coronation March
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thursday
Apr 22
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
Chandos 8476 (Rachmaninov: The Bells, etc.) -
Sinfonia with Trumpet, G. 9
Giuseppe Torelli
Thursday
Apr 22
Thomas Hammes (trumpet) | European Chamber Soloists | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Mascarade Suite: Handedans
Johan Halvorsen
Thursday
Apr 22
Norwegian Radio Orchestra | Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
NKF 50033 (Halvorsen: Suite ancienne, Mascarade) -
Concerto after Scarlatti #3: IV
Charles Avison
Thursday
Apr 22
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Heroic Music
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 22
Michael Murray (organ) | Empire Brass
Telarc 80218 (Music for Organ, Brass & Percussion) -
Marche Lorraine
Louis Ganne
Thursday
Apr 22
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble | Elgar Howarth (conductor)
London 417.329 (Grand March) -
Les Surprises de l'Amour. Suite en Concert (The Surprises of Love. Concert Suite): Dances (XVII. - XXII.)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Apr 22
Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Erato 636.487 (Rameau - The Opera Collection) -
Humoresque, Op. 101 #7 (transcr. Fritz Kreisler)
Antonin Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 22
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Symphony #79
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 439.779 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 53, 73 & 79) -
Handel in the Strand
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Thursday
Apr 22
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Richard Montgomery (conductor)
Chandos 8377 (Music of Percy Grainger) -
Concerto, BWV 1059 in D Minor: I. Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Lucie Horsch (recorder) | Academy of Ancient Music | Bojan Cicic (conductor)
Decca 483.4722 (Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey) -
Vienna Three-Quarter Time
Johan Wagenaar
Thursday
Apr 22
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
London 425.833 (Wagenaar: Orchestral Works) -
Aufenthalt (after "Schwanengesang") (arr. Liszt)
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Apr 22
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 58420 (Schubert: Sonata in B-Flat, D960 - Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1) -
Violin Concerto #9 in G Minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 22
Iona Brown (violin) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 411.125 (Telemann: 5 Violin Concertos) -
Symphony #1
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Thursday
Apr 22
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Divertimento, K. 334
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 423.375 (Mozart: Divertimento K. 334, Serenata Notturna) -
Symphony #2
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Apr 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Concertante for Flute and Oboe in G Major
Domenico Cimarosa
Thursday
Apr 22
Aurele Nicolet (flute) | Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Kenneth Sillito (conductor)
Philips 416.359 (Salieri, Cimarosa & Stamitz: Double Concertos) -
Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Jest from Vienna)
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Apr 22
Arturo Michelangeli (piano)
DG 0007435 (Stein Way Legends, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) -
The Elements
Jean-Féry Rebel
Thursday
Apr 22
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 445.824 (Rebel: Les Elemens - Gluck: Alessandro) -
Piano Trio, Op. 97 in B-flat Major "Archduke"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 22
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Flute Concerto in C Major
King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Thursday
Apr 22
Patrick Gallois (flute) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Peter Schreier (conductor)
DG 439.895 (Flute Concertos from Sanssouci) -
Symphony #2
Johannes Brahms
Thursday
Apr 22
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 422.334 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Academic Festival Overture) -
Piano Concerto #14
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Violin Concerto #2 in D Minor, Op. 22
Henryk Wieniawski
Thursday
Apr 22
Joshua Bell (violin) | Cleveland Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 421.716 (Tchaikovsky & Wieniawski: Violin Concertos) -
Symphony #101 "Clock"
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5200/4 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Ballade #2 F Major
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Apr 22
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 423.090 (Chopin: 4 Ballades, Bracarolle, Fantasie)
VivaLaVoce
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Cantata, BWV 27. Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende? (Who knows how near is my end?)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Robin Tyson (alto) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Thomas Guthrie (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Santo Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Oct 7, 2000]
SDG 104 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 8) -
Hérodiade: Act II
Jules Massenet
Thursday
Apr 22
Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salomé] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Hérodiade] | Martine Olmeda [Une jeune Babylonienne] | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hérode] | José van Dam (baritone) [Phanuel] | Marcel Vanaud [Vitellius] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Grand Prêtre] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Une voix dans le temple] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 55378 (Massenet: Hérodiade) -
La traviata: "E strano . Ah, fors'è lui . Sempre libera"
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Apr 22
Anna Netrebko (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | Rolando Villazón [Alfredo Germont] | Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
DG 0005529 (Verdi: La Traviata) -
Elias (Elijah): Part II, Opening
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Apr 22
Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Chorus Musicus Köln | Das Neue Orchester | Christoph Spering (conductor)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Il re pastore: Act I, Duet. "Vanne, vanne a regnar, ben mio"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Lucia Popp [Elisa] | Reri Grist [Aminta] | Orchestra of Naples | Denis Vaughan (conductor)
RCA 50165 (Mozart: Il Re Pastore) -
Otello: Act II, No. 7, Vengeance Duet (Otello, Iago). "Non m'inganno: al mio rivale"
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 22
Michael Spyres (tenor) | Xabier Anduaga (tenor) | I Virtuosi Italiani | Corrado Rovaris (conductor)
Erato 52694 (Amici e Rivali) -
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Jake Heggie
Thursday
Apr 22
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #30. Duet. "Holde Gattin, dir zur Seite.Der tauende Morgen"
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Edith Mathis [Eva] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Adam] | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 416.449 (Haydn: Die Schöpfung) -
Don Pasquale: Act II, Opening
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
Apr 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) -
Andrea Chénier: Act IV
Umberto Giordano
Thursday
Apr 22
José Carreras (tenor) [Andrea Chénier] | Eva Marton [Maddalena di Coigny] | Giorgio Zancanaro [Carlo Gerard] | Tamara Takács [La Contessa di Coigny] | Tullio Pane [L'Incredibile] | Franco Federici [Jean-Antoine Roucher] | Gábor Vághelyi [Pietro Fleville] | Klára Takács [Bersi] | Istvan Rozsos [L'Abate] | József Gregor [Mathieu] | Éva Farkas [La Vecchia] | Kázmér Sárkány [Dumas] | Tamás Bátor [Antoine Fouquier-Tinville] | János Tóth [Schmidt] | József Moldvai [Maestro di Casa] | Chorus of the Hungarian State Radio and Television | Children's Choir of the Hungarian State Opera | Hungarian State Orchestra | Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)
CBS 42369 (Giordana: Andrea Chenier) -
Carmen: Act II, Don José's aria. "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée" (The flower you threw to me)
Georges Bizet
Thursday
Apr 22
Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Faust: Act III, Faust's cavatina. "Salut! demeure chaste et pure" (Greetings, chase and pure abode)
Charles Gounod
Thursday
Apr 22
Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
La verità in cimento: Act 1, scene 2, aria (Melindo). "Mi vuoi tradir, lo so" (You intend to deceive me, I know)
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 645452 (Venezia) -
Les Huguenots: Aria. "O beau pays de la Touraine!"
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Thursday
Apr 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) -
Mass in C Minor, K 427
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Gillian Keith (soprano) | Tove Dahlberg (mezzo-soprano) | Thomas Cooley (tenor) | Nathan Berg (bass-baritone) | Handel and Haydn Society of Boston | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro 16084 (Mozart: Mass in C Minor) -
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 57
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Apr 22
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'amours [The Court of Love]
Carl Orff
Thursday
Apr 22
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) | Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Harding (conductor)
DG 477.8778 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Messa da Requiem: III. Offertorio
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Apr 22
Julia Varady (soprano) | Felicity Palmer (soprano) | Keith Olsen | Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 56459 (Verdi: Messa da Requiem) -
Cantata, BWV 78. Jesu, der du meine Seele (Jesus, who has wrested my soul)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Malin Hartelius (soprano) | Robin Tyson (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: Abbaye d'Ambronay, Sep 24, 2000]
SDG 124 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 7) -
Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme: Aria. "Caldo sangue"
Alessandro Scarlatti
Thursday
Apr 22
Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Ismaele] | Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor)
DG 477. 8763 (Rosso) -
Partenope: Act I, Scenes 1-3
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 22
Rosemary Joshua (soprano) [Partenope] | Kurt Streit (tenor) [Emilio] | Stephen Wallace (counter-tenor) [Armindo] | Andrew Foster-Williams (bass) [Ormonte] | Hilary Summers (alto) [Rosmira] | Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) [Arsace] | Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Chandos 0719 (Handel: Partenope) -
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part I
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Anne Monoyios (soprano) [Gabriel] | Jörg Hering (tenor) [Uriel] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Raphael] | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor)
Sony Classical 57965 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Nitocri: Act 1, scene 3, aria (Mirteo). "Anche un misero arboscello" (Although a spindly sapling)
Giuseppe Sellitto
Thursday
Apr 22
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 645452 (Venezia) -
Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny)
Johannes Brahms
Thursday
Apr 22
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Philips 411.436 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
I Puritani: Aria. "O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave" (Oh, return my hope...Here his soft voice)
Vincenzo Bellini
Thursday
Apr 22
Olga Peretyatko (soprano) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Enrique Mazzola (conductor)
Sony 373.859 (Arabesque) -
Don Pasquale: Act I, Scene 2
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
Apr 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) -
"Anche in mezzo a perigliosa" (Even in the midst of a perilous)
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 645452 (Venezia) -
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra: Act II, Scene 13, Duet (Earl of Leicester, Duke of Norfolk). "Deh! Scusa i trasporti"
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 22
Lawrence Brownlee (tenor) | Michael Spyres (tenor) | I Virtuosi Italiani | Corrado Rovaris (conductor)
Erato 52694 (Amici e Rivali) -
Te Deum, Op. 32
Walter Braunfels
Thursday
Apr 22
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honneck (conductor)
Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum) -
Requiem, K. 626: VII-VIII. Agnus Dei and Communio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Argo 417.133 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 22
Lucia Popp | Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) | Mallory Walker (tenor) | Gwynne Howell | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 455.014 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Mass in C) -
Cendrillon: Aria. "Ah! que mes sours -- Reste au foyer, petit grillon"
Jules Massenet
Thursday
Apr 22
Magdalena Kozená | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
DG 0001302 (French Arias) -
Il trovatore: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Apr 22
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Ingvar Wixell [Il Conte di Luna] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Ferrando] | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Leonora] | Marilyn Horne [Azucena] | Graham Clark [Ruiz] | Norma Burrowes (soprano) [Ines] | Peter Knapp [Un vecchio zingaro] | Wynford Evans [Un messo] | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 417.137 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Don Gil de Alcalà: Habanera. "Todas las mañanitas" (Every morning)
Manuel Penella Moreno
Thursday
Apr 22
Corinne Winters (soprano) | Maya Lahyani (mezzo-soprano) | Oren Fader (guitar) | Steven Blier (piano)
GPR 70013 (Songs of Spain) -
I Thank You God for Most This Amazing Day
Eric Whitacre
Thursday
Apr 22
Elora Festival Singers | Noel Edison (conductor)
Naxos 559.677 (Whitacre: Choral Music) -
Myrthen, Op. 25
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Apr 22
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Cantata, BWV 35. Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Spirit and soul become confused)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Robin Tyson (alto) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Jakobskirche, Köthen, Sep 10, 2000]
SDG 134 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 6) -
Symphony #4 in G Major: IV. Sehr behaglich
Gustav Mahler
Thursday
Apr 22
Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Recorded live on May 8, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Elias (Elijah): Part I, Conclusion
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Apr 22
Das Neue Orchester | Chorus Musicus Köln | Christoph Spering (conductor) | Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Nacht und Träume, D 827
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Apr 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
London 455.294 (The Schubert Album) -
L'Olimpiade: Aria. "Siam navi all'onde algenti"
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Aminta] | Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor)
DG 477. 8763 (Rosso) -
Les Indes galantes (Opéra-ballet) [The Gallant Indies]: IV. Quatrième Entrée. Les Sauvages [The Savages]
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Apr 22
John Elwes (tenor) [Adario] | Louis Devos (tenor) [Damon] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Zima] | Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) [Don Alvar] | Ensemble vocal À Cœur Joie de Valence | Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Valence | Jean-François Paillard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Amadigi: Act I, Scenes 1-3
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 22
Nathalie Stutzmann [Amadigi di Gaula] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Oriana] | Eiddwen Harrhy [Melissa] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Dardano] | Bertin Pascal [Orgando] | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Erato 2292-45490 (Handel: Amadigi) -
Apollo et Hyacinthus: Act III
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 22
John Dickie [Oebalus, King of Lacedemonia] | Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger [Melia] | Arno Raunig [Hyacinthus] | Ralf Popken [Apollo] | Axel Köhler [Zephyrus] | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Leipzig Radio Orchestra | Max Pommer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Les Huguenots: Act I, Finale
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Thursday
Apr 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 [Marcellus] | 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) -
La donna del lago: Act II, Scenes 1 & 2, Trio (Uberto di Snowden, Rodrigo di Dhu, Elena). "Nume! Se a' miei sospiri...Qual pena in me già desta"
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 22
Lawrence Brownlee (tenor) | Michael Spyres (tenor) | Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano) | I Virtuosi Italiani | Corrado Rovaris (conductor)
Erato 52694 (Amici e Rivali) -
Don Carlo: Act IV
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Apr 22
Nicolai Ghiaurov [Philip II, King of Spain] | Carlo Bergonzi [Don Carlo] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Rodrigo] | Martti Talvela [The Grand Inquisitor] | Tugomir Franc [A Monk] | Renata Tebaldi [Elisabeth of Valois] | Grace Bumbry [Princess Eboli] | Jeannette Sinclair [Tebaldo] | Kenneth MacDonald [The Count of Lerma] | John Wakefield [A royal herald] | Joan Carlyle [A voice from on high] | The Royal Opera House Chorus [Flemish deputies, inquisitors, lords & ladies of the Spanish court, people, monks, officials of the Inquisition, grandees of Spain, huntsmen, pages, attendants, etc.] | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Sarah Fox (soprano) | Deborah Norman (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Jonathan Lemalu (bass) | Academy of Ancient Music | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Rusalka
Antonin Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 22
Renée Fleming [Rusalka] | Ben Heppner [The Prince] | Franz Hawlata [The Water goblin (Vodník)] | Dolora Zajick [Ježibaba] | Eva Urbanová [The foreign princess (Cizí knezna)] | Ivan Kusnher [The Gamekeeper (Hajný) | A Huntsman (Lovec)] | Zdena Kloubová [The Turnspit (Kuchtík)] | Lívia Aghová [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] | Dana Buresová [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] | Hana Minutillo [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] | The Kühn Mixed Choir [The Prince's entourage, Guests, Water nymphs] | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
London 460.568 (Dvorák: Rusalka) -
Il Corsaro: "Non so le tetre immagini"
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Apr 22
Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) | Philharmonia of Russia | Constantine Orbelian (conductor)
Delos 3404 (Radvanovsky sings Verdi) -
L'Orfeo: Act IV
Claudio Monteverdi
Thursday
Apr 22
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori | Coro di spiriti] | The English Baroque Soloists | His Majestie's Sagbutts & Cornetts | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo) -
Manon: Act III, Scene 1
Jules Massenet
Thursday
Apr 22
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Manon] | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] | Earle Patriarco [Lescaut] | José van Dam (baritone) [Le Comte des Grieux] | Gilles Ragon [Guillot de Morfontaine] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [De Brétigny] | Anna Maria Panzarella [Poussette] | Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano) [Javotte] | Susanne Schimmack [Rosette] | Nicolas Cavalllier [L'hôtelier] | Orchestre Symphonique et Chours de la Monnaie | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 57005 (Massenet: Manon) -
Maria Stuarda: Act I, No. 2, Scene and Cavatina. "Si, vuol di Francia il Rege.Ah, quando all'ara"."In tal giorno di contento"
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
Apr 22
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra] | Simone Alaimo [Lord Guglielmo Cecil] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Cantata, BWV 170. Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Contented rest, beloved inner joy)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 22
Michael Chance (alto) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: St Gumbertus, Ansbach, Jul 30, 2000]
SDG 156 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 4) -
Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Gustav Mahler
Thursday
Apr 22
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS 60036 (Mahler: Lieder) -
"A' piedi miei svenato" (You shall see your beloved)
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 22
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 645452 (Venezia) -
Die lustige Witwe: Dance & Vilja-Lied. "Ich bitte, hier jetzt zu verweilen.Es lebt' eine Vilja" [Act II]
Franz Lehár
Thursday
Apr 22
Felicity Lott (soprano) [Hanna Glawari] | The Glyndebourne Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 55152 (Lehár: Lustige Witwe) -
Poème de l'amour et de la mer: I. La Fleur des eaux
Ernest Chausson
Thursday
Apr 22
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Ariodante: Act I, Scenes 6-9
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 22
Denis Sedov [Il Re di Scozia] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Ariodante] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Ginevra] | Richard Croft [Lurcanio] | Ewa Podles [Polinesso] | Verónica Cangemi [Dalinda] | Luc Coadou [Odoardo] | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 457.271 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Adío querida (Farewell, my beloved) (Sephardic melody, arr. Manuel Garcia Morante)
Traditional
Thursday
Apr 22
Corinne Winters (soprano) | Steven Blier (piano)
GPR 70013 (Songs of Spain) -
L'isola disabitata: Act II, Finale
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 22
Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)
Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata)