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Classical WETA
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Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall (conductor)
Alia Vox 9937 (Beethoven: Revolution. Symphonies Nos. 1 a 5) -
Serenade for Winds, K 361 "Gran Partita": IV. Menuetto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 902627 (Mozart: Gran Partita) -
Symphony #4 "Italian"
Felix Mendelssohn
Tuesday
May 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 415.353 (Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, Overtures) -
Orchestral Suite #1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
May 18
Ensemble Sonnerie | Monica Huggett (conductor)
Avie 2171 (Bach: Four Orchestral Suites) -
Overture in D Major "Italian" (D. 590)
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
May 18
Stockholm Sinfonietta | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
Bis 453 (Schubert: Symphonies 3 & 4 etc.) -
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Antonín Dvorák
Tuesday
May 18
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor)
Naxos 570.714 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 9) -
Violin Sonata, HWV 372 in A Major (Op. 1 #14)
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
May 18
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Artist's Life
Johann Strauss II
Tuesday
May 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
DG 477.5566 (New Year's Concert 2006) -
Sinfonia, H 650 in F Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Tuesday
May 18
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Bernhard Forck (concertmaster)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2420 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2) -
Piano Concerto #2
Frédéric Chopin
Tuesday
May 18
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Antal Dorati (conductor)
London 411.942 (Chopin & Schumann: Piano Concertos) -
Trio in D Major, Op. 2 #4
Luigi Boccherini
Tuesday
May 18
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1621 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 1) -
Rêverie
Claude Debussy
Tuesday
May 18
Lang Lang (piano)
DG 479.7528 (Lang Lang Piano Book) -
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tuesday
May 18
Daniel Lozakovich (violin) | National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia | Vladimir Spivakov (conductor)
DG 483.6086 (Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart) -
Leonore Overture #3, Op. 72a
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.2721 (Beethoven: The Symphonies) -
Piano Trio #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 33: IV. Finale. Vivace
Louise Farrenc
Tuesday
May 18
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Variations concertantes
Felix Mendelssohn
Tuesday
May 18
Steven Isserlis (cello) | Melvin Tan (fortepiano)
RCA 62553 (Mendelssohn: Works for Cello and Piano) -
Orchestral Suite #3: Overture
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
May 18
La Stravaganza | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Brilliant 93102/4 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Impromptu in E-flat Major (Op. 90 #2)
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
May 18
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 456.727 (Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Alfred Brendel) -
Serenade for Winds, K 361 "Gran Partita": I. Molto allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 902627 (Mozart: Gran Partita) -
Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence #1
Richard Strauss
Tuesday
May 18
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
Chandos 8834 (R. Strauss: Macbeth, etc.) -
Sonata in G Major, B. 37: I. Allegrino
Johann Christian Bach
Tuesday
May 18
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
The Planets: Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity
Gustav Holst
Tuesday
May 18
Royal Scottish National Orchestra | David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
Naxos 557.986 (Symphonic Spectaculars from ArkivMusic.com) -
Sinfonia, H. 663 in D Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Tuesday
May 18
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
Warner Classics 463.492 (CPE Bach Collection) -
Procession of the Nobles
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tuesday
May 18
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80115 (Orchestral Spectaculars) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #7 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
May 18
Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7228/29 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Amilcare Ponchielli
Tuesday
May 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10634 (The Italian Intermezzo) -
Septet "Military": IV
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Tuesday
May 18
Nash Ensemble
CRD 3390 (Hummel & Kreutzer) -
Symphony #8 in G Major, Op. 88: I. Allegro con brio
Antonín Dvorák
Tuesday
May 18
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor)
Naxos 572.112 (Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8) -
Concerto, RV 522
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
May 18
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Richard Wagner
Tuesday
May 18
Philadelphia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 453.485 (Wagner: Preludes & Orchestra Music) -
Characters of the Dance
Jean-Féry Rebel
Tuesday
May 18
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Musifrance 2292-45974 (Rebel: Les elemens, Les caracteres de la danse) -
Symphony #9 "Choral": II
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57445 (Beethoven: Symphonies) -
Alborada del Gracioso
Maurice Ravel
Tuesday
May 18
Suisse Romande Orchestra | Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
London 414.046 (Ravel: Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole, etc.) -
Piano Trio, Op. 11 in B-flat Major: I. Allegro con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Concerto #5 for Flute & Oboe
Joseph Haydn
Tuesday
May 18
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Pierre Pierlot (oboe) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | Janos Rolla (conductor)
CBS 39772 (Haydn: Concertos for Flute & Oboe) -
Piano Concerto #19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Maskarade: Overture
Carl Nielsen
Tuesday
May 18
San Francisco Symphony | Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
London 425.857 (Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.) -
Suite for 2 Horns F Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tuesday
May 18
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Symphony #6 "Pastoral"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 430.400 (Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies) -
Symphony #2
Thomas Augustine Arne
Tuesday
May 18
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8403 (Arne: Symphonies 1 - 4) -
Symphony #2
Camille Saint-Saëns
Tuesday
May 18
Ulster Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Chandos 8822 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies 2 & 3) -
Sonata for Harp & Violin in E-flat Major, Op. 113
Louis Spohr
Tuesday
May 18
Ursula Holliger (harp) | Thomas Füri (violin)
Jecklin 573 (Spohr: Sonaten für Harfe und Violine, etc.) -
Symphony #1 C Minor "Bells of Zlonice"
Antonín Dvorák
Tuesday
May 18
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
Chandos 8597 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Concerto, BWV 100/170/30 Oboe d'amore
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
May 18
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jean Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 9815 (Concerti Virtuosi) -
Ballade #1 G Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Tuesday
May 18
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 423.090 (Chopin: 4 Ballades, Bracarolle, Fantasie) -
Symphony #90
Joseph Haydn
Tuesday
May 18
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5269 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88, 90 & 92) -
Piano Concerto #3 in D Major, Op. 26
Johann Baptist Cramer
Tuesday
May 18
Howard Shelley (piano) | London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley (conductor)
Hyperion 68302 (The Classical Piano Concerto: Johann Baptist Cramer) -
Clarinet Concerto A Major (K. 622)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Karl Leister (clarinet) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 422.390 (Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Bassoon Concerto) -
Piano Sonata #16 in G Major, Op. 31 #1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Concerto, RV 242
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
May 18
Italian Soloists
Denon 1520 (Vivaldi: Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione, Vol. 2)
VivaLaVoce
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Cantata, BWV 28. Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende (Praise God! the year now draws to a close)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
May 18
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (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: St Bartholomew's, New York, Dec 31, 2000]
SDG 137 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 16) -
Maria Stuarda: Act III, finale
Gaetano Donizetti
Tuesday
May 18
Diana Damrau (soprano) [Maria] | Sara Rocchi (mezzo-soprano) [Anna] | Domenico Pellicola (tenor) [Leicester] | Andril Ganchuk (baritone) [Talbot] | Fabrizio Beggi (bass) [Cecil] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 52809 (Tudor Queens) -
Catone in Utica: Act II, Aria. "S'andrà senza pastore"
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
May 18
Susanna Rigacci [Arbace] | I Solist Veneti | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Erato 88142 (Vivaldi: Catone in Utica) -
How are the mighty fall'n
Robert Ramsey
Tuesday
May 18
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 807554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
La Cenerentola: Act II
Gioachino Rossini
Tuesday
May 18
Agnes Baltsa [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) -
Stiffelio: Act II
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
May 18
José Carreras [Stiffelio] | Sylvia Sass [Lina] | Matteo Managuerra [Stankar] | Ezio di Cesare [Raffaele] | Wladimor Ganzarolli [Jorg] | Thomas Moser [Federico] | Maria Venuti [Dorotea] | ORF Chorus [Friends of the Count, disciples of Stiffelio, Ahasuerian people] | ORF Symphony Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Alcina: Alcina's recitative and aria. "Ah Ruggiero crudel...Ombre pallide" (Ah, cruel Ruggerio...Pale shadows)
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
May 18
Karina Gauvin (soprano) | Arion Orchestre Baroque | Alexander Weimann (conductor)
ATMA Classique 2648 (Prima Donna) -
Historia di Jephte
Giacomo Carissimi
Tuesday
May 18
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Blonde] | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Belmonte] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Pedrillo] | Martti Talvela [Osmin] | Will Quadflieg [Selim] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Missa brevis in F Major, Hob XXII:1
Joseph Haydn
Tuesday
May 18
Ann Hoyt (soprano) | Julie Liston (soprano) | Richard Lippold (bass) | Trinity Choir | Rebel Baroque Orchestra | J. Owen Burdick (conductor)
Naxos 572.126 (Haydn: Missa brevis, Harmoniemesse) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
May 18
Carol Vaness | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) | Hans Tschammer (bass) | Tallis Chamber Choir | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
EMI 49950 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Motet. Vadam et circuibo (I will arise and go about)
Tómas Luis de Victoria
Tuesday
May 18
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 807489 (Song of Songs) -
Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 (Paradise and the Peri): Part 1
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
May 18
Barbara Bonney (soprano) [The Peri] | Alexandra Coku (soprano) [The Maiden | vocal quartet] | Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) [The Angel | mezzo-soprano solo | contralto solo | Christoph Prégardien (tenor) [tenor solo] | Neill Archer (tenor) [The Young Man | Gerald Finley (baritone) [The Man | baritone solo | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Gazna | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Semiramide: Serena i vaghi rai.Bel raggio lusinghier
Gioachino Rossini
Tuesday
May 18
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Semiramide] | Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice | Ion Marin (conductor)
London 436.075 (Rossini Heroines) -
Maria Stuarda: Act III, scene 8, duet (Anna, Maria, Chorus). "Deh! Tu di un'umile preghiera"
Gaetano Donizetti
Tuesday
May 18
Diana Damrau (soprano) [Maria] | Sara Rocchi (mezzo-soprano) [Anna] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 52809 (Tudor Queens) -
Cantata, BWV 210. Wedding Cantata. O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit (O lovely day, O hoped-for time)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
May 18
Elizabeth Futral (soprano) | Washington Bach Consort | J. Reilly Lewis (conductor)
Lyrichord 8069 (Bach: Solo Cantatas) -
Eleven Songs (from the album "In the Still of the Night")
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tuesday
May 18
Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 477.8867 (In the still of the night) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
May 18
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) -
Idomeneo: Act I
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Idomeneo] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Idamante] | Sylvia McNair [Ilia] | Hillevi Martinpelto [Elettra] | Nigel Robson [Arbace] | Glenn Winslade [Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno] | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [La Voce] | Angela Kazimierczuk [Cretesa 1] | Jonathan Peter Kenny [Cretesa 2] | Philip Salmon [Troiane 1] | Stephen Charlesworth [Troiane 2] | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 431.674 (Mozart: Idomeneo) -
The Judgment of Paris
John Eccles
Tuesday
May 18
Roderick Williams (baritone) [Mercury] | Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) [Juno] | Claire Booth (soprano) [Pallas] | Lucy Crowe (soprano) [Venus] | Benjamin Hulett (tenor) [Paris] | Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Chandos 0759 (Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, etc.) -
Atalanta
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
May 18
Éva Farkas [Atalanta] | Éva Bártfai-Barta [Meleagro] | Éva Lax [Irene] | János Bándi [Aminta] | József Gregor [Nicandro] | László Polgár [Mercury] | Savaria Vocal Ensemble | Capella Savaria | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Hungaroton 12612-14 (Handel: Atalanta) -
It was a lover and his lass
Thomas Morley
Tuesday
May 18
The Folger Consort | Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Bard 9207 (When Birds Do Sing) -
Songs. Am Bach im Frühling; An die Laute; Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen; Augenlied; Du bist die Ruh (By the Brook in Springtime; To the Lute; Love's Serenade; Song of the Eyes; You Are Repose)
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
May 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 902004.05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Aida: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
May 18
Leontyne Price (soprano) [Aida] | Grace Bumbry [Amneris] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Radamès] | Sherill Milnes [Amonasro] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Ramfis] | Hans Sotin [King of Egypt] | Bruce Brewer [Messenger] | Edith Mathis [High Priestess] | London Symphony Orchestra | John Alldis Choir | Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
RCA 6198 (Verdi: Aida) -
Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
May 18
Edith Mathis | Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano) | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | Karl Ridderbusch | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 413.553 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Lohengrin: Act I, Scene 3
Richard Wagner
Tuesday
May 18
René Kollo (tenor) [Lohengrin] | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Elsa von Brabant] | Siegmund Nimsgern [Friedrich von Telramund] | Dunja Vejzovic [Ortrud] | Karl Ridderbusch [Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Fowler)] | Robert Kerns (baritone) [The King's Herald] | Klaus Lang [Nobleman of Brabant] | Peter Maus [Nobleman of Brabant] | Martin Vantin [Nobleman of Brabant] | Josef Becker [Nobleman of Brabant] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin [Saxons, Thuringians, Brabantians] | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI 66519 (Wagner: Lohengrin) -
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7
Hector Berlioz
Tuesday
May 18
David Daniels (countertenor) | Ensemble Orchestral de Paris | John Nelson (conductor)
Virgin 45646 (Berlioz: Nuits d'été - Fauré & Ravel) -
Roberto Devereux: Act III, finale
Gaetano Donizetti
Tuesday
May 18
Diana Damrau (soprano) [Elisabetta] | Irida Dragoti (mezzo-soprano) [Sara] | Saverio Flore (tenor) [Cecil] | Andril Ganchuk (baritone) [Nottingham] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 52809 (Tudor Queens)