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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Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Saturday
Dec 20
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) -
Angels from the Realms of Glory; Away in a Manger; O Christmas Tree; Deck the Hall
Saturday
Dec 20
Canadian Brass
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Joy to the World
Saturday
Dec 20
Eugene Ormandy (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus
RCA 6430 (Joy to the World) -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: French
Saturday
Dec 20
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
Here We Come A-wassailing
Saturday
Dec 20
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Sarah Quartel
A Winter Day: 4th movement
Saturday
Dec 20
Capitol Hill Chorale | John Moran (cello) | Raymond Rinaldo (piano) | Frederick A. Binkholder (conductor)
Private Recording -
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Saturday
Dec 20
Arturo Delmoni Quartet
Listen 50001 (A String Quartet Christmas) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Leontyne Price (soprano)
London 421.103 (Price: Christmas Songs) -
Rejoice and Be Merry
Saturday
Dec 20
J. Reilly Lewis (conductor) | Cathedral Choral Society | Eric Plutz (organ) | Washington Symphonic Brass
Gothic 49227 (Welcome All Wonders!) -
Personent hodie
Saturday
Dec 20
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Saturday
Dec 20
The Galliard Brass
MusicMasters 67175 (Carols for Brass) -
The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 3
Saturday
Dec 20
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas) -
All my heart this night rejoices
Saturday
Dec 20
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 503 (Christmas Star) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Saturday
Dec 20
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
O du fröhliche! O du selige!
Saturday
Dec 20
Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 54902 (Carol Album 2) -
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
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) -
In the Bleak Midwinter
Saturday
Dec 20
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
The First Nowell
Saturday
Dec 20
Canadian Brass
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Away in a Manger
Saturday
Dec 20
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Peter Breiner (conductor)
Naxos 550.670 (Christmas Goes Baroque, Vol. 2) -
Veni,veni, Emanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)
Saturday
Dec 20
Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor)
Seraphic Fire Media 2011 (Silent Night) -
In dulci jubilo
Saturday
Dec 20
Washington Master Chorale | Thomas Colohan (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Saturday
Dec 20
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells/We Three Kings
Saturday
Dec 20
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.714 (I'll Be Home for the Holidays) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Saturday
Dec 20
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Saturday
Dec 20
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Saturday
Dec 20
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake) -
What Child Is This?
Saturday
Dec 20
Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players
Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song) -
Pietro Yon
Gesu Bambino
Saturday
Dec 20
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Christopher Parkening (guitar)
Sony 62723 (Angels' Glory) -
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
Allison Hampton (celtic harp) | Linn Barnes (lute)
Oak Leaf 2112 (Wassail) -
Here We Come A-wassailing
Saturday
Dec 20
The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor)
d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas) -
La Marche des rois (The March of the Kings)
Saturday
Dec 20
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Saturday
Dec 20
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
John Rutter
What Sweeter Music
Saturday
Dec 20
Choralis | Gretchen Kuhrmann (artistic director) | Benjamin LaPrairie (organ)
Private Recording -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Saturday
Dec 20
Canadian Brass | John Grady (organ)
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Saturday
Dec 20
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 1: Chorus. "Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage" (Rejoice, exult! arise, glorify the day)
Saturday
Dec 20
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor) | Netherlands Bach Society
Channel 20103 (Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248) -
Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)
Saturday
Dec 20
The Monteverdi Choir | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 462.050 (Once as I Remember) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Away in a Manger
Saturday
Dec 20
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Saturday
Dec 20
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Kiev Chamber Choir | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Dotcom 2013 (Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir) -
Jule Styne
Let It Snow!
Saturday
Dec 20
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.714 (I'll Be Home for the Holidays) -
Shepherds, in the field abiding
Saturday
Dec 20
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
O du fröhliche! O du selige!
Saturday
Dec 20
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
How Beautiful Shines the Morning Star
Saturday
Dec 20
The Choral Arts Society of Washington | Norman Scribner (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra
Choral Arts 10108 (There Shall a Star, Choral Jewels for Christmas) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Saturday
Dec 20
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Sandra Simon (soprano)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
Samuel Scheidt
Canzona
Saturday
Dec 20
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
Once in Royal David's City
Saturday
Dec 20
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) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: For unto us a child is born
Saturday
Dec 20
Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra
Private Recording -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Saturday
Dec 20
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Wassail! Wassail! All Over the Town
Saturday
Dec 20
Allison Hampton (celtic harp) | Linn Barnes (lute)
Oak Leaf 2112 (Wassail) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Saturday
Dec 20
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Saturday
Dec 20
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
A Maiden Most Gentle
Saturday
Dec 20
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Saturday
Dec 20
Canadian Brass | John Grady (organ)
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Christmastide: Part 2
Saturday
Dec 20
Jessye Norman (soprano) | New York Choral Society | American Boychoir | Robert DeCormier (conductor) | Empire Chamber Ensemble
Philips 420.180 (Christmastide) -
Hector Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25: Shepherds' Farewell (L'adieu des bergers)
Saturday
Dec 20
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Saturday
Dec 20
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Saturday
Dec 20
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Here We Come A-Wassaling
Saturday
Dec 20
The Choral Arts Society of Washington | Norman Scribner (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra
Choral Arts 10108 (There Shall a Star, Choral Jewels for Christmas) -
Meredith Wilson
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Saturday
Dec 20
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.714 (I'll Be Home for the Holidays) -
Deck the Hall
Saturday
Dec 20
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Saturday
Dec 20
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) -
Joy to the World
Saturday
Dec 20
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Concertino for Horn and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 45
Saturday
Dec 20
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor) | Hermann Baumann (horn)
Philips 412.237 (R. Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #5 "Turkish"
Saturday
Dec 20
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Giuliano Carmignola (violin) | Orchestra Mozart
Archiv 477.7371 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos) -
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite #1
Saturday
Dec 20
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.026 (Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 - Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande) -
Antonio Lotti
Alessandro Severo: Sinfonia, Act III, Final Scene
Saturday
Dec 20
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Frédéric Chopin
Scherzo #2 B-flat Minor
Saturday
Dec 20
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 431.623 (Chopin: 4 Scherzos, Berceuse & Barcarolle) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Saturday
Dec 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG 483.7071 (Beethoven Complete Symphonies) -
Claude Debussy
Arabesque #1
Saturday
Dec 20
John O'Conor (piano)
Telarc 80313 (Popular Works for Solo Piano) -
Thomas Augustine Arne
Symphony #2
Saturday
Dec 20
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8403 (Arne: Symphonies 1 - 4) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #1 C Minor "Bells of Zlonice"
Saturday
Dec 20
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8597 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Mikis Theodorakis
Epitáphios: #3. Mera magiou (A Day in May)
Saturday
Dec 20
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar)
DG 0015579 (Mediterráneo) -
Dora Pejačević
Phastasie Concertante in D Minor, Op. 48
Saturday
Dec 20
Ari Rasilainen (conductor) | German State Philharmonic, Rheinland-Pfalz | Volker Banfield (piano)
CPO 777.418 (Dora Pejacevic: Symphony & Phantasie Concertante) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony #3 "Scottish"
Saturday
Dec 20
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 414.665 (Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 114)
Saturday
Dec 20
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #46 in B Major
Saturday
Dec 20
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday
Dec 20
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Teldec 244.920 (Mussorgsky: Bilder Einer Ausstellung, Eine Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge) -
Michael Haydn
Romance in A-flat Major
Saturday
Dec 20
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet
Philips 426.440 (Mozart, Beethoven, Reicha, J. Haydn & M. Haydn) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite
Saturday
Dec 20
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #23
Saturday
Dec 20
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Leon Fleisher (piano) | Leon Fleisher (conductor)
Sony 88697.43505 (Mozart: Piano Concertos) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Wiener Blut
Saturday
Dec 20
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra | Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor)
Philips 411.119 (Famous Waltzes)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Act I
Saturday
Dec 20
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) [Nabucco] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ismaele] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Zaccaria] | Ghena Dimitrova [Abigaille] | Lucia Valentini Terrani [Fenena] | Kurt Rydl [Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo] | Volker Horn [Abdallo]
DG 410.512 (Verdi: Nabucco) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
V molchan'ji nochi tajnoj (In the silence of the mysterious night), Op. 4 #3
Saturday
Dec 20
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia
Saturday
Dec 20
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Chorus of the Netherlands Bach Society | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) | Carolyn Watkinson (alto)
Erato 2292.45472 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 186. Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht (Fret not, O soul)
Saturday
Dec 20
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Kobie van Rensburg (tenor) | RIchard Wyn Roberts (alto) | Stephan Loges (bass)
SDG 156 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 4) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #18. Trockne Blumen [The Fair Miller-Maid: Dry flowers]
Saturday
Dec 20
Barbara Hendriks (soprano) | Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Arte Verum 008 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: V. Agnus Dei
Saturday
Dec 20
Vinson Cole (tenor) | Berlin Philharmonic | Lella Cuberli | Trudeliese Schmidt | José van Dam (baritone) | Vienna Singverein | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419.166 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Luigi Cherubini
Medea: Act I
Saturday
Dec 20
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Tullio Serafin (conductor) | Maria Callas [Medea] | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Glauce] | Miriam Pirazzini [Neris] | Mirto Picchi [Giasone] | Giuseppe Modesti [Creonte] | Lidia Morimpietri [Prima ancella] | Elvira Galassi [Seconda ancella] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Capo delle guardie]
EMI 66435 (Cherubini: Medea) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39: Waldesgespräch (Dialogue in the Woods)
Saturday
Dec 20
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Richard Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder: #2. September
Saturday
Dec 20
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Houston Symphony Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
RCA 68539 (Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder) -
Jake Heggie
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Saturday
Dec 20
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
William Byrd
Motet. Ne irascaris Domine
Saturday
Dec 20
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
George Frideric Handel
Agrippina: Act II, Scenes 6-12
Saturday
Dec 20
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088-90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Richard Wagner
Wesendonck-Lieder: #5. Träume (Dreams)
Saturday
Dec 20
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra
DG 477.8773 (Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act III, Aria. Gloire au pouvoir suprême (Glory to the supreme power)
Saturday
Dec 20
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: VII. Selig sind die Toten (Blessed are the dead)
Saturday
Dec 20
Vienna Singverein | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic
DG 410.521 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Te Deum) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act IV
Saturday
Dec 20
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Macbeth] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Banco] | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Anna Caterina Antonacci [Dama] | Veriano Luchetti [Macduff] | Antonio Barasorda [Malcolm] | Sergio Fontana [Medico] | Gianfranco Casarini [Servo] | Gastone Sarti [Sicario] | Giuseppe Morresi [Araldo] | Natale de Carolis [Prima apparizione] | Barbara Briscik [Seconda apparizione] | Marco Fanti [Terza apparizione] | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [Streghe, messaggeri del re, nobili e profughi scozzesi, sicari, soldati inglesi, bardi] | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
London 417.525 (Verdi: Macbeth) -
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Straszny Dwor (The Haunted Manor): Miecznik's aria. "Kto z mych dziewek serce ktorej" (Who of my maidens whose heart)
Saturday
Dec 20
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert Aria. Der Liebe himmlisches Gefühl, K 119
Saturday
Dec 20
Francine van der Heyden (soprano) | European Sinfonietta | Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 22. Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus took unto Him the twelve)
Saturday
Dec 20
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Oxley (tenor) | Claudia Schubert (alto)
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 in C Minor "Resurrection": IV. "Urlicht". Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht; V. Finale. Im Tempo des Scherzo. Wild herausfahrend; Maestoso; Sehr langsam und gedehnt; Langsam. Misterioso; Etwas bewegter
Saturday
Dec 20
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 60006 (Mahler: Symphony No. 2) -
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot
Saturday
Dec 20
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | John Alldis Choir | Joan Sutherland [Turandot] | Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] | Montserrat Caballé [Liù] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] | Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Tom Krause [Ping] | Pier Francesco Poli [Pang | Il Principe di Persia] | Piero de Palma [Pong] | Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
London 414.274 (Puccini: Turandot) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Zerlina's and Giovanni's duet. "Là ci darem la mano" (There we shall take hands)
Saturday
Dec 20
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Danielle de Niese (soprano)
Decca 0013277 (The Mozart Album) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Blessed are they who bear suffering)
Saturday
Dec 20
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DG 423.574 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Ludwig Senfl
Missa Paschalis
Saturday
Dec 20
QuintEssential | The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge | David Skinner (director)
Obsidian 704 (Ludwig Senfl: Missa Paschalis) -
Antonín Dvořák
Selma sedlak (The Cunning Peasant): Prince's aria: "Kdo jest, jenz slovy vypovi" (Who can express in words)
Saturday
Dec 20
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Antonio Vivaldi
L'incoronazione di Dario: Act I
Saturday
Dec 20
John Elwes [Dario] | Gerard Lesne [Statira] | Henri Ledroit [Argene] | Michel Verschaeve [Niceno] | Isabelle Poulenard [Alinda] | Agnes Mellon [Oronte] | Isabelle Poulenard [Arpago] | Dominique Visse [Flora Bervoix] | John Elwes [Le Fantôme de Ciro] | Michel Verschaeve [L'Oracle d'Apollo] | Ensemble Baroque de Nice | Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1235-37 (Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39: Die Stille (Stillness)
Saturday
Dec 20
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: II. Gloria
Saturday
Dec 20
Collegium Musicum 90 | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Richard Hickox (conductor) | Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 192. Nun danket alle Gott (Now thank we all our God)
Saturday
Dec 20
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Joanne Lunn (soprano)
SDG 110 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 10) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Bells, Op. 35
Saturday
Dec 20
David Wilson-Johnson (bass) | Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Suzanne Murphy (soprano) | Keith Lewis (tenor) | Scottish National Chorus and Orchestra
Chandos 8476 (Rachmaninov: The Bells, etc.) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Dalinda's aria. "Neghittosi, or voi che fate?" (Indifferent heavens, what are you about?)
Saturday
Dec 20
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor) | Patricia Petibon (soprano)
DG 477.8763 (Rosso, Italian baroque arias)
WETA Virtuoso
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Robert Schumann
Davidsbündlertänze (Dances of the Band of David), Op. 6
Saturday
Dec 20
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 425.109 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 4) -
Emmanuel Chabrier
Suite pastorale: II. Danse villageoise
Saturday
Dec 20
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
La Peri -
George Frideric Handel
Salve Regina, HWV 241
Saturday
Dec 20
Arleen Augér (soprano) | Simon Preston (conductor) | Orchestra of Westminster Abbey
Archiv 423.594 (Handel: Dixit Dominus) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #5 in C Minor, Op. 10 #1
Saturday
Dec 20
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Maurice Ravel
La Valse. Poème chorégraphique
Saturday
Dec 20
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 427.314 (Claudio Abbado) -
Antonín Dvořák
Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55: #4. Songs My Mother Taught Me
Saturday
Dec 20
Camille Thomas (cello) | Brussels Philharmonic | Matthieu Herzog (conductor)
DG 483.856 (Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope) -
Richard Strauss
Josephslegende, Op. 63: Symphonic Fragment
Saturday
Dec 20
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64346 (Richard Strauss) -
Frédéric D'Erlanger
Piano Quintet
Saturday
Dec 20
Goldner String Quartet | Piers Lane (piano)
Hyperion 68296 (D'Erlanger; Dunhill: Piano Quintet) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Étude-tableau in D Major, Op. 39 #9
Saturday
Dec 20
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 417.671 (Rachmaninoff: Corelli Variations, Op. 42; Etudes Tableaux, Op. 39) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Saturday
Dec 20
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80059 (Vaughn Williams, Barber, Grainger, Faure & Satie) -
Charles Ives
Symphony #4
Saturday
Dec 20
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
London 443.172 (Varèrse: Amèriques - Ives: Symphony No. 4) -
Giacomo Puccini
Storiella d'amore
Saturday
Dec 20
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue #16 in G Minor, BWV 885
Saturday
Dec 20
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier) -
Benjamin Godard
Piano Trio, Op. 72 in F Major
Saturday
Dec 20
Trio Parnassus
MDG 303.1615 (Godard: Piano Trios) -
Claude Debussy
Printemps
Saturday
Dec 20
Jun Märkl (conductor) | Orchestre National de Lyon
Naxos 572.583 (Debussy: Orchestral Works (Complete)) -
Jean Sibelius
Autrefois (Pastoral Scene), Op. 96b
Saturday
Dec 20
Monica Einarson (soprano) | Charlotte Forsberg (mezzo-soprano)
BIS 384 (Sibelius) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 32
Saturday
Dec 20
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 356 (Gade) -
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet #1 C Minor
Saturday
Dec 20
Fauré Quartet of Rome
Claves 9015 (Fauré: Piano Quartets) -
Amy Beach
A Hermit Thrush at Morn, Op. 92 #2
Saturday
Dec 20
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #6 in F Major (HWV 401)
Saturday
Dec 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5) -
Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite
Saturday
Dec 20
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 471.136 -
Giuseppe Giamberti
Motet. Similabo eum viro sapienti (instrumental)
Saturday
Dec 20
Ensemble Correspondances | Sébastien Daucé (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2640 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe a quatre choeurs) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 77 #1 "Lobkowitz"
Saturday
Dec 20
Smithson String Quartet
EMI 49003 (Haydn: String Quartets Hob. III:81 - 83) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Saturday
Dec 20
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 9031.77309 (Bizet, Prokofiev & Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 1) -
Hans Neusidler
Der Königin tanzt; Ach Eislein; In liebes brunst; Der Hupff auff, den must man gar behend
Saturday
Dec 20
Goeran Soellscher (guitar)
DG 0006497 (The Renaissance Album) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #7
Saturday
Dec 20
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60009 (Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 32 #12
Saturday
Dec 20
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 147. Herz und Mund und Tot und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)
Saturday
Dec 20
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Gerd Türk (tenor) | Lisa Larsson (soprano) | Bogna Bartosz (alto) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus
Erato 3984.23141 (Bach: Complete Cantatas, Volume 7) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #9
Saturday
Dec 20
Cherubini Quartet
EMI 49900 (Schubert: String Quartets No. 9, D173 & No. 13, D804) -
Manuel de Falla
Nocturno in F Minor
Saturday
Dec 20
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta
Saturday
Dec 20
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 436.211 (Leos Janacek) -
Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Saturday
Dec 20
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 0007316 (Steinway Legends, Mitsuko Uchida)