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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Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Wednesday
Dec 10
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 426.298 (Brahms: Serenade No. 1 - Wagner: Siegfried Idyll) -
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Wednesday
Dec 10
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Jaime Laredo (conductor)
Nimbus 5078 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53
Wednesday
Dec 10
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto G Major (S. 213)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite
Wednesday
Dec 10
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80151 (Tchaikovsky: Swan lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto in C Major, F VII/6
Wednesday
Dec 10
Alex Klein (oboe) | New Brandenburg Collegium | Anthony Newman (conductor)
Cedille 7003 (Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos) -
Franz Schubert
Wanderer Fantasie
Wednesday
Dec 10
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 435.028 (Schubert, Brahms & Liszt) -
Louis Spohr
Violin Concerto #8 in A Minor, Op. 47 "in modo di scena cantante"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Simone Lamsma (violin) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 570.528 (Spohr: Violin Concertos, Nos. 6, 8 & 11) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Johann Adolf Hasse
Sinfonia, Op. 5 #6
Wednesday
Dec 10
Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) | Concerto of Cologne
Archiv 479.2050 (El Maestro Farinelli) -
Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
CBS 42663 (Schumann: Cello Concerto) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1063
Wednesday
Dec 10
Michel Béroff (piano) | Gabriel Tacchino (piano) | Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) | Paris Orchestral Ensemble | Jean-Pierre Wallez (conductor)
EMI 47063 (Bach: Concertos for Three & Four Pianos) -
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: II. Un bal (A Ball)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Teldec 4509.98800 (Berlioz: Marseillaise, Symphonie Fantastique) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Sinfonia with Trumpets, G. 20
Wednesday
Dec 10
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists | Thomas Hammes (trumpet) | Peter Leiner (trumpet)
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto #1 in F Minor, Op 73: III. Rondo
Wednesday
Dec 10
Berlin Philharmonic | Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
DG 483.6069 (Blue Hour) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Flute Concerto, H. 438 in A Major: III. Allegro assai
Wednesday
Dec 10
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor)
CBS 44690 (C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Flute Concertos) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #1 in D Minor, Op. 15: III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo
Wednesday
Dec 10
Lars Vogt (piano) | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Lars Vogt (conductor)
Ondine 1330 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Four Ballades, Op. 10) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet, K. 285b (K Anh 171) in C Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
Eckart Haupt (flute) | Peter Mirring (violin) | Peter Schikora (viola) | Gerhard Pluskwik (cello)
Capriccio 10.282 (Mozart: Die Flötenquartette) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #2. Tasso - Lamento e Trionfo: Finale
Wednesday
Dec 10
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 364a in G Minor (Op. 1 #6)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Georges Bizet
Symphony in C Major: I. Allegro -- Allegro vivo
Wednesday
Dec 10
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.624 (Prokofiev, Britten & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons - Autumn (Concerto in F Major, Op. 8/3, RV 293)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Trondheim Soloists | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin and conductor)
DG 463.259 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Waltz
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Royal Opera House Orchestra
Philips 411.448 (Tchaikovsky: 1812, Romeo and Juliet, Dances) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata #3 in A Major, Op. 69: I. Allegro ma non tanto
Wednesday
Dec 10
Zuill Bailey (cello) | Simone Dinnerstein (piano)
Telarc 80740 (Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano and Cello) -
Johann Ignaz Klausek
Trio in B-flat Minor: I. Allegretto
Wednesday
Dec 10
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": IV. Allegro animato e grazioso
Wednesday
Dec 10
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: I. Ouverture
Wednesday
Dec 10
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
AAM Records 003 (JS Bach: Orchestral Suites) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64: III. Allegretto non troppo; Allegro molto vivace
Wednesday
Dec 10
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Harding (conductor) | Ray Chen (violin)
Sony 798410 (Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Suite in D Major: II. Air. Tempo giusto
Wednesday
Dec 10
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Hedy: Ballet Music
Wednesday
Dec 10
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.310 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 4) -
John Knowles Paine
Overture to Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Ulster Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
Naxos 559.747 (John Knowles Paine: Orchestral Works) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #11 in D Major, Hob. XVIII:11
Wednesday
Dec 10
Cologne Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor) | Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Naxos 570.485 (Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4, 9 & 11) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Carnival of the Animals
Wednesday
Dec 10
Martha Argerich (piano) | Nelson Freire (piano) | Ensemble
Philips 416.841 (Saint-Saëns: Carnival des animaux) -
Josef Strauss
Without a Care
Wednesday
Dec 10
Johann Strauss Orchestra | Jack Rothstein (conductor)
Chandos 8434 (A Strauss Gala) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1053
Wednesday
Dec 10
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Murray Perahia (piano) | Murray Perahia (conductor)
Sony 89245 (Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 36
Wednesday
Dec 10
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 3984.28144 (Beethoven) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Trio Sonata, RV 78 in B-flat Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
L'Estravagante
Naïve 30535 (Vivaldi: Sonate da camera a tre, Op. 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 250 "Haffner"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Prague Chamber Orchestra
Telarc 80161 (Mozart: "Haffner" Serenade, "Serenata Notturna") -
Ambroise Thomas
Mignon: "Connais-tu le pays où fleurit l'oranger"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra | Sol Gabetta (cello) | Charles Olivieri-Munroe (conductor)
Sony 88697.35962 (Cantabile) -
Georg Matthias Monn
Cello Concerto in G Minor
Wednesday
Dec 10
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Petra Muellejans (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1816 (Haydn: Concertos pour violoncelle) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Sonata #2 in A-flat Major, Op. 39
Wednesday
Dec 10
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #6
Wednesday
Dec 10
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.171 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances) -
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony, Op. 3 #4 in B-flat Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
Hanover Band | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.268 (J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3) -
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet "The Trout"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Hagen Quartet members | Alois Posch (double bass)
London 411.975 (Schubert: "Trout" Quintet) -
Clara Wieck Schumann
Scherzo #2 in C Minor, Op. 14
Wednesday
Dec 10
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Decca 485.0020 (Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite F Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
Frans Brüggen (conductor) | Concerto Amsterdam
Teldec 4509.92177 (Telemann: The Paris Quartets) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony #4 "Italian"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 415.353 (Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies, Overtures) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 429 for Flute in D Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) | Australian Chamber Orchestra | Richard Tognetti (conductor)
EMI 47212 (Vivaldi: Flute Concertos)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Georges Bizet
Carmen: Act IV
Wednesday
Dec 10
Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] | Nicolai Gedda [Don José] | Janine Micheau [Micaëla] | Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] | Denise Monteil [Frasquita] | Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] | Monique Linval [Mercédès] | Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] | Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] | Bernard Plantey [Moralès] | Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] | Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française | Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française | Petits Chanteurs de Versailles | Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI 56214 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur: Act IV
Wednesday
Dec 10
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | James Levine (conductor) | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Adriana Lecouvreur] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Maurizio] | Sherill Milnes [Michonnet] | Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [La Principessa di Bouillon] | Giancarlo Luccardi [Il Principe di Bouillon] | Florindo Andreoli [L'Abate di Chazeuil] | Lillian Watson [Mlle. Jouvenot] | Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) [Mlle. Dangeville] | Paul Crook [Poisson] | Paul Hudson [Quinault] | Paul Crook [Un Maggiordomo]
CBS 79310 (Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur) -
George Frideric Handel
La Lucrezia, HWV 145: Recitative and Aria. "A voi, padres, consorte; Già nel seno comincia compir" (To you, father, husband; Already in my bosom this sword)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | Peter Serkin (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7500 (Recital at Ravinia) -
Giovanni Pacini
Stella di Napoli: Part 1, Scene 6, Stella's aria. "Ove t'aggiri, o barbaro" (Where are you, cruel man)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Stella] | Héloise Mas (mezzo-soprano) [Marta] | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli) -
Carlisle Floyd
Susannah: Act I
Wednesday
Dec 10
Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Susannah Polk] | Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Sam Polk] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Olin Blitch] | Kenn Chester [Little Bat McLean] | Michael Druiett [Elder McLean] | Steven Cole [Elder Gleaton] | Stuart Kale [Elder Hayes] | David Pittsinger [Elder Ott] | Anne Howells [Mrs. McLean] | Della Jones [Mrs. Gleaton] | Jean Glennon [Mrs. Hayes] | Elizabeth Laurence [Mrs. Ott] | Chour de l'Opéra de Lyon | Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Kent Nagano (conductor)
Virgin 45039 (Floyd: Susannah) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mit Mädeln sich vertragen, WoO 90
Wednesday
Dec 10
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Warner Classics 62257 (Arias) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: III. Eia, mater, fons amoris (O mother, fount of love)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (For all flesh, it is as grass)
Wednesday
Dec 10
San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
London 443.771 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Giovanni Paisiello
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act III
Wednesday
Dec 10
Hungarian State Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor) | Dénes Gulyás [Count Almaviva] | Krisztina Laki [Rosina] | József Gregor [Bartolo] | István Gáti (baritone) [Figaro] | Sándor Sólyom-Nagy [Don Basilio] | Csaba Réta [Laddie] | Miklós Mersei [Sprightly] | Gábor Vághelyi [Notary] | Attila Fülöp [Judge]
Hungaroton 12525-26 (Paisiello: il Barbiere di Siviglia) -
Hans Sommer
Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Night Song)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder) -
Lili Boulanger
Dans l'immense tristesse
Wednesday
Dec 10
Doris Reinhardt (mezzo-soprano) | Emile Naoumoff (piano)
Marco Polo 223.636 (In Memorian Lili Boulanger) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: VII. Libera me
Wednesday
Dec 10
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Samuel Ramey (bass) | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Cheryl Studer (soprano) | Dolora Zajick (mezzo-soprano)
EMI 49390 (Verdi: Messa da Requiem) -
Jean-Marie Leclair
Scylla et Glaucus: Prologue
Wednesday
Dec 10
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Donna Brown [Scylla] | Howard Crook (tenor) [Glaucus] | Rachel Yakar (soprano) [Circé] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Dorine] | Françoise Golfier [L'Amour] | Agnes Mellon [Vénus] | Renè Schirrer [Licas] | Elisabeth Vidal (soprano) [Témire] | Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) [Un Propetide] | Nicolas Robertson [Un Propetide] | Philip Salmon [Un berger] | Richard Stuart (baritone) [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Hécate]
Erato 2292.45277 (Leclair: Sylla et Glaucus) -
George Frideric Handel
Aria. Die ihr aus dunkeln Grüften, HWV 208 (Ye that from dark pits)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Ensemble Guadagni
Wigmore Hall Live 38 (Handel: Nine German Arias) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act I
Wednesday
Dec 10
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Max Emanuel Cencic [Emperor Valentiniano III] | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia] | Sonia Prina [Ezio] | Mayuko Karasawa [Onoria] | Topi Lehtipuu [Massimo] | Julian Prégardien [Varo]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Gabriel Fauré
Le Jardin clos (The Walled Garden): Exaucement (Fulfillment)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Hélène Lucas (piano) | Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Zigzag 90902 (Fauré: Le Jardin clos, La Chanson d'Ève, Mélodies) -
Rodrigo de Ceballos
Motet. Hortus conclusus (An enclosed garden)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7489 (Song of Songs) -
Claude Debussy
La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Philippe Cassard (piano) | Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano) [Narrator] | Le Jeune Chœur de Paris
Virgin 750769 (Clair de Lune) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore: Act III, Florestan's aria. "Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!" ("God! What darkness here!")
Wednesday
Dec 10
René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) [Florestan]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2414-15 (Beethoven: Leonore) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 82. Ich habe genug (I have enough)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music | Craig Smith (conductor)
Nonesuch 79692 (Bach: Cantatas, BWV 82 and 199) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Caio's aria. "Io sembro appunto" (I am just)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Richard Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder: #4. Im Abendrot
Wednesday
Dec 10
Jessye Norman (soprano) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 0004505 (R. Strauss: Lieder) -
Gaspare Spontini
La Vestale: Act II
Wednesday
Dec 10
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Licinius] | J. Patrick Raftery [Cinna] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Le Souveraine Pontife] | Aldo Bramante [Le chef des aruspices] | Silvestro Sammaritano [Un consul] | Karen Huffstodt [Julia] | Denyce Graves [La Grande Vestale]
Sony 66357 (Spontini: La Vestale) -
George Frideric Handel
Aria. In den angenehmen Büschen, HWV 209 (In the pleasant thickets)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Ensemble Guadagni
Wigmore Hall Live 38 (Handel: Nine German Arias) -
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser: Song to the Evening Star. "Wie Todesahnung Dämmerung deckt die Lande . O du mein holder Abendstern"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor)
DG 445.866 (Opera Arias) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa Solemnis in C Minor, K 139 "Waisenhausmesse"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Anja Bittner (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Gerhard Nennemann (tenor) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos
Wednesday
Dec 10
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor) | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Primadonna/Ariadne] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [The Composer] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerbinetta] | Gary Lakes [The Tenor/Bacchus] | Hermann Prey (baritone) [A Music Master] | Otto Schenk [The Major-domo] | Ewald Aichberger [An Officer] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [A Dancing Master] | Günter von Kannen [A Wig-Maker] | Alfred Sramek [A Footman] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Harlequin] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Scaramouche] | Kurt Rydl [Truffaldino] | Hans Sojer [Brighella] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Naiad] | Helga Müller Molinari [Dryad] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Echo]
DG 419.225 (Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxus) -
Robert Schumann
Szenen aus Goethes Faust, WoO 3 (Scenes from Goethe's Faust)
Wednesday
Dec 10
English Chamber Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) [Faust, Doctor Marianus] | Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) [Gretchen | Una Poenitentium] | John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) [Mephistopheles | Evil Spirit | Peter Seraphicus] | Peter Pears (tenor) [Ariel | Pater Ecstaticus] | Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) [Care | Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano) [Need | Magna Peccatrix] | Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano) [Martha | Want | Mulluer Samartiana] | Pauline Stevens (soprano) [Debt | Maria Aegyptiaca] | Robert Lloyd [Pater Profundus] | Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano) [Mater Gloriosa] | Aldeburgh Festival Singers | Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Claude Debussy
L'Archet (The bow)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Philippe Cassard (piano)
Virgin 750769 (Clair de Lune) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motezuma: Act III, Scene 1, Aria. "L'aquila generosa"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Maite Beaumont [Fernando] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Archiv 0006490 (Vivaldi: Motezuma) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Elsa Dreisig (soprano) [Seraph] | Pavol Breslik (tenor) [Christ] | David Soar (bass) [Peter]
LSO Live 862 (Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Roberto Devereux: Act I, Sara's romance. "All'afflitto è dolce il pianto" (To one who is sad weeping is sweet)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna
DG 0012818 (Bel Canto)
WETA Virtuoso
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New York Philharmonic This Week
Wednesday
Dec 10
Private Recording -
Franz Liszt
Concert Etude in D-flat Major "Un sospiro" (A sigh)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 789141 (Liszt) -
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote. Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35
Wednesday
Dec 10
Berlin Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Mischa Maisky (cello)
DG B0002054 (Strauss) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude & Fugue #3 C-sharp Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
Till Fellner (piano)
ECM 0002285 (Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1) -
George Frideric Handel
Oboe Sonata, HWV 366 in C Minor (Op. 1 #8)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Walter Heinz Bernstein (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.067 (Handel: Die Oboensonaten Vol. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #9 in E Major, Op. 14 #1
Wednesday
Dec 10
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Bridge 9207 (Beethoven: Sonatas, Vol. 3) -
Louis Spohr
Septet
Wednesday
Dec 10
CRD 3399 (Spohr: Septet Op. 147, Quintet Op. 52) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Six Pieces, Op. 52: No. 3. Etude
Wednesday
Dec 10
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Wednesday
Dec 10
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80158 (Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 5, Tallis Fantasia) -
Claude Debussy
Suite Bergamasque
Wednesday
Dec 10
Jun Märkl (conductor) | Orchestre National de Lyon
Naxos 572.583 (Debussy: Orchestral Works (Complete)) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 378
Wednesday
Dec 10
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.229 (Mozart: Violin Sonatas, K. 378, 379 & 380) -
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu G-flat Major (Op. 51)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 417.476 (Chopin: Preludes & Impromptus) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12
Wednesday
Dec 10
Eroica Quartet
Harmonia Mundi 90.7245 (Mendelssohn: String Quartets) -
Maurice Duruflé
Requiem
Wednesday
Dec 10
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Stephen Layton (conductor) | Harrison Cole (organ)
Hyperion 67436 (Duruflé: Requiem) -
Cécile Chaminade
Pièce humoristique, Op. 87 #4. Autrefois (Bygone Days)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Joanne Polk (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30037 (The Flatterer) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdiana
Wednesday
Dec 10
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Delos 3205 (For Thy Pleasure) -
Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite
Wednesday
Dec 10
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 471.136 -
Sir Edward Elgar
Starlight Express: Waltz
Wednesday
Dec 10
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | George Hurst (conductor)
Chandos 6544 (Elgar Favourites) -
Philippe Gaubert
3 Aquarelles: #1. Par un clair matin
Wednesday
Dec 10
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Dame Ethel Smyth
Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7
Wednesday
Dec 10
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) | Barbara Moser (piano)
Gramola 98966 (Den Männer ebenbürtig) -
Antonín Dvořák
The Water Goblin, Op. 107
Wednesday
Dec 10
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8552 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, etc.) -
Rodeo: IV. Hoedown
Wednesday
Dec 10
London Symphony Orchestra | Aaron Copland (conductor)
CBS 39443 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in G Major, BWV 572
Wednesday
Dec 10
Simon Preston (organ)
DG 427.668 (Bach) -
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto
Wednesday
Dec 10
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Decca 460.296 (Strauss: The Concertos) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #8. Héroïde funèbre
Wednesday
Dec 10
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10417 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 3) -
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon XV (1615)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Empire Brass
Telarc 80204 (Music of Gabrieli) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations, WoO 46 on "Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
Wednesday
Dec 10
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2183-84 (Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Robert Schumann
Concert Piece in D Minor, Op. 134 (Introduction and Allegro Concertante)
Wednesday
Dec 10
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 64577 (Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54, Concert Pieces) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 "Antar"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Erik Satie
Gnossienne No. 6
Wednesday
Dec 10
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
William Byrd
Motet. Quis est homo
Wednesday
Dec 10
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Wednesday
Dec 10
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8756 (Debussy: Petite Suite, etc.) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29
Wednesday
Dec 10
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Wednesday
Dec 10
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 430.240 (Debussy: La Mer, Jeux, etc.) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. posth.
Wednesday
Dec 10
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.6824 (Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #4 in G Major
Wednesday
Dec 10
Luba Orgonasova (soprano) | David Zinman (conductor) | Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich
RCA 16852 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4) -
Béla Bartók
Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20: No. 7
Wednesday
Dec 10
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 472.464 (Naida Cole) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite #4 "Mozartiana"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | The Philharmonia
Chandos 8777 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Concerto #1
Wednesday
Dec 10
London Symphony Orchestra | Lawrence Foster (conductor) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 431.815 (Wieniawski: Violion Concertos - Sarate: Zigeunerweisen) -
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Piece, Op. 68/4 "Evening in the Mountains"
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.727 (Grieg: "Holberg" Suite - Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite) -
Ottorino Respighi
The Pines of Rome
Wednesday
Dec 10
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Edo de Waart (conductor)
Philips 411.419 (Respighi: Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Gli Uccelli) -
Benjamin Britten
Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Wednesday
Dec 10
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) | Elizabeth Watts (soprano) | London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Tiffin Children's Choir | Allan Clayton (tenor)
LSO 830 (Britten)