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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Joseph Haydn
Symphony #103 in E-flat Major "Drumroll"
Thursday
Dec 18
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Johan Halvorsen
Norwegian Rhapsody #1
Thursday
Dec 18
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra | Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
Simax 1085 (Svendsen & Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsodies) -
Johann Bernhard Bach
Orchestral Suite in E Minor
Thursday
Dec 18
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8453 (Dvořák: Overtures) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #20
Thursday
Dec 18
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Leif Ove Andsnes (conductor) | Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
EMI 00281 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 17 & 18) -
PBS News Hour
Thursday
Dec 18
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Frederick Delius
Florida Suite: II. By the River
Thursday
Dec 18
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8413 (Delius: Florida Suite, etc.) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Symphonie Concertante in A Major (Benton 114): I. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
David Perry (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor) | Isabella Lippi (violin)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #2: I
Thursday
Dec 18
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Philips 432.975 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2) -
František Xaver Dušek
Sinfonia, S 176 in B-flat Major (Altner Bb2): III. Allegro assai
Thursday
Dec 18
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra | Aapo Häkkinen (conductor)
Naxos 572.683 (Dussek: Four Symphonies) -
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet "The Trout": I. Allegro vivace
Thursday
Dec 18
Pinchas Zukerman (violin) | Yefim Bronfman (piano) | Jethro Marks (viola) | Amanda Forsyth (cello) | Joel Quarrington (double bass)
RCA 716044 (Schubert: "Trout" Piano Quintet - Mozart: Piano Quartet K. 493) -
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto in D Major, FWV L:D5: III. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Amy Beach
Ballad, Op. 6
Thursday
Dec 18
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Concerto for Strings G Major
Thursday
Dec 18
St. James' Baroque Players
Teldec 4509.91192 (Baroque Music of Bologna) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #3: IV
Thursday
Dec 18
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto #1: III
Thursday
Dec 18
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano) | Israel Philharmonic
Sony 44922 (Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 531 in G Minor: I. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Christina Mahler (cello) | Allen Whear (cello)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Thursday
Dec 18
Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)
Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Piano Quintet #1, Op. 1: IV. Finale: Allegro animato
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Takács String Quartet
London 421.423 (Dohnányi: Piano Quintet, No., Sextet) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major, BWV 1050: I. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11: IV. Finale. Allegretto moderato
Thursday
Dec 18
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite: March
Thursday
Dec 18
Washington Saxophone Quartet
Americus 2011.060 (Tis the Season) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet in G Minor, K 478: III. Rondo. Allegro moderato
Thursday
Dec 18
Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Emerson String Quartet members
DG 483.6574 (The New York Concert) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 27: II. Allegro molto
Thursday
Dec 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10589 (Rachmaninoff) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Solo in A Major: IV. Allegro - Adagio - Allegro - Adagio
Thursday
Dec 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
A Christmas Medley
Thursday
Dec 18
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068: III-V. Gavottes; Bourrée; Gigue
Thursday
Dec 18
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude
Thursday
Dec 18
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
DG 419.169 (Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Overtures) -
Joy to the World
Thursday
Dec 18
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto #2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: I. Allegro moderato
Thursday
Dec 18
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Mischa Maisky (cello) | Mischa Maisky (conductor)
DG 419.786 (Haydn: Cello Concertos) -
Louis Spohr
Der Berggeist: Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Christian Froehlich (conductor)
CPO 999.093 (Spohr: Overtures) -
Good King Wenceslas
Thursday
Dec 18
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony #3 "Organ": II-Finale. Maestoso; Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Peter Hurford (organ)
London 410.201 (Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony Op.78) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2413 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1055
Thursday
Dec 18
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.851 (J. S. Bach: 3 Oboe Concertos) -
Away in a Manger
Thursday
Dec 18
London Brass
Teldec 2292.46443 (Christmas with London Brass) -
Anton Rubinstein
Romance
Thursday
Dec 18
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8748 (Poème) -
Johannes Brahms
Rhapsody, Op. 79 #2
Thursday
Dec 18
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 48046 (Brahms: Handel Variations) -
Niccolò Paganini
Cantabile
Thursday
Dec 18
Joshua Bell (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
Decca 0002783 (The Romantic Violin) -
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Thursday
Dec 18
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 434
Thursday
Dec 18
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert | Lisa Beznosiuk (flute)
Archiv 423.702 (Vivaldi: Six Flute Concertos op. 10) -
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde: Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
London 433.072 (Schubert: Symphonies 5 & 8) -
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade #2 F Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 423.090 (Chopin: 4 Ballades, Bracarolle, Fantasie) -
William Boyce
Symphony #6
Thursday
Dec 18
Aradia Ensemble | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.278 (Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5: IV
Thursday
Dec 18
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 425.503 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, etc.) -
John Playford
Dancing Master: Prince Rupert March, Masco
Thursday
Dec 18
Les Witches
Alpha 502 (Nobody's Jig) -
Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Thursday
Dec 18
Canadian Brass
CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas) -
Peter von Winter
Flute Concerto #2 in D Minor: III. Polacca
Thursday
Dec 18
Prague Chamber Orchestra | Bruno Meier (flute)
Naxos 570.593 (German Flute Concertos) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Emperor Waltz
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.022 (J. Strauss: Emperor Waltz) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Thursday
Dec 18
Arturo Delmoni Quartet
Listen 50001 (A String Quartet Christmas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #4
Thursday
Dec 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102.2 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Claude Debussy
Sacred and Profane Dances
Thursday
Dec 18
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Skaila Kanga (harp)
Chandos 8621 (Ravel, Debussy, Saint_Saëns & Roussel) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air. "Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted"
Thursday
Dec 18
The Carillon Brass
Integra 920 (Carillon Christmas) -
Leroy Anderson
A Christmas Festival Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band | Roy Newsome (conductor)
Chandos 8679 (Christmas Fantasy) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Variations concertantes, Op. 17
Thursday
Dec 18
Elizabeth Dolin (cello) | Bernadene Blaha (piano)
Analekta 23166 (Mendelsshon: Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1 in D Minor, Op. 13: IV. Allegro con fuoco
Thursday
Dec 18
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.9839 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1; Symphonic Dances) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Thursday
Dec 18
Scott Kritzer (guitar)
Miramont 113 (Classical Guitar Christmas) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": I. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Andante Cantabile
Thursday
Dec 18
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 416.361 (Pops in Love) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 450)
Thursday
Dec 18
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Thursday
Dec 18
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons: Winter
Thursday
Dec 18
I Musici | Federico Agostini (violin)
Philips 426.847 (Vivaldi: 6 Concerti, Op. 8) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio #5 (1718)
Thursday
Dec 18
Camerata Cologne
CPO 999.957 (Telemann: Six Trios 1718) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Thursday
Dec 18
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Frédéric Chopin
Andante spianato & grande polonaise
Thursday
Dec 18
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 459.634 (Hommage a Rachmaninov) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #4 in D Major, K 19
Thursday
Dec 18
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
Aparté 215 (Mozart: Youth Symphonies) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Thursday
Dec 18
Empire Brass
EMI 49097 (Joy to the World) -
Louis Spohr
Violin Concerto #11 in G Major, Op. 70: III. Rondo. Allegretto
Thursday
Dec 18
Simone Lamsma (violin) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 570.528 (Spohr: Violin Concertos, Nos. 6, 8 & 11) -
Robert Schumann
Concert Piece in D Minor, Op. 134 (Introduction and Allegro)
Thursday
Dec 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Uri Segal (conductor)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Samuel Wesley
Symphony in D Major (1784): III. Allegro molto
Thursday
Dec 18
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 9823 (Wesley: Symphonies) -
I Saw Three Ships
Thursday
Dec 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | James Galway (flute and conductor)
RCA 61233 (Christmas Carol) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #6 in D Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 413.727 (Handel: Six Concerti Grossi Op. 3) -
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dance, Op. 64 #1. Allegro moderato e marcato
Thursday
Dec 18
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonia, H. 658 in B-flat Major: I. Allegro di molto
Thursday
Dec 18
Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra
Capriccio 10.106 (CPE Bach: Six Symphonies for Strings) -
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Thursday
Dec 18
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #3: IV
Thursday
Dec 18
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Teldec 244.972 (Brahms: 4 Symphonien) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #9
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Prague Chamber Orchestra
Telarc 80272 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 8, 9, "44," "47," "45" & 11) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Potpourri Quadrille
Thursday
Dec 18
London Symphony Orchestra | John Georgiadis (conductor)
Chandos 6691 (The Strauss Family in London) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Thursday
Dec 18
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
Mikhail Glinka
Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80072 ("Marche Slav" and other Russian Favorites) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #1 in C Major, Op. 21: I. Adagio molto; Allegro con brio
Thursday
Dec 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 0013 (Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air. "Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted"
Thursday
Dec 18
The Carillon Brass
Integra 920 (Carillon Christmas) -
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Thursday
Dec 18
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Hector Berlioz
The Corsaire
Thursday
Dec 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
RCA 61203 (Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Ouvertures, Béatrice et Bénédict) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Concerto in F Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. Posth.: IV. Fuga
Thursday
Dec 18
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Thursday
Dec 18
Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 49809 (The Carol Album) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto #2: III
Thursday
Dec 18
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 410.507 (Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Polonaise, Op. 44) -
Amy Beach
Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Minor, Op. 34: IV. Allegro con fuoco
Thursday
Dec 18
Gilbert Kalish (piano) | Joseph Silverstein (violin)
New World 80542 (Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Arthur Farwell & Preston Ware Orem) -
Michael Haydn
Symphony #1 in C Major, P 35: IV. Presto
Thursday
Dec 18
Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.101 (Michael Haydn: Symphonies 1 - 3) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons, Op. 37b: #12. December
Thursday
Dec 18
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30005 (A Steinway Christmas Album) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons - Summer (Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8/2, RV 315)
Thursday
Dec 18
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 439.933 (Vivaldi: The 4 seasons) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #2 in C Major, Op. 61 (revised, Gustav Mahler): IV. Allegro molto vivace
Thursday
Dec 18
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.0037 (Schumann: The Complete Symphonies, Mahler Edition) -
François-Joseph Gossec
Trio in F Major, Op. 9 #3: I. Allegretto
Thursday
Dec 18
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Thursday
Dec 18
The Carillon Brass
Integra 920 (Carillon Christmas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1052 in D Minor: III. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Bernard Labadie (conductor) | Les Violons du Roy | Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Virgin 70913 (Bach: Keyboard Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #4 in D Major, K. 218: I. Allegro
Thursday
Dec 18
Baiba Skride (violin) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Eivind Aadland (conductor)
Orfeo 997.201 (Baiba Skride: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 63303 (The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein) -
Franz Schubert
Impromptu, Op. 142 #3 in B-flat Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 422.237 (Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & Op. 142) -
Joseph Haydn
Oboe Concerto in C Major, Hob VIIg:C1
Thursday
Dec 18
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | The English Concert | Paul Goodwin (oboe)
Archiv 431.678 (Haydn: Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 "Eroica": I
Thursday
Dec 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57445 (Beethoven: Symphonies) -
George Frideric Handel
Amadigi di Gaula: Overture: Gavotta
Thursday
Dec 18
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto
Thursday
Dec 18
English Chamber Orchestra | Raymond Leppard (conductor) | Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)
Sony 57497 (Wynton Marsalis, The London Concert) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet A Major (Op. 81)
Thursday
Dec 18
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | Borodin Quartet
Philips 412.429 (Dvořák: Piano Quintets) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Armide: Passacaille
Thursday
Dec 18
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band
Accent 96122 (Concert De Danse - La Petite Bande) -
Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes
Thursday
Dec 18
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 432.093 (Beethoven & Schumann: Theme and Variations 2) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto, K. 314
Thursday
Dec 18
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Ray Still (oboe)
DG 415.104 (Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3, etc. - Haydn: Trumpet Concerto) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 358 in G Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.131 (Debussy, Ravel, Dukas & Saint-Saëns: Various Works) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1
Thursday
Dec 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin 90830 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir of a Beloved Place, Op. 42: #3. Melody
Thursday
Dec 18
Daniel Lozakovich (violin) | Stanisłav Soloviev (piano)
DG 483.6086 (Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto in C Major, F VII/11
Thursday
Dec 18
Alex Klein (oboe) | New Brandenburg Collegium | Anthony Newman (conductor)
Cedille 7003 (Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor"
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Maurizio Pollini (piano) | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 439.770 (Beethoven: Die 5 Klavierkonzerte) -
Louis Spohr
Alruna: Overture
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Christian Froehlich (conductor)
CPO 999.093 (Spohr: Overtures) -
Johannes Brahms
Serenade #2, Op. 16
Thursday
Dec 18
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
RCA 7920 (Brahms: Serenade No. 2, Haydn Variationen, Akademische Festouvertüren) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #80 in D Minor
Thursday
Dec 18
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne, Op. 62 #1 in B Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 477.7483 (Frederic Chopin)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Jules Massenet
Werther
Thursday
Dec 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] | Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] | Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] | Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] | James Savage-Hanford [Hans] | Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] | Christopher Waine [Karl] | Sally Cannon [Clara] | Joel Gunger [Max] | Sarah Baillie [Fritz] | Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Anonymous
Mater ora filium
Thursday
Dec 18
The Hilliard Ensemble | Paul Hillier (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1154 (Sumer is icumen in: Chants medievaux anglais) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus
Thursday
Dec 18
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | William Kendall (tenor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | Charlotte Margiono (soprano) | Catherine Robbin (alto) | Alastaire Miles (bass)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Four Sacred Pieces
Thursday
Dec 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Orchestra of Teatro Regio Torino | Chorus of Teatro Regio Torino
Chandos 10659 (Giuseppe Verdi: Choral Works) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Khristos voskres (Christ is risen!), Op. 26 #6
Thursday
Dec 18
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
George Frideric Handel
Amadigi: Act II, Aria. "S'estinto è l'idol mio"
Thursday
Dec 18
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Oriana]
Erato 2292.45490 (Handel: Amadigi) -
Walter Braunfels
Te Deum, Op. 32: IV. Dignare Domine
Thursday
Dec 18
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Manfred Honneck (conductor)
Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Der Hirt; Pilgerweise; Wandrers Nachtlied; Frühlingsglaube; Das Heimweh; Der Kreuzzug; Abschied (The Shepherd; Pilgrim's Song; Wanderer's Night Song; Faith in Spring; Homesickness; Farewell)
Thursday
Dec 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Ingo Metzmacher (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2035 (Schubert: Heliopolis) -
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade: #3. L'Indifférent (The indifferent one)
Thursday
Dec 18
Renée Fleming (soprano) | French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Alan Gilbert (conductor)
Decca 001654302 (Poemes) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Dom Sébastien, roi du Portugal: Act II, Zayda's romance. "Que faire?...Sol adoré de la patrie" (What am I to do?...Where can I hide my sorrow?)
Thursday
Dec 18
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna
DG 0012818 (Bel Canto) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scenes 13-16 (Finale)
Thursday
Dec 18
RIAS Chamber Chorus | René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Johannes Weisser [Don Giovanni] | Lorenzo Regazzo [Leporello] | Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Donna Elivra] | Olga Pasichnyk [Donna Anna] | Kenneth Tarver [Don Ottavio] | Sunhae Im [Zerlina] | Nikolay Borchev [Masetto] | Alessandro Guerzoni [Il Commendatore]
Harmonia Mundi 90.1964-66 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mazeppa: Mazeppa's arioso: "O Mariya, Mariya!" (O Maria, Maria!)
Thursday
Dec 18
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39
Thursday
Dec 18
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Franz Liszt
Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Night Song), S 306
Thursday
Dec 18
Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: Act IV
Thursday
Dec 18
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Roméo] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Juliette] | José van Dam (baritone) [Frère Laurent] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Stéphano] | Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Mercutio] | Alain Fondary [Capulet] | Claire Larcher [Gertrude] | Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Tybalt] | Guy Flechter [Benvolio] | Didier Henry [Pâris] | Till Fecnher [Grégorio] | Alain Vernhes [Le Duc] | Christophe Fel [Frère Jean] | Anne Constantin [Manuela] | Doris Lamprecht [Pepita] | Yann Beuron [Angelo] | Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
EMI 56123 (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ja zhdu tebja (I am waiting for you), Op. 14 #1
Thursday
Dec 18
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Thomas Tallis
Benedictus
Thursday
Dec 18
The Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood (conductor)
Hyperion 68026 (Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Part 1. Excerpts from Les Indes Galantes, Pigmalion, Les Paladins, Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour
Thursday
Dec 18
Le Jeune Chœur de Paris | Sabine Devieilhe (soiprano) | Aimery Lefèvre (baritone) | Les Ambassadeurs | Alexis Kossenko (conductor)
Erato 34149 (Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour) -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina: Act I, Aria. "Di', cor mio, quanto t'amai"
Thursday
Dec 18
William Christie (conductor) | Renée Fleming (soprano) [Alcina] | Les Arts Florissants
Erato 8573.80233 (Handel: Alcina) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Act III
Thursday
Dec 18
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | 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 417.137 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Thomas Tomkins
When David Heard
Thursday
Dec 18
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Die Götter Griechenlands; Philoktet; Fragment aus dem Aischylos; Der entsühnte Orest; Aus Helopolis; Heliopolis (Greek Gods; Philoctetes; Fragment from Aeschylus; Orestes Purified; From Heliopolis; Heliopolis)
Thursday
Dec 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Ingo Metzmacher (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2035 (Schubert: Heliopolis) -
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Titon et l'Aurore: Prologue
Thursday
Dec 18
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Titon] | Catherine Napoli [L'Aurore] | Philippe Huttenlocher [Prométhée] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Palès] | Anne Monoyios (soprano) [L'Amour] | Ensemble Vocal Françoise Herr
Erato 2292.45715 (Mondonville: Titon et l'Aurore) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39: Wehmut (Melancholy)
Thursday
Dec 18
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Nicola Porpora
Cantata #11. Recitative and aria. "Passano i fiumi e i rivi...Se mi prestasse i vanni" (Rivers and brooks flow...If lent his wings)
Thursday
Dec 18
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 143. Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Praise the Lord, O my soul)
Thursday
Dec 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor)
SDG 150 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 17) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vesperæ solennes de Confessore in C Major, K 339
Thursday
Dec 18
Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Pamela Heuvelmans (soprano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Franz Liszt
Die stille Wasserrose (The silent waterlily)
Thursday
Dec 18
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Virgin 70928 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il Signor Bruschino: Opening
Thursday
Dec 18
English Chamber Orchestra | Ion Marin (conductor) | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Gaudenzio] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Sofia] | Claudio Desderi [Bruschino, padre] | Octavio Arévalo [Bruschino, figlio] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Florville] | Octavio Arévalo [Commissario di polizia] | Michele Pertusi [Filiberto] | Jennifer Larmore [Marianna]
DG 435.865 (Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera: Act III
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Riccardo] | Renato Bruson [Renato] | Margaret Price [Amelia] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Ulrica] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Oscar] | Peter Weber [Silvano] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Samuel] | Malcolm King [Tom] | Alexander Oliver [Un Giudice] | Peter Hall [Un Servo d'Amelia] | Royal College of Music Junior Department Chorus
London 410.210 (Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera) -
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre: "Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond" [Act I]
Thursday
Dec 18
Peter Hofmann (tenor) | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Iván Fischer (conductor)
CBS 38931 (Hoffman sings Wagner) -
John Rutter
Gloria
Thursday
Dec 18
Cambridge Singers | Philip Jones Brass Ensemble | City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor)
Collegium 515 (Gloria) -
Gustav Mahler
Das klagende Lied (revised version)
Thursday
Dec 18
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Recorded live on May 2, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam | Julia Faulkner (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (alto) | Gary Lakes (tenor) | Städtischer Musikveriein zu Düsseldorf
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Antoine Brumel
Missa pro defunctis: Kyrie
Thursday
Dec 18
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Farnace: Act II, Aria. Perdona, o figlio amato (Forgive me beloved son)
Thursday
Dec 18
Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Virgin 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace) -
Robert Schumann
Fünf Lieder (5 Songs), Op. 40
Thursday
Dec 18
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli
Thursday
Dec 18
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro 16014 (Allegri: Miserere) -
Anonymous
Death, rock me asleep
Thursday
Dec 18
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Julian Behr (lute) | Concerto di Viole
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2) -
Bedřich Smetana
Libuse: Act II, Conclusion
Thursday
Dec 18
Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Eva Urbanová [Libuse] | Vratislav Kriz [Premysl of Stadice] | Ludek Vele [Chrudos from Otava] | Jan Markvart [Stahlav from Radbuza] | Miloslav Podskalsky [Lutobor from Dobroslavsky Chlumec] | Pavel Cervinka [Radovan from the Stone Bridge] | Helena Kaupova [Krasava] | Miroslava Volkova [Radmila] | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre | Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
Supraphon 3200-2632 (Smetana: Libuše) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act III, Seleuce's aria. "Senza il suo bene la tortorella" (Without her beloved)
Thursday
Dec 18
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Karina Gauvin [Seleuce]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: Act II
Thursday
Dec 18
Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Thomas Moser [Tristan] | Deborah Voigt [Isolde] | Petra Lang [Brangäne] | Peter Weber [Kurwenal] | Robert Holl [König Marke] | Markus Nieminen [Melot] | Michael Roider [Ein Hirt] | In-Sung Sim [Ein Steuermann] | John Dickie [Ein junger Seemann] | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 0002250 (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ne ver mne drug (Do not believe me, my friend), Op. 14 #7
Thursday
Dec 18
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: VII. Libera me
Thursday
Dec 18
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Alessandra Marc (soprano)
Erato 4509.96357 (Verdi: Requiem) -
Giovanni Gabrieli
Magnificat
Thursday
Dec 18
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila: Act II, Scene 3
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] | José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] | Jonathan Summers [Le Grand Prêtre] | Simon Estes [Abimelech] | Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] | Robert Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] | Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Deuxième Philistin]
Philips 426.243 (Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila) -
Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut: Aria. "Sola, perduta, abbandonata"
Thursday
Dec 18
Mirella Freni (soprano) | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
John Browne
Jesu, mercy, how may this be?
Thursday
Dec 18
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act III, No. 18 (Finale). "Oh colpo!"."D'un cor che muore reca il perdono"."Giuge il Conte"."Ah! se un giorno"
Thursday
Dec 18
Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy] | Francisco Araiza [Roberto, Conte di Leicester] | Simone Alaimo [Lord Guglielmo Cecil] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury]
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Thursday
Dec 18
Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Peter Kooij (bass) | Howard Crook (tenor) | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) | Collegium Musicum 90
Virgin 90757 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare: Act II, Scene 9, Cornelia's aria. "L'aure che spira" (The cruel, inhuman wretch)
Thursday
Dec 18
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 623.177 (Heroes from the Shadows) -
Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Tristitia obsedit me...Infelix ego (Sadness has besieged me...Wretch that I am)
Thursday
Dec 18
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate, K 165
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Christine Schäfer (soprano)
DG 457.582 (Mozart: Arias) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Roland
Thursday
Dec 18
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Nicolas Testé [Roland] | Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] | Olivier Dumait [Médor] | Monique Zanetti [Témire] | Robert Getchell [Astolfe] | Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] | Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante | Demogorgon | Un suivant d'Angélique] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire | Tersandre] | Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire | Un suivant d'Angélique | Coridon, un pâtre]] | Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente | Une suivante d'Angélique | Une postourelle] | Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique | Une amante contente, La Gloire]
Amboise 9949 (Lully: Roland) -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Act I Finale
Thursday
Dec 18
Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] | Todor Todorov [Vladimir] | Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] | Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] | Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] | Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] | Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] | Radka Gaeva [Nurse] | Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] | Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor) | Boris Christoff (bass)
EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor) -
Claude Debussy
Trois Ballades de François Villon
Thursday
Dec 18
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act I
Thursday
Dec 18
Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Edita Gruberova [Violetta Valéry] | Patricia Spence [Flora Bervoix] | Monica Bacelli [Annina] | Neil Shicoff [Alfredo Germont] | Giorgio Zancanaro [Giorgio Germont] | Kim Begley [Gastone, Visconte de Létorières] | Peter Sidhom [Barone Douphol] | David Barrell [Marchese d'Obigny] | Alastaire Miles [Dottore Grenvil] | Peter Bronder [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] | Fabrizio Visentin [Domestico di Flora] | Nicholas Folwell [Commissionario] | Ambrosian Singers | Marc Barrard (baritone) [Marchese d'Obigny] | Ambrosian Singers [Signori e signore | Amici di Violetta e Flora | Mattadore | Piccadori e zingare
Teldec 9031.76348 (Verdi: La Traviata) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Alma grande e nobil core, K 578
Thursday
Dec 18
European Sinfonietta | Ed Spanjaard (conductor) | Miranda van Kralingen (soprano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Carlisle Floyd
Susannah: Act II
Thursday
Dec 18
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) -
Robert Johnson
Full fathom five
Thursday
Dec 18
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Julian Behr (lute) | Concerto di Viole
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2) -
Robert Schumann
Drei Gesänge, Op. 31: #1. Die Löwenbraut (The Lion's Bride)
Thursday
Dec 18
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Thursday
Dec 18
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Jennifer Johnson (mezzo-soprano) | Matthew Rose (bass)
SDG 718 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Thursday
Dec 18
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chorus Viennensis | Vienna Boys Choir | Rotraud Hansmann | Emiko Iiyama | Helen Watts (alto) | Kurt Equiluz | Max von Egmond (bass)
Teldec 35019 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Zaïs: Act II, scene 1. "Charmes des cœurs ambitieux...A mes désirs" ("Magic lure of ambitious hearts...Let your zeal")
Thursday
Dec 18
Ryan Brown (conductor) | Opera Lafayette Orchestra | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (haute-contre [high tenor])
Naxos 557.993 (Rameau: Operatic Arias)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #1 in C Minor, Op. 37
Thursday
Dec 18
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 104
Thursday
Dec 18
BIS 622-624 (Sibelius) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 30 #6. Venetian Gondola Song. Allegretto tranquilo (arr. Ottensamer)
Thursday
Dec 18
Yuja Wang (piano) | Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
DG 483.6069 (Blue Hour) -
Performance Today
Thursday
Dec 18
Private Recording -
Alexander Glazunov
Saxophone Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 109
Thursday
Dec 18
Russian National Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor) | Marc Chisson (alto saxophone)
Warner Classics 4679465 (Glazunov: Complete Concertos) -
Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Thursday
Dec 18
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 423.665 (Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Choral Fantasy
Thursday
Dec 18
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Prague Philharmonic Choir | Leif Ove Andsnes (conductor)
Sony 305886 (The Beethoven Journey) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in G Major, Op. 32 #5
Thursday
Dec 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Thursday
Dec 18
Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra
DG 435.766 (Debussy: Images, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Printemps) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 25
Thursday
Dec 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Roland Pöntinen (piano) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 356 (Gade) -
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Decca 460.296 (Strauss: The Concertos) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. posth.
Thursday
Dec 18
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
George Rochberg
Transcendental Variations
Thursday
Dec 18
Christopher Lyndon Gee (conductor) | Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 559.115 (Rochberg: Symphony No. 5) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio #3
Thursday
Dec 18
Trio Fontenay
Teldec 9031.76458 (Dvořák: Piano Trios) -
Carl Reinecke
King Manfred: Romance
Thursday
Dec 18
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Richard Strauss
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor
Thursday
Dec 18
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor) | Malcolm Frager (piano)
EMI Classics 64342 (Richard Strauss) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto #3 in C Major, Op. 26
Thursday
Dec 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 415.062 (Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev Piano Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Ich bin der schneider Kakadu", Op. 121a (10 Variations on Müller's Song): Final Variation
Thursday
Dec 18
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and Fugue, K. 546 in C Minor
Thursday
Dec 18
The English Concert | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7280 (Mozart: Night Music) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite #4 "Mozartiana"
Thursday
Dec 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | The Philharmonia
Chandos 8777 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite #4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010
Thursday
Dec 18
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Sony 63203 (Bach: Cello Suites) -
John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Thursday
Dec 18
Naxos 559.031 (ADAMS: Shaker Loops) -
Orchestra Series
Thursday
Dec 18
-
Benjamin Britten
Spring Symphony, Op. 44
Thursday
Dec 18
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) -
Jaromír Weinberger
Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka and Fugue
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Pro Arte Orchestra
EMI 63779 (Leos Janacek) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata #19 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis
Thursday
Dec 18
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Chandos 10668 (Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet A Major (Op. 81)
Thursday
Dec 18
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | Borodin Quartet
Philips 412.429 (Dvořák: Piano Quintets) -
Thomas Robinson
Twenty Ways Upon the Bells
Thursday
Dec 18
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 372 in A Major (Op. 1 #14)
Thursday
Dec 18
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Florence Price
Violin Concerto #2
Thursday
Dec 18
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra | Er-gene Kahng (violin) | Ryan Cockerham (conductor)
Albany 1706 (Florence Price Violin Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #24 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 78
Thursday
Dec 18
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1903-05 (Beethoven #2) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet, K. 465 "Dissonance"
Thursday
Dec 18
Teldec 9031.72480 (Mozart: The Late String Quartets) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lullaby, Op. 16 #1 (arr. Rachmaninoff)
Thursday
Dec 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata #3 in A Minor, WoO 27
Thursday
Dec 18
Jennifer Koh (violin) | Reiko Uchida (piano)
Cedille 90000.095 (Schumann: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma"
Thursday
Dec 18
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | London Philharmonic
Sony 60789 (Elgar) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue #7 in E-flat Major, BWV 876
Thursday
Dec 18
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue D Minor (BWV 565)
Thursday
Dec 18
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 85072 (Stokowski Transcriptions) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 33
Thursday
Dec 18
Neave Trio
Chandos 20139 (Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke) -
Dora Pejačević
Impromptu, Op. 9
Thursday
Dec 18
Quatuor Sine Nomine | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777.421 (Dora Pejacevic: Chamber Works) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in C
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère l'Oye
Thursday
Dec 18
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 410.254 (Ravel: Orchestral Works) -
Jean Sibelius
Valse triste, Op. 44/1
Thursday
Dec 18
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sony 46668 (A Nordic Festival) -
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Lute Sonata in B-flat Major
Thursday
Dec 18
Bernhard Hofstötter (lute)
Querstand 1011 (Dresden Moskau) -
Richard Strauss
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Thursday
Dec 18
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 427.617 (Strauss) -
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Thursday
Dec 18
The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own"
Private Recording (Private Recording) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Romance for violin and piano
Thursday
Dec 18
Hyperion 67381-2 (Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Chamber Music) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata #48 in C Major, Hob. XVI:35
Thursday
Dec 18
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Chandos 10668 (Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33
Thursday
Dec 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano)
Chandos 10309 (Dvorak) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #2 in F Minor "Dragonfly"
Thursday
Dec 18
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
Anonymous
Carol. Hail mary ful of grace
Thursday
Dec 18
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 80.7453 (The Cherry Tree) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #14 "Moonlight"
Thursday
Dec 18
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Bridge 9250 (Beethoven: Sonatas, Vol. 5) -
Francis Poulenc
Elegy for Horn and Piano
Thursday
Dec 18
James Levine (piano) | Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
DG 427.639 (Poulenc) -
Robert Schumann
6 Études in Canonic Form, Op. 56
Thursday
Dec 18
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Christian Tetzlaff (violin) | Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
EMI 94180 (Schumann: Piano Trios) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Passe lointain, Op. 72 #17
Thursday
Dec 18
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0004284 (Tchaikovsky: 18 Piano Pieces, Op. 72) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #9 in D Minor
Thursday
Dec 18
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 417.295 (Bruckner) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in A Minor, Op. 32 #8
Thursday
Dec 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 58
Thursday
Dec 18
Sergei Istomin (cello) | Viviana Sofronitsky (piano)
Passacaille 947 (Felix Mendelssohn: Complete works for Cello and Pianoforte) -
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concerto de Aranjuez
Thursday
Dec 18
Lawrence Foster (conductor) | Lausanne Chamber Orchestra | Sharon Isbin (guitar)
Virgin 91192 (Sharon Isbin) -
Manuel de Falla
La Vida Breve: Spanish Dance from Act II
Thursday
Dec 18
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80625 (Ballet Favorites) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite #6 in D Minor, BWV 811
Thursday
Dec 18
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 60276 (Bach: English Suites) -
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish Symphony
Thursday
Dec 18
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8545 (Stanford: Symphony No. 3 'Irish')