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WETA Classical
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Omar
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
Saturday
Dec 2
LA Opera
Private Recording (Private Recording) -
Concerto, BWV 1060
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 2
Andrew Manze (violin) | Rachel Podger (violin) | Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7155 (Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Sinfonia concertante, K. 364
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 429.784 (Mozart: Sinfonie Concertanti K. 297b & K. 364) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #7 in B-flat Major (HWV 402)
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Dec 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5) -
Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 22
Frédéric Chopin
Saturday
Dec 2
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
Cello Concerto #1 in A Minor
Camille Saint-Saëns
Saturday
Dec 2
Gautier Capuçon (cello) | French Radio Philharmonic | Lionel Bringuier (conductor)
Erato 34134 (Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète) -
Concerto in D Minor, RV 565
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Dec 2
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | George Kallweit (violin) | Elfa Run Kristinsdottir (violin) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | George Kallweit (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2095 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Symphony #1 "Titan"
Gustav Mahler
Saturday
Dec 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Philips 420.936 (Mahler: Symphony No. 1) -
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
Dec 2
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 624344 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Flute Concerto in C Major, B 106
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Saturday
Dec 2
Patrick Gallois (flute) | Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.550 (Pleyel: Symphonies in B-Flat and G) -
Piano Sonata #2 in A Major, Op. 2 #2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 2
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1906.08 (Beethoven #3) -
Concerto for 2 Horns D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Saturday
Dec 2
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
Saturday
Dec 2
Canadian Brass
CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas) -
Divertimento, K. 138
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra | Iona Brown (conductor)
Omega 1004 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 29, Divertementos K.136 & K.138) -
Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 2
Jeremy Denk (piano)
Azica 71262 (Bach: Partitas 3, 4 & 5) -
Trumpet Concerto
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Saturday
Dec 2
Alison Balsom (trumpet) | German Chamber Philharmonic of Bremen | Alison Balsom (conductor)
EMI 16213 (Haydn, Hummel & etc: Trumpet Concertos) -
Symphony #93 in D Major
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
Dec 2
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Nimbus 5200/4 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Piano Trio #2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Felix Mendelssohn
Saturday
Dec 2
Klaviertrio Amsterdam
Brilliant 94039 (Mendelssohn: Piano Trios) -
Symphony #49 in F Major
Christian Cannabich
Saturday
Dec 2
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Uwe Grodd (conductor)
Naxos 554.340 (Cannabich: Symphonies Nos. 47 - 52) -
Piano Concerto #2
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Saturday
Dec 2
Christina Ortiz (piano) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Moshe Atzmon (conductor)
London 414.348 (Addinsell: "Warsaw" Concerto - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, etc.) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #2 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Dec 2
Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Sony 52553 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Octet in F Major, D. 803: V. Menuetto. Allegretto
Franz Schubert
Saturday
Dec 2
Modigliani String Quartet | Sabine Meyer (clarinet) | Bruno Schneider (horn) | Dag Jensen (bassoon) | Knut Erik Sundquist (double bass)
Mirare 438 (Schubert: Octet) -
Piano Concerto #6 in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Johann Baptist Cramer
Saturday
Dec 2
Howard Shelley (piano) | London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley (conductor)
Hyperion 68302 (The Classical Piano Concerto: Johann Baptist Cramer) -
Divertimento, K. 251
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Sony 53277 (Mozart: Posthorn Serenade) -
Ballade #4 F Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Saturday
Dec 2
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 423.090 (Chopin: 4 Ballades, Bracarolle, Fantasie) -
Impressions from the Countryside, Op. 54
Zdenek Fibich
Saturday
Dec 2
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Stilec (conductor)
Naxos 572.985 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 1) -
Banquet Music, Part 2: Quartet in D Minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Saturday
Dec 2
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Clarinet Concerto #3 in F Minor, WoO 19
Louis Spohr
Saturday
Dec 2
Karl Leister (clarinet) | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
Orfeo 088.201 (Spohr: Clarinert Concertos 2 & 3) -
Piano Trio, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 2
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Dolly
Gabriel Fauré
Saturday
Dec 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
DG 423.089 (Faure: Pelleas et Melisande, Dolly) -
Partita #4 in D Major, BWV 828
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 2
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 411.732 (Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830) -
Symphony #69
Joseph Haydn
Saturday
Dec 2
Concentus Musicus of Vienna | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 9031-76460 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 30, 53 & 69) -
Piano Trio #2 in G Minor, Op. 26
Antonín Dvorák
Saturday
Dec 2
Trio Fontenay
Teldec 9031-76458 (Dvorák: Piano Trios) -
Concerto G Major (S. 213)
Johann David Heinichen
Saturday
Dec 2
Musica Antiqua Köln | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
String Quartet in E-flat Major
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Saturday
Dec 2
Nash Ensemble
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Piano Concerto #8
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos) -
Symphony #2 in B Minor
Alexander Borodin
Saturday
Dec 2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 436.651 (Borodin: Symphonies 1 & 2) -
Symphony #2
Thomas Augustine Arne
Saturday
Dec 2
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8403 (Arne: Symphonies 1 - 4)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Missa solemnis, Op. 123: I. Kyrie
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 2
Lella Cuberli | Trudeliese Schmidt | Vinson Cole (tenor) | José van Dam (baritone) | Vienna Singverein | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 419.166 (Beethoven: Missa solemnis) -
Stabat mater [after 1690]
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Saturday
Dec 2
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
At Middle-Field Gate in February [text by Thomas Hardy]
Gerald Finzi
Saturday
Dec 2
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) | Julius Drake (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2093 (Down by the Salley Gardens) -
Maometto Secondo: Act I, Scene 4
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
Dec 2
Samuel Ramey (bass) | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
Ariodante: Act I
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Dec 2
Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] | Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] | Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] | Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] | Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] | Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani [Odoardo] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin Classics 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Les Troyens: Act I, Opening (Nr 1-3)
Hector Berlioz
Saturday
Dec 2
Jon Vickers [Enée] | Josephine Veasey [Didon] | Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] | Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] | Heather Begg [Anna] | Roger Soyer [Narbal] | Anthony Raffell [Panthée] | Anne Howells [Ascagne] | Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] | Pierre Thau [Priamus] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] | Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] | Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] | Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] | David Lennox [Hélénus] | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 475.6661 (Berlioz: Les Troyens) -
Rienzi: Act I Finale
Richard Wagner
Saturday
Dec 2
René Kollo (tenor) [Rienzi] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Irene] | Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Steffano Colonna] | John Janssen [Adriano] | Bodo Brinkmann [Paolo Orsini] | Hans Helms [Kardinal Orvieto] | Norbert Orth [Baroncelli] | Kieth Engen [Cecco del Vecchio] | Carmen Anhorn [Ein Friedensbote] | Raimund Grumbach [Der Gesandte Mailands] | Hans Wilbrink [Der Gesandte der lombardischen Städte] | Friedrich Lenz [Der Gesandte Neapels] | Alfred Kuhn [Der Gesandte Bayerns] | Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper | Bayerisches Staatsorchester | Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
Orfeo 346.953 (Wagner: Rienzi) -
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Don Giovanni] | Matti Salminen (bass) [Commendatore/La Statua] | Carmela Remigio [Donna Anna] | Uwe Heilmann [Don Ottavio] | Soile Isokosi (soprano) [Donna Elvira] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Leporello] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Masetto] | Miti Trucato Pace [Zerlina] | Coro di Ferrara Musica | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 457.601 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler
Saturday
Dec 2
Ben Heppner (tenor) | Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra | Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Recorded live on May 14, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt [Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage]
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 2
Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Norma: Act I Scene 2
Vincenzo Bellini
Saturday
Dec 2
Maria Callas [Norma] | Mario Filippeschi [Pollione] | Ebe Stignani [Adalgisa] | Nicola Rossi-Lemeni [Oroveso] | Paolo Caroli [Flavio] | Rina Cavallari [Clotilde] | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Tullio Serafin (conductor)
EMI 56271 (Bellini: Norma) -
Cantata, BWV 12. Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, wailing, fretting, fearing)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 2
William Towers (alto) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Julian Clarkson (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Schlosskirche, Altenburg, May 14, 2000]
SDG 107 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 24) -
Cantata. Tra le fiamme (Il consiglio), HWV 170: Aria. "Pien di novo e bel diletto"
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Dec 2
Stefanie True (soprano) | Contrasto Armonico | Marco Vitale (conductor)
Brilliant 94000 (Handel: Complete Cantatas, Vol. 2) -
Médée: Act II, scene 4, Néris's aria. "Ah! Nos peines seront communes" (Ah! We will share our sorrows)
Luigi Cherubini
Saturday
Dec 2
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Virgin Classics 16574 (Tragédiennes, Vol. 2) -
Les Fêtes d'Hébé (Opéra-ballet) [The Festivities of Hebe]: I. Première Entrée. La Poésie [Poetry]
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Saturday
Dec 2
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) [Sapho (Sappho)] | Sophie Daneman (soprano) [Une Naïde (A Naiad)] | Paul Agnew (tenor) [Le Ruisseau (The stream)] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor) [Thélème (Thelemus)] | Luc Coadou (baritone) [Alcée (Alcaeus)] | Laurent Slaars (baritone) [Hymas] | Matthieu Lécroart (baritone) [Le Fleuve (The river)] | Les Arts Florissants [Mariniers, Lacédémoniennes, bergers, bergères, nymphes, faunes, et sylvains (Rivermen, Lacedaemonian women, shepherds, shepherdesses, nymphs, fauns, and sylvans)] | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Ernani: Part III. Clemency
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday
Dec 2
Luciano Pavarotti [Ernani] | Leo Nucci [Don Carlo] | Paata Burchuladze [Don Ruy Gomez de Silva] | Joan Sutherland [Elvira] | Linda McLeod [Giovanna] | Richard Morton [Don Riccardo] | Alastaire Miles [Jago] | Chorus of Welsh National Opera [Mountain people and bandits, knights, members of Silva's household, maids in attendance on Elvira, knights of Don Carlo's suite, members of the "Holy Alliance," Spanish and German nobles and their ladies] | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Saturday
Dec 2
The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge | Lynda Russell (soprano) | Patrizia Kwella (soprano) | Anne Wilkens (mezzo-soprano) | Kenneth Bowen (tenor) | The Wren Orchestra | Geoge Guest (conductor)
Argo 410.018 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Ascanio in Alba: Act II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Maaike Beekman [Ascanio] | Claudia Patacca [Venere] | Nicola Wemyss [Silvia] | Tom Allen [Aceste] | Claron McFadden [Fauno] | Musica ad Rhenum | Jed Wentz (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Cantata, BWV 182. Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (King of Heaven, Thou art welcome)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Saturday
Dec 2
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Walpole St Peter, Norfolk, Mar 26, 2000]
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 2
Tina Kiberg (soprano) | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | John Aler | Robert Holl (bass) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Erato 4509-91731 (Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123) -
Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Saturday
Dec 2
Gary Lakes [Oberon] | Ben Heppner [Hüon von Bordeaux] | Deborah Voigt [Rezia] | Delores Ziegler [Fatime] | Dwayne Croft [Scherasmin] | Victoria Livengood [Puck] | Machiko Obata [Meermädchen] | Ludwig Boettger [Narrator] | Cologne Opera Chorus | Cologne Philharmonic | James Conlon (conductor)
EMI 54739 (Weber: Oberon) -
Wehmut, D 772
Franz Schubert
Saturday
Dec 2
Cheryl Studer (soprano) | Irwin Gage (piano)
DG 431.773 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Cantata #11. Oh Dio, che non è vero (Oh God, it is not true)
Nicola Porpora
Saturday
Dec 2
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
La Finta Giardiniera: Act I, Scenes 8-15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Saturday
Dec 2
Sophie Karthäuser [Sandrina] | Jeremy Ovenden [Contino Belfiore] | Alex Penda [Arminda] | Marie-Claude Chappuis [Cavaliere Ramiro] | Nicolas Rivenq [Podestà] | Sunhae Im [Serpetta] | Michael Nagy [Roberto] | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2126.28 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Dardanus (Tragédie en musique): Act I
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Saturday
Dec 2
Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano) [Vénus] | Frederica von Stade (soprano) [Iphise, fille de Teucer (Iphise, daughter of Teucer)] | Georges Gautier (tenor) [Dardanus, fils d'Electra et Jupiter (Dardanus, son of Elektra and Jupiter)] | Michaël Devlin (Anténor, roi d'un pays voisin (Antenor, king of a neighboring country)] | Roger Soyer (bass-baritone) [Teucer, roi de Phrygie (Teucer, King of Phrygia)] | José van Dam (bass) [Isménor, un magicien] | Véronique Dietschy (soprano) [Une Phrygienne] | Hélène Garetti (soprano), Annick Dutertre (soprano), Monique Marandon (soprano), Jean-Philippe Courtis (bass) [Les Songes (Dreams)] | Chœurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris [Ministres, les grands, le peuple (Ministers, princes, and people)] | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris | Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Nabucco: Part II. L'Empio (The Impious One)
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday
Dec 2
Tito Gobbi [Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), King of Babylon] | Bruno Prevedi [Ismaele] | Carlo Cava [Zaccaria] | Elena Souliotis [Abigaille] | Dora Carral [Fenena] | Giovanni Foiani [The High Priest of Baal] | Walter Kräutler [Abdallo] | Anna d'Auria [Anna] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus [Babylonian & Hebrew warriors, Levites, soothsayers, Hebrew virgins, Babylonian women, high lords of the kingdom of Babylon, populace] | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Es war ein König in Thule [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
Franz Liszt
Saturday
Dec 2
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto) | Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Siegfried: Act II Finale. "In der Höhle hier lieg' auf dem Hort!...Nun sing! Ich lasuche dem Gesang"
Richard Wagner
Saturday
Dec 2
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Siegfried] | Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Der Waldvogel] | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 57242 (Wagner: Siegfried) -
La Cenerentola: Act II Sextet. "Siete voi?"
Gioachino Rossini
Saturday
Dec 2
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] | Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] | Simone Alaimo [Dandini] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] | Carol Malone [Clorinda] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] | John Del Carlo [Alidoro] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 420.468 (Rossini: La Cenerentola) -
Theodora: Selections
George Frideric Handel
Saturday
Dec 2
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano) | Drew Minter (countertenor) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord & conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471.72 (A Tribute) -
Silent Noon [text by Dante Gabriel Rossetti]
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Saturday
Dec 2
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) | Julius Drake (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2093 (Down by the Salley Gardens) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday
Dec 2
Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major)