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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Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto #1
Tuesday
Aug 18
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 411.952 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole - Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 1) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #39
Tuesday
Aug 18
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | The English Concert
Archiv 427.661 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 35, 38, 39, & 59) -
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel & Gretel: Overture
Tuesday
Aug 18
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Karl Anton Rickenbacher (conductor)
Virgin 91494 (Humperdinck: Märchenmusiken) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #6
Tuesday
Aug 18
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Delos 3185 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos) -
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
Harp Concerto in C Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Elizabeth Hainen (harp) | Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rossen Milanov (conductor)
Avie 2221 (Harp Concertos) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 235
Tuesday
Aug 18
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #2 in A Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Frédéric Chopin
Barcarolle
Tuesday
Aug 18
Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 447.430 (Liszt: Sonata in B Minor) -
Pierre Rode
Violin Concerto #13 in F-sharp Minor, Op. posth.
Tuesday
Aug 18
Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
Naxos 570.469 (Rode: Violin Concertos, Nos. 7, 10 & 13) -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite #1
Tuesday
Aug 18
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80279 (Handel: Water Music) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 49114 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From The New World") -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Quintet E-flat Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet
Philips 426.440 (Mozart, Beethoven, Reicha, J. Haydn & M. Haydn) -
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite
Tuesday
Aug 18
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8756 (Debussy: Petite Suite, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #13 in D Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Graf van Wassenaer Unico Wilhelm
Concerto #4
Tuesday
Aug 18
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 8481 ('Pergolesi' Concerti) -
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto
Tuesday
Aug 18
Czech Philharmonic | Garrick Ohlsson (piano) | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Supraphon 2047 (Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Poeme de l'extase; Reverie) -
Charles Avison
Concerto after Scarlatti #6 in D Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Johann Christian Bach
Sonata in G Major, B. 37
Tuesday
Aug 18
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 109
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sergei Istomin (cello) | Viviana Sofronitsky (piano)
Passacaille 947 (Felix Mendelssohn: Complete works for Cello and Pianoforte) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 77 #2 in F Major "Lobkowitz": I. Allegro moderato
Tuesday
Aug 18
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite #1
Tuesday
Aug 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 415.106 (Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Carmen Suite) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto, H. 439 in A Major: III. Allegro assai
Tuesday
Aug 18
English Chamber Orchestra | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) | Matt Haimovitz (cello)
DG 429.219 (Boccherini, Haydn & C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #1 in G Minor: I. Allegro moderato
Tuesday
Aug 18
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Franz Benda
Flute Concerto in E Minor: III. Presto
Tuesday
Aug 18
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) | Mikael Helasvuo (flute) | Helsinki Chamber Orchestra
BIS 268 (Stamitz & Benda Flute Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #7 in D Minor, Op. 70: III. Scherzo. Vivace; Poco meno mosso
Tuesday
Aug 18
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor)
Naxos 572.112 (Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8) -
Johan Helmich Roman
Oboe Concerto in B-flat Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Per-Olof Gillblad (oboe) | Capella Calmariensis | Claes-Merithz Pettersson (conductor)
EMI 49646 (J.H. Roman: ur Drottningholmsmusiken) -
Jacques Offenbach
Ballet of the Snowflakes
Tuesday
Aug 18
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5303 (Offenbach: Music from the Operettas) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K. 466: I. Allegro
Tuesday
Aug 18
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Martha Argerich (piano) | Orchestra Mozart
DG 479.1033 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 503 & K. 466) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #1 in B-flat Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Linde Consort | Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
EMI 63427 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: I. Allegro non troppo
Tuesday
Aug 18
Gil Shaham (violin) | The Knights | Eric Jacobsen (conductor)
Canary Classics 20 (Beethoven Brahms Violin Concertos) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Suite in D Major: IV. Air. Presto
Tuesday
Aug 18
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Acceleration Waltz
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 531 in G Minor
Tuesday
Aug 18
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Christina Mahler (cello) | Allen Whear (cello)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
Claude Debussy
Beau soir
Tuesday
Aug 18
Bruno Canino (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
Decca 0002334 (Cello Adagios) -
Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Cello Sonata in G Minor
Tuesday
Aug 18
Ensemble Cordia
Brilliant Classics 94007 (Platti: Chamber Music) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio #1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Tuesday
Aug 18
Claremont Trio
Arabesque 6786 (Mendelsshon: Trios Op. 49 & 66) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Tuesday
Aug 18
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.2191 (Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Ballet Music
Tuesday
Aug 18
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Munich Radio Orchestra
RCA 62651 (Verdi: Ballet Music) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #29 "Hammerklavier"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 412.575 (Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 #6
Tuesday
Aug 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8406 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances) -
Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Amadeus Quartet | Robert Cohen (cello)
DG 419.611 (Schubert: Strring Quintet, D956) -
George Whitefield Chadwick
In the Canoe
Tuesday
Aug 18
Peter Kairoff (piano)
Albany 745 (American Character, Piano Music of George Whitefield Chadwick) -
Joseph Haydn
Concerto #5 for Flute and Oboe in F Major, Hob. VIIh:5 (originally for lira organizzata)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Lajos Lencsés (oboe) | Robert Dohn (flute) | Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.182 (Haydn, Lira Concerti 1 - 5) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Tuesday
Aug 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Sarah Chang (violin)
EMI 54753 (Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto) -
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Tuesday
Aug 18
Christian Thielemann (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
DG 453.485 (Wagner: Preludes & Orchestra Music) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Tuesday
Aug 18
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Delos 3185 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #3
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 410.083 (Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Haydn Variations) -
Claude Debussy
Nocturne in D-flat Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Lambert Orkis (piano)
DG 457.619 (Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #17
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | John O'Conor (piano)
Telarc 80306 (Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 17 & 24) -
Alexander Glazunov
Overture Solenelle
Tuesday
Aug 18
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang, D 957: Heine-Lieder
Tuesday
Aug 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca 475.6011 (Beethoven & Schubert) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov: Act I, Pimen's Monologue
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] | Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor) | USSR TV and Radio Large Symphony Orchestra
Philips 412.281 (Mussorgsky: Boris Godounov) -
Franz Liszt
Benedetto sia 'l giorno [Petrarc Sonnet 61]
Tuesday
Aug 18
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos: Opera-Recitative and aria "Großmächtige Prinzessin.Noch glaub' ich dem einem ganz mich gehörend"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Virgin 45705 (Amor) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La fille du régiment: Act II
Tuesday
Aug 18
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Marie] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Tonio] | Monica Sinclair [La marquise de Berkenfield] | Jules Bruyère [Hortensius] | Spiro Malas [Sulpice] | Eric Garrett [Le caporal] | Edith Coates [La duchesse de Crakentorp] | Alan Jones [Un paysan] | Omar Gorde [Un notaire]
London 414.520 (Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment) -
Claude Debussy
L'Échelonnement des haies (The line of hedgewoods)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: IV. Offertorium
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Karl Böhm (conductor) | Edith Mathis | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano) | Karl Ridderbusch
DG 413.553 (Mozart: Requiem) -
John Eccles
The Judgment of Paris: Conclusion
Tuesday
Aug 18
Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor) | Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) [Juno] | Benjamin Hulett (tenor) [Paris] | Claire Booth (soprano) [Pallas] | Lucy Crowe (soprano) [Venus]
Chandos 0759 (Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 177. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (I call to thee, Lord Jesus Christ)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Magdalena Kozená (soprano)
SDG 141 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 3) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act I, Aria. "Un cenno leggiadretto, un riso vezzosetto"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Lisa Milne (soprano) [Atalanta] | Hanover Band | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
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)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Ingo Metzmacher (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2035 (Schubert: Heliopolis) -
Caroline Shaw
Partita for 8 Voices
Tuesday
Aug 18
New Amsterdam 884591764780 (Caroline Shaw) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Three Songs. À Chloris (To Chloris); L'Heure exquise (The exquisite hour); Le Printemps (Spring)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
Robert Schumann
Minnespiel (Love's Game), Op. 101 (selections) from Rückert's "Liebesfrühling"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Titon et l'Aurore: Prologue
Tuesday
Aug 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) -
Anonymous
Rota modos arte
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sequentia | Benjamin Bagby (director)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 82876.58939 (Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia
Tuesday
Aug 18
Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor) | Marina Ulewicz (soprano) | Barbara Hölzl (mezzo-soprano) | Jörg Hering (tenor)
Sony 60764 (Mozart: Requiem, K. 626) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs (Opéra pour la paix [pastorale héroïque]): Act II
Tuesday
Aug 18
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra | Ian Caley (tenor) [Neptun] | Linda Russell (soprano) [Naïs] | Ian Caddy (baritone) [Télénus] | John Tomlinson (bass) [Pluton] | Richard Jackson (baritone) [Tirésie] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Premère Bergère (First Shepherdess)] | English Bach Festival Singers [Titans et Géants (Titans | Giants) | Dieux du Ciel (gods and goddesses) | Peuples de la terre (people of the earth) | Divinités de la Mer (sea divinities) | Brian Parson (haute-contre) [Astérion] | Antony Ransome (baritone) [Palémon] | Ann Mackay (soprano) [Deuxième Bergère (Second Shepherdess)] | Bergers, Bergères, Pastres (Shepherds, shepherdesses, huntsmen)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Charles Gounod
Faust: Aria. Faites-lui mes aveux (Confess to her for me)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Kazushi Ono (conductor) | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Siébel]
Virgin 41986 (Diva Divo) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Act IV, Scene 2
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Aage Haugland (bass) | Vladimir Atlantov [Prince Andrei Khovansky] | Vladimir Popov [Prince Vasili Golitsyn] | Anatoly Kotcherga (bass) | Paata Burchuladze [Dosifei] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marfa] | Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano) | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Scribe] | Joanna Borowska [Emma] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Kuzka] | Peter Köves [Strelyets] | Goran Simic [Strelyets] | Peter Köves [Varsonofiev] | Bojidar Nikolov (tenor) | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna State Opera Orchestra
DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina) -
Claude Debussy
Le Livre de Baudelaire (orch. John Adams)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Sly: "Un orso in musoliera innamorato"
Tuesday
Aug 18
London Voices | Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Bucharest Opera Orchestra | Mark Elder (conductor)
EMI 57627 (Nessun Dorma) -
Richard Wagner
Siegfried: Act I
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] | Hans Hotter (baritone) [Der Wanderer] | Gerhard Stolze [Mime]
London 414.110 (Wagner: Siegfried) -
Richard Strauss
Das Bächlein, Op. 88 #1 (The brooklet)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Christian Thielemann (conductor) | Diana Damrau (soprano) | Munich Philharmonic
Virgin 628664 (Strauss: Orchestral Songs) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 54. Widerstehe doch der Sünde (Stand firm against all sinning)
Tuesday
Aug 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto)
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Barbara Strozzi
Udite, amanti
Tuesday
Aug 18
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Anders Ericson (theorbo) | Jakob Linberg (lute)
Archiv 0003460 (Music for a While) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vesperæ solennes de Dominica in C Major, K 321
Tuesday
Aug 18
Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Annemarie Kremer (soprano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Anonymous
David regis inclita proles
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sequentia | Benjamin Bagby (director)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 82876.58939 (Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper) -
Johannes Brahms
Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
London 430.281 (Brahms: Works for Chorus and Orchestra) -
Antonín Dvořák
Mass in D Major, Op. 86
Tuesday
Aug 18
Katherine Fuge (soprano) | Morag Boyle (contralto) | Michael Bennett (tenor) | Jonathan Arnold (bass) | The Singers' Collective | David Swinson (director) | Mark Blatchly (organ)
Herald 272 (Dvorak & Mendelssohn: The Singers' Collective) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motezuma: Act II, Scene 1, Aria. "Brilleran per noi più belle"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Inga Kalna [Asprano] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Archiv 0006490 (Vivaldi: Motezuma) -
Henri Dutilleux
Le Temps l'horloge (Time and the Clock)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | French National Orchestra
Decca 001654302 (Poemes) -
Giuseppe Verdi
I Due Foscari (The Two Foscars): Act I
Tuesday
Aug 18
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | Piero Cappuccilli [The Doge of Venice] | José Carreras [Jacopo] | Katia Ricciarelli [Lucrezia] | Samuel Ramey [Loredano] | Vincenzo Bello [Barbarigo] | Elizabeth Connell [Pisana] | Franz Handlos [The Doge's Servant] | Mieczyslaw Antoniak [Officer of the Council of Ten] | ORF Chorus [Members of the Council of Ten and the Junta, maidservants of Lucrezia, Venetian ladies, crowd and masked men and women, the Messer Grande, two small sons of Jacopo Foscari, comandadori, prison wardens, gondoliers, sailors, pages of the Doge] | ORF Symphony Orchestra
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act II, Aria. "Quella che tutta fè"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Brian Asawa [Arsamene] | Hanover Band | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Zoroastre (Tragédie en musique): Act V
Tuesday
Aug 18
William Christie (conductor) | Les Arts Florissants | Démons | Mark Padmore (haute-contre) [Zoroastre, instituteur des Mages (Zoroaster, founder of the Magi)] | Nathan Berg (bass) [Abramane, Grand Prêtre d'Ariman (Abramane, High Priest of Ariman)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Amélite, héritière présomptive du trône de la Bactriane (presumptive heiress to the throne of Bactria)] | Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Érinice, princesse du sang des rois de la Bactriane (princess of the blood of kings of Bactria)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Zopire, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | François Bazola (bass) [Narbanor, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Oromasès. roi des Génies (king of the Genii)] | Stéphanie Révidat (soprano) [Céphie, jeune Bactrienne de la Cour d'Amélite (Bactrian girl of Amélite's court)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [La Vengeance] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Ariman (voix souterraine)] | Chœur des Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furies | Esprits des Éléments | Esprits infernaux | Troupes différentes de peuples (peoples of various natinos) | Montagnards (mountain dwellers) | Prêtres (priests)] | Les Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furiest | Troupes différentes de peuples | Montagnards | Prêtres]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 185. Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe (Merciful heart of love everlasting)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Nicolas Teste (bass) | Magdalena Kozená (soprano)
SDG 141 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 3) -
Giacomo Puccini
Edgar
Tuesday
Aug 18
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Edgar] | Adriana Damato [Fidelia] | Marianne Cornetti [Tigrana] | Juan Pons [Frank] | Rafal Siwek [Gualtiero] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Alberto Veronesi (conductor)
DG 0006427 (Puccini: Edgar) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così fan tutte: "Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor)
DG 445.866 (Opera Arias) -
Leoš Janáček
Three Male Choruses, JW IV/19
Tuesday
Aug 18
Cantus
Cantus 1213 (Song of a Czech) -
Hector Berlioz
Herminie
Tuesday
Aug 18
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Scene 11, Aria. "Il primo ardor"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Verónica Cangemi [Dalinda]
Archiv 457.271 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Act III
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Kurt Moll [Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Fowler)] | Siegfried Jerusalem [Lohengrin] | Cheryl Studer [Elsa von Brabant] | Hartmut Welker [Friedrich von Telramund] | Waltraud Meier [Ortrud] | Andreas Schmidt [The King's Herald] | Bojidar Nikolov [Nobleman of Brabant] | Franz Kasemann [Nobleman of Brabant] | Claudio Otelli [Nobleman of Brabant] | Peter Koves [Nobleman of Brabant] | Amy-Linda Domaracki [Page] | Ingrid Sieghart [Page] | Senta Fischer [Page] | Elisabeth Mach [Page] | Vienna State Opera Chorus [Saxon and Thuringian counts and nobles | Brabantine counts and nobles, noblewomen, pages, vassals, ladies, serfs]
DG 437.808 (Wagner: Lohengrin) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Au cimetière (In the cemetery)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Franz Liszt
Die Loreley (The Loreley)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Virgin 70928 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: II. Gloria
Tuesday
Aug 18
Julia Varady (soprano) | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) | Vinson Cole (tenor) | René Pape (bass) | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 444.337 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Fêtes d'Hébé (Opéra-ballet) [The Festivities of Hebe]: I. Première Entrée. La Poésie [Poetry]
Tuesday
Aug 18
William Christie (conductor) | Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) [Sapho (Sappho)] | 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)] | Sophie Daneman (soprano) [Une Naïde (A Naiad)] | Paul Agnew (tenor) [Le Ruisseau (The stream)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Franz Schubert
An den Mond, D 193 (To the Moon)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2063 (Nacht und Träume)
WETA Virtuoso
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Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #6
Tuesday
Aug 18
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90791 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 6) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Scherzo for string quintet (1906)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Hyperion 67381-2 (Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Chamber Music) -
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Tuesday
Aug 18
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
DG 423.576 (Strauss) -
Benjamin Britten
Suite for Solo Cello, Op. 71
Tuesday
Aug 18
Matt Haimovitz (cello)
DG 431.813 (Matt Haimovitz) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #3 E Major
Tuesday
Aug 18
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413.794 (Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10 & Op. 25) -
SymphonyCast
Tuesday
Aug 18
Private Recording -
Samuel Barber
Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 1
Tuesday
Aug 18
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
Nonesuch 79002 -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony #6 in D Minor, Op. 104
Tuesday
Aug 18
Oslo Philharmonic | Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
Decca 485.2256 (Klaus Mäkelä: Sibelius) -
Amy Beach
A Hermit Thrush at Morn, Op. 92 #2
Tuesday
Aug 18
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Aaron Copland
Symphony #3
Tuesday
Aug 18
Minnesota Orchestra | Eiji Oue (conductor)
Reference Recordings 93 (Copland: Third Symphony, etc.) -
Borys Lyatoshynsky
Grażyna, Op. 58
Tuesday
Aug 18
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
Platoon 31361 (Dalia Stasevska: Ukrainian Mixtape) -
Einojuhani Rautavaara
The Fiddlers, Op. 1
Tuesday
Aug 18
Wojciech Rajski (conductor) | Musica Vitae
BIS 460 (Sibelius) -
Mily Balakirev
Symphonic Poem. Tamara
Tuesday
Aug 18
BBC Philharmonic | Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
Chandos 9727 (Balakirev) -
Alan Hovhaness
The Payer of Saint Gregory
Tuesday
Aug 18
Empire Brass | Michael Murray (organ)
Telarc 80218 (Music for Organ, Brass & Percussion) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1020 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in G Minor
Tuesday
Aug 18
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Gabriel Fauré
Berceuse
Tuesday
Aug 18
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) | John Lenehan (piano)
Decca 0002334 (Cello Adagios) -
Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 425.109 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 4) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Symphony #2 in E-flat Major, Op. 38
Tuesday
Aug 18
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Serenade, Op. 3 #5
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff (AMPICO piano roll)
Decca 475.9247 (Rachmaninov Plays Rachmaninov; The AMPICO Piano Recordings (1919-29)) -
John Alden Carpenter
Tango Américain
Tuesday
Aug 18
Denver Oldham (piano)
New World 328-329 (John Alden Carpenter: Collected Piano Works) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet in A Major (Op. 81)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Ensemble Explorations
Harmonia Mundi 90.1880 (Dvořák: Quintette Op. 81) -
Edvard Grieg
Notturno
Tuesday
Aug 18
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 57296 (Grieg: Lyric Pieces) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet, K. 387
Tuesday
Aug 18
Berg Quartet
Teldec 9031.72480 (Mozart: The Late String Quartets) -
Richard Strauss
Dance Suite from Pieces by François Couperin
Tuesday
Aug 18
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64350 (Richard Strauss) -
Dora Pejačević
Canzonetta in D Major, Op. 8
Tuesday
Aug 18
Oliver Triendl (piano) | Andrej Bielow (violin)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Albert Roussel
Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42
Tuesday
Aug 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 8996 (Roussel) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #23 "Appassionata"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 39344 (Beethoven: Appassionata Sonata) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 380)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlos: Dance of the Queen
Tuesday
Aug 18
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Munich Radio Orchestra
RCA 62651 (Verdi: Ballet Music) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Tuesday
Aug 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 400.034 (Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusic - Prokofiev: Symphonie Classique - Grieg: Holberg Suite) -
Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Tuesday
Aug 18
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 443.173 (BARTOK) -
Amy Beach
The Returning Hunter (Eskimos, Op. 64 #2)
Tuesday
Aug 18
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.2163 (Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825 - 830) -
Alexander Scriabin
Symphony #4 "Poem of Ecstasy", Op. 54
Tuesday
Aug 18
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Supraphon 2047 (Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Poeme de l'extase; Reverie) -
Maurice Ravel
Sonatine
Tuesday
Aug 18
Leon Fleisher (piano)
Sony 57307 (Debussy: Suite Bergamasque - Ravel: Sonatine and valses Nobles et sentimentales) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Poisoned Kiss Overture
Tuesday
Aug 18
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | George Hurst (conductor)
Chandos 8432 (Music of Elgar & Vaughan Williams) -
Bedřich Smetana
Ma Vlast
Tuesday
Aug 18
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #2 A Minor
Tuesday
Aug 18
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413.794 (Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10 & Op. 25) -
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
Tuesday
Aug 18
Sir Stephen Hough (piano) | Steven Isserlis (cello) | Mitchael Collins (clarinet)
RCA 63504 (Brahms & Frühling: Clarinet Trios - Schumann: Mächenerzählungen) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings
Tuesday
Aug 18
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.364 (Dvořák: Serenades, Op. 22 & 24) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3#2
Tuesday
Aug 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 32
Tuesday
Aug 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 356 (Gade) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 44/3
Tuesday
Aug 18
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets)