This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical and WETA VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Symphony B-flat Major (Op. 3 #4)
Johann Christian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Hanover Band | Anthony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.268 (J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3) -
Allegro Appassionato (Op. 43)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Monday
Mar 20
Han-Na Chang (cello) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 82390 (Romance) -
Symphony #3 "Eroica": IV
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Mar 20
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 49487 (Beethoven: 9 Symphonien) -
Overture #3
Francesco Maria Veracini
Monday
Mar 20
Musica Antiqua Köln | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 439.937 (Veracini: 5 Overtüren) -
Flute Quartet, K. 285b (K Anh 171) in C Major: I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Eckart Haupt (flute) | Peter Mirring (violin) | Peter Schikora (viola) | Gerhard Pluskwik (cello)
Capriccio 10.282 (Mozart: Die Flötenquartette) -
Symphony #9 "From the New World": III
Antonín Dvorák
Monday
Mar 20
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 410.116 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 9) -
Cello Sonata #1 in F Major, Op. 5 #1: II. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Mar 20
Jacqueline Du Pré (cello) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
EMI 91934 (Jacqueline Du Pre - The Complete Recordings) -
Symphony #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": IV. Allegro animato e grazioso
Robert Schumann
Monday
Mar 20
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Novelette, Op. 21 #1 in F Major
Robert Schumann
Monday
Mar 20
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 421.010 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 2) -
Scherzo Capriccioso
Antonín Dvorák
Monday
Mar 20
Los Angeles Philharmonic | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80206 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 8, Scherzo Capriccioso, Notturno) -
Marche miniature viennoise
Fritz Kreisler
Monday
Mar 20
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet) | Kathryn Stott (piano)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Seguidillas & Canción (from various zarzuelas)
José de Nebra
Monday
Mar 20
Concerto Köln | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Archiv 479.2050 (El Maestro Farinelli) -
Symphony #1 in D Major
Joseph Haydn
Monday
Mar 20
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Brilliant 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Cantata #78: Duet
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York | Richard Kapp (conductor)
RCA 61911 (Baroque Duets) -
Concerto, RV 425
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Mar 20
Pepe Romero (guitar) | I Musici
Philips 434.082 (Vivaldi: Concertos for Guitar and Strings) -
Semiramide: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Monday
Mar 20
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra | Christian Benda (conductor)
Naxos 570.933 (Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol. 1) -
Step Inside
Carl Michael Ziehrer
Monday
Mar 20
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra | Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor)
Philips 400.013 (Famous Waltzes) -
Symphony #4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Mar 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57445 (Beethoven: Symphonies) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #5 in G Minor
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Mar 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Trumpet Concerto in D Major
Leopold Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) | English Chamber Orchestra | Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Sony Classical 57497 (Wynton Marsalis, The London Concert) -
Scheherazade
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Monday
Mar 20
Philharmonia Orchestra | Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)
Denon 79068 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, etc.) -
Banquet Music, Part 3: Suite in B-flat Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Monday
Mar 20
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Violin Concerto #1
Max Bruch
Monday
Mar 20
Gil Shaham (violin) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 427.656 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Children's Games
Georges Bizet
Monday
Mar 20
French National Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
EMI 63898 (Bizet: Symphony in C, etc.) -
Symphonic Dances
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Monday
Mar 20
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin Classics 90832 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, etc.) -
Sinfonia, H. 660 in A Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Monday
Mar 20
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.106 (CPE Bach: Six Symphonies for Strings) -
Concerto, RV 178
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Mar 20
I Musici
Philips 422.386 (Vivaldi: 6 Concertos, Op. 8 Nos 7 - 12) -
Violin Sonata #2 in D Minor, Op. 21
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Monday
Mar 20
Christina Åstrand (violin) | Per Salo (piano)
Da Capo 8.226066 (Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Symphony #99
Joseph Haydn
Monday
Mar 20
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 2292-46331 (Haydn: Symphonien No. 98 & 99) -
Jota Aragonesa
Mikhail Glinka
Monday
Mar 20
Dresden State Symphony Orchestra | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 410.047 (Ravel: Bolero) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #2 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Mar 20
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7415 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Piano Concerto A Minor
Robert Schumann
Monday
Mar 20
Justus Frantz (piano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 415.358 (Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerto) -
Flute Sonata, BWV 1035 in E Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Jed Wentz (flute) | Michael Borgstede (harpsichord)
Brilliant 93814 (Bach Complete Chamber Music for Flute) -
Symphony #5
William Boyce
Monday
Mar 20
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
CRD 3413A (William Boyce) -
Piano Concerto #3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Mar 20
Stewart Goodyear (piano) | BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Andrew Constantine (conductor)
Orchid 100127 (Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos) -
Voyevoda: Overture
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Monday
Mar 20
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky) -
Keyboard Sonata, K 537 in A Major
Domenico Scarlatti
Monday
Mar 20
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Carnival Overture
Antonín Dvorák
Monday
Mar 20
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
CBS 42417 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 9) -
Piano Concerto #19: I-Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Alicia de Larrocha (piano) | Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Uri Segal (conductor)
London 410.140 (Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 22, K.482 & No. 19, K.459) -
La Belle Helene: Overture
Jacques Offenbach
Monday
Mar 20
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 400.044 (Offenbach: Overtures) -
Concerto, RV 162
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Mar 20
Cologne Concert
Capriccio 10.233 (Vivaldi: Concerti for Wind and Strings) -
Piano Concerto #2: III
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Monday
Mar 20
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 74813 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2) -
Concertante for Flute & Clarinet in B-flat Major, Op. 41: I. Allegro moderato
Franz Danzi
Monday
Mar 20
Aurele Nicolet (flute) | Eduard Brunner (clarinet) | Württemberg Chamber Orchestra | Jorg Faerber (conductor)
Tudor 702 (Danzi, Stamitz & Rossini) -
Duo in E-flat Major, Op. 15
Norbert Burgmüller
Monday
Mar 20
Pierce-Aomori Duo
MSR 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Concerto #3 for Flute & Oboe
Joseph Haydn
Monday
Mar 20
Robert Dohn (flute) | Lajos Lences (oboe) | Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.182 (Haydn, Lira Concerti 1 - 5) -
D'un matin de printemps
Lili Boulanger
Monday
Mar 20
Olivier Charlier (violin) | Emile Naoumoff (piano)
Marco Polo 223.636 (In Memorian Lili Boulanger) -
Primavera
Cécile Chaminade
Monday
Mar 20
Roberto Prosseda (piano) | Alessandra Ammara (piano)
Bru Zane: Compositrices (Compositrices) -
Tannhauser: Festive March
Richard Wagner
Monday
Mar 20
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
CBS 38914 (Wagner: Great Orchestral Music) -
Symphony #41 "Jupiter": I
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
London Classical Players | Roger Norrington (conductor)
EMI 54090 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41) -
Symphony #1 in E Minor: IV. Finale. Presto
Florence Price
Monday
Mar 20
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
DG 486.2029 (Florence Price) -
Sinfonia in G Major (Altner G4)
František Xaver Dušek
Monday
Mar 20
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra | Aapo Häkkinen (conductor)
Naxos 572.683 (Dussek: Four Symphonies) -
Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)
Fritz Kreisler
Monday
Mar 20
Maxim Vengerov (violin) | Ian Brown (piano)
EMI 57916 (Kreisler, Sarasater, Wieniawski, etc.) -
Sinfonia, H. 664 in E-flat Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
Warner Classics 463.492 (CPE Bach Collection) -
Sextet in D Major for Violin, 2 Violas, Cello, Bass and Piano, Op. 110: I. Allegro vivace
Felix Mendelssohn
Monday
Mar 20
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Delos 3266 (Mendelssohn: Sextet Op. 110, Octet, Op. 20) -
Introduction, Theme & Variations
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Monday
Mar 20
Lajos Lences (oboe) | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Capriccio 10.308 (Haydn, Hummel & Martinu: Oboe Concertos) -
Oboe Concerto in C Minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Monday
Mar 20
Sarah Francis (oboe) | London Harpsichord Ensemble | Sarah Francis (conductor)
Unicorn 9128 (Telemann: Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1) -
Poet and Peasant Overture
Franz von Suppé
Monday
Mar 20
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80116 (William Tell & Other Favorite Overtures) -
Sinfonia B-flat Major
Leopold Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra | Donald Armstrong (conductor)
Naxos 553.347 (Leopold Mozart: Symphonies) -
String Quintet in C Major
Franz Schubert
Monday
Mar 20
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Omega 1015 (Schubert: String Quintet in C, D.956, Quartettsatz, D.703) -
Oboe Concerto B-flat Major
Jan Zach
Monday
Mar 20
Jiri Krejci (oboe) | Prague Chamber Orchestra | Frantisek Vajnar (conductor)
Supraphon 72890 (Oboe Concertos) -
Serenade for Strings
Antonín Dvorák
Monday
Mar 20
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.364 (Dvorák: Serenades, Op. 22 & 24) -
Concerto for Lute and Flute in B-flat Major, SC 6
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Monday
Mar 20
Richard Stone (lute) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Monday
Mar 20
Nash Ensemble
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Piano Concerto #2
Johannes Brahms
Monday
Mar 20
Nelson Freire (piano) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 0006588 (Brahms: The Piano Concertos) -
Symphony #4
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)
MusicMasters 7062 (J. C. F. Bach: Four Early Symphonies) -
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Alexander Borodin
Monday
Mar 20
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 426.247 (Pops a la Russe) -
String Quartet, Op. 76 #3 "Emperor"
Joseph Haydn
Monday
Mar 20
Emerson String Quartet
DG 427.657 (Mozart: String Quartets "Hunt" & "Dissonance" - Haydn: "Emperor Quartet") -
Bergensiana
Johan Halvorsen
Monday
Mar 20
Bergen Philharmonic | Karsten Andersen (conductor)
NKF 50013 (Johan Halvorsen) -
Symphony #40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Ensemble Resonanz | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 902629.30 (Mozart: The Last Three Symphonies) -
Scherzo #2 B-flat Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Monday
Mar 20
Arturo Michelangeli (piano)
DG 0007435 (Stein Way Legends, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) -
Orchestral Suite #1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
Oiseau Lyre, L' 417.834 (Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Here and Gone (songs and duets for tenor, baritone and piano quartet)
Jake Heggie
Monday
Mar 20
Paul Groves (tenor) | Keith Phares (Baritone) | Dawn Harms (violin) | CarlaMaria Rodrigues (viola) | Emil Miland (cello) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Symphony #4 in G Major: IV. Sehr behaglich
Gustav Mahler
Monday
Mar 20
Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Recorded live on May 8, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Dardanus: Act III
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Monday
Mar 20
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] | Véronique Gens [Iphise] | Laurent Naouri [Anténor] | Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] | Russell Smythe [Teucer] | Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] | Françoise Masset [L'Amour] | Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] | Alain Lombard (conductor) [Seconde Songe] | Marcos Pujol [Troisième Songe] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] | Françoise Masset [Seconde Phrygienne] | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 463.476 (Rameau: Dardanus) -
Roméo et Juliette: Juliet's Waltz Aria. Ah! Je veux vivre (Ah! I wish I could live)
Charles Gounod
Monday
Mar 20
Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Juliette] | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias) -
Alcina: Aria. "Ah! mio cor, schernito sei!"
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Mar 20
Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Alcina] | Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor)
DG 477. 8763 (Rosso) -
Un ballo in maschera: Aria. "Ecco l'orrido campo"
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
Mar 20
Mirella Freni (soprano) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
A Mass of Life: Part I: III. "In dein Auge schaute ich jüngst" (I looked into your eyes)
Frederick Delius
Monday
Mar 20
Janice Watson (soprano) | Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezz-soprano) | Andrew Kennedy (tenor) | Alan Opie (baritone) | The Bach Choir | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | David Hill (conductor)
Naxos 572.861-62 (Delius: A Mass of Life, Prelude and Idyll) -
Cantata, BWV 104. Du Hirte Israel, höre (Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Norbert Meyn (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Basilique St Willibrord, Echternach, May 7, 2000]
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #11. Frühlingstraum (Dream of Springtime)
Franz Schubert
Monday
Mar 20
Werner Güra (tenor) | Christoph Berner (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2066 (Schubert: Die Winterreise) -
Chants d'Auvergne: Series II: Deux Bourrées: N'aï pas iéu de mîo - Lo Calheé
Joseph-Marie Canteloube
Monday
Mar 20
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Requiem in D Minor, K 626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Pamela Heuvelmans (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Robert Morvaj (tenor) | Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Cantata. Quella pace gradita
Alessandro Scarlatti
Monday
Mar 20
Clara Rottsolk (soprano) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0768 (Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music) -
La Rondine: Act II
Giacomo Puccini
Monday
Mar 20
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Magda] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ruggero] | Mariana Nicolesco [Lisette] | David Rendall [Prunier] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Rambaldo] | Lillian Watson [Yvette] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus [Bianca] | London Symphony Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
CBS 37852 (Puccini: La Rondine) -
Cantata, BWV 158. Der Friede sei mit dir (Peace be unto you)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Johann-Sebastian-Kirches, Arnstadt, Apr 29-30, 2000]
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Louise: "Depuis le jour"
Gustave Charpentier
Monday
Mar 20
Beverly Sills (soprano) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
DG 471.766 (The Art of Beverly Sills) -
Three Mad Songs. "Restless in Thought disturb'd in Mind"; "Love's but the frailty of the Mind"; "I Burn, I burn, my Brain consumes to Ashes"
John Eccles
Monday
Mar 20
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Claire Booth (soprano) | Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) | Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Chandos 0759 (Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, etc.) -
La Favorite: Act IV
Gaetano Donizetti
Monday
Mar 20
Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] | Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] | Abbie Furmansky [Inès] | Ramon Vargas [Fernand] | Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] | Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] | Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Marcello Viotti (conductor)
RCA 66229 (Donizetti: La Favorite) -
Nacht und Träume, D 827 (Night and Dreams)
Franz Schubert
Monday
Mar 20
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 902063 (Nacht und Träume) -
Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
Dieterich Buxtehude
Monday
Mar 20
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Ensemble Guadagni
Wigmore Live 38 (Handel: Nine German Arias) -
Un ballo in maschera: Act II, Scene. "Teco io sto"
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
Mar 20
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] | London Opera Chorus | Royal College of Music Junior Department Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 410.210 (Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera) -
Agrippina: Act III, Scenes 1-8
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Mar 20
Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo] | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088.90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Cantata, BWV 42. Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats (Then the same day at evening)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Gillian Keith (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Johann-Sebastian-Kirches, Arnstadt, Apr 29-30, 2000]
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Ascanio in Alba: Act II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
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) -
Motet. Vadam et circuibo (I will arise and go about)
Tómas Luis de Victoria
Monday
Mar 20
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 807489 (Song of Songs) -
Faust: Act I
Charles Gounod
Monday
Mar 20
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] | Francisco Araiza [Faust] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] | Pamela Coburn [Siébel] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 420.164 (Gounod: Faust) -
Cantata, BWV 67. Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (Remember that Jesus Christ)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Daniel Taylor (alto) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Johann-Sebastian-Kirches, Arnstadt, Apr 29-30, 2000]
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 [The Fair Miller-Maid]
Franz Schubert
Monday
Mar 20
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Daphne: "Was blendet so.Ich komme -- ich komme"
Richard Strauss
Monday
Mar 20
Beverly Sills (soprano) | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Aldo Ceccato (conductor)
DG 471.766 (The Art of Beverly Sills) -
Khovanshchina: Act V
Modest Mussorgsky
Monday
Mar 20
Aage Haugland (bass) [Prince Ivan Khovansky] | Vladimir Atlantov [Prince Andrei Khovansky] | Vladimir Popov [Prince Vasili Golitsyn] | Anatolij Kotscherga [Shaklovity] | Paata Burchuladze [Dosifei] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marfa] | Brigitte Poschner-Klebel [Susanna] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Scribe] | Joanna Borowska [Emma] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Kuzka] | Peter Köves [Strelyets] | Goran Simic [Strelyets] | Peter Köves [Varsonofiev] | Bojidar Nikolov [Confidant of Golitsyn] | Bojidar Nikolov [Streshnev] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina) -
Cantata, BWV 150. Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Gillian Keith (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Johann-Sebastian-Kirches, Arnstadt, Apr 29-30, 2000]
SDG 131 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 23) -
Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt [Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage]
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Mar 20
The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Hear my words, ye people
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Monday
Mar 20
Manchester Cathedral Choir | Mark Rowlinson (baritone) | Jeffrey Makinson (organ) | Christopher Stokes (conductor)
Naxos 572.104 (Parry: Songs of Farewell) -
Messiah: Part III
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Mar 20
Karina Gauvin (soprano) | Robin Blaze (countertenor) | Rufus Müller (tenor) | Brett Polgato (baritone) | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Tafelmusik Chamber Choir | Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Tafelmusik 1016 (Handel: Messiah) -
Les Boréades (Tragédie en musique): Act I
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Monday
Mar 20
Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Alphise, reine de la Bactriane (Alphisa, Queen of Bactria)] | Anne-Marie Rodde (soprano) [Sémire, confidente de la reine (the Queen's confidante)] | Edwige Bourdy (soprano) [Polymnie, muse des chants et de la pantomime (Polyhymnia, Muse of Song and Mime)] | Martine March (soprano) [Une Nymphe] | Philip Langridge (haute-contre) [Abaris, amant d'Alphise (in love with Alphisa)] | John Aler (haute-contre) [Calisis, prétendant d'Alphise, descendante de Borée (suitor to Alphisa, of the line of Boreas)] | Jean-Philippe Lafont (bass) [Borée, dieu des vents du Nord (Boreas, god of the North Wind)] | Gilles Cachemaille (baritone) [Borilée, prétendants d'Alphise, descendants de Borée (suitor to Alphisa, of the line of Boreas)] | François Le Roux (baritone) [Adamas, Grand-prêtre d'Apollon (Hight Priest of Apollo]) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Apollon, dieu de la Lumière (Apollo, god of Light)] | Elizabeth Priday (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid)] | The Monteverdi Choir [Plaisirs et Grâces | prêtres du temple d'Apollon, peuples (people) | les Saisons (Seasons) | les Muses | les Zéphyrs | les Heures e les Arts (Hours and Arts) | vents souterrains (subterranean winds)] | English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Turandot: Act II, Finale
Giacomo Puccini
Monday
Mar 20
Joan Sutherland [Turandot] | Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] | Montserrat Caballé [Liù] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] | Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Tom Krause [Ping] | Pier Francesco Poli [Pang | Il Principe di Persia] | Piero de Palma [Pong] | Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] | John Alldis Choir | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
London 414.274 (Puccini: Turandot) -
Cantata, BWV 145. Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen (I live, O heart, for your delight)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Mar 20
Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Georgenkirche, Eisenach, Apr 23-24, 2000]
SDG 128 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 22) -
Mefistofele: Aria. "Giunto sul passo estremo" (Now that my extreme old age)
Arrigo Boito
Monday
Mar 20
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Faust] | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Decca 0015463 (Verismo Arias) -
La Clemenza di Tito: Act I, Opening
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Tito Vespasiano] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Vitellia] | Sylvia McNair [Servilia] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Sesto] | Catherine Robbin [Annio] | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Publio] | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 431.806 (Mozart: La clemenza di Tito) -
Te Deum
Anton Bruckner
Monday
Mar 20
Janet Perry | Helga Müller Molinari | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) | Alexander Malta (bass) | Vienna Singverein | Vienna Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.521 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Te Deum) -
Elias (Elijah): Part I, Conclusion (Nr. 11-20)
Felix Mendelssohn
Monday
Mar 20
Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Elijah] | Andrea Rost (soprano) [The Widow] | Cornelia Kallisch [The Angel] | Deon van der Walt [King Ahab] | Johannes Dietzel [The Youth] | Cornelia Kallisch [Queen Jezebel] | Deon van der Walt [Obadiah] | Chor des Städt. Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf | Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor)
EMI 56475 (Mendelssohn: Elias) -
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Monday
Mar 20
Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] | Nicolai Gedda [Don José] | Janine Micheau [Micaëla] | Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] | Denise Monteil [Frasquita] | Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] | Monique Linval [Mercédès] | Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] | Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] | Bernard Plantey [Moralès] | Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] | Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française | Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française | Petits Chanteurs de Versailles | Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI 56214 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Udite, amanti
Barbara Strozzi
Monday
Mar 20
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Jakob Linberg (lute) | Anders Ericson (theorbo)
Archiv 0003460 (Music for a While) -
Exsultate, jubilate, K 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Mar 20
Danielle de Niese (soprano) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Decca 0013277 (The Mozart Album) -
La gioconda: Act III, Finale
Amilcare Ponchielli
Monday
Mar 20
Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [La Gioconda] | Alfreda Hodgson [La Cieca] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Enzo Grimaldo] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Alvise Badoero] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Laura] | Sherill Milnes [Barnaba] | John Del Carlo [Zuane] | Regolo Romani [Isepo] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Pilota] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Prima voce dalla laguna] | Geoffrey Shaw [Seconda voce dalla laguna] | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Cantore] | Rodney Macann [Barnabotto] | London Opera Chorus [Popolo] | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Bruno Bartoletti (conductor)
London 414.349 (Ponchielli: La Gioconda) -
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Jake Heggie
Monday
Mar 20
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Mar 20
Eva Mei (soprano) | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Robert Holl (bass) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 9031-74884 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Guglielmo Tell: Act II, Terzetto. "Allor che scorre de' forti il sangue"
Gioachino Rossini
Monday
Mar 20
Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] | Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell) -
Tamerlano: Act II, Conclusion (Scenes 8-10)
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Mar 20
Derek Ragin [Tamerlan] | Nigel Robson [Bajazet] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Asteria] | Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] | Jane Findlay [Irène] | Renè Schirrer [Léon] | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 88220 (Handel: Tamerlano) -
Cantique de Jean Racine
Gabriel Fauré
Monday
Mar 20
Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris | Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 70921 (Fauré: Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48) -
Charles VI: Recitative & Aria. "Sous leur sceptre...Humble fille des champs" (Beneath their iron scepter...Humble daughter of the fields")
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy
Monday
Mar 20
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) [Odette] | Orchestre National de France | Fabien Gabel (conductor)
Naive 5201 (Ne me refuse pas) -
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 45
Robert Schumann
Monday
Mar 20
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
La Sonnambula: Act II, Scene 1
Vincenzo Bellini
Monday
Mar 20
Natalie Dessay [Armina] | Francesco Meli [Elvino] | Carlo Colombara [Il conte Rodolfo] | Sara Mingardo [Teresa] | Jaël Azzaretti [Lisa] | Paul Gay [Alessio] | Gordon Gietz [Un notaro] | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Evelino Pidò (conductor)
Virgin 395138 (Bellini: La Sonnambula) -
Die Götter Griechenlands, D 677 (The Gods of Greece)
Franz Schubert
Monday
Mar 20
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Ingo Metzmacher (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 902035 (Schubert: Heliopolis) -
Cinq mélodes populaires grecques
Maurice Ravel
Monday
Mar 20
Karina Gauvin (soprano) | Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Atma Classique 2642 (Fete Galante)