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WETA Classical

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto #1

    Monday
    Oct 7

    David Zinman (conductor) | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Horacio Gutierrez (piano)

    Telarc 80193 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody)
  • William Boyce

    Symphony #5 in D Major

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)

    CRD 3413A (William Boyce)
  • François Borne

    Fantasie Brillante on Carmen

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Irena Grafenauer (flute) | Michael Grandt (piano)

    Philips 426.248 (Showpieces)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony #8 in F Major, Op. 93

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Paavo Järvi (conductor) | German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen

    RCA 713066 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto a due cori #3 in F Major

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik

    Sony 63073 (Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks)
  • Jacques-Christophe Naudot

    Concerto, Op. 17 #1: III. Légèrement

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Academy of Ancient Music | Lucie Horsch (recorder) | Bojan Cičić (conductor)

    Decca 483.4722 (Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey)
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54: I. Allegro affettuoso

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Howard Shelley (conductor) | Howard Shelley (piano) | Orchestra of Opera North

    Chandos 10509 (Schumann, Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade for Winds, K 361 "Gran Partita": VI. Tema con variazioni

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Berlin Academy for Old Music

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2627 (Mozart: Gran Partita)
  • Benjamin Godard

    Violin Concerto #2: III

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Slovak State Philharmonic | Chloe Hanslip (violin) | Kirk Trevor (conductor)

    Naxos 570.554 (Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite #5 in E Minor, BWV 810: I. Prélude

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Murray Perahia (piano)

    Sony 60277 (Bach: English Suites Nos. 2, 4 & 5)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: #3. Lento assai; Allegro vivace

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)

    DG 483.9839 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1; Symphonic Dances)
  • Silvius Leopold Weiss

    Lute Concerto in D Minor, SC 58: II. Allegro

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Tempesta di Mare | Richard Stone (lute) | Gwyn Roberts (flute)

    Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53: III. Finale. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | James Ehnes (violin)

    Chandos 10309 (Dvorak)
  • Samuel Wesley

    Symphony D Major (1784)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)

    Chandos 9823 (Wesley: Symphonies)
  • Mikhail Glinka

    Russlan and Ludmilla: Oriental Dances

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor) | USSR Symphony Orchestra

    Melodiya 10.00166 (Glinka: "Ivan Susanin" & "Ruslan and Ludmila")
  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 29: IV. Finale. Allegro risoluto

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Oliver Triendl (piano) | Andrej Bielow (violin) | Christian Poltéra (cello)

    CPO 777.419 (Dora Pejacevic: Piano Trio; Cello Sonata)
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata (K. 360)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)

    Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7)
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    La Poule

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Musicians of the Louvre

    Archiv 0004478 (Rameu: Une Symphonie Imaginaire)
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Quartet #1 in C Minor, Op. 15: IV. Allegro molto

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Emerson String Quartet members

    DG 483.6574 (The New York Concert)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony #14 in A Major

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition)
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Trio #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 33: III. Minuetto. Allegro

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Neave Trio

    Chandos 20139 (Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051: I. (Allegro)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": III. Rondo. Vivace

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Stewart Goodyear (piano) | BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Andrew Constantine (conductor)

    Orchid Classics 100127 (Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos)
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Six Polish Songs: #1. The Maiden's Wish (transcription by Franz Liszt)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

    Decca 478.3206 (Chopin, Liszt & Ravel)
  • Francesco Zannetti

    Trio in D Major, Op. 2 #3: I. Allegro

    Monday
    Oct 7

    The Vivaldi Project

    MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Suite

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra

    Chandos 8556 (Tchaikovsky: Music from Nutcracker, etc.)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata, BWV 1030 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in B Minor

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord) | Aurele Nicolet (flute)

    Denon 7331 (Bach: The Complete Sonatas for Flute)
  • Zdeněk Fibich

    Hedy: Ballet Music

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)

    Naxos 573.310 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 4)
  • Amy Beach

    From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Joanne Polk (piano)

    Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony #48 "Maria Theresia"

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    DG 419.607 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 48 & 49)
  • Mykola Lysenko

    Rhapsody #2 on Ukrainian Folk Themes "Dumka-Shumka", Op. 18

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Natalya Pasichnyk (piano)

    BIS 2222 (Consolation. Forgotten Treasures of the Ukrainian Soul)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony #4

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    DG 427.602 (Brahms: 4 Symphonies, etc.)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Banquet Music, Part 3: Quartet in E Minor

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto #13

    Monday
    Oct 7

    North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Arturo Michelangeli (piano) | Cord Garben (conductor)

    DG 431.097 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 & 15)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Poisoned Kiss Overture

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta | George Hurst (conductor)

    Chandos 8432 (Music of Elgar & Vaughan Williams)
  • King Frederick the Great of Prussia

    Flute Concerto in G Major

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Manfred Friedrich (flute)

    Capriccio 10.064 (Friedrich Jr.: Flötenkonzerte & Sinfonien)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)

    Virgin 94589 (Beethoven & Korngold: Violin Concertos)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #12 in B Minor

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7228-29 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6)
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Variations, Op. 2 on "Là ci darem la mano" from Mozart's Don Giovanni

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Jan Lisiecki (piano) | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | Krzysztof Urbański (conductor)

    DG 479.6824 (Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet #11 in C Major, Op. 61

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Emerson String Quartet

    DG 0014106 (Old World - New World)
  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Inganno Felice: Overture

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures)

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act II

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Vivica Genaux [Antiope] | Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] | Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] | Diana Damrau [Martesia] | Rolando Villazón [Ercole] | Romina Basso [Teseo] | Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] | Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] | Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo | Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor)

    Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte)
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina: Act II

    Monday
    Oct 7

    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) | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Don Carlo: Aria. "Tu che le vanità"

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Mirella Freni (soprano) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

    Decca 0004244 (A Celebration)
  • Frank Martin

    Suite from the opera "Der Sturm"

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Thomas Oliemans (baritone) | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Steven Sloane (conductor)

    MDG 901.1614 (Martin: Monologues, Der Sturm)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Missa in B-flat Major, Hob XXII:14 "Harmoniemesse" (Wind-Band Mass): Kyrie

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Nacole Palmer (soprano) | Kirsten Sollek (alto) | Daniel Mutlu (tenor) | Andrew Nolen (bass) | Trinity Choir | Rebel Baroque Orchestra | Jane Glover (conductor)

    Naxos 572.126 (Haydn: Missa brevis, Harmoniemesse)
  • Thomas Tallis

    Magnificat a 4

    Monday
    Oct 7

    The Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood (conductor)

    Hyperion 68026 (Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Finta Giardiniera: Act I, Scenes 1-7

    Monday
    Oct 7

    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)
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    La Favorite: Act I, Conclusion

    Monday
    Oct 7

    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)
  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act IV

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Dénes Gulyás [Count Almaviva] | Krisztina Laki [Rosina] | József Gregor [Bartolo] | István Gáti (baritone) [Figaro] | Sándor Sólyom-Nagy [Don Basilio] | Csaba Réta [Laddie] | Miklós Mersei [Sprightly] | Gábor Vághelyi [Notary] | Attila Fülöp [Judge] | Hungarian State Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)

    Hungaroton 12525-26 (Paisiello: il Barbiere di Siviglia)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tamerlano: Act II, Conclusion (Scenes 8-10)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    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)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Christ on the Mount of Olives

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Hanna-Leena Haapamäki (soprano) [Seraph] | Jussi Myllys (tenor) [Jesus] | Niklas Spångberg (bass) [Peter] | Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis | Turku Philharmonic Orchestra | Leif Segerstam (conductor)

    Naxos 573.852 (Beethoven: Christus am Olberge)
  • Gustave Charpentier

    Louise

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Beverly Sills (soprano) [Louise] | Nicolai Gedda [Julien] | Mignon Dunn [La mère] | José van Dam (baritone) [La père] | Éliane Lublin [Irma] | Christiane Chateau [Camille] | Sonia Nigoghossian [Élise] | Marie Bertola [Marguerite] | Martine Surais [Gertrude] | Claude Vierne [La première] | Carla Rutili [Madeleine] | Mireille Laurent [L'apprentie] | Elya Weismann [Blanche] | Maria Mella [Suzanne] | Martyn Hill [Le noctambule] | Jacques Mars [Le chiffonier] | Jean-Jacques Doumène [Le bricoleur] | Chœur et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opera de Paris | Julius Rudel (conductor)

    EMI 65299 (Charptentier: Louise)
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    La Fille du Régmient: Recitative and aria. C'en est donc fait...Par le rang et par l'opulence...Salut à la France! (It's settled then...They thought they could dazzle me...Here's to France!)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Marie] | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)

    Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias)
  • Ambroise Thomas

    Hamlet: Ophelia's mad scene. "A vos jeux, mes amis"

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Natalie Dessay [Ophélie] | Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)

    Virgin 99469 (Mad Scenes)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Gerlinde Sämann (soprano) | Elisabeth Hermans (soprano) | Patrizia Hardt (soprano) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Jan Van der Crabben (bass) | La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

    Challenge 72316 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor)
  • Antonio Caldara

    La clemenza di Tito: Aria. Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (If ever you feel a soft breath)

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Concerto Köln | Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord/conductor)

    Virgin 41927 (Caldara in Vienna)
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo: Act I

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori | The English Baroque Soloists | His Majestie's Sagbutts & Cornetts | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo)
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony #8 in E-flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand": Part One

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Christine Brewer (soprano) | Soile Isokosi (soprano) | Juliane Banse (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (soprano) | Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) | Jon Villars (tenor) | David Wilson-Johnson (bass) | John Relyea (bass) | City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus | London Symphony Chorus | City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus | Toronto Children's Chorus | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

    EMI 57945 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8)
  • Robert Schumann

    Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart (Poems of Queen Mary Stuart), Op. 135

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Régine Crespin (soprano) | John Wustman (piano)

    DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello: Act III, Finale. "Quest'è il segnale".

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Desdemona] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Denyce Graves [Emilia] | Ramon Vargas [Cassio] | Michael Schade [Roderigo] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Lodovico] | Giacomo Prestia [Montano] | Philippe Duminy [Un Araldo] | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

    DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello)
  • Richard Strauss

    Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27/1

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Jessye Norman (soprano) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)

    Philips 0004505 (R. Strauss: Lieder)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus

    Monday
    Oct 7

    Charlotte Margiono (soprano) | Catherine Robbin (alto) | William Kendall (tenor) | Alastaire Miles (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major)