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 #102 in B-flat Major "Miracle"
Joseph Haydn
Friday
May 20
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Brilliant 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Piano Quintet
Robert Schumann
Friday
May 20
Menahem Pressler (piano) | Emerson String Quartet
DG 445.848 (Schumann: Piano Quintet Op. 44, Piano Quartet Op. 47) -
Concerto G Major (S. 215)
Johann David Heinichen
Friday
May 20
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Valse-Impromptu
Franz Liszt
Friday
May 20
Leslie Howard (piano)
Hyperion 44501 (Liszt: Complete Piano Music) -
Symphony #1
Johannes Brahms
Friday
May 20
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell (conductor)
CBS 37775 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1) -
Concerto, RV 522
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Carnival Overture
Antonín Dvorák
Friday
May 20
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Iván Fischer (conductor)
Quintana 90.3017 (Dvorák: Symphonie No. 8) -
Sinfonia, BWV 1045
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Bernhard Forck (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2335.36 (Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Symphony #33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Prague Chamber Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80190 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31, 33 & 31) -
Symphonic Dances
Edvard Grieg
Friday
May 20
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Jaervi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
PBS NewsHour
News
Friday
May 20
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Mazurka, Op. 59 #3 in F-sharp Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
May 20
Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 477.7483 (Frederic Chopin) -
Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K 466: III. Allegro assai
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Evgeny Kissin (piano & conductor) | Kremerata Baltica
EMI 26645 (Mozart: Piano Concerto 20 & 27) -
Song Without Words, Op. 53 #6 in A Major
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
May 20
Lívia Rév (piano)
Hyperion 22020 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Bassoon Concerto, RV 486 in F Major
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Onda Armonica | Sergio Azzolini (conductor)
Naive 30573 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto V) -
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325
Johann Strauss II
Friday
May 20
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 54089 (J. Strauss II: Waltzes & Overtures) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #2 in F Major
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 410.048 (Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi) -
Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 2: I. March
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
Friday
May 20
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10171 (Karlowicz: Rebirth Symphony) -
Sinfonia in G Minor, FWV M:g1
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Friday
May 20
Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Der Freischütz: Overture
Carl Maria von Weber
Friday
May 20
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | Antoni Wit (conductor)
Naxos 570.296 (Weber: Overtures) -
Keyboard Sonata (K. 475)
Domenico Scarlatti
Friday
May 20
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 421.422 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas) -
The Corsaire
Hector Berlioz
Friday
May 20
Prague Symphony Orchestra | Zoltan Fekete (conductor)
Supraphonet 11.1116 (Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Benvenuto Cellini - D'Indy: Istar) -
Symphony D Major
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Friday
May 20
Concerto of Cologne
Capriccio 10.283 (Musik der Bach Söhne) -
Sonate en Concert, Op. 17: III. Aria & IV. Intermezzo
Jean-Michel Damase
Friday
May 20
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Sonata, BWV 1032 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in A Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Aurele Nicolet (flute) | Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord)
Denon 7331 (Bach: The Complete Sonatas for Flute) -
Slavic March
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Friday
May 20
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 61394 (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky & Borodin) -
Concerto for 3 Trumpets & 2 Oboes D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
May 20
Läubin Brothers (trumpets) | English Chamber Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor)
DG 431.817 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Mazurka, Op. 3 #4 in E Major
Alexander Scriabin
Friday
May 20
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Trio Sonata #4 in C Major
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
Friday
May 20
Parnassi musici
CPO 777.383 (Neruda: Trio Sonatas) -
Characters of the Dance
Jean-Féry Rebel
Friday
May 20
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Musifrance 2292-45974 (Rebel: Les elemens, Les caracteres de la danse) -
String Quintet, K. 515
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Takács String Quartet | Gyorgy Pauk (viola)
London 430.772 (Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516) -
Concerto, RV 558
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
Venetian Soloists | Claudio Scimone (conductor)
Erato 55013 (Vivaldi: Concertos) -
The Marriage Contract: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Friday
May 20
Haydn Philharmonia | Ezio Rojatti (conductor)
Nuova Era 6726 (Cimarosa, Paisiello & Rossini: Overtures Italiane Vol. 1) -
Pavane, Op. 50
Gabriel Fauré
Friday
May 20
Albrecht Mayer (oboe d'amore) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
Symphonie Espagnole
Edouard Lalo
Friday
May 20
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | French National Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
EMI 47318 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, etc.) -
Symphony #104 "London"
Joseph Haydn
Friday
May 20
London Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 417.330 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 104 & 95) -
Piano Concerto #2 in A Major
Franz Liszt
Friday
May 20
Krystian Zimerman (piano) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
DG 423.571 (Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz) -
Violin Sonata, HWV 373 in E Major (Op. 1 #15)
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 20
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Cello Concerto B Minor
Antonín Dvorák
Friday
May 20
Mischa Maisky (cello) | Israel Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 427.347 (Dvorák: Cello Concerto - Bloch: Schelomo) -
Flute Sonata #274 in A Major, QV 1:145
Johann Joachim Quantz
Friday
May 20
Verena Fischer (transverse flute) | Klaus-Dieter Brandt (baroque cello) | Léon Berben (harpsichord)
Naxos 557.805 (Quantz: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272 - 277) -
Africa Fantasy
Camille Saint-Saëns
Friday
May 20
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
EMI 49757 (Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 1, etc.) -
Symphony #10
Michael Haydn
Friday
May 20
Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.153 (Michael Haydn: Symphonies 7 - 10) -
Symphony C Major
Georges Bizet
Friday
May 20
Paris Orchestra | Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Philips 432.096 (Franck & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Suite from Violin Partita #3 (transcription by Rachmaninoff)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Overtura di Ballo
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Friday
May 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures) -
Symphony #39 in E-flat Major, K. 543
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Mozart Akadamie Amsterdam | Jaap ter Linden (conductor)
Brilliant 92540 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Trio Sonata, RV 63 in D Minor "La Follia"
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
L'Estravagante
Naive 30535 (Vivaldi: Sonate da camera a tre, Op. 1) -
Cello Sonata: I. Allegro moderato
Louise Farrenc
Friday
May 20
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Ambache 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite) -
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
Friday
May 20
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Virgin Classics 91174 (Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc.) -
Flute Trio #3 "London"
Joseph Haydn
Friday
May 20
Bernard Goldberg (flute) | Jeffrey Khaner (flute) | Loren Mallory Hampton (cello)
Priceless 1077 (Haydn: London Trios, Flute Quartets) -
Three Pieces, Op. 11: #3. Mazurka
David Popper
Friday
May 20
Wendy Warner (cello) | Eileen Buck (piano)
Cedille 90000.111 (Wendy Warner Plays Popper & Piatigorsky) -
Piano Concerto #23 in A Major, K. 488: I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Leon Fleisher (piano) | Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Leon Fleisher (conductor)
Sony 88697-43505 (Mozart: Piano Concertos) -
Sonata, RV 53 for Oboe and Basso continuo in C Minor {edit}
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone) | Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Hungarian Dance #4
Johannes Brahms
Friday
May 20
Steven & Stijn Kolacny (pianists)
Etcetera 5250 (Brahms: Hungarian Dances) -
Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano in G Major, WoO 37: III. Thema andante con variazioni
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
May 20
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Paul Hongue (bassoon) | Robert Veyron (piano)
Brilliant 93525 (Beethoven: Complete Works) -
Cycloiden Waltz
Johann Strauss II
Friday
May 20
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic | Johannes Wildner (conductor)
Marco Polo 223.221 (J. Strauss, Jr.: Edition, Vol. 21) -
Grand Galop chromatique
Franz Liszt
Friday
May 20
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 789141 (Liszt) -
Concerto, BWV 1044 for Flute, Violin and Keyboard in A Minor: I. Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Arion | Jaap ter Linden (conductor)
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
"VIllage Swallows of Austria" Waltz
Josef Strauss
Friday
May 20
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Seguidillas & Canción (from various zarzuelas)
José de Nebra
Friday
May 20
Concerto of Cologne | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Archiv 479.2050 (El Maestro Farinelli) -
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #4
Antonín Dvorák
Friday
May 20
Berlin Philharmonic | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
EMI 49547 (Dvorák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72) -
Flute Quartet, K. 298 in A Major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Eckart Haupt (flute) | Peter Mirring (violin) | Peter Schikora (viola) | Gerhard Pluskwik (cello)
Capriccio 10.282 (Mozart: Die Flötenquartette) -
Klavierstücke (Piano Pieces), Op. 32: #3. Romanze
Robert Schumann
Friday
May 20
Daniel Levy (piano)
Nimbus 5238 (Schumann: Piano Music, Vol. 3) -
Concerto After Scarlatti #9 in C Major
Charles Avison
Friday
May 20
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Rondo for Piano & Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
May 20
Walter Klien (piano) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Jerzy Semkov (conductor)
Vox 9019 (Beethoven: Choral Fantasy) -
Alcina: Overture
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 20
Montreal Baroque Orchestra | Joël Thiffault (conductor)
ATMA 3005 (MISSING) -
Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 26: I. Allegro
Dora Pejacevic
Friday
May 20
Andrej Bielow (violin) | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Sinfonia, H. 660 in A Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Friday
May 20
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77187 (C.P.E. Bach: Hamburg Symphonies, Concerti) -
Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92: IV. Allegro con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
May 20
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 469.000 (Beethoven: Die Symphonien) -
Concerto, RV 429
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
James Galway (flute) | Venetian Soloists | Claudio Scimone (conductor)
RCA 7928 (Vivaldi: 6 Concertos) -
Norwegian Festival Overture
Johan Halvorsen
Friday
May 20
Bergen Philharmonic | Karsten Andersen (conductor)
NKF 50013 (Johan Halvorsen) -
Symphony, Op. 3 #6 in G Major
Johann Christian Bach
Friday
May 20
Hanover Band | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.268 (J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3) -
Symphony #2
Camille Saint-Saëns
Friday
May 20
French National Radio Orchestra | Jean Martinon (conductor)
EMI 62643 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonies) -
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3 #1
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Friday
May 20
Qian Zhou (violin) | Toronto Camerata | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.322 (Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2) -
Symphony #2 in E-flat Major, Op. 38
Zdenek Fibich
Friday
May 20
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Stilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Concerto, BWV 1057
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Sir András Schiff (conductor)
London 425.676 (Bach: Concertos BWV 1052 - 1058) -
Danube Maiden
Johann Strauss II
Friday
May 20
Johann Strauss Orchestra | Willi Boskovsky (conductor)
EMI 64108 (J. Strauss II: Waltzes) -
Piano Sonata #4
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
May 20
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 413.759 (Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 - 15) -
Ouverture in C Minor, TWV 55:c4
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
May 20
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra | Barthold Kuijken (flute, conductor)
Naxos 573.900 (The Colourful Telemann) -
Piano Concerto #1 in D Minor, Op. 15
Johannes Brahms
Friday
May 20
Lars Vogt (piano) | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Lars Vogt (conductor)
Ondine 1330 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Four Ballades, Op. 10) -
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.269 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Ein Musikalischer Spass) -
Piano Concerto #4
John Field
Friday
May 20
Míceál O'Rourke (piano) | London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 9442 (Field: Piano Concertos 4 & 6) -
Brandenburg Concerto #4
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Linde Consort
EMI 47046 (Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 3, 4 & 5) -
Symphony #51
Joseph Haydn
Friday
May 20
The English Concert | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 429.400 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 43, 51, & 52) -
Violin Concerto #1
Max Bruch
Friday
May 20
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Minnesota Orchestra | Edo de Waart (conductor)
EMI 49429 (Brahms & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Symphony #3
Thomas Augustine Arne
Friday
May 20
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8403 (Arne: Symphonies 1 - 4)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Missa Longa in C Major, K 262
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kammerorchester Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Quattro pezzi sacri (Four Sacred Pieces): II. Stabat Mater
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
May 20
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma | Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 845242 (Verdi: Quattro pezzi sacri, Libera me) -
Cantata, BWV 170. Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Contented rest, beloved inner joy)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Michael Chance (alto) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: St Gumbertus, Ansbach, Jul 30, 2000]
SDG 156 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 4) -
Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
Friday
May 20
Leontyne Price (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] | Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] | Richard Tucker (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Kate Pinkerton] | Philip Maero (baritone) [Sharpless] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Goro] | Robert Kerns (baritone) [Il principe Yamadori] | Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Il Bonzo] | Arturo La Porta (baritone) [Il commissario imperiale] | Mario Rinaudo (bass) [L'ufficiale del registro] | Leo Pudis (bass) [Lo zio Yakusidè] | Fernanda Cadoni (mezzo-soprano) [La madre di Cio-cio-san] | Gianna Lollini (soprano) [La zia di Cio-cio-san] | Silvia Bertona (soprano) [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] | Orchestra e coro RCA Italiana | Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
RCA 68884 (Puccini: Madama Butterfly) -
Siroe: Medarse's aria. "Ebbi da te la vita" (From you I received my life)
Johann Adolf Hasse
Friday
May 20
Franco Fagioli (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Naive 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Act II, Finale
Jacques Offenbach
Friday
May 20
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] | Edita Gruberova [Olympia] | Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] | Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] | Gérard Friedmann [Spalanzani] | Paul Crook [Cochenille] | Chours de Radio France | Orchestre National de France | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
DG 427.682 (Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann) -
Maria Stuarda: Act II
Gaetano Donizetti
Friday
May 20
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra] | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy] | Francisco Araiza [Roberto, Conte di Leicester] | Simone Alaimo [Lord Guglielmo Cecil] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Munich Radio Orchestra | Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Cantata, BWV 39. Brich denn Hungrigen dein Brot (Deal thy bread to the hungry)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Gillian Keith (soprano) | Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: St Giles Cripplegate, London, Jun 25-26, 2000]
SDG 101 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 1) -
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #30. Duet. "Holde Gattin, dir zur Seite.Der tauende Morgen"
Joseph Haydn
Friday
May 20
Edith Mathis [Eva] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Adam] | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 416.449 (Haydn: Die Schöpfung) -
Agrippina: Act III, Scenes 9-15
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 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) -
Le Roi malgré lui: Gypsy song. "Il est un vieux chant de Bohême"
Emmanuel Chabrier
Friday
May 20
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Patrick Fournillier (conductor)
EMI 56159 (French Opera Arias) -
A German Requiem, Op. 45: #7. Blessed are the dead
Johannes Brahms
Friday
May 20
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Vier Duette (4 Duets), Op. 34
Robert Schumann
Friday
May 20
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Messa da Requiem: VII. Libera me
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
May 20
Leontyne Price (soprano) | Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) | Veriano Luchetti | José van Dam (baritone) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
RCA 2476 (Verdi: Requiem) -
Les Pêcheurs de perles: Act I, Opening Chorus. "Sur la grève en feu"
Georges Bizet
Friday
May 20
Chours du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Pierre Dervaux (conductor) | Jacques Mars
EMI 69704 (Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles) -
Cendrillon: Aria. "Ah! que mes sours -- Reste au foyer, petit grillon"
Jules Massenet
Friday
May 20
Magdalena Kozená | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
DG 0001302 (French Arias) -
Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler
Friday
May 20
Stuart Skelton (tenor) | Thomas Hampson (baritone) | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
La Dame Blanche: Act II, Georges's cavatina. "Maintenant observons...Viens, gentille dame" (Now, let us watch...Come, gentle lady)
François Adrien Boieldieu
Friday
May 20
Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Coronation Mass in C Major, K 317
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Pamela Heuvelmans (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Le Livre de Baudelaire: I. Le Balcon (orch. John Adams)
Claude Debussy
Friday
May 20
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Cantata, BWV 161. Komm, du süße Todesstunde (Come, O sweet hour of death)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Robin Tyson (alto) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Santo Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Oct 7, 2000]
SDG 104 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 8) -
La Damnation de Faust: Part III, Faust's aria. "Merci, doux crépuscule! (I thank you, gentle twilight)
Hector Berlioz
Friday
May 20
Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Saffo: Grand scene finale, Saffo's aria. "Flutto che muggi...Teco dall'are pronube...L'ama ognor qual io l'amai" (Waves crashing...I come from the nuptial altar...Always love him as I loved him)
Giovanni Pacini
Friday
May 20
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Saffo] | Rémi Mathieu (tenor) [Faone] | Héloise Mas (mezzo-soprano) [Climene] | Nabil Suliman (baritone) [Alcandro] | Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli) -
La Favorite: Act IV
Gaetano Donizetti
Friday
May 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) -
Spanisches Liederbuch: Müh'voll komm' ich und beladen (Sorrowful and oppressed with care I come)
Hugo Wolf
Friday
May 20
Michaela Selinger (mezzo-soprano) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
A German Requiem, Op. 45: #6. Here on Earth have we no continuing place
Johannes Brahms
Friday
May 20
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Vier Gesänge (4 Airs), Op. 142
Robert Schumann
Friday
May 20
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Don Quichotte: Act V
Jules Massenet
Friday
May 20
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] | José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] | Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] | Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] | Christian Papis [Rodriguez] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] | Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 54767 (Massenet: Don Quichotte) -
Don Gil de Alcalà: Habanera. "Todas las mañanitas" (Every morning)
Manuel Penella Moreno
Friday
May 20
Corinne Winters (soprano) | Maya Lahyani (mezzo-soprano) | Oren Fader (guitar) | Steven Blier (piano)
GPR 70013 (Songs of Spain) -
Elias (Elijah): Nr. 21-22, Aria and Chorus. "Höre, Israel, höre des Herrn Stimme!"; "Fürchte dich nicht, spricht unser Gott"
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
May 20
Chor des Städt. Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf | Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor)
EMI 56475 (Mendelssohn: Elias) -
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act I
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 20
Anna Dennis [Mirtillo] | Lucy Crowe [Amarilli] | Katherine Manley [Eurilla] | Madeleine Shaw [Dorinda] | Clint van der Linde [Silvio] | Lisandro Abadie [Tirenio] | La Nuova Musica | David Bates (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 907585.86 (Handel: Il pastor fido) -
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: #14. Das himmlische Leben
Gustav Mahler
Friday
May 20
Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 00000029 (Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) -
Missa Solemnis in G Major, K 337
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Cantata, BWV 5. Wo soll ich fliehen hin (Whither shall I flee?)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (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: Erlöserkirche, Potsdam Oct 29, 2000]
SDG 110 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 10) -
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957 [poems by Rellstab, Heine, Seidl]
Franz Schubert
Friday
May 20
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (The Representation of the Soul and the Body): Act III, Scenes 13-15
Emilio de Cavalieri
Friday
May 20
Marie-Claude Chappuis [Anima] | Johannes Weisser [Corpo] | Gyula Orendt [Consiglio] | Mark Milhofer [Intelletto] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin | Concerto Vocale | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2200 (Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo) -
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act III, Scenes 1-6
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
May 20
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 Classics 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Die lustige Witwe: Dance & Vilja-Lied. "Ich bitte, hier jetzt zu verweilen.Es lebt' eine Vilja" [Act II]
Franz Lehár
Friday
May 20
Felicity Lott (soprano) [Hanna Glawari] | The Glyndebourne Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 55152 (Lehár: Lustige Witwe) -
Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'amours [The Court of Love]
Carl Orff
Friday
May 20
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) | Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Harding (conductor)
DG 477.8778 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Cavalleria rusticana: "Intanto amici.Viva il vino spumeggiante"
Pietro Mascagni
Friday
May 20
José Carreras (tenor) | Astrid Varnay (alto) | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 74971 (Opera Arias) -
Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson: #1 "Nature, the gentlest mother"
Aaron Copland
Friday
May 20
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) | Manitoba Chamber Orchestra | Roy Goodman (conductor)
CBC 5234 (So Much To Tell) -
Anna Bolena: Act I, Scene 3
Gaetano Donizetti
Friday
May 20
Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Anna Bolena] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Enrico VIII] | Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Lord Riccardo Percy] | Susanne Mentzer [Giovanna Seymour] | Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Smeton] | Giorgio Surian [Lord Rochefort] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Sir Hervey] | Chorus of the Welsh National Opera [Cortigiani, dame, paggi, scudieri, cacciatori, sceriffi, guardie] | Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 421.096 (Donizetti: Anna Bolena) -
Arias (selections from Radamisto, Ottone, Giulio Cesare, and Arianna)
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 20
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord & conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471.72 (A Tribute) -
Cantata, BWV 114. Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost (Ah, dear Christians, be comforted)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Charles Humphries (alto) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephan Loges (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Allhelgonakyrkan, Lund, Oct 14, 2000]
SDG 159 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 9) -
Mass in E-flat Major, D 950
Franz Schubert
Friday
May 20
Ruth Ziesak (soprano) | Jard Van Nes (alto) | Herbert Lippert (tenor) | Wolfgang Bünten (tenor) | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
Sony Classical 69290 (Schubert: Mass in E-Flat Major) -
I Vespri Siciliani
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
May 20
Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elena] | Chris Merritt [Arrigo] | Giorgio Zancanaro [Monforte] | Ferruccio Furlanetto [Procida] | Gloria Banditelli [Ninetta] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Danieli] | Enzo Capuano [Bethune] | Francesco Musinu [Vaudemont] | Paolo Barbacini [Tebaldo] | Marco Chingari [Roberto] | Ferrero Poggi [Manfredo] | Coro del Teatro alla Scala [Sicilian men and women, French soldiers] | Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi Complete Works) -
Sigurd: Act II, Sigurd's aria. "Le bruit des chants s'éteint...Esprits, gardiens de ces lieux" (The sound of singing fades...Spirits, guardians of this revered place)
Ernest Reyer
Friday
May 20
Bryan Hymel (tenor) | PKF-Prague Philharmonia | Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)
Warner Classics 2564617950 (Héroïque) -
Parsifal: "Amfortas! Die Wunde!"
Richard Wagner
Friday
May 20
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Margarete Joswig (mezzo-soprano) | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Decca 0014132 (Mozart: Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner) -
Médée: Act II
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Friday
May 20
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | Les Arts Florissants Chours et Orchestre | William Christie (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 901139.41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
La finta giardiniera: Act III
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
May 20
Thomas Moser [Don Anchise] | Edita Gruberova [La Marchesa Violante Onesti/Sandrina] | Uwe Heilmann [Il Contino Belfiore] | Charlotte Margiono [Arminda] | Monica Bacelli [Il Cavalier Ramiro] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Serpetta] | Anton Scharinger [Roberto/Nardo] | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 9031-72309 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Cantata, BWV 78. Jesu, der du meine Seele (Jesus, who has wrested my soul)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
May 20
Malin Hartelius (soprano) | Robin Tyson (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: Abbaye d'Ambronay, Sep 24, 2000]
SDG 124 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 7) -
Five Male Choruses, B 87, Op. 27: IV. The Lost Lamb
Antonin Dvorák
Friday
May 20
Cantus
Cantus 1213 (Song of a Czech) -
Merope: Act 3, scene 7, aria (Epitide). "Sposa...non mi conosci"
Gerolamo Giacomelli
Friday
May 20
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 645452 (Venezia) -
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part II, Conclusion. "Un Gott sah jedes Ding...Vollendent is das große Werk" (And God saw every thing that he had made...Achieved is the glorious work)
Joseph Haydn
Friday
May 20
Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel] | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Raphael]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Amadigi: Act III, Finale
George Frideric Handel
Friday
May 20
Nathalie Stutzmann [Amadigi di Gaula] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Oriana] | Eiddwen Harrhy [Melissa] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Dardano] | Bertin Pascal [Orgando] | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Erato 2292-45490 (Handel: Amadigi) -
Die Sternennächte, D 670 (Starry Nights)
Franz Schubert
Friday
May 20
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 902004.05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Poème de l'amour et de la mer: II. La Mort de l'amour
Ernest Chausson
Friday
May 20
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy)