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 #38 "Prague"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1958 (Mozart: Symphonies 38 "Prague" and 41 "Jupiter") -
Fantasie F Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
Jul 26
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 39708 (Chopin: Impromptus) -
Concerto for 2 Flutes & Lute D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
Jul 26
Eckart Haupt (flute) | Wolfgang Loebner (flute) | Monika Rost (lute) | Dresden Baroque Soloists | Eckart Haupt (conductor)
Capriccio 10.284 (Telemann: Konzerte für 2 Flöten) -
Sleeping Beauty Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Friday
Jul 26
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 47075 (Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty) -
String Quartet #2 in G Major, Op. 18 #2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Jul 26
Miró Quartet
Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets) -
Concerto, BWV 1061 for 2 Keyboards in C Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Arion | Jaap ter Linden (conductor)
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
PBS News Hour
News
Friday
Jul 26
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Symphony in 17 Parts in F Major, RH 64: IV. Allegro molto
François-Joseph Gossec
Friday
Jul 26
Les Siècles | François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2423 (Beethoven Symphony No. 5) -
Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84: III. Allegro
Sir Edward Elgar
Friday
Jul 26
Garrick Ohlsson (piano) | Takács String Quartet
Hyperion 68295 (Elgar & Beach Piano Quintets) -
German Dances, D. 783 (16)
Franz Schubert
Friday
Jul 26
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 422.229 (Schubert: Piano Sonata, D.959, Hungarian Melody, German Dances, Allegretto) -
The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Jul 26
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2413 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4) -
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato
Edvard Grieg
Friday
Jul 26
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
EMI 57562 (Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos) -
Flute Concerto G Major: I
Johann Christian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Rachel Brown (flute) | Hanover Band | Anthony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.347 (J.C. Bach: Woodwind Concertos, Vol. 2) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #4 in G Major (HWV 399): I. Allegro & II. A tempo ordinario; Allegro, non presto; Adagio
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Jul 26
The Brook Street Band
Avie 2068 (Handel: Trio Sonatas Op. 5) -
Symphony #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 21: IV. Allegro molto animato
George Whitefield Chadwick
Friday
Jul 26
Albany Symphony Orchestra | Julius Hegyi (conductor)
New World 339 (Chadwick: Symphony No. 2 - Parker: A Northern Ballad) -
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major, BWV 1050: I. Allegro
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Ensemble Caprice | Matthias Maute (conductor)
Analekta 299967 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53: III. Finale. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo
Antonín Dvorák
Friday
Jul 26
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | James Ehnes (violin) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10309 (Dvorak) -
Gamba Sonata, BWV 1027 in G Major: IV. Allegro moderato
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
David Finckel (cello) | Wu Han (piano)
ArtistLed David Finckel Wu Han (David Finckel; Wu Han) -
Norwegian Rhapsody #1
Johan Halvorsen
Friday
Jul 26
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra | Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
Simax 1085 (Svendsen & Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsodies) -
Symphony #6: IV
Johann Wilhelm Wilms
Friday
Jul 26
Concerto of Cologne | Werner Ehrhardt (conductor)
Archiv 0002998 (Wilms: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7) -
Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: I. Allegro moderato
Clara Wieck Schumann
Friday
Jul 26
Nash Ensemble
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Flute Quartet, K. 285a
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Isaac Stern (violin) | Salvatore Accardo (violin) | Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
CBS 42320 (Mozart: 4 Flute Quartets) -
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83: IV. Allegretto grazioso
Johannes Brahms
Friday
Jul 26
Lars Vogt (piano) | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Lars Vogt (conductor)
Ondine 1346 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Handel Variations) -
L'incoronazione di Dario: Sinfonia
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Jul 26
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
String Symphony #2 in D Major
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Jul 26
English String Orchestra | William Boughton (conductor)
Nimbus 5141 (Mendelssohn: Complete String Symphonies, Vol. 1) -
Young Henry's Hunt
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Friday
Jul 26
Munich Radio Orchestra | Kurt Redel (conductor)
Pierre Verany 786104 (French Overtures) -
Violin Concerto in D Major (Benton 103/103A)
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Friday
Jul 26
David Perry (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
Macbeth: Ballet Music (Act III)
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
Jul 26
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Cello Concerto (G. 573)
Luigi Boccherini
Friday
Jul 26
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6055 (Boccherini: Concerti per violoncello, vol. 2) -
Variations, WoO 46 on "Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Jul 26
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2183-84 (Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Symphony #1 in C Minor, Op. 32
Louise Farrenc
Friday
Jul 26
Insula Orchestra | Laurence Equilbey (conductor)
Erato 9029.66985 (Louise Farrenc Symphonies 1 & 3) -
Trio Concertant in G Major, Op. 11 #3
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Friday
Jul 26
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3) -
Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25
Ernst von Dohnányi
Friday
Jul 26
Eldar Nebolsin (piano) | Buffalo Philharmonic | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
Naxos 572.303 (Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song) -
Trio Sonata, RV 79 in B Minor
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Jul 26
L'Estravagante
Naïve 30535 (Vivaldi: Sonate da camera a tre, Op. 1) -
Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Friday
Jul 26
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10589 (Rachmaninoff) -
Violin Sonata, HWV 373 in E Major (Op. 1 #15)
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Jul 26
Andrew Manze (violin) | Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7259 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Overture in F Major
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Friday
Jul 26
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Symphony #87 in A Major
Joseph Haydn
Friday
Jul 26
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.888 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 86 & 87) -
Violin Concerto #3 in B Minor, Op. 61
Camille Saint-Saëns
Friday
Jul 26
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | French Radio Philharmonic | Lionel Bringuier (conductor)
Erato 34134 (Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète) -
Concerto in F Major
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Friday
Jul 26
Lucie Horsch (recorder) | Academy of Ancient Music | Bojan Cicic (conductor)
Decca 483.4722 (Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey) -
Piano Trio, Op. 70 #2 in E-flat Major
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Jul 26
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Concerto, BWV 1056 in G Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Avi Avital (mandolin) | Kammerakademie Potsdam
DG 0016801 (Bach) -
The Corsaire
Hector Berlioz
Friday
Jul 26
Scottish National Orchestra | Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor)
Chandos 8316 (Berlioz: 5 Overtures) -
Quartet #1
Gioachino Rossini
Friday
Jul 26
Camerata Bern | Thomas Füri (conductor)
DG 413.310 (Rossini: Sonatas for Strings) -
Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
Max Bruch
Friday
Jul 26
Joshua Bell (violin and conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sony 84200 (Joshua Bell: Bruch Scottish Fantasy) -
Concerto, RV 522: I. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Jul 26
Jeanne Lamon (violin) | Geneviève Gilardeau (violin) | Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
Cello Sonata #2 in D Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro assai vivace
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Jul 26
Elizabeth Dolin (cello) | Bernadene Blaha (piano)
Analekta 23166 (Mendelsshon: Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Guitar Concerto E Minor
Ferdinando Carulli
Friday
Jul 26
Pepe Romero (guitar) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 426.263 (Carulli & Molino: Guitar Concertos) -
Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068: III. Gavotte I/II
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 3134 (Bach: Orchestral Suites) -
Ballet of the Snowflakes
Jacques Offenbach
Friday
Jul 26
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5303 (Offenbach: Music from the Operettas) -
Piano Trio, Op. 12 in E-flat Major: I. Allegro agitato
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Friday
Jul 26
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 446.077 (Hummel: Piano Trios) -
Concierto de Aranjuez: III. Allegro gentile
Joaquín Rodrigo
Friday
Jul 26
Junhong Kuang (guitar) | Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice | Darrell Ang (conductor)
Naxos 579.053 (Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez) -
Concerto for 2 Horns in D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Friday
Jul 26
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Sinfonia, S 161 in B-flat Major (Altner Bb2)
František Xaver Dušek
Friday
Jul 26
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra | Aapo Häkkinen (conductor)
Naxos 572.683 (Dussek: Four Symphonies) -
Symphony #87 in A Major: I. Vivace
Joseph Haydn
Friday
Jul 26
La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Virgin 90844 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 85, 86 & 87) -
Trio Sonata #4: I. Vivace
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
Friday
Jul 26
Parnassi musici
CPO 777.383 (Neruda: Trio Sonatas) -
Symphony #6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral": I. Allegro ma non troppo. Awakening of happy feelings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Jul 26
Britten Sinfonia | Thomas Adès (conductor)
Signum 639 (Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4-6) -
The Magic Flute: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI 85060 (Mozart: Overtures) -
Piano Concerto #2 in F Minor, Op. 21: I. Maestoso
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
Jul 26
Bella Davidovich (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 410.042 (Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2) -
Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068: I. Overture
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 43 "Slavic": III. Allegro molto vivace
Dora Pejacevic
Friday
Jul 26
Andrej Bielow (violin) | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Symphony, Op. 3 #5 in F Major
Johann Christian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Hanover Band | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.268 (J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3) -
Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
Mikhail Glinka
Friday
Jul 26
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Telarc 80072 ("Marche Slav" and other Russian Favorites) -
The Bells of St. Geneviève
Marin Marais
Friday
Jul 26
Munich Pro Arte Orchestra | Kurt Redel (conductor)
Peters International PLE 044 (Marais: Bells of St. Geneviève) -
Hungarian Rhapsody #6 "Carnival of Pest"
Franz Liszt
Friday
Jul 26
Israel Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
CBS 44926 (Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies) -
Clarinet Concerto #2 F Minor
Bernhard Henrik Crusell
Friday
Jul 26
Emma Johnson (clarinet) | English Chamber Orchestra | Sir Charles Groves (conductor)
ASV 559 (Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 - Weber - Baermann - Rossini) -
Sacred and Profane Dances
Claude Debussy
Friday
Jul 26
Skaila Kanga (harp) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Chandos 8621 (Ravel, Debussy, Saint_Saëns & Roussel) -
The Four Seasons, Op. 8/1-4
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Jul 26
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Orchestra of St. Luke's
EMI 49767 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Symphony #1 in G Minor
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Friday
Jul 26
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Piano Concerto #1
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Jul 26
Lang Lang (piano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
DG 474.291 (Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: First Piano Concertos) -
The Planets
Gustav Holst
Friday
Jul 26
Boston Symphony Orchestra | New England Conservatory Chorus | William Steinberg (conductor)
DG 463.627 (Gustav Holst: The Planets) -
Sinfonia concertante E-flat Major, K 364 (320d)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Lara St. John (violin) | Scott St. John (viola) | The Knights | Eric Jacobsen (conductor)
Ancalagon 136 (Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 3) -
Ballade #1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Frédéric Chopin
Friday
Jul 26
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 459.683 (Chopin: 4 Ballades, Fantasie Op. 49, etc.) -
Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friday
Jul 26
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.2721 (Beethoven: The Symphonies) -
Concerto, BWV 1042
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
David Oistrakh (violin) | Vienna Symphony Orchestra
DG 447.427 (Bach, Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos - Beethoven: Violin Romances) -
Piano Concerto #24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Mitsuko Uchida (piano and conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra
Decca 0013276 (Mozart: Piano Concerto 23, K488 & 24, K491) -
Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Edvard Grieg
Friday
Jul 26
Mito Chamber Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Decca 485.059 (Seiji Ozawa, Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg Holberg Suite) -
Wind Symphony #6 in B-flat Major
Johann Christian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Consortium Classicum
MDG 301.0434 (J.C. Bach: Wind Symphonies)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Macbeth
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
Jul 26
Leo Nucci (baritone) [Macbeth] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Banco] | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Anna Caterina Antonacci [Dama] | Veriano Luchetti [Macduff] | Antonio Barasorda [Malcolm] | Sergio Fontana [Medico] | Gianfranco Casarini [Servo] | Gastone Sarti [Sicario] | Giuseppe Morresi [Araldo] | Natale de Carolis [Prima apparizione] | Barbara Briscik [Seconda apparizione] | Marco Fanti [Terza apparizione] | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [Streghe, messaggeri del re, nobili e profughi scozzesi, sicari, soldati inglesi, bardi] | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
London 417.525 (Verdi: Macbeth) -
O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst [Ferdinand Freiligrath]
Franz Liszt
Friday
Jul 26
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Arabella: Act I, Duet "Ich danke, Fräulein.Aber der Richtige, wenn's einen gibt"
Richard Strauss
Friday
Jul 26
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Virgin 45705 (Amor) -
Cantata, BWV 36. Schwingt freudig euch empor (Soar joyfully aloft)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | Jan Kobow (tenor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 162 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 13) -
Songs. Nacht und Träume; Der blinde Knabe; Hoffnung; Totengräberweise; Tiefes Leid; Greisengesang (Night and Dreams; The Blind Boy; Hope; Gravedigger's Song; Deep Sorrow; Old Man's Song)
Franz Schubert
Friday
Jul 26
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2063 (Nacht und Träume) -
Six Moravian Choruses
Leoš Janácek
Friday
Jul 26
Cappella Amsterdam | Philip Mayers (piano) | Daniel Reuss (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2097 (Janácek: Choral Works) -
Missa in C Major, K 167 "Trinity Mass"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Chamber Choir of Europe | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Camerata Würzburg | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
O ye little flock
John Amner
Friday
Jul 26
Stile Antico | Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Shéhérazade
Maurice Ravel
Friday
Jul 26
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Liederkreis, Op. 24: #3. Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen (I wandered under the trees)
Robert Schumann
Friday
Jul 26
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7521 (Schumann: Dichterliebe) -
Salve Regina, HWV 241
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Jul 26
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7559 (Handel in Italy) -
Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
Gustav Mahler
Friday
Jul 26
Erin Wall (soprano) | Elza van den Heever (soprano) | Laura Claycomb (soprano) | Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano) | Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor) | Quinn Kelsey (baritone) | James Morris (bass) | San Francisco Symphony Chorus | Pacific Boychoir | San Francisco Girls Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 60021 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8) -
Carmina Burana: III. Cour d'amours [The Court of Love]
Carl Orff
Friday
Jul 26
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) | Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Harding (conductor)
DG 477.8778 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Cantata #8. Recitative and aria. "Or che una numbe ingrata...Senza il misero piacer" (Now that a cruel cloud...Without the miserable pleasure)
Nicola Porpora
Friday
Jul 26
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Un ballo in maschera: Act I, Part 2
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
Jul 26
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) -
Mentre ti lascio, K 513
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Warner Classics 62257 (Arias) -
Selva morale e spirituale: Beatus Vir (first setting)
Claudio Monteverdi
Friday
Jul 26
The Cambridge Singers | John Rutter (conductor)
Collegium 134 (The Sacred Flame) -
Cantata, BWV 21. Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (My heart was deeply troubled)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Vernon Kirk (tenor) | Jonathan Brown (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 165 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 2) -
Ariodant: Act II, scene 6. Ina's melodarama, recitative and aria. "Quelle fureur barbare!...Mais, que dis-je?...Ô des amants le plus fidèle" (What barbarous fury!...What am I saying?...O, most faithful of lovers)
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Friday
Jul 26
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Virgin 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Turandot: Act II, excerpts. "In questa Reggia" -- "Straniero, ascolta" -- "Giuzza al pari di fiamma" -- "Gelo che ti dà foco" -- "Figlio del Cielo!"
Giacomo Puccini
Friday
Jul 26
Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Turandot] | Renata Tebaldi [Liù] | Giorgio Tozzi [Timur] | Jussi Bjoerling [Calaf] | Alessio de Paolis [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Mario Sereni [Ping] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Pang] | Tommaso Frascati [Pong] | Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus | Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)
RCA 63705 (Puccini: Turandot, excerpts) -
Carmen: Chanson (Seguidilla) and Duet. "Près des ramparts de Séville" ("Near the wells of Seville")
Georges Bizet
Friday
Jul 26
Elína Garanca (mezzo-soprano) [Carmen] | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Don José] | Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Raí | Karel Mark Chichon (conductor)
DG 014777 (Habanera) -
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (7 Popular Spanish Songs)
Manuel de Falla
Friday
Jul 26
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
A Mass of Life: Part II
Frederick Delius
Friday
Jul 26
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) -
Missa Brevis in F Major, K 192
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Anja Bittner (soprano) | Gabriele Wunderer (alto) | Robert Morvaj (tenor) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Aroldo: Act II
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
Jul 26
Neil Shicoff [Aroldo] | Carol Vaness [Mina] | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Egberto] | Roberto Scandiuzzi [Briano] | Julian Gavin [Godvino] | Sergio Spina [Enrico] | Marina Comparato [Elena] | Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino [Knight-crusaders, ladies & gentlemen of Kent, squires, pages, heralds, huntsmen, Saxons, Scottish peasants] | Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Gustav Mahler
Friday
Jul 26
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Wolfram Rieger (piano) | Recorded live on May 6, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Mass in F Major for Male Choir and Organ, Op. 190
Josef Rheinberger
Friday
Jul 26
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | David Chalmers (organ) | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Vier Duette (4 Duets), Op. 78
Robert Schumann
Friday
Jul 26
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Elias (Elijah): Part II, Opening
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Jul 26
Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Chorus Musicus Köln | Das Neue Orchester | Christoph Spering (conductor)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Judith Nelson | Julianne Baird | Jeffrey Dooley | Frank Hoffmeister | Jan Opalach | The Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Nonesuch 79036 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Missa in C Major, K 257 "Credo Mass"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday
Jul 26
Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Friday
Jul 26
James King [Walther von Stolzing] | Pilar Lorengar [Eva] | Shirley Love [Magdalene] | Loren Driscoll [David] | Ezio Flagello [Pogner] | Benno Kusche [Beckmesser] | Theo Adam [Hans Sachs] | Charles Anthony [Vogelgesang] | Robert Goodloe [Nachtigall] | Donald Gramm [Kothner] | Russell Christopher [Ortel] | Robert Schmorr [Zorn] | Gabor Carelli [Moser] | Rod MacWherter [Eisslinger] | Louis Sgarro [Foltz] | James Morris [Schwarz] | Clifford Harvuot [Night Watchman] | Metropolitan Opera | Thomas Schippers (conductor)
Sony 85304 (Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) -
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act III, Aria. Amato ben (My beloved)
Antonio Vivaldi
Friday
Jul 26
Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] | Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor)
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Motet, BWV 226. Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
Johann Sebastian Bach
Friday
Jul 26
Pygmalion | Raphaël Pichon (director)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2657 (J.S. Bach: Motets) -
Don Carlo: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Friday
Jul 26
Nicolai Ghiaurov [Philip II, King of Spain] | Carlo Bergonzi [Don Carlo] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Rodrigo] | Martti Talvela [The Grand Inquisitor] | Tugomir Franc [A Monk] | Renata Tebaldi [Elisabeth of Valois] | Grace Bumbry [Princess Eboli] | Jeannette Sinclair [Tebaldo] | Kenneth MacDonald [The Count of Lerma] | John Wakefield [A royal herald] | Joan Carlyle [A voice from on high] | The Royal Opera House Chorus [Flemish deputies, inquisitors, lords & ladies of the Spanish court, people, monks, officials of the Inquisition, grandees of Spain, huntsmen, pages, attendants, etc.] | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Elias (Elijah): Part I, Conclusion
Felix Mendelssohn
Friday
Jul 26
Das Neue Orchester | Chorus Musicus Köln | Christoph Spering (conductor) | Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Gustav Mahler
Friday
Jul 26
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 60036 (Mahler: Lieder) -
Solovei (Nightingale), Op. 60 #4
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Friday
Jul 26
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Delos 3392 (Romances) -
Le Cid: Act III, Scenes 2-4
Jules Massenet
Friday
Jul 26
Grace Bumbry [Chimene] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] | Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] | Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] | Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] | Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] | Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] | Jake Gardner [Le Roi] | Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] | John Adams [St. Jacques] | Byrne Camp Chorale | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler (conductor)
CBS 79300 (Massenet: Le Cid) -
Some Times of Day (songs for mezzo-soprano and piano trio): The Best Time of the Day
Jake Heggie
Friday
Jul 26
Zheng Cao (mezzo-soprano) | Dawn Harms (violin) | Emil Miland (cello) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Susanna: Aria. If guiltless blood be your intent
George Frideric Handel
Friday
Jul 26
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord & conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471-72 (A Tribute)