This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical,  WETA VivaLaVoce and WETA Virtuoso. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.

WETA Classical

  • Awake, and join the cheerful choir

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Anonymous 4

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7325 (Wolcum Yule)
  • Franz Gruber

    Stille Nacht (Silent Night)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar) | Christine Högman (soprano)

    BIS 533 (Christmas Music)
  • The Holly and the Ivy

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria, D 839

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

    Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas)
  • Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane

    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tochter Zion, freue dich

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Noche de paz

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Thomas Circle Singers

    Private Recording
  • Veni,veni, Emanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)

    Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles)
  • A Christmas Medley

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends

    NSS Music 001 (Merry)
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor)

    Seraphic Fire Media 2011 (Silent Night)
  • O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Empire Brass

    EMI 49097 (Joy to the World)
  • A Feast of Carols

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)

    Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols)
  • Christopher Rouse

    Karolju: Swedish

    Friday
    Dec 19

    BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)

    RCA 11561 (Karolju)
  • Joy to the World

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square | John Longhurst (organ)

    Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas)
  • Mel Tormé

    The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Canadian Brass

    CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas)
  • César Franck

    Panis angelicus

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Nicoletta Mezzini (organ) | Michele Mariotti (conductor)

    Decca 0014875 (Santo: Sacred Songs)
  • The Coventry Carol (Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers

    Collegium 111 (Christmas wih the Cambridge Singers)
  • Once in Royal David's City

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Galliard Brass

    ASV 527 (Carols for Brass)
  • In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson)
  • Johann Christoph Pezel

    Hora decima: Sonata #24

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • Adam lay ybounden

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Choir of The Church of the Epiphany

    Private Recording
  • The Infant King

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Franz Gruber

    Stille Nacht (Silent Night)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)

    Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas)
  • The First Nowell

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Pa Fab Yw Hwn? (What Child Is This?)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor) | Catrin Finch (harp)

    DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs)
  • Prokofiev "Troika"; O Little Town of Bethlehem

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

    Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas)
  • Nowell, Nowell, Tydings Trew

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Jesse Blumberg (baritone) | Ensemble La Nef

    Avie 2269 (Sacrum Mysterium)
  • Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Empire Brass

    EMI 49097 (Joy to the World)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: Air and Chorus. "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Bernarda Fink (alto) | Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)

    Archiv 453.464 (Handel: Messiah)
  • Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich

    Carol of the Bells

    Friday
    Dec 19

    CORO 16188 (Carol of the Bells; The Sixteen)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 2: Sinfonia

    Friday
    Dec 19

    René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music

    Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium)
  • Still, Still, Still

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square

    MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!)
  • Good King Wenceslas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Michael Bojesen (conductor) | Danish National Vocal Ensemble | Michala Petri (recorder)

    OUR Recordings 220615 (Let the Angels Sing)
  • In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Galliard Brass

    ASV 527 (Carols for Brass)
  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Cathedral Choral Society | Chanticleer

    Private Recording
  • Johann Crüger

    Froehlich soll mein Herze springen

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • I Saw Three Ships

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 2

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

    Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas)
  • Ganol Gaeaf Noethlwm (In the Bleak Midwinter)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

    DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs)
  • Masters in this Hall

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Here We Come A-Wassaling

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Canadian Brass

    CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas)
  • Max Reger

    The Virgin's Slumber Song

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano) | Tedd Firth (piano)

    Sono Luminus 70003 (Holiday Harmonies, Songs of Christmas)
  • O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)

    Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas)
  • Franz Gruber

    Stille Nacht (Silent Night)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • The Seven Joys of Mary

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Ensemble La Nef | Meredith Hall (soprano)

    Avie 2269 (Sacrum Mysterium)
  • The First Nowell

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Washington Men's Camerata | Frank Albinder (conductor)

    Gothic 49128 (Sing We Noel)
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer

    Sonata natalis in C Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Virtuosi Saxoniae | Ludwig Güttler (conductor)

    Berlin Classics 1117 (Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen)
  • Thomas Pasatieri

    Alleluia

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson)
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)

    Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles)
  • God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | David Briggs (organ) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: Chorus. "Hallelujah!"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra

    Private Recording
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor) | Kathy Kienzle (harp) | Richard Killmer (oboe)

    d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas)
  • Riu, riu, chiu

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Smithsonian Chamber Players

    Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song)
  • Michael Praetorius

    Wachet Auf

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Paul Goodwin (conductor) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart

    Hänssler 93114 (Four Centuries of Christmas Music)
  • Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square

    Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas)
  • Cwsg, Cwsg, Cwsg (Still, still, still)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

    DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs)
  • Landgraf Von Hessen Moritz

    Canzona for 2 Brass Choirs

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers

    Collegium 111 (Christmas wih the Cambridge Singers)
  • JS Bach/Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Hamburg Soloists

    Arte Nova 30504 (Christmas Cantatas)
  • O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • I Saw Three Ships

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Sandra Simon (soprano)

    Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World)
  • Christopher Rouse

    Karolju: Little March of the Three Kings

    Friday
    Dec 19

    BBC Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman (conductor)

    RCA 11561 (Karolju)
  • Deck the Hall

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Washington Men's Camerata | Frank Albinder (conductor)

    Gothic 49128 (Sing We Noel)
  • Masters in this Hall

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players

    Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker Suite

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

    Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas)
  • Auld Lang Syne

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Frederick Chorale

    Private Recording
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)

    Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles)
  • Joy to the World

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Eugene Ormandy (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus

    RCA 6430 (Joy to the World)
  • Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor) | Jeffrey Van (guitar)

    d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas)
  • Away in a Manger

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

    DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs)
  • Hodie Christus natus est (Christ is Born Today)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Galliard Brass

    ASV 527 (Carols for Brass)
  • A Feast of Carols

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)

    Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols)
  • Here We Come A-Wassaling

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds)
  • Johann Andreas Herbst

    Singt und klinget allzumal

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Quittez, pasteurs

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor) | Jacqueline Kerrod (harp)

    Seraphic Fire Media 14 (Candlelight Carols)
  • Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich

    Carol of the Bells

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Canadian Brass

    CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas)
  • Irving Berlin

    White Christmas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson)
  • Fum, Fum, Fum

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)

    Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World)
  • The Seven Joys of Mary

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | David Briggs (organ) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Deck the Halls in 7/8

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Children's Chorus of Washington

    Private Recording
  • Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)

    Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles)
  • Leroy Anderson

    A Christmas Festival Overture

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Boston Pops | Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

    RCA 61685 (Pops Christmas Party)
  • Christopher Rouse

    Karolju: French

    Friday
    Dec 19

    BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)

    RCA 11561 (Karolju)
  • Masters in this Hall

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square

    Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas)
  • Thomas Weelkes

    Hosanna to the Son of David

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Galliard Brass

    ASV 527 (Carols for Brass)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 5. Chorus. "Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen" (Let thy glory be sung, God)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | RIAS Chamber Choir

    Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium)
  • Adolphe Adam

    Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Leontyne Price (soprano)

    London 421.103 (Price: Christmas Songs)
  • O du fröhliche! O du selige!

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)

    EMI 54902 (Carol Album 2)
  • Il est né, le divin enfant

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)

    Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas)
  • Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Rejoice and Be Merry

    Friday
    Dec 19

    J. Reilly Lewis (conductor) | Cathedral Choral Society | Eric Plutz (organ) | Washington Symphonic Brass

    Gothic 49227 (Welcome All Wonders!)
  • Michael Praetorius

    Jubilate Domino

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • I Saw Three Ships

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • Angels We Have Heard on High

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players

    Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song)
  • Jay Livingston & Ray Evans

    Silver Bells

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Canadian Brass

    CBS 39740 (A Canadian Brass Christmas)
  • A Winter Breviary: 1. We Look for You

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Washington Master Chorale

    Private Recording
  • Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)

    Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World)
  • In the Bleak Mid-Winter

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker Suite

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Carillon Brass

    Integra 920 (Carillon Christmas)
  • Personent hodie

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy)
  • Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Bach Choir | David Hill (conductor) | The Wallace Collection | Choristers of Winchester Cathedral | Jane Watts (organ)

    Priory 768 (Noël!)
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)

    Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles)
  • John Rutter

    Shepherd's Pipe Carol

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

    DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs)
  • Leroy Anderson

    Sleigh Ride

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Boston Pops | Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

    RCA 61685 (Pops Christmas Party)
  • God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Galliard Brass

    ASV 527 (Carols for Brass)
  • How Far Is It To Bethlehem

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor) | Kathy Kienzle (harp) | Thomas Tempel (oboe)

    d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas)
  • The First Nowell

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Empire Brass

    EMI 49097 (Joy to the World)
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Eugene Ormandy (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus

    RCA 6430 (Joy to the World)
  • Valerius Otto

    Intrade

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • I Saw Three Ships

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square

    MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 1: Chorus. "Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage" (Rejoice, exult! arise, glorify the day)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Washington Bach Consort

    Private Recording
  • Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • Jay Livingston & Ray Evans

    Silver Bells

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Eaken Piano Trio

    Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Stewart Goodyear (piano)

    Steinway & Sons 30040 (The Nutcracker)
  • A wassail, a wassail throughout all this town!

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds)
  • What Child Is This?

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players

    Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song)
  • Il est né, le divin enfant

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)

    Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World)
  • Christmastide: Part 4

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Jessye Norman (soprano) | New York Choral Society | American Boychoir | Robert DeCormier (conductor) | Empire Chamber Ensemble

    Philips 420.180 (Christmastide)
  • Pietro Yon

    Gesu Bambino

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Christopher Parkening (guitar)

    Sony 62723 (Angels' Glory)
  • Personent hodie

    Friday
    Dec 19

    City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers

    Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album)
  • Deck the Hall

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Galliard Brass

    ASV 527 (Carols for Brass)
  • Here We Come A-wassailing

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor)

    d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas)
  • Good King Wenceslas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble

    EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful)
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D Major: III & IV

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Virtuosi Saxoniae | Ludwig Güttler (conductor)

    Berlin Classics 1117 (Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen)
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Eugene Ormandy (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus

    RCA 6430 (Joy to the World)
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)

    DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols)
  • George Frideric Handel

    March from "Joshua"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble

    Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: For unto us a child is born

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra

    Private Recording, 2024
  • David Popper

    Im Walde, Op. 50: #2. Gnomentanz

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Wendy Warner (cello) | Eileen Buck (piano)

    Cedille 90000.111 (Wendy Warner Plays Popper & Piatigorsky)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Overture #2

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 439.937 (Veracini: 5 Overtüren)
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony #5

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)

    Philips 432.123 (Schubert: Symphony No. 5 - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite from Violin Partita #3 (transcription by Rachmaninoff): #6. Gigue

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Daniil Trifonov (piano)

    DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure)
  • Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov

    Symphony #1 in G Minor

    Friday
    Dec 19

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)

    Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, RV 400 for Cello in C Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Han-Na Chang (cello) | London Chamber Orchestra | Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)

    EMI 34791 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos)
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier

    Offertory for Two Instrumental Choirs (from Mass for Woodwinds and Strings)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée)
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet A Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Walter Boeykens (clarinet) | Therese-Marie Gilissen (viola) | Marjeta Korosec (violin) | Peter Despiegelaere (violin) | Roel Dieltiens (cello)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.1384 (Mozart: Quintette pour Clarinette)
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Impromptu, Op. 36

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Murray Perahia (piano)

    CBS 39708 (Chopin: Impromptus)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Banquet Music, Part 3: Suite in B-flat major: I. Ouverture: Lentement - Presto - Lentement

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto #2

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Barry Douglas (piano)

    RCA 61633 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3)
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante défunte

    Friday
    Dec 19

    St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)

    Teldec 9031.74006 (Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, Le tombeau de Couperin)
  • Léon de Saint-Lubin

    Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 49

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Anastasia Khitruk (violin) | Elizaveta Kopelman (piano)

    Naxos 572.019 (Saint-Lubin: Virtuoso Works for Violin, Vol. 1)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet #4 in C Minor, Op. 18 #4

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Miró Quartet

    Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55: #4. Songs My Mother Taught Me

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)

    Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Piano Concerto #2

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Lorin Maazel (conductor) | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Horacio Gutierrez (piano)

    Telarc 80259 (Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite #4 in D Major, BWV 1069

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)

    AAM Records 003 (JS Bach: Orchestral Suites)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida: Ballet Scenes

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)

    Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas)

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Turandot: Act II

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Philharmonic Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | John Alldis Choir | 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] | Zubin Mehta (conductor)

    London 414.274 (Puccini: Turandot)
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis, Op. 39: Schöne Fremde (Lovely Foreign Land)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)

    Naïve 5159 (Schumann)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Luisa Miller: Recitative and Aria. "Oh! fede negar potessi; Quando le sere al placido"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Vienna Opera Orchestra | Edward Downes (conductor)

    Decca 475.6414 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata, BWV 14. Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (If it had not been the Lord who was on our side)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Katharine Fuge (soprano)

    SDG 115 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 19)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Farnace: Act I, Aria. Al vezzeggiar d'un volto (Alluring features)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)

    Virgin 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride: Act IV

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Gennady Bezzubenkov [Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin] | Marina Shaguch [Marfa] | Dmitri Hvorostovsky [Grigory Grigoryevich Gryaznoy] | Sergei Alexashkin [Grigory Lukyanovich Malyuta-Skuratov] | Evgeny Akimov [Ivan Sergeyevich Lykov] | Olga Borodina [Lyubasha] | Nikolai Gassiev [Yelisey Bomelius] | Irina Loskutova [Domna Ivanovna Saburova] | Olga Markova-Mikhailenko [Dunyasha] | Lyubov Sokolova [Petrovna] | Yuri Shkliar [Stoker] | Lyudmila Kasjanenko [Serving Girl] | Viktor Vikhrov [Lad] | Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg | Valery Gergiev (conductor) | Valery Gergiev

    Philips 462.618 (Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride)
  • Bedřich Smetana

    Certova stena (The Devil's Wall): Vok's aria. "Jen Jediana"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes)
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il viaggio a Reims: Finale

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Chorus | Lucia Valentini Terrani [Marchesa Melibea] | Lella Cuberli [Contessa di Folleville] | Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Madama Cortese] | Edoardo Gimenez [Cavalier Belfiore] | Francisco Araiza [Conte di Libenskof] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Lord Sidney] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Profondo] | Enzo Dara [Barone di Trombonok] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Don Alvaro] | Giorgio Surian [Don Prudenzio] | Oslavio di Credico [Don Luigino] | Raquel Pierotti [Maddalena] | Antonella Bandelli [Delia] | Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Modestina] | Luigi de Corato [Antonio] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Zefirino]

    DG 415.498 (Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims)
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice: Act I

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Orfeo] | Margaret Marshall (soprano) [Euridice] | Edita Gruberova [Amore]

    EMI 66507 (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lo sposo deluso, K 430: Pulcherio's aria. "Dove mai trovar quel ciglio?" (Where are such eyes to be found?)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Symphony Orchestra | Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

    DG 479.1054 (Mozart: Concert Arias)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Missa solemnis, Op. 123: II. Gloria

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) | Annette Jahns (mezzo-soprano) | Nikolai Schikoff (tenor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

    LPO 0061 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis)
  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem, Op. 9

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Houston Chamber Choir | Robert Simpson (conductor) | Ken Cowan (organ)

    Signum 571 (Durufle: Complete Choral Works)
  • Franz Schubert

    Im Abendrot, D 799

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Cheryl Studer (soprano) | Irwin Gage (piano)

    DG 431.773 (Schubert: Lieder)
  • Sebastián de Vivanco

    Magnificat Quarti toni

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestra of the Renaissance | Richard Cheetham (director) | Michael Noone (conductor)

    Glossa 921405 (Sebastián de Vivanco: In Manus Tuas)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Coronation Anthem: "The King shall rejoice"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    Philips 412.733 (Handel: Coronation Anthems)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D Major, RV 589

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Margaret Marshall (soprano) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Alldis Choir | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Vittorio Negri (conductor) | Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) | Birgit Finnilä (contralto)

    Philips 420.648 (Vivaldi: Sacred Choral Works, Vol. 1)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Son (A dream), Op. 8 #5

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)

    Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances)
  • Joseph Haydn

    L'isola disabitata: Act II, Finale

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)

    Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata)
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elias (Elijah): Part II, Opening

    Friday
    Dec 19

    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)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Finta Giardiniera: Act II, Ramiro's aria. "Dolce d'amor compagna" (Sweet companion of love)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Marie-Claude Chappuis [Cavaliere Ramiro]

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2126-28 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera)
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Walküre: Act I

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Schola of the Hofburgkapelle, Vienna | James King (tenor) [Siegmund] | Régine Crespin (soprano) [Sieglinde] | Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Hunding]

    London 414.105 (Wagner: Die Walküre)
  • Robert Schumann

    Liederkreis, Op. 39: Auf einer Berg (At a Castle)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)

    Naïve 5159 (Schumann)
  • Hector Berlioz

    La Damnation de Faust: Invocation to Nature. "Nature immense" [Part IV/16]

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Symphony Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Faust]

    DG 471.372 (French Opera Arias)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

    London 430.281 (Brahms: Works for Chorus and Orchestra)
  • Franz Schubert

    Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957: #1-7. Rellstab- Lieder [poems by Ludwig Rellstab]

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alcina: Morgana's aria. "Tornami a vagheggiar" (Look upon me tenderly again)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor) | Patricia Petibon (soprano)

    DG 477.8763 (Rosso, Italian baroque arias)
  • Manuel de Falla

    Siete Canciones populares Españolas

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)

    Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour)
  • Jules Massenet

    Hérodiade: Act IV

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salomé] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Hérodiade] | Martine Olmeda [Une jeune Babylonienne] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hérode] | José van Dam (baritone) [Phanuel] | Marcel Vanaud [Vitellius] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Grand Prêtre] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Une voix dans le temple]

    EMI 55378 (Massenet: Hérodiade)
  • John Dowland

    Now, o now, I needs must tarry

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Julian Behr (lute) | Concerto di Viole

    Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2)
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part II

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry | Sylvia McNair | Donna Brown (soprano) | Michael Schade | Gerald Finley (baritone)

    Archiv 449.217 (Haydn: The Creation)
  • Claude Debussy

    Pelléas et Mélisande

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] | Didier Henry [Pelléas] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] | Pierre Thau [Arkel] | Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] | Françoise Golfier [Yniold] | Phillip Ens [Un berger | Un médecin] | Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants]

    London 430.502 (Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande)
  • Ernest Chausson

    Poème de l'amour et de la mer: II. La Mort de l'amour

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy)
  • Jean-Marie Leclair

    Scylla et Glaucus: Act IV, Scenes 4-6

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Donna Brown [Scylla] | Howard Crook (tenor) [Glaucus] | Rachel Yakar (soprano) [Circé] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Dorine] | Françoise Golfier [L'Amour] | Agnes Mellon [Vénus] | Renè Schirrer [Licas] | Elisabeth Vidal (soprano) [Témire] | Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) [Un Propetide] | Nicolas Robertson [Un Propetide] | Philip Salmon [Un berger] | Richard Stuart (baritone) [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Hécate]

    Erato 2292.45277 (Leclair: Sylla et Glaucus)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Zaide: Act II, Aria. "Wer hungrig bei der Tafel sitzt"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Christopher Purves [Osmin] | The Academy of Ancient Music | Paul Goodwin (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7205 (Mozart: Zaide)
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Lucia] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Edgardo] | Sherill Milnes [Enrico] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Raimondo] | Ryland Davies [Arturo] | Huguette Tourangeau [Alisa] | Pier Francesco Poli [Normanno]

    London 410.193 (Donizett: Lucia di Lammermoor)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Ja byl u nej (I was with her), Op. 14 #4

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)

    Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances)
  • Hector Berlioz

    Requiem, Op. 5: II. Dies irae

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Symphony Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | London Symphony Chorus

    Philips 416.283 (Berlioz: Requiem)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata, BWV 21. Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis (My heart was deeply troubled)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Barbara Schlick (soprano)

    Erato 4509.98536 (Bach: Cantatas)
  • John Bennet

    Venus' birds whose mournful tunes

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Julian Behr (lute) | Concerto di Viole

    Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2)

WETA Virtuoso

  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto

    Friday
    Dec 19

    London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | Richard Stoltzman (clarinet)

    RCA 61790 (Copland: Clarinet Concerto, "Jenkins", Goodbye - Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata - Gershwin: 3 Preludes)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Pieces, Op. 76: #7. Intermezzo in A Minor

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Nicholas Angelich (piano)

    Virgin 66349 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Klavierstücke, Op. 76)
  • Millennium of Music

    Friday
    Dec 19

  • Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Polichinelle, Op. 3 #4

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works)
  • Louis Spohr

    Variations on the aria "Je suis encore dans mon printemps" by Mehul, Op. 36

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ursula Holliger (harp)

    Jecklin 573 (Spohr: Sonaten für Harfe und Violine, etc.)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony #6

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra

    Chandos 8530 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 6)
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude #15 D-flat Major "Raindrop"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    John O'Conor (piano)

    Telarc 80313 (Popular Works for Solo Piano)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    Philips 411.436 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite #1 in D Minor, BWV 812

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Sir András Schiff (piano)

    London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto)
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring Suite

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    DG 427.335 (Copland: Appalachian Spring, Short Symphony)
  • John Johnson

    The Flatt Pavan

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)

    Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes)
  • Leoš Janáček

    Piano Sonata 1.X.1905

    Friday
    Dec 19

    András Schiff (piano)

    London 440.312 (Janacek)
  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata D Major, D 384

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Goeran Soellscher (guitar) | Gil Shaham (violin)

    DG 471.568
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for Piano and Violin #22 in A Major, K. 305

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Ray Chen (violin)

    Sony 544775 (Mozart)
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song Without Words, Op. 102 #1 in E Minor

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Daniel Barenboim (piano)

    DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words)
  • Luigi Gatti

    Serenata a più stromenti di Concerto in D Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Calamus Ensemble

    MDG 603.1589 (Luigi Gatti: Chamber Music)
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphony #2 "The Age of Anxiety"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic

    Sony 60697
  • William Grant Still

    Romance

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Sierra Winds

    Cambria 1083 (Get on Board)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata #8 "Pathetique"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Jonathan Biss (piano)

    EMI 94422 (Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 8, 15, 27 & 30)
  • Ernst von Dohnányi

    Suite in F-sharp Minor, Op. 19

    Friday
    Dec 19

    JoAnn Falletta (conductor) | Buffalo Philharmonic

    Naxos 572.303 (Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song)
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade in G Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Hagen Quartet

    DG 427.669 (Janacek: String Quartets)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra

    Chandos 8587 (Shostakovich)
  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Naida Cole (piano)

    Decca 472.464 (Naida Cole)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Prélude in G Minor, Op. 23 #5

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scherzo-fantaisie, Op. 72 #10

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    DG 0004284 (Tchaikovsky: 18 Piano Pieces, Op. 72)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Sonata, Op. 57 for Violin and Piano and F Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Gil Shaham (violin) | Orli Shaham (piano)

    DG 449.820 (Dvořák for Two)
  • Richard Strauss

    Panathenäenzug, Op. 74. Symphonic etudes in the form of a passacaglia for piano left hand and orchestra

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor) | Peter Rösel (piano)

    EMI Classics 64342 (Richard Strauss)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride: Overture

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue #17 in A-flat Major, BWV 886

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

    Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • Franz Liszt

    Symphonic Poem #4. Orpheus

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic

    Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1)
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45

    Friday
    Dec 19

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Danny Driver (piano) | Rebecca Miller (conductor)

    Hyperion 68130 (The Romantic Piano Concerto 70)
  • Erik Satie

    Le "Piccadilly"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie)
  • John Dowland

    In darkness let me dwell

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Jakob Linberg (lute)

    Archiv 0003460 (Music for a While)
  • Dmitri Lvovich Klebanov

    String Quartet #4 (in memory of Mykola Leontovych)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    ARC Ensemble

    Chandos 20231 (Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov)
  • John Alden Carpenter

    Symphony #1

    Friday
    Dec 19

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | John McLaughlin Williams (conductor)

    Naxos 559.065 (Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator)
  • Robert Schumann

    Violin Sonata #1 in A Minor, Op. 105

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Jennifer Koh (violin) | Reiko Uchida (piano)

    Cedille 90000.095 (Schumann: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano)
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song Without Words, Op. 109

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Sergei Istomin (cello) | Viviana Sofronitsky (piano)

    Passacaille 947 (Felix Mendelssohn: Complete works for Cello and Pianoforte)
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony #4 in G Major

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Christine Schäfer (soprano)

    RC Live 07003 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4)
  • Jacques Ibert

    Impromptu

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)

    EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler)
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

    Friday
    Dec 19

    The Fisher Duo

    Northeastern 238 (Imaginées)
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet #10

    Friday
    Dec 19

    DG 419.171 (Schubert: String Quartets)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Violin Concerto #3 "Dialog: Ich und Du"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Vadim Repin (violin) | Andris Nelsons (conductor)

    DG 486.1458 (Sofia Gubaidulina)
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata (K. 320)

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)

    Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio, Op. 40

    Friday
    Dec 19

    Sir András Schiff (piano) | Gunter Hogner (horn) | Erich Binder (violin

    London 410.114 (Brahms: Clarinet Trio, Horn Trio)
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony #1 in E Major, Op. 5 "Slavic"

    Friday
    Dec 19

    José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9)