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
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Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Canadian Brass | John Grady (organ)
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
How Far Is It To Bethlehem
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor) | Kathy Kienzle (harp) | Thomas Tempel (oboe)
d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar) | Christine Högman (soprano)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
O Jesulein süß (O Little One Sweet)
Tuesday
Dec 23
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 106 (Christmas Night) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Thomas Weelkes
Hosanna to the Son of David
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
I Orwedd Mewn Preseb (Away in a Manger)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor) | Nidus Children's Choir
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
In dulci jubilo
Tuesday
Dec 23
Washington Master Chorale | Thomas Colohan (artistic director)
Private Recording -
I Saw Three Ships
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square | John Longhurst (organ)
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
Good King Wenceslas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Arturo Delmoni Quartet
Listen 50001 (A String Quartet Christmas) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Kiev Chamber Choir | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Dotcom 2013 (Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir) -
Joy to the World
Tuesday
Dec 23
Eugene Ormandy (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus
RCA 6430 (Joy to the World) -
Deck the Hall
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
A Feast of Carols
Tuesday
Dec 23
Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)
Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
Vienna Singverein | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Leontyne Price (soprano)
London 421.103 (Price: Christmas Songs) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar) | Bengt Forsberg (organ)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Personent hodie
Tuesday
Dec 23
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Still, Still, Still
Tuesday
Dec 23
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 4. Duet. "Flößt, mein Heiland, flößt dein Namen" (My Saviour, does thy name instil)
Tuesday
Dec 23
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) | Steffen Barkawitz (echo)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Sandra Simon (soprano)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
John Rutter
What Sweeter Music
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choralis | Gretchen Kuhrmann (artistic director) | Benjamin LaPrairie (organ)
Private Recording -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Arcangelo Corelli
Fugo con un soggetto solo
Tuesday
Dec 23
Washington Saxophone Quartet
Americus 2011.060 (Tis the Season) -
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Tuesday
Dec 23
London Cello Sound | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge | Geoffrey Simon (conductor) | Helen Swift (soprano) | Chris DIxon (bass) | Gabriella Dall'Olio (harp) | Rachel Gledhill (percussion)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
The First Nowell
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 3
Tuesday
Dec 23
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas) -
Away in a Manger
Tuesday
Dec 23
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Tuesday
Dec 23
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
Masters in this Hall
Tuesday
Dec 23
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Elora Festival Singers | Noel Edison (conductor) | Michael Bloss (organ)
Naxos 573.421 (The Wonder of Christmas) -
Still, Still, Still
Tuesday
Dec 23
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Johann Hermann Schein
Vom Himmel Hoch
Tuesday
Dec 23
Smithsonian Chamber Players
Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song) -
Here We Come A-Wassaling
Tuesday
Dec 23
Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices
Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds) -
Good King Wenceslas
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: For unto us a child is born
Tuesday
Dec 23
Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra
Private Recording -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, NY | Owen Burdick (conductor)
Naxos 555.886 (Christmas at Trinity) -
The Coventry Carol (Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Pietro Yon
Gesu Bambino
Tuesday
Dec 23
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Orchestra of St. Luke's | Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | The Boys' Choir of Harlem
EMI 47587 (A Christmas Celebration) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
Tuesday
Dec 23
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Tuesday
Dec 23
Boston Pops | Arthur Fiedler (conductor)
RCA 61685 (Pops Christmas Party) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 2: Sinfonia
Tuesday
Dec 23
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann
Tuesday
Dec 23
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
RCA 6430 (Joy to the World) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Tuesday
Dec 23
London Cello Sound | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
William Billings
Methinks I see an Heav'nly Host
Tuesday
Dec 23
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Joy to the World
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
Up! Good Christen Folk, and Listen
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
A Medieval Fa La La
Tuesday
Dec 23
Washington Men's Camerata | Scott Tucker (artistic director) | Scott Tucker (handbells) | John Fisher (percussion)
Private Recording -
Unto Us is Born a Son
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Rejoice and Be Merry
Tuesday
Dec 23
J. Reilly Lewis (conductor) | Cathedral Choral Society | Eric Plutz (organ) | Washington Symphonic Brass
Gothic 49227 (Welcome All Wonders!) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor) | Jacqueline Kerrod (harp)
Seraphic Fire Media 14 (Candlelight Carols) -
Good King Wenceslas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Christmastide: Part 2
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jessye Norman (soprano) | New York Choral Society | American Boychoir | Robert DeCormier (conductor) | Empire Chamber Ensemble
Philips 420.180 (Christmastide) -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: Latin
Tuesday
Dec 23
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air. "Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted"
Tuesday
Dec 23
John Aler (tenor) | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) | Toronto Symphony
EMI 49407 (Handel: Messiah, Highlights) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Tuesday
Dec 23
Canadian Brass
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
Franz Liszt
Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree): The Shepherds at the Manger (In dulci jubilo)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30005 (A Steinway Christmas Album) -
John Rutter
What Sweeter Music
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Deck the Hall
Tuesday
Dec 23
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
The Seven Joys of Mary
Tuesday
Dec 23
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) -
Il est né, le divin enfant
Tuesday
Dec 23
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
César Alejandro Carrillo
Ave Maria
Tuesday
Dec 23
Children's Chorus of Washington, Concert Chorus | Margaret Nomura Clark (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Spanish Dance
Tuesday
Dec 23
Stewart Goodyear (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30040 (The Nutcracker) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
What Child Is This?
Tuesday
Dec 23
Arturo Delmoni Quartet
Listen 50001 (A String Quartet Christmas) -
Ther is no rose of swtch vertu
Tuesday
Dec 23
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 90.7099 (On Yoolis Night) -
Christmastide: Part 4
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jessye Norman (soprano) | New York Choral Society | American Boychoir | Robert DeCormier (conductor) | Empire Chamber Ensemble
Philips 420.180 (Christmastide) -
A wassail, a wassail throughout all this town!
Tuesday
Dec 23
Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices
Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds) -
Here We Come A-wassailing
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
Masters in this Hall
Tuesday
Dec 23
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Telarc 80377 (Songs of Angels) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Thomas Choir, Leipzig | Georg Christoph Biller (conductor)
Philips 446.344 (Seasons Greetings) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Decca 0014875 (Santo: Sacred Songs) -
The Coventry Carol (Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Canadian Brass | John Grady (organ)
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: Swedish
Tuesday
Dec 23
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Tuesday
Dec 23
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Eric Whitacre
Glow
Tuesday
Dec 23
Chamber Chorale of Fredericksburg | Joseph Eveler (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Tuesday
Dec 23
BBC Singers | Chapel Choir of King's School, Canterbury | James Galway (flute and conductor)
RCA 61233 (Christmas Carol) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Peter Breiner (conductor)
Naxos 550.670 (Christmas Goes Baroque, Vol. 2) -
I Saw Three Ships
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, NY | Owen Burdick (conductor)
Naxos 555.886 (Christmas at Trinity) -
Wassail! Wassail! All Over the Town
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Galliard Brass
MusicMasters 67175 (Carols for Brass) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Tuesday
Dec 23
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Joy to the World
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Tuesday
Dec 23
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Noel Nouvelet
Tuesday
Dec 23
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Sandra Simon (soprano)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 3. Duet. "Herr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen" (Lord, thy compassion, thy mercy)
Tuesday
Dec 23
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) | Klaus Häger (bass)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Tuesday
Dec 23
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: Air & Chorus. Why do the nations so furiously rage together?; Let us break their bonds asunder
Tuesday
Dec 23
Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra | Steven Eddy (baritone)
Private Recording, 2024 -
The Seven Joys of Mary
Tuesday
Dec 23
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 90.7325 (Wolcum Yule) -
John Rutter
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Tuesday
Dec 23
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 121 (Christmas Day in the Morning) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
RCA 6430 (Joy to the World) -
Christmas Glory: Sing We Now of Christmas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Washington Men's Camerata | Julie Huang Tucker (piano) | Eva Cappelletti Chao (viola) | Sam Swift (cello) | Scott Tucker (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Joy to the World
Tuesday
Dec 23
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Good King Wenceslas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Canadian Brass | John Grady (organ)
RCA 4132 (Christmas with the Canadian Brass) -
Heinrich Schütz
Hodie Christus natus est
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Choral Arts Society of Washington | Norman Scribner (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra
Choral Arts 10108 (There Shall a Star, Choral Jewels for Christmas) -
All Sons of Adam, Sing Nowell!
Tuesday
Dec 23
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Ensemble La Nef
Avie 2269 (Sacrum Mysterium) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Kiev Chamber Choir | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Dotcom 2013 (Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir) -
The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 4
Tuesday
Dec 23
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
John Marks
Rudolph Up on the Housetop
Tuesday
Dec 23
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)
Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas) -
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Paul Goodwin (conductor) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart
Hänssler 93114 (Four Centuries of Christmas Music) -
Three English Carols
Tuesday
Dec 23
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Orchestra of St. Luke's | Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | New York Choral Artists
EMI 47587 (A Christmas Celebration) -
How Great Our Joy
Tuesday
Dec 23
John Rutter (conductor) | Cambridge Singers and Orchestra
Collegium 503 (Christmas Star) -
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Bach Choir | David Hill (conductor) | The Wallace Collection | Choristers of Winchester Cathedral | Jane Watts (organ)
Priory 768 (Noël!) -
Noche de paz
Tuesday
Dec 23
Thomas Circle Singers | Miles Canaday (artistic director)
Private Recording -
John Rutter
Candlelight Carol
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Once in Royal David's City
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air. "Comfort ye; Ev'ry Valley shalley be exalted"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor) | Nicoletta Mezzini (harpsichord)
Decca 0014875 (Santo: Sacred Songs) -
Good King Wenceslas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Michael Bojesen (conductor) | Danish National Vocal Ensemble | Michala Petri (recorder)
OUR Recordings 220615 (Let the Angels Sing) -
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) and friends
NSS Music 001 (Merry) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
RCA 6430 (Joy to the World) -
The First Nowell
Tuesday
Dec 23
Washington Men's Camerata | Frank Albinder (conductor)
Gothic 49128 (Sing We Noel) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Tuesday
Dec 23
Los Romeros
DG 477.9365 (Christmas with Los Romeros) -
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Tuesday
Dec 23
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
I Saw Three Ships
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Britten Sinfonia | Daniel Hyde (conductor) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
Argo 414.042 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
The Seven Joys of Mary
Tuesday
Dec 23
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Ensemble La Nef | Meredith Hall (soprano)
Avie 2269 (Sacrum Mysterium) -
Michael Praetorius
Volte
Tuesday
Dec 23
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Hector Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25: Shepherds' Farewell (L'adieu des bergers)
Tuesday
Dec 23
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 1: Aria. "Großer Herr, o starker König" (Great Lord and mighty king)
Tuesday
Dec 23
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Klaus Häger (bass)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
Deck the Hall; Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
Rachel Van Vorhees (harp)
Centaur 2209 (Christmas Favorites) -
Valerius Otto
Intrade
Tuesday
Dec 23
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Bach Choir | Philip Jones Brass Ensemble | John Scott (organ) | Sir David Willcocks (conductor)
London 443.401 (The Magic of Christmas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Russian Dance
Tuesday
Dec 23
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
A Feast of Carols
Tuesday
Dec 23
Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)
Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #1 in B-flat Major
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik
Sony 52553 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
A Maiden Most Gentle
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Hodie Christus natus est (Christ is Born Today)
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Chorus. "Hallelujah!"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 453.464 (Handel: Messiah) -
Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Tuesday
Dec 23
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
John Rutter
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Tuesday
Dec 23
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Tuesday
Dec 23
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 2: Sinfonia
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Tuesday
Dec 23
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
DG 419.169 (Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Overtures) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Concerto
Tuesday
Dec 23
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir András Schiff (piano) | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 417.802 (Dvořák: Piano Concerto, etc.) -
Magnus Thomsen
Sonata for 5 Trumpets based on "In dulci jubilo"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 54902 (Carol Album 2) -
Leonardo Leo
Cello Concerto #4
Tuesday
Dec 23
English Chamber Orchestra | Josephine Knight (cello) | Stephanie Gonley (conductor)
ASV 1169 (Leo: Six Cello Concertos) -
Georges Bizet
Symphony in C Major
Tuesday
Dec 23
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.624 (Prokofiev, Britten & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Sergei Mihkailovich Lyapunov
Fêtes de Noël (Svyatiki), Op. 41: #3. Chanteurs de Noël
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30005 (A Steinway Christmas Album) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #2
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 400.076 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 3984.28144 (Beethoven) -
Michel Corrette
Noel Allemande
Tuesday
Dec 23
Aulos Ensemble
Musical Heritage Society 51340 (A Baroque Christmas) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #86 in D Major
Tuesday
Dec 23
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #17
Tuesday
Dec 23
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 411.947 (Mozart: K467 & K453) -
Franz Liszt
Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree): The Shepherds at the Manger (In dulci jubilo)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30005 (A Steinway Christmas Album) -
15th-century English Carols
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Folger Consort | Johanna Arnold (soprano)
Bard 9106 (A Medieval Christmas) -
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Allison Hampton (celtic harp) | Linn Barnes (lute)
Oak Leaf 2112 (Wassail) -
Katherine K. Davis
The Little Drummer Boy
Tuesday
Dec 23
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Kling, Glöckchen (Ring, Little Bells)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Tuesday
Dec 23
Rachel Van Vorhees (harp)
Centaur 2209 (Christmas Favorites) -
Gabriel's Message
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Polyphony
BIS 2099 (Sing Thee Nowell) -
Franz Schubert
Ave Maria, D 839
Tuesday
Dec 23
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 2: Chorus. "Brich an, du schönes Morgenlicht" (Break forth o beautiful heavenly light)
Tuesday
Dec 23
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | RIAS Chamber Choir
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Tuesday
Dec 23
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake)
WETA VivaLaVoce
-
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act I, Scenes 4-10
Tuesday
Dec 23
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Max Emanuel Cencic [Emperor Valentiniano III] | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia] | Sonia Prina [Ezio] | Mayuko Karasawa [Onoria] | Topi Lehtipuu [Massimo] | Julian Prégardien [Varo]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Manuel de Falla
Siete canciones populares españolas (Seven Spanish Folksongs): III. Asturiana (Asturian Song)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
François Adrien Boieldieu
La Dame Blanche: Act II, Georges's cavatina. "Maintenant observons...Viens, gentille dame" (Now, let us watch...Come, gentle lady)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Gustav Mahler
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs): Volume I
Tuesday
Dec 23
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) | Irwin Gage (piano) | Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Gerald Moore (piano) | Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano) | Roger Vignoles (piano) | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Act I, Nr 9, Recitative and Aria. "Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? -- Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Staatskapelle Dresden | Gwyneth Jones [Leonore] | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 0004590 (Beethoven: Fidelio) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act II, Finale
Tuesday
Dec 23
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Anna Netrebko (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | Rolando Villazón [Alfredo Germont] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Giorgio Germont] | Helene Schneiderman [Flora Bervoix] | Diane Pilcher [Annina] | Paul Gay [Barone Douphol] | Herman Wallén [Marchese d'Obigny] | Luigi Roni [Dottore Grenvil] | Dritan Luca [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] | Wolfram Igor Derntl [Domestico di Flora] | Friedrich Springer [Commissionario]
DG 0005529 (Verdi: La Traviata) -
Franz Schubert
Vom Mitleiden Mariä, D 632
Tuesday
Dec 23
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 57509 (Schubert: Piano Sonata, D.850, 9 Lieder) -
Manuel Cardoso
Missa pro Defunctis a 4
Tuesday
Dec 23
Cupertinos | Luís Toscano (director)
Hyperion 68252 (Manuel Cardoso: Requiem) -
George Frideric Handel
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act II
Tuesday
Dec 23
Lucy Crowe [Amarilli] | Anna Dennis [Mirtillo] | Katherine Manley [Eurilla] | Madeleine Shaw [Dorinda] | Clint van der Linde [Silvio] | Lisandro Abadie [Tirenio] | La Nuova Musica | David Bates (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7585-86 (Handel: Il pastor fido) -
Lori Laitman
The Perfected Life (An Amethyst Remembrance; Dear March; The Perfected Life) (Texts from poems of Emily Dickinson)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Randall Scarlata (baritone) | Lori Laitman (piano)
Albany 1118 (Within These Spaces) -
Jake Heggie
Facing Forward/Looking Back (duets for 2 women and piano)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano) | Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano) | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Tuesday
Dec 23
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chorus Viennensis | Vienna Boys Choir | Rotraud Hansmann | Emiko Iiyama | Helen Watts (alto) | Kurt Equiluz | Max von Egmond (bass)
Teldec 35019 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Ruggero Leoncavallo
La bohème: "Musetta! O gioia della mia dimora! . Testsa adorata"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Bucharest Opera Orchestra | Mark Elder (conductor)
EMI 57627 (Nessun Dorma) -
Franz Liszt
Der traurige Mönch [Nikolaus Lenau]
Tuesday
Dec 23
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Claude Debussy
Trois Ballades de François Villon
Tuesday
Dec 23
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act II
Tuesday
Dec 23
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Piero Cappuccilli [Macbeth] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Banco] | Stefania Malagú [Dama di Lady Macbeth] | Plácido Domingo [Macduff] | Antonio Savastano [Malcolm] | Carlo Zardo [Doctor] | Giovanni Foiani [Servant to Macbeth] | Alfredo Mariotti [Sicario] | Sergio Fontana [A herald] | Alfredo Giacomotti [First apparition (a head wearing a helmet)] | Maria Fausta Gallamini [Second apparition (a bloodstained child)] | Massimo Bortolotti [Third apparition (a child wearing a crown and carrying a sapling)] | Coro del Teatro all Scala [Witches, messengers of the King, noblemen of Scotland, refugees, murderers, English soldiers, servants, bards] | Orchestra della Teatro alla Scala
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Johann Christian Bach
Miserere: Chorus. Docebo iniquas vias tuas
Tuesday
Dec 23
RIAS Chamber Chorus | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guglielmo Tell: Act I, Finale.
Tuesday
Dec 23
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo Tell] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] | Franco de Grandis [Melchthal] | Amelia Felle [Jemmy] | Luciana D'Intino [Edwige] | Vittorio Terranova [Un pescatore] | Alberto Noli [Leutoldo] | Luigi Roni [Gessler] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Matilde] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Rodolfo] | Ernesto Panariello [Un cacciatore]
Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell) -
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Tuesday
Dec 23
San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act III, Tolomeo's aria. "Son qual rocca percossa dall'onde" (I am like a rock battered by the waves)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Tolomeo]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
Francesco Cavalli
Giasone: Act III
Tuesday
Dec 23
Catherine Dubosc (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) [Giasone] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Ercole] | Michael Schopper [Besso] | Bernard Delétré (bass) | Agnès Mellon (soprano) | Gloria Banditelli [Medea] | Dominique Visse [Delfa] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Egeo] | Gianpaolo Fagotto [Demoiselle d'honneur 1] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Sole] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Giove] | Dominique Visse [Eolo] | Michael Schopper [Volano] | Concerto Vocale | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1282-84 (Cavalli: Giasone) -
Manuel de Falla
Siete canciones populares españolas (Seven Spanish Folksongs): VI. Canción (Song)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust: Aria. "Merci, doux crépuscule!" [Part III/9]
Tuesday
Dec 23
London Symphony Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Faust]
DG 471.372 (French Opera Arias) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I puritani: Mad Scene. "O rendetemi la speme -- Qui la voce sua soave.Ah! tu sorridi e asciughi il pianto!...Vien, diletto, è in ciel la luna!"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Concerto Köln | Natalie Dessay [Elvira] | Franck Ferrari [Riccardo] | Matthew Rose [Giorgio]
Virgin 99469 (Mad Scenes) -
Josef Rheinberger
Motets, Op. 133
Tuesday
Dec 23
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 115. Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit (Prepare yourself, my soul)
Tuesday
Dec 23
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Robin Tyson (alto)
SDG 171 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 12) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mass in G Minor: Sanctus
Tuesday
Dec 23
His Majestie's Clerkes | Anne Heider (conductor)
Cedille 90000036 (Parry: Songs of Farewell) -
Franz Liszt
Benedetto sia 'l giorno (Blessed be the day)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Virgin 70928 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Aria. "Ach, Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Edita Gruberova [Konstanze]
London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Scenes 6-12
Tuesday
Dec 23
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Franz Schubert
Fierrabras: Act I, Duet. "O mög' auf froher Hoffnung Schwingen"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] | Robert Gambill [Eginhard]
DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras) -
Randall Thompson
Frostiana
Tuesday
Dec 23
New York Choral Society | Manhattan Chamber Orchestra | Richard Auldon Clark (conductor)
Koch 7283 (Thompson: Frostiana; The Testament of Freedom) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Zoroastre
Tuesday
Dec 23
William Christie (conductor) | Les Arts Florissants | Démons | Mark Padmore (haute-contre) [Zoroastre, instituteur des Mages (Zoroaster, founder of the Magi)] | Nathan Berg (bass) [Abramane, Grand Prêtre d'Ariman (Abramane, High Priest of Ariman)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Amélite, héritière présomptive du trône de la Bactriane (presumptive heiress to the throne of Bactria)] | Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Érinice, princesse du sang des rois de la Bactriane (princess of the blood of kings of Bactria)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Zopire, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | François Bazola (bass) [Narbanor, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Oromasès. roi des Génies (king of the Genii)] | Stéphanie Révidat (soprano) [Céphie, jeune Bactrienne de la Cour d'Amélite (Bactrian girl of Amélite's court)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [La Vengeance] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Ariman (voix souterraine)] | Chœur des Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furies | Esprits des Éléments | Esprits infernaux | Troupes différentes de peuples (peoples of various natinos) | Montagnards (mountain dwellers) | Prêtres (priests)] | Les Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furiest | Troupes différentes de peuples | Montagnards | Prêtres]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Jules Massenet
Werther: Act II, Aria. "Oui, ce qu'elle m'ordonne.Lorsque l'enfant revient"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Rolando Villazón | Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Evelino Pidò (conductor)
Virgin 45719 (Massenet & Gounod: Arias) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate, K 165
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Danielle de Niese (soprano)
Decca 0013277 (The Mozart Album) -
Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: Act I
Tuesday
Dec 23
Pinchas Steinberg (conductor) | Eva Marton [Wally] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Stromminger] | Alan Titus [Vincenzo Gellner] | Francisco Araiza [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] | Birgit Calm [Afra] | Julie Kaufmann [Walter] | Michele Pertusi [Il Pedone] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Eurodisc 69073 (Catalani: La Wally) -
Ruggero Leoncavallo
La bohème: "Non parlate così...Io non ho che una povera stanzetta"
Tuesday
Dec 23
Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Bucharest Opera Orchestra | Mark Elder (conductor)
EMI 57627 (Nessun Dorma) -
Ernest Chausson
Le Roi Arthus (King Arthur): Act II
Tuesday
Dec 23
Teresa Zylis-Gara [Guenièvre] | Gino Quilico (baritone) [Arthus] | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Lancelot] | Annick Massis [Mordred] | Gérard Friedmann [Lyonnel] | François Loup [Allan] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Merlin] | Thierry Dran [Un Laboureur] | Renè Schirrer [Un Chevalier] | Alexandre Laitter [Un Ecuyer] | Michel Focquenoy [Soldat] | Francis Dudziak [Soldat] | Renè Schirrer [Soldat] | Chours de Radio France [Soldat] | Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique [Chevaliers, Ecuyers, Pages, Bardes, Femmes de la suite de Guenièvre] | Armin Jordan (conductor)
Erato 88213 (Chausson: Le Roi Arthus) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
O, net, molju, ne ukhodi! (Oh no, I beg you, do not leave!), Op. 4 #1
Tuesday
Dec 23
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love): Recitative and aria. Una parola, o Adina...Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera (A word, Adina...Ask the flattering breeze)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano) | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) | Francesco Demuro (tenor)
Decca 0015746 (Gioia!) -
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide: "Eccomi alfine in Babilonia.Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento"
Tuesday
Dec 23
John Nelson (conductor) | Ensemble Orchestral de Paris | Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) [Arsace]
Virgin 45615 (Rossini & Donizetti: Opera Arias) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila: Act III
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] | José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] | Jonathan Summers [Le Grand Prêtre] | Simon Estes [Abimelech] | Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] | Robert Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] | Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Deuxième Philistin]
Philips 426.243 (Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila) -
Franz Schubert
Erlkönig, D 328
Tuesday
Dec 23
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0000049 (Schubert: Lieder)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Louise Farrenc
Nonet in E-flat Major, Op. 38
Tuesday
Dec 23
Chamber Musicians of the Louvre
Naïve 5033 (Louise Farrenc: Chamber Music) -
Cecil Burleigh
Impromptu
Tuesday
Dec 23
Zina Schiff (violin) | Cherina Carmel (piano)
Naxos 559.061 (Burleigh: Music for Violin and Piano) -
SymphonyCast
Tuesday
Dec 23
Private Recording -
Samuel Barber
Commando March
Tuesday
Dec 23
Cleveland Symphonic Winds | Frederick Fennell (conductor)
Telarc 80099 (Stars and Stripes) -
Antonín Dvořák
In Nature's Realm
Tuesday
Dec 23
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8453 (Dvořák: Overtures) -
Ernest Chausson
Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, Op. 21
Tuesday
Dec 23
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin) | Takács String Quartet
London 425.860 (Chausson: Concerto - Ravel: Trio) -
Amy Beach
Les Rêves de Columbine, Op. 65: #2. The Gracious Prince
Tuesday
Dec 23
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Claude Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis
Tuesday
Dec 23
Karina Gauvin (soprano) | Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
ATMA Classique 2642 (Fete Galante) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 301
Tuesday
Dec 23
Arthur Grumiaux (violin) | Walter Klien (piano)
Philips 412.141 (Mozart: The Great Sonatas for Piano and Violin) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 5
Tuesday
Dec 23
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 339 (Gade) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella: Mazurka (arr. Mikhail Fichtenholz)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Pavel Gililov (piano) | Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Virgin 90842 (Danses nobles et sentimentales) -
Robert Schumann
Five Pieces in Folkstyle for piano and cello, Op. 102
Tuesday
Dec 23
Martha Argerich (piano) | Mischa Maisky (cello)
Philips 412.230 (Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano - Schumann: Fantasiestücke) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1034 for Flute and Continuo in E Minor
Tuesday
Dec 23
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord) | Etienne Peclard (cello)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Édouard Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole
Tuesday
Dec 23
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Paris Orchestra
DG 400.032 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole - Berlioz: Rêverie et Caprice) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Lied, Op. 6 #3
Tuesday
Dec 23
Liana Serbescu (piano)
CPO 999.015 (Mendelssohn: Klavierwerke, Vol. 2) -
Dora Pejačević
Piano Quartet in D Minor, Op. 25
Tuesday
Dec 23
Oliver Triendl (piano) | Quatuor Sine Nomine members
CPO 777.421 (Dora Pejacevic: Chamber Works) -
Richard Strauss
Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Tuesday
Dec 23
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Guillaume Bellom (piano)
DG 4867082 (Richard Strauss: Renaud Capucon) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Tuesday
Dec 23
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor) | Barry Griffiths (violin)
Telarc 80138 (Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 2, The Lark Ascending) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #1. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (What is heard on the mountain) (Bergsymphonie)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in D-flat Minor, Op. 32 #13
Tuesday
Dec 23
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Claude Debussy
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Tuesday
Dec 23
London 430.434 (Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Piano Quintet #1, Op. 1
Tuesday
Dec 23
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Takács String Quartet
London 421.423 (Dohnányi: Piano Quintet, No., Sextet) -
Philippe Gaubert
3 Aquarelles: #3. Sérénade
Tuesday
Dec 23
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Florence Price
Symphony #1 in E Minor
Tuesday
Dec 23
Fort Smith Symphony | John Jeter (conductor)
Naxos 559.827 (Florence Beatrice Price) -
Benjamin Britten
Cello Sonata
Tuesday
Dec 23
David Finckel (cello) | Wu Han (piano)
ArtistLed David Finckel Wu Han (David Finckel; Wu Han) -
Gabriel Fauré
Berceuse
Tuesday
Dec 23
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin)
Chandos 8792 (Violin Favourites) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K. 330
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0005832 (Mozart: Piano Sonatas) -
Maurice Duruflé
Requiem
Tuesday
Dec 23
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Stephen Layton (conductor) | Harrison Cole (organ)
Hyperion 67436 (Duruflé: Requiem) -
Thomas Robinson
A Toye
Tuesday
Dec 23
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
Leoš Janáček
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Tuesday
Dec 23
Mikhail Rudy (piano) | Pierre Amoyal (violin)
EMI Classics 55585 (Leos Janacek) -
Jón Leifs
Geysir (Orchestral Prelude, Op. 51)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sony 46668 (A Nordic Festival) -
Robert Schumann
Fantasy Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 73
Tuesday
Dec 23
Gerhard Oppitz (piano) | Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Philips 422.414 (Schumann: Cello Concerto) -
George Enescu
Tarantelle
Tuesday
Dec 23
Remus Azoitei (violin) | Eduard Stan (piano)
Hänssler 98240 (Complete Works for Violin & Piano Vol 2) -
Jean Sibelius
Kullervo, Op. 7
Tuesday
Dec 23
Karita Mattila (soprano) | Jorma Hynninen (baritone)
BIS 622-624 (Sibelius) -
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János: Viennese Musical Clock
Tuesday
Dec 23
Iván Fischer (conductor) | Budapest Festival Orchestra
Philips 462.824 (Kodaly) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Six Pieces, Op. 52
Tuesday
Dec 23
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Jacques Ibert
Flute Concerto
Tuesday
Dec 23
Manuela Wiesler (flute) | Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra | Philippe Auguin (conductor)
BIS 529 -
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Offertory for Two Instrumental Choirs (from Mass for Woodwinds and Strings)
Tuesday
Dec 23
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7
Tuesday
Dec 23
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #4
Tuesday
Dec 23
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8608 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 4, etc.)