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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Personent hodie
Sunday
Dec 21
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Sunday
Dec 21
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
Sunday
Dec 21
Stewart Goodyear (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30040 (The Nutcracker) -
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Sunday
Dec 21
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Fum, Fum, Fum
Sunday
Dec 21
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Excerpts from Part II
Sunday
Dec 21
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque
Telarc 80348 (Handel: Messiah, Highlights) -
I Saw Three Ships
Sunday
Dec 21
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
John Rutter
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Sunday
Dec 21
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Sunday
Dec 21
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Sunday
Dec 21
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
A wassail, a wassail throughout all this town!
Sunday
Dec 21
Paul Hillier (conductor) | Theatre of Voices
Harmonia Mundi 90.7079 (Carols from the Old & New Worlds) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Sunday
Dec 21
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Christmas Glory: Sing We Now of Christmas
Sunday
Dec 21
Washington Men's Camerata | Julie Huang Tucker (piano) | Eva Cappelletti Chao (viola) | Sam Swift (cello) | Scott Tucker (artistic director)
Private Recording -
The Coventry Carol (Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child)
Sunday
Dec 21
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Angels We Have Heard on High
Sunday
Dec 21
Max von Egmond (bass) | Smithsonian Chamber Players
Smithsonian 040 (Sweet Was the Song) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Air. "Comfort ye; Ev'ry Valley shalley be exalted"
Sunday
Dec 21
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor) | Nicoletta Mezzini (harpsichord)
Decca 0014875 (Santo: Sacred Songs) -
The First Nowell
Sunday
Dec 21
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) -
Joy to the World
Sunday
Dec 21
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 111 (Christmas wih the Cambridge Singers) -
Thomas Weelkes
Hosanna to the Son of David
Sunday
Dec 21
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
Truman Ballard
Chanukah Suite
Sunday
Dec 21
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Pietro Yon
Gesu Bambino
Sunday
Dec 21
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Sunday
Dec 21
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
Telarc 80552 (A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas) -
I Saw Three Ships
Sunday
Dec 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | James Galway (flute and conductor)
RCA 61233 (Christmas Carol) -
Noel Nouvelet
Sunday
Dec 21
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Sandra Simon (soprano)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Sunday
Dec 21
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Good King Wenceslas
Sunday
Dec 21
Empire Brass
EMI 49097 (Joy to the World) -
In the Bleak Midwinter
Sunday
Dec 21
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Still, Still, Still
Sunday
Dec 21
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Sunday
Dec 21
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Leontyne Price (soprano)
London 421.103 (Price: Christmas Songs) -
Noche de paz
Sunday
Dec 21
Thomas Circle Singers | Miles Canaday (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Riu, riu, chiu
Sunday
Dec 21
Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 49809 (The Carol Album) -
Kling, Glöckchen (Ring, Little Bells)
Sunday
Dec 21
Peter Breiner (conductor) | CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos 550.301 (Christmas Goes Baroque) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 5. Chorus. "Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen" (Let thy glory be sung, God)
Sunday
Dec 21
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | RIAS Chamber Choir
Harmonia Mundi 90.1630-31 (Weihnachts-Oratorium) -
Once in Royal David's City
Sunday
Dec 21
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) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Sunday
Dec 21
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Sunday
Dec 21
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Sunday
Dec 21
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Chorus. "Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates"
Sunday
Dec 21
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 453.464 (Handel: Messiah) -
Rejoice and Be Merry
Sunday
Dec 21
J. Reilly Lewis (conductor) | Cathedral Choral Society | Eric Plutz (organ) | Washington Symphonic Brass
Gothic 49227 (Welcome All Wonders!) -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Sunday
Dec 21
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
Philip Ledger
Adam lay ybounden
Sunday
Dec 21
Choir of The Church of the Epiphany | Jinsun Cho (conductor)
Private Recording -
Christopher Rouse
Karolju: French
Sunday
Dec 21
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 11561 (Karolju) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Sunday
Dec 21
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 63303 (The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein) -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Sunday
Dec 21
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor) | Iain Simcock (organ)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
The Many Moods of Christmas: Part 3
Sunday
Dec 21
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80087 (The Many Moods of Christmas) -
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Sunday
Dec 21
Huddersfield Choral Society | Roy Newsome (conductor) | Keith Rhodes and Anthony Cooke (organists)
Chandos 8679 (Christmas Fantasy) -
James Lord Pierpont
Jingle Bells
Sunday
Dec 21
Sunrise String Quartet
Sunrise Records 101 (A Christmas Sunrise) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Sunday
Dec 21
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 106 (Christmas Night) -
Veni,veni, Emanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)
Sunday
Dec 21
Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupré Quigley (conductor)
Seraphic Fire Media 2011 (Silent Night) -
Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)
Sunday
Dec 21
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio, Part 2: Sinfonia
Sunday
Dec 21
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 442.141 (Christmas with the Academy) -
Joy to the World
Sunday
Dec 21
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Sunday
Dec 21
Boston Pops | Arthur Fiedler (conductor)
RCA 61685 (Pops Christmas Party) -
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Sunday
Dec 21
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) -
Franz Biebl
Ave Maria
Sunday
Dec 21
Cathedral Choral Society | Chanticleer
Private Recording -
O Deuwch Ffyddionaid (O Come, All Ye Faithful)
Sunday
Dec 21
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Adolphe Adam
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
Sunday
Dec 21
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
Sunday
Dec 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 46385 (Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker) -
The Holly and the Ivy
Sunday
Dec 21
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
John Rutter
What Sweeter Music
Sunday
Dec 21
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Sunday
Dec 21
The Galliard Brass
ASV 527 (Carols for Brass) -
Gabriel's Message
Sunday
Dec 21
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Sunday
Dec 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Kiev Chamber Choir | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Dotcom 2013 (Christmas with the Kyiv Chamber Choir) -
Deck the Hall
Sunday
Dec 21
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Peter Breiner (conductor)
Naxos 550.670 (Christmas Goes Baroque, Vol. 2) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Sunday
Dec 21
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (What is that lovely fragrance?)
Sunday
Dec 21
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming)
Sunday
Dec 21
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Blessed be that maid Mary
Sunday
Dec 21
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 512 (The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album) -
O du fröhliche! O du selige!
Sunday
Dec 21
Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 54902 (Carol Album 2) -
Valerius Otto
Intrade
Sunday
Dec 21
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Berlin Classics 1037 (Bläsermusik zur Wiehnacht) -
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Chorus. "Hallelujah!"
Sunday
Dec 21
Matthew Robertson (conductor) | The Thirteen Choir and Orchestra
Private Recording -
Michael Praetorius
Village Dance
Sunday
Dec 21
Ensemble Galliarda Basel | Fritz Näf (conductor)
Musica Helvetica 87.2 (Christmas Carols and Tunes in Switzerland) -
Adeste fideles (O Come, All Ye Faifhful)
Sunday
Dec 21
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) -
Patapan (Willie Take Your Little Drum)
Sunday
Dec 21
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Il est né, le divin enfant
Sunday
Dec 21
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Eclectra 2041 (Noëls & Carols from the Olde World) -
A Feast of Carols
Sunday
Dec 21
Tallis Chamber Choir | National Symphony Orchestra of London | Randol Alan Bass (conductor)
Kodanja 2003 (A Feast of Carols) -
Franz Schubert
Ave Maria, D 839
Sunday
Dec 21
Eaken Piano Trio
Naxos 554.099 (Home for the Holidays) -
I Saw a Maiden
Sunday
Dec 21
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 106 (Christmas Night) -
In dulci jubilo (Good Christian Men, Rejoice)
Sunday
Dec 21
Paul Goodwin (conductor) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart
Hänssler 93114 (Four Centuries of Christmas Music) -
The First Nowell
Sunday
Dec 21
New York Choral Artists | Douglas Major (organ) | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor) | Brass Ensemble
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Pietro Yon
Gesu Bambino
Sunday
Dec 21
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Christopher Parkening (guitar)
Sony 62723 (Angels' Glory) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Overture
Sunday
Dec 21
Stewart Goodyear (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30040 (The Nutcracker) -
O du fröhliche! O du selige!
Sunday
Dec 21
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 73135 (Christmas with Thomas Hampson) -
Auld Lang Syne
Sunday
Dec 21
The Frederick Chorale | Kiley Mead (soloist) | Heidi Ackerman (artistic director)
Private Recording -
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Sunday
Dec 21
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) -
Villancico de Navidad
Sunday
Dec 21
John Williams (guitar)
Sony 87771 (The Ultimate Classical Christmas Album of All Time) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Sunday
Dec 21
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Sony 63303 (The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein) -
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Sunday
Dec 21
The Dale Warland Singers | Dale Warland (conductor) | Jeffrey Van (guitar)
d'Note 1015 (Carols for Christmas) -
Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine
Sunday
Dec 21
Musica Sacra | Richard Westenburg (conductor)
DG 429.732 (Christmas Carols) -
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Sunday
Dec 21
Marielle Nordmann (harp) | Alexandre Lagoya (guitar) | Simion Stanciu "Syrinx" (pan-pipe)
Erato 2292.45975 (Merry Christmas) -
John Rutter
Angel's Carol
Sunday
Dec 21
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Craig Jessop (conductor) | Orchestra at Temple Square
MTC 1063 (Sing, Choirs of Angels!) -
Away in a Manger
Sunday
Dec 21
Choir of Westminster Cathedral | James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion 66668 (Adestes fideles) -
William Brade
Galliard IX
Sunday
Dec 21
Ensemble Galliarda Basel | Fritz Näf (conductor)
Musica Helvetica 87.2 (Christmas Carols and Tunes in Switzerland) -
Christmas Night
Sunday
Dec 21
City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 106 (Christmas Night) -
Still, Still, Still
Sunday
Dec 21
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Bryn Terfel (baritone) | Côrdydd | Tecwyn Evans (conductor)
DG 0014914 (Carols & Christmas Songs) -
Franz Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
Sunday
Dec 21
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Four Winds 3017 (A Christmas Concert for Brass) -
Franz Biebl
Ave Maria
Sunday
Dec 21
Sons of Orpheus (Orphei Drängar) | Peter Mattei (baritone)
BIS 533 (Christmas Music) -
Mikola Dmitrovich Leontovich
Carol of the Bells
Sunday
Dec 21
New York Choral Artists | Joseph Flummerfelt (conductor)
EMI 49908 (O Come All Ye Faithful) -
Good King Wenceslas
Sunday
Dec 21
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
CBS 7033 (A Festival of Carols in Brass) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
How Beautiful Shines the Morning Star
Sunday
Dec 21
The Choral Arts Society of Washington | Norman Scribner (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra
Choral Arts 10108 (There Shall a Star, Choral Jewels for Christmas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata #6 in G Major, BWV 530
Sunday
Dec 21
Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord) | Tabea Zimmerman (viola) | Thomas Demenga (cello)
Philips 422.328 (Bach: The Trio Sonatas) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #8 in F Major, Op. 93
Sunday
Dec 21
Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 439.900 (Beethoven: 9 Symphonies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Turkish Rondo
Sunday
Dec 21
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 49963 (Mozart: Piano Sonatas K331 & K332) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra in D Minor
Sunday
Dec 21
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Gidon Kremer (violin)
DG 427.338 (Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Piano, etc.) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #2
Sunday
Dec 21
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68045 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, Romeo and Juliet, 1812 Overture) -
Antonín Dvořák
Legend, Op. 59 #6
Sunday
Dec 21
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
John Marsh
Symphony #6 in D Major
Sunday
Dec 21
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10458 (Marsh: Symphonies) -
Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Sunday
Dec 21
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 0007316 (Steinway Legends, Mitsuko Uchida) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 162
Sunday
Dec 21
Cologne Concert
Capriccio 10.233 (Vivaldi: Concerti for Wind and Strings) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor) | Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
EMI 49757 (Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 1, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Sunday
Dec 21
Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
BIS 1416 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5) -
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Sunday
Dec 21
Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
CBS 39438 (Wagner's Greatest Hits) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12 Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" K 265
Sunday
Dec 21
Lang Lang (piano)
DG 479.7528 (Lang Lang Piano Book) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Sunday
Dec 21
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
Chandos 8672-78 (Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies) -
Franz Schubert
Overture in E Minor (D. 648)
Sunday
Dec 21
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paul Angerer (conductor)
Pantheon 1841 (Schubert: Overtures, Vol. 2) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite
Sunday
Dec 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
MCA 6278 (Bizet: Carmen Suite, L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #11 in E-flat Major
Sunday
Dec 21
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #4
Sunday
Dec 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Antal Dorati (conductor)
London 411.735 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72, etc.)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie: Act III
Sunday
Dec 21
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Véronique Gens [Aricie] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Hippolyte] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Phèdre] | Russell Smythe [Thésée] | Thérèse Feighan [Diane] | Annick Massis [L'Amour] | Laurent Naouri [Pluton/Neptune/Jupiter] | Florence Katz [Onone] | Jean-Lous Georgel [Mercure/Arcas] | Luc Coadou [Tisiphone] | Jean-Louis Meunier [Parque] | Jacques-François Loiseleur des Longchamps [Parque] | Jérôme Varnier [Parque] | Monique Simon [La Grande-Prêtresse] | Stephan Van Dyck [Un Suivant de l'Amour] | Kiyoko Okada [Une Prêtresse] | Meredith Hall [Une Chasseresse] | Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius [Nymphes de Diane, habitants de la forêt, suivants de l'Amour, prêtresses de Diane, divinités infernales, Trézéniens, matelots, chasseurs et chasseresses, bergers et bergères]
Archiv 445.853 (Rameau: Hippolyte et Arice) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Easter Oratorio, BWV 249
Sunday
Dec 21
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) | Christine Brenk (soprano) | Anne Greiling (alto) | Frank Bossert (tenor) | Trompetensensemble Pfeiffer | Motettenchor Pforzheim | Rolf Schweizer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Jules Massenet
Le Cid: Prayer. "Ah!...tout est bien fini!...O Souverain, ô juge, ô père" [Act III/7]
Sunday
Dec 21
Rolando Villazón | Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Evelino Pidò (conductor)
Virgin 45719 (Massenet & Gounod: Arias) -
Aaron Copland
Old American Songs
Sunday
Dec 21
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 29 (Aaron Copland & Virgin Thomson) -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Overture and Prologue
Sunday
Dec 21
Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] | Boris Christoff [Prince Galitsky | Khan Konchak] | Todor Todorov [Vladimir] | Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] | Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] | Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] | Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] | Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] | Radka Gaeva [Nurse] | Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] | Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor)
EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
L'Africaine: "Sur mes genoux" [Act II]
Sunday
Dec 21
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Selika]
London 417.253 (Bel Canto Arias) -
Franz Liszt
Die Loreley [Heinrich Heine]
Sunday
Dec 21
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
John Browne
O mater venerabilis (O mother worthy of reverence)
Sunday
Dec 21
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford | Stephen Darlington (conductor)
Avie 2314 (Courts of Heaven) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act II
Sunday
Dec 21
Andrei Bondarenko (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Simone Kermes (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] | Fanie Antonelou (soprano) [Susanna] | Christian Van Horn (bass) [Figaro] | Mary-Ellen Nesi (soprano) [Cherubino] | Maria Forsström (soprano) [Marcellina] | Nikolai Loskutkin (bass) [Bartolo] | Krystian Adam (tenor) [Don Basilio] | James Elliott (tenor) [Don Curzio] | Garry Agadzhanian (bass) [Antonio] | Natalya Kirillova (soprano) [Barbarina] | MusicAeterna | Teodor Currentzis (conductor)
Sony 370926 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
John Dowland
I will give my love an apple
Sunday
Dec 21
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Andreas Martin (lute)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2) -
Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele: Aria. "L'altra notte in fondo al mare"
Sunday
Dec 21
Mirella Freni (soprano) | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
Claudio Monteverdi
L'incoronazione di Poppea: Act II, Scenes 4-5
Sunday
Dec 21
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Bernarda Fink (alto) | Catherine Bott (soprano) | Marinella Pennicchi [Amore] | Sylvia McNair [Poppea] | Dana Hanchard [Nerone] | Michael Chance (alto) [Ottone] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Seneca] | Roberto Balconi [Nutrice] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Soldato] | Nigel Robson [Soldato] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Lucano] | Constanze Backes [Valletto] | Marinella Pennicchi [Damigella] | Nigel Robson [Liberto] | Julian Clarkson [Littore]
Archiv 447.088 (Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea) -
Fran Gerbič
Three Songs. Where?; I'll Watch the Girls Spinning; In the Night
Sunday
Dec 21
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano) | Marcos Fink (bass-baritone)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2065 (Slovenija!) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act I, Finale
Sunday
Dec 21
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] | Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] | Sally Burgess [Berta] | Matthew Best [Fiorello] | John Noble [Ufficiale]
Philips 411.058 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia) -
Pietro Mascagni
Nerone: Aria. "Vergini, Muse.Quando al soave anelito"
Sunday
Dec 21
Rolando Villazón | Marcello Viotti (conductor) | Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Virgin 45626 (Italian Opera Arias) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: I. Stabat mater dolorosa (The sad mother was standing)
Sunday
Dec 21
Bavarian Radio Chorus | Edith Mathis | Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | John Shirley-Quirk (bass) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 453.025 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Legends) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Act III
Sunday
Dec 21
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Fernando Corena [The King of Egypt] | Giulietta Simionato [Amneris] | Renata Tebaldi [Aida] | Carlo Bergonzi [Radamés] | Arnold van Mill [Ramfis] | Cornell MacNeil [Amonasro] | Piero de Palma [A Messenger] | Eugenia Ratti [A Priestess] | Vienna Singverein [Priests, priestesses, ministers, soldiers, captains, Ethiopian slaves | prisoners, Egyptian people, etc.]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Robert Schumann
So laß mich scheinen (Thus let me appear), Op 90a #9
Sunday
Dec 21
Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder) -
Luigi Cherubini
Médée: Aria. "Ah! nos peines seront communes" ("Ah! our sorrows will be shared")
Sunday
Dec 21
Orchestre National de France | Fabien Gabel (conductor) | Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) [Néris]
Naïve 5201 (Ne me refuse pas) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act III, Scenes 1-3
Sunday
Dec 21
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Tolomeo] | Karina Gauvin [Seleuce] | Pietro Spagnoli [Araspe] | Anna Bonitatibus [Elisa] | Romina Basso [Alessandro]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
Franz Liszt
Missa solemnis: VI. Agnus Dei
Sunday
Dec 21
Hungarian State Orchestra | András Faragó (bass) | Budapest Chorus | Sándor Margittay (organ) | János Ferencsik (conductor) | Mária Werner (soprano) | Olga Szönyi (contralto) | Alfonz Bartha (tenor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 41. Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Jesus, now be praised)
Sunday
Dec 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Charles Humphries (alto)
SDG 150 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 17) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang, D 957: #1. Liebesbotschaft
Sunday
Dec 21
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca 475.6011 (Beethoven & Schubert) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act III
Sunday
Dec 21
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Blonde] | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Belmonte] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Pedrillo] | Martti Talvela [Osmin] | Will Quadflieg [Selim]
London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Fernando Obradors
Canciones clásicas españolas: Seven Songs
Sunday
Dec 21
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina
Sunday
Dec 21
William Christie (conductor) | Renée Fleming (soprano) [Alcina] | Susan Graham [Ruggiero] | Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Morgana] | Kathleen Kuhlmann [Bradamante] | Timothy Robsinson [Oronte] | Laurent Naouri [Melisso] | Juanita Lascarro [Oberto] | Les Arts Florissants
Erato 8573.80233 (Handel: Alcina) -
Johannes Brahms
Missa Canonica
Sunday
Dec 21
Ken Cowan (organ) | Saint Clement's Choir, Philadelphia | Peter Richard Conte (conductor)
Dorian 80137 (The Romantic Mass) -
Maurice Duruflé
Messe "Cum Jubilo", Op. 11
Sunday
Dec 21
Dennis Keene (conductor) | Voices of Ascension Chorus | Orchestra
Delos 3169 (Duruflé: Messe "Cum Jubilo", Op. 11) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #09. Des Müllers Blumen [The Fair Miller-Maid: The miller's flowers]
Sunday
Dec 21
Barbara Hendriks (soprano) | Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Arte Verum 008 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
Jaromír Weinberger
Schwanda der Dudelsachpfeifer: Act I
Sunday
Dec 21
Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Hermann Prey (baritone) [Schwanda] | Lucia Popp [Dorotka] | Siegfried Jerusalem [Babinsky] | Gwendolyn Killebrew [Königin] | Alexander Malta (bass) [Magier] | Siegmund Nimsgern [Teufel] | Karl Kreile [Richter] | Albert Gassner [Scharfrichter] | Heinrich Weber [Famulus] | Georg Baumgartner [Hauptmann] | Anton Rosner [Landsknecht] | Peter Lika (baritone) [Landsknecht] | Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
CBS 79344 (Weinberger: Schwanda) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39: In der Fremde (In a Foreign Land)
Sunday
Dec 21
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: III. Offertorio
Sunday
Dec 21
Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Alessandra Marc (soprano) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Erato 4509.96357 (Verdi: Requiem) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le Prophète: Act II
Sunday
Dec 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Marilyn Horne [Fidès] | James McCracken [Jean de Leyden] | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Berthe] | Jules Bastin [Le Comte d'Oberthal] | Jerome Hines [Zacharie] | Jean Dupouy [Jonas] | Christian du Plessis [Mathisen] | Oliver Broome [Paysan] | John Noble [Paysan] | Patricia Clark (soprano) [Paysanne] | Shirley Minty [Paysanne] | Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree | Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS 34340 (Meyerbeer: Le Prophete) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte: Act II, Pamina's aria. "Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden" (Ah, I feel that the joy of love)
Sunday
Dec 21
Marina Rebeka (soprano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Speranza Scappucci (conductor)
Warner Classics 15497 (Mozart: Opera Arias)
WETA Virtuoso
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 92. Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn (I have surrendered to God's heart and mind)
Sunday
Dec 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto) | Jonathan Brown (bass) | Miah Persson (soprano) | James Oxley (tenor)
SDG 153 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 20) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:40 in G Major
Sunday
Dec 21
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 21
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor) | Hermann Baumann (horn)
Philips 412.237 (R. Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Johannes Brahms
Ballade, Op. 10 #3 in B Minor
Sunday
Dec 21
Lars Vogt (piano)
Ondine 1330 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Four Ballades, Op. 10) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, Op. 47
Sunday
Dec 21
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 339 (Gade) -
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
Sunday
Dec 21
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
DG 410.025 (Bernstein) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Étude-tableau in B Minor, Op. 39 #4
Sunday
Dec 21
Sergei Rachmaninoff (AMPICO piano roll)
Decca 475.9247 (Rachmaninov Plays Rachmaninov; The AMPICO Piano Recordings (1919-29)) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Fantaisie, Op. 124 for Violin and Harp
Sunday
Dec 21
Chandos 8621 (Ravel, Debussy, Saint_Saëns & Roussel) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden"
Sunday
Dec 21
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 8928 (Schubert/Mahler: Death and The Maiden) -
Henry Cowell
Fiddler's Jig
Sunday
Dec 21
Northwest Chamber Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor)
CPO 999.222 (Cowell: Music for Strings) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite #3 in C Major, BWV 1009
Sunday
Dec 21
Anner Bylsma (cello)
Sony 48047 (Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo) -
Zdeněk Fibich
At Twilight. Idyll for Orchestra, Op. 39
Sunday
Dec 21
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Paul Dukas
La Péri
Sunday
Dec 21
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8852 (La Peri) -
Claude Debussy
Berceuse héroïque
Sunday
Dec 21
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #6 in F Minor, Op. 80
Sunday
Dec 21
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0003888 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Charles Ives
Symphony #2
Sunday
Dec 21
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Sony 46440 -
John Alden Carpenter
Tango Américain
Sunday
Dec 21
Denver Oldham (piano)
New World 328-329 (John Alden Carpenter: Collected Piano Works) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Semyon Kotko: Overture
Sunday
Dec 21
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 "Antar"
Sunday
Dec 21
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 9)
Sunday
Dec 21
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Sir Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
Sunday
Dec 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Decca 485.0241 (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar) -
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring (Ballet for Martha)
Sunday
Dec 21
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
DG 413.324 (Bernstein) -
Myroslav Skoryk
Hutsul Triptych: Dance
Sunday
Dec 21
Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin) | Angelina Gadeliya (piano)
Labor 095 (Ukraine - Journey to Freedom) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Chant elegiaque, Op. 72 #14
Sunday
Dec 21
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0004284 (Tchaikovsky: 18 Piano Pieces, Op. 72) -
Frédéric Chopin
Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano" in B-flat Major, Op. 2
Sunday
Dec 21
London Philharmonic | Claudio Arrau (piano) | Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #12 "American"
Sunday
Dec 21
Takács String Quartet
London 430.077 (Dvořák: Quartets Op. 96 & 105, bagatelles Op. 47) -
Lili Boulanger
D'un vieux jardin
Sunday
Dec 21
Emile Naoumoff (piano)
Marco Polo 223.636 (In Memorian Lili Boulanger) -
George Enescu
Concert Piece for Viola and Piano
Sunday
Dec 21
Dana Zemtsov (viola) | Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42320 (Silhouettes) -
George Crumb
Cello Sonata
Sunday
Dec 21
Matt Haimovitz (cello)
DG 431.813 -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony #4 in A Minor, Op. 63
Sunday
Dec 21
Oslo Philharmonic | Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
Decca 485.2256 (Klaus Mäkelä: Sibelius) -
Jean Sibelius
La tristesse du printemps, Op. 16 (Spring Song)
Sunday
Dec 21
BIS 384 (Sibelius) -
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude #4 in D Minor "Mazeppa"
Sunday
Dec 21
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 416.458 (Liszt: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante) -
Robert Schumann
Concert Piece in G Major, Op. 92 (Introduction & Allegro Appassionato)
Sunday
Dec 21
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir András Schiff (piano) | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 417.802 (Dvořák: Piano Concerto, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1020 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in G Minor
Sunday
Dec 21
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Major, Op. 34
Sunday
Dec 21
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Hyperion 68346 (Beethoven Variations: Angela Hewitt) -
Edward MacDowell
Twelve Virtuoso Studies, Op. 46: #5. Elfin Dance
Sunday
Dec 21
Malcolm Frager (piano)
New World 80206 (Edward MacDowell & Company) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #2 in D Major (HWV 397)
Sunday
Dec 21
The Brook Street Band
Avie 2068 (Handel: Trio Sonatas Op. 5) -
Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C Major
Sunday
Dec 21
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) | Emerson String Quartet
DG 431.792 (Schubert: String Quintet D 956) -
François Couperin
Pièces en Concert: La Tromba
Sunday
Dec 21
Amit Peled (cello) | Eliza Ching (piano)
Centaur 3047 (Cellobration) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne #4 in F Major, Op. 15 #1
Sunday
Dec 21
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Music for Children, Op. 65
Sunday
Dec 21
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Ned Rorem
Symphony #3
Sunday
Dec 21
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 559.149 (Rorem: Three Symphonies) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 20)
Sunday
Dec 21
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Trio for oboe, horn and piano, Op. 61
Sunday
Dec 21
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Markus Becker (piano) | Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn)
Decca 001653202 (Song of the Reeds) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony #5
Sunday
Dec 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80158 (Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 5, Tallis Fantasia)