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WETA Classical
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Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet "The Trout"
Sunday
May 11
Pinchas Zukerman (violin) | Yefim Bronfman (piano) | Jethro Marks (viola) | Amanda Forsyth (cello) | Joel Quarrington (double bass)
RCA 716044 (Schubert: "Trout" Piano Quintet - Mozart: Piano Quartet K. 493) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata #3 in D Minor, BWV 527
Sunday
May 11
Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord) | Thomas Demenga (cello)
Philips 422.328 (Bach: The Trio Sonatas) -
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Dances, Op. 35
Sunday
May 11
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
From the Top
Sunday
May 11
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Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto in C Major, F VII/6
Sunday
May 11
Alex Klein (oboe) | New Brandenburg Collegium | Anthony Newman (conductor)
Cedille 7003 (Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
Sunday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #25
Sunday
May 11
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Martha Argerich (piano) | Orchestra Mozart
DG 479.1033 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 503 & K. 466) -
Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod
Sunday
May 11
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 413.754 (Wagner) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #1 in F Minor, Op. 2 #1
Sunday
May 11
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant
Recorder Sonata, Op. 3 # 12 in E Minor
Sunday
May 11
Daniel Rothert (recorder) | Ketil Haugsand (harpsichord) | Vanessa Young (cello)
Naxos 572.023 (Gant: Recorder Sonatas) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #1
Sunday
May 11
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
London 410.009 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Symphony in E Major
Sunday
May 11
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10351 (Hoffmeister: Symphonies) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata #5 in D Major, Op. 102 #2
Sunday
May 11
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2183-84 (Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Edvard Grieg
Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 56: Suite
Sunday
May 11
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sony 46668 (A Nordic Festival) -
Louise Farrenc
Clarinet Trio, Op. 44
Sunday
May 11
Chamber Musicians of the Louvre
Naïve 5033 (Louise Farrenc: Chamber Music) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Quartet in D Minor
Sunday
May 11
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Sunday
May 11
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 414.421 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "New World") -
Arthur Foote
Piano Quartet
Sunday
May 11
James Barbagallo (piano) | Da Vinci Quartet
Naxos 559.014 (Foote: Chamber Music Vol. 2) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #86
Sunday
May 11
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Virgin 90844 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 85, 86 & 87) -
Bedřich Smetana
March for the Shakespeare Festival
Sunday
May 11
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10413 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1) -
Aram Khachaturian
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Sunday
May 11
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8927 (Khachaturian: Ballet Suites 1 - 3) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor"
Sunday
May 11
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
CBS 42330 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #1
Sunday
May 11
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
Philips 426.299 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Haydn Variations) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gallimathias Musicum
Sunday
May 11
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 429.783 (A Litte Light Music) -
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto #1 in E-flat Major
Sunday
May 11
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 423.571 (Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #2 in B-flat Major
Sunday
May 11
Linde Consort | Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
EMI 63427 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #100 "Military"
Sunday
May 11
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Philharmonic
London 411.897 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94 & 100) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1055
Sunday
May 11
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 64055 (Bach: Piano Concertos) -
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Sunday
May 11
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Jaime Laredo (conductor)
Nimbus 5078 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
Sunday
May 11
Anna Fedorova (piano) | St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra | Modestsas Pitrenas (conductor)
Channel 42620 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Sunday
May 11
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | Munich Philharmonic | Daniel Lozakovich (violin)
DG 483.8946 (Daniel Lozakovich: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto B-flat Major (K. 191)
Sunday
May 11
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Marc Vallon (bassoon)
Erato 4509.91724 (Mozart: Concertos for Flute & Harp, Bassoon, Oboe) -
Antonín Dvořák
American Suite
Sunday
May 11
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90723 (Dvořák; Symphony No. 9, American Suite) -
Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia inB-flat Major
Sunday
May 11
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra | Donald Armstrong (conductor)
Naxos 553.347 (Leopold Mozart: Symphonies) -
Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
Sunday
May 11
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Steven Isserlis (cello) | German Chamber Philharmonic
RCA 68800 (Schumann: Cello Concerto, Op. 129, Fantasiestücke, Op. 73) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Hob. XVIII:4
Sunday
May 11
Cologne Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor) | Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Naxos 570.485 (Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4, 9 & 11) -
Georges Bizet
Petite Suite "Jeux d'enfants", Op. 22
Sunday
May 11
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 421.527 (Fête À La Française) -
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
Trio Sonata #2
Sunday
May 11
Parnassi musici
CPO 777.383 (Neruda: Trio Sonatas) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #4 in C-sharp Minor
Sunday
May 11
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Sunday
May 11
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 421.715 (Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet, K. 285 in D Major
Sunday
May 11
Eckart Haupt (flute) | Peter Mirring (violin) | Peter Schikora (viola) | Gerhard Pluskwik (cello)
Capriccio 10.282 (Mozart: Die Flötenquartette) -
Claude Debussy
La plus que lente
Sunday
May 11
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #5 in C-sharp Minor
Sunday
May 11
Vienna Philharmonic | Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 453.416 (Mahler: Symphony No. 5) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 500)
Sunday
May 11
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose
Sunday
May 11
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Sony 46670 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
Sunday
May 11
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
DG 483.8242 (Triple Concerto) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata da Camera a Tre in E Minor, Op. 1 #2
Sunday
May 11
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Recorder & Flute E Minor
Sunday
May 11
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor) | Michala Petri (recorder) | William Bennett (flute)
Philips 410.041 (Telemann: Suite, 2 Double Concertos) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #2
Sunday
May 11
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 414.487 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Tragic Overture) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Polacca
Sunday
May 11
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80151 (Tchaikovsky: Swan lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #10
Sunday
May 11
Hagen Quartet
DG 419.171 (Schubert: String Quartets) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #29
Sunday
May 11
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Dresden State Symphony Orchestra
Philips 426.236 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 28, 29 & 34) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49
Sunday
May 11
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.197 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 3)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Claude Debussy
Ariettes oubliées
Sunday
May 11
Juliane Banse (soprano) | András Schiff (piano)
ECM 1772 (Songs of Debussy and Mozart) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Sunday
May 11
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Patrizia Hardt (soprano) | Gerlinde Sämann (soprano) | Elisabeth Hermans (soprano) | Jan Van der Crabben (bass)
Challenge 72316 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 (Vespers of the the Blessed Virgin, 1610): Psalm 126. Nisi Dominus
Sunday
May 11
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Avie 2206 (Monteverdi: Vespers) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act IV
Sunday
May 11
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) -
Franz Schubert
Der Jüngling am Bache, D 638 (The Youth by the Brook)
Sunday
May 11
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1988 (Schubert: Sehnsucht) -
Charles Gounod
Faust: Act II
Sunday
May 11
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Richard Leech (tenor) [Le docteur Faust] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Marguerite] | José van Dam (baritone) [Méphistophélès] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Valentin] | Martine Mahé (mezzo-soprano) [Siébel] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Marthe] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [Wagner] | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
EMI 54228 (Gounod: Faust) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act III, Aria. "Per rendermi beato parto"
Sunday
May 11
Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)] | Hanover Band | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung)
Sunday
May 11
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) -
Umberto Giordano
Fedora: Aria. "Amor ti vieta" (Love itself forbids)
Sunday
May 11
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Loris]
Decca 0015463 (Verismo Arias) -
Peter Lieberson
Neruda Songs: V. Amore mío, sí muero y tú no mueres (My love, if I die and you don't)
Sunday
May 11
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Robert Spano (conductor) | Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano)
ASO Media 1002 (Lieberson: Neruda Songs) -
Frederick Delius
A Mass of Life: Part I: III. "In dein Auge schaute ich jüngst" (I looked into your eyes)
Sunday
May 11
Alan Opie (baritone) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezz-soprano) | Andrew Kennedy (tenor) | The Bach Choir | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | David Hill (conductor)
Naxos 572.861-62 (Delius: A Mass of Life, Prelude and Idyll) -
Ambroise Thomas
Hamlet: Act IV
Sunday
May 11
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Antonio de Almeida (conductor) | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hamlet] | June Anderson [Ophélie] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Claudius, Roi du Danemark] | Gregory Kunde [Laërte] | Denyce Graves [La Reine Gertrude] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Spectre] | Gerard Garino [Marcellus] | François Le Roux [Horatio] | Michel Trempot [Polonius] | Thierry Felix [Premier Fossoyeur] | Jean-Pierre Furlan [Second Fossoyeur]
EMI 54820 (Thomas: Hamlet) -
Jake Heggie
Here and Gone (songs and duets for tenor, baritone and piano quartet): Because I Liked You
Sunday
May 11
Jake Heggie (piano) | Dawn Harms (violin) | Emil Miland (cello) | Paul Groves (tenor) | CarlaMaria Rodrigues (viola)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: VI. Benedictus
Sunday
May 11
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Karl Böhm (conductor) | Edith Mathis | Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) | Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano) | Karl Ridderbusch
DG 413.553 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie
Sunday
May 11
Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Nancy Argenta (soprano) | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0533-4 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff: Act II
Sunday
May 11
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Renato Bruson [Sir John Falstaff] | Leo Nucci [Ford] | Dalmacio González [Fenton] | Michael Sells [Dr Cajus] | Francis Egerton [Bardolfo] | William Wildermann [Pistola] | Katia Ricciarelli [Mrs. Alice Ford] | Barbara Hendricks [Nannetta] | Lucia Valentini Terrani [Mrs. Quickly] | Brenda Boozer [Mrs. Meg Page] | Los Angeles Master Chorale [Townspeople, Ford's servants, people dressed as sprites, fairies, witches, etc.] | Los Angeles Philharmonic
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Richard Strauss
Zueignung, Op. 10 #1 (Dedication)
Sunday
May 11
Christian Thielemann (conductor) | Diana Damrau (soprano) | Munich Philharmonic
Virgin 628664 (Strauss: Orchestral Songs) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Catone in Utica: Act III, Recitative and Aria. "Chi può nelle sventure...Nella foresta"
Sunday
May 11
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Virgin 94573 (Antonio Vivaldi, Pyrotechnics) -
George Frideric Handel
The King shall rejoice
Sunday
May 11
Simon Preston (conductor) | The English Concert | Choir of Westminster Abbey | Trevor Pinnock (organ)
Archiv 410.030 (George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: I. Kyrie
Sunday
May 11
Julia Varady (soprano) | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) | Vinson Cole (tenor) | René Pape (bass) | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 444.337 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Igor Stravinsky
Cantata
Sunday
May 11
London Sinfonietta Chorus | London Sinfonietta | John Aler (tenor) | Yvonne Kenney (soprano) | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Sony 46667 (Cantata) -
Franz Schubert
Sehnsucht, D 636 (Longing)
Sunday
May 11
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1988 (Schubert: Sehnsucht) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Anna Bolena: Act II, scenes 11-13
Sunday
May 11
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Diana Damrau (soprano) [Anna] | Sara Rocchi (mezzo-soprano) [Smeton] | Domenico Pellicola (tenor) [Percy] | Saverio Flore (tenor) [Hervey] | Fabrizio Beggi (bass) [Rochefort]
Warner Classics 52809 (Tudor Queens) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Thésée: Act IV
Sunday
May 11
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir] | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir] | Un Jeux | Un Vieillard] | Yulia Van Doren [Cerés | Une Bergere] | Teresa Wakim [Cerés | Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus | Paul O'Dette | Stephen Stubbs (Musical Directors)
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Jake Heggie
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia: Spring
Sunday
May 11
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Jonathan Dove
Three Tennyson Songs
Sunday
May 11
Philippe Sly (bass/baritone) | Michael McMahon (piano)
Analekta 29836 (In Dreams) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Sunday
May 11
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor | Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77380 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
John Sheppard
Anthem. Haste thee, O God
Sunday
May 11
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7509 (Sheppard: Media vita) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa solemnis C Minor, K 139 "Waisenhausmesse": I. Kyrie
Sunday
May 11
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Håkan Hagegård (baritone) | Jadwiga Rappé (alto) | Josef Protschka (tenor)
Teldec 2292.44180 (Mozart: Missa solemnis) -
Thomas Tallis
Magnificat a 4
Sunday
May 11
The Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood (conductor)
Hyperion 68026 (Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis) -
Giuseppe Verdi
I Masnadieri: Act I
Sunday
May 11
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera | Samuel Ramey [Massimiliano] | Franco Bonisolli [Carlo] | Matteo Manuguerra [Francesco] | Joan Sutherland [Amalia] | Arthur Davies [Arminio] | Simone Alaimo [Moser] | John Harris [Rolla] | CHorus of Welsh National Opera [Erring youths | bandits, women, children, servants]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Richard Strauss
Das Rosenband, Op. 36 #1
Sunday
May 11
Christian Thielemann (conductor) | Diana Damrau (soprano) | Munich Philharmonic
Virgin 628664 (Strauss: Orchestral Songs) -
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Psalm 23
Sunday
May 11
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Ernst Senff Chamber Choir
London 421. 644 (Zemlinsky: Symphony in B-flat; Psalm 23) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #8 in E-flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand": Part One
Sunday
May 11
London Symphony Chorus | Juliane Banse (soprano) | David Wilson-Johnson (bass) | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Birgit Remmert (soprano) | Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) | Jon Villars (tenor) | John Relyea (bass) | City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus | City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus | Toronto Children's Chorus | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Christine Brewer (soprano) | Soile Isokosi (soprano)
EMI 57945 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8) -
Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier: Aria. "Un di all'azzurro spazio" (One day I stood raptly gazing)
Sunday
May 11
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Chénier]
Decca 0015463 (Verismo Arias) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act III
Sunday
May 11
Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra] | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy] | Francisco Araiza [Roberto, Conte di Leicester] | Simone Alaimo [Lord Guglielmo Cecil] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury] | Munich Radio Orchestra
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Franz Schubert
Der Sänger am Felsen, D 482 (The Singer on the Rock)
Sunday
May 11
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Missa quatuor vocum: Credo
Sunday
May 11
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30248 (Scarlatti: Stabat Mater a dieci voci) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Beatrice di Tenda: Act I, Nr 3
Sunday
May 11
Edita Gruberova [Beatrice di Tenda] | Vesselina Kasarova [Agnese] | Igor Morosow [Filippo Maria Visconti] | Don Bernardini [Orombello] | Branko Robinsak [Anichino] | Daniel Sumegi [Rizzardo] | Wiener Jeunesse-Chor | ORF-Symphonieorchester | Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
Nightingale 070560 (Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda) -
Barbara Strozzi
Udite, amanti
Sunday
May 11
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Anders Ericson (theorbo) | Jakob Linberg (lute)
Archiv 0003460 (Music for a While) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)
Sunday
May 11
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Don Giovanni] | Paata Burchuladze [Commendatore/La Statua] | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Donna Anna] | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Don Ottavio] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Elvira] | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Leporello] | Alexander Malta (bass) [Masetto] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerlina] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
DG 419.179 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. John Passion, BWV 245: Nr 24, Aria with Chorus. "Eilt ihr angefochtnen Seelen -- Wohin"
Sunday
May 11
Peter Kooij (bass) | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) | Collegium Vocale | Orchestre e la Chapelle Royale
Harmonia Mundi 295.1264.65 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) -
Hector Berlioz
Requiem, Op. 5: II. Dies irae
Sunday
May 11
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Robert Spano (conductor)
Telarc 80627 (Berlioz: Requiem) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il Corsaro: Act III
Sunday
May 11
Philharmonia Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | José Carreras [Corrado] | Clifford Grant [Giovanni] | Jessye Norman [Medora] | Montserrat Caballé [Gulnara] | Gian-Piero Mastromei [Seid] | John Noble [Selimo] | Alexander Oliver [A black eunuch | Ambrosian Singers [Corsairs, odalisques, Muslim soldiers | officers, Turks, handmaidens]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Franz Liszt
Es war ein König in Thule [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
Sunday
May 11
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto) | Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Stabat Mater, RV 621
Sunday
May 11
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Ensemble Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 625810 (Pietà, Sacred Works for Alto) -
Johann Christian Bach
Requiem
Sunday
May 11
RIAS Chamber Chorus | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) | Ruth Sandhoff (alto) | Colin Balzer (tenor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos
Sunday
May 11
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor) | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Primadonna/Ariadne] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [The Composer] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerbinetta] | Gary Lakes [The Tenor/Bacchus] | Hermann Prey (baritone) [A Music Master] | Otto Schenk [The Major-domo] | Ewald Aichberger [An Officer] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [A Dancing Master] | Günter von Kannen [A Wig-Maker] | Alfred Sramek [A Footman] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Harlequin] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Scaramouche] | Kurt Rydl [Truffaldino] | Hans Sojer [Brighella] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Naiad] | Helga Müller Molinari [Dryad] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Echo]
DG 419.225 (Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxus) -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die tote Stadt: "Glück, das mir verblieb "(Mariettas Lied)
Sunday
May 11
Renée Fleming (soprano) | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
Decca 0001024 (By Request) -
Mikhail Glinka
Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Act II, Mazurka and Finale
Sunday
May 11
Nicola Ghiuselev [Ivan Susanin] | Elena Stoyanova [Antonida] | Hristina Angelakova [Vanja] | Roumen Doikov [Bogdan Sobinin] | Nikolai Stoilov [Russian Soldier] | Angel Petkov [Polish Messenger] | Dimiter Stanchev [Sigizmund the Third] | Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir [Peasants, Russian volunteers, ladies-in-waiting, Polish knights, soldiers, etc.] | Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ivan Marinov (conductor)
Balkanton 010032-34 (Glinka: Ivan Susanin) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La Battaglia di Legnano: Act I
Sunday
May 11
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | ORF Symphony Orchestra | Nicolai Gedda [Federico Barbarossa] | Hannes Lichtenberger [First Consul of Milan] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Second Consul of Milan] | Franz Handlos [The Mayor of Como] | Matteo Manuguerra [Rolando] | Katia Ricciarelli [Lida] | José Carreras [Arrigo] | Jonathan Summer [Marcovaldo] | Ann Murray [Imelda] | Mieczyslaw Antoniak [A herald | One of Arrigo's squires] | ORF Chorus [Knights of Death, magistrates | leaders of Como, maidservants of Lida, Milanese people | senators, warriors of Verona, Brescia, Novara, Piacenza | Milan]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Franz Schubert
Du liebst mich nicht (You do not love me)
Sunday
May 11
Malcolm Martineau (piano) | Kate Royal (soprano)
EMI 48536 (A Lesson in Love) -
Vincenzo Bellini
La Sonnambula: Act II, Scene 2
Sunday
May 11
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Natalie Dessay [Armina] | Francesco Meli [Elvino] | Carlo Colombara [Il conte Rodolfo] | Sara Mingardo [Teresa] | Jaël Azzaretti [Lisa] | Paul Gay [Alessio] | Gordon Gietz [Un notaro]
Virgin 395138 (Bellini: La Sonnambula) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act III, Aria. "Amor, tiranno Amor"
Sunday
May 11
Brian Asawa [Arsamene] | Hanover Band | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act I
Sunday
May 11
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur: Aria. "L'anima ho stanca" (My heart is tired)
Sunday
May 11
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Maurizio]
Decca 0015463 (Verismo Arias)