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WETA Classical
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Larghetto in G Major, Op. 11
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
Sunday
Jul 21
Trio Parnassus and Friends
MDG 303.1549 (Ferdinand: Piano Trios Vol. 3) -
Oboe Concerto in F Major
Jan Antonín Koželuh
Sunday
Jul 21
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Kammerakademie Potsdam | Albrecht Mayer (conductor)
DG 479.2942 (Lost and Found) -
Symphony #5 "Reformation"
Felix Mendelssohn
Sunday
Jul 21
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Teldec 2292.44933 (Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonien No. 1 & 5) -
Concerto in C Minor for Bassoon & 2 Oboes
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Sunday
Jul 21
Dominic Teresi (bassoon) | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 9815 (Concerti Virtuosi) -
Scherzo #1 in B minor, Op. 20
Frédéric Chopin
Sunday
Jul 21
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.3206 (Chopin, Liszt & Ravel) -
Orchestral Suite #1 in C Major, BWV 1066
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jul 21
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
AAM Records 003 (JS Bach: Orchestral Suites) -
Piano Sonata #21 "Waldstein"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jul 21
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 427.642 (Beethoven: Piano Sonatas) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #3 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jul 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Piano Concerto #21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jul 21
Fazil Say (piano) | Zurich Chamber Orchestra | Howard Griffiths (conductor)
Naïve 4992 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12, 21 & 23) -
Voyevoda: Overture
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sunday
Jul 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky) -
Symphony #99 in E-flat Major
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
Jul 21
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
Antonín Dvorák
Sunday
Jul 21
Kian Soltani (cello) | Berlin Staatskapelle | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
DG 483.6090 (Kian Soltani: Dvorak) -
Symphony B-flat Major (Op. 18 #1)
Muzio Clementi
Sunday
Jul 21
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 9234 (Clementi: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Violin Sonata #2 in D Minor, Op. 121
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jul 21
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 419.235 (Schumann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2) -
Concerto, RV 497 in A Minor for Bassoon, Strings and Continuo
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jul 21
Mathieu Lussier (bassoon) | Arion
Early Music 7764 (Vivaldi) -
Tannhäuser: Overture
Richard Wagner
Sunday
Jul 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
CBS 36699 (Wagner: Overtures) -
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)
Sir Edward Elgar
Sunday
Jul 21
Gautier Capuçon (cello) | Chamber Orchestra of Paris | Adrien Perruchon (conductor)
Erato 521413 (Gautier Capucon: Emotions) -
Romance
Johann Peter Salomon
Sunday
Jul 21
Simon Standage (violin) | English Concert | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 427.316 (Haydn: 3 Violin Concertos) -
Petite Suite
Claude Debussy
Sunday
Jul 21
Ulster Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Chandos 8756 (Debussy: Petite Suite, etc.) -
Concerto, K. 314
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jul 21
John Mack (oboe) | Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
DG 0006610 (Masters of The Oboe) -
Piano Concerto #1
Johannes Brahms
Sunday
Jul 21
Nelson Freire (piano) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 0006588 (Brahms: The Piano Concertos) -
Trio for oboe, horn and piano, Op. 61
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Sunday
Jul 21
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn) | Markus Becker (piano)
Decca 001653202 (Song of the Reeds) -
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Continuo in C Minor
Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Sunday
Jul 21
Ensemble Cordia
Brilliant Classics 94007 (Platti: Chamber Music) -
Partita #4 in D Major, BWV 828
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jul 21
Jeremy Denk (piano)
Azica Records 71262 (Bach: Partitas 3, 4 & 5) -
Clarinet Concerto #1 B-flat Major
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Sunday
Jul 21
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | South German Chamber Orchestra | Sebastian Tewinkel (conductor)
CPO 777.241 (Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos) -
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jul 21
Vienna Philharmonic | Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG 483.7071 (Beethoven: Complete Symphonies) -
Turkish Suite, Op. 62: I. Caravan
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Sunday
Jul 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Arthur Fagen (conductor)
Naxos 553.405 (Ippolitov-Ivanov Orchestral Works) -
Symphony #36 "Linz"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jul 21
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)
Erato 2292.45857 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31, 34, 35, 36, 38 & 41) -
Cello Sonata
Louise Farrenc
Sunday
Jul 21
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Ambache Recordings 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite) -
Sonata for Two Oboes and Continuo, HWV 384 in G Major
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jul 21
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Ingo Goritzki (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Walter Heinz Bernstein (harpsichord) | Achim Beyer (violone)
Capriccio 10.066 (Handel: Die Oboensonaten Vol. 1) -
Symphony #4 in D Minor, Op. 120
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jul 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 469.700 (Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4) -
Sonata, RV 779 for Violin, Oboe, Organ and Bassoon in C Major
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jul 21
Karl Suske (violin) | Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Thomas Reinhardt (bassoon) | Christine Schornsheim (organ)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Ballade #4 in F Minor, Op. 52
Frédéric Chopin
Sunday
Jul 21
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 14899 (Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, etc.)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Maria Stuarda: Act III, finale
Gaetano Donizetti
Sunday
Jul 21
Diana Damrau (soprano) [Maria] | Sara Rocchi (mezzo-soprano) [Anna] | Domenico Pellicola (tenor) [Leicester] | Andril Ganchuk (baritone) [Talbot] | Fabrizio Beggi (bass) [Cecil] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Warner Classics 52809 (Tudor Queens) -
Ariodante: Act I
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jul 21
Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] | Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] | Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] | Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] | Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] | Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani [Odoardo] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Tosca: Act III
Giacomo Puccini
Sunday
Jul 21
Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Floria Tosca] | José Carreras (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] | Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Cesare Angelotti] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Spoletta] | Fernando Corena [Un sagrestano] | Victor von Halem (baritone) [Sciarrone] | Victor von Halem (baritone) [Un carceriere] | Wolfgang Bünten (tenor) [Un pastore] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin | Schöneberger Sängerknaben | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 413.815 (Puccini: Turandot) -
Siegfried: Act II Finale. "In der Höhle hier lieg' auf dem Hort!...Nun sing! Ich lasuche dem Gesang"
Richard Wagner
Sunday
Jul 21
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Siegfried] | Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Der Waldvogel] | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 57242 (Wagner: Siegfried) -
Faust: Act II
Charles Gounod
Sunday
Jul 21
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 | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 54228 (Gounod: Faust) -
Lakmé: Bell Song. "Ah! Où va la jeune Indoue"
Léo Delibes
Sunday
Jul 21
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
London 414.450 (The Art of the Prima Donna) -
Cantata, BWV 209. Non sa che sia dolore (He does not know what sorrow is): Aria. Ricetti gramezza e pavento (Do away with anxiety and dread)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jul 21
Elizabeth Futral (soprano) | Washington Bach Consort | J. Reilly Lewis (conductor)
Lyrichord 8069 (Bach: Solo Cantatas) -
Otello: Act II
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
Jul 21
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Desdemona] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Denyce Graves [Emilia] | Ramon Vargas [Cassio] | Michael Schade [Roderigo] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Lodovico] | Giacomo Prestia [Montano] | Philippe Duminy [Un Araldo] | Chours et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello) -
Guglielmo Tell: Act II, Duetto. "Tutto apprendi, o sventurato"
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
Jul 21
Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Matilde] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell) -
Suite from the opera "Der Sturm"
Frank Martin
Sunday
Jul 21
Thomas Oliemans (baritone) | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Steven Sloane (conductor)
MDG 901.1614 (Martin: Monologues, Der Sturm) -
Ein deutsches Requiem: VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt (For here we have no lasting place)
Johannes Brahms
Sunday
Jul 21
Atlanta Symphony Chorus | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80092 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Hamlet: Act IV
Ambroise Thomas
Sunday
Jul 21
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] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
EMI 54820 (Thomas: Hamlet) -
Missa solemnis C Minor, K 139 "Waisenhausmesse"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jul 21
Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Jadwiga Rappé (alto) | Josef Protschka (tenor) | Håkan Hagegård (baritone) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 2292.44180 (Mozart: Missa solemnis) -
Boris Godunov
Modest Mussorgsky
Sunday
Jul 21
Alexander Vedernikov [Boris Godunov] | Glafira Koroleva [Feodor] | Elena Shkolnikova [Xenia] | Nina Grigorieva [Nurse] | Andrei Sokolov [Shuisky] | Alexander Voroshilo [Shchelkalov] | Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] | Vladisolav Piavko [Grigory/Dmitri] | Irina Arkhipova [Marina Mnishek] | Yuri Masurok [Rangoni] | Artur Eisen [Varlaam] | Anatoli Mishutin [Missail] | Ludmila Simonova [Hostess] | Janis Sporgis [Simpleton] | Vladimir Filippov [Nikitich] | Nikolaï Nizinenko [Mitiukha] | Yuri Elnikov [Boyar/Khrushchov/Lavitsky] | Vladimir Silaev [Chernikovsky] | USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)
Philips 412.281 (Mussorgsky: Boris Godounov) -
La Gioconda: Aria. "Cielo e mar!"
Amilcare Ponchielli
Sunday
Jul 21
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Enzo] | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Decca 0015463 (Verismo Arias) -
Concert Aria, Op. 65. "Ah! perfido" -- "Per pietà"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jul 21
Charlotte Margiono | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
La bohème: Act I
Giacomo Puccini
Sunday
Jul 21
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Mimì] | Sherill Milnes [Marcello] | Judith Blegen (soprano) [Musetta] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Colline] | Vicente Sardinero [Schaunard] | Noel Mangin [Benoît] | Nico Castel [Alcindoro] | Allan Byers [Parpignol] | William Mason [Doganiere] | Franklyn Whitely [Sergente dei Doganieri] | John Alldis Choir | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
RCA 39496 (Puccini: La Bohème) -
La traviata: "Teneste la promessa.Addio del passato" [Act III]
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
Jul 21
Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 400.057 (Verdi: La Traviata, Highlights) -
Historia di Jephte
Giacomo Carissimi
Sunday
Jul 21
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Gloria, RV 588
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jul 21
The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge | Lynda Russell (soprano) | Patrizia Kwella (soprano) | Anne Wilkens (mezzo-soprano) | Kenneth Bowen (tenor) | The Wren Orchestra | Geoge Guest (conductor)
Argo 410.018 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
And Music Shall Not End (Partial Lunar Eclipse; A Pastoral Lament) (Text to poems of Anne Ranasinghe and John Wood)
Lori Laitman
Sunday
Jul 21
Randall Scarlata (baritone) | Lori Laitman (piano)
Albany 1118 (Within These Spaces) -
Hamlet: Aria. Ophelia's mad scene. "A vos jeux, mes amis"
Ambroise Thomas
Sunday
Jul 21
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
London 414.450 (The Art of the Prima Donna) -
La sonnambula: Recitative and aria. "Care compagne...Come per me sereno...Sovra il sen"
Vincenzo Bellini
Sunday
Jul 21
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
London 414.450 (The Art of the Prima Donna) -
Cantata, BWV 116. Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ (Thou Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jul 21
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Gotthold Schwarz (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 159 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 9) -
Zazà: Zazà's aria. "Angioletto, il tuo nome?" (My little angel, what is your name?)
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Sunday
Jul 21
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Emma Latis [Totò] | Barbara Vignudelli [Natalila] | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs), Op. 27
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jul 21
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)