This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical and WETA VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture
Jacques Offenbach
Monday
Jul 4
Vienna Philharmonic | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
DG 400.040 (New Year's Concert) -
Viola Concerto #1 in D Major
Carl Stamitz
Monday
Jul 4
Victoria Chiang (viola) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 572.162 (Stamitz & Hoffmeister: Viola Concertos) -
Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 20
Arthur Foote
Monday
Jul 4
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
Concerto, RV 531
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Jul 4
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Jonathan Manson (cello) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)
Sony 90916 (Vivaldi's Cello) -
Impromptu in B-flat Major (Op. 142 #3)
Franz Schubert
Monday
Jul 4
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 411.040 (Schubert: Impromptus Op. 90 & 142) -
Symphony #38 "Prague"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Jul 4
Mozart Akadamie Amsterdam | Jaap ter Linden (conductor)
Brilliant 92702 (Essential Mozart) -
Cinderella: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Monday
Jul 4
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431.653 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Foster Gallery:Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
Morton Gould
Monday
Jul 4
National Symphony Orch. of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 559.005 (Gould: American Ballads, Foster Gallery) -
Grande Tarantelle
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Monday
Jul 4
Reid Nibley (piano) | Utah Symphony Orchestra | Maurice Abravanel (conductor)
Vanguard 4051 (Gottschalk, Vol. 2) -
Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts
Aaron Copland
Monday
Jul 4
New York Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
CBS 37257 (Copland: Appalachian Spring) -
Symphony C Major
Georges Bizet
Monday
Jul 4
French National Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
EMI 63898 (Bizet: Symphony in C, etc.) -
Summerland
William Grant Still
Monday
Jul 4
Sierra Winds
Cambria 1083 (Get on Board) -
Flute Sonata, BWV 1035 in E Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Jed Wentz (flute) | Michael Borgstede (harpsichord)
Brilliant 93814 (Bach Complete Chamber Music for Flute) -
Fair Melusina Overture
Felix Mendelssohn
Monday
Jul 4
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2369 (Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 1) -
Doce Piezas Caracteristicas, Op. 92: Pavana
Isaac Albéniz
Monday
Jul 4
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 32712 (Spanish Music for Classical Guitar) -
Sinfonia, H. 661 in B Minor
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Camerata Bern | Thomas Füri (conductor)
Denon 73326 (C.P.E. Bach: 6 Hamburg Symphonies, wq.182) -
Rienzi: Overture
Richard Wagner
Monday
Jul 4
Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
DG 477.8773 (Wagner: Preludes & Overtures) -
Piano Quintet in A Minor: IV. Scherzo
Florence Price
Monday
Jul 4
Catalyst Quartet | Michelle Cann (piano)
Azica 71346 (Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price) -
Flute Sonata #276 in C Minor, QV 1:18
Johann Joachim Quantz
Monday
Jul 4
Verena Fischer (transverse flute) | Klaus-Dieter Brandt (baroque cello) | Léon Berben (harpsichord)
Naxos 557.805 (Quantz: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272 - 277) -
Gayane: Dances
Aram Khachaturian
Monday
Jul 4
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8542 (Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, etc.) -
Canzon XIV (1615)
Giovanni Gabrieli
Monday
Jul 4
Empire Brass
Telarc 80204 (Music of Gabrieli) -
Tales from Vienna Woods
Johann Strauss II
Monday
Jul 4
London Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 54089 (J. Strauss II: Waltzes & Overtures) -
Sinfonia Melodica, TWV 50:2
Georg Philipp Telemann
Monday
Jul 4
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra | Barthold Kuijken (flute, conductor)
Naxos 573.900 (The Colourful Telemann) -
Scherzo Tarantelle
Henryk Wieniawski
Monday
Jul 4
Maxim Vengerov (violin) | Ian Brown (piano)
EMI 57916 (Kreisler, Sarasater, Wieniawski, etc.) -
Concerto, RV 425
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Jul 4
Pepe Romero (guitar) | I Musici
Philips 434.082 (Vivaldi: Concertos for Guitar and Strings) -
L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Monday
Jul 4
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Piano Trio: III. Allegro vigoroso
Rebecca Clarke
Monday
Jul 4
Neave Trio
Chandos 20139 (Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke) -
Divertimento, K. 138
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Jul 4
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra | Iona Brown (conductor)
Omega 1004 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 29, Divertementos K.136 & K.138) -
Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna: Overture
Franz von Suppé
Monday
Jul 4
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Violin Concerto: III
Felix Mendelssohn
Monday
Jul 4
Cho Liang Lin (violin) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
CBS 45521 (Greatest Hits, Violin) -
Stars and Stripes: Finale
Hershey Kay
Monday
Jul 4
Boston Pops | Arthur Fiedler (conductor)
RCA 61501 (Kay: Stars and Stripes, Cakewalk) -
Sonata, RV 81 for 2 Oboes and Basso continuo in G Minor
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Jul 4
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Ingo Goritzki (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Edvard Grieg
Monday
Jul 4
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.060 (Grieg & Tchaikovsky) -
Oboe d'amore Concerto D Major
Johan Helmich Roman
Monday
Jul 4
Alf Nilsson (oboe d'amore) | Anders Ohrwall (harpsichord) | Stockholm Sinfonietta | Jan-Olav Wedin (conductor)
Bis 165 (A Swedish Pastorale) -
From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68: #5. Silent Woods (arranged for solo cello and cello ensemble by Kian Soltani)
Antonín Dvorák
Monday
Jul 4
Kian Soltani (cello) | Cellists of Berlin Staatskapelle
DG 483.6090 (Kian Soltani: Dvorak) -
Horn Concerto #2 in E-flat Major
Richard Strauss
Monday
Jul 4
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 412.237 (R. Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Musica Antiqua Köln | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 413.642 (Bach: Musical Offering) -
Piano Quintet
Robert Schumann
Monday
Jul 4
Emanuel Ax (piano) | Cleveland Quartet
RCA 6498 (Schumann: Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 44, Quartet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 47) -
Horn Concerto D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Monday
Jul 4
Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia) | Leipzig New Bach Collegium Musicum | Max Pommer (conductor)
Capriccio 10.008 (Corno da caccia) -
Violin Concerto #5 "Turkish"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Jul 4
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | London Philharmonic | Anne-Sophie Mutter (conductor)
DG 0005078 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos, Sinfonia Concertante) -
Symphony #2 in E-flat Major, Op. 38
Zdenek Fibich
Monday
Jul 4
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Stilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Variations on the aria "Je suis encore dans mon printemps", Op. 36
Louis Spohr
Monday
Jul 4
Ursula Holliger (harp)
Jecklin 573 (Spohr: Sonaten für Harfe und Violine, etc.) -
String Quartet, Op. 54 #1
Joseph Haydn
Monday
Jul 4
Endellion String Quartet
Virgin Classics 90719 (Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 54) -
Hebrides Overture
Felix Mendelssohn
Monday
Jul 4
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 474.5022 (German Overtures) -
Flute Concerto, H. 445 in G Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Patrick Gallois (flute) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Peter Schreier (conductor)
DG 439.895 (Flute Concertos from Sanssouci) -
Quintet in C Major, Op. 79
August Klughardt
Monday
Jul 4
Les Vents Français
Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique) -
Piano Trio, WoO 38 in E-flat Major
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Jul 4
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Symphony #8
Antonín Dvorák
Monday
Jul 4
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 414.422 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 8, Scherzo Capriccioso) -
Sonata, BWV 1032 for Flute and Harpsichord Obbligato in A Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Aurele Nicolet (flute) | Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord)
Denon 7331 (Bach: The Complete Sonatas for Flute)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Apollo et Hyacinthus: Act III
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Jul 4
John Dickie [Oebalus, King of Lacedemonia] | Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger [Melia] | Arno Raunig [Hyacinthus] | Ralf Popken [Apollo] | Axel Köhler [Zephyrus] | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Leipzig Radio Orchestra | Max Pommer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: IV. Sanctus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Jul 4
Charlotte Margiono (soprano) | Catherine Robbin (alto) | William Kendall (tenor) | Alastaire Miles (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Missa sopra "Ecco sì beato giorno" (Mass based on "Ecco sì beato giorno")
Alessandro Striggio
Monday
Jul 4
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 478.2734 (Striggio: Missa Ecco sì beato giorno) -
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #16. Die liebe Farbe [The Fair Miller-Maid: The favorite color]
Franz Schubert
Monday
Jul 4
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Motet. Veni, dilecte mi (Come, my beloved)
Orlando di Lasso
Monday
Jul 4
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 807489 (Song of Songs) -
Un ballo in maschera: Act I
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
Jul 4
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Riccardo] | Renato Bruson [Renato] | Margaret Price [Amelia] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Ulrica] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Oscar] | Peter Weber [Silvano] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Samuel] | Malcolm King [Tom] | Alexander Oliver [Un Giudice] | Peter Hall [Un Servo d'Amelia] | London Opera Chorus | Royal College of Music Junior Department Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 410.210 (Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera) -
Kindertotenlieder
Gustav Mahler
Monday
Jul 4
Marjana Lipovsek (alto) | Berlin Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Recorded live on May 10, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Tancredi: Act I, Tancredi's recitative and cavatina. "O patria, dolce e ingrata patria!...Di tanti palpiti" (O my native land, sweet ungrateful land!...From you, my beloved)
Gioachino Rossini
Monday
Jul 4
Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Roberto Abbado (conductor)
DG 0012818 (Bel Canto) -
Cantata, BWV 101. Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott (Take from us, Lord, thou faithful God)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Gotthold Schwarz (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Dom, Braunschweig, Aug 27, 2000]
SDG 147 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 5) -
Aria. Künft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer, HWV 202 (Vain care of times to come)
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Jul 4
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Ensemble Guadagni
Wigmore Live 38 (Handel: Nine German Arias) -
La Favorite: Act III, Conclusion
Gaetano Donizetti
Monday
Jul 4
Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] | Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] | Abbie Furmansky [Inès] | Ramon Vargas [Fernand] | Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] | Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] | Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Marcello Viotti (conductor)
RCA 66229 (Donizetti: La Favorite) -
Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48
Gabriel Fauré
Monday
Jul 4
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris | Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Virgin Classics 70921 (Fauré: Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48) -
Hymn. Ave, Maris Stella (Hail, Star of the Sea) (Claudio Monteverdi; Francesco Soriano; plainchant)
Various
Monday
Jul 4
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part III
Joseph Haydn
Monday
Jul 4
Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Eve] | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Adam]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Apollo et Hyacinthus: Act II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Jul 4
John Dickie [Oebalus, King of Lacedemonia] | Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger [Melia] | Arno Raunig [Hyacinthus] | Ralf Popken [Apollo] | Axel Köhler [Zephyrus] | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Leipzig Radio Orchestra | Max Pommer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Der Rosenkavalier: Act II
Richard Strauss
Monday
Jul 4
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Die Feldmarschallin] | Otto Edelmann [Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau] | Christa Ludwig [Octavian] | Eberhard Wächter [Herr von Faninal] | Teresa Stich-Randall [Sophie] | Ljuba Welitsch [Marianne] | Paul Kuen [Valzacchi] | Kerstin Meyer [Annina] | Nicolai Gedda [Ein Sänger] | Philharmonia Chorus | Loughton High School for Girls & Bancroft's School | Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI 56242 (Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier) -
Zazà: Zazà's aria. "Angioletto, il tuo nome?" (My little angel, what is your name?)
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Monday
Jul 4
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Emma Latis [Totò] | Barbara Vignudelli [Natalila] | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Ernani: Part III. Clemency
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
Jul 4
Luciano Pavarotti [Ernani] | Leo Nucci [Don Carlo] | Paata Burchuladze [Don Ruy Gomez de Silva] | Joan Sutherland [Elvira] | Linda McLeod [Giovanna] | Richard Morton [Don Riccardo] | Alastaire Miles [Jago] | Chorus of Welsh National Opera [Mountain people and bandits, knights, members of Silva's household, maids in attendance on Elvira, knights of Don Carlo's suite, members of the "Holy Alliance," Spanish and German nobles and their ladies] | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Drei Gesänge, Op. 31: #1. Die Löwenbraut (The Lion's Bride)
Robert Schumann
Monday
Jul 4
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naive 5159 (Schumann) -
Mefistofele: Epilogue
Arrigo Boito
Monday
Jul 4
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Mefistofele] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Faust] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Margherita] | Nucci Condò [Marta] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Wagner] | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Elena] | Alan Jones [Pantalis] | Robin Leggate [Nereo] | London Opera Chorus | Trinity Boys' Choir | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
Decca 475.6666 (Boito: Mefistofele) -
Cantata, BWV 131. Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Kobie van Rensburg (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Blasiuskirche, Mühlhausen, July 23, 2000]
SDG 141 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 3) -
La conversione di Sant'Agostino: Part I, recitative & aria (Sant'Agostino). "Sì, solo a te mio dio...Il rimorso opprime il seno"
Johann Adolf Hasse
Monday
Jul 4
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) | Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 51789 (La Vanita del Mondo) -
Katya Kabanova
Leos Janácek
Monday
Jul 4
Zdenek Kroupa [Savel P. Dikoi] | Beno Blachut [Boris Grigorievich] | Ludmila Komancova [Marpha I. Kabanova] | Bohumir Vich [Tikhon I. Kabanov] | Drahomira Tikalova [Katya Kabanova] | Viktor Koci [Vania Kudriash] | Ivana Mixova [Varvara] | Rudolf Zedlicka [Kuligin] | Eva Hlobilova [Glasha] | Marcela Lemariova [Feklusha] | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre [Town-dwellers] | Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor)
Supraphon 10.8016 (Janácek: Káta Kabanová) -
Paride ed Elena: Aria. "Oh, del mio dolce ardor"
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Monday
Jul 4
Elly Ameling (soprano) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 412.233 (Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart & Gluck) -
Carmen: Act II, Opening
Georges Bizet
Monday
Jul 4
Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] | Nicolai Gedda [Don José] | Janine Micheau [Micaëla] | Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] | Denise Monteil [Frasquita] | Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] | Monique Linval [Mercédès] | Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] | Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] | Bernard Plantey [Moralès] | Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] | Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française | Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française | Petits Chanteurs de Versailles | Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI 56214 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Litaniæ de venerabili altaris sacramento in E-flat Major, K 243
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Monday
Jul 4
Annemarie Kremer (soprano) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Motet. Ne irascaris Domine
William Byrd
Monday
Jul 4
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Cantata, BWV 100. Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (What God does, is well done)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Monday
Jul 4
Malin Hartelius (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Unser Lieben Frauen, Bremen, Sep 28, 2000]
SDG 104 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 8) -
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Act 3, Finale
George Frideric Handel
Monday
Jul 4
Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Sonia Prina (contralso) [Giulio Cesare] | Le Concert d'Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
Virgin 07572 (Arias for Cleopatra) -
Nabucco: Part III. La profezia (The Prophecy)
Giuseppe Verdi
Monday
Jul 4
Tito Gobbi [Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), King of Babylon] | Bruno Prevedi [Ismaele] | Carlo Cava [Zaccaria] | Elena Souliotis [Abigaille] | Dora Carral [Fenena] | Giovanni Foiani [The High Priest of Baal] | Walter Kräutler [Abdallo] | Anna d'Auria [Anna] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus [Babylonian & Hebrew warriors, Levites, soothsayers, Hebrew virgins, Babylonian women, high lords of the kingdom of Babylon, populace] | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Brentano Lieder, Op. 68: #5. Amor (Cupid)
Richard Strauss
Monday
Jul 4
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Munich Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
Virgin 628664 (Strauss: Orchestral Songs) -
Le Prophète: Act IV, Beginning
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Monday
Jul 4
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] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS 34340 (Meyerbeer: Le Prophete) -
Leonore: Act III, Florestan's aria. "Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!" ("God! What darkness here!")
Ludwig van Beethoven
Monday
Jul 4
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) [Florestan] | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | René Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 902414.15 (Beethoven: Leonore) -
Salve Regina, RV 618
Antonio Vivaldi
Monday
Jul 4
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Ensemble Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 625810 (Pietà, Sacred Works for Alto) -
Trois jours de vendanges (Three days of harvesting)
Reynaldo Hahn
Monday
Jul 4
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naive 5209 (Mélodies) -
Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (The Book of Beasts or Porcession of Oprheus)
Francis Poulenc
Monday
Jul 4
Holger Falk (baritone) | Alessandro Zuppardo (piano)
MDG 603.1658 (Poulenc: Mélodies sur poèmes de Apollinaire)