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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 375
Sunday
Dec 7
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra Winds
Chandos 8407 (Mozart: Serenades 11 & 12) -
Antonín Dvořák
Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Minor, Op. 11
Sunday
Dec 7
Berlin Philharmonic | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Manfred Honeck (conductor)
DG 0019303 (Dvořák: Violin Concerto, Romance, Mazurek, Humoresque) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto (G. 476)
Sunday
Dec 7
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6056 (Boccherini: Concerti per Violoncello Viol. 2) -
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #1 in E Major, Op. 5 "Slavic"
Sunday
Dec 7
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #8 in G Major, Op. 30 #3 (arr. Emmanuel Pahud for flute & piano)
Sunday
Dec 7
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Warner Classics 51397 (Emmanuel Pahud: Beethoven) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1
Sunday
Dec 7
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
London 411.657 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Sunday
Dec 7
Jaap ter Linden (conductor) | Arion
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #18
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Salzburg Mozarteum Academic Camerata | Sándor Végh (conductor)
London 414.289 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 18) -
Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony, Op. 4
Sunday
Dec 7
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.624 (Prokofiev, Britten & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet A Major (Op. 81)
Sunday
Dec 7
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | Borodin Quartet
Philips 412.429 (Dvořák: Piano Quintets) -
Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Violin Concerto #2 in B Minor, Op. 32
Sunday
Dec 7
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kirk Trevor (conductor) | Philippe Quint (violin)
Naxos 570.360 (Bériot: Violin Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 5) -
Johann Ignaz Klausek
Trio in B-flat Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 11
Sunday
Dec 7
Pierce-Aomori Duo | Daniel Barrett (cello)
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
"American Revolution" Soundtrack: Les Sauvages
Sunday
Dec 7
American Revolution Soundtrack (American Revolution Soundtrack) -
Maurice Ravel
Noble and Sentimental Waltzes
Sunday
Dec 7
Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
EMI 66342 (Ravel: Ballet and Dance Music) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Viola Concerto in B-flat Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Victoria Chiang (viola) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 572.162 (Stamitz & Hoffmeister: Viola Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Sunday
Dec 7
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 49141 (Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, 1812, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 361 "Gran Partita"
Sunday
Dec 7
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 2292.46471 (Mozart: Gran Partita) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 18 #3
Sunday
Dec 7
Miró Quartet
Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #9
Sunday
Dec 7
Cologne Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor) | Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Naxos 570.485 (Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4, 9 & 11) -
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
RCA 60382 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Haydn Variations) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Flute Quartet, TWV 43 d3 in D Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0004283 (Telemann: Flute Quartets) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 "Rhenish"
Sunday
Dec 7
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
DG 400.062 (Schumann: Symphony No. 3, "Manfred" Overture) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #4 in G Major (HWV 399)
Sunday
Dec 7
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #1
Sunday
Dec 7
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8653 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1) -
Francesco Zannetti
Trio in D Major, Op. 2 #3
Sunday
Dec 7
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Sunday
Dec 7
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Yuja Wang (piano)
DG 0015338 (Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody, Piano Concerto No. 2) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto, K. 313
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Irena Grafenauer (flute)
Philips 422.339 (Mozart: Concerto for Flute, K. 313, Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 #2
Sunday
Dec 7
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 416.624 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 410.200 (Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Selection, Symphony No. 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Sunday
Dec 7
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1909-11 (Beethoven #4) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #24 in D Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Ottorino Respighi
La pentola magica (The Magic Pot), P. 129: VII. Cossack Dance
Sunday
Dec 7
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10081 (Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Overture (Partita) in B Minor, BWV 831
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: "Casta Diva" ("O pure goddess")
Sunday
Dec 7
Camille Thomas (cello) | Brussels Philharmonic | Matthieu Herzog (conductor)
DG 483.856 (Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #5 in C-sharp Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 423.608 (Mahler: Symphony No. 5) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alessandro (Les amours d'Alexandre et de Roxane): Sinfonia & Marche
Sunday
Dec 7
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 445.824 (Rebel: Les Elemens - Gluck: Alessandro) -
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite
Sunday
Dec 7
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 54273 (Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Finlandia & Karelia) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #27
Sunday
Dec 7
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Philips 468.367 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 22 & 27) -
Isaac Albéniz
Cantos de España, Op. 232: Córdoba
Sunday
Dec 7
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 32712 (Spanish Music for Classical Guitar) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5
Sunday
Dec 7
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CBS 42094 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 401 for Cello in C Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Han-Na Chang (cello) | London Chamber Orchestra | Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
EMI 34791 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise, Op. 34 #14
Sunday
Dec 7
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #8 "Unfinished"
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Philips 410.393 (Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Rosamunde) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto
Sunday
Dec 7
Berlin Philharmonic | Midori (violin) | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Sony 87740 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance
Sunday
Dec 7
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 (Vespers of the the Blessed Virgin, 1610)
Sunday
Dec 7
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Avie 2206 (Monteverdi: Vespers) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Act I, Scene 3, Romeo's Cavatina. "Ascolta. Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio" (Listen. Romeo killed your son)
Sunday
Dec 7
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Elína Garanca [Romeo] | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
DG 477.8031 (Bellini: I Capuleti & I Montecchi) -
Robert Schumann
Drei Gedichte (3 Poems), Op. 30 after Geibel
Sunday
Dec 7
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Franz Schubert
Mass in E-flat Major, D 950: II. Gloria
Sunday
Dec 7
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Sony 69290 (Schubert: Mass in E-Flat Major) -
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Der Traumgörge: Epilogue
Sunday
Dec 7
Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor) | David Kuebler [Görge] | Patricia Racette [Gertraud] | Iride Martinez [Grete] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Hans] | Zelotes Edmund Toliver [Der Müller] | Julian Rodescu [Der Pastor] | Susan Anthony [Die Prinzessin] | Machiko Obata [Eine Traumstimme] | Michael Volle [Kaspar] | Lothar Odinius [Züngl] | Zelotes Edmund Toliver [Mathes] | Natalie Karl [Marei] | John C. Pierce [Ein Wirt] | Machiko Obata [Eine Wirtin] | Julian Rodescu [Ein Bauer] | Opernchor der Hochschule für Musik Köln [Burschen und Mädchen, Dorfleute, Traumstimmen, Bauern, Kinder]
EMI 57087 (Zemlinsky: Der Traumgörge) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Act II, Nr 14, Quartet and Scene. "Er sterbe! Doch er soll erst wissen -- Vater Rocco, Vater Rocco, der Herr Minister kommt an -- Es schlägt der Rache Stunde"
Sunday
Dec 7
Rundfunkchor Leipzig | Staatskapelle Dresden | Theo Adam (bass) [Don Pizarro] | Martti Talvela [Don Fernando] | James King (tenor) [Florestan] | Gwyneth Jones [Leonore] | Franz Crass [Rocco] | Edith Mathis [Marzelline] | Peter Schreier [Jaquino] | Eberhard Büchner [Erster Gefangener] | Günter Leib [Zweiter Gefangerer] | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 0004590 (Beethoven: Fidelio) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: Act I Sinfonia and Number 1. "No, no, no, non v'è.Una volta c'era un re.Un tantin di carità.O figlie amabili.Cenerentola, vien qua"
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] | Simone Alaimo [Dandini] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] | Carol Malone [Clorinda] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] | John Del Carlo [Alidoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cenerentola (Angiolina)]
Philips 420.468 (Rossini: La Cenerentola) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Thésée: Act I
Sunday
Dec 7
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) -
Gabriel Fauré
Le Jardin clos (The Walled Garden): Inscription sur le sable (Inscription on the sand)
Sunday
Dec 7
Hélène Lucas (piano) | Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Zigzag 90902 (Fauré: Le Jardin clos, La Chanson d'Ève, Mélodies) -
Gennaro Manna
Lucio Papiro, dittatore: Quinto Fabio's aria. "Odo il suono di tromba guerriera" (I hear the martial trumpet's sound)
Sunday
Dec 7
Riccardo Minasi (conductor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Naïve 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa per Rossini: Libera me
Sunday
Dec 7
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma | Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma | Maria Agresta (soprano)
Warner Classics 845242 (Verdi: Quattro pezzi sacri, Libera me) -
George Frideric Handel
Tamerlano: Aria. "Cor di padre" (Act III/1)
Sunday
Dec 7
Sandrine Piau | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Naïve 8894 (Handel: Opera seria) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 134. Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß (A heart that knows its Jesus to be living)
Sunday
Dec 7
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Daniel Taylor (alto)
SDG 128 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 22) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Ottone's aria. "Compatisco il tuo fiero tormento" (I sympathize with your great grief)
Sunday
Dec 7
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa Solemnis in G Major, K 337
Sunday
Dec 7
Barbara Werner (alto) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Benoit Haller (tenor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Fromental Halévy
La Juive: Act III
Sunday
Dec 7
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] | Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] | June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] | René Massis [Ruggiero] | Renè Schirrer [Albert] | Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
Philips 420.190 (Halévy: La Juive) -
Pietro Mascagni
Iris: Iris's aria. "Un dì (ero piccina)" (One day (when I was very young))
Sunday
Dec 7
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I puritani: Aria. "A te, o cara"
Sunday
Dec 7
London Voices | Evelino Pidò (conductor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
EMI 57302 (Bel Canto) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila: Act III
Sunday
Dec 7
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Samson] | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] | Alain Fondary [Le Grand-Prêtre de Dagon] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Abimelech] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Un Vieillard Hébreu] | Christian Papis [Un Messager Philistin] | Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Premier Philistin] | François Harismendy [Deuxiéme Philistin] | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille
EMI 54470 (Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila) -
Jules Massenet
Nuit d'Espagne
Sunday
Dec 7
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Jérôme Ducros (piano)
Virgin 16621 (Opium - Mélodies françaises) -
Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: Act II, lovers' meeting. "Dein Werk? O törge Magd!" -- "Isolde! Tristan!"
Sunday
Dec 7
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) [Brangäne] | Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Isolde] | Peter Hofmann (tenor) [Tristan]
Philips 411.036 (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) -
George Frideric Handel
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act I, Scenes 1-5
Sunday
Dec 7
Lucy Crowe [Amarilli] | Anna Dennis [Mirtillo] | Katherine Manley [Eurilla] | Madeleine Shaw [Dorinda] | Clint van der Linde [Silvio] | Lisandro Abadie [Tirenio] | La Nuova Musica | David Bates (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7585-86 (Handel: Il pastor fido) -
Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (A woman's love and life): An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust (At my heart, at my breast)
Sunday
Dec 7
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Georges Bizet
Les Pêcheurs de perles: Act III, Scene 2
Sunday
Dec 7
Janine Micheau [Leïla] | Nicolai Gedda [Nadir] | Ernest Blanc [Zurga] | Jacques Mars [Nourabad] | Chours du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Pierre Dervaux (conductor)
EMI 69704 (Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Act IV, Finale
Sunday
Dec 7
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] | Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] | Walter Gullino [Ruiz] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] | Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci]
DG 413.355 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 66. Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Rejoice, all ye hearts)
Sunday
Dec 7
Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Daniel Taylor (alto)
SDG 128 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 22) -
Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème: Mimì's aria. "Addio...Donde lieta uscì al tuo grido d'amore" (Goodbye...From whence she left so happily at your loving call)
Sunday
Dec 7
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Arturo Chacón-Cruz [Rodolfo]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Gioachino Rossini
L'italiana in Algeri: Act II
Sunday
Dec 7
Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Mustafà] | Patrizia Pace [Elvira] | Anna Gonda [Zulma] | Alessandro Corbelli [Haly] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Lindoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella] | Enzo Dara [Taddeo]
DG 427.331 (Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri) -
Thomas Tallis
9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Sixth Tune. Expend, O Lord
Sunday
Dec 7
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Gabriel Fauré
Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: I. Introit & Kyrie
Sunday
Dec 7
Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris | Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi (conductor)
Virgin 70921 (Fauré: Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Sunday
Dec 7
Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) | Annette Jahns (mezzo-soprano) | Nikolai Schikoff (tenor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
LPO 0061 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part I, Gabriel's recitative and aria. "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe die Erde Gras hervor...Nun beut die Flur das frische Grun" (And God said: Let the earth bring forth grass..With verdure clad the fields appear)
Sunday
Dec 7
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand": Part I
Sunday
Dec 7
Lisa Larsson (soprano) | Juliane Banse (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (alto) | Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor) | Schweizer Kammerchor | Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich | David Zinman (conductor) | Melanie Diener (soprano) | Stephen Powell (baritone) | Askar Abdrazakov (bass) | Alfred Muff (basss) | WDR Rundfunkchor Köln | Kinderchor Kaltbrunn
RCA 72723 (Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 8, 2, 3, 4 & 8, excerpts) -
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
The Great Service: Nunc dimittis
Sunday
Dec 7
Manchester Cathedral Choir | Jeffrey Makinson (organ) | Christopher Stokes (conductor)
Naxos 572.104 (Parry: Songs of Farewell) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (How lovely are thy dwellings)
Sunday
Dec 7
Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | Otto Klemperer
EMI 56218 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La finta giardiniera: Act II, Finale
Sunday
Dec 7
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Thomas Moser [Don Anchise] | Edita Gruberova [La Marchesa Violante Onesti/Sandrina] | Uwe Heilmann [Il Contino Belfiore] | Charlotte Margiono [Arminda] | Monica Bacelli [Il Cavalier Ramiro] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Serpetta] | Anton Scharinger [Roberto/Nardo]
Teldec 9031.72309 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Giuseppe Verdi
I Masnadieri: Act II
Sunday
Dec 7
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) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act II, Aria. Il tuo sangue, ed il tuo zelo (Your blood and your zeal)
Sunday
Dec 7
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Robert Schumann
Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79 (selections)
Sunday
Dec 7
Peter Schreier (tenor) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth
Sunday
Dec 7
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Macbeth] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Banco] | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Anna Caterina Antonacci [Dama] | Veriano Luchetti [Macduff] | Antonio Barasorda [Malcolm] | Sergio Fontana [Medico] | Gianfranco Casarini [Servo] | Gastone Sarti [Sicario] | Giuseppe Morresi [Araldo] | Natale de Carolis [Prima apparizione] | Barbara Briscik [Seconda apparizione] | Marco Fanti [Terza apparizione] | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [Streghe, messaggeri del re, nobili e profughi scozzesi, sicari, soldati inglesi, bardi] | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
London 417.525 (Verdi: Macbeth) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act I, Aria. Finché un zefiro soave (While a gentle zephyr breathes)
Sunday
Dec 7
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Umberto Giordano
Fedora: Fedora's aria. "Troppo tardi! Tutto tramonta, tutto dilegua" (Too late! All is fading, all is disappearing)
Sunday
Dec 7
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Arturo Chacón-Cruz [Loris] | Emma Latis [Ragazzo]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: Act I
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Agnes Baltsa [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] | Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] | Simone Alaimo [Dandini] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] | Carol Malone [Clorinda] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] | John Del Carlo [Alidoro]
Philips 420.468 (Rossini: La Cenerentola) -
Gabriel Fauré
La Chanson d'Ève (The Song of Eve): Prima verba (The First Words)
Sunday
Dec 7
Hélène Lucas (piano) | Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Zigzag 90902 (Fauré: Le Jardin clos, La Chanson d'Ève, Mélodies) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I Puritani: Aria. "O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave" (Oh, return my hope...Here his soft voice)
Sunday
Dec 7
Olga Peretyatko (soprano) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Enrique Mazzola (conductor)
Sony 373.859 (Arabesque) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: VII. Selig sind die Toten (Blessed are the dead)
Sunday
Dec 7
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Erato 4509.92856 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Act I
Sunday
Dec 7
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Dalibor Jedlicka [Savel P. Dikoi] | Petr Dvorsky [Boris Grigorievich] | Nadezda Kniplova [Marpha I. Kabanova] | Vladimir Krejcik [Tikhon I. Kabanov] | Elisabeth Söderström [Katya Kabanova] | Zdenek Svehla [Vania Kudriash] | Libuse Marova [Varvara] | Jaroslav Soucek (baritone) [Kuligin] | Jitka Pavlova [Glasha] | Gertrude Jahn [Feklusha] | Adolf Tomaschek [Chodec] | Hedwig Dreschler [Zena] | Vienna State Opera Chorus [Town-dwellers]
Decca 475.7518 (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il corsaro (The Corsaire): Act III, scena (Corrado). "Eccomi prigioniero!" (Behold me, a prisoner!)
Sunday
Dec 7
Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Édouard Lalo
Cello Concerto D Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
James Levine (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Matt Haimovitz (cello)
DG 427.323 (Saint-Saëns & Lalo: Cello Concertos) -
August Klughardt
Quintet in C Major, Op. 79
Sunday
Dec 7
Les Vents Français
Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique) -
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude #15 D-flat Major "Raindrop"
Sunday
Dec 7
Rafal Blechacz (piano)
DG 0010870 (Chopin: The Complete Preludes, 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Ballet Scenes
Sunday
Dec 7
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Richard Strauss
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 8
Sunday
Dec 7
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Boris Belkin (violin)
Decca 460.296 (Strauss: The Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
Lieder, Op. 82: #1. "Lasst mich allein" (Leave me alone) (arranged for solo cello and cello ensemble by Kian Soltani)
Sunday
Dec 7
Kian Soltani (cello) | Cellists of Berlin Staatskapelle
DG 483.6090 (Kian Soltani: Dvorak) -
Kenneth Fuchs
American Rhapsody (Romance for Violin and Orchestra)
Sunday
Dec 7
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor) | Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin)
Centaur 3799 (Poems and Rhapsodies) -
Julia Frances Smith
Trio Cornwall
Sunday
Dec 7
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Gramola 99225 (It's a Girl) -
John Johnson
Wakefield on a Green
Sunday
Dec 7
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #7
Sunday
Dec 7
David Zinman (conductor) | Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich
RCA 50650 (Mahler: Symphony No. 7) -
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Chornish Dance, Op. 91 #3. Con moto e sempre senza parodia
Sunday
Dec 7
Philharmonia Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8867 (Malcolm Arnold) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Violin Sonata #1 in A Major, Op. 6
Sunday
Dec 7
Christina Åstrand (violin) | Per Salo (piano)
Dacapo 226.066 (Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Albert Roussel
Symphony #1 in D Minor, Op. 7 "Poem of the Forest"
Sunday
Dec 7
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | French National Orchestra
Erato 88225 (Roussel) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude, Op. 32 #5 in G Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42620 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2in A Minor, BWV 1003: IV. Allegro
Sunday
Dec 7
Rachel Podger (violin)
Channel 14498 (Johann Sebastian Bach) -
Louise Farrenc
Variations on a Swiss Air, Op. 20
Sunday
Dec 7
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio #25 G Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Dorian 90164 (Haydn Piano Trios) -
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op.28
Sunday
Dec 7
Vienna Philharmonic | André Previn (conductor)
EMI 64106 (Richard Strauss) -
Claude Debussy
Twelve Etudes: No. 12. Chords
Sunday
Dec 7
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Clara Wieck Schumann
Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17
Sunday
Dec 7
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
César Franck
Symphony in D Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | French National Orchestra
DG 400.070 (Bernstein) -
Frédéric Chopin
Six Polish Songs: #1. The Maiden's Wish (transcription by Franz Liszt)
Sunday
Dec 7
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.3206 (Chopin, Liszt & Ravel) -
Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 7
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG B0003885 (BARTOK The Piano Concertos) -
Igor Stravinsky
Firebird Suite
Sunday
Dec 7
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8783 (Stravinsky) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Scherzo humoristique, Op. 12 #9
Sunday
Dec 7
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 9069 (Prokofiev) -
Maurice Ravel
Tzigane
Sunday
Dec 7
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor) | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 433.519 (Chausson: Poème - Massenet: Méditiation de Thaïs) -
François Couperin
Pièces en Concert
Sunday
Dec 7
Amit Peled (cello) | Eliza Ching (piano)
Centaur 3047 (Cellobration) -
Erik Satie
The Dreamy Fish
Sunday
Dec 7
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Concerto Grosso
Sunday
Dec 7
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
New World 372 -
Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade in G Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 431.680 (Orpheus) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 44/1
Sunday
Dec 7
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Aram Khachaturian
Piano Concerto
Sunday
Dec 7
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra | Constantine Orbelian (piano)
Chandos 8542 (Khachaturian) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude, Op. 23 #1 in F-sharp Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42620 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) -
Richard Strauss
Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier", Op. 59 (arr. Kempe)
Sunday
Dec 7
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64346 (Richard Strauss) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Sunday
Dec 7
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0014106 (Old World - New World) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lullaby, Op 16 #1
Sunday
Dec 7
Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano, as recreated by Zenph Studios)
RCA 748.971 (Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff) -
Luigi Gatti
Sextet in E-flat Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Calamus Ensemble
MDG 603.1589 (Luigi Gatti: Chamber Music) -
Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Sunday
Dec 7
Emanuel Ax (piano)
RCA 4275 (Schumann: Humoreske, Fantasiestücke, Op. 12) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Six Morceaux: III. Berceuse. Andante
Sunday
Dec 7
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) | Barbara Moser (piano)
Gramola 98966 (Den Männer ebenbürtig) -
Anatoly Lyadov
Kikimora, Op. 63
Sunday
Dec 7
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8783 (Stravinsky) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E Major
Sunday
Dec 7
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Stephen Coombs (piano) | Jean-Yves Ossonce (conductor)
Hyperion 66897 (Hahn & Massenet: Piano Concertos) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Sextet, Op. 37
Sunday
Dec 7
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Takács String Quartet members | Kálmán Berkes (clarinet) | Radovan Vlatković (horn)
London 421.423 (Dohnányi: Piano Quintet, No., Sextet) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 448)
Sunday
Dec 7
John Williams (guitar)
CBS 44518 (The Baroque Album) -
Claude Debussy
Twelve Etudes: No. 8. Ornaments
Sunday
Dec 7
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Felix Mendelssohn
17 Serious Variations in D Minor, Op. 54
Sunday
Dec 7
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 483.6471 (Jan Lisiecki: Mendelssohn) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #0 in D Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips 442.040 (Bruckner) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #3 F Major
Sunday
Dec 7
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Virgin 91501 (Chopin: The Piano Sonatas) -
Henry Cowell
Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 for Oboe and Strings
Sunday
Dec 7
Northwest Chamber Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor) | Frank Avril (oboe)
CPO 999.222 (Cowell) -
Gabriel Pierné
Concert Piece
Sunday
Dec 7
Isabelle Moretti (harp) | Klaus Arp (conductor) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra
Koch 1142 (Boïeldieu, Saint-Saëns & Pierné) -
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade. Three poems for voice and orchestra on verses by Tristan Klingsor
Sunday
Dec 7
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra | Margaret Price (soprano)
DG 427.3143 (Claudio Abbado) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Six Pieces, Op. 52: No. 1. Intermezzo
Sunday
Dec 7
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #1 in D Major "Titan"
Sunday
Dec 7
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Erik Satie
Verset laïque & somptueux
Sunday
Dec 7
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Four Cornish Dances, Op. 91
Sunday
Dec 7
Philharmonia Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8867 (Malcolm Arnold) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Winds
Sunday
Dec 7
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 2292.46315 (Dvořák: Serenades for Strings & for Wind Instruments) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
String Quartet in C Minor
Sunday
Dec 7
Hyperion 67381-2 (Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Chamber Music) -
Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve (After a dream)
Sunday
Dec 7
Gil Shaham (violin) | Brinton Smith (cello) | Akira Eguchi (piano)
Canary Classics 1239 (The Fauré Album) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 2 in E Major, Op. 10
Sunday
Dec 7
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 355 (Gade) -
Louis Spohr
Quintet for Piano and Winds
Sunday
Dec 7
CRD 3399 (Spohr: Septet Op. 147, Quintet Op. 52)