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WETA Classical

  • 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

  • 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)