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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Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen
Trio in B-flat Major
Friday
Nov 22
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1624 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 4) -
PBS News Hour
Friday
Nov 22
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César Cui
À Argenteau, Op. 40: #6. "Causerie"
Friday
Nov 22
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30017 (Grand Romance) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Concerto in F Major: I. Allegro
Friday
Nov 22
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto #1
Friday
Nov 22
Iván Fischer (conductor) | Budapest Festival Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
Philips 422.380 (Liszt: The Piano Concertos) -
Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto #2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2: I. Allegro moderato
Friday
Nov 22
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Mischa Maisky (cello) | Mischa Maisky (conductor)
DG 419.786 (Haydn: Cello Concertos) -
John Knowles Paine
Symphony #1 in C Minor: I. Allegro con brio
Friday
Nov 22
Ulster Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
Naxos 559.747 (John Knowles Paine: Orchestral Works) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #6 in F Minor, Op. 80: IV. Finale. Allegro molto
Friday
Nov 22
Melos Quartet
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #19: I-Allegro
Friday
Nov 22
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Alicia de Larrocha (piano) | Uri Segal (conductor)
London 410.140 (Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 22, K.482 & No. 19, K.459) -
Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro vivace
Friday
Nov 22
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Teddy Abrams (conductor)
Avie 2411 (Dvorak Khachaturian Violin Concertos) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1061 for 2 Keyboards in C Major: I. (Allegro)
Friday
Nov 22
Jaap ter Linden (conductor) | Arion
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #9 in C Major, D 944 "Great": IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
Friday
Nov 22
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Örebro
BIS 1656 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Annen Polka
Friday
Nov 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Joseph Fiala
Oboe Concerto in B-flat Major
Friday
Nov 22
Prague Chamber Orchestra | Jiří Krejčí (oboe) | Frantisek Vajnar (conductor)
Supraphon 72890 (Oboe Concertos) -
Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Friday
Nov 22
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1927 (Chopin Valses) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons - Summer: I-Allegro non molto (Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8/2, RV 315)
Friday
Nov 22
Janine Jansen (violin) | Small chamber ensemble of family and friends
Decca 0005298 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata #1 in D Major, Op. 78: I. Vivace ma non troppo (version for cello and piano)
Friday
Nov 22
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) | Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Orfeo 979.201 (Johannes Brahms: The Cello Sonatas) -
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto #2 in E-flat Major, op. 57: III. Rondo. Alla Polacca
Friday
Nov 22
Gerard Schwarz (conductor) | Seattle Symphony | Jon Manasse (clarinet)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7516 (Mozart & Spohr: Clarinet Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
Friday
Nov 22
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Léo Delibes
Coppélia Suite
Friday
Nov 22
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Heinz Fricke (conductor)
Capriccio 10.073 (Delibes: Copélia - Chopin: Les Sylphides) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio: Overture
Friday
Nov 22
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 85060 (Mozart: Overtures) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Dance of the Queen
Friday
Nov 22
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Frédéric Chopin
Rondo à la Krakowiak, Op. 14
Friday
Nov 22
Jan Lisiecki (piano) | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester | Krzysztof Urbański (conductor)
DG 479.6824 (Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto G Major (S. 213)
Friday
Nov 22
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World"
Friday
Nov 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 0001 (Dvorak Symphony No. 9, Copland Billy the Kid; Noseda/NSO) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
Friday
Nov 22
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Bernhard Forck (conductor) | Isabelle Faust (violin)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2335-36 (Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 536 in A Minor
Friday
Nov 22
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Analekta 9815 (Concerti Virtuosi) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
La Muse et le Poète
Friday
Nov 22
Gautier Capuçon (cello) | Renaud Capuçon (violin) | French Radio Philharmonic | Lionel Bringuier (conductor)
Erato 34134 (Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 "Rhenish"
Friday
Nov 22
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Philips 416.126 (Schumann: The Four Symphonies) -
Gabriel Pierné
Concert Piece, Op. 39
Friday
Nov 22
Jean-François Paillard (conductor) | Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Lily Laskine (harp) | Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Erato 88069 (Mozart & Pierné) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Friday
Nov 22
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.6617 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #96 "Miracle"
Friday
Nov 22
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra
RCA 68424 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 1 #3 in C Minor
Friday
Nov 22
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Ruler of the Spirits Overture
Friday
Nov 22
Antoni Wit (conductor) | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 570.296 (Weber: Overtures) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella: Mazurka (arr. Mikhail Fichtenholz)
Friday
Nov 22
Pavel Gililov (piano) | Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Virgin 90842 (Danses nobles et sentimentales) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto #2 in D Minor, Op. 40
Friday
Nov 22
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2369 (Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish"
Friday
Nov 22
Baiba Skride (violin) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Eivind Aadland (conductor)
Orfeo 997.201 (Baiba Skride: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5) -
Johann Ludwig Bach
Orchestral Suite in G Major: V-VI. Air; Bourrée
Friday
Nov 22
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez: I. Allegro con spirito
Friday
Nov 22
Junhong Kuang (guitar) | Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice | Darrell Ang (conductor)
Naxos 579.053 (Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez) -
Charles Avison
Concerto After Scarlatti #5 in D Minor
Friday
Nov 22
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet #1 in C Minor, Op. 15: I. Allegro molto moderato
Friday
Nov 22
Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Emerson String Quartet members
DG 483.6574 (The New York Concert) -
Bernhard Henrik Crusell
Clarinet Concerto #3 B-flat Major: III
Friday
Nov 22
London Symphony Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor) | Thea King (clarinet)
Hyperion 66708 (English Music for Viola) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto #1
Friday
Nov 22
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 411.952 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole - Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 1) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34
Friday
Nov 22
Daniel Lozakovich (violin) | National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia | Vladimir Spivakov (conductor)
DG 483.6086 (Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 2 Flutes & 2 Oboes in B Major
Friday
Nov 22
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Elizabeth Mann (flute) | Sheryl Henze (flute) | Stephen Taylor (oboe) | Melanie Field (oboe)
Musicmasters 60210 (Telemann: Don Quixote Suite) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33: III. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
Friday
Nov 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano)
Chandos 10309 (Dvorak) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56: I. Allegro
Friday
Nov 22
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
DG 483.8242 (Triple Concerto) -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina: Overture, Musette & Menuet
Friday
Nov 22
Montreal Baroque Orchestra | Joël Thiffault (conductor)
ATMA Classique 3005 (MISSING) -
Frédéric Chopin
Prélude, Op. 28 #3 in G Major
Friday
Nov 22
Brian Ganz (piano)
Maestoso (Ganz) (Chopin: Preludes) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1059 in D Minor: I. Allegro
Friday
Nov 22
Academy of Ancient Music | Lucie Horsch (recorder) | Bojan Cičić (conductor)
Decca 483.4722 (Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
Friday
Nov 22
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | London Philharmonic
LPO 0117 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: R Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #21: I. Allegro maestoso
Friday
Nov 22
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 439.941 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 21) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #1 in G Minor: IV. Finale. Allegro moderato
Friday
Nov 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Trio Sonata, RV 82
Friday
Nov 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Kenneth Sillito (violin) | Angel Romero (guitar) | John Constable (harpsichord)
RCA 68291 (Vivaldi: Concertos) -
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Oboe Concerto (D Minor)
Friday
Nov 22
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | David Reichenberg (oboe) | English Concert
Archiv 415.518 (Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #81
Friday
Nov 22
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.376 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 81 & 45 "Farewell") -
Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Friday
Nov 22
Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor) | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Capriccio 10.297 (Ravel: Orchestral Works) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 63 #3 in C-sharp Minor
Friday
Nov 22
Lukas Geniušas (piano)
Mirare 508 (Lukas Geniusas: Chopin) -
Nicola Fiorenza
Cello Concerto in A Minor
Friday
Nov 22
Ensemble 415 | Gaetano Nasillo (cello) | Chiara Banchini (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 050302 (Concerti Napoletani per Violoncello) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Friday
Nov 22
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Virgin 66349 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Klavierstücke, Op. 76) -
Luigi Boccherini
Minuet
Friday
Nov 22
I Musici
Philips 410.606 (Mozart, Pachelbel & Albinoni) -
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Concerto in D Major, FWV L:D5
Friday
Nov 22
Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet Suite #2
Friday
Nov 22
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8472 (Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2, etc.) -
Reynaldo Hahn
À Chloris
Friday
Nov 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Friday
Nov 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Klára Würtz (piano) | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 8478 (Rachmaninoff; Schumann) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto, H. 436 in B-flat Major
Friday
Nov 22
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) | St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 9031.77311 (Vivaldi, Tartini & C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos) -
Giacomo Puccini
Tosca: Vissi d'arte
Friday
Nov 22
Barry Wordsworth (conductor) | BBC Concert Orchestra
Decca 0006882 (Puccini Without Words) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12 Variations in C Major on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman", K. 265
Friday
Nov 22
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 486.2069 (Night Music: Jan Lisiecki) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Friday
Nov 22
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57445 (Beethoven: Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Waltz A-flat Major (Op. 42)
Friday
Nov 22
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.600 (Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya: Suite
Friday
Nov 22
London Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
LSO Live 0858 (Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #2 in A Major, Op. 39
Friday
Nov 22
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia
Friday
Nov 22
Cleveland Orchestra | Yoel Levi (conductor)
Telarc 80095 (Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, Finlandia)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Joseph Haydn
L'isola disabitata
Friday
Nov 22
Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)
Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 (Vespers of the the Blessed Virgin, 1610): Motet. Nigra sum
Friday
Nov 22
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Avie 2206 (Monteverdi: Vespers) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act IV, Scenes 1-2
Friday
Nov 22
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Gerald Finley [Guillaume Tell] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Hedwige] | Elena Xanthoudakis [Jemmy] | Malin Byström [Mathilde] | John Osborn [Arnold] | Frédéric Caton [Melchtal] | Matthew Rose [Walter] | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Carlos Bosi [Rodolphe] | Celso Albelo [Ruodi] | Dawid Kimberg [Leuthold] | Davide Malvestio [Hunstman] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Act III
Friday
Nov 22
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Philip II, King of Spain] | Carlo Bergonzi [Don Carlo] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Rodrigo] | Martti Talvela [The Grand Inquisitor] | Tugomir Franc [A Monk] | Renata Tebaldi [Elisabeth of Valois] | Grace Bumbry [Princess Eboli] | Jeannette Sinclair [Tebaldo] | Kenneth MacDonald [The Count of Lerma] | John Wakefield [A royal herald] | Joan Carlyle [A voice from on high] | The Royal Opera House Chorus [Flemish deputies, inquisitors, lords | ladies of the Spanish court, people, monks, officials of the Inquisition, grandees of Spain, huntsmen, pages, attendants, etc.]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
William Byrd
Motet. Lætentur cœli
Friday
Nov 22
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Antoine Brumel
Missa pro defunctis: Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Communio
Friday
Nov 22
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Nicola Porpora
Cantata #10. Oh se fosse il mio core (Ah, if only my heart)
Friday
Nov 22
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes (Opéra-ballet) [The Gallant Indies]: IV. Quatrième Entrée. Les Sauvages [The Savages]
Friday
Nov 22
John Elwes (tenor) [Adario] | Louis Devos (tenor) [Damon] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Zima] | Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) [Don Alvar] | Ensemble vocal À Cœur Joie de Valence | Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Valence | Jean-François Paillard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Heinrich Schütz
Selig sind die Toten (Blessed are the dead)
Friday
Nov 22
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 706 (Brahms: Requiem) -
Charles Gounod
Sapho: Sapho's aria. " Où suis-je?...Ô ma lyre immortelle" (Where am I?...O my undying lyre)
Friday
Nov 22
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Yves Abel (conductor)
DG 0017522 (Romantique) -
Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens: Act V, Opening (Nr 38-44)
Friday
Nov 22
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Jon Vickers [Enée] | Josephine Veasey [Didon] | Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] | Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] | Heather Begg [Anna] | Roger Soyer [Narbal] | Anthony Raffell [Panthée] | Anne Howells [Ascagne] | Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] | Pierre Thau [Priamus] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] | Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] | Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] | Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] | David Lennox [Hélénus] | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 475.6661 (Berlioz: Les Troyens) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Act I, Nr 3, Quartet. "Mir ist so wunderbar"
Friday
Nov 22
Staatskapelle Dresden | Gwyneth Jones [Leonore] | Franz Crass [Rocco] | Edith Mathis [Marzelline] | Peter Schreier [Jaquino] | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 0004590 (Beethoven: Fidelio) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers"
Friday
Nov 22
The Clarion Choir | Steven Fox (conductor)
Pentatone 518.7019 (Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Eide, so die Liebe schwur (Oaths sworn by love)
Friday
Nov 22
Birgid Steinberger (soprano) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Umberto Giordano
Fedora: Fedora's aria. "Troppo tardi! Tutto tramonta, tutto dilegua" (Too late! All is fading, all is disappearing)
Friday
Nov 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Arturo Chacón-Cruz [Loris] | Emma Latis [Ragazzo]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert recitative and aria. Bella mia fiamma, addio!...Resta, oh cara, K 528 (Light of my life, farewell!...Stay, dear heart)
Friday
Nov 22
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Danielle de Niese (soprano)
Decca 0013277 (The Mozart Album) -
Francis Poulenc
Calligrammes. L'Espinonne; Mutation; Vers le sud; Il pleut; La grâce exilée; Aussi bien que les cigales; Voyage (The spy; Mutation; Towards the south; It Rains; Exiled Grace; As Well as the Cicadas; Journey)
Friday
Nov 22
Holger Falk (baritone) | Alessandro Zuppardo (piano)
MDG 603.1658 (Poulenc: Mélodies sur poèmes de Apollinaire) -
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Psalm 109. Dixit Dominus (The Lord said)
Friday
Nov 22
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Frederick Delius
Ten Songs from the Danish
Friday
Nov 22
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Ottone's aria. "Compatisco il tuo fiero tormento" (I sympathize with your great grief)
Friday
Nov 22
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Vincenzo Bellini
La sonnambula: "Ah! se una volta sola rivederlo potessi.Ah! Non credea mirarti.Ah! non giunge uman pensiero"
Friday
Nov 22
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Anna Netrebko (soprano)
DG 0002999 (Sempre Libera) -
Georges Bizet
Les Pêcheurs de perles: Act I
Friday
Nov 22
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) -
Cécile Chaminade
Bonne humeur. "Nous marcions sous la fine pluie" (Cheerfulness. "We were walking through the fine rain") [Amélie de Wailly]
Friday
Nov 22
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 471.331 (Chaminade: Mélodies) -
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Coronation Anthem. I was glad when they said unto me
Friday
Nov 22
Manchester Cathedral Choir | Jeffrey Makinson (organ) | Christopher Stokes (conductor)
Naxos 572.104 (Parry: Songs of Farewell) -
Franz Schubert
Songs. Memnon; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Der Schiffer; Sehnsucht; Der Jüngling am Bache (Memnon; Seaman's Song to the Dioscuri; The Boatman; Longing; The Youth by the Brook)
Friday
Nov 22
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1988 (Schubert: Sehnsucht) -
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Requiem ex F con terza minore (Requiem in F Minor)
Friday
Nov 22
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 0003457 (Biber: Mass in B-Flat Major) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais): Act I, Aurelio's aria. "Al mio core" (My dear ones)
Friday
Nov 22
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna
DG 0012818 (Bel Canto) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 147. Herz und Mund und Tot und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life)
Friday
Nov 22
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Gerd Türk (tenor) | Lisa Larsson (soprano) | Bogna Bartosz (alto) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus
Erato 3984.23141 (Bach: Complete Cantatas, Volume 7) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: Act III
Friday
Nov 22
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Fernando Corena [The King of Egypt] | Giulietta Simionato [Amneris] | Renata Tebaldi [Aida] | Carlo Bergonzi [Radamés] | Arnold van Mill [Ramfis] | Cornell MacNeil [Amonasro] | Piero de Palma [A Messenger] | Eugenia Ratti [A Priestess] | Vienna Singverein [Priests, priestesses, ministers, soldiers, captains, Ethiopian slaves | prisoners, Egyptian people, etc.]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Act II, Olympia's song. "Les oiseaux dans la charmille"
Friday
Nov 22
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Patrick Fournillier (conductor)
EMI 56159 (French Opera Arias) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act III, Scene 2
Friday
Nov 22
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Gerald Finley [Guillaume Tell] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Hedwige] | Elena Xanthoudakis [Jemmy] | Malin Byström [Mathilde] | John Osborn [Arnold] | Frédéric Caton [Melchtal] | Matthew Rose [Walter] | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Carlos Bosi [Rodolphe] | Celso Albelo [Ruodi] | Dawid Kimberg [Leuthold] | Davide Malvestio [Hunstman] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Castor et Pollux (Tragédie en musique): Act II
Friday
Nov 22
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Jeanette Scovotti (soprano) [Télaïre, fille du Soleil (Telaira, daughter of the Sun)] | Norma Lerer (soprano) [Phébé, princesse de Sparte (Phoebe, Princess of Sparta)] | Zeger Vandersteene (tenor) [Castor, fils de Tindare (Castor, son of Tyndareus)] | Gérard Souzay (baritone) [Pollux, fils de Jupiter et de Léda (Pollux, son of Jupiter and Leda)] | Jacques Villisech (bass-baritone) [Jupiter] | Sven-Erik Alexandersson (tenor) [Le Gran-Pretre de Jupiter (The high priest of Jupiter) | Un Athlète] | Rold Leanderson (baritone) [Un Athlète] | Helga Reiter (soprano) [Une Suivante d'Hébé (A follower of Hebe)] | Märta Schéle (soprano) [Une Suivante d'Hébé (A follower of Hebe) | Une Ombre heureuse (A blessed spirit) | Une Planète (A planet)] | Stockholm Kammerkören [Athlètes, combattants et Spartiates | Prêtres de Jupiter (priests of Jupiter) | Plaisirs célestes | Démons | Ombres heureuses (blessed spirits) | Astres (stars) | Constellations, Planètes, Satellites | Les Dieux (gods)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
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"
Friday
Nov 22
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) -
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Walther's Prize Song. Morgenlich leuchtend (Shining in the rosy light of morning)
Friday
Nov 22
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0010837 (Romantic Arias) -
George Frideric Handel
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Friday
Nov 22
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Felicity Lott (soprano) | The English Concert and Choir | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 419.220 (George Friederic Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Schmerzliche Wonnen und wonnige Schmerzen (Painful pleasures and blissful pain)
Friday
Nov 22
Birgid Steinberger (soprano) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Farnace: Act III, Scenes 1-3
Friday
Nov 22
Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] | Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] | Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] | Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] | Karina Gauvin [Gilade] | Daniel Behle [Pompeo] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Aquilio] | Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Virgin 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace) -
Anonymous
Barcelona Mass
Friday
Nov 22
Ensemble Gilles Binchois | Dominique Vellard (conductor)
Evidence Classics 60 (Messes de Barcelone et d'Apt) -
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Songs of Farewell: There is an old belief
Friday
Nov 22
Manchester Cathedral Choir | Christopher Stokes (conductor)
Naxos 572.104 (Parry: Songs of Farewell) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Francesca da Rimini
Friday
Nov 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Gennady Bezzubenkov (bass) [The Shade of Virgil] | Evgeny Akimov (tenor) [Dante] | Sergey Murzaev (baritone) [Lanceotto Malatesta] | Svetla Vassileva (soprano) [Francesca] | Misha Didyk (tenor) [Paolo] | BBC Singers [Spectres of Hell; the retinues of Malatesta and of the Cardinal]
Chandos 10442 (Francesca da Rimini) -
Frederick Delius
Four Posthumous Songs - Danish: I hear in the night [Jelka Rosen after Holger Drachmann]
Friday
Nov 22
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Charles Gounod
La Reine de Saba: Balkis's aria. "Me voilà seuel, enfin!...Plus grand, dans son obsucrité" (At last I am alone!...Greater in his lowliness)
Friday
Nov 22
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Yves Abel (conductor)
DG 0017522 (Romantique) -
Franz Liszt
Missa solemnis: III. Credo
Friday
Nov 22
Hungarian State Orchestra | András Faragó (bass) | Budapest Chorus | Sándor Margittay (organ) | János Ferencsik (conductor) | Mária Werner (soprano) | Olga Szönyi (contralto) | Alfonz Bartha (tenor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: Act II/2
Friday
Nov 22
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Norma] | Fiorenza Cossotto [Adalgisa] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Pollione] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Oroveso] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Clotilde] | Kenneth Collins [Flavio] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)
RCA 6502 (Bellini: Norma) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motet, BWV 227. Jesu, meine Freude
Friday
Nov 22
Pygmalion | Raphaël Pichon (director)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2657 (J.S. Bach: Motets) -
William Byrd
Motet. Exsurge Domine
Friday
Nov 22
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K. 626: VII-VIII. Agnus Dei and Communio
Friday
Nov 22
Sandrine Piau (soprano) | Accentus | Insula Orchestra | Laurence Equilbey (conductor)
Naïve 5370 (Mozart: Requiem) -
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Ariodant: Act II, scene 6. Ina's melodarama, recitative and aria. "Quelle fureur barbare!...Mais, que dis-je?...Ô des amants le plus fidèle" (What barbarous fury!...What am I saying?...O, most faithful of lovers)
Friday
Nov 22
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Véronique Gens (soprano)
Virgin 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff: Act I
Friday
Nov 22
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) -
Francesco Cilea
Gloria: Gloria's aria. "O mia cuna, fiorita di sogni e di melodi" (O birthplace of mine, home of dreams and melodies)
Friday
Nov 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem, Op. 45
Friday
Nov 22
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Manon Lescaut
Friday
Nov 22
Mady Mesplé [Manon Lescaut] | Peter-Christoph Runge [Le Marquis d'Hérigny] | Jean-Claude Orliac [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] | Yves Bisson [Lescaut] | Emmy Greger [Marguerite] | Gérard Friedmann [Gervais] | Ghislaine Victorius [Zabi] | Alain Duverry (baritone) | Bernard Fabre-Garrus [Durozeau] | Nicole Chaudeau [Madame Bancelin] | Jean Bussard [Un Domestique] | Chœurs de Radio France | Orchestre Lyrique de Radio-France | Jean-Pierre Marty (conductor)
EMI 63252 (Auber: Manon Lescaut) -
Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust: Medieval Song. "Autrefois un roi de Thulé"
Friday
Nov 22
Magdalena Kozená | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
DG 0001302 (French Arias) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Elias (Elijah): Part II, Conclusion
Friday
Nov 22
Das Neue Orchester | Chorus Musicus Köln | Christoph Spering (conductor) | Claudia Barainsky (soprano) | Franziska Gottwald (alto) | Rainer Trost (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
MDG 602.1656 (Mendelssohn: Elijah, Elias Op. 70) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Dolente immagine di Fille mia
Friday
Nov 22
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | James Levine (piano)
London 455.513 (An Italian Songbook) -
Jean Sibelius
Kullervo
Friday
Nov 22
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano) | Tommi Hakala (baritone) | YL Male Voice Choir | Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
BIS 9048 (Sibelius: Kullervo; Kortekangas: Migrations) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey): #8. Rückblick (Retrospect)
Friday
Nov 22
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2107 (Schubert: Winterreise) -
Charles Gounod
Repentir (O Divine Redeemer)
Friday
Nov 22
Karel Mark Chichon (conductor) | Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Latvian Radio Choir | German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
DG 21327 (Meditation) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 61. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Come now, Savior of the Gentiles)
Friday
Nov 22
Chorus and Orchestra of Collegium Vocale, Ghent | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) | Sibylla Rubens (soprano) | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) | Peter Kooy (bass)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1605 (Adventskantaten) -
Edward Elgar
The Music Makers, Op. 69
Friday
Nov 22
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Royal Liverpool Choir | Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Onyx 4206 (Elgar: Sea Pictures, The Music Makers) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Ginevra's aria. "Volate, amori" (Fly, ye Cupids)
Friday
Nov 22
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor) | Patricia Petibon (soprano)
DG 477.8763 (Rosso, Italian baroque arias)