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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Niccolò Paganini
Violin Concerto #1
Saturday
Aug 22
Hilary Hahn (violin) | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Eiji Oue (conductor)
DG 0007188 (Paganini & Spohr: Violin Concertos) -
Gaetano Donizetti
The Elixir of Love
Saturday
Aug 22
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Gaetano Donizetti
The Elixir of Love
Saturday
Aug 22
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G Major, BWV 1049
Saturday
Aug 22
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday
Aug 22
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi (conductor)
Telarc 80296 (Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Surprises de l'Amour. Suite en Concert (The Surprises of Love. Concert Suite): Dances (XXIIa. - XXV.)
Saturday
Aug 22
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre
Erato 636487 (Rameau - The Opera Collection) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir of a Beloved Place
Saturday
Aug 22
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto #1
Saturday
Aug 22
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano) | Israel Philharmonic
Sony 44922 (Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Franz Danzi
Flute Concerto #2 D Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Munich Chamber Orchestra | Andras Adorjan (flute) | Hans Stadlmair (conductor)
Orfeo 003.812 (Danzi: The 4 Flute Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 "Rhenish"
Saturday
Aug 22
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
DG 400.062 (Schumann: Symphony No. 3, "Manfred" Overture) -
Mykola Lysenko
Taras Bulba: Overture
Saturday
Aug 22
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
Platoon 31361 (Dalia Stasevska: Ukrainian Mixtape) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Saturday
Aug 22
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Yuja Wang (piano)
DG 0015338 (Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody, Piano Concerto No. 2) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Oboe d'amore Concerto in G Major after BWV 100, 170, and 30
Saturday
Aug 22
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | John Abberger (oboe d'amore)
Analekta 9815 (Concerti Virtuosi) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #8
Saturday
Aug 22
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
BIS 452 (Dvořák: Symphonies 7 & 8) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Trio, K. 498 "Kegelstatt"
Saturday
Aug 22
Ilse von Alpenheim (piano) | Antony Morf (clarinet) | Claudio Veress (viola)
BIS 513-514 (Mozart: Complete Piano Trios; Clarinet Trio) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #1
Saturday
Aug 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Sony 93067 (Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 233
Saturday
Aug 22
Max Pommer (conductor) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia)
Capriccio 10.008 (Corno da caccia) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #32 in C Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Robert Schumann
Scenes from Childhood
Saturday
Aug 22
Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 410.653 (Schumann: Scenes from Childhood, Kreisleriana) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 36
Saturday
Aug 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 0013 (Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 437 in G Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Rebel
Bridge 9377 (Venetian Dreams) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Havanaise
Saturday
Aug 22
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Gerard Schwarz (conductor) | New York Chamber Symphony
EMI 49276 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Saint-Saëns) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #9 in E-flat Major, K 271 "Jeunehomme"
Saturday
Aug 22
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
EMI 57803 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 9 & 18) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1060 for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Continuo in C Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Julia Fischer (violin) | Andray Rubtsov (oboe)
Decca 0012490 (Bach: Concertos) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #8 D-flat Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 5 #6 in F Major (HWV 401)
Saturday
Aug 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.599 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 5) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #5
Saturday
Aug 22
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90769 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, Czech Suite) -
Jean-Féry Rebel
Les Plaisirs champêtres: Bourée, Rigaudon
Saturday
Aug 22
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band
Accent 96122 (Concert De Danse) -
Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes
Saturday
Aug 22
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 410.916 (Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Arabeske) -
King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Flute Concerto in G Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Manfred Friedrich (flute)
Capriccio 10.064 (Friedrich Jr.: Flötenkonzerte & Sinfonien) -
Viktor Kosenko
Etude, Op. 8 #8. Moderato
Saturday
Aug 22
Natalya Pasichnyk (piano)
BIS 2222 (Consolation. Forgotten Treasures of the Ukrainian Soul) -
Felix Mendelssohn
17 Serious Variations in D Minor, Op. 54
Saturday
Aug 22
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 483.6471 (Jan Lisiecki: Mendelssohn) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #4
Saturday
Aug 22
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 427.602 (Brahms: 4 Symphonies, etc.) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Abu Hassan: Overture
Saturday
Aug 22
Roy Goodman (conductor) | Hanover Band
Nimbus 5154 (Weber: Overtures) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Overture (Partita) in B Minor, BWV 831
Saturday
Aug 22
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #34 in D Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Waltz
Saturday
Aug 22
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Vox 5130 (The Dance) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 1 #3 in C Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #41 "Jupiter"
Saturday
Aug 22
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
London 414.334 (Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41) -
Gioachino Rossini
Elizabeth, Queen of England: Overture
Saturday
Aug 22
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra | Christian Benda (conductor)
Naxos 570.933 (Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol. 1)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Psalm 23
Saturday
Aug 22
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Ernst Senff Chamber Choir
London 421. 644 (Zemlinsky: Symphony in B-flat; Psalm 23) -
Jake Runestad
Let my Love Be Heard
Saturday
Aug 22
Kantorei | Joel Rinsema (conductor)
Naxos 559.892 (Jake Runestad: Sing, Wearing the Sky; Choral Music) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Zoroastre (Tragédie en musique): Act V
Saturday
Aug 22
William Christie (conductor) | Les Arts Florissants | Démons | Mark Padmore (haute-contre) [Zoroastre, instituteur des Mages (Zoroaster, founder of the Magi)] | Nathan Berg (bass) [Abramane, Grand Prêtre d'Ariman (Abramane, High Priest of Ariman)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Amélite, héritière présomptive du trône de la Bactriane (presumptive heiress to the throne of Bactria)] | Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Érinice, princesse du sang des rois de la Bactriane (princess of the blood of kings of Bactria)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Zopire, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | François Bazola (bass) [Narbanor, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Oromasès. roi des Génies (king of the Genii)] | Stéphanie Révidat (soprano) [Céphie, jeune Bactrienne de la Cour d'Amélite (Bactrian girl of Amélite's court)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [La Vengeance] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Ariman (voix souterraine)] | Chœur des Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furies | Esprits des Éléments | Esprits infernaux | Troupes différentes de peuples (peoples of various natinos) | Montagnards (mountain dwellers) | Prêtres (priests)] | Les Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furiest | Troupes différentes de peuples | Montagnards | Prêtres]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
John Ireland
Ex ore innocentium
Saturday
Aug 22
The Boys of King's College Choir, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57812 (Heavenly Voices) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: II. Gloria
Saturday
Aug 22
Julia Varady (soprano) | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) | Vinson Cole (tenor) | René Pape (bass) | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 444.337 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le Prophète: Act IV
Saturday
Aug 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | 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] | Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree | Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS 34340 (Meyerbeer: Le Prophete) -
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Morning
Saturday
Aug 22
Donald George (tenor) | Lucy Mauro (piano)
Delos 3407 (Love is Everywhere) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 24. Ein ungefärbt Gemüte (An unstained mind)
Saturday
Aug 22
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Nicolas Teste (bass)
SDG 141 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 3) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa in C Major, K 257 "Credo Mass"
Saturday
Aug 22
Barbara Werner (alto) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Benoit Haller (tenor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Gioachino Rossini
Maometto Secondo: Giusto ciel, in tal periglio
Saturday
Aug 22
Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice | Ion Marin (conductor) | Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Erisso]
London 436.075 (Rossini Heroines) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Scenes 9-13
Saturday
Aug 22
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | 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]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Fêtes d'Hébé (Opéra-ballet) [The Festivities of Hebe]: I. Première Entrée. La Poésie [Poetry]
Saturday
Aug 22
William Christie (conductor) | Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) [Sapho (Sappho)] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor) [Thélème (Thelemus)] | Luc Coadou (baritone) [Alcée (Alcaeus)] | Laurent Slaars (baritone) [Hymas] | Matthieu Lécroart (baritone) [Le Fleuve (The river)] | Les Arts Florissants [Mariniers, Lacédémoniennes, bergers, bergères, nymphes, faunes, et sylvains (Rivermen, Lacedaemonian women, shepherds, shepherdesses, nymphs, fauns, and sylvans)] | Sophie Daneman (soprano) [Une Naïde (A Naiad)] | Paul Agnew (tenor) [Le Ruisseau (The stream)]
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Auguste Mermet
Roland à Roncevaux: Act I, scene 3. Alde's recitative and aria. "Prête à te fuir...Le soir pensive" (As I prepare to flee you...In those quet evenings)
Saturday
Aug 22
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Véronique Gens (soprano)
Virgin 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Act I, Scene 6 and Romeo and Giulietta's Duet. "Si, fuggire: a noi non resta; Ah, crudel, d'onor ragioni" (Yes, run away: there is no other escap; Ah, can you cvruelly speak of honor)
Saturday
Aug 22
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Anna Netrebko [Giulietta] | Elína Garanca [Romeo] | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
DG 477.8031 (Bellini: I Capuleti & I Montecchi) -
Giovanni Paisiello
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act III
Saturday
Aug 22
Hungarian State Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor) | Dénes Gulyás [Count Almaviva] | Krisztina Laki [Rosina] | József Gregor [Bartolo] | István Gáti (baritone) [Figaro] | Sándor Sólyom-Nagy [Don Basilio] | Csaba Réta [Laddie] | Miklós Mersei [Sprightly] | Gábor Vághelyi [Notary] | Attila Fülöp [Judge]
Hungaroton 12525-26 (Paisiello: il Barbiere di Siviglia) -
John Dowland
Flow my tears
Saturday
Aug 22
Brian Asawa | David Tayler (lute)
RCA 68818 (The dark is my delight) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act I, No. 4, Cavatina. "Questa imago, questo folgio"."Ah! rimiro il bel sembiante"
Saturday
Aug 22
Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Francisco Araiza [Roberto, Conte di Leicester] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury]
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le Prophète: Act IV, Beginning
Saturday
Aug 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | 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] | Boys Choir, Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree | Henry Lewis (conductor)
CBS 34340 (Meyerbeer: Le Prophete) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugen Onegin: Act II
Saturday
Aug 22
Rundfunkchor Leipzig | Staatskapelle Dresden | James Levine (conductor) | Rosemarie Lang [Larina] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Tatjana] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Olga] | Ruthild Engert [Filipjewna] | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Eugen Onegin] | Neil Shicoff [Lenski] | Paata Burchuladze [Fürst Gremin] | Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Triquet] | Jürgen Hartfiel [Ein Hauptmann] | Gunter Emmerlich [Saretzki]
DG 423.959 (Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin) -
Margaret Ruthven Lang
The Sky Ship, Op. 9 #3
Saturday
Aug 22
Donald George (tenor) | Lucy Mauro (piano)
Delos 3407 (Love is Everywhere) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 35. Geist und Seele wird verwirret (Spirit and soul become confused)
Saturday
Aug 22
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Robin Tyson (alto)
SDG 134 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 6) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act I, Arias. "Io le dirò che l'amo, nè mi sgomentarò" - "Tu le dirai che l'ami ma non t'ascolterà"
Saturday
Aug 22
Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)] | Brian Asawa [Arsamene] | Hanover Band | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Hector Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ
Saturday
Aug 22
Matthew Brook (baritone) | Andrew Staples (tenor) | Roderick Williams (baritone) | Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano) | Shane Lawrence (bass) | Andrew Goodwin (tenor) | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Chandos 5228 (Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Schmerzliche Wonnen und wonnige Schmerzen (Painful pleasures and blissful pain)
Saturday
Aug 22
Birgid Steinberger (soprano) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Carlisle Floyd
Susannah: Act I, Scene 1
Saturday
Aug 22
Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Susannah Polk] | Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Sam Polk] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Olin Blitch] | Kenn Chester [Little Bat McLean] | Michael Druiett [Elder McLean] | Steven Cole [Elder Gleaton] | Stuart Kale [Elder Hayes] | David Pittsinger [Elder Ott] | Anne Howells [Mrs. McLean] | Della Jones [Mrs. Gleaton] | Jean Glennon [Mrs. Hayes] | Elizabeth Laurence [Mrs. Ott] | Chour de l'Opéra de Lyon | Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Kent Nagano (conductor)
Virgin 45039 (Floyd: Susannah) -
Alessandro Scarlatti
Cantata. Bella, s'io t'amo
Saturday
Aug 22
Clara Rottsolk (soprano) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0768 (Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music) -
Franz Schubert
Prometheus, D 541
Saturday
Aug 22
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0000049 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Act II, Finale (with Polovtsian Dances)
Saturday
Aug 22
Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] | Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor) | Boris Christoff [Khan Konchak]
EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le Prophète: Triumphal Hymn. "Roi du ciel"
Saturday
Aug 22
London Voices | London Symphony Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean]
DG 471.372 (French Opera Arias) -
Johann David Heinichen
Missa #11 in D Major: Sanctus
Saturday
Aug 22
Dresdner Kammerchor | Christine Wolff (soprano) | Patrick van Goethem (alto) | Dresdner Barockorchester | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor) | Uwe Stickert (tenor)
Carus 83.149 (Heinichen: Missa No. 11 in D-Major) -
Jake Heggie
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Saturday
Aug 22
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Dorilla in Tempe: Act I, Conclusion
Saturday
Aug 22
Ensemble Baroque de Nice | Gilbert Bezzina (conductor) | Maria-Cristina Kiehr [Dorilla] | John Elwes [Elmiro] | Philippe Cantor [Admeto] | Jean Nirouët [Nomio] | Consuelo Carulli [Eudamia] | Laure Florentin [Filindo] | Chorus of Opera Nice
Pierre Verany 94092 (Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act I, Chorus and Aria. "Già la tromba, che chiamò" - "Soggetti al mio volere"
Saturday
Aug 22
Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)] | Susan Bickley [Amastre] | Dean Ely [Ariodate] | Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Hanover Band and Chorus
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser: Act II Scenes 1-2
Saturday
Aug 22
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Matti Salminen (bass) [Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Tannhäuser] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Wolfram von Eschenbach] | William Pell [Walther von der Vogelweide] | Kurt Rydl [Biterolf] | Clemens Bieber [Heinrich der Schreiber] | Oskar Hillebrandt [Reinmar von Zweter] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elisabeth] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Venus] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Ein Junger Hirt] | Margaret Stobart [Erster Edelknabe] | Jeanette Wilson [Zweiter Edelknabe] | Ingrid Baier [Dritter Edelknabe] | Karen Shelby [Vierter Edelknabe] | Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [Thüringische Ritter, Grafen und Edelleute | Edelfrauen | Ältere und jungere Pilger]
DG 427.625 (Wagner: Tannhäuser) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 25. Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe (There is no soundness in my flesh)
Saturday
Aug 22
Bach Collegium Japan | Concerto Palatino Brass Ensemble | Masaaki Suzuki (conductor) | Yukari Nonoshita (soprano) | Gerd Türk (tenor)
BIS 1041 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola
Saturday
Aug 22
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) -
Robert Schumann
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 45
Saturday
Aug 22
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele: Act II
Saturday
Aug 22
London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor) | 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] | Trinity Boys' Choir
Decca 475.6666 (Boito: Mefistofele) -
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana: Mamma! quel vino è generoso" (Addio alla madre)
Saturday
Aug 22
Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Bucharest Opera Orchestra | Mark Elder (conductor)
EMI 57627 (Nessun Dorma) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Saturday
Aug 22
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | James Levine (conductor) | Håkan Hagegård (baritone)
RCA 60861 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Margaret Ruthven Lang
The Jade Flute, Op. 6 #1
Saturday
Aug 22
Donald George (tenor) | Lucy Mauro (piano)
Delos 3407 (Love is Everywhere) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Torna, vezzosa Fillide
Saturday
Aug 22
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | James Levine (piano)
London 455.513 (An Italian Songbook) -
Mikhail Glinka
Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Act II, Mazurka and Finale
Saturday
Aug 22
Nicola Ghiuselev [Ivan Susanin] | Elena Stoyanova [Antonida] | Hristina Angelakova [Vanja] | Roumen Doikov [Bogdan Sobinin] | Nikolai Stoilov [Russian Soldier] | Angel Petkov [Polish Messenger] | Dimiter Stanchev [Sigizmund the Third] | Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir [Peasants, Russian volunteers, ladies-in-waiting, Polish knights, soldiers, etc.] | Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ivan Marinov (conductor)
Balkanton 010032-34 (Glinka: Ivan Susanin) -
Franz Liszt
Missa choralis
Saturday
Aug 22
William Kendall (tenor) | Lynn Atkinson (soprano) | Mark Tinkler (treble) | Christopher Royall (alto) | Richard Stuart (bass) | Choir of St John's College, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury (organ) | George Guest (conductor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
George Frideric Handel
Rinaldo: "Lascia ch'io pianga"
Saturday
Aug 22
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Harry Bicket (conductor)
Decca 0003160 (Handel)
WETA Virtuoso
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Richard Strauss
Don Quixote. Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35
Saturday
Aug 22
Cleveland Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
London 417.184 (Richard Strauss) -
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude #5 in B-flat Major "Feux follets" (Will o' the wisps)
Saturday
Aug 22
Vladimir Ovchinikov (piano)
EMI 49821 (Liszt: Transcendental Studies) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #8 in C Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic
DG 427.611 (Bruckner) -
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in C Major, Op. 119 #3
Saturday
Aug 22
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 779469 (Brahms: Handel Variations, Rhapsodies, Piano Pieces) -
Frank Martin
Ballade or Flute, String Orchestra, and Piano
Saturday
Aug 22
Richard Hickox (conductor) | City of London Sinfonia | Susan Milan (flute)
Chandos 8840 (La Flute Enchantee) -
Benjamin Britten
Cello Sonata
Saturday
Aug 22
David Finckel (cello) | Wu Han (piano)
ArtistLed David Finckel Wu Han (David Finckel; Wu Han) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet, K. 589
Saturday
Aug 22
EMI 49971 (Mozart: String Quartets No. 22, K589 & No. 23, K590) -
Erik Satie
Gnossienne #1
Saturday
Aug 22
Lajos Lencsés (oboe) | Gisèle Herbert (harp)
Audite 368.409 (Musique de Nuit) -
Myroslav Skoryk
Carpathian Rhapsody
Saturday
Aug 22
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor) | Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin)
Centaur 3799 (Poems and Rhapsodies) -
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Concerto Grosso
Saturday
Aug 22
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
New World 372 -
Leoš Janáček
Pohádka for cello and piano
Saturday
Aug 22
András Schiff (piano) | Boris Pergamenschikow (cello)
London 440.312 (Janacek) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Fantaisie, Op. 124 for Violin and Harp
Saturday
Aug 22
Chandos 8621 (Ravel, Debussy, Saint_Saëns & Roussel) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights
Saturday
Aug 22
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68288 (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12
Saturday
Aug 22
Eroica Quartet
Harmonia Mundi 90.7245 (Mendelssohn: String Quartets) -
Felix Draeseke
Clarinet Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 38
Saturday
Aug 22
Pierce-Aomori Duo
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Alexander Scriabin
Mazurka, Op. 3 #4 in E Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Franz Schubert
Grand Duo, D. 812
Saturday
Aug 22
James Levine (piano) | Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 69282 (Evgeny Kissin & James Levine, The Carnegie Hall Concert) -
Fedir Yakymenko
Angel (Poem-Nocturne)
Saturday
Aug 22
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Dalia Stasevska (conductor)
Platoon 31361 (Dalia Stasevska: Ukrainian Mixtape) -
Robert Schumann
Scenes from Childhood
Saturday
Aug 22
Radu Lupu (piano)
London 440.496 (Schumann: Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, Humoreske) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #3. Les Préludes
Saturday
Aug 22
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
George Frideric Handel
Sonata for Oboe, Violin and Continuo, HWV 386a in C Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Karl Suske (violin) | Walter Heinz Bernstein (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.067 (Handel: Die Oboensonaten Vol. 2) -
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu A-flat Major (Op. 29)
Saturday
Aug 22
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 39708 (Chopin: Impromptus) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
String Quartet in C Minor
Saturday
Aug 22
Hyperion 67381-2 (Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Chamber Music) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #1 in D Major "Titan"
Saturday
Aug 22
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 477.9260 (Mahler, The People's Edition) -
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Flute and Piano
Saturday
Aug 22
James Levine (piano) | Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
DG 427.639 (Poulenc) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #5
Saturday
Aug 22
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90769 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, Czech Suite) -
Erik Satie
Bureaucratic Sonatina
Saturday
Aug 22
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
Saturday
Aug 22
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
DG 410.025 (Bernstein) -
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs
Saturday
Aug 22
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 472.464 (Naida Cole) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 448)
Saturday
Aug 22
John Williams (guitar)
CBS 44518 (The Baroque Album) -
Richard Strauss
Alphorn
Saturday
Aug 22
Radovan Vlatković (horn) | Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano) | Jeffrey Tate (piano)
EMI 49867 (Richard Strauss) -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Saturday
Aug 22
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
Virgin 94589 (Beethoven & Korngold: Violin Concertos) -
Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto #2
Saturday
Aug 22
Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
DG B0003885 (BARTOK The Piano Concertos) -
Leoš Janáček
From the House of the Dead: Prelude
Saturday
Aug 22
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Pro Arte Orchestra
EMI 63779 (Leos Janacek) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:40 in G Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish Symphony
Saturday
Aug 22
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8545 (Stanford: Symphony No. 3 'Irish') -
François Couperin
Ordre #26: III. La Sophie
Saturday
Aug 22
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 33223 (The Grandeur of the Baroque) -
Claude Debussy
Violin Sonata
Saturday
Aug 22
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 421.817 (Fauré, Debussy & Franck: Violin Sonatas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian Concerto
Saturday
Aug 22
Angela Hewitt (piano)
DG 419.218 (J.S. Bach) -
Franz Schubert
Serenade (Staendchen) (arr. Liszt)
Saturday
Aug 22
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 58420 (Schubert: Sonata in B-Flat, D960 - Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 in C Minor "Resurrection"
Saturday
Aug 22
Juliane Banse (soprano) | Anna Larsson (alto) | David Zinman (conductor) | Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich | Swiss Chamber Chorus
RCA 87157 (Mahler: Symphony No. 2) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 38 #3 in E Major
Saturday
Aug 22
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #2 in A Major, Op. 39
Saturday
Aug 22
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya: Suite
Saturday
Aug 22
London Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
LSO Live 0858 (Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5) -
Reynaldo Hahn
À Chloris
Saturday
Aug 22
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
Antonín Dvořák
The Water Goblin, Op. 107
Saturday
Aug 22
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8552 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, etc.) -
Frédéric Chopin
Préludes, Op. 28 (24)
Saturday
Aug 22
Brian Ganz (piano)
Maestoso (Ganz) (Chopin: Preludes)