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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Sinfonia Melodica, TWV 50:2
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Mar 28
Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra | Barthold Kuijken (flute, conductor)
Naxos 573.900 (The Colourful Telemann) -
The Last Spring, Op. 34 #2
Edvard Grieg
Thursday
Mar 28
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Symphony #39 in E-flat Major, K. 543
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Mozart Akadamie Amsterdam | Jaap ter Linden (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92540 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Lady Radnor's Suite
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Thursday
Mar 28
English String Orchestra | William Boughton (conductor)
Nimbus 5210-13 (The Spirit of England) -
Sonata, RV 28 for Oboe and Basso continuo in G Minor {edit}
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Mar 28
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone) | Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Oboe d'amore Concerto D Major
Johan Helmich Roman
Thursday
Mar 28
Per-Olof Gillblad (oboe) | Capella Calmariensis | Ulf Bjorlin (conductor)
EMI 49646 (J.H. Roman: ur Drottningholmsmusiken) -
Violin Concerto #6 in G Minor, Op. 28
Louis Spohr
Thursday
Mar 28
Simone Lamsma (violin) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 570.528 (Spohr: Violin Concertos, Nos. 6, 8 & 11) -
Symphony #4 in D Minor, Op. 13
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Mar 28
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 91144 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 4, Othello) -
Sonate en symphonie, Op. 3 #3
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Thursday
Mar 28
Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 474.550 (Mondonville: 6 Sonatas Op. 3) -
Ballade #2 in F Major, Op. 38
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Mar 28
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 459.683 (Chopin: 4 Ballades, Fantasie Op. 49, etc.) -
Suite D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Mar 28
Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Max Pommer (conductor)
Capriccio 10.055 (Trompetenkonzerte des Barock) -
Symphony #99 in E-flat Major
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Mar 28
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | Adam Fischer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Concert Piece #2 in D Minor, Op. 114
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Mar 28
Pierce-Aomori Duo | Daniel Barrett (cello)
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Symphony #3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Mar 28
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 3984.28144 (Beethoven) -
Flute Sonata, HWV 378 in D Major
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Mar 28
William Bennett (flute) | Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichord) | Denis Vigay (cello)
Philips 412.606 (Handel: Flute Sonatas) -
Symphony #2
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Thursday
Mar 28
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8805 (Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 2, etc.) -
Concerto, RV 356
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Mar 28
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture
Jacques Offenbach
Thursday
Mar 28
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5303 (Offenbach: Music from the Operettas) -
Rondo G Minor
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Mar 28
Han-Na Chang (cello) | Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 82390 (Romance) -
String Quintet, K. 515
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Takács String Quartet | Gyorgy Pauk (viola)
London 430.772 (Mozart: String Quintets K515 & K516) -
Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Thursday
Mar 28
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 474.5022 (German Overtures) -
Violin Concerto #1 in D Major: III. Allegro
Florence Price
Thursday
Mar 28
Er-gene Kahng (violin) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra | Ryan Cockerham (conductor)
Albany 1706 (Florence Price Violin Concertos) -
Jota Aragonesa
Mikhail Glinka
Thursday
Mar 28
Dresden State Symphony Orchestra | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 410.047 (Ravel: Bolero) -
Clarinet Concerto #2 B-flat Major: I. Allegro vivace
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Thursday
Mar 28
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | South German Chamber Orchestra | Sebastian Tewinkel (conductor)
CPO 777.241 (Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos) -
Hungarian Dance #6
Johannes Brahms
Thursday
Mar 28
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin) | Pavel Gililov (piano)
Virgin 90842 (Danses nobles et sentimentales) -
Concertante for Flute and Oboe in G Major: I. Allegro
Domenico Cimarosa
Thursday
Mar 28
Aurele Nicolet (flute) | Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Kenneth Sillito (conductor)
Philips 416.359 (Salieri, Cimarosa & Stamitz: Double Concertos) -
Fantaisie on Themes from Weber's "Der Freischütz"
Paul Taffanel
Thursday
Mar 28
Mathieu Dufour (flute) | Kuang-Hao Huang (piano)
Cedille 90000.121 (Fantaisie) -
Symphony #8 in E-flat Major, WoO 30: III. Scherzo. Vivace
Ferdinand Ries
Thursday
Mar 28
Zurich Chamber Orchestra | Howard Griffiths (conductor)
CPO 999.904 (Ries: Symphonies 7 & 8) -
Sinfonia in B-flat Major (Altner Bb2)
František Xaver Dušek
Thursday
Mar 28
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra | Aapo Häkkinen (conductor)
Naxos 572.683 (Dussek: Four Symphonies) -
The Romantics
Joseph Lanner
Thursday
Mar 28
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra | Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor)
Philips 412.883 (Famous Waltzes) -
Violin Concerto in D Major: III. Rondo. Allegro
Franz Clement
Thursday
Mar 28
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Cedille 90000.106 (Beethoven & Clement: Violin Concertos) -
Colas Breugnon: Overture
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Thursday
Mar 28
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 61394 (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky & Borodin) -
Symphony #7 "La Chasse"
John Marsh
Thursday
Mar 28
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10458 (Marsh: Symphonies) -
Partita #4 in D Major, BWV 828: III. Courante
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish": I. Lebhaft
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Mar 28
Revolutionary & Romantic Orchestra | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Symphony, Op. 3 #4 in B-flat Major
Johann Christian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Hanover Band | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.268 (J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3) -
Norwegian Festival Overture
Johan Halvorsen
Thursday
Mar 28
Bergen Philharmonic | Karsten Andersen (conductor)
NKF 50013 (Johan Halvorsen) -
Trio Sonata, RV 63 in D Minor "La Follia"
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Mar 28
L'Estravagante
Naïve 30535 (Vivaldi: Sonate da camera a tre, Op. 1) -
Piano Concerto #1 in E Minor, Op. 11: III. Rondo. Vivace
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Mar 28
Martha Argerich (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 415.061 (Chopin & Liszt: Piano Concertos) -
Sonata for Two Oboes and Continuo, HWV 384 in G Major
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Mar 28
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) -
The Running Set
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Thursday
Mar 28
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | George Hurst (conductor)
Chandos 8432 (Music of Elgar & Vaughan Williams) -
Banquet Music, Part 1: Trio in E-flat major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Mar 28
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Overture
Franz von Suppé
Thursday
Mar 28
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI 54056 (Suppé: Overtures) -
Piano Concerto #23
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Howard Shelley (piano) | London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley (conductor)
Chandos 8992 (Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1) -
Scherzo-tarantelle, Op. 16
Henryk Wieniawski
Thursday
Mar 28
Maxim Vengerov (violin) | Ian Brown (piano)
EMI 57916 (Kreisler, Sarasater, Wieniawski, etc.) -
Oboe Concerto, H. 468 in E-flat Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77187 (C.P.E. Bach: Hamburg Symphonies, Concerti) -
Scottish Fantasy
Max Bruch
Thursday
Mar 28
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Alexander Platt (conductor)
Cedille 90000.083 (Scottish Fantasies for Violin & Orchestra) -
Piano Concerto #20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Murray Perahia (piano) | English Chamber Orchestra | Murray Perahia (conductor)
CBS 42241 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27) -
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Mar 28
Philadelphia Orchestra | Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
EMI 49114 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From The New World") -
Concerto, RV 449
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Mar 28
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Max Pommer (conductor)
Capriccio 10.116 (Vivaldi: Oboenkonzerte Vol. 1) -
Piano Quintet
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Mar 28
Emanuel Ax (piano) | Cleveland Quartet
RCA 6498 (Schumann: Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 44, Quartet for Piano and Strings in E-Flat, Op. 47) -
Cello Concerto (G. 482)
Luigi Boccherini
Thursday
Mar 28
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6056 (Boccherini: Concerti per Violoncello Viol. 2) -
Piano Trio #2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Mar 28
David Golub (piano) | Mark Kaplan (violin) | Colin Carr (cello)
Arabesque 6599 (Mendelsshon: Piano Trios) -
Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 49806 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos, etc.) -
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Thursday
Mar 28
Leonard Bernstein (piano) | Los Angeles Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 410.025 (Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - Bernstein: "West Side Story") -
Symphony #5
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Mar 28
Vienna Philharmonic | Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
DG 447.400 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7) -
Blue Danube
Johann Strauss Jr.
Thursday
Mar 28
London Philharmonic | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
EMI 54089 (J. Strauss II: Waltzes & Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Tamerlano: Act III
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Mar 28
Derek Ragin [Tamerlan] | Nigel Robson [Bajazet] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Asteria] | Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] | Jane Findlay [Irène] | Renè Schirrer [Léon] | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 88220 (Handel: Tamerlano) -
Cantata, BWV 168. Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort (Give an account of yourself! word of thunder)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Ruth Holton (soprano) | Sytse Buwalda (alto) | Knut Schoch (tenor) | Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Holland Boys Choir | Netherlands Bach Collegium | Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Armida: Act II, Scene 2, aria (Rinaldo). "Vieni a me sull'ali d'oro
Antonio Salieri
Thursday
Mar 28
Florie Valiquette (soprano) [Rinaldo] | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Aparté 244 (Salieri: Armida) -
La Battaglia di Legnano: Act II
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Mar 28
Nicolai Gedda [Federico Barbarossa] | Hannes Lichtenberger [First Consul of Milan] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Second Consul of Milan] | Franz Handlos [The Mayor of Como] | Matteo Manuguerra [Rolando] | Katia Ricciarelli [Lida] | José Carreras [Arrigo] | Jonathan Summer [Marcovaldo] | Ann Murray [Imelda] | Mieczyslaw Antoniak [A herald | One of Arrigo's squires] | ORF Chorus [Knights of Death, magistrates & leaders of Como, maidservants of Lida, Milanese people & senators, warriors of Verona, Brescia, Novara, Piacenza & Milan] | ORF Symphony Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Miserere
Johann Christian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) | Ruth Sandhoff (alto) | Colin Balzer (tenor) | Thomas E. Bauer (bass) | RIAS Chamber Chorus | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
In questa tomba oscura
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Mar 28
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Piero Gamba (conductor)
London 414.454 (Mattinata) -
Three Russian Songs, Op. 41
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Thursday
Mar 28
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater
Chandos 10706 (Rachmaninoff: The Bells; Spring) -
Tristitia obsedit me...Infelix ego (Sadness has besieged me...Wretch that I am)
Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Thursday
Mar 28
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour: Part 4. Excerpts from Zaïs, Dardanus, Les Indes Galantes, Zoroastre, Castor et Pollux
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Mar 28
Sabine Devieilhe (soiprano) | Les Ambassadeurs | La Jeune Chœur de Paris | Alexis Kossenko (conductor)
Erato 34149 (Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour) -
Cantata, BWV 157. Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn! (I am not letting you go, unless you bless me first!)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Holland Boys Choir | Netherlands Bach Collegium | Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Semiramide riconosciuta: Mirteo's aria. "In braccio a mille furie" (A prey to a thousand furies)
Leonardo Vinci
Thursday
Mar 28
Franco Fagioli (countertenor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
Naïve 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Shéhérazade
Maurice Ravel
Thursday
Mar 28
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
Gustav Mahler
Thursday
Mar 28
Heather Harper (soprano) | Lucia Popp (soprano) | Arleen Augér (soprano) | Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) | Helen Watts (alto) | René Kollo (tenor) | John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) | Martti Talvela (bass) | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna Singverein | Vienna Boys Choir | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Recorded in Vienna, September 1971
DG 477.9260 (Mahler: The People's Choice) -
Cantata, BWV 156. Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe (I stand with one foot in the grave)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Ruth Holton (soprano) | Sytse Buwalda (alto) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Holland Boys Choir | Netherlands Bach Collegium | Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
La Favorite: Act IV, Fernand's cavatina. "Ange si pur" (So pure an angel)
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
Mar 28
Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Don Giovanni] | Matti Salminen (bass) [Commendatore/La Statua] | Carmela Remigio [Donna Anna] | Uwe Heilmann [Don Ottavio] | Soile Isokosi (soprano) [Donna Elvira] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Leporello] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Masetto] | Miti Trucato Pace [Zerlina] | Coro di Ferrara Musica | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 457.601 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Tristan und Isolde: Act I, Conclusion. "Herr Tristan trette nah"
Richard Wagner
Thursday
Mar 28
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Tristan] | Nina Stemme (soprano) [Isolde] | Mihoko Fujimara [Brangäne] | René Pape (bass) [König Marke] | Olaf Bär (baritone) [Kurwenal] | Jared Holt [Melot] | Ian Bostridge (tenor) [Ein Hirt] | Matthew Rose [Ein Steuermann] | Rolando Villazón [Ein junger Seemann] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 58006 (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) -
Agrippina: Act III
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Mar 28
Sally Bradshaw [Agrippina] | Wendy Hill [Nerone] | Lisa Saffer [Poppea] | Nicholas Isherwood [Claudio] | Drew Minter [Ottone] | Michael Dean [Pallante] | Ralf Popken [Narciso] | Béla Szilágyi [Lesbo] | Gloria Banditelli [Giunone] | Capella Savaria | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7063-65 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Cantata, BWV 128. Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (On Christ's ascension alone)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Sytse Buwalda (alto) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Holland Boys Choir | Netherlands Bach Collegium | Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Requiem ex F con terza minore (Requiem in F Minor): III. Sequence
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Thursday
Mar 28
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 0003457 (Biber: Mass in B-Flat Major) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Mar 28
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Jennifer Johnson (mezzo-soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Matthew Rose (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 718 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Ezio: Act III
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Thursday
Mar 28
Max Emanuel Cencic [Emperor Valentiniano III] | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia] | Sonia Prina [Ezio] | Mayuko Karasawa [Onoria] | Topi Lehtipuu [Massimo] | Julian Prégardien [Varo] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Hamlet: Ophelia's mad scene. "A vos jeux, mes amis"
Ambroise Thomas
Thursday
Mar 28
Natalie Dessay [Ophélie] | Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)
Virgin 99469 (Mad Scenes) -
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act I, Scenes 3-6
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Mar 28
Vivica Genaux [Antiope] | Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] | Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] | Diana Damrau [Martesia] | Rolando Villazón [Ercole] | Romina Basso [Teseo] | Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] | Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] | Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo | Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor)
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Cantata, BWV 125. Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin (With peace and joy I go from here)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Mar 28
Sytse Buwalda (alto) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Holland Boys Choir | Netherlands Bach Collegium | Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Stiffelio: Act I
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Mar 28
José Carreras [Stiffelio] | Sylvia Sass [Lina] | Matteo Managuerra [Stankar] | Ezio di Cesare [Raffaele] | Wladimor Ganzarolli [Jorg] | Thomas Moser [Federico] | Maria Venuti [Dorotea] | ORF Chorus [Friends of the Count, disciples of Stiffelio, Ahasuerian people] | ORF Symphony Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 [The Fair Miller-Maid]: Part 2. Der Neugierige; Ungeduld; Morgengruß; Des Müllers Blumen; Tränenregen; Mein! (Curiosity; Impatience; Morning Greeting; The Miller's Flowers; Rain of Tears; Mine!)
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Mar 28
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1995 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin) -
Cantata "Ombre tacite e sole"
Alessandro Scarlatti
Thursday
Mar 28
Matthew White (countertenor) | Les Voix Barouqes
Analekta 29904 (Scarlatti: Cantatas) -
Missa Brevis in F Major, K 192
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Anja Bittner (soprano) | Gabriele Wunderer (alto) | Robert Morvaj (tenor) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: II. Gloria
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Mar 28
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano) | Marietta Simpson (mezzo-soprano) | Jon Humphrey (tenor) | Myron Myers (bass) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80248 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Ariodante: Act II, Aria. Scherza infida (Treacherous charms)
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Mar 28
Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
La Rondine
Giacomo Puccini
Thursday
Mar 28
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Magda] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ruggero] | Mariana Nicolesco [Lisette] | David Rendall [Prunier] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Rambaldo] | Lillian Watson [Yvette] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
CBS 37852 (Puccini: La Rondine) -
Guillaume Tell: "Sombre forêt" [Act II]
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Mar 28
Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Mathilde] | Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Richard Bonynge (conductor)
London 417.253 (Bel Canto Arias) -
Attila: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Thursday
Mar 28
Ruggero Raimondi [Attila] | Sherrill Milnes [Ezio] | Christina Deutekom [Odabella] | Carlo Bergonzi [Foresto] | Ricardo Cassinelli [Uldino] | Jules Bastin [Leone] | Ambrosian Singers [Leaders, kings & soldiers, Huns, Gepids, Ostrogoths, Heruls, Thuringians, Quadi, Druids, priestesses, men & women of Aquileia, Aquileian maidens in warlike dress, Roman officers & soldiers, Roman virgins & children, hermits, slaves] | Finchley Children's Music Group | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
The Cunning Little Vixen: Act II
Leoš Janácek
Thursday
Mar 28
Thomas Allen (baritone) [Forester] | Stephen Wallder [Cricket] | Shelley Nash [Caterpillar] | Robert Tear (tenor) [Mosquito/Schoolmaster] | Piers Lawrence [Frog] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Vixen Cub] | Gillian Knight [Forester's Wife/Owl] | Lillian Watson [Vixen Sharp-Ears] | Karen Shelby [Doganiere] | Fiona Dobie [Pepík] | Anna Lorimer [Frantík] | Mary King [Rooster/Jay] | Glenys Groves [Chief Hen] | Gwynne Howell [Badger/Priest] | John Dobson [Pásek] | Diana Montague (alto) [Fox] | Pat Purcell [Woodpecker] | Nicholas Folwell [Harasta] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 54212 (Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen) -
Henry VIII: Act 4, 2nd tableau, scenes 1-2. Catherine d'Aragon's recitative and aria."Ô cruel souvenir!...Je ne te reverrai jamais" (O cruel memory!...I shall never see you again)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Thursday
Mar 28
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Virgin 0709272 (Les Héroïnes Romantiques) -
Songs. An die Leier; Atys; Meeresstille; Der König in Thule; Blondel zu Marien; Die Gebüsche (To the Lyre; Atys; Calm Sea; The King of Thule; Blondel's Song to Mary; The Bushes)
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Mar 28
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Ingo Metzmacher (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2035 (Schubert: Heliopolis) -
Missa in C Major, K 257 "Credo Mass"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Mar 28
Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Barbara Werner (alto) | Benoit Haller (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (7 Popular Spanish Songs)
Manuel de Falla
Thursday
Mar 28
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
Symphony #3 in D Minor: IV.Sehr langsam; misterioso; durchaus ppp & V. Lustig in Tempo und keck im Ausdruck
Gustav Mahler
Thursday
Mar 28
Birgit Remmert (alto) | Schweizer Kammerchor | Zürcher Sängerknaben | Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich | David Zinman (conductor)
RCA 72723 (Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 8, 2, 3, 4 & 8, excerpts) -
Ten Songs from the Danish: In the seraglio garden [Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen]
Frederick Delius
Thursday
Mar 28
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love): Recitative and aria. Una parola, o Adina...Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera (A word, Adina...Ask the flattering breeze)
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
Mar 28
Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano) | Francesco Demuro (tenor) | Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
Decca 0015746 (Gioia!)