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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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a "Les Adieux"
Thursday
May 21
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 463.127 (Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas) -
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide: Overture
Thursday
May 21
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431.653 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata, RV 34 for Oboe and Basso continuo in B-flat Major
Thursday
May 21
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone) | Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Ballet Music (Act III)
Thursday
May 21
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Munich Radio Orchestra
RCA 62651 (Verdi: Ballet Music) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #100 "Military"
Thursday
May 21
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Philharmonic
London 411.897 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94 & 100) -
Édouard Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole
Thursday
May 21
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | French National Orchestra | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
EMI 47318 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, etc.) -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite #1
Thursday
May 21
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 410.525 (Händel: Wassermusik) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K. 310
Thursday
May 21
Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 427.768 (Mozart: Piano Sonatas, K. 310, K. 333 & K. 545) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #4
Thursday
May 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8595 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, etc) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 2 Flutes & Lute D Major
Thursday
May 21
Eckart Haupt (flute) | Wolfgang Loebner (flute) | Dresden Baroque Soloists | Eckart Haupt (conductor) | Monika Rost (lute)
Capriccio 10.284 (Telemann: Konzerte für 2 Flöten) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Thursday
May 21
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.6617 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #93
Thursday
May 21
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 429.776 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 & 101 "The Clock") -
Gabriel Pierné
Concert Piece, Op. 39
Thursday
May 21
Jean-François Paillard (conductor) | Lily Laskine (harp) | Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Erato 88069 (Mozart & Pierné) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite #3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Thursday
May 21
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 60276 (Bach: English Suites) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 2 Horns E-flat Major
Thursday
May 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor) | Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
Overture "Othello", Op. 93
Thursday
May 21
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 91144 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 4, Othello) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #33
Thursday
May 21
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Erato 75498 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 25, 29 & 33) -
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Symphony in D Major, Op. 3/1, WV 374: I. Allegro
Thursday
May 21
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Johannes Goritzki (conductor)
CPO 777.112 (Wagenseil: Symphonies, Vol. 2) -
Léo Delibes
Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus
Thursday
May 21
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 428 "The Goldfinch"
Thursday
May 21
I Musici | Aurele Nicolet (flute)
Philips 420.188 (Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos, Op. 10) -
Frédéric Chopin
Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano" in B-flat Major, Op. 2
Thursday
May 21
London Philharmonic | Claudio Arrau (piano) | Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Florian Leopold Gassmann
The Country House: Overture
Thursday
May 21
Eclipse Chamber Orchestra | Sylvia Alimena (conductor)
Naxos 570.421 (Gassmann: Opera Overtures) -
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46: IV. Finale. Allegro guerriero
Thursday
May 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Joshua Bell (violin and conductor)
Sony 84200 (Joshua Bell: Bruch Scottish Fantasy) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring": IV. Allegro animato e grazioso
Thursday
May 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 469.700 (Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Symphony in G Major, B 130: I. Allegro assai
Thursday
May 21
Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.550 (Pleyel: Symphonies in B-Flat and G) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #1: I
Thursday
May 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Maurizio Pollini (piano) | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 439.770 (Beethoven: Die 5 Klavierkonzerte) -
King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Flute Concerto in C Major: I. Allegro
Thursday
May 21
Peter Schreier (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Patrick Gallois (flute)
DG 439.895 (Flute Concertos from Sanssouci) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1 in D Minor, Op. 13: I. Grave; Allegro ma non troppo
Thursday
May 21
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.9839 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1; Symphonic Dances) -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina: Overture
Thursday
May 21
Montreal Baroque Orchestra | Joël Thiffault (conductor)
ATMA Classique 3005 (MISSING) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #9: I
Thursday
May 21
Cologne Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor) | Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Naxos 570.485 (Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4, 9 & 11) -
Niccolò Paganini
Violin Concerto #1 in D Major, Op. 6: III. Rondo. Allegro spirituoso
Thursday
May 21
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 429.786 (Paganini & Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Symphony in D Major
Thursday
May 21
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10351 (Hoffmeister: Symphonies) -
Bedřich Smetana
Shakespeare Festival March, Op. 20
Thursday
May 21
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Quartet in D Minor
Thursday
May 21
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #3 in E-flat major, Op. 12 #3: I. Allegro con spirito
Thursday
May 21
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Lambert Orkis (piano)
DG 457.619 (Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas) -
Gabriel Fauré
Ballade, Op. 19
Thursday
May 21
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 748.021 (Fauré, Chabrier, Satie & Ravel) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major, BWV 1050
Thursday
May 21
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
American Suite
Thursday
May 21
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90723 (Dvořák; Symphony No. 9, American Suite) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #10 in A-flat Major
Thursday
May 21
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Thursday
May 21
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Alan Loveday (violin)
Decca 0006627 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Robert Schumann
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
Thursday
May 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 453.482 (Schumann: Symphonie No. 2, "Manfred" Overture, etc.) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 320)
Thursday
May 21
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #32
Thursday
May 21
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Teldec 4509.91190 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 32, 33 & 34) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Thursday
May 21
Cleveland Quartet | Meliora Quartet
Telarc 80142 (Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Octet in E-flat Major) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers
Thursday
May 21
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Vox 5130 (The Dance) -
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude #9 in A-flat Major "Ricordanza" (Remembrance)
Thursday
May 21
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 416.458 (Liszt: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1
Thursday
May 21
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
London 411.657 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1) -
Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Thursday
May 21
Brandenburg Consort
Hyperion 66600 (Rondeaux Royaux) -
Claude Debussy
Suite Bergamasque
Thursday
May 21
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy: Images, Études, etc.) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Thursday
May 21
David Oistrakh (violin) | Dresden State Symphony Orchestra | Franz Konwitschny (conductor)
DG 447.427 (Bach, Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos - Beethoven: Violin Romances) -
Antonio Vivaldi
L'incoronazione di Dario: Overture
Thursday
May 21
Modo Antiquo | Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94030 (Vivaldi: Opera Overtures) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Thursday
May 21
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 94573 (Beethoven: Sonatas 8, 17 & 23) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Flute & Harp C Major (K. 299)
Thursday
May 21
English Chamber Orchestra | Heinz Holliger (conductor) | Ursula Holliger (harp) | Aurele Nicolet (flute)
Novalis 150.023 (Spohr & Mozart: Harfenkonzerte) -
Frédéric Chopin
Scherzo #2 B-flat Minor
Thursday
May 21
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 431.623 (Chopin: 4 Scherzos, Berceuse & Barcarolle)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Der Traumgörge: Epilogue
Thursday
May 21
Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor) | David Kuebler [Görge] | Patricia Racette [Gertraud] | Iride Martinez [Grete] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Hans] | Zelotes Edmund Toliver [Der Müller] | Julian Rodescu [Der Pastor] | Susan Anthony [Die Prinzessin] | Machiko Obata [Eine Traumstimme] | Michael Volle [Kaspar] | Lothar Odinius [Züngl] | Zelotes Edmund Toliver [Mathes] | Natalie Karl [Marei] | John C. Pierce [Ein Wirt] | Machiko Obata [Eine Wirtin] | Julian Rodescu [Ein Bauer] | Opernchor der Hochschule für Musik Köln [Burschen und Mädchen, Dorfleute, Traumstimmen, Bauern, Kinder]
EMI 57087 (Zemlinsky: Der Traumgörge) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #06. Der Neugierige [The Fair Miller-Maid: Curiosity]
Thursday
May 21
Barbara Hendriks (soprano) | Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Arte Verum 008 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
Robert Schumann
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 45
Thursday
May 21
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov: Act III, Scene 1
Thursday
May 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) -
Giuseppe Verdi
I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade): Act I. The Revenge
Thursday
May 21
James Levine (conductor) | Richard Leech [Arvino] | Samuel Ramey [Pagano] | Patricia Racette [Viclinda] | June Anderson [Giselda] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Pirro] | Anthony Dean Griffey [A Prior of Milan] | Yanni Yannissis [Acciano] | Luciano Pavarotti [Oronte] | Jane Shaulis [Sofia] | Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Nuns, priors, cut-throats, soldiers of the Folco Palace, ambassadors of the Persians, Medes, Damascenes | Chaldeans, crusading knights and warriors, pilgrims, Lombard women, women of the harem, virgins] | Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Gustav Mahler
Winterlied (Winter Song)
Thursday
May 21
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Antonio Pappano (piano)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: "Gloria Patri"
Thursday
May 21
Dresdner Kammerchor | Dresdner Barockorchester | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Carus 83.149 (Handel: Dixit Dominus) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part III, Uriel's recitative and Adam & Eve's duet. "Aus Rosenwolken bricht...Von deiner Güt', o Herr und Gott" (In rosy mantle appears...By thee with bliss, o bounteous Lord)
Thursday
May 21
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Eve] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Adam]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide:"La speranza più soave già quest'alma lusingava"
Thursday
May 21
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Decca 0003136 (Great Tenor Arias) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa Solemnis in G Major, K 337
Thursday
May 21
Barbara Werner (alto) | Manfred Bittner (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Marietta Fischesser (soprano) | Benoit Haller (tenor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Thomas Morley
Fair in a morn
Thursday
May 21
The Folger Consort | Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Bard 9207 (When Birds do Sing) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 39. Brich denn Hungrigen dein Brot (Deal thy bread to the hungry)
Thursday
May 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Gillian Keith (soprano) | Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto)
SDG 101 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 1) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes (Opéra-ballet) [The Gallant Indies]: II. Deuxième Entrée. Les Incas du Pérou [The Incas of Peru]
Thursday
May 21
Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Phani] | Louis Devos (tenor) [Carlos] | Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) [Huascar] | Ensemble vocal À Cœur Joie de Valence | Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Valence | Jean-François Paillard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act I, Scenes 1-2
Thursday
May 21
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | 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
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur: Act IV
Thursday
May 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | James Levine (conductor) | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Adriana Lecouvreur] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Maurizio] | Sherill Milnes [Michonnet] | Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [La Principessa di Bouillon] | Giancarlo Luccardi [Il Principe di Bouillon] | Florindo Andreoli [L'Abate di Chazeuil] | Lillian Watson [Mlle. Jouvenot] | Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) [Mlle. Dangeville] | Paul Crook [Poisson] | Paul Hudson [Quinault] | Paul Crook [Un Maggiordomo]
CBS 79310 (Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #18. Trockne Blumen [The Fair Miller-Maid: Dry flowers]
Thursday
May 21
Barbara Hendriks (soprano) | Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Arte Verum 008 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Act 2, Scene 8
Thursday
May 21
Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Le Concert d'Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
Virgin 07572 (Arias for Cleopatra) -
Carlisle Floyd
Susannah: Act I
Thursday
May 21
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 Striggio
Altr'io che queste spighe (Older than these fragrant cobs)
Thursday
May 21
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 478.2734 (Striggio: Missa Ecco sì beato giorno) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 (Vespers of the the Blessed Virgin, 1610): Psalm 121. Laetatus sum
Thursday
May 21
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Avie 2206 (Monteverdi: Vespers) -
Jules Massenet
Don Quichotte: Act V
Thursday
May 21
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] | José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] | Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] | Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] | Christian Papis [Rodriguez] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] | Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits]
EMI 54767 (Massenet: Don Quichotte) -
Eric Whitacre
Her Sacred Spirit Soars
Thursday
May 21
Elora Festival Singers | Noel Edison (conductor)
Naxos 559.677 (Whitacre: Choral Music) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 75. Die Elenden sollen essen (The meek shall eat)
Thursday
May 21
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto)
SDG 101 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Zerlina's and Giovanni's duet. "Là ci darem la mano" (There we shall take hands)
Thursday
May 21
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Danielle de Niese (soprano)
Decca 0013277 (The Mozart Album) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Thursday
May 21
National Choir of Ukraine, "Dumka" | Yevhen Svchuk (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93312 (Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrystostom) -
Gustav Mahler
Maitanz im Grünen (May Dance in the Countryside)
Thursday
May 21
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Antonio Pappano (piano)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #12. Pause [The Fair Miller-Maid: Pause]
Thursday
May 21
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1995 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Act IV, scena & aria (Leonora, Manrico). "Vanne, lasciami...D'amor sull'ali rosee...Miserere...Tu vedrai che amore in terra" (Go now, leave me...On the rosy wings of love...Lord, thy mercy...You shall see that on earth)
Thursday
May 21
Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Chorus
DG 0018735 (Verdi) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Act I, Scene 4, Recitative and Giulietta's Romance. "Eccomi in lieta vesta; Oh! quante volte" (Here I am dressed for a celebration; Oh! how many, many times)
Thursday
May 21
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Anna Netrebko [Giulietta] | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
DG 477.8031 (Bellini: I Capuleti & I Montecchi) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Elias (Elijah): Part II, Conclusion
Thursday
May 21
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) -
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Straszny Dwor (The Haunted Manor): Miecznik's aria. "Kto z mych dziewek serce ktorej" (Who of my maidens whose heart)
Thursday
May 21
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Josef Rheinberger
Mass in E-flat Major, Op. 109 (Cantus Missæ)
Thursday
May 21
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part II
Thursday
May 21
Jörg Hering (tenor) [Uriel] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Raphael] | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor) | Anne Monoyios (soprano) [Gabriel]
Sony 57965 (Haydn: The Creation) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Aria. Coperta la frode (A common strategum)
Thursday
May 21
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Thursday
May 21
Judith Nelson | Jeffrey Dooley | Jan Opalach | The Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Nonesuch 79036 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande
Thursday
May 21
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] | Didier Henry [Pelléas] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] | Pierre Thau [Arkel] | Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] | Françoise Golfier [Yniold] | Phillip Ens [Un berger | Un médecin] | Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants]
London 430.502 (Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part I
Thursday
May 21
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Ruth Ziesak (soprano) [Gabriel] | Herbert Lippert (tenor) [Uriel] | René Pape (bass) [Raphael]
London 443.445 (Haydn: The Creation) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Aria. Spero per voi, sì, sì (I hope for you)
Thursday
May 21
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand"
Thursday
May 21
Jennifer Check (soprano) | Richmond Symphony Chorus | Rebecca Nash (soprano) | Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) | Ann McMahon Quintero (mezzo-soprano) | Robynne Redmon (mezzo-soprano) | Gregory Carroll (tenor) | Lester Lynch (baritone) | Jason Grant (bass) | Christopher Newport University Chamber Choir | Old Dominion University Concert Choir | Virginia Children's Chorus | Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
Hampton Roads Classics 9 (Mahler: Symphony No. 8) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Selva morale e spirituale: Beatus Vir (second setting)
Thursday
May 21
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro 16109 (Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale Volume III) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Act IV, Scene 2
Thursday
May 21
Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Aage Haugland (bass) | Vladimir Atlantov [Prince Andrei Khovansky] | Vladimir Popov [Prince Vasili Golitsyn] | Anatoly Kotcherga (bass) | Paata Burchuladze [Dosifei] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marfa] | Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano) | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Scribe] | Joanna Borowska [Emma] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Kuzka] | Peter Köves [Strelyets] | Goran Simic [Strelyets] | Peter Köves [Varsonofiev] | Bojidar Nikolov (tenor) | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna State Opera Orchestra
DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Act I
Thursday
May 21
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Dalibor Jedlicka [Savel P. Dikoi] | Petr Dvorsky [Boris Grigorievich] | Nadezda Kniplova [Marpha I. Kabanova] | Vladimir Krejcik [Tikhon I. Kabanov] | Elisabeth Söderström [Katya Kabanova] | Zdenek Svehla [Vania Kudriash] | Libuse Marova [Varvara] | Jaroslav Soucek (baritone) [Kuligin] | Jitka Pavlova [Glasha] | Gertrude Jahn [Feklusha] | Adolf Tomaschek [Chodec] | Hedwig Dreschler [Zena] | Vienna State Opera Chorus [Town-dwellers]
Decca 475.7518 (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Nr 13, Aria. "Ich will dir mein Herze schenken"
Thursday
May 21
Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) | Orchestra of Collegium Vocale, Ghent
Harmonia Mundi 90.1155-57 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87
Thursday
May 21
Emerson String Quartet | Menahem Pressler (piano)
DG 439.868 (Dvořák: Piano Quintet Op. 81, Piano Quartet Op. 87) -
Benjamin Godard
Suite de trois morceaux, Op. 116: II. Idylle
Thursday
May 21
Richard Hickox (conductor) | City of London Sinfonia | Susan Milan (flute)
Chandos 8840 (La Flute Enchantee) -
Francis Poulenc
Stabat Mater
Thursday
May 21
Ensemble Aedes | Les Siècles | Mathieu Romano (conductor)
Aparté 323 (Poulenc: Stabat Mater) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Thursday
May 21
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10475 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 109
Thursday
May 21
Elizabeth Dolin (cello) | Bernadene Blaha (piano)
Analekta 23166 (Mendelsshon: Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Orchestra Series
Thursday
May 21
-
William Grant Still
Summerland
Thursday
May 21
Sierra Winds
Cambria 1083 (Get on Board) -
Samuel Barber
A stopwatch and an ordnance map, Op. 15
Thursday
May 21
Conspirare | Matt Tresler (tenor) | Thomas Burritt (timpani)
Harmonia Mundi 80.7522 (Barber: Conspirare) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 2 "London"
Thursday
May 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80138 (Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2) -
Claude Debussy
La plus que lente (transcr. Strakhov)
Thursday
May 21
Dana Zemtsov (viola) | Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42320 (Silhouettes) -
Øistein Sommerfeldt
Divertimento, Op. 21
Thursday
May 21
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Thursday
May 21
Kurt Masur (conductor) | London Philharmonic
Teldec 2292.44941 (Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Prokofiev: Symphonie Classique) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830
Thursday
May 21
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.2163 (Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825 - 830) -
François Couperin
Les Tours de Passe-Passe (Ordre 22, #8)
Thursday
May 21
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 80693 (Air on a G String) -
Emmanuel Chabrier
Suite pastorale
Thursday
May 21
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8852 (La Peri) -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #1 after Tolstoy "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Thursday
May 21
Melos Quartet
Harmonia Mundi 901380 (Janacek) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #9 in E Major, Op. 14 #1
Thursday
May 21
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1903-05 (Beethoven #2) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 98)
Thursday
May 21
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Victor Herbert
Cello Concerto #2 in E Minor
Thursday
May 21
Gautier Capuçon (cello) | Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Virgin 519035 (Dvořák & Herbert: Cello Concertos) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony #1
Thursday
May 21
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 54273 (Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Finlandia & Karelia) -
Benjamin Godard
Suite de trois morceaux, Op. 116: III. Valse
Thursday
May 21
Richard Hickox (conductor) | City of London Sinfonia | Susan Milan (flute)
Chandos 8840 (La Flute Enchantee) -
Philippe Gaubert
3 Aquarelles
Thursday
May 21
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #6
Thursday
May 21
Czech Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90791 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 6) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Mélodie in E Major, Op. 3 #3
Thursday
May 21
Sergei Rachmaninoff (AMPICO piano roll)
Decca 475.9247 (Rachmaninov Plays Rachmaninov; The AMPICO Piano Recordings (1919-29)) -
George Enescu
Violin Sonata #2 in F Minor, Op. 6
Thursday
May 21
Remus Azoitei (violin) | Eduard Stan (piano)
Hänssler 98239 (Complete Works for Violin & Piano Vol 1) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya: Suite
Thursday
May 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
LSO Live 0858 (Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wasps Suite: March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
Thursday
May 21
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Norman Del Mar (conductor)
EMI 47812 (Holst & Vaughn Williams) -
Cécile Chaminade
Concertino
Thursday
May 21
Richard Hickox (conductor) | City of London Sinfonia | Susan Milan (flute)
Chandos 8840 (La Flûte enchantée) -
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 2 in G Minor "Song of a New Race"
Thursday
May 21
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 9226 (Still) -
Bohuslav Martinů
Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, H. 300
Thursday
May 21
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella: Waltz
Thursday
May 21
John Mauceri (conductor) | Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Philips 438.685 (The Great Waltz) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141
Thursday
May 21
DG 486.0549 (Dmitri Shostakovich) -
Claude Debussy
Beau soir (transcr. Gretchaninov)
Thursday
May 21
Dana Zemtsov (viola) | Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42320 (Silhouettes) -
Franz Liszt
Vom der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) (Symphonic Poem)
Thursday
May 21
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10375 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique"
Thursday
May 21
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
RCA 787.510 (Beethoven, The Sonata Legacy) -
Dora Pejačević
Elegie in E-flat Major, Op. 34
Thursday
May 21
Oliver Triendl (piano) | Andrej Bielow (violin)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 in C Minor "Resurrection"
Thursday
May 21
Iván Fischer (conductor) | Budapest Festival Orchestra | Birgit Remmert (contralto) | Hungarian Radio Choir | Lisa Milne (soprano)
Channel 23506 -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #9 in F Minor
Thursday
May 21
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Quintet #2 in E Major, Op. 31
Thursday
May 21
Linos Ensemble
CPO 999.194 (Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintets) -
Gabriel Fauré
Violin Sonata #1 in A Major, Op. 13
Thursday
May 21
Gil Shaham (violin) | Akira Eguchi (piano)
Canary Classics 1239 (The Fauré Album) -
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian Dance, Op. 35 #3. Allegro moderato alla Marcia
Thursday
May 21
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Richard Strauss
Symphonic Fantasy from "Die Frau ohne Schatten"
Thursday
May 21
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG B0000992 (Strauss) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #13 in G Major, Op. 106
Thursday
May 21
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0014106 (Old World - New World)