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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Jake Heggie
Moby-Dick
Saturday
Mar 29
Metropolitan Opera
Private Recording -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 38 #4 in A Major
Saturday
Mar 29
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Saturday
Mar 29
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.060 (Grieg & Tchaikovsky) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #23
Saturday
Mar 29
Howard Shelley (conductor) | London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley (piano)
Chandos 8992 (Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite #2
Saturday
Mar 29
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | French National Orchestra
EMI 47064 (Bizet: L'Arlésienne & Carmen Suites) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio #12 E Minor
Saturday
Mar 29
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Dorian 90164 (Haydn Piano Trios) -
Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto
Saturday
Mar 29
New Philharmonia Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor) | Nathan Milstein (violin)
EMI 47421 (Dvořák & Goldmark: Violin Concertos) -
Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia in G Major
Saturday
Mar 29
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra | Donald Armstrong (conductor)
Naxos 553.347 (Leopold Mozart: Symphonies) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #4
Saturday
Mar 29
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 435.349 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Haydn Variations) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in F Major, Seibel 235
Saturday
Mar 29
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #3. Les Préludes
Saturday
Mar 29
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10341 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 1) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 in F Major
Saturday
Mar 29
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 9004-5-6 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 454
Saturday
Mar 29
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 431.673 (Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 454 & 481) -
Frédéric Chopin
Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Theme of Moore for piano 4 hands in D Major
Saturday
Mar 29
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Vovka Ashkenazy (piano)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #75 in D Major
Saturday
Mar 29
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings
Saturday
Mar 29
Christopher Hogwood (conductor) | London Philharmonic
London 417.452 (Dvořák: Serenades Op. 22 & 24) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #26 "Les adieux"
Saturday
Mar 29
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 42319 (Beethoven: Piano Sonatas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #4
Saturday
Mar 29
Lorin Maazel (conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra
CBS 44784 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Saturday
Mar 29
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #8 in B Minor "Unfinished", D 759
Saturday
Mar 29
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Örebro
BIS 1656 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 433 "The Storm at Sea"
Saturday
Mar 29
Cologne Concert
Capriccio 10.304 (Vivaldi: Concerti "La Tempesta di Mare" & "La Notte") -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Overture
Saturday
Mar 29
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
Helicon 02-9673 (Berlioz; Borodin) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K. 311
Saturday
Mar 29
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 473.689 (Mozart: Piano Sonatas, K310, 311 & 533, K494, etc.) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain (original)
Saturday
Mar 29
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 555.924 (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #96 "Miracle"
Saturday
Mar 29
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.975 (Haydn: Symphonies No. 96 "The Miracle" & No. 100 "Military") -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #8 in D-flat Major
Saturday
Mar 29
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Flute Concerto in C Major
Saturday
Mar 29
Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Manfred Friedrich (flute)
Capriccio 10.064 (Friedrich Jr.: Flötenkonzerte & Sinfonien) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"
Saturday
Mar 29
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Lambert Orkis (piano)
DG 457.619 (Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Conclusion in E Minor
Saturday
Mar 29
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #2
Saturday
Mar 29
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.888 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2, The Rock) -
Antonio Bazzini
Dance of the Goblins, Op. 25
Saturday
Mar 29
Chloe Hanslip (violin) | Caspar Frantz (piano)
Naxos 570.800 (Bazzini: Works for Violin and Piano) -
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Saturday
Mar 29
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 410.082 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Academic Festival Overture) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #6 "Pathetique"
Saturday
Mar 29
Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
London 460.609 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique") -
Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo, Op. 81/2
Saturday
Mar 29
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0003888 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria and Variations in the Italian Style, BWV 989
Saturday
Mar 29
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Hyperion 67499 (Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor) -
Niccolò Paganini
Violin Concerto #1 in D Major, Op. 6
Saturday
Mar 29
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 429.786 (Paganini & Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Concerto for Strings G Major
Saturday
Mar 29
St. James' Baroque Players
Teldec 4509.91192 (Baroque Music of Bologna) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #15
Saturday
Mar 29
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Arturo Michelangeli (piano) | Cord Garben (conductor)
DG 431.097 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 & 15) -
Arthur Foote
Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 20
Saturday
Mar 29
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons - Spring (Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269)
Saturday
Mar 29
Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
EMI 54208 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, etc.)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Mad Scene. "O giusto cielo!" - Il dolce suono...Ohimè!..sorge il tremendo fantasma...Ardon gli incensi...Spargi d'amoro pianto"
Saturday
Mar 29
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Anna Netrebko (soprano)
DG 0002999 (Sempre Libera) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 198. Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl (Let, Princess, let one more ray)
Saturday
Mar 29
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Paul Agnew (tenor) | Lisa Larsson (soprano) | Elisabeth Von Magnus (alto)
Erato 0630.15562 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #19. Trio and Chorus with Soloists. "In holder Anmut stehn.Der Herr ist groß"
Saturday
Mar 29
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) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, K 427: Gloria: Qui tollis
Saturday
Mar 29
Harry Christophers (conductor) | Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Coro 16084 (Mozart: Mass in C Minor) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera: Act I, Finale
Saturday
Mar 29
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Opera Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Riccardo] | Renato Bruson [Renato] | Margaret Price [Amelia] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Ulrica] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Oscar] | Peter Weber [Silvano] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Samuel] | Malcolm King [Tom] | Alexander Oliver [Un Giudice] | Peter Hall [Un Servo d'Amelia] | Royal College of Music Junior Department Chorus
London 410.210 (Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Teuzzone: Act III
Saturday
Mar 29
Paolo Lopez [Teuzzone] | Raffaella Milanesi [Zidiana] | Delphine Galou [Zelinda] | Roberta Mameli [Cino] | Furio Zanasi [Sivenio] | Antonio Giovannini [Egaro] | Makoto Sakurada [Troncone | Argonte] | Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall (conductor)
Naïve 30513 (Vivaldi: Teuzzone) -
Gabriel Fauré
Poème d'un jour (Poem of a day): Recontre (Encounter)
Saturday
Mar 29
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
Leoš Janáček
Six Moravian Choruses
Saturday
Mar 29
Cappella Amsterdam | Philip Mayers (piano) | Daniel Reuss (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2097 (Janáček: Choral Works) -
Arnold Bax
Prometheus Unbound: Enchanted Summer
Saturday
Mar 29
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Brighton Festival Chorus | Anne Williams-King (soprano) | Lynore McWhirther (soprano) | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8625 (Bax: Choral Works) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 200. Bekennen will ich seinen Namen (I want to acknowledge his name)
Saturday
Mar 29
Magdalena Kozená | Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 474.1942 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Franz Schubert
Winterreise: #11-Frühlingstraum
Saturday
Mar 29
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 57790 (Schubert: Winterreise) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Dardanus: Prologue
Saturday
Mar 29
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] | Véronique Gens [Iphise] | Laurent Naouri [Anténor] | Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] | Russell Smythe [Teucer] | Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] | Françoise Masset [L'Amour] | Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] | Alain Lombard (conductor) [Seconde Songe] | Marcos Pujol [Troisième Songe] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] | Françoise Masset [Seconde Phrygienne] | Jean-François Lombard [Seconde Songe]
Archiv 463.476 (Rameau: Dardanus) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orphée et Euridice: Act III
Saturday
Mar 29
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Orphée] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Euridice] | Suzie LeBlanc [Amour] | Opera Lafayette Orchestra and Chorus | Ryan Brown (conductor)
Naxos 660.185-86 (Gluck: Orphée et Euridice) -
Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Saturday
Mar 29
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Vienna Philharmonic | Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 0003894 (Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) -
Henri Dutilleux
Le Temps l'horloge (Time and the Clock)
Saturday
Mar 29
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | French National Orchestra
Decca 001654302 (Poemes) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 199. Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (My heart swims in blood)
Saturday
Mar 29
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music | Craig Smith (conductor)
Nonesuch 79692 (Bach: Cantatas, BWV 82 and 199) -
Charles Gounod
Mireille: Act V, Aria. "Mon cour est plein d'un noir souci!...Anges du paradis"
Saturday
Mar 29
Rolando Villazón | Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France | Evelino Pidò (conductor)
Virgin 45719 (Massenet & Gounod: Arias) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: VI. Fac me vere tecum flere (Make me truly weep with thee)
Saturday
Mar 29
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Stanford Olsen (tenor)
Telarc 80506 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: "E strano . Ah, fors'è lui . Sempre libera"
Saturday
Mar 29
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Andrea Rost (soprano) [Violetta] | Aquiles Machado (tenor) [Alfredo Germont]
Sony 62789 (Le delizie dell'amor) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part II
Saturday
Mar 29
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Judith Blegen (soprano) [Gabriel] | Edda Moser [Uriel] | Kurt Moll [Raphael] | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 419.765 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Gabriel Fauré
Poème d'un jour (Poem of a day): Toujours (Always)
Saturday
Mar 29
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
George Frideric Handel
Armida abbandonata (Armida abandoned), HWV 105
Saturday
Mar 29
Harry Bicket (conductor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert
Harmonia Mundi 90.7559 (Handel in Italy) -
Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater: Quartet. "Sancta mater, istud agas"
Saturday
Mar 29
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | Luba Orgonasova (soprano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Raul Gimenez (tenor) | Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass)
DG 449.178 (Rossini: Stabat Mater) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 197. Wedding Cantata. Gott ist unsre Zuversicht (God is our confidence)
Saturday
Mar 29
Ruth Holton (soprano) | Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Holland Boys Choir | Netherlands Bach Collegium | Sytse Buwalda (alto) | Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Franz Schubert
Winterreise: #12-Einsamkeit
Saturday
Mar 29
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 57790 (Schubert: Winterreise) -
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier: Act III
Saturday
Mar 29
Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Philharmonia Chorus | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Die Feldmarschallin] | Otto Edelmann [Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau] | Christa Ludwig [Octavian] | Eberhard Wächter [Herr von Faninal] | Teresa Stich-Randall [Sophie] | Ljuba Welitsch [Marianne] | Paul Kuen [Valzacchi] | Kerstin Meyer [Annina] | Nicolai Gedda [Ein Sänger] | Loughton High School for Girls | Bancroft's School
EMI 56242 (Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Si mes vers avaient des ailes (If my verses had wings)
Saturday
Mar 29
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Three Psalms for Double Choir, Op. 78
Saturday
Mar 29
Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 99997 (Mendelssohn: Choral Works (Complete)) -
Frank Martin
Suite from the opera "Der Sturm"
Saturday
Mar 29
Thomas Oliemans (baritone) | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Steven Sloane (conductor)
MDG 901.1614 (Martin: Monologues, Der Sturm) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 196. Der Herr denket an uns (The Lord thinks of us)
Saturday
Mar 29
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Guy de Mey (tenor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Erato 4509.98536 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #14. Chorus with Trio. "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes" (The Heavens are Telling)
Saturday
Mar 29
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) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida: "O patri mia"
Saturday
Mar 29
Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) | Philharmonia of Russia | Constantine Orbelian (conductor)
Delos 3404 (Radvanovsky sings Verdi) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act III
Saturday
Mar 29
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Tolomeo] | Karina Gauvin [Seleuce] | Pietro Spagnoli [Araspe] | Anna Bonitatibus [Elisa] | Romina Basso [Alessandro]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
Franz Schubert
Die junge Nonne, D 828
Saturday
Mar 29
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
London 455.294 (The Schubert Album) -
Johann David Heinichen
Missa #11 in D Major
Saturday
Mar 29
Christine Wolff (soprano) | Patrick van Goethem (alto) | Dresdner Barockorchester | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor) | Uwe Stickert (tenor) | Jochen Kupfer (bass)
Carus 83.149 (Heinichen: Missa No. 11 in D-Major) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore
Saturday
Mar 29
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] | Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] | Walter Gullino [Ruiz] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] | Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci]
DG 413.355 (Verdi: Il Trovatore) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa solemnis C Minor, K 139 "Waisenhausmesse": III. Credo
Saturday
Mar 29
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Håkan Hagegård (baritone) | Jadwiga Rappé (alto) | Josef Protschka (tenor)
Teldec 2292.44180 (Mozart: Missa solemnis) -
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot: Act II, Finale
Saturday
Mar 29
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | John Alldis Choir | Joan Sutherland [Turandot] | Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] | Montserrat Caballé [Liù] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] | Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Tom Krause [Ping] | Pier Francesco Poli [Pang | Il Principe di Persia] | Piero de Palma [Pong] | Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
London 414.274 (Puccini: Turandot) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #22. Aria. "Nun scheint in vollem Glanze"
Saturday
Mar 29
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | René Pape (bass) [Raphael]
London 443.445 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Hugo Wolf
Mörike Lieder
Saturday
Mar 29
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Imogen Cooper (piano)
WH Live 0029 (Wolf Songs) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Le Rossignol des lilas (The nightingale amlong the lilac)
Saturday
Mar 29
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
George Frideric Handel
Rinaldo: Aria. "Lascia ch'io pianga"
Saturday
Mar 29
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor) | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Almirena]
DG 477. 8763 (Rosso) -
Ambroise Thomas
Hamlet: Ophelia's mad scene. "A vos jeux, mes amis"
Saturday
Mar 29
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour Les Eléments
Virgin 45610 (Airs d'opéras français) -
Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos: Prologue
Saturday
Mar 29
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor) | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Primadonna/Ariadne] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [The Composer] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerbinetta] | Gary Lakes [The Tenor/Bacchus] | Hermann Prey (baritone) [A Music Master] | Otto Schenk [The Major-domo] | Ewald Aichberger [An Officer] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [A Dancing Master] | Günter von Kannen [A Wig-Maker] | Alfred Sramek [A Footman] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Harlequin] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Scaramouche] | Kurt Rydl [Truffaldino] | Hans Sojer [Brighella] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Naiad] | Helga Müller Molinari [Dryad] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Echo]
DG 419.225 (Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxus) -
Luigi Arditi
Il Bacio (The Kiss)
Saturday
Mar 29
Olga Peretyatko (soprano) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Enrique Mazzola (conductor)
Sony 373.859 (Arabesque)