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WETA Classical

  • Piano Quintet #1 in A Minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro

    Louise Farrenc

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Linos Ensemble

    CPO 999.194 (Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintets)
  • Cello Concerto (G. 475)

    Luigi Boccherini

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)

    EBS 6055 (Boccherini: Concerti per violoncello, vol. 2)
  • Concerto, RV 537

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | Kurt Sandau (trumpet) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Max Pommer (conductor)

    Capriccio 10.141 (Italienische Trompetenkonzerte Vol. 2)
  • Overture for Wind Instruments, Op. 24

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures)
  • Horn Concerto #3 in E-flat Major, K 447

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Peter Damm (horn) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)

    Philips 422.330 (Mozart: The Horn Concertos, Rondo)
  • Symphony #9 "From the New World"

    Antonín Dvorák

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Berlin Philharmonic | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

    DG 447.412 (Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 "From the New World")
  • Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Maurizio Pollini (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 439.770 (Beethoven: Die 5 Klavierkonzerte)
  • Symphony #90

    Joseph Haydn

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle (conductor)

    EMI 54297 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 60, 70 & 90)
  • Pictures at an Exhibition

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)

    Naxos 555.924 (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky)
  • Symphony #4

    Johannes Brahms

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 435.349 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Haydn Variations)
  • Overture in A Minor, FWV K:a1

    Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Tempesta di Mare

    Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2)
  • Symphony #41 in C Major, K 551 "Jupiter"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor)

    Analekta 9834 (Mozart: Symphones Nos. 40 & 41)
  • Piano Concerto #2

    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Philippe Entremont (piano) | Toulouse Orchestra | Michel Plasson (conductor)

    CBS 45624 (Saint-Saëns: The 5 Piano Concertos)
  • Overture #6 in G Major

    Johann Christian Bach

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures)
  • Waltzes

    Johannes Brahms

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Santiago Rodriguez (piano)

    Elan Recordings 2200 (Rodriguez Plays Brahms)
  • Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    National Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    NSO 0013 (Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies)
  • Concerto, RV 236

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)

    Chandos 6578 (Vivaldi: Six Concertos, Op.8, Nos. 7-12)

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • Dichterliebe, Op. 48

    Robert Schumann

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Philippe Sly (bass/baritone) | Michael McMahon (piano)

    Analekta 29836 (In Dreams)
  • Elias (Elijah): Part II, Conclusion (Nr. 34-42)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Elijah] | Andrea Rost (soprano) [The Widow] | Cornelia Kallisch [The Angel] | Deon van der Walt [King Ahab] | Johannes Dietzel [The Youth] | Cornelia Kallisch [Queen Jezebel] | Deon van der Walt [Obadiah] | Chor des Städt. Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf | Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor)

    EMI 56475 (Mendelssohn: Elias)
  • Hippolyte et Aricie

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Véronique Gens [Aricie] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Hippolyte] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Phèdre] | Russell Smythe [Thésée] | Thérèse Feighan [Diane] | Annick Massis [L'Amour] | Laurent Naouri [Pluton/Neptune/Jupiter] | Florence Katz [Onone] | Jean-Lous Georgel [Mercure/Arcas] | Luc Coadou [Tisiphone] | Jean-Louis Meunier [Parque] | Jacques-François Loiseleur des Longchamps [Parque] | Jérôme Varnier [Parque] | Monique Simon [La Grande-Prêtresse] | Stephan Van Dyck [Un Suivant de l'Amour] | Kiyoko Okada [Une Prêtresse] | Meredith Hall [Une Chasseresse] | Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius [Nymphes de Diane, habitants de la forêt, suivants de l'Amour, prêtresses de Diane, divinités infernales, Trézéniens, matelots, chasseurs et chasseresses, bergers et bergères] | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    Archiv 445.853 (Hippolyte et Aricie)
  • La traviata: "Pura siccome un angelo" [Act II, Scene 1]

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Matteo Manuguerra (baritone) [Giorgio Germont] | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)

    London 400.057 (Verdi: La Traviata, Highlights)
  • Motet. Tribulationes civitatum

    William Byrd

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Stile Antico

    Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies)
  • The Bells, Op. 35

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic | Svetla Vassileva (soprano) | Misha Didyk (tenor) | Alexei Tanovitski (bass) | Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater

    Chandos 10706 (Rachmaninoff: The Bells; Spring)
  • Cantata. Bella, s'io t'amo

    Alessandro Scarlatti

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Clara Rottsolk (soprano) | Tempesta di Mare

    Chandos 0768 (Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music)
  • Il Signor Bruschino: Conclusion

    Gioachino Rossini

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Samuel Ramey (bass) [Gaudenzio] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Sofia] | Claudio Desderi [Bruschino, padre] | Octavio Arévalo [Bruschino, figlio] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Florville] | Octavio Arévalo [Commissario di polizia] | Michele Pertusi [Filiberto] | Jennifer Larmore [Marianna] | English Chamber Orchestra | Ion Marin (conductor)

    DG 435.865 (Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino)
  • Tamerlano: Act III, Opening (Scenes 1-6)

    George Frideric Handel

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    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)
  • Villanelle

    Eva Dell'Acqua

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Olga Peretyatko (soprano) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Enrique Mazzola (conductor)

    Sony 373.859 (Arabesque)
  • Nachtlied, Op. 108

    Robert Schumann

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)
  • Rienzi: Act I Finale

    Richard Wagner

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    René Kollo (tenor) [Rienzi] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Irene] | Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Steffano Colonna] | John Janssen [Adriano] | Bodo Brinkmann [Paolo Orsini] | Hans Helms [Kardinal Orvieto] | Norbert Orth [Baroncelli] | Kieth Engen [Cecco del Vecchio] | Carmen Anhorn [Ein Friedensbote] | Raimund Grumbach [Der Gesandte Mailands] | Hans Wilbrink [Der Gesandte der lombardischen Städte] | Friedrich Lenz [Der Gesandte Neapels] | Alfred Kuhn [Der Gesandte Bayerns] | Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper | Bayerisches Staatsorchester | Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    Orfeo 346.953 (Wagner: Rienzi)
  • Shéhérazade

    Maurice Ravel

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Renée Fleming (soprano) | French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Alan Gilbert (conductor)

    Decca 001654302 (Poemes)
  • I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Part 4, Scene 2, Romeo's aria. "Tu sola, o mia Giulietta...Deh! tu, bell'anima" (You alone, my own Juliet...I pray you, sweet spirit)

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Romeo] | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

    Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli)
  • Requiem, K. 626: IV. Offertorium

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Tuesday
    Mar 19

    Arleen Augér (soprano) | Delores Ziegler (mezzo-soprano) | Jerry Hadley (tenor) | Tom Krause | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Robert Shaw (conductor)

    Telarc 80128 (Mozart: Requiem)