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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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir of a Beloved Place
Tuesday
Jan 21
Russian National Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin) | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 457.064 (Glazunov & Kabalevsky: Violin Concertos) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 540
Tuesday
Jan 21
I Musici | Pepe Romero (guitar)
Philips 434.082 (Vivaldi: Concertos for Guitar and Strings) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphonic Variations
Tuesday
Jan 21
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor)
Naxos 570.714 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9) -
Johann Pachelbel
Musical Delight: Suite #2
Tuesday
Jan 21
London Baroque
Harmonia Mundi 290.1539 (Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #1 in D Major "Titan"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
Audite 95.467 (Mahler: Symphony No. 1) -
George Frideric Handel
Keyboard Suite #5 in E Major, HWV 430
Tuesday
Jan 21
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London 417.372 (Mostly Mozart) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony #3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor) | Matthias Eisenberg (organ)
EMI 56362 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonie avec orgue) -
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune
Tuesday
Jan 21
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 85072 (Stokowski Transcriptions) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Suite in E Minor
Tuesday
Jan 21
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Tuesday
Jan 21
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 431.680 (Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - Sibelius: Valse Triste, etc.) -
Joseph Haydn
Divertimento in D Major, Hob. V:15
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
PBS News Hour
Tuesday
Jan 21
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Claude Debussy
Sacred and Profane Dances
Tuesday
Jan 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Skaila Kanga (harp)
Chandos 8621 (Ravel, Debussy, Saint_Saëns & Roussel) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto (G. 475)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6055 (Boccherini: Concerti per violoncello, vol. 2) -
Robert Schumann
Novelette, Op. 21 #2 in D Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 421.010 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 2) -
Frédéric Chopin
Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22
Tuesday
Jan 21
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Clarinet Concerto #1 B-flat Major: I. Allegro
Tuesday
Jan 21
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | South German Chamber Orchestra | Sebastian Tewinkel (conductor)
CPO 777.241 (Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #3 in D Major, D 200: III. Menuetto. Vivace; Trio
Tuesday
Jan 21
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2154 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4) -
Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Violin Concerto #3 in E Minor, Op. 44: I. Moderato
Tuesday
Jan 21
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kirk Trevor (conductor) | Philippe Quint (violin)
Naxos 570.360 (Bériot: Violin Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 5) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5 in E Minor, Op 64: III. Valse. Allegro moderato
Tuesday
Jan 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
LSO Live 0858 (Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5) -
Johann Joachim Quantz
Flute Sonata #274: III. Grazioso ma vivace
Tuesday
Jan 21
Verena Fischer (transverse flute) | Klaus-Dieter Brandt (baroque cello) | Léon Berben (harpsichord)
Naxos 557.805 (Quantz: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272 - 277) -
Richard Wagner
Rienzi: Overture
Tuesday
Jan 21
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 474.5022 (German Overtures) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #22: III. Allegro
Tuesday
Jan 21
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Leif Ove Andsnes (conductor)
Sony Mozart Momentum (Mozart Momentum) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 45: III. Scherzo. Vivace
Tuesday
Jan 21
David Geringas (cello) | Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) | Barbara Moser (piano)
Gramola 99225 (Den Männer ebenbürtig) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5: III. Allegro
Tuesday
Jan 21
Jaap ter Linden (conductor) | Arion
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto #2 in D Minor, Op. 40: III. Finale. Presto scherzando
Tuesday
Jan 21
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 483.6471 (Jan Lisiecki: Mendelssohn) -
Jan Neruda
Trumpet Concerto E-flat Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Alison Balsom (trumpet) | German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen | Alison Balsom (conductor)
EMI 16213 (Haydn, Hummel & etc: Trumpet Concertos) -
Benjamin Britten
Soirees Musicales
Tuesday
Jan 21
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | National Philharmonic of London
London 410.139 (Rossini & Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #5 in G Minor
Tuesday
Jan 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Robert Schumann
Carnaval
Tuesday
Jan 21
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 63885 (Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 11, Carnaval, Op. 9) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #35 "Haffner"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 447.416 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 - 41) -
Johannes Brahms
Rhapsody, Op. 79 #2
Tuesday
Jan 21
Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 48046 (Brahms: Handel Variations) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1058 in G Minor
Tuesday
Jan 21
Bernard Labadie (conductor) | Les Violons du Roy | Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Virgin 70913 (Bach: Keyboard Concertos) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #3 in C Major, Op. 32
Tuesday
Jan 21
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento, K. 334
Tuesday
Jan 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 423.375 (Mozart: Divertimento K. 334, Serenata Notturna) -
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Tuesday
Jan 21
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Jesús López-Cobos (conductor)
Telarc 80171 (Ravel: Bolero) -
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
Overture #4
Tuesday
Jan 21
Berlin Academy for Old Music
Harmonia Mundi 90.1852 (Ouvertüren für die Hamburger Oper) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite
Tuesday
Jan 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80151 (Tchaikovsky: Swan lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites) -
Jules Massenet
Meditation from "Thaïs"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Gerard Schwarz (conductor) | New York Chamber Symphony
EMI 49276 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Saint-Saëns) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio #27 C Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Dorian 90164 (Haydn Piano Trios) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #2 in C Minor, Op. 17
Tuesday
Jan 21
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449.967 (Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6) -
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto #1 in C Minor, Op. 26
Tuesday
Jan 21
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor) | Karl Leister (clarinet)
Orfeo 088.101 (Spohr: Clarinet Concertos 1 & 4) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture C Major "Water Music"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 413.788 (Telemann: Wassermusik) -
Ferruccio Busoni
Duettino concertante (based on Finale of Piano Concerto, K 459)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Anderson | Roe Piano Duo
Steinway & Sons 30022 (An Amadeus Affair) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il turco in Italia: Overture
Tuesday
Jan 21
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | National Philharmonic of London
Decca 400.049 (Rossini: 7 Overtures) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
La Muse et le Poète
Tuesday
Jan 21
Gautier Capuçon (cello) | Renaud Capuçon (violin) | French Radio Philharmonic | Lionel Bringuier (conductor)
Erato 34134 (Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #5 in A Major, Op. 18 #5
Tuesday
Jan 21
Miró Quartet
Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets) -
Ihor Shamo
Ukrainian Suite: Dance
Tuesday
Jan 21
Violina Petrychenko (piano)
Ars Produktion 38195 (Ukrainian Moods) -
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for 2 Organ Lyres #3 in G Major, Hob. VIIh:3 (arr. for flute & oboe)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) | Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor) | Pierre Pierlot (oboe)
CBS 39772 (Haydn: Concertos for Flute & Oboe) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Flute Trio in G Minor, Op. 63: IV. Finale. Allegro
Tuesday
Jan 21
Bonita Boyd (flute) | Steven Doane (cello) | Barry Snyder (piano)
Bridge 9539 (Aquarelles) -
Johann Bernhard Bach
Orchestral Suite in E Minor: VI-VIII. Rigaudons; Courante; Gavotte en rondeaux
Tuesday
Jan 21
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Carl Reinecke
Symphony #3 in G Minor, Op. 227: I. Allegro
Tuesday
Jan 21
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonia, H. 660 in A Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra
Capriccio 10.106 (CPE Bach: Six Symphonies for Strings) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #2 in C Major, Op. 61: II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
Tuesday
Jan 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0818 (Robert Schumann: Overture: Genoveva; Symphony No. 4; Symphony #2) -
Johann Valentin Rathgeber
Concerto for 2 Trumpets and 2 Violins in E-flat Major, Op. 6 #15
Tuesday
Jan 21
English Chamber Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor) | Hannes Läubin (trumpet) | Bernhard Läubin (trumpet)
DG 431.817 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #4 in G Minor, Op. 40: I. Allegro vivace
Tuesday
Jan 21
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #4 in E-flat Major "Romantic": III. Scherzo. Bewegt
Tuesday
Jan 21
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Paris Orchestra
Ondine 1030 (Bruckner: Symphony No. 4) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Triple Concerto in B-flat Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Combattimento Consort
Olympia 342 (Baroque Concert No. 2) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81: IV. Finale. Allegro
Tuesday
Jan 21
Emerson String Quartet | Evgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 483.6574 (The New York Concert) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Trio, Op. 12 in E-flat Major: III. Finale. Presto
Tuesday
Jan 21
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 446.077 (Hummel: Piano Trios) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12 Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" K 265
Tuesday
Jan 21
Lang Lang (piano)
DG 479.7528 (Lang Lang Piano Book) -
Alexander Glazunov
Concert Waltz #2
Tuesday
Jan 21
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Orfeo 157.101 (Glazunov: Symphony No. 3, Concert Waltz No. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
Tuesday
Jan 21
Les Siècles | François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2421 (Beethoven Symphony no. 3 'Eroica') -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music: Excerpts
Tuesday
Jan 21
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor)
CPO 777.312 (Händel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks) -
Bedřich Smetana
Grand Overture in D Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10413 (Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria and Variations 1-4
Tuesday
Jan 21
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 506096 (Igor Levit) -
Louise Farrenc
Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40
Tuesday
Jan 21
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #39
Tuesday
Jan 21
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | The English Concert
Archiv 427.661 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 35, 38, 39, & 59) -
Frédéric Chopin
Tarantelle
Tuesday
Jan 21
Malcolm Frager (piano)
Telarc 80040 (Malcolm Frager plays Chopin) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 505 in B-flat Major for Bassoon, Strings and Continuo
Tuesday
Jan 21
Mathieu Lussier (bassoon) | Arion
Early Music 7764 (Vivaldi) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #1
Tuesday
Jan 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Evgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 427.485 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Antonio Lotti
Alessandro severo: Sinfonia
Tuesday
Jan 21
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #4 in G Major
Tuesday
Jan 21
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Christine Schäfer (soprano)
RC Live 07003 (Mahler: Symphony No. 4) -
Tuesday
Jan 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Aaron Copland (conductor)
CBS 39443 -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #6
Tuesday
Jan 21
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8530 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 6) -
John Marsh
Symphony #2
Tuesday
Jan 21
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10458 (Marsh: Symphonies) -
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Turkish March, Op. 55
Tuesday
Jan 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Arthur Fagen (conductor)
Naxos 553.405 (Ippolitov-Ivanov Orchestral Works) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto (G. 481)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Julius Berger (cello) | Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Vladislav Czarnecki (conductor)
EBS 6057 (Boccherini: Concerti per Violoncello Viol. 3) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Quartet #3 in B Minor, Op. 3
Tuesday
Jan 21
Domus
Virgin 91183 (Mendelssohn: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 - 3) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Ballet Music
Tuesday
Jan 21
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite #5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
Tuesday
Jan 21
Zuill Bailey (cello)
Telarc 31978 (Bach Cello Suites) -
Vincent d'Indy
Summer Day in the Mountains
Tuesday
Jan 21
Marek Janowski (conductor) | French Radio Philharmonic
Musifrance 2292.45821 (D'Indy: Symphonie Cévenole) -
Christian Cannabich
Symphony #50
Tuesday
Jan 21
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Uwe Grodd (conductor)
Naxos 554.340 (Cannabich: Symphonies Nos. 47 - 52)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act II, Tolomeo's and Seleuce's duet. "Se il cor ti perde" (If my heart should lose you)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Tolomeo] | Karina Gauvin [Seleuce]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
John Eccles
The Judgment of Paris
Tuesday
Jan 21
Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor) | Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) [Juno] | Roderick Williams (baritone) [Mercury] | Benjamin Hulett (tenor) [Paris] | Claire Booth (soprano) [Pallas] | Lucy Crowe (soprano) [Venus]
Chandos 0759 (Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, etc.) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette
Tuesday
Jan 21
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Roméo] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Juliette] | José van Dam (baritone) [Frère Laurent] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Stéphano] | Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Mercutio] | Alain Fondary [Capulet] | Claire Larcher [Gertrude] | Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Tybalt] | Guy Flechter [Benvolio] | Didier Henry [Pâris] | Till Fecnher [Grégorio] | Alain Vernhes [Le Duc] | Christophe Fel [Frère Jean] | Anne Constantin [Manuela] | Doris Lamprecht [Pepita] | Yann Beuron [Angelo] | Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
EMI 56123 (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette) -
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: "Gloria Patri"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Lynne Dawson (soprano) | Arleen Augér (soprano) | Diana Montague (alto) | Leigh Nixon (tenor) | Simon Birchall (bass) | Choir of Westminster Abbey and Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor)
Archiv 423.594 (Handel: Dixit Dominus) -
Guy Ropartz
Quatre poèmes d'après l'intermezzo d'Heinrich Heine
Tuesday
Jan 21
Philippe Sly (bass/baritone) | Michael McMahon (piano)
Analekta 29836 (In Dreams) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Nancy Argenta (soprano) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0533-4 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater: Cavatina. "Fac, ut portem Christi mortem"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DG 449.178 (Rossini: Stabat Mater) -
Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem, Op. 45: #2. Behold, all flesh is as the grass
Tuesday
Jan 21
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act I, Scenes 1-3
Tuesday
Jan 21
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) [Adina] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Nemorino] | Sir Geraint Evans [Dulcamara] | Ingvar Wixell [Belcore] | Lillian Watson [Gianetta] | John Pritchard (conductor)
CBS 79210 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 24: #3-Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
Tuesday
Jan 21
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 458.265 (Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Act III
Tuesday
Jan 21
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Macbeth] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Banco] | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Anna Caterina Antonacci [Dama] | Veriano Luchetti [Macduff] | Antonio Barasorda [Malcolm] | Sergio Fontana [Medico] | Gianfranco Casarini [Servo] | Gastone Sarti [Sicario] | Giuseppe Morresi [Araldo] | Natale de Carolis [Prima apparizione] | Barbara Briscik [Seconda apparizione] | Marco Fanti [Terza apparizione] | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna [Streghe, messaggeri del re, nobili e profughi scozzesi, sicari, soldati inglesi, bardi] | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
London 417.525 (Verdi: Macbeth) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #06. Der Neugierige [The Fair Miller-Maid: Curiosity]
Tuesday
Jan 21
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Part II
Tuesday
Jan 21
Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Peter Kooij (bass) | Chorus and Orchestra of Collegium Vocale, Ghent | Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) | Ensemble Vocal de la Chapelle Royale, Paris | Howard Crook (tenor) [Evangelist] | Ulrik Cold (bass) [Jesus] | René Jacobs (alto) | Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1155-57 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) -
Ivan the Terrible
Kuimi pokhvalienui mi (Chant for St Peter)
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips (director)
Gimell 2 (Russian Orthodox Music) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Havanaise
Tuesday
Jan 21
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
London 452.667 (Chant d'amour) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: X. Quando corpus morietur (Whenthe body shall die) and XI. Amen
Tuesday
Jan 21
John Aler | Kaaren Erickson (soprano) | Claudine Carlson | John Cheek (bass) | Westminster Symphonic Choir | New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | Zdenek Macal (conductor)
Delos 3161 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem, Op. 45: #6. Here on Earth have we no continuing place
Tuesday
Jan 21
Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Utah Symphony | Craig Jessop (conductor)
Telarc 80501 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Pietra del Paragone: Act II, Aria. "Oh come il fosco impetuoso nembo"
Tuesday
Jan 21
José Carreras (tenor) [Giocondo] | Newell Jenkins (conductor) | The Clarion Concerts Orchestra
Vanguard 9031 (Rossini: La Pietra del Paragone) -
Jean-Marie Leclair
Scylla et Glaucus: Prologue
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Donna Brown [Scylla] | Howard Crook (tenor) [Glaucus] | Rachel Yakar (soprano) [Circé] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Dorine] | Françoise Golfier [L'Amour] | Agnes Mellon [Vénus] | Renè Schirrer [Licas] | Elisabeth Vidal (soprano) [Témire] | Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor) [Un Propetide] | Nicolas Robertson [Un Propetide] | Philip Salmon [Un berger] | Richard Stuart (baritone) [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Un Silvain] | Francis Dudziak [Hécate]
Erato 2292.45277 (Leclair: Sylla et Glaucus) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 24: #7-Berg' und Burgen schaun herunter
Tuesday
Jan 21
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 458.265 (Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera: Act I
Tuesday
Jan 21
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) -
Richard Dering
Ave virgo gloriosa
Tuesday
Jan 21
John Rutter (conductor) | The Cambridge Singers
Collegium 116 (Ave gracias plena) -
Gabriel Fauré
Requiem, Op. 48: Offertory
Tuesday
Jan 21
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80135 (Fauré Requiem) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale: Act III, Scene 2
Tuesday
Jan 21
Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] | Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] | Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] | Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] | Henry Newman [Un Notaro] | Sarah Caldwell (conductor)
EMI 66030 (Donizetti: Don Pasquale) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #26. Chorus and Trio, Chorus da capo. "Vollendet is das große Werk.Zu dir, o Herr, blickt alles auf"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Aldo Baldin [Uriel] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Raphael] | Edith Mathis [Gabriel]
Philips 416.449 (Haydn: Die Schöpfung) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act II, Finale.
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry [Count Almaviva] | Hillevi Martinpelto [Countess Almaviva] | Alison Hagley [Susanna] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Figaro] | Pamela Helen Stephen [Cherubino] | Susan McCulloch [Marcellina] | Carlos Feller [Bartolo] | Francis Egerton [Basilio] | Francis Egerton [Don Curzio] | Julian Clarkson [Antonio] | Constanze Backes [Barbarina] | Lucinda Houghton [Contadina] | Sarah Connolly [Contadina]
Archiv 439.871 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #12. Pause [The Fair Miller-Maid: Pause]
Tuesday
Jan 21
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème: Act III
Tuesday
Jan 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Mimì] | Rolando Panerai (baritone) [Marcello] | Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) [Musetta] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin [Street vendors, men, women, milkmaids, peasants] | Hans-Dietrich Pohl (bass) [Doganiere] | Hans-Dieter Appelt (bass) [Sergente dei Doganieri]
London 421.049 (Puccini: La Bohème) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Act I
Tuesday
Jan 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) -
Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Recorded live on May 7, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam | Wolfram Rieger (piano)
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Tuesday
Jan 21
Michael Chance (alto) | Jennifer Smith (soprano) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Harry van der Kamp (bass) | Netherlands Chamber Choir | Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Philips 426.238 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Gabriel Fauré
Nell
Tuesday
Jan 21
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Jérôme Ducros (piano)
Virgin 16621 (Opium - Mélodies françaises) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Stiffelio: Act I
Tuesday
Jan 21
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | José Carreras (tenor) [Stiffelio] | Sylvia Sass [Lina] | Matteo Manuguerra (baritone) [Stankar] | Wladimiro Ganzarolli [Jorg] | Ezio di Cesare [Raffaele] | Maria Venuti [Dorotea] | Edda Moser [Federico] | ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Vienna
Philips 475.6775 (Verdi: Stiffelio) -
Anonymous
Mater ora filium
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Hilliard Ensemble | Paul Hillier (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1154 (Sumer is icumen in: Chants medievaux anglais) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Dite almeno in che mancai, K 479
Tuesday
Jan 21
Marcel Reijans (tenor) | European Chamber Orchestra | Wilhelm Keitel (conductor) | Ezio Maria Tisi (bass) | Caroline Vitale (mezzo-soprano) | Christian Tchelebiev (bass)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème: Act IV
Tuesday
Jan 21
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) | Anna Moffo (soprano) | Richard Tucker (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Robert Merrill [Marcello] | Mary Costa [Musetta] | Giorgio Tozzi [Colline] | Philip Maero (baritone) [Schaunard] | Fernando Corena [Benoît] | Giorgio Onesti [Alcindoro] | Adelio Zagonara (tenor) | Flavio Tosin [Doganiere] | Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus
RCA 63179 (Puccini: La Bohème) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #09. Des Müllers Blumen [The Fair Miller-Maid: The miller's flowers]
Tuesday
Jan 21
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. John Passion, BWV 245: Part II
Tuesday
Jan 21
Barbara Schlick (soprano) | Max von Egmond (bass) | Nico van der Meel (tenor) | René Jacobs (alto) | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) [Evangelist] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Jesus] | Chorus and Orchestra of La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77041-2 (Bach: St. John Passion) -
Heinrich Isaac
La morra
Tuesday
Jan 21
Jordi Savall (conductor) | La Capella Reial de Catalunya | Hesperion XXI
Alia Vox 9922 (Henricus Isaac in the Time of Lorenzo de Medici & Maximiliam I) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (For all flesh, it is as grass)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | James Levine (conductor)
RCA 60861 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Tuesday
Jan 21
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 458.265 (Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella) -
George Frideric Handel
Judas Maccabæus: Duet. "From this dread scene"
Tuesday
Jan 21
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Naïve 5261 (Handel, Streams of Pleasure) -
Gustav Mahler
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Tuesday
Jan 21
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Recorded live on May 9, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Platée (Comédie lyrique): Act II
Tuesday
Jan 21
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Ensemble Vocal Françoise Herr | Mercure] | Gilles Ragon (tenor) [Platée (Plataea)] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [La Folie (Folly) | Thalie (Thalia)] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Thespis | Vincent Le Texier (bass-baritone) [Jupiter | Un Satire (A Satyr)] | Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano) [Junon (Juno)] | Bernard Delétré (bass) [Cithéron | Momus (in Prologue)] | Véronique Gens (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid) | Clarine] | Michel Vershaeve (baritone) [Momus (in Acts II | III)] | Caroline de Corbiac (soprano), Myriam Sosson (soprano) [Deux Ménades (Two Maenads)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #18. Trockne Blumen [The Fair Miller-Maid: Dry flowers]
Tuesday
Jan 21
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle, K 538
Tuesday
Jan 21
Christiane Oelze (soprano) | Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: I. Kyrie
Tuesday
Jan 21
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Eva Mei (soprano) | Robert Holl (bass) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 9031.74884 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: II. Dies Irae
Tuesday
Jan 21
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Marilyn Horne | Martti Talvela
London 411.944 (Verdi: Requiem) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 170. Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Contented rest, beloved heart's desire): Aria. Mir ekelt mehr zu leben (It sickens me to live longer)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Magdalena Kozená | Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 474.1942 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Blessed are they who bear suffering)
Tuesday
Jan 21
San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
London 443.771 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Richard Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder: #3. Beim Schlafengehn
Tuesday
Jan 21
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Houston Symphony Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
RCA 68539 (Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder) -
Orlando Gibbons
See, see the Word is incarnate
Tuesday
Jan 21
Stile Antico | Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act I, Scenes 1-5
Tuesday
Jan 21
RIAS Chamber Chorus | René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Johannes Weisser [Don Giovanni] | Lorenzo Regazzo [Leporello] | Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Donna Elivra] | Olga Pasichnyk [Donna Anna] | Kenneth Tarver [Don Ottavio] | Sunhae Im [Zerlina] | Nikolay Borchev [Masetto] | Alessandro Guerzoni [Il Commendatore]
Harmonia Mundi 90.1964-66 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème: Aria. Donde lieta usci (Back to the place I left)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
EMI 31509 (Homage to Maria Callas) -
Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust
Tuesday
Jan 21
Richard Leech (tenor) [Faust] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Méphistophélès] | Françoise Pollet [Marguerite] | Michel Philippe [Brander] | Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | Charles Dutoit (conductor)
London 444.812 (Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust) -
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act III
Tuesday
Jan 21
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Robert Holl (bass) [Hans Sachs] | Emily Magee [Eva] | Peter Seiffert [Walther von Stolzing] | Endrik Wottrich [David] | Matthias Hòlle [Veit Pogner] | Bernhard Schneider [Kunz Vogelgesang] | Roman Trekel [Konrad Nachtigal] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Sixtus Beckmesser] | Hans-Joachim Ketelsen [Fritz Kothner] | Torsten kerl [Balthasar Zorn] | Peter Maus [Ulrich Eisslinger] | Helmut Pampuch [Augustin Moser] | Sándor Sólyom-Nagy [Hermann Ortel] | Alfred Reiter [Hans Schwarz] | Jyrki Korhonen [Hans Foltz] | Birgitta Svendén [Magdalene] | Kwangchul Youn [A Night Watchman] | Chor un Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Teldec 29333 (Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) -
Anonymous
Ora mai sono in età
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Orlando Consort
Hyperion 68349 (The Florentine Renaissance) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motet, BWV 228. Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir
Tuesday
Jan 21
Pygmalion | Raphaël Pichon (director)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2657 (J.S. Bach: Motets) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: III. Credo
Tuesday
Jan 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | William Kendall (tenor) | Charlotte Margiono | Catherine Robbin | Alastaire Miles
Archiv 429.779 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Teuzzone: Act I, Sinfonia & Scenes 1-6
Tuesday
Jan 21
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) -
Johannes Brahms
Geistliches Lied, op. 30. Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauren mit Trauren (Sacred Song. Let nothing afflict you with grief)
Tuesday
Jan 21
Ken Cowan (organ) | Saint Clement's Choir, Philadelphia | Peter Richard Conte (conductor)
Dorian 80137 (The Romantic Mass)