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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Franz Danzi
Flute Concerto #1 G Major
Sunday
Dec 14
Munich Chamber Orchestra | Andras Adorjan (flute) | Hans Stadlmair (conductor)
Orfeo 003.812 (Danzi: The 4 Flute Concertos) -
George Frideric Handel
Judas Maccabaeus
Sunday
Dec 14
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Judas Maccabaeus] | Lisa Shafer (soprano) [Israelitish Woman] | Patricia Spence (mezzo-soprano) [Israelitish Man] | David Thomas (bass) [Simon] | Brian Asawa (countertenor) [Messenger] | Leroy Kromm (bass-baritone) [Eupolemus] | U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus
Harmonia Mundi 90.7077-78 (Handel: Judas Maccabaeus) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 14
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Philippe Entremont (piano) | Toulouse Orchestra
CBS 45624 (Saint-Saëns: The 5 Piano Concertos) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #94 "Surprise"
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 419.233 (Haydn: Symphony No. 94, Sinfonia Concertante) -
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 410.031 (Brahms: Double Concerto, Academic Festival Overture) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 411.732 (Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #1
Sunday
Dec 14
Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
BIS 1716 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6) -
Gabriel Fauré
Pavane
Sunday
Dec 14
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
From the Top
Sunday
Dec 14
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano and Violin #22 in A Major, K. 305
Sunday
Dec 14
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Ray Chen (violin)
Sony 544775 (Mozart) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Sunday
Dec 14
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Daniil Trifonov (piano)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Sunday
Dec 14
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 47022 (Boléro, Les Préludes & "1812") -
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto, RV 476 in C Major
Sunday
Dec 14
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Onda Armonica | Sergio Azzolini (conductor)
Naïve 30573 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto V) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #2
Sunday
Dec 14
Kurt Masur (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
Teldec 9031.77291 (Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Academic Festival Overture) -
Leroy Anderson
A Christmas Festival Overture
Sunday
Dec 14
Boston Pops | Arthur Fiedler (conductor)
RCA 61685 (Pops Christmas Party) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Sunday
Dec 14
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra
Philips 470.840 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, etc.) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #3
Sunday
Dec 14
Cologne Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor) | Sebastian Knauer (piano)
Naxos 570.485 (Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4, 9 & 11) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante, K. 364
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Bruno Giuranna (viola)
EMI 54302 (Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1, Sinfonia Concertante, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #10 in G Major, Op. 14 #2
Sunday
Dec 14
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5
Sunday
Dec 14
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449.967 (Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture C Major "Water Music"
Sunday
Dec 14
Philip Pickett (director) | New London Consort
Decca 455.621 (Telemann: Wassermusik, Alster Overture) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Sunday
Dec 14
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Sunday
Dec 14
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 415.518 (Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue) -
Leroy Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Sunday
Dec 14
London Cello Sound | Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Cala 55003 (A Cello Christmas) -
Franz Schubert
Fantasie for Piano 4-Hands
Sunday
Dec 14
Murray Perahia (piano) | Radu Lupu (piano)
CBS 39511 (Mozart: Sonata K.448 - Schubert: Fantasia Op. 103) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #95
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Philharmonic
London 417.330 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 104 & 95) -
Robert Schumann
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
Sunday
Dec 14
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
LSO Live 0844 (Robert Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred Overture; Symphony #3) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #7 in B-flat Major
Sunday
Dec 14
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 410.048 (Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) | Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)
London 400.048 (Beethoven: Violin Concerto) -
Ottorino Respighi
The Birds
Sunday
Dec 14
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Edo de Waart (conductor)
Philips 411.419 (Respighi: Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Gli Uccelli) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
Sunday
Dec 14
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic
London 410.551 (Tchaikovsky: Suites from Swan Lake) -
François Devienne
Flute Concerto #7 E Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Alain Marion (flute) | La Ville de Nice Philharmonic | Maximiano Valdes (conductor)
Denon 7923 (The Virtuoso Flute Concertos) -
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto
Sunday
Dec 14
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Antonio Meneses (cello)
DG 410.603 (Brahms: Double Concerto, Tragic Overture) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite #3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 421.640 (Bach: English Suites BWV 806-11) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #6 "Pastoral"
Sunday
Dec 14
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 3984.28144 (Beethoven) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Hob. XVIII:4
Sunday
Dec 14
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano) | Odense Symphony Orchestra | Scott Yoo (conductor)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Sunday
Dec 14
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80052 (Ravel: Bolero, Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #5 "Turkish"
Sunday
Dec 14
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Giuliano Carmignola (violin) | Orchestra Mozart
Archiv 477.7371 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos) -
Bedřich Smetana
Ma Vlast: Vysehrad
Sunday
Dec 14
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #2 in B-flat Major
Sunday
Dec 14
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 413.727 (Handel: Six Concerti Grossi Op. 3) -
Robert Schumann
Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
Sunday
Dec 14
Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Graf van Wassenaer Unico Wilhelm
Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 14
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 8481 ('Pergolesi' Concerti) -
Manuel de Falla
Seven Popular Spanish Songs: #2. Seguidilla murciana
Sunday
Dec 14
Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings
Sunday
Dec 14
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 400.038 (Tchaikovsky & Dvořák: String Serenades) -
Jules Massenet
Meditation from "Thaïs"
Sunday
Dec 14
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor) | Joshua Bell (violin)
Decca 0002783 (The Romantic Violin) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Sunday
Dec 14
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 506096 (Igor Levit) -
Daniel Bacheler
Courantes (3) from Lord Herbert's Lute Book
Sunday
Dec 14
Paul O'Dette (lute)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8250 (The 50th Anniversary Boxed Set) -
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto #1
Sunday
Dec 14
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 427.656 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG 483.7071 (Beethoven Complete Symphonies) -
Franz Schubert
Rosamunde: Entr'acte #3
Sunday
Dec 14
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony, K 19a in F Major
Sunday
Dec 14
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Concentus Musicus of Vienna
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 63970 (Mozart: Early Symphonies) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto
Sunday
Dec 14
Minnesota Orchestra | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Edo de Waart (conductor)
EMI 49429 (Brahms & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
George Frideric Handel
Aria & Variations
Sunday
Dec 14
Simon Preston (organ) | Läubin Brothers (trumpets)
DG 419.245 (Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #4
Sunday
Dec 14
Kurt Masur (conductor) | London Philharmonic
Teldec 2292.46445 (Schumann: Symphonien Nos. 1 & 4) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Symphonie Concertante in A Major (Benton 114)
Sunday
Dec 14
David Perry (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor) | Isabella Lippi (violin)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Pirates of Penzance: Overture
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Sunday
Dec 14
Margaret Marshall (soprano) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Alldis Choir | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Vittorio Negri (conductor) | Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) | Birgit Finnilä (contralto)
Philips 420.648 (Vivaldi: Sacred Choral Works, Vol. 1) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Noch' pechal'na (Sad night), Op. 26 #12
Sunday
Dec 14
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dona nobis pacem
Sunday
Dec 14
Kevin Deas (baritone) | Michelle Areyzaga (soprano) | Richmond Symphony Chorus | Richmond Symphony Orchestra | Steven Smith (conductor)
Reference Recordings 732 (Mason Bates: Children of Adam) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor
Sunday
Dec 14
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Lucia] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Edgardo] | Sherill Milnes [Enrico] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Raimondo] | Ryland Davies [Arturo] | Huguette Tourangeau [Alisa] | Pier Francesco Poli [Normanno]
London 410.193 (Donizett: Lucia di Lammermoor) -
Josquin des Prez
Stabat Mater
Sunday
Dec 14
Brabant Ensemble | Stephen Rice (conductor)
Hyperion 68321 (Motets & Mass Movements) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act II, Nr. 13, Quintet. "Don Basilio!; Cosa veggo!"
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] | Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] | Sally Burgess [Berta] | Matthew Best [Fiorello] | John Noble [Ufficiale]
Philips 411.058 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Roland: Act IV
Sunday
Dec 14
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Nicolas Testé [Roland] | Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] | Olivier Dumait [Médor] | Monique Zanetti [Témire] | Robert Getchell [Astolfe] | Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] | Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante | Demogorgon | Un suivant d'Angélique] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire | Tersandre] | Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire | Un suivant d'Angélique | Coridon, un pâtre]] | Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente | Une suivante d'Angélique | Une postourelle] | Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique | Une amante contente, La Gloire]
Amboise 9949 (Lully: Roland) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Cleonilla's aria. "Tu vedrai" (You shall see)
Sunday
Dec 14
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 172. Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! (Resound, ye songs, ring out, ye strings!)
Sunday
Dec 14
Lisa Larsson (soprano) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Panajotis Iconomou (bass) | Derek Lee Ragin (alto)
SDG 121 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 26) -
Vincenzo Bellini
La Sonnambula: Act II, Scene 2
Sunday
Dec 14
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Chœurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Natalie Dessay [Armina] | Francesco Meli [Elvino] | Carlo Colombara [Il conte Rodolfo] | Sara Mingardo [Teresa] | Jaël Azzaretti [Lisa] | Paul Gay [Alessio] | Gordon Gietz [Un notaro]
Virgin 395138 (Bellini: La Sonnambula) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: VIII. Fac ut portem Christi mortem (Make me bear the death of Christ)
Sunday
Dec 14
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Peter Auty (tenor)
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act III
Sunday
Dec 14
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) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ja opjat' odinok (Once again, I am alone), Op. 26 #9
Sunday
Dec 14
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Linda di Chamounix: Recitative and aria. Ah! tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima (Ah! I have delayed too long...O light of this soul)
Sunday
Dec 14
Michele Mariotti (conductor) | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Linda]
Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Pietra del Paragone: Act I, Scene. "Voi volete, e non volete"
Sunday
Dec 14
José Carreras (tenor) [Giocondo] | Beverly Wolff (mezzo-soprano) [Marchesina Clarice] | Elaine Bonazzi [Baronessa Aspasia] | Anne Elgar [Donna Fulvia] | John Reardon [Conte Asdrubale] | Andrew Foldi [Macrobio] | Justino Diaz [Pacuvio] | Raymond Murcell [Fabrizio] | The Clarion Concerts Orchestra and Chorus | Newell Jenkins (conductor)
Vanguard 9031 (Rossini: La Pietra del Paragone) -
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Requiem ex F con terza minore (Requiem in F Minor): III. Sequence
Sunday
Dec 14
Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 0003457 (Biber: Mass in B-Flat Major) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Dixit Dominus, RV 594
Sunday
Dec 14
Michael Chance (alto) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor) | Academy of Ancient Music | The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Sarah Fox (soprano) | Deborah Norman (soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Jonathan Lemalu (bass)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Edward Elgar
Weary Wind of the West
Sunday
Dec 14
Bavarian Radio Chorus | Max Hanft (piano) | Howard Arman (conductor)
BR Klassik 900522 (Edward Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motet, BWV 225. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Sunday
Dec 14
Pygmalion | Raphaël Pichon (director)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2657 (J.S. Bach: Motets) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo: Act II
Sunday
Dec 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Idomeneo] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Idamante] | Sylvia McNair [Ilia] | Hillevi Martinpelto [Elettra] | Nigel Robson [Arbace] | Glenn Winslade [Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno] | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [La Voce] | Angela Kazimierczuk [Cretesa 1] | Jonathan Peter Kenny [Cretesa 2] | Philip Salmon [Troiane 1] | Stephen Charlesworth [Troiane 2]
Archiv 431.674 (Mozart: Idomeneo) -
John Dowland
I shame at my unworthiness
Sunday
Dec 14
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act IV, Opening, Willow Song and Ave Maria. "Era più calmo? - Mia madre aveva una povera ancella.Piangea cantando nell'erma landa.Ave Maria"
Sunday
Dec 14
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Anna Netrebko (soprano)
DG 0002999 (Sempre Libera) -
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Sunday
Dec 14
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Act I, Coro d'introduzione. "Aggiorna appena" (It's barely daybreak)
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Vienna Singakademie | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
DG 477.8031 (Bellini: I Capuleti & I Montecchi) -
George Frideric Handel
Agrippina: Act III, Scenes 9-15
Sunday
Dec 14
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088-90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Elsa Dreisig (soprano) [Seraph] | Pavol Breslik (tenor) [Christ] | David Soar (bass) [Peter]
LSO Live 862 (Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives) -
John Eccles
Mad Song. "I Burn, I burn, my Brain consumes to Ashes"
Sunday
Dec 14
Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor) | Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Chandos 0759 (Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, etc.) -
Jules Massenet
Le Cid: Act IV
Sunday
Dec 14
Grace Bumbry [Chimene] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] | Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] | Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] | Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] | Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] | Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] | Jake Gardner [Le Roi] | Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] | John Adams [St. Jacques] | Byrne Camp Chorale | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler (conductor)
CBS 79300 (Massenet: Le Cid) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 36. Schwingt freudig euch empor (Soar joyfully aloft)
Sunday
Dec 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | Jan Kobow (tenor)
SDG 162 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 13) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act III, Caio's aria. "Guarda in quest'occhi" (Look into my eyes, and hear)
Sunday
Dec 14
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act I, Nr. 5. Cavatina. "Una voce poco fa"
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] | Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] | Sally Burgess [Berta] | Matthew Best [Fiorello] | John Noble [Ufficiale]
Philips 411.058 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia) -
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Sly: "Un orso in musoliera innamorato"
Sunday
Dec 14
London Voices | Roberto Alagna (tenor) | Bucharest Opera Orchestra | Mark Elder (conductor)
EMI 57627 (Nessun Dorma) -
Franz Schubert
Fierrabras: Act II
Sunday
Dec 14
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Robert Holl (bass) [König Karl] | Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Roland] | Peter Hofmann (tenor) [Ogier] | Jörg Schluckebier [Olivier] | Rainer Brandstetter [Gui von Burgund] | Claus Kühbacher [Richard von der Normandie] | Michael Weber [Gérard von Mondidur] | Robert Gambill [Eginhard] | László Polgár [Boland] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Fierrabras] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Florinda] | Brigitte Balleys [Maragond] | Hartmut Welker [Brutamonte] | Brigitte Pinter [Eine Jungfrau] | Arnold Schoenberg Choir [Fränkische und maurische Ritter und Krieger, Emmas Fräuleins, Volk]
DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras) -
Thomas Campion
Never weather-beaten sail
Sunday
Dec 14
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Josip Pavčič
Three Songs. Grandpa One-Leg; Lullaby #2; Ciciban, Cicifuj
Sunday
Dec 14
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano) | Marcos Fink (bass-baritone)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2065 (Slovenija!) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: Act IV, duet of Roméo and Juliette. "Va! je t'ai pardonné...Nuit d'hyménée" (Come now! I've forgiven you...Night of our nuptials)
Sunday
Dec 14
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) | Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Raí | Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) [Juliette]
Sony 375658 (The Romantic Hero) -
Antoine Brumel
Missa pro defunctis
Sunday
Dec 14
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Abendempfindung an Laura, K 523
Sunday
Dec 14
Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Gustav Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Sunday
Dec 14
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Barbara Bonney (soprano) | Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Sara Fulgoni (mezzo-soprano)
Decca 00000029 (Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) -
William Byrd
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?
Sunday
Dec 14
Stile Antico | Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi 80.7554 (Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart) -
Nicola Porpora
Cantata #8. Recitative and aria. "Or che una numbe ingrata...Senza il misero piacer" (Now that a cruel cloud...Without the miserable pleasure)
Sunday
Dec 14
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale: Act III, Scene 2
Sunday
Dec 14
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) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Orleanskaya deva (The Maid of Orleans): Ioanna's aria. "Da, cas nasta!...Prostite vï, kholmï, polya rodnïye" (Yes, the time has come...Farewell, ye hills and native fields)
Sunday
Dec 14
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Filarmonica del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Yves Abel (conductor)
DG 0017522 (Romantique) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Scenes 5-8
Sunday
Dec 14
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] | Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] | Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] | Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] | Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] | Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani [Odoardo]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part I, Raphael's recitative and Gabriel's aria. "Und Gott machte das Firmament...Mit Staunen sticht das Wunderwerk" (And God made the firmament...The marvelous work beholds amazed)
Sunday
Dec 14
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Raphael]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Manuel de Falla
Trois mélodies (Three Songs)
Sunday
Dec 14
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2133 (Canciones españolas) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 135. Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder (O Lord, do not punish a poor sinner)
Sunday
Dec 14
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Vernon Kirk (tenor) | Jonathan Brown (bass) | Robin Tyson (alto)
SDG 165 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 2) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Stiffelio: Act III
Sunday
Dec 14
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | Sylvia Sass [Lina] | Ezio di Cesare [Raffaele] | Maria Venuti [Dorotea] | ORF Symphony Orchestra | ORF Chorus [Friends of the Count, disciples of Stiffelio, Ahasuerian people] | José Carreras [Stiffelio] | Matteo Managuerra [Stankar] | Wladimor Ganzarolli [Jorg] | Thomas Moser [Federico]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act III, Decio's aria. "To be a lover"
Sunday
Dec 14
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: II. Gloria
Sunday
Dec 14
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) -
Leoš Janáček
Glagolitic Mass
Sunday
Dec 14
Evelyn Lear (soprano) | Rafael Kubelik (conductor) | Hilde Rössel-Majdan (alto) | Ernst Haefliger (tenor) | Franz Crass (bass) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
DG 463.672 (Janacek: Missa Glagolitica) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] | José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] | Jonathan Summers [Le Grand Prêtre] | Simon Estes [Abimelech] | Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] | Robert Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] | Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Deuxième Philistin]
Philips 426.243 (Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Act I, scena. "Pari siamo! Io la lingua" (We're two of a kind! I have a tongue)
Sunday
Dec 14
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana | Plácido Domingo (baritone) | Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
Sony 373312 (Verdi) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Aria & Chorus - "Quoniam tu solus Sanctus.Cum Sancto Spiritu"
Sunday
Dec 14
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chorus Viennensis | Vienna Boys Choir | Max von Egmond (bass)
Teldec 35019 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Gustav Mahler
Das klagende Lied (revised version)
Sunday
Dec 14
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Recorded live on May 2, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam | Julia Faulkner (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (alto) | Gary Lakes (tenor) | Städtischer Musikveriein zu Düsseldorf
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part III, Conclusion. "O glücklich Paar, und glücklich immerfort...Singt dem Herrn alle Stimmen" (O happy pair, and always happy yet...Sing the Lord, ye voices all!)
Sunday
Dec 14
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel] | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Raphael]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Frederick Delius
A Mass of Life: Part II
Sunday
Dec 14
Alan Opie (baritone) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezz-soprano) | Andrew Kennedy (tenor) | The Bach Choir | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | David Hill (conductor)
Naxos 572.861-62 (Delius: A Mass of Life, Prelude and Idyll) -
Walter Braunfels
Die Trommel gerühret (Beat the drum!), Op. 29 #2
Sunday
Dec 14
Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (You now have sadness)
Sunday
Dec 14
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Janet Williams (soprano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Erato 4509.92856 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Aria. "Ach, Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Edita Gruberova [Konstanze]
London 417.402 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli
Sunday
Dec 14
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro 16014 (Allegri: Miserere) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act II, Alessandro's aria. "Pur sento, oh Dio! che l'alma" (And yet, oh god, I feel my soul)
Sunday
Dec 14
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Romina Basso [Alessandro]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet, K. 516
Sunday
Dec 14
Melos Quartet | Franz Beyer (viola)
DG 419.773 (Mozart: String Quintets, K.515 & 516) -
Clara Wieck Schumann
Scherzo #2 in C Minor, Op. 14
Sunday
Dec 14
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Decca 485.0020 (Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann) -
Leoš Janáček
Concertino
Sunday
Dec 14
Melos Ensemble | Lamar Crowson (piano)
EMI Classics 65304 (Nielsen Wind Quintet) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 43
Sunday
Dec 14
Oslo Philharmonic | Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
Decca 485.2256 (Klaus Mäkelä: Sibelius) -
Erik Satie
Gymnopedie #2
Sunday
Dec 14
Lajos Lencsés (oboe) | Gisèle Herbert (harp)
Audite 368.409 (Musique de Nuit) -
Sir Edward Elgar
Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 62
Sunday
Dec 14
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Teldec 4509.98436 (Elgar: Falstaff) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Sunday
Dec 14
Philharmonia Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor) | Anne Akiko Meyers (violin)
RCA 61700 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Dvořák: Romance - Vaughn Williams: The lark Ascending - Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 83
Sunday
Dec 14
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8881 (Prokofiev Vol. 2 of the complete piano music) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #6 in F Major, Op. 10 #2
Sunday
Dec 14
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 487)
Sunday
Dec 14
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #4 in E-flat Major "Romantic"
Sunday
Dec 14
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.099 (Bruckner) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 10 #5 G-flat Major "Black Key"
Sunday
Dec 14
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 47452 (Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & 25) -
Maurice Ravel
Une barque sur l'ocean
Sunday
Dec 14
Claudio Abbado (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
DG 427.314 (Claudio Abbado) -
Felix Draeseke
Clarinet Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 38
Sunday
Dec 14
Pierce-Aomori Duo
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Sunday
Dec 14
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Gabriel Fauré
Berceuse
Sunday
Dec 14
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) | John Lenehan (piano)
Decca 0002334 (Cello Adagios) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in D Major, Op. 23 #4
Sunday
Dec 14
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata #50 in D Major, Hob. XVI:37
Sunday
Dec 14
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Chandos 10668 (Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2) -
Alessandro Scarlatti
Salve Regina
Sunday
Dec 14
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Dominique Labelle
Avie 0048 (Scarlatti: Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 379
Sunday
Dec 14
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.229 (Mozart: Violin Sonatas, K. 378, 379 & 380) -
Amy Beach
Les Rêves de Columbine, Op. 65: #1. The Fairy in the Fountain
Sunday
Dec 14
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht
Sunday
Dec 14
English Chamber Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 410.111 (Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll) -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Sunday
Dec 14
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
Virgin 94589 (Beethoven & Korngold: Violin Concertos) -
Jean Sibelius
Valse Lyrique
Sunday
Dec 14
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
BIS 384 (Roman: Sinfonias & Violin Concertos) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830
Sunday
Dec 14
Jeremy Denk (piano)
Azica Records 71262 (Bach: Partitas 3, 4 & 5) -
Carl Nielsen
Symphony #2 "The Four Temeraments"
Sunday
Dec 14
Royal Danish Orchestra | Paavo Berglund (conductor)
RCA 7884 (Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5) -
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 1
Sunday
Dec 14
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | Love Derwinger (piano) | Malmö Symphony Orchestra
BIS 550 -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 380)
Sunday
Dec 14
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Franz Liszt
A Faust Symphony (after Goethe)
Sunday
Dec 14
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10375 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 2) -
Paul Dukas
Fanfare pour précéder "La Péri"
Sunday
Dec 14
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8852 (La Peri) -
Claude Debussy
La plus que lente (transcr. Strakhov)
Sunday
Dec 14
Dana Zemtsov (viola) | Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42320 (Silhouettes) -
Louise Farrenc
Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40
Sunday
Dec 14
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Richard Strauss
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Sunday
Dec 14
Sarah Chang (violin) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
EMI Classics 56870 (Richard Strauss) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #10 in B Minor "Octaves"
Sunday
Dec 14
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
Franz Schubert
Piano Trio in E-flat Major, D 897 "Notturno"
Sunday
Dec 14
Martin Helmchen (piano) | Christian Tetzlaff (violin) | Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello)
Pentatone 5186.334 (Schubert: Forellen Quintet) -
Lars-Erik Larsson
The Winter's Tale, four vignettes
Sunday
Dec 14
Stockholm Sinfonietta | Jan-Olav Wedin (conductor)
BIS 165 (A Swedish Pastorale) -
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Suite, Op. 54
Sunday
Dec 14
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Paul Hindemith
Horn Concerto
Sunday
Dec 14
Philharmonia Orchestra | Dennis Brain (horn) | Paul Hindemith (conductor)
EMI Classics 67783 (Great Recordings of the Century) -
Erik Satie
The Angora Ox
Sunday
Dec 14
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto #2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Sunday
Dec 14
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 440.331 (Prokofiev: Violin Concertos 1 & 2) -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters"
Sunday
Dec 14
Guarneri Quartet
Philips 456.574 (Leos Janacek: String Quartets) -
Antonín Dvořák
Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55: #4. Songs My Mother Taught Me
Sunday
Dec 14
Augustin Hadelich (violin) | Charles Owen (piano)
Warner Classics 52745 (Bohemian Tales: Augustin Hadelich) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian Rhapsody for Two Pianos
Sunday
Dec 14
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | André Previn (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Robert Schumann
Fantasy in A Minor, Op. 131
Sunday
Dec 14
Kurt Masur (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Sir Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84
Sunday
Dec 14
Garrick Ohlsson (piano) | Takács String Quartet
Hyperion 68295 (Elgar & Beach Piano Quintets) -
Sir Malcolm Arnold
English Dance, Op. 27 #1. Andantino
Sunday
Dec 14
Philharmonia Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8867 (Malcolm Arnold) -
Charles Gounod
Repentir (O Divine Redeemer)
Sunday
Dec 14
Karel Mark Chichon (conductor) | Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Latvian Radio Choir | German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
DG 21327 (Meditation) -
Jean Sibelius
Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51
Sunday
Dec 14
BIS 359 (Sibelius) -
Albert Roussel
Sinfonietta, Op. 52
Sunday
Dec 14
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 9072 (Roussel) -
Gerald Finzi
Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31
Sunday
Dec 14
William Boughton (conductor) | Alan Hacker (clarinet) | English Symphony Orchestra
Nimbus 5210-13 (The Spirit of England) -
Amy Beach
Dreaming, Op. 15 #3
Sunday
Dec 14
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a (arr. Rudolf Barshai from String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110)
Sunday
Dec 14
DG 486.0549 (Dmitri Shostakovich) -
Florence Price
Symphony #4 in D Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Fort Smith Symphony | John Jeter (conductor)
Naxos 559.827 (Florence Beatrice Price) -
Claude Debussy
En blanc et noir
Sunday
Dec 14
Jun Märkl (conductor) | Orchestre National de Lyon
Naxos 572.583 (Debussy: Orchestral Works (Complete)) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #25 in G Major, Op. 79
Sunday
Dec 14
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
RCA 787.510 (Beethoven, The Sonata Legacy) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 8 in D Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
London Symphony Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8828 (Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 in D minor) -
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune
Sunday
Dec 14
Markus Klinko (harp)
EMI 54467 (French Harp Music) -
Lili Boulanger
Psalm 130. Du fond de l'abime (Out of the depths)
Sunday
Dec 14
Oralia Dominguez (contralto) | Michel Sénéchal (tenor) | J. J. Grunewald (organ) | Choral Elisabeth Brasseur | Lamoureux Orchestra | Igor Markevitch (conductor)
Everest 9034 (Lili Bolanger: Du fond de l'abime) -
Cécile Chaminade
Étude symphonique, Op. 28
Sunday
Dec 14
Joanne Polk (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30037 (The Flatterer) -
Gabriel Fauré
Violin Sonata #1
Sunday
Dec 14
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Kathryn Stott (piano)
Sony 87287 (Paris La Belle Époque) -
Erik Satie
Gymnopédie #1
Sunday
Dec 14
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Sunday
Dec 14
London Philharmonic | Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
EMI 47013 (Richard Strauss) -
Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes
Sunday
Dec 14
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 34539 (Schumann: Symphonic & Posthumous Etudes) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 85072 (Stokowski Transcriptions) -
Mélanie Bonis
Forest Scenes
Sunday
Dec 14
Ambache Chamber Ensemble
Ambache Recordings 2606 (Liberte; Egalite; Sororite) -
Alexander Glazunov
Symphony #2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 16
Sunday
Dec 14
José Serebrier (conductor) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Warner Classics 468.904 (Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 9) -
Alexander Scriabin
Four Pieces, Op. 51: No. 3. Poème ailé
Sunday
Dec 14
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 427.485 (Yevgeny Kissin) -
Béla Bartók
String Quartet #3
Sunday
Dec 14
Emerson String Quartet
DG 423.657 (BARTOK 6 String Quartets) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1034 in E Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Avi Avital (mandolin) | Kammerakademie Potsdam
DG 0016801 (Bach) -
Franz Liszt
Romance. "Ô pourquoi donc" (O why)
Sunday
Dec 14
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 789141 (Liszt) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 in C Minor "Resurrection"
Sunday
Dec 14
Vienna Philharmonic | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) | Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Christa Ludwig (alto)
DG 477.9260 (Mahler, The People's Edition) -
Claude Debussy
Hommage à Haydn
Sunday
Dec 14
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Duke Ellington
Suite from "The River"
Sunday
Dec 14
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 9154 (Still) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms
Sunday
Dec 14
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata, K 27 in B Minor
Sunday
Dec 14
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Mily Balakirev
Symphonic Poem. Tamara
Sunday
Dec 14
BBC Philharmonic | Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
Chandos 9727 (Balakirev) -
Richard Strauss
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64
Sunday
Dec 14
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64350 (Richard Strauss)