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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William Boyce
Symphony #7
Friday
May 8
Aradia Ensemble | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.278 (Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op. 2) -
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2
Friday
May 8
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80052 (Ravel: Bolero, Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2) -
Aram Khachaturian
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Friday
May 8
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra
Philips 442.011 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 - Borodin & Glinka) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 11
Friday
May 8
Pierce-Aomori Duo | Daniel Barrett (cello)
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Peter von Winter
Flute Concerto #1 in D Minor
Friday
May 8
Prague Chamber Orchestra | Bruno Meier (flute)
Naxos 570.593 (German Flute Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano and Violin #22 in A Major, K. 305
Friday
May 8
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Ray Chen (violin)
Sony 544775 (Mozart) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 "From the New World"
Friday
May 8
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 414.421 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "New World") -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #31 "Hornsignal"
Friday
May 8
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80156 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 31 & 45) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto #1 in F Minor, Op 73
Friday
May 8
Berlin Philharmonic | Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
DG 483.6069 (Blue Hour) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G Major, BWV 1049
Friday
May 8
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.2191 (Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Friday
May 8
Paavo Järvi (conductor) | German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen
RCA 713066 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8) -
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide: Overture
Friday
May 8
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Jaime Laredo (conductor)
Nimbus 5078 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Arthur Foote
Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 20
Friday
May 8
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Friday
May 8
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Argo 414.596 (Handel: Fireworks/Water Music) -
Jacques Offenbach
Ballet of the Snowflakes
Friday
May 8
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5303 (Offenbach: Music from the Operettas) -
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Lute Concerto in F Major, SC 53
Friday
May 8
Tempesta di Mare | Richard Stone (lute) | Gwyn Roberts (flute)
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto #1
Friday
May 8
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
DG 400.031 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in B Minor, RV 424: I. Allegro non molto
Friday
May 8
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | George Kallweit (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2095 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La Forza del Destino: Overture
Friday
May 8
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic
Philips 411.469 (Verdi: Overtures) -
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Horn Concerto in F Major: I. Allegro
Friday
May 8
Max Pommer (conductor) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia)
Capriccio 10.008 (Corno da caccia) -
Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro vivace
Friday
May 8
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Teddy Abrams (conductor)
Avie 2411 (Dvorak Khachaturian Violin Concertos) -
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Young Henry's Hunt
Friday
May 8
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5184-85 (Méhul: The Complete Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Andante spianato in G Major and Grande Polonaise brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 22
Friday
May 8
London Philharmonic | Claudio Arrau (piano) | Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Solo in A Major: II. Vivace
Friday
May 8
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Franz Schubert
Overture in B-flat Major (D. 470)
Friday
May 8
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paul Angerer (conductor)
Pantheon 1841 (Schubert: Overtures, Vol. 2) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: #2. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)
Friday
May 8
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.9839 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1; Symphonic Dances) -
François Adrien Boieldieu
Harp Concerto: III-Rondeau
Friday
May 8
Southwest German Chamber Orchestra | Isabelle Moretti (harp) | Klaus Arp (conductor)
Koch 1142 (Boïeldieu, Saint-Saëns & Pierné) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony #1 "Classical"
Friday
May 8
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi (conductor)
Telarc 80289 (Prokofiev: Classical Symphony & Symphony No. 5) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gallimathias Musicum
Friday
May 8
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 429.783 (A Litte Light Music) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 in F Major: II. Allegro
Friday
May 8
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 9004-5-6 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Fritz Kreisler
Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)
Friday
May 8
Joshua Bell (violin) | Paul Coker (piano)
Decca 0002783 (The Romantic Violin) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #4 in D Major, BWV 1069
Friday
May 8
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77008 (Bach: Suites) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5 in E Minor, Op. 64: IV. Finale. Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace - Molto vivace - Moderato assai e molto maestoso - Presto
Friday
May 8
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449.967 (Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Clarinet Concerto #1 B-flat Major: III. Rondo
Friday
May 8
Dieter Kloecker (clarinet) | South German Chamber Orchestra | Sebastian Tewinkel (conductor)
CPO 777.241 (Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata #2 in D Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro assai vivace
Friday
May 8
Elizabeth Dolin (cello) | Bernadene Blaha (piano)
Analekta 23166 (Mendelsshon: Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude #1 CMajor
Friday
May 8
Rafal Blechacz (piano)
DG 0010870 (Chopin: The Complete Preludes, 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Rondo Brillante, Op. 52
Friday
May 8
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata #2 in G Minor, Op. 5 #2
Friday
May 8
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2183-84 (Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #75 in D Major
Friday
May 8
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
Friday
May 8
The Kanneh-Masons
Decca 485.1156 (Carnival of the Animals) -
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto #2
Friday
May 8
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor) | Karl Leister (clarinet)
Orfeo 088.201 (Spohr: Clarinert Concertos 2 & 3) -
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto
Friday
May 8
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Antonio Meneses (cello)
DG 410.603 (Brahms: Double Concerto, Tragic Overture) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 362
Friday
May 8
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
Chandos 6578 (Vivaldi: Six Concertos, Op.8, Nos. 7-12) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #1 in D Major "Titan"
Friday
May 8
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 459.610 (Mahler: Symphony No. 1) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in F-sharp Minor, Op. 15 #2
Friday
May 8
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.3206 (Chopin, Liszt & Ravel) -
August Klughardt
Schilflieder (Song of the Reeds). 5 fantasy pieces after poems by Nikolaus Lenau
Friday
May 8
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Tabea Zimmerman (viola) | Markus Becker (piano)
Decca 001653202 (Song of the Reeds) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #9 in C Major, Op. 59 #3 "Razumovsky"
Friday
May 8
Shanghai Quartet
Delos 3320 (Beethoven String Quartets) -
Franz Schubert
Serenade (Staendchen) (arr. Liszt)
Friday
May 8
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
DG 474.334 (The Magic of Horowitz) -
Gustav Mahler
Blumine
Friday
May 8
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden"
Friday
May 8
Orlando Quartet
Philips 412.127 (Schubert: String Quartet, Death and the Maiden) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Sinfonia, G. 2
Friday
May 8
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Phantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Friday
May 8
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 425.109 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 4) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #3 in B-flat Major
Friday
May 8
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Friday
May 8
André Previn (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
Philips 416.382 (Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Glinka & Moussorgsky)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Platée (Comédie lyrique): Prologue. La Naissance de la comédie (The Birth of Comedy)
Friday
May 8
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) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 39: Mondnacht (Moonlit Night)
Friday
May 8
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Peter Lieberson
Neruda Songs: III. No estés lejos de mí un solo dia, porque cómo (Don't go far off, not even for a day)
Friday
May 8
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Robert Spano (conductor) | Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano)
ASO Media 1002 (Lieberson: Neruda Songs) -
Nicola Porpora
Cantata #10. Oh se fosse il mio core (Ah, if only my heart)
Friday
May 8
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Friday
May 8
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Kiera Duffy (soprano) | Meg Bragle (mezzo-soprano) | Scott Mello (tenor)
Avie 2270 (Handel: Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest, Ode for Queen Anne) -
Fran Gerbič
Pojdem na prejo (I'll Watch the Girls Sprinning)
Friday
May 8
Anthony Spiri (piano) | Marcos Fink (bass-baritone)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2065 (Slovenija!) -
Vincenzo Bellini
Adelson e Salvini: Aria. Dopo l'oscuro nembro (After the dark clouds)
Friday
May 8
Michele Mariotti (conductor) | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Nelly]
Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Maria Stuarda: Act III, Nos. 16-17, Hymn of the dead woman & Prayer of the Scots. "Vedeste? Vedemmo. Oh truce apparato!"."Anna! Qui più sommessi"
Friday
May 8
Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy]
Philips 426.233 (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957: #6. In der Ferne (Far Away) [poem by Ludwig Rellstab]
Friday
May 8
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Act I
Friday
May 8
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Philip II, King of Spain] | Carlo Bergonzi [Don Carlo] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Rodrigo] | Martti Talvela [The Grand Inquisitor] | Tugomir Franc [A Monk] | Renata Tebaldi [Elisabeth of Valois] | Grace Bumbry [Princess Eboli] | Jeannette Sinclair [Tebaldo] | Kenneth MacDonald [The Count of Lerma] | John Wakefield [A royal herald] | Joan Carlyle [A voice from on high] | The Royal Opera House Chorus [Flemish deputies, inquisitors, lords | ladies of the Spanish court, people, monks, officials of the Inquisition, grandees of Spain, huntsmen, pages, attendants, etc.]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte: Act II. Aria. "Ach ich fühl's"
Friday
May 8
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Marlis Petersen [Pamina]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2068-70 (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Scenes 1-5
Friday
May 8
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth): VI. Der Abschied (Farewell)
Friday
May 8
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) | Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
LPO 0073 (Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde) -
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade
Friday
May 8
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots: Act IV
Friday
May 8
Ghylaine Raphanel [Marguerite de Valois] | Françoise Pollet [Valentine] | Danielle Borst [Urbain] | Richard Leech (tenor) [Raoul de Nangis] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Le Comte de Nevers] | Boris Martinovic [Le Comte de Saint-Bris] | Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcel] | Jean-Luc Maurette [De Tavannes] | Christian Jean [De Cossé/Bois Roé/Un Moine] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [De Thoré] | Antoine Garcin [De Retz] | Herve Martin [De Meru/Un Moine/Un Archer] | Christian Boulay [Maurevert/Un Moine] | Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor) | Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcellus]
Erato 2292.45027 (Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots) -
Giacomo Puccini
Tosca: Aria. E lucevan le stelle (And the stars would be shining)
Friday
May 8
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0010837 (Romantic Arias) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act II, Scene 2. "Tu, preparati a morire"."Tu vivo, e punito"
Friday
May 8
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Denis Sedov [Il Re di Scozia] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Ariodante] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Ginevra] | Richard Croft [Lurcanio] | Ewa Podles [Polinesso] | Verónica Cangemi [Dalinda] | Luc Coadou [Odoardo]
Archiv 457.271 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Gregorio Allegri
Miserere
Friday
May 8
The Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Decca 0004531 (Music for Inner Peace) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part III
Friday
May 8
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Lucia Popp [Eva] | Kurt Ollmann [Adam] | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 419.765 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Franz Liszt
Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen [Ludwig Uhland]
Friday
May 8
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il Trovatore: Part III. The Gypsy's Son
Friday
May 8
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] | Walter Gullino [Ruiz] | Giorgio Zancanaro [The Count of Luna] | Brigitte Fassbaender [Azucena] | Plácido Domingo [Manrico] | Anna di Stasio [Ines] | Alfredo Giacomotti [An old gypsy] | Aldo Verrecchia [A messenger] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila [Leonora's companions, nuns, servants | armed retainers of the Count, gypsies, Manrico's soldiers]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
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)
Friday
May 8
Magdalena Kozená | Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 474.1942 (Bach: Cantatas) -
Hector Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ
Friday
May 8
Matthew Brook (baritone) | Andrew Staples (tenor) | Roderick Williams (baritone) | Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano) | Shane Lawrence (bass) | Andrew Goodwin (tenor) | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Chandos 5228 (Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ) -
Franz Schubert
Hoffnung, D 295 (Hope)
Friday
May 8
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1988 (Schubert: Sehnsucht) -
Charles Villiers Stanford
La Belle Dame Sans Merci [text by John Keats]
Friday
May 8
Julius Drake (piano) | Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2093 (Down by the Salley Gardens) -
Gioachino Rossini
Maometto Secondo: Act I, Scene 4
Friday
May 8
Samuel Ramey (bass) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
Giacomo Puccini
Salve Regina
Friday
May 8
Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) | Gunther Rost (organ)
DG 21327 (Meditation) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act I, Scenes 6-11
Friday
May 8
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio: Act II, Nr 14, Quartet and Scene. "Er sterbe! Doch er soll erst wissen -- Vater Rocco, Vater Rocco, der Herr Minister kommt an -- Es schlägt der Rache Stunde"
Friday
May 8
Rundfunkchor Leipzig | Staatskapelle Dresden | Theo Adam (bass) [Don Pizarro] | Martti Talvela [Don Fernando] | James King (tenor) [Florestan] | Gwyneth Jones [Leonore] | Franz Crass [Rocco] | Edith Mathis [Marzelline] | Peter Schreier [Jaquino] | Eberhard Büchner [Erster Gefangener] | Günter Leib [Zweiter Gefangerer] | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 0004590 (Beethoven: Fidelio) -
Bedřich Smetana
Libuse: Act I
Friday
May 8
Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Eva Urbanová [Libuse] | Vratislav Kriz [Premysl of Stadice] | Ludek Vele [Chrudos from Otava] | Jan Markvart [Stahlav from Radbuza] | Miloslav Podskalsky [Lutobor from Dobroslavsky Chlumec] | Pavel Cervinka [Radovan from the Stone Bridge] | Helena Kaupova [Krasava] | Miroslava Volkova [Radmila] | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre | Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
Supraphon 3200-2632 (Smetana: Libuše) -
Jules Massenet
Nuit d'Espagne
Friday
May 8
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Jérôme Ducros (piano)
Virgin 16621 (Opium - Mélodies françaises) -
Franz Liszt
3 Petrarc Sonnets
Friday
May 8
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Virgin 70928 (Liszt: Lieder) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Nr 17-29
Friday
May 8
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | The Netherlands Bach Society | Julian Podger (tenor) | Gerd Türk (tenor) [Evangelist] | Peter Harvey (bass) [Christ] | Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano) | Tim Mead (alto) | Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano) | Matthew White (alto) | Sebastian Noack (bass)
Channel 32511 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth
Friday
May 8
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) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine [Vespers of the Blessed Virgin]: #14. Magnificat II
Friday
May 8
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) | Monica Piccinini (soprano) | Luca Dordolo (tenor) | Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor) | Anna Simboli (soprano) | Furio Zanasi (baritone) | Sara Mingardo (contralto) | Pietro Spagnoli (baritone)
Naïve 30403 (Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine) -
Dominick Argento
Walden Pond
Friday
May 8
St. Charles Singers | Jeffrey Hunt (conductor)
MSR Classics 1660 (American Reflections) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 63. Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Christians, engrave this day): Duet. "Ruft und fleht den Himmel an"
Friday
May 8
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Bernarda Fink (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor)
SDG 174 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 18) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Friday
May 8
Kathleen Battle (soprano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | James Levine (conductor) | Håkan Hagegård (baritone)
RCA 60861 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act II, Aria. Ei nel volto ha un non so che (His face has something)
Friday
May 8
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | Diana Damrau [Martesia]
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: III. Eia, mater, fons amoris (O mother, fount of love)
Friday
May 8
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #2 "Resurrection": V. Final Chorus. "Auferstehung" (Resurrection)
Friday
May 8
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 821936-0006 (Mahler: Symphony No. 2) -
Aaron Copland
The Tender Land: Act II
Friday
May 8
Elisabeth Comeaux [Laurie] | Janis Hardy [Ma Moss] | Maria Jette [Beth] | LeRoy Lehr [Grandpa Moss] | Dan Dressen [Martin] | James Bohn [Top] | Vern Sutton [Mr Splinters] | Agnes Smuda [Mrs Splinters] | Merle Fristad [Mr Jenks] | Sue Herber [Mrs Jenks] | Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series, Minnesota | Philip Brunelle (conductor)
Virgin 91113 (Copland: The Tender Land) -
Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème: Mimì's aria. "Addio...Donde lieta uscì al tuo grido d'amore" (Goodbye...From whence she left so happily at your loving call)
Friday
May 8
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Arturo Chacón-Cruz [Rodolfo]
Decca 0013279 (Verismo)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Carl Reinecke
Symphony #3 in G Minor, Op. 227
Friday
May 8
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude & Fugue #15 G Major
Friday
May 8
Till Fellner (piano)
ECM 0002285 (Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1) -
Alexander Scriabin
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 38
Friday
May 8
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet #2
Friday
May 8
Brodsky Quartet
Teldec 2292.46319 (Borodin & Tchaikovsky: String Quartets) -
Ned Rorem
Symphony #3
Friday
May 8
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 559.149 (Rorem: Three Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Fantasie-Impromptu C-sharp Minor
Friday
May 8
Bella Davidovich (piano)
Philips 411.427 (Chopin: Ballades, Impromputs) -
Millennium of Music
Friday
May 8
-
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday
May 8
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
-
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Friday
May 8
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 437.540 (Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto) -
Francisco Tárrega
Capricho árabe
Friday
May 8
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar)
DG 0015579 (Mediterráneo) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sextet for 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons and 2 Horns in E-flat Major, Op. 71
Friday
May 8
Ottetto Italiano
Brilliant Classics 93525 (Beethoven: Complete Works) -
Cécile Chaminade
Concert Etude, Op. 35 #5. Impromptu
Friday
May 8
Joanne Polk (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30037 (The Flatterer) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70
Friday
May 8
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8587 (Shostakovich) -
Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Friday
May 8
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
RCO Live 9733887944 (Strauss Jansons) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lilacs, Op. 21 #5 (song transcription)
Friday
May 8
Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano)
Russian CD 16271 (Sergey Rachmaninov) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Five Melodies, Op. 35b
Friday
May 8
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Claude Debussy
Trois Ballades de François Villon
Friday
May 8
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
Claude Debussy
Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra
Friday
May 8
Marek Janowski (conductor) | Barry Douglas (piano) | French Radio Philharmonic
RCA 68127 (Debussy: Fantaisie - Britten: Piano Concerto) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 380)
Friday
May 8
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in C
Friday
May 8
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Overture (Partita) in B Minor, BWV 831
Friday
May 8
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 433.313 (Bach: 6 French Suites, Italian Concerto) -
Darius Milhaud
Viola Sonata #1, Op. 240
Friday
May 8
Dana Zemtsov (viola) | Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42320 (Silhouettes) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #1 in E-flat Major, Op. 33
Friday
May 8
Neave Trio
Chandos 20139 (Her Voice: Piano Trios by Farrenc, Beach, and Clarke) -
Charles Koechlin
Au loin, Op. 20 "In die Ferne"
Friday
May 8
Gisèle Herbert (harp) | Lajos Lencsés (English horn)
Audite 368.409 (Musique de Nuit) -
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne: Series I: Baïlèro
Friday
May 8
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #12 "American"
Friday
May 8
Cleveland Quartet
Telarc 80283 (Dvořák: Quartet No. 14, Quartet No. 12 "American") -
Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto #3
Friday
May 8
London Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Hélène Grimaud (piano)
DG B0003885 (BARTOK The Piano Concertos) -
Borys Lyatoshynsky
Melody for violin and piano
Friday
May 8
Natalya Pasichnyk (piano) | Christian Svarfvar (violin)
BIS 2222 (Consolation. Forgotten Treasures of the Ukrainian Soul) -
Erik Satie
Je te veux
Friday
May 8
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 470.290 (The magic of Satie) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #9. Hungaria
Friday
May 8
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10490 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 4) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Impressions from the Countryside, Op. 54
Friday
May 8
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 572.985 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 1) -
Harl McDonald
San Juan Capistrano: Fiesta
Friday
May 8
Boston Pops | Keith Lockhart (conductor)
RCA 68786 (American Visions) -
José White Lafitte
Violin Concerto in F-sharp Minor
Friday
May 8
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Encore Chamber Orchestra | Daniel Hege (conductor)
Cedille 90000.214 (Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #2 "Antar"
Friday
May 8
Lorin Maazel (conductor) | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80131 (Tchaikovsky: "Little Russian" - Rimsky-Korsakov: "Antar") -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Nais: Rigaudons 1 & 2
Friday
May 8
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Musicians of the Louvre
Archiv 0004478 (Rameu: Une Symphonie Imaginaire) -
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Four Irish Dances, Op. 126
Friday
May 8
Philharmonia Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8867 (Malcolm Arnold) -
Antonín Dvořák
Sonata, Op. 57 for Violin and Piano and F Major
Friday
May 8
Gil Shaham (violin) | Orli Shaham (piano)
DG 449.820 (Dvořák for Two) -
Claude Debussy
Twelve Etudes: No. 11. Composite arpeggios
Friday
May 8
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #6 in A Minor
Friday
May 8
Berlin Philharmonic | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 33 #2 in D Major
Friday
May 8
Lukas Geniušas (piano)
Mirare 508 (Lukas Geniusas: Chopin) -
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs
Friday
May 8
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 472.464 (Naida Cole) -
John Adams
On the Transmigration of Souls
Friday
May 8
Lorin Maazel (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | New York Choral Artists | Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Nonesuch 78916 (John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls) -
Amy Beach
A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, Op. 108
Friday
May 8
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
Friday
May 8
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
DG 4870835D (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Shostakovich & Britten) -
Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata #2 in D Minor, Op. 121
Friday
May 8
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Martha Argerich (piano)
DG 419.235 (Schumann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2)