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 Schubert
Ave Maria
Sunday
Jun 21
Mischa Maisky (cello) | Pavel Gililov (piano)
DG 431.544 (Meditation) -
From the Top
Sunday
Jun 21
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Sunday
Jun 21
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 416.386 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Pachelbel: Canon) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in C Major "Alexander's Feast"
Sunday
Jun 21
English Baroque Soloists | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 422.053 (Händel: Alexander's Feast) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132
Sunday
Jun 21
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Joshua Bell (violin) | Steven Isserlis (cello)
RCA 63518 (Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, Cello Sonata No. 2) -
Johan Helmich Roman
Violin Concerto in D Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Nils-Erik Sparf (violin) | Orpheus Chamber Ensemble
BIS 284 (Roman: Sinfonias & Violin Concertos) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Sonata #3 B Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 14899 (Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, etc.) -
Johann Baptist Vanhal
Double Bass Concerto in E-flat Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Edicson Ruiz (double bass) | Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra | Christian Vásquez (conductor)
Phil.harmonie 6008 (Von Dittersdorf, HoffMeister & Vanhal) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Sunday
Jun 21
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80208 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capricio Espagnole) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons: Summer (Concerto, RV 315 in G Minor)
Sunday
Jun 21
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Avi Avital (mandolin)
DG 479.4017 (Vivaldi) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet, K. 370
Sunday
Jun 21
Neil Black (oboe) | Iona Brown (violin) | Stephen Shingles (viola) | Denis Vigay (cello)
DG 0006610 (Masters of The Oboe) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #1 "Spring"
Sunday
Jun 21
Vienna Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
DG 415.274 (Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata #5 in D Major, Op. 102 #2
Sunday
Jun 21
David Finckel (cello) | Wu Han (piano)
ArtistLed 19801 (Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano & Cello) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #1
Sunday
Jun 21
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
Teldec 244.972 (Brahms: 4 Symphonien) -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite #1
Sunday
Jun 21
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Argo 414.596 (Handel: Fireworks/Water Music) -
Franz Schubert
Impromptu, Op. 90 #3 in G-flat Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 422.237 (Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & Op. 142) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Symphony in G Major "La festa della Pace 1791"
Sunday
Jun 21
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10351 (Hoffmeister: Symphonies) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Sunday
Jun 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Han-Na Chang (cello) | Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
EMI 56126 (Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Fauré & Bruch) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #24
Sunday
Jun 21
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 422.331 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25) -
Gioachino Rossini
La gazza ladra: Overture
Sunday
Jun 21
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431.653 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto E-flat Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Max Pommer (conductor) | Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig
Capriccio 10.010 (Klassische Trompetenkonzerte) -
Georges Bizet
Symphony in C Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 423.624 (Prokofiev, Britten & Bizet: Symphonies) -
Joseph Lanner
The Romantics
Sunday
Jun 21
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra | Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor)
Philips 412.883 (Famous Waltzes) -
George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #5 in G Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quintet #1 in A Major, Op. 18
Sunday
Jun 21
L'Archibudelli
Sony 60766 (Mendelssohn: Quintets for Strings Nos. 1 & 2) -
Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Sunday
Jun 21
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8756 (Debussy: Petite Suite, etc.) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 493
Sunday
Jun 21
I Musici | Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
Philips 432.124 (Vivaldi: 6 Bassoon Concertos) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances
Sunday
Jun 21
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin 90832 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, etc.) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Trumpet Concerto D Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Maurice Andre (trumpet)
EMI 47311 (Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, etc.) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata, K. 296
Sunday
Jun 21
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) | Alexander Lonquich (piano)
EMI 49712 (Mozart: Sonatas for violin and piano K. 306, 302, 296 & 377) -
Louis Théodore Gouvy
Symphony #3 in C Major, Op. 20
Sunday
Jun 21
German Radio Philharmonic of Saarbrücken | Kaiserslautern | Jacques Mercier (conductor)
CPO 777.379 (Gouvy: Symphonies 3 & 5) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Flute, Oboe & Viola E Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Elizabeth Mann (flute) | Stephen Taylor (oboe d'amore) | Louise Schulman (viola d'amore)
Musicmasters 60210 (Telemann: Don Quixote Suite) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Op. 58
Sunday
Jun 21
Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Leif Ove Andsnes (conductor)
Sony 370548 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4) -
Bedřich Smetana
Bartered Bride: Overture
Sunday
Jun 21
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor)
DG 419.768 (Smetana: Má Vlast) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1058 in G Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Bernard Labadie (conductor) | Les Violons du Roy | Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Virgin 70913 (Bach: Keyboard Concertos) -
Salomon Jadassohn
Piano Concerto #1 in C Minor, Op. 89
Sunday
Jun 21
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Markus Becker (piano) | Michael Sanderling (conductor)
Hyperion 67636 (Jadassohn & Draeseke: Piano Concertos) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #86
Sunday
Jun 21
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 2292.46313 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 85 & 86) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Sunday
Jun 21
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin 90761 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Capriccio Italien) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1042
Sunday
Jun 21
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Gidon Kremer (violin) | Gidon Kremer (conductor)
Philips 411.108 (Bach: The Violin Concertos) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #9 in E-flat Major, K 271 "Jeunehomme"
Sunday
Jun 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 414.543 (Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 8, K246 & No. 9, K271) -
Igor Stravinsky
Petrouchka: Russian Dance
Sunday
Jun 21
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Juilliard Quartet | Bernard Grenhouse (cello)
CBS 42383 (Schubert: Quintet) -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne #4 in F Major, Op. 15 #1
Sunday
Jun 21
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Sony 90758.22932 (Chopin: Leif Ove Andsnes) -
Franz Liszt
A Faust Symphony (after Goethe): Part II. Gretchen
Sunday
Jun 21
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10375 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Sunday
Jun 21
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60037 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Piano Concerto No. 4) -
Benjamin Godard
Jocelyn: Berceuse
Sunday
Jun 21
Trio Parnassus
MDG 303.1615 (Godard: Piano Trios) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 365 in B-flat Major
Sunday
Jun 21
La Serenissima | Adrian Chandler (conductor)
Avie 2218 (The French Connection 2) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto
Sunday
Jun 21
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
EMI 47166 (Brahms: Violin Concerto) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Maid of Orleans: Bohemian Dance
Sunday
Jun 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 554.845 (Tchaikovsky) -
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose
Sunday
Jun 21
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 9031.74006 (Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, Le tombeau de Couperin) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #47 in G Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Tsar Boris: Overture
Sunday
Jun 21
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8805 (Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 2, etc.)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Gioachino Rossini
Guglielmo Tell: Act IV
Sunday
Jun 21
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo Tell] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] | Franco de Grandis [Melchthal] | Amelia Felle [Jemmy] | Luciana D'Intino [Edwige] | Vittorio Terranova [Un pescatore] | Alberto Noli [Leutoldo] | Luigi Roni [Gessler] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Matilde] | Ernesto Gavazzi [Rodolfo] | Ernesto Panariello [Un cacciatore]
Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
In questa tomba oscura
Sunday
Jun 21
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Piero Gamba (conductor)
London 414.454 (Mattinata) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes (Opéra-ballet) [The Gallant Indies]: III. Troisième Entrée. Les Fleurs, fête persane [Flowers; Persian Festival]
Sunday
Jun 21
Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) [Ali] | John Elwes (tenor) [Tacmas] | Gerda Hartman (soprano) [Zaïre] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Fatime] | Ensemble vocal À Cœur Joie de Valence | Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Valence | Jean-François Paillard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: Aria. Ebben? ne andrò lontana (Well? I shall go far away)
Sunday
Jun 21
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Jane Eaglen (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sony 89443 (Italian Opera Arias) -
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade
Sunday
Jun 21
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Warner Classics 61938 (Chausson, Ravel & Debussy) -
Alessandro Striggio
Missa sopra "Ecco sì beato giorno" (Mass based on "Ecco sì beato giorno")
Sunday
Jun 21
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 478.2734 (Striggio: Missa Ecco sì beato giorno) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Scene and Aria. "Ma dove or trovasi la poveretta?; Possente amor mi chiama"
Sunday
Jun 21
Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma | Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma | Per Giorgio Morandi (conductor)
Sony 775257 (The Italian Tenor) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act I
Sunday
Jun 21
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Gerald Finley [Guillaume Tell] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Hedwige] | Elena Xanthoudakis [Jemmy] | Malin Byström [Mathilde] | John Osborn [Arnold] | Frédéric Caton [Melchtal] | Matthew Rose [Walter] | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Carlos Bosi [Rodolphe] | Celso Albelo [Ruodi] | Dawid Kimberg [Leuthold] | Davide Malvestio [Hunstman] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
John Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs?
Sunday
Jun 21
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Andreas Martin (lute)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: II. Quis est homo (Who is the man)
Sunday
Jun 21
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Dagmar Pecková (mezzo-soprano) | Peter Auty (tenor) | Peter Rose (bass)
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Franz Liszt
Cantico del sol di Francesco d'Assis (Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi)
Sunday
Jun 21
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gerd Albrecht (conductor) | Walton Grönroos (baritone) | Men of RIAS Chamber Chorus
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), Op. 112
Sunday
Jun 21
Gulbenkian Chorus | Gulbenkian Orchestra | Lawrence Foster (conductor)
Pentatone 5186.359 (Salieri, Beethoven & Schubert) -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina: Act III, Opening
Sunday
Jun 21
William Christie (conductor) | Renée Fleming (soprano) [Alcina] | Susan Graham [Ruggiero] | Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Morgana] | Kathleen Kuhlmann [Bradamante] | Timothy Robsinson [Oronte] | Laurent Naouri [Melisso] | Juanita Lascarro [Oberto] | Les Arts Florissants
Erato 8573.80233 (Handel: Alcina) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #3. Aria and Chorus. "Nun Schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle"
Sunday
Jun 21
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Aldo Baldin [Uriel]
Philips 416.449 (Haydn: Die Schöpfung) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene ["Nu, zaboltalas ya!...Puskai pogibnu ya"]
Sunday
Jun 21
Mirella Freni (soprano) | Staatskapelle Dresden | James Levine (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
Jules Massenet
Werther: Act II
Sunday
Jun 21
London Symphony Orchestra | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] | Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] | Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] | Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] | James Savage-Hanford [Hans] | Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] | Christopher Waine [Karl] | Sally Cannon [Clara] | Joel Gunger [Max] | Sarah Baillie [Fritz] | Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ne ver mne drug (Do not believe me, my friend), Op. 14 #7
Sunday
Jun 21
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 38. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Out of the depths I cry to Thee)
Sunday
Jun 21
Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Joanne Lunn (soprano) | William Towers (alto) | Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
SDG 168 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 11) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Il re pastore: Act II, Scene 1
Sunday
Jun 21
Reri Grist [Aminta] | Lucia Popp [Elisa] | Arlene Saunders [Tamiri] | Nicola Monti [Agenore] | Luigi Alva [Alessandro] | Orchestra of Naples | Denis Vaughan (conductor)
RCA 50165 (Mozart: Il Re Pastore) -
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette: Act II, Roméo's cavatina. "L'amour!...Ah! lève-toi, soleil!" (Love!...Ah, rise, oh sun!)
Sunday
Jun 21
Roberto Abbado (conductor) | Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna
Decca 0020307 (L'Amour) -
Manuel Cardoso
Missa pro Defunctis a 4
Sunday
Jun 21
Cupertinos | Luís Toscano (director)
Hyperion 68252 (Manuel Cardoso: Requiem) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz: Act III
Sunday
Jun 21
Rafael Kubelik (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | René Kollo (tenor) [Max] | Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Agathe] | Peter Meven [Kaspar] | Helen Donath [Ännchen] | Hermann Sapell [Kilian] | Raimund Grumbach [Kuno] | Kurt Moll [Eremit] | Wolfgang Brendel [Ottokar] | Rolf Boysen [Samiel] | Irmgard Lampert [Brautjungfern 1] | Adelheid Schiller [Brautjungfern 2] | Erika Rüggeberg [Demoiselle d'honneur 1] | Renate Freyer [Demoiselle d'honneur 2] | Theodor Nicolai [Ein Jäger]
London 417.119 (Weber: Der Freischütz) -
John Dowland
Behold a wonder here
Sunday
Jun 21
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Andreas Martin (lute)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2) -
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne: Series I
Sunday
Jun 21
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Boréades (Tragédie en musique): Act IV
Sunday
Jun 21
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Alphise, reine de la Bactriane (Alphisa, Queen of Bactria)] | Anne-Marie Rodde (soprano) [Sémire, confidente de la reine (the Queen's confidante)] | Edwige Bourdy (soprano) [Polymnie, muse des chants et de la pantomime (Polyhymnia, Muse of Song and Mime)] | Martine March (soprano) [Une Nymphe] | Philip Langridge (haute-contre) [Abaris, amant d'Alphise (in love with Alphisa)] | John Aler (haute-contre) [Calisis, prétendant d'Alphise, descendante de Borée (suitor to Alphisa, of the line of Boreas)] | Jean-Philippe Lafont (bass) [Borée, dieu des vents du Nord (Boreas, god of the North Wind)] | Gilles Cachemaille (baritone) [Borilée, prétendants d'Alphise, descendants de Borée (suitor to Alphisa, of the line of Boreas)] | François Le Roux (baritone) [Adamas, Grand-prêtre d'Apollon (Hight Priest of Apollo]) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Apollon, dieu de la Lumière (Apollo, god of Light)] | Elizabeth Priday (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid)] | The Monteverdi Choir [Plaisirs et Grâces | prêtres du temple d'Apollon, peuples (people) | les Saisons (Seasons) | les Muses | les Zéphyrs | les Heures e les Arts (Hours and Arts) | vents souterrains (subterranean winds)] | English Baroque Soloists
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: IX. Inflammatus et accensus (When I am ablaze and consumed with fire)
Sunday
Jun 21
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Dagmar Pecková (mezzo-soprano)
LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act I
Sunday
Jun 21
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Lucia Popp [Countess Almaviva] | Barbara Hendricks (soprano) [Susanna] | José van Dam (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cherubino] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Marcellina] | Aldo Baldin [Don Basilio] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Don Curzio] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Bartolo] | Donald Maxwell (bass) [Antonio] | Cathryn Pope (soprano) [Barbarina]
Philips 416.370 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Verbum Nobile (The word of a nobleman): Aria. "Nakaz niech ozywcze slonko" (Come, let envigorating sun)
Sunday
Jun 21
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.6010 (Slavic Heroes) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie
Sunday
Jun 21
Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chorus Viennensis | Vienna Boys Choir | Rotraud Hansmann | Emiko Iiyama
Teldec 35019 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: Act II
Sunday
Jun 21
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori | His Majestie's Sagbutts | Cornetts
Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo) -
Johann Christian Bach
Miserere: Duet. Asperges me hyssopo
Sunday
Jun 21
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor) | Ruth Sandhoff (alto) | Colin Balzer (tenor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly: Act II
Sunday
Jun 21
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) | Leontyne Price (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] | Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] | Richard Tucker (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Kate Pinkerton] | Philip Maero (baritone) [Sharpless] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Goro] | Robert Kerns (baritone) [Il principe Yamadori] | Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Il Bonzo] | Arturo La Porta (baritone) [Il commissario imperiale] | Mario Rinaudo (bass) [L'ufficiale del registro] | Leo Pudis (bass) [Lo zio Yakusidè] | Fernanda Cadoni (mezzo-soprano) [La madre di Cio-cio-san] | Gianna Lollini (soprano) [La zia di Cio-cio-san] | Silvia Bertona (soprano) [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] | Orchestra e coro RCA Italiana
RCA 68884 (Puccini: Madama Butterfly) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vesennije vody (Spring waters), Op. 14 #11
Sunday
Jun 21
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il viaggio a Reims: Aria. "Medaglie incomparabili"
Sunday
Jun 21
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Profondo]
DG 415.498 (Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motet, RV 625. Claræ stellæ, scintillate (Bright stars, blaze forth)
Sunday
Jun 21
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Ensemble Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 625810 (Pietà, Sacred Works for Alto) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #20. Des Baches Wiegenlied [The Fair Miller-Maid: The brook's lullaby]
Sunday
Jun 21
John Elwes (tenor) | Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano)
Dorian 90702 (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D 795) -
Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen: Act III
Sunday
Jun 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 419.221 (Purcell: The Fairy Queen) -
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
Psalm 147. Lauda, Ierusalem (Praise the Lord, o Jerusalem)
Sunday
Jun 21
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Thomas Tallis
Short Service
Sunday
Jun 21
The Cardinall's Musick | Andrew Carwood (conductor)
Hyperion 68156 (Tallis: Spem in Alium, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Easter Oratorio, BWV 249
Sunday
Jun 21
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) | Christine Brenk (soprano) | Anne Greiling (alto) | Frank Bossert (tenor) | Trompetensensemble Pfeiffer | Motettenchor Pforzheim | Rolf Schweizer (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 93102 (Bach: Complete Works) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
An die Freude, K 53
Sunday
Jun 21
Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Attila: "Liberamente or piangi.Oh! nel fuggente nuvolo" [Act I]
Sunday
Jun 21
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Odabella]
London 417.253 (Bel Canto Arias) -
Johannes Brahms
Missa Canonica
Sunday
Jun 21
Ken Cowan (organ) | Saint Clement's Choir, Philadelphia | Peter Richard Conte (conductor)
Dorian 80137 (The Romantic Mass) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part I
Sunday
Jun 21
Vienna Boys Choir | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Edith Mathis [Gabriel] | Francisco Araiza [Uriel] | José van Dam (baritone) [Raphael]
DG 410.718 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier
Sunday
Jun 21
Hungarian State Orchestra | Giuseppe Patanè (conductor) | José Carreras (tenor) [Andrea Chénier] | Eva Marton [Maddalena di Coigny] | Giorgio Zancanaro [Carlo Gerard] | Tamara Takács [La Contessa di Coigny] | Tullio Pane [L'Incredibile] | Franco Federici [Jean-Antoine Roucher] | Gábor Vághelyi [Pietro Fleville] | Klára Takács [Bersi] | Istvan Rozsos [L'Abate] | József Gregor [Mathieu] | Éva Farkas [La Vecchia] | Kázmér Sárkány [Dumas] | Tamás Bátor [Antoine Fouquier-Tinville] | János Tóth [Schmidt] | József Moldvai [Maestro di Casa] | Chorus of the Hungarian State Radio and Television | Children's Choir of the Hungarian State Opera
CBS 42369 (Giordana: Andrea Chenier) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 162. Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeti gehe (Ah! I see, now as I go to the wedding)
Sunday
Jun 21
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Magdalena Kozená (soprano) | Sara Mingardo (alto)
SDG 168 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 11) -
Samuel Barber
"Knoxville: Summer of 1915", Op. 24
Sunday
Jun 21
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) | Manitoba Chamber Orchestra | Roy Goodman (conductor)
CBC 5234 (So Much To Tell) -
John Dowland
All ye, whom Love or Fortune hath betray'd
Sunday
Jun 21
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Andreas Martin (lute)
Harmonia Mundi 290.8458.59 (The Voice, Vol 2) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 [The Fair Miller-Maid]
Sunday
Jun 21
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1995 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Kak mne bol'no (How much it hurts), Op. 21 #12
Sunday
Jun 21
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorite: Act I, Scene 2
Sunday
Jun 21
Marcello Viotti (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] | Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] | Abbie Furmansky [Inès] | Ramon Vargas [Fernand] | Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] | Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] | Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur]
RCA 66229 (Donizetti: La Favorite) -
Antonín Dvořák
Choral Songs for Male Voices, B 66
Sunday
Jun 21
Cantus
Cantus 1213 (Song of a Czech) -
Robert Schumann
Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 (Paradise and the Peri): Part 3
Sunday
Jun 21
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [The Peri] | Alexandra Coku (soprano) [The Maiden | vocal quartet] | Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) [The Angel | mezzo-soprano solo | contralto solo | Christoph Prégardien (tenor) [tenor solo] | Neill Archer (tenor) [The Young Man | Gerald Finley (baritone) [The Man | baritone solo | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Gazna
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Castor et Pollux: Act IV, scene 5. "Séjour de l'éternelle paix" ("Abode of eternal peace")
Sunday
Jun 21
Ryan Brown (conductor) | Opera Lafayette Orchestra | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (haute-contre [high tenor])
Naxos 557.993 (Rameau: Operatic Arias)
WETA Virtuoso
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Jean Françaix
Flute Concerto
Sunday
Jun 21
Manuela Wiesler (flute) | Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra | Philippe Auguin (conductor)
BIS 529 -
Gabriel Fauré
Berceuse
Sunday
Jun 21
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
DG 437.544 (Carmen Fantasie) -
Robert Schumann
Toccata
Sunday
Jun 21
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 410.520 (Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op. 111) -
Franz Schubert
Violin Sonata D Major, D 384
Sunday
Jun 21
Goeran Soellscher (guitar) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 471.568 -
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40
Sunday
Jun 21
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) | Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
DG 4870835D (Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Shostakovich & Britten) -
Johannes Brahms
Capriccio in B Minor, Op. 76 #2
Sunday
Jun 21
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 63886 (Brahms: Sonata, Op. 5) -
George Frideric Handel
Keyboard Suite #5 in E Major, HWV 430
Sunday
Jun 21
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 2 in G Minor "Song of a New Race"
Sunday
Jun 21
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 9226 (Still) -
Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet #2 in F Major, Op. 92 (on Kabardinian themes)
Sunday
Jun 21
Chilingirian Quartet
Chandos 8929 (Prokofiev: String Quartets 1 & 2) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto
Sunday
Jun 21
Rachel Podger (violin)
Channel 12198 (Johann Sebastian Bach) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #9. Hungaria
Sunday
Jun 21
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10490 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 4) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #9 "Kreutzer"
Sunday
Jun 21
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 410.554 (Bruckner: Violin Sonatas) -
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote. Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35
Sunday
Jun 21
Berlin Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Mischa Maisky (cello)
DG B0002054 (Strauss) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Prelude
Sunday
Jun 21
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Pro Arte Orchestra
EMI 63779 (Leos Janacek) -
Claudio Monteverdi
The "Lost" Vespers (arr. Matthew Robertson)
Sunday
Jun 21
The Thirteen | Matthew Robertson (conductor)
Acis 54148 (Monteverdi: The "Lost" Vespers) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude, Op. 32 #5 in G Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Anna Fedorova (piano)
Channel 42620 (Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) -
José White Lafitte
Violin Concerto in F-sharp Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Encore Chamber Orchestra | Daniel Hege (conductor)
Cedille 90000.214 (Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries) -
Arthur Foote
Piano Quartet
Sunday
Jun 21
James Barbagallo (piano) | Da Vinci Quartet
Naxos 559.014 (Foote: Chamber Music Vol. 2) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26
Sunday
Jun 21
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Symphonic Fantasy for Two Pianos
Sunday
Jun 21
Michael Lewin (piano) | Janice Weber (piano)
Naxos 559.046 (Griffes: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2) -
Kenneth Fuchs
American Rhapsody (Romance for Violin and Orchestra)
Sunday
Jun 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor) | Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin)
Centaur 3799 (Poems and Rhapsodies) -
John Adams
The Wound Dresser
Sunday
Jun 21
Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Naxos 559.031 (ADAMS: Shaker Loops) -
Gabriel Fauré
Sicilienne, Op. 78 (from Pelléas et Mélisande")
Sunday
Jun 21
Gil Shaham (violin) | Akira Eguchi (piano)
Canary Classics 1239 (The Fauré Album) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #10 (Adagio)
Sunday
Jun 21
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Concerto in E Major
Sunday
Jun 21
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Stephen Coombs (piano) | Jean-Yves Ossonce (conductor)
Hyperion 66897 (Hahn & Massenet: Piano Concertos) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude & Fugue #13 F-sharp Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Till Fellner (piano)
ECM 0002285 (Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #6 in F Major, Op. 10 #2
Sunday
Jun 21
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Maurice Duruflé
Requiem
Sunday
Jun 21
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Stephen Layton (conductor) | Harrison Cole (organ)
Hyperion 67436 (Duruflé: Requiem) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet: Public Merrymaking
Sunday
Jun 21
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
RCA 68288 (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet) -
Paul Hindemith
Concert Music for Brass and Strings, Op. 50
Sunday
Jun 21
Philharmonia Orchestra | Paul Hindemith (conductor)
EMI Classics 67783 (Great Recordings of the Century) -
Claude Debussy
Symphony in B Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Jun Märkl (conductor) | Orchestre National de Lyon
Naxos 572.583 (Debussy: Orchestral Works (Complete)) -
Leoš Janáček
In the Mist
Sunday
Jun 21
Lamar Crowson (piano)
EMI Classics 65304 (Nielsen Wind Quintet) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Six Morceaux: VI. Tarantella
Sunday
Jun 21
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) | Barbara Moser (piano)
Gramola 98966 (Den Männer ebenbürtig) -
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
Sunday
Jun 21
Sir Stephen Hough (piano) | Steven Isserlis (cello) | Mitchael Collins (clarinet)
RCA 63504 (Brahms & Frühling: Clarinet Trios - Schumann: Mächenerzählungen) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
Sunday
Jun 21
BIS 622-624 (Sibelius) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #1 in C Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips 442.040 (Bruckner) -
Samuel Barber
Overture to "The School for Scandal"
Sunday
Jun 21
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
EMI 49463 (Samuel Barber) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 119)
Sunday
Jun 21
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Richard Strauss
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Sunday
Jun 21
Sarah Chang (violin) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
EMI Classics 56870 (Richard Strauss) -
Manuel Ponce
Concierto del sur
Sunday
Jun 21
Junhong Kuang (guitar) | Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice | Darrell Ang (conductor)
Naxos 579.053 (Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez) -
John Johnson
Trenchmore
Sunday
Jun 21
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Sunday
Jun 21
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Conradin Kreutzer
Grand Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 62 for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass
Sunday
Jun 21
Nash Ensemble
CRD 3390 (Hummel) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: I. Preludio
Sunday
Jun 21
Rachel Podger (violin)
Channel 14498 (Johann Sebastian Bach) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, WoO 39 in B-flat Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish Rhapsody #3
Sunday
Jun 21
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor) | Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Chandos 8861 (Stanford: Symphony No. 7, etc.) -
Claude Debussy
Images pour orchestre
Sunday
Jun 21
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 425.502 (Debussy: Images, Nocturnes) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 63 #1 in B Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Maria João Pires (piano)
DG 477.7483 (Frederic Chopin) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Sunday
Jun 21
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor) | Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin)
Centaur 3799 (Poems and Rhapsodies) -
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in B Minor, Op. 119 #1
Sunday
Jun 21
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 779469 (Brahms: Handel Variations, Rhapsodies, Piano Pieces) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #9 in D Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
DG 477.9260 (Mahler, The People's Edition) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Dardanus: Air
Sunday
Jun 21
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
CBC 5229 (Rameau: Dardanus, Le temple de la gloire) -
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio
Sunday
Jun 21
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin) | Stephen Isserlis (cello)
London 425.860 (Chausson: Concerto - Ravel: Trio) -
Ernst von Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25
Sunday
Jun 21
JoAnn Falletta (conductor) | Buffalo Philharmonic | Eldar Nebolsin (piano)
Naxos 572.303 (Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 53 #1 in A-flat Major
Sunday
Jun 21
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Jacques Ibert
Symphonie Concertante
Sunday
Jun 21
London Symphony Orchestra | André Previn (conductor) | John de Lancie (oboe)
RCA 7989 (Richard Strauss) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #0 in D Minor
Sunday
Jun 21
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips 442.040 (Bruckner)