Daily Playlist: VivaLaVoce

12:14 am
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots: Act IV, Aria. "Parmi les fleurs mon rêve se ranime"
Françoise Pollet [Valentine] | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor)

Erato 2292-45027

12:19 am
Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: Act V
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; Coro di spiriti] | The English Baroque Soloists | His Majestie's Sagbutts & Cornetts | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Archiv 419.250

12:35 am
Jules Massenet
Werther: Aria. "Werther, Werther! Qui m'aurait dit la place" ("Werther, Werther! Who could have foretold the place")
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) [Charlotte] | Orchestre National de France | Fabien Gabel (conductor)

Naive 5201

12:47 am
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade: I. Asie
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Warner Classics 61938

12:56 am
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci: Aria. "Vesti la giubba" (Put on your tunic)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) [Canio] | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Decca 0015463

1:01 am
Antonio Vivaldi
Farnace: Act I, Scenes 8-14
Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] | Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] | Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] | Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] | Karina Gauvin [Gilade] | Daniel Behle [Pompeo] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Aquilio] | Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)

Virgin Classics 70914

1:37 am
Jake Heggie
Here and Gone (songs and duets for tenor, baritone and piano quartet)
Paul Groves (tenor) | Keith Phares (Baritone) | Dawn Harms (violin) | CarlaMaria Rodrigues (viola) | Emil Miland (cello) | Jake Heggie (piano)

Avie 2198

1:56 am
Benjamin Britten
Folksong Arrangements from British Isles: The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | Malcolm Martineau (piano)

DG 0004216

2:01 am
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: III. Cours d'amour [The Court of Love]
John Shirley-Quirk (bass) | Norma Burrowes (soprano) | Brighton Festival Chorus | Southend Boys Choir | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Antal Dorati (conductor)

Decca 473.842

2:24 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 78. Jesu, der du meine Seele (Jesus, who has wrested my soul)
Malin Hartelius (soprano) | Robin Tyson (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Abbaye d'Ambronay, Sep 24, 2000]

SDG 124

2:47 am
Gioacchino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act II, Scenes 1-2
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 | Antonio Pappano (conductor)

EMI 28826

3:01 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Finta Semplice (The Feigned Simpleton)
Helen Donath [Rosina] | Robert Holl [Don Cassandro] | Anthony Rolfe-Johnson [Don Polidoro] | Teresa Berganza [Giacinta] | Jutta-Renate Ihloff [Ninetta] | Thomas Moser [Fracasso] | Robert Lloyd [Simone] | Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg | Leopold Hager (conductor)

Brilliant Classics 94051

5:48 am
Giacomo Carissimi
Historia di Jephte
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)

Dorian 90913

Vocal CD Pick of the Week

6:16 am
George Frideric Handel
Alpestre monte (Alpine mountain), HWV 81
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7559

6:28 am
Gioacchino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act II
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] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

Philips 411.058

7:27 am
Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Act I, Finale. "Già nella notte densa"
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Desdemona] | Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

DG 439.805

7:36 am
Josip Pavcic
Three Songs. Grandpa One-Leg; Lullaby #2; Ciciban, Cicifuj
Marcos Fink (bass-baritone) | Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano)

Harmonia Mundi 90.2065

7:45 am
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia: "Com'è soave quest'ora di silenzio al mio dolente cor.Anch'io provai le tenere smanie d'un puro amore"
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Carlo Rizzi (conductor)

Decca 0003136

7:53 am
Franz Schubert
Duet. Hermann und Thusnelda, D 322
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Gerald Moore (piano)

Brilliant 94082

8:01 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)
Thomas Allen (baritone) [Don Giovanni] | Carol Vaness [Donna Anna] | Keith Lewis [Don Ottavio] | Dimitri Kavrakos [Commendatore/La Statua] | Maria Ewing [Donna Elvira] | Richard Van Allan [Leporello] | John Rawnsley [Masetto] | Elizabeth Gale [Zerlina] | The Glyndebourne Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink (conductor)

EMI 47037

8:24 am
Antonio Salieri
La scuola de' gelosi: "Or ei con Ernestina.Ah sia già"
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Adam Fischer (conductor)

Decca 470.631

8:33 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 33. Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (In thee alone, Lord Jesus Christ)
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Jonathan Brown (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt, Sep 17, 2000]

SDG 134

8:55 am
Léo Delibes
Lakmé: Bell Song. "Où va la jeune indoue"
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Patrick Fournillier (conductor)

EMI 56159

Vocal CD Pick of the Week

9:04 am
George Frideric Handel
Album. Il caro Sassone: Handel in Italy
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7559