Daily Playlist: VivaLaVoce

12:01 am
Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore: Act I, Scene 1
Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] | Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] | Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] | Walter Gullino [Ruiz] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] | Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] | Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci] | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

DG 413.355

12:12 am
Franz Schubert
Hoffnung, D 637 (Hope)
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)

Harmonia Mundi 902063

12:16 am
Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Wolfram Rieger (piano) | Recorded live on May 7, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam

Mahler Feest

12:36 am
Richard Wagner
Der fliegende Holländer: "Die Frist ist um"
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | Berlin Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

DG 471.348

12:48 am
Gioacchino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Aria. Ils s'éloignent enfin (At last they go)
Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Sinfonia Varsovia | Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Naive 5221

12:56 am
Jacques Offenbach
Robinson Crusoë: Grande valse. "Conduisez-moi vers celui que j'adore"
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Chour Les Eléments | Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Michel Plasson (conductor)

Virgin 45610

1:00 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. John Passion, BWV 245: Part I
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Evangelist] | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Jesus] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | Michael Chance (alto) | Neill Archer (tenor) | Rufus Müller (tenor) | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Archiv 419.324

1:34 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Regina coeli, K 127
Emma Kirkby (soprano) | Westminster Cathedral Boys Choir | Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

L'Oiseau-Lyre 411.832

1:49 am
Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale: Act II, Opening
Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] | Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] | Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] | Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] | Henry Newman [Un Notaro] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Sarah Caldwell (conductor)

EMI 66030

2:01 am
Richard Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Jessye Norman (soprano) | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)

Philips 0004505

2:26 am
George Frideric Handel
Cantata. Del bell'idolo mio, HWV 104
Stefanie True (soprano) | Contrasto Armonico | Marco Vitale (conductor)

Brilliant 94000

2:37 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 192. Nun danket alle Gott (Now thank we all our God)
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Schlosskirche, Wittenberg, Oct 31, 2000]

SDG 110

2:48 am
Marc Antoine Charpentier
Médée: Act I, Finale
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | Les Arts Florissants Chours et Orchestre | William Christie (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 901139.41

3:01 am
Charles Gounod
Faust
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] | Francisco Araiza [Faust] | Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] | Pamela Coburn [Siébel] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Philips 420.164

5:56 am
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part III
Ruth Ziesak (soprano) [Eva] | Anton Scharinger [Adam] | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

London 443.445

6:23 am
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuletti e i Montecchi: Act II
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Romeo] | Edita Gruberova [Giulietta] | Gwynne Howell [Capellio] | Dano Raffanti [Tebaldo] | John Tomlinson [Lorenzo] | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Riccardo Muti (conductor)

EMI 64846

Vocal CD Pick of the Week

7:15 am
George Frideric Handel
Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Enlightenment), HWV 46a: Pleasure's aria. "Lascia la spina" (Leave the thorn)
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7559

7:21 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in G Minor, BWV 235
Washington Bach Consort | J. Reilly Lewis (conductor)

Loft 1068

7:49 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Se al labbro mio non credi, K 295
Marcel Reijans (tenor) | European Chamber Orchestra | Wilhelm Keitel (conductor)

Brilliant Classics 94051

8:01 am
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 101. Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott (Take from us, Lord, thou faithful God)
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Daniel Taylor (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | Gotthold Schwarz (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Dom, Braunschweig, Aug 27, 2000]

SDG 147

8:26 am
Gioacchino Rossini
Il Turco in Italia: Recitative and aria. I vostri cenci vi mando...Squalide veste e bruna...Caro padre (I return your rags to you...let this drab, dark garment...Dear Father)
Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Fiorilla] | Marco Danieli (baritone) [Poeta] | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)

Sony 41742

8:36 am
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 24
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7521

8:58 am
Ernest Chausson
Poème de l'amour et de la mer: I. La Fleur des eaux
Susan Graham | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Warner Classics 61938

9:11 am
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony #2 "Lobgesang" (Hymn of Praise)
Ruth Ziesak (soprano) | Mojca Erdmann (soprano) | Christian Elsner (tenor) | MDR Radio Choir | MDR Symphony Orchestra | Jun Märkl (conductor)

Naxos 572.294

10:20 am
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: "Teneste la promessa.Addio del passato" [Act III]
Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Bonynge (conductor)

London 400.057

10:29 am
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Motet, Op. 133 #2. Meditabor
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)

Gloriae Dei Cantores 121

10:33 am
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Carol Vaness | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) | Hans Tschammer (bass) | Tallis Chamber Choir | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

EMI 49950

10:49 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Aria. "Ach, Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"
Edita Gruberova [Konstanze] | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

London 417.402

11:01 am
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Act I, Scene 3
René Kollo (tenor) [Lohengrin] | Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Elsa von Brabant] | Siegmund Nimsgern [Friedrich von Telramund] | Dunja Vejzovic [Ortrud] | Karl Ridderbusch [Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Fowler)] | Robert Kerns (baritone) [The King's Herald] | Klaus Lang [Nobleman of Brabant] | Peter Maus [Nobleman of Brabant] | Martin Vantin [Nobleman of Brabant] | Josef Becker [Nobleman of Brabant] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin [Saxons, Thuringians, Brabantians] | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

EMI 66519

11:27 am
Vincenzo Bellini
La sonnambula: Recitative and aria. "Care compagne...Come per me sereno...Sovra il sen"
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)

London 414.450

11:36 am
Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens: Act I, Conclusion (Nr 7-11)
Jon Vickers [Enée] | Josephine Veasey [Didon] | Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] | Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] | Heather Begg [Anna] | Roger Soyer [Narbal] | Anthony Raffell [Panthée] | Anne Howells [Ascagne] | Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] | Pierre Thau [Priamus] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] | Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] | Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] | Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] | David Lennox [Hélénus] | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Philips 475.6661

11:55 am
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots: Act I, Finale
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 [Marcellus] | 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)

Erato 2292-45027

Vocal CD Pick of the Week

12:00 pm
George Frideric Handel
Album. Il caro Sassone: Handel in Italy
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7559

1:15 pm
Francesco Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur: Act II
Renata Scotto (soprano) [Adriana Lecouvreur] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Maurizio] | Sherill Milnes [Michonnet] | Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [La Principessa di Bouillon] | Giancarlo Luccardi [Il Principe di Bouillon] | Florindo Andreoli [L'Abate di Chazeuil] | Lillian Watson [Mlle. Jouvenot] | Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) [Mlle. Dangeville] | Paul Crook [Poisson] | Paul Hudson [Quinault] | Paul Crook [Un Maggiordomo] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | James Levine (conductor)

CBS 79310

1:49 pm
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act III, Finale
Anna Netrebko (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] | Rolando Villazón [Alfredo Germont] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Giorgio Germont] | Helene Schneiderman [Flora Bervoix] | Diane Pilcher [Annina] | Paul Gay [Barone Douphol] | Herman Wallén [Marchese d'Obigny] | Luigi Roni [Dottore Grenvil] | Dritan Luca [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] | Wolfram Igor Derntl [Domestico di Flora] | Friedrich Springer [Commissionario] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Rizzi (conductor)

DG 0005529

1:55 pm
George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted
Charles Daniels (tenor) | Gabrieli Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)

Archiv 453.464

2:01 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 177. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (I call to thee, Lord Jesus Christ)
Magdalena Kozená (soprano) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Paul Agnew (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | [Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: Tewkesbury Abbey, Jul 16, 2000]

SDG 141

2:26 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: III. Credo
Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)

Chandos 0703

2:38 pm
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Dardanus: Act V
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] | Véronique Gens [Iphise] | Maouri Laurent [Anténor] | Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] | Russell Smythe [Teucer] | Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] | Françoise Masset [L'Amour] | Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] | Jean-François Lombard [Seconde Songe] | Marcos Pujol [Troisième Songe] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] | Françoise Masset [Seconde Phrygienne] | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Les Musiciens de Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Archiv 463.476

2:59 pm
Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorite: Act III, Scenes 3-4
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] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Marcello Viotti (conductor)

RCA 66229

3:12 pm
Georges Bizet
Les Pêcheurs de perles: Act III
Janine Micheau [Leïla] | Nicolai Gedda [Nadir] | Ernest Blanc [Zurga] | Jacques Mars [Nourabad] | Chours du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique | Pierre Dervaux (conductor)

EMI 69704

3:38 pm
Joseph Haydn
L'isola disabitata: Act II, Finale
Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)

Arabesque 6717

3:49 pm
Gioacchino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act I, Finale
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

Vocal CD Pick of the Week

4:12 pm
George Frideric Handel
Armida abbandonata (Armida abandoned), HWV 105
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7559

4:29 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, K 427
Gillian Keith (soprano) | Tove Dahlberg (mezzo-soprano) | Thomas Cooley (tenor) | Nathan Berg (bass-baritone) | Handel and Haydn Society of Boston | Harry Christophers (conductor)

Coro 16084

5:21 pm
Manuel de Falla
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (7 Popular Spanish Songs)
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)

Zenph 1001

5:34 pm
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Duet. "Dio che nell'alma infondere" [Act I]
José Carreras (tenor) | Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

EMI 74971

5:39 pm
Franz Liszt
3 Petrarc Sonnets
Diana Damrau (soprano) | Helmut Deutsch (piano)

Virgin Classics 70928

5:58 pm
Gustav Mahler
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs): Volume I
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) & Gerald Moore (piano) | Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano) | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) & Irwin Gage (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Daniel Barenboim (piano)

EMI 08985

6:10 pm
Richard Strauss
Salome: Scene 4, beginning
Horst Hiestermann [Herodes] | Leonie Rysanek [Herodias] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salome] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Jochanaan] | Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

DG 431.810

6:34 pm
Gabriel Fauré
Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: II. Offertorium
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris | Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi (conductor)

Virgin Classics 70921

6:43 pm
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene ["Nu, zaboltalas ya!...Puskai pogibnu ya"]
Renée Fleming (soprano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

London 455.760

7:06 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields | Margaret Marshall (soprano) | Janet Baker | Robert Tear (tenor) | Samuel Ramey (bass) | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

Philips 416.415

7:45 pm
Gioacchino Rossini
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra: Quant' è grato all'alma mia
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Elisabetta] | Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice | Ion Marin (conductor)

London 436.075

7:52 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Clemenza di Tito: Act I, Quintet with Chorus. "Deh, conservate, oh Dei"
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Tito Vespasiano] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Vitellia] | Sylvia McNair [Servilia] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Sesto] | Catherine Robbin [Annio] | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Publio] | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Archiv 431.806

8:01 pm
Gioacchino Rossini
Il turco in Italia
Michele Pertusi [Selim] | Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] | Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] | Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] | Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] | Laura Polverelli [Zaida] | Francesco Piccoli [Albazar] | Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

London 458.924

Vocal CD Pick of the Week

10:23 pm
George Frideric Handel
Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno, HWV 96: Chlori's recitative and aria. "Barbaro, tu non credi" (Barbarous man, you do not believe)
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | The English Concert | Harry Bicket (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi 90.7559

10:33 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
The Sixteen | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) | James Bowman (counter-tenor) | Michael George (bass) | Orchestra of the Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)

Collins 70322

11:05 pm
Ernest Chausson
Le Roi Arthus (King Arthur): Act II
Teresa Zylis-Gara [Guenièvre] | Gino Quilico (baritone) [Arthus] | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) [Lancelot] | Annick Massis [Mordred] | Gérard Friedmann [Lyonnel] | François Loup [Allan] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Merlin] | Thierry Dran [Un Laboureur] | Renè Schirrer [Un Chevalier] | Alexandre Laitter [Un Ecuyer] | Michel Focquenoy [Soldat] | Francis Dudziak [Soldat] | Renè Schirrer [Soldat] | Chours de Radio France [Soldat] | Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique [Chevaliers, Ecuyers, Pages, Bardes, Femmes de la suite de Guenièvre] | Armin Jordan (conductor)

Erato 88213