This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical and WETA VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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String Quintet, K 516 in G MInor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Orlando Quartet | Nobuko Imai (viola)
Brilliant Classics 92540 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
The Fair Melusina, Op. 32
Felix Mendelssohn
Tuesday
Apr 30
London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 423.104 (Mendelssohn: Overtures) -
Canon
Johann Pachelbel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)
Philips 416.361 (Pops in Love) -
Abegg Variations, Op. 1
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA 60443 (Evgeny Kissin, Carnegie Hall Debut Concert) -
Violin Concerto in D Major (Benton 103/103A)
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Tuesday
Apr 30
David Perry (violin) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 570.320 (Pleyel: Symphonies Concertantes) -
The Wand of Youth Suite #1, Op. 1a
Edward Elgar
Tuesday
Apr 30
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | James Judd (conductor)
Naxos 557.166 (Elgar: The Wand of Youth (Suites No. 1 & 2)) -
PBS NewsHour
News
Tuesday
Apr 30
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Hungarian Dance #1
Johannes Brahms
Tuesday
Apr 30
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Iván Fischer (conductor)
Hungaroton 12571 (Brahsm: Hungarian Dances) -
Hungarian Rhapsody #1
Franz Liszt
Tuesday
Apr 30
Israel Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
CBS 44926 (Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies) -
Orchestral Suite #2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: I. Ouverture
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Harmonia Mundi 90.2113-14 (Bach: Ouvertüren) -
Dubinushka, Op. 62
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tuesday
Apr 30
Seattle Symphony | Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
Naxos 572.788 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnole) -
Concerto, RV 505 in B-flat Major for Bassoon, Strings and Continuo
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Mathieu Lussier (bassoon) | Arion
Early Music 7764 (Vivaldi) -
Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 26: I. Allegro
Dora Pejacevic
Tuesday
Apr 30
Andrej Bielow (violin) | Oliver Triendl (piano)
CPO 777.420 (Dora Pejacevic: Violin Sonatas) -
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Richard Wagner
Tuesday
Apr 30
Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
DG 477.8773 (Wagner: Preludes & Overtures) -
Hunting Symphony G Major
Leopold Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra | Donald Armstrong (conductor)
Naxos 553.347 (Leopold Mozart: Symphonies) -
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
Otto Nicolai
Tuesday
Apr 30
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI 49043 (Haydn: String Quartets Hob. III:81 - 83) -
Sonata a 12 in D Minor
Francesco Cavalli
Tuesday
Apr 30
Ensemble Correspondances | Sébastien Daucé (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2640 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe a quatre choeurs) -
Symphonic Dance #1
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Tuesday
Apr 30
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin 90832 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, etc.) -
Harp Concerto in G Minor, Op. 81: III. Rondeau. Allegro agitato
Elias Parish Alvars
Tuesday
Apr 30
Elizabeth Hainen (harp) | Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rossen Milanov (conductor)
Avie 2221 (Harp Concertos) -
Girl of Perth: March
Georges Bizet
Tuesday
Apr 30
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Vox 5130 (The Dance) -
Concerto for 3 Oboes and 3 Violins in B-flat Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 0001413 (Charpentier: Musique sacrée) -
Violin Concerto: III. Allegro vivace
Aram Khachaturian
Tuesday
Apr 30
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Teddy Abrams (conductor)
Avie 2411 (Dvorak Khachaturian Violin Concertos) -
Water Music: Excerpts
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor)
CPO 777.312 (Händel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks) -
Carnival Overture
Antonín Dvorák
Tuesday
Apr 30
New York Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
CBS 44923 (Dvorák: Violin Concerto) -
Overture #2 in D Major
Johann Christian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures) -
Symphony #31 in D Major, K. 297 (300a) "Paris"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Prague Chamber Orchestra | Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80190 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31, 33 & 31) -
Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 20
Arthur Foote
Tuesday
Apr 30
Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)
New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote) -
The Critical Night: Overture
Florian Leopold Gassmann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Eclipse Chamber Orchestra | Sylvia Alimena (conductor)
Naxos 570.421 (Gassmann: Opera Overtures) -
Il trovatore: Ballet Scenes
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Trio in B-flat Minor
Johann Ignaz Klausek
Tuesday
Apr 30
The Vivaldi Project
MSR Classics 1622 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 2) -
Sleeping Beauty Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tuesday
Apr 30
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Telarc 80151 (Tchaikovsky: Swan lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites) -
Symphony #102
Joseph Haydn
Tuesday
Apr 30
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 429.218 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 78 & 102) -
Capricho árabe
Francisco Tárrega
Tuesday
Apr 30
Miloš Karadaglic (guitar)
DG 0015579 (Mediterráneo) -
Sonata in E Minor (Septet)
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 445.824 (Rebel: Les Elemens - Gluck: Alessandro) -
Tannhauser: Overture
Richard Wagner
Tuesday
Apr 30
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Edo de Waart (conductor)
Philips 400.089 (Wagner: Overtures) -
Piano Concerto #12
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Murray Perahia (piano) | English Chamber Orchestra | Murray Perahia (conductor)
CBS 42243 (Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 11, 12 & 14) -
Overture to Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
John Knowles Paine
Tuesday
Apr 30
Ulster Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
Naxos 559.747 (John Knowles Paine: Orchestral Works) -
Symphony #9 "Great"
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
Apr 30
Berlin Philharmonic | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
CBS 42316 (Schubert: Symphony No. 9) -
Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus
Léo Delibes
Tuesday
Apr 30
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Concerto, RV 425
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Pepe Romero (guitar) | I Musici
Philips 434.082 (Vivaldi: Concertos for Guitar and Strings) -
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra in D Minor
Felix Mendelssohn
Tuesday
Apr 30
Gidon Kremer (violin) | Martha Argerich (piano) | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 427.338 (Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Piano, etc.) -
Symphony in D Major "Sinfonia obligato" (1781)
Samuel Wesley
Tuesday
Apr 30
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 9823 (Wesley: Symphonies) -
Trio #3 (1718)
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Camerata Cologne
CPO 999.957 (Telemann: Six Trios 1718) -
Piano Concerto #2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
Tuesday
Apr 30
Lang Lang (piano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
DG 0011654 (Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Duo in E-flat Major, Op. 15
Norbert Burgmüller
Tuesday
Apr 30
Pierce-Aomori Duo
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Norwegian Dance, Op. 35 #3. Allegro moderato alla Marcia
Edvard Grieg
Tuesday
Apr 30
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Symphony #48 in B-flat Major
Christian Cannabich
Tuesday
Apr 30
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Uwe Grodd (conductor)
Naxos 554.340 (Cannabich: Symphonies Nos. 47 - 52) -
Fantasie Brillante on Carmen
François Borne
Tuesday
Apr 30
Mathieu Dufour (flute) | Kuang-Hao Huang (piano)
Cedille 90000.121 (Fantaisie) -
Turkish March, Op. 55
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Tuesday
Apr 30
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Arthur Fagen (conductor)
Naxos 553.405 (Ippolitov-Ivanov Orchestral Works) -
Sinfonia in G Minor, FWV M:g1
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Tuesday
Apr 30
Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Acceleration Waltz
Johann Strauss Jr.
Tuesday
Apr 30
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Étude de concert, Op. 1 #1
Paul de Schlözer
Tuesday
Apr 30
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30017 (Grand Romance) -
Concerto for Lute and Flute in F Major, SC 9
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Tuesday
Apr 30
Richard Stone (lute) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Der Freischütz: Overture
Carl Maria von Weber
Tuesday
Apr 30
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | Antoni Wit (conductor)
Naxos 570.296 (Weber: Overtures) -
Sonata, RV 53 for Oboe and Basso continuo in C Minor {edit}
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone) | Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Children's Corner: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Claude Debussy
Tuesday
Apr 30
Lang Lang (piano)
DG 479.7528 (Lang Lang Piano Book) -
Consecration of the House Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
Apr 30
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 416.385 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Overture, Op. 124) -
Keyboard Sonata, K 212 in A Major
Domenico Scarlatti
Tuesday
Apr 30
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 11: I. Allegro molto vivace
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Nash Ensemble
Hyperion 68307 (Clara Schumann Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, String Quartet) -
Sonate en symphonie, Op. 3 #3
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Tuesday
Apr 30
Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 474.550 (Mondonville: 6 Sonatas Op. 3) -
Semiramide: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Tuesday
Apr 30
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra | Christian Benda (conductor)
Naxos 570.933 (Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol. 1) -
Sinfonia, H. 662 in E Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
Camerata Bern | Thomas Füri (conductor)
Denon 73326 (C.P.E. Bach: 6 Hamburg Symphonies, wq.182) -
Overture in D Minor, Op. 49
Dora Pejacevic
Tuesday
Apr 30
Brandenburg State Orchestra, Frankfurt | Howard Griffiths (conductor)
CPO 777.916 (Dora Pejacevic: Piano Concerto; Overture; Orchestral Songs) -
Symphony, G. 490 in D Major
Luigi Boccherini
Tuesday
Apr 30
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8414-15 (Boccherini: Seven Symphonies) -
Petite Suite "Jeux d'enfants", Op. 22
Georges Bizet
Tuesday
Apr 30
Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Charles Dutoit (conductor)
London 421.527 (Fête À La Française) -
Concerto, BWV 1041
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
David Oistrakh (violin) | Vienna Symphony Orchestra | David Oistrakh (conductor)
DG 447.427 (Bach, Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos - Beethoven: Violin Romances) -
Symphony #33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman (conductor)
Erato 75498 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 25, 29 & 33) -
Octet E-flat Major
Felix Mendelssohn
Tuesday
Apr 30
Daniel Hope (violin) | Soloists of Chamber Orchestra Europe
DG 477.6634 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Octet & Songs) -
Wanderer Fantasie
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
Apr 30
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
DG 435.028 (Schubert, Brahms & Liszt) -
Concerto, RV 433 "The Storm at Sea"
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) | English Concert | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 423.702 (Vivaldi: Six Flute Concertos op. 10) -
Sadko, Musical Picture, Op. 5
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tuesday
Apr 30
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra | Kees Bakels (conductor)
BIS 1387 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole, Piano Concerto) -
Concerto, RV 548
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Yehudi Menuhin (violin) | Polish Chamber Orchestra | Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)
EMI 54205 (Vivaldi: Concerti) -
Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz
Tuesday
Apr 30
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
RCA 61203 (Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Ouvertures, Béatrice et Bénédict) -
Symphony #38 "Prague"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.954 (Mozart: The Late Symphonies, 21-41) -
Banquet Music, Part 1: Suite in E minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Piano Concerto in A Minor
Edvard Grieg
Tuesday
Apr 30
Murray Perahia (piano) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Colin Davis (conductor)
CBS 44899 (Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos) -
Concerto, BWV 1053
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
Douglas Boyd (oboe) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Douglas Boyd (conductor)
DG 429.225 (Bach: Oboe Concertos BWV 1053, 1055 & 1059) -
Piano Concerto #1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
Apr 30
Murray Perahia (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink (conductor)
CBS 42177 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #2 in F Major
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7228-29 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Thomas Allen (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] | Lucia Popp [Susanna] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Figaro] | Frederica von Stade [Cherubino] | Jane Berbié (soprano) [Marcellina] | Kurt Moll [Bartolo] | Robert Tear (tenor) [Don Basilio] | Philip Langridge [Don Curzio] | Yvonne Kenny [Barbarina] | Giorgio Tadeo (bass) [Antonio] | Lynda Russell (soprano) [Contadina] | Anne Mason [Contadina] | London Opera Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 410.150 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Der Handschuh (The Glove), Op. 87 after Schiller
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Act 2, Scene 8
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Le Concert d'Astrée | Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
Virgin 07572 (Arias for Cleopatra) -
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
The Sixteen | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) | James Bowman (counter-tenor) | Michael George (bass) | Orchestra of the Sixteen | Harry Christophers (conductor)
Collins Classics 70322 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: III. Credo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
Apr 30
Rebecca Evans | Pamela Helen Stephen | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) | Collegium Musicum 90 | Richard Hickox (conductor)
Chandos 0703 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Médée: Prologue
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Tuesday
Apr 30
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | Les Arts Florissants Chœurs et Orchestre | William Christie (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1139-41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
Motets, Op. 133
Josef Rheinberger
Tuesday
Apr 30
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Attila: Act II
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Ruggero Raimondi [Attila] | Sherrill Milnes [Ezio] | Christina Deutekom [Odabella] | Carlo Bergonzi [Foresto] | Ricardo Cassinelli [Uldino] | Jules Bastin [Leone] | Ambrosian Singers [Leaders, kings & soldiers, Huns, Gepids, Ostrogoths, Heruls, Thuringians, Quadi, Druids, priestesses, men & women of Aquileia, Aquileian maidens in warlike dress, Roman officers & soldiers, Roman virgins & children, hermits, slaves] | Finchley Children's Music Group | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #22. Aria. "Nun scheint in vollem Glanze"
Joseph Haydn
Tuesday
Apr 30
Gerard Finley (bass) [Raphael] | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 449.217 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Chants d'Auvergne: Series I
Joseph Canteloube
Tuesday
Apr 30
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) | English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Otello: Willow Song. Assisa a' pie d'un salice (Seated at the foot of a willow)
Gioachino Rossini
Tuesday
Apr 30
Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Sinfonia Varsovia | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Naïve 5221 (Rossini) -
Cantata #8. Or che una numbe ingrata (Now that a cruel cloud)
Nicola Porpora
Tuesday
Apr 30
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Arcangelo | Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
Hyperion 67894 (Porpora: Cantatas for Alto) -
Fontanu Bakhchisarajsogo dvortsa (To the fountain of Bakhchisarai Palace)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Vlasov
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Delos 3392 (Romances) -
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs): Volume II
Gustav Mahler
Tuesday
Apr 30
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 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
Te Deum, Op. 32
Walter Braunfels
Tuesday
Apr 30
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg (soprano) | Lars-Erik Jonsson (tenor) | Eric Ercison Chamber Choir | Swedish Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Manfred Honneck (conductor)
Orfeo 679.071 (Braunfels: Te Deum) -
Minnespiel (Love's Game), Op. 101 (selections) from Rückert's "Liebesfrühling"
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Atalanta: Act III, Scenes 4-7
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dominique Labelle [Atalanta] | Susanne Rydén [Meleagro] | Cécile van de Sant [Irene] | Michael Slattery [Aminta] | Philip Cutlip [Nicandro] | Corey McKern [Mercurio] | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Philharmonia Baroque 4 (Handel: Atalanta) -
Mass in C Major, Op. 86: II. Gloria
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
Apr 30
Charlotte Margiono (soprano) | Catherine Robbin (alto) | William Kendall (tenor) | Alastaire Miles (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 435.391 (Beethoven: Mass in C-Major) -
Cantata, BWV 184. Erwünschtes Freudenlicht (Longed-for light of joy)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
Lisa Larsson (soprano) | Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 138 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 27) -
Ave Maria
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
Apr 30
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Decca 0014875 (Panis angelicus) -
Thésée: Act I, Opening
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Tuesday
Apr 30
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir] | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir] | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Macbeth: Act III
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Piero Cappuccilli [Macbeth] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Banco] | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Stefania Malagú [Dama di Lady Macbeth] | Plácido Domingo [Macduff] | Antonio Savastano [Malcolm] | Carlo Zardo [Doctor] | Giovanni Foiani [Servant to Macbeth] | Alfredo Mariotti [Sicario] | Sergio Fontana [A herald] | Alfredo Giacomotti [First apparition (a head wearing a helmet)] | Maria Fausta Gallamini [Second apparition (a bloodstained child)] | Massimo Bortolotti [Third apparition (a child wearing a crown and carrying a sapling)] | Coro del Teatro all Scala [Witches, messengers of the King, noblemen of Scotland, refugees, murderers, English soldiers, servants, bards] | Orchestra della Teatro alla Scala | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (7 Popular Spanish Songs): #4. Jota
Manuel de Falla
Tuesday
Apr 30
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
Three Songs. Grandpa One-Leg; Lullaby #2; Ciciban, Cicifuj
Josip Pavcic
Tuesday
Apr 30
Marcos Fink (bass-baritone) | Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2065 (Slovenija!) -
Semiramide: Aria. Bel raggio lusinghier (A fair alluring gleam)
Gioachino Rossini
Tuesday
Apr 30
Julia Lezhneva (soprano) | Sinfonia Varsovia | Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Naïve 5221 (Rossini) -
Farnace: Act III, Scenes 1-3
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
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 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace) -
Six Monologues from "Jedermann": #1. Ist alls zu Ende das Freudenmahl
Frank Martin
Tuesday
Apr 30
Thomas Oliemans (baritone) | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Steven Sloane (conductor)
MDG 901.1614 (Martin: Monologues, Der Sturm) -
La finta giardiniera: Act II, Finale
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
Thomas Moser [Don Anchise] | Edita Gruberova [La Marchesa Violante Onesti/Sandrina] | Uwe Heilmann [Il Contino Belfiore] | Charlotte Margiono [Arminda] | Monica Bacelli [Il Cavalier Ramiro] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Serpetta] | Anton Scharinger [Roberto/Nardo] | Concentus Musicus Wien | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Teldec 9031.72309 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Myrthen, Op. 25
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Ariodante: Act I, Finale
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
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] | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 457.271 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Les Fêtes d'Hébé (Opéra-ballet) [The Festivities of Hebe]: Prologue
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Tuesday
Apr 30
Sophie Daneman (soprano) [Hébé (Hebe)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid)] | Paul Agnew (tenor) [Momus] | Les Arts Florissants [Mariniers, Lacédémoniennes, bergers, bergères, nymphes, faunes, et sylvains (Rivermen, Lacedaemonian women, shepherds, shepherdesses, nymphs, fauns, and sylvans)] | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Carmen: Act IV
Georges Bizet
Tuesday
Apr 30
Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Carmen] | José Carreras (tenor) [Don José] | José van Dam (baritone) [Escamillo] | Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Micaëla] | Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Frasquita] | Jane Berbié (soprano) [Mercédès] | Alexander Malta (bass) [Zuniga] | Mikael Melbye (baritone) [Moralès] | Chour de l'Opéra de Paris | Schöneberger Sängerknaben | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.088 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Du bist die Ruh', D 776
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
Apr 30
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 0000049 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Mass in A Minor: Qui sedes
Vincenzo Bellini
Tuesday
Apr 30
Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Luca Milani (clarinet) | Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Decca 0014875 (Panis angelicus) -
Un ballo in maschera: Act I
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Riccardo] | Renato Bruson [Renato] | Margaret Price [Amelia] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Ulrica] | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Oscar] | Peter Weber [Silvano] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Samuel] | Malcolm King [Tom] | Alexander Oliver [Un Giudice] | Peter Hall [Un Servo d'Amelia] | London Opera Chorus | Royal College of Music Junior Department Chorus | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 410.210 (Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera) -
Prince Igor: Overture and Prologue
Alexander Borodin
Tuesday
Apr 30
Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] | Boris Christoff [Prince Galitsky | Khan Konchak] | Todor Todorov [Vladimir] | Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] | Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] | Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] | Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] | Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] | Radka Gaeva [Nurse] | Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] | Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor)
EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor) -
Mitridate: Act III, Scene 9, Aria. "Già dagli occhi"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tuesday
Apr 30
David Daniels (countertenor) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Harry Bicket (conductor)
Virgin 45365 (Mozart, Gluck & Handel: Operatic Arias) -
Cantata, BWV 97. In allen meinen Taten (In all my undertakings)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
Katharine Fuge (soprano) | Robin Tyson (alto) | Steve Davislim (tenor) | Stephan Loges (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 144 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 25) -
Wesendonck-Lieder: #1. Der Engel (The Angel)
Richard Wagner
Tuesday
Apr 30
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) | Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
DG 477.8773 (Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder) -
Missa pro defunctis: Sequence
Antoine Brumel
Tuesday
Apr 30
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Giustino: Act II
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Michael Chance (alto) [Giustino] | Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Arianna] | Dawn Kotoski [Anastasio] | Juliana Gondek [Fortuna] | Dean Ely [Polidarte] | Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano) [Leocasta] | Mark Padmore (tenor) [Vitaliano] | Drew Minter [Amanzio] | Dean Ely [Voce di Dentro] | kammerchor cantamus halle | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7130-32 (Handel: Giustino) -
Mefistofele: Act IV
Arrigo Boito
Tuesday
Apr 30
Samuel Ramey (bass) [Mefistofele] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Faust] | Eva Marton [Margherite | Sergio Tedesco [Wagner] | Tamara Takács [Marta] | Éva Farkas [Pantalis] | Antal Pataki [Nereo] | Hungaroton Opera Chorus [Celestial host | Mystic Chorus | Cherubim | Penitents | Promenaders | Crossbow Shooters | Huntsmen | Students | Countrymen | Townsfolk | Burghers | Witches | Warlocks
Sony 44983 (Boito: Mefistofele) -
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs), Op. 96 (selections)
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Les Pêcheurs de perles: Act III
Georges Bizet
Tuesday
Apr 30
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 (Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles) -
Der Rosenkavalier: Act II
Richard Strauss
Tuesday
Apr 30
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Die Feldmarschallin] | Otto Edelmann [Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau] | Christa Ludwig [Octavian] | Eberhard Wächter [Herr von Faninal] | Teresa Stich-Randall [Sophie] | Ljuba Welitsch [Marianne] | Paul Kuen [Valzacchi] | Kerstin Meyer [Annina] | Nicolai Gedda [Ein Sänger] | Philharmonia Chorus | Loughton High School for Girls & Bancroft's School | Philharmonia Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
EMI 56242 (Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier) -
Cantata, BWV 12. Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, wailing, fretting, fearing)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tuesday
Apr 30
William Towers (alto) | Mark Padmore (tenor) | Julian Clarkson (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 107 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 24) -
Teuzzone
Antonio Vivaldi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Paolo Lopez [Teuzzone] | Raffaella Milanesi [Zidiana] | Delphine Galou [Zelinda] | Roberta Mameli [Cino] | Furio Zanasi [Sivenio] | Antonio Giovannini [Egaro] | Makoto Sakurada [Troncone | Argonte] | Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall (conductor)
Naïve 30513 (Vivaldi: Teuzzone) -
Audi, filia (Gradual for St. Cecilia's Day)
Alessandro Scarlatti
Tuesday
Apr 30
Philharmonia Chorale | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Dominique Labelle | Susanne Rydén | Ryland Angel | Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
Avie 0048 (Scarlatti: Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia) -
Cantico del sol di Francesco d'Assis (Canticle of the Sun of St Francis of Assisi)
Franz Liszt
Tuesday
Apr 30
Walton Grönroos (baritone) | Men of RIAS Chamber Chorus | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gerd Albrecht (conductor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Amadigi: Act III
George Frideric Handel
Tuesday
Apr 30
Nathalie Stutzmann [Amadigi di Gaula] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Oriana] | Eiddwen Harrhy [Melissa] | Bernarda Fink (alto) [Dardano] | Bertin Pascal [Orgando] | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Erato 2292.45490 (Handel: Amadigi) -
Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": IV. Finale: Presto -- "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" -- Allegro assai
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tuesday
Apr 30
Luba Orgonasova (soprano) | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 439.900 (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9) -
Norma: Act II/1
Vincenzo Bellini
Tuesday
Apr 30
Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Norma] | Fiorenza Cossotto [Adalgisa] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Pollione] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Oroveso] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Clotilde] | Kenneth Collins [Flavio] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)
RCA 6502 (Bellini: Norma) -
Ave verum corpus
William Byrd
Tuesday
Apr 30
New York Polyphony
Avie 2186 (Tudor City) -
Quartet. Gebet (Prayer), D 815
Franz Schubert
Tuesday
Apr 30
Elly Ameling (soprano) | Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) | Peter Schreier (tenor) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Gerald Moore (piano)
Brilliant Classics 94082 (Schubert: Vocal Duets, Trios & Quartets) -
Sechs Gesänge (6 Airs), Op. 89 after Neun
Robert Schumann
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Gustav Mahler
Tuesday
Apr 30
Håkan Hagegård (baritone) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Recorded live on May 3, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Mechtatelu (To a dreamer)
Nikolai Medtner
Tuesday
Apr 30
Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)
Delos 3392 (Romances) -
Otello: Act II, Finale. "Tu?! Indietro! fuggi!!".
Giuseppe Verdi
Tuesday
Apr 30
Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Otello] | Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] | Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DG 439.805 (Verdi: Otello)