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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Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons - Spring (Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269)
Monday
May 18
Orchestra of St. Luke's | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin)
EMI 49767 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) -
Robert Schumann
Papillons
Monday
May 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.474 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol.1) -
Franz Schubert
Impromptu, Op. 90 #3 in G-flat Major
Monday
May 18
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 411.040 (Schubert: Impromptus Op. 90 & 142) -
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Two Pieces in D Major: Courante
Monday
May 18
Bernhard Hofstötter (lute)
Querstand 1011 (Dresden Moskau) -
Johan Halvorsen
Norwegian Rhapsody #1
Monday
May 18
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra | Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
Simax 1085 (Svendsen & Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsodies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #38 "Prague": I
Monday
May 18
René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Harmonia Mundi 90.1958 (Mozart: Symphonies 38 "Prague" and 41 "Jupiter") -
César Franck
Violin Sonata A Major: IV
Monday
May 18
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 421.817 (Fauré, Debussy & Franck: Violin Sonatas) -
Franz Krommer
Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 70: IV. Alla polacca
Monday
May 18
Howard Griffiths (conductor) | Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet) | Sefika Kutluer (flute) | Kamilla Schatz (violin) | Northern Sinfonia
Paladino Music 0025 (Krommer: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite #6 in D Major, BWV 1012: III. Courante
Monday
May 18
Zuill Bailey (cello)
Telarc 31978 (Bach Cello Suites) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068: III-V. Gavottes; Bourrée; Gigue
Monday
May 18
Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Naïve 30578 (Bach Ouvertures) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Cello Sonata #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 45: III. Allegro assai
Monday
May 18
Elizabeth Dolin (cello) | Bernadene Blaha (piano)
Analekta 23166 (Mendelsshon: Complete Works for Cello and Piano) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #22 "Philosopher"
Monday
May 18
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 427.337 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 22, 63 & 80) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Wine, Women and Song
Monday
May 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 410.022 (J. Strauss: Emperor Waltz) -
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie, Op. 3 #4
Monday
May 18
Marc Minkowski (conductor) | Les musiciens du Louvre
Archiv 474.550 (Mondonville: 6 Sonatas Op. 3) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 364a in G Minor (Op. 1 #6)
Monday
May 18
Ensemble Vintage of Cologne
Naxos 572.245 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
Monday
May 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Evgeny Kissin (piano)
EMI 06311 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Monday
May 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 421.715 (Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, etc.) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata #3 in D Minor, BWV 527
Monday
May 18
Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord) | Thomas Demenga (cello)
Philips 422.328 (Bach: The Trio Sonatas) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Monday
May 18
Philharmonia Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (piano) | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90724 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1, Rhapsody) -
Bernhard Henrik Crusell
Clarinet Concerto #1 E-flat Major
Monday
May 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor) | Thea King (clarinet)
Hyperion 66708 (English Music for Viola) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K 281 in B-flat Major
Monday
May 18
Orli Shaham (piano)
Canary Classics 19 (Mozart: Orli Shaham) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Monday
May 18
Divertimenti
Hyperion 66356 (Mendelssohn & Bargiel: Octets) -
William Boyce
Symphony #6
Monday
May 18
Aradia Ensemble | Kevin Mallon (conductor)
Naxos 557.278 (Boyce: Eight Symphonies, Op. 2) -
Mikhail Glinka
Ivan Susanin: Dances
Monday
May 18
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor) | USSR Symphony Orchestra
Melodiya 10.00166 (Glinka: "Ivan Susanin" & "Ruslan and Ludmila") -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #103 "Drum Roll"
Monday
May 18
Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Philips 422.240 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 101 & 103) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #1 in G Minor, Op. 13
Monday
May 18
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
Chandos 8672-78 (Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies) -
John Antes
Trio in D Minor, Op. 3 #2
Monday
May 18
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1623 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 3) -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Monday
May 18
Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
Virgin 94589 (Beethoven & Korngold: Violin Concertos) -
Francesco Maria Veracini
Overture #1
Monday
May 18
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 439.937 (Veracini: 5 Overtüren) -
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lady Radnor's Suite
Monday
May 18
English String Orchestra | William Boughton (conductor)
Nimbus 5210-13 (The Spirit of England) -
George Frideric Handel
Jeptha: Overture
Monday
May 18
Montreal Baroque Orchestra | Joël Thiffault (conductor)
ATMA Classique 3005 (MISSING) -
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet #1 C Minor
Monday
May 18
CRD 3403 (Fauré: Quartets) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #46
Monday
May 18
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | The English Concert
Archiv 429.756 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 42, 44, & 46) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Orpheus Quadrille
Monday
May 18
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic | Johannes Wildner (conductor)
Marco Polo 223.221 (J. Strauss, Jr.: Edition, Vol. 21) -
Johan Helmich Roman
Sinfonia in A Major
Monday
May 18
Orpheus Chamber Ensemble
BIS 284 (Roman: Sinfonias & Violin Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51: IV. Finale. Allegro assai
Monday
May 18
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0014106 (Old World - New World) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cello Concerto, H. 439 in A Major: I. Allegro
Monday
May 18
Balázs Máté (cello) | Concerto Armonico
Hungaroton 31337 (C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos Nos. 1, 3 & 2) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #2 in A Major: IV. Allegro vivo
Monday
May 18
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Johann David Heinichen
Concerto G Major (S. 213)
Monday
May 18
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Florence Price
Violin Concerto #1 in D Major: III. Allegro
Monday
May 18
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra | Er-gene Kahng (violin) | Ryan Cockerham (conductor)
Albany 1706 (Florence Price Violin Concertos) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #2 in C Major, Op. 61 (revised, Gustav Mahler): IV. Allegro molto vivace
Monday
May 18
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.0037 (Schumann: The Complete Symphonies, Mahler Edition) -
Carl Stamitz
Flute Concerto in G Major: III. Rondo. Allegro
Monday
May 18
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) | Mikael Helasvuo (flute) | Helsinki Chamber Orchestra
BIS 268 (Stamitz & Benda Flute Concertos) -
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato
Monday
May 18
Howard Shelley (conductor) | Howard Shelley (piano) | Orchestra of Opera North
Chandos 10509 (Schumann, Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 352 in A Major
Monday
May 18
I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor) | Duilio M. Galfetti (violin)
Naïve 30474 (Vivaldi: Concerti per violino III "Il ballo") -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #4 in F Minor, Op. 36: I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima - Moderato assai, quasi Andante - Allegro vivo
Monday
May 18
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 449.967 (Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6) -
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen
Trio in B-flat Major: III. Allegro assai
Monday
May 18
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1624 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 4) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Trio in E-flat Major
Monday
May 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. Posth.: III. Minuetto
Monday
May 18
Eroica Quartet
Harmonia Mundi 90.7245 (Mendelssohn: String Quartets) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1044 for Flute, Violin and Keyboard in A Minor: I. Allegro
Monday
May 18
Jaap ter Linden (conductor) | Arion
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
Mikhail Glinka
Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
Monday
May 18
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra
Philips 442.011 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 - Borodin & Glinka) -
George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Monday
May 18
L'Arte dell'Arco | Federico Guglielmo (conductor)
CPO 777.312 (Händel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Cello Sonata: III. Andante
Monday
May 18
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 46486 (Prokofiev & Rachmaninov: Sonatas for Cello and Piano) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Trumpet Sonata D Major
Monday
May 18
Max Pommer (conductor) | Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig
Capriccio 10.141 (Italienische Trompetenkonzerte Vol. 2) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto #1
Monday
May 18
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra | Lynn Harrell (cello)
London 410.019 (Schumann & Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Symphony in B-flat Major, B 125
Monday
May 18
Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.550 (Pleyel: Symphonies in B-Flat and G) -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #3 in F Major
Monday
May 18
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
Heinrich von Herzogenberg
Trio for oboe, horn and piano, Op. 61
Monday
May 18
Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Markus Becker (piano) | Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn)
Decca 001653202 (Song of the Reeds) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #26 "Coronation"
Monday
May 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Teldec 9031.72024 (Mozart: The Late Piano Concertos Nos. 20 - 27) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 #4
Monday
May 18
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Philips 416.624 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 522
Monday
May 18
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (violin) | Geneviève Gilardeau (violin)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #1 "Spring"
Monday
May 18
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Berlin State Symphony Orchestra
Teldec 2564.61179 (Schumann: The Symphonies) -
Isaac Albéniz
Zambra Granadina
Monday
May 18
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 32712 (Spanish Music for Classical Guitar) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #7
Monday
May 18
Quatuor Sine Nomine
Erato 2292.45484 (Schubert: String Quartets D 94 & 887) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Monday
May 18
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Joshua Bell (conductor and concertmaster)
Sony 549.176 (Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 7) -
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Premier Nocturne, Op. 22
Monday
May 18
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 567
Monday
May 18
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Monday
May 18
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
Ondine 1131 (Tchaikovsky) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K. 331: III. Rondo all Turca. Allegretto
Monday
May 18
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
RCA 60407 (Mozart: Sonatas K.283, 331, 332 & 333) -
Arthur Foote
Piano Quintet
Monday
May 18
James Barbagallo (piano) | Da Vinci Quartet
Naxos 559.009 (Foote: Chamber Music Vol. 1) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #80 in D Minor
Monday
May 18
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Overture on Russian Themes, Op. 28
Monday
May 18
Gerard Schwarz (conductor) | Seattle Symphony
Naxos 572.788 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Antonio Vivaldi
L'incoronazione di Dario: Act III
Monday
May 18
John Elwes [Dario] | Gerard Lesne [Statira] | Henri Ledroit [Argene] | Michel Verschaeve [Niceno] | Isabelle Poulenard [Alinda] | Agnes Mellon [Oronte] | Isabelle Poulenard [Arpago] | Dominique Visse [Flora Bervoix] | John Elwes [Le Fantôme de Ciro] | Michel Verschaeve [L'Oracle d'Apollo] | Ensemble Baroque de Nice | Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1235-37 (Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. John Passion, BWV 245: Nr 13-14, Aria and chorale. "Ach, mein Sinn, wo willt du endlich hin; Petrus, der nicnt denkt zurück"
Monday
May 18
Nico van der Meel (tenor) | Chorus and Orchestra of La Petite Band | Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77041-2 (Bach: St. John Passion) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Duet. "Perduto ben, mio sol tesor" [Act I]
Monday
May 18
Mirella Freni (soprano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | José Carreras (tenor)
EMI 74971 (Opera Arias) -
Gioachino Rossini
La donna del lago: "Mura felici"
Monday
May 18
John Nelson (conductor) | Ensemble Orchestral de Paris | Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) [Malcolm]
Virgin 45615 (Rossini & Donizetti: Opera Arias) -
Carlo Valentini
Il sonnambulo: Act I, Scene 8, Adele's aria. "Lasciami...Se il mar sommesso mormora" (Leave me!...When the sea murmurs restlessly)
Monday
May 18
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Riccardo Minasi (conductor) | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Adele] | Héloise Mas (mezzo-soprano) [Sofia]
Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part III
Monday
May 18
Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Adam] | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor) | Anne Monoyios (soprano) [Eva]
Sony 57965 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Verschweigung, K 518
Monday
May 18
Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Monday
May 18
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Matthew Brook (baritone) | Monteverdi Choir | Katherine Fuge (soprano) | Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra
SDG 706 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Alessandro Striggio
Spem in alium (I never put my hope in any other)
Monday
May 18
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 478.2734 (Striggio: Missa Ecco sì beato giorno) -
Franz Liszt
Die Loreley [Heinrich Heine]
Monday
May 18
Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Richard Wagner
Siegfried: Forest Murmurs. "Daß der mein Vater nicht ist"
Monday
May 18
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Siegfried]
EMI 57242 (Wagner: Siegfried) -
George Frideric Handel
Orlando: Aria. "Verdi piante, erbette liete" (Act II/8)
Monday
May 18
Sandrine Piau | Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor)
Naïve 8894 (Handel: Opera seria) -
Gustav Mahler
Symphony #8 "Symphony of a Thousand": Part I
Monday
May 18
Vienna Boys Choir | Helen Watts (alto) | Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Singverein | Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Arleen Augér (soprano) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Heather Harper (soprano) | Lucia Popp (soprano) | René Kollo (tenor) | John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) | Martti Talvela (bass) | Recorded in Vienna, September 1971
DG 477.9260 (Mahler: The People's Choice) -
William Byrd
Motet. Vigilate
Monday
May 18
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Nr 20, Aria. "Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen"
Monday
May 18
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Chorus of the Netherlands Bach Society | Christoph Pregardien (tenor)
Erato 2292.45814 (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Ernani: Part IV. The Maske
Monday
May 18
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Luciano Pavarotti [Ernani] | Leo Nucci [Don Carlo] | Paata Burchuladze [Don Ruy Gomez de Silva] | Joan Sutherland [Elvira] | Linda McLeod [Giovanna] | Richard Morton [Don Riccardo] | Alastaire Miles [Jago] | Chorus of Welsh National Opera [Mountain people and bandits, knights, members of Silva's household, maids in attendance on Elvira, knights of Don Carlo's suite, members of the "Holy Alliance," Spanish and German nobles and their ladies] | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Médée: Act III
Monday
May 18
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | William Christie (conductor) | Les Arts Florissants Chours et Orchestre
Harmonia Mundi 90.1139-41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795: #03. Halt! [The Fair Miller-Maid: Halt!]
Monday
May 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1995 (Schubert: die schöne müllerin) -
Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele: Aria. "L'altra notte in fondo al mare"
Monday
May 18
Mirella Freni (soprano) | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
Gabriel Fauré
Pénélope: Act I, Finale
Monday
May 18
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo | Jessye Norman (soprano) [Pénélope] | Jocelyne Taillon [Euryclée] | Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Alkandre] | Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Phylo] | Danielle Borst [Lydie] | Michelle Command [Mélantho] | Norma Lerer [Cléone] | Alain Vanzo [Ulysse] | Jean Dupouy [Antinoüs] | Paul Guigue [Ctésippe] | Gérard Friedmann [Léodès] | Philippe Huttenlocher [Eurymaque] | José van Dam (baritone) [Eumée] | François Le Roux [Pisandre] | Ensemble Vocal Jean LaForge
Erato 88205 (Fauré: Pénélope) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
House of Life; Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Monday
May 18
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) | David Willison (piano)
Chandos 8475 (Vaughn Williams: Songs of Travel) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Das Traumbild, K 530
Monday
May 18
Bas Ramselaar (bass/baritone) | Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act II, Scenes 3-4
Monday
May 18
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) -
George Frideric Handel
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act I, Scenes 1-5
Monday
May 18
Lucy Crowe [Amarilli] | Anna Dennis [Mirtillo] | Katherine Manley [Eurilla] | Madeleine Shaw [Dorinda] | Clint van der Linde [Silvio] | Lisandro Abadie [Tirenio] | La Nuova Musica | David Bates (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7585-86 (Handel: Il pastor fido) -
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne: Series III
Monday
May 18
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Decca 410.004 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Giuseppe Verdi
I Masnadieri: Act II
Monday
May 18
Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Orchestra of Welsh National Opera | Samuel Ramey [Massimiliano] | Franco Bonisolli [Carlo] | Matteo Manuguerra [Francesco] | Joan Sutherland [Amalia] | Arthur Davies [Arminio] | Simone Alaimo [Moser] | John Harris [Rolla] | CHorus of Welsh National Opera [Erring youths | bandits, women, children, servants]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Quae est ista (Who is she)
Monday
May 18
I Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
Decca 0016794 (1612 Italian Vespers) -
Georges Bizet
Carmen: Act II
Monday
May 18
Chours de Radio France | Jessye Norman (soprano) [Carmen] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Micaëla] | Neil Shicoff [Don José] | Simon Estes [Escamillo] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Zuniga] | Ghylaine Raphanel [Frasquita] | Jean Rigby [Mercédès] | François Le Roux [Le Dancaïr] | Gerard Garino [Le Remendado] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Moralès] | Maîtrise de Radio France | Orchestre National de France | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Philips 422.366 (Bizet: Carmen) -
Sebastián de Vivanco
Magnificat Quarti toni
Monday
May 18
Orchestra of the Renaissance | Richard Cheetham (director) | Michael Noone (conductor)
Glossa 921405 (Sebastián de Vivanco: In Manus Tuas) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Elijah
Monday
May 18
Richard Hickox (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra | London Symphony Chorus | Willard White (bass) [Elijah] | Rosalind Plowright (soprano) [The Widow; Angel] | Linda Finnie (alto) [Angel, The Queen] | Arthur Davies (tenor) [Obadiah; Ahab] | Jeremy Budd (treble) [The Youth] | Roderick Elms (organ)
Chandos 8774 (Mendelssohn: Elijah) -
Franz Schubert
Herbstlied, D 502 (Autumn Song)
Monday
May 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alexander Schmalcz (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2063 (Nacht und Träume) -
Robert Schumann
Zwölf Gedichte (12 Poems), Op. 37 from Rückert's "Liebesfrühling" (selections)
Monday
May 18
Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Attila: Act II
Monday
May 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | 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
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
John Dowland
All ye whom Love or Fortune hath betrayed
Monday
May 18
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Thomas Dunford (lute)
Hyperion 68007 (Dowland: The Art of Melancholy) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 51. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! (Exult God in all lands!)
Monday
May 18
Washington Bach Consort | J. Reilly Lewis (conductor) | Elizabeth Futral (soprano)
Lyrichord 8069 (Bach: Solo Cantatas) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act II
Monday
May 18
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) -
George Frideric Handel
Atalanta: Act II, Scene 4, Meleagro's aria. Sì, mel raccorderò (Yes, I shall remember it)
Monday
May 18
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Susanne Rydén [Meleagro]
Philharmonia Baroque 4 (Handel: Atalanta) -
Felix Mendelssohn
The First Walpurgis Night, Op. 60
Monday
May 18
Michel Corboz (conductor) | Brigitte Balleys (alto) | Frieder Lang (tenor) | Gilles Cachemaille (baritone) | Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir
Erato 2292.45462 (Mendelssohn: Die Erste Walpurgisnacht) -
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly
Monday
May 18
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] | Robert Kerns (baritone) [Sharpless] | Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Goro] | Marius Rintzler [Il Bonzo] | Elke Schary [Kate Pinkerton] | Giorgio Stendoro [Il principe Yamadori] | Hans Helm [Il commissario imperiale] | Wolfgang Scheider [Lo zio Yakusidè] | Siegfried Rudolf Frese [L'ufficiale del registro] | Evamaria Hurdes [La madre di Cio-cio-san] | Erna Maria Mühlberger [La zia di Cio-cio-san] | Martha Heigl [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] | Vienna State Opera Chorus [Parenti ed amiche di Cio-cio-san | Marinai]
London 417.577 (Puccini: Madama Butterfly) -
George Frideric Handel
Tamerlano. Irene's aria ( Act I, Scene 8). "Dal crudel che m'ha tradita"
Monday
May 18
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor) | Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Alessandro Scarlatti
Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia: Psalm 109/110. Dixit Dominus
Monday
May 18
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Philharmonia Chorale | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Avie 0048 (Scarlatti: Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act III
Monday
May 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Hans-Peter Minetti [Selim] | Stanford Olsen (tenor) [Belmonte] | Luba Orgonasova (soprano) [Konstanze] | Cyndia Sieden [Blonde] | Uwe Peper [Pedrillo] | Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [Osmin]
Archiv 435.857 (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff: Act III, sonnet (Fenton). "Dal labbro il canto estasiato vola" (From my lips my song of ecstasy flies)
Monday
May 18
Mojca Erdmann (soprano) | Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motezuma: Act III
Monday
May 18
Vito Priante [Motezuma] | Marijana Mijanovic [Mitrena] | Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) [Teutile] | Maite Beaumont [Fernando] | Romina Basso [Ramiro] | Inga Kalna [Asprano] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Archiv 0006490 (Vivaldi: Motezuma) -
Traditional
Värmlandsvisan (In Flames) (arr. Alfven)
Monday
May 18
Orphei Drängar (Sons of Orpheus) | Robert Sund (conductor)
BIS 633 (Orphei Drangar) -
Gioachino Rossini
Guillaume Tell: Act III, Aria. Gloire au pouvoir suprême (Glory to the supreme power)
Monday
May 18
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Carlo Cigni [Gesler] | Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Monday
May 18
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) | Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) | Eva Mei (soprano) | Robert Holl (bass) | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 9031.74884 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Gloria
Monday
May 18
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Choir | Ton Koopman (conductor) | Kai Wessel (alto) | Guy de Mey (tenor) | Klaus Mertens (bass) | Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Erato 4509.98478 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Jules Massenet
Manon: Act II, Des Grieux's aria. "Instant charmant...En fermant les yeux" (Moment of enchantment...When I close my eyes)
Monday
May 18
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) | Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Raí | Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) [Manon]
Sony 375658 (The Romantic Hero)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto
Monday
May 18
Czech Philharmonic | Garrick Ohlsson (piano) | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Supraphon 2047 (Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Poeme de l'extase; Reverie) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata (K. 13)
Monday
May 18
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas) -
Louis Spohr
Octet
Monday
May 18
CRD 3354 (Spohr: Nonet and Octet) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #4 in C Minor, Op. 18 #4
Monday
May 18
Miró Quartet
Pentatone 5186.827 (Beethoven: Complete String Quartets) -
Jean Sibelius
Suite charactéristique, Op. 100
Monday
May 18
BIS 384 (Sibelius) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Winds
Monday
May 18
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 2292.46315 (Dvořák: Serenades for Strings & for Wind Instruments) -
Richard Strauss
Sinfonia Domestica, Op. 53
Monday
May 18
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64346 (Richard Strauss) -
Samuel Barber
Commando March
Monday
May 18
Cleveland Symphonic Winds | Frederick Fennell (conductor)
Telarc 80099 (Stars and Stripes) -
Henry Cowell
Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 for Oboe and Strings
Monday
May 18
Northwest Chamber Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor) | Frank Avril (oboe)
CPO 999.222 (Cowell) -
Florence Price
Symphony #1 in E Minor
Monday
May 18
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 486.2029 (Florence Price) -
Edward MacDowell
Twelve Virtuoso Studies, Op. 46: #5. Elfin Dance
Monday
May 18
Malcolm Frager (piano)
New World 80206 (Edward MacDowell & Company) -
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Four English Dances, Op. 27
Monday
May 18
Philharmonia Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8867 (Malcolm Arnold) -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Hob. XVIII:4
Monday
May 18
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano) | Odense Symphony Orchestra | Scott Yoo (conductor)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Jacques Ibert
Symphonie Concertante
Monday
May 18
London Symphony Orchestra | André Previn (conductor) | John de Lancie (oboe)
RCA 7989 (Richard Strauss) -
Igor Stravinsky
Mavra: Parasha's Song
Monday
May 18
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Broadcast
Monday
May 18
-
Charles Ives
Violin Sonata #2: II. In the Barn
Monday
May 18
Curt Thompson (violin) | Rodney Waters (piano)
Naxos 559.119 -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #22 in F Major, Op. 54
Monday
May 18
Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1906-08 (Beethoven #3) -
Louis Spohr
Septet
Monday
May 18
CRD 3399 (Spohr: Septet Op. 147, Quintet Op. 52) -
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Mazurka-Chôro
Monday
May 18
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar)
DG 0017000 (Pasión) -
Maurice Ravel
Noble and Sentimental Waltzes
Monday
May 18
Leon Fleisher (piano)
Sony 57307 (Debussy: Suite Bergamasque - Ravel: Sonatine and valses Nobles et sentimentales) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #0 in D Minor
Monday
May 18
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips 442.040 (Bruckner) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude #23 in B Major, BWV 892
Monday
May 18
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier) -
Jean Françaix
L'Horloge de Flore (The Flower-Clock)
Monday
May 18
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
Giacomo Puccini
Suor angelica: Aria. "Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto"
Monday
May 18
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) | Jane Eaglen (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sony 89443 (Italian Opera Arias) -
Arthur Foote
Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Minor, Op. 20
Monday
May 18
Gilbert Kalish (piano) | Joseph Silverstein (violin)
New World 80542 (Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Arthur Farwell & Preston Ware Orem) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Étude-tableau in C Minor, Op. 33 #3
Monday
May 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works) -
Charles Villiers Stanford
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 124
Monday
May 18
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8861 (Stanford) -
Ernest Chausson
Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, Op. 21
Monday
May 18
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin) | Takács String Quartet
London 425.860 (Chausson: Concerto - Ravel: Trio) -
Gabriel Fauré
Impromptu, Op. 86 for solo harp
Monday
May 18
Lajos Lencsés (oboe) | Gisèle Herbert (harp)
Audite 368.409 (Musique de Nuit) -
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote. Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35
Monday
May 18
Cleveland Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
London 417.184 (Richard Strauss) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Six Pieces, Op. 52: No. 6. Scherzo
Monday
May 18
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 8926 (Prokofiev) -
Albert Roussel
Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43: Second Orchestral Suite
Monday
May 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Chandos 8996 (Roussel) -
Louise Farrenc
Violin Sonata #1 in C Minor, Op. 37
Monday
May 18
Daniele Orlando (violin) | Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Brilliant Classics 95922 (Farrenc: Music for Violin & Piano) -
Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Sonata #3 in D Minor, Op. 49
Monday
May 18
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Chant elegiaque, Op. 72 #14
Monday
May 18
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0004284 (Tchaikovsky: 18 Piano Pieces, Op. 72) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings
Monday
May 18
London Chamber Orchestra | Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
Virgin 91165 (Tchaikovsky, Suk & Dvořák: Serenades) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Jérusalem: Ballet Music (Act III)
Monday
May 18
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Francis Poulenc
Nocturne #1 in C Major
Monday
May 18
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
George Frideric Handel
Ottone: Aria. Vieni, o figlio (Come, my son)
Monday
May 18
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord
Harmonia Mundi 90.7471-72 (A Tribute) -
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Monday
May 18
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc 80052 (Ravel: Bolero, Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet #14
Monday
May 18
Juilliard Quartet
CBS 37873 (Beethoven: The Late String Quartets) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Song Without Words, Op. 62 #3 in E Minor "Funeral March"
Monday
May 18
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 423.931 (Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words) -
Paul Dukas
La Péri
Monday
May 18
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8852 (La Peri) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata, K. 457
Monday
May 18
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 0005832 (Mozart: Piano Sonatas) -
Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet movement in A Minor
Monday
May 18
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | David Kim (violin) | Choong-Jin Chang (viola) | Efe Baltacigil (cello)
Ondine 1084 (Mahler) -
Lili Boulanger
Pie Jesu
Monday
May 18
Pembroke College Girls' Choir | Anna Lapwood (conductor) | Joseph Beadle (piano) | Owen Saldanha (piano | organ)
Signum 714 (Celestial Dawn) -
Franz Liszt
A Faust Symphony (after Goethe)
Monday
May 18
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10375 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 2) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Gavotte
Monday
May 18
Mischa Maisky (cello) | Pavel Gililov (piano)
DG 431.544 (Meditation) -
John Adams
Berceuse élégiaque
Monday
May 18
Naxos 559.031 (ADAMS: Shaker Loops) -
Fazil Say
Cello Concerto, Op. 73 "Never Give Up"
Monday
May 18
Camille Thomas (cello) | Brussels Philharmonic | Stéphane Denève (conductor)
DG 483.856 (Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 76 #3 "Emperor"
Monday
May 18
Emerson String Quartet
DG 427.657 (Mozart: String Quartets "Hunt" & "Dissonance" - Haydn: "Emperor Quartet") -
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. posth.
Monday
May 18
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 548.960 (The Chopin Album) -
Carl Nielsen
Aladdin Suite
Monday
May 18
San Francisco Symphony Chorus | Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
London 425.857 (Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Sonata #1 in D Minor, Op. 28
Monday
May 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Decca 478.6348 (Rachmaninoff Complete Piano Works)