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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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade: II-Kalander Prince
Wednesday
Mar 18
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra
Philips 470.840 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, etc.) -
François Couperin
Les Baricades Misterieuses (Ordre 6, #5)
Wednesday
Mar 18
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 80693 (Air on a G String) -
Thomas Augustine Arne
Symphony #3
Wednesday
Mar 18
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8403 (Arne: Symphonies 1 - 4) -
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings
Wednesday
Mar 18
London Chamber Orchestra | Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
Virgin 91165 (Tchaikovsky, Suk & Dvořák: Serenades) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Ich bin der schneider Kakadu", Op. 121a (10 Variations on Müller's Song)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios) -
Christian Cannabich
Symphony #47
Wednesday
Mar 18
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia | Uwe Grodd (conductor)
Naxos 554.340 (Cannabich: Symphonies Nos. 47 - 52) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo: Dance of the Queen
Wednesday
Mar 18
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Naxos 572.818-19 (Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Suite in E Minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 519
Wednesday
Mar 18
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #1
Wednesday
Mar 18
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (piano) | Christian Gansch (conductor)
DG 477.6415 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Cello Concerto #2, Op. 119
Wednesday
Mar 18
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Steven Isserlis (cello)
RCA 63518 (Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, Cello Sonata No. 2) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto a due cori #3 in F Major
Wednesday
Mar 18
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik
Sony 63073 (Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #41 "Jupiter"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Teldec 9031.74858 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 - 41) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita #3 in A Minor, BWV 827
Wednesday
Mar 18
Sir András Schiff (piano)
London 411.732 (Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #1 "Spring"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 447.408 (Brahms: Symphonie Nr. 1) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Viola Concerto in B-flat Major
Wednesday
Mar 18
Victoria Chiang (viola) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 572.162 (Stamitz & Hoffmeister: Viola Concertos) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #8 "Unfinished"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
London 433.072 (Schubert: Symphonies 5 & 8) -
Georges Bizet
Petite Suite "Jeux d'enfants", Op. 22
Wednesday
Mar 18
Charles Dutoit (conductor) | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
London 421.527 (Fête À La Française) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont: Overture
Wednesday
Mar 18
London Philharmonic | Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
EMI 47086 (Beethoven: Overtures) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #103 "Drum Roll"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra
RCA 68424 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Johannes Brahms
Waltzes
Wednesday
Mar 18
Santiago Rodriguez (piano)
Elan Recordings 2200 (Rodriguez Plays Brahms) -
Antonín Dvořák
Sonata, Op. 57 for Violin and Piano and F Major: III. Allegro molto
Wednesday
Mar 18
Gil Shaham (violin) | Orli Shaham (piano)
DG 449.820 (Dvořák for Two) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Trio Sonata, RV 81 for 2 Oboes and Basso continuo in G Minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Ingo Goritzki (oboe) | Burkhard Glaetzner (oboe) | Siegfried Pank (viola da gamba) | Achim Beyer (violone)
Capriccio 10.143 (Vivaldi: The Oboe Sonatas) -
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet #1 in C Minor, Op. 15: II. Scherzo -- Allegro vivo
Wednesday
Mar 18
CRD 3403 (Fauré: Quartets) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Wednesday
Mar 18
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 478.2191 (Bach: Brandenburgische Konzerte) -
Friedrich Ernst Fesca
Flute Quartet, Op. 38 in G Major: IV. Finale. Allegro
Wednesday
Mar 18
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.126 (Fesca: Flute Quartets) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto (G. 483)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik | Anner Bylsma (cello)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 7867 (Boccherini: Concerti da Violoncello, Sinfonie) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Conclusion in E Minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #1: III
Wednesday
Mar 18
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 0001858 (Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Giuseppe Torelli
Trumpet Sonata, G. 1
Wednesday
Mar 18
Nicol Matt (conductor) | European Chamber Soloists | Thomas Hammes (trumpet)
Brilliant Classics 92401 (Torelli: Trumpet Concertos) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto: I
Wednesday
Mar 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Midori (violin) | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Sony 87740 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #11 in A Major: V. Allegro
Wednesday
Mar 18
I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)
Chandos 9004-5-6 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #21
Wednesday
Mar 18
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Prague Chamber Orchestra
Telarc 80217 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23) -
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Oboe Concerto (D Minor): I-Allegro
Wednesday
Mar 18
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | David Reichenberg (oboe) | English Concert
Archiv 415.518 (Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue) -
Robert Schumann
Novelette, Op. 21 #2 in D Major
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 421.010 (Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 2) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonia, H. 659 in C Major
Wednesday
Mar 18
Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra
Capriccio 10.106 (CPE Bach: Six Symphonies for Strings) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: III. Finale. Allegro vivacissimo
Wednesday
Mar 18
Daniel Lozakovich (violin) | National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia | Vladimir Spivakov (conductor)
DG 483.6086 (Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart) -
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
Flute Concerto in C Major, B 106: III. Rondo. Allegro molto
Wednesday
Mar 18
Patrick Gallois (flute) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.550 (Pleyel: Symphonies in B-Flat and G) -
Gabriel Pierné
Concert Piece, Op. 39
Wednesday
Mar 18
Jean-François Paillard (conductor) | Lily Laskine (harp) | Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Erato 88069 (Mozart & Pierné) -
Thomas Robinson
A Plaine Song
Wednesday
Mar 18
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
Joseph Haydn
Concerto #5 for Flute and Oboe in F Major, Hob. VIIh:5 (originally for lira organizzata)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Lajos Lencsés (oboe) | Robert Dohn (flute) | Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)
CPO 999.182 (Haydn, Lira Concerti 1 - 5) -
Frédéric Chopin
Andante spianato in G Major and Grande Polonaise brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 22
Wednesday
Mar 18
London Philharmonic | Claudio Arrau (piano) | Eliahu Inbal (conductor)
DG 477.8445 (Chopin: Complete Edition) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Contredanses, K 609
Wednesday
Mar 18
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
Aparté 215 (Mozart: Youth Symphonies) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
"Brandenburg" Concerto #8: III. Allegro (arr. Bruce Haynes from Cantata 65)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Montreal Baroque Band | Eric Milnes (conductor)
ATMA Classique 2565 (Bach: Brandebourgeois Nos. 7 à 12) -
John Knowles Paine
Symphony #1 in C Minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Ulster Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
Naxos 559.747 (John Knowles Paine: Orchestral Works) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto #3
Wednesday
Mar 18
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 429.786 (Paganini & Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il signor Bruschino: Overture
Wednesday
Mar 18
Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Jaime Laredo (conductor)
Nimbus 5078 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Louis Spohr
Quintet in C Minor, Op. 52
Wednesday
Mar 18
Les Vents Français
Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #2
Wednesday
Mar 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
CBS 39676 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8) -
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 #3
Wednesday
Mar 18
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor)
London 430.171 (Dvořák: Slavonic Dances) -
Zdeněk Fibich
At Twilight. Idyll for Orchestra, Op. 39
Wednesday
Mar 18
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #2
Wednesday
Mar 18
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
CBS 42177 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Romance
Wednesday
Mar 18
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony #3
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
DG 431.681 (Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Haydn Variations) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto, RV 470 in C Major
Wednesday
Mar 18
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | L'Aura Soave, Cremona
Naïve 30518 (Vivaldi: Concerti per fagotto II) -
Niccolò Paganini
Cantabile
Wednesday
Mar 18
Samuel Sanders (piano) | Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Decca 0002334 (Cello Adagios) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar Saltan Suite
Wednesday
Mar 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8327/8/9 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Suites) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto #2
Wednesday
Mar 18
Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
EMI 47011 (Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 4) -
Pablo de Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen
Wednesday
Mar 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor) | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 433.519 (Chausson: Poème - Massenet: Méditiation de Thaïs)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Joseph Haydn
L'isola disabitata: Act II
Wednesday
Mar 18
Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)
Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata) -
Carl Nielsen
Melodier til sangbogen 'Danmark' (Melodies for the Songbook 'Denmark'): Frydeligt med jubelkor (Jubilation, shouts of glee)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Ars Nova Copenhagen | Michael Bojesen (conductor)
Dacapo 220.569 (Carl Nielsen: Songs for choir) -
Reinhard Keiser
Octavia: Octavia's aria. "Geloso sospetto" (Jealous suspicion)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Virgin 02654 (Drama Queens) -
Giacomo Puccini
La Rondine: Act II
Wednesday
Mar 18
London Symphony Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Magda] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ruggero] | Mariana Nicolesco [Lisette] | David Rendall [Prunier] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Rambaldo] | Lillian Watson [Yvette] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus [Bianca]
CBS 37852 (Puccini: La Rondine) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 127. Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott (Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God)
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Oxley (tenor)
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Johann Mattheson
Cleopatra: "Mein Leben ist hin"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
CBC 5233 (Cleopatra) -
Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Act II, Scenes 1-2
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Anna Netrebko [Giulietta] | Tiziano Bracci [Capellio] | Robert Gleadow [Lorenzo] | Vienna Singakademie | Fabio Luisi (conductor)
DG 477.8031 (Bellini: I Capuleti & I Montecchi) -
Franz Lachner
Sängerfahrt, Op. 33: Selections
Wednesday
Mar 18
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7521 (Schumann: Dichterliebe) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Act III
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Philharmonic | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Plácido Domingo [Duke of Mantua] | Piero Cappuccelli [Rigoletto] | Ileana Cotrubas [Gilda] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Sparfucile] | Elena Obraztsova [Maddalena] | Hanna Schwarz [Giovanna] | Kurt Moll [Count of Monterone] | Luigi de Corato [Marullo] | Walter Gullino [Borsa] | Dirk Sagemüller [Count of Ceprano] | Olive Fredricks [Countess of Ceprano] | Anton Scharinger [An usher] | Audrey Michael [A page of the Duchess] | VIenna State Opera Chorus [Courtiers | ladies, pages, halberdiers]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Wer sein holdes Lieb, vorloren (For him, who lost his sweet love)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Il re pastore: Act I, Aria. "Aer tranquillo"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Reri Grist [Aminta] | Orchestra of Naples | Denis Vaughan (conductor)
RCA 50165 (Mozart: Il Re Pastore) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Act III, Conclusion
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Aage Haugland (bass) | Vladimir Atlantov [Prince Andrei Khovansky] | Vladimir Popov [Prince Vasili Golitsyn] | Anatoly Kotcherga (bass) | Paata Burchuladze [Dosifei] | Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marfa] | Brigitte Poschner-Klebel (soprano) | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Scribe] | Joanna Borowska [Emma] | Wilfried Gahmlich [Kuzka] | Peter Köves [Strelyets] | Goran Simic [Strelyets] | Peter Köves [Varsonofiev] | Bojidar Nikolov (tenor) | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna State Opera Orchestra
DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 23. Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn (Thou very God and David's son)
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Ruth Holton (soprano) | James Oxley (tenor) | Claudia Schubert (alto)
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, Op. 24: #5-Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden
Wednesday
Mar 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 458.265 (Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella) -
Frederick Delius
Seven Songs from the Norwegian
Wednesday
Mar 18
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80062 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 1) -
Franz Liszt
Missa choralis
Wednesday
Mar 18
William Kendall (tenor) | Lynn Atkinson (soprano) | Mark Tinkler (treble) | Christopher Royall (alto) | Richard Stuart (bass) | Choir of St John's College, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury (organ) | George Guest (conductor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
George Frideric Handel
Serse (Xerxes): Act I, Chorus and Aria. "Già la tromba, che chiamò" - "Soggetti al mio volere"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)] | Susan Bickley [Amastre] | Dean Ely [Ariodate] | Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Hanover Band and Chorus
Conifer Classics 51312 (Handel: Serse) -
Gustav Mahler
Das klagende Lied (revised version)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Riccardo Chailly (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Recorded live on May 2, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam | Julia Faulkner (soprano) | Birgit Remmert (alto) | Gary Lakes (tenor) | Städtischer Musikveriein zu Düsseldorf
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 22. Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus took unto Him the twelve)
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | James Oxley (tenor) | Claudia Schubert (alto)
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots: Act I, Chorus. "Bonheur de la table"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor)
Erato 2292.45027 (Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots) -
Charles Gounod
Faust: Act III, Duet. "Il se fait tard!"
Wednesday
Mar 18
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Patrick Summers (conductor) | Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Stephen Costello (tenor)
Warner Classics 633485 (Love Duets) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Regina Coeli in C Major, K 108
Wednesday
Mar 18
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Pforzheim | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Pamela Heuvelmans (soprano)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Act II
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Il Duca di Mantova] | Vladimir Chernov [Rigoletto] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Gilda] | Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass) [Sparafucile] | Denyce Graves [Maddalena] | Jane Shaulis [Giovanna] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Il Conte di Monterone] | Dwayne Croft [Marullo] | Paul Groves [Borsa Matteo] | Yannis Yannissis [Il Conte di Ceprano] | Heidi Grant Murphy [La Contessa di Ceprano] | Robert Maher [Usciere di corte] | Elyssa Lindner [Paggio della Duchessa] | The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Cavalieri,Dame, Paggi, Alabardieri]
DG 447.064 (Verdi: Rigoletto) -
Joseph Haydn
Missa in Angustis "Lord Nelson Mass": IV. Sanctus
Wednesday
Mar 18
Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Boston Baroque | Keith Jameson (tenor) | Kevin Deas (baritone) | Mary Wilson (soprano) | Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano)
Linn 426 (Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass) -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Wednesday
Mar 18
Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor)
EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor) -
Luigi Cherubini
Medea: Act III
Wednesday
Mar 18
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Tullio Serafin (conductor) | Maria Callas [Medea] | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Glauce] | Miriam Pirazzini [Neris] | Mirto Picchi [Giasone] | Giuseppe Modesti [Creonte] | Lidia Morimpietri [Prima ancella] | Elvira Galassi [Seconda ancella] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Capo delle guardie]
EMI 66435 (Cherubini: Medea) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 126. Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort (Uphold us, Lord, in Thy Word)
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Robin Tyson (alto) | Stephan Loges (bass)
SDG 153 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 20) -
George Frideric Handel
Rinaldo: "Lascia ch'io pianga"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Harry Bicket (conductor)
Decca 0003160 (Handel) -
Franz Schubert
Gesänge des Harfners, D 478 (Song of the Harper)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Eric Schneider (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2004-05 (Schubert: An mein Herz) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
Wednesday
Mar 18
Olaf Bär (baritone) | The Schütz Choir of London | The London Classical Players | Roger Norrington (conductor) | Lynne Dawson (soprano)
EMI 54658 (Brahms: A German Requiem) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Ob auch finstere Blicke glitten (Even though dark glances were cast)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Antonio Vivaldi
L'Olimpiade: Aminta's aria. "Siam navi all'onde algenti" (We are ships left abandoned)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Venice Baroque Orchestra | Andrea Marcon (conductor) | Patricia Petibon (soprano)
DG 477.8763 (Rosso, Italian baroque arias) -
Jules Massenet
Hérodiade: Act I Finale
Wednesday
Mar 18
Michel Plasson (conductor) | Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse | Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salomé] | Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Hérodiade] | Martine Olmeda [Une jeune Babylonienne] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hérode] | José van Dam (baritone) [Phanuel] | Marcel Vanaud [Vitellius] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Grand Prêtre] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Une voix dans le temple]
EMI 55378 (Massenet: Hérodiade) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 181. Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister (Frivolous spirits)
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Robin Tyson (alto) | Stephan Loges (bass) | Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano)
SDG 153 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 20) -
Gioachino Rossini
L'Italiana in Algeri: "Cruda sorte! Amore tiranno!"
Wednesday
Mar 18
John Nelson (conductor) | Ensemble Orchestral de Paris | Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella]
Virgin 45615 (Rossini & Donizetti: Opera Arias) -
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: Mad Scene. "Il dolce suono...Ohimè!..sorge il tremendo fantasma...Ardon gli incensi...Spargi d'amoro pianto"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Evelino Pidò (conductor) | Concerto Köln | Natalie Dessay [Lucia] | Franck Ferrari [Enrico] | Matthew Rose [Raimondo] | Wolfgang Klose [Normanno]
Virgin 99469 (Mad Scenes) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila: Act III
Wednesday
Mar 18
Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] | José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] | Jonathan Summers [Le Grand Prêtre] | Simon Estes [Abimelech] | Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] | Robert Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] | Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] | Urban Malmberg (bass) [Deuxième Philistin]
Philips 426.243 (Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. No, no, che non sei capace, K 419
Wednesday
Mar 18
Staatskapelle Dresden | Sylvia Geszty (soprano) | Otmar Suitner (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: I. Requiem & Kyrie
Wednesday
Mar 18
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) | Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | José van Dam (baritone) | Leontyne Price (soprano) | Veriano Luchetti
RCA 2476 (Verdi: Requiem) -
George Frideric Handel
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act II, Scenes 1-6
Wednesday
Mar 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 Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part II
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry | Sylvia McNair | Donna Brown (soprano) | Michael Schade | Gerald Finley (baritone)
Archiv 449.217 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La fille du régiment
Wednesday
Mar 18
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Marie] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Tonio] | Monica Sinclair [La marquise de Berkenfield] | Jules Bruyère [Hortensius] | Spiro Malas [Sulpice] | Eric Garrett [Le caporal] | Edith Coates [La duchesse de Crakentorp] | Alan Jones [Un paysan] | Omar Gorde [Un notaire]
London 414.520 (Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment) -
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot: Act II, excerpts. "In questa Reggia" -- "Straniero, ascolta" -- "Giuzza al pari di fiamma" -- "Gelo che ti dà foco" -- "Figlio del Cielo!"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) | Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus | Renata Tebaldi [Liù] | Giorgio Tozzi [Timur] | Jussi Bjoerling [Calaf] | Alessio de Paolis [L'Imperatore Altoum] | Mario Sereni [Ping] | Piero de Palma (tenor) [Pang] | Tommaso Frascati [Pong] | Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Turandot]
RCA 63705 (Puccini: Turandot, excerpts) -
Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: Wally's aria. "Né mai dunque avrò pace?" (Shall I never then find peace?)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi | Marco Armiliato (conductor)
Decca 0013279 (Verismo) -
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act I
Wednesday
Mar 18
Rafael Kubelik (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Gundula Janowitz [Eva] | Sandor Konya (tenor) [Walther von Stolzing] | Thomas Stewart (baritone) [Hans Sachs] | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Magdalene] | Gerhard Unger [David] | Thomas Hemsley [Sixtus Beckmesser] | Franz Crass [Veit Pogner] | Kieth Engen [Fritz Kothner] | Horst Wilhelm [Kunz Vogelgesang] | Richard Kogel [Konrad Nachtigal] | Manfred Schmidt [Balthasar Zorn] | Friedrich Lenz [Ulrich Eisslinger] | Peter Baillie [Augustin Moser] | Anton Diakow [Hermann Ortel] | Karl Christian Kohn [Hans Schwarz] | Dieter Slembeck [Hans Foltz] | Raimund Grumbach [A Night Watchman]
Arts Archives 43020 (Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) -
Gerald Finzi
God is gone up, Op. 27 #2
Wednesday
Mar 18
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | Stephen Layton (conductor) | Asher Oliver (organ)
Hyperion 68222 (Finzi) -
Joseph Haydn
L'isola disabitata: Act II, Finale
Wednesday
Mar 18
Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] | Ying Huang [Silvia] | John Aler [Gernando] | Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)
Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata) -
Bedřich Smetana
Dalibor: Act III
Wednesday
Mar 18
Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre | Chorus of the Prague National Theatre | Ivan Kusnher [Vladislav] | Leo Marian Vodicka [Dalibor] | Vratislav Kriz [Budivoj] | Jiri Kalendovsky [Benes] | Miroslav Kopp [Vítek] | Eva Urbanová [Milada] | Jirina Markova [Jitka] | Bohuslav Marsik [Judge] | Zdenek Kosler (conductor)
Supraphon 0077.2632 (Smetana: Dalibor) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motezuma: Act II, Scene 8, Aria. "D'ira e furor armato"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Inga Kalna [Asprano] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Archiv 0006490 (Vivaldi: Motezuma)
WETA Virtuoso
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Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto #2, Sz 112
Wednesday
Mar 18
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 459.639 (BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 2) -
Amy Beach
Four Sketches, Op. 15
Wednesday
Mar 18
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6721 (Fire-flies) -
Dora Pejačević
Phastasie Concertante in D Minor, Op. 48
Wednesday
Mar 18
Ari Rasilainen (conductor) | German State Philharmonic, Rheinland-Pfalz | Volker Banfield (piano)
CPO 777.418 (Dora Pejacevic: Symphony & Phantasie Concertante) -
Clara Wieck Schumann
Piano Concerto #1 in A Minor, Op. 7
Wednesday
Mar 18
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Beatrice Rana (piano)
Warner Classics Clara & Robert Schumann (Clara & Robert Schumann Piano Concertos) -
Women's Voices in Classical: Eileen Flissler
Wednesday
Mar 18
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New York Philharmonic This Week
Wednesday
Mar 18
Private Recording -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: #4. "The Water Mill"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) | David Willison (piano)
Chandos 8475 (Vaughn Williams: Songs of Travel) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto
Wednesday
Mar 18
William Boughton (conductor) | English Symphony Orchestra | Maurice Bourgue (oboe)
Nimbus 5210-13 (The Spirit of England) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Cello Sonata
Wednesday
Mar 18
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) | Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Philips 412.732 (Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, "Vocalise" - Sibelius: "Malinconia" - Dvořák: Polonaise) -
Gabriel Fauré
Berceuse
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Philharmonic | James Levine (conductor) | Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
DG 437.544 (Carmen Fantasie) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Georges Prêtre (conductor)
Musifrance 2292.45696 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonie No. 3, La Jeunesse d'Hercule) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet A Major (Op. 81)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Emerson String Quartet | Menahem Pressler (piano)
DG 439.868 (Dvořák: Piano Quintet Op. 81, Piano Quartet Op. 87) -
Claude Debussy
Hommage à Haydn
Wednesday
Mar 18
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Decca 460.247 (Debussy) -
Harold Shapero
Nine-Minute Overture
Wednesday
Mar 18
André Previn (conductor) | Los Angeles Philharmonic
New World 373 -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #1 after Tolstoy "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Guarneri Quartet
Philips 456.574 (Leos Janacek: String Quartets) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, Op. 47
Wednesday
Mar 18
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 339 (Gade) -
Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka, Op. 59/1 in A minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 14899 (Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #8 "Pathetique"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Jonathan Biss (piano)
EMI 94422 (Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 8, 15, 27 & 30) -
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony #3 "Kaddish"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Maryland Boy Choir | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor) | The Washington Chorus | Claire Bloom (narrator)
Naxos 508018 (Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990. Marin Alsop) -
Samuel Barber
Cave of the Heart (Medea): Medea's Dance of Vengeance
Wednesday
Mar 18
Andrew Schenck (conductor) | Atlantic Sinfonietta
Koch 7019 (Music For martha Graham) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Ballet Music (Act III)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Scottish National Orchestra | Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor)
Chandos 8379 (Scottish Overtures) -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
Wednesday
Mar 18
BIS 622-624 (Sibelius) -
Clara Wieck Schumann
Romance, Op. 11 #3 in A-flat Major
Wednesday
Mar 18
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Decca 485.0020 (Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Selanka. Idyll in B-flat Major for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 16
Wednesday
Mar 18
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor) | Irvin Venys (clarinet)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Philharmonic | André Previn (conductor)
Philips 420.160 (Richard Strauss) -
Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata #3 in A Minor, WoO 27
Wednesday
Mar 18
Jennifer Koh (violin) | Reiko Uchida (piano)
Cedille 90000.095 (Schumann: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prélude in B-flat Major, Op. 23 #2
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London 414.417 (Rachmaninoff 24 Préludes; Sonata No. 2) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 63. Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Christians, engrave this day)
Wednesday
Mar 18
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Bernarda Fink (alto) | Claron McFadden (soprano) | Christoph Genz (tenor)
SDG 174 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 18) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Wednesday
Mar 18
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Erato 4509-91732 (Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim) -
Gabriel Fauré
Sicilienne
Wednesday
Mar 18
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 449.186 (Ravel, Satie & Fauré: Pavane) -
Alexander Scriabin
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 38
Wednesday
Mar 18
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Wednesday
Mar 18
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra
Chandos 8852 (La Peri) -
Florence Price
Symphony #1 in E Minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 486.2029 (Florence Price) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Lied, Op. 6 #3
Wednesday
Mar 18
Liana Serbescu (piano)
CPO 999.015 (Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel) -
Antonín Dvořák
Rondo G Minor
Wednesday
Mar 18
Berlin Philharmonic | Lorin Maazel (conductor) | Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
CBS 42206 (Dvořák: Cello Concerto) -
Amy Beach
Prelude and Fugue, Op. 81
Wednesday
Mar 18
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Claude Debussy
La Mer
Wednesday
Mar 18
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Philips 416.444 (Debussy: Orchestral Works) -
Frédéric Chopin
Impromptu #1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29
Wednesday
Mar 18
Bella Davidovich (piano)
Philips 411.427 (Chopin: Ballades, Impromputs) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #3
Wednesday
Mar 18
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Dresden State Orchestra
DG 431.684 (Bruckner) -
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude #8 in C Minor "Wilde Jagd" (Wild Hunt)
Wednesday
Mar 18
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philips 416.458 (Liszt: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante) -
Johannes Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Wednesday
Mar 18
Lars Vogt (piano)
Ondine 1346 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Handel Variations) -
Richard Strauss
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 8
Wednesday
Mar 18
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Petr Popelka (conductor)
DG 4867082 (Richard Strauss: Renaud Capucon) -
Henry Cowell
Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 5 for Strings
Wednesday
Mar 18
Northwest Chamber Orchestra | Alun Francis (conductor)
CPO 999.222 (Cowell) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27 #1
Wednesday
Mar 18
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 2 "London"
Wednesday
Mar 18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
Telarc 80138 (Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2)