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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Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #12 "American"
Monday
May 11
Takács String Quartet
London 430.077 (Dvořák: Quartets Op. 96 & 105, bagatelles Op. 47) -
George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Monday
May 11
English Baroque Soloists | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 411.122 (Händel: Music for the Royal Fireworks) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mitridates, King of Pontus, K. 87: Overture
Monday
May 11
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) | Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
Naïve 30479 (Mozart: Overtures) -
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Polish Fantasy
Monday
May 11
Antoni Wit (conductor) | Janina Fialkowska (piano) | National Polish Radio Symphony Orch.
Naxos 554.020 (Paderewski: Piano Concerto, Polish Fantasy) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #3
Monday
May 11
Monica Huggett (conductor) | Ensemble Sonnerie
Avie 2171 (Bach: Four Orchestral Suites) -
Pierre Rode
Violin Concerto #10 in B Minor, Op. 19
Monday
May 11
Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) | Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern | Nicolás Pasquet (conductor)
Naxos 570.469 (Rode: Violin Concertos, Nos. 7, 10 & 13) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 320 "Posthorn"
Monday
May 11
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.725 (Mozart: Posthorn Serenade, Marches, K. 335) -
Gabriel Fauré
Ballade, Op. 19
Monday
May 11
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 748.021 (Fauré, Chabrier, Satie & Ravel) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonia, H. 658 in B-flat Major
Monday
May 11
Camerata Bern | Thomas Füri (conductor)
Denon 73326 (C.P.E. Bach: 6 Hamburg Symphonies, wq.182) -
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto
Monday
May 11
Cleveland Orchestra | Christoph von Dohnányi (conductor) | Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Teldec 2292.44944 (Brahms: Violinkonzert, Akademische Festouvertüre) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 567
Monday
May 11
I Musici
Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #2
Monday
May 11
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Barry Douglas (piano)
RCA 61633 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3) -
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 33 #1 in B Minor
Monday
May 11
Buchberger Quartet
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto #1
Monday
May 11
Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Lang Lang (piano)
DG 474.291 (Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: First Piano Concertos) -
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Grand Serenade #1
Monday
May 11
Consortium Classicum
Schwann 310.006 (Hummel: Serenaden & Serenades) -
Joseph Fiala
English Horn Concerto in C Major
Monday
May 11
Albrecht Mayer (conductor) | Albrecht Mayer (English horn) | Kammerakademie Potsdam
DG 479.2942 (Lost and Found) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Violin Sonata #3 in B-flat Major, Op. 59
Monday
May 11
Christina Åstrand (violin) | Per Salo (piano)
Dacapo 226.066 (Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto B-flat Major (K. 191)
Monday
May 11
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Frank Morelli (bassoon)
DG 423.623 (Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 2 & 3, etc.) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Suite in D Major: IV. Air. Presto
Monday
May 11
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Six Morceaux: VI. Tarantella
Monday
May 11
Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) | Barbara Moser (piano)
Gramola 98966 (Den Männer ebenbürtig) -
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony, G. 518 in A Major (Op. 37 #4): I. Allegro spiritoso
Monday
May 11
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8414-15 (Boccherini: Seven Symphonies) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #1: I
Monday
May 11
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8611 (Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Oboe Concerto, H. 468 in E-flat Major: III. Allegro ma non troppo
Monday
May 11
Roy Goodman (conductor) | Hanover Band | Frank de Bruine (oboe)
RCA 61903 (Concert in Sanssouci) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83: I. Allegro non troppo
Monday
May 11
Lars Vogt (piano) | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Lars Vogt (conductor)
Ondine 1346 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Handel Variations) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #3 "Rhenish": I. Lebhaft
Monday
May 11
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Philips 416.126 (Schumann: The Four Symphonies) -
Johann Christian Bach
Overture #5 in G Major
Monday
May 11
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures) -
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries
Monday
May 11
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
CBS 44657 (Wagner: Highlights from "the Ring") -
Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto E-flat Major
Monday
May 11
Jesús López-Cobos (conductor) | Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet) | Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Teldec 4509.90846 (Jolivet, Tomasi, Hummel & Haydn: Trumpet Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto #1: I
Monday
May 11
David Zinman (conductor) | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Horacio Gutierrez (piano)
Telarc 80193 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody) -
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonata, K 29 in D Major
Monday
May 11
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 62785 (Handel & Scarlatti) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #5: IV
Monday
May 11
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Teldec 4509.91184 (Schubert: The Symphonies) -
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Oboe Concerto (D Minor)
Monday
May 11
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | David Reichenberg (oboe) | English Concert
Archiv 415.518 (Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue) -
César Franck
Violin Sonata A Major: IV
Monday
May 11
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Joshua Bell (violin)
London 421.817 (Fauré, Debussy & Franck: Violin Sonatas) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 522
Monday
May 11
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (violin) | Geneviève Gilardeau (violin)
Analekta 9811 (A Baroque Feast) -
Bedřich Smetana
Festive Symphony in E Major, Op. 6: I
Monday
May 11
Theodore Kuchar (conductor) | Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93634 (Smetana: Complete Orchestra Works) -
Gabriel Fauré
Fantaisie, Op. 79
Monday
May 11
Kuang-Hao Huang (piano) | Mathieu Dufour (flute)
Cedille 90000.121 (Fantaisie) -
Josef Mysliveček
Symphony in A Major (F. 27)
Monday
May 11
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10203 (Mysliveček: Symphonies) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Sonata #3 B Minor
Monday
May 11
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 32780 (Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3) -
Ignaz Holzbauer
Flute Concerto in A Major
Monday
May 11
Karl Kaiser (flute) | La Stagione Frankfurt | Karl Kaiser (conductor)
CPO 777.358 (Holzbauer: Flute Concertos) -
Isaac Albéniz
Tango, Op. 165 #2 (arr. Godowsky)
Monday
May 11
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Decca 478.5334 (Dances) -
Johann Christian Bach
Flute Concerto in G Major
Monday
May 11
Hanover Band | Rachel Brown (flute) | Antony Halstead (conductor)
CPO 999.347 (J.C. Bach: Woodwind Concertos, Vol. 2) -
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Monday
May 11
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Hugh Wolff (conductor)
Teldec 2292.46314 (Copland: Appalachian Spring, Music for the Theatre) -
Franz Liszt
Franz Schubert Transcription. Ave Maria
Monday
May 11
Lang Lang (piano)
Sony 789141 (Liszt) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio #1 (1718)
Monday
May 11
Camerata Cologne
CPO 999.957 (Telemann: Six Trios 1718) -
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto #1
Monday
May 11
Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | Krystian Zimerman (piano)
DG 0006203 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Aleko: Men's Dance
Monday
May 11
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10583 (Aleko) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #11 in A Major
Monday
May 11
Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7228-29 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet #14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105
Monday
May 11
Emerson String Quartet
DG 0014106 (Old World - New World) -
Joseph Haydn
Nocturne #5 in C Major
Monday
May 11
Marten Root (flute) | Michael Niesemann (oboe) | Mozzafiato | L'Archibudelli
Sony 62878 (Haydn: 8 Notturni for the King) -
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons: Summer
Monday
May 11
I Musici | Federico Agostini (violin)
Philips 426.847 (Vivaldi: 6 Concerti, Op. 8) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #5
Monday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
Nimbus 5194 (Kodaly: Háry János Suite - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5) -
Henryk Wieniawski
Scherzo Tarantelle
Monday
May 11
Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
EMI 49514 (Encores) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #3 in D Major, D 200
Monday
May 11
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.176 (Schubert: The 10 Symphonies) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #12
Monday
May 11
Sir András Schiff (piano) | Salzburg Mozarteum Academic Camerata | Sándor Végh (conductor)
London 417.886 (Mozart: Piano Concertos K414 & 449) -
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Iolanthe: Overture
Monday
May 11
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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George Frideric Handel
Atalanta: Act I, Scenes 1-4
Monday
May 11
Nicholas McGegan (conductor) | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | Dominique Labelle [Atalanta] | Susanne Rydén [Meleagro] | Cécile van de Sant [Irene] | Michael Slattery [Aminta] | Philip Cutlip [Nicandro] | Corey McKern [Mercurio]
Philharmonia Baroque 4 (Handel: Atalanta) -
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Platée: Act III, scene 3. "Dans cette fête" ("At this feast")
Monday
May 11
Ryan Brown (conductor) | Opera Lafayette Orchestra | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (haute-contre [high tenor])
Naxos 557.993 (Rameau: Operatic Arias) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)
Monday
May 11
The Schütz Choir of London | The London Classical Players | Roger Norrington (conductor) | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Don Giovanni] | Alastaire Miles [Commendatore/La Statua] | Amanda Halgrimson [Donna Anna] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Donna Elvira] | John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Don Ottavio] | Gregory Yurisich [Leporello] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Zerlina] | Gerard Finley (bass) [Masetto]
EMI 54859 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Teuzzone: Act II
Monday
May 11
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) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Mögen alle bösen Zungen (Let all evil tongues)
Monday
May 11
Birgid Steinberger (soprano) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Franz Schubert
Gott ist mein Hirt
Monday
May 11
The Boys of King's College Choir, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 57812 (Heavenly Voices) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie
Monday
May 11
Judith Nelson | Julianne Baird | The Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Nonesuch 79036 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act I, Nr. 1, Cavatina. "Ecco, ridente in cielo"
Monday
May 11
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] | Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] | Sally Burgess [Berta] | Matthew Best [Fiorello] | John Noble [Ufficiale]
Philips 411.058 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc): Act II
Monday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | Plácido Domingo [Carlo VII] | Montserrat Caballé [Giovanna] | Sherrill Milnes [Giacomo] | Keith Erwin [Delil] | Robert Lloyd [Talbot] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus [King's officers, villagers, people of Reims, French | English soldiers, blessed spirits, evil spirits, nobles, heralds, pages, young girls, marshals, deputies, knights | ladies, magistrates, halberdiers, guards of honor]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7: #5. Au Cimetière (In the cemetery)
Monday
May 11
Véronique Gens (soprano) | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire | John Axelrod (conductor)
Ondine 1200 (Berlioz & Ravel) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Thésée: Act I, Conclusion
Monday
May 11
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 | Un Vieillard] | Yulia Van Doren [Cerés | Une Bergere] | Teresa Wakim [Cerés | Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus | Paul O'Dette | Stephen Stubbs (Musical Directors)
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorite: Act III
Monday
May 11
Marcello Viotti (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] | Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] | Abbie Furmansky [Inès] | Ramon Vargas [Fernand] | Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] | Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] | Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur]
RCA 66229 (Donizetti: La Favorite) -
Xavier Montsalvatge
Cançó amorosa (Love song)
Monday
May 11
Corinne Winters (soprano) | Steven Blier (piano)
GPR Records 70013 (Songs of Spain) -
Richard Wagner
Rienzi: Act I Finale
Monday
May 11
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor) | René Kollo (tenor) [Rienzi] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Irene] | Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Steffano Colonna] | John Janssen [Adriano] | Bodo Brinkmann [Paolo Orsini] | Hans Helms [Kardinal Orvieto] | Norbert Orth [Baroncelli] | Kieth Engen [Cecco del Vecchio] | Carmen Anhorn [Ein Friedensbote] | Raimund Grumbach [Der Gesandte Mailands] | Hans Wilbrink [Der Gesandte der lombardischen Städte] | Friedrich Lenz [Der Gesandte Neapels] | Alfred Kuhn [Der Gesandte Bayerns] | Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper | Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Orfeo 346.953 (Wagner: Rienzi) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act IV
Monday
May 11
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | The Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Susanna] | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Figaro] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Cherubino] | Tatiana Troyanos [Marcellina] | Paul Plishka [Bartolo] | Anthony Lacuira [Basilio] | Michael Forest [Don Curzio] | Renato Capecchi [Antonio] | Heidi Grant [Barbarina] | Joyce Guyer [Contadina] | Stella Zambalis [Contadina]
DG 431.619 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Frederick Delius
Ten Songs from the Danish: Autumn [Frederick Delius after Ludvig Detlaf Greve Holstein]
Monday
May 11
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act I, Aria. Pensa a serbarmi, o cara (Think only, dearest, to retain)
Monday
May 11
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ezio]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: II. Gloria
Monday
May 11
The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Jennifer Johnson (mezzo-soprano) | Matthew Rose (bass)
SDG 718 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Leoš Janáček
Katya Kabanova: Act II
Monday
May 11
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Dalibor Jedlicka [Savel P. Dikoi] | Petr Dvorsky [Boris Grigorievich] | Nadezda Kniplova [Marpha I. Kabanova] | Vladimir Krejcik [Tikhon I. Kabanov] | Elisabeth Söderström [Katya Kabanova] | Zdenek Svehla [Vania Kudriash] | Libuse Marova [Varvara] | Jaroslav Soucek (baritone) [Kuligin] | Jitka Pavlova [Glasha] | Gertrude Jahn [Feklusha] | Adolf Tomaschek [Chodec] | Hedwig Dreschler [Zena] | Vienna State Opera Chorus [Town-dwellers]
Decca 475.7518 (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) -
Joaquín Rodrigo
Tres canciones españolas (Three Spanish Songs): II. En Jerez de la Frontera (In Jereza de la Frontera)
Monday
May 11
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) | Anthony Spiri (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2133 (Canciones españolas) -
Franz Lehár
Die lustige Witwe: "Es lebt' eine Vilja"
Monday
May 11
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Beverly Sills (soprano) | Julius Rudel (conductor)
DG 471.766 (The Art of Beverly Sills) -
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier: Act III, Trio & final duet "Marie Theres', wie gut Sie ist..Ist ein Traum.Spür' nur dich"
Monday
May 11
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Thomas Allen (baritone) | Angelika Kirschschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Virgin 45705 (Amor) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Il Corsaro: Act II
Monday
May 11
Philharmonia Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor) | José Carreras [Corrado] | Clifford Grant [Giovanni] | Jessye Norman [Medora] | Montserrat Caballé [Gulnara] | Gian-Piero Mastromei [Seid] | John Noble [Selimo] | Alexander Oliver [A black eunuch | Ambrosian Singers [Corsairs, odalisques, Muslim soldiers | officers, Turks, handmaidens]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
George Frideric Handel
Il pastor fido (The faithful shepherd): Act II, Scene 5: Amarilli's aria. "Finte labbra! stelle ingrate!" (False lips, ungrateful eyes)
Monday
May 11
Lucy Crowe [Amarilli] | La Nuova Musica | David Bates (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7585-86 (Handel: Il pastor fido) -
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony #2 in B-flat Major "Hymn of Praise"
Monday
May 11
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano) | Judith Howarth (soprano) | Christoph Prégardien (tenor) | Bergen Philharmonic Choir | KorVest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble) | Danish National Vocal Ensemble | Bergen Philharmonic | Andrew Litton (conductor)
BIS 1704 (Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2) -
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch: Wenn du zu den Blumen gehst (When you wander among the flowers)
Monday
May 11
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Russell Ryan (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Benjamin Britten
Job's Curse [based on Henry Purcell; text by Jeremy Taylor]
Monday
May 11
Julius Drake (piano) | Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2093 (Down by the Salley Gardens) -
Lori Laitman
Within These Spaces (I Grow To Be My Grandmother; My Mother Has Recovered; Letter To My Daughter; The China Cup; Pioneer Child Doll) (Text from poems of Marjorie Saiser, Janet Coleman, and Judith Sornberger)
Monday
May 11
Sari Gruber (soprano) | Warren Jones (piano)
Albany 1118 (Within These Spaces) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act II, Aria. Dubbioso amante (A threatened lover)
Monday
May 11
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa in C Major, K 167 "Trinity Mass"
Monday
May 11
Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Camerata Würzburg
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Maurice Duruflé
Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu
Monday
May 11
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Telarc 80135 (Duruflé: Requiem) -
Hector Berlioz
La Damnation de Faust: Invocation to Nature. Nature immense, impénétrable et fière (Nature, vast, unfathomable, proud)
Monday
May 11
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0010837 (Romantic Arias) -
Samuel Barber
Vanessa: Act III, Scene 1
Monday
May 11
Christine Brewer (soprano) [Vanessa] | Susan Graham [Erika] | Catherine Wyn-Rogers [The Old Baroness] | William Burden [Anatol] | Neal Davies [The Old Doctor] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Nicholas] | Stephen Charlesworth [Footman] | BBC Singers [Servants, Guests, Peasants] | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Chandos 5032 (Barber: Vanessa) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Roland: Act I
Monday
May 11
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Nicolas Testé [Roland] | Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] | Olivier Dumait [Médor] | Monique Zanetti [Témire] | Robert Getchell [Astolfe] | Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] | Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante | Demogorgon | Un suivant d'Angélique] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire | Tersandre] | Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire | Un suivant d'Angélique | Coridon, un pâtre]] | Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente | Une suivante d'Angélique | Une postourelle] | Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique | Une amante contente, La Gloire]
Amboise 9949 (Lully: Roland) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act II, scena & aria (Alfredo). "Lunge da lei...De' miei bollenti spiriti" (There's no pleasure in life..My passionate spirit)
Monday
May 11
Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi) -
Robert Schumann
Szenen aus Goethes Faust, WoO 3 (Scenes from Goethe's Faust): Part 3
Monday
May 11
English Chamber Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) [Faust, Doctor Marianus] | Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) [Gretchen | Una Poenitentium] | John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) [Mephistopheles | Evil Spirit | Peter Seraphicus] | Peter Pears (tenor) [Ariel | Pater Ecstaticus] | Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) [Care | Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano) [Need | Magna Peccatrix] | Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano) [Martha | Want | Mulluer Samartiana] | Pauline Stevens (soprano) [Debt | Maria Aegyptiaca] | Robert Lloyd [Pater Profundus] | Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano) [Mater Gloriosa] | Aldeburgh Festival Singers | Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Jules Massenet
Werther
Monday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] | Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] | Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] | Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] | Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] | Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] | James Savage-Hanford [Hans] | Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] | Christopher Waine [Karl] | Sally Cannon [Clara] | Joel Gunger [Max] | Sarah Baillie [Fritz] | Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lucio Silla: Recitative & Aria. In un istante...Parto, m'affretto
Monday
May 11
Apollo's Fire | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Amanda Forsythe (soprano)
Avie 2159 (Mozart: Symphony No. 40 & Ballet Music) -
Hector Berlioz
Requiem, Op. 5: X. Agnus Dei
Monday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | London Symphony Chorus
Philips 416.283 (Berlioz: Requiem) -
George Frideric Handel
Ariodante: Act I, Aria. Voli colla sua tromba (Fly with trumpet sound)
Monday
May 11
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Matthew Brook [King of Scotland]
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
Claudio Monteverdi
A Mass of Thanksgiving (Venice, 1631)
Monday
May 11
Andrew Parrott (conductor) | Joseph Cornwell (tenor) | Richard Wistreich (bass) | Taverner Consort, Choir and Players
EMI 49876 (Monteverdi: Mass of Thanksgiving) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ercole sul Termodonte (Hercules on the Thermodon): Act I, Aria. Vedrà l'empia (The wicked woman will see)
Monday
May 11
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor) | Rolando Villazón [Ercole]
Virgin 94545 (Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte) -
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: I. Primo vere [Springtime]
Monday
May 11
Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Tölzer Knabenchor | Daniel Harding (conductor) | Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
DG 477.8778 (Orff: Carmina Burana) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
La Rencontre Imprévue ou Les Pèlerins de la Mecque (The Unforseen Encouter or The Pilgrims to Mecca): Act II
Monday
May 11
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Rezia] | Claudine Le Coz [Balkis] | Catherine Dubosc (soprano) [Dardané] | Sophie Marin-Degor (soprano) [Amine] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Ali] | Jean-Luc Viala [Osmin] | Guy Flechter [Le Sultan d'Égyte] | Jean-Philippe Lafont [Vertigo] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Un Calender] | Francis Dudziak [Le Chef de Caravane]
Erato 2292.45516 (Gluck: Les Pèlerins de la Mecque) -
Frederick Delius
Seven Songs from the Norwegian: The homeward way [Peter Pears after Aasmund Olavsson Vinje]
Monday
May 11
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80062 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 1)
WETA Virtuoso
-
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Sonata #9 "Kreutzer"
Monday
May 11
Martha Argerich (piano) | Vadim Repin (violin)
DG 0009663 (Beethoven: Violin Concerto, "Kreutzer" Sonata) -
Viktor Kosenko
Impromptu, Op. 4 #2
Monday
May 11
Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin) | Angelina Gadeliya (piano)
Labor 095 (Ukraine - Journey to Freedom) -
Francis Poulenc
Stabat Mater
Monday
May 11
Ensemble Aedes | Les Siècles | Mathieu Romano (conductor)
Aparté 323 (Poulenc: Stabat Mater) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
String Quartet in C Minor
Monday
May 11
Hyperion 67381-2 (Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Chamber Music) -
Carl Reinecke
Triumphal March, Op. 110
Monday
May 11
Munich Radio Orchestra | Henry Raudales (conductor)
CPO 555.114 (Carl Reinecke: Orchestral Works Vol. 1) -
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Broadcast
Monday
May 11
-
Myroslav Skoryk
Hutsul Triptych: Dance
Monday
May 11
Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin) | Angelina Gadeliya (piano)
Labor 095 (Ukraine - Journey to Freedom) -
Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C Major
Monday
May 11
Berg Quartet
EMI 47018 (Schubert: String Quintet, D. 956) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Notturno in G Minor
Monday
May 11
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 191. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the highest)
Monday
May 11
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Claron McFadden (soprano) | Christoph Genz (tenor)
SDG 174 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 18) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #6
Monday
May 11
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8530 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 6) -
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude #9 E Major
Monday
May 11
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413.796 (Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28) -
Einojuhani Rautavaara
The Fiddlers, Op. 1
Monday
May 11
Wojciech Rajski (conductor) | Musica Vitae
BIS 460 (Sibelius) -
Benjamin Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
Monday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
LSO 830 (Britten) -
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Oedipus Rex Prelude, Op. 29
Monday
May 11
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)
Chandos 8884 (Stanford) -
George Rochberg
Transcendental Variations
Monday
May 11
Christopher Lyndon Gee (conductor) | Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 559.115 (Rochberg: Symphony No. 5) -
Thomas Morley
Shakespeare's Musick: Go from my Window
Monday
May 11
Musicians of the Globe | Philip Pickett (director)
Philips 446.687 (Shakespeare's Musick) -
John Adams
The Wound Dresser
Monday
May 11
Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Naxos 559.031 (ADAMS: Shaker Loops) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio, Op. 97 "Archduke"
Monday
May 11
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 412.891 (Beethoven: Piano Trios, "Archduke") -
Jake Runestad
Let my Love Be Heard
Monday
May 11
Kantorei | Joel Rinsema (conductor)
Naxos 559.892 (Jake Runestad: Sing, Wearing the Sky; Choral Music) -
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Flute and Piano
Monday
May 11
James Levine (piano) | Vienna-Berlin Ensemble
DG 427.639 (Poulenc) -
Béla Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19
Monday
May 11
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 447.747 (BARTOK) -
Adolph Martin Foerster
On the Sea
Monday
May 11
Malcolm Frager (piano)
New World 80206 (Edward MacDowell & Company) -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 25
Monday
May 11
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Roland Pöntinen (piano) | Stockholm Sinfonietta
BIS 356 (Gade) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet Suite #1
Monday
May 11
Mariss Jansons (conductor) | Oslo Philharmonic
EMI 49289 (Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" Suites Nos. 1 & 2) -
Gabriel Fauré
Sicilienne
Monday
May 11
Lajos Lencsés (oboe) | Giselle Herbert (harp)
Audite 368.409 (Musique de Nuit) -
Richard Strauss
Josephslegende, Op. 63: Symphonic Fragment
Monday
May 11
Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI Classics 64346 (Richard Strauss) -
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet #2 "Intimate Letters"
Monday
May 11
Alban Berg Quartet
EMI Classics 55457 (ABQ) -
Jean Sibelius
La tristesse du printemps, Op. 16 (Spring Song)
Monday
May 11
BIS 384 (Sibelius) -
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem #7. Festklänge
Monday
May 11
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | BBC Philharmonic
Chandos 10417 (Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Volume 3) -
George Rochberg
Violin Concerto
Monday
May 11
André Previn (conductor) | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | Isaac Stern (violin)
Sony 64505 -
Frédéric Chopin
Etude, Op. 25 #3 in F Major
Monday
May 11
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
DG 479.1039 (Jan Lisiecki: Chopin Etudes) -
Maurice Ravel
5 Mélodies populaires grecques
Monday
May 11
John Nelson (conductor) | David Daniels (countertenor) | Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
Virgin 45646 (Berlioz: Nuits d'été - Fauré & Ravel) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp Major, Op. 27 #2 "Moonlight"
Monday
May 11
Alessio Bax (piano)
Signum 397 (Alessio Bax Plays Beethoven) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50
Monday
May 11
Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Georges Prêtre (conductor)
Musifrance 2292.45696 (Saint-Saëns: Symphonie No. 3, La Jeunesse d'Hercule) -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hymn-Tune Prelude No. 1. Eventide
Monday
May 11
London Symphony Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos 8828 (Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 in D minor) -
Anton Bruckner
Symphony #5 in B-flat Major
Monday
May 11
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips 442.040 (Bruckner) -
François Couperin
Pièces en Concert: La Tromba
Monday
May 11
Amit Peled (cello) | Eliza Ching (piano)
Centaur 3047 (Cellobration) -
Florence Price
Piano Quintet in A Minor
Monday
May 11
Catalyst Quartet | Michelle Cann (piano)
Azica Records 71346 (Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price) -
Béla Bartók
String Quartet #5
Monday
May 11
Emerson String Quartet
DG 423.657 (BARTOK 6 String Quartets) -
Sergei Prokofiev
Légende, Op. 12 #6
Monday
May 11
Boris Berman (piano)
Chandos 9069 (Prokofiev) -
Benjamin Godard
Violin Concerto #2
Monday
May 11
Slovak State Philharmonic | Chloe Hanslip (violin) | Kirk Trevor (conductor)
Naxos 570.554 (Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2) -
Louise Farrenc
Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 35
Monday
May 11
European Soloists, Luxembourg | Christoph König (conductor)
Naxos 573.706 (Louise Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3)