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

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Linos Ensemble

    CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #2 in B-flat Major

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert

    Archiv 413.727 (Handel: Six Concerti Grossi Op. 3)
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il signor Bruschino: Overture

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures)
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

    RCA 7765 (Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Karelia, Finlandia)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto #5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Baiba Skride (violin) | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Eivind Aadland (conductor)

    Orfeo 997.201 (Baiba Skride: Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5)
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra | Terje Tonnesen (conductor)

    BIS 147 (Grieg: Music for String Orchestra)
  • Franz Danzi

    Introduction, Theme & Variations

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jesús López-Cobos (conductor) | Dieter Kloecker (clarinet)

    Schwann 11621 (Romantic Clarinet Concertos)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Symphony #1

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam

    London 411.657 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1)
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto in D Major, G 479

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Yuli Turovsky (cello) | I Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky (conductor)

    Chandos 8408 (Boccherini & Vivaldi: Cello Concertos)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio, Op. 70 #2 in E-flat Major

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Lynn Harrell (cello)

    EMI 47455 (Beethoven: Piano Trios)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata #19 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

    Chandos 10668 (Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony #1

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Philharmonic | Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

    EMI 47029 (Brahms: Symphony No. 1)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita #6 in E Minor, BWV 830

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Jeremy Denk (piano)

    Azica Records 71262 (Bach: Partitas 3, 4 & 5)
  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle: Pas de deux from Act 2

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Richard Bonynge (conductor) | London Symphony Orchestra

    London 433.861 (Ballet Gala, The Art of the Prima Ballerina)
  • William Boyce

    Symphony #8

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)

    CRD 3413A (William Boyce)
  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor: Overture

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | Israel Philharmonic

    Helicon 02-9673 (Berlioz; Borodin)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, RV 532

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Philips 412.892 (Vivaldi: 6 Double Concertos)
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Monday
    Oct 26

    San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Edo de Waart (conductor)

    Philips 411.419 (Respighi: Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Gli Uccelli)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto #1

    Monday
    Oct 26

    St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Pinchas Zukerman (violin) | Pinchas Zukerman (conductor)

    CBS 44653 (Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3)
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Symphony #1: IV

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Stockholm Sinfonietta

    BIS 339 (Gade: Symphonies 1 & 8)
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

    Harp Concerto in C Major: I. Allegro moderato

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Elizabeth Hainen (harp) | Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rossen Milanov (conductor)

    Avie 2221 (Harp Concertos)
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto symphonique #4: II. Scherzo

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Yuja Wang (piano)

    SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature)
  • Franz Clement

    Violin Concerto in D Major: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor) | Rachel Barton Pine (violin)

    Cedille 90000.106 (Beethoven & Clement: Violin Concertos)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Piano Concerto #1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1: I. Vivace

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor) | Daniil Trifonov (piano)

    DG 483.6617 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival)
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Oboe Sonata, H. 549 in G Minor

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ku Ebbinge (oboe)

    Erato 75560 (C.P.E. Bach: Concertos pour hautbois)
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo #3 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Emanuel Ax (piano)

    CBS 44544 (Chopin: Scherzos and Maurkas)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Banquet Music, Part 2: Quartet in D Minor: II. Vivace

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik)
  • Richard Wagner

    Rienzi: Overture

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Philharmonia Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)

    CBS 36699 (Wagner: Overtures)
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Piano Trio, Op. 120: I. Allegro ma non troppo

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Gil Shaham (violin) | Brinton Smith (cello) | Akira Eguchi (piano)

    Canary Classics 1239 (The Fauré Album)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto #1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: III. Allegro molto

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | Petra Muellejans (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.1816 (Haydn: Concertos pour violoncelle)
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Clarinet Concert Piece #1

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Pierce-Aomori Duo | Daniel Barrett (cello)

    MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo)
  • Josef Mysliveček

    Symphony in C Major (F. 26)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)

    Chandos 10203 (Mysliveček: Symphonies)
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 73: #3. Rasch und mit Feuer

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Gerhard Oppitz (piano) | Heinrich Schiff (cello)

    Philips 422.414 (Schumann: Cello Concerto)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, RV 356

    Monday
    Oct 26

    I Musici

    Philips 412.128 (Vivaldi: 12 Concerti, Op. 3)
  • George Gershwin

    Concerto in F: III. Allegro agitato

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop (conductor)

    Decca 0014091 (Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concertone for 2 Violins in C Major, K 190: III. Tempo di menuetto (Vivace)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra | Julia Fischer (violin) | Jakov Kreizberg (conductor) | Gordon Nikolić (violin)

    Pentatone 5186.453 (Mozart: The Violin Concertos)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata #2 in F Major, Op. 99: III. Allegro passionato

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) | Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

    Orfeo 979.201 (Johannes Brahms: The Cello Sonatas)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto, BWV 1060 in C Minor

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Hamburg Philharmonic | Justus Frantz (piano)

    DG 415.655 (J. S. Bach: Klavierkonzerte)
  • Mikhail Glinka

    Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor) | Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Melodiya 10.00166 (Glinka: "Ivan Susanin" & "Ruslan and Ludmila")
  • Henry Purcell

    Symphony & Dance from "The Indian Queen"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)

    Virgin 391340 (A Baroque Festival)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata #23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": III. Allegro ma non troppo; Presto

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Igor Levit (piano)

    Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Martha Argerich (piano) | Nelson Freire (piano) | Ensemble

    Philips 416.841 (Saint-Saëns: Carnival des animaux)
  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dances, Op. 64 #1-3

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Guitar Trek

    ABC 432.698 (Guitar Trek)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony #8 "Evening"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Philips 411.441 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 8)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cypresses

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Emerson String Quartet

    DG 0014106 (Old World - New World)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, RV 127 "Paris"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    La Serenissima | Adrian Chandler (conductor)

    Avie 2218 (The French Connection 2)
  • Robert Schumann

    Cello Concerto

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir Colin Davis (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

    CBS 42663 (Schumann: Cello Concerto)
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Gil Shaham (violin)

    DG 427.656 (Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos)
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen: "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Prague Philharmonic Orchestra | Sol Gabetta (cello) | Charles Olivieri-Munroe (conductor)

    Sony 88697.35962 (Cantabile)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto B-flat Major

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    Archiv 413.788 (Telemann: Wassermusik)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto #22

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Alfred Brendel (piano) | Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) | Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Philips 468.367 (Mozart: Piano Concertos 22 & 27)
  • Louis Spohr

    Quintet in C Minor, Op. 52: III. Menuetto. Allegretto

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Les Vents Français

    Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite #6 in D Minor, BWV 811

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir András Schiff (piano)

    London 421.640 (Bach: English Suites BWV 806-11)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony #4

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    Chandos 8595 (Brahms: Symphony No. 4, etc)
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Joshua Bell (violin) | Paul Coker (piano)

    London 444.409 (The Kreisler Album)
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphonic Etudes

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

    DG 410.520 (Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op. 111)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata #5 in D Major, Op. 102 #2

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Lambert Orkis (piano) | David Hardy (cello)

    Dorian 90910 (Past & Present)
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in D Major (D. 12)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paul Angerer (conductor)

    Pantheon 1841 (Schubert: Overtures, Vol. 2)

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Missa brevis in C Major, K 220 "Spatzenmesse"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Barbara Werner (alto) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor) | Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim | Daniel Sans (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Petra Labitzke (soprano)

    Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works)
  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor: Act I Finale

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] | Todor Todorov [Vladimir] | Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] | Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] | Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] | Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] | Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] | Radka Gaeva [Nurse] | Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] | Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia | Jerzy Semkov (conductor) | Boris Christoff (bass)

    EMI 66814 (Borodin: Prince Igor)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal Source of Light Divine (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne), HWV 74

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Kiera Duffy (soprano) | Meg Bragle (mezzo-soprano)

    Avie 2270 (Handel: Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest, Ode for Queen Anne)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Ona, kak polden', khorosha (She is as beautiful as noon), Op. 14 #9

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Dmitri Hvorostovksy (baritone) | Ivari Ilja (piano)

    Ondine 1207 (Rachmaninov: Romances)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein deutsches Requiem: IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (How lovely are thy dwellings)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Chorus | Otto Klemperer

    EMI 56218 (Brahms: A German Requiem)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata, BWV 191. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the highest)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Claron McFadden (soprano) | Christoph Genz (tenor)

    SDG 174 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 18)
  • Franz Schubert

    Fierrabras: Act II

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Robert Holl (bass) [König Karl] | Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Roland] | Peter Hofmann (tenor) [Ogier] | Jörg Schluckebier [Olivier] | Rainer Brandstetter [Gui von Burgund] | Claus Kühbacher [Richard von der Normandie] | Michael Weber [Gérard von Mondidur] | Robert Gambill [Eginhard] | László Polgár [Boland] | Josef Protschka (tenor) [Fierrabras] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Florinda] | Brigitte Balleys [Maragond] | Hartmut Welker [Brutamonte] | Brigitte Pinter [Eine Jungfrau] | Arnold Schoenberg Choir [Fränkische und maurische Ritter und Krieger, Emmas Fräuleins, Volk]

    DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras)
  • Franz Liszt

    Einst [Friedrich von Bodenstedt]

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto) | Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection)
  • Joseph Haydn

    Missa in angustiis "Nelson Mass", HOB XXII/11: IV. Sanctus

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Felicity Lott (soprano) | Carolyn Watkinson (alto) | Maldwyn Davies (tenor) | David Wilson-Johnson (bass) | The English Concert and Choir | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    Archiv 423.097 (Haydn: Missa in angustiis "Nelson Mass")
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth: Act IV, Sleepwalking Scene. "Una macchia è qui tutt'ora"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Birgit Nilsson (soprano) | Argeo Quadri (conductor) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

    Decca 475.6413 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Missa solemnis, Op. 123: I. Kyrie

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Dietrich Henschel (bass) | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) | Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) | Annette Jahns (mezzo-soprano) | Nikolai Schikoff (tenor) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

    LPO 0061 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis)
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Beatrice di Tenda: Act II, Finale (Nr 12)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Edita Gruberova [Beatrice di Tenda] | Vesselina Kasarova [Agnese] | Igor Morosow [Filippo Maria Visconti] | Don Bernardini [Orombello] | Branko Robinsak [Anichino] | Daniel Sumegi [Rizzardo] | Wiener Jeunesse-Chor | ORF-Symphonieorchester | Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)

    Nightingale 070560 (Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Stabat Mater, Op. 58: VIII. Fac ut portem Christi mortem (Make me bear the death of Christ)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Philharmonic Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Peter Auty (tenor)

    LPO 0062 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Act II, Scenes 4-11

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Andrei Bondarenko (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Simone Kermes (soprano) [Countess Almaviva] | Fanie Antonelou (soprano) [Susanna] | Christian Van Horn (bass) [Figaro] | MusicAeterna | Teodor Currentzis (conductor)

    Sony 370926 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro)
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: Act III

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Floria Tosca] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] | Samuel Ramey (bass) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Cesare Angelotti] | Anthony Lacuira [Spoletta] | Angelo Veccia [Un sagrestano] | Ralf Lukas [Sciarrone] | Bryan Secombe [Un carceriere] | Lee Tiernan [Un pastore] | Children's Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

    DG 431.775 (Puccini: Tosca)
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully

    Thésée: Act I

    Monday
    Oct 26

    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)
  • Saverio Mercadante

    La vestale: Act II, Scene 1, Giunia's aria. "Se fino al cielo ascendere" (If the tears of a friend)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Riccardo Minasi (conductor) | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Giunia]

    Erato 63656 (Stella di Napoli)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein deutsches Requiem: II. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras (For all flesh, it is as grass)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Vienna Singverein | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic

    DG 410.521 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Te Deum)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth: Act I

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Shirley Verrett [Lady Macbeth] | Piero Cappuccilli [Macbeth] | Nicolai Ghiaurov [Banco] | Stefania Malagú [Dama di Lady Macbeth] | Plácido Domingo [Macduff] | Antonio Savastano [Malcolm] | Carlo Zardo [Doctor] | Giovanni Foiani [Servant to Macbeth] | Alfredo Mariotti [Sicario] | Sergio Fontana [A herald] | Alfredo Giacomotti [First apparition (a head wearing a helmet)] | Maria Fausta Gallamini [Second apparition (a bloodstained child)] | Massimo Bortolotti [Third apparition (a child wearing a crown and carrying a sapling)] | Coro del Teatro all Scala [Witches, messengers of the King, noblemen of Scotland, refugees, murderers, English soldiers, servants, bards] | Orchestra della Teatro alla Scala

    Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works)
  • Franz Liszt

    Wieder möcht' ich dir begegnen [Peter Cornelius]

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto) | Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection)
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Les Boréades (Tragédie en musique): Act I

    Monday
    Oct 26

    John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Alphise, reine de la Bactriane (Alphisa, Queen of Bactria)] | Anne-Marie Rodde (soprano) [Sémire, confidente de la reine (the Queen's confidante)] | Edwige Bourdy (soprano) [Polymnie, muse des chants et de la pantomime (Polyhymnia, Muse of Song and Mime)] | Martine March (soprano) [Une Nymphe] | Philip Langridge (haute-contre) [Abaris, amant d'Alphise (in love with Alphisa)] | John Aler (haute-contre) [Calisis, prétendant d'Alphise, descendante de Borée (suitor to Alphisa, of the line of Boreas)] | Jean-Philippe Lafont (bass) [Borée, dieu des vents du Nord (Boreas, god of the North Wind)] | Gilles Cachemaille (baritone) [Borilée, prétendants d'Alphise, descendants de Borée (suitor to Alphisa, of the line of Boreas)] | François Le Roux (baritone) [Adamas, Grand-prêtre d'Apollon (Hight Priest of Apollo]) | Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Apollon, dieu de la Lumière (Apollo, god of Light)] | Elizabeth Priday (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid)] | The Monteverdi Choir [Plaisirs et Grâces | prêtres du temple d'Apollon, peuples (people) | les Saisons (Seasons) | les Muses | les Zéphyrs | les Heures e les Arts (Hours and Arts) | vents souterrains (subterranean winds)] | English Baroque Soloists

    Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau)
  • Jonathan Dove

    Three Tennyson Songs: I. Swallow, swallow

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Philippe Sly (bass/baritone) | Michael McMahon (piano)

    Analekta 29836 (In Dreams)
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act I

    Monday
    Oct 26

    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)
  • Nikolai Medtner

    Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Night Song), Op. 6 #1

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Aria. Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band | Jan Van der Crabben (bass)

    Challenge 72316 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor)
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Motet, RV 600 Laudate pueri Dominum

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Patrizia Ciofi (soprano) | Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi (conductor)

    Virgin 45704 (Vivaldi: Motets)
  • 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
    Oct 26

    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)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni: Act II, Scene 5 (finale)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Don Giovanni] | Matti Salminen (bass) [Commendatore/La Statua] | Carmela Remigio [Donna Anna] | Uwe Heilmann [Don Ottavio] | Soile Isokosi (soprano) [Donna Elvira] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Leporello] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Masetto] | Miti Trucato Pace [Zerlina] | Coro di Ferrara Musica

    DG 457.601 (Mozart: Don Giovanni)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Requiem: Dies irae: Ingemisco. "Ingemisco tamquam reus" (Guilty now I pour my moaning)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi)
  • Jules Massenet

    Le Cid: Act I

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Grace Bumbry [Chimene] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] | Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] | Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] | Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] | Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] | Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] | Jake Gardner [Le Roi] | Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] | John Adams [St. Jacques] | Byrne Camp Chorale | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler (conductor)

    CBS 79300 (Massenet: Le Cid)
  • George Frideric Handel

    Tamerlano. Irene's aria ( Act I, Scene 8). "Dal crudel che m'ha tradita"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor) | Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)

    Erato 520955 (Contralto)
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elias (Elijah): Part II, Opening (Nr. 21-29)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Elijah] | Andrea Rost (soprano) [The Widow] | Cornelia Kallisch [The Angel] | Deon van der Walt [King Ahab] | Johannes Dietzel [The Youth] | Cornelia Kallisch [Queen Jezebel] | Deon van der Walt [Obadiah] | Chor des Städt. Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf | Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker | James Conlon (conductor)

    EMI 56475 (Mendelssohn: Elias)
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Philharmonic Orchestra | Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [Norma] | Fiorenza Cossotto [Adalgisa] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Pollione] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Oroveso] | Elizabeth Bainbridge [Clotilde] | Kenneth Collins [Flavio] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Carlo Felice Cillario (conductor)

    RCA 6502 (Bellini: Norma)
  • Francesco Paolo Tosti

    L'Ultima canzone

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Piero Gamba (conductor)

    London 414.454 (Mattinata)
  • Franz Schubert

    Fierrabras: Act II, Aria with Chorus. "Im jungen Morgenstrahle"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor) | Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Roland] | Robert Gambill [Eginhard]

    DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras)
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della Beata Vergine [Vespers of the Blessed Virgin]

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) | Monica Piccinini (soprano) | Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) | Francesco Ghelardini (alto) | Luca Dordolo (tenor) | Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor) | Daniele Carnovich (bass) | Anna Simboli (soprano) | Vincenzo di Donato (tenor) | Antonio Abete (bass) | Furio Zanasi (baritone) | Sara Mingardo (contralto) | Pietro Spagnoli (baritone)

    Naïve 30403 (Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine)
  • Franz Liszt

    Vergiftet sind deine Lieder [Heinrich Heine]

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)

    DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection)
  • Ernst Krenek

    Stella's Monologue. Due blühst schön (You bloom in beauty), Op. 57

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Marlis Petersen (soprano) | Jendrik Springer (piano)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.2094 (Goethe-Lieder)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Missa solemnis, Op. 123: II. Gloria

    Monday
    Oct 26

    English Chamber Orchestra | Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) | Carol Vaness | Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) | Hans Tschammer (bass) | Tallis Chamber Choir | Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

    EMI 49950 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis)
  • Charles Gounod

    Roméo et Juliette: Act III

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Michel Plasson (conductor) | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Roméo] | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Juliette] | José van Dam (baritone) [Frère Laurent] | Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Stéphano] | Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Mercutio] | Alain Fondary [Capulet] | Claire Larcher [Gertrude] | Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Tybalt] | Guy Flechter [Benvolio] | Didier Henry [Pâris] | Till Fecnher [Grégorio] | Alain Vernhes [Le Duc] | Christophe Fel [Frère Jean] | Anne Constantin [Manuela] | Doris Lamprecht [Pepita] | Yann Beuron [Angelo] | Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse

    EMI 56123 (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette)
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Giovanna d"arco: Act I, scena & romanza (Giovanna). "Qui! Qui, dove più s'apre...O fatidica foresta" (Here! Here with the open sky...O prophetic forest)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    DG 0018735 (Verdi)

WETA Virtuoso

  • Béla Bartók

    Piano Concerto #3

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Hélène Grimaud (piano)

    DG B0003885 (BARTOK The Piano Concertos)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony #9 "From the New World"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Kurt Masur (conductor) | New York Philharmonic

    Teldec 9031.73244 (Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, Slavonic Dances)
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata (K. 20)

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

    DG 435.855 (Scarlatti: Sonatas)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 #2 "Moonlight"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Igor Levit (piano)

    Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas)
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony in C

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Decca 458.898 (Igor Stravinsky)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude #11 in F Major, BWV 880

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

    Warner Classics 511875 (Well-Tempered Clavier)
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra Broadcast

    Monday
    Oct 26

  • Dmitri Shostakovich

    Symphony #14 in G Minor, Op. 135

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Boston Symphony Orchestra | Andris Nelsons (conductor) | Kristine Opolais (soprano) | Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass)

    DG 486.0549 (Dmitri Shostakovich)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Prelude, Op. 3 #2 in C-Sharp Minor

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano, as recreated by Zenph Studios)

    RCA 748.971 (Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff)
  • Arthur Foote

    Legend for Violin and Piano, Op. 76

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Kevin Lawrence (violin) | Eric Larsen (piano)

    New World 80464 (The Violin Music of Arthur Foote)
  • Richard Strauss

    An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Dresden State Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

    EMI Classics 64350 (Richard Strauss)
  • Karol Szymanowski

    Mythe, Op. 30 #1. La Fontaine d'Aréthuse

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Antonio Pappano (piano) | Janine Jansen (violin)

    Decca 485.1605 (Janine Jansen: 12 Stradivari)
  • Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

    Oedipus Rex Prelude, Op. 29

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley (conductor)

    Chandos 8884 (Stanford)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet #12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Ariel Quartet

    Orchid Classics 100483 (Beethoven The Complete String Quartet Vol 3; Ariel Quartet)
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 6

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    DG 447.109
  • Thomas Dunhill

    Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 20

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Goldner String Quartet | Piers Lane (piano)

    Hyperion 68296 (D'Erlanger; Dunhill: Piano Quintet)
  • Benjamin Godard

    Suite de trois morceaux, Op. 116: III. Valse

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Richard Hickox (conductor) | City of London Sinfonia | Susan Milan (flute)

    Chandos 8840 (La Flute Enchantee)
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Romantic Pieces

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Gil Shaham (violin) | Orli Shaham (piano)

    DG 449.820 (Dvořák for Two)
  • Albert Roussel

    Symphony #1 in D Minor, Op. 7 "Poem of the Forest"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Charles Dutoit (conductor) | French National Orchestra

    Erato 88225 (Roussel)
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Boston Pops | John Williams (conductor)

    Philips 416.361 (Pops in Love)
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Sonata #4 in E Minor, Op. 70

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

    Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas)
  • Dora Pejačević

    Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op. 35

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Oliver Triendl (piano) | Christian Poltéra (cello)

    CPO 777.419 (Dora Pejacevic: Piano Trio; Cello Sonata)
  • Cyril Scott

    Notturno, Op. 54 #5

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Michael Landrum (piano)

    Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes)
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Violin Sonata #3 in B-flat Major, Op. 59

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Christina Åstrand (violin) | Per Salo (piano)

    Dacapo 226.066 (Sonatas for Violin and Piano)
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Piano Concerto

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Czech Philharmonic | Garrick Ohlsson (piano) | Libor Pesek (conductor)

    Supraphon 2047 (Scriabin: Piano Concerto; Poeme de l'extase; Reverie)
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski

    Nocturne, Op. 16 #4

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Jan Lisiecki (piano)

    DG 486.2069 (Night Music: Jan Lisiecki)
  • Philipp Heinrich Erlebach

    Overture #4

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Berlin Academy for Old Music

    Harmonia Mundi 90.1852 (Ouvertüren für die Hamburger Oper)
  • Richard Strauss

    Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 13

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Renaud Capuçon (violin) | Guillaume Bellom (piano) | Paul Zientara (violin) | Julia Hagen (cello)

    DG 4867082 (Richard Strauss: Renaud Capucon)
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Canto d'anime

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Kathryn Stott (piano) | Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)

    EMI 164712 (Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmaninov & Kreisler)
  • Lars-Erik Larsson

    Little Serenade for Strings, Op. 12

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Wojciech Rajski (conductor) | Musica Vitae

    BIS 460 (Sibelius)
  • Sergei Prokofiev

    Symphony #1 "Classical"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    London 410.200 (Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Selection, Symphony No. 1)
  • Johannes Brahms

    Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Lars Vogt (piano)

    Ondine 1346 (Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Handel Variations)
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Piece, Op. 68/4 "Evening in the Mountains"

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Philips 412.727 (Grieg: "Holberg" Suite - Sibelius: "Karelia" Suite)
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F Major, D. 803

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Philips 416.497 (Schubert: Octet)
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite pastorale: II. Danse villageoise

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) | Ulster Orchestra

    La Peri
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Violin Concerto #2

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Itzhak Perlman (violin) | Daniel Barenboim (conductor) | Paris Orchestra

    DG 410.526 (Saint-Saëns & Wieniawski: Violin Concertos)
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata #3 B Minor

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    DG 415.346 (Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Hymn-Tune Prelude No. 1. Eventide

    Monday
    Oct 26

    London Symphony Orchestra | Bryden Thomson (conductor)

    Chandos 8828 (Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 in D minor)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite #6 in D Major, BWV 1012

    Monday
    Oct 26

    Anner Bylsma (cello)

    Sony 48047 (Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10

    Monday
    Oct 26

    DG 486.0549 (Dmitri Shostakovich)