This playlist is a daily guide to music broadcast on WETA Classical and WETA VivaLaVoce. Scroll below to see what has played today and use the calendar feature to view previous days.
WETA Classical
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Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence #1
Richard Strauss
Thursday
Apr 25
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8834 (R. Strauss: Macbeth, etc.) -
Quintet for Piano and Winds
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 25
Alfred Brendel (piano) | Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Eduard Brunner (clarinet) | Hermann Baumann (horn) | Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
Philips 420.182 (Mozart & Beethoven: Quintets) -
Idomeneo: Final Ballet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 0006506 (Mozart: Symphones Nos. 40 & 41) -
American Suite
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 25
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Antal Dorati (conductor)
London 411.735 (Dvorák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 & 72, etc.) -
Oboe Concerto #1
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 25
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) | City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter (conductor)
American Gramaphone 590 (The Handel Collection) -
Piano Trio #2 in C Minor, Op. 66
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Apr 25
Klaviertrio Amsterdam
Brilliant Classics 94039 (Mendelssohn: Piano Trios) -
Symphonie Espagnole
Édouard Lalo
Thursday
Apr 25
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | French National Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
EMI 47318 (Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, etc.) -
Bassoon Concerto in C Major
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
Thursday
Apr 25
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) | Parnassi musici
CPO 777.383 (Neruda: Trio Sonatas) -
The Tsar's Bride: Overture
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Thursday
Apr 25
Seattle Symphony | Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
Naxos 572.788 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnole) -
Orchestral Suite #1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Ensemble Sonnerie | Monica Huggett (conductor)
Avie 2171 (Bach: Four Orchestral Suites) -
Noble and Sentimental Waltzes
Maurice Ravel
Thursday
Apr 25
Ulster Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Chandos 8756 (Debussy: Petite Suite, etc.) -
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Arion | Jaap ter Linden (conductor)
Early Music 7753 (Bach) -
Piano Trio, Op. 97 "Archduke"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 25
Beaux Arts Trio
Philips 412.891 (Beethoven: Piano Trios, "Archduke") -
Ballade #2 in F Major, Op. 38
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Apr 25
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 64399 (Chopin: 4 Ballades) -
Concerto, RV 434 in F Major (Op. 10/5)
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 25
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) | Australian Chamber Orchestra | Richard Tognetti (conductor)
EMI 47212 (Vivaldi: Flute Concertos) -
Piano Concerto #9
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
London 414.543 (Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 8, K246 & No. 9, K271) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #1 in G Major
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 25
Academy of Ancient Music | Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7228-29 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6) -
Euryanthe: Overture
Carl Maria von Weber
Thursday
Apr 25
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | Antoni Wit (conductor)
Naxos 570.296 (Weber: Overtures) -
Trio in B-flat Major
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen
Thursday
Apr 25
The Vivaldi Project
MSR 1624 (Discovering the Classical String Trio, Vol. 4) -
Symphony #4 "Italian"
Felix Mendelssohn
Thursday
Apr 25
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Georg Solti (conductor)
London 414.665 (Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4) -
Banquet Music, Part 1: Solo in B minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 25
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
At the Fountain, Op. 20 #2
Carl Davidoff
Thursday
Apr 25
Amit Peled (cello) | Eliza Ching (piano)
Centaur 3047 (Cellobration) -
Concerto in G Major, Seibel 214 (Venezia)
Johann David Heinichen
Thursday
Apr 25
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Symphony #7 "La Chasse"
John Marsh
Thursday
Apr 25
London Mozart Players | Matthias Bamert (conductor)
Chandos 10458 (Marsh: Symphonies) -
Keyboard Sonata (K. 17)
Domenico Scarlatti
Thursday
Apr 25
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano)
Naxos 554.842 (Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 7) -
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19: IV. Allegro mosso - Moderato - Vivace
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Thursday
Apr 25
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sony 46486 (Prokofiev & Rachmaninov: Sonatas for Cello and Piano) -
Sinfonia, H. 653 in E Minor
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.103 (CPE Bach: Berliner Sinfonien) -
Chi Passa
John Johnson
Thursday
Apr 25
Ronn McFarlane (lute) | William Simms (lute)
Sono Luminus 92155 (Two Lutes) -
Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Thursday
Apr 25
Vienna Philharmonic | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 474.5022 (German Overtures) -
Concerto After Scarlatti #9 in C Major
Charles Avison
Thursday
Apr 25
Café Zimmermann
Alpha 31 (Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts) -
Octet in F Major, D. 803: IV. Andante; Un poco più mosso; Più lento
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Apr 25
Modigliani String Quartet | Sabine Meyer (clarinet) | Bruno Schneider (horn) | Dag Jensen (bassoon) | Knut Erik Sundquist (double bass)
Mirare 438 (Schubert: Octet) -
Suite D Major: Bourree
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 25
English Concert | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 437.558 (Telemann: Suiten) -
Scherzo #1 in B minor, Op. 20
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Apr 25
Emanuel Ax (piano)
CBS 44544 (Chopin: Scherzos and Maurkas) -
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #1 in B-flat Major
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 25
Tafelmusik | Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
Sony 52553 (Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3) -
Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 10: I. Allegro moderato
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 25
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Libor Pesek (conductor)
Virgin 90797 (Dvorák: Symphony No. 3, Scherzo Capriccioso, Carnival Overture) -
12 Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte", Op. 66
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 25
David Hardy (cello) | Lambert Orkis (piano)
Dorian 90910 (Past & Present) -
La Poule
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Apr 25
Musicians of the Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 0004478 (Rameu: Une Symphonie Imaginaire) -
Joyous March
Emmanuel Chabrier
Thursday
Apr 25
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 412.131 (Debussy, Ravel, Dukas & Saint-Saëns: Various Works) -
Clarinet Concerto #2 in E-flat Major, op. 57: I. Allegro
Louis Spohr
Thursday
Apr 25
Jon Manasse (clarinet) | Seattle Symphony | Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7516 (Mozart & Spohr: Clarinet Concertos) -
Oboe Concerto in F Minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 25
Heinz Holliger (oboe) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.879 (Telemann: Concerti per Oboe) -
L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 25
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Africa Fantasy
Camille Saint-Saëns
Thursday
Apr 25
Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | André Previn (conductor)
EMI 49757 (Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 1, etc.) -
Symphony #40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Berlin Philharmonic | Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 447.416 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 - 41) -
Scheherazade, Op. 35
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Thursday
Apr 25
London Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
LPO 0117 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: R Strauss Symphonia Domestica; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade) -
Sinfonia, H. 665 in F Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.175 (CPE Bach: Vier Orchestersinfonien) -
Piano Sonata #3 in D Minor, Op. 49
Carl Maria von Weber
Thursday
Apr 25
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Arabesque 6584 (Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas) -
Violin Concerto #1
Max Bruch
Thursday
Apr 25
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Minnesota Orchestra | Edo de Waart (conductor)
EMI 49429 (Brahms & Bruch: Violin Concertos) -
Symphony #6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 25
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 49487 (Beethoven: 9 Symphonien) -
Swan Lake Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thursday
Apr 25
Scottish National Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
Chandos 8556 (Tchaikovsky: Music from Nutcracker, etc.) -
Symphony #29
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 423.374 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 39) -
Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 25
Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Emerson String Quartet
DG 483.6574 (The New York Concert) -
Concerto, BWV 1060 for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Continuo in C Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Julia Fischer (violin) | Andray Rubtsov (oboe) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Decca 0012490 (Bach: Concertos) -
Piano Concerto #1
Frédéric Chopin
Thursday
Apr 25
Martha Argerich (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 415.061 (Chopin & Liszt: Piano Concertos) -
Banquet Music, Part 3: Quartet in E Minor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Thursday
Apr 25
Musica Amphion | Pieter-Jan Belder (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 92177 (Telemann: Tafelmusik)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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L'italiana in Algeri: Act II, No. 12, Quintet. "Ti presento di mia man"
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 25
Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Mustafà] | Patrizia Pace [Elvira] | Anna Gonda [Zulma] | Alessandro Corbelli [Haly] | Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Lindoro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella] | Enzo Dara [Taddeo] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 427.331 (Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri) -
Ottone in villa: Act III
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 25
Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio] | Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Act II, Konstanze's aria. "Martern aller Arten" (Tortures of every kind)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Marina Rebeka (soprano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Speranza Scappucci (conductor)
Warner Classics 15497 (Mozart: Opera Arias) -
Cantata, BWV 169. Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (God alone shall have my heart)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 159 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 9) -
Stella Caeli
Walter Lambe
Thursday
Apr 25
New York Polyphony
Avie 2186 (Tudor City) -
La Juive: Act V
Fromental Halévy
Thursday
Apr 25
José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] | Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] | Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] | June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] | Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] | René Massis [Ruggiero] | Renè Schirrer [Albert] | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Antonio de Almeida (conductor)
Philips 420.190 (Halévy: La Juive) -
Messiah: Part 3
George Frideric Handel
Thursday
Apr 25
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) | Susan Gritton (soprano) | Bernarda Fink (alto) | Charles Daniels (tenor) | Neal Davies | Gabrieli Consort and Players | Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 453.464 (Handel: Messiah) -
Settings from "Hashirim asher lish'lomo" ("The Songs of Solomon"): Eftach na sefatai a7 (Let me open my lips, text by Matthew ben Isaac of Bologna)
Salamone Rossi
Thursday
Apr 25
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Requiem, Op. 5: IX. Sanctus
Hector Berlioz
Thursday
Apr 25
Ronald Dowd (tenor) | London Symphony Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Wandsworth Boys' Choir | Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Philips 416.283 (Berlioz: Requiem) -
Liederkreis, Op. 24
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Apr 25
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
The Perfected Life (An Amethyst Remembrance; Dear March; The Perfected Life) (Texts from poems of Emily Dickinson)
Lori Laitman
Thursday
Apr 25
Randall Scarlata (baritone) | Lori Laitman (piano)
Albany 1118 (Within These Spaces) -
Siete canciones populares españolas
Manuel de Falla
Thursday
Apr 25
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
Les Huguenots: Act I
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Thursday
Apr 25
Ghylaine Raphanel [Marguerite de Valois] | Françoise Pollet [Valentine] | Danielle Borst [Urbain] | Richard Leech (tenor) [Raoul de Nangis] | Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Le Comte de Nevers] | Boris Martinovic [Le Comte de Saint-Bris] | Nicola Ghiuselev [Marcel] | Jean-Luc Maurette [De Tavannes] | Christian Jean [De Cossé/Bois Roé/Un Moine] | Marc Barrard (baritone) [De Thoré] | Antoine Garcin [De Retz] | Herve Martin [De Meru/Un Moine/Un Archer] | Christian Boulay [Maurevert/Un Moine] | Chours de l'Opéra de Montpellier | Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier | Cyril Diederich (conductor)
Erato 2292.45027 (Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots) -
Rienzi: Rienzi's Prayer. "Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab" [Act V]
Richard Wagner
Thursday
Apr 25
René Kollo (tenor) [Rienzi] | Bayerisches Staatsorchester | Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
Orfeo 346.953 (Wagner: Rienzi) -
Cantata, BWV 1. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How brightly gleams the morniing star)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Malin Hartelius (soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 118 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 21) -
Concert aria. Fra cento affanni, K 88
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Sylvia Geszty (soprano) | Staatskapelle Dresden | Otmar Suitner (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Zoroastre (Tragédie en musique): Act V
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Apr 25
Mark Padmore (haute-contre) [Zoroastre, instituteur des Mages (Zoroaster, founder of the Magi)] | Nathan Berg (bass) [Abramane, Grand Prêtre d'Ariman (Abramane, High Priest of Ariman)] | Gaëlle Méchaly (soprano) [Amélite, héritière présomptive du trône de la Bactriane (presumptive heiress to the throne of Bactria)] | Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano) [Érinice, princesse du sang des rois de la Bactriane (princess of the blood of kings of Bactria)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [Zopire, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | François Bazola (bass) [Narbanor, prêtre d'Ariman (priest of Ariman)] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Oromasès. roi des Génies (king of the Genii)] | Stéphanie Révidat (soprano) [Céphie, jeune Bactrienne de la Cour d'Amélite (Bactrian girl of Amélite's court)] | Matthieu Lécroart (bass) [La Vengeance] | Éric Martin Bonnet (bass) [Ariman (voix souterraine)] | Les Arts Florissants [Jeunes Bactriens et Bactriennes | Furiest | Esprits des Éléments | Démons | Esprits infernaux | Troupes différentes de peuples | Montagnards | Prêtres] | William Christie (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Werther: Acts III & IV
Jules Massenet
Thursday
Apr 25
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] | London Symphony Orchestra | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 56820 (Massenet: Werther) -
Maometto Secondo: Act I, Scene 4
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 25
Samuel Ramey (bass) | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Claudio Scimione (conductor)
Philips 412.148 (Rossini: Maometto Secondo) -
La Chanson d'Ève (The Song of Eve)
Gabriel Fauré
Thursday
Apr 25
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Zigzag 90902 (Fauré: Le Jardin clos, La Chanson d'Ève, Mélodies) -
Symphony #4 in G Major: IV. Sehr behaglich
Gustav Mahler
Thursday
Apr 25
Edith Mathis (soprano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Recorded in Berlin, February 1979
DG 477.9260 (Mahler: The People's Choice) -
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957: #8-13. Heine-Lileder [poems by Heinrich Heine]
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Apr 25
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
Arabella: Act I, Duet "Ich danke, Fräulein.Aber der Richtige, wenn's einen gibt"
Richard Strauss
Thursday
Apr 25
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Felicity Lott (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Virgin 45705 (Amor) -
Lucia di Lammermoor: Recitative and aria. Ancor non giunse!...Regnava nel silenzio...Quando rapito in estasi (Still he has not come...At dead of night...When carried away by the ecstasy)
Gaetano Donizetti
Thursday
Apr 25
Nino Machaidze (soprano) [Lucia] | Milena Storti (mezzo-soprano) [Alisa] | Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)
Sony 41742 (Romantic Arias) -
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Credo (Symbolum Nicenum)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Judith Nelson | Jeffrey Dooley | Jan Opalach | The Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Nonesuch 79036 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Concert aria. Mia speranza adorata!...Ah, non sai, qual pena sia il doverti, K 416
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Sylvia Geszty (soprano) | Staatskapelle Dresden | Otmar Suitner (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Thésée: Act I, Conclusion
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Thursday
Apr 25
Howard Crook [Thésée] | Laura Pudwell [Medée] | Ellen Hargis [Æglé] | Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] | Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] | Mireille Lebel [Dorine | Venus | Une autre Bergere] | Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve | Minerve | Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] | Marc Molomot [Bachus | Un Vieillard | Un Berger] | Marek Rzepka [Mars | Un Combattant] | Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir] | Un Jeux] | Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir] | Un Jeux
CPO 777.240 (Lully: Thésée) -
Liederkreis, Op. 39
Robert Schumann
Thursday
Apr 25
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) | Daniel Blumenthal (piano)
Naïve 5159 (Schumann) -
Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Antonín Dvorák
Thursday
Apr 25
Dagmar Pecková (mezzo-soprano) | Janice Watson (soprano) | Peter Auty (tenor) | Peter Rose (bass) | London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
LPO 0062 (Dvorák: Stabat Mater) -
Roméo et Juliette
Charles Gounod
Thursday
Apr 25
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 | Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI 56123 (Gounod: Roméo et Juliette) -
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei in F Major, K 273
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday
Apr 25
Chamber Choir of Europe | Teatro Armonico, Stuttgart | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Mass in G Minor for Female Choir and Organ, Op. 187
Josef Rheinberger
Thursday
Apr 25
Gloriæ Dei Cantores | David Chalmers (organ) | Elizabeth C. Patterson (conductor)
Gloriae Dei Cantores 121 (Gabriel: Motets) -
Dardanus (Tragédie en musique): Act II
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Thursday
Apr 25
Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano) [Vénus] | Frederica von Stade (soprano) [Iphise, fille de Teucer (Iphise, daughter of Teucer)] | Georges Gautier (tenor) [Dardanus, fils d'Electra et Jupiter (Dardanus, son of Elektra and Jupiter)] | Michaël Devlin (Anténor, roi d'un pays voisin (Antenor, king of a neighboring country)] | Roger Soyer (bass-baritone) [Teucer, roi de Phrygie (Teucer, King of Phrygia)] | José van Dam (bass) [Isménor, un magicien] | Véronique Dietschy (soprano) [Une Phrygienne] | Hélène Garetti (soprano), Annick Dutertre (soprano), Monique Marandon (soprano), Jean-Philippe Courtis (bass) [Les Songes (Dreams)] | Chœurs du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris [Ministres, les grands, le peuple (Ministers, princes, and people)] | Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris | Raymond Leppard (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
Motet, BWV 227. Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Thursday
Apr 25
Sinfonia Voci | Bach Sinfonia | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 92119 (Bach: Motets) -
Stabat mater [after 1690]
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Thursday
Apr 25
The Bach Sinfonia | Sinfonia Voci | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 90913 (Passion and Lament) -
Farnace: Act III, Scenes 4-12
Antonio Vivaldi
Thursday
Apr 25
Max Emanuel Cencic [Farnace] | Ruxandra Donose [Tamiri] | Mary Ellen Nesi [Berenice] | Ann Hallenberg [Selinda] | Karina Gauvin [Gilade] | Daniel Behle [Pompeo] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Aquilio] | Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano | I Barocchisti | Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Virgin 70914 (Vivaldi: Farnace) -
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #14. Chorus with Trio. "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes" (The Heavens are Telling)
Joseph Haydn
Thursday
Apr 25
Sylvia McNair [Gabriel] | Michael Schade [Uriel] | Gerard Finley (bass) [Raphael] | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 449.217 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Fidelio: "Gott! welch Dunkel hier!"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Apr 25
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Decca 0014132 (Mozart: Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner) -
Rienzi: Act I Finale
Richard Wagner
Thursday
Apr 25
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 | Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
Orfeo 346.953 (Wagner: Rienzi) -
Lieder und Gesänge (Songs and Airs): Volume III
Gustav Mahler
Thursday
Apr 25
Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano) | Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) & Irwin Gage (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Daniel Barenboim (piano) | Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
EMI 08985 (Mahler: The Complete Works) -
Schwanengesang, D 957: #7. Abschied
Franz Schubert
Thursday
Apr 25
Matthias Goerne (baritone) | Alfred Brendel (piano)
Decca 475.6011 (Beethoven & Schubert) -
Guglielmo Tell: Act II, Terzetto. "Allor che scorre de' forti il sangue"
Gioachino Rossini
Thursday
Apr 25
Giorgio Zancanaro [Guglielmo] | Chris Merritt [Arnoldo] | Giorgio Surian [Gualtiero] | Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 422.391 (Rossini: Guglielmo Tell) -
Madama Butterfly: Aria. "Un bel dì vedremo"
Giacomo Puccini
Thursday
Apr 25
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration)