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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Sextet in C Minor, Op. 40
Louise Farrenc
Sunday
Jun 2
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Flute Sonata #276 in C Minor, QV 1:18
Johann Joachim Quantz
Sunday
Jun 2
Verena Fischer (transverse flute) | Klaus-Dieter Brandt (baroque cello) | Léon Berben (harpsichord)
Naxos 557.805 (Quantz: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272 - 277) -
Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Jest from Vienna)
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London 421.525 (Schumann: Carnaval, etc.) -
Sinfonia, H. 650 in F Major
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.103 (CPE Bach: Berliner Sinfonien) -
Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65
Frédéric Chopin
Sunday
Jun 2
Maria João Pires (piano) | Pavel Gomziakov (cello)
DG 477.7483 (Frederic Chopin) -
Trio Sonata, Op. 2 #1 in B Minor
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jun 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Philips 412.595 (Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2) -
The Marriage Contract: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
Jun 2
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 415.363 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Concert Piece #1 in F Minor, Op. 113
Felix Mendelssohn
Sunday
Jun 2
Pierce-Aomori Duo | Daniel Barrett (cello)
MSR Classics 1382 (Pierce-Aomori Duo) -
Symphony #6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jun 2
Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor)
Analekta 9831 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6) -
Suite D Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sunday
Jun 2
Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig | Max Pommer (conductor)
Capriccio 10.055 (Trompetenkonzerte des Barock) -
Slavic March
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sunday
Jun 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 61394 (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky & Borodin) -
Water Music Suite #2 & 3
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jun 2
English Concert | Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
Archiv 410.525 (Händel: Wassermusik) -
Piano Quintet A Major (Op. 81)
Antonín Dvorák
Sunday
Jun 2
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) | Borodin Quartet
Philips 412.429 (Dvorák: Piano Quintets) -
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sunday
Jun 2
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Telarc 80080 (Pachelbel: Kanon - Tchaikovsky: Serenade) -
Symphony in D Major
King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Sunday
Jun 2
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen (conductor)
Capriccio 10.064 (Friedrich Jr.: Flötenkonzerte & Sinfonien) -
Tannhauser: Overture
Richard Wagner
Sunday
Jun 2
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam | Edo de Waart (conductor)
Philips 400.089 (Wagner: Overtures) -
Symphony #102
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
Jun 2
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 429.218 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 78 & 102) -
Sonata, BWV 1033 for Flute and Continuo in C Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Luc Urbain (flute) | Joel Pontet (harpsichord) | Etienne Peclard (cello)
Calliope 9624 (Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord) -
Symphony #41 "Jupiter"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jun 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 47465 (Mozart: Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter") -
Festive Overture
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sunday
Jun 2
Russian National Orchestra | Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 439.892 (Russian Overtures) -
Oboe Concerto on Themes of Cimarosa
Arthur Benjamin
Sunday
Jun 2
Brynjar Hoff (oboe) | English Chamber Orchestra | Ian Watson (conductor)
Libra 1002 (Oboe Concertos Vol. 2) -
Sadko, Musical Picture, Op. 5
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sunday
Jun 2
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra | Kees Bakels (conductor)
BIS 1387 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole, Piano Concerto) -
Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jun 2
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Bernhard Forck (concertmaster)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2420 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2) -
Concerto for Lute and Flute in B-flat Major, SC 6
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Sunday
Jun 2
Richard Stone (lute) | Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Les Amazones: Overture
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Sunday
Jun 2
Les Siècles | François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2421 (Beethoven Symphony no. 3 'Eroica') -
Symphony #5 "Reformation"
Felix Mendelssohn
Sunday
Jun 2
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Kurt Masur (conductor)
Teldec 2292.44933 (Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonien No. 1 & 5) -
Concerto, RV 94
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jun 2
Il Giardino Armonico
Teldec 4509.91852 (Vivaldi: Famosi Concerti da Camera) -
Piano Concerto #4 in G Minor, Op. 40
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sunday
Jun 2
Daniil Trifonov (piano) | Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
DG 483.5335 (Daniil Trifonov: Destination Rachmaninov: Departure) -
Symphony, G. 518 in A Major (Op. 37 #4)
Luigi Boccherini
Sunday
Jun 2
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8414-15 (Boccherini: Seven Symphonies) -
Sleeping Beauty Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sunday
Jun 2
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 47075 (Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty) -
Symphony #96 "Miracle"
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
Jun 2
Philharmonia Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
RCA 68424 (Haydn: The London Symphonies) -
Orchestral Suite #1 in C Major, BWV 1066
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 415.671 (Bach: 4 Suites BWV 1066-1069) -
"Village Swallows of Austria" Waltz
Josef Strauss
Sunday
Jun 2
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Sony 88875.03791 (New Year's Concert 2015) -
Canon and Gigue
Johann Pachelbel
Sunday
Jun 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 416.386 (Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Pachelbel: Canon) -
Fantaisie
Georges Hüe
Sunday
Jun 2
Mathieu Dufour (flute) | Kuang-Hao Huang (piano)
Cedille 90000.121 (Fantaisie) -
Symphony #35 "Haffner"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jun 2
Orchestra of the 18th Century | Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Philips 416.490 (Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31 & 35) -
Piano Concerto #1
Johannes Brahms
Sunday
Jun 2
Krystian Zimerman (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
DG 0006203 (Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Concerto for 2 Trumpets and 2 Violins in E-flat Major, Op. 6 #15
Johann Valentin Rathgeber
Sunday
Jun 2
Hannes Läubin (trumpet) | Bernhard Läubin (trumpet) | English Chamber Orchestra | Simon Preston (conductor)
DG 431.817 (Trumpet Concertos) -
Semiramide: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
Jun 2
Prague Sinfonia Orchestra | Christian Benda (conductor)
Naxos 570.933 (Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol. 1) -
Concerto, RV 532
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jun 2
Angel Romero (guitar) | Lito Romero (guitar) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
RCA 68291 (Vivaldi: Concertos) -
Triple Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jun 2
Pinchas Zukerman (violin) | Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) | John Browning (piano) | London Symphony Orchestra | Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
RCA 68964 (Brahms: "Double" Concerto - Beethoven: "Triple" Concerto) -
Meistersinger: Prelude to Act I
Richard Wagner
Sunday
Jun 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 411.951 (Wagner: Overtures, Prelude & Liebestod) -
Quintet in F Major, Op. 81: II. Scherzo. Energico
George Onslow
Sunday
Jun 2
Les Vents Français
Warner Classics 52856 (Romantique) -
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude & Fugue #5 D Major
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Till Fellner (piano)
ECM 0002285 (Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch 1) -
Piano Concerto #1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sunday
Jun 2
Andrei Gavrilov (piano) | Berlin Philharmonic | Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
EMI 49632 (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3) -
Alessandro severo: Sinfonia
Antonio Lotti
Sunday
Jun 2
Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 520955 (Contralto) -
Piano Trio #2 in E-flat Major, D 929
Franz Schubert
Sunday
Jun 2
Klaviertrio Amsterdam
Brilliant Classics 93798 (Schubert: Piano Trios) -
Overture #2 in D Major
Johann Christian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 417.148 (J.C. Bach: Six Favourite Overtures) -
Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius
Sunday
Jun 2
Gil Shaham (violin) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 437.540 (Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto) -
L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
Jun 2
National Philharmonic of London | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 400.049 (Rossini: 7 Overtures) -
Nonet in E-flat Major, Op. 38
Louise Farrenc
Sunday
Jun 2
Chamber Musicians of the Louvre
Naïve 5033 (Louise Farrenc: Chamber Music) -
Concerto, RV 433 "The Storm at Sea"
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jun 2
Cologne Concert
Capriccio 10.304 (Vivaldi: Concerti "La Tempesta di Mare" & "La Notte") -
Violin Concerto in D Major
Franz Clement
Sunday
Jun 2
Rachel Barton Pine (violin) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | José Serebrier (conductor)
Cedille 90000.106 (Beethoven & Clement: Violin Concertos) -
Piano Quartet #1 in G Minor, K 478
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jun 2
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) | Matthew Truscott (violin) | Joel Hunter (viola) | Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Sony Mozart Momentum (Mozart Momentum) -
Concerto in G Major, Seibel 214 (Venezia)
Johann David Heinichen
Sunday
Jun 2
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Symphony #5
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jun 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 413.932 (Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 "Pastoral") -
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7
Clara Wieck Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Holly Mathieson (conductor)
Decca 485.0020 (Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann) -
Concerto for 2 Horns E-flat Major
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sunday
Jun 2
Hermann Baumann (horn) | Timothy Brown (horn) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 412.226 (Telemann: Horn Concertos) -
Symphony #4 in D Minor, Op. 120
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 469.700 (Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4) -
Symphony #1 in G Major
Carl Friedrich Abel
Sunday
Jun 2
Cantilena | Adrian Shepherd (conductor)
Chandos 8648 (Abel: Six Symphonies)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Sunday
Jun 2
René Kollo (tenor) [Max] | Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Agathe] | Peter Meven [Kaspar] | Helen Donath [Ännchen] | Hermann Sapell [Kilian] | Raimund Grumbach [Kuno] | Kurt Moll [Eremit] | Wolfgang Brendel [Ottokar] | Rolf Boysen [Samiel] | Irmgard Lampert [Brautjungfern 1] | Adelheid Schiller [Brautjungfern 2] | Erika Rüggeberg [Demoiselle d'honneur 1] | Renate Freyer [Demoiselle d'honneur 2] | Theodor Nicolai [Ein Jäger] | Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
London 417.119 (Weber: Der Freischütz) -
Stabat Mater: VIII. "Fac, ut portem Christi mortem"
Antonín Dvorák
Sunday
Jun 2
Christine Goerke (soprano) | Stanford Olsen (tenor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Robert Shaw (conductor)
Telarc 80506 (Dvorák: Stabat Mater) -
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: IV. Sanctus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sunday
Jun 2
Lucia Popp | Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) | Mallory Walker (tenor) | Gwynne Howell | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 455.014 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Mass in C) -
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part II
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
Jun 2
Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel] | Keith Jameson (tenor) [Uriel] | Kevin Deas (baritone) [Raphael]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Dardanus: Prologue
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sunday
Jun 2
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] | Véronique Gens [Iphise] | Laurent Naouri [Anténor] | Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] | Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] | Russell Smythe [Teucer] | Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] | Françoise Masset [L'Amour] | Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] | Alain Lombard (conductor) [Seconde Songe] | Marcos Pujol [Troisième Songe] | Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] | Françoise Masset [Seconde Phrygienne] | Chour des Musiciens du Louvre | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 463.476 (Rameau: Dardanus) -
Khovanshchina: Act V
Modest Mussorgsky
Sunday
Jun 2
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) | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina) -
O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst [Ferdinand Freiligrath]
Franz Liszt
Sunday
Jun 2
Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto) | Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
3 Songs. L'Île heureuse (The happy isle); Chanson pour Jeanne (Song for Jeanne); Les Cigales (The Cicadas)
Emmanuel Chabrier
Sunday
Jun 2
Stéphane Degout (baritone) | Hélène Lucas (piano)
Naïve 5209 (Mélodies) -
La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus): Aria. Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (If ever you feel a soft breath)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Sunday
Jun 2
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) [Sextus] | Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Kazushi Ono (conductor)
Virgin 41986 (Diva Divo) -
Cantata, BWV 61. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Joanne Lunn (soprano) | Jan Kobow (tenor) | Dietrich Henschel (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 162 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 13) -
Guillaume Tell: Act IV, Aria. Asile héréditaire (Home of my forefathers)
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
Jun 2
John Osborn [Arnold] | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 28826 (Rossini: William Tell) -
Spanisches Liederspiel (Spanish operetta), Op. 74 (selections) after Spanish poets
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Peter Schreier (tenor) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Ariodante: Act II
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jun 2
Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] | Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] | Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] | Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] | Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] | Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] | Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani [Odoardo] | Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin 70844 (Handel: Ariodante) -
La Rondine: Act II
Giacomo Puccini
Sunday
Jun 2
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] | London Symphony Orchestra | Lorin Maazel (conductor)
CBS 37852 (Puccini: La Rondine) -
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Sunday
Jun 2
The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge | Lynda Russell (soprano) | Patrizia Kwella (soprano) | Anne Wilkens (mezzo-soprano) | Kenneth Bowen (tenor) | The Wren Orchestra | Geoge Guest (conductor)
Argo 410.018 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Die Schöpfung (The Creation): Part I, Gabriel's recitative and aria. "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe die Erde Gras hervor...Nun beut die Flur das frische Grun" (And God said: Let the earth bring forth grass..With verdure clad the fields appear)
Joseph Haydn
Sunday
Jun 2
Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman (conductor) | Amanda Forsythe (soprano) [Gabriel]
Linn 401 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Tannhäuser: Act II Scenes 1-2
Richard Wagner
Sunday
Jun 2
Matti Salminen (bass) [Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen] | Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Tannhäuser] | Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Wolfram von Eschenbach] | William Pell [Walther von der Vogelweide] | Kurt Rydl [Biterolf] | Clemens Bieber [Heinrich der Schreiber] | Oskar Hillebrandt [Reinmar von Zweter] | Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elisabeth] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Venus] | Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Ein Junger Hirt] | Margaret Stobart [Erster Edelknabe] | Jeanette Wilson [Zweiter Edelknabe] | Ingrid Baier [Dritter Edelknabe] | Karen Shelby [Vierter Edelknabe] | Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [Thüringische Ritter, Grafen und Edelleute | Edelfrauen | Ältere und jungere Pilger] | Philharmonia Orchestra | Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
DG 427.625 (Wagner: Tannhäuser) -
Roland: Act I
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Sunday
Jun 2
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] | Les Talens Lyriques
Amboise 9949 (Lully: Roland) -
Coquetterie posthume
Claude Debussy
Sunday
Jun 2
Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Philippe Cassard (piano)
Virgin 750769 (Clair de Lune) -
3 Lieder, Op. 46
Charles Tournemire
Sunday
Jun 2
Michael Bundy (baritone) | Helen Crayford (piano)
Naxos 572.347 (Tournemire, Sagesse, Poème) -
Responsory. Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria
John Sheppard
Sunday
Jun 2
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7509 (Sheppard: Media vita) -
Cantata, BWV 60. O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Eternity, O word of thunder)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Robin Tyson (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 171 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 12) -
Miserere: Aria. Cor mundum
Johann Christian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2098 (Bach: Missa da Requiem) -
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 57
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Missa solemnis
Franz Liszt
Sunday
Jun 2
Mária Werner (soprano) | Olga Szönyi (contralto) | Alfonz Bartha (tenor) | András Faragó (bass) | Budapest Chorus | Sándor Margittay (organ) | Hungarian State Orchestra | János Ferencsik (conductor)
DG 477.9525 (Liszt: The Collection) -
Khovanshchina: Act II
Modest Mussorgsky
Sunday
Jun 2
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) | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus | Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bratislava | Vienna Boys Choir | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 429.758 (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina) -
Tosca: Act I, Opening
Giacomo Puccini
Sunday
Jun 2
Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Floria Tosca] | José Carreras (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] | Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Cesare Angelotti] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Spoletta] | Fernando Corena [Un sagrestano] | Victor von Halem (baritone) [Sciarrone] | Victor von Halem (baritone) [Un carceriere] | Wolfgang Bünten (tenor) [Un pastore] | Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin | Schöneberger Sängerknaben | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 413.815 (Puccini: Turandot) -
Motet. Exsurge Domine
William Byrd
Sunday
Jun 2
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi 80.7463 (Heavenly Harmonies) -
Rigoletto: Recitative and aria. "Gualtier Maldè...Caro nome"
Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday
Jun 2
Joan Sutherland (soprano) | Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)
London 414.450 (The Art of the Prima Donna) -
Great Mass in C Minor, K 427
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sunday
Jun 2
Valentina Farcas (soprano) | Annemarie Kremer (soprano) | Daniel Sans (tenor) | Christof Fischesser (bass) | Jens Wollenschlager (organ) | Camerata Würzburg | Chamber Choir of Europe | Nicol Matt (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
L'Orfeo: Act III
Claudio Monteverdi
Sunday
Jun 2
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori | The English Baroque Soloists | His Majestie's Sagbutts & Cornetts | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo) -
Romanzen und Balladen (Romances and Ballads), Op. 49
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Tamerlano: Act II, Conclusion (Scenes 8-10)
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jun 2
Derek Ragin [Tamerlan] | Nigel Robson [Bajazet] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Asteria] | Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] | Jane Findlay [Irène] | Renè Schirrer [Léon] | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Erato 88220 (Handel: Tamerlano) -
Magnificat à 4
John Taverner
Sunday
Jun 2
New York Polyphony
Avie 2186 (Tudor City) -
Italienisches Liederbuch
Hugo Wolf
Sunday
Jun 2
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Michaela Selinger (mezzo-soprano) | Georg Beckmann (piano)
Bridge 9378 (Wolf: The Spanish & Italian Songbooks) -
Götterdämmerung
Richard Wagner
Sunday
Jun 2
Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] | Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] | Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] | Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Hagen] | Claire Watson [Gutrune] | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Gunther] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute] | Lucia Popp [Woglinde] | Della Jones [Wellgunde] | Maureen Guy [Flosshilde] | Helen Watts (alto) [Erste Norn] | Grace Hoffman [Zweite Norn] | Anita Välkki [Dritte Norn] | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 414.115 (Wagner: Götterdämmerung) -
Partenope: Act I, Aria. "Io seguo sol fiero"
George Frideric Handel
Sunday
Jun 2
Hilary Summers (alto) [Rosmira] | Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Chandos 0719 (Handel: Partenope) -
Three Mad Songs. "Restless in Thought disturb'd in Mind"; "Love's but the frailty of the Mind"; "I Burn, I burn, my Brain consumes to Ashes"
John Eccles
Sunday
Jun 2
Lucy Crowe (soprano) | Claire Booth (soprano) | Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) | Early Opera Company | Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Chandos 0759 (Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, etc.) -
Platée (Comédie lyrique): Act II
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sunday
Jun 2
Gilles Ragon (tenor) [Platée (Plataea)] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [La Folie (Folly) | Thalie (Thalia)] | Guy de Mey (tenor) [Thespis | Mercure] | Vincent Le Texier (bass-baritone) [Jupiter | Un Satire (A Satyr)] | Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano) [Junon (Juno)] | Bernard Delétré (bass) [Cithéron | Momus (in Prologue)] | Véronique Gens (soprano) [L'Amour (Cupid) | Clarine] | Michel Vershaeve (baritone) [Momus (in Acts II & III)] | Caroline de Corbiac (soprano), Myriam Sosson (soprano) [Deux Ménades (Two Maenads) | Ensemble Vocal Françoise Herr | Les musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau) -
La bohème: Act IV
Giacomo Puccini
Sunday
Jun 2
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Rodolfo] | Rolando Panerai (baritone) [Marcello] | Gianni Maffeo (baritone) [Schaunard] | Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Colline] | Mirella Freni (soprano) [Mimì] | Elizabeth Harwood (soprano) [Musetta] | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
London 421.049 (Puccini: La Bohème) -
La clemenza di Tito: Aria. Se mai senti spirarti sul volto (If ever you feel a soft breath)
Antonio Caldara
Sunday
Jun 2
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Concerto Köln | Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord/conductor)
Virgin 41927 (Caldara in Vienna) -
L'Orfeo: Act II
Claudio Monteverdi
Sunday
Jun 2
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Orfeo] | Julianne Baird [Euridice] | Lynne Dawson (soprano) [La Musica] | Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Messaggiera] | Nancy Argenta (soprano) [Ninfa] | Mary Nichols [Speranza] | John Tomlinson [Caronte/Sprito III] | Diana Montague (alto) [Proserpina] | Willard White [Plutone] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Pastore I/Eco] | Nigel Robson [Pastore II/Apollo] | Michael Chance (alto) [Pastore III] | Simon Birchall (bass) [Pastore IV] | Howard Milner [Spirito I] | Nicolas Robertson [Spirito II] | The Monteverdi Choir [Coro di ninfe e pastori | The English Baroque Soloists | His Majestie's Sagbutts & Cornetts | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo) -
Mefistofele: Aria. "L'altra notte in fondo al mare"
Arrigo Boito
Sunday
Jun 2
Mirella Freni (soprano) | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliviero de Fabritiis (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration) -
Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Jake Heggie
Sunday
Jun 2
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)
Avie 2198 (Passing By) -
Missa pro defunctis: Kyrie
Antoine Brumel
Sunday
Jun 2
New York Polyphony
BIS 1949 (EndBeginning) -
Motet, BWV 225. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing to the Lord a new song)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sunday
Jun 2
Sinfonia Voci | Bach Sinfonia | Daniel Abraham (conductor)
Dorian 92119 (Bach: Motets) -
Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart (Poems of Queen Mary Stuart), Op. 135
Robert Schumann
Sunday
Jun 2
Régine Crespin (soprano) | John Wustman (piano)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Guglielmo Tell: Aria. "S'allontanano alfine.Selva opaca"
Gioachino Rossini
Sunday
Jun 2
Mirella Freni (soprano) | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 0004244 (A Celebration)