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WETA Classical

  • Two Salon Pieces, Op. 12

    Antonio Bazzini

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Chloe Hanslip (violin) | Caspar Frantz (piano)

    Naxos 570.800 (Bazzini: Works for Violin and Piano)
  • Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Joshua Bell (violin) | Paul Coker (piano)

    Decca 0002783 (The Romantic Violin)
  • Monteverdiana

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    Delos 3205 (For Thy Pleasure)
  • Impromptu, Op. 36

    Frédéric Chopin

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Murray Perahia (piano)

    CBS 39708 (Chopin: Impromptus)
  • String Quintet, K. 515

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Berg Quartet | Markus Wolf (viola)

    EMI 49085 (Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & K. 516)
  • Holberg Suite

    Edvard Grieg

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    DG 400.034 (Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusic - Prokofiev: Symphonie Classique - Grieg: Holberg Suite)
  • Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #4 in F Major

    George Frideric Handel

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Linde Consort | Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)

    EMI 63427 (Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3)
  • String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. Posth.

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Melos Quartet

    DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets)
  • Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 "Rhenish"

    Robert Schumann

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Philharmonia Orchestra | Christian Thielemann (conductor)

    DG 459.680 (Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" etc.)
  • Symphony #3 (Divertimento) in G Major

    Michael Haydn

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Slovak Chamber Orchestra | Bohdan Warchal (conductor)

    CPO 999.101 (Michael Haydn: Symphonies 1 - 3)
  • Cello Concerto #1 in A Minor

    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Gautier Capuçon (cello) | French Radio Philharmonic | Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

    Erato 34134 (Saint-Saëns: La muse et le poète)
  • Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Beethoven Orchestra, Bonn | Stefan Blunier (conductor)

    MDG 937.1995 (Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, No. 7)
  • Vocalise, Op. 34 #14

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

    EMI 79019 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, etc)
  • Piano Concerto #21

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Alfred Brendel (piano) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner (conductor)

    Philips 412.856 (Mozart: The Piano Concertos)
  • Symphony #2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 "Antar"

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies)
  • Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F Major, BWV 1046

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Ensemble Caprice | Matthias Maute (conductor)

    Analekta 299967 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos)
  • Double Concerto

    Johannes Brahms

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) | Antonio Meneses (cello) | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    DG 410.603 (Brahms: Double Concerto, Tragic Overture)
  • Concerto, RV 580

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    I Musici

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

WETA VivaLaVoce

  • Messa di Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi

    Gioachino Rossini

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Michele Mariotti (conductor)

    Decca 0014875 (Panis angelicus)
  • Gloria in D Major, RV 589

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Emily Van Evera (soprano) | Nancy Argenta (soprano) | Alison Place (mezzo-soprano) | Catherine King (mezzo-soprano) | Margaret Cable (contralto) | Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)

    Virgin 59326 (Bach: Magnificat)
  • Cantata, BWV 41. Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Jesus, now be praised)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Ruth Holton (soprano) | Charles Humphries (alto) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Peter Harvey (bass) | The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    SDG 150 (Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 17)
  • Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia

    Jake Heggie

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Jake Heggie (piano)

    Avie 2198 (Passing By)
  • Zwölf Gedichte (12 Poems), Op. 37 from Rückert's "Liebesfrühling" (selections)

    Robert Schumann

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Edith Mathis (soprano) | Julia Varady (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

    DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)
  • Fierrabras: Act III, Chorus. "Bald tönet der Reigen"

    Franz Schubert

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Karita Mattila (soprano) [Emma] | Arnold Schoenberg Choir | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    DG 427.341 (Schubert: Fierrabras)
  • Ein deutsches Requiem: 3. Herr, lehre doch mich

    Johannes Brahms

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer

    EMI 56218 (Brahms: A German Requiem)
  • Zaide

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Lynn Dawson [Zaide] | Hans Peter Blochwitz [Gomatz] | Olaf Bär [Allazim] | Herbert Lippert [Sultan Soliman] | Christopher Purves [Osmin] | The Academy of Ancient Music | Paul Goodwin (conductor)

    Harmonia Mundi 90.7205 (Mozart: Zaide)
  • Tamerlano: Act II, Aria. "Cerco in vano di placare"

    George Frideric Handel

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Michael Chance (alto) [Andronicus] | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    Erato 88220 (Handel: Tamerlano)
  • Rückert-Lieder: #4. "Um Mitternacht" (At midnight)

    Gustav Mahler

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Violetta Urmana (soprano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    DG 0003894 (Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)
  • Les Indes galantes (Opéra-ballet) [The Gallant Indies]: IV. Quatrième Entrée. Les Sauvages [The Savages]

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    John Elwes (tenor) [Adario] | Louis Devos (tenor) [Damon] | Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Zima] | Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) [Don Alvar] | Ensemble vocal À Cœur Joie de Valence | Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, Valence | Jean-François Paillard (conductor)

    Erato 636487 (The Opera Collection, Rameau)
  • Nabucco: Part II. L'Empio (The Impious One)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Tito Gobbi [Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), King of Babylon] | Bruno Prevedi [Ismaele] | Carlo Cava [Zaccaria] | Elena Souliotis [Abigaille] | Dora Carral [Fenena] | Giovanni Foiani [The High Priest of Baal] | Walter Kräutler [Abdallo] | Anna d'Auria [Anna] | Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus [Babylonian & Hebrew warriors, Levites, soothsayers, Hebrew virgins, Babylonian women, high lords of the kingdom of Babylon, populace] | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)

    Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works)
  • Demofoonte: Aria. Misero pargoletto (Poor child)

    Antonio Caldara

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Concerto Köln | Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord/conductor)

    Virgin 41927 (Caldara in Vienna)
  • Ottone in villa: Act II, Scenes 1-5

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    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)
  • Werther: Aria. "Werther, Werther! Qui m'aurait dit la place" ("Werther, Werther! Who could have foretold the place")

    Jules Massenet

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) [Charlotte] | Orchestre National de France | Fabien Gabel (conductor)

    Naïve 5201 (Ne me refuse pas)
  • Ein deutsches Requiem: 2. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras

    Johannes Brahms

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

    Erato 4509.92856 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem)
  • La gioconda: "O monumento!"

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Bryn Terfel [Barnaba] | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Paul Daniel (conductor)

    DG 0014107 (Bad Boys)
  • Fünf Lieder (5 Songs), Op. 40

    Robert Schumann

    Sunday
    Apr 28

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

    DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder)