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WETA Classical
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto #3
Wednesday
Jan 29
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) | New York Philharmonic | Gil Shaham (violin)
DG 429.786 (Paganini & Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata #18 in E-flat Major, Op. 31 #3 "The Hunt"
Wednesday
Jan 29
Igor Levit (piano)
Sony 584318 (Igor Levit: Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas) -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite #1
Wednesday
Jan 29
Ton Koopman (conductor) | Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Erato 4509.91716 (Handel: Water Music) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
London 411.657 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #21
Wednesday
Jan 29
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.954 (Mozart: The Late Symphonies, 21-41) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar Saltan Suite
Wednesday
Jan 29
Neeme Järvi (conductor) | Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos 8327/8/9 (Rimsky-Korsakov: Suites) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #84 in E-flat Major
Wednesday
Jan 29
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 34 #1
Wednesday
Jan 29
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.1927 (Chopin Valses) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata #42: Sinfonia
Wednesday
Jan 29
Roy Goodman (conductor) | Brandenburg Consort
Hyperion 22002 (Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Wednesday
Jan 29
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Philips 412.552 (Tchaikovsky: 1812 - Borodin: Polovstian Dances) -
Arthur Foote
Piano Quartet
Wednesday
Jan 29
James Barbagallo (piano) | Da Vinci Quartet
Naxos 559.014 (Foote: Chamber Music Vol. 2) -
František Xaver Dušek
Sinfonia, S 171 in B-flat Major (Altner Bb3): I. Allegro e vivo
Wednesday
Jan 29
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra | Aapo Häkkinen (conductor)
Naxos 572.683 (Dussek: Four Symphonies) -
Léo Delibes
Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus
Wednesday
Jan 29
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
SFS Media 60 (Masterpieces in Miniature) -
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Sinfonia in G Minor, FWV M:g1
Wednesday
Jan 29
Tempesta di Mare
Chandos 0783 (Fasch: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2) -
Johann Baptist Cramer
Piano Concerto #3 in D Major, Op. 26: III. Rondo. Scherzando; Allegro
Wednesday
Jan 29
Howard Shelley (conductor) | London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley (piano)
Hyperion 68302 (The Classical Piano Concerto: Johann Baptist Cramer) -
Carl Stamitz
Octet #3 in B-flat Major
Wednesday
Jan 29
Consortium Classicum
CPO 999.081 (Stamitz: Wind Symphonies) -
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Symphony #1 in G Minor: IV. Finale. Allegro moderato
Wednesday
Jan 29
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
Naxos 553.417 (Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Roses from the South, Op. 388 (Waltz)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) | London Philharmonic
EMI 54089 (J. Strauss II: Waltzes & Overtures) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto #24: I. Allegro
Wednesday
Jan 29
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Orli Shaham (piano) | David Robertson (conductor)
Canary Classics 18 (Mozart Piano Concertos 17 & 24) -
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony #9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": I. Adagio; Allegro molto
Wednesday
Jan 29
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) | National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 0001 (Dvorak Symphony No. 9, Copland Billy the Kid; Noseda/NSO) -
Saverio Mercadante
Flute Concerto #1 in E Major, Op. 49: III. Polacca brillante
Wednesday
Jan 29
Patrick Gallois (flute) | Sinfonia Finlandia, Jyväskylä | Patrick Gallois (conductor)
Naxos 572.731 (Mercadante: Flute Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata #147)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 47027 (The Academy - By Request) -
Florence Price
String Quartet #2 in A Minor: IV. Finale. Allegro
Wednesday
Jan 29
Catalyst Quartet
Azica Records 71346 (Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 1: Trio in E-flat Major: IV. Allegro
Wednesday
Jan 29
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Henry Litolff
Concerto symphonique #4: II
Wednesday
Jan 29
Andrew Litton (conductor) | Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Peter Donohoe (piano)
Hyperion 66889 (Litolff: Concertos Symphoniques Nos. 2 & 4) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto a due cori #3 in F Major
Wednesday
Jan 29
English Baroque Soloists | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Philips 411.122 (Händel: Music for the Royal Fireworks) -
Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
Wednesday
Jan 29
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
CBS 44657 (Wagner: Highlights from "the Ring") -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 485
Wednesday
Jan 29
I Musici | Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
Philips 416.355 (Vivaldi: 6 Bassoon Concertos) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Wednesday
Jan 29
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Gerard Schwarz (conductor) | New York Chamber Symphony
EMI 49276 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Saint-Saëns) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in B Minor, RV 424
Wednesday
Jan 29
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) | George Kallweit (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2095 (Vivaldi: Cello Concertos) -
Louis Spohr
Concertante #2
Wednesday
Jan 29
English Chamber Orchestra | Heinz Holliger (conductor) | Ursula Holliger (harp) | Christoph Poppen (violin)
Novalis 150.023 (Spohr & Mozart: Harfenkonzerte) -
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2
Wednesday
Jan 29
Rotterdam Philharmonic | Yannick Nézét-Séguin (conductor)
EMI 66342 (Ravel: Ballet and Dance Music) -
Mischa Levitzki
Valse, Op. 2
Wednesday
Jan 29
Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Steinway & Sons 30017 (Grand Romance) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite #4
Wednesday
Jan 29
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra | János Rolla (conductor)
Hungaroton 31018 (Bach: Four Orchestral Suites) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #2 (Symphonic Suite), Op. 9 "Antar"
Wednesday
Jan 29
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Wednesday
Jan 29
London Baroque
Harmonia Mundi 290.1539 (Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #6 "Pathetique"
Wednesday
Jan 29
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) | New York Philharmonic
DG 419.604 (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique") -
George Frideric Handel
Alcina: Overture
Wednesday
Jan 29
Montreal Baroque Orchestra | Joël Thiffault (conductor)
ATMA Classique 3005 (MISSING) -
Antonio Bazzini
Three Pieces in the Form of a Sonata, Op. 44
Wednesday
Jan 29
Chloe Hanslip (violin) | Caspar Frantz (piano)
Naxos 570.800 (Bazzini: Works for Violin and Piano) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #2 in D Major, op. 36
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vienna Philharmonic | Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 57445 (Beethoven: Symphonies) -
Gabriel Fauré
Pavane
Wednesday
Jan 29
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 449.186 (Ravel, Satie & Fauré: Pavane) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasy in C Minor, K 475
Wednesday
Jan 29
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
London 417.372 (Mostly Mozart) -
Zdeněk Fibich
Symphony #2 in E-flat Major, Op. 38
Wednesday
Jan 29
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec (conductor)
Naxos 573.157 (Fibich: Orchestral Works 2) -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Notturno in G Minor
Wednesday
Jan 29
Michael Landrum (piano)
Sono Luminus 92158 (Nocturnes) -
Robert Schumann
Humoreske in B-flat Major, Op. 20
Wednesday
Jan 29
Emanuel Ax (piano)
RCA 4275 (Schumann: Humoreske, Fantasiestücke, Op. 12) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #99
Wednesday
Jan 29
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | London Philharmonic
London 417.620 (Haydn: Symphonies 93 & 99) -
Cécile Chaminade
Concertino
Wednesday
Jan 29
Manuela Wiesler (flute) | Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra | Philippe Auguin (conductor)
BIS 529 (French Flute Concertos)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Jules Massenet
Le Cid: Act III, Rodrigue's prayer. "Ah! tout est bien fini!...Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père" (Ah! everything is at an end!...O Sovereign, O judge, O father)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon | Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
DG 479.4101 (The French Collection) -
Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: Act IV
Wednesday
Jan 29
Pinchas Steinberg (conductor) | Eva Marton [Wally] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Stromminger] | Alan Titus [Vincenzo Gellner] | Francisco Araiza [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] | Birgit Calm [Afra] | Julie Kaufmann [Walter] | Michele Pertusi [Il Pedone] | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Eurodisc 69073 (Catalani: La Wally) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 26 #7. "K Detyam" (To the Children)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Médée: Act V
Wednesday
Jan 29
Jill Feldman [Médée] | Jacques Bona [Créon] | Agnes Mellon [Créuse] | Gilles Ragon [Jason] | Philippe Cantor [Oronte] | Sophie Boulin [Nérine] | William Christie (conductor) | Les Arts Florissants Chours et Orchestre
Harmonia Mundi 90.1139-41 (Charpentier: Médée) -
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Roland: Act IV
Wednesday
Jan 29
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Nicolas Testé [Roland] | Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] | Olivier Dumait [Médor] | Monique Zanetti [Témire] | Robert Getchell [Astolfe] | Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] | Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante | Demogorgon | Un suivant d'Angélique] | Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire | Tersandre] | Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire | Un suivant d'Angélique | Coridon, un pâtre]] | Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente | Une suivante d'Angélique | Une postourelle] | Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique | Une amante contente, La Gloire]
Amboise 9949 (Lully: Roland) -
Leonardo Leo
Demofoonte: Timante's aria. "Misero pargoletto" (Unhappy child)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Riccardo Minasi (conductor) | Il Pomo d'Oro | Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Naïve 5333 (Arias for Caffarelli) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Recitative and aria. Ella mi fu rapita!...Parmi veder le lagrime (She was snatched away from me!...I seem to see the tears)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Marco Armiliato (conductor) | Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0010837 (Romantic Arias) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Act I, Scene 3
Wednesday
Jan 29
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry [Don Giovanni] | Andrea Silvestrelli [Commendatore/La Statua] | Luba Orgonasova (soprano) [Donna Anna] | Christoph Pregardien (tenor) [Don Ottavio] | Charlotte Margiono [Donna Elvira] | Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Leporello] | Julian Clarkson [Masetto] | The Monteverdi Choir [Zerlina]
Archiv 445.870 (Mozart: Don Giovanni) -
Ysaÿe M. Barnwell
Tango with God
Wednesday
Jan 29
Cantus | Stephen Layton (conductor)
Signum 686 (Cantus: Manifesto) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243
Wednesday
Jan 29
Nancy Argenta (soprano) | Emily Van Evera (soprano) | Alison Place (mezzo-soprano) | Catherine King (mezzo-soprano) | Margaret Cable (contralto) | Taverner Choir | Taverner Players | Andrew Parrott (conductor)
Virgin 59326 (Bach: Magnificat) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: Act II
Wednesday
Jan 29
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Agnes Baltsa [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] | Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] | Simone Alaimo [Dandini] | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] | Carol Malone [Clorinda] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] | John Del Carlo [Alidoro]
Philips 420.468 (Rossini: La Cenerentola) -
Johannes Brahms
Vergebliches Ständchen
Wednesday
Jan 29
Karita Mattila (soprano) | Ilmo Ranta (piano)
Ondine 1054 (Excellence) -
Frederick Delius
Songs to Poems by Friedrich Nietzsche
Wednesday
Jan 29
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Luigi Cherubini
Medea: Act III
Wednesday
Jan 29
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala | Tullio Serafin (conductor) | Maria Callas [Medea] | Renata Scotto (soprano) [Glauce] | Miriam Pirazzini [Neris] | Mirto Picchi [Giasone] | Giuseppe Modesti [Creonte] | Lidia Morimpietri [Prima ancella] | Elvira Galassi [Seconda ancella] | Alfredo Giacomotti [Capo delle guardie]
EMI 66435 (Cherubini: Medea) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 34 #1. "Muza" (The Muse)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: Act III
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vienna State Opera Chorus | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Thomas Moser [Tristan] | Deborah Voigt [Isolde] | Petra Lang [Brangäne] | Peter Weber [Kurwenal] | Robert Holl [König Marke] | Markus Nieminen [Melot] | Michael Roider [Ein Hirt] | In-Sung Sim [Ein Steuermann] | John Dickie [Ein junger Seemann] | Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 0002250 (Wagner: Tristan und Isolde) -
Hugo Wolf
Mörike Lieder: Bei einer Trauung (At a wedding)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) | Imogen Cooper (piano)
WH Live 0029 (Wolf Songs) -
Franz Schubert
Klage der Ceres, D 323
Wednesday
Jan 29
Cheryl Studer (soprano) | Irwin Gage (piano)
DG 431.773 (Schubert: Lieder) -
Walter Frye
Missa Nobilis et pulchra: Credo
Wednesday
Jan 29
The Binchois Consort | Andrew Kirkman (conductor)
Hyperion 68274 (Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria) -
Anton Bruckner
Te Deum
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vienna Singverein | Herbert von Karajan (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Janet Perry | Helga Müller Molinari | Gösta Winbergh (tenor) | Alexander Malta (bass)
DG 410.521 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Te Deum) -
Myroslav Skoryk
Melody
Wednesday
Jan 29
Natalya Pasichnyk (piano) | Olga Pasichnyk (soprano) | Christian Svarfvar (violin)
BIS 2222 (Consolation. Forgotten Treasures of the Ukrainian Soul) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Finta Giardiniera: Act I, Scenes 1-7
Wednesday
Jan 29
René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Sophie Karthäuser [Sandrina] | Jeremy Ovenden [Contino Belfiore] | Alex Penda [Arminda] | Marie-Claude Chappuis [Cavaliere Ramiro] | Nicolas Rivenq [Podestà] | Sunhae Im [Serpetta] | Michael Nagy [Roberto]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2126-28 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 34 #4. "Veter Perelyotny" (The Migrant Wind)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs) -
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Wednesday
Jan 29
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor) | Kiera Duffy (soprano) | Meg Bragle (mezzo-soprano) | Scott Mello (tenor)
Avie 2270 (Handel: Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest, Ode for Queen Anne) -
Gioachino Rossini
La Pietra del Paragone
Wednesday
Jan 29
José Carreras (tenor) [Giocondo] | Beverly Wolff (mezzo-soprano) [Marchesina Clarice] | Elaine Bonazzi [Baronessa Aspasia] | Anne Elgar [Donna Fulvia] | John Reardon [Conte Asdrubale] | Andrew Foldi [Macrobio] | Justino Diaz [Pacuvio] | Raymond Murcell [Fabrizio] | The Clarion Concerts Orchestra and Chorus | Newell Jenkins (conductor)
Vanguard 9031 (Rossini) -
Franz Schubert
Die Forelle, D 550
Wednesday
Jan 29
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
London 455.294 (The Schubert Album) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Finta Giardiniera: Act II, Scenes 9-16
Wednesday
Jan 29
René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Sophie Karthäuser [Sandrina] | Jeremy Ovenden [Contino Belfiore] | Alex Penda [Arminda] | Marie-Claude Chappuis [Cavaliere Ramiro] | Nicolas Rivenq [Podestà] | Sunhae Im [Serpetta] | Michael Nagy [Roberto]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2126-28 (Mozart: La finta giardiniera) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act III, Aria. Ah, non son io che parlo (Alas, it is not I who speak)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 (Vespers of the the Blessed Virgin, 1610): Psalms and Motets
Wednesday
Jan 29
Apollo's Fire | Apollo's Singers | Jeannette Sorrell (conductor)
Avie 2206 (Monteverdi: Vespers) -
Guillaume Dufay
Lauda. Vanne mio core
Wednesday
Jan 29
The Orlando Consort
Hyperion 68349 (The Florentine Renaissance) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nine Sacred Choruses: #1. Cherubic Hymn I
Wednesday
Jan 29
Latvian Radio Choir | Sigvards Klava (conductor)
Ondine 1336 (Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom) -
Manuel de Falla
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (7 Popular Spanish Songs)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) | Manuel de Falla (piano)
Zenph 1001 (The Spanish Masters) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Ottone in villa: Act II, Scenes 6-12
Wednesday
Jan 29
Il Giardino Armonico | Giovanni Antonini (conductor) | Sonia Prina [Ottone] | Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] | Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] | Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] | Topi Lehtipuu [Decio]
Naïve 30493 (Vivaldi: Ottone in villa) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Song, Op. 34 #11. "Khorugv Svyashchennuyu" (The Herald)
Wednesday
Jan 29
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) | Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
Decca 436.9202 (Rachmaninov Songs)