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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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26
Wednesday
Apr 2
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) | Marina Gusak-Grin (piano)
Chandos 8500 (Russian Music for Violin) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 450 in C Major
Wednesday
Apr 2
Alfredo Bernardini (oboe) | Zefiro | Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
Naïve 30478 (Vivaldi: Concerti per oboe) -
Louise Farrenc
Piano Trio #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Wednesday
Apr 2
Linos Ensemble
CPO 777.256 (Farrenc: Piano Trios) -
Franz Benda
Flute Concerto in E Minor
Wednesday
Apr 2
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) | Mikael Helasvuo (flute) | Helsinki Chamber Orchestra
BIS 268 (Stamitz & Benda Flute Concertos) -
NSO Showcase
Wednesday
Apr 2
National Symphony Orchestra
Private Recording -
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto #4 in G Major, Hob. XVIII:4
Wednesday
Apr 2
Anne-Marie McDermott (piano) | Odense Symphony Orchestra | Scott Yoo (conductor)
Bridge 9438 (Haydn: Sonatas & Concertos) -
Camille Saint-Saëns
Havanaise
Wednesday
Apr 2
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin) | Gerard Schwarz (conductor) | New York Chamber Symphony
EMI 49276 (Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Saint-Saëns) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento, K. 138
Wednesday
Apr 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.740 (Mozart: Divertimenti K. 138 & 287) -
PBS News Hour
Wednesday
Apr 2
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Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in G Major, Seibel 215: II. Vivace
Wednesday
Apr 2
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 437.549 (Heinichen: Dresden Concerti) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Morning Papers
Wednesday
Apr 2
Johann Strauss Orchestra | Jack Rothstein (conductor)
Chandos 8434 (A Strauss Gala) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #1: I
Wednesday
Apr 2
Bernard Haitink (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano) | Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
CBS 42177 (Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 #4 in F Major
Wednesday
Apr 2
Trevor Pinnock (conductor) | English Concert
Archiv 413.727 (Handel: Six Concerti Grossi Op. 3) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony #5 in B-flat Major
Wednesday
Apr 2
English String Orchestra | William Boughton (conductor)
Nimbus 5141 (Mendelssohn: Complete String Symphonies, Vol. 1) -
Niccolò Paganini
Cantabile
Wednesday
Apr 2
Joshua Bell (violin) | Samuel Sanders (piano)
Decca 0002783 (The Romantic Violin) -
Franz von Suppé
Morning, Noon and Night: Overture
Wednesday
Apr 2
Vienna Philharmonic | Zubin Mehta (conductor)
CBS 44932 (Suppé: Ouvertüren) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #2
Wednesday
Apr 2
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Delos 3185 (Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony #4: IV
Wednesday
Apr 2
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Sony 77182 (Tchaikovsky) -
King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Flute Concerto in C Major: I. Allegro
Wednesday
Apr 2
Peter Schreier (conductor) | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Patrick Gallois (flute)
DG 439.895 (Flute Concertos from Sanssouci) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #2: III
Wednesday
Apr 2
Valery Gergiev (conductor) | St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra
Philips 438.864 (Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 428 "The Goldfinch"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) | Australian Chamber Orchestra | Richard Tognetti (conductor)
EMI 47212 (Vivaldi: Flute Concertos) -
Edvard Grieg
Symphonic Dance, Op. 64 #3. Allegro giocoso
Wednesday
Apr 2
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 419.431 (Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Lyric Suite, etc.) -
Richard Wagner
Rienzi: Overture
Wednesday
Apr 2
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) | Cleveland Orchestra
DG 477.8773 (Wagner: Preludes & Overtures) -
José de Nebra
Seguidillas & Canción
Wednesday
Apr 2
Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) | Concerto of Cologne
Archiv 479.2050 (El Maestro Farinelli) -
Robert Schumann
Symphony #4 in D Minor, Op. 120 (revised version 1851): III. Scherzo. Lebhaft
Wednesday
Apr 2
Revolutionary | Romantic Orchestra | Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Archiv 457.591 (Schumann: Complete Symphonies) -
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide: Overture
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia
Warner Classics 624344 (Rossini: Overtures) -
Frédéric Chopin
Préludes, Op. 28 #1-9
Wednesday
Apr 2
Brian Ganz (piano)
Maestoso (Ganz) (Chopin: Preludes) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante, K. 364
Wednesday
Apr 2
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Isaac Stern (violin) | New York Philharmonic | Pinchas Zukerman (viola)
CBS 36692 (Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Banquet Music, Part 2: Suite in D Major: II. Air. Tempo giusto
Wednesday
Apr 2
Musica Antiqua of Cologne | Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Archiv 427.619 (Telemann: Tafelmusik) -
Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A Major, Op 118 #2 (arr. Popov)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Yuja Wang (piano) | Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
DG 483.6069 (Blue Hour) -
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #2 in F Major
Wednesday
Apr 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Iona Brown (conductor)
Philips 410.048 (Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi) -
Franz Schubert
Symphony #5
Wednesday
Apr 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
CBS 39671 (Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #41 in C Major
Wednesday
Apr 2
Adam Fischer (conductor) | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Brilliant Classics 93782 (Haydn Edition) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony #1
Wednesday
Apr 2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Andrew Litton (conductor)
Virgin 90830 (Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1, etc.) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Wednesday
Apr 2
Riccardo Muti (conductor) | Philadelphia Orchestra
EMI 49487 (Beethoven: 9 Symphonien) -
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Viola Concerto in B-flat Major
Wednesday
Apr 2
Victoria Chiang (viola) | Baltimore Chamber Orchestra | Markand Thakar (conductor)
Naxos 572.162 (Stamitz & Hoffmeister: Viola Concertos) -
Frédéric Chopin
Scherzo #4 in E Major, Op. 54
Wednesday
Apr 2
Emanuel Ax (piano)
CBS 44544 (Chopin: Scherzos and Maurkas) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, K. 361 "Gran Partita"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 412.726 (Mozart: Serenade, K. 361 "Gran Partita") -
Niels Wilhelm Gade
Violin Sonata #2 in D Minor, Op. 21
Wednesday
Apr 2
Christina Åstrand (violin) | Per Salo (piano)
Dacapo 226.066 (Sonatas for Violin and Piano) -
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul
Symphony #2
Wednesday
Apr 2
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Nimbus 5184-85 (Méhul: The Complete Symphonies) -
Adolphe Adam
Giselle: Grand Pas de Deux from Act II
Wednesday
Apr 2
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80625 (Ballet Favorites) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1053
Wednesday
Apr 2
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Douglas Boyd (oboe) | Douglas Boyd (conductor)
DG 429.225 (Bach: Oboe Concertos BWV 1053, 1055 & 1059) -
Alexander Borodin
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Wednesday
Apr 2
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80657 (Russian Nights) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #53 "Imperial"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 439.779 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 53, 73 & 79) -
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition: Baba-Yaga; Great Gate of Kiev
Wednesday
Apr 2
Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 447.426 (Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Ravel: Boléro - Debussy: La Mer) -
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Symphony in C Major, Op. 5/5, WV 361: I. Allegro molto
Wednesday
Apr 2
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Johannes Goritzki (conductor)
CPO 777.112 (Wagenseil: Symphonies, Vol. 2) -
François Borne
Fantasie Brillante on Carmen
Wednesday
Apr 2
Kuang-Hao Huang (piano) | Mathieu Dufour (flute)
Cedille 90000.121 (Fantaisie) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major, BWV 1048: I. (Allegro)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 431.660 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Johann Strauss Jr.
Roses from the South
Wednesday
Apr 2
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra | Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor)
Philips 411.119 (Famous Waltzes) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto, RV 178
Wednesday
Apr 2
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas (conductor)
Chandos 6578 (Vivaldi: Six Concertos, Op.8, Nos. 7-12) -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Pas de deux
Wednesday
Apr 2
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | Erich Kunzel (conductor)
Telarc 80625 (Ballet Favorites) -
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata, HWV 371 in D Major (Op. 1 #13): IV. Allegro
Wednesday
Apr 2
Andrew Manze (violin) | Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7259 (Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas) -
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet "The Trout": I. Allegro vivace
Wednesday
Apr 2
Pinchas Zukerman (violin) | Yefim Bronfman (piano) | Jethro Marks (viola) | Amanda Forsyth (cello) | Joel Quarrington (double bass)
RCA 716044 (Schubert: "Trout" Piano Quintet - Mozart: Piano Quartet K. 493) -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Violin Concerto, TWV 51:E3
Wednesday
Apr 2
Berlin Baroque Soloists | Rainer Kussmaul (conductor) | Rainer Kussmaul (violin)
DG 0005761 (Telemann: Sinfonia Melodica) -
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philips 434.916 (Sullivan: Overtures) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony #41 "Jupiter": IV
Wednesday
Apr 2
René Jacobs (conductor) | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Harmonia Mundi 90.1958 (Mozart: Symphonies 38 "Prague" and 41 "Jupiter") -
Jean Sibelius
Valse Chevaleresque
Wednesday
Apr 2
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
BIS 384 (Roman: Sinfonias & Violin Concertos) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata, BWV 1033 for Flute and Continuo in C Major: II. Allegro
Wednesday
Apr 2
Irena Grafenauer (flute) | Maria Graf (harp) | David Geringas (cello)
Philips 422.061 (Bach: 3 Sonatas for Flute and Harp, Partita, Suite) -
Franz von Suppé
Light Cavalry Overture
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
EMI 54056 (Suppé: Overtures) -
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Lute Concerto in F Major, SC 53
Wednesday
Apr 2
Tempesta di Mare | Richard Stone (lute) | Gwyn Roberts (flute)
Chandos 0707 (Weiss: Lute Concerti) -
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony #3: IV
Wednesday
Apr 2
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi (conductor)
DG 423.604 (Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies) -
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet #6 in F Minor, Op. 80: IV. Finale. Allegro molto
Wednesday
Apr 2
Melos Quartet
DG 415.883 (Mendelssohn: The String Quartets) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto #4 in G Minor, Op. 40: I. Allegro vivace
Wednesday
Apr 2
Simon Trpceski (piano) | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Avie 2191 (Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini) -
Robert Schumann
Papillons
Wednesday
Apr 2
Murray Perahia (piano)
CBS 34539 (Schumann: Symphonic & Posthumous Etudes) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Wednesday
Apr 2
Academy of Ancient Music | Richard Egarr (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi 80.7461-62 (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos) -
Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Violin Concerto #5 in D Major, Op. 55
Wednesday
Apr 2
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kirk Trevor (conductor) | Philippe Quint (violin)
Naxos 570.360 (Bériot: Violin Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 5) -
George Whitefield Chadwick
Scherzino
Wednesday
Apr 2
Peter Kairoff (piano)
Albany 745 (American Character, Piano Music of George Whitefield Chadwick) -
Georges Bizet
L'Arlesienne Suite #2
Wednesday
Apr 2
Seiji Ozawa (conductor) | French National Orchestra
EMI 47064 (Bizet: L'Arlésienne & Carmen Suites) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet, K. 515
Wednesday
Apr 2
Berg Quartet | Markus Wolf (viola)
EMI 49085 (Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & K. 516) -
Amy Beach
Valse-Caprice, Op. 4
Wednesday
Apr 2
Joanne Polk (piano)
Arabesque 6704 (Under the Stars) -
Jean Françaix
L'Horloge de Flore (The Flower-Clock)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Albrecht Mayer (oboe) | Matthias Mönius (conductor)
Decca 478.2564 (Bonjour Paris) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #1
Wednesday
Apr 2
Maurizio Pollini (piano) | Vienna Philharmonic | Eugen Jochum (conductor)
DG 410.511 (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1) -
Carl Nielsen
Aladdin Suite: Oriental March
Wednesday
Apr 2
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
CBS 44934 (Nielsen: Symphony No. 2) -
Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto (G. 480)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Jeanne Lamon (conductor) | Tafelmusik | Anner Bylsma (cello)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 7867 (Boccherini: Concerti da Violoncello, Sinfonie) -
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto #1
Wednesday
Apr 2
Zubin Mehta (conductor) | Murray Perahia (piano) | Israel Philharmonic
Sony 44922 (Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2) -
Maurice Ravel
Jeux d'Eau
Wednesday
Apr 2
Naida Cole (piano)
Decca 748.021 (Fauré, Chabrier, Satie & Ravel) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto, BWV 1052 in D MInor
Wednesday
Apr 2
Berlin Academy for Old Music | Bernhard Forck (conductor) | Isabelle Faust (violin)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2335-36 (Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concertos) -
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio #3
Wednesday
Apr 2
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Emanuel Ax (piano) | Young Uck Kim (violin)
CBS 44527 (Dvořák: Piano Trios) -
Isaac Albéniz
Suite Española #1, Op. 47: Cataluña
Wednesday
Apr 2
David Russell (guitar)
Telarc 32712 (Spanish Music for Classical Guitar) -
Joseph Haydn
Symphony #60 "The Distracted One"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
EMI 54297 (Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 60, 70 & 90) -
Franz Schubert
String Quartet #9
Wednesday
Apr 2
Cherubini Quartet
EMI 49900 (Schubert: String Quartets No. 9, D173 & No. 13, D804) -
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Trumpet Concerto (B-flat Major)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Max Pommer (conductor) | Ludwig Güttler (trumpet) | New Bach Collegium Musicum, Leipzig
Capriccio 10.055 (Trompetenkonzerte des Barock)
WETA VivaLaVoce
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Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part I
Wednesday
Apr 2
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry | Sylvia McNair | Donna Brown (soprano) | Michael Schade | Gerald Finley (baritone)
Archiv 449.217 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Act II, cabaletta (Alfredo). "O mio rimorso!" (Oh, my remorse!")
Wednesday
Apr 2
Rolando Villazón (tenor) | Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino | Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
DG 0017823 (Villazón Verdi) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Aria. Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) | La Petite Band | Jan Van der Crabben (bass)
Challenge 72316 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Motet, RV 625. Claræ stellæ, scintillate (Bright stars, blaze forth)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) | Ensemble Artaserse | Philippe Jaroussky (conductor)
Erato 625810 (Pietà, Sacred Works for Alto) -
Frederick Delius
Ten Songs from the Danish
Wednesday
Apr 2
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80109 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2) -
Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold
Wednesday
Apr 2
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | James Morris (bass) [Wotan] | Ekkehard Wlaschiha [Alberich] | Siegfried Jerusalem [Loge] | Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Mime] | Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Fricka] | Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Fafner] | Kurt Moll [Fasolt] | Mari Anne Häggander [Freia] | Siegfried Lorenz [Donner] | Birgitta Svendén [Erda] | Hei-Kyung Hong [Woglinde] | Diane Kesling [Wellgunde] | Meredith Parsons [Flosshilde]
DG 427.607 (Wagner: Das Rheingold) -
John Dowland
Go, crystal tears
Wednesday
Apr 2
Brian Asawa | David Tayler (lute)
RCA 68818 (The dark is my delight) -
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem: VII. Selig sind die Toten (Blessed are the dead)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Atlanta Symphony Chorus
Telarc 80092 (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): Part II
Wednesday
Apr 2
Jörg Hering (tenor) [Uriel] | Harry van der Kamp (bass) [Raphael] | Tölzer Knabenchor | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor) | Anne Monoyios (soprano) [Gabriel]
Sony 57965 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Maurice Duruflé
Messe "Cum Jubilo", Op. 11: I. Kyrie
Wednesday
Apr 2
Dennis Keene (conductor) | Voices of Ascension Chorus | Orchestra
Delos 3169 (Duruflé: Messe "Cum Jubilo", Op. 11) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert aria. Se ardire, e speranza, K 82
Wednesday
Apr 2
Francine van der Heyden (soprano) | European Sinfonietta | Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
Brilliant Classics 94051 (Mozart: Complete Works) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 196. Der Herr denket an uns (The Lord thinks of us)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Jos van Veldhoven (conductor) | The Netherlands Bach Society
Channel 27308 (Beloved & Beautiful) -
Claudio Monteverdi
L'incoronazione di Poppea: Act III
Wednesday
Apr 2
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Bernarda Fink (alto) | Catherine Bott (soprano) | Marinella Pennicchi [Amore] | Sylvia McNair [Poppea] | Dana Hanchard [Nerone] | Michael Chance (alto) [Ottone] | Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Seneca] | Roberto Balconi [Nutrice] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Soldato] | Nigel Robson [Soldato] | Mark Tucker (tenor) [Lucano] | Constanze Backes [Valletto] | Marinella Pennicchi [Damigella] | Nigel Robson [Liberto] | Julian Clarkson [Littore]
Archiv 447.088 (Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea) -
Gabriel Fauré
La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61: #9. "L'hiver a cessé"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Ian Bostridge (tenor) | Julius Drake (piano) | Belcea Quartet | Leon Bosch (double bass)
EMI 57609 (Französische Lieder) -
Frederick Delius
Four Old English Lyrics
Wednesday
Apr 2
Mark Stone (baritone) | Stephen Barlow (piano)
Stone Records 80062 (The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 1) -
Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore: Act II, Scenes 8-10
Wednesday
Apr 2
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Adina] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Nemorino] | Leo Nucci (baritone) [Belcore] | Enzo Dara [Dulcamara] | Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Gianetta] | The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
DG 429.744 (Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore) -
Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater: Aria. "Cujus animam gementem"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Vienna Philharmonic | Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) | Raul Gimenez (tenor)
DG 449.178 (Rossini: Stabat Mater) -
George Frideric Handel
Agrippina: Act II, Scenes 13-21
Wednesday
Apr 2
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088-90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Friedrich von Flotow
Martha: Aria. "M'appari"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Staatskapelle Dresden | Marcelo Alvarez (tenor) | Marcello Viotti (conductor)
Sony 92937 (The Tenor's Passion) -
Gustave Charpentier
Louise: Act III
Wednesday
Apr 2
Julius Rudel (conductor) | Beverly Sills (soprano) [Louise] | Nicolai Gedda [Julien] | Mignon Dunn [La mère] | José van Dam (baritone) [La père] | Éliane Lublin [Irma] | Christiane Chateau [Camille] | Sonia Nigoghossian [Élise] | Marie Bertola [Marguerite] | Martine Surais [Gertrude] | Claude Vierne [La première] | Carla Rutili [Madeleine] | Mireille Laurent [L'apprentie] | Elya Weismann [Blanche] | Maria Mella [Suzanne] | Martyn Hill [Le noctambule] | Jacques Mars [Le chiffonier] | Jean-Jacques Doumène [Le bricoleur] | Chœur et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opera de Paris
EMI 65299 (Charptentier: Louise) -
Cécile Chaminade
Chanson triste. "Dans le profondes mers" (Melancholy Song. "In the depths of the sea") [Countess Joseph Rouchaïd]
Wednesday
Apr 2
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) | Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 471.331 (Chaminade: Mélodies) -
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Arminio: Act II Scene 6, Aria. "All'armi, a battaglie, ai cimenti"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Hermann Oswald [Germanico] | Salzburger Hofmusik | Wolfgang Brunner (conductor)
CPO 999.258 (Biber: Arminio) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Alzira: Prologue. The Prisoner
Wednesday
Apr 2
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande | Fabio Luisi (conductor) | Slobodan Stankovic [Alvaro] | Paolo Gavanelli [Gusmano] | Jovo Reljin [Ovando] | Ramón Vargas [Zamoro] | Wolfgang Barta [Ataliba] | Marina Mescheriakova [Alzira] | Jana Iliev [Zuma] | Torsten Kerl [Otumbo] | Chœur du Grand Théâtre de Genève [Spanish officers and soldiers, South American men and women]
Decca 478.4916 (Verdi: Complete Works) -
Antonio Vivaldi
Dixit Dominus, RV 594
Wednesday
Apr 2
Michael Chance (alto) | Stephen Cleobury (conductor) | Academy of Ancient Music | The Choir of King's College, Cambridge | Sarah Fox (soprano) | Deborah Norman (soprano) | James Gilchrist (tenor) | Jonathan Lemalu (bass)
EMI 57265 (Vivaldi: Gloria) -
Joseph Haydn
L'isola disabitata: Act I, Aria. "Chi nel cammin d'onore"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] | Padova Chamber Orchestra | David Golub (conductor)
Arabesque 6717 (Haydn: l'isola disabitata) -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa solemnis, Op. 123: V. Agnus Dei
Wednesday
Apr 2
Julia Varady (soprano) | Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) | Vinson Cole (tenor) | René Pape (bass) | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic | Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
London 444.337 (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorite: Act III
Wednesday
Apr 2
Marcello Viotti (conductor) | Bavarian Radio Chorus | Münchner Rundfunkorchester | Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] | Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] | Abbie Furmansky [Inès] | Ramon Vargas [Fernand] | Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] | Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] | Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur]
RCA 66229 (Donizetti: La Favorite) -
John Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs?
Wednesday
Apr 2
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Thomas Dunford (lute)
Hyperion 68007 (Dowland: The Art of Melancholy) -
Gustav Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Wednesday
Apr 2
Vienna Philharmonic | Pierre Boulez (conductor) | Violetta Urmana (soprano)
DG 0003894 (Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) -
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Wednesday
Apr 2
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Gabriel Fauré
Requiem, Op. 48: Pie Jesu
Wednesday
Apr 2
Renée Fleming (soprano) | Andreas Delfs (conductor) | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca 0005193 (Sacred Songs) -
Tommaso Giordani
Caro mio ben
Wednesday
Apr 2
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Philharmonia Orchestra | Piero Gamba (conductor)
London 414.454 (Mattinata) -
George Frideric Handel
Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto: Act I, Scenes 1-3
Wednesday
Apr 2
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Ann Hallenberg [Tolomeo] | Karina Gauvin [Seleuce] | Pietro Spagnoli [Araspe] | Anna Bonitatibus [Elisa] | Romina Basso [Alessandro]
Archiv 477.7106 (Handel: Tolomeo) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Sanctus
Wednesday
Apr 2
Frank Hoffmeister | The Bach Ensemble | Joshua Rifkin (conductor)
Nonesuch 79036 (Bach: Mass in B-Minor) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act II
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Count Almaviva] | Lucia Popp [Countess Almaviva] | Barbara Hendricks (soprano) [Susanna] | José van Dam (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Cherubino] | Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Marcellina] | Aldo Baldin [Don Basilio] | Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Don Curzio] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Bartolo] | Donald Maxwell (bass) [Antonio] | Cathryn Pope (soprano) [Barbarina]
Philips 416.370 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Richard Strauss
Salome
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Vienna Philharmonic | Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Salome] | Gerhard Stolze [Herodes] | Grace Hoffman [Herodias] | Eberhard Wächter [Jochanaan] | Waldemar Kmentt [Narraboth] | Josephine Veasey [Der Page der Herodias] | Paul Kuen [Erster Jude] | Stefan Schwer [Zweiter Jude] | Kurt Equiluz [Dritter Jude] | Aron Gestner [Vierter Jude] | Max Proebstl [Fünfter Jude] | Tom Krause [Erster Nazarener] | Nigel Douglas [Zweiter Nazarener] | Zenon Kosnowski [Erster Soldat] | Heinz Holecek [Zweiter Soldat] | Theodor Kirschbichler [Ein Kappadozier] | Liselotte Maikl [Ein Sklave]
Decca 475.7528 (Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder) -
George Frideric Handel
Radamisto: Act I, Scene 5, Zenobia's aria. "Son contenta di morire" (I am content to die)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) | Orfeo 55 | Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Erato 623.177 (Heroes from the Shadows) -
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne: Series I: Baïlèro
Wednesday
Apr 2
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate (conductor) | Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Decca 475.6145 (Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne) -
Gaetano Donizetti
La fille du régiment: Act II
Wednesday
Apr 2
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Richard Bonynge (conductor) | Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Marie] | Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Tonio] | Monica Sinclair [La marquise de Berkenfield] | Jules Bruyère [Hortensius] | Spiro Malas [Sulpice] | Eric Garrett [Le caporal] | Edith Coates [La duchesse de Crakentorp] | Alan Jones [Un paysan] | Omar Gorde [Un notaire]
London 414.520 (Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment) -
John Dowland
Behold a wonder here
Wednesday
Apr 2
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Thomas Dunford (lute)
Hyperion 68007 (Dowland: The Art of Melancholy) -
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: VI. Lux aeterna
Wednesday
Apr 2
Philharmonia Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) | Grace Bumbry | Sandor Konya (tenor) | Raffaele Arié (bass)
BBC 4144 (Verdi: Messa da Requiem) -
George Frideric Handel
Agrippina: Act III, Scenes 9-15
Wednesday
Apr 2
René Jacobs (conductor) | Berlin Academy for Old Music | Alexandrina Pendatchanska [Agrippina] | Jennifer Rivera [Nerone] | Sunhae Im [Poppea] | Bejun Mehta [Ottone] | Marcos Fink [Claudio] | Neal Davies [Pallante] | Dominique Visse [Narciso] | Daniel Schmutzhard [Lesbo]
Harmonia Mundi 90.2088-90 (Handel: Agrippina) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mitridate: Act III, Scene 8, Aria. "Se di regnar sei vago"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset (conductor) | Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) [Marzio]
Decca 460.772 (Mozart: Mitridate) -
Gustav Mahler
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Wednesday
Apr 2
Thomas Hampson (baritone) | Wolfram Rieger (piano) | Recorded live on May 6, 1995 at the Mahler Festival in Amsterdam
Mahler Feest (Mahler Feest) -
Fernando Obradors
Canciones clásicas españolas: La mia sola, Laureola (My one and only, Laureola)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Ailyn Pérez (soprano) | Iain Burnside (piano)
Opus Arte 9013 (Poème d'un jour) -
Aaron Copland
The Tender Land: Act I, Scene 5, Quintet. "The promise of living"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Elisabeth Comeaux [Laurie] | Janis Hardy [Ma Moss] | Maria Jette [Beth] | LeRoy Lehr [Grandpa Moss] | Dan Dressen [Martin] | James Bohn [Top] | Vern Sutton [Mr Splinters] | Agnes Smuda [Mrs Splinters] | Merle Fristad [Mr Jenks] | Sue Herber [Mrs Jenks] | Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series, Minnesota | Philip Brunelle (conductor)
Virgin 91113 (Copland: The Tender Land) -
Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: Act V
Wednesday
Apr 2
The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | 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 | His Majestie's Sagbutts | Cornetts
Archiv 419.250 (Monteverdi: L'orfeo) -
Antonín Dvořák
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: IX. Inflammatus et accensus (When I am ablaze and consumed with fire)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Robert Shaw (conductor) | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Marietta Simpson (mezzo-soprano)
Telarc 80506 (Dvořák: Stabat Mater) -
Franz Schubert
Schwanengesang (Swansong), D 957: #1-7. Rellstab- Lieder [poems by Ludwig Rellstab]
Wednesday
Apr 2
Mark Padmore (tenor) | Paul Lewis (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.7520 (Schubert: Schwanengesang) -
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: Summertime
Wednesday
Apr 2
Renée Fleming (soprano) | The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | James Levine (conductor) | New York Voices
Decca 0001024 (By Request) -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata, BWV 56. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Gladly shall I bear the cross)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) | Berlin Baroque Soloists | Rainer Kussmaul (conductor) | RIAS Chamber Chorus
DG 0003458 (Bach: Cantatas) -
George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare: Act III
Wednesday
Apr 2
Julius Rudel (conductor) | Beverly Sills (soprano) [Cleopatra] | Norman Treigle [Giulio Cesare] | Maureen Forrestser [Cornelia] | Beverly Wolff [Sextus] | Spiro Malas [Ptolemy] | Dominic Cossa [Achillas] | Michael Devlin [Nirenus] | William Beck [Curio] | New York City Opera Chorus | New York City Opera Orchestra
RCA 6182 (Handel: Julius Caesar) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #24. Aria. "Mit Würd' und Hoheit angetan"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Jörg Hering (tenor) [Uriel] | Tafelmusik | Bruno Weil (conductor)
Sony 57965 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Robert Schumann
Zwölf Gedichte (12 Poems), Op. 35 after Kerner
Wednesday
Apr 2
Christoph Eschenbach (piano) | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
DG 477.8816 (Schumann: Lieder) -
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] | Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] | Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] | Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] | Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] | Sally Burgess [Berta] | Matthew Best [Fiorello] | John Noble [Ufficiale]
Philips 411.058 (Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia) -
Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier: Aria. "Come un bel dì di maggio"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Staatskapelle Dresden | Marcelo Alvarez (tenor) | Marcello Viotti (conductor)
Sony 92937 (The Tenor's Passion) -
Jules Massenet
Manon: Act V
Wednesday
Apr 2
Antonio Pappano (conductor) | Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Manon] | Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] | Earle Patriarco [Lescaut] | José van Dam (baritone) [Le Comte des Grieux] | Gilles Ragon [Guillot de Morfontaine] | Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [De Brétigny] | Anna Maria Panzarella [Poussette] | Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano) [Javotte] | Susanne Schimmack [Rosette] | Nicolas Cavalllier [L'hôtelier] | Orchestre Symphonique et Chours de la Monnaie
EMI 57005 (Massenet: Manon) -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Ezio: Act I, Scenes 1-3
Wednesday
Apr 2
Il Complesso Barocco | Alan Curtis (conductor) | Max Emanuel Cencic [Emperor Valentiniano III] | Ann Hallenberg [Fulvia] | Sonia Prina [Ezio] | Mayuko Karasawa [Onoria] | Topi Lehtipuu [Massimo] | Julian Prégardien [Varo]
Virgin 70929 (Ezio) -
Mikhail Glinka
A Life for the Tsar: Final Chorus "Slav'sya!"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Peter Feranec (conductor) | Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow
Melodiya 74321 (Glinka: A Life for the Tsar) -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro: Act IV
Wednesday
Apr 2
The Monteverdi Choir | The English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) | Rodney Gilfry [Count Almaviva] | Hillevi Martinpelto [Countess Almaviva] | Alison Hagley [Susanna] | Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Figaro] | Pamela Helen Stephen [Cherubino] | Susan McCulloch [Marcellina] | Carlos Feller [Bartolo] | Francis Egerton [Basilio] | Francis Egerton [Don Curzio] | Julian Clarkson [Antonio] | Constanze Backes [Barbarina] | Lucinda Houghton [Contadina] | Sarah Connolly [Contadina]
Archiv 439.871 (Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro) -
Joseph Haydn
The Creation (Die Schöpfung): #32. Final Chorus. "Singt dem Herren alle Stimmen"
Wednesday
Apr 2
Sir Georg Solti (conductor) | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
London 443.445 (Haydn: The Creation) -
Franz Schubert
Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey)
Wednesday
Apr 2
Werner Güra (tenor) | Christoph Berner (piano)
Harmonia Mundi 90.2066 (Schubert: Die Winterreise) -
John Dowland
Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
Wednesday
Apr 2
Iestyn Davies (countertenor) | Thomas Dunford (lute)
Hyperion 68007 (Dowland: The Art of Melancholy)