Building a Library: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (complete)
Reviewer - Nicholas Anderson
First Choice: Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
(recorded 1996)
WARNER ELATUS 2564617732 (2-CD, mid-price)
or as part of Il Giardino Armonico Artist box set WARNER CLASSICS 2564632642 (11-CD, budget)
CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.bach:
bal.bach.brandenburg.concertos
Discs played and reviewed in this programme
[Available at full price unless indicated]
NB Timings are approximate
09:00
HAYDN Symphony No.101 'The Clock' (2nd movement played)
(c/w Symphony No.88 'The Letter V'; Overture 'L'isola disabitata'):
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic, Adam Fischer (conductor)
DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM MDG9011441-6 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
BRAHMS Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68 (live recording 2005 - 2nd movement played)
(c/w BEETHOVEN 'Egmont' Overture, Op.84):
Munich Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4776404 (CD)
HAYDN The Creation (live recording 2005 - extract from 2nd Part played)
Miah Persson (soprano), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Salzburger Bachchor, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
OEHMS CLASSICS OC609 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid)
09:30
Building A Library Recommendations
BACH Brandenburg Concertos (complete)
Reviewer: Nicholas Anderson
First Choice:
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
(recorded 1996)
WARNER ELATUS 2564617732 (2-CD, mid-price) or as part of Il Giardino Armonico Artist box set WARNER CLASSICS 2564632642 (11-CD, budget)
Next week, Peter Quantrill chooses from the available recordings of Mahler's 9th Symphony.
10:15
Ivry Gitlis and Nathan Milstein on DVD
DVD entitled 'The Christopher Nupen Films - Nathan Milstein in Portrait (some memories of a quiet magician)' - including BEETHOVEN Kreutzer Sonata, Op.47*; BACH Chaconne from Partita in D minor, BWV1004:
Nathan Milstein (violin), Georges Pludermacher (piano)*
ALLEGRO FILMS A06CND (DVD)
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D, Op.61; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.8 in D minor:
Nathan Milstein (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS DVB38845690 (DVD)
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D, Op.35*; works by BRAHMS, BARTOK, ELGAR, WIENAWSKI, SAINT-SAENS, MOSZKOWSKI / SARASATE, ALBENIZ / KREISLER and PAGANINI:
Ivry Gitlis (violin), Orchestre National de l'ORTF*, Francesco Mander (conductor)* - also featuring Tasso Janopoulo (piano), Georges Pludermacher (piano), Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS DVB38846994 (2-DVD)
10.45
Mozart Operas on DVD
Reviewer: Hilary Finch
MOZART Cosi Fan Tutte
(recorded at the 2006 Glyndebourne Festival)
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Luca Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Ivan Fischer (conductor), Nicholas Hytner (stage director)
OPUS ARTE OA0970D (DVD)
MOZART Cosi Fan Tutte
(recorded at the 2006 Salzburg Festival):
Ana Maria Martinez (Fiordiligi), Sophie Koch (Dorabella), Stephane Degout (Guglielmo), Shawn Mathey (Ferrando), Helen Donath (Despina), Sir Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso), Vienna State Opera, Wiener Philharmoniker, Manfred Honeck (conductor), Ursel Herrmann & Karl-Ernst Herrmann (stage directors)
DECCA 0743165 (DVD)
MOZART Don Giovanni
(recorded at the 2006 Salzburg Festival):
Thomas Hampson (Don Giovanni), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Leporello), Robert Lloyd (Commendatore), Christine Schaefer (Donna Anna), Piotr Beczala (Don Ottavio), Melanie Diener (Donna Elvira), Isabel Bayrakdarian (Zerlina), Luca Pisaroni (Masetto)
Vienna State Opera, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding (conductor), Martin Kusej (stage director)
DECCA 0743162 (DVD)
11:15
Listener Suggestions
HERZOGENBERG Symphony No.2 in B flat, Op.70 (2nd movement played)
(c/w Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.50):
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Frank Beermann (conductor)
CPO 7771222 (CD)
SCHUBERT Johanna Sebus D728; Andantino D348
(c/w Piano Sonata in C minor, D958; Gesange des Harfners, D478; Totengrabers Heimweh, D842):
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI CLASSICS 3843212 (CD)
DONIZETTI Dom Sebastien (extract from Act 2 played):
Vesselina Kasarova (Zayda), Giuseppe Filianoti (Dom Sebastien), Alastair Miles (Dom Juam de Sylva), Simon Keenlyside (Abayaldos), Carmelo Corrado Caruso (Camoens), Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Mark Elder (conductor)
OPERA RARA ORC33 (3-CD)
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11:45
Disc Of The Week
DEBUSSY Preludes (arranged for orchestra by Colin Matthews)
(c/w La Mer)
Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CDHLL7513 (CD, mid-price)
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