Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op.18, nos. 1 & 4 (No. 4 played): Quatuor Mosaiques
NAÏVE E 8899 (CD)
TYE Latin & English Church Music (Omnes gentes plaudite manibus played): The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Richard Pinel (organ), Bill Ives (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907396 (CD)
ZEMLINSKY Piano Music; Rustic Dances, Albumleaf, Four Fantasies after poems by Richard Dehmel, Four Ballades (Intermezzo played), Minuet, Sketch, A Ray of Light: Silke Avenhaus (piano)
NAXOS 8.557331 (CD, budget)
POULENC Figure humaine; Un soir de neige (excerpt played): RIAS-Chamber Choir, Daniel Reuss (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901872 (CD)
CD entitled 'In Spiritum: Olivier Latry plays Cesar FRANCK'; Piece heroique in B minor, Trois chorals pour grand orgue (Excerpt from No. 3 played); Prelude fugue et variation, Op. 18: Olivier Latry (organ)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00289 477 5418 (CD/SACD hybrid)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
MENDELSSOHN Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Reviewer: Richard Morrison
First Choice:
Kathleen Battle (First Fairy), Frederica von Stade (Second Fairy), Judi Dench (narrator), Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
(recorded 1992)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 439 897-2 (CD)
Budget-Price Choice:
Lillian Watson (First Fairy), Delia Wallis (Second Fairy), Finchley Children's Music Group, London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor) (recorded 1976)
EMI 5749812 (CD, budget-price)
Also available on EMI 574980 2 (CD, budget)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Liszt's B Minor Sonata]
Consumer Spot - Bartok
BARTOK The works for solo piano
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
PHILIPS 475 6720
(8-CD, budget price)
BARTOK plays Bartok
PEARL GEMM CD 9166 (CD, mid-price)
BARTOK Piano Music, Volume 4, For Children
Jeno Jando (piano)
NAXOS 8.555998 (CD, budget)
BARTOK Piano Music, Volume 3
Jeno Jando (piano)
NAXOS 8.555329 (CD, budget)
BARTOK Piano Works
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
14 Bagatelles, Op.6, 2 Elegies, Op.8b, 6 Roumanian Folk Dances, Sonatina, 3 Hungarian Folk Tunes
PHILIPS (THE ROSETTE COLLECTION) 476
1657 (CD, mid-price)
BARTOK Piano Works
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
3 Hungarian folksongs from the Csik district, 14 Bagatelles, 2 Romanian Dances, Romanian Christmas Carols, Sonatina, Sonata for Piano, Out of doors
PHILIPS 50 4646762 (CD, mid-price)
New Releases - Opera DVDs
Reviewer: Patrick O'Connor
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg:
James Morris (Hans Sachs), Rene Pape, (Veit Pogner), Thomas Allen (Sixtus Beckmesser), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Matthew Polenzani (David), Karita Mattila (Eva), Jill Grove (Magdalene), John Relyea (Ein Nachtwachter), Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00440 0730949 (DVD)
VERDI La Traviata: Mireille Delunsch (Violetta Valery), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont), Zelijo Lucic (Giorgio Germont), Orchestre de Paris, Yutaka Sado (conductor)
BEL AIR BAC005 (DVD)
BIZET The Pearl Fishers: Annick Massis (Leila), Yasu Nakajima (Nadir), Luca Grassi (Zurga), Luigi De Donato (Nourabed), Orchestra and Chorus of La Fenice, Venice, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
DYNAMIC 33459 (DVD)
MOZART Le Marriage of Figaro: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (The Count), Kiri te Kanawa (The Countess), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Hermann Prey (Figaro), Maria Ewing (Cherubino), Heather Begg (Marcellina), Paolo Montarsolo (Bartolo), John van Kesteren (Basilio), Willy Caron (Don Curzio), Hans Kraemmer (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina), Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Bohm (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 00440 0734034 (DVD)
STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier: Nina Stemme (Die Feldmarschallin), Alfred Muff (Baron Ochs), Vesselina Kasarova (Octavian), Malin Hartelius (Sophie), Rolf Haunstein (Herr von Faninal), Boiko Zvetanov (Ein Sanger), Chorus and Orchestra of Zurich Opera, Franz Welser-Most (conductor)
EMI 5442589 (2-DVD)
An Interview with Viol player Hille Perl:
SAINTE-COLOMBE Pieces pour viole de gambe: Tombeau Les regrets (excerpt), c/w Prélude; Les Couplets; Le Retrouvé; La Conference; Le Changé; Le Raporté; Le Majesteux; Le Précipité; La Varié; L'Infidelle: Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (lute), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Lorenz Duftschmidt (viola da gamba)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 74321 935562 (CD)
CD entitled 'Marin Marais: Pour la violle et le théorbe: MARAIS Suite in G (Gigue Le Chicane played). c/w Suites in D; DE VISEE Suite in D: Hille Perl (viola da gamba), lee Santana (theorbo)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 58791 2 (CD)
BACH Suite for solo viola da gamba in G minor (after Suite for solo cello in C minor, BWV1011) (Excerpt from Allemande played) c/w Trio in A major, BWV1025 (after Weiss); Gamba Sonata in G minor, BWV1029: Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (lute), Andrew Lawrence-King (double harp), Veronika Skuplik (violin), Barbara Messmer (viola da gamba)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77515 2 (CD)
CD entitled 'Doulce memoire: Glosas, Passeggiati & Diminutions around 1600': NOTARI (after RORE) Ben qui si mostra il ciel (excerpt) c/w MONTEVERDI Sinfonia (Orfeo); DALLA CASA (after SANDRIN) Doulce memoire; ORTIZ Recercada sobre Passamezzo antico; Recercada de canto llano; Recercada sobre tenore; Recercada Quarta sobre Doulce memoire; ORTIZ (after SANDRIN) Doulce memoire; ROGNIONO (after LASSUS) Susane ung jour; RORE Ben qui si mostra il ciel; ROGNIONO (after RORE) Anchor che c'ol partire; TRABACI Ancidetemi pur; SELMA (after PALESTRINA) Vestiva hi colli; WILLAERT Jouissance vous donneray; BONNIZZI (after WILLAERT) Jouissance; TERZI (after WILLAERT) Jouissance: Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Andrew Lawrence-King (double harp), Lee Santana (lute, bass lute, guitar, chittarone), Robert Sagasser, Martina Rothbauer, Paulina van Laaarhoven, Matthias Müller (violas da gamba)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77502 2 (CD)
CD entitled 'The Star and the Sea': SANTANA Greenpeace V c/w Greenpeace II; Greenpeace III; Greenpeace IV: Bilder Ballet I: Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (lute)
CARPE DIEM 16264 (CD)
CD entitled 'Aguirre': AGUIRRE Puerto rico de la puebla (excerpt). c/w works by AGUIRRE, MURCIA, SANZ, ESTEVAN, MARTIN Y COLL, HOLBORNE: Los Otros
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 60489 (CD)
'THE LISTENING BOOTH':
The Listening Booth is a regular slot around midday on Saturday's CD Review. It's your chance to vote for and listen to excerpts from brand-new CDs.
KORNGOLD Die tote Stadt (Bit of Act 1)
Angela Denoke (Marietta/Marie), Daniela Denschlag (Brigitta), Torsten Kerl (Paul), Bo Skovhus (Frank/Fritz), Wiener Philharmoniker, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
ORFEO C 634 0421 (CD)
MARTINU Concerto pour clavecin et petit orchestre (1st movt.)
Monika Knoblochova (harpsichord), Lenka Kozderkova-Simkova (flute), Vaclav Furbach (bassoon), Adela Stajnochrova, Daniela Oerterova, Eleonora Machova (violin), Vojtech Semerad (viola), Tomas Strasil (cello), Jan Buble (double bass), Jana Vychodilova (piano), Michal Macourek (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU 3805-2 (CD)
BARTOK Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Last door!)
John Tomlinson (Bluebeard), Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (Judith), Matyas Sarkozi (Prologue), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 61953-2 (CD)
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RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
DURUFLE Requiem; Notre Pere; Messe cum Jubilo; POULENC Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue; MESSIAEN O Sacrum Convivium:
The Gents & female choir, Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone), Erwin Wiersinga (organ), Quirine Viersen (cello)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 22405 (2-CD/SACD hybrid, mid-price)
