Building a Library: Debussy: Syrinx
Reviewer - Sarah Walker
First Choice: Juliette Hurel (flute)
(Recorded 2001; c/w VARESE Densite 21, 5; DUTILLEUX Sonatine; JOLIVET Chant de Linos; MESSIAEN Merle Noir; DUSAPIN I Pesci; TANGUY Wadi; HERSANT Cinq Miniatures)
Helene Couvert (piano)
NAÏVE V 4925 (CD)
Historic Choice: Marcel Moyse (flute)
(Recorded 1928; from CD entitled ‘Marcel Moyse – Flute Fantastique’; c/w GAUBERT Madrigal; BIZET (arr. Borne) Carmen Fantasy; SAINT-SAENS (arr. Taffanel) The Swan; SECHERS Souvenir de Gand; REICHERT Fantaisie et Variations; HUE Fantaisie – and other works)
Louis Moyse, Georges Truc (piano)
PEARL GEM 0206 (CD, mid-price)
CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.debussy:
bal.debussy.syrinx
Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
CD entitled 'New Year's Concert 2006' (live in Vienna ) - J. STRAUSS II Auf's Korn! (Take Aim!): Vienna Philharmonic, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5566 (2-CD, mid-price)
MOZART Opera & Concert Arias - including 'Ah!, scostati! . . . Smanie implacabili (Cosi Fan Tutte) 'Chi sa, chi sa, quai sia K 582; Deh, se piacer mi vuoi (La Clemenza di Tito); Misero me! . . . Misero pargoletto K 77:
Elina Garanca (mezzo), Frank Braley (piano), Camerata Salzburg, Louis Langree (conductor)
VIRGIN 3326312 (CD)
MOZART The Violin Concertos Nos 1-5; Adagio in E Major K261; Rondo in B Flat Major K269; Rondo in C Major K373: James Ehnes (violin/director), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
CBC RECORDINGS SMCD 52382 (2-CD, mid-price)
HANDEL Water Music ( Suites 1 - 3); Music for the Royal Fireworks: Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557764 (CD, budget)
STRAVINSKY Divertimento (Ballet Suite from 'The Fairy's Kiss'); TCHAIKOVSKY Suite No.3 in G Major, Op.55: Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
PENTATONE CLASSICS PTC 5186 061 (CD/SACD hybrid)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
DEBUSSY Syrinx
Reviewer: Sarah Walker
First Choice:
Juliette Hurel (flute) (recorded 2001; c/w VARESE Densite 21, 5; DUTILLEUX Sonatine; JOLIVET Chant de Linos; MESSIAEN Merle Noir; DUSAPIN I Pesci; TANGUY Wadi; HERSANT Cinq Miniatures)
Helene Couvert (piano)
NAÏVE V 4925 (CD)
Historic Choice:
Marcel Moyse (flute) (recorded 1928; c/w GAUBERT Madrigal; BIZET (arr. Borne) Carmen Fantasy; SAINT-SAENS (arr. Taffanel)
The Swan; SECHERS Souvenir de Gand; REICHERT Fantaisie et Variations; HUE Fantaisie - and other works: Louis Moyse, Georges Truc (piano) (from CD entitled 'Marcel Moyse -Flute Fantastique')
PEARL GEM 0206 (CD, mid-price)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Shostakovich's Symphony No.6]
Consumer Spot - Nielsen
Box-set entitled 'Carl NIELSEN Orchestral Masterworks' REGIS 6002 (6-CD, budget)
(available in this box set or separately)
NIELSEN Overtures & Suites - Little Suite for Strings, Op.1; Prelude to Act 2 of 'Saul and David'; Rhapsody Overture FS 123 'A Fantasy voyage to the Faeroes'; The Mother (Prelude, 7 th scene); Pan and Syrinx, pastorale, Op.49; En Sagadrom; from the opera Maskarade - Overture; Prelude to Act 2; Dance of the Cockerels: Odense Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Veto (conductor)
REGIS RRC1166 (CD, budget)
NIELSEN Violin Concerto*; Clarinet Concerto+; Flute Concerto: Saeka Matsuyama (violin)*, Odense Symphony Orchestra*, John McCaw (clarinet), New Phiharmonia Orchestra+, Raymond Leppard (conductor)+ Jennifer Stinton (flute), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor)
REGIS RRC 1208 (CD, budget)
NIELSEN Symphony No.4 'Inextinguishable'; Symphony No.5: London Symphony Orchestra, Ole Schmidt (conductor)
REGIS RRC 1036 (CD, budget)
NIELSEN Symphony No.1. Op.7; Symphony No.2, Op.16 'Four Temperaments'; Symphony No.3, Op.27 'Sinfonia Espansiva'; Symphony No.6 'Sinfonia Semplice': London Symphony Orchestra, Ole Schmidt (conductor)
REGIS RRC2046 (CD, budget)
NIELSEN Springtime in Funen (Fynsk Forar), Op.42; Suite from Aladdin, Three Motets, Op.55:
The University Choir 'Little Muko', Odense Symphony Orchestra, Tamas Veto (conductor), Inga Nielsen (soprano), Kim Von Binzer (tenor), Jorgen Klint (bass), St Klemens School Children's Choir, Katrine Andersen (girl solo), Signe Yde-Andersen (boy solo)
REGIS RRC 1134 (CD, budget)
NIELSEN Complete Symphonies: Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Poul Elming (tenor), Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
DACAPO 8.203130 (3-CD, budget)
NIELSEN Complete Symphonies: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5514 (3-CD, budget) ('Trio' series)
New Releases - Chamber
Reviewer: Hilary Finch
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op.18 Nos 1-6: No1 in F Major Op.18; No. 2 in G Major Op.18; No.3 in D Major, Op.18; No.4 in C Minor Op.18; No.5 in A Major, Op.18; No.6 in B Flat Major, Op.18: The Borodin Quartet (from CD entitled 'Beethoven String Quartets Volume 6')
CHANDOS CHAN 10381 (3-CD, mid-price)
SCHUBERT Fantasy in C Major, Op.posth 159 D.934; Sonata in A Major Op.posth.162, D.574; Rondo Brillant in B Minor, Op.70 D.895: Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901870 (CD)
FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor; Sonata for Violin & Piano in A Major:
Simon Blendis (violin), William Howard (piano), The Schubert Ensemble
ASV GOLD GLD 4019 (CD)
FRANCAIX Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano; ENESCU Konzertstuck for Viola and Piano; POULENC Sonata for Clarinet & Piano; KURTAG Hommage a R. Sch. Op.15d for Clarinet, Viola and Piano; MATTHUS Wasserspiele for Clarinet, Viola and Piano: Trio Apollon - Matthias Glander (clarinet), Felix Schwartz (viola), Wolfgang Kuhnl (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 625132 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Razumovsky Quartets Op.59 Nos 1-3: in F Major, Op.59, No.1; in E Minor Op.59, No.2; in C Major, Op.59, No.3:
The Tokyo String Quartet
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907423.24 (2-CD, mid-price) or HMU 807423.24 (2 -SACD/CD hybrid, mid-price)
An Interview with Pianist Piers Lane
MOSZKOWSKI Piano Concerto in E Major, Op. 59 (excerpt from first movement, Moderato, played; c/w PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.17) (from CD entitled 'The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 1'): Piers Lane (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 66452 (CD)
PARRY Piano Concerto in F Sharp Major (1880), (excerpt from Third movement, Allegro Vivace, played; c/w STANFORD Piano Concerto No.1 in G Major, Op.59) (from CD entitled 'The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 12'): Piers Lane (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 66820 (CD)
SCRIABIN The Complete Etudes
(Three Etudes, op. 65 - Etude No. 3, played):
Piers Lane (piano)
HYPERION CDA 66607 (CD)
GRAINGER 'Ramble on Love' - from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier; c/w other transcriptions by Grainger) (from CD entitled 'Rambles and Reflections - Piano Transcriptions'): Piers Lane (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67279 (CD)
DELIUS Piano Concerto in C Minor - original version (excerpt from Third movement, Maestoso con moto moderato, played; c/w IRELAND Legend; Piano Concerto in E Flat Major) (from CD entitled 'The Romantic Piano Concerto No.39'): Piers Lane (piano), Ulster Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67296 (CD)
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ELGAR Symphony No.1 in A Flat Major, Op.55:
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
HANSSLER PH05040
BACH Sonatas & Chorales (arranged by the Palladian Ensemble) – including Wachet Auf BWV 645; Allein Gott in der Ho sei Ehr BWV664: The Palladian Ensemble – Pamela Thorby (recorders), Rodolfo Richter (violin), Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba), William Carter (baroque guitar & archlute)
LINN CKD275
SIBELIUS Kullervo:
Peter Mattei (baritone), Monica Group (mezzo), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO LIVE LSO0074 (CD)
Hamilton HARTY Piano Concerto in B Minor:
Peter Donohoe (piano), Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557731
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Willow-Wood (Cantata for Baritone and Orchestra); Toward the Unknown Region; The Voice out of the Whirlwind; Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus; The Sons of Light: Roderick Williams (baritone), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557798 (CD, budget)
