CD Review
09.05am
BRUCKNER: Mass in E minor & Motets
'Ave Maria'
Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67629 (CD)
BIBER: Vespro Della Beata Vergine
'Dixit Dominus'
Monika Mauch (soprano), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass), Anette Sichelschmidt (violin), La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson (conductor)
Sony Classical 82876709322 (CD)
RHEINBERGER: Mass Op. 109
(c/w Oster-Hymne, Op. 134; Vier sechsstimmige Motetten Op. 133; Drei geistliche Gesange, Op. 69)
Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy (conductor)
Chandos CHSA 5055 (Hybrid SACD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
GLUCK: IPHIGENIE EN TAURIDE
Reviewer - Simon Heighes
FIRST CHOICE:
Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski
(recorded 1999)
Mireille Delunsch, Simon Keenlyside, Yann Beuron, Laurent Naouri, Alexia Cousin, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Archiv 4711332 (2 CDs)
Next week Anthony Burton reviews recordings of Schubert's String Quintet D956.
10.20 am Ivan Hewett in discussion with Andrew
McGregor about violin concertos
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto; GANG CHEN and ZHANHAO HE: The Butterfly Lovers (concerto for violin)
Gil Shaham (violin), Lan Shui (conductor), Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Canary Classics CC04 (CD)
GUO YUE: Music, Food and Love
'A Dark Red Violin' (erhu solo)
(c/w other original compositions or arrangements by Guo Ye)
Guo Yue (percussion, bawu, dizi, silver flute and xiao), Ged Lynch (percussion), Yu Chun Yan (erhu), Zhao Wei (Yang Qin), Wang Zun Feng (Suona), Liu Xiao Yan (Zheng), Secret Sound Orchestra Budapest, Ben Murray (accordion and piano), Richard Evens (mandolin), John Giblin (double bass), Guo Xuan (voice)
Real World Records CDR W137 (CD, Budget)
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 (c/w Octet for Strings in Eb Major Op. 20; 3 Lieder arranged for violin and piano)
Daniel Hope (violin), Sebastian Knauer (piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6634 (CD)
BEETHOVEN: Violin concerto in D major Op. 61; Violin Sonata No. 9 Op. 47 (Kreutzer)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), The Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901944 (CD)
BEETHOVEN: Violin concerto in D major Op. 61; Violin Sonata No. 9 Op. 47 (Kreutzer)
Vadim Repin (violin), Martha Argerich (piano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Mutti (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6596 (2 CDs)
11.40 am Listener Choice
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Lucerne Festival Edition 7 640125 120455 (CD)
Available from the Lucerne Festival website (http://e.lucernefestival.ch). Alternatively this can be purchased through Presto Classical from their website (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Lucerne%2BFestival%2BOrchestra/7640125120455) or their shop in Leamington Spa.
STOCKHAUSEN: Stimmung
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (director), Ian Dearden (sound diffusion)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 807408 (Hybrid SACD)
VIRGIL THOMSON: The Plow that Broke the Plains
'Devastation'
(c/w The River)
Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordonez (conductor)
Naxos 8.559291 (CD, Budget)
11.50 am Disc of the Week
MAHLER: 8th Symphony
Twyla Robinson, Erin Wall and Adriane Queiroz (sopranos); Michelle DeYoung, Simone Schroder (altos); Johan Botha (tenor); Hanno Muller-Brachmann (baritone); Robert Holl (bass) Choir of the German State Opera Berlin, Berlin Radio Choir Staatskapelle Berlin, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 4776597 (2CDs)
