In this week's programme:
09.05am
STRAVINSKY: Symphony in 3 Movements; Symphony of Psalms; Symphony in C
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5099920763008 (CD)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 10 in F sharp (performing version by Deryck Cooke)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 7347 (CD)
Fiesta
(Revueltas: Sensemaya (Mexico); Carreno: Margaritena (Venezuela); Estevez: Mediodia en el Llano (Venezuela); Marquez: Danzon No. 2 (Mexico); Romero: Fuga con Pajarillo (Venezuela)
from Suite for Strings no. 1 (orchestral version); Ginastera: Dances from the ballet "Estancia" Op. 8 (Argentina); Castellanos: Santa Cruz de Pacairigua (Venezuela); Bernstein: Mambo
Symphonic Dance from "West Side Story")
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 7457 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
MESSIAEN: La Nativite du Seigneur
Reviewer - Jeremy Thurlow
First Choice:
(c/w Apparition de L'Eglise Eternelle; Le Banquet Celeste)
Dame Gillian Weir (organ of Arhus Cathedral, Denmark)
Priory PRCD921 (CD, Mid Price)
Historic Choice:
(c/w Le banquet celeste; Diptyque - Essai sur la vie terrestre et l'eternite religieuse; Apparition de l'Eglise eternelle; L'Ascension - 4 Meditations; Les Corps glorieux - 7 Visions de la vie des ressuscites; Messe de la Pentecote; Livre d'orgue - 7 Pieces)
Olivier Messiaen (organ of La Sainte-Trinite, Paris)
EMI 7674002 (4 CDs, Budget)
Also Recommended:
(Complete organ works)
Olivier Latry (organ of Notre Dame de Paris)
Deutsche Grammophon 471 480-2 (6 CDs, Mid Price)
Next week Misha Donat recommends a recordings of Mozart's String Quartet in C ("Dissonance") K. 465.
10.15 New Releases
JS BACH: Fruhwerke (Early Works)
(Toccata in D major BWV 912; Partite diverse sopra il corale "O Gott, du frommer Gott" in C minor BWV 767; Toccata in E minor BWV 914; Suite in A minor BWV 818a; Toccata in G major BWV 916; Capriccio sopra la lontananza del fratello dilettissimo BWV 992)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord - Anthony Sidney after Hass)
Harmonia Mundi 901960 (CD)
Ingenious Jestings
(JAMES NARES: Eight Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord; HANDEL: Suite in D minor HWV 447)
Julian Perkins (harpsichords - Kirckman single-manual harpsichord 1764 and Shudi double-manual harpsichord 1740)
AVIE AV2152 (CD)
Original Compositions in the Tradition of Nancarrow
(JAMES TENNEY: Music for Player Piano; Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow; TOM JOHNSON: Study for Player Piano; DANIELE LOMBARDI: Toccata for Player Piano; STEFFEN SCHLEIERMACHER: Four Pieces for player piano and prepared player piano; Funf Stucke fur Player Piano; KRZYSZTOF MAYER: Les Sons Rayonnants fur zwei Player Pianos und Synthesizer; MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN: Solfeggietto a cinque for Player Piano; Pop Music?; Circus Galop for two Player Pianos)
Bosendorfer Grand Piano (with Ampico Player Piano Mechanism 1927) and Fisher Grand Piano with Ampico Player Piano Mechanism (1925)
Musikproduktion Drabringhaus und Grimm MDG 645 1406-2 (CD)
10.45 New Handel Releases
Berta Joncus talks to Andrew about recent Handel vocal recordings. With extracts from the following discs:
Handel Arias
('Da Tempeste' from Giulio Cesare; 'Lascia ch'io pianga' from Rinaldo; 'Tornami a vagheggiar' from Alcina; 'Dolce riposo' from Teseo; 'O stringero nel sen' from Teseo; 'Felicissima quest'alma' from Apollo e Dafne; 'Il mio crudel martoro' from Ariodante; 'Vo' far Guerra' from Rinaldo; 'Ah spietato' from Amadigi di Gaula; 'Myself I Shall Adore' from Semele; 'Piangero la sorte mia' from Giulio Cesare; 'Endless Pleasure, Endless Love' from Semele
Danielle de Niese (soprano), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
Decca 475 8746 (CD)
HANDEL: Riccardo Primo
Lawrence Zazzo (Riccardo Primo), Nuria Rial (Constanza), Geraldine McGreevy (Pulcheria), Tim Mead (Oronte), David Wilson-Johnson (Isacio), Curtis Streeman (Berardo), Kammerorchester Basel, Paul Goodwin (conductor)
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88697174212 (3 CDs)
HANDEL: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno HWV46a
Roberta Inverinizzi (Beauty), Kate Aldrich (Pleasure), Martin Oro (Enlightenment), Jorg Durmuller (Time), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67681/2 (2 CDs)
HANDEL: Alcina
Anja Harteros (Alcina), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), John Mark Ainsley (Oronte), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Deborah York (Oberto), Christopher Purves (Melisso), Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
Farao Classics S108080 (3 SACDs)
11.40am Disc of the Week
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5
Francois-Frederic Guy, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
Naive V5084 (CD)
