On this week's programme:
09.05am
SALIERI: Der Rauchfangkehrer - Overture from disc Antonio Salieri - Overtures and Ballet Music (volume 1)
(c/w Armida - Sinfonia in Pantomima; Daliso e Delmita - Overture; Pafio e Mirra ossia I prigionieri di Cipro - extracts; Les Danaides - extracts; Les Horaces - Overture; Catilina - Overture)
Mannheimer Mozartorchester, Thomas Fey (conductor)
Hanssler Classic CD 98.506 (CD)
JF FASCH: Concerto in B flat FWVL: B3 (second movement)
(c/w Overture grosso in D, FWVK: D8; Concerto in D, FWVL: D15; Andante in D, FWVL: D 15)
Tempesta di Mare, Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone (Artistic Directors)
CHANDOS CHAN0751 (CD)
CPE BACH: Sinfonia in B major Wq deest (first and second movements) from disc Sinfonias from the Enlightenment
(c/w HASSE: Sinfonia in D major; GRAUN: Sinfonia in E flat major; WF BACH: Sinfonia in D major; CPE BACH: Sinfonia in E flat major Wq deest; HAYDN: Symphony No. 39 in g minor Hob. 1:39; MOZART: Symphony No. 29 in A major K201)
moderntimes_1800, Ilia Korol and Julia Moretti (artistic directors)
Challenge Classics CC72193 (2 CDs, Mid Price)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 13
Reviewer - Edward Seckerson
First Choice:
(c/w Symphonies 1-12; Symphonies 14-15; October Op. 131; The Sun Shines on Our Motherland Op. 90; The Execution of Stepan Razin Op. 119; Violin Concerto No. 2)
Artur Eizen (bass), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)
Melodiya MELCD1001065 (11 CDs, Budget)
Budget Choice:
Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), West German Radio (WDR) Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai (conductor)
Regis RRC 1102 (CD, Budget)
Also available on Brilliant Classics 6324 (11 CDs, Budget - The Complete Symphonies)
Next week Jeremy Thurlow examines recordings of Messiaen's La Nativite du Seigneur
10.15 New Releases
VERDI: Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto)*; SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe Op. 48 ('Die alten, bosen Lieder') from disc Knut Skram - Concert Recordings
(c/w VERDI: Alzati - Eri tu (from Un ballo in maschera); Morir! Tremenda cosa! - Urna fatale (from La forza del destino); Madamigella Valery, duet (from La Traviata); WAGNER: O, du mein holder Abendstern (from Tannhauser); MOZART: Fin ch'an dal vino (from Don Giovanni); Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja (from Die Zauberflote))
Knut Skram (baritone)*±, Inga Nielsen (soprano), Robert Levin (piano) ±, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra*, Antonio Pappano (conductor)*, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
Simax Classics PSC 1804 (2 CDs, Mid Price)
BRITTEN: Lines written during a sleepless night (The Poet's Echo OP. 76)*; Sonetto XXX 'Veggio co'bei vostri occhi un dolce lume' (Sevent Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22)± from disc Britten Abroad
(c/w Four French Folksong Arrangements for high voice: La Noel passee, Voici le Printemps, Fileuse, Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse; Um Mitternacht (1960); Sechs Holderlin-Fragmente, Op. 61; French Folk Song Arrangements: La belle est au jardin d'amour; Il est quelqu'un sur terre; Eho! Eho!; Quand j'etais chez mon pere)
Susan Gritton (soprano)*, Mark Padmore (tenor)±, Iain Burnside (piano)
Signum Classics SIGCD122 (CD, Mid Price)
IRELAND : Youth's Spring-Tribute (Marigold - Impression for Voice and Piano) from disc The English Song Series Volume 18
(c/w Great Things; Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy; Sea Fever; The Bells of San Marie; Vagabond; Santa Chiara (Palm Sunday: Naples); Tryst (in Fountain Court); During Music; Penumbra; Spleen; I have Twelve Oxen; We'll to the Woods; Five Poems by Thomas Hardy; The Cost; When I am dead; The Salley Gardens; Tutto e sciolto; If there were dreams to sell)
Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Naxos 8.570467 (CD, Budget)
10.50am New Mahler Releases
Peter Quantrill discusses with Andrew new releases of Mahler Symphonies. Extracts from the following discs:
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
LSO Live LSO0661 (Hybrid SACD, Mid Price)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
CSO Resound CSOR 901 804 (2 CDs)
Also available as a Hybrid SACD
MAHLER: Symphony No. 4
Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman (conductor)
RCA Red Seal 88697 16852 2 (Hybrid SACD)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7
(c/w Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter")
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
BBC Legends BBCL 4224-2 (2 CDs, Mid Price)
11.40am Disc of the Week
SCHOENBERG: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 36
(c/w SIBELIUS: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 47)
Hilary Hahn (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 7346 (CD)
