Building a Library: Verdi: Il Trovatore
Reviewer - Hilary Finch
First Choice: Franco Bonisolli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Piero Cappuccili (Count di Luna), Elena Obraztsova (Azucena), Ruggiero Raimondi (Ferrando), M. Venuti (Ines), H. Nitsche (Ruiz), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
(Recorded 1977)
EMI 7693112 (2-CD, budget-price)
CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.verdi:
bal.verdi.il.trovatore
Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
BACH Concerto for Violin in D Minor, BWV 1052; Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Minor BWV 1062; Concerto for Harpsichord & Two Recorders in F Major BWV 1057; Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C Minor BWV 1060: Mayumi Seiler (Violin), Raphael Alpermann & Jorg-Andreas Botticher (harpsichords), Xenia Loffler (oboe/recorder), Christoph Huntgeburth (recorder), Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Stefan Mai (violin/director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901876 (CD)
DESMAREST Grands Motets - De Profundis; Veni Creator; Cum Invocarem (Psalm 4): Hanna Bayodi (soprano), Stephanie Revidat (soprano), Francois-Nicolas Geslot (haute-contre), Benoit Arnould (baritone), Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet (conductor)
GLOSSA GCD 921610 (CD)
CHOPIN Etudes, Op.10 (transcriptions by GODOWSKY): Boris Berezovksy (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 622582 (CD)
MONTEVERDI Eighth Book of Madrigals 1638 (Madrigals of Love and War): La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (director)
GLOSSA GCD 920928 (3-CD, mid-price)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
VERDI Il Trovatore
Reviewer: Hilary Finch
First Choice:
Franco Bonisolli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Piero Cappuccili (Count di Luna), Elena Obraztsova (Azucena), Ruggiero Raimondi (Ferrando), M. Venuti (Ines), H. Nitsche (Ruiz), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus, Herbert von Karajan (conductor) (recorded 1977)
EMI 7693112 (2-CD, budget-price)
[Next week's Building a Library will be a survey of Tippett's Orchestral Music.]
Consumer Spot - Regis Czech Piano Anthology
CD entitled 'Czech Piano Anthology':
Radoslav Kvapil (piano) -
CD1: FIBICH Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences; Studies of Paintings Op.56 - The Quarrel between Shrovetide and Lent; Dance of the Blessed Ones; Io and Jupiter; The Garden Party
CD2: MARTINU Three Czech Dances; Seven Czech Dances; Four Movements; Esquisses
CD3: SMETANA Czech Dances I & II; Bagatelles and Impromptus
CD4: VORISEK Six Impromptus, Op.7; Fantaisie, Op.12; Variations in B Flat Major, Op.19; Sonata in B Flat Minor, Op.20
REGIS RRC 4006 (4-CD, budget)
BACH The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080; Partita No.2 in C Minor, BWV 826; BEETHOVEN Rondos Op.51; Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio Op.129; Piano Sonata No.4 in E Flat Major, Op.7; Piano Sonata No.28 in A Major, Op.101; CHOPIN 24 Preludes, Op.28; BRAHMS Ballades, Op.10; Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op.5: Grigory Sokolov (piano)
NAÏVE OP30421 (5-CD, budget)
New Releases - Early Music
Reviewer: Alison Bullock
CD entitled 'Trio Mediaeval - Stella Maris': ANONYMOUS English, 13 th Century - Flos regalis virginalis; Quem trina polluit; Dou way Robyn/Sancta Mater; Beata Viscera; ANONYMOUS School of Notre-Dame - O Maria, stella maris*; Veni Creator Spiritus; PEROTIN Dum sigillum; HONG Missa Lumen de Lumine: Trio Mediaeval, *John Potter (tenor)
ECM 476 3021 (CD)
CD entitled 'BYRD The Great Service' - O Lord, make they servant Elizabeth; The Great Service; Prevent us, O Lord; Voluntary for my Lady Nevell; How long shall mine enemies?; Out of the deep; Fancy for my Lady Nevell; Christ rising again from the dead; Sing joyfully: The Choir of Westminster Abbey, Robert Quinney (organ), James O'Donnell (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67533 (CD)
GESUALDO First, Second & Third Madrigal Books: Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam ,
Harry van der Kamp (director)
CPO 777 138-2 (2-CD, mid-price)
CD entitled 'Love is Strange' - John JOHNSON Wakefilde on a green; Sellengers Ronnde; Dump; Trenchmore; COSYN Dorick Prelude; HOLBORNE Decrevi; Spero; ANONYMOUS Callinoe; Green Sleeves; A Toy; Corn Yairds; Love is Strange; Canaries; Upon la mi re; PARSONS Ut re mi fa sol la; Thomas ROBINSON Twenty waies upon the bells; John BULL Irish Toy; DOWLAND Lachrimae; John DANIEL Passymeasure Galliard; Galiarda; COPERARIO A Gray's Inn, the First: Le Poeme Harmonique, Pierre Hantai (virginal), Eric Bellocq, Massimo Moscardo, Benjamin Perrot (lutes), Jean-Luc Tamby (ceterone), Vincent Dumestre (lute & director)
ALPHA 081 (CD)
CD entitled ' Sacred Bridges ' The King's Singers and Sarband -
Salamone Rossi HEBREO Psalm 124; Psalm 128; Psalm 118; Ali UFKI, Claude GOUDIMEL Psalm 9; Psalm 6; Psalm 5 SWEELINCK Psalm 6; Psalm 7; Psalm 2; TRAD. Jewish Psalm 113; Instrumental improvisation:
King's Singers, Sarband
SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD065 (CD)
An Interview with pianist Andras Schiff
BEETHOVEN The Complete Piano Concertos (Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15, excerpt from 2nd movement played):
Andras Schiff (piano), Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
TELDEC 0630131592 (3-CD, mid-price)
BACH Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (Variations 2 & 25 played):
Andras Schiff (piano)
ECM 472 1852 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Major Op. 2 No. 2 (excerpt from 1st movement played; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major Op. 2 No.3. excerpt from 4 th movement played; Piano Sonata No.4 in E Flat Major, excerpt from 2 nd movement played; c/w Piano Sonata No.1 in F Minor, Op.2. No.1) (from CD entitled 'The Piano Sonatas Volume 1'): Andras Schiff (piano)
ECM 476 3054 (2-CD, mid-price)
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BACH Cantata No.214 – Tonet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten BWV214:
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ingeborg Danz (mezzo), Mark Padmore (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901860
RAUTAVAARA Book of Visions:
National Orchestra of Belgium, Mikko Franck (conductor)
ONDINE ODE 10645
CD entitled 'Cecilia Bartoli, Opera Proibita' (Forbidden Opera) – Arias by HANDEL; A. SCARLATTI; CALDARA:
Cecilia Bartoli (soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre – Grenoble, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
DECCA 475 6924
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
PART Lamentate; Da Pacem Domine: Alexei Lubimov (piano), SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor), The Hilliard Ensemble,
ECM 476 3048 (CD)
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