Discs played and reviewed in this programme
[Available at full price unless indicated]
NB Timings are approximate
09:00
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F, BWV1046 (1st movement played)
(c/w Brandenburg Concertos Nos.2, 3 & 4):
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
ARTS 477158 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
MOZART Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K364 (2nd movement played)
(c/w Violin Concerto No.4 in D, K218; Violin Concerto No.2 in D, K211):
Maxim Vengerov (violin/director), Lawrence Power (viola), UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
EMI CLASSICS 3783742 (CD)
MOZART Symphony No.41 in C, K551 "Jupiter"
(3rd movement played)
(c/w Symphony No.38 in D, K504 "Prague"):
Freiburger Barockorchester, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901958 (CD)
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F, BWV1047 (1st movement played)
(c/w Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1, 3 & 4):
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
ARTS 477158 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
09:30
Building A Library Recommendations
POULENC Song Survey
Reviewer: Jeremy Sams
First Choice:
CD box set entitled 'Poulenc: Melodies & Chansons - Centenary Edition':
EMI CLASSICS 5668492 (5-CD, budget)
Single Disc Choice:
CD entitled 'Voyage a Paris: The Melodies of Francis Poulenc':
Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) and members of The Songmakers' Almanac
HYPERION CDA66147 (CD)
Next week, Graham Sadler chooses from the available recordings of Charpentier's Te Deum.
10:15
New Releases of British Music
SCOTT Violin Concerto (3rd movement played)
(c/w Festival Overture; Aubade, Op.77; Three Symphonic Dances, Op.22):
Olivier Charlier (violin), BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN10407 (CD)
L. BERKELEY Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op.30 (1st movement played)
(c/w M. BERKELEY Concerto for Orchestra 'Seascapes'; Gregorian Variations):
Kathryn Stott (piano), Howard Shelley (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN10408 (CD)
BRITTEN Negroes (extracts played); When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection
(from CD entitled 'Britten on Film' - also featuring Night Mail; The Tocher (Rossini Suite); The King's Stamp; The Way to the Sea; Telegrams; Peace of Britain; Men Behind the Meters; Coal Face):
Simon Russell Beale (narrator), Mary Carewe (soprano), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Choir of King Edward's School Birmingham, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
NMC D112 (CD)
MAW Three Hymns (Pastoral Hymn played)
(from CD entitled 'Choral Music by Nicholas Maw' - also including Five Epigrams; Five Irish Songs; One foot in Eden still, I stand):
Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Mark Shepherd (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67615 (CD)
D. MATTHEWS Winter Remembered (excerpt played)
(from CD entitled 'British Viola Music' - also featuring ALWYN Pastoral Fantasia; McCABE Concerto Funebre; HOLST Lyric Movement; MACONCHY Romance):
Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola), Orchestra Nova, George Vass (conductor)
DUTTON CDLX7186 (CD)
PAYNE Scenes from The Woodlanders (excerpt played)
(c/w Empty Landscapes; Of Knots and Skeins; Poems of Edward Thomas; The Stones and Lonely Places Sing):
Jane Manning (soprano), Jane's Minstrels, Roger Montgomery (conductor)
NMC D130 (CD)
10:45
Bach's Mass in B Minor
Reviewer: Nicholas Anderson
BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV232
Marlies Petersen (soprano), Stella Doufexis (soprano), Anke Vondung (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (bass), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling (conductor)
HANSSLER CLASSIC HAN098274 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid)
BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV232
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Maitrise Notre Dame de Paris, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson (conductor)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 3706369 (DVD)
BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV232
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Johannette Zomer (soprano), Matthew White (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), The Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven (conductor)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA25007 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid)
BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV232
Mechthild Bach (soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto), Marcus Ullmann (tenor), Raimund Nolte (baritone), Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (conductor)
CARUS 83211 (2-CD)
11:15
Listener Suggestions
SIBELIUS Tulen Synty (The Origin of Fire), Op.32 (revised version)
(c/w Sandels (original and revised versions); Have you Courage? (2nd and 4th versions); The Captive Queen; March of the Finnish Jager Battalion; The Rapids-Rider's Brides; The Lover; The Origin of Fire (original version)):
Tommi Hakala (baritone), YL Male Voice Choir, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD-1525 (CD)
BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45 (Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen played)
Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 3653932 (CD)
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11:45
Disc Of The Week
BARTOK Sonata for Solo Violin Sz.117 (1st movement: Tempo di ciaccona played); HARTMANN Suite No.1 for Solo Violin (5th movement: Ciaccona played); BACH Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV1004 (5th movement: Chaconne played):
Viviane Hagner (violin)
ALTARA ALT1016 (CD)
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