Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
GRIEG Holberg Suite, Op.40; Two Elegiac Melodies, Op.34; Two Melodies, Op.53; Two Nordic Melodies, Op.63; Two Lyric Pieces, Op.68: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
BIS SACD 1491 (CD/SACD hybrid)
DVORAK Sonatina for Violin & Piano in G Major, Op.100; JANACEK Sonata for Violin and Piano; BRAHMS Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in D Minor, Op.108; BEETHOVEN Sonata for Violin and Piano No.10 in G Major, Op.96:
Josef Suk (violin), Rudolf Firkusny (piano) (live at the Prague Spring Festival 1992)
SUPRAPHON SU 38572 (CD)
SCHUBERT Octet in F Major D803:
Mullova Ensemble
ONYX 4006 (CD, mid-price)
CD entitled 'Love Bade Me Welcome' (Songs & Poetry from the Renaissance) - Love (George Herbert); Robert JONES Once Did I Serve a Cruel Heart; Though Your Strangeness; My Complaining is But Feigning; Sweet Kate; What if I Seek for Love of Thee?; Lie, Down Poor Heart; And is it Night?; Grief of My Best Love's Absenting; Hark! Wot ye What?; DOWLAND Flow, My Tears; Say Love If Ever Thou Didst Find; Lacrimae; Me, Me and None But Me; Come Again: Sweet Love - and poetry by Shakespeare; Ben Jonson; Quarles; Campion & Cowley: Ralph Fiennes (recitation), James Bowman, Daniel Taylor (countertenors), Frances Kelly (harp), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Mark Levy (viola da gamba),
Ralph Fiennes (recitation)
BIS CD 1446 (CD)
SALIERI La Grotta di Trofonio:
Olivier Lallouette (Aristone), Raffaella Milanesi (Ofelia), Marie Arnet (Dori), Nikolai Schukoff (Artemidoro), Mario Cassi (Plistene), Carlo Lepore (Trofonio), Chorus of Lausanne Opera, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor)
AMBROISIE AMB 9986 (3-CD, mid-price)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
An Elliott CARTER Survey
Reviewer: Stephen Plaistow
Recommended:
CARTER Dialogues*; Boston Concerto; Cello Concerto; ASKO Concerto: Nicolas Hodges (piano)*, London Sinfonietta*, Oliver Knussen (conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Fred Sherry (cello), Asko Ensemble
BRIDGE 9184 (CD)
CARTER Clarinet Concerto*; Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei - Partita; Adagio tenebroso; Allegro scorrevole: Michael Collins (clarinet), London Sinfonietta*, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 459 6602 (CD)
CARTER Concerto for Piano & Orchestra; Concerto for Orchestra; Three Occasions for Orchestra - A Celebration of 100 x 150 Notes; Remembrance; Anniversary: SWR Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen (conductor), Ursula Oppens (piano)
ARTE NOVA 74321 277732 (CD, budget)
CARTER Night Fantasies; Two Diversions; 90 +; c/w RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 621602 (CD + bonus interview CD)
CARTER Three Poems of Robert Frost*; A Mirror on Which to Dwell+; Syringa**; In Sleep, in Thunder++: *Patrick Mason (baritone), Speculum Musicae, David Starobin (conductor), + Christine Schadeberg (soprano), Speculum Musicae, Donald Palma (conductor), ** Katherine Ciesinski (mezzo), Jan Opalach (bass-baritone), Speculum Musicae, William Purvis (conductor), ++ Jon Garrison (tenor), Robert Black (conductor)
BRIDGE BCD 9014 (CD)
CARTER Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi*; Gra+; Enchanted Preludes^ ¬; Duo*++; Scrivo in Vento^; Changes `; Con Leggerezza Pensosa +*¬; Sonata for Cello & Piano¬ =: Rolf Schulte (violin)*, Charles Neidich (clarinet)+, Harvey Sollberger (flute)^, Fred Sherry (cello)¬, Charles Wuorinen (piano)= Martin Goldray (piano)++, David Starobin (guitar) `
BRIDGE BCD 9044 (CD)
CARTER Esprit rude, Esprit doux for Flute & Clarinet; Enchanted Preludes for Flute & Cello; Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi for Solo Violin; Triple Duo; c/w BACH Suite No.3 in C Major for Cello BWV 1009: Philippe Racine (Flute), Ernesto Molinari (clarinet), Thomas Demenga (cello), Hansheinz Schneeberger (violin), Paul Cleemann (piano), Gerhard Huber (percussion), Jurg Wyttenbach (conductor)
ECM 839 6172 (CD)
CARTER String Quartets 1-4; Elegy:
Arditti String Quartet
ETCETERA KTC 2507 (2-CD, mid-price)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Vaughan Williams's Mass in G Minor.]
Consumer Spot - Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
CD entitled 'Music in Reims Cathedral and at Notre-Dame in Paris' - MACHAUT Messe de Notre Dame; PEROTIN Sederunt Principes; Viderunt Omnes; Philippe le CHANCELIER Dic Christi veritas; and works by Anonymous composers: Deller Consort, London, Collegium Aureum, Alfred Deller (director)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700352 (CD, mid-price)
CD entitled 'A Rococo Flirt - Light-Hearted & Frivolous Songs': Works by KRIEGER; TELEMANN; ROUSSEAU; GRAUN; HAMMERSCHMIDT & others:
Edith Mathis (soprano), Benno Kusche (bass baritone), Fritz Neumeyer (harpsichord), Reinhold Johannes Buhl (cello)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700332 (CD, mid-price)
BACH Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord -Sonata in G Major BWV 1027; Sonata in D Major BWV 1028; Sonata in G Minor BWV 1029: Johannes Koch (viola da gamba), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700452 (CD, mid-price)
BACH The Art of Fugue BWV 1080:
Collegium Aureum, Fritz Neumeyer, Lilly Berger (harpsichord)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700472 (2-CD mid-price)
DUFAY Missa, Se la face ay pale; Hymnus in Adventu Domini 'Conditor alme siderum'; Hymnus in Festo Omnium Sanctorum 'Christe, redemptor omnium': Quirin Sappl (soprano) Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (tenor), Willi Gesell (baritone), Hans-Martin Linde (baritone), Tolzer Knabenchor, Collegium Aureum, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (director)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 6999222 (CD mid-price)
BACH Concerto for Violin, Oboe and Strings in D Minor BWV 1060; Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord and Strings in A Minor BWV 1044; Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in D Minor: Helmut Hucke (oboe), Barthold Kuijken (flute), Bob van Asperen (harpsichord), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), Collegium Aureum
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700442 (CD mid-price)
CD entitled 'Music For Recorder from the Renaissance and Baroque' - TELEMANN Sonata in F Major for Recorder and Continuo (guitar); Johnn Jakob van EYCK Variations for Solo Recorder; Variations on Dowland's 'Flow My Tears'; BACH Prelude in C Minor BWV 999; Fugue in G Minor BWV 1000; HANDEL Sonata in A Minor Op.1 No.4; Recorder Sonata in G Minor Op.1, No.2; Recorder Sonata in C Major, Op.1 No.7; Recorder Sonata in A Minor, Op.1 No.4; Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op.1 No.11; DOWLAND The King of Denmark's Galliard; Robert CARR Divisions upon an Italian Ground; ANONYMOUS Greensleeves to a Ground:
Hans-Martin Linde (recorder), Konrad Ragossnig (lute and guitar), August Wenzinger (viola da gamba), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700322 (2-CD mid-price)
CD entitled 'Music in Versailles' - Marin MARAIS La Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont a Paris; Tombeau de Mr de Sainte-Colombe; Jean Henri d'ANGLEBERT Prelude in D Minor for Harpsichord (Pieces de clavecin); FORQUERAY Suite in C Minor for Viola da Gamba in C Minor: Sigiswald Kuijken (viola da gamba), Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 700402 (CD mid-price)
Missa Salisburgensis (attrib. BIBER): Escolania de Montserrat, Tolzer Knabenchor, Collegium Aureum, P. Ireneu Segarra (director)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 708102 (CD mid-price)
Gregorian Chant for the Feast of St Benedict of Nursia: Choralschola der Benediktiner-Abtei Munsterschwarzach, P. Godehard Joppich (director)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 699882 (CD mid-price)
New Releases - Piano
Reviewer: David Fanning
SUK Fantaisie-Polonaise, Op.5; Humoresque in C; Moods, Op.10; Piano Pieces, Op.12; Village Serenade; Suite, Op.21; Spring Op.22a; Summer Moods, Op.22b; About Mother, Op.28; Things Lived and Dreamt, Op.30; Lullabies, Op.33; Friendship, Op.36; Episodes:
Pavel Stepan (piano)
SUPRAPHON SU38202 (3-CD, mid-price)
Hans GAL The Complete Works for Solo Piano:
Leon McCawley (piano)
AVIE AV2064 (3-CD, mid-price)
SCHOENBERG Drei Klavierstucke, Op.11; Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke, Op. 19; Funf Klavierstucke, Op.23; Suite for Klavier, Op. 25; Klavierstucke, Op.33a/b; Fragment Eines Klavierstucks; BERG Piano Sonata, Op.1; Sonata Fragment (Wozzeck Fragment):
Roland Pontinen (piano)
BIS CD 1417 (CD)
BACH Chaconne from the Partita No.2 in D Minor for Solo Violin; SAINT-SAENS 6 Studies, Op.135; Dinu LIPATTI Sonatina; SCRIABIN Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op.9, No.1; Nocturne in D Flat Major, Op.9, No.2; SCHULHOFF Suite No.3; J. STRAUSS/L.GODOWSKY Symphonic Metamorphoses of the Schatz-Walzer - Themes from 'the Gypsy Baron':
Antoine Rebstein (piano)
CLAVES 502502 (CD)
SMETANA Macbeth and the Witches; Der Neugierige/Inquisitive; Ball-Vision. Polka Rhapsody; Bettina Polka; Concert Etude in C Major; Souvenirs de Boheme en forme de Polkas, Op.12-13; On the Seashore, Op.17; Fantasie concertante on Czech Folk Songs: Jitka Cechova (piano)
SUPRAPHON SU 38412 (CD)
An Interview with fortepianist Andreas Staier
HAYDN Keyboard Concerto in D Major Hob.XVIII:11 (excerpt from finale played) c/w Concerto in G Major Hob.XVIII:4; Concerto in F Major Hob.XVIII:6: Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra,
Gottfried von der Goltz (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901854 (CD)
C.P.E BACH Quartet No.3 in G Major H539 (excerpt form 2 nd movt. played; c/w Fantasia in C Major; Sonata in A Minor; 12 Variationes auf die Folie d'Espagne in D Minor; Sonata per il Cembalo solo in G Minor; 'Freye Fantasie in F Sharp Minor; Rondo in C Minor; Sonata in E Minor; Three Quartets for Fortepiano, Flute & Viola; Concerto in C Minor for Harpsichord & Orchestra; Sinfonia in D Major for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo; Sonata for Harpsichord & Violin in B Minor; Sonata in A Major for Flute, Violin and Basso Continuo; J.C.F. BACH Quartet No.3 in C Major for Flute, Violin, Viola and Basso Continuo; J.C. BACH Quintet in G Major Op.11, No.2 for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola and Basso Continuo; Quintet in F Major Op.11, No.3 for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola and Basso Continuo): Andreas Staier (harpsichord/fortepiano), Les Adieux, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 673742 (3-CD, mid-price)
DUSSEK Piano Sonata in B Flat Major Op.35, No.1 (played; c/w Piano Sonata in G Major, Op.35, No.2; Piano Sonata in D Major, Op.31, No.2; Fantasia and Fugue in F Minor 'inscribed to J.B. Cramer'; Sonata 'Le Retour a Paris' in A Flat Major; Elegie Harmonique on the death of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia): Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 673772 (2-CD, mid-price)
MOZART Piano Sonata in A Major K331 (last movement played - 'Rondo alla Turca') c/w Sonata in C Major K330; Sonata in F Major K332: Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901856 (CD)
TELEMANN Suite 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth' TWV 55 transcribed Staier ('La Maree' - Ebb and Flow played) (From CD entitled ' Hamburg 1734' c/w solo harpsichord music by TELEMANN, HANDEL, BUXTEHUDE, MATTHESON, BOEHM, WECKMANN, SCHEIDEMANN & PAUSET:
Andreas Staier & Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord, four hands)
HARMONIA MUNDI 901898 (CD)
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CD entitled 'The English Rachmaninov' Walter VALE Requiem Mass in D Flat in commeration of the faithful departed:
The Choir of All Saints, Margaret Street London, Paul Brough (conductor)
PRIORY PRCD 860
BACH The 6 Cello Suites BWV 1007-1012:
Truls Mork (cello)
VIRGIN 5456502 (2-CD)
SCHUBERT Symphony No.9 in C D944 'The Great':
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 3393822
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op.64; BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D Major Op.61: Nikolaj Znaider (violin),
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
RCA 82876 692172 (CD)
