Building a Library: Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40
Reviewer - Lowri Blake
First Choice: Pieter Wispelway (cello), Dejan Lazic (piano)
(recorded 2002; c/w BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C major, Op.65; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C, Op.119)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS20098 (CD) or CCSSA20003 (SACD)
Historic Choice: Daniel Shafran (cello), Dmitri Shostakovich (piano)
(recorded 1946; from the Daniel Shafran Edition - including works by BACH, CHOPIN, DAVIDOV, DEBUSSY, FRANCK, KABALEVKSY, PROKOFIEV, RACHMANINOV and TCHAIKOVSKY)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93096 (7-CD, budget)
Alternative Budget Choice: Lynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
(recorded 1995; c/w SHOSTAKOVICH Moderato for Cello and Piano; 2 Pieces for String Quartet; Piano Quintet; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C, Op.119; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata, Op.19; Prelude, Op.2 No.1; Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2; Altschuler - Melodie on a theme by Rachmaninov; Romance; Vocalise, Op.34 No.14)
DECCA 4738072 (2-CD, budget) or 4757425 (5-CD, budget - Shostakovich Piano Music & Chamber Works)
CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.shostakovich:
bal.shostakovich.cello.sonata.op.40
Playlist
[All recordings are available at full price unless indicated otherwise.]
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LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor
(c/w RAMEAU Gavotte variee (from Suite in A minor); HAYDN Piano Sonata in E minor, HWVI:34; HINDEMITH Piano Sonata No.3 in B flat; CHOPIN Ballade No.3 in A flat, Op.47; Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op.48 No.2; Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op.59 No.3; Mazurka in G, Op.67, No.1; L. BERKELEY Preludes Op.23 Nos.5 & 6; Polka, Op.5; TCHAIKOVSKY October: Chant d'automne from The Seasons):
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
(recorded live October 1993)
WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0014 (CD, mid-price)
MAHLER Five Ruckert-Lieder (Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen played)
HANDEL E vivo ancora.Scherza infida (from Ariodante); As with rosy steps (from Theodora); P. LIEBERSON O ihr Zartlichen; Stiller Freund; Triraksha's aria (from Ashoka's Dream); TRAD. Spiritual - Deep River; BRAHMS Unbewegte laue Luft, Op.57 No.8)
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
(recorded live November 1998)
WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0013 (CD, mid-price)
P. LIEBERSON Neruda Songs (My love, if I die and you don't. played)
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)
(recorded live November 2005)
NONESUCH 7559799542 (CD, mid-price)
Building A Library Recommendations:
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40
Reviewer: Lowri Blake
First Choice:
Pieter Wispelway (cello), Dejan Lazic (piano)
(recorded 2002; c/w BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C major, Op.65; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C, Op.119)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS20098 (CD) or CCSSA20003 (SACD)
Historic Choice:
Daniel Shafran (cello), Dmitri Shostakovich (piano)
(recorded 1946; from the Daniel Shafran Edition - including works by BACH, CHOPIN, DAVIDOV, DEBUSSY, FRANCK, KABALEVKSY, PROKOFIEV, RACHMANINOV and TCHAIKOVSKY)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93096 (7-CD, budget)
Alternative Budget Choice:
Lynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
(recorded 1995; c/w SHOSTAKOVICH Moderato for Cello and Piano; 2 Pieces for String Quartet; Piano Quintet; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C, Op.119; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata, Op.19; Prelude, Op.2 No.1; Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2; Altschuler - Melodie on a theme by Rachmaninov; Romance; Vocalise, Op.34 No.14)
DOUBLE DECCA 4738072 (2-CD, budget)
Also available on 5-CD set of Shostakovich Piano Music & Chamber Works
DECCA 4757425 (5-CD, budget)
Next week, Richard Wigmore compares the available recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.88 in G 'Letter V'.
Consumer Spot - Warner Classic's Evgeny Svetlanov Edition:
RACHMANINOV Symphony No.1 in D minor, Op.13; Caprice Bohemien, Op.12; Scherzo in D minor:
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101122342 (CD, mid-price)
RACHMANINOV Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27; The Rock, Fantasy, Op.7:
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101122352 (CD, mid-price)
RACHMANINOV Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.44; The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic Poem, Op.29:
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101122362 (CD, mid-price)
RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances, Op.45; Symphonic Poem 'Prince Rostislav'; Vocalise, Op.34/14:
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101145052 (CD, mid-price)
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel); Songs and Dances of Death; Golitsyn train (from Kovanschina); Solemn March (the capture of Kars):
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101145112 (CD, mid-price)
GLAZUNOV Raymonda, Op.57:
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101155912 (2-CD, mid-price)
STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du Printemps*; Petrushka+:
Russian State Symphony Orchestra*, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France+, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101145072 (CD, mid-price)
MEDTNER Violin Sonata No.2 in G, Op.44; Piano Quintet in C, Op.posth.;
Alexander Labko (violin), Borodin Quartet, Evgeny Svetlanov (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101145182 (CD, mid-price)
ALFVEN Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.39; DEBUSSY La Mer:
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5101145092 (CD, mid-price)
New Releases - Mozart Operas on DVD: 2006 Salzburg Festival's M22 project:
Reviewer: Geoffrey Smith
MOZART Ascanio in Alba
Iris Kupke (Venere), Sonia Prina (Ascanio), Marie-Belle Sandis (Silvia), Charles Reid (Aceste), Diana Damrau (Fauno), Chor und Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim, Adam Fischer (conductor), David Hermann (stage director)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 0734229 (DVD)
MOZART Lucio Silla
Roberto Sacca (Lucio Silla), Annick Massis (Giunia), Monica Bacelli (Cecilio), Veronica Cangemi (Lucio Cinna), Julia Kleiter (Celia), Stefano Ferrari (Aufidio), Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice Venice, Tomas Netopil (conductor), Jurgen Flimm (stage director)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 0734226 (2-DVD)
MOZART La Finta Giardiniera
John Graham-Hall (Don Anchise), Alexandra Reinprecht (Violante Onesti), John Mark Ainsley (Belfiore), Veronique Gens (Arminda), Ruxandra Dunose (Ramiro), Adriana Kucerova (Serpetta), Markus Werba (Roberto), Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton (conductor), Doris Dorrie (stage director)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 0734222 (2-DVD)
MOZART Il Re Pastore
Kresimir Spicer (Alessandro), Annette Dasch (Aminta), Marlis Petersen Elisa), Arpine Rahdjian (Tamiri), Andreas Karasiak (Agenore), Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor and stage director)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 0734225 (DVD)
Interview - Jose Serebrier:
SEREBRIER Symphony No.3 (excerpt from 4th movement played)
(c/w Passacaglia Perpetuum Mobile; Variations on a Theme from Childhood; Elegy for Strings; Momento psicologico; Fantasia; Dorothy and Carmine!; George and Muriel):
Carole Farley (soprano), Toulouse National Chamber Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
NAXOS 8559183 (CD, budget)
IVES Symphony No.4 (excerpt from 4th movement played)
(c/w Robert Browning Overture; Songs):
Members of the Schola Cantorum of New York, The American Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL MPK46726 (CD, not currently available)
BACH/STOKOWSKI Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV582 (excerpt played)
(c/w Air from the Orchestral Suite No.3; Sheep may safely graze; 'Little' Fugue in G minor, BWV578; Komm susser Tod; Chorale from the Easter Cantata; Es ist vollbracht!; Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Nun komm' der Heiden Heliand; STOKOWSKI Two Ancient Liturgical Melodies; HANDEL/STOKOWSKI Pastoral Symphony from Messiah; PURCELL/STOKOWSKI Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas):
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
NAXOS 8557883 (CD, budget)
GLAZUNOV Symphony No.7 in F, Op.77 'Pastoral' (excerpt from 4th movement played)
(c/w Symphony No.4 in E flat, Op.48):
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564632362 (CD)
Next week's guest is violinist Richard Tognetti
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CHERUBINI Requiem in C minor (Sequence: Dies Irae played)
(c/w Marche Funebre; BEETHOVEN Elegiac Song, Op.118):
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman (director)
TELARC CD80658 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight' (1st movement played)
(from Piano Sonatas Vol.4 - also including No.12 in A flat, Op.26; No.13 in E flat, Op.27 No.1; No.15 in D, Op.28 'Pastoral'):
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
BIS SACD-1473 (CD/SACD Hybrid)
R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen (version for string septet) (excerpt played)
(c/w Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.13; Prelude to Capriccio, Op.85):
The Nash Ensemble
HYPERION CDA67574 (CD)
Radio 3's Disc Of The Week:
SZYMANOWSKI Harnasie, Op.55*
(c/w Songs of a Fairy-tale Princess, Op.31+; Love Songs of Hafiz, Op.26^):
Timothy Robinson (tenor)*, Iwona Sobotka (soprano)+, Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano)^, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI CLASSICS 3644352 (CD)
