CD Review
09.05am
MLYNARSKI: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Op. 6
(from CD 'Polish Spirit')
(c/w KARLOWICZ: Violin Concerto in A Op. 8; CHOPIN (arr. by DEBSKI): Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1; Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2)
Nigel Kennedy (violin), Polish Chamber Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
EMI 0946 3 79934 2 2 (CD)
Available on DVD - 'Polish Spirit': live in concert (with the Mlynarski and Karlowicz plus three encores) and a documentary, 'The Adventure', filmed by John Stanley - 0946 3 79934 9 1 (DVD)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op. 10
(c/w Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 1; Ballade in C minor Op. 73)
The Nash Ensemble
Hyperion CDA67590 (CD)
LASSUS: Salve Regina (from CD 'A Mother's Love' - Music for Mary')
(c/w GRIEG: Ave maris stella; CORNYSH: Ave Maria Mater Dei; JOSQUIN: Gaude Virgo Mater Christi; BRUCKNER: Tota pulchra es, Maria (Antiphon); SAINT-SAENS: Ave Maria; BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virigin; MENDELSSOHN: Ave Maria; OBRECHT: Salve Regina; RIZZA: Ave generosa; ANON: Alma Redemptoris Mater; FAURE: Ave Maria; PALESTRINA: Sicut lilium inter spinas; LISZT: Ave maris stella; ELGAR: Ave Maria; DURUFLE: Tota pulchra es, Maria; PLAINSONG: Salve Regina)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (director)
UCJ 476 6295 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
MONTEVERDI: L'Orfeo
Reviewer - Tess Knighton
First choice:
L'Ensemble La Venexiana, Emanuela Galli, Mirko Guadagnini, Marina De Liso, Cristina Calzolari, Matteo Bellotto, Jose Lo Monaco, Salvo Vitale, Vincenzo Di Donato, Francesca Cassinari, Giovanni Caccamo, Makoto Sakurada, Tony Carradini, Claudio Cavina (conductor)
Glossa GES920913E (2CDs)
Next week Edward Seckerson reviews recordings of Mahler's 3rd Symphony.
10.15am Listener Choices
BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 (Finale)
(c/w String Quartet in A minor Op. 51/2)
Takacs Quartet, Stephen Hough (piano)
Hyperion CDA67551 (CD)
SCHUMANN: 'Auf einer Burg' from Liederkreis Op. 39
(c/w Zwei Balladen Fur Deklamation Op. 122; Drei Gedichte Nach Emanuel Geibel Op. 29; Die Nonne Op. 49/3; Drei Duette Op. 43; Mein Garten Op. 77/2; Sommerruh WoO 7; Madchenleider Op. 103; Bei Schenkung eines Flugels WoO 26/4)
Kate Royal (soprano), Felicity Lott, Lydia Teuscher (sopranos), Ann Murray, Daniela Lehner (mezzo-sopranos), Stephan Loges (baritone), Christoph Bantzer (reciter), Graham Johnson (piano)
Hyperion CDJ33110 (CD)
10.40 am New Releases (with Jonathan Swain)
Jonathan Swain gives a precis of some new
releases, focusing on historical recordings which
have been re-released on disc (from Beulah and
Guild Historical).
ELGAR: I sing the birth* (from box set 'Visions of Elgar')
Dream of Gerontius extracts?
In the South Overture?
Falstaff**
Cockaigne Overture??
Violin Concerto??
(c/w; The Kingdom extracts; Imperial March; Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4; Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma); Symphony No. 2; Introduction and Allegro for Strings; Cello Concerto; HANDEL (arr. by Elgar): Overture in D minor; BACH (arr. by Elgar): Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537)
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)(?)(??), Anthony Collins (conductor)(**), Eduard van Beinum (conductor)(??), Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)(*)(?), Albert Coates (conductor), Richard Lewis (tenor)(?), Marjorie Thomas (contralto)(?), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Alfredo Campoli (violin)(??), Anthony Pini (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra(??)(??), Philharmonia Orchestra, The Royal Choral Society(*), Huddersfield Choral Society(?), Liverpool Philharmonic(?), BBC Symphony Orchestra(?), London Symphony Orchestra(**)
Beulah 14PD15 (4CDs)
FRANCK: Symphony in D minor
BRAHMS: Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102* (from CD 'Barbirolli')
(c/w DEBUSSY: Iberia;; GRIFFES: The White Peacock; BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini Overture; CASTELNUVO-TEDESCO: King John Overture; BENJAMIN: Overture to an Italian Comedy; CORELLI/BARBIROLLI: Concerto Grosso; MAHLER: Symphony No. 5, 4th movement)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor), Albert Spalding (violin)*, Gaspar Cassado (cello)*
GUILD GHCD 2330-31 (2CDs, Mid Price)
WAGNER: Faust Overture*
RAVEL: Pictures at an Exhibition (Market and Catacombs)* (from CD 'Guido Cantelli)
(c/w ROUSSEL: Sinfonietta for string orchestra Op.52; BERLIOZ: Hungarian March (Damnation of Faust); VIVALDI: Concerto Op. 3, No. 8 in A minor RV522 (L'Estro Armonico)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra*, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Delay (violin), Remo Bolognini (violin), Guido Cantelli*
GUILD GHCD 2328 (CD, Mid Price)
SHOSTAKOVITCH: Symphony No. 8 (from CD 'Artur Rodzinski')
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York
Artur Rodzinski (conductor)
GUILD GHCD 2322 (CD, Mid Price)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5*
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod*
(from CD 'Stokowski')
(c/w MUSSORGSKY: Prelude to Act IV from Kohovanshchina; DEBUSSY: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune)
Radiosymphonieorchester Stuttgart*, Radiosymphonieorchester Frankfurt, Leopold Stokowski (conductor) *
GUILD GHCD 2329 (CD, Mid Price)
RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin
ROUSSEL: Bacchus et Ariane Suite 2
(from CD 'Charles Munch')
(c/w DEBUSSY: Iberia No. 2 from Images pour Orchestra)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)
GUILD GHCD 2327 (CD, Mid Price)
11.20 am Consumer Roundup
Extracts from Shostakovich opera recordings
1) SHOSTAKOVICH: The Nose:
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre, Eduard Akimov (baritone - Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov, College assessor), Valery Belykh (bass - Ivan Yakovlevich, barber), Nina Sasulova (soprano - Praskovya Osipovna, butler's wife), Boris Tarkhov (high tenor - District Constable), Boris Druzhinin (tenor - Valet Ivan, Kovalyov's waiter), Alexander Lomonosov (tenor - The Nose), Igor Paramonov (bass-baritone - Countess' Footman), Valery Solovyanov (bass - Clerk in a small ads office), Lyudmila Sokolenko (soprano - female bread role seller), Ashot Sarkisov (bass - doctor), Alexander Braim (tenor - Yaryzhkin), Lyudmila Sapegina (Pelagia Grigoryevna Podtochina, staff officers' widow), Lyudmila Ukolova (Podtochina's daughter), Nina Yakoleva (solo soprano) plus other incidental characters. Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Recorded Moscow, 1975.
The Gamblers:
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Rybasenko (bass - Alexei), Vladimir Tarkhov (tenor - Ikharyov), Valery Belykh (bass - Gavryushka), Nikolai Kurpe (tenor - Krugel), Ashot Sarkisov (bass - Pyotr Petrovich Shvokhnev), Yaroslav Radivonik (baritone - Stepan Ivanovich Uteshitelny), Valery Sudak (bass balalaika), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Recorded live in the Grand Hall of the Leningrad State Philharmony, September 18 1978.
MELODY MEL CD 10 01192 (2CDs)
2) SHOSTAKOVICH: The Gamblers
Michal Lehotsky (tenor - Ikharyov), Peter Danailov (baritone - Stepan Ivanovitch Uteshitelny), Roman Astakhov (bass - Shvokhnev), Andris Lapins (tenor - Colonel Krugel), Jacek Janiszewski (bass - Alexey), Pyotr Nowacki (bass - Gavryushka), Alexei Ekkel (bass balalaika), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor) (recorded 2006)
FLEISHMAN: Rothschild's Violin (completed and orchestrated by Shostakovich)
Jacek Janiszewski (bass - Yakov Matveievich Ivanov - coffin maker and violinist), Elena Gabouri (mezzo-soprano - Marfa Ivanova, Ivanov's wife), Andris Lapins (tenor - Rothschild - flautist then violinist), Michal Lehotsky (tenor - Uncle Moses Ilyich Shakhes, Gravedigger), Oliver Kuusik (village musician), Alastair McCall (village musician), Kevin Matthews (village musician), Lewis James Quinn (village musician), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor) (recorded 2006)
AVIE AV2121 (2CDs)
11.50 am Disc of the Week
Janacek: String Quartet No.1 after Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"
(c/w PAVEL HAAS: String Quarter in C sharp minor No. 1 Op. 3; String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15)
Pavel Haas Quartet
Supraphon SU 3922-2 (CD)
