CD Review
09.05am
L. ANDERSON: The Classical Jukebox
(c/w Bugler's Holiday; Blue Tango; The First Day of Spring; Belle of the Ball; Governor Bradford March; Clarinet Candy; The Captains and the Kings; The Golden Years; Chicken Reel; Fiddle-Faddle; China Doll; Balladette; Arietta; Piano Concerto in C major)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor), Jeffrey Biegel (piano)
Naxos 8.559313 (CD, Budget)
WAGNER arr. Vlieger: The Ring - An Orchestral Adventure
(c/w Siegfried Idyll)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
Chandos CHSA 5060 (Hybrid SACD)
STRADELLA: San Giovanni Battista - from the second part
Anke Herrmann (soprano - Salome), Martin Oro (counter tenor - San Giovanni Battista), Antonio Abete (bass - Herode), Fredrik Akselberg (tenor - Consigliere), Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano - Herodiade), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67617 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
WAGNER: Gotterdammerung
Reviewer - John Deathridge
First choice:
Siegfried - Wolfgang Windgassen; Brunnhilde - Birgit Nilsson; Alberich - Gustav Neidlinger; Hagen - Gottlob Frick; Gutrune - Claire Watson; Gunther - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Waltraute - Christa Ludwig; Woglinde - Luicia Popp; Wellgunde - Gwyneth Jones; Flosshilde - Maureen Guy; 1 Norn - Helen Watts; 2 Norn - Grace Hoffman; 3 Norn - Anita Valkki
Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
Decca 455 5692 (4 CDs, Mid Price)
Super-Budget Choice:
Siegfried - Rene Kollo; Gunther - Hans Gunter Nocker; Alberich - Siegmund Nimsgern; Hagen - Matti Salminen; Brunnhilde - Jeannine Altmeyer; Gutrune - Norma Sharp; Waltraute - Ortrun Wenkel; 1 Norn - Anne Gjevang; 2 Norn - Daphne Evangelatos; 3 Norn - Ruth Falcon; Woglinde - Lucia Popp; Wellgune - Uta Priew; Flosshilde - Hanna Schwarz
Staatskapelle Dresden, Marek Janowski (conductor)
RCA 82876557092 (only available as part of a 14 CD set of the complete Ring Cycle, Super Budget)
Next week Patrick Carnegy concludes CD Review's analysis of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle with a look at the six available DVD versions.
10.40 Chamber Music
BETHOVEN: Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3 (1st movement)
(c/w Piano Trio Op. 70 No. 1; HUMMEL: Piano Trio Op. 65 No. 4)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Daniel Sepec (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901955 (CD)
L. BERKELEY: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 6 (4th movement)
(c/w String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15; String Quartet No. 3, Op. 76)
Maggini Quartet
Naxos 8.570415 (CD, Budget)
11.00 am New Bach Releases
With extracts from the following discs:
BACH: Six Concertos fort he Margrave of Brandenburg
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord and director), European Brandenburg Ensemble
AVIE AV2119 (2 CDs)
BACH: Brandenburg Concertos
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord and director), The English Concert
Archiv (3 CDs, Mid Price)
BACH: Brandenburg Concertos No. 1-4
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (harpsichord and director)
Arts and Music 47715-8 (Hybrid SACD)
BACH: Mass in B minor BWV 232
Mechtild Bach, Daniel Taylor, Marcus Ullmann, Raimund Nolte, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (conductor)
Carus 83211 (2 CDs, Mid Price)
BACH: Mass in B minor BWV 232
Bach Collegium Japan, Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter tenor), Gerd Turk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
BIS 1701/02 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
11.50 am Disc of the Week
HEINER GOEBBELS: Landschaft mit
entfernten Verwandten
David Bennet (voice), Georg Nigl (baritone),
Ensemble Modern, Deutscher Kammerchor,
Frank Ollu (conductor)
ECM 1811 (CD) OR on 4765838
