In this week's programme:
09.05am
WEISSENBERG: En Avril, a Paris (arrangement of Charles Trenet song) from disc Marc-Andre Hamelin in a state of jazz
SEE FULL LISTING UNDER DISC OF THE WEEK
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Hyperion CDA67656 (CD)
D'INDY: Jour d'ete a la montagne Op. 61 (first movement)
(c/w La Foret enchantee; Souvenirs)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Chandos 10464 (CD)
ROUSSEL: Symphony No. 2 (second movement)
(c/w Pour une fete de printemps; Suite in F)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stephane Deneve (conductor)
Naxos 8.570529 (CD, Budget)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 6
Reviewer - Stephen Johnson
First Choice:
(c/w Nocturne*; Symphony No. 8)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor), Roderick Williams (baritone)*
Chandos CHAN10103 (Hybrid SACD, CD and digital download)
10.20 am The Essential Tallis
Alexandra Buckle talks to Andrew McGregor about her must-have discs of Tallis' music. With extracts from the following:
TALLIS: Te lucis ante terminum; Salvator mundi; Spem in alium; In iejunio et fletu; O Salutaris hostia; Lamentations I; Lamentations II; Miserere; Mass for 4 voices
Magnificat, Philip Cave (conductor)
Linn Records CKD 233 (Hybrid SACD or digital download, Mid Price)
TALLIS: O salutaris hostia for five voices; In ieiunio et fletu for five voices; Salvator mundi (I) for five voices; In manus tuas Domine for five voices; Salvator mundi (II) for five voices; The Lamentations of Jeremiah (I) for five voices; O sacrum convivium for five voices; O nata lux de lumine for five voices ; Te lucis ante terminum for five voices; The Lamentations of Jeremiah (II) for five voices; Spem in alium for eight five-part choirs
Winchester Cathedral Choir (Winchester College Quiristers, Vocal Ars Chorus), David Hill (conductor)
Hyperion CDA66400 (CD)
TALLIS: Jesu salvator saeculi; Gaude gloriosa; Sermone blando angelus; Magnificat a5; Nunc dimittis a5; Mihi autem nimis; Absterge Domine; Derelinquat impius; Loquebantur variis linguis; Suscipe quaeso Domine; O nata lux
The Cardinalls Musick, Andrew Carwood (director)
Hyperion CDA67548 (CD)
TALLIS: Spem in alium; Sancte Deus; Salvator mundi, salva nos I; Salvator mundi, salva nos II; Gaude gloriosa; Miserere nostril; Loquebantur variis linguis; If ye love me; Hear the voice and prayer; A new commandment; O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit; Purge me, O Lord; Verily, verily I say unto you; Remember not, O Lord God; Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter; O Lord, in thee is all my trust; Christ rising again; Blessed are those that be undefiled; Lamentations of Jeremiah I and II; Absterge Domine; O sacrum convivium; In manus tuas; Salve intemerata; Magnificat (4vv); Ave Dei patris filia from disc The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
Gimell CDGIM 203 (2CDs, Budget))
TALLIS: Third Tune: Why fum'th in fight; Fifth Tune: E'en like the hunted hind; Second Tune: Let God arise; Sixth Tune: Expend, O Lord; Eighth Tune: God grant with grace; First Tune: Man blest no doubt; Veni creator: Come Holy Ghost; Seventh Tune: Why brag'st in malice; Fourth Tune: O come in one to praise the Lord
(c/w BYRD: Vigilate; Ne irascaris Domine (Cantiones sacrae I, 1589); Exsurge Domine (Cantiones sacrae II, 1591); Infelix ego (Cantiones sacrae II); Laetentur coeli (Cantiones sacrae I); Quis est homo (Cantiones sacrae II) ; Mass Propers for Pentecost ; Communion: Factus est repente (Gradualia II, 1607); Tribulationes civitatum (Cantiones sacrae I); Laudibus in sanctis) from disc Heavenly Harmonies
Stile Antico
Harmonia Mundi HMU 807463 (Hybrid SACD)
Played but not included:
Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works Volume 9 (Instrumental Music and Songs)
(c/w Instrumental - Consort: In Nomine I, In Nomine II, ASolfinge Song, Salvator Mundi (trio), Fantasia, Felix Namque II (for lute); Instrumental - Virginals: Felix Namque I, When shall my sorrowful sighing slake, Like as the doleful dove, O ye tender babes of England, Purge me (Fond Youth), Per haec nos (extract from Salve intermerata), Apoint, Lesson 2 in 1, Remember not, O Lord God; Instrumental - Organ: Per haec nos, Apoint, Lesson 2 in 1; Songs: Tu Nimirum, When shall my sorrowful sighing slake,
Like as the doeful dove, O Ye tender babes of England, William Byrd: Ye sacred muses, Litany (for organ), Dubia I, Dubia II, Felix Namque I (organ))
Andrew Benson-Williams (organ); Laurence Cummings (virginals); Lynda Sayce (lute); Stephen Taylor (counter tenor); Charivari Agreable; Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon (conductor)
Signum Classics SIGCD042 (CD)
11.10 BBC Legends and Wigmore Hall Live
BEETHOVEN*: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" (recorded 29th January 1992 Usher Hall, Edinburgh)
GERSHWIN **: Piano Concerto in F major (recorded 14th September 1985, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra**, Vernon Handley** (conductor), BBC* Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Zollman (conductor)*
BBC Legends BBCL4231-2 (CD, Mid Price)
CASALS: Prelude; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 58 (recorded 9th June 1984, Aldeburgh); JS BACH arr. Liszt: Organ Prelude and Fugue BWV 543; MOZART: Piano Sonata in F K. 332; VILLA-LOBOS: A Mare Encheu; Passa, Passa Gaviao; CHOPIN: Mazurka in B flat minor Op. 24 No. 4; Mazurka in C major Op. 56 No. 2; MENDELSSOHN: Song Without Words in C Major, Op. 67 No. 4 (Spinning Song) (recorded 21st June 1987, Aldeburgh)
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
BBC Legends BBCL 4230-2 (CD, Mid Price)
MOZART: Piano Sonata in B flat major K. 570; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in D minor Op. 31 No. 2, 'The Tempest'; SCHUMANN: Arabeske Op. 18; CHOPIN: Mazurka in B minor Op. 33 No. 4; Nocturne in B major Op. 32 No. 1; Etude in F minor Op. 25 No. 2; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor Op. 66; SCHUMANN: Traumerei Op. 15 No. 7 (recorded 4th June 1991, Wigmore Hall, London)
Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)
Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0023 (CD, Mid Price)
NB - this is to be released 28th April 2008
LOCKE: Musick for His Majesty's Sackbutts & Cornetts (recorded 15th February 1966, Royal Festival Hall, London); SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38, "Spring" (recorded 30th November 1965, Royal Festival Hall, London); BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73 (recorded 15th February 1966, Royal Festival Hall, London)
London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz (conductor)
BBC Legends BBCL 4229-2 (CD, Mid Price)
11.45am Disc of the Week
Marc-Andre Hamelin in a state of jazz
(c/w FRIEDRICH GULDA: Exercise No 1 from Play Piano Play; NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN: Sonata No 2 Op 54; FRIEDRICH GULDA: Exercise No 4 from Play Piano Play; ALEXIS WEISSENBERG : Sonate en etat de jazz; FRIEDRICH GULDA: Exercise No 5 from Play Piano Play; Prelude and Fugue; ALEXIS WEISSENBERG: Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet - 1) Coin de rue, 2) Vous oubliez votre cheval, 3) En Avril, a Paris, 4) Boum! 5) Vous qui passez sans me voir, 6) Menilmontant; GEORGE ANTHEIL: Jazz Sonata)
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Hyperion CDA67656 (CD)
