CD Review

14 April 2007

Saturday 14 April 2007 9:00-12:15 (Radio 3)

Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music. In this week's programme:

Building a Library: Simon Heighes explores the available recordings of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers.

Mark Padmore talks about his new recording of Handel arias, and working with Rene Jacobs on Mozart's Clemenza di Tito.

Edward Seckerson joins Andrew to review a newly re-issued Shostakovich symphony cycle conducted by Kirill Kondrashin.

Send your suggestions for new releases you would like to hear in the programme

Duration:

3 hours 15 minutes

Discs played and reviewed in this programme

NB Timings are approximate

09:00

BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34*
(2nd movement played)
(c/w String Quartet in C minor, Op.51 No.1; String Quartet in A minor, Op.51 No.2; String Quartet in B flat, Op.67):
Emerson String Quartet, Leon Fleisher (piano)*
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4776458 (2-CD, mid-price)

D'INDY String Sextet in B flat, Op.92 (2nd movement played)
(c/w String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.35; String Quartet No.2 in E, Op.45; String Quartet No.3 in D flat, Op.96)
Joachim Quartet, Francois Mereux (viola)*, Michel Poulet (cello)*
CALLIOPE CAL3891.2 (2-CD, mid-price)

BARTOK String Quartet No.5 (4th movement played)
(c/w HINDEMITH String Quartet No.4, Op.22)
Zehetmair Quartet
ECM NEW SERIES 4765779 (CD)

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110 (5th movement played)
(c/w String Quartet No.6 in G, Op.101; String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.122):
Jerusalem Quartet
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901953 (CD)


09:30
Building A Library Recommendations

MONTEVERDI
Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)

Reviewer: Simon Heighes

First Choice:
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (soprano), Daniel Auchincloss, Nicholas Mulroy (high tenor), Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey, Robert Evans, Robert Macdonald (bass), Choir of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)
(recorded 2006)
HYPERION CDA67531/2 (2-CD) or SACDA67531/2 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid)


Mid-Price Choice (single voice version):
Suzie LeBlanc, Barbara Borden (soprano), Alexander Schneider (countertenor), Rodrigo del Pozo (high tenor), Julian Podger, John Potter (tenor), Bertrand Chuberre, Jelle Draijer, Stephan MacLeod (bass-baritone), Tragicomedia, Concerto Palatino, Stephen Stubbs (conductor)
(recorded 2002; c/w SCHEIDEMANN Praeambulum in G*; Fantasia in D*; Motet 'Dic nobis Maria quid vidisti in via' (arrangement for organ)*; Magnificat VIII Toni*)
*Leo van Doeselaar (organ)
ATMA CLASSIQUE ACD2 2304/05 (2-CD, mid-price)

Next week, David Fanning compares recordings of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony


10:15
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2007

ENESCU Piano Sonata No.3 in D major Op.24/3 (1st movement played)
(from CD entitled Enescu Piano Music Volume 2 - also including Prelude and Fugue in C Major; Nocturne in D Flat Major; Scherzo; Piece sur le nom de Faure; Piano Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor Op.24/1): 
Luiza Borac (piano)
AVIE AV2081 (CD)

SIBELIUS Kullervo (last movement played)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Gentlemen of the London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO LIVE LSO0074 (CD, budget)

SIBELIUS Ariosa Op.3; Illalle Op.17/6
(from CD including Luonnotar and other orchestral songs by Sibelius):
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
ONDINE ODE10805 (CD)


10:45
Interview with Mark Padmore

HANDEL 'Where'er you walk' (Semele) (excerpt played)
(from CD entitled 'As steals the morn...' - Handel arias and scenes for tenor)
Mark Padmore (tenor), The English Concert, Andrew Manze (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907733 (CD)

BRITTEN Who are these children? (excerpt 'The Children' played)
(c/w TIPPETT Boyhood's End; FINZI A young Man's Exhortation; BRITTEN Sechs Holderlin-Fragmente; Um Mitternacht)
Mark Padmore (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
HYPERION CDA67459 (CD)

MOZART La Clemenza di Tito (excerpt from Act 2, Scene 10 played)
Mark Padmore (Tito), Bernarda Fink (Sesto), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC801923.24 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid) or HMC901923.24 (2-CD, lower full-price)

HANDEL 'Waft her, angels' (Jephtha)
(from CD entitled 'As steals the morn...' - Handel arias and scenes for tenor)
Mark Padmore (tenor), The English Concert, Andrew Manze (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907733 (CD)


11:15
Kondrashin conducts Shostakovich

Reviewer: Edward Seckerson
(in conversation with Andrew McGregor)



Symphonies 1-15; October, Op.131; The Sun Shines on Our Motherland, Op.90; The Execution of Stepan Razin, Op.119; Violin Concerto No.2*:
Soloists (incl. David Oistrakh (violin)*), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)
MELODIYA MELCD1001065 (11-CD, budget)


11:45
Disc Of The Week

GIPPS Horn Concerto, Op.58
(from CD entitled 'British Horn Concertos' - also including works by BOWEN, JACOB, ARNOLD and VINTER):
David Pyatt (horn), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
LYRITA SRCD316 (CD)

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In next week's programme:

Building a Library: David Fanning on Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony.

Graeme Kay reviews some recent CDs of organ music recorded in Mallorca, New York, Carlisle and on some of the historic organs of South London.

Disc of the Week
Hindemith: String Quartet No.4, Op.22
Zehetmair Quartet

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