Playlist

HOT OFF THE PRESS:
Frank Bridge : The Hag H 14
Chandos
CHAN 10246

Strauss: Kornblumen Op 22 no 1
Emma Bell, soprano
Andrew west, piano
LINN CKD 238

Hindemith : Violin sonata 1 st mvt Op.11 no 1 in E flat
Itazhak Perlman , violin
David Garvey , piano
BMG Classics 82876 62517 2

Paganini : Caprice Op1 no 24
Performer/disc details as above

Euguene Ysaye : Solo violin Sonata No 2 in A minor: 4 th mvt: Les Furies (for Jacques Thibaud )
Thomas Zehetmair , violin
ECM 1835 472 6872

Ysaye: Sonata No 4 in E minor: Sarabande (for Fritz Kreisler)
Disc details as above

Dvorak: Piano Trio Op 90 "Dumky" Ist mvt
Vienna Piano Trio
MDG 342 1262-2

Liszt: Praludium & Fugue uber den Namen Bach (part)
Yves Rechsteiner, organ
Alpha 059 


BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
BEETHOVEN The complete Bagatelles Op.33, Op.119, Op.126

Reviewer: Stephen Plaistow

First Choice (Complete Bagatelles): 
Alfred Brendel (piano)
(recorded 1996; c/w Rondo No.1 in C, Op.51; Allegretto in C Minor, WoO 53; Klavierstuck in B Flat Major, WoO 60; Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59 'Fur Elise')
PHILIPS 456 031-2 (CD)

First Choice Op.33 Bagatelles (and historical benchmark recording): 
Artur Schnabel (piano)
(recorded 1938; c/w Piano Sonata No.14 in C# Minor, Op.27, No.2; Piano Sonata No.15 in D Major, Op.28; Piano Sonata No.16 in G Major, Op.31, No.1; Six Variations on an Original Theme in F, Op.34; Piano Sonata No.17 in D Minor, Op.31 No.2; Piano Sonata No.18 in E Flat Major, Op.31, No.3)
PEARL GEMM CDS 9123 (2-CD, mid-price)

First Choice Op.119 & Op.126 Bagatelles: 
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
(recorded 2001 ; c/w The Complete Piano Sonatas )
EMI 562700 2 (9-CD, mid-price)

[Next week's Building a Library will feature Puccini 's Madame Butterfly .]

CONSUMER SLOT -
Beethoven : Fidelio (extracts)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Sir Georg Solti , conductor
Decca 475 6207

Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus (extracts)
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Bohm, conductor 

Joseph Haydn : String Quartet Op 76 no 3 finale
& Op. 76 no 4 (extract)
& Op 76 no 6 (extracts)
Takacs String Quartet

Brahms : Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 (1st mvt extract)
& Cello Sonata No 2 in F major Op 99 (2nd mvt extract)
Lynn Harrell, cello
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Decca 475 6210

Mendelssohn : Cello Sonata No 2 in D major Op 58 (1st mvt extract)
Lynn Harrell, cello
Bruno Canino, piano
Disc details as above 


NEW RELEASES: CONTEMPORARY 
Reviewer: Gillian Moore

BIRTWISTLE *Theseus Game; +Earth Dances: *Ensemble Modern, Martyn Brabbins & Pierre-Andre Valade (conductors), + Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 0702 (CD) 

ZHOU LONG Poems from Tang; The Rhyme of Taigu; Da Qu ; The Future of Fire: Shanghai Quartet, Jonathan Fox (percussion), The Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Singapore , Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui (conductor)
BIS CD 1322 (CD)

BENJAMIN Palimpsests; At First Light; Sudden Time; *Olicantus: Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor), * Oliver Knussen (conductor)
NIMBUS NI 5732 (CD) 

VASKS Violin Concerto 'Distant Light'; Musica Dolorosa ; Viatore: Katarina Andreasson (solo violin & leader), Mats Levin (cello)
BIS CD 1150 (CD) 

LACHENMANN Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern: Eiko Morikawa (soprano), Nicole Tibbels (soprano), Yukiko Sugawara (piano), Tomoko Hemmi (piano), Mayumi Miyata (sho), Helmut Lachenmann (speaker), SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)
ECM 476 1283 (2-CD) 


AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW COSGROVE , DIRECTOR OF WARNER CLASSICS

JOHN FOULDS Three Mantras from Avatara (Of Action and Vision of Terrestrial Avataras, played; c/w Lyra Celtica - Concerto for Voice & Orchestra, Op.50; Apotheosis (Elegy); Mirage):
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
WARNERS 2564 61525-2 (CD)

RAVI SHANKAR Raga Piloo -in Memoriam Yehudi Menuhin (excerpt from Aochar, played; c/w RAVEL Tzigane; DE FALLA Suite populaire espagnole (arr. Kochanski for violin and lutheal); BARTOK Romanian Folk Dances; SCHNITTKE Sonata 1955 for Violin & Piano; SHANKAR Swara-Kakali) (from CD entitled 'East Meets West'): Daniel Hope (violin), Gaurav Mazumdar (sitar),
Asok Chakraborty (tabla),
Gilda Sebastian (tanpura)
WARNERS 2564 61329-2 (CD)

BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
(Prelude in E major, played):
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
WARNERS 2564 61553-2 (2-CD)

D'INDY Symphonie sur un chant montagnard
(excerpt from 3rd movement, played :

Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France,
Marek Janowski (conductor)
ERATO 0927 49809-2 (CD)
(played from the Warners APEX 2-CD sampler
2564 61879-2 (2-CD) 

MOZART Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan Tutte):
Charlotte Margiono (soprano),
Delores Ziegler (mezzo-soprano),
Thomas Hampson (baritone),
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 2564 61496-2
(played from the Warners APEX 2-CD sampler
2564 61879-2 (2-CD) 

BEETHOVEN
Rondo in B flat WoO 6:
Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano),
Chamber Orchestra of Europe ,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
WARNERS 2564 60602 


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RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK: 
A. SCARLATTI La Santissima Trinita: Roberta Invernizzi (Fede), Veronique Gens (Amor divino) Vivica Genaux (Teologia), Paul Agnew (Indedelta), Ensemble Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
VIRGIN 545666 2 (CD)