Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
DEBUSSY La Mer; Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune; La Boite a Joujoux (orch. Caplet); Three Preludes (orch. Colin Matthews ): Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5580452 (CD)
CARTER Canon for 3 (In Memoriam Igor Stravinksy); STRAVINSKY Fanfare for a new theatre; Three Pieces for String Quartet; Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet; Epitaphium; Valse pour les enfants; Double Canon Raoul Dufy In Memoriam; Les cinq doigts; Souvenir d'une marche boche; Valse des fleurs; Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo; Pour Pablo Picasso; Three Pieces for String Quartet (arr. for piano duet by the composer); Five Easy Pieces for Piano Duet; BERIO Autre fois (berceuse canonique pour Igor Stravinsky); DENISSOW Canon en Memoire d'Igor Stravinsky; BOULEZ Originel-transitoire VII; SCHNITTKE Canon for Two Violins, Viola and Cello - In memoriam Igor Stravinsky (from CD entitled 'Hommage a Igor Stravinsky'): Ensemble Avantgarde
DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM MDG 613 1333-2 (CD)
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Placido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimura (Brangane), Rene Pape (Konig Marke), Olaf Bar (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), Ian Bostridge (Der Hirt), Matthew Rose (Der Steuermann), Rolando Villazon (Der junge Seemann), Orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 5580062 (3CD + Bonus DVD, mid-price)
WEILL Symphony No.2; Symphony No.1; Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne (Concert Suite arr. Robert Russell Bennett ): Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557481 (CD, budget)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No.21 in B Flat Major D960
Reviewer: David Fanning
First Choice:
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
(recorded 1997; c/w 3 Klavierstucke, D.946)
PHILIPS 456 572-2 (CD)
Also available on PHILIPS 475 6282 (8-CD, budget)
Historic and Mid-Price Choice:
Artur Schnabel (piano)
(recorded 1939; c/w Piano Sonatas, D.850 & D.959; Moments musicaux, D.780; March in E major, D.606)
EMI CHS 7 64259-2 (2-CD, mid-price)
Also available with different coupling:
Artur Schnabel (piano)
(recorded 1939; c/w Piano Sonata, D.959; Allegretto in C, D.915; Divertissement a la Hongroise, D.818; Andantino varie in B minor, D.823; March in G minor, D.819; March in B minor, D.819; Rondo in A, D.951; Allegro in A, D.947)
PEARL GEMM CDS 9271 (2-CD, mid-price)
Budget-price Choice:
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) (recorded 1972; c/w Piano Sonata No.19 in C Minor, Op.posth D958)
REGIS RRC 1049 (CD, budget)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Ravel's Sheherazade]
Proms related recordings:
TCHAIKOVKSY Cherevichki: Adrian Dwyer (Vakula), Frances McCafferty (Solokha), Roderick Earle (Devil), Leonid Zimnenko (Chub), Anne-Sophie Duprels (Oksana), Gerard O'Connor (The Mayor), Blake Fischer (Panas), Stuart Kale (Schoolteacher), D'Arcy Bleiker (His Serene Higness Potemkin), Chorus & Orchestra of Garsington Opera, Elgar Howarth (conductor)
GARSINGTON OPERA GA002 (3-CD)
DALBAVIE Color; Concerto for Violin; Ciaccona: Eiichi Chijiiwa (violin), Orchestre de Paris , Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
NAÏVE MO 782162 (CD)
MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts); Symphony No.4 in G Major: Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
VIRGIN 5456652 (CD)
ROSSINI A un dottor della mia sorte; La calunnia e un venticello (The Barber of Seville); MOZART Madamina , il catalogo et questo ( Don Giovanni ); La vendetta; Non piu andrai; Hai gia vinta la causa! . . . Vedro, mentr'io sospiro (The Marriage of Figaro); GOUNOD Vous qui faites l'endormie (Faust); BOITO Son lo spirito che nega (Mefistofele); VERDI Eh! Paggio! . . . L'onore ! Ladri!; WAGNER Die Frist ist um (The Flying Dutchman): Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)
EMI 5576052 (CD)
PART Solfeggio; Dopo la vittoria; The Woman with the alabaster box; Berliner Messe; Magnificat; Bogoroditse Djevo; I am the true vine; Which was the son of . . . (from CD entitlted 'Arvo Part a tribute'): Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Theatre of Voices, Pro Arte Singers, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ), Paul Hillier (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907407 (CD)
PART Fur Alina*; Collage on B-A-C-H+ (played; c/w Symphony No.1 (excerpt); Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten; Passio (extract); Berliner Messe (excerpts); Fratres for cello and piano; Magnificat; Summa for Strings; The Beatitudes; Annum per annum; Fratres for strings and percussion; Pro et Contra for cello and orchestra; Symphony No.3 (extract); Cantata Domino canticum novum (Psalm 95); Spiegel im Spiegel; Triodion; Tabula Rasa (from CD entitled 'Arvo Part A Portrait'): *Alexei Lubimov (piano), Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
NAXOS 8.558182-83 (2-CD, budget)
PART Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten*; Fratres for violin and piano+; Dopo la Vittoria^; Bogoroditse Djevo^; I am the true vine^; Annum per annum**; Spiegel im Spiegel+; Fur Alina++; Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka; Quintettino, Op.13^^; Concerto Piccolo on B-A-C-H¬; Fratres for string quartet`: *Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor), + Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano), ^ Swedish Radio Choir, Tonu Kaljuste (conductor), ** Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ), ++ Alexei Lubimov (piano), ^^ Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, ¬ Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor), ` Tallinn Quartet
BIS CD 1434 (CD)
BRITTEN Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op.10; Les Illuminations, Op.18; Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings: Scottish Ensemble, Clio Gould (director), Toby Spence (tenor), Martin Owen (horn)
LINN CKD 226 (CD/SACD hybrid)
