Playlist
MANUAL DE SUMAYA Albricias, mortales (from CD entitled 'Moon, sun and & all things: Baroque music from Latin America - 2')
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67524 (CD)
PIAZZOLLA Tango Suite (Tango No.1 played); Tango from Double Concerto 'Hommage a Liege'
(c/w Histoire du Tango; Cinco Piezas)
Matteo Mela (guitar), Lorenzo Micheli (guitar), Per Arne Glorvigen (bandoneon), Ivan Rabaglia (violin), I Solisti di Parma
STRADIVARIUS STR33715 (CD)
SCHNITTKE The Waltz (from CD entitled 'Film Music Vol.II' - also including Clowns and Children; Glass Harmonica; The Ascent)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frank Strobel (conductor)
CAPRICCIO 71061 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (April, May and June played; c/w Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64*)
Christoph Eschenbach (piano/conductor*), The Philadelphia Orchestra*
ONDINE ODE1076-5 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
MOZART Violin Concerto No.3 in G, K216
(c/w Violin Concerto No.1 in B flat, K207; Violin Concerto No.2 in D, K211)
Fabio Biondi (violin and director), Europa Galante
VIRGIN CLASSICS 3447062 (CD)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Wasps (extract played)
Henry Goodman (Narrator), Hallé Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CDHLD7510 (2-CD, mid-price)
CHOPIN 6 Waltzes - Op.42, Op.64 and Op.34
(c/w BEETHOVEN Sonata No.7 in D, Op.10 No.3, Sonata No.18 in E flat, Op.31, No.3)
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
VAI AUDIO VAIA1250 (CD)
RAMEAU Tristes apprets and Chaconne from Castor et Pollux
(c/w extracts from LULLY Armide, CAMPRA La Carnaval de Venise; RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie; Les Fetes de Polymnie; MONDONVILLE Isbe; LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus; ROYER Le Pouvoir de l'Amour; Zaide; GLUCK Iphigenie en Aulide; Armide)
Veronique Gens (soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (director)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 3467622 (CD)
PIAZZOLLA La resurreccion del Angel; CARISSIMI Plorate from Jeptha* (from CD entitled 'Angel Dances', also including works by DEBUSSY, PART, SCHLOTT, VERDI, BACH, MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, M. STOCKHAUSEN):
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, Members of the Berlin Radio Choir*
EMI CLASSICS 3570302 (CD)
MOZART The Magic Flute (Act 1 Finale played)
Christoph Strehl (Tamino), Dorothea Roschmann (Pamina), Hanno Muller-Brachmann (Papageno), Julia Kleiter (Papagena), Erika Miklosa (Queen of the Night), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos), Rene Pape (Sarastro), Georg Zeppenfeld (Speaker), Caroline Stein, Heidi Zehnder, Anne-Carolyn Schluter (Three Ladies), Alexander Lischke, Frederic Jost, Niklas Mallmann (Three Boys), Andreas Bauer, Danilo Formaggia, Tobias Beyer (Three Priests), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4775789 (2-CD)
MOUTON Motet 'O Maria Piissima'
(c/w JOSQUIN Missa de Beata Virgine; other motets by MOUTON; LASSUS St. Matthew Passion*; Visitatio*; Exsultet*)
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (conductor), Paul Elliott Turner (tenor)*
HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2907376.77 (2-CD, budget)
BACH The Art of Fugue (Contrapunctus XXI played)
Pascal Vigneron Wind Ensemble, Soloists of the Marais Chamber Orchestra, Jean Galard (large organ of St Bertrand de Comminges) Pascal Vigneron (director/arranger/organ)
QUANTUM QM7035 (2-CD, mid-price)
DVORAK Piano Trio No.4 in E minor, Op.90 'Dumky'
(c/w Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104*)
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), The Prague Philharmonia*, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)*
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901867 (CD)
SHOSTAKOVICH The Awakening of Spring from Satires (Pictures of the Past), Op.109
(c/w Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, Op.146; Five Romances on Words from 'Krokodil' Magazine, Op.121; Preface to the Complete Edition of My Works and a brief Reflection Apropos this Preface, Op.123; Eight Waltzes from film music)
Sergei Leiferkus (bass-baritone), Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4776111 (CD)
ALFONSO X EL SABIO Saltarello (Cantigas 77-119); Turkish, arr.CANTEMIR Makam Uzal Sakil 'Turna' (from CD entitled 'Orient-Occident 1200-1700' - a dialogue between the instrumental music of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Spain, medieval Italy, Morocco, Israel, Persia, Afghanistan and the old Ottoman Empire'):
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (director)
ALIA VOX AVSA9848 (CD)
WAGNER Siegfried's Rhine Journey; "Brunnhilde, heilige Braut!"; Funeral Music from Gotterdammerung
(c/w extracts from Die Walkure and Siegfried)
Ben Heppner (tenor), Dresden Staatskapelle, Peter Schneider (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4776003 (CD)
