CD Review

25 February 2006

Saturday 25 February 2006 9:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases.

Duration:

4 hours

Playlist

Hot Off The Press:

HUBAY Violin Concerto No.1 in A Minor 'Concerto dramatique', Op.21; Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Op.5; Violin Concerto No.2 in E Major, Op.90 (from CD entitled 'The Romantic Violin Concerto Volume 6'): Hagai Shaham (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67498 (CD)

HUMMEL Piano Trios Volume 1 - Piano Trio No.5 in E Major, Op.83; Piano Trio No.2 in F Major, Op.22; Piano Trio No.6 in E Flat Major, Op.93: Voces Intimae, Riccardo Cecchetti (fortepiano), Luigi de Filippi (violin),
Sandro Meo (cello)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 625952 (CD)

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang; Lieder to texts by Goethe; Drei Gesange des Harfners; Wandrers Nachtlied II; Der Musensohn (recorded live July 1991): Peter Schreier (tenor), Andras Schiff (piano)
WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE 0006 (CD, mid-price)

SCHUBERT An den Mond D193; Im Walde D708; Nachtstuck D672; Der Zwerg D771; Abendstern D806; Auflosung D807; Nacht und Traume D827; Erlkonig D328; BERG 4 Lieder, Op.2; WOLF Morike-Lieder: Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Joseph Breinl (piano)
ONYX 4009 (CD)

F. COUPERIN Lecons de Tenebres; MARAIS Les Voix Humaines; Robert de VISEE Les Sylvains de Mr Couperin: Le Sfera Armoniosa - Johannette Zomer (soprano), Anne Grimm (soprano), Paulina van Laarhoven (viola da gamba), Menno van Delft (organ), Mike Fentross (theorbo and musical leader)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 20306 (CD/SACD hybrid)


BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:

SCHUBERT String Quartet in G Major D887

Reviewer: Susan Tomes

First Choice (Mono):
Amadeus Quartet (recorded 1951; c/w String Quartet No 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 'Death and the Maiden'; BRAHMS Complete Quartets; HAYDN Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross; String Quartet in F Major Hob. III:17; String Quartet in G Major Hob. II:58' String Quartet in C Major Hob. III:57; String Quartet in B Flat Major Hob.III: 67; String Quartet in C Major Hob.III: 72; String Quartet in G Minor Hob.III: 74 'The Rider'; String Quartet in G Major Hob.III:81; String Quartet in B Flat Major Hob.III:83; MENDELSSOHN Andante, Scherzo, Capriccio and Fuga for String Quartet, Op.81)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474 7302 (7-CD, budget) ('Original Masters' Series) (Mono)

Also Recommended:
The Busch Quartet (recorded in 1938; c/w String Quartet No.8 in B Flat Major D112; String Quartet No.14 in D Minor D810 'Death and the Maiden'; Fantasy in C for Violin and Piano D934*; Piano Trio in E Flat Major D929*: *Rudolf Serkin (piano)
PEARL GEMM CDS9141 (2-CD, mid-price) (Mono)

Stereo Recommendations:
New Leipzig Quartet (recorded 1994; c/w String Trio in B Flat Major D471; String Quartet Fragment D 2c)
DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM MDG 30706012 (CD)

Juilliard Quartet (recorded 2002; c/w Quartet No.14 in D Minor D810 'Death and the Maiden'; Quartet No.12 in C Minor D703 'Quartettsatz'; Quartet No.13 in A Minor D 804 'Rosamunde')
SONY SB2K89978 (2-CD, budget)


[Next week's Building a Library will feature Bruckner's Symphony No.7 ]


Consumer Spot - First Edition

CD entitled 'Francais Moderne Volume 1' - IBERT Louisville Concerto; La Ballade de la Geole de Reading ; HONEGGER Prelude pour Aglavaine et Selysette; Suite archaique: The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 1906 (CD, mid-price)

CD entitled 'British Modern Volume 1' - BLISS Discourse for Orchestra; RUBBRA Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra, Op.89*; ARNOLD Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra+; ADDISON Concerto for Trumpet, Strings, and Percussion: Sidney Harth (violin)*,
Peter McHugh+, Paul Kling+ (violins), Leon Rapier (trumpet), Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 1904 (CD)

COWELL Hymn and Fuguing Tune, No.3; Ongaku for Orchestra; Symphony No.11 'Seven Rituals of Music'; Thesis (Symphony No.15): The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0003 (CD, mid-price)

HOVHANESS Concerto No.7 for Orchestra, Op.116; Symphony No.15 'Silver Pilgrimage', Op.199; Magnificat for Four Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra, Op.157: University of Louisville Choir, Audrey Nossaman (soprano), Thomas East (tenor), Elizabeth Johnson (contralto), Richard Dales (baritone), The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, (conductor)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0006 (CD, mid-price)

PISTON Serenata (for orchestra); Symphonies Nos 5, 7, & 8: The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0010 (CD, mid-price)

Roy HARRIS Kentucky Spring; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Symphony No.5:
Gregory Fulkerson (violin), The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Lawrence Leighton Smith (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0005 (CD, mid-price)

HINDEMITH Concert Music for Viola and Large Chamber Orchestra, Op.48; Kammermusik No.2, Op.36, No.1; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra: Lee Luvisi (piano), Raphael Hillyer (viola), The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Lawrence Leighton Smith (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0022 (CD, mid-price)

MARTINU Intermezzo; Estampes; Symphony No.5; Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra: Marion Gibson (oboe), The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Sidney Harth (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0018 (CD, mid-price)

MILHAUD Overture 'Mediterraneenne, Op.330; Kentuckiana (Divertissement on Twenty Kentucky Airs); Cortege Funebre; Quatre Chansons de Ronsard for Voice and Orchestra; Symphony No.6: Paula Seibel (soprano), The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0031 (CD, mid-price)

VILLA-LOBOS Dawn in a Tropical Forest ; Erosion: The Origin of the Amazon River ; Danses Africaines; Bachianas Brasileiras No.4:
The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Jorge Mester (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0016 (CD, , mid-price)

PANUFNIK Sinfonia Elegiaca; Nocturne; Rhapsody: The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney (conductors)
FIRST EDITION MUSIC FECD 0017 (CD


New Releases - Early Music

Reviewer: John Milsom

CD entitled 'The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry' - Medieval and Renaissance Gardens in Music: songs and motets by VASQUEZ; CEBALLOS; F. GUERRERO; MACHAUT; TREBOR; FRYE; POWER; BRUMEL; AGRICOLA; LUPI; CARPENTRAS; ARCADELT; de RORE; PHINOT; CRECQUILLON; CLEMENS non Papa; GOMBERT & ANONYMOUS: The Orlando Consort, with Robert Macdonald (bass)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907398 (CD)

CD entitled 'Miguel de Cervantes Don Quijote de la Mancha' - A Homage to Miguel de Cervantes, Poet and Musician: A selection of the ballads, songs, madrigals, and other musical forms mentioned in his 400-year-old novel, by Cervantes' contemporaries:
Works by DU BAILLY; NARVAEZ; MORALES; MARTIN Y COLL; VASQUEZ and others:
Vocal soloists including - Montserrat Figureas, Arianna Savall, Hesperion XXI,
Jordi Savall (director)
ALIA VOX AVSA9843 (2-CD)

GESUALDO Quarto Libro di Madrigali 1596 (Fourth Book of Madrigals): La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (countertenor/director)
GLOSSA GCD 920934 (CD)

Claude LE JEUNE Chansons - Tout ce qui est de plus beau dans le cieux; Une puce; Perdre rien; Je file quand on me donne de quoy; Monsieur L'Abbe; Quand vous series quelque fille; L'aute joun jou m'en anabi de Tholoze a Montrejau; O feux sacrez; Povre Coeur entourne; Autant en emporte le vent; D'un oeil farde; Qu'est devenu ce bel oeil; Je suis desheritee; Nostre vicaire un jour de feste; Je boy a toy mon compagnon; La Guerre: Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominique Visse (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901863 (CD)

Jacobus de KERLE Missa Da Pacem Domine; Cantio octo vocum de sacro foedere contra Turcas; Super omnia ligna; Missa Pro Defunctis; Come nel mar; Deux Agnus Dei sur l'hexacorde ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la; Media Vita:
Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul van Nevel (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901866 (CD)


An Interview with pianist Martin Roscoe:

CD entitled 'The Complete Solo Bach transcriptions by Samuil Feinberg' - BACH Concerto in A Minor (after Vivaldi) BWV 593 (transcribed by Samuil Feinberg (excerpt played; c/w Prelude and Fugue in E Minor BWV 548; Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns Wend BWV 655; Largo from Trio Sonata No.5 BWV 529 - and other BACH transcriptions:
Martin Roscoe (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67468 (2-CD, mid-price)

BRULL Piano Concerto No.1 in F Major, Op.10 (excerpt from 2 nd movement, played; c/w Piano Concerto No.2 in C Major, Op.24; Andante and Allegro, Op.88 (from CD entitled 'The Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 20'): Martin Roscoe (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67069 (CD)

BLISS Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (excerpt from 1 st movement played; c/w Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B Flat Major; Sonata for Piano): Martin Roscoe, Peter Donohoe (pianos), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557146 (CD, budget)

MESSIAEN Visions de l'Amen (Amen du desir, excerpt played; c/w Piece pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas; Rondeau; Fantaisie burlesque):
Steven Osborne & Martin Roscoe (pianos)
HYPERION CDA 67366 (CD)

MACMILLAN The Berserking - A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (excerpt played; c/w Britannia; Into the Ferment (1988; revised 2002): Martin Roscoe (piano), BBC Philharmonic, James MacMillan (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10092 (CD)

CD entitled 'The Pity of War' - JANACEK Sonata for Violin and Piano (excerpt from final movement played; c/w ELGAR Sonata for Violin & Piano; DEBUSSY Sonata for Violin and Piano; Letters and Poems of Wilfred Owen written between 1914 and his death, interspersed with original recordings of wartime songs read by Samuel West: Matthew Trusler (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
ORCHID CLASSICS ORC 1000001 (2-CD, mid-price)

SZYMANOWSKI Sonata No.3, Op.36 (excerpt from last movement 'Fuga' played ; c/w Nine Preludes, Op.1; Variations in B Flat Minor, Op.3; Mazurkas, Op.50, Nos 17-20; Two Mazurkas, Op.62; Valse Romantique) (from CD entitled 'Szymanowski Piano Works, Volume 4'):
Martin Roscoe (piano)
NAXOS 8.557168 (CD, budget)


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VIVALDI Concerto in B Flat Major for Oboe & Violin RV 548:
Rachel Podger (violin), Frank de Bruine (oboe), Academy of Ancient Music, Pavlo Beznosiuk (director)
WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0005

BERG Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of An Angel':
Christian Ferras (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
CLAVES 502516

MOZART Mass in C Minor K427 (K417a) (in the new version by Robert D. Levin):
Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling (conductor)
HANSSLER CD 98.227


RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:

BRAHMS Sonata No.1 in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op.120, No.1; Sonata No.2 in E Flat Major Op.120, No.2; Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Piano and Cello, Op.114: Martin Frost (clarinet), Roland Pontinen (piano) Torleif Thedeen (cello)
BIS SACD 1353 (CD/SACD hybrid)

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