Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.11, Op.103 'The Year 1905': Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
LINN CKD 247 (CD/SACD hybrid)
MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartet No.3; Naxos Quartet No.4 'Children's Games': Maggini Quartet
NAXOS 8.557397 (CD, budget)
CD entitled 'Concerto Veneziano' VIVALDI Concerto for Violin and Strings ('In due cori') in B Flat Major, RV 583; Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in E Minor, RV 278; LOCATELLI Concerto for Violin in G Major, Op.3, No.9; TARTINI Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in A Major, D96:
The Venice Baroque Orchestra, Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Andrea Marcon (director) ARCHIV 474 8952 (CD/SACD hybrid)
DURUFLE Requiem; Notre Pere; Messe cum Jubilo; POULENC Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue; MESSIAEN O Sacrum Convivium:
The Gents & female choir, Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone), Erwin Wiersinga (organ), Quirine Viersen (cello)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 22405 (2-CD/SACD hybrid, mid-price)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
SIBELIUS Four Legends (Lemminkainen Suite, Op.22)
Reviewer: Hilary Finch
First Choice:
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor) (recorded 1997; c/w Finlandia, Op.26; Karelia Suite, Op.11)
NAXOS 8.554265 (CD, budget)
Also Recommended:
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mikko Franck (conductor) (recorded 1999; c/w En Saga, Op.9)
ONDINE ODE 953-2 (CD)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor) (recorded 1999; c/w Sibelius's Original versions and Appendices of the Legends)
BIS CD 1015 (CD)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Haydn's String Quartets Op.76]
Consumer Spot: Recordings from New Zealand
CD entitled 'Landscapes' - New Zealand Orchestral Music: LILBURN Drysdale Overture; CRESSWELL Dancing on a Volcano; GRENFELL Stealing Tutunui; HAMILTON Elysian Fields; LODGE Hinterland; Ross HARRIS of memory; RITCHIE Yet Another Poem of Spring: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young (conductor)
MORRISON MUSIC TRUST MMT2037 (CD)
LILBURN Sonata; Nine Short Pieces for Piano; Three Sea Changes; Seven Short Pieces; Untitled Piece (1965) Untitled Piece (1981); Sonatina No.1; A Musical Offering: Dan Poynton (piano) (from CD entitled 'Douglas Lilburn Complete Piano Music Volume 2')
MORRISON MUSIC TRUST MMT2054 (CD)
CD entitled 'You Hit Him He Cry Out' - Gillian WHITEHEAD Lullaby for Matthew; PSATHAS Waiting for the Aeroplane; BODY Five Melodies; DADSON Sisters Dance; LILBURN Sonatina No.2; POYNTON Nga Iwi E; LOCKWOOD Red Mesa: Dan Poynton (piano)
RATTLE RAT D006 (CD)
CD entitled 'te hekenga-a-rangi' (music from Aotearoa, New Zealand) - Te Timatanga played: Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunns, Aroha Yates-Smith (voices), Steve Garden & Aroha Yates-Smith (additional percussion)
RATTLE RAT DV010 (CD + DVD)
CD entitled 'Strike' - New Zealand Percussion Music: FARR Volume Pig; Ross HARRIS Ricochet; Miriama YOUNG Iron Tongues; MCGLASHAN Work Songs; DOWNES Painting with Breath; HICKMAN Cube; TRAD. (arr. Upu) Taku Manu E:
Strike percussion group
MORRISON MUSIC TRUST MMT2030 (CD)
Gareth FARR Warriors from Pluto; Naga Baba; Te Parenga; Nga Tai Hurihuri; Time and Tide: Strike, NZSO Chamber Orchestra, Deborah Wai Kapohe (soprano), Marc Decio Taddei (conductor)
MORRISON MUSIC TRUST MMT2036 (CD)
CD entitled 'PSATHAS Fragments' John PSATHAS Piano Quintet; Fragment (percussion version); Happy Tachyons; Jettatura; Matre's Dance; Fragment (piano duet version): New Zealand String Quartet, Stephen Gosling (piano), Jeremy Fitzsimons (percussion)
MORRISON MUSIC TRUST MMT2047 (CD)
CD entitled 'Jack BODY: Pulse' (CD1 Transcriptions) Melodies for Orchestra; Campur Sari African Strings; Kora: Chedo; Valiha Il: Samy Faly; Three Transcriptions; Pulse; (CD2 Sources) Horos Serra; Singgalang; Indian Street Band; Long-ge; Ramandriana; Ratschenitsa; Chedo; Samy Faly; Baining Fire Dance: The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young (conductor), The New Zealand String Quartet, Norio Sato, Kei Koh (guitars), Budi Putra (gamelan/voice),
MORRISON MUSIC TRUST RAT D009 (2-CD)
SZEKELY Quartet; DVORAK Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.51: The New Zealand String Quartet
ATOLL ACD703 (CD)
CD entitled 'Oscar Natzka - Great Recordings 1939-50' MOZART O Isis and Osiris; Within These Temple Walls (The Magic Flute); WEISS The Village Blacksmith; GERMAN The Yeomen of England; MUSSORGSKY Song of the Flea; KERN Ol' Man River (Show Boat); BANTOCK Captain Harry Morgan; HANDEL The Trumpet Shall Sound; WARLOCK Captain Stratton's Fancy: Oscar Natzka (baritone), Various Orchestras including The Royal Opera House, Various conductors including Walter Goehr, Eric Wild, Karl Rankl
ATOLL ACD 801 (CD)
New Releases - Early Music
Reviewer: John Milsom
John BROWNE Salve regina I; Stabat iuxta; Stabat mater; O regina mundi clara; O Maria salvatoris: The Tallis Scholars,
Peter Phillips (conductor)
GIMELL CDGIM 036 (CD)
DUFAY (attr.) Mass for St Anthony Abbot; BINCHOIS Domitor Hectoris; Kyrie; Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Nove cantum melodie: The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67474 (CD)
CD entitled 'MORALES en Toledo - Polifonia inedita del Codice 25 de la catedral de Toledo ' - Ave Maris Stella; Asperges me; Et factum est postquam; Sacris solemniis; Eripe me; Urbs beata Jerusalem; Nova resultent gaudia; Felix per omnes; Nunc Dimittis; Gloria laus et honor; Et incarnates est; Jam Christus astra ascenderat; Veni redemptor gentium; Monstra te esse: Ensemble Plus Ultra, Michael Noone (director)
GLOSSA GCD 922001 (CD)
BUSNOIS Gaude caelestis Domina; A une damme j'ay fait veu; Amours nous traitte honnestement/ Je m'en voy; Resjois-toy, terre de France/ Rex pacificus; Conditor alme siderum; Missa O Crux lignum; Ja que li ne s'i attende; Vostre beaute/Vous marche du bout du pie; Est-il merchy de quoy on pueut finer?; Incomprehensibilia/ Praeter rerum ordinem: The Orlando Consort
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907333 (CD)
CD entitled 'The Cries of London 1599-1615' - HOLBORNE Muy Linda; The Fruit of Love; Wanton; Sedet Sola; The Fairie Round; Funerals; The Choice; Galliard; Air VIII DERING The Country Cries; If Sorrow Might; ADSON Air I; Air VIII; O. GIBBONS The Cries of London; ANONYMOUS The Cry of London; WEELKES The Cries of London; SIMPSON Opusculum new pavans; WARD Fantasie XI; DAMAN Concert for Six Voices; M. LOCKE Music for His Majesty's Cornetts & Sackbutts: Les Sacqueboutiers
AMBROISIE AMB9965 (CD)
An Interview with Charles Medlam of London Baroque:
CORELLI Fuga con un soggetto solo;
A. SCARLATTI Sonata IX in A Minor; RAVENSCROFT Sonata Ottava (played; c/w MANCINI Sonata XIII in G Minor; Sonata II in E Minor; SARRI Sonata XI in A Minor; BARBELLA Sonata III in C Major; GALLO Trio Sonata No.1 in G Major: Dan Laurin (recorder), London Baroque (from CD entitled 'Stravaganze Napoletane')
BIS-CD-1395 (CD)
BLOW Trio Sonata in A major (excerpt from 1st movement played; c/w O. GIBBONS Three Fantasias a 3; COPRARIO Fantasia Suite; W. LAWES Sett No.1; JENKINS Fancy & Ayre; [Fantasia] a 3; LOCKE Suite in D Minor; C. SIMPSON Suite in D Minor; [Suite] in D Major; BLOW Ground in G Minor; H. PURCELL Sonata XX in D Major) (from CD entitled 'The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century England'):
London Baroque
BIS-CD-1455 (CD)
PURCELL Ten Sonatas in Four Parts; Twelve Sonatas of Three Parts (Sonata in Four Parts No. 1 in G minor, 1st & 2nd movements played): London Baroque
HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2901438.39 (2-CD, mid-price)
PURCELL Fantasias (In nomine a 6 in G minor played): London Baroque
BIS-CD-1165 (CD)
HANDEL O qualis de caelo sonus (excerpt played; c/w Salve Regina; Trio Sonata in G minor; Caelestis dum spirat aura; Laudate pueri: Emma Kirkby (soprano), London Baroque
BIS-CD-106501 (CD, budget)
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HAYDN The Paris Symphonies (Nos 82-87) 1st of Symphony No.83 in G Minor 'The Hen' played:
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 606022 (3-CD)
Roger QUILTER The Complete Folk-Songs Arrangements; Complete Part-Songs for Women's Voices:
Amanda Pitt (soprano), Joanne Thomas (mezzo), Philip Langridge (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano)
NAXOS 8.557495
Lennox BERKELEY Ruth: Jean Rigby (Ruth), Mark Tucker (Boaz), Yvonne Kenny (Naomi), Claire Rutter (Orpah), Roderick Williams (Head Reaper), Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia,
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 10301
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
HAYDN Symphony No.92 in G Major 'Oxford'; Symphony No.91 in E Flat Major; Scena di Berenice Hob.XXIVA:10: Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901849 (CD)
