CD Review
09.05am
SANCES: Stabat Mater
(c/w SCHMELZER: Sonata IX a 5; Sonata XI a 3; Sonata XII a 3; Sonata IV a 6; ANONYMOUS: Salve Regina; FUX: Ave Maria; ZIANI: Alma Redemptoris Mater; BERTALI: Sonata a 4; LEOPOLD I: Regina Coeli)
Ricercar Consort, Carlos Mena (counter tenor), Philippe Pierlot (conductor)
Mirare MIR 050 (CD)
DOWLAND: Flow my tears
(c/w Unquiet thoughts; Say, Love, if ever thou didst find; Sorrow, stay!; Away with these self-loving lads; Fantasia No 7; Come again! Sweet love; Sleep, wayward thoughts; Come, heavy Sleep; I must complain; If my complaints could passions move; Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard; What if I never speed; To ask for all thy love; Now, o Now, I needs must part; In darkness let me dwell; BRITTEN: Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70)
Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Craig Ogden (guitar)
Hyperion CDA67648 (CD)
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 4 in D Major Op. 83 (Allegretto)
(c/w String Quartet No. 2 in A major OP. 68 - both string quartets arranged by Marijn van Prooijen)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Channel Classics CCS SA 26007 (SACD)
GLANERT: Theatrum bestiarum - Songs and Dances for Large Orchestra (Part 3)
(c/w SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93)
WDR Sinfonie-Orchester Koln, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
AVIE AV2137 (SACD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation WAGNER: Die Walk?re
Reviewer: Martin Handley - conductor, opera coach and broadcaster.
First choice: Siegmund - Jon Vickers; Hunding - Martti Talvela; Wotan - Thomas Stewart; Sieglinde - Gundula Janowitz; Brunnhilde - Regine Crespin; Fricka - Josephine Veasey; Gerhilde - Liselotte Rebmann; Ortlinde - Carlotta Ordassy; Waltraute - Ingrid Steger; Schwertleite - Lilo Brockhaus; Helmwige - Daniza Mastilovic; Siegrune - Barbro Ericson; Grimgerde - Cvetka Ahlin; Rossweisse - Helga Jenckel Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor) DG 457 785-2 (4 CDs - also in 14 CD Box Set on DG 457 780-2, both Mid Price)
Next week Roderick Swanston continues CD Review's examination of Wagner's epic Ring cycle on CD and DVD, looking at the third instalment- Siegfried.
10.45 am New Releases
Helen Wallace talks to Andrew McGregor about various new string and chamber music releases. With extracts from the following discs:
ADES: Violin Concerto
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Anthony Marwood (violin), Thomas Ades (conductor)
EMI 5099950027156 (Download on iTunes via EMI Classics - to be released on CD later this year where it will be coupled with Ades' Powder Her Face Suite)
Recording made live at the Barbican Centre, London.
BRIDGE: Morceau Caracteristique; POULENC: Violon; from disc Violin Songs
(c/w ELGAR: Salut d'Amour Op. 12; Chanson de Matin Op. 15/2; Chanson de Nuit Op. 15/1; BERG: Die Nachtigal; BRIDGE: Melodie; Amarylllis; Romanze; Spring Song; Moto Perpetuo; Berceuse; COPLAND: Nocturne; PROKOFIEV: Cinq Melodies Op. 35b; MASSENET: Meditation; BOULANGER: Nocturne; RAVEL: Berceuse sur le nom de Faure; SCHUBERT: Ave Maria (arr. by Palaschko); STRAUSS: Morgen Op. 27/4)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Andrew Ball (piano), Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Divine Art dda25063 (CD)
HARRISON: Concerto for the Violin with Percussion Orchestra; LIMBRICK: Mopti Street; from disc FiddleSticks
(c/w DUDLEY: Vermilion Rhapsody; O'REGAN: Fragments from a Gradual Process; JONES: Gharnati; TRADITIONAL SENEGALESE arr. Ensemble Bash: Kumpo)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Ensemble Bash
Signum Classics SIGCD111 (CD)
REIJSEGER: Gretchen am Spinnrade; 8x3 4 T; from disc Do you Still
(c/w Do you still; Blurb One; Marta; Strabismo di Venere; Blurb Two; Passaggio; May the Law of Gravity show you the way; Blurb Three; Schwarz gekleidet; 29; Armings; KOEMAN: Douze; The Veils)
Ernest Reijseger (cello), Larissa Groeneveld (cello), Frank van de Laar (piano)
Winter and Winter 910 136-2 (CD)
SMETANA: String Quartet No. 2 in D minor (3rd movement); MOZART: String Quartet in D Major K 575 (second movement)
(c/w SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110)
Skampa Quartet
Wigmore Hall Live WHLive 0019 (CD)
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante K. 364
(c/w Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C, K. 373; Concertone for 2 Violins and Orchestra in C, K. 190)
Julia Fischer (violin), Gordan Nikolic (violin and viola), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)
Pentatone PTC 5186 098 (SACD)
BRAHMS: Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra in A minor Op. 102 (first movement); Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 (3rd movement)
Renaud Capucon (violin), Gautier Capucon (cello), Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor); Paul Meyer (clarinet); Capucon Quartet
Virgin Classics 00946 395147 2 4 (CD)
11.50 am Disc of the Week
ERNEST BLOCH: Piano Quintet No. 2
from disc Bloch Piano Quintets
(c/w Piano Quintet No. 1; Night;
Paysages; Two Pieces)
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane
(piano)
Hyperion CDA67638 (CD)
