On this week's programme:
09.05am
GERALD BERNERS arr. Philip Lane: 'Resolutions and Finale' from Suite from 'The Halfway House'
Disc title The Film Music of Constant Lambert/Lord Berners
(c/w 'Come on Algernon' and 'Polka' from Champagne Charlie; arr. and orch. Ernest Irving - Suite from Nicholas Nickleby; LAMBERT: Suite from Merchant Seamen; arr. Philip Lane - Suite from Anna Karenina)
Mary Carewe (soprano), Joyful Company of Singers (female voices), BBC Concert Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Chandos CHAN10459 (CD)
STANFORD: Symphony No. 3, "Irish" (second movement)
(c/w Symphony No. 6)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
Naxos 8.570355 (CD, Budget)
WOOD: St. Mark Passion (Fifth Gospel and Hymns 'Faithful Cross! Above all other' and 'Bend thy boughs, O Tree of Glory!')
(c/w BAIRSTOW: Voluntary - Toccata-Prelude on 'Pange lingua')
Simon Wall (tenor - Evangelist), James Birchall (baritone - Christ), Edward Grint (bass - High Priest, Judas, Pilate), Ruth Jenkins (soprano), Jonathan Vaughn (organ), The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde (director)
Naxos 8.570561 (CD, Budget)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
TIPPETT: Concerto for Double String Orchestra*
Reviewer - Martin Cotton
First Choice:
(c/w Fanfare for Brass; Suite in D - a birthday suite for Prince Charles; Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli; Little Music for Strings)
London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields*, Colin Davis (conductor), Neville Marriner (conductor)*, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Australian Decca Eloquence 476 7960 (CD, Budget)
Also available on Decca 4756750 (6CDs, Budget)
Next week Harriet Smith examines recordings of Chopin's 2nd Piano Sonata.
10.15 New Releases
BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini
Gregory Kunde (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Darren Jeffery (Balducci), Andrew Kennedy (Francesco), Isabelle Cals (Ascanio), John Relyea (Pope Clement VII), Peter Coleman-Wright (Fieramosca), Jacques Imbrailo (Pompeo),
Andrew Foster-Williams (Bernardino), Alasdair Elliott (Cabaretier), London Symphony Chorus,
London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO Live LSO0623 (2 Hybrid SACDs, Budget)
10.30 New DVD Releases
Richard Wigmore has been listening to and watching the following DVDs:
BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis (recorded Salzburg Easter Festival 1979)
Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ruza Baldani, Eric Tappy, Jose van Dam, Wiener Singverein, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 00440 073 4391 (DVD)
BRUCKNER: Symphonies Nos 8 and 9, Te Deum
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), David Rendall (tenor), Jose Van Dam (bass-baritone), Wiener Singverein, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 00440 073 4395 (DVD)
Concert in Honour of Pope Benedict XVI
(recorded at the Vatican, 2007)
Palestrina: "Tu es Petrus"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Lioba Braun (mezzo-soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Michael Volle (bass), Bavarian Radio Choir and Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
Art Haus Musik 101457 (DVD)
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante; Serenata notturna; PART: Mozart-Adagio; SCHNITTKE: Moz-Art a la Haydn; TEDDY BOR: McMozart's Eine kleine bricht Moonlicht Nicht Musik
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer (violin and leader)
EuroArts NTSC 2072228 (DVD)
11.30am Disc of the Week
MOZART: Don Giovanni
Johannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Marcos Fink (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Werner Gura (Don Ottavio), Malin Bystrom (Donna Anna), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolai Borchev (Masetto), Alessandro Guerzoni (Commendatore),
Freiburger Barockorchester; Innsbruck Festival Chorus, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi HMD9909013-14 (2 DVDs)
Filmed on 6th October 2006 at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
