Playlist
[All recordings are available at full price unless indicated otherwise.]
Peal of Bells from Freiberg Cathedral; ANON. Intrada (from CD entitled ‘When Angels Make Music – musical instruments from 1594 in Freiberg Cathedral’ – Late-Reinaissance sacred and secular music from Saxony, including works by Antonio SCANDELLO, Orlando di LASSO, Hans Leo HASSLER, Leonard LECHNER and Melchoir FRANCK):
Ensemble ‘Musica Freybergensis’, Roland Wilson (director)
RAUM KLANG RK2404/5 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid)
BACH Fantasia in G for organ, BWV 572
(c/w BACH Concerto in D minor after Vivaldi BWV 596; Trio super “Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend” BWV 655; Partite diverse sopra il Corale “Sei gegrusset, Jesu gutig” BWV 768):
Samuel Kummer (new Kern Organ of the Frauenkirche Dresden)
CARUS 83188 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
SCHUMANN An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust*; LOEWE An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust+; MENDELSSOHN Volkslied*+
(from CD entitled 'Women's lives and loves - A Liederspiel devised by Graham Johnson' - works by BRAHMS, LOEWE, MENDELSSOHN, SCHUMANN, and WOLF):
Felicity Lott (soprano)*, Angelika Kirchschlager (soprano)+, Graham Johnson (piano)
HYPERION CDA67563 (CD)
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloe (end of Part 3 played):
Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4775706 (CD)
(released 14 August)
SUK A Summers Tale, Op.29 (Voices of Life and Consolation played)
(c/w LIADOV The Enchanted Lake Op.62):
Orchestra of the Komischern Oper Berlin, Kirill Petrenko (conductor)
CPO 7771742 (CD, mid-price)
GOSSEC Le Triomphe de la Republique (Scene 5 played):
Laurette - Salome Haller (soprano), Goddess of Liberty - Antonella Balducci (soprano), Aide-de-camp - Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Thomas - Makato Sakurada (tenor), General - Claudio Danuser (baritone), Old Man - Philippe Huttenlocher (bass), Mayor - Arnaud Marzorati (bass), Coro della Radio Svizzera Lugano, Coro Calicantus, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
CHANDOS CHACONNE CHAN0727 (CD)
MOZART Klavierstuck in F, K33b+; Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K356+; ‘Lasst uns mit geschlungen Handen’, K623+
(c/w Marche funebre, K453a+; Andantino, K236+; Rondo in F, K494+; Allegro in G minor, K312*; Andante & Five Variations in G, K501*; Minuetto in D, K355 / Trio da M. Stadler*; Theme & Variations in A, K460^; Fantasia in D minor, K397^; Sonata in D, K381^):
Christopher Hogwood (clavichord owned by Mozart mid-late 1700s+, Hass clavichord 1761*, Schiedmeyer clavichord 1791^)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 832882 (CD)
CHOPIN 14 Waltzes (D flat minor, Op.70, No.3; B minor, Op.69, No.2; E minor, Op.posth.; E flat, Op.18 played)
(c/w RAVEL Valses noble et sentimentales):
Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
EMI CLASSICS 3467342 (CD)
HANDEL Cantata - Figlio d’alte Speranze HWV 113 (from CD entitled ‘Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili, Rome 1706-1707’ – also including Tra le Fiamme (Il Consiglio) HWV 170; Pensieri Notturni di Filli (Nel Dolce Dell’Oblio) HWV 134; Il Delirio Amoroso (Da Quel Giorno Fatale) HWV 90):
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (director)
GLOSSA GCD921521 (CD)
MOZART Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K495
(c/w Horn Concerto No.1 in D, K412; Horn Concerto No.3 in E flat, K417; Horn Concerto in E flat, K447):
Jonathan Williams (french horn), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Alexander Schneider (conductor)
COE RECORDS CDCOE805 (CD, budget)
ANDERSON Diptych* (Pavillons en l’Air played)
(c/w Khovorod+; The Stations of the Sun*; The Crazed Moon*; Alhambra Fantasy+):
BBC Symphony Orchestra*, London Sinfonietta+, Oliver Knussen (conductor)
ONDINE ODE10122 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Sonata in A minor, Op.23
(c/w Sonata in C minor, Op.30 No.2; Variations on the aria “Suel vuol ballare” from The Marriage of Figaro, WoO40):
Andreas Staier (Graf fortepiano of 1824), Daniel Sepec (Beethoven's violin)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901919 (CD)
ADAMS Violin Concerto (2nd movement played)
(c/w CORIGLIANO Chaconne from The Red Violin; ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No.1 (arr. Waxman); WAXMAN Tristan und Isolde Fantasia*):
Chloe Hanslip (violin), Charles Owen (piano)*, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
NAXOS 8559302 (CD, budget)
(released 28 August)
MOZART Abendempfindung
(from CD entitled ‘Songs You Love’, including songs by BRAHMS, DVORAK, GRIEG MENDELSSOHN, SCHUMANN, SIBELIUS, R. STRAUSS, TCHAIKOVSKY and WOLF):
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
EMI CLASSICS 3565262 (CD, mid-price)
LEHAR Eva (Act 2 Finale played):
Eva - Morenike Fadayomi (soprano), Pipsi - Zora Antonic (soprano), Octave Flaubert - Reinhard Alessandri (tenor), Dagobert Millefleurs – Thomas Malik (tenor), Bernard Larousse – Gerhard Balluch (tenor), Prunelles – Thomas Zisterer (baritone), Choir of the Lehar Festival of Bad Ischl, Franz Lehar Orchestra, Wolfgang Bozic (conductor)
CPO 7771482 (2-CD, mid-price)
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