Playlist
HOT OFF THE PRESS:
WILMS
Symphony No.6 in D Minor, Op.58; Symphony No.7 in C Minor:
Concerto Koln, Werner Ehrhardt (director)
ARCHIV 474 508 -2 (CD)
WIDERKEHR
The Duosonatas – Sonata No.1 in E Minor; Sonata No.2 in C Major; Sonata No.3 in F Major:
Bart Schneemann (classical oboe), Paolo Giacometti (fortepiano)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 19204 (SACD/CD hybrid)
FINNISSY
Gershwin Arrangements (1975/1987-8)
including Fidgety feet; Embraceable you; A foggy day in London town; Shall we dance?; More Gerswhin (1989-1990) including Swanee; Dixie Rose; Nashville Nightingale; Isn’t it wonderful!; Limehouse nights: Nicolas Hodges (piano)
METRONOME MET CD 1063 (CD)
Scott JOPLIN
Maple Leaf Rag; Heliotrope Bouquet: ‘A Slow Drag Two-Step’; Pine Apple Rag; Solace: “A Mexican Serenade”; Paragon Rag; Pleasant Moments: “Ragtime Waltz”; Elite Syncopations; Original Rag; Fig Leaf: ‘A High-class Rag’; The Entertainer: ‘A Ragtime Two-Step’; The Easy Winners; Country Club Rag; The Strenuous Life; Bethena: ‘A Concert Waltz’:
Alexander Peskanov (piano)
NAXOS 8.559114 (CD, budget)
CD entitled ‘MOZART Concertos for Wind’
– Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K191; Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K622; Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major K297b; Oboe Concerto in C Major, K314; Horn Concerto No.4 in E Flat Major K495:
Anthony Pike (clarinet), John Anderson (oboe), Richard Berry (horn in Horn Concerto),
Julie Price (bassoon), John Thurgood (horn in Sinfonia Concertante),
English Chamber Orchestra, Ralf Gothoni (conductor)
AVIE AV0035 (2-CD, mid-price)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings
Reviewer: Iain Burnside
First Choice:
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Michael Thompson (horn), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson (conductor) (recorded 1988; c/w *Les illuminations, Op.18; Quatre chansons francaises) * Felicity Lott (soprano)
CHANDOS CHAN 10192 X (CD, mid-price)
Budget-Price Choice:
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), David Pyatt (horn), Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)
(recorded 1995; c/w Les Illuminations, Op.18; Nocturne, Op.60)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 575 5632 (CD, budget)
[Next week’s Building a Library will feature Haydn’s The Creation.]
CONSUMER SLOT – CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE
HOLST
The ballet from The Perfect Fool, Op.39*; +Beni Mora – Oriental Suite, Op.29, No.1; +The Planets, Suite Op.32:
* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, + BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Women’s Chorus,
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 585913 2 (CD, budget)
WALTON
Belshazzar’s Feast*;
ELGAR
The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38: *
James Milligan (bass-baritone), Richard Lewis (Gerontius, The Soul of Gerontius), Marjorie Thomas (The Angel), John Cameron (The Priest, The Angel of the Agony), Huddersfield Choral Society, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 585904 2 (2-CD, budget)
ELGAR
Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op.82*; +Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op.61;** Piano Quintet in A Minor Op.84; ++String Quartet in E Minor, Op.83; ^Serenade; ^Concert Allegro, Op.46: *
Hugh Bean (violin), David Parkhouse (piano),
+ Hugh Bean (violin), Royal Liverpool, Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves (conductor),
** John Ogdon (piano), Allegri Quartet, ++ Music Group of London,
^John Ogdon (piano)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 585908 2 (2-CD, budget)
ELGAR
The Starlight Express incidental music Op.78:
Valerie Masterson (soprano), Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone),
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP 585907 2 (CD, budget)
NEW RELEASES: OPERA
Reviewer: Patrick O’Connor
WAGNER
Tristan & Isolde:
Thomas Moser (Tristan), Robert Holl (Konig Marke), Deborah Voigt (Isolde), Peter Weber (Kurwenal), Markus Nieminen (Melot), Petra Lang (Brangane), Michael Roider (Ein Hirt), Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera,
Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474 974-2 (3-CD)
GLINKA
Ruslan & Lyudmila:
Taras Shtonda (Ruslan), Ekaterina Morozova (Lyudmila), Vadim Lynkovsky (Svetosar), Aleksandra Durseneva (Ratmir), Vitaly Panfilov (Finn), Maria Gavrilova (Gorislava), Valery Gilmanonv (Farlaf), Maksim Paster (Bayan), Irina Dolzhenko (Naina), Chorus & Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
PENTATONE CLASSICS PTC 5186 034
(3-SACD/CD Hybrid)
VERDI
Il Trovatore:
Carlo Guelfi (Il Conte di Luna), Veronica Villarroel (Leonora), Elena Zaremba (Azucena), Andrea Bocelli (Manrico), Carlo Colombara (Ferrando), Maria Grazia Calderone (Ines), Salvatore Bonaffini (Ruiz), Salvatore Todaro (An Old Gyspy), Barbara Sciuto (A Messenger), Chorus & Orchestra of the Massimo Bellini di Catania Theatre, Steven Mercurio (conductor)
DECCA 475 3662 (2-CD)
JANACEK
Jenufa (Sung in English):
Elizabeth Vaughan (Grandmother), Dame Josephine Barstow (The Kostelnicka), Janice Watson (Jenufa), Peter Wedd (Steva Buryja), Nigel Robson (Laca Klemen), Neal Davies (Mill Foreman), Alan Fairs (Mayor), Marion McCullough (Mayor’s wife), Charlotte Ellett (Karolka), Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 3106 (2-CD, mid-price)
AN INTERVIEW WITH CONDUCTOR GRAHAM O’REILLY
ALLEGRI/ BAI Miserere Mei;
LEO Miserere Mei
(played; c/w F. SCARLATTI Miserere Mei, Deus; VIADANA Miserere Mei; LEO Christus factus est) : Ensemble William Byrd, Graham O’Reilly (director)
NAIVE E8846 (CD)
D. SCARLATTI
Stabat Mater (excerpt played; c/w ; Messa Breve ‘La Stella’; Te Deum Laudamus; Iste Confessor; A. SCARLATTI O Magnum Mysterium): Ensemble William Byrd, Yannick Varlet (organ),
Graham O’Reilly (conductor)
PIERRE VERANY PV799111 (CD)
CHARPENTIER
Extremum Dei judicium (excerpt played c/w; Transfige dulcissime Jesu; Le Reniement de St Pierre;
Salve Regina pour trois chœurs;
Litanies pour deux dessus et une basse chantante; Motet pour les Trepasses) : Ensemble europeen William Byrd, Yannick Varlet (organ), Pascal Monteilhet (theorbo), Philippe Couvert, Francoise Couvert (violins),
Helene Couvert-Suignard (viola), Dominique Dujardin (cello), Graham O’Reilly (conductor)
PAN CLASSICS 10175 (CD)
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
MAHLER
Symphony No.3 in D Minor;
Bach Suite (arr. Mahler):
Petra Lang (mezzo),
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Netherlands Children’s Choir,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 470 652-2 (2-SACD/CD hybrid)
THE LISTENING BOOTH
BRIDGE The Sea:
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557167
BACH Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904:
Angela Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67499
GUBAIDULINA The Canticle of the Sun:
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Collegium Vocale Gent, Members of the Prometheus Ensemble, Daniel Reuss (conductor)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 20904
