Building a Library: Bartok: The String Quartets (revisited)
Reviewer: Rob Cowan
New First Choice: Tokyo String Quartet
Recorded 1975-1980
DEUTSCHE GRAMMPHON 476 1833
(3-CD, mid-price)
Previous First Choice: Vegh Quartet
(recorded 1972)
NAĎVE V 4870 (3-CD, budget)
Historic Recording Choice Juilliard Quartet
(recorded 1950)
PEARL GEMS 0147 (2-CD mid-price)
CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.bartok:
bal.bartok.the.string.quartets
Playlist
[All recordings are available at full price unless indicated otherwise.]
Hot Off The Press:
Symphonic Transcriptions: by Leopold STOKOWSKI
Mussorgsky Entr'acte to Act IV of Khovanshchina; A Night on Bare Mountain; Symphonic Synthesis of Boris Godunov; Pictures at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky Humoresque, Op.10, No.2; Solitude, Op.73, No.6; Traditional Slavic Christmas Music
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557645 (available as a CD, hybrid SACD or DVD-A)
[budget price]
HANDEL Operatic Arias:
Pianger ň la sorte mia (Guilio Cesare);Se 'l mio duol (Rodelinda);Dester ň dall empia dite (Amadigi); M'hai resa infelice (Deidamia); Scheraza in mar (Lotario);Ombre piante (Rodelinda);Tutta raccolta ancor (Scipione); Orrida a gl'occhi miei (Ariodante);Ah, crudel (Rinaldo);Sommi dei (Radamisto);Barbaro, partir ň (Radamisto)
Emma Bell (soprano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (director)
LINN RECORDS CDK 252 (hybrid SACD)
VICTORIA: Missa Pro Defunctis; Salve Regina; Ave Regina caelorum a 5; Nigra sum; Quam pulchri sunt; Trahe me post te; Ave Regina caelorum a 8; Officium Defunctorum; Taedet animam meam; Funeral motet: Versa est in luctum; Responsory: Libera me
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO COR SACD 16033 (available as CD or hybrid SACD)
REICH: Duet: Triple Quartet; Different Trains
The Smith Quartet
SIGNUM CLASSICS SIG CD 064
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
Bartok: The String Quartets (revisited)
Reviewer: Rob Cowan
New First Choice:
Tokyo String Quartet
Recorded 1975-1980
DEUTSCHE GRAMMPHON 476 1833
(3-CD, mid-price)
Previous First Choice:
Vegh Quartet
(recorded 1972)
NAĎVE V 4870 (3-CD, budget)
Historic Recording Choice
Juilliard Quartet
(recorded 1950)
PEARL GEMS 0147 (2-CD mid-price)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade"]
Proms related recordings:
Tallis Spem In Alium Feature
CD entitled Spem in alium: Music for Monarchs and Magnates
TALLIS Spem in Alium; GIBBONS O all true faithful hearts: BYRD Deus venerunt gentes; Tomkins Know you not; GIBBONS Great King of Gods; TOMKINS O God, the heathen are come; TALLIS Te Deum; TOMKINS Be Strong; TALLIS Sing and glorify
The Sixteen; Harry Christophers
CORO COR SACD 106016 (available as CD, hybrid SACD or DVD-A)
Tallis The Complete Works - Volume 7
Spem in alium; Salvator mundi I; O sacrum convivium; In manus taus; O nata lux de lumine; Absterge Domine; Discomfort them O Lord; Domine, quis habitat; Laudate Dominum; Miserere nostril; Salvator mundi II; Mihi autem nimis; O salutaris hostia; In ieiunio et fletu; (Low); In ieiunio et fletu (High); Derelinquit impius:
Chapelle du Roi: Alistair Dixon
SIGNUM RECORDS SIG CD 029
Remembering Tippett: Recordings from the 1940's
TALLIS Spem in alium *; TIPPETT Fantasy Sonata for Piano + ; Concerto for Double String Orchestra ^; String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp $
Zorian Quartet $ : Orchestra ^, Walter Goehr (conductor) ^ :Phyllis Sellick (piano) + Morley College Choir*, Michael Tippett (conductor)*
NM RECORDS NMCD 103
TALLIS Spem in alium: Missa Salve intemerata; Salve intemerata (Motet); With all our heart; Discomfort them, O Lord; I call and cry to thee, O Lord
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
NAXOS 6.110111 (available as CD, hybrid SACD or DVD-A)
TALLIS: Spem in alium; Te lucias ante terminum; Salvator mundi; In iejunio et fletu; O salutaris hostia; Lamentations I and II; Miserere; Gloria; Credo; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei
Magnificat, Philip Cave (director)
LINN RECORDS CKD 233 (hybrid SACD)
TALLIS: PITTS : Choral Works for 40 voices
TALLIS Spem in alium; PITTS XL; PURCELL/ Sandstr öm Hear my prayer, O Lord; BACH: Contrapunctus I (Art of fugue - organ) *; BACH/SCHNEIBEL Contrapunctus I (choir); HARVEY Come, Holy Ghost; NYSTEDT Immortal Bach KODALY Laudes Organi
Berlin Radio Choir, Simon Halsey (director) Arvid Gast (organ) *
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 801873 (hybrid SACD)
Music for Children
CD ENTITLED Children's Games
BIZET Jeux d'enfants *; DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice * ; FAURE Dolly Suite ^; Liadov The Musical Box * ; Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite **; MOURANT: The Pied Piper $ ; ROBLES Narnia Suite % ; MILHAUD Brazileira,
Mexico City Orchestra * , Enrique Batiz (conductor) *, **, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ^ ,Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) ^ ,Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ** , George Macdonald (clarinet) $ , Northern Sinfonia of England $ , Stuart Bedford (conductor) $ , The Marisa Robles Ensemble % , Christopher Hyde-Smith (flute and piccolo) % , Emma John son (clarinet), Gordon Back (piano)
SANCTUARY CLASSICS CD RSN 3046
BARLOW & MORPURGO The Rainbow Bear; PROKOVIEV Peter and the Wolf
Joanna Lumley (narrator), English Northern Philharmonic, Stephen Barlow (conductor)
SANCTUARY CLASSICS CD RSN 3041
CD ENTITLED For Children
MOZART Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'; BACH Prelude in E major; Praeambulum in G minor; Daquin Le Coucou; Beethoven Für Elise; SCHUMANN Wilder Reiter; Volksliedchen; Fr ö hlicher Landmann von der Arbeit zur ü ckkehrend; CHOPIN Nocturne in C minor; LISZT É tudes No 1& 2; BIZET La toupe; Faur é Berceuse; Tchaikovsky Maman; Valse; Villa-Lobos O Polichinello; A Probrezinha; Moreninha; Jolivet Chansons na ď ves No 1 & 3; Prokofiev Waltz; Debussy Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum; The Little Shepherd; Le petit nčgre; BARTOK An evening in the country; Andante; Swineherd's Song; Moderato; Jest; Magin Danse Noble; Nostalgie du pays; Chant des moissons; Mati ÄŤ i ÄŤ : Miniature Variations
L í via R é v (Piano)
HELIOS CDH 55194
Red Riding Hood & Sleeping Beauty
Tom Small (music) Emma House (words)
Harry Enfield (Narration)
SANCTUARY CLASSICS CD RSN 3052
Prokofiev Cinderella Suite Opp. 95, 87, 102; Music for children, Op 65; Gavotta, Op 32, No. 3; Prelude in C, Op. 12, No. 7
Olli Mustonen (piano)
ONDINE ODE 1060 2
