CD Review
09.05am
MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 (First Movement)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI - Download on iTunes (13/11/07)
Download elsewhere (26/11/07) 5099950122950
2CDs (March 2008) - 5099950122820
JS BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048
(c/w Brandenburg Concertos 1-2 and 4-6)
European Brandenburg Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director)
AVIE AV2119 (2CDs)
09.30 am
Building a Library
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3
Reviewer - Edward Seckerson
First choice:
(c/w Suites from works by Bach)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Petra Lang, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Netherlands Children's Choir, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Decca 4706522 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
Budget choice:
(c/w Kindertotenlieder, Ruckert-Lieder, Lieder aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn')
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Martha Lipton, New York Church of the Transfiguration Boys' Choir, New York Schola Cantorum, Jennie Tourel (in the disk couplings), Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Sony SM2K61831 (2CDs)
Next week David Huckvale reviews recordings of Respighi's Pines of Rome.
10.20am Listener Choices
To be placed on CD Review website on Monday 19th November
10.40 am New Baroque Releases (with David
Vickers)
PURCELL: Victorious Love
'Sweeter than roses'
'O let me weep' (The Plaint)
(c/w The fatal hour
When first Amintas sued for a kiss
They tell us that you mighty powers above
Man is for the woman made
From silent shades
Music for a while
Now the night is chas'd away
If music be the food of love
Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium)
The bashful Thames
I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain
Oh! fair Cedaria
Fairest isle
O solitude
If love's a sweet passion
The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
An Evening Hymn)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord and spinet), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute and theorbo), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Sarah Sexton (violin 1), Andrea Morris (violin 2), Jane Rogers (viola)
BIS SACD1536 (Hybrid SACD)
HANDEL: Sta nell'Ircana (from Alcina)
GRAUN: Mio bel nieme
From CD 'Carestini: Story of a Castrato'
(c/w NICOLA PORPORA: Siface: Tu Che d'ardire m'attendi; GIOVANNI MARIA CAPELLI: I fratelli riconsociuti: Ciel nemico; HANDEL: Alcina: Mi lusinga; Arianna in Creta: Ove son... Qui ti sfido; Ariodante: Scherza, infida; LEONARDO LEO: Farncae: Se mi dai morte; JOHANN ADOLF HASSE: La clelmenza de Tito: Se mai senti,Vo disperato; GLUCK: Demofoonte: Sperai vicino il lido; GRAUN: In mirar la mia sventura)
Le Concert d'Astree, Philippe Jaroussky (counter tenor), Emmanuelle Haim (conductor)
Virgin 3952422 (CD)
JC BACH: Sinfonia in G Op. 6 No. 1 (1st movement)
Flute Concerto in D (Final movement)
(c/w Ouverture Il tutore e la pupilla; Sinfonia concertante in D; Sinfonia in F)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor/violin)
CARUS 83.307 (CD)
CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL: Tempo di Menuet WKO 188; Moderato WKO208
(c/w Adagio WKO 189; Vivace WKO 190; Allegro WKO 192; Tempo minuetto WKO 154; Adagio WKO 209; Arpeggio WKO 205; Tempo di menuet con variazioni WKO 203 and WKO 204; Adagio WKO 187; Fuga WKO 196; Sonata in G major; Adagio WKO 155 No.1; Allegro WKO 155 No. 2; Tempo di menuet WKO153;Adagio (not in WKO); Allegro WKO 198; Tempo di menuet WKO 202; Andante WKO 191; Arpeggio WKO 194; Allegro WKO 207)
Susanne Heinrich (viola da gamba)
Hyperion CDA67628 (CD)
PACHELBEL: Christ lag in Todesbanden
('Toccata', 'Jauchzet dem Herrn', 'Christ lag in Todesbanden')
Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Les Agremens, Jean Tubery (conductor)
Ricercar RIC 255 (CD)
11.15 am Cecilia Bartoli in conversation
Extracts from her new CD, 'Maria'.
DONIZETTI: 'Prendi, per me sei libero' from L'Elisir d'Amore
MENDELSSOHN: Infelice (scena ed aria)
With Maxim Vengerov (violin)
HUMMEL: Air a la Tirolienne avec Variations
With Maria Goldschmidt (flute) and Robert Pickup (clarinet)
BELLINI: 'Casta Diva' from Norma
With Maria Goldschmidt (flute) and chamber soloists
MALIBRAN: Rataplan
With Benjamin Forster (drum)
(c/w PACINI: 'Se un mio desir' and 'Ira del ciel' from Irene o L'Assedio di Messina; 'Dopo tante e tante pene' from Tancredi; PERSIANI: 'Cari Giorni' from Ines de Castro; GARCIA: 'Yo que soy contrabandista' from El Poeta Calculista; 'E non lo vedo' from La Figlia Dell'Aria'; BELLINI: 'Ah! Non Credea Mirarti' and 'Ah! Non Giunge' from La Sonnambula; 'O Rendetemi la Speme' and 'Vien, Diletto' from I Puritani; HALEVY: 'Come dolce a me Favelli' from CLARI; LAURO ROSSI: 'Scorrete, o Lagrime' from Amelia Ovvero Otto Anni di Constanza)
Orchestra La Scintilla, Adam Fischer (conductor)
Decca 475 9077 (CD)
11.45 am Disc of the Week
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22
(c/w Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103 '"Egyptian"; FRANCK: Variations Symphoniques)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
Decca 475 8764 (CD)
