CD Review
09.05am
JS BACH: Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio) BWV 248
Chorus: Jauchzet, frohlocket!
(Christine Schafer - soprano; Bernarda Fink - alto; Werner Gura - tenor; Gerald Finley - Bass; Christian Gerhaher - bass; Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
DHM 88697 11225 2 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
PURCELL: 'Not all my torments can your pity move' (anonymous author)
GEORGE CRUMB: 'Let it be forgotten' (II, from Three Early Songs) (on CD Apparition)
(c/w PURCELL: Music for a while, If music be the food of love, Ah! How sweet it is to love, An Epithalium, Sweeter than roses. From rosy bow'rs, Celebrate this Festival!; Thy hand, Belinda.When I am laid in earth; CRUMB: Three Early Songs - I 'Night', III 'Wind Elegy'; Apparition)
Christine Schafer (soprano), Eric Schneider (piano)
ONYX 4021 (CD)
BARBER: Dover Beach
(c/w There's nae lark, The Beggar's Song, In the dark pinewood, Bessie Bobtail Op. 2 No. 3; Hermit Songs Op. 29; Three Songs Op. 10; Melodies passageres Op. 27; The Daisies Op. 2 No. 1; With rue my heart is laden Op. 2 No. 2; Nocturne Op. 13 No. 4; Sure on this shining night Op. 13 No. 3)
The Aronowitz Ensemble, Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Hyperion CDA67528 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendations
RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome
Reviewer - David Huckvale
First choice:
(c/w Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 4158462 (CD, Mid Price)
Next week Richard Wigmore reviews recordings of Haydn's 'Theresienmesse'.
10.15am Listener Choices
Vaughan Williams: Hodie (Christmas Cantata)
"It is the birth" (narration)
"It was the Winter wild"
(c/w Fantasia on Christmas Carols)
Peter Hoare (tenor), Janice Watson (soprano), St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir
Guildford Choral Society, Hilary Davan Wetton
Naxos 8.570439 (CD, Budget)
Bach: Three-part Inventions Nos 12-15 (BWV 798 - 801)
(c/w Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004; Two-part inventions BWV 772-786)
Janine Janson (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedeen (cello)
Decca 475 9081 (CD)
Verdi: Aida - Grand march (arr. Alan Fernie)
(c/w BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture (arr. Denis Wright);BIZET: Pearl Fishers: Deep Inside the Sacred Temple (arr. Geoff Richards); Carmen Suite (arr. Fernie);HOLST: The Planets: Jupiter (arr. Stephen Roberts)
BIZET: L'Arlesienne: Farandole (arr. Howard Lorriman);ELGAR: Enigma Variations: Nimrod (arr. Eric Ball);
WALTON: Spitfire Fugue (arr. Fernie);GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess Suite (arr. Fernie);WILLIAMS: Saving Private Ryan: Hymn to the Fallen (arr. Klaas van derWoude);TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture (arr. Robert Childs))
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor
NAXOS 8.570726 (CD, Budget)
10.45 am Consumer Roundup
Nick Morgan (in discussion with Andrew McGregor) looks at some of the 50th anniversary reissues from Das Alte Werk
Includes extracts from the following:
BACH: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ BWV 67
'Friede sei mit euch' (vi)
(c/w Cantatas BWV 108 and 127)
Keith Engen (bass), Munich Bach Choir, members of the Munich State Opera Orchestra, Karl Richter
WCJ 2564 69766 6 (TELDEC 9031-77614-2) (CD, Mid Price) [to be released soon]
ANON: In Gedeonis area (Carmina Burana No. 37)
Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley (plucked instruments)
WCJ 2564 69765 8 (TELDEC 4509-95521-2) (2CDs, Mid Price) [to be released soon]
BOCCHERINI: Concerto in D G479
(c/w Cello Concerto No. 8 in C G481; Cello Concerto No. 4 in C G477; Cello Concerto No. 7 in G G480)
Anner Bylsma (cello), Concerto Amsterdam, Jaap Schroder
WCJ 2564 69853 0 (TELDEC 9031-7764-2) (CD, Mid Price)
FUX: Serenada e 8 - Aria (iv)
(c/w Sonata a Quattro; SCHMELZER: 1. Sonata Natalitia a 3 Chori,
2. Sonata No.2 a 8, 3. Sonata a 4, 'La Carolietta',
4. Sonata No.1 a 8, 5. Sonata a 3,
6. Sonata No.4 a 6, 7. Sonata a 5, 8. Sonata a 3,
9. Sonata a 3 Violini)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (viol/violone)
WCJ 2564 69852 4 (2CDs, Mid Price)
BACH: Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist BWV 45
(c/w the complete Bach Cantatas)
Hannover Boys' Choir, Leonhardt-Consort, Gustav Leonhardt (organ)
WCJ 2564-69943-7 (CD 2 - 60 CD Box Set, Budget)
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 8
(c/w VIVALDI: Concerto in E major RV270; Sonata in A major RV 59; TORELLI: Concerto a Quattro in G minor Op. 8 No. 6; ANTONACCI: Sinfonia Pastorale in G major for two violins; PEZ: Concerto Pastorale in F major for 2 Records, 2 Violins and Viola; MANFREDINI: Concerto Gross in C major Op. 3 No. 12)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
WCJ 2564 69853 6 (TELDEC 2292-46013-2) (CD, Mid Price)
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F BWV 1046
(c/w Brandenburg Concertos No. 2-6)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
WCJ 2564 69812 3 (ELATUS: 2564-61773-2) (2CDs, Mid Price)
DALL'ABACO: Concerti a piu instrumenti in e minor Op. 5 No. 3
(c/w Concerti a Quattro da Chiesa Op. 2; Concerti a piu Instrumenti Op. 6)
Concerto Koln
WCJ 2564 69859 8 (CD, Mid Price)
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony for Strings No. 9 in c minor
(c/w Symphonies for Strings No. 8 in D major and No. 10 in B minor)
Concerto Koln
WCJ 2564 69857 3 (TELDEC 4509-94565-2) (CD, Mid Price)
SALIERI: Piano Concerto in C
(c/w Piano Concerto in Bb; STEFFAN: Piano Concerto in Bb)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Concerto Koln
WCJ 2564 69855 2 (CD, Mid Price)
MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K. 622
(c/w Concerto for Flute and Harp in C K299; Oboe Concerto in C K314)
Wolfgang Meyer (basset clarinet), Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
WCJ 2564 69855 6 (CD, Mid Price)
HANDEL: Water Music, Suite in F HWV 348
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
TELDEC 4509-93668-2 (CD, Mid Price)
[Not reissued]
The new 60 CD Box set of the complete Bach Cantatas, talked about in this programme, is now available:
Bach: The Sacred Cantatas
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt, Leonhardt Consort, Concentus Musicus Wien
WJC 2564 6994-37 (60 CDs, Budget)
See http://www.dasaltewerk.com/index.html for more information
11.35 am Disc of the Week
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Lucerne Festival Edition 7 640125 120455 (CD)
Available from the Lucerne Festival website (http://e.lucernefestival.ch). Alternatively this can be purchased through Presto Classical from their website (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Lucerne%2BFestival%2BOrchestra/7640125120455) or their shop in Leamington Spa.
NOTE: The Building a Library recommendation from 13th October (Albeniz - Iberia/Rafael Orozco) was supposed to be released by 5th November. There have been some delays, but it's now going to be released the first week of December. See here for more details of the disk
