Playlist

HOT OFF THE PRESS:

John WILLIAMS Star Wars IV ‘A New Hope’ – Music for the Film (Original Soundtrack recording from 1977): London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams (conductor)
SONY S2K92950 (2-CD, mid-price)

SCHWANTNER Sparrows; Soaring; Distant Runes and Incantations; Two Poems of Aguedo Pizarro; Music of Amber: Britta Stallmeister (soprano), Florian Holscher (piano), Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon (director & piano)
NAXOS 8.559206 (CD, budget)

*MAXWELL DAVIES Eight Songs for a Mad King; Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot (+ Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in conversation with Paul Driver): Kelvin Thomas (baritone), Jane Manning (soprano), Psappha
PSAPPHA PSA CD 1001 (CD, mid-price)
*This CD is only available from Psappha direct: www.psappha.com
or telephone 01457 868521

BOISMORTIER Six Concertos for five Flutes without Bass, Op.15; Sonata for three Flutes, Op.7, No.4; Concerto for two Flutes without Bass, Op.38, No.2; Suite for solo Flute, Op.35, No.5: Barthold Kuijken, Marc Hantai, Frank Theuns, S. Saitta, D. Etienne (flutes)
ACCENT ACC24161 (CD)

PART Berliner Messe (version for choir & orchestra); Cantate Domino Canticum Novum (Psalm 95); De Profundis; Summa; The Beatitudes; Magnificat: Jurgen Petrenko (organ), Elora Festival Singers & Orchestra, Noel Edison (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557299 (CD, budget)

BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Reviewer: Rodney Milnes

First Choice:
Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (B. F. Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Paolo Washington (The Bonze), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori), Virgilio Carbonari (The Imperial Commissioner), Oscar Nanni (Yakuside), Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Tullio Serafin (conductor) (recorded 1958)
DECCA 452 594-2 (2-CD, mid-price ‘Double Decca’)
*also available on DECCA 470 577-2 (2-CD, mid-price ‘Compact Opera Collection’)

[Next week’s Building a Library will feature Berg’s Violin Concerto.]

CONSUMER SLOT – GRAMOPHONE AWARDS COLLECTION

CD entitled ‘Carlo Bergonzi The Sublime Voice’ – (Lifetime Achievement Award 2000) – Arias by PUCCINI; MASCAGNI; LEONCAVALLO; VERDI; PONCHIELLI & CILEA: Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), various orchestras & conductors
DECCA 476 1858 (2-CD)

SIBELIUS Complete Songs (Solo Vocal Award 1985): Tom Krause (baritone), Irwin Gage (piano), Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Carlos Bonell (guitar)
DECCA 476 1725 (4-CD)

GRIEG Songs (Record of the Year & Solo Vocal Award 1993) – The Mountain Maid, Op.67; Six Songs, Op.48; Six Poems by Henrik Ibsen, Op.25; Five Poems by John Paulsen, Op.26; Twelve Songs after poems by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Op.33; Poems by Vilhelm Krag, Op.60; Children’s Songs, Op.61; Romances, Op.39; ‘The Heart’s Melodies’ by Hans Christian Andersen, Op.5; Six Poems by Holger Drachmann, Op.49: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 476 1815 (CD)

PROKOFIEV The Fiery Angel (Opera Award 1996): Sergei Leiferkus (Ruprecht), Galina Gorchakova (Renata), Evgenia Perlasova-Verkovich (Landlady), Mikhail Kit (Servant), Larissa Diadkova (Fortune-teller), Evgeni Boitsov (Jakob Glock), Vladimir Galuzin (Agrippa von Nettesheim), Yuri Laptev (Mathias Wissmann), Valery Lebed (Doctor), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Mephistopheles), Sergei Alexashkin (Johann Faust), Evgeni Fedotov (Host), Olga Markova-Mikhailenko (Mother Superior), Vladimir Ognovienko (Inquisitor), Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS 476 1826 (2-CD)

BARBER Violin Concerto; BLOCH Baal Shem; WALTON Violin Concerto (Concerto Award 1998): Joshua Bell (violin), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)
DECCA 476 1723 (CD)

BARTOK The String Quartets (Chamber Award 1981): Tokyo String Quartet
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 476 1833 (3-CD)

CD entitled ‘Venetian Vespers – First Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin – as it might have been celebrated in St Mark’s, Venice in 1643’ (Early Music Award 1993): Music by MONTEVERDI; RIGATTI; GRANDI; CAVALLI; FINETTI; MARINI; BANCHIERI; G. GABRIELI: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 476 1868 (2-CD)

NEW RELEASES: ORCHESTRAL
Reviewer: Stephen Johnson
BARTOK Divertimento; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste; KODALY Dances of Galanta: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
LINN CKD 234 (CD/SACD)

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.6 in F Major, Op.68 ‘Pastoral’; Leonore Overtures 1-3: Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
SIMAX PSC 1184 (CD)

BRUCKNER Symphony No.7: Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901857(CD)

R. SIMPSON Symphony No.11; Variations on a theme by Nielsen: City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Taylor (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67500 (CD)

MESSIAEN Eclairs sur l’au-dela : Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5577882 (CD)

AN INTERVIEW WITH ORGANIST & CHOIR MASTER MARTIN BAKER

MACMILLAN Mass (Sanctus played; c/w A New Song; Christus Vincit; Gaudeamus in loci pace; Seinte Mari moder milde; A Child’s Prayer; Changed): Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Andrew Reid (organ)
Martin Baker (Master of Music)
HYPERION CDA 67219 (CD)

PALESTRINA Missa Dum complerentur – Credo (excerpt played; c/w Alleluia: Veni Sancte Spiritus; Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus; Veni Sancte Spiritus; Veni Creator Spiritus; Magnificat sexti toni; Spiritus Sanctus replevit totam domum): Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
HYPERION CDA 67353 (CD)

Plainsong ‘Haec Dies’ (excerpt played; c/w
from CD Entitled ‘Resurrexit – The Complete Easter Sunday Mass from Westminster Cathedral’ – Mass setting DVORAK in D; PHILLIPS Ecce vicit leo; TOURNEMIRE (trans. DURUFLE) Choral-Improvisation on the ‘Victimae Paschali’, Plainchant, Organ improvisations): Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker (Master of Music & solo organ), Robert Quinney (organ)
HERALD HAVPCD 284 (CD)

MAXWELL DAVIES Mass – (excerpt from Gloria played; c/w Missa parvula; Veni Creator Spiritus; Dum complerentur; Reliqui domum meum; Veni Sancte Spiritus): Choir of Westminster Cathedral,
Robert Quinney, Robert Houssart (organs)
Martin Baker (Master of Music)
HYPERION CDA 67454 (CD)

MARTIN BAKER Improvisation on the Introit for Easter Sunday (excerpt played, from
CD Entitled ‘Resurrexit – The Complete Easter Sunday Mass from Westminster Cathedral’ –
Mass setting DVORAK in D; PHILLIPS Ecce vicit leo; TOURNEMIRE (trans. DURUFLE) Choral-Improvisation on the ‘Victimae Paschali’, Plainchant, Organ improvisations: Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker (Master of Music & solo organ), Robert Quinney (organ)
HERALD HAVPCD 284 (CD)

VICTORIA Missa Ave Regina caelorum (Kyrie played; c/w Ave Maria; Dixit Dominus; Laudate pueri Dominum; Laudate Dominum omnes gentes; Laetatus sum; Nisi Dominus; Magnificat septimi toni; Ave Maria: Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Robert Quinney (organ continuo),
Martin Baker (Master of Music)
HYPERION CDA 67479 (CD)


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This week's selections:

MOZART Early Symphonies:
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876587062 (3-CD)

Organ Music by Samuel WESLEY played by Jennifer Bate on the Historic 1829 Bishop organ in St James's Church, Bermondsey, London
SOMM SOMMCD 036

HANDEL Lotario:
S.Kermes (Adelaide), S. Mingardo (Lotario), S. Davislim (Berengario), S. Prina (Matilde), H.Summers (Idelberto), V. Priante (Clodomiro), Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 82876 587972 (2-CD)

SCULTHORPE Songs of Sea and Sky:
William Barton (didjeridu), The Queensland Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor)
ABC CLASSICS ABC 476 192-1


RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
CD entitled ‘All’Improvviso
Ciaccone, Bergamasche . .. & un po’ di Follie’: L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
ALPHA 512 (CD)
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