Playlist

HOT OFF THE PRESS:
BRAHMS Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op.90; Serenade No.2 in A Major, Op.16:
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
LSO LIVE LSO0056 (CD, budget)

VICTORIA Second Vespers of the Feast of the Annunciation
(Ave Maria played; c/w Marian motets arranged in sequence for Vespers):
The Exon Singers, Matthew Owens (conductor)
DELPHIAN DCD34025 (CD)

CD entitled ‘Plaisir d’amour – Chansons & romances de la France d’autrefois’:
Claire Lefilliatre, Brice Duisit, Isabella Druet (singers)
Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre (guitar, theorbo & director)
ALPHA 513 (CD)

PROKOFIEV Sonata for Violin & Piano No.1 in F Minor, Op.80 ; Sonata for Violin & Piano No.2 in D Major, Op.94 ; March, Op.12, No.1 (transc. Heifetz); ‘Masks’ from Romeo & Juliet (transc. Heifetz) ; ‘March’ from Love for Three Oranges (transc. Heifetz):
Gil Shaham (violin), Orli Shaham (piano)
CANARY CLASSICS (VANGUARD CLASSICS) ATM CD 1555 (CD)

BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
IVES Piano Sonata No.2 ‘Concord, Mass., 1840-60’
Reviewer: Sarah Walker

First Choice:
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) (recorded 2004; c/w BARBER Piano Sonata, Op.26)
HYPERION CDA 67469 (CD)

Budget-Price Choice:
Steven Mayer (piano) (recorded 2002; c/w Varied Air and Variations; The Celestial Railroad; Four Transcriptions from ‘Emerson’, No.1)
NAXOS 8.559127 (CD, budget)

[Next week’s Building a Library will feature Strauss’s Don Quixote.]

CONSUMER SLOT – EMI GEMINI SERIES
VERDI Messa da Requiem; CHERUBINI Requiem in C Minor:
Renata Scotto (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo), Veriano Luchetti (tenor), Evgeny Nesterenko (bass), Ambrosian Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 5862392 (2-CD, budget)

MENDELSSOHN Elijah, Op.70:
Gwyneth Jones (The Widow, An Angel), Janet Baker (The Angel, The Queen), Nicolai Gedda (Obadiah, Ahab), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Elijah), Simon Woolf (The Youth), Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, New Philharmonia Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
EMI 5862572 (2-CD, budget)

HAYDN The Seasons:
Elsie Morison (Nancy), Alexander Young (Lucas), Michael Langdon (Simon), Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
EMI 5861182 (2-CD, budget)

ZEMLINSKY The Complete Choral Works:
Deborah Voigt (soprano), Donnie Ray Albert (baritone), Dusseldorf Chorus, Mulheimer Kantorei, Gurzenich-Orchester Cologne, James Conlon (conductor) – The Complete Orchestral Songs: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Violeta Urmana (mezzo), Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Michael Volle (baritone), Gurzenich-Orchester Cologne, James Conlon (conductor)
EMI 5860792 (2-CD, budget)

BEETHOVEN The Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations:
Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) (recorded live at the 1970 Edinburgh Festival)
EMI 5862422 (2-CD, budget)

FRANCK Cello Sonata in A Major; BRAHMS The Cello Sonatas; CHOPIN Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op.65:
Jacqueline du Pre (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
EMI 5862332 (2-CD, budget)

GRIEG Piano Concerto, Op.16* ; Peer Gynt, Op.23+ ; Haugtussa, Op.67** ; Selected Songs ¬ : *
John Ogdon (piano), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor), Taru Valjakka (soprano), Edith Thallaug (mezzo), Leipzig Radio Chorus, + Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), **Siv Wennberg (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), ¬ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hartmut Holl (piano)
EMI 5860582 (2-CD, budget)

WAGNER Orchestral works – Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) ; Ride of the Valkyries; Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music (Die Walkure); Dawn & Siegfried’s Rhine Journey ; Siegfried’s Death and Funeral (Gotterdammerung); Forest Murmurs (Siegfried) ; Overture (Tannhauser) ; Overture (Rienzi) ; Preludes to Acts I & III (Lohengrin) ; Act I Prelude (Die Meistersinger) :
Berlin Philharmonic, Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
EMI 586248 2 (2-CD, budget)


NEW RELEASES: ORGAN
Reviewer: Graeme Kay

BACH The Eighteen Chorales (Leipzig Chorale Preludes) Nos 1-18 BWV 651-668); Fantasia in G Major, BWV 572; Trio Sonata No.4 in E Minor BWV 528; Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544; Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540:
Gillian Weir (at the Gerald Woehl Organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig)
PRIORY PRCD 800 (2-CD)

WHITLOCK Organ Sonata in C Minor; Five Short Pieces; Fantaisie Choral No.1 in D Flat Major: J
ohn Scott (organ of St Paul’s Cathedral, London)
HYPERION CDA67470 (CD)

CD entitled ‘Twentieth Century Organ Music – ’ BRITTEN Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria ; Voluntary on ‘Tallis’ Lamentation’; Prelude to ‘They Walk Alone’; Village Organist’s Piece; TIPPETT Preludio al Vespro di Monteverdi; John LAMBERT Organ Mass; HOWELLS Master Tallis’s Testament; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes :
Timothy Bond (at the organ of St Wolfgang’s Church, Schneeberg, Germany)
REGENT REGCD205 (CD)

DURUFLE Complete Organ Works:
Friedlhelm Flamme (Muhleisen organ of Stiftskirche, Bad Gandersheim)
CPO 777 042-2 (SACD/CD hybrid)

CD entitled ‘Festival d’orgue de Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, (Paris)’ Live recordings 2003-2004 –

CD 1 Daniel Roth plays PIERNE Trois Pieces, Op.29 ; WIDOR Allegro (1st Movement) from the 6th Symphony ; Improvisation on a given theme ; Thierry Escaich plays MENDELSSOHN Organ Sonata No.3 in A Major, Op.65; VIERNE Naiades (Pieces de fantaisie); Improvisation on a given theme –

CD2 Vincent Warnier plays REGER Introduction & Passacaglia in D Minor; SAINT-SAENS Danse Macabre (transc. Lemare); Jehan ALAIN Suite; MESSIAEN Dieu parmi nous (La Nativite); Marie-Claire Alain plays A. ALAIN Andante in B Major, Op.306 ; Jehan ALAIN Variations sur un theme de Clement Jannequin ; Litanies ; Postlude pour l’office de complies ; Trois Danses :
All performances recorded at the organ of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
INTRADA 014 (2-CD, mid-price)

CD entitled ‘Midnight at Notre-Dame – Organ Transcriptions’
BACH Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 29 (trans. Dupre); Chorale ‘Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring’ (trans. Durufle); Chorale ‘Ertot uns durch dein Gute’; (trans. Durufle); Chaconne from Partita BWV 1004 (trans. Messerer); MOZART Adagio & Fugue in C Minor, K546 (trans. Guillou); WAGNER Pilgrims’ Chorus (Tannhauser) (trans. Liszt); BERLIOZ Marche hongroise (La Damnation de Faust) (trans. Busser); RACHMANINOV Prelude, Op.3 No.2 (trans. Vierne) ; PROKOFIEV Toccata, Op.11 (transc. Guillou) :
Olivier Latry (organ of Notre-Dame, Paris)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474 8162 (SACD/CD hybrid)


AN INTERVIEW WITH CONDUCTOR RENE JACOBS
MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro :
Simon Keenlyside (The Count), Veronique Gens (The Countess), Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna),
Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina), Kobie van Rensburg (Basilio, Don Curzio), Antonio Abete (Bartolo, Antonio), Nuria Rial (Barbarina),
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Koln, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901818.20 (3-CD, mid-price) 

CALDARA Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo:
Maria Cristina Kiehr (Maddalena), Rosa Dominguez (Marta), Bernarda Fink (Amor Terreno), Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor), Ulrich Messthaler (Fariseo), Gerd Turk (Cristo),
Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 905221.22 (2-CD)

HANDEL Rinaldo:
Vivica Genaux (Rinaldo), Miah Persson (Almirena), Inga Kalna (Armida), Lawrence Zazzo (Goffredo), James Rutherford (Argante), Christophe Dumaux (Eustazio), Dominique Visse (Mago Cristiano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901796.98 (3-CD, mid-price)

A. SCARLATTI Griselda:
Dorothea Roschmann (Griselda), Lawrence Zazzo (Gualtiero), Veronica Cangemi (Costanza), Bernarda Fink (Roberto), Silvia Tro Santafe (Ottone), Kobie van Rensburg (Corrado), Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 801805.07 (3-SACD/CD hybrid)

HAYDN The Seasons:
Marlis Petersen (soprano), Werner Gura (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), RIAS Chamber Choir, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901829.30 (2-CD, mid-price)

‘THE LISTENING BOOTH’:
The Listening Booth is a regular slot around midday on Saturday’s CD Review. It’s your chance to vote for and listen to excerpts from brand-new CDs.


This week's selections:
CD entitled 'Away Delights – Lute Solos and Songs from Shakespeare's England by Robert JOHNSON':
Matthew Wadsworth (lute), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Mark Levy (bass viol)
AVIE AV2053

BLISS Clarinet Quintet:
David Campbell (clarinet), Maggini Quartet
NAXOS 8.557394

HANDEL Serse:
Anne Sofie von Otter (Serse), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Romilda), Sandrine Piau (Atalanta), Lawrence Zazzo (Arsamene), Silvia Tro Santafe (Amastre), Giovanni Furlanetto (Ariodate), Antonio Abete (Elviro), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
VIRGIN Veritas 5457112 (3-CD)

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.4 in C Minor, Op.43:
Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS 475 6190 (CD/SACD hybrid)



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RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
SCHUMANN Der schwere Abend, Op.90, No.6; Die Lowenbraut, Op.31, No.1; Belsazar, Op.57; Der Soldat, Op.40, No.3; Nachtlied, Op.96, No.1 – and other Schumann songs:
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Eric Schneider (piano)
DECCA 475 6012 (CD)