Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
CD entitled 'RAMEAU Une Symphonie imaginaire' (orchestral music from the operas) Overture to Zais, played: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
ARCHIV 477 5578 (CD/SACD hybrid)
CORIGLIANO Phantasmagoria (on 'The Ghosts of Versailles'); To Music; Fantasia on an Ostinato; Three Hallucinations: Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Eri Klas (conductor)
ONDINE ODE 1058-2 (CD)
DEBUSSY Preludes Books 1 & 2:
Pascal Roge (piano)
ONYX 4004 (CD)
GRIEG Peer Gynt (Incidental music):
Peter Mattei (Peer Gynt), Camilla Tilling (Solveig), Charlotte Hellekant (Anitra), Ellerhein Girls’ Choir, Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra,
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
VIRGIN 5457222 (CD)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
RACHMANINOV Preludes
Reviewer: Sarah Walker
First Choice:
Howard Shelley (piano) (recorded 1982 & 1983) Ten Preludes, Op.23; Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op.3
HYPERION CDA 66081 (CD)
Howard Shelley (piano) (recorded 1982 & 1983) Thirteen Preludes, Op.32; Prelude in F Major; Prelude in D Minor
HYPERION CDA 66082 (CD)
[Next week’s Building a Library will feature Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No.3]
Consumer Spot:
NAXOS 20th Century British Series:
Havergal BRIAN Violin Concerto in C Major; Symphony No.18; Comedy Overture –The Jolly Miller: Marat Bisengaliev (violin),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Lionel Friend (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557775 (CD, budget)
BRITTEN Folk Song Arrangements: Felicity Lott (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano),
Carlos Bonell (guitar)
NAXOS 8.557220-21 (2-CD, budget)
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, Op.33; Symphonic Suite: Gloriana, Op.52a; Sinfonia da Requiem, Op.20: London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557196 (CD, budget)
BRITTEN Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op.10*; The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell’; Prelude and Fugue for 18-part String Orchestra, Op.29*; Occasional Overture: *English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557200 (CD, budget)
BRITTEN Piano Concerto, Op.13* (including both original and revised Third Movement); Overture to Paul Bunyan (arr. Colin Matthews); Johnson Over Jordan (Suite) (Arr. Paul Hindmarsh)*: Joanna MacGregor (piano), English Chamber Orchestra*, London Symphony Orchestra,
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557197 (CD, budget)
TIPPETT A Child of Our Time: Faye Robinson (soprano), Sarah Walker (mezzo), Jon Garrison (tenor), John Cheek (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Michael Tippett (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557570 (CD, budget)
New Releases – Vocal
Reviewer: Gordon Stewart
FINZI Song Cycles — Oh Fair to See; Till Earth Outwears; A Young Man’s Exhortation:
James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
LINN CKD 253 (CD)
BRUBECK Songs – All My Love; Strange Meadowlark; The Things You Never Remember; So Lonely; Don’t Forget Me; There’ll Be No Tomorrow; The Time of Our Madness; Tao; Final Curve/Search; Dream Dust/Hold Fast To Dreams; The Dream Keeper; Day After Day; Once When I Was Very Young: John De Haan (tenor), Jane Giering-De Haan (soprano), Dave Brubeck and
Cliff Jackson (piano)
NAXOS 8.559220 (CD, budget)
CHAUSSON Poeme de l’amour et de la mer; RAVEL Sheherazade; DEBUSSY (orch. John Adams) Le Livre de Baudelaire (1-IV from Cinq Poemes de Charles Baudelaire): Susan Graham (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
WARNER 2564 61938 2 (CD)
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang, D957; Herbst D945; BEETHOVEN An Die Ferne Geliebte, Op.98: Matthias Goerne (baritone), Alfred Brendel (piano)
(recorded live at the Wigmore Hall)
DECCA 475 6011 (CD)
Richard STRAUSS The Complete Songs Volume 1: Christine Brewer (soprano),
Roger Vignoles (piano)
HYPERION CDA67488 (CD)
An Interview with conductor Lorin Maazel :
CD entitled ‘Lorin Maazel complete early Berlin Philharmonic recordings 1957-1962’) – BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet, Dramatic Symphony Op. 17 (Excerpt from The Capulets’ Ball played) BEETHOVEN Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67 (excerpt played; c/w Symphony No.6 in F Major, Op.68 ‘Pastoral’; MOZART Symphony No.41 in C Major K551 ‘Jupiter’* (excerpt played); c/w Symphony No.1 in E Flat Major K16; Symphony No.28 in C Major, K200; MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”; Symphony No.4 in A Major, Op.90 ‘Italian’; BRAHMS Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op.90; Tragic Overture, Op.81; BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House, Op.124 Overture; 12 Contredanses for Orchestra WoO 14; SCHUBERT Symphonies 2, 3,4,5,6,8; TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture; Symphony No.4 in F Minor; MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain; BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34*; RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome; PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet (excerpts from the Suites, Op.64) ; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol, Op.34 :
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, *Orchestre National de la Radio-diffusion-Televsion Francaise, Paris, Lorin Maazel (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5254 (8-CD, budget)
RAVEL L’Enfant et les Sortileges
(excerpt from final scene played):
Francoise Ogeas (L’enfant),
Choeurs et Maitrise de la R.T.F,
Orchestra Nationale de la R.T.F,
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 474 8902 (CD, mid-price)
PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet, Op.64:
(The Fight Act 1 scene 1 played):
The Cleveland Orchestra,
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
DECCA 452 970-2 (2-CD, mid-price)
ADAMS On the Transmigration Of Souls
(excerpt played): New York Choral Artists, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel (conductor)
NONESUCH 7559-79816-2 (CD)
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BACH Cantatas Volume 24 - Wir mussen durch viel Trubsal in das Reich Gottes eingehen BWV 146 (played) ;Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV 12; Ihr werdet weinen und heulen BWV 103; Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166; Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe BWV 108; Sei Lob und Ehr dem hochsten Gut BWV 117: Brigitte Geller (soprano), William Towers (alto), Robin Tyson (alto), Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist (tenor), Julian Clarkson, Stephen Varcoe (bass), The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 107
MARX The Piano Concertos: David Lively (piano), Bochum Symphony Orchestra,
Steven Sloane (conductor)
ASV CD DCA 1174
CD entitled 'Pieces a Deux Pianos' - Works for Two Pianos by SAINT-SAENS; FRANCK; INFANTE; POULENC: Claire Chevallier, Jos van Immerseel (1897, 1904 Erard Pianos)
ZIG ZAG ZZT 030903
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
MOZART The Magic Flute: Barry Banks (Tamino), Elizabeth Vidal (Queen of the Night), Rebecca Evans (Pamina), Majella Cullagh, Sarah Fox, Diana Montague (Three Ladies) Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Lesley Garrett (Papagena), John Tomlinson (Sarastro), London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 3121 (2-CD, mid-price)
