On this week's programme:
09.05am
"La Uitime Estampie Real" from disc Estampies & Danses Royales - Le Manuscrit du Roi ca. 1270-1320"
(c/w Danse; La Prime Estampie Royal; Estampie ancienne: Kalenda maya; La Seconde Estampie Royal; La Tierche Estampie Roial; Chanson: No puesc sofrir; La Quarte Estampie Real; La Quinte Estampie Real; Estampie ancienne: No 'agard'iverns; Danse (II); La Sexte Estampie Real; La Septime Estampie Real; Planctus: Pax! in nomini Domini!; Dansse Real)
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (viol, lira da gamba, rebab)
AliaVox AVSA 9857 (Hybrid SACD)
JUAN GUTIERREZ DE PADILLA: "Deus in adiutorium" and "Stabat Mater" from disc Streams of Tears
(c/w Mirabilia testimonia tua; Transfige, dulcissime Domine; Lamentations; Tristis est anima mea; Versa est in luctum; Missa Ave Regina Caelorum; Pater peccavi; Salve Regina; Ave Regina caelorum)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro COR16059 (CD)
LOBO: Versa est in luctum from disc The Golden Age - Siglo de Oro
(c/w King John IV of Portugal: Crux fidelis; Morales: Kyrie (Mass Mille Regretz); Victoria: Versa est in luctum; Melgas: In ieiunio et fletu; Vivanco: Versa est in luctum ; LOBO: Lamentations, Libera me; Padilla: Versa est in luctum; Melgas: Pia et dolorosa mater)
The King's Singers (David Hurley, Robin Tyson, Paul Phoenix, Philip Lawson, Christopher Gabbitas, Stephen Connolly)
Signum Classics SIGCD119 (CD)
TARIK O'REGAN: Scattered Rhymes (Part III);
GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT: Messe de Nostre Dame (Kyrie)
(c/w DUFAY: Ave Regina Celorum; GAVIN BRYARS: Super flumina; MACHAUT: Douce dame jolie; TARIK O'REGAN: Virelai: Douce dame jolie)
The Orlando Consort
Harmonia Mundi HMU807469 (Hybrid SACD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (for piano)
Reviewer - Dermot Clinch
First Choice:
(c/w Pavane pour une infante defunte; Serenade grotesque ; Jeux d'eau ; Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse; Gaspard de la nuit ; Menuet antique;Menuet sur le mon d'Haydn; A la maniere de . Bordine; A la maniere de . Chabrier;
Prelude; Miroirs; Sonatine)
Louis Lortie (piano)
Chandos CHAN10142(2) X (2 CDs, Mid Price)
Next week Martin Cotton examines recordings of Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra.
10.20 New Choral Releases
FINZI: God is gone up from disc The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
(c/w STANFORD: Caelos ascendit hodie; ROSE: The Preces; BARNBY: Psalm 24; BRITTEN: Festival Te Deum; SCHUTZ: Der 100. Psalm; ROSE: The Responses; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O clap your hands; WALTON: Missa brevis; PETER PHILIPS: Ascendit Deus; SIR GEORGE MACFARREN: Psalm 93; WALTON: Chichester Service - Magnificat and Nunc dimittis; GOWERS: Viri Galilaei; ROSE: The Dismissal; FRANCIS POTT: Toccata (organ solo))
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, Robert Quinney (organ), James O'Donnell (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67680 (CD)
VELJO TORMIS: Kolm laulu eeposest 'Kalevipoeg' (Three songs from the epic 'Kalev's Son')
(c/w Kaks laulu Ernst Enno sonadele (Two songs to words by Ernst Enno); Kolm eesti mangulaulu (Three Estonian game songs); Liivlaste parandus (Livonian heritage); Laevas lauldakse (Singing aboard ship); Sugismaastikud (Autumn landscapes); Neli eesti hallilaulu (Four Estonian lullabies); Helletused (Childhood memory (Herding calls))
Holst Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Hyperion CDA67601 (CD)
DVORAK: Stabat Mater (original 1876 version for soloists, chorus and piano) - "Quando corpus morietur"
Alexandra Coku (soprano), Renata Pokupic (alto), Pavol Breslik (tenor), Markus Butter (bass), Brigitte Engerer (piano), Accentus, Laurence Equiilbey (conductor)
Naive V5091 (CD)
Mentioned but not played:
Transcriptions
A film by Andy Sommer
First Part
MAHLER: Die zwei blauen Augen from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; RAVELl: La flute enchantee from "Scheherazade"; MAHLER: Kein deutscher Himmel; Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; RAVEL: L'indifferent from "Scheherazade"; WAGNER: Im Treibhaus from "Wesendonk Lieder"; SCHUBERT: Grablied from "Death and the Maiden" Quartet; Nacht und Traume Op. 43 no.2 D827; BARBER: Agnus Dei Adagio for Strings opus 11;
Second Part
VIVALDI: Winter from the "Four Seasons"; DEBUSSY: Les Angelus; RAVEL: The Fairy Garden
from "Mother Goose"; Pavane from "Mother Goose"; PROKOFIEV: The Field of the Dead from "Alexander Nevsky"; MAHLER: Scheiden und Meiden from "Lieder aus der Jugendzeit"; DEBUSSY: Des pas sur la neige from "Preludes, Book I"; MAHLER: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from "Ruckert-Lieder"; CHOPIN: Lacrimosa - Etude for piano opus 10 no.6;
Bonus :
RAVEL: Soupir, from "Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme"
Les Monts du Reuil, Andy Sommer (director), Accentus, Laurence Equilbey (conductor)
Naive V5116 (DVD plus 60 page booklet)
10.45 New Piano Concerto Releases
Ivan Hewitt discusses new piano concerto releases with Andrew McGregor. With extracts from the following discs:
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16; RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major
Yundi Li (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 4776593 (CD)
HISATO OHZAWA: Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 2
Ekaterina Saranceva (piano), Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)
Naxos 8.570177 (CD, Budget)
MOZART: Piano Concertos K. 414 and 491
Maurizio Pollini (piano/director), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 477 7167 (CD)
SAINT-SAENS: Concertos for piano No. 1 and 2
Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano), Orchestre de Picardie, Pascal Verrot (conductor)
Calliope CAL9393 (CD)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
Naive V5084 (CD)
11.35am Disc of the Week
BIZET: L'Arlesienne (Orchestral Suite 1 and 2 plus incidental music, 1872 - suite No. 1 plus selection played)
(c/w Carmen - prelude and entractes)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble; Choeur de l'opera de Lyon, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
Naive V5130 (CD)
