On this week's programme:
09.05am
MOZART: Sonata in A KV 305 from disc Complete sonatas for keyboard and violin Vol 5
(c/w Sonata in C KV 403 (385c); Sonata in B flat KV31; Sonata in D KV 306)
Rachel Podger (violin); Gary Cooper (fortepiano)
Channel Classics CCS SA 25608 (Hybrid SACD)
MICHAEL NYMAN: In Re Don Giovanni
(c/w Revisiting the Don ; Trysting Fields; Not Knowing the Ropess, Wedding Tango; Wheelbarrow Walk; Fish Beach; Knowing the Ropes; O my Dear Papa; I am an unusual thing;
Profit and Loss)
Michael Nyman Band
Mn Records MNRCD 113 (CD)
MOZART: Cosi fan tutte or The School for Lovers
English version by Marmaduke Browne, adapted by John Cox
Fiordiligi, Janice Watson (soprano)
Dorabella, Diana Montague (mezzo soprano)
Guglielmo, Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Ferrando, Toby Spence (tenor)
Despina, Lesley Garrett (soprano)
Don Alfonso, Thomas Allen (baritone)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gareth Hancock (assistant conductor), Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Chandos Opera in English CHAN 3152(3) (3 CDs) (Mid Price)
MOZART: Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (K339)
(c/w MOZART Ave verum Corpus; FAURE: Requiem)
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano); Ruth Massey (alto); Mark Dobell (tenor); Roderick Williams (baritone);
The Sixteen; Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO Live COR 16057 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
SCRIABIN: Le Poeme de l'extase
Reviewer - William Mival
First Choice:
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Riccardo Muti
(c/w SCRIABIN: Symphonies 1 - 3; Promethee, le poeme du feu, Op.60)
EMI Classics 7243 567720 2 (3 CDs)
(Budget Price)
Also highly recommended:
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
(c/w RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Mlada: Procession of the Nobles; Scheherezade, Symphonic Suite after "1001 Nights" Op.35
London Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
BBC BBCL 4121-2 (CD) (Mid Price)
Next week David Fanning examines recordings of Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44.
10.20 am
New Releases - Vaughan Williams and Finzi
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - From far, from eve and morning
(c/w IVOR GURNEY: Ludlow and Teme; IAN VENABLES: Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, Op.36)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Dante Quartet
Signum Classics SIGCD112 (CD)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - Is my team ploughing? (c/w Piano Quintet in C minor; Romance and Pastorale - two pieces for violin and piano
Mark Padmore (tenor); Schubert Ensemble with Alison Dods (violin)
Chandos CHAN 10465 (CD)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - Clun
(c/w WARLOCK: The Curlew; BLISS: Elegiac Sonnet; IVOR GURNEY: Ludlow and Teme)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Anna Tilbrook (piano); Michael Cox (flute) Gareth Hulse (cor anglais)
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
LINN CKD 296 (CD)
FINZI: Dies Natalis, Op.8 - The Rapture
(c/w FINZI: Romance for string orchestra Op.11; WALTON: Sonata for string orchestra (l972)
Toby Spence (tenor); Scottish Ensemble; Jonathan Morton (artistic director)
WIGMORE HALL WHLive0021 (CD)
FINZI: Dies Natalis, Op.8 - Wonder
(c/w Prelude for String Orchestra; The Fall of the Leaf (Elegy) (compl. Howard Ferguson); Two sonnets for Tenor and Orchestra; Nocturne (New Year Music); Farewell to Arms)
James Gilchrist (tenor), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570417 (CD)
10.45 New Recordings
Wiebke Thormahlen talks to Andrew about recent releases of Baroque violin and cello repertoire, on both period and modern instruments. With extracts from the following discs:
CPE BACH: Gamba Sonatas & Fantasias
Solo a Viola da Gamba e Basso in D major H 559
Fantasie in A major H.278; Fantasie in C minor H.75; La Stahl H.94; Solo a Viola da Gamba e Basso in C major H 558; Les Langueurs Tendres H.110
Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano), Vittorio Ghielmi
(viola da gamba), Gianluca Buratto (bass-baritone)
Solo a Viola da Gamba e Basso in D major H 559
WINTER & WINTER910 140-2 (CD)
CPE BACH: Viola da gamba Sonatas in C major, Wq.136, H.558; D major, Wq.137, H559; Trio sonata in G minor, Wq.88 H.510
Dmitry Kouzov (cello), Peter Laul (harpsichord and piano)
NAXOS 8.570740 (CD)
JS BACH: Unaccompanied Sonata No.2 in A minor;
BARTOK: Sonata No.1 for violin and piano Sz.75 BB84
Midori (violin), Robert McDonald (piano)
SONY 82796977452 (CD)
Boccherini : Sei Quartetti per Archi, Op.2
QuartettI Nos. I to VI
Alea Ensemble
STRADIVARIUS STR 33758 (CD)
BUXTEHUDE : Sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and cembalo Op.1 (buxWV 252-258
L'Estravagante: Stefano Montanari (violin), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba), Maurizio Salerno (cembalo)
ARTS 47731-8 (SACD)
BUXTEHUDE: Six Sonatas (Complete Chamber Music 3)
Sonatas in G major, BuxWV 271; A minor, BuxWV 272; F major, BuxWV 269; D major BuxWV 267;
B flat major BuxWV 273; C major BuxWV 266
John Holloway and Ursula Weiss (violins), Jaap ter Linden and Mogens Rasmussen (viola da gamba), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and organ)
Naxos 8.557250 (CD)
BIBER
Mensa Sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis
Pars I to VI
Purcell Quartet
CHAN 0784 (CD)
11.30am Disc of the Week
HAYDN: The Creation (Part 1 played)
Sandrine Piau (soprano),Miah Persson (soprano), Ruth Massey (contralto), Peter Harvey (baritone), Mark Padmore (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Chetham's Chamber Choir, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 477 7361 (2 CDs, Mid Price)
