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DISCS PLAYED, REVIEWED & RECOMMENDED ON "CD REVIEW" CRITICS' CHOICE 2005: Saturday 10th December 2005 ,
9.00 am - 13.00, BBC Radio 3
[All recordings are available at full price unless indicated otherwise.]
Presenter: Andrew McGregor
Critics :
Rob Cowan
Dermot Clinch
Harriet Smith
HAYDN The Paris Symphonies (Nos 82-87): Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 8287606022 (3-CD, mid-price)
RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op.22; Piano Sonata No.2, Op.36 (Horowitz version); KREISLER (arr. RACHMANINOV) Liebesleid; Liebesfreud; Song Transcriptions - Lilacs, Op.21, No.5; Daisies, Op.38, No.3: Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
BIS SACD 1518 (CD/SACD hybrid)
REICH You Are Variations; Cello Counterpoint:
Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon (conductor), Maya Beiser (cello)
NONESUCH 7559 798912 (CD)
DVORAK String Sextet in A Major, Op.48; String Quintet in G, Op.77: The Nash Ensemble
ASV GOLD GLD 4011 (CD)
VIVALDI 5 Violin Concertos - Concerto in D Major 'Grosso Mogul' RV208; Concerto in B Minor for 4 Violins and Cello RV580; Concerto in C Major RV187; Concerto in D Major RV 234 'L'inquietudine'; Concerto in E Minor RV277 'Il Favorito': Viktoria Mullova (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
ONYX 4001 (CD)
LINDBERG Clarinet Concerto; Grand Duo; Chorale: Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
ONDINE ODE 10382 (CD)
ELGAR The Music Makers, Op.69; Overture Froissart, Op.19; Dream Children, Op.43; BACH (orch. Elgar) Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537/Op.86: Jane Irwin (mezzo), Halle Choir, Halle, Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CD HLL 7509 (CD, mid-price)
CHRISTMAS DISCS REVIEWED:
Reviewer: Jeremy Summerly
CD entitled ' Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol'; Mr Pickwick's Christmas' - A Christmas Carol (adapted and dramatized by George Wells); Mr Pickwick's Christmas (told by Charles Laughton) with original musical accompaniment composed and conducted by Hanns EISLER
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5742 (CD) (mono)
LUTOSLAWSKI Twenty Polish Christmas Carols*; Lacrimosa; Five Songs+: Olga Pasichnyk (soprano)*, Jadwiga Rappe (alto)+ , Polish Radio Chorus, Kracow, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Witt (conductor)
NAXOS 8.555994 (CD, budget)
CD entitled 'On Christmas Day - New Carols from King's': Bob CHILCOTT The Shepherd's Carol; Richard Rodney BENNETT On Christmas Day to My Heart; Judith BINGHAM God would be born in thee; Arvo PART Bogoroditse Dyevo; Jonathan HARVEY The Angels; Lennox BERKELEY In Wintertime, Op.103; Robin HOLLOWAY Christmas Carol; Jonathan DOVE The Three Kings; John RUTTER What Sweeter Music; John CASKEN A Gathering; Judith WEIR Illuminare, Jerusalem; Peter MAXWELL DAVIES One Star, at Last; Alexander GOEHR Carol for St Steven; Peter SCULTHORPE The Birthday of thy King; Giles SWAYNE Winter Solstice Carol; James MACMILLAN Seinte Mari moder milde; Harrison BIRTWISTLE The Gleam; Diana BURRELL Christo Paremus Cantica; John WOOLRICH Spring in Winter; Thomas ADES Fayrfax Carol; Nicholas MAW Swete Jesu; Stephen PAULUS Pilgrim Jesu: The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde, Ashley Grote, Tom Winpenny, Oliver Brett (organ), Philippa Davies (flute), Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 5580702 (2-CD)
BACH Cantatas for Christmas Day - Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91; Unser Mund sei voll Lachens BWV 110; For the Second Day of Christmas - Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40; Christum wir sollen loben schon BWV 121: Katharine Fuge, Joanne Lunn (sopranos), Robin Tyson, William Towers (altos), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
(CD entitled 'Cantatas Vol.14: New York ')
MONTEVERDI SDG 113 (CD, mid-price)
CD entitled 'A Mediterranean Christmas - Songs of Celebration from Spain , Provence , Italy & the Middle East, 1200-1900': The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen (director), Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble, Karim Nagi (director)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564625602 (2-CD)
CD entitled 'Johnny "Bowtie" Barstow - A Bowtie Christmas' - Joy To The World; Jingle Bells; Mack The Knife; In The Mood; As Times Goes By; The Girl from Ipanema - and other items: Johnny "Bowtie" Barstow (vocals), Larry Goldings (electric keyboard, organ, piano)
STICKY MACK RECORDS SM001 (CD)
CRITICS' CHOICE (continued):
R. STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony, Op.64:
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Franz Welser-Most (conductor)
EMI 3345692 (CD)
MACMILLAN Seven Last Words from the Cross; On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin; Te Deum: Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, James Vivian (organ), Stephen Layton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67460 (CD)
MONTEVERDI Sixth Book of Madrigals:
La Venexiana
GLOSSA GCD920926 (CD)
CD entitled 'Round About Weill' - improvisations inspired by Kurt WEILL'S 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ':
Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet), Gianni Coscia (accordion)
ECM 982 4131 (CD)
BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Daniel Barenboim (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 619402 (3-CD, mid-price)
Mark-Anthony TURNAGE This Silence; True Life Stories; Slide Stride; Two Baudelaire Songs; Eulogy; Two Vocalises; Cantilena: The Nash Ensemble with soloists: Sally Matthews (soprano), Ian Brown (piano), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Lawrence Power (viola), Paul Watkins (cello)
ONYX 4005 (CD)
BEETHOVEN The Late String Quartets - Quartet in F Major, Op.135; Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.127; Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op, 131; Quartet in A Minor, Op.132; Quartet in F Minor, Op.95; Quartet in B Flat Major, Op.130; Grosse Fuge, Op.133: Takacs Quartet
DECCA 470 849-2 (3-CD, mid-price)
LISTENERS' DISCS OF THE YEAR 2005:
MACMILLAN Seven Last Words from the Cross; On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin; Te Deum: Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, James Vivian (organ), Stephen Layton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67460 (CD)
BEETHOVEN The Late String Quartets - Quartet in F Major, Op.135; Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.127; Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op, 131; Quartet in A Minor, Op.132; Quartet in F Minor, Op.95; Quartet in B Flat Major, Op.130; Grosse Fuge, Op.133: Takacs Quartet
DECCA 470 849-2 (3-CD, mid-price)
LINDBERG Clarinet Concerto; Grand Duo; Chorale: Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
ONDINE ODE 10382 (CD)
THE LISTENERS' DISC OF THE YEAR 2005:
BRAHMS The Cello Sonatas; DVORAK Waldesruhe, Op.68, No.5; Rondo in G Minor, Op.94; SUK Ballade in D Minor, Op.3, No.1; Serenade in A Major, Op.3, No.2: Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano)
HYPERION CDA 67529 (CD)
