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CD entitled 'BERIO Orchestral Transcriptions' -BRAHMS Sonata for Clarinet and Orchestra in F Minor, Op.120, No.1; PURCELL The modification and instrumentation of a famous hornpipe as a merry and altogether sincere homage to uncle Alfred; BACH Contrapunctus XIX (The Art of Fugue); BOCCHERINI Quattro versioni originali della 'Ritirata notturna di Madrid' sovrapposte e trascritte per orchestra; MOZART Variations on Papageno's Aria 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' (Divertimento per Mozart); SCHUBERT Rendering for orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 476 2830 (CD)
CD entitled 'Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral' PEROTIN Beata viscera; Viderunt omnes; Sederunt principes; LEONIN Viderunt Omnes; Clausulae Motet on 'Dominus'; ANONYMOUS Vetus abit littera; Plainchant Viderunt omnes; Organum after 9th-century Scolica enchiriadis: Psalm 115/113b Non nobis Domine: Rebecca Hickey (soprano), Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts (director)
NAXOS 8.557340 (CD, budget)
TALLIS Gaude gloriosa; Jesu salvator saeculi; Sermone blando angelus; Magnificat a 5; Nunc dimittis a 5; Mihi autem nimis; Absterge Domine; Derelinquat impius; Loquebantur variis linguis; Suscipe quaeso Domine; O nata lux: The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (director)
HYPERION CDA67548 (CD)
CD entitled 'SCHUBERT for Two': (SCHUBERT arranged for violin & guitar): Sonata D 821 'Arpeggione' played: Gil Shaham (violin), Goran Sollscher (guitar)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471 5682 (CD)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
HMS Pinafore (A repeat of the review last broadcast on 8th June 2002)
Reviewer: Geoffrey Smith
First Choice:
Richard Suart, Thomas Allen, Michael Schade,
Rebecca Evans, Felicity Palmer, Donald Adams, Richard Van Allan, Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
TELARC CD 80374 (CD)
Budget Choice:
George Baker, John Cameron, Richard Lewis,
Owen Brannigan, Elsie Morison, Majorie Thomas, Monica Sinclair, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) (c/w Trial by Jury)
HMVD 5 73056 2 (2-CD, budget)
Additional Choice (with dialogue):
Yvonne Barclay, Alfred Boe, Frances McCafferty, Tom McVeigh, Gordon Sandison, James Cleverton, Stephen Davis, Gaynor Keeble, Chorus and Orchestra of the D'Oyly Carte Opera, John Owen Edwards (conductor)
THATS ENTERTAINMENT CDTER 2 1259 (2-CD)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Orchestral version]
Consumer Spot - Deutsche Grammophon 'Trio' series
SIBELIUS Luonnotar, Op.70; Karelia Suite, Op.11; Andante festivo; The Oceanides, Op.73; King Christian II, Op.27; Finlandia, Op.26; Pohjola's Daughter, Op.49; Night Ride and Sunrise, Op.55; Four Legends from Kalevala, Op.22 (Lemminkainen Suite); En Saga, Op.9; Spring Song, Op.16; Valse triste, Op.44, No.1; Scene with Cranes, Op.44, No.2; Canzonetta, Op.62a; Valse romantique, Op.62b; The Bard, Op.64; Tapiola, Op.112: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5522 (3-CD, Mid-price)
NIELSEN The Complete Symphonies: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5514 (3-CD, Mid-price)
REGER The String Quartets; Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Op.146: Drolc Quartet, Karl Leister (clarinet)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5518 (3-CD, Mid-price)
CD entitled 'The 20-Century Cello' - DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello & Piano; DAVIDOVSKY Synchronisms No.3 for Cello and Electronic Sound; BERIO Les mots sont alles . . . "Recitativo' for solo cello; CRUMB Sonata for Solo Cello; WEBERN Three Little Pieces for Cello & Piano, Op.11; DUTILLEUX 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher for solo cello; BRITTEN The Cello Suites; Tema 'Sacher' for Cello Solo; Sonata in C for Cello and Piano, Op.65; REGER Suite for Solo Cello in G Major, Op.131c No.1; HINDEMITH Sonata for Solo Cello, Op.25, No.3; SESSIONS Six Pieces for Cello; HARBISON Suite for Solo Cello; PERLE Hebrew Melodies for Unaccompanied Cello; KODALY Sonata Op.8; HENZE Capriccio for solo cello; LIGETI Sonata for Solo Cello: Matt Haimovitz (cello), Philippe Cassard (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5506 (3-CD, Mid-price)
BEETHOVEN The Complete Violin Sonatas:
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Carl Seemann (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5502 (3-CD, Mid-price)
CHOPIN 12 Etudes, Op.10; 12 Etudes, Op.25; 4 Impromptus; Piano Sonata No.2 in B Flat Minor, Op.35; Piano Sonata No.3 in B Minor, Op.58; 5 Mazurkas; Introduction and Variations on a German National Air; Berceuse; Polonaise heroique; Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor, Op.11; Piano Concerto No.2 in F Minor, Op.21*: Tamas Vasary (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor), Janos Kulka (conductor)*
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5510 (3-CD, Mid-price)
New Releases - Baroque
Reviewer: Simon Heighes
CD entitled 'Claudio MONTEVERDI Scherzi musicali - Fugge 'l verno de' dolori; Come faro cuor mio quando mi parto; Lidia spina del mio core; Damigella tutta bella; Quel sguardo sdegnossetto; Piu lieto il guardo; Et e pur dunque vero; Si dolce e l'tormento; Clori amorosa; Ecco di dolci raggi; Lo che' armato sin hor; Eri gia tutta mia; Maledotto sia l'aspetto; Quando sperai; Quando l'Alba in Oriente; Toccata argeggiata; Se i languidi miei sguardi; Ohime ch'io cado; De la bellezza le dovute lodi; FRESCOBALDI Aria detta Balletto : Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Stephan Macleod (bass baritone), Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes (clavierorganum/director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901855 (CD)
CD entitled 'MONTEVERDI Sesto Libro dei Madrigali 1614 'Sixth Book of Madrigals': La Venexiana
GLOSSA GCD 920926 (CD)
CD entitled 'Henry DU MONT Grand motets pour la chapelle de Louis XIV au Louvre' - Allemande; Super flumina Babylonis Psalm 137; Dialogus de anima; Ecce iste venit; Pavane; Benedic anima mea (Psalm 102): Ensemble Pierre Robert, Frederic Desenclos (organ soloist & director)
ALPHA 069 (CD)
CD entitled 'The Trio Sonata in 17th-Century France' - LULLY Trios pour Le Coucher du Roi; GEOFFROY Dialogue pour le clavessin et les violes; L. COUPERIN Simphonie; Dialogue; F. COUPERIN La Superbe; Gaspard Le ROUX Suite No.2 in D Major; CLERAMBAULT Sonata in G Major 'La Felicite'; Marin MARAIS Suite in G Minor; REBEL Tombeau de Monsieur Lully:
London Baroque
BIS CD 1465 (CD)
HANDEL Rodelinda: Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unulfo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo), Il Complesso Barocco , Alan Curtis (conductor)
ARCHIV 477 5391 (3-CD, mid-price)
An Interview with conductor Kurt Masur
BEETHOVEN The Complete Symphonies (Symphony No.9, played): Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano), Annelies Burmeister (mezzo), Peter Schreier (tenor), Theo Adam (bass), Radio Chorus Leipzig, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)
PENTATONE CLASSICS PTC 5186159 (5-CD/SACD hybrid, budget)
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5 'Reformation' Op.107; Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op.11: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)
APEX 2564 603 702 (CD, budget)
BRITTEN War Requiem: Carol Vaness (soprano), Jerry Hadley (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), American Boychoir, Westminster Symphonic Choir, New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur (conductor)
TELDEC 0630 171152 (2-CD)
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.5 in D Minor, Op.47; Symphony No.1 in F Minor, Op.10: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)
LPO 0001 (CD, mid-price)
HENZE Symphony No.9: New York Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Choir,
Kurt Masur (conductor)
(from CD entitled 'Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic')
SPECIAL EDITONS NYP 0107 (10-CD)
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op.35 (on period instruments):
Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel (conductor)
ZIG ZAG ZZT050502
GEMINIANI Sonatas for Cello & Basso Continuo, Op.5:
Alison McGillivray (cello), David McGuinness (harpsichord), Eligio Quinteiro (alto guitar), Joseph Crouch (cello)
LINN CKD 251
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.13 in B Flat Minor, Op.113 'Babi Yar':
Sergei Aleksashkin (bass),The Men of the Chorus of Bavarian Radio, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
EMI 5579022
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
MENDELSSOHN Octet in E Flat Major, Op.20; Variations concertantes, Op.17; Romance sans paroles; Albumblatt, Op.117: Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens (director), Frank Braley (piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901868 (CD)
