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Hot Off The Press:
MAHLER Symphony No.9: San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY 82193600072 (2-CD/SACD hybrid)
TALLIS Spem in Alium; Salve intemerata; Missa Salve intemerata; With all our heart; Discomfort them, O Lord; I call and cry to thee, O Lord - on free Bonus CD works by WEELKES; MONTEVERDI; MUNDY;
JOSQUIN; PALESTRINA; BYRD; O. GIBBONS; TOMKINS; TALLIS & ALLEGRI: Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557770 (CD, budget price + free bonus CD) (also available as an SACD, and DVD Audio)
ADES Piano Quintet; SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 'The Trout'*: Thomas Ades (piano), Arditti Quartet, *Belcea Quartet with Corin Long (double bass)
EMI 5576642 (CD)
Pehr Henrik NORDGREN Rock Score (for 19 strings), Op.100; Concerto No.1 for Cello and String Orchestra, Op.50; Transe-Choral for 15 Strings, Op.67: Marko Ylonen (cello), Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas (conductor)
BIS CD 1356 (CD)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
BACH The Motets
Reviewer: George Pratt
*First Choice:
The Netherlands Chamber Choir, Ageet Zweistra (cello), Maggie Urquhart (violin), Maarten van der Heyden (violin), Jan Kleinbussink (organ), Ton Koopman (conductor) (recorded 1986, 1987)
PHILIPS 434 165-2 (CD)
* not currently available
Also Recommended:
La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) (recorded 1985)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901231 (CD)
Choir and Orchestra of La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) (recorded 1992)
ACCENT ACC 9287 (CD)
RIAS-Kammerchor, Members of the Akademie fur Alte Musik, Berlin, Rene Jacobs (conductor) (recorded 1995)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901 589 (CD)
Mid-Price Recommendations:
Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghanel (conductor)
(recorded 1995)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 74321 935432 (CD, mid-price)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) (recorded 1980; c/w Cantata: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht BWV 118; Cantata: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft BWV 50)
ERATO 2292 459792 (2-CD, mid-price)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Puccini's Gianni Schicchi]
Consumer Spot - Warner's Apex Budget series:
CD entitled 'Carmina Burana - medieval songs from the Benediktbeuren manuscript (c.1230): Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen (conductor)
APEX 2564 620842 (CD, budget)
BIBER Requiem; Sonata St Polycarpi a 9; Laetatus sum a 7; In festo trium regium, muttetum a 6; Sonata Violino Solo representativa; Sonata III a 5; Sonata prima a 5; Balletae a 4 Violettae, Nos 1-7; Battalia; Sonata a 7; Sonata IV a 5; Sonata seconda a 8; Sonata a 6 'die Pauern Kirchfahrt genandt: Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Jacques Villisech (bass), Soloists of the Vienna Sangerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor), Alice Harnoncourt (violin),
APEX 2564 620312 (2-CD, budget)
BIBER Requiem in F minor; Missa 'in Contrapuncto' in B major (c/w pieces by MUFFAT, SCHMELZER, MEGERLE & LASSUS): Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
ARCHIV 474 714-2 (CD)
HAYDN The Seasons: Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Josef Protschka (tenor), Robert Holl (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
APEX 2564 620862 (2-CD, budget)
BEETHOVEN Mass in C Major; Cantata: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op.112: Audrey Michael (soprano), Lilia Bizimeche-Eisinger (mezzo), Markus Schaeffer (tenor), Michel Brodard (bass), Gulbenkian Choir & Orchestra, Michel Corboz (conductor)
APEX 2564 62081-2 (CD, budget)
MASSENET Scenes dramatiques (Suite No.3 for Orchestra); Scenes de feerie (Suite No.6 for Orchestra); Scenes alsaciennes (Suite No.7 for Orchestra); Scenes pittoresques (Suite No.4 for Orchestra); Don Quichotte; Le cernier sommeil de la Vierge: Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
APEX 2564 62085-2 (2-CD, budget)
VARESE Ameriques; Offrandes; Hyperprism; Arcana; Densite 21.5; Ionisation; Ecuatorial; Nocturnal; Integrales; Deserts: Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Philippe Pierlot (flute), Nicholas Isherwood (bass-baritone), Men's choir of Radio France; Orchestre National de France, Kent Nagano (conductor)
APEX 2564 62087-2 (2-CD, budget)
VARESE The Complete Works - Deserts played: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 475 487-2 (2-CD, mid-price)
COPLAND Old American Songs*; Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson+; Billy the Kid (a selection); Down a Country Lane: *Thomas Hampson (baritone), +Dawn Upshaw (soprano), The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)
APEX 2564 620892 (CD, budget)
New Releases - Contemporary
Reviewer: Ivan Hewett
CD entitled 'GRISEY Les Espaces Acoustiques' - Prologue for solo viola; Periodes for 7 musicians; Partiels for 18 musicians; Modulations for 33 musicians; Transitoires for large orchestra; Epilogue for 4 horns and large orchestra: Garth Knox (viola), Asko Ensemble, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Asbury (conductor)
KAIROS 0012422 KAI (CD)
BRYARS Oi Me Lasso (15 settings of medieval 'Laude'): Anna Maria Friman (soprano), John Potter (tenor), Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass)
GB RECORDS BCGBCD05 (CD)
CD entitled 'Giya KANCHELI In l'istesso tempo'; Time . . . and again; V & V for violin and taped voice with string orchestra; Piano Quartet: Gidon Kremer (violin), Oleg Maisenberg (piano), The Bridge Ensemble, Kremerata Baltica
ECM 4618182 (CD)
XENAKIS Erikhthon for piano and orchestra; Ata for large orchestra; Akrata for 16 wind players; Krinoidi for orchestra: Hiroaki Ooi (piano), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Arturo Tamayo (conductor)
TIMPANI 1C1084 (CD)
GE GAN-RU Chinese Rhapsody; Wu for piano and orchestra; Six Pentatonic Tunes for Orchestra: Margaret Leng Tan (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
BIS SACD 1509 (CD/SACD hybrid)
An Interview with conductor
OsmoVanska :
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 (original version, 1903/4) (1st movt extract played; c/w Violin Concerto in D minor (final version, 1905): Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Lahti Symphony Orchestra,
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD500 (CD)
SIBELIUS Karelia (complete score) (final section played; c/w Kuolema, Op.44 (incidental music; Valse Triste, Op.44, No.1): Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD915 (CD)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 (final version, 1919, excerpt played; c/w Symphony No. 5 (original version, 1915): Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD 863 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (3rd movt extract played; c/w Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS SACD1416 (CD/SACD hybrid)
*Kalevi AHO Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1st movt extract played; c/w Haukur TOMASSON Flute Concerto No. 2; Christian LINDBERG The World of Montuagretta (Concerto for Flute and Orchestra):
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD1499 (CD)
*This CD will be released in August 2005
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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)
MAHLER Symphony No.6:
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5684 (CD/SACD hybrid)
HOWELLS Choral Works – including: Collegium Regale; A Sequence for St Michael; Service for St George's Chapel, Windsor; :The Choir of Wells Cathedral, Rupert Gough (organ), Malcolm Archer (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67494
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.8 :
London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
LSO LIVE LSO0527 (CD/SACD hybrid)
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
TCHAIKOVSKY 18 Pieces, Op.72; CHOPIN Nocturne, No.20 in C Sharp Minor, Op.post: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5378 (CD)
