Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
STRAUSS Don Juan, Op.20; Macbeth, Op.23; Seven Songs - Meinem Kinde, Op.37, No.3; Befreit, Op.39, No.4; Die Heiligen drei Konige, Op.56, No.6; Waldseligkeit, Op.49, No.1; Wiegenlied, Op.41, No.1; Morgen!, Op.27, No.4; Das Rosenband, Op.36, No.1: Anne Schwanewilms (soprano), Halle, Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CD HLL 7508 (CD, mid-price)
BRITTEN Our Hunting Fathers, Op.8; ELGAR Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op.47; Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' for Orchestra, Op.36: Heather Harper (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
LPO 0002 (CD, mid-price)
CD entitled 'My Lady Rich; her Teares and Joy - music inspired by Penelope Rich, Sister of the Earl of Essex and lover to Lord Mountjoy'
Works by ANONYMOUS; JONES; DOWLAND, BYRD, TESSIER, BARTLET, HOLBORNE, COPRARIO: Emily Van Evera (Voice, recorder), Christopher Morrongiello (lute) Viol consort, Lucy Carolan (virginals)
AVIE 0045 (CD)
VALENTINI Concerti Grossi, Op.7, Nos 1,2, 3, 7, 10, 11: Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (director)
ZIGZAG ZZT 020801 (CD)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
HAYDN String Quartets, Op.76
Reviewer: Richard Wigmore
First Choice:
Mosaique Quartet (recorded 1998, 2000)
ASTREE E8665 (2-CD)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Ravel's Left-hand Piano Concerto]
Consumer Spot: EMI Gemini Series
HANDEL Suite No.1 in A Major*; Suite No.2 in F Major; Suite No.3 in D Minor; Suite No.4 in E Minor*; Suite No.5 in E Major; Suite No.6 in F Sharp Minor*; Suite No.7 in G Minor*: Suite No.8 in F Minor: Sviatoslav Richter (piano), *Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 5865402 (2-CD, budget)
HANDEL Suite No.9 in G Minor; Suite No.10 in D Minor*; Suite No.11 in D Minor*; Suite No.12 in E Minor; Suite No.13 in B Flat Major*; Suite No.14 in G Major; Suite No.15 in D Minor*: Suite No.16 in G Minor; BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.17 in D Minor, Op.31, No.2 'The Tempest': Sviatoslav Richter (piano), *Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
EMI 5865432 (2-CD, budget)
BACH The Cello Suites:
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
EMI 5865342 (2-CD, budget)
BARBER Violin Concerto Op.14*+; Adagio for Strings, Op.11+; The School for Scandal Op.5 Overture+; Essay for Orchestra, Op.12+; Second Essay for Orchestra, Op.17+; Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op.23a+; Cello Sonata, Op.6**; Canzone for flute and piano, Op.38a++; Excursions, Op.20^; Nocturne (Homage to John Field), Op.33^; Summer Music, Op.31^^; Souvenirs, Op.28^; Third Essay for Orchestra, Op.47a+: *Elmar Oliveira (violin), +Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor), ** Alan Stepansky (cello), Israela Margalit (piano), ++Jeanne Baxtresser (flute), Israela Margalit (piano), ^ Israela Margalit (piano), ^^ Jeanne Baxtresser (flute), Joseph Robinson (oboe), Stanley Drucker (clarinet), Judith Le Clair (bassoon), Philip Myers (horn)
EMI 5865612 (2-CD, budget)
DEBUSSY & RAVEL (complete works for piano duet and two pianos); BIZET Jeux d'enfants, Op.22; DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Michel Beroff, Jean-Philippe Collard (2-pianos/piano duet)
EMI 5865102 (2-CD, budget)
MESSIAEN Turangalila Symphony*; Quartet for the End of Time+; Le Merle Noir**: *Peter Donohoe (piano), Tristan Murail (Ondes Martenot), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), + Erich Gruenberg (violin), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), William Pleeth (cello), Michel Beroff (piano), ** Karlheinz Zoller (flute), Aloys Kontarsky (piano)
EMI 5865252 (2-CD, budget)
New Releases - Piano
Reviewer: Jeremy Siepmann
RACHMANINOV Moments musicaux, Op.16; Morceaux de fantasie, Op.3; Fragments (1917); Prelude, op.posth. (1917); Zdes' khorosho, Op.21 No.7 (transcribed Anon.); Vocalise, Op.34, No.14 (transcribed Kocsis):
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
DECCA 475 6198 (CD/SACD hybrid)
TCHAIKOVSKY 18 Pieces, Op.72; CHOPIN Nocturne, No.20 in C Sharp Minor, Op.post.: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5378 (CD)
MOZART Sonata in A Minor K310; March in C Major K408; Courante in E Flat Major K399; Gigue in G Major K574; Rondo in A Minor K511; Sonata in F Major K533/494:
Richard Goode (piano)
NONESUCH 7559 798312 (CD)
MOZART Piano Sonata in D Major, K576; Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, K281; Piano Sonata in E Flat Major, K282; Fantasia in C Minor, K396: Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 475 6199 (CD/SACD hybrid)
SCHUMANN Davidsbundlertanze, Op.6; Concert sans orchestre, Op.14 (First version of the Piano Sonata No.3 in F Minor); Allegro in B Minor, Op.8; Kreisleriana, Op.16; Gesange der Fruhe, Op.133 (Songs of Dawn):
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471 3682 (2-CD, mid-price)
An Interview with Organist Gillian Weir:
*POULENC Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings (excerpt played; c/w PIERRE PETIT Concertino for Organ, Strings and Percussion; BARBER Toccata Festiva op. 36:
Gillian Weir (organ), English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor), *David Hill (conductor)
LINN CKD 178 (CD)
BACH The Eighteen Chorales (Leipzig Chorale Preludes BWV 651-668) (Komm, Gott, Schoepfer, heiliger Geist BWV 667 played; c/w Fantasia in G BWV 572; Trio Sonata No.4 in E Minor BWV 528; Prelude & Fugue in B Minor BWV 544; Toccata & Fugue in F Major BWV 540): Gillian Weir (Gerald Wohl Bach Organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig)
PRIORY PRCD 800 AB (2-CD)
MESSIAEN Messe de la Pentecote (Sortie: Le Vent de l'Esprit, played; c/w Les Corps Glorieux : Gillian Weir (Organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark)
PRIORY PRCD 923 (CD)
REUBKE Sonata on the 94th Psalm (excerpt played; c/w JONGEN Sonata Eroica; HEALEY WILLAN Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue; HINDEMITH Sonata No.1): Gillian Weir (Organ of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts)
PRIORY PRCD 751 (CD)
ELGAR 'Nimrod' ('Enigma' Variations) (arr. Sir William Harris) played; c/w LISZT Fantasia & Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'; LISZT (arr. Rogg) St. Francis of Paola walking on the waves; HOWELLS Rhapsody No.3 in C Sharp Minor; PARRY Toccata & Fugue ('The Wanderer'); JOHN COOK Fanfare; ELGAR Pomp & Circumstance March No.1 in D; LANQUETUIT Toccata in D Major):
Gillian Weir (Organ of The Royal Albert Hall)
PRIORY PRCD 859 (CD)
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VIVALDI Concerti for Various Instruments :
Paolo Grazzi, Alfredo Bernardini (oboes), Lorenzo Coppola, Daniele Latini (clarinet), Alberto Grazzi (bassoon), Stefano Montanari, Stefano Rossi (violins), Orchestra Barocca Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini (director)
NAÏVE OP 30409
RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead, Op.29; Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (recorded live):
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
LPO 0004
BARTOK String Quartets (complete):
Vermeer Quartet
NAXOS 8.557543-44 (2-CD)
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
John BROWNE Stabat mater; Salve regina I; Stabat iuxta; O regina mundi clara; O Maria salvatoris: The Tallis Scholars,
Peter Phillips (conductor)
GIMELL CDGIM 036 (CD)
