Playlist
Carl VINE Symphony No.1 'Micro Symphony'*; Symphony No.2; Symphony No.3; Celebrare Celeberrime; Symphony No.4.2; Symphony No.5 'Percussion'; Symphony No.6 'Choral': Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender*, Edo de Waart (conductor)
ABC CLASSICS 476 7179 (2-CD)
SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata D821; Sonatina Op.137, No.1 D 384 (transcribed for cello and piano); + various lieder (transcribed for cello and piano): Anne Gastinel (cello), Claire Desert (piano)
NAÏVE V 5021 (CD)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Flight of the Bumble Bee (arr. Shumway); BERNSTEIN Scenes from West Side Story; RAVEL La Valse; FRIEDMAN Tabatiere a musique, Op.33, No.3; RACHMANINOV Moments Musicaux, Op.16, No.4; Elegie from Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3; DEBUSSY L'isle joyeuse; PROKOFIEV Sonata No.3 in A Minor, Op.28; York BOWEN Toccata, Op.155; GRIEG In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt): The Five Browns - Desirae, Deondra, Gregory, Melody, Ryan (pianos)
RCA 82876 660082 (CD)
DEBUSSY La Mer; La Boite a joujoux; Three Preludes (orchestrated Colin MATTHEWS): Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5580452 (CD)
BRITTEN Serenade, Op.31 for Tenor, Horn and Strings; Nocturne, Op.60 for Tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Radek Baborak (horn), Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5580492 (CD)
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No.1 in D Minor, Op.49; Piano Trio No.2 in C Minor, Op.66:
The Florestan Trio
HYPERION CDA 67485 (CD)
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No.2, Op.36 (Horowitz version); Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op.22; 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)
HANDEL Messiah: Christine Schafer (soprano), Anna Larsson (alto), Michael Schade (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI
82876 640702 (2-CD)
MOZART Piano Concerto No.12 in A Major K414; Piano Concerto No.17 in G Major K453: Alfred Brendel (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
PHILIPS 475 6930 (CD/SACD hybrid)
JANACEK The Eternal Gospel; The Ballad of Blanik; The Fiddler's Child; The Excursions of Mr Broucek: Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Elizabeth Layton (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67517 (CD)
HUMMEL Piano Trio in F Major, Op.22; Piano Quartet in G Major, Op.posth; Grande Sonata in A Major for Cello and Piano, Op.104: Simon Standage (violin), Pal Banda (cello), Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano)
NAXOS 8.557694 (CD, budget)
AUGUSTINAS The Stomping Bride; GUDMUNDSEN-HOMGREEN Statements; SAARIAHO Nuits, adieux; MAZULIS The dazzled eye lost its speech; BERGMAN Vier Galgenlieder, Op.51b; MARTINAITIS Alleluia; Erkki-Sven TUUR Meditatio; GORECKI 5 Kurpian Songs, Op.75: The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (conductor) (from CD entitled 'Baltic Voices 3') HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907391 (CD)
CD entitled 'Monsieur de SAINTE COLOMBE - Pieces de viole' - Pieces in C Major, played:
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Thomas Boysen (theorbo & baroque guitar)
GLOSSA GCD920408 (CD)
TIPPETT The Rose Lake ; Ritual Dances:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales ,
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHSA 5039 (CD/SACD hybrid)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto Funebre.]
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