20 August 2005
Saturday 20 August 2005 9:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Andrew McGregor plays some new releases and looks forward to the next week of the Proms, plus Jeremy Sams looks at Ravel's Sheherazade in Building a Library Revisited.
Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
ELGAR Symphony No.2, in E Flat Major Op.63; In the South (Alassio), Op.50: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHSA 5038 (CD/SACD hybrid)
JOMMELLI Armida Abbandonata: Ewa Malas-Godlewska (Armida), Claire Brua (Rinaldo), Gilles Ragon (Tancredi), Veronique Gens (Erminia), Laura Polverelli (Rambaldo), Patricia Petibon (Ubaldo), Cecile Perrin (Dano), Les talens lyriques, Christophe Rousset (director)
AMBROISIE AMB 9983 (3-CD, mid-price)
LAMBERT Romeo & Juliet; Elegiac Blues; Piano Concerto; The Bird Actors; Prize Fight: Jonathan Plowright (piano), English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67545 (CD)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
RAVEL Sheherazade
Reviewer: Jeremy Sams
First Choice:
Regine Crespin (soprano), Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
(recorded 1963; c/w BERLIOZ Les Nuits d'ete; DEBUSSY Trois chansons de Bilitis; POULENC Chanson d'Orkenise; Hotel; Le Carafon; La Reine de coeur; Les gars qui vont a la fete; Deux poemes de Louis Aragon - performed with John Wustman , piano)
DECCA 460 9732 (CD, mid-price) (Legends)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Beethoven 's Piano Concerto No.3]
Proms related recordings:
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Foreign Bodies; Wing on Wing; Insomnia: Anu Komsi, Piia Komsi (sopranos), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5375 (CD)
NOVAK Gypsy Melodies, Op.14; BENDL Gypsy Melodies; DVORAK Gypsy Melodies; BRAHMS Zigeunerlieder, Op.103 (from CD entitled 'Gypsy Melodies'): Roman Janal (baritone), Karel Kosarek (piano)
SUPRAPHON SU 3813-2 (CD)
MOZART Symphony No.35 in D Major 'Haffner'; Symphony No.36 ' Linz ': The Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901891 (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)
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C Sharp Minor; ENESCO Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 in A Major, Op.11; SMETANA Ma Vlast (Vltava); Overture The Bartered Bride; *WAGNER Tristan und Isolde 'Prelude to Act III'; Tannhauser 'Overture and Venusberg Music': RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of the Air*, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
RCA 82876 679032 (CD/SACD hybrid, mid-price)
