Discs played and reviewed in this programme
[Available at full price unless indicated]
NB Timings are approximate
09:05
SMETANA Dreams (excerpt played); The Curious One
(c/w Concert Etude in C; On the Sea Shore - a memory; Fantasia on Czech Folksongs; Czech Dances, Books 1 & 2 (excerpts)):
Kathryn Stott (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN10430 (CD)
SCHUMANN Im wunderschoenen Monat Mai; SCHUBERT Gute Nacht (Die Winterreise); SCHUMANN Die Rose, die Lilie (Dichterliebe)
(from CD entitled 'Im wundershoenen Monat Mai - Three times seven Songs after Schumann und Franz Schubert' - all works adapted and re-composed by Reinbert de Leeuw):
Barbara Sukowa (voice), Reinbert de Leeuw (piano), Schoenberg Ensemble
WINTER & WINTER 9101322 (CD)
BACH arr. SCHUMANN St John Passion (end of Part 1 played):
Veronika Winter (soprano), Elisabeth Scholl (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Jan Kobow (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Clemens Heidrich (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
CPO 7770912 (2-SACD/CD Hybrid)
RAVEL Sheherazade
(c/w BERLIOZ Nuits d'ete, Op.7):
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901932 (CD)
ELGAR Sea Pictures
(from CD box set entitled 'Elgar's Interpreters on Record Vol. 5 - Broadcasts from the Leech Collection at the British Library 1935-1950'):
Mary Jarred (contralto), The BBC Orchestra - Section F, Clarence Raybould (conductor),
ELGAR EDITIONS EECD003-5 (3-CD, mid-price)
10:00
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto in D, Op.35
(c/w BARBER Violin Concerto, Op.14; WALTON Violin Concerto):
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
ONYX CLASSICS ONYX4016 (CD)
10:30
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.15 in D 'Pastorale'; Piano Sonata No.14, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight' (excerpts played)
(c/w Piano Sonata No.12 in A flat, Op.26; Piano Sonata No.13 in E flat, Op.27 No.1):
Andras Schiff (piano)
ECM NEW SERIES 4765875 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.15 in D 'Pastorale' (excerpt played)
(c/w Piano Sonata No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3; Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 'Pathetique'):
Angela Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION SACDA67605 (SACD/CD Hybrid) or CDA67605 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.14, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight'; Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 'Waldstein' (excerpts played)
(c/w Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat, Op.81a 'Les Adieux'; Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat, Op.110):
DECCA 4758155 (CD)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.16 in G, Op.31 No.1; Piano Sonata No.18 in E flat, Op.31 No.3
(c/w Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor, Op.31 No.2 'Der Sturm'):
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
BIS SACD-1572 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
11:20
WAGNER Prelude, Act 1 (Parsifal)
(c/w Good Friday Music, Act 3 (Parsifal); Overture (Die Fleiglinde Hollander); Preludes, Acts 1 & 3 (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg); Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)):
Halle, Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CDHLL7517 (CD, mid-price)
WEBER Euryanthe: Overture
(c/w MOZART Symphony No.33 in B flat, K319; TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 'Pathetique'):
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Erich Kleiber (conductor)
MEDICI MASTERS MM0032 (CD, mid-price)
11:50
WARLOCK The Curlew
(c/w VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge; BLISS Elegiac Sonnet; GURNEY Ludlow & Teme):
James Gilchrist (tenor), Gareth Hulse (cor anglais), The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
LINN RECORDS CKD296 (SACD/CD Hybrid)
12.20
Disc of the Week
SCHUMANN Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61 (with introduction by Roger Norrington)
(c/w Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120):
Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington (conductor)
HANSSLER CLASSIC HAN093161 (CD)
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