On this week's programme:
09.05am
BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 78 (first movement)
(c/w Violin Sonatas No. 2 Op. 100 and No. 3 Op. 108)
Ilia Korol (violin), Natalia Grigorieva (19th century Streicher piano)
Challenge Classics CC72194 (CD)
BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No. 2 (final movement)
(c/w Cello Sonata No. 1; SCHUMANN: Five Pieces in Folk Style)
Clive Greensmith (cello), Boris Berman (19th century Steinway piano)
Biddulph 80226-2 (CD)
FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A major
(c/w SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Sonata Op. 134)
Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Lusine Khachatryan (piano)
Naive V 5122 (CD)
HEINRICH WILHELM ERNST: Allegro risoluto (Sechs mehrstimmige Etuden)
(c/w Othello Fantasy; Erlkonig: Grand Caprice for solo violin, after Schubert; Elegy)
Hyperion CDA67619 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library
STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring
Reviewer - Rob Cowan
First Choice: Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Peter Eotvos (conductor)
(c/w Mavra, with the Goteborgs Symfoniker)
BMC (Budapest Music Centre) BMC CD 118 (CD)
Next week Simon Heighes examines recordings of Haydn's The Seasons.
10.35 New Releases
Andrew talks to Berta Joncus about further releases in cantata cycles from Masaaki Suzuki and John Eliot Gardiner, as well as a new St. Matthew Passion from the Dunedin Consort & Players. With extracts from the following discs:
JS BACH: Matthew Passion (Last Performing version, 1742)
Nicholas Mulroy (The Evangelist), Matthew Brook (Jesus), Susan Hamilton (soprano), Cecilia Osmond (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Annie Gill (alto), Malcolm Bennett (tenor), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass), Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt (conductor)
Linn CDK313 (3 SACDs or digital download, Budget)
JS BACH: Cantatas Volume 27
(Cantatas for Whit Tuesday
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048
Erwunschtes Freudenlicht BWV 184
Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen BWV 175
Soloists: Lisa Larsson, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz, Stephen Loges
Recorded: Holy Trinity, Blythburgh
Cantata for Trinity Sunday
Hochsterwunschtes Freudenfest BWV 194
Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding BWV 176
O heil'ges Geist- und Wasserbad BWV 165
Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott BWV 129
Soloists: Ruth Holton, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey
Recorded: St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall)
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Soli Deo Gloria SDG 138 (2 CDs)
JS BACH: Cantatas Volume 3
(Cantatas for the Fourth and Fifth Sundays after Trinity
Ein ungefarbt Gemute BWV 24
Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe BWV 185
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 177
Gott ist mein Konig BWV 71
Soloists: Magdalena Kozena, Nathalie Stutzmann, Paul Agnew, Nicolas Teste,
Joanne Lunn, William Towers, Kobie van Rensburg, Peter Harvey
Recorded: Tewkesbury Abbey (final cantata Blasiuskirche, Muhlhausen)
Cantata for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131
Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten BWV 93
Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden BWV 88
Soloists: Joanne Lunn, William Towers, Kobie van Rensburg, Peter Harvey
Recorded: Blasiuskirche, Muhlhausen)
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Soli Deo Gloria SDG 141 (2 CDs)
JS BACH: Cantatas Volume 38 (Solo Cantatas)
(Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV52
Ich habe genung, BWV82
Ich armer Mensch, ich Sundenknecht, BWV55
Bekennen will ich seinen Namen, BWV58)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Peter Kooij (bass), Gerd Turk (tenor), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
BIS SACD 1631 (SACD)
JS BACH: Cantatas Volume 37 (Solo Cantatas)
(Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169
Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35
Bekennen will ich seinen Namen, BWV 200)
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
BIS SACD 1621 (SACD)
JS BACH: Secular Cantatas
(Angenemes Wiederau BWV30a
Vereinigte Zwietracht BWV207)
Monika Frimmer (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Markus Schafer (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass),
Les Chantres du centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Olivier Schneebeli, Cafe Zimmermann, Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
Alpha 118 (CD)
11.35am Disc of the Week
MOZART: Symphony 38 K. 504 ("Prague)
(c/w Symphonies 39-41)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Linn CKD 308 (2 SACDS or digital download, Mid Price)
