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Last broadcast on Sat, 21 Nov 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 3.
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With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bruckner: Symphony No 5; Bruce Wood with new Purcell releases; Disc of the Week: Songs by Schubert, Wolf, Faure and Ravel.
Building a Library:
BRUCKNER: Symphony No 5 in B flat major
Reviewer – William Mival
First Choice Recommendation:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Warner Classics Elatus 2564611732 (CD, Mid Price)
Also available on:
Bruckner – The Nine Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Warner Classics 2564 61891-2 (9CD, Budget)
CD Review BAL Catalogue Data
bal.bruckner:
bal.bruckner.symphony.no.5
wm.bal.cd.review
09.05am
RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No 2; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; La Valse; Ma mere l’Oye
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)
EMI 9663422 (CD)
W.A. Mozart - Symphonies Vol 4 (1771)
MOZART: Symphony in G major KV 110 (75a) No 12; Symphony in C major KV 96 (111b) No 46; Symphony in F major KV 112 No 13; Symphony in A major KV 114 No 14
Danish National Chamber Orchestra / Adam Fischer (conductor)
DRS 6220539 (Hybrid SACD)
The Mozart Album
MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165; Bella mia fiamma, addio!...Resta, oh cara K528; Giunse al fin il momento...Al desio di chi t’adora (Alternative Aria in Act 4 of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ K577); Cosi fan tutte K588 (Una donna a quindici anni); Idomeneo K366 (Quando avran fine o mai...Padre, germani, addio!); Don Giovanni K527 (Ah Fuggi il Traditor/ La ci darem la mano*); Oh, temerario Arbace!...Per quel paterno amplesso (K79); Il re pastore K208 (L'amero); Vesperae solennes de Confessore K339 (Laudate Dominum)
Danielle de Niese (soprano) / *Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Apollo Voices / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Decca 4781511 (CD)
WAGNER: Lohengrin (In fernem Land / Mein lieber Schwan!); Die Walkure (Winterersturme wichen dem Wonnemond); Parsifal (Amfortas! – Die Wunde! / Nur eine Waffe taugt); MOZART: Die Zauberflote (Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schon / Die Weisheitslehre dieser Knaben); SCHUBERT: Fierrabras (Was qualst du mich); Alfonso und Estrella (Schon, wenn es beginnt zu tagen); BEETHOVEN: Fidelio (Gott, Welch Dunkel hier!)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Arnold Schoenberg Chor / Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Decca 4781463 (CD)
09.30am Building a Library
BRUCKNER: Symphony No 5 in B flat major
Reviewer – William Mival
First Choice Recommendation:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Warner Classics Elatus 2564611732 (CD, Mid Price)
Also available on:
Bruckner – The Nine Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Warner Classics 2564 61891-2 (9CD, Budget)
Next week Anthony Burton talks to Andrew about recent recordings of music by Louis Spohr, in the 150 anniversary year of the composer’s death.
10.20am Recent Releases
ROREM: On an echoing road
Anna Leese (soprano) / Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano) / Andrew Staples (tenor) / Jacques Imbrailo (baritone) / Tim Mead (countertenor) / Alisdair Hogarth (piano and director)
Linn Records CKD342 (Hybrid SACD)
SCHOECK: Notturno Op 47
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) / Rosamunde Quartet:
ECM New Series 4766995 (CD)
10.30am New Releases
Andrew talks to Bruce Wood about new releases of music by Purcell. With extracts from the following discs:
PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) / Gerald Finley (baritone) / Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano) / William Purefoy (counter-tenor) / Sarah Tynan (soprano) / John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Carys Lane (soprano) / Rebecca Outram (soprano) / Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Steven Devine and Elizabeth Kenny (directors)
Chandos Chaconne CHAN0757 (CD)
PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas
Simone Kermes (mezzo-soprano) / Dimitris Tiliakos (baritone) / Deborah York (soprano) / Oleg Ryabets (mezzo-soprano) / Margarita Mezentseva (soprano) / Sofia Fomina (soprano) / Yana Mamonova (soprano) / Elena Kondratova (soprano) / Valeria Safonova (soprano) / Alexandre Zverev (tenor) / New Siberian Singers (chamber choir of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre) / MusicAeterna / Teodor Currentzis (director)
Alpha ALPHA140 (CD)
PURCELL: Complete Fantazias; In Nomine (in 6 parts); In Nomine (in 7 parts)
Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907502 (CD)
PURCELL: Complete Fantazias; In Nomine (in 6 parts); In Nomine (in 7 parts); The Fairy Queen (Dance for the Green Men / Monkey’s Dance); Dido and Aeneas (Dido’s Lament)
Les Voix Humaines
Atma ACD22591 (CD)
PURCELL: 10 Sonatas in 4 Parts [1697]
Retrospect Trio
Linn CKD332 (Hybrid SACD)
Music for a While
PURCELL: I attempt from Love's sickness fly; The Rival Sisters, or The Violence of Love Z609 (Celia has a thousand charms); Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love Z353; Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355; The fatal hour comes on apace Z421; I loved fair Celia Z381; Music for a while Z583; etc
For more information see: http://www.quintone.nl
Maarten Koningsberger (baritone) / Fred Jacobs (theorbo)
Quintone Q08006 (Hybrid SACD)
Purcell – The Food of Love
PURCELL: The earth trembled Z197; Now that the sun has veil’d his light (An Evening Hymn on a Ground) Z193; If music be the food of love Z379a; Music for a while Z583; etc
For more information see: http://www.naive.fr/#/work/purcell-the-food-of-love
Paul Agnew (tenor) / Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol) / Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo, guitar) / Blandine Rannou (harpsichord)
Ambroisie AM185 (CD)
PURCELL: Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei; Miserere mei; Remember not, Lord, our offences; Beati omnes qui timent Dominum; Let mine eyes run down with tears; O dive custos; Funeral Sentences (first setting); Thou knowest, Lord (1695); MACMILLAN: O bone Jesu; Mitte manum tuam; A Child’s Prayer; Sedebit Dominus Rex
The Sixteen / David Miller (theorbo) / Alistair Ross (organ) / Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro COR16069 (CD)
To Saint Cecilia
PURCELL: Hail! Bright Cecilia; HANDEL: A Song for St Cecilia’s day; HAYDN: St Cecilia Mass
Lucy Crowe (soprano) / Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) / Anders J. Dahlin (tenor) / Richard Croft (tenor) / Luca Tittoto (bass) / David Bates (countertenor) / Neil Baker (baritone) / Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble / Marc Minkowski
Naive V5183 (2CD)
11.20am Recent Releases
Concerto Italiano
DALL’OGLIO: Violin Concerto in C major; STRATICO: Violin Concerto in G minor; NARDINI: Violin Concerto in G major; LOLLI; Violin Concerto in C major;
Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon (harpsichord, organ and direction)
Archiv 4776606 (CD)
VIVALDI: Ostro picta, armata spina RV642; Gloria RV589; Gloria RV588
Sara Mingardo (contralto) / Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
Naive OP30485 (CD)
Vivaldi Pyrotechnics – Opera Arias
VIVALDI: Catone in Utica RV705 (Come in vano il mare irato); Semiramide RV733 (E prigioniero e re); La fida ninfa RV714 (Alma oppressa); Griselda RV718 (Agitata da due venti); La fida ninfa (Destin avaro); Il labbro ti lusinga; Ipermestra RV722 (Vibro il ferro); Farnace RV711 (Quell’usignolo); Tito Manlio RV778 (Splender fra ’l cieco orror); Rosmira fedele RV731 (Vorrei dirti il mio dolore); Catone in Utica (Nella foresta); Farnace (Ricordati che sei); Sin nel placido soggiorno
Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi (violin and direction)
Virgin 6945730 (CD)
11.40am Disc of the Week
SCHUBERT: An Silvia; Einsiedelei; Verklarung; Die Sterne; Himmelsfunken; Standchen; WOLF: Der Knabe und das Immelein; Gesang Weyla's; An die Geliebte; Auf eine Christblume II; Lied eines Verliebten; Lied vom Winde; FAURE: Aubade; En sourdine; Green; Notre amour; Fleur jetee; Spleen; Madrigal; Le papillon et la fleur; RAVEL: Histoires naturelles (Le paon / Le grillon / Le cygnet / Le martin-pecheur / La pintade); POULENC: Hotel
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0031 (CD)
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