Andrew McGregor presents Acts 2 and 3 of L'Olimpiade, with a libretto by Metastasio. 
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9.05am
LISZT: Chasse-neige; Etude No. 10 in F minor: La Campanella; Vallee d’Obermann; Sposalizio; Les jeux d’eau de la Villa d’Este; Sonnet de Pétrarque 123; Isolde’s Liebestod (Wagner); Feux follets; Valse oubliee No. 1
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
AMBROISIE AM205 (CD)
LISZT: Valse-caprice no. 6; Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude
CHOPIN-LISZT: Six Chants polonaise; Gretchen
GOUNOD-LISZT: Valse de Faust
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
ATMA ACD22641 (CD)
BOELY: Fantasy and fugue in Bb minor opus 18/6; Andante con moto in Eb major opus 18/1; Andante con moto in G minor opus 43/7; Toccata in B minor opus 43/13; Allegro ma non troppo in F minor opus 18/7
LISZT: Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine s.658; Prelude et fugue sur B-A-C-H s.260i
SCHUMANN: Four Sketches op. 58
BRAHMS: Prelude and Fugue in B minor
ALKAN: Prelude in Bb minor opus 66/10; Prelude in Eb major opus 66/5
Olivier Latry (Erard pedal piano, Paris, 1853, Musee De La Musique collection)
NAIVE V5278 (CD)
The Liszt Project
LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor; La lugubre gondola; Nuages gris; Unstern! Sinistre; Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este I; St. Francois d'Assise: La Predication aux Oiseaux; Les Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este; Vallee d'Obermann
WAGNER: Piano Sonata “for the album of Frau Mathilde Wesendonck”
BERG: Piano Sonata op.1
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 9 “Black Mass”
BARTOK: Nenie
STROPPA: Tangata manu
RAVEL: Jeux d'eaux
MESSIAEN: Le Traquet stapazin
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4779439 (2CD)
Broken Branches – compositions by Stephen Hough
HOUGH: Was mit den Tränen geschieht - trio for piccolo, contrabassoon and piano; Bridgewater, romantic idyll for bassoon and piano; Un Piccolo Sonatina for piccolo solo; Herbstlieder for baritone and piano to texts by Rainer Maria Rilke; Sonata for Piano (broken branches); The Loneliest Wilderness, elegy for cello and orchestra
Stephen Hough (piano), Michael Hasel (piccolo), Marion Reinhard (bassoon and contrabassoon), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Steven Isserlis (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Gabor Takacs-Nagy (conductor)
BIS BISCD1952 (CD) -
9.30am Building a Library
Rob Cowan surveys available recordings of Dvorak’s Symphony no. 8 and makes a recommendation:
DVORAK Symphony No. 8
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO LIVE LSO0002 (CD, budget) -
10.20am New Releases
Richard Wigmore joins Andrew to discuss recent releases of Vivaldi:
An Italian Rant! 18th Century Italian Masters in Britain
VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor RV 156
GEMINIANI: Sonata in D Major ‘Bush aboon Traquair’; Sonata for Violin in A Major Op. 4 No. 10
CERVETTO: Sonata in G minor Op. 1 No. 3
CORELLI: Sonata for Violin and Continuo Op. 5 No. 12: ‘La follia’
PARADISI: Sonata No. 7 in Bb Major from Sonate di gravicembalo
ALBINONI: Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D minor Op. 9 No. 2
TRAD./ PLAYFORD/OZMO: An Italian Rant
L’Avventura London, Zak Ozmo (director)
OPELLA NOVA ONCD015 (CD)
Violin Concertos op.6
VIVALDI: Concerto No.4 in D RV216 for violin, strings and continuo; Concerto No.5 in E minor RV280 for violin, strings and continuo; Concerto No.6 in D minor RV239 for violin, strings and continuo; Concerto No.2 in E flat RV259 for violin, strings and continuo; Concerto No.1 in G minor RV324 for violin, strings and continuo; Concerto No.3 in G RV318 for violin, strings and continuo
L’Arte dell’Arco, Frederico Gugliemo (solo violin and concert master)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94245 (CD)
VIVALDI: Sinfonia in C major RV709; Concertos - G minor RV416, F major RV412, C major RV114, E minor RV409, D minor RV565, B minor RV424, A minor RV419
CALDARA: Sinfonias - No. 12 La passione di Gesu Signor nostro; No. 6 San Elena al Calvario
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit (director)
Harmonia Mundi HMC902095
VIvalidi, Prima Donna
VIVALDI: Arias
Orfeo 55 Ensemble, Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto and conductor)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4764390 (CD)
VIVALDI: Farnace
Max Emanuel Cencic (Farnace), Ruxandra Donose (Tamiri), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Berenice), Ann Hallenberg (Selinda), Karina Gauvin (Gilade), Daniel Behle (Pompeo), Emiliano Gonzales Toro (Aquilio), I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 0709142 (3CD) -
11.25am
The Decca Sound
A limited-edition 50CD set of recordings featuring recordings from the past 55 years
DECCA 4782826 (50CD + 200 page booklet) -
11.50 am Disc of the Week
BACH: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D major BWV1069; Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067; Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major BWV1066; Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major BWV1068
Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Mullejans and Gottfried von der Goltz (concert masters)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902113-14 (2CD)
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