Building a Library: Mozart: Symphony No 41

Timings are approximate

9.05am


MOZART: String Quartet in C Major K.157; String Quartet in B flat major K.458 ‘The Hunt’; String Quartet in B flat major K.589
Jerusalem Quartet
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902076


RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major; Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
DEBUSSY: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra
MASSENET: Valse Folle; Papillons blancs; Papillons noirs; Eau courante; Eau dormante; Toccata
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
CHANDOS CHSA5084 (Hybrid SACD)


HANDEL: Suite in B flat major HWV 434 Op.24
BRAHMS: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op.24
BACH trans. LISZT: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor R120 SW 463
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
AVANTI 10342 (Hybrid SACD)


9.30am Building a Library

Martin Cotton surveys recordings of Mozart’s Symphony no. 41 in C K551 "Jupiter" and makes recommendations:

Top Recommendation:

MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C major K551 'Jupiter'
c/w Symphony No. 1 in E flat major K16; Symphony No. 25 in G minor K183
Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)
(Recorded live at the European Music Festival Stuttgart 2006)
HAENSSLER HAEN093211 (CD)


Historic Recommendation:

MOZART: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
c/w BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
MEDICI ARTS MM0192 (CD)


10.20am


LOBO: Versa Est in Luctum; Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae
VICTORIA: Requiem Mass
Tenebrae, Nigel Short (conductor)
SIGNUM SIGCD248 (CD)


O Solitude
PURCELL : If music be the food of love Z379a; ‘Sound the Trumpet’ and ‘Strike the viol’ from Come ye sons of art away Z323; ‘Chacony’, ‘Fairest Isle’ and ‘What Power Art Thou’ from King Arthur or The British Worthy Z628; Chacony in G minor Z730; ‘One Charming Night’ from The Fairy Queen Z629; ‘Sweeter than Roses’ from Pausanius the Betrayer of his Country Z585; ‘When I Am Laid In Earth - Dido's Lament’ from Dido and Aeneas Z626; Incidental Music from The Gordian Knot Unty'd Z597; ‘Here The Deities Approve’ from Welcome to all the pleasures Z339; ‘Music For A While’ from Oedipus Z583; O dive custos Auriacae domus Z504; Solitude My Sweetest Choice Z406; Pavan in G minor Z752; Now that the sun hath veiled his light Z193
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Christophe Dumaux (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari (leader)
DECCA 4782262 (CD)


SCHUMANN: Humoreske Op. 20; Studien fur den Pedalflugel Op. 56; Gesange der Fruhe Op. 133
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
VIRGIN 9486252


10.40am New Releases

Richard Wigmore joins Andrew live in the studio to discuss recent opera recordings:


Une Fete Baroque – Le Concert d’Astree
RAMEAU: Les Indes galantes; Hippolyte et Aricie; Dardanus; Platee; Castor et Pollux
LULLY: Thesee
PURCELL: King Arthur or the British Worthy; Come, ye Sons of Art
HANDEL: Rinaldo; Agrippina; Dixit Dominus; Orlando; Il Delirio Amoroso; La Resurezzione; Tamerlano; Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno; Theodora; Messiah
Various artists with Emmanuelle Haim (director)
VIRGIN 7307992 (2CD)


HANDEL: Il Pastor Fido HWV8a (1712)
Lucy Crowe, Anna Dennis and Katherine Manley (sopranos), Madeleine Shaw (mezzo-soprano), Clint van der Linde (countertenor), Lisandro Abadie (bass baritone), La Nuova Musica, David Bates (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907585-86 (2CD)


TELEMANN: Germanicus
Olivia Stahn and Elisabeth Scholl (sopranos), Matthias Rexroth (alto), Albrecht Sack (tenor), Henryk Bohm and Tobias Bernd (basses), Friedrich Praetorius (soprano), Dieter Bellmann (speaker), Sachsisches Barockorchester, Gotthold Schwarz (conductor)
CPO 7776022 (3CD)


VIVALDI: Orlando Furioso
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Orlando, contralto), Jennifer Larmore (Alcina, mezzosoprano), Verónica Cangemi (Angelica, soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (Ruggiero, countertenor), Christian Senn (Astolfo, baritone), Kristina Hammarström (Bradamante, mezzo-soprano), Romina Basso (Medoro, mezzo-soprano), Choeur du Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi (conductor), Pierre Audi (director)
NAIVE DR2148 (DVD)


11.45 am Disc of the Week

BRAHMS: Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45
SCHUTZ: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen; Selig sind die Toten
Katharine Fuge (soprano), Matthew Brook (bass), Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG706 (CD, mid-price)