Includes Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the 2012 Proms. 
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9.05am
NIELSEN: Violin Concerto, Op. 33;
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35;
Vilde Frang (violin), Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)
EMI 6025702 (CD)
HONEGGER: Pacific 231; Rugby;
MARTIN, F: Violin Concerto;
STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D; Circus Polka;
Baiba Skride (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
ORFEO C 849 121 A (CD)
HONEGGER: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra;
MARTIN, F: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra;
SCHOECK: Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 61;
Christian Poltera (cello), Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Tuomas Hannikainen (conductor)
BIS CD-1737 (CD) -
9.30am Building a Library
Roger Parker surveys recordings of Puccini’s Turandot and makes a recommendation:
PUCCINI: Turandot
Joan Sutherland (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballe (Liu), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth Schools Boys’ Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta (conductor)
DECCA 4142742 (2CD) -
10.15am New Releases
Polychoral Splendour
GABRIELI: Canzon Primi Toni a 8; Canzona quarti toni a 15; Canzon VIII a 8; Sonata XVIII a 14; Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10; Canzon septimi toni a 8;
SCHUTZ: Warum toben die Heiden; Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich; Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott; Ich danke dem Herrn von ganzem Herzen; Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel; Zion spricht: der Herr hat mich verlassen; Alleluja! Lobet den Herrn;
Cappella Murensis Les Cornets Noirs, Johannes Strobl (musical director)
AUDITE 92.652 (SACD)
Hirundo Maris
TRAD: El mestre; Buenas noches; Ya salio de la mar; Om kvelden; El mariner; Le Chant des etoiles; Morena me llaman; Bendik og Arolilja; Ormen Lange; Tarantela; The Water Is Wide; El noi de la mare; Josep i Maria; Penselstrok; Halling; Yo m'enamori d'un aire; Trollmors vuggesang;
Arianna Savall (voice, Gothic harp, Italian triple harp), Petter Udland Johansen (voice, hardanger fiddle, mandolin), Sveinung Lilleheier (guitar, dobro, voice), Miquel Angel Cordero (double-bass, voice) David Mayoral (percussion, voice)
ECM 278 4395 (CD)
Haec Dies – Byrd and the Tudor Revival
BAX: Lord, thou hast told us;
BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin;
BYRD: Mass for five voices; Fantasia in C arr. J.E. Borland;
FINZI: Up to those bright and gladsome hills;
HARRIS, W: Eternal Ruler;
HOLST: Man born to toil;
HOWELLS: Haec dies; Master Tallis's Testament;
PEARSALL: Tu es Petrus;
TALLIS: Funeral Music arr. Martin and Geoffrey Shaw;
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Whitsunday Hymn;
WHITLOCK: O Living Bread! Who once didst die;
Annie Lydford & Nick Lee (organ), Choir of Gonville Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (director)
DELPHIAN DCD34104 (CD)
The Word Unspoken
BYRD: Cantiones Sacrae; Quomodo cantabimus;
MONTE: Motets Book V;
Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director)
SIGNUM SIGCD295 (CD) -
10:50am
Iain Burnside explores some recent releases of piano concertos and solo piano music by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.
SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet - Concert Suite from incidental music, Op. 32a (original version); Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102;
Valentina Igoshina (piano), Thomas Hammes (trumpet), Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Lavard Skou-Larsen (conductor)
CPO 7777502 (CD)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102; Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94;
Jurgen Ellensohn (trumpet), George Vatchnadze (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
PAN CLASSICS PC10261 (CD)
RACHMANINOV: Moments Musicaux, Op. 16; Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33; Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42;
Xiayin Wang (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN10724 (CD)
RACHMANINOV: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3; Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33; Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42;
Nareh Argamanyan (piano)
PENTATONE PTC5186399 (SACD)
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40;
SCRIABIN: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60;
Alain Lefevre (piano); Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano (conductor)
ANALEKTA AN29288 (CD)
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1 (revised version); Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 (final version); Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43;
Noriko Ogawa (piano), Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
BIS BISCD975 (CD) -
11.45am Disc of the Week
ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85; Introduction & Allegro for strings, Op. 47; Elegy for strings, Op. 58; Military Marches ‘Pomp and Circumstance Marches’, Op. 39;
Paul Watkins (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN10709 (CD)
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