Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No 6

Timings are approximate

9.05am

ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85
SMETANA: Selections from Ma Vlast: Vysehrad; Vltava; Sarka
Zuill Bailey (cello), Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
TELARC TEL3403002 (CD)


ELGAR: Concerto for Cello and orchestra in E minor Op. 85
CARTER: Cello Concerto
BRUCH: Kol Nidrei Op. 47
Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
DECCA 4782735


9.30am Building a Library

Julian Johnson explores recordings of the Mahler’s 6th Symphony and makes recommendations:


Top recommendation:

MAHLER: Symphony no.6
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Recorded live in Lucerne on 10th August 2006
EUROARTS 2055648 (DVD)


Audio only recommendation:

MAHLER: Symphony no.6
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA22905 (Hybrid SACD)


10.15am

Miserere - A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
ANON.: Attende Domine; Audi benigne conditor; Evigila super nos; Mass IX 'Cum iubilo'; Credo IV; Salva nos Domine
MALCOLM: Miserere mei Deus; Scapulis suis; Veritas mea; Nunc dimittis tertii toni
BYRD: Emendemus in melius
PALESTRINA: Missa Emendemus in melius
CROCE: In spiritu humilitatis
BEVAN: Magnificat quarti toni
MAWBY: Iustus ut palma
PARSONS: Ave Maria
GUERRERO: Ave Virgo sanctissima
TALLIS: Te lucis ante terminum
William Gaunt (bass), Peter Stevens (organ), Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67938 (CD)


GESUALDO: Sacrae Cantiones, Liber Secundus, a6 e a7, 1603
Reconstructed by James Wood
Vocalconsort Berlin, James Wood (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902123 (CD)


An Emerald in a Work of Gold - Music from the Dow Partbooks
MUNDY: Sive vigilem
STROGERS: A doleful deadly pang; In Nomine a 5 (No. 2); Non me vincat; Deus meus
(?) MALLORY: Miserere a 5
GILES: Vestigia mea dirige
WHITE: In Nomine V a 5; Justus es Domine
BYRD: O Lord how vain; La virginella
TYE: In nomine
TALLIS: O salutaris hostia for 5 voices
PARSONS: Retribue servo tuo; Ave Maria
ANON.: Come Holy Ghost; Dum transisset Sabbatum
RUFFO: Capriccio la Gamba in basso e soprano
MAILLARD: Ascendo ad Patrem meum
VERDELOT: Madonna somm'acorto
WILDER: Je file quand Dieu me donne de quoy; Pour vous aymer j’ay mis toute ma cure
The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery (conductor)
DELPHIAN DCD34115 (CD)


The Tallis Scholars – Renaissance Radio – Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Tallis Scholars
ALLEGRI: Miserere (omitting verses 7-18)
DESPREZ: Ave Maria … virgo serena Josquin
DE RORE: Descendi in hortum meum Cipriano
CLEMENS NON PAPA: Ego flos campi
MOUTON: Salva nos Domine
DE LASSUS: Ave regina caelorum; Salve regina
PRAETORIUS: Joseph lieber Joseph mein
DESPREZ: Agnus Dei III from Missa L’homme arme sexti toni
BRUMEL: Agnus Dei II from Missa Et ecce terrae motus
PALESTRINA: Agnus Dei II from Missa Brevis; Sicut lilium inter spinas
GESUALDO: Precibus et meritis; Maria mater gratiae
GUERRERO: Ave virgo sanctissima
VICTORIA: Ave Maria; O vos omnes from Tenebrae Responsories; Kyrie from Requiem; Graduale from Requiem; Versa est in luctum
TALLIS: Incipit, Aleph and Beth from Lamentations I; Mihi autem nimis; O sacrum convivium; O nata lux; Miserere nostril
TAVERNER: Leroy Kyrie; Benedictus from Missa Gloria tibi
CORNYSH: Ave Maria
WHITE: Christe qui lux es III
SHEPPARD: In manus tuas I; In manus tuas II; In manus tuas III
BYRD: Agnus Dei from Mass for four voices; Sing joyfully; O God, the proud are risen; O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth; Nunc dimittis from the Great Service
TALLIS: If ye love me; Hear the voice and prayer; A new commandment; Why fum’th in fight; Even like the hunted hind; God grant we grace; Come Holy Ghost
TOMKINS: When David heard
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips (conductor)
GIMELL CDGIM212 (2CD)


PHILIPS: Cantiones sacrae octonis vocibus 1613
The Choir of Royal Holloway, The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Rupert Gough (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67945 (CD)


10.35am
Nicholas Baragwanath talks to Andrew about recent recordings of opera

WAGNER: Tannhauser
Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thuringen), Robert Dean Smith (Tannhauser), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Michael McCown (Heinrich des Schreiber), Martin Snell (Reinmar von Zweter), Nina Stemme (Elisabeth), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski (conductor)
PENTATONE PTC5186405 (3 Hybrid SACD + book)


WAGNER: Die Walkure
Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Rene Pape (Wotan), Anja Kampe (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brunnhilde), Ekaterina Sergeeva (Siegrune), Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Gerhilde), Irina Vasilieva (Ortlinde), Natalia Evstafieva (Waltraute), Lyudmila Kanunnikova (Schwertleite), Tatiana Kravtsova (Helmwige), Ekaterina Sergeeva (Siegrune), Anna Kiknadze (Grimgerde), Elena Vitman (Rossweisse), Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
MARIINSKY MAR0527 (4 Hybrid SACD + book, mid-price)


STRAUSS: Elektra
Michaela Schuster (Klytamnestra), Evelyn Herlitzius (Elektra), Camilla Nylund (Chrysothemis), Hubert Delamboye (Aegisth), Gerd Grochowski (Orestes), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Toonkunst Choir Amsterdam, Marc Albrecht (conductor)
CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72565 (2 Hybrid SACD + book)


BIZET: Carmen
Anne Sofie von Otter (Carmen), Marcus Haddock (Don Jose), Laurent Naouri (Escamillo), Lisa Milne (Micaela), Mary Hegarty (Frasquita), Hans Voschezang (Morales), Jonathan Best (Zuniga), Christine Rice (Mercedes), Quentin Hayes (Le Dancaire), Anthony Wise (Lilas Pastia), Colin Judson (Le Remendado), London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
GLYNDEBOURNE GFOCD01602 (3CD mid-price)


11.40am Disc of the Week

Ludwig van Beethoven – The Sonatas for Violin and Piano
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata no.1 in D Op. 12; Violin Sonata no.2 in A Op.12; Violin Sonata no.3 in Eb Op.12; Violin Sonata no.5 in F Op.24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata no.4 in A minor Op.23; Violin Sonata no.8 in G Op.30 no.3; Violin Sonata no.9 in A Op.47 ‘Kreuzer’; Violin Sonata no.6 in A Op.30 no.1; Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor Op.30 no.2; Violin Sonata no.10 in G Op.96
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano)
DECCA 4783523 (3CD mid-price)