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Hot Off The Press:
BECK Six Symphonies, Op.1: New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Donald Armstrong (conductor)
NAXOS 8.554071 (CD, budget)
BRAHMS – Music for Two Pianos: Sonata in F Minor for Two Pianos, Op.34b; Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Two Pianos, Op.56b: Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman (pianos)
SONY SK89868 (CD)
HENZE Complete Violin Concertos: Torsten Janicke (violin), Ulf Dirk Madler (baritone), Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Ehwald (conductor)
DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM MDG 60112422 (2-CD)
CD entitled ‘Du temps & De L’Instant’ – ANONYMOUS Martin Codax Cantiga de amigo V; ANONYMOUS (Afghanistan) Nastaran; Noumi, noumi yaldatii Berceuse hebraique (Israel); BRETON/SAVALL Variations sur O sonjal – also includes improvisations and works by MERULA; MARAIS & ORTIZ, and Catalan, Mexican, Moroccan, Greek & Serbian music: Montserrat Figueras (singer), Jordi Savall (viols), Arianna Savall (singer, harps), Ferran Savall (singer & theorbo), Pedro Estevan (percussion)
ALIA VOX AVSA 9841 (CD/SACD hybrid)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
GRIEG Incidental Music to Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, Op.23
Reviewer: Fiona Talkington
First Choice and most complete version:
Barbara Bonney (Solveig), Marianne Eklof (Anitra), Urban Malmberg (Peer Gynt), Carl Gustaf Holmgren (receiver), Wenche Foss, Toralv Maurstad, Tor Stokke (speakers), Gosta Ohlin’s Vocal Ensemble, Pro Musica Chamber Choir, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor) (recorded 1987; c/w Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op.22)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5433(2-CD, budget price)
Also available on E4230792 (2-CD)
Mid-price (Single disc) highlights:
Urban Malmberg (Peer Gynt/Thief), Mari-Anne Haeggander (Solveig), Wendy Hoffman (1st Herd-Girl), Merilyn Vaughn (2nd Herd-Girl), Wendy White (3rd Herd-Girl), Richard Haille (Receiver), Wendy White (Anitra), David Hess, Kaare Myksvoll, Margartet Lisi, Maria Meyer, Kristina Rapp, Gregory Nybo, Mari-Anne Haeggander (speakers), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and Chorus, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) (recorded 1988)
DECCA 476 7260 (CD, mid-price) (‘Critic’s Choice’ series)
Budget-price (single disc) highlights:
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic Chorus, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) (recorded n.a.)
SONY SBK89898 (CD, budget)
[Next week’s Building a Library will feature Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore]
Consumer Spot – Tippett
TIPPETT Piano Sonata Nos 1-3; String Quartet Nos. 1-3++; Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli^^; Double Concerto^^; Little Music for String Orchestra^^; Concerto for Orchestra; Triple Concerto^; The Symphonies; Ritual Dances from Midsummer Marriage; Fanfare for Brass*; Sonata for Four Horns**; Suite in D for the Birthday of Prince Charles: Paul Crossley (piano), *Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, ** Barry Tuckwell Horn Quartet, ++ Lindsay String Quartet, Academy of St Martin- in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)^^, ^Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Heather Harper (soprano in 3rd Symphony) London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis (conductor) (in Symphonies 1-3, Concerto for Orchestra, Triple Concerto), Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti (conductor) (in Symphony No.4 & Suite in D for the Birthday of Prince Charles)
DECCA 475 6750 (6-CD, budget)
TIPPETT The Complete Piano Sonatas:
Paul Crossley (piano)
CRD 34301 (2-CD, mid-price)
TIPPETT Concerto for Orchestra; Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello & Orchestra: Gyorgy Pauk (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
PHILIPS 476 7144 (CD, mid-price)
TIPPETT Concerto for Double String Orchestra; Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli; Songs for Dov: Nigel Robson (tenor), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Michael Tippett (conductor)
EMI 5865882 (CD, budget)
TIPPETT Divertimento on ‘Sellinger’s Round’*; Little Music for String Orchestra*; Sonata for Four Horns; Ritual Dances from ‘The Midsummer Marriage’+: * Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner (conductor), Michael Thompson Horn Quartet, + Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai (conductor)
EMI 5865872 (CD, budget)
TIPPETT The Ice Break: David Wilson-Johnson (Lev), Heather Harper (Nadia), Sanford Sylvan (Yuri), Carolann Page (Gayle), Cynthia Clarey (Hannah), Thomas Randle (Olympion), Bonaventura Bottone (Luke), Donald Maxwell (Lieutenant of the Police), Christopher Robson & Sarah Walker (Astron), London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton (conductor)
EMI 5865852 (CD, budget)
TIPPETT Piano Sonata No.1; Piano Sonata No.2; Piano Concerto: John Ogdon (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
EMI 5865862 (CD, budget)
New Releases – Piano
Reviewer: Sarah Walker
RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit; CARTER Night fantasies; Two Diversions; 90+: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 621602 (CD + bonus CD with illustrated talk)
DEBUSSY The Piano Preludes:
Pascal Roge (piano)
ONYX 4004 (CD)
DEBUSSY The Piano Preludes: Melvyn Tan (piano)
DEUX ELLES DXL 1092 (2-CD)
COPLAND Piano Fantasy; Piano Sonata; Piano Variations: Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
NAXOS 8.559184 (CD, budget)
CD entitled 'Frank Braley plays GERSHWIN' –
Rhapsody in Blue (transcribed for solo piano by the composer); An American in Paris (transcribed for solo piano by William Daly); Three Preludes; Impromptu ‘in Two Keys’; Two Waltzes in C; Merry Andrew; Three-Quarter Blues; Promenade – Prelude; Song Book (18 Song Hits arranged by the composer):
Frank Braley (piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901883 (CD)
An Interview with tenor Robert Tear
BACH St Matthew Passion (in English) – Peter’s denial: Robert Tear (tenor/evangelist), Rebecca Moseley-Morgan (1st Maid), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (2nd Maid), Hugh Davies (Peter), Bach Choir, The Thames Chamber Orchestra,
Sir David Willcocks (conductor)
ASV CDQSS324 (3-CD, budget)
MONTEVERDI Vespers (excerpt from Audi Coelum, played): Robert Tear (tenor), Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DECCA 443 4822 (2-CD, budget)
BRITTEN Nocturne Op.69 (But that night when on my bed I lay, played): Robert Tear (tenor), David Corkhill (percussion), English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
EMI 5698642 (CD, budget)
WAGNER Das Rheingold (Loge’s aria ‘Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn!’ –‘Ingratitude is always Loge’s Lot’ from Act 1, Scene 2): Robert Tear (Loge), Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
EMI 5727312 (14-CD, budget)
DYSON The Canterbury Pilgrims (The Haberdasher and his fraternity, played):
Robert Tear (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 9531 (2-CD)
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ALWYN Piano Concerto No.2:
Peter Donohoe (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557590
TANEYEV Quintet for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello in G Minor, Op.30:
Vadim Repin, Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Lynn Harrell (cello), Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5419
DVORAK Tone Poems (The Noonday Witch, played):
Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 5580192
RADIO 3'S DISC OF THE WEEK:
GLUCK Paride ed Elena:
Magdalena Kozena (Paride), Susan Gritton (Elena), Carolyn Sampson (Amore), Gillian Webster (Pallade, Un Trojano), Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
ARCHIV 477 5415 (2-CD)
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