3 September 2005
Saturday 3 September 2005 9:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Andrew McGregor plays some of the newest releases and looks forward to the next week of the Proms. Rob Cowan surveys the available recordings of Bartk's complete string quartets.
Playlist
[All recordings are available at full price unless indicated otherwise.]
Hot Off The Press:
Symphonic Transcriptions: by Leopold STOKOWSKI
Mussorgsky Entr'acte to Act IV of Khovanshchina; A Night on Bare Mountain; Symphonic Synthesis of Boris Godunov; Pictures at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky Humoresque, Op.10, No.2; Solitude, Op.73, No.6; Traditional Slavic Christmas Music
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jos Serebrier (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557645 (available as a CD, hybrid SACD or DVD-A)
[budget price]
HANDEL Operatic Arias:
Pianger la sorte mia (Guilio Cesare);Se 'l mio duol (Rodelinda);Dester dall empia dite (Amadigi); M'hai resa infelice (Deidamia); Scheraza in mar (Lotario);Ombre piante (Rodelinda);Tutta raccolta ancor (Scipione); Orrida a gl'occhi miei (Ariodante);Ah, crudel (Rinaldo);Sommi dei (Radamisto);Barbaro, partir (Radamisto)
Emma Bell (soprano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr (director)
LINN RECORDS CDK 252 (hybrid SACD)
VICTORIA: Missa Pro Defunctis; Salve Regina; Ave Regina caelorum a 5; Nigra sum; Quam pulchri sunt; Trahe me post te; Ave Regina caelorum a 8; Officium Defunctorum; Taedet animam meam; Funeral motet: Versa est in luctum; Responsory: Libera me
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO COR SACD 16033 (available as CD or hybrid SACD)
REICH: Duet: Triple Quartet; Different Trains
The Smith Quartet
SIGNUM CLASSICS SIG CD 064
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
Bartok: The String Quartets (revisited)
Reviewer: Rob Cowan
New First Choice:
Tokyo String Quartet
Recorded 1975-1980
DEUTSCHE GRAMMPHON 476 1833
(3-CD, mid-price)
Previous First Choice:
Vegh Quartet
(recorded 1972)
NAVE V 4870 (3-CD, budget)
Historic Recording Choice
Juilliard Quartet
(recorded 1950)
PEARL GEMS 0147 (2-CD mid-price)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade"]
Proms related recordings:
Tallis Spem In Alium Feature
CD entitled Spem in alium: Music for Monarchs and Magnates
TALLIS Spem in Alium; GIBBONS O all true faithful hearts: BYRD Deus venerunt gentes; Tomkins Know you not; GIBBONS Great King of Gods; TOMKINS O God, the heathen are come; TALLIS Te Deum; TOMKINS Be Strong; TALLIS Sing and glorify
The Sixteen; Harry Christophers
CORO COR SACD 106016 (available as CD, hybrid SACD or DVD-A)
Tallis The Complete Works - Volume 7
Spem in alium; Salvator mundi I; O sacrum convivium; In manus taus; O nata lux de lumine; Absterge Domine; Discomfort them O Lord; Domine, quis habitat; Laudate Dominum; Miserere nostril; Salvator mundi II; Mihi autem nimis; O salutaris hostia; In ieiunio et fletu; (Low); In ieiunio et fletu (High); Derelinquit impius:
Chapelle du Roi: Alistair Dixon
SIGNUM RECORDS SIG CD 029
Remembering Tippett: Recordings from the 1940's
TALLIS Spem in alium *; TIPPETT Fantasy Sonata for Piano + ; Concerto for Double String Orchestra ^; String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp $
Zorian Quartet $ : Orchestra ^, Walter Goehr (conductor) ^ :Phyllis Sellick (piano) + Morley College Choir*, Michael Tippett (conductor)*
NM RECORDS NMCD 103
TALLIS Spem in alium: Missa Salve intemerata; Salve intemerata (Motet); With all our heart; Discomfort them, O Lord; I call and cry to thee, O Lord
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
NAXOS 6.110111 (available as CD, hybrid SACD or DVD-A)
TALLIS: Spem in alium; Te lucias ante terminum; Salvator mundi; In iejunio et fletu; O salutaris hostia; Lamentations I and II; Miserere; Gloria; Credo; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei
Magnificat, Philip Cave (director)
LINN RECORDS CKD 233 (hybrid SACD)
TALLIS: PITTS : Choral Works for 40 voices
TALLIS Spem in alium; PITTS XL; PURCELL/ Sandstr m Hear my prayer, O Lord; BACH: Contrapunctus I (Art of fugue - organ) *; BACH/SCHNEIBEL Contrapunctus I (choir); HARVEY Come, Holy Ghost; NYSTEDT Immortal Bach KODALY Laudes Organi
Berlin Radio Choir, Simon Halsey (director) Arvid Gast (organ) *
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 801873 (hybrid SACD)
Music for Children
CD ENTITLED Children's Games
BIZET Jeux d'enfants *; DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice * ; FAURE Dolly Suite ^; Liadov The Musical Box * ; Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite **; MOURANT: The Pied Piper $ ; ROBLES Narnia Suite % ; MILHAUD Brazileira,
Mexico City Orchestra * , Enrique Batiz (conductor) *, **, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ^ ,Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) ^ ,Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ** , George Macdonald (clarinet) $ , Northern Sinfonia of England $ , Stuart Bedford (conductor) $ , The Marisa Robles Ensemble % , Christopher Hyde-Smith (flute and piccolo) % , Emma John son (clarinet), Gordon Back (piano)
SANCTUARY CLASSICS CD RSN 3046
BARLOW & MORPURGO The Rainbow Bear; PROKOVIEV Peter and the Wolf
Joanna Lumley (narrator), English Northern Philharmonic, Stephen Barlow (conductor)
SANCTUARY CLASSICS CD RSN 3041
CD ENTITLED For Children
MOZART Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman'; BACH Prelude in E major; Praeambulum in G minor; Daquin Le Coucou; Beethoven Fr Elise; SCHUMANN Wilder Reiter; Volksliedchen; Fr hlicher Landmann von der Arbeit zur ckkehrend; CHOPIN Nocturne in C minor; LISZT tudes No 1& 2; BIZET La toupe; Faur Berceuse; Tchaikovsky Maman; Valse; Villa-Lobos O Polichinello; A Probrezinha; Moreninha; Jolivet Chansons na ves No 1 & 3; Prokofiev Waltz; Debussy Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum; The Little Shepherd; Le petit ngre; BARTOK An evening in the country; Andante; Swineherd's Song; Moderato; Jest; Magin Danse Noble; Nostalgie du pays; Chant des moissons; Mati č i č : Miniature Variations
L via R v (Piano)
HELIOS CDH 55194
Red Riding Hood & Sleeping Beauty
Tom Small (music) Emma House (words)
Harry Enfield (Narration)
SANCTUARY CLASSICS CD RSN 3052
Prokofiev Cinderella Suite Opp. 95, 87, 102; Music for children, Op 65; Gavotta, Op 32, No. 3; Prelude in C, Op. 12, No. 7
Olli Mustonen (piano)
ONDINE ODE 1060 2
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