23 July 2005
Saturday 23 July 2005 9:00-12:00 (Radio 3)
Andrew McGregor plays some of this month's newest releases and looks forward to the next week of the Proms, playing records associated with the repertoire and artists taking part.
There's a feature from the archive with David Nice's 2002 survey of the available recordings of orchestral versions of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. And David returns to the studio to update us on more recent recordings of the composer's work.
Playlist
Hot Off The Press:
VERDI Overture, La Forza del destino; TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.5 in E Minor, Op.64; SIBELIUS Valse Triste, Op.44: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) (+ DVD with documentary 'In Conversation - Daniel Barenboim & Edward Said')
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 621905 (CD + DVD)
WEBER Oberon: Steve Davislim (Oberon), Hillevi Martinpelto (Reiza), Marina Comparato (Fatima), Jonas Kaufmann (Sir Huon of Bordeaux), William Dazeley (Sherasmin), Katharine Fuge (First Mermaid), Charlotte Mobbs (Second Mermaid), Frances Bourne (Puck), Roger Allam (Narrator), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
PHILIPS 475 6563 (2-CD)
D'ANGLEBERT Pieces de clavecin & airs d'apres M. de LULLY: Celine Frisch (harpsichord), Cafe Zimmerman, Pablo Valetti (director)
ALPHA 074 (CD)
BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION:
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestral Version):
(A repeat of the review last broadcast on 13th July 2002)
Reviewer: David Nice
First Choice:
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor) (recorded 1988; c/w Night on the Bare Mountain; Khovanshchina (prelude); RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op.35; Capriccio Espaganol, Op.34)
EMI CZS 5 751722 (2-CD, budget) ('Double Forte' series)
Historic Choice:
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky (conductor)
(recorded 1930; c/w STRAVINSKY Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra)
PEARL GEMM CD 9020 (CD, mid price)
Also available on NAXOS 8.110154 (c/w RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole; Ma Mere L'Oye; Bolero) (CD, budget)
Alternative Bargain recommendation -
David Nice's update 23rd July 2005:
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar (conductor) (recorded 2001; c/w Night on the Bare Mountain (Rimsky-Korsakov version); Hopak from Sorochintsy Fair; Golitsin's Exile from Khovanshchina; Night on the Bare Mountain (Original Version)
NAXOS 8.555924 (CD, budget)
[Next week's Building a Library will feature Beethoven's Complete Symphonies at budget price]
Proms related recordings:
RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome; MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. various)*: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor), * BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 619542 (CD, mid-price)
Mark GREY San Andreas Suite; RAVEL Violin Sonata in G; MESSIAEN Theme and Variations; Esa-Pekka SALONEN Lachen Verlernt; BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No.10 in G Major, Op.96; BRAHMS Scherzo in C Minor: Leila Josefowicz (violin), John Novacek (piano)
WARNER 2564 619482 (2-CD)
*ELGAR The Music Makers, Op.69; Overture Froissart, Op.19; Dream Children, Op.43; BACH (orch. Elgar) Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537/Op.86: Jane Irwin (mezzo), Halle Choir, Halle, Mark Elder (conductor)
HALLE CD HLL 7509 (CD, mid-price)
*n.b This ELGAR CD is not released until September 2005
TIPPETT The Rose Lake*; The Vision of St Augustine**: John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis*, Sir Michael Tippett** (conductors)
RCA 82876642842 (CD, mid-price)
MAHLER Symphony No.4 in G Major (arr. Erwin Stein): Kate Royal (soprano), Manchester Camerata, Douglas Boyd (conductor)
AVIE AV 2069 (CD)
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