Saturday 5 April 2008 Radio 3)
Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music.
On this week's programme:
09.05am
MOZART: Sonata in A KV 305 from disc Complete sonatas for keyboard and violin Vol 5
(c/w Sonata in C KV 403 (385c); Sonata in B flat KV31; Sonata in D KV 306)
Rachel Podger (violin); Gary Cooper (fortepiano)
Channel Classics CCS SA 25608 (Hybrid SACD)
MICHAEL NYMAN: In Re Don Giovanni
(c/w Revisiting the Don ; Trysting Fields; Not Knowing the Ropess, Wedding Tango; Wheelbarrow Walk; Fish Beach; Knowing the Ropes; O my Dear Papa; I am an unusual thing;
Profit and Loss)
Michael Nyman Band
Mn Records MNRCD 113 (CD)
MOZART: Cosi fan tutte or The School for Lovers
English version by Marmaduke Browne, adapted by John Cox
Fiordiligi, Janice Watson (soprano)
Dorabella, Diana Montague (mezzo soprano)
Guglielmo, Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Ferrando, Toby Spence (tenor)
Despina, Lesley Garrett (soprano)
Don Alfonso, Thomas Allen (baritone)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gareth Hancock (assistant conductor), Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Chandos Opera in English CHAN 3152(3) (3 CDs) (Mid Price)
MOZART: Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (K339)
(c/w MOZART Ave verum Corpus; FAURE: Requiem)
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano); Ruth Massey (alto); Mark Dobell (tenor); Roderick Williams (baritone);
The Sixteen; Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO Live COR 16057 (CD)
Building a Library Recommendation
SCRIABIN: Le Poeme de l'extase
Reviewer - William Mival
New Releases - Vaughan Williams and Finzi
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - From far, from eve and morning
(c/w IVOR GURNEY: Ludlow and Teme; IAN VENABLES: Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, Op.36)
Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Dante Quartet
Signum Classics SIGCD112 (CD)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - Is my team ploughing?
(c/w Piano Quintet in C minor; Romance and Pastorale - two pieces for violin and piano)
Mark Padmore (tenor); Schubert Ensemble with Alison Dods (violin)
Chandos CHAN 10465 (CD)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - Clun
(c/w WARLOCK: The Curlew; BLISS: Elegiac Sonnet; IVOR GURNEY: Ludlow and Teme)
James Gilchrist (tenor); Anna Tilbrook (piano); Michael Cox (flute) Gareth Hulse (cor anglais)
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
LINN CKD 296 (CD)
FINZI: Dies Natalis, Op.8 - The Rapture
(c/w FINZI: Romance for string orchestra Op.11; WALTON: Sonata for string orchestra (l972)
Toby Spence (tenor); Scottish Ensemble; Jonathan Morton (artistic director)
WIGMORE HALL WHLive0021 (CD)
FINZI: Dies Natalis, Op.8 - Wonder
(c/w Prelude for String Orchestra; The Fall of the Leaf (Elegy) (compl. Howard Ferguson); Two sonnets for Tenor and Orchestra; Nocturne (New Year Music); Farewell to Arms)
James Gilchrist (tenor), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill (conductor)
NAXOS 8.570417 (CD)
New Recordings
Wiebke Thormahlen talks to Andrew about recent releases of Baroque violin and cello repertoire, on both period and modern instruments. With extracts from the following discs:
CPE BACH: Gamba Sonatas & Fantasias
Solo a Viola da Gamba e Basso in D major H 559
Fantasie in A major H.278; Fantasie in C minor H.75; La Stahl H.94; Solo a Viola da Gamba e Basso in C major H 558; Les Langueurs Tendres H.110
Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano), Vittorio Ghielmi
(viola da gamba), Gianluca Buratto (bass-baritone)
WINTER & WINTER910 140-2 (CD)
CPE BACH: Viola da gamba Sonatas
Sonatas in C major, Wq.136, H.558; D major, Wq.137, H559; Trio sonata in G minor, Wq.88 H.510
Dmitry Kouzov (cello), Peter Laul (harpsichord and piano)
NAXOS 8.570740 (CD)
JS BACH: Unaccompanied Sonata No.2 in A minor;
BARTOK: Sonata No.1 for violin and piano Sz.75 BB84
Midori (violin), Robert McDonald (piano)
SONY 82796977452 (CD)
Boccherini : Sei Quartetti per Archi, Op.2
QuartettI Nos. I to VI
Alea Ensemble
STRADIVARIUS STR 33758 (CD)
BUXTEHUDE : Sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and cembalo Op.1 (buxWV 252-258)
L'Estravagante: Stefano Montanari (violin), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba), Maurizio Salerno (cembalo)
ARTS 47731-8 (SACD)
BUXTEHUDE: Six Sonatas (Complete Chamber Music 3)
Sonatas in G major, BuxWV 271; A minor, BuxWV 272; F major, BuxWV 269; D major BuxWV 267; B flat major BuxWV 273; C major BuxWV 266
John Holloway and Ursula Weiss (violins), Jaap ter Linden and Mogens Rasmussen (viola da gamba), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and organ)
Naxos 8.557250 (CD)
BIBER: Mensa Sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis' Pars I to VI
Purcell Quartet
CHAN 0784 (CD)
Disc of the Week
HAYDN: The Creation (Part 1 played)
Sandrine Piau (soprano),Miah Persson (soprano), Ruth Massey (contralto), Peter Harvey (baritone), Mark Padmore (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Chetham's Chamber Choir, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
Archiv 477 7361 (2 CDs, Mid Price)
Album Description
Acclaimed for their recordings of large-scale masterpieces including Bach's St Matthew Passion, Handel's Saul and Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort turn their attention to Haydn's greatest work: The Creation
Paul McCreesh has revised large parts of the text of the English-language version, also rewriting the recitatives "as Haydn might have done had he been more familiar with the English language"
Not only is this the world premiere recording of this newly revised version, it is also the first release of Die Schoepfung in its equally authentic English version in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue
Employing a luxuriously large cast of five soloists, almost 100 singers and 113 players as used by Haydn for the premiere of the German version, this promises to be the English-language recording of The Creation
McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort are regarded as highly acclaimed experts in recreating large-scale orchestral/choral works as they might have been performed historically; here they bring their unique insight to Haydn's well-loved masterwork
Next Week
On next week's programme David Fanning examines recordings of Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44 and Jonathan Swain picks out some highlights from EMI's bumper set of re-issues of recordings from some of the leading musicians of the stereo age.
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