Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3’s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music, including some of the latest releases requested by listeners.
(c/w SOLAGE: S’Aincy Estoit; PHILLPOCTUS DE CASERTA: Medee Fu; ANTONELLO DA CASERTA: Je ne puis avoir plaisir; GALIOT: Se vos ne voles; MATTEO DA PERUGIA: De Quanqu’on Peut; FRANCISCUS ANDRIEU: De Narcissus; JACOB DE SENLECHES: Je Me Merveil)
(c/w Descendit de caelis;Tu es pastor ovium; Miserere mei, Deus; Circumdederunt me; Quodcumque ligaveris; Recordare, Domine; Exsurge, quare obdormis, Domine?; Laetania; Nunc scio vere; Constitues eos principes; Tu es Petrus; Levemus corda; Hodie Simon Petrus; Solve, iubente Deo)
(c/w O Jonathan; Rejoice in the Lord; Te Deum & Jubilate (Eighth Service); O how amiable are Thy dwellings; When David heard; Laboravi in gemitu meo; Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Third Service ‘in F fa ut’); O vos omnes; Lord, to Thee I make my moan; Give ear, O Lord; All people, clap your hands; Hosanna to the Son of David)
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (conductor)
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MENDELSSOHN: Tu es Petrus Op. 111
(c/w Magnificat in D; Jesu meine Freude; Wir glauben all an einen Gott; Gloria)
Andrea L Brown (soprano), Monica Groop (alto), Werner Gura (Tenor), Michael Volle (Bass), Kammerchor Stuttgart, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Frieder Bernius (conductor)
Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Russian National Orchestra, Christian Gansch (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 477 6417 (CD)
Building a Library
WAGNER: Ring Cycle on DVD
Reviewer – Patrick Carnegy
First choice:
Donald McIntyre, Heinz Zednik, Hermann Becht, Hanna Schwarz, Siegfried Jerusalem, Matti Salminen, Gwyneth Jones, Jeannine Altmeyer, Peter Hofmann, Gabriele Schnaut, Manfred Jung, Fritz Hubner, Franz Mazura, Gwendolyn Killebrew, Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 00440 073 4057 (8 DVDs, including Bonus DVD on the making of this production. Each opera also available separately)
Das Rheingold I – Loge’s monolog
Das Rheingold II – finale
Die Walküre, act one
Wagner – Die Walküre, Act One, scene 2: Hunding (Salminen)
Die Walküre, act two
Wagner – Die Walküre: “The Ride of the Valkyries” (Boulez)
Die Walküre: Winterstürme – Du bist der Lenz
Die Walküre: Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich (Altmeyer)
Siegfried, act one
Siegfried, act one
Siegfried, act two, Forest Murmurs
Götterdämmerung Act 1 Sc 2
Götterdämmerung Act 1 Sc 3
Götterdämmerung, act two
Götterdämmerung, act three
Next week Peter Quantrill examines recordings of one of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets, K90 in F Major.
Harmonia Mundi at 50
With extracts from the following discs:
BIZET: L’Arlesienne Overture
(c/w Symphony in C major)
Orquesta Cuidad de Granada, Josep Pons (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi HMA1951675 (CD, Mid Price)
BYRD: Miserere mihi, Domine
(c/w works by John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, Robert White and Hugh Aston)
Stile Antico
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 Op. 55
(c/w 12 Contretanze WoO14; Die Geschopfe des Prometheus Op. 43)
Helsinborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 807470 (CD)
(released March 31st 2008)
SCHUBERT: Sehnsucht
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901988 (CD)
(released March 31st 2008)
CHARPENTIER: Te Deum H. 146)
(c/w Missa ‘Assumpta Est Maria’ H. 11, Litanies de la Vierge H. 83)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi HMG 901298 (CD, Mid Price)
PURCELL: Fairest Isle from disc Music for a While
Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Wieland Kuijken (bass viol), William Christie (harpsichord), Roderick Skeaping (baroque violin), Robert Elliott (organ), Jane Ryan (bass viol)
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 K 595
(c/w Clarinet Concerto K. 622)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901908 (CD)
Next Week
On next week’s CD Review Peter Quantrill recommends a recording of Mozart’s String Quartet K590, there’s a session report on the disc ‘Burning in the Snow’ and Rob Cowan reviews some historic recordings
CD Review
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Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music, including some of the latest releases requested by listeners.
Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music, including some of the latest releases requested by listeners.
