24/01/2009

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HANDEL: Concerto grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 from disc Handel Twelve Concerti grossi, op. 6

(c/w Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-5 and 7-12)

Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

L’Oiseau Lyre 478 0319 (3 CDs)

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CHEDEVILLE (arranged from Vivaldi Op. 8): Concerto ‘L’Hiver’ (Winter) in C minor (from Le Printems ou Les Saisons Amusantes)

Matthias Loibner (hurdy-gurdy), Enrico Casazza (Baroque violin), Chiara de Ziller (recorder), Les Eclairs de Musique

Arts 47669-8 (Hybrid SACD)

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VIVALDI: La fida ninfa (excerpts)

Sandrine Piau (soprano), Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (alto), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass), Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Sara Mingardo (alto), Christian Senn (bass baritone), Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi (director)

Naive OP 30410 (3 CDs, Mid Price)

 

Italia 1600, Argentina 1900

PIAZZOLLA: Milonga en ay menor from disc Italia 1600, Argentina 1900
MONTEVERDI: Si dolce e’l tormento (from 9th Book of Madrigals); PORPORA: Alto giove from Polifemo; VIVALDI: Come in vano il mare irato from Cantone in Utica; HANDEL: Lascia ch’io pianga from Rinaldo; PORPORA: Son fra l’onde in mezzo al mare from Gli Orti Esperidi; CACCINI: Tu ch’ai le penne Amore from Euridice; GUASTAVINO: Se equivoco la paloma; BROSCHI: Son qual nave ch’agitata from Artaserse; HANDEL: Tu del ciel ministro eletto from Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; No se emendera jamas from Cantata spagnola; VIVALDI: Dite, oime! Ditelo, al fine from La fida ninfa; PAISIELLO: Nel cor piu non mi sento from La molinara; VILLA-LOBOS: Aria from Cantilena, Bachianas brasileiras, no. 5

Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Una Stella Ensemble

Naive OP 30466 (CD)

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Composer Anniversaries

James Jolly joins Andrew to discuss the wealth of recent and upcoming releases marking the four major composer anniversaries of 2009 – Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. With extracts from the following discs:

Music of Henry Purcell

The Deller Consort, Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)

Vanguard Classics MC 194 (6 CDs, budget)

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Handel Oratorios

SAUL: RIAS Kammerchor, Concerto Koln, Rene Jacobs (director)

MESSIAH: The Choir of Clare College, Freiburger Barockorchester, Rene Jacobs (director)

Harmonia Mundi HMX2908280.83 (4 CDs)

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Handel Famous Arias

Lorraine Hunt (soprano), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan (conductor); Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin; Andreas Scholl (counter tenor); Mark Padmore (tenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter tenor), The English Concert, Andrew Manze (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi HMX2908288.91 (4 CDs)

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Handel Twelve Concerti grossi op. 6

Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

L’Oiseau Lyre 478 0319 (3 CDs)

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HANDEL: Israel in Egypt

Ariada Ensemble, Kevin Mallon (conductor)

Naxos 8.570966-67 (2 CDs, Budget)

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Haydn Edition

Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor) plus other musicians

Brilliant Classics 93782 (150 CDs, Budget)

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HAYDN: Symphonies 57, 59 and 65

Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Fey (conductor)

Hanssler Classic CD 98.526 (CD)

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Haydn Italian Arias

Thomas Quasthoff (bass baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)

Deutsche Grammophon 477 7469 (CD)

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MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64; Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; Violin Sonata in F major

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Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur (conductor), Lynn Harrell (cello), Andre Previn (piano)

Deutsche Grammophon 477 8001 (CD)

 

Mendelssohn Symphonies (Complete)

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor), Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz (conductor), Helen Donath (soprano), Rostraud Hansmann (soprano), Waldermar Kmentt (tenor)

Brilliant Classics 93777 (7 CDs, Budget)

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Mendelssohn Choral Works

RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)

Harmonia Mundi HMC901992 (CD)

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