19 April 2008

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Saturday 19 April 2008 (Radio 3)

Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3′s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music.

In this week’s programme:

WEISSENBERG: En Avril, a Paris (arrangement of Charles Trenet song) from disc Marc-Andre Hamelin in a state of jazz

SEE FULL LISTING UNDER DISC OF THE WEEK

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

Hyperion CDA67656 (CD)

D’INDY: Jour d’ete a la montagne Op. 61 (first movement)

(c/w La Foret enchantee; Souvenirs)

Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Chandos 10464 (CD)

ROUSSEL: Symphony No. 2 (second movement)

(c/w Pour une fete de printemps; Suite in F)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stephane Deneve (conductor)

Naxos 8.570529 (CD, Budget)

Building a Library Recommendation

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 6

Reviewer – Stephen Johnson

This week’s recommendation will be placed on the website on Monday 21st April

The Essential Tallis

Alexandra Buckle talks to Andrew McGregor about her must-have discs of Tallis’ music. With extracts from the following:

TALLIS: Te lucis ante terminum; Salvator mundi; Spem in alium; In iejunio et fletu; O Salutaris hostia; Lamentations I; Lamentations II; Miserere; Mass for 4 voices

Magnificat, Philip Cave (conductor)

Linn Records CKD 233 (Hybrid SACD or digital download, Mid Price)

TALLIS: O salutaris hostia for five voices; In ieiunio et fletu for five voices; Salvator mundi (I) for five voices; In manus tuas Domine for five voices; Salvator mundi (II) for five voices; The Lamentations of Jeremiah (I) for five voices; O sacrum convivium for five voices; O nata lux de lumine for five voices ; Te lucis ante terminum for five voices; The Lamentations of Jeremiah (II) for five voices; Spem in alium for eight five-part choirs

Winchester Cathedral Choir (Winchester College Quiristers, Vocal Ars Chorus), David Hill (conductor)

Hyperion CDA66400 (CD)

TALLIS: Jesu salvator saeculi; Gaude gloriosa; Sermone blando angelus; Magnificat a5; Nunc dimittis a5; Mihi autem nimis; Absterge Domine; Derelinquat impius; Loquebantur variis linguis; Suscipe quaeso Domine; O nata lux

The Cardinalls Musick, Andrew Carwood (director)

Hyperion CDA67548 (CD)

TALLIS: Spem in alium; Sancte Deus; Salvator mundi, salva nos I; Salvator mundi, salva nos II; Gaude gloriosa; Miserere nostril; Loquebantur variis linguis; If ye love me; Hear the voice and prayer; A new commandment; O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit; Purge me, O Lord; Verily, verily I say unto you; Remember not, O Lord God; Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter; O Lord, in thee is all my trust; Christ rising again; Blessed are those that be undefiled; Lamentations of Jeremiah I and II; Absterge Domine; O sacrum convivium; In manus tuas; Salve intemerata; Magnificat (4vv); Ave Dei patris filia from disc The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)

Gimell CDGIM 203 (2CDs, Budget))

TALLIS: Third Tune: Why fum’th in fight; Fifth Tune: E’en like the hunted hind; Second Tune: Let God arise; Sixth Tune: Expend, O Lord; Eighth Tune: God grant with grace; First Tune: Man blest no doubt; Veni creator: Come Holy Ghost; Seventh Tune: Why brag’st in malice; Fourth Tune: O come in one to praise the Lord
(c/w BYRD: Vigilate; Ne irascaris Domine (Cantiones sacrae I, 1589); Exsurge Domine (Cantiones sacrae II, 1591); Infelix ego (Cantiones sacrae II); Laetentur coeli (Cantiones sacrae I); Quis est homo (Cantiones sacrae II) ; Mass Propers for Pentecost ; Communion: Factus est repente (Gradualia II, 1607); Tribulationes civitatum (Cantiones sacrae I); Laudibus in sanctis) from disc Heavenly Harmonies
Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi HMU 807463 (Hybrid SACD)

Played but not included:

Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works Volume 9 (Instrumental Music and Songs)

(c/w Instrumental – Consort: In Nomine I, In Nomine II, ASolfinge Song, Salvator Mundi (trio), Fantasia, Felix Namque II (for lute); Instrumental – Virginals: Felix Namque I, When shall my sorrowful sighing slake, Like as the doleful dove, O ye tender babes of England, Purge me (Fond Youth), Per haec nos (extract from Salve intermerata), Apoint, Lesson 2 in 1, Remember not, O Lord God; Instrumental – Organ: Per haec nos, Apoint, Lesson 2 in 1; Songs: Tu Nimirum, When shall my sorrowful sighing slake, Like as the doeful dove, O Ye tender babes of England, William Byrd: Ye sacred muses, Litany (for organ), Dubia I, Dubia II,

Felix Namque I (organ), Andrew Benson-Williams (organ); Laurence Cummings (virginals); Lynda Sayce (lute); Stephen Taylor (counter tenor); Charivari Agreable; Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon (conductor)

Signum Classics SIGCD042 (CD)

BBC Legends and Wigmore Hall Live

BEETHOVEN*: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” (recorded 29th January 1992 Usher Hall, Edinburgh)

GERSHWIN **: Piano Concerto in F major (recorded 14th September 1985, Royal Albert Hall, London)

Shura Cherkassky (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra**, Vernon Handley** (conductor), BBC* Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Zollman (conductor)*

BBC Legends BBCL4231-2 (CD, Mid Price)

CASALS: Prelude; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 58 (recorded 9th June 1984, Aldeburgh); JS BACH arr. Liszt: Organ Prelude and Fugue BWV 543; MOZART: Piano Sonata in F K. 332; VILLA-LOBOS: A Mare Encheu; Passa, Passa Gaviao; CHOPIN: Mazurka in B flat minor Op. 24 No. 4; Mazurka in C major Op. 56 No. 2; MENDELSSOHN: Song Without Words in C Major, Op. 67 No. 4 (Spinning Song)

(recorded 21st June 1987, Aldeburgh)

Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)

BBC Legends BBCL 4230-2 (CD, Mid Price)

MOZART: Piano Sonata in B flat major K. 570; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in D minor Op. 31 No. 2, ‘The Tempest’; SCHUMANN: Arabeske Op. 18; CHOPIN: Mazurka in B minor Op. 33 No. 4; Nocturne in B major Op. 32 No. 1; Etude in F minor Op. 25 No. 2; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor Op. 66; SCHUMANN: Traumerei Op. 15 No. 7

(recorded 4th June 1991, Wigmore Hall, London)

Mieczyslaw Horszowski (piano)

Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0023 (CD, Mid Price)

NB – this is to be released 28th April 2008

LOCKE: Musick for His Majesty’s Sackbutts & Cornetts (recorded 15th February 1966, Royal Festival Hall, London); SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38, “Spring” (recorded 30th November 1965, Royal Festival Hall, London); BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73 (recorded 15th February 1966, Royal Festival Hall, London)

London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz (conductor)

BBC Legends BBCL 4229-2 (CD, Mid Price)

Disc of the Week

Marc-Andre Hamelin in a state of jazz

(c/w FRIEDRICH GULDA: Exercise No 1 from Play Piano Play; NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN: Sonata No 2 Op 54; FRIEDRICH GULDA: Exercise No 4 from Play Piano Play; ALEXIS WEISSENBERG : Sonate en etat de jazz; FRIEDRICH GULDA: Exercise No 5 from Play Piano Play; Prelude and Fugue; ALEXIS WEISSENBERG: Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet – 1) Coin de rue, 2) Vous oubliez votre cheval, 3) En Avril, a Paris, 4) Boum! 5) Vous qui passez sans me voir, 6) Menilmontant; GEORGE ANTHEIL: Jazz Sonata)

Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

Hyperion CDA67656 (CD)

Next Week

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On next week’s programme Tess Knighton recommends a recording of Josquin’s Missa Pange Lingua (Building a Library) and Andrew McGregor talks to Paul Lewis reflecting on his cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas for Harmonia Mundi as the last one is released.

CD Review on 17th May will be marking Radio 3′s Chopin Experience weekend. We’d like you to send in suggestions of what you regard as the quintessential Chopin recordings. During the programme that day Andrew will be joined in the studio by performer and academic David Owen-Norris to play and discuss your suggestions.

You can contact the programme through the CD Review website, e-mail (cdreview@bbc.co.uk) or by calling the Radio 3 Audience Line 08700 100 300.

Saturday 9 February 2008

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Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3′s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music.

CD Review

WHITE: Christe qui lux es et dies (IV)

(c/w Lamentations a 5; TYE: Agnus Dei from Mass: Euge bone; Peccavimus cum patribus nostris; PARSONS: Ave Maria; O bone Jesu;
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Coro COR16056 (CD)

ANON: Glorioso Domina from disc Francisco Javier: La Ruta de Oriente (Francis Xavier – The Route to the Orient)

Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hiroyuki Koinuma, Ichiro Seki, Yukio Tanaka, Prabhu Edouard, Ken Zuckerman, Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall (director)
AliaVox AVSA 9856 (2 Hybrid SACDs and book)

BEAMISH: Viola Concerto No. 2, ‘The Seafarer’ (2nd movement)

(c/w Whitescape; Sangsters)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Ola Rudner (conductor)
BIS CD 1241 (CD)

Building a Library Recommendation

MOZART: String Quartet No. 23 in F K590

Reviewer – Peter Quantrill

Overall choice:

Quatuor Mosaiques
Naive E8888 (CD)

Traditional Instrument Choice:
Tokyo Quartet
Buddulph BID80215

Next week David Vickers examines recordings of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater.

New Releases

Rob Cowan looks at some recent issues of historic recordings. With extracts from the following discs:

Historical Russian Archives: Alexander Gauk Edition

(CD 1: SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 Op. 47; RACHMANINOFF: Russian Folk Songs for Chorus Op. 41; ‘Spring’, Cantata for Baritone Op. 20

CD 2: SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 11 Op. 103; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Song of Oleg the Wise Op. 58;

CD 3: KHACHATURUIAN: ‘Sparticus’, Suite; GLINKA: Premiere Polka;
Kamarinskaya;

CD 4: KHATCHATURIAN: Symphony No. 1; GLINKA: Memory of Friendship; Patriotic Song;

CD 5: MYASKOVSKY: Symphony NO. 17 Op. 41; PROKOFIEV: Flourish, Mighty Homeland Op. 114; Russian Overture, Op. 72; IVANOV-RADKEVICH: Russian Overture;

CD 6: TCHAIKOVSKY: The Seasons Op. 37; BALAKIREV: Islamey; GLAZUNOV: Spring OP. 34; Waltz Op. 42 No. 3; ARENSKY: March, in memory of Suvorov; In the Fields Op. 36 No. 24; Waltz from ’6 Children’s Pieces’ Op. 34;

CD 7: TCHAIKOVSKY: Hamlet Op. 67a; Fatum Op. Posth.77;

CD 8: TCHAIKOVSKY: Snegourotchka, Snow Maiden Op. 12;

CD 9: LISZT: Eine Faust-Symphonie;

CD 10: BEETHOVEN: Overture Coriolan; MENDELSSOHN: Overture Ruy Blas; BIZET: Patrie, Overture Op. 19; CASELLA: Italia, Rapsodia per orchestra; ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1; MILHAUD: Suite Provencale)

USSR State Radio and TV Symphony and Chorus, Alexander Gauk (conductor)

Brilliant Classics 8866 (10 CDs, Budget)

Charles Munch Conducts Beethoven – Unissued Concert Performances With the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1954-1957

(Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’; Symphony No. 7; Piano Concerto No. 3; Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ Op. 73; Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’ Op. 55; String Quartet No. 16 Op. 135; Violin Concerto; Leonore Overture No. 2 Op. 72; Die Weihe des Hauses, Op. 124 Overture)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)

Pristine Audio WHRA-6014 (5CDs, Budget)

Famous Mendelssohn Recordings

(Symphony No. 4 Op. 90,
Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 25,
Symphony No. 5 Op. 107)

Halle Orchestra, Hamilton Harty (conductor);
Ania Dorfmann (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Walter Goehr (conductor);
L’Orchestre de la Societe du Conservatoire e Paris, Charles Munch (conductor)

Dutton CDBP 9781 (CD, Budget)

BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4; WAGNER: Siegfried-Idyll

Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Hans Knappertsbusch (conductor)

Orfeo C 723 071 B (CD, Mid Price)

The Beecham Collection

(BOCCHERINI: Overture in D; GRETRY: Ballet Suite Zemire et Azor; LISZT: Die Loreley; FRANCK: Le Chasseur Maudit; ELGAR: Enigma Variations)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham (conductor)

Somm Beecham 22 (CD, Mid Price)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9, “Choral”
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabeth Hongen (alto), Hans Hopf (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass), Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor)

Orfeo C 754 081 B (CD, Mid Price)

1. Sym No.9 in d, Op.125 ‘Choral’: I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Un Poco Maestoso
2. Sym No.9 in d, Op.125 ‘Choral’: II. Molto Vivace
3. Sym No.9 in d, Op.125 ‘Choral’: III. Adagio Molto E Cantabile-Andante Moderato-Adagio
4. Sym No.9 in d, Op.125 ‘Choral’: IV. Presto-Allegro Ma Non Troppo-Allegro Assai-Presto-Allegro…

Session Report: Fire Burning in the Snow

How do Jeffrey Skidmore’s Ex Cathedra Consort and Baroque Ensemble recreate the exuberant Baroque music of Latin America in a north London church?

Fire Burning in the Snow

(with works by Juan de Araujo and Diego Jose de Salazar)

Ex Cathedra Consort and Baroque Ensemble, Jeffrey Skidmore (director)

Hyperion CDA67600 (CD)

1. Hanacpachap cussicuinin (verses 1- 5)(Anonymous)
2. Dixit Dominus (Juan de Araujo)
3. Silencio (Juan de Araujo)
4. Dime, amor (Juan de Araujo)
5. A, del la region de luces ! (Juan de Araujo)
6. Hanacpachap cussicuinin (verses 6 – 10) (Anonymous)
7. A, del cielo ! (Juan de Araujo)
8. Fuego de amor ! (Juan de Araujo)
9. En el muy gran Padre Ignacio (Juan de Araujo)
10. Hanacpachap cussicuinin (verses 11- 15) (Anonymous)
11. Salga el torillo hosquillo! (Diego Jose de Salazar)
12. Dios de amor (Juan de Araujo)
13. A, del tiempo! (Juan de Araujo)
14. Hanacpachap cussicuinin (verses 16- 20) (Anonymous)

Disc of the Week

BIZET: Jeux d’Enfants, Op. 22
(c/w Symphony in C Major; CHABRIER:
Suite Pastorale)

Les Siecles, Francois-Xavier Roth
(conductor)

Mirare MIR 036 (CD)

Next Week

On next week’s CD Review David Vickers recommends a recording of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater (Building a Library), there’s an interview with conductor Thomas Dausgaard and James Jolly talks about the whole area of music downloads.