CD Review - 16/08/2008

Andrew McGregor introduces the summer edition of the programme, with a chance to request and catch up with some of the best new recordings from the first half of 2008. Apologies for the lack of coupling information for each disc in these details. We hope to be able to supply more fulsome information again soon. DIEGO ORTIZ: Recercada segunda de tenore; Jacob van Eyck: Wat zal men op den Avond doen from disc Garden of Early Delights Pamela Thorby (recorders), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp and psaltery) Linn Records CKD291 (Hybrid SACD) BRITTEN: Phantasy Quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello Op. 2 Lisa Batiashvili (violin), François Leleux (oboe), Lawrence Power (viola), Sebastian Klinger (cello) Sony 88697285852 (CD) RACHMANINOFF: Francesca da Rimini Op. 25 (Prologue) Svetla Vassileva (soprano), Misha Didyk (tenor), Sergey Murzaev (baritone), Gennady Bezzubenkov (baritone), Evgeny Akimov (tenor), BBC Singers, BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) Chandos CHAN10442 (CD) PÄRT: Kuus, kuus kallike from disc Musica Notturna: Invocation à la Nuit [compilation] Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Les Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (director) Alia Vox AV9861 (2CDs, Budget) HANDEL: Notte Placida e Cheta HWV 142 from disc Handel in Italy Emma Kirkby (soprano), London Baroque BIS SACD 1695 (Hybrid SACD) HANDEL arr. Eduard Grigoryan: Concerto in B flat major for two guitars HWV294 from disc Baroque Guitar Concertos Slava Grigoryan (guitar), Leonard Grigoryan (guitar), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey (conductor) ABC Classics 476 5948 (CD) HANDEL: Organ Concerto in F major Op. 4 No. 5 Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (organ and director) Harmonia Mundi HMU807446 (Hybrid SACD) HANDEL: Rodelinda (Duet: “lo, t’abbraccio”) Nuria Rial (soprano), Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor), Kammerorchester Basel, Laurence Cummings (conductor) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88697214722 (CD) HANDEL: Water Music HWV 348-350 (movements 1-3) L’Arte dell’Arco, Federico Guglielmo (director) CPO 777 312-2 (Hybrid SACD) HANDEL: Sonata in E minor HWV 375 (Minuetto) from disc Scottish Tunes and London Sonatas Parnassus Avenue BIS-SACD-1595 (Hybrid SACD) HANDEL: Te Deum in D major “Dettingen” HWV 283 (‘Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin; O Lord, in thee have I trusted’) The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Academy of Ancient Music; Neal Davies (bass), Richard Marlow (organ), Stephen Layton (conductor) Hyperion CDA67678 (CD) BRAHMS: Sonata for cello and piano in E minor Op. 38 Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello), Imogen Cooper (piano) RCA Red Seal 88697201872 (2 CDs, Mid Price) SCHUBERT: Mass in E flat major D950 Susan Gritton (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (conductor) Chandos CHAN0750 (CD)