CD Review - 22/08/2009

DISCS PLAYED & REVIEWED ON SUMMER CD REVIEW: Saturday 22 August 2009, 09.00 – 12.15, BBC Radio 3 Presenter: Andrew McGregor All CDs are Full Price unless otherwise stated. NB Timings are approximate 09.05 am VIVALDI: The Four Seasons; TARTINI: “Devil’s Trill” sonata Joshua Bell (violin), Academy of St Martin in the Fields Sony Classical 88697 11013 2 (CD) VIVALDI arr. Biegel: The Four Seasons etc. Jeffrey Biegel (piano) Naxos 8570031 (CD, Budget Price) “Vespro per la Vergine” VIVALDI: Nisi Dominus, Magnificat and other sacred vocal and choral works Musica Fiata, La Capella Ducale, Roland Wilson (conductor) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88697 318702 (CD) “Sacred Garland – Devotional chamber music from the age of Monteverdi” Inc. CORRADINI: Spargite flores The Gonzaga Band Chandos CHAN 0761 (CD) “Sweet Torment” MONTEVERDI: Zefiro torna (two settings) and other madrigals I Fagiolini, Barokksolistene, Robert Hollingworth (director) Chandos CHAN 0760 (CD) MONTEVERDI: Scherzi Musicali, 1632 Emanuela Galli (soprano), La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (director) Glossa GCD 920915 (CD) 09.50 am SZYMANOWSKI: Songs of a Fairy-tale Princess; Harnasie Op. 55 - ballet pantomime; Love Songs of Hafiz; Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Symphony Nos. 3 & 4; King Roger; Stabat Mater; Litania do Marii Panny City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) EMI 5145762 SZYMANOWSKI: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 etc. Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor) Naxos 8570722 (CD, Budget Price) SZYMANOWSKI: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor) Naxos 8570721 (CD, Budget Price) SZYMANOWSKI: Masques; Piano Sonata No.3; Metopes Piotre Anderszewski (piano) Virgin Classics 5457302 (CD) SZYMANOWSKI: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2; ROZYCKI: String Quartet Royal String Quartet Hyperion CDA 67684 (CD) SZYMANOWSKI: Complete works for violin and piano Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (piano) Hyperion CDA67703 (CD) SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; BRITTEN: Violin concerto Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor) Sony Classical 88697439992 (CD) 10.35am HAYDN: String Quartets Op.17 The London Haydn Quartet Hyperion CDA67722 (CD) HAYDN: String Quartets vol.2: Opp.64/6, 77/1, 20/4 The Amsterdam String Quartet Channel Classics CCS SA 28209 (Hybrid SACD) HAYDN: Complete string quartets vol.4: Opp.33, 42 Festetics Quartet Arcana A 414 (2 CD) HAYDN: Scottish Songs Hob.XXXIa; Piano Trios Hob.XV.25 and 27; Canzonettas Hob.XXVIa.25-30 Julie Kaufmann (soprano), Munich Piano Trio Orfeo C642091A (CD) HAYDN: Piano Trios Hob.XV.12, 25, 27, 29 Vienna Piano Trio MDG 342 1556-2 (CD) “Haydn in London” HAYDN: Piano Trios Hob.XV.15-17; Symphony No.94 “Surprise” arr. Lachnith La Gaia Scienza Winter & Winter 910 156-2 (CD) HAYDN: Violin Concerto in F; Cello Concerto in C; HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D Julien Chauvin (violin), Atsushi Sakai (cello), Alexis Kosenko (flute), Le Cercle de l’Harmonie Eloquentia EL0917 (CD) HAYDN: Cello Concertos in C and D; ZUMSTEEG: Cello Concerto in A Sebastian Comberti (cello), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Cello Classics CC1023 (CD) 11.50 am BARTOK: Bluebeard’s Castle Elena Zhidkova (mezzo), Willard White (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor) LSO Live SACD LSO0685 (Hybrid SACD, Mid Price)