CD Review - Building a Library: Berg: Lyric Suite

Building a Library: Berg: Lyric Suite Reviewer - Martin Cotton First choice: (c/w HAYDN: String Quartets Op. 74 No. 3 and Op. 76 No. 3; MOZART: ‘Haydn’ Quartets’; ‘Hoffmeister’ Quartets; ‘Prussian’ Quartets; SCHUBERT: String Quartets D804 and D173; BRAHMS: String Quartets Nos. 1-3; DVORAK: String Quartet in G major Op. 106; BERG: String Quartet Op. 3; WEBERN: Five Movements Op. 5; Six Bagatelles Op. 9; String Quartet Op. 28; URBANNER: String Quartet No. 3) Alban Berg Quartet Teldec 2564 696067 (8 CDs, Budget) CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.berg: bal.berg.lyric.suite 09.05am JS BACH trans. Stokowski: Arioso (Largo from the Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F minor BWV 1056); from disc Stokowski Bach Transcriptions 2 (c/w Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Wachet auf; Ich ruf’ zu dir; Herr Jesu Christ; Adagio; Mein Jesu; Ein feste burg; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Prelude in B minor; Siciliano; PALESTRINA: Adoramus te; BYRD: Pavane and Gigue; CLARKE: Trumpet Prelude; BOCCHERINI: Minuet; MATTHESON: Air; HAYDN: Andante cantabile; BACH: Fugue in C minor) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor) Naxos 8.572050 (CD, Budget) SCHUMANN: Kinderzenen Op. 15 (Nos. 9-13) from disc Schumann Hommage a Bach (c/w aus “40 Clavierstucke fur die Jugend” [Album fur die Jugend] Op. 68; “Scherzo, Gigue, Romanze und Fughette” Op. 32; aus “Sieben Clavierstucke in Fughettenform” Op. 126; “Waldzenen. 9 Clavierstucke Op. 82; aus “Sieben Clavierstucke in Fughettenform Op. 126) Andreas Staier (on a restored Erard piano from 1837) Harmonia Mundi HMC901989 (CD) HOLST: ‘Mating Dance’, ‘Dance of the Youngest Couple (Choral Ballet The Morning of the Year Op. 45 No. 2) from disc Holst Orchestral Works Volume 1 (c/w The Ballet from ‘The Perfect Fool’ Op. 39; The Golden Goose Op. 45 No. 1; The Lure) Joyful Company of Singers; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Richard Hickox (conductor) Chandos CHSA 5069 (Hybrid SACD) 09.30 am Building a Library Recommendation Berg: Lyric Suite Reviewer – Martin Cotton First Choice Recommendation: (c/w HAYDN: String Quartets Op. 74 No. 3 and Op. 76 No. 3; MOZART: ‘Haydn’ Quartets’; ‘Hoffmeister’ Quartets; ‘Prussian’ Quartets; SCHUBERT: String Quartets D804 and D173; BRAHMS: String Quartets Nos. 1-3; DVORAK: String Quartet in G major Op. 106; BERG: String Quartet Op. 3; WEBERN: Five Movements Op. 5; Six Bagatelles Op. 9; String Quartet Op. 28; URBANNER: String Quartet No. 3) Alban Berg Quartet Teldec 2564 696067 (8 CDs, Budget) Next week Richard Wigmore examines recordings of Haydn’s Symphony No. 104. 10.20 Reissues John Eliot Gardiner (BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d’ete; Le Jeuen Patre Breton; La Captive; Le Chasseur danois; Zaide; La Belle Voyageuse; Aubade; La Mort d’Ophelie; BIZET: Symphony in C; L’Arlesienne; MASSENET: Scenes dramatiques; Scenes de feerie; Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge; Scenes alsaciennes; Scenes pittoresques; Two interludes from Don Quichotte; MESSAGER: Fortunio) Brigitte Fournier (soprano), Diane Montague (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Howard Crook (tenor), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Thierry Dran (tenor), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (soprano), Francis Dudziak (baritone), Choeurs de l’Opera de Lyon, Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon, Orchestre National de l’Opera de Monte-Carlo, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Warner 2564 69422-3 (6 CDs, Budget) 11.00am Interview Andrew talks to Jordi Savall about his recent mammoth recording project, Jerusalem and about future plans. Jerusalem - La Ville Des deux Paix: La Paix celeste et la Paix Terrestre (City of two peaces: Heavenly peace and Earthly peace) Singers: Begoña Olavide, Lior Elmalich, Muwafak Shahin Khalil, Razmik Amyan, Lluis Vilamajó, Marc Mauillon; Recitants: Manuel Forcano (Hebrew); Jean Hache (French); Nejat Ferouse (Turkish); Invited musicians: Yair Dalal (oud); Dvir Cohen, Erez Shmuel Mounk (percussion); Yagel Harel (shofar); Wabab Badarne (qanun); Usama Abu Ali (flutes, ney); Kaled Abu Ali (chant); Razmik Amyan (chant); Gaguik Mouradia (kamancha); Dmitris Psonis (santur, morisca, percussions); Omar Bashir (oud); Fahmi Alqhai (viol); Mutlu Torun (oud); Driss El Maloumi (chant, oud): Khaled Arman (rebab); Siar Hashimi (darbouka); Al-Darwish (Sufi group of Galilee); Les trompettes de Jéricho; La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall (director) Alia Vox AVSA9863 (2 Hybrid SACDs) 11.40am Disc of the Week ELGAR: Violin Concerto Op. 61 Gil Shaham (violin), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor) Canary Classics CC06 (CD)