CD Review - Building a Library: Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, Op 46

Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to all that's new in the world of recorded music 09.05am Buxtehude Opera Omnia XII: Chamber Music Vol. 1 BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in C; Sonata in A; Sonata in D; Sonata (with Suite) in B flat; Sonata in D; Sonata in G; Sonata in D; Sonata in F Members of The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman (director) Challenge Classics CC72251 (CD) Including BLOW: Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell; PURCELL: Here let my life; Carlos Mena & Damien Guillon (countertenors) / Philippe Pierlot (bass viol, direction) / Ricercar Consort Mirare MIR109 (CD) Musical Humors & Lamentations Including CORBETTA: Varii Scherzi di Sonate: Prelude; La Guitarre Royalle: La Sarabande, Tombeau sur la mort de Madame d'Orleans; DOWLAND: My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; HOLBORNE: Almayne; Corranto (The Wanton); PURCELL: Three Parts upon a Ground; L’Art du Bois Etcetera KTC1418 (CD) The Celtic Viol vol.2 I. The Galway Set; II. The Gold Ring Set; III. The Abergeldie Castle Set; IV. The Nathaniel Gow’s Set; V. The Lancashire Pipes Set; VI. The Archibald MacDonald Set; VII. The Liverpool Set Jordi Savall (6 strings treble viol & lyra-viol) / Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish harps & psaltery) / Frank McGuire (bodhran) AliaVox AVSA 9878 (SACD) 09.35am Building a Library Dvorak's first set of Slavonic Dances (Op.46) - Rob Cowan's recommendation from the available recordings of Dvorak's own orchestration of the lively, nationalistic dances which helped to make his name. Dvorak: Slavonic Dances DVORAK: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8; Slavonic Dances Nos. 9-16 DG Originals 4577122 (CD) OR Dvorak - Slavonic Dances, Overtures & Symphonic Poems DVORAK: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8; My Home Overture; Hussite Overture; In Nature's Realm Overture; Carnival Overture; Othello Overture; The Water Goblin; The Noon Witch; The Golden Spinning Wheel; The Wild Dove; Symphonic Variations; Slavonic Dances Nos. 9-16 DG Trio E4693662 (3 CDs) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rafael Kubelik (conductor) 10.25am BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’; Choral Fantasia in C minor Ronald Brautigam (piano) / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Eric Ericson Chamber Choir / Andrew Parrott (conductor) BIS SACD 1793 (SACD) R. SCHUMANN: Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor, op. 54; Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major, op. 92; Introduction and Allegro Concertante in D minor, op. 134; C. SCHUMANN: Concerto Movement in F minor Oleg Marshev (piano) / South Jutland Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Ziva (conductor) Danacord DACOCD 688 (CD) CHOPIN: Ballades Nos. 1-4; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 Lise de la Salle (piano) / Dresden Staatskapelle / Fabio Luisi (conductor) Naïve V5215 (CD) TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23; LISZT: Concerto No.1 in E flat, S.124 Alice Sara Ott (piano) / Münchner Philharmoniker / Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 477 8779 2 (CD) 10.55am Cliff Eisen talks to Andrew about some recent releases of Mozart's early opera Idomeneo from Adam Fischer in Denmark, a seminal Glyndebourne recording from 1964, and a Neapolitan recording on Naxos. MOZART: Idomeneo Gundala Janowitz (Ilia, soprano) / Luciano Pavarotti (Idamante, tenor) / Neilson Taylor (Arbace, baritone) / Enriqueta Tarrés (Electra, soprano) / Richard Lewis (Idomeneo, tenor) / David Hughes (The High Priest of Neptune, tenor) / Dennis Wicks (The Voice of Neptune, bass) / The Glyndebourne Chorus / London Philharmonic Orchestra / John Pritchard (conductor) Glyndebourne GFOCD006-64 (2CDs) Richard Croft (Idomeneo) / Bernarda Fink (Idamante) / Sunhae Im (Ilia) / Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Elettra) / Keneth Tarver (Arbace) / Nicolas Rivenq Gran (Sacerdote) / Luca Tittoto (La Voce) / RIAS Kammerchor / Freiburger Barockorchester / René Jacobs Harmonia Mundi HMC902036-38 (3CDs + DVD) Kurt Streit (Idomeneo) / Ángeles Blancas Gulín (Ilia) / Iano Tamar (Elettra) / Sonia Ganassi (Idamante) / Jörg Schneider (Arbace) / Dario Magnabosco (Il Gran Sacerdote) / Chorus and Orchestra of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples / Marco Guidarini (conductor) Naxos 8660250-52 (3CDs) Christian Elsner (Idomeneo) / Kristina Hammarström (Idamante) / Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Ilia) / Raffaella Milanesi (Elettra) / Christoph Strehl (Arbace) / Göran Eliasson (Nettuno) / Stephen Milling (La Voce) / Danish National Choir / The Danish Radio Sinfonietta / Adam Fischer (conductor) DaCapo 622058689 (4SACDs) 11.55am Disc of the Week BACH: Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041; Concerto in E major, BWV 1042; Concerto in G minor, after BWV 1056; Concerto in A major, after BWV 1055 Rachel Podger (violin/director) / Bojan Čičić (violin) / Johannes Pramsohler (violin) / Jane Rodgers (viola) / Alison McGillivray (cello) / Jan Spencer (violone) Christopher Bucknall (harpsichord) Channel Classics SACD CCSSA30910 (SACD)