CD Review - Building a Library: Haydn: Piano Sonata No.60

Andrew McGregor introduces Radio 3’s weekly programme devoted to all that’s new in the world of recorded music. Building a Library: Haydn: Piano Sonata No.60 in C Hob XVI/50 Reviewer - David Owen-Norris First choice: (c/w Sonatas Nos. 35, 52, 33, and 54) from disc 5 Keyboard Sonatas on a Schanz Fortepiano Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano) Claves 502501 (CD) Modern Instrument Recommendation: (c/w Piano Sonatas Nos.59, 61-62) Andras Schiff (piano) Elatus 2564 608072 (CD, Mid Price) Warner 2564 699674 (6 CDs, Budget) CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.haydn: bal.haydn.piano.sonata.no.60 09.05am HANDEL: Acis & Galatea HMV 49a (performing Version from 1718, Original Cannons) Susan Hamilton (Galatea), Nicholas Mulroy (Acis), Thomas Hobbs (Damon), Nicholas Hurndall Smith (Coirdon), Matthew Brook (Polyphemus), Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt (conductor) Linn Records CKD 319 (2 Hybrid SACDs) MONTEVERDI: Vespro della Beata Vergine La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) Challenge Classics CC72311 (2 Hybrid SACDs) PERGOLESI: Messa di S. Emidio; A. SCARLATTI: Messa per Il Santissimo Natale Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) Naive OP 30461 (CD) 09.30 am Building a Library Recommendation Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 60 in C Hob XVI/50 Reviewer – David Owen-Norris Next week Jonathan Swain examines recordings of Vaughan Williams’ Job – A Masque for Dancing. 10.20 New Releases BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 OP. 58; Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon Op. 16 Francois-Frederic Guy (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Philippe Jordan (conductor) Naïve V5148 (CD) 10.30 a.m. New Releases Edward Seckerson assesses some recent releases of late Romantic orchestral music. With excerpts from the following: KARLOWICZ: Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie (Stanisław and Anna Oświecimowie), Op. 12; Rapsodia litewska (Lithuanian Rhapsody), Op. 11; Epizod na maskaradzie (Episode at a Masquerade), Op. 14 (completed by Fitelberg) from disc Symphonic Poems 1 Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor) Naxos 8.570452 (CD, Budget) RONTGEN: Symphony No. 10; Symphonietta humoristica; 3 Preludes and Fugues; Suite ‘Oud Nederland’ Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, David Porcelijn (conductor) CPO 777308-2 (CD) MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Jonathan Nott (conductor) Tudor 7151 (Hybrid SACD) MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Skelton (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Avie 82193600192 (Hybrid SACD) SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E minor London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) LPO 0034 (CD, Mid Price) BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 in D minor Orchestre Metropolitain du Grand Montreal, Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor) ATMA SACD22514 (Hybrid SACD) 11.20 New Releases BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 15 Op. 28 ‘Pastorale’ (finale) (c/w Piano Sonata No. 12 Op. 26; Piano Sonata No. 9 Op. 14/1; Piano Sonata No. 10 Op. 14/2) Murray Perahia (piano) Sony 88697326462 (CD) BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata in A major Op. 69 (second and third movements) (c/w Cello Sonata Op. 5/1; Cello Sonata Op. 5/2) Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDA67633 (CD) BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 18/4 (third movement) (c/w String Quartet Op. 59/2 “Razumovsky”) Artemis String Quartet Virgin 3802682 (CD) BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67 (fourth movements) (c/w Symphony No. 1 in C major Op. 21) The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Jarvi (conductor) RCA Red Seal 88697 338352 (Hybrid SACD) 11.45am Disc of the Week BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A flat major Op. 110 (c/w Sonata No. 30 in E major Op. 109; Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111) Andras Schiff (piano) ECM New Series 4766192 (CD)