CD Review - Building a Library: Liszt's Transcendental Studies

Building a Library: LISZT: Transcendental Studies S. 139 Reviewer - Iain Burnside First choice: Russian Piano School Vol. 3: Liszt Lazar Berman (piano) Melodiya MELCD1000748 (CD) [1959 Recording] CD Review BAL Catalogue Data bal.liszt: bal.liszt.transcendental.studies.s.139 09.05 am RACHMANINOV: Preludes Op. 32 Nos. 12 & 13 (c/w RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2; Ten Preludes Op. 23; Thirteen Preludes Op. 32) Steven Osborne (piano) Hyperion CSA67700 (CD) MARCHAND: Prelude & ROYER: La Marche des Scythes (c/w MARCHAND: Chaconne; DUPHLY: La de Belombre; Les Grâces; La Félix; Rondeau; La Forqueray, Rondeau; Chaconne; La Pothoüin, Rondeau; COUPERIN: L’Intrépide, Rondeau; BALBASTRE: La Lugéac, Giga; La Suzanne; La d’Héricourt; La de Caze, Ouverture; CORRETTE: Les Etoiles; ROYER: Allemande) Skip Sempé (harpsichord) Paradizo PA 0007 (CD) TRAD. IRISH: The Musical Priest; Scotch Mary (c/w TRAD. IRISH: The Humours of Scariff; Sackow’s (Jig); Dowd’s Reel; Trip it Upstairs (Single Jig); Tuttle’s; The Gander in the pratie hole; TRAD. SCOTTISH: Hard is my Fate; Pretty Peggy; Prince Charlie’s Last View of Edinburg; FRASER (1816 Collection): Caledonia’s Wail for Niel Gow; Gudewife, Admit the Wanderer; Màiri Bhàn Òg; MACPHERSON: Macpherson’s Lament; O’CAROLAN: Carolan’s Farewell; etc) Jordi Savall (treble viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish harp) AliaVox AVSA 9865 (SACD Hybrid) KORNGOLD: Die Tote Stadt (Marietta’s Lied) (c/w ALWYN: Miss Julie (Midsummer Night); STRAVINSKY: The Nightingale (The Nightingale’s Aria); WALTON: Troilus and Cressida (At the Haunted End of the Day); FLOYD: Susannah (The Trees on the Mountains); DVORAK: Rusalka (Song to the Moon); BRITTEN: Peter Grimes (Embroidery Aria); Paul Bunyan (Tiny’s Sony); The Turn of the Screw (How Beautiful It Is); LEHAR: Die Lustige Witwe (Vilja-Lied); BARBER: Vanessa (Do Not Utter a Word); MESSAGER: Monsieur Beaucaire (Rossignol); HERRMANN: Wuthering Heights (I Have Dreamt)) Kate Royal (soprano), Orchestra of English National Opera, Edward Gardner (conductor) EMI Classics 2 68192 2 (CD) 09.35 am Building a Library Recommendation LISZT: Transcendental Studies S. 139 Next week William Mival compares recordings of Schoenberg Pelleas et Melisande. 10.25 am New Releases BRIDGE: Piano Quintet H49a (Adagio ma non troppo) (c/w BRIDGE: Three Idylls H67; String Quartet No. 4 H188) Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano) Hyperion CDA67726 (CD) IRELAND: Piano Trio No. 3 in E (Scherzo: Vivace) (c/w IRELAND: Phantasie Trio in A minor; Piano Trio No. 2 in E; Berceuse for violin and piano; Cavatina for violin and piano; Bagatelle for violin and piano; The Holy Boy for violin and piano) Gould Piano Trio Naxos 8.570507 (CD, Budget) 10.25 am Hervé Niquet Interview Andrew talks to conductor Hervé Niquet. With extracts from the following discs: HAENDEL: Water Music Suites 1-3 (HWV 348-350); Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director) Glossa GCD 921606 (CD) LULLY: Proserpine Soloists, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director) Glossa GCD 921615 (2CDs) PURCELL: King Arthur Véronique Gens (soprano), Hanna Bayodi (soprano), Béatrice Jarrige (alto), Cyril Auvity (countertenor), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director) Glossa GCD 921608 (CD) CHARPENTIER: Missa Assumpta est Maria H.11; Motet à voix seule H.361; Pour un reposoir H.508; O salutaris Hostia H.262; Benedictus pour l’orgue; Domine salvum fac Regem H.303; Domine salvum fac Regem H.291 Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Hanna Bayodi-Hirt (soprano), François-Nicolas Geslot (countertenor), Romain Champion (tenor), Benoît Arnould (bass), Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (director) Glossa GCD 921617 (CD) 11.10 am Recent Releases SHOSTAKOVICH: Podrugi (The Girlfriends) Op. 41 (extracts) (c/w SHOSTAKOVICH: Rule, Britannia! Op. 28; Salute to Spain Op. 44; Symphonic Movement (1945, unfinished)) Celia Sheen (theremin), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Fitz-Gerald (conductor) Naxos 8.572138 (CD, Budget) SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 Op. 93 (opening) (c/w TORMIS: Overture No. 2) Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor) Telarc CD-80702 (CD) SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 10 Op. 118 (Allegretto furioso) (c/w SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 12 Op. 133; String Quartet No. 14 Op. 142) Mandelring Quartet Audite 92.529 (SACD Hybrid) PROKOFIEV (arr. M. Berkeley): The Queen of Spades (Adagio) (c/w On Guard for Peace Op. 124) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor) Chandos CHAN 10519 (CD) 11.50 am Disc of the Week KURTÁG’S GHOSTS Containing seventy compositions selected by pianist Marino Formenti, Kurtág’s Ghosts examines how some of the major composers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century have influenced Hungarian composer György Kurtág. Marino Formenti (piano) Kairos 0012902KAI (2CDs)