CD Review - Sibelius: Symphony No 7

Andrew McGregor introduces CD Review, Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to what's new in the world of recorded music, and plays extracts from the following (timings are approximate): 09.05am Marc-Andre HAMELIN: Etudes; Little Nocturne; Con intimissimo sentimento (extracts); Theme and Variations (Cathy’s Varations) Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) Hyperion CDA 67789 (CD) CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor; Fantasia on Polish Airs; Krakowiak Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic / Antoni Wit (conductor) Naxos 8572335 (CD) CHOPIN: Mazurkas; Polonaise-Fantaisie; Scherzo & Nocturne Cedric Tiberghien (piano) Harmonia Mundi HMC 902073 (CD) Lang Lang – Live in Vienna BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas No.3 in C and No.23 in F “Appassionata”; ALBENIZ: Iberia – Book 1; PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat; CHOPIN: Etude Op.25 No.1 in A flat; Polonaise No.6 in A flat; Grand Valse brilliante No.2 in A flat Lang Lang (piano) Sony Classical 88697719002 (2 CD + Bonus DVD) 88697724149 (DVD) 88697719029 (Blu-ray) 09.30am Building a Library SIBELIUS: Symphony No.7 in C, Op.105 Reviewer – Stephen Johnson First Choice Recommendation: c/w SIBELIUS: Symphony No.6 in D; Tapiola Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska (conductor) BIS CD 864 (CD) Also available in the following sets: SIBELIUS: The Complete Symphonies BIS CD 1286-88 (4 CD) The Essential Sibelius BIS CD 1697-1700 (15 CD) Next week Piers Burton-Page compares recordings of Brahms’s String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.51/1. Search the Building a Library database for recommendations since 2005 via the CD Review website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/cdreview 10.20am New Releases MAHLER: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Ruckert-Lieder; Des Knaben Wunderhorn (selection) Susan Graham (soprano) / Thomas Hampson (baritone) / San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) San Francisco Symphony 821936 0036 2 (Hybrid SACD) MAHLER: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Christiane Oelze (soprano) / Michael Volle (baritone) / Gurzenich Orchestra Koln / Markus Stenz (conductor) Oehms Classics OC 657 (Hybrid SACD) MAHLER: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Symphony No.10 – Adagio Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Christian Gerhaher (baritone) / Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez (conductor) DG 477 9060 (CD) 10.45am Recent Releases Kenneth Hamilton talks with Andrew about recent releases of Beethoven piano music: BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas No.15 in D “Pastoral”; No.18 in E flat; No.21 in C “Waldstein”; No.30 in E Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Audite 23 420 (2 CD) BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas No.10 in G; No.31 in A flat; BACH: Capriccio BWV 992; HAYDN: Andante con variazioni in F minor; Piano Sonata No.62 in E flat Friedrich Gulda (piano) Hanssler Classic CD 93 704 (CD) BEETHOVEN: The 32 Piano Sonatas; “Eroica” Variations; “Diabelli” Variations; 6 Bagatelles Op.126 Friedrich Gulda (piano) Orfeo C 808 109 L (9 CD) 11.35am Disc of the Week WAGNER: Parsifal Gary Lehman (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Rene Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Alexei Tanovitski (Titurei), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor) / Mariinsky Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra / Valery Gergiev (conductor) Mariinsky MAR0508 (4 Hybrid SACDs) LISTEN TO CD REVIEW AT ANY TIME CD Review is available to listen On Demand with the BBC iPlayer via the Radio 3 website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3