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Building a Library: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10; new operatic releases; Disc of the Week: Steven Osborne: Medtner/Rachmaninov - Sonatas.

3 hours, 12 minutes

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Music Played

  • Richard Blackford

    The Great Animal Orchestra - Symphony for Orchestra and Wild Soundscapes

    Performer: ý National Orchestra of Wales.
    • NIMBUS : NI-6274.
    • NIMBUS.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata in D minor for cello and piano

    Performer: Alain Meunier. Performer: Anne Le Bozec.
    • EDITIONS HORTUS : HORTUS 704.
    • EDITIONS HORTUS.
    • 7.
  • Johann Joseph Fux

    Il mese di Marzo consacrato a Marte: Non Sdegnar (aria)

    Singer: Hana Blažíková. Ensemble: Ensemble tourbillon. Conductor: Petr Wagner.
    • ACCENT : ACC-24284.
    • ACCENT.
    • 10.
  • Leos Janáček

    Sinfonietta

    Performer: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS : CHSA-5142.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Tobias Hume

    The Lady Canes delight - an Almaine

    Ensemble: Les Basses Réunies. Performer: Guido Balestracci.
    • ALPHA : 197.
    • ALPHA.
    • 2.
  • Albéric Magnard

    Sonata in A major Op. 20 for Cello and Piano

    Performer: Philippe Guilhon-herbert. Performer: Alain Meunier.
    • EDITIONS HORTUS: HORTUS-701.
    • EDITIONS HORTUS.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor Op.36 for piano

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION : CDA-67936.
    • HYPERION.
    • 8.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring, arr. for piano duet or 2 pianos

    Performer: Jean-Sébastien Dureau. Performer: Vincent Planes.
    • EDITIONS HORTUS : HORTUS-702.
    • EDITIONS HORTUS.
    • 4.

9.00am

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Performers: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner

Composers: Leos Janacek (1854 - 1928)

Album Title: CHANDOS : CHSA-5142

The Great animal orchestra - symphony for orchestra and wild soundscapes

Performers: ý National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins

Composers: Richard Blackford (1954)

Album Title: NIMBUS : NI-6274

The Lady Canes delight - an almaine

Performers: Guido Balestracci (lyra viol), Les Basses Reunies, Bruno Cocset

Composers: Tobias Hume

Album Title: ALPHA : 197

Non Sdegnar (aria, Il mese di Marzo consacrato a Marte)

Performers: Hana Blazikova (soprano), Tourbillon Ensemble, Petr Wagner

Composers: Johann Joseph Fux

Building a Library

Stephen Johnson compares recordings of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony and makes a recommendation:

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93; Ballet Suite No. 4 (1953)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

CHANDOS CHAN8630 (CD)

New Releases

Andrew discusses new operatic releases with Flora Willson including Verdi's barn-storming early opera Giovanna d’Arco, Rossini's underrated Maometto Secondo, which contains some of his best music, Meyerbeer's powerful Vasco de Gama and a rarity by Simon Mayr - Ginevra di Scozia

MAYR: Ginevra di Scozia

Myrto Papatanasiu (Ginevra), Magdalena Hinterdobler (Dalinda), Anna Bonitatibus (Ariodante), Stefanie Iranyi (Lurcanio), Mario Zeffiri (Polinesso), Munchner Rundfunkorchester, George Petrou (conductor)

OEHMS OC960 (3CD)

ROSSINI: Maometto Secondo

Paul Nilon (Erisso), Sian Davies (Anna), Darren Jeffery (Maometto, Sultan of the Turks), Caitlin Hulcup (Calbo), Christopher Diffey (Condulmierol), Richard Dowling (Selimo), Garsington Opera Orchestra and Chorus, David Parry (conductor)

AVIE AV2312 (3CD mid-price)

VERDI: Giovanna d'Arco

Anna Netrebko (Giovanna d’Arco), Placido Domingo (Giacomo), Francesco Meli (Carlo VII), Roberto Tagliavini (Talbot), Johannes Dunz (Delil), Philharmonia Chor Wien, Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Paolo Carignani

DG 4792712 (2CD mid-price)

MEYERBEER: Vasco de Gama (original version of L'Africaine)

Guibee Yang (soprano), Martin Gabler (bass), Kouta Rasanen (bass), Rolf Broman (bass), Bernhard Berchtold (tenor), Anton Reimer (tenor), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (bass), Claudia Sorokina (soprano), Tiina Penttinen (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Frob (tenor), Thomas Seidel (tenor), Bjorn Werner (bass), Stefan Kringel (bass), Tommaso Randazzo (tenor), Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Chor der Oper Chemnitz, Frank Beermann (conductor)

CPO 7778282 (4CD)

Sonata in A major Op.20 for cello and piano

Performers: Alain Meunier (cello), Philippe Guilhon-Herbert (piano)

Composers: Alberic Magnard (1865 - 1914)

Album Title: EDITIONS HORTUS: HORTUS-701

The Rite of Spring, arr. for piano duet or 2 pianos

Performers: Jean-Sébastien Dureau, Vincent Planes (Pleyel vis-vis piano)

Composers: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Album Title: EDITIONS HORTUS : HORTUS-702

Sonata in D minor for cello and piano

Performers: Alain Meunier (cello), Anne Le Bozec (Bechstein 1888)

Composers: Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Album Title: EDITIONS HORTUS : HORTUS 704

11.15am

Sonata in A major Op.20 for cello and piano

Performers: Alain Meunier (cello), Philippe Guilhon-Herbert (piano)

Composers: Alberic Magnard (1865 - 1914)

Album Title: EDITIONS HORTUS: HORTUS-701

The Rite of Spring, arr. for piano duet or 2 pianos

Performers: Jean-Sébastien Dureau, Vincent Planes (Pleyel vis-vis piano)

Composers: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Album Title: EDITIONS HORTUS : HORTUS-702

Sonata in D minor for cello and piano

Performers: Alain Meunier (cello), Anne Le Bozec (Bechstein 1888)

Composers: Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Album Title: EDITIONS HORTUS : HORTUS 704

Disc of the Week

Medtner & Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas

MEDTNER: Skazki (Fairy Tales) Op. 20; Sonata romantica in B flat minor Op. 53 No. 1

RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli Op. 42; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 36

Steven Osborne (piano)

HYPERION CDA67936 (CD mid-price)

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 Oct 2014 09:00

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