大象传媒

Yuja Wang plays Ravel

RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major; Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)

FAURE: Ballade in F sharp major for solo piano or piano & orchestra Op. 19

Yuja Wang (piano), Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

DG 4794954 (CD)

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Granados & Turina: Piano Quintets

GRANADOS: Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 49

TURINA: Piano Quintet in G Minor Op. 1; Caliope (hymn from Las musas de Andalucia Op. 93, No. 9)

Cuarteto Quiroga: Aitor Hevia (violin), Cibran Sierra (violin), Josep Puchades (viola), Helena Poggio (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)

HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902226 (CD)

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Brahms & Bruckner: Motets

BRAHMS: Fest- und Gedenkspruche Op. 109; Ave Maria Op. 12; How lovely are Thy dwellings; Motets (3) Op. 110; Geistliches Lied Op. 30

BRUCKNER: Aequalis No. 1 for three trombones; Virga Jesse floruit; Ecce sacerdos magnus; Christus factus est; Locus iste, WAB 23; Os justi meditabitur sapientiam; Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6; Tota pulchra es, antiphon, WAB 46; Aequalis No. 2 for three trombones

Tenebrae, Alexander Mason (organ), Mark Templeton (trombone), Helen Vollam (trombone), Patrick Jackman (trombone), Nigel Short (conductor)

Harriet Smith compares recordings of Bartok鈥檚 Piano Concerto no.2 and makes a personal recommendation.

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Top recommendation:

BARTOK: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (complete)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

CHANDOS CHAN10610 (CD)

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Caroline Gill joins Andrew to discuss new releases of instrumental music by two Bachs: Johann Sebastian and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel.

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Fretwork: A Viol Consort plays JS Bach

BACH, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080; Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Fretwork

HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2908742/44 (4CD budget)

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JS Bach: Organ Works Vol. III

BACH, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV542 'Great'; Chorale Prelude, BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'; Trio super 'Nun komm der Heiden Heiland', BWV660; Chorale Prelude, BWV661 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'; Pastorale in F major, BWV590; Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV547; Canonic Variations on the Christmas Hymn 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV769; Prelude & Fugue in G major, BWV541

Robert Quinney (Metzler Organ of Trinity College, Cambridge)

CORO COR16132 (CD)

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JS Bach: Preludes & Fugues

BACH, J S: Praludium, BWV933; Fugue in C major, BWV952; Prelude & Fughetta in G major, BWV902; Prelude in D minor, BWV935; Fugue in D minor, BWV948; Prelude, BWV901; Fugue in F, BWV902; Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 1 in C major, BWV870a; Prelude in C minor, BWV999; Fughetta in C minor, BWV961; Prelude in C major, BWV924; Fugue in C major, BWV946; Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV895; Prelude in C major, BWV943; Fugue in C major, BWV953; Prelude & Fughetta in E minor, BWV900; Prelude in A minor, BWV942; Fugue in A minor, BWV947; Prelude in D minor, BWV926; Fugue in D minor, BWV899; Prelude & Fughetta in G major, BWV902: Prelude; Prelude in E minor, BWV938; Fugue in E Minor, BWV956; Prelude in B Minor, BWV923; Fugue in B minor on a theme by Albinoni, BWV951

Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

NAIVE OP30564 (CD)

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BACH, C P E: Hamburg Symphonies (6) for Strings, Wq. 182 (H567-662)

The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

PENTATONE PTC5186210 (Hybrid SACD mid-price)

Andrew explores the Sun King鈥檚 musical library, courtesy of a box set of reissued recordings from Harmonia Mundi.

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Louis XIV - Les menus plaisirs de Louis XIV de Paris a Versailles

CAMPRA: Messe de Requiem

CHARPENTIER, M-A: Te Deum, H146; Le Malade imaginaire; Acteon

COUPERIN, F: La Superbe; Concert royaux No. 1; Concert royaux No. 2; Concert royaux No. 4; Pieces de clavecin III: Ordre 18eme in F major: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins

GAUTHIER: Fantasie pour luth

LALANDE: Super flumina Babilonis (1687), Psaume 137; Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy: Suite No. 5; Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy: Suite No. 11; Concert de trompettes in D major

LAMBERT, M: Airs de cour

LULLY: Armide; Les Noces de Village; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Miserere mei Deus, LWV25; Dies irae

MARAIS, M: Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris; Suite in E minor

PHILIDOR, A: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos

ROVETTA: Vespro solenne

VISEE: Pieces in D minor

Veronique Gens (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Christophe Rousset (harpsichord/conductor), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Concerto Palatino, Ensemble Correspondances, London Oboe Band, Trio Sonnerie, La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants, Cantus Colln, La Simphonie du Marais, Gli Incogniti, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), William Christie (conductor), Konrad Junghanel (conductor), Hugo Reyne (conductor), Amandine Beyer (director)

Scriabin & Janacek: Sonatas & Poems

JANACEK: On An Overgrown Path; Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII/19 'From the Street'

SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp major Op. 53; Deux poemes Op. 32; Vers la flamme Op. 72; Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp major Op. 30

Stephen Hough (piano)