Summer Record Review: Live from the Edinburgh Festival
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library.
Live from the Edinburgh Festival, with Andrew McGregor
Andrew is joined live from the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s pop-up broadcast and audience hub at George Heriot's School by journalist Kate Molleson, classical music retailer Anne McAlister, pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside, and Paul Baxter from Edinburgh-based label Delphian Records, for a programme celebrating recorded music at the Edinburgh Festival since it was founded in 1947, and reflecting the music making at this year's Festival and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms.
9am
Andrew chats to journalist Kate Molleson and classical music retailer Anne McAlister and plays some of their favourite new releases
9.30am
Proms Composer: Thomas Adès
10.30am
Iain Burnside joins Andrew to rediscover some seminal recordings from the Edinburgh Festival
11.40am
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Harmonie Ensemble/New York
Steven Richman, conductor.
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart: Piano Concertos, K.413-15
Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. -
Bryn Harrison
Receiving the Approaching Memory-Excerpt
Performer: Mark Knoop. Performer: Aisha Orazbayeva. -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony
Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. -
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No _Excerpt
Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. -
Thomas Adès
Polaris: Voyage for orchestra
Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. -
Thomas Adès
Asyla
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. -
Thomas Adès
Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. -
Thomas Adès
Piano Quintet
Ensemble: Calder Quartet. -
Thomas Adès
The Tempest
Orchestra: The Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. -
Thomas Adès
Lieux retrouves
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Thomas Adès.
9.00am
Der Wanderer: Schubert Lieder
SCHUBERT: Willkommen und Abschied, D767; Der Wanderer, D489; Rastlose Liebe, D138; Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 (Seidl); Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Uber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768; Aus 'Heliopolis' - II D754 (Mayrhofer); Kriegers Ahnung D 957, No. 2; Fruhlingssehnsucht, D 957 No. 3; Standchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4; Aufenthalt D957 No. 5; In Der Ferne, D957 No. 6; Abschied, D 957 No. 7; Liebesbotschaft, D957 No.1; Der Schiffer, D536 (Mayrhofer); Der Schiffer D694 (F von Schlegel); An eine Quelle D530 (Claudius); Am Strome, D539 (Mayrhofer); Auf der Donau, D553 (Mayrhofer); Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren D360 (Mayrhofer); Der Musensohn, D764 (Goethe)
Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
DELPHIAN DCD34170
Release date 19/08/16
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Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin
BARTOK: The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19, Sz. 73 (suite); Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77; Contrasts for violin, clarinet & piano, BB 116, Sz. 111
Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay (violin), Mark Van de Wiel (clarinet), Yefim Bronfman (piano)
SIGNUM SIGCD466
Release date 02/09/16
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, K.413-15
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K413; Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414; Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K415
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902218
Release date 26/08/16
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Receiving the Approaching Memory
HARRISON, BRYN: Receiving the Approaching Memory
Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Mark Knoop (piano)
ANOTHER TIMBRE AN96
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 3, 6 & 7
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 3 in C major Op. 52; Symphony No. 6 in D minor Op. 104; Symphony No. 7 in C major Op. 105
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS BIS2006 (Hybrid SACD)
9.30am – Proms Composer: Thomas Adès (born 1971)
Thomas Ades & Paul Stanhope: Orchestral Music
ADES: Polaris: Voyage for orchestra
STANHOPE, P: Piccolo Concerto
Andrew Macleod (piccolo), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz (conductor)
ABC CLASSICS ABC4810862
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Thomas Ades - Life Story
ADES: Catch Op. 4; Darknesse Visible; Still Sorrowing Op. 7; Under Hamelin Hill Op. 6; Five Eliot Landscapes Op. 1; Traced Overhead Op. 15; Life Story Op. 8b
Thomas Ades (piano), Lynsey Marsh (clarinet), Anthony Marwood (violin), Louise Hopkins(cello), David Goode, Stephen Farr (chamber organ), Thomas Ades (piano), Valdine Anderson (soprano), Mary Carewe (soprano)
WARNER CLASSICS 5696992
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ADES: Asyla; Concerto Conciso; These Premises Are Alarmed; Chamber Symphony
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Simon Rattle (conductor), Thomas Ades (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 5568182
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Ades - Tevot, Violin Concerto & Couperin Dances
ADES: Tevot; Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’; Three Studies after Couperin; Powder Her Face suite
Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle (conductor), Anthony Marwood (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Thomas Ades (conductor), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Paul Daniel (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 4578132
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The Twenty-Fifth Hour: Chamber Music of Thomas Ades
ADES: Piano Quintet; The Four Quarters; Arcadiana
Thomas Ades (piano), Calder Quartet
SIGNUM SIGCD413
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ADES: The Tempest
Simon Keenlyside (Prospero), Kate Royal (Miranda), Toby Spence (Ferdinand), Ian Bostridge (Caliban), Cyndia Sieden (Ariel), Philip Langridge (Alonso), Donald Kaasch (Antonio), Jonathan Summers (Sebastian), David Condier (Trinculo), Stephen Richardson (Stefano), Graeme Danby (Gonzalo), The Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Ades (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 9996952355 (download)
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Lieux retrouves
ADES: Lieux retrouves
FAURE: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117
JANACEK: Pohadka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano
KURTAG: For Steven - Im Memoriam Pauline Mara; Pilinszky Janos: Gerard de Nerval; Gyorgy Kroo in memoriam; Schatten
LISZT: Romance oubliee, for viola/cello/violin & piano, S. 132; Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S382; La Lugubre Gondola for cello & piano, S134
Thomas Ades (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello)
HYPERION CDA67948Ìý
10.15am – Paul Baxter, Anne McAlister and Kate Molleson on classical music in Scotland
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Stravinsky
STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (1911 version); Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Orpheus
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
LPO LPO0091
Release date 02/09/16
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Handel: Apollo e Dafne
HANDEL: Il pastor fido, HWV 8A; Aria in F major, HWV 410; Aria in F Major, HWV 411; Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122
Ensemble Marsyas
LINN RECORDS CKD 543
Release date 23/09/16
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Songs and Lullabies: new works for solo cello
MCGUIRE, E: Elegiac Lullaby
ROBERTS, R: Elegy for the Children of War
BEAMISH, S: Miranda Dreaming
STRACHAN, D: Zarabanda
STANLEY, J: Winter Song
SWEENEY, W: Caolas
WILDE, D: Invocation and Waltz
IRVINE, T: Safety
DE SIMONE, J: Misremembrance
TURNAGE: Amelie’s Tango
ALBERGA, E: Ride Through
JACKSON, G: Untitled (for Robert Irvine)
SHAVE, J: Tili tili Bom
BOYLE, R: Baloue
MACMILLAN, J: Knock Knock
IRVINE, R: Imagined Child
HELLAWELL, P: A Frieze and a Litany
BUTLER, T: Lament
IRVINE, B: Elegy (for Peter)
Robert Irvine (cello)
DELPHIAN DCD34173
Release date 23/09/16
10.45am – Paul Baxter on Delphian Records
Spellweaving
Barnaby Brown (pipes, vocals), Clare Salaman (fiddles, hurdy-gurdy), Bill Taylor (lyres, harp)
DELPHIAN DCD34171
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JS Bach: The French Suites
BACH, J S: French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV812-817
MOZART: Suite in C major, K399; Gigue in G Major, K574
Peter Hill (piano)
DELPHIAN DCD34166
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Gesualdo: Sacrae Cantiones
GESUALDO: Ave, Regina caelorum; Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem; Ave, Dulcissima Maria; Reminiscere miserationum tuarum; Dignare me laudare te; Sancti Spiritus Domine; Domine ne despicias; Hei mihi Domine; Laboravi in gemitu meo; Peccantem me quotidie; O Vos Omnes; Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam; Precibus et meritis; O Crux benedicta; Tribularer si nescirem; Deus refugium et virtus; Tribulationem et dolorem; Illumina faciem tuam; Maria, Mater gratiae
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
DELPHIAN DCD34176
Release date 19/08/16
11.00am – Iain Burnside’s Edinburgh Festival recording highlights
BEETHOVEN: Quintet in E flat major, for piano and winds, Op. 16
BRAHMS: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40
DUKAS: Villanelle
MARAIS:
La Basque
MOZART: Horn Quintet in E flat, K407
Dennis Brain (horn), Max Salpeter (violin), Cyril Preedy (piano), English String Quartet, Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble
´óÏó´«Ã½ LEGENDS ´óÏó´«Ã½L40482
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SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
BORODIN: String Quartet No. 2 in D
RAVEL: String Quartet in F
Borodin String Quartet
´óÏó´«Ã½ LEGENDS ´óÏó´«Ã½L40632
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PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100
BRITTEN: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet: Death of Tybalt
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
´óÏó´«Ã½ LEGENDS ´óÏó´«Ã½L41842
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Lucia Popp – Recital
BRAHMS: Es steht ein Lind Wo033 No. 41; Sehnsucht Op. 49 No. 3; Wie kumm ich dann de Pooz erenn? Wo033 No. 34; Die Trauernde, Op. 7 No. 5; In stiller Nacht WO033 No. 42
DVORAK: In Folk Tone, Op. 73
MAHLER: Starke Einbildungskraft (Des Knaben Wunderhorn); Ich ging mit Lust; Ablösung im Sommer; Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
SCHOENBERG:Erwartung, Op. 17; Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm Op. 2 No. 2; Erhebung Op. 2 No. 3; Waldsonne Op. 2 No. 4
SCHUBERT: An Mein Herz D860; Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D300 (Salis-Seewis); Jägers Abendlied, Second Setting, D368; Der Einsame, D800
STRAUSS, R: Drei Lieder der Ophelia Op. 67; Mein Auge Op. 37 No. 4; Meinem Kinde, Op. 37 No. 3; Die Zeitlose, Op. 10 No. 7; Hat gesagt - bleibt's nicht dabei, Op. 36 No. 3; Allerseelen, Op. 10 No. 8
Lucia Popp (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
´óÏó´«Ã½ LEGENDS ´óÏó´«Ã½L41482
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BRAHMS: Piano Sonata No. 3
BARTOK: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs
LISZT: 2 Etudes
DOHNANYI: Rhapsody No. 3
Annie Fischer (piano)
´óÏó´«Ã½ LEGENDS ´óÏó´«Ã½L4054
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BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F, Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor Op. 5 No. 2; Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata No. 5 in D, Op. 102 No. 2; Twelve Variations on "See The Conqu'ring Hero Comes" from Judas Maccabaeus; Seven Variations on "Bei Männern Welche Liebe Fühlen" from Die Zauberflöte; Twelve Variations on "Ein Mädchen Oder Weibchen" from Die Zauberflöte
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
EMI 5862422
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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ‘Eroica’, Op. 55; Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60; Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Symphony No. 6 in F major ‘Pastoral’, Op. 68; Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92; Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93; Symphony No. 9 in C major ‘Choral’, Op. 125
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
HYPERION CDS44301/5
11.50am
Gershwin: An American in Paris & Piano Concerto in F
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris, tone poem; Piano Concerto in F major; Of Thee I Sing Overture; Preludes (3)
Lincoln Mayorga (piano), Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907658
Release date 26/08/16
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