Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony No 99 in E flat
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony No 99 in E flat; Bach releases from Murray Perahia, Kyung Wha Chung and Masaaki Suzuki; Disc of the Week.
with Andrew McGregor
0930
Building a Library: Richard Wigmore sifts through some of the available recordings of Haydn Symphony No. 99 in E flat and comes up with a recommendation.
By the time Haydn wrote his ninety-ninth symphony he was Europe's most celebrated and best-paid composer. Released from a lifetime of musical servitude at a provincial court, he was now catering for a sophisticated metropolitan public that couldn't get enough of his music and the result was Haydn's mature style, at once earthy and refined, playful and profound. Symphony No. 99 is a prime example of late, great Haydn, represented in the catalogue by recordings from grand-old-man conductor and orchestra pairings, to the latest period performance ensembles.
1030
Simon Heighes reviews recent Bach releases from Murray Perahia, Kyung Wha Chung and Masaaki Suzuki, among others.
1145
Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata And Fugue Bwv.565, Arr. P. Williams For Violin Solo [orig. For Organ; S
Performer: Nemanja Radulovi膰.- Nemanja Radulovic.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 004.
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Carlo Gesualdo
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.- Death and The Maiden.
- ALPHA.
- 006.
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Franz Schubert
Quartet In D Minor D.810 (Death And The Maiden) For Strings
Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.- Death and The Maiden.
- ALPHA.
- 007.
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Katharina Deserno & Gesa Lucker
Lalai - Schlaflied Zum Wachwerden?
- Herbstmusik.
- Wergo.
- 016.
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Sir David Willcocks
5 Shakespeare Songs For Chorus And Accompaniment
Performer: Les Sirens Female Chamber Choir.- Sing Willow Shakespeare Songs.
- Albion.
- 009.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Quartet No. 8 In C Minor Op.110 For Strings
Ensemble: Brodsky String Quartet.- The Complete String Quartets.
- Teldec.
- 001.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Quartet No. 8 In C Minor Op.110 For Strings
Performer: Brodsky Quartet.- Complete String Quartets.
- Chandos.
- 001.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Quartet No. 15 In E Flat Minor Op.144 For Strings
Performer: Brodsky Quartet.- Complete Sting Quartets.
- Chandos.
- 009.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Quartet No. 1 In D Major Op.11 For Strings
Ensemble: The Heath Quartet.
Record Review Christmas Stocking
9am
Nemanja
Radulovic: Bach
BACH,
J C: Concerto for Viola in C minor (reconstructed by H Casadesus)
BACH,
J S: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043; Toccata & Fugue in D
minor, BWV565*; Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E, BWV1006: Gavotte; Violin
Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041; Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068*:
Air ('Air on a G String'); Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004:
Chaconne*
Tijana
Milo拧evic (violin), Nemanja Radulovic (violin, viola), Double Sens, Les Trilles
du Diable
(*arranged
by Aleksandar Sedlar)
DG
94795933 (CD)
Schubert:
Death and the Maiden
SCHUBERT:
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden鈥�
N脰RMIGER:
Toden Tanz from 鈥楾abulaturbuch auf dem instrumente鈥�
ANONYMOUS:
Byzantine Chant on Psalm 140
DOWLAND:
Seven Teares for String Quartet
GESUALDO:
Madrigal
KURTAG:
The Answered Unanswered Question; Kafka Fragments
Patricia
Kopatchinskaja (violin), The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
ALPHA
ALPHA265 (CD)
Barbara
Heller: Autumn Music
HELLER,
B: Patchwork 鈥� String Quartet No. 3; La Caleta 鈥� String Quartet No. 2;
Streichquartett (1958); Eins fur Zwei; Herbstmusik; Arriba!; Zwiegesprache;
Minutentrios; Lalai 鈥� Schlaflied zum Wachwerden?
Verdi
Quartett, Susanne Stoodt (violin), Katharina Deserno (cello), Gesa L眉cker
(piano)
WERGO
WER51232 (CD)
Sing
Willow: Shakespeare Songs
CHILCOTT:
Music to Hear
DELP:
Come away, come away, Death
JARMAN,
P: Hark, Hark, the Lark
JOHNSON,
R: Full fathom five
LEIGHTON:
Canon (No. 1 from 6 Elizabethan Lyrics)
MACMILLAN:
Sonnet
RUTTER:
It was a lover and his lass; When daisies pied
VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS: Over hill, over dale; The cloud-capp'd towers; The Willow Song (No. 2
from Elizabethen Songs); Dirge for Fidele
WILLCOCKS,
D: Shakespeare Songs (5)
Les
Sirenes, Andrew Nunn
ALBION
RECORDS ALBCD030 (CD)
9.30am - Building a Library
Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony no. 99
Composer:
Joseph Haydn
Piece: Symphony no. 99
Reviewer:
Richard Wigmore
Recommended recording: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble / Marc Minkowski
Available on:
HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 93 - 104 (the London
Symphonies)
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
NAIVE V5176
Other
recommended recordings:
Below
is a shortlist of other recordings which Richard Wigmore also liked, although
we can鈥檛 guarantee the availability of these discs.聽
Haydn - London Symphonies
HAYDN: Symphony No. 68 in B flat major; Symphonies Nos. 93 - 104 (the
London Symphonies)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564630612
10.15am 鈥� Andrew plays new recordings of Shostakovich String Quartets
SHOSTAKOVICH:
String Quartets Nos. 1-15 (complete)
Brodsky
Quartet
TELDEC
2564608672 (6CD)
SHOSTAKOVICH:
String Quartets Nos. 1-15 (complete)
Brodsky
Quartet
CHANDOS
CHAN10917(6) (6CD)
10.30am 鈥� Simon Heighes on new recordings of JS Bach
BACH,
J S: French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV812-817
Murray
Perahia (piano)
DG
4796565 (2CD)
BACH,
J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Angela
Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION
CDA68146 (CD)
BACH,
J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Mahan
Esfahani (harpsichord)
DG
4795929 (CD)
BACH, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin,
BWV1001-1006
Kyung
Wha Chung (violin)
WARNER
CLASSICS 9029594416 (2CD)
Rachel
Barton Pine: Testament
BACH, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin,
BWV1001-1006
Rachel
Barton Pine (violin)
AVIE AV2360 (2CD)
Bach - Secular Cantatas VII
BACH, J S: Cantata BWV212 'Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet'
(Peasant Cantata); Cantata BWV209 'Non sa che sia dolore' (Italian Cantata);
Cantata BWV203 'Amore traditore'
Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Dominik Worner (bass), Kiyomi
Suga (flute), Nobuaki Fukukawa (horn), Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord), Bach
Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
BIS
BIS2191 (Hybrid SACD)
BACH,
J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Jutta
Bohnert (soprano), Rebecca Martin (alto), Markus Schafer (tenor), Thomas Laske
(bass), Winds-Bacher Knabenchor. Deutsche Kammer-Virtuosen Berlin, Karl
Friedrich Beringer (cantatas 1-3), (cantatas 4-6)
SONY
88985331452 (2CD)
BACH,
J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
Mary
Bevan (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook
(bass) - Cantatas 1, 3, 6); Joanne Lunn (soprano), Ciara Hendrick (mezzo),
Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass) - Cantatas 2, 4, 5., Dunedin
Consort, John Butt (conductor)
LINN
CKD499 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
11.45am 鈥� Disc of the Week
Tchaikovsky:
String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3
TCHAIKOVSKY:
String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11; String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor
Op. 30
Heath
Quartet
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907665 (CD)
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