Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907)
Violin
Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op.8 (1865) Peter
SCULTHORPE (b. 1929) Irkanda I for solo violin (1955) Carl
NIELSEN (1865-1931) Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 9 (1895)
Christian HEIM (b. 1960) Transformation
for violin and piano(1993) Fritz KREISLER (1875-1962)
Caprice Viennois
Marina Marsden, violin - Robert Chamberlain, piano - Recorded in the
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC, Melbourne, Australia, September 1994
TALL POPPIES TO067 [72.21] [NH]
An
excellent showcase for Marina Marsden's talents with a remarkable cross-fertilisation
of Australian and Scandinavian chamber music … see Full
Review
In
memoriam; Yehudi Menuhin Ludwig
van BEETOVEN (1770-1827) Violin
Concerto in D Op.61 Edouard LALO (1823-1892)
Symphonie Espagnole Op.21 – omits Intermezzo Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Double Concerto in D BWV 1043
Bela BARTÓK (1881-1945) Violin
Concerto No.2 Interview
with Menuhin talking about Bartók, 1978 Philharmonic-Symphony
Orchestra of New York/Artur Rodzinski, 9 December 1945 (Beethoven) San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux, 30 December 1951 (Lalo)
David Oistrakh (violin) and Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra/Georges Georgescu,
18 September 1958 (Bach) L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Ernest Ansermet,
16 August 1947 (Bartók)
MUSIC AND ARTS CD 1053 [2 CDs 130.50] [JW]
Aside
from the Lalo and the vicissitudes of his middle and later years here
is a musician of nobility and breadth … see Full
Review
"The
Pearl Fishers: Famous Opera Duets"
Various
Naxos artists Recorded
at various locations between 1990 and 1995 - Notes in English and Deutsche.
Complete texts and English translations
NAXOS 8.555797 [77.59] [PS]
A
generous, well selected collection of operatic highlights capably sung
and excellently recorded … see Full Review
PHILADELPHIA
ORCHESTRA 1927-1940; STOKOWSKI 1
Leopold Stokowski discusses Schoenberg's Gurrelieder Arnold
SCHOENBERG (1874-1951) Gurrelieder Arkadi
DUBENSKY (1890-1966)12 The Raven 12:05 Paul
HINDEMITH (1895-1963) 13-16 Kammermusik No. 2, Op. 36, No.
1 (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) 18:36 13 I Sehr lebhafte Achtel
3:22 14 II Sehr langsame Achtel 7:49 15 III Kleines Potpourri: Sehr
lebhafte Viertel 1:36 16 IV Finale: Schnelle Viertel 5:49 Nikolai
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908), Arranged by Stokowski 1 "Hunt
and Storm Music," Act III, Prelude from The Maid of Pskov 4:20
Modest MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881) 2
Entr'acte from Act IV, Khovantshchina 3:58 Modest
MUSSORGSKY, arranged and edited by Stokowski 3-8 Boris
Godunov: Symphonic Synthesis 21:31 Reinhold
GLIÈRE (1875-1956) 9-12 Symphony No. 3 in B minor,
"Ilya Murometz" (abridged version) 46:15 13 "Russian Sailors' Dance"
from The Red Poppy 3:48 Claude DEBUSSY
(1862-1918) 1 Prélude à l'après-midi d'un
faune, 3-5 Nocturnes 26:35 6-7 Danses sacrée et
profane 10:25 6 "Danse sacrée" 5:13 Maurice
RAVEL (1875-1937) 8-11 Rapsodie espagnole 16:27 ANDANTE
4978 [4 CDs 300.21] [JW]
Recommendation
seems superfluous given the many Andante strengths. Times have never
been better for Stokowskians and the Gurrelieder means that this is
a mandatory purchase … see Full Review
Quietude Gabriel
FAURÉ (1845-1924) Improvisation
Op.84 No.5 Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
Preludium No.VIII from The Well Tempered Klavier Vol.1 Adolf
WIKLUND (1879-1950) Ein liten roddtur from Från mitt
fönster, Mot kväll from Från mitt fönster Sergei
PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Lento irrealmente No.XX of Visions
Fugitives Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)
Op.19 No.6 of Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op.19 No.2 of Sechs
kleine Klavierstücke Claude DEBUSSY
(1862-1918) Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque Erik
SATIE (1866-1925) Gnossienne No.2, Gymnopédie No.3
Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937) La vallée
des Cloches from Miroirs, Oiseaux tristes from Miroirs TRADITIONAL
MELODIES Som sjärnan, Limu Limu Lima Lars
KARLSSON Romance from Fem aforismer Jean
SIBELIUS (1865-1957) Berceuse Op.40 No.5 from Pensées,
Lyriques Alberto GINASTERA (1916-1983)
Sadness from 12 American preludes Emil
SJÖGREN (1853-1918) Reverie from Bilder och utkast Maurice
KARKOFF Oasen Kerstin JEPPSSON En
dröm – Music for piano
Rolf Lindbloom (piano) Rec. Great Hall of the Royal Academy of Music,
Stockholm December 1985
PROPRIUS PRCD 9052 [67.54] [JW]
Some
nice touches, imaginative choices and one feels Lindbloom is a thoughtful
musician. … see Full Review
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH - ‘Rariora & Marginalia’
- Philipp Friedrich BÖDDECKER (1607-1683)
Sonata in d minor [07:21] - Sonata sopra ‘La Monica’ [06:11] -
anon (Nicolaus A. Strungk?, c1640-1700)
Contrapunct sopra la Baßigaglos d’Altr. (Variations on the
chorale ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’ [13:49] - Johann
Paul VON WESTHOFF (1656-1705) Sonata ‘La Guerra’ [12:17]
- Giovanni Battista BOVICELLI (c1594)
Diminutions on ‘Io son ferito ahi lasso’ (Da Palestrina) [05:56]
- Georg MUFFAT (1653-1705) Sonta
per violino solo (Prague, 1677) [12:20] - Antonio
BERTALI (1605-1669) Chiacona [08:29]
The Rare Fruits Council: Manfredo Kraemer, violin; Josep Borrás,
dulcian; Balász Máté, cello; Eduardo Egüez,
theorbo, guitar; Alessandro de Marchi, harpsichord, organ - Rec. March
2001 at the Abbey of Brunenthal, Austria DDD
ASTRÉE E-8840 [66:28] [JvW]
A
collection of extraordinary music for the violin – brilliantly performed
and recorded. … see Full Review
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH Prague
String Quartets Luboš
FIŠER (1935-1999) String
Quartet (1986) Sylvie BODOROVÁ
(b 1954) Shofarot-String Quartet No 4 (2000) Otmar
MÁCHA (b 1922) String Quartet No 2 (1987) Zdeněk
LUKÁŠ (b 1928) String Quartet No 4 Op 213 (1987) - Jupiter
Quartet Recorded Domovina
Studios, Prague, June and July 2001
ARCO DIVA UP 0044-2 131 [63.40]
[JW]
A very strong recommendation. Likeable, winning and effective works
receiving committed advocacy … see Full
Review
William
Primrose (viola) Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897) Viola
Sonata No.1 in F minor Op.120 No.1 (1894) - Viola Sonata No.2 in E flat
major Op.120 No.2 (1894) Arthur BENJAMIN
(1893-1960) Elegy, Waltz and Toccata (1945) Roy
HARRIS (1898-1979) Soliloquy and Dance (1938) Fritz
KREISLER (1875-1962) Praeludium and Allegro in the style
of Pugnani William Primrose
(viola) with - William Kapell (piano) Sonata No.1 - Gerald Moore (piano)
Sonata No.2 - Vladimir Sokoloff (piano) in the Arthur Benjamin - Johanna
Harris (piano) in the Roy Harris - Franz Rupp (piano) in the Fritz Kreisler
- Recorded 1937-46 PEARL
GEMM CD 9253 [73.04]
[JW]
A
splendid conspectus of mid-period Primrose in repertoire of which he
was a masterful interpreter. … see Full
Review
Reminiscence
Terence CROUCHER Lullaby,
Romance, Greenwood Jonathan RICHARDS Idyll,
Nocturne Jonathan RICHARDS and Andi
EDMONDSON Caprice
Jonathan N Richards (guitar) Andrea Edmondson (flute) rec. 2002,
Angel Studios ANDIDISX@D
No Number [18.30] [RB]
Here
is music consistently pleasing to the ear and mind. Shapely melody without
unsettling modernity ... see Full Review
‘Sacred Music at the Munich Court’
- Rupert Ignaz
MAYR (1646-1712) Jubilate Deo [04:06] - Deus in adiutorium
[01:15] - Dixit Dominus [02:17] - Laudate pueri Dominum [02:11] - Laetatus
sum [02:43] - Salve Regina [09:46] - Cofitebor tibi Domine [03:31] -
Nisi Dominus [02:08] - Lauda Jerusalem [02:26] - Magnificat [03:17]
- Johann Caspar KERLL (1627-1693) Gaudete
Pastores [07:33] - Regina caeli laetare [02:23] - Missa Superba [25:52]
- Constanze Backes, Priska Eser-Streit (soprano), Susanne Otto (contralto),
Hermann Oswald, Christian Zenker (tenor),Thomas Hamberger, Joel Frederiksen
(bass) orpheus chor münchen; Neue Hofkapelle München
Dir.: Gerd Guglhör - Recorded in December 2002 at the Markuskirche
in Munich DDD ARTE
NOVA 74321 98493 2 [70:06] [JvV]
Interesting
recording, sympathetically performed showing some basic misunderstandings
of performance practice of sacred music in the 17th century. … see Full
Review
Det Korta Livet -
The Short Life Sven
Erik BÄCK Våren David
WIKANDER Förvårskväll; Kung Liljekonvalje
Knut HÅKANSON Våhr-Wijsa
TRAD Den
blida vår Oskar LINDBERG Pingst;
Stjärntändning Waldemar ÅHLÉN Sommarpsalm
Wilhelm STENHAMMAR I seraillets
hæve TRAD arr ALFVÉN
Uti vår hage C.J.L. ALMQVIST
Varför kom du på ängen; Den lyssnande
Maria Fritz SJÖSTRÖM Söt
blomma Ingvar LIDHOLM Sommarafton;
Troget och milt Sven-Eric JOHANSON Det
är vackrast när det skymmer; Nu är det sommarmorgon
Bjørn HJELMBORG Den lyse
nat Åke MALMFORS Månsken
Lars Johan WERLE Är gryningen
redan här Elisabeth HERMODSSON Sommardoft;
Sommarkväll på ön Knut
HÅKANSON Brusala Stefan
FORSSÉN Som tysta ljud
Rilke Ensemble rec. Jan, Nov 1988, May 1999, Lundby Nya Kirka, Göteborg
DDD SWEDISH SOCIETY
DISCOFIL SCD 1112 [72.33] [RB]
Fresh
and tonal Swedish a cappella choral music from the last century purged
of anything to do with the Victorian fustian. ... see Full
Review
Rhapsody
for Two George GERSHWIN
(1898-1937) Rhapsody
in Blue (arr. Dokshizer) Zdenĕk FIBICH
(1850-1900) Poème César CUI
(1835-1918) Oriental Leonard BERNSTEIN
(1918-1990) Rondo for Lifey Maurice RAVEL
(1875-1937) Pavane pour une Infante défunte Piotr
Ilitch TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Danse Napolitaine - Valse
sentimentale Antonin DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance Op. 10, No. 2 (arr. Dokshizer) Abraham
GEIFMANN (?) Two Jewish Pieces - Melodie, Tanz - Romanze
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Ständchen
Alexander ARUTUNIAN (b. 1920) Trumpet
Concerto (Piano Reduction) - World Première Recording
Andrea Michel, trumpet
Nicola Hollenbach, piano - Recording information not included - No catalogue
number [60.50] [NH]
Trumpet
and piano versions of well known and lesser known miniatures, bookended
by two more substantial works … see Full
Review
Rhapsody
Klement SLAVICKÝ
(1910-1999) Rhapsody
for solo viola Bohuslav MARTINŮ
(1890-1959) Three Madrigals for violin and viola (1947) Zdeněk
LUKÁŠ (b 1928) Sonata per viola solo Benjamin
BRITTEN (1913-1976) Lachrymae – reflections on a Song by
Dowland (1950) Sylvie BODOROVÁ
(b 1954) Gila Rome – Meditations for Solo Viola Vittorio
MONTI (1868-1922) Csárdás
Jitka Hosprová (viola) - Veronika Jarůšková (violin) - Kateřina
Englichová (harp) - Recorded in the Domovina Studio Prague November
2001 ARCO DIVA UP 0043-2
131 [65.29] [JW]
Robust,
youthful performances full of affirmation sometimes more introspective
and tinged with melancholy. … see Full
Review
The
Organs Of Gottfried Silbermann Vol. 1 Freiberg/St.
Petri: 1 Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750):
Toccata d-Moll BWV 913a 2 Johann Bernhard BACH
(1676-1749): Choralbearbeitung "Allein auf Gott setz dein Vertraun"
- 3 Choralbearbeitung "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten"
BWV 647 aus den "Schübler Chorälen" - 4 Choralbearbeitung
"Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend" BWV 709 5 Johann
Christoph KELLNER (1736-1803): Fantasia g-Moll Tiefenau:
Johann Sebastian BACH: Vier Choralbearbeitungen:
6 "Wir Christenleut" BWV 1090 - 7 "Nun freut euch, liebe Christen gmein"
BWV 734 - 8 "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (Bach zugeschrieben)
BWV deest - 9 "Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf" BWV 1092 Niederschöna:
10 Johann Sebastian BACH: Fantasia
ex C dis BWV 1121 11 Johann Rudolf AHLE
(1625-1673): Choralbearbeitung "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ"
Johann Sebastian BACH: Zwei Choralbearbeitungen:
12 "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen" (Bach zugeschrieben) BWV deest -
13 "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" BWV 715 Großhartmannsdorf:
14 Partita diverse sopra "Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen?" BWV
770 Ewald Kooiman, organs
Rec: September 2000, Freiberg/St. Petri, Tiefenau, Niederschöna,
Großhartmannsdorf
QUERSTAND VKJK 0022 [69.41] [KME]
A
very attractive disc featuring music played on four excellent Silbermann
organs ... See Full Review
The Organs of Gottfried Silbermann Vol. 2
Bad
Lausick: Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750):
Partita "Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig" BWV 768 (Choral und
Variationen I bis XI) - Rötha, St. Marien: Georg
Andreas SORGE (1703-1778): Sonate F-Dur (Ohne Bezeichnung
(Allegro) - Andante - Aria - Fuga) Schweikershain: ANONYMOUS
(18. Jh.): Variationen über "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman" Johann
Sebastian BACH: Choralvorspiel "Nun ruhen alle Wälder"
BWV 756 Glauchau: Johann Sebastian BACH:
Praeludium und Fuge C-Dur BWV 531 Christian
Gotthilf TAG (1735-1811): Zwölf kurze und leichte Orgelvorspiele:
Vivace e maestoso - Andante molto - Vivace - Adagio - Andantino - Andantino
- Largo molto - Andante molto - Adagio - Larghetto - Largo - Grave (Auf
die in phrygischer Tonart gesetzten Melodien: Es wolle uns Gott gnädig;
Aus tiefer Noth schrey; Da Jesus an dem Kreutze)
Felix Friedrich, organs - Rec: April 2001, Bad Lausick, Rötha,
St. Marien, Schweikershain, Glauchau
QUERSTAND VKJK 0207 [69.41] [KME]
A
somewhat disappointing recording of music played on four excellent Silbermann
organs ... see Full Review
Victor
Simon (b.1930) - cellist Boris
TCHAIKOVSKY (1925-1996) Cello
Concerto [38.09] Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)
Cello Concerto in B flat major [22.30] Piotr
TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Nocturne; Pezzo Capriccioso
[4.44; 6.47] Victor
Simon (cello) - Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio/Vladimir
Fedoseyev - rec. Mar 1983 (Boccherini), Jan 1987 (Piotr Tchaikovsky),
Feb 1978 (Boris Tchaikovsky) ADD - Recordings from Russian State
Foundation of Radio and Television
RELIEF CR991065 [72.36]
[RB]
A
magnetic pull for cello-fans ... the grit and smoke, song and lamentation
of the Boris Tchaikovsky concerto. Defiant and distinctive, ... see
Full Review
The
Sirota Archives: Rare Russian Masterpieces
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Sonata
in G Op.37 (1878) Anton RUBINSTEIN (1829-1894)
Près du Ruisseau - Sérénade - Prelude in F
- Polonaise in E flat minor - Valse-caprice Alexander
GLAZUNOV (1865-1936) Sonata No.1 in B flat minor Op.74 (1901)
Leo Sirota (piano) - Recorded
in April-May 1955 ARBITER
110 [75.37] [JW]
Intense
drama, romantic, occasionally wayward … big playing … growing increasingly
ardent … see Full Review
Leo Sirota. Tokyo
Farewell Concert Domenico SCARLATTI (1685-1757)
Pastorale
in E minor - Capriccio in E Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
(1770-1827) Sonata No.18 in E flat Op.31 No.3 (1802) Franz
SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Sonata in A minor D845 (1845) Franz
LISZT (1811-1886) Sposalizio
Don Juan Fantasy - The voice of Sirota; a message to his family - Leo
Sirota (piano) - Recorded in Tokyo December 1963 except Liszt (radio
broadcast March 1955) and the message (May 1960)
ARBITER 123 [77.15]
[JW]
Real sensitivity, pensive introspection … a powerful sensibility at
work. If you’re hesitating because of Sirota’s technical frailties,
don’t. … see Full Review
Songs
of Heaven and Earth Ralph
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) Heart’s
Music (1954) [3’03"] - Valiant-for-Truth (1940) [6’08"] -
Three Choral Hymns (1930)** [14’02"] Brian
BROCKLESS (1926-1955) Christ is now risen agayne (1958) [2’23"]
- Now blessed be thou, Christ Jesu (1959) [2’32"] - Come Holy Spirite,
Most Blessed Lorde (1976, revised 1985) [2’09"] - There is a garden
in her face (1953) [3’17"] Benjamin BRITTEN
(1913-1976) Festival Te Deum (1944)** [6’24"] - Five Flower
Songs (1950) [11’24"] Jonathan HARVEY
(b. 1939) Come, Holy Ghost (1984) [6’17"] - I love the Lord
(1976) [5’42"] Howard SKEMPTON
(b. 1947) Two Poems of Edward Thomas (1996)* [2’51"]
The Choir of Queen’s College, Cambridge - directed by Matthew Steynor
and *James Weeks - **Samuel Hayes (organ) - Rec. Chapel of Queen’s College,
Cambridge 24, 26, 27 June 2001; * 27 June 2000
GUILD GMCD 7265 [67’50"] [JQ]
The
programme is very interesting and it is good to see Oxbridge college
choirs other than the "usual suspects" represented on CD.
… see Full Review
Sounds Contemporary Alan
RIDOUT (1934 – 1996) Suite
Bretonne (1989) - Christ Preaching at Cookham Regata (1988) - Passacaglia
(1971) - Two Pictures of Graham Sutherland (1967) - Scots Suite (1994)
- The Night Watch (1981) Humphrey CLUCAS
(born 1941) Passacaglia (1998) Bernard
ROSE (1916 – 1996) Improvisation Ein’feste Burg (ca.
1960) - Chimes (1974) - Passacaglia (1983)
Robert Crowley at the organ of All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London
- Recorded: All Saints Church, London, no date
LAMMAS LAMM 103 D [71:12]
[HC]
Truly
contemporary music, but not of the experimental kind that turns the
organ into a noise-producing engine. Warmly recommended. … see Full
Review
In
the Spring - A Collection of Dorset Songs
John
IRELAND Great Things (Hardy) Ralph
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Linden Lea (Barnes) Graham
PEEL Bright is the ring of words (R.L. Stevenson)
- Requiem (R.L. Stevenson) - Summertime on Bredon (Housman)
- The Oxen (Hardy) G.E.P. ARKWRIGHT
In the Spring (Barnes) F.
F. COAKER The Geate A-Vallen To (Barnes) Paul
EDMUNDS Bells
of Alderburnham (Barnes) Gustav HOLST
The
Sergeant's Song (Hardy)
William Adams (bass-baritone)
Richard Hall (piano) NO NUMBER [24.32] [RB]
Thanks
to William Adams for pushing out the boundaries of British song. Coaker
and Edmunds should certainly be explored further. ... see Full
Review
Stars of Salzburg Bedrich
SMETANA (1824-84) Ma Vlast – From Bohemia’s Fields and
Grovesa (1875) [13’46]. Wolfgang
Amadeus MOZART (1756-91) Don Giovanni (1787) – Notte
e giorno faticarb [4’20]. Zaide (1780) – Ruhe
sanft mein holdes Lebenc [6’21]. François
DEVIENNE (1759-1803) Flute Concerto No. 8 in G (1794) -
Tempo di Polonaised [4’43]. Giacomo
PUCCINI (1858-1924) Turandot (1924) – Nessun dormae
[3’24]. Charles GOUNOD (1818-93) Roméo
et Juliette (1867) – Depuis hier je cherche en vain mon maître
… Que fais-tu, blanche tourterellef [4’34]. Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-97) Hungarian Dancesg (1858-79)
– No. 1 in G minor [2’37]; No. 6 in D flat [2’51]. Giuseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) Il trovatore (1853) – Ah! Sí,
ben mio, coll’essere … Di quella pirah [7’09]. Richard
STRAUSS (1864-1949) Vier letzte Lieder (1948) – Septemberi
[4’47]. Richard WAGNER (1813-83) Tannhäuser
(1845) – Dich teure Hallej [5’09]. Pablo
de SARASATE (1844-1908) Introduction and Tarantella,
Op. 43k (1899) [5’04]. Sergei RACHMANINOV
(1873-1943) Spring Waters, Op. 14 No. 11l (1896)
[2’01]. Santiago de MURCIA (?1685-?1732)
La Jotam (?) [2’53]. TRADITIONAL
Dilmano,
dilbero (Bugarska Tshushka)n [1’51]. Manuel
PONCE (1882-1948) Estrellitao (c1913) [3’20]
(arr. Heifetz). aVienna
Philharmonic Orchestra/Nikolaus Harnoncourt; bMaurizio Murare
(baritone), bKwang Choul Youn (tenor); bRegina
Schörg (soprano); bReinhard Hagen (bass); bVienna
Radio Symphony Orchestra/Bertrand de Billy; cElena Moşuc
(soprano); cIasi ‘Moldava’ Philharmonic Orchestra, Romania/Camil
Marinescu; dLondon Mozart Players/James Galway (flute); eJohan
Botha (tenor); eVienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Paolo Carignani;
fnVesselina Kasarova (mezzo); fMunich Radio Orchestra/Frédéric
Chaslin; gEvgeny Kissin (piano); hRamón
Vargas (tenor); hAnnegher Stumphius (soprano); hJames
Anderson (tenor); hMunich Radio Orchestra/Edoardo Müller;
iMelanie Diener (soprano); iZurich Tonhalle Orchestra/David
Zinman; jWaltraud Meier (soprano); jBavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra/Lorin Maazel; kMirijam Contzen (violin);
kValéry Rogatchev (piano); lDiana Damrau
(soprano); lFlorian Henschel (piano); mLos Otros;
nVoices from Bulgaria; oNikolaj Znaider (violin);
oDaniel Gortler (piano). Original issue dates 1997-2003.
DDD BMG CLASSICS 82876
536602 [75’40] [CC]
Careful
programming saves this disc from becoming too much of a patchwork quilt,
and there is much to enjoy. … how often it is going to come down off
the shelf. … see Full Review
Tilia
Petr VYROUBAL (b 1975)
Nepi,
Jano arr VYROUBAL Smrtí tanec
arr VYROUBAL Na kopečku stojí
borovička arr VYROUBAL Koulelo
se koulelo arr VYROUBAL Valachica,
Osud lidský, Lidové motivy, U Třebone na tom mostě
, U našeho Bárty , Velebný pane, Počkej má milá,
Pĕknĕ se zelená, Píseň Tobiášova Jaroslav
KRČEK (b 1939) Tři tance ve starém slohu Otmar
MÁCHA (b 1922) Zpěvy Horňácka
Tilia (Marta Dunová, mezzo-soprano) Jitka Kubková and Simona Ševčíková,
violins; Radka Heřmanská, viola; Markéta Krausová, cello; Lada
Zradičková, flute and recorder; Jaroslava Tajanovská,
oboe and recorder; Miroslav Baloun, percussion; Petr Vyroubal, conductor
and double bass. Recorded at the Domovina Studios, Prague, October 2002
ARCO DIVA UP 0058-2
231 [52.55] [JW]
Excellently
produced and recorded … a really enjoyable and imaginative disc … you’ll
have a lot of fun with Tilia. … see Full Review
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: 20th
Century Music, Volume 1 Arthur
HONEGGER (1892-1955) Symphony No. 5 (1951)
Ernest Ansermet (conductor) - Rec 2 December 1951, Musikverein, Vienna
Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971) The
Rite of Spring (1913) Igor Markevitch (conductor) - Rec 26 April
1952, Musikverein, Vienna Leos JANÁČEK
(1854-1928) Sinfonietta (1926) Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
- Rec 3 March 1955, Musikverein, Vienna Anton
WEBERN (1883-1945) Passacaglia, Opus 1 (1908); Six
Pieces, Opus 6 (1909) - Zubin Mehta (conductor) - Rec 3 December
1983, Musikverein, Vienna Alban BERG
(1885-1935) Der Wein (1951) Dorothy Dorow (soprano) - Karl
Böhm (conductor) - Rec 1 June 1969, Musikverein, Vienna Arnold
SCHOENBERG (1874-1951) Pelleas und Melisande, Opus
5 (1903) Karl Böhm (conductor) - Rec 1 June 1969, Musikverein,
Vienna Franz SCHMIDT (1874-1939) Symphony
No. 2 (1912) Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) - Rec 29 October 1983, Musikverein,
Vienna Egon WELLESZ (1885-1974) Prosperos
Beschwörung, Opus 53 (1935) Bernard Haitink (conductor) - Rec
24 February 1985, Musikverein, Vienna
ANDANTE AND4080 [3CDs: 79.37+75.27+79.37] [TB]
A compilation never less than interesting; sometimes a good deal more
than that. … see Full Review
BOOK
REVIEWS
BRITISH SOLO SONG: a
guide for for singers, teachers, librarians and the music trade of songs
currently available. By
Michael Pilkington Thames/Elkin Publications, 2003: xii, 308pp, inc.
three indices. ISBN 0 905210 78 6 Ł19.99 paperback
Previous
editions of this valuable book are now completely superseded. This is
an indispensable purchase for lovers of the British solo art song....see
Full Review
BRITTEN, Voice and Piano: Lectures
on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten By
Graham Johnson (Guildhall Research Studies 2)
Ashgate/Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2003: x, 270pp, plus
two CDs. ISBN 0-7546-3872-3 Ł29.95 paperback
Much
additional and unique interest pertains to the volume in the extent
of Johnson's personal contribution to his text.... see Full
Review
HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY (1808-72)
Victorian
Journalist By Robert Bledsoe pp384 hardback 2
illustrations Ashgate, October 1998 ISBN 1-84014-257 [RW]
The
book is a very interesting one to dip into to widen one's knowledge
of the Victorian theatre scene. … see Full Review
Elgar’s Oratorios: the creation of an
epic narrative By
Charles Edward McGuire
Ashgate 2002 339pp Ł45.00 ISBN 0754602710 [JW]
We
have cause to admire the resolute, sometimes dogged, work McGuire has
carried out. Succeeds best in analysis of compositional directions,
balancing of text and source material … see Full
Review
LETTERS
AND DIARIES OF KATHLEEN FERRIER Edited by
Christopher Fifield The Boydell Press, 2003:xii, 333pp, inc. Bibliography,
Personalia, three indices. 16 Plates. ISBN 1-84383-012-4 Ł25 hardback
Anyone
interested in Kathleen Ferrier's life and art and the milieu of the
Second World War years and their aftermath by which they were embraced,
will find this welcome book required reading. It is above all, and despite
the final descent, a celebration of living...see Full
Review
PARROTTICISMS: The Autobiography of Ian Parrott British
Music Society – Monograph No.5 ISBN 1 870534 24 X [HC]
This
is a fine tribute to a very distinguished composer whose music is all
too rarely heard and that definitely deserves to be better known....see
Full Review
Charles
Villiers Stanford:
Man and Musician by
Jeremy Dibble (Oxford 2002, 535 pp) £65
Charles Villiers Stanford by Paul Rodmell (Ashgate 2002, 495
pp) £57.50 [CH]
ERRORS AND DISCREPANCIES
IN TWO RECENT BOOKS ON STANFORD
[CH]
Vaughan Williams and the Symphony
by
Lionel Pike Toccata Press
352pp including indices (1. works; 2. technical; 3. general) Symphonic
Studies No. 2 ISBN 0907689 54 X (case bound) ISBN 0907689 55 8 (paper)
An
extremely well presented, intricately analytical dissection and commentary
on the Vaughan Williams' nine ... see Full Review
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