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Drawing on the expertise of a range of reviewers, each week we check out the latest CD releases. Audio for the last two programmes and details of recently reviewed CDs can be found below.
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Audio is available for two weeks following the first broadcast.
- Pressing On for 14 March 2010
- This week it's American music - Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium; Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective; Hovhaness: Symphony No 10; Gershwin: Porgy & Bess. (duration: 52′08″)
- Pressing On for 7 March 2010
- This programme looks at the Best Chopin 100 (6-CD set), Schubert: Piano Sonata in Bb D960 - Moments Musicaux D780, and Take Flight Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianistswhich was edited by Gillian Bibby. (duration: 49′20″)
Sunday 7 & Friday 12 March 2010
Presented by Peter Mechen
Piano music
Best Chopin 100 (6-CD set)
Performances by Stephen Kovacevich, Ingrid Fliter, Dmitri Alexeev, Dinu Lipatti, Daniel Barenboim, Cécile Ousset, Stanislav Bunin, Garrick Ohlsson, Nelson Goerner, Daniel Adni, Martha Argerich, Alexis Weissenberg, Maurizio Pollini, Andrei Gavrilov, Claudio Arrau, Georges Cziffra, Samson François, Maria Tipo, Mikhail Pletnev, Leif Ove Andsnes, Ronald Smith, Arthur Rubinstein, Youri Egorov, Pierre Laval, Teresa Llacuna and Jerzy Maksymiuk.
(EMI 9 67047)
Schwammerl
SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in Bb D960, Moments Musicaux D780
Kemp English (replica of an 1826 Viennese fortepiano)
(Ode CD MANU 5085)
Take Flight
Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists, edited by Gillian Bibby
55 pieces suitable for students of Grades 3-5
Includes two CDs with recordings of all pieces made by Gillian Bibby, Judith McDonald and Catherine McKay
(Sunrise Music Trust 2010)
Available through SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music (more details).
Sunday 14 & Friday 19 March 2010
Presented by Thomas Goss
American music
BERNSTEIN: Serenade after Plato's Symposium; BLOCH: Baal Shem; BARBER: Violin Concerto
Vadim Gluzman (vln), São Paolo SO/John Neschling
(BIS SACD 1662)
CARTER: A Nonesuch Retrospective
Jan DeGaetani (sop), Paul Jacobs (pno), Composers Quartet, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, New York Chamber Symphony, Los Angeles CO/Gerard Schwarz, etc
(Nonesuch 510 893)
HOVHANESS: Symphony No 10, Vahaken; Floating World; Meditation; Ode
Frost SO/Chung Park
(Centaur CRC 2954)
GERSHWIN: Porgy & Bess
Isabelle Kabatu, Jonathan Lemalu, Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
(RCA 88697 59176)
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