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Disc 1
VERDI: Preludes, Overtures & Ballet Music from, Oberto; Un giorno de regno; Nabucco; Ernani; I due Foscari; Giovanna d'Arco; Alzira; Attila; Macbeth; I masnadieri; Il corsaro; La battaglia di Legnano - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Chandos CHAN 9510)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb; SPOHR: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C minor; CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Bb - Emma Johnson (cl), English CO/Gerard Schwarz (ASV CD DCA 659)
2:25 approx - Disc 3
MARTUCCI: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor; La Canzone Dei Ricordi - Rachel Yakar (sop), Francesco Caramiello (pno), Philharmonia/Francesco D'Avalos (ASV CD DCA 690)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
BOCCHERINI: Piano Quintets, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in F; No 5 in D - Patrick Cohen (fpno), Quatuor Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis E 8518)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
KETÈLBEY: In a Monastery Garden; Overture, The Adventurers; Chal Romano; Suite Romantique; Caprice Pianistique; The Clock and the Dresden Figures; Cockney Suite No 5, Bank Holiday; Cockney Suite No 3, At the Palais de Danse; In the Moonlight; Wedgwood Blue; Bells across the Meadows; The Phantom Melody; In a Persian Market - Slovak Phil Male Chorus, Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)
PÄRT: Variations for the healing of Arinuschka - Jürgen Kruse (pno) (Brilliant Classics 8847)
PARSONS ed Steinitz: Ave Maria - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5085)
ANON: Ubi caritas - Matthew Barley (cello) (Black Box BBM 1068)
SANCHO (attrib): Mass in G - Chanticleer/Joseph H Jennings (dir) (Warner Classics & Jazz R2 512746)
LISZT: Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 3 - Ingolf Turban, Barbara Turban (vlns), Martin-Albrecht Rohde (vla), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) (Oehms Classics OC 415)
RHEINBERGER: Four Elegiac Songs Op 128 - Lydia Teuscher (sop), Annette Markert (contralto), Kay Johannsen (org) (Carus 83.431)
WILLS: The praises of the Trinity; HALSEY: O lux beata Trinitas; BYRD: Te Deum, from The Great Service; LEIGHTON JONES: O lux beata Trinitas - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics ABC 476 294)
BACH: Cantata No 129 written for Trinity Sunday, Give honour to the Lord - Ruth Holton (sop), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 138)
HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)
BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)
HANDEL: Air, from Water Music Suite No 1 in F - Berlin Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI 5 66967)
MONTEVERDI: Vago augelletto, from the 8th book of Madrigals, Venice 1638 - Zsuzsanna Toth, Lauren Armishaw (sops), Cyril Auvity, Jan van Elsacker (tens), Nicolas Achten (bar), Joao Fernandes (bass), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (dir) (Virgin 2 36140)
FAURÉ arr Albert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)
DVORÁK: Waltz No 1, from Two Waltzes Op 54 - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 241)
PIAZZOLLA: Milonga del ángel - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)
ELGAR: Sérénade Lyrique - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)
FREDERICK DELIUS (1862-1934)
A programme to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, presented by William Dart (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)
Irmelin, Prelude - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)
On Craig Ddu - Elysian Singers of London/Matthew Greenall (Continuum CCD 1054)
A Song of Summer - Philharmonia/Owain Arwel Hughes (ASV CDQS 6114)
Bridging the Ages
Six programmes from the 2007 three-week California summer music festival
(4) BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Jason Vieaux (gtr), Escher String Quartet
BOTTESINI: Gran Duo Concertante - Erin Keefe (vln), Daxun Zhang (dbass), Escher String Quartet
MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13 - Escher String Quartet (Music@Menlo Live 2007/5)
MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), English CO (CBS M13K 42055)
RESPIGHI: Prelude, Chorale & Fugue - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10388)
Murray Khouri explores great recordings of Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)
Vintage Romanian
C SILVESTRI: Three pieces for strings Op 4/2 - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1967) (Nimbus NI 6124)
BACH: Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 - Dinu Lipatti (pno) (rec 1950) (Philips 456 892)
ENESCU: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1963) (Nimbus NI 6124)
Schubert and his Publishers
Thomas Goss looks at the relationship of Franz Schubert with his publishers, particularly Anton Diabelli, revealing not only their systematic exploitation, but also that Schubert's prolific musical outpourings may have been a form of response (RNZ)
SCHUBERT: Credo & Sanctus, from Mass No 6 in Eb D950 - Soile Isokoski (sop), Martina Borst (contralto), Christoph Prégardien, Peter Grönlund (tens), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Berlin Classics 1530 BC)
Metropolitan Opera Season
Twenty-three operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House
(22) WAGNER: Die Walküre, an opera in three acts
The Valkyrie Brünnhilde sacrifices her divinity to human emotions as the gods of Valhalla move closer to destruction in part two of the epic Ring of the Nibelung
Siegmund...................... Frank van Aken
Sieglinde....................... Eva-Maria Westbroek
Hunding........................ Hans-Peter König
Wotan........................... Bryn Terfel
Fricka........................... Stephanie Blythe
Brünnhilde..................... Katarina Dalayman
Gerhilde........................ Kelly Cae Hogan
Ortlinde......................... Wendy Bryn Harmer
Waltraute...................... Marjorie Elinor Dix
Schwertleite.................. Mary Phillips
Helmwige...................... Molly Fillmore
Siegrune........................ Eve Gigliotti
Grimgerde..................... Mary Ann McCormick
Rossweisse................... Lindsay Ammann
Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)
Eleven programmes
(1) William Dart reviews new releases from Lambchop, Rufus Wainwright and Patrick Watson (RNZ)
BALAKIREV: Islamey - Idil Biret (pno) (IBA 8.571288)
FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Idil Biret (pno), Bilkent SO/Alain Pâris (Alpha 104)
RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Idil Biret (pno) (IBA 8.571281)
HAYDN: Symphony No 26 in D minor, Lamentation - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)
BOWEN: Rhapsody for cello & orchestra Op 74 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7263)
WEBERN: Im Sommerwind - Chicago SO/Bernard Haitink (Chicago SO CSOR 901 1002)
11:00 ELGAR: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82 - Jonathan Crow (vln), Paul Stewart (pno) (ATMA ACD 2 2534)
HOVHANESS: Spirit of Trees, Sonata for harp & guitar - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), David Leisner (gtr) (Telarc CD 80530)
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