Booklists
Here's what's new in our libraries for March 2010 ... in our Classical Music CD collection.
Chamber Music (Yellow)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus ‘Clarinet quintet /Kegelstatt trio’
Wolfgang Meyer, basset clarinet ; Patrick Cohen, Hammerflgel ; Quatuor Mosaques
(Quintets MOZ, link)
Instrumental (Green)
Andsnes, Leif Ove ‘Pictures at an exhibition’
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano (Piano AND, link)
Bach, Johann Sebastian ‘Partitas 1, 5 & 6’
Murray Perahia, piano.(Piano BAC, link)
Brendel, Alfred ‘The farewell concerts’
Piano concerto no. 9 in E flat major, K271/ Mozart etc. ; Alfred Brendel, piano ; Wiener Philharmoniker, Charles Mackerras, conductor
(CD Piano BRE, link)
Du Phly, Jacques ‘Pices de clavecin’
Elisabeth Joyé, harpsichord
(Harpsichord DUP, link)
Moretti, Isabelle ‘Cantare la voix de la harpe’
Rondeau sure le trio / Boscha-- L'Alouette / Glinka, Balakirev-- Fantasie Op. 12 / Zabel etc.
Isabelle Moretti, harp ; Felicity Lott, soprano (Harp MOR, link)
Paganini, Nicolo ‘24 caprices’
James Ehnes, violin.
(CD Violin PAG, link)
Prokofiev, Sergey ‘The sonatas for piano’
3 sound discs ; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
(Piano PRO, link)
Queyras, Jean-Guihen ‘21st century cello concertos’ Work of Bruno Mantovani, Philippe Schoeller etc. ; Jean-Guihen Queyras, violoncello ; Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrcken ; Gnther Herbig, conductor etc. (Concertos/Cello QUE, link)
Rostropovich, Mstislav ‘Brahms cello sonata no. 1’
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello ; Sviatoslav Richter, piano ; Benjamin Britten, piano.
(Cello ROS, link)
Saint-Saens, Camille ‘Works for cello and piano’
Christian Poltéra, cello ; Kathryn Stott, piano
(Cello SAI, link)
Sarasate, Pablo de ‘Virtuoso violin works’
Gil Shaham , Adele Anthony, violins ; Akira Eguchi, piano; Orquesta Sinfnica de Castilla y Lon, Alejandro Posada, conductor
(Violin SAR, link)
Schubert, Franz ‘Schubert live. Volume one’
Imogen Cooper, live from the Southbank Centre (Piano SCH, link)
Schubert, Franz ‘Schubert live. Volume two’
Imogen Cooper, piano, live from the Southbank Centre (Piano SCH, link)
Stephens, Alison ‘Souvenirs for mandolin and guitar’ Alison Stephens, mandolin ; Craig Ogden, guitar (Other instruments STE, link)
Concerto / Orchestra / Symphony (Blue)
Arnold, Malcolm ‘Ballet music’
BBC Philharmonic ; Rumon Gamba, conductor
(Ballet ARN, link)
Bacewicz, Grazyna ‘Music for string orchestra’
New London Orchestra ; Ronald Corp, conductor (Orchestral BAC, link)
Cresswell, Lyell ‘The voice inside’
Madeleine Pierard, mezzo-soprano; Vesa-Matti Leppñen, violin; Michael Kirgan, trumpet; David Bremner, trombone; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ; James Judd, conductor.
(Concertos/Various CRE, link)
Glass, Philip ‘Symphony no. 7, Toltec’
Bruckner Orchester Linz ; Linz Opera Chorus ; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
(Symphonies GLA, link)
Martinu, Bohuslav ‘Piano concertos nos. 2 & 4, etc’ Robert Kolinsky, piano ; Sinfonieorchester Basel ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor (Orchestral MAR, link)
Medtner, Nikolay Karlovich ‘Piano concerto no. 2’ Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 50 / Nikolai Medtner -- Piano concerto no. 4 in G minor, op. 40 / Sergei Rachmaninov;
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano ; North Carolina Symphony ; Grant Llewellyn, conductor
(Concertos/Piano MED, link)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus ‘Piano concertos, 24, K491 & 23, K488’
Mitsuko Uchido, piano/conductor ; Cleveland Orchestra (Concertos/Piano MOZ, link)
Prokofiev, Sergey ‘Romeo & Juliet’
London Symphony Orchestra ; Valery Gergiev, conductor (Ballet PRO, link)
Ravel, Maurice ‘Ballet and dance music’
Daphnis et Chlo. Suite no. 2-- Valses nobles et sentimentales-- La valse ; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra ; Yannick Nžet-Sguin, conductor (Orchestral RAV, link)
Schilli, Stefan ‘Oboe concertos’
Concerto for oboe and small orchestra / Martinů -- Concerto for oboe and small orchestra / Zimmermann -- Concerto for oboe and small orchestra/ Richard Strauss
Stefan Schilli, oboe ; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ; Mariss Jansons, conductor (Concertos/Oboe SCH, link)
Stravinsky, Igor ‘Chamber works and rarities’ Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and director ; European Soloists Ensemble ; Sinfonietta de Montréal ;Charles Dutoit, conductor; Cleveland Orchestra ; Riccardo Chailly L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor
(Orchestral STR, link)
Tchaikovsky, Peter ‘1812 overture Moscow cantata’ 1812 festival overture -- "Moscow" cantata-- Slavonic march etc.
(Orchestral TCH, link)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph ‘Piano concertos’
Ashley Wass, piano ; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ; James Judd, conductor
(Orchestral VAU, link)
Wiener Philharmonike ‘Neujahrskonzert New Years Concert : 2010’
Die fledermaus / Johan Strauss II -- Frauenherz/ Josef Strauss -- Im krapfenwald'I / Johan Strauss II etc. ;Georges Prêtre, conductor
(Orchestral WIE, link)
Opera /Religious/ Vocal etc. (Red)
Clerks' Group ‘Don't talk - just listen’
Five motets / Robert Saxton ; Thou wast present as on this day / Antony Pitts etc.
The Clerks ; The Choir of St Catharine's College, Cambridge ; Edward Wickham, director
(Religious CLE, link)
Davies, Peter Maxwel ‘Taverner opera in two acts’ Fiona Kimm, mezzo-soprano ; Martyn Hill, tenor ; Michael Chance, countertenor ; David Wilson-Johnson, etc.; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Fretwork ; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts ; London Voices ; New London Children's Choir ; Oliver Knussen, conductor.
(Operas DAV, link)
Donizetti, Gaetano ‘L'elisir d'amore’
Mirella Freni, Emily Maire, sopranos ; Luigi Alva, tenor ; Enzo Sordello, baritone ; Sesto Bruscantini, bass-baritone ; the Glyndebourne Chorus ; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Carlo Felice Cillario, conductor.
(Operas DON, link)
Mascagni, Pietro ‘L'amico Fritz’
Angela Gheorghiu, Andión Fernández, sopranos ; Laura Polverelli, mezzo-soprano ; Roberto Alagna, Yosep Kang, tenors ; George Petean, baritone ; Hyung-Wook Lee, bass-baritone ; Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin ; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin ; Alberto Veronesi, conductor. (Operas MAS, link)
Purcell, Henry ‘The food of love’
Paul Agnew (tenor); Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol); Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo, guitar); Blandine Rannou (harpsichord, organ)
(Songs PUR, link)
Rorem, Ned ‘On an echoing road’
The Prince Consort (Anna Leese, soprano ; Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano ; Andrew Staples, tenor ; Tim Mead, countertenor ; Jacques Imbrailo, baritone ; Alisdair Hogarth, artistic director & piano).
(Songs ROR, link)
Schoeck, Othmar ‘Notturno’
A song cycle; words by Nikolaus Lenau and Gottfried Keller
Rosamunde Quartett: Andreas Reiner, violin ; Diane Pascal, violin ; Helmut Nicolai, viola ; Anja Lechner, violoncello ; with Christian Gerhaher, baritone. (Songs SCH, link)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph ‘Folk songs of the four seasons’ Choir of Clare College Cambridge ; English Voices ; Dmitri Ensemble ; Sir David Willcocks, conductor (Cantatas VAU, link)
Vivaldi, Antonio ‘Pyrotechnics opera arias’
Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano ; Europa Galante ; Fabio Biondi, violin, conductor
(Operas VIV, link)
Wagner, Richard ‘Father and son scenes and arias’ Simon O'Neill, tenor ; Susan Bullock (Sieglinde) ; Sir John Tomlinson (Hagen) ; Thomas Grace (Gunther) ; NBR New Zealand Opera ; Chapman Tripp Chorus (tracks 7-10) ; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ; Pietari Inkinen, conductor. (Operas WAG, link)
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