September 2011 – July 2012

September 2011 – July 2012

Unless otherwise stated, all recommendations were available in the UK at the time of the broadcast. Where this wasn’t the case, we also gave a recommendation that was available at the time. However CD Review cannot guarantee that availability status has not changed since the broadcast. Also, all recommendations are at full-price unless otherwise stated.

Previous editions of this factsheet are available from the CD Review website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cdreview

Andras Schiff (piano)

ECM 4721852 (CD)
Harpsichord Recommendation:
BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988

Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

DECCA 4757079 (Download)




BACH: St Matthew Passion Jeremy Summerly

07/04/2012

BACH: Matthew Passion

Nicholas Mulroy (Evangelist), Matthew Brook (Jesus), Susan Hamilton and Cecilia Osmond (sopranos), Clare Wilkinson and Annie Gill (altos), Malcolm Bennett (tenor), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass), Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt (director)

LINN CKD313 (3 Hybrid SACDs)

Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

ORFEO C600031B (CD, mid-price)

BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique Stephen Johnson

15/10/2011

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

LSO Live LSO0007 (CD)




BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet Colin Lawson

03/12/2011

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

c/w MOSCHELES: Variations and Finale

SCHUMANN: Marchenerzahlungen for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Op. 132

Richard Hosford (clarinet), Nash Ensemble

WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0007 (CD, midprice)

BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34

London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

c/w Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Op. 33;

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Matinees musicales Op. 24; Soirees musicales Op. 9

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor)

DECCA 4256592 (CD)

Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

TESTAMENT SBT21436 (2-CD)
Single disc choice:
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

BR KLASSIK 900703 (CD)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor)

(Live recording 1944)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4740302 (download)

CHOPIN: Mazurkas.

Adam Harasiewicz (piano)

NIFC NIFCCD208-209 (2-CD)

Pierre Fournier (cello), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4741672, 4291552 or 4238812 (download)
Pierre Fournier - Aristocrat of the Cello

DVORAK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104

Pierre Fournier (cello), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

c/w various works featuring Pierre Fournier (cello) with various artists

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ORIGINAL MASTERS 4775939 (6CD, mid-price)

Recommendation available on single CD:
DVORAK: Concerto in B minor for Cello and Orchestra Op. 104

c/w VON DOHNANYI: Konzertstuck in D major for Cello and Orchestra Op. 12

Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

CHANDOS CHAN10715X (CD, budget)

DVORAK Symphony No. 8

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

LSO LIVE LSO0002 (CD, budget)

ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor Op.61

c/w: The Prelude from ‘The Kingdom’; The Prelude and Angel's Farewell from ‘The Dream of Gerontius’

Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Halle, Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

HALLE CDHLL7521 (CD)

FAURE: Nocturnes Stephen Plaistow

12/11/2011

FAURE: Nocturnes 1–13

Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (piano)

TESTAMENT SBT1262 (CD - mono, rec. 1956)

GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F

Andre Previn (piano), Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra

c/w Rhapsody in Blue~, An American in Paris*

Columbia Symphony Orchestra~, New York Philharmonic*, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)~*

SONY 82876787682 (CD, mid-price)

GESUALDO: Gioite voi col canto; S'io non miro non moro; Itene, o miei sospiri; Dolcissima mia vita; O dolorosa gioia; Qual fora, donna, un dolce Ohime; Felicissimo sonno; Se vi duol il mio duolo; Occhi del mio cor vita; Languisce al fin chi da la vita parte; Merce grido piangendo; O voi, troppo felici; Correte, amanti, a prova; Asciugate i begli occhi; Tu m'uccidi, oh crudele; Deh, coprite il bel seno; Poiche l'avida sete; O tenebroso giorno; Se tu fuggi, io non resto; T'amo mia vita, la mia cara vita

La Venexiana

GLOSSA GCD920935 (CD)

The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM ECM8438672 (2-CD)

HANDEL: Giulio Cesare Sarah Lenton

10/12/2011

Overall recommendation (DVD):
HANDEL: Giulio Cesare

Andreas Scholl (Giulio Cesare); Inger Dam-Jensen (Cleopatra); Randi Steene (Cornelia); Tuva Semmingsen (Sesto); Christopher Robson (Tolomeo); Palle Knudsen (Achilla); James Huw Jeffries (Nireno); Concerto Copenhagen; Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor); Francisco Negrin (director)

RTV Denmark production at the Danish Royal Theatre

HARMONIA MUNDI HMD9909008-09 (2 DVD)

(In an English translation by Brian Trowell)

Dame Janet Baker (Julius Caesar); Christopher Booth-Jones (Curio); Sarah Walker (Cornelia); Della Jones (Sextus); Valerie Masterson (Cleopatra); James Bowman (Ptolemy); John Tomlinson (Achillas); David James (Nirenus); English National Opera Chorus; English National Opera Orchestra; Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

CHANDOS Opera in English CHAN3019 (3 CD, mid-price)

Lindsay String Quartet

ASV CDDCA937 and CDDCA938

CD recommendation:
HAYDN: String Quartets Op. 33

Casals Quartet

HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2962022-23 (2-CD)

HAYDN: Symphony no 100 in G Robert Phillip

17/09/2011

HAYDN: Symphony No. 100 in G Major ‘Military’

c/w: HAYDN: Symphony No. 103 in E Flat Major ‘Drumroll’, Symphony No. 101 in D Major ‘The Clock’, Symphony No. 104 in D Major ‘London’

Orchestra of St. Lukes, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

TELARC 2-CD80758 (2-CD Budget price)

KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto Jessica Duchen

05/05/2012

KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D major Op.35

c/w BARBER: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.14

KORNGOLD: Much ado about nothing (Incidental Music)

Gil Shaham (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4398862 (CD)

LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor Kenneth Hamilton

22/10/2011

LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor S178

c/w Two Polonaises S223; Two Ballades S170 and S171; Berceuse S174 (first version)

Stephen Hough (piano)

HYPERION CDA67085 (CD)

MAHLER: Symphony no 8 Julian Johnson

26/11/2011

MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of the Thousand'

Cheryl Studer, Sylvia McNair and Andrea Rost (sopranos), Anne Sofie von Otter and Rosemarie Lang (altos), Peter Seiffert (tenor), Bryn Terfel (baritone), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass), Berlin Radio Choir, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Tolz Boys’ Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4458432 (2-CD)

Soile Isokoski (soprano), Monica Groop (alto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Petteri Salomaa (bass), La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901463-64 (2-CD, mid-price)

MESSIAEN: Turangalila Symphony Jeremy Thurlow

26/05/2012

MESSIAEN: Turangalila Symphony

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Dominique Kim (Ondes Martenot), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)

TELDEC 8573820432 (CD)

c/w Symphony No. 1 in E flat major K16; Symphony No. 25 in G minor K183

Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

(Recorded live at the European Music Festival Stuttgart 2006)

HAENSSLER HAEN093211 (CD)

Historic Recommendation:
MOZART: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”

c/w BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

MEDICI ARTS MM0192 (CD)

MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration)

c/w A Night on the Bare Mountain;The Destruction of Sennacherib; Salammbo - Chorus of Priestesses; Oedipus in Athens - Chorus of People in the Temple; Joshua

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4452382 (CD)

NIELSEN: Symphony no 4 David Fanning

03/03/2012

NIELSEN: Symphony no. 4

San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

c/w Symphony 5; Symphony 6; Little Suite Op.1*; Hymnis Amoris Op.12*

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra*, Ulf Schirmer (conductor) *

DECCA 4609882 (2-CD, budget)

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in Bb major Op.100

c/w Symphony No. 1 in D major Op.25 ‘Classical’

Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4372532 (CD, mid-price)




PUCCINI: Turandot Roger Parker

07/07/2012

PUCCINI: Turandot

Joan Sutherland (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballe (Liu), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth Schools Boys’ Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta (conductor)

DECCA 4142742 (2-CD)

Lucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams (Winter/Sleep/Coridon/Hymen), Sally Dexter (Titania), Joseph Millson (Oberon), Desmond Barrit (Bottom), Susannah Wise (Hermia), Oliver Le Suer (Demetrius), Oliver Kieran Jones (Lysander), Jotham Annan (Puck), The Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor), Jonathan Kent (stage director)

Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House on 17th & 19th July 2009

BBC OPUS ARTE OA1031D (2 DVD) and OABD7065D (Blu-ray)

Gillian Fisher, Lorna Anderson, Ann Murray, Michael Chance, Ian Partridge, John Mark Ainsley, Michael George, Richard Suart, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

CORO 16005 (2-CD, mid-price)

RACHMANINOV: Symphony no 2 William Mival

04/02/2012

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No. 2

c/w Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 (arrangement for orchestra); Aleko - Intermezzo and Women's Dance

London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)

EMI MASTERS 0852892 (CD, mid-price)

SCHUBERT: Sonata in C minor D958 Harriet Smith

24/03/2012

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No.19 in C minor D.958

c/w Piano Sonata No.20 in A D.959

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

PHILIPS 4565792 (Download) or 4756282 (8CD, budget)




SCHUBERT: String Quartet no 14 in D minor D810 Misha Donat

31/03/2012

Top recommendation (currently unavailable, but see below for details of a previous CD release):
SCHUBERT: String Quartet no.14 in D minor D.810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Amadeus Quartet

(Recorded in1981)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4294912 (CD)

Busch Quartet

(Recorded in 1936)

EMI 3615882 (CD, budget)

Lindsay Quartet

ASV CDDCA560 (CD, mid-price) and RESONANCE CDRSB403 (4CD, budget)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63 Erica Jeal

17/12/2011

Recommendation:
SCHUMANN: Piano Trio Op. 63

c/w HAYDN: Piano Trios H.XV Nos. 16 & 19

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trios WoO38 & Op. 97

FAURE: Piano Quartet Op. 15

Leonid Kogan (violin), Rudolf Barshai (viola), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Emil Gilels (piano)

(Recorded 1958)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4777476 (2-CD, budget)

The Florestan Trio: Anthony Marwood (violin), Richard Lester (cello), Susan Tomes (piano)

HYPERION CDA67063 (CD, mid-price)

SIBELIUS: Symphony no 5 Stephen Johnson

16/06/2012

c/w Symphony no.6

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

LSO LIVE LSO0537 (Hybrid SACD, mid-price)

Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano)*, Peter Mattei (baritone)*, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Recorded live at the Barbican, London 2002-2008

LSO LIVE LSO0191 (4CD, budget)

c/w Ruslan and Ludmilla; Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture; The Tempest - Symphonic Fantasia Op. 18; The Voyevode - Symphonic Ballad Op. 78; The Storm Op. 76; Capriccio Italien Op. 45; Marche slave Op. 31; Mazeppa

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

EMI 5176242 (2-CD)

c/w STRAVINSKY: Divertimento; Ballet Suite from Le baiser de la fee (The Fairy’s Kiss)

Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

PENTATONE PTC5186061 (Hybrid SACD)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Pique Dame

Andrei Ivanov and Pavel Lisitsian (baritones), Georgi Nelepp (tenor), Evgenia Verbitskaya, Naina-Elena Korneyeva and Veronika Borisenko (mezzo sopranos),

Evgenia Smolenskaya (soprano), Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Chorus, Alexander Melik-Pashaev (conductor)

http://www.brilliantclassics.com/release.aspx?id=FM00394943

BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93980 (60 CD + CD-ROM)

Maria Guleghina and Olga Borodina (sopranos), Gegam Grigorian (tenor), Vladimir Chernov (baritone), Kirov Opera and Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

DECCA 4381412 (3CD)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony no 3 in D "Polish" Rob Cowan

30/06/2012

Top Recommendation (only available as a download):
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.3 in D “Polish”

London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch (conductor)

DECCA 4461482 (download)
Recommendation available on CD:
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.3 in D “Polish”

c/w GLINKA: Symphony on Two Russian Themes

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No.1 “Classical”

USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Recorded in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in August 1968

BBC LEGENDS BBCL41452 (CD)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony no. 4 in F minor

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

c/w: The Wasps – Overture*; Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis*

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra*, Constantin Silvestri (conductor)*

Oboe Concerto in A minor~; Symphony no.6 in E minor~

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra~, Paavo Berglund (conductor)~

Symphony no.5 in D^

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra^, Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor)^

EMI BRITISH COMPOSERS 2161462 (2-CD, budget)

Placido Domingo (Otello), Sherrill Milnes (Jago), Renata Scotto (Desdemona), Frank Little (Cassio), Paul Crook (Rodrigo), Paul Plishka (Lodovico), Malcolm King (Montano), Jean Kraft (Emilia), Malcolm King (Araldo), National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)

SONY 88697448202 (2-CD, mid-price)
DVD Recommendation:
VERDI: Otello

Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Àlvarez (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Stephen Langridge (stage director)

C MAJOR 701408 (DVD) and 701504 (Bluray)

VIVALDI: Opera survey David Vickers

28/04/2012

VIVALDI: L'Olimpiade RV725

Sara Mingardo (Licida); Roberta Invernizzi (Megacle); Sonia Prina (Aristea); Marianna Kulikova (Argene); Laura Giordano (Aminta); Riccardo Novaro (Clistene); Sergio Foresti (Alcantro); Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

NAIVE OP30316 (3CD)

WALTON: Belshazzar’s Feast

c/w VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Job - A Masque for Dancing

Bryn Terfel (baritone) / BBC Singers / BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Andrew Davis (conductor)

Warner Apex 0927 44394 (CD, budget)

WOLF: Spanish Songbook Hilary Finch

02/06/2012

Top recommendation (only available as a download):
WOLF: Spanish Songbook (complete)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4577262 (Download)
Recommendation available on CD:
WOLF: 24 songs from ‘Spanish Songbook’

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

EMI 5621882 (7CD)
Further recommendation on CD:
WOLF: 10 songs from ‘Spanish Songbook’

Irmgard Seefried (Soprano), Markus Werba (baritone)

ORFEO C614031B (CD)

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