Summer Cd Review
First broadcast from 20070818 to 20080913.
6 episodes
| First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|
| 20070818 | Andrew McGregor introduces the latest releases, and looks at some of the CDs of the past season chosen by the CD Review critics and listeners. Including from 9.05am Howard Skempton: Rise up, my love Exaudi James Weeks (conductor) Stanford: Piano Trio No 3, Op 158 Gould Piano Trio Bach: English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV 807 Carole Cerasi (harpsichord) From 10.15am Mahler: Symphony No 5 (1st mvt) Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela Gustavo Dudamel (conductor) Arne Nordheim: Listen (Inside Outside) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) Mats Claesson (live electronics) From 11.00am Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C (Jupiter) Freiberg Baroque Orchestra Rene Jacobs (conductor) 12.15pm Disc of the Week: Buxtehude (attrib.): Das Jungste Gerichte Weser-Renaissance Bremen Manfred Cordes (director). |
| 20070901 | Andrew McGregor introduces the latest releases and looks at some of the CDs of the past season chosen by the CD Review critics and listeners. From 9.05am Mozart: Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495 Teunis van der Zwart (natural horn) Freiberg Baroque Orchestra Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor) Peteris Vasks: Pater noster Latvian Radio Choir Riga Sinfonietta Sigvards Klava (conductor) Mahler: Das klagende Lied (excerpt) Marina Shaguch (soprano) Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano) Thomas Moser (tenor) Sergei Leferkus (baritone) San Francisco Orchestra and Chorus Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) From 10.00am Beethoven: Andante con variazioni from the Kreutzer Sonata, Op 47 Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) Beethoven: Larghetto from Violin Concerto in D, Op 61 Isabelle Faust (violin) The Prague Philharmonia Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Shostakovich: Symphony No 13 (excerpt) Serge Aleksashkin (baritone) St Petersburg PO Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) From 11.00am The latest releases from Ton Koopman's Buxtehude cycle played on historic German organs. Including Buxtehude: Chorale Prelude: Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223. From 11.50am Andrew McGregor samples three new releases featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy as both pianist and conductor, including his 'A Personal Collection' which includes seven discs of his favourite recordings. 12.30am Disc of the Week: Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto funebre for violin and string orchestra Alina Ibragimova (violin) Britten Sinfonia. |
| 20080823 | Andrew McGregor introduces a summer edition of the programme, with a chance to request and catch up with some of the best new recordings of the past few months. Mozart: Concerto in G, K216 Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Orchestra Mozart Claudio Abbado (conductor) Highlights from three new archive DVDs of great pianists: Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka Alexis Weissenberg (piano) Chopin: Etudes (selection) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Shostakovich: Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 (selection) Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) Hindemith: Kammermusik No 3 for cello and 10 instruments, Op 36 Anner Bylsma (cello) Concerto Amsterdam Brahms: Trio in E flat, Op 40 Teunis van der Zwart (horn) Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) |
| 20080830 | Andrew Mcgregor presents some of the best new recordings of the past few months. Including: Debussy: Suite bergamasque Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Foerster: Violin Concerto No 1 in C minor, Op 88 Ivan Zenaty (violin) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Nigel Hess: Concerto for piano and orchestra (excerpt) Lang Lang (piano) London Chamber Orchestra Christopher Warren-green (conductor) Franck: Sonata in A David Oistrakh (violin) Vladimir Yampolsky (piano) Tippett: A Child of Our Time (excerpt) Soloists London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Colin Davis (conductor) |
| 20080906 | Andrew McGregor introduces some of the best new recordings of the past few months. Including: Bach: English Suite No 4 in F, BWV 809 Murray Perahia (piano) Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2 in G Dimitri Maslennikov (cello) NDR Symphony Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) Excerpts from Netherlands Opera's cycle of Mozart's Da Ponte operas: Cosi fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Ingo Metzmacher conducts productions by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, with ensemble casts including Sally Matthews, Danielle de Niese and Garry Magee. Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat, Op 100 (excerpt) Russian National Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K333 Stephen Hough (piano) |
| 20080913 | Andrew McGregor introduces a summer edition of the programme, with a chance to request and catch up with some of the best new recordings of the past few months. Including: Beethoven: Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 (excerpts) Ronald Brautigam (piano) Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra Andrew Parrott (conductor) Tapiola Sinfonietta Olli Mustonen (piano/conductor) Alexander Goehr: Little Symphony, Op 15 London Symphony Orchestra Norman Del Mar (conductor) Mahler: Symphony No 3 (excerpt) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) BBC Symphony Orchestra Adrian Boult (conductor) Excerpts from Margaret Leng Tan's most recent DVD, championing the toy piano in music by John Cage and Eric Satie Bach: Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 Soloists Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki (director) Tippett: Piano Sonata No 1 Margaret Kitchin (piano) |