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Building a Library: Strauss: Oboe Concerto

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Strauss: Oboe Concerto; music by Panufnik and Maxwell Davies; Disc of the Week: Desperate Heroines: Mozart opera arias.

3 hours, 12 minutes

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  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart arias

    Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Conductor: Ivor Bolton. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
    • Na茂ve: V5366.
    • 狈补茂惫别.
    • 5.

9.00am

Musette & Tambourin (Les Fetes d'Hebe - opera-ballet)听

Performers:听听听听 Musicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis听听听听听听

Composers:听听听 Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)听听听听听听听听听听听

Album Title:听听听听 Sony Classical: 88843082572 听听听听听听听听听听

Rasverzi pyos gorani, laya (Altsesta - opera in 3 acts) 听听听听听听听听

Performers:听听听听 Cecilia Bartoli, I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis听听听

Composers:听听听 Hermann Raupach (1728 - 1788)听听听听听

Album Title:听听听听 Decca 478 6767 听听听听听听听

Se viver non degg鈥檌o (Mitridate, Re di Ponto - opera in 3 acts K.87) 听听听听听听听听听听听

Performers:听听听听 Miah Persson and Sophie Bevan (sopranos), Classical Opera, Ian Page听听听听

Composers:听听听 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)听听听听

Album Title:听听听听 Signum Classics: SIGCD400 听听听听听听听听听听听 (4CD)

24 Preludes Op.28 for piano 听

Performers:听听听听 Ingrid Fliter听听听听听

Composers:听听听 Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849)听听听听听听听听听

Album Title:听听听听 Linn Records: CKD 475 (Hybrid SACD)听听听听听听听

9.30am Building a Library

Sarah Devonald compares recordings of Strauss鈥檚 Oboe Concerto and makes a recommendation:听

Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

STRAUSS, R: Symphonia Domestica Op. 53; Oboe Concerto in D; Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64; Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon & Strings, AV147

Jonathan Small (oboe), Nicholas Cox (clarinet), Alan Pendlebury (bassoon), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz (conductor)

AVIE AV2071 (2CD mid-price)

10.15am

Moments musicaux Op.16 for piano听

Performers:听听听听 Lazar Berman

Composers:听听听 Sergey Rakhmaninov (1873 - 1943)听

Album Title:听听听听 Eloquence: 480 7078

24 Preludes Op.34 for piano 听

Performers:听听听听 Lazar Berman

Composers:听听听 Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)听听

Album Title:听听听听 Eloquence: 480 7075

Sonata no. 2 in D minor Op.14 for piano 听听听听听听

Performers:听听听听 Lazar Berman

Composers:听听听 Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)听听听听听听听听

Album Title:听听听听 Eloquence: 480 7075

10.30am New Releases

William Mival talks to Andrew about recent releases of concertos by Andrzej Panufnik in the composer's centenary year and vocal works by Peter Maxwell Davies, 80 last month.听

Miss Donnithorne's Maggot & Other Stories Blu-Ray & DVD

DAVIES, MAXWELL: Miss Donnithorne's Maggot

Alison Wells (mezzo)

ARTIST RECORDING CO. DVDBRARCD2001 (DVD Video 鈥揃lu-Ray)

Peter Maxwell Davies: Black Pentecost & Stone Litany

DAVIES, MAXWELL: Black Pentecost; Stone Litany

Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), 成人快手 Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor)

NAXOS 8572359 (CD budget)

Kalevi Aho: Horn Concerto & Theremin Concerto

AHO: Concerto for Horn and Chamber Orchestra; Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra 'Acht Jahreszeiten'

Annu Salminen (horn), Carolina Eyck (theremin), Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)

BIS BIS2036 (Hybrid SACD)

Panufnik: Symphonic Works Volume 8

PANUFNIK, A: Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto

Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Ewa Kupiec (piano), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lukasz Borowicz

CPO 7776872 (CD)

Zimmermann: Alagoana, Sinfonie in einem Satz, Photoptosis & Stille und Umkehr

ZIMMERMANN, B A: Alagoana. Caprichos Brasileiros; Sinfonie in einem Satz; Photoptosis - Prelude for large orchestra; Stille und Umkehr

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens

CAPRICCIO C5213 (CD)

11.25am Reissues: Haydn/Festetics Quartet

HAYDN: String Quartets (complete)

Festetics Quartet

ARCANA A378 (19CD budget)

11.50am Disc of the Week

Mozart: Desperate Heroines

MOZART: L'ho perduta, me meschina (from Le Nozze di Figaro); Non mi dir (from Don Giovanni); Geme la tortorella (from La finta giardiniera); Pallid鈥檕mbre (from Mitridate, re di Ponto); Deh vieni, non tardar (from Le nozze di Figaro); Crudeli, oh dio! (from La Finta Giardiniera); Se il padre perdei (from Idomeneo); Fra i pensier piu funesti (from Lucio Silla); L'amero, saro costante (from Il re pastore)

Sandrine Piau (soprano), Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Ivor Bolton (conductor)

NAIVE V5366 (CD)

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 09:00

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