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With Andrew McGregor and William Mival

William Mival chooses five indispensable recordings of the music of Proms composer Richard Strauss and explains why you need to hear them, plus the best in new classical releases.

Andrew McGregor with a selection of the best new classical releases.

9.30
Proms Composer: Richard Strauss
William Mival chooses five indispensable recordings of Proms Composer Richard Strauss and explains why you need to hear them.

11.20
Proms Recording:
To end each edition of Summer Record Review, Andrew introduces the Building a Library recommendation of a major work featured in the Proms.
Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV 1066
Freiburger Barockorchester

2 hours, 44 minutes

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont (Overture)

    Narrator: Robert Hunger-B眉hler. Orchestra: Helsingin Barokkiorkesteri. Conductor: Aapo H盲kkinen.
    • Ondine.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Les Plaisirs de Versailles: D茅esse des discours

    Singer: Teresa Wakim. Singer: Virginia Warnken. Singer: Jesse Blumberg. Singer: Aaron Sheehan. Singer: Jason McStoots. Choir: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble. Director: Paul O鈥橠ette. Director: Stephen Stubbs.
    • CPO.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Les Plaisirs de Versailles: Ah, que ce chocolat foisonne

    Singer: Teresa Wakim. Singer: Virginia Warnken. Singer: Jesse Blumberg. Singer: Aaron Sheehan. Singer: Jason McStoots. Choir: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble. Director: Paul O鈥橠ette. Director: Stephen Stubbs.
    • CPO.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Les Plaisirs de Versailles: D茅esse un peu trop chatouilleuse

    Singer: Teresa Wakim. Singer: Virginia Warnken. Singer: Jesse Blumberg. Singer: Aaron Sheehan. Singer: Jason McStoots. Choir: Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble. Director: Paul O鈥橠ette. Director: Stephen Stubbs.
    • CPO.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Orange: Plan & Elevation i) The Ellipse

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Richard Strauss

    Elektra: "Ich habe keine guten N盲chte."

    Singer: Regina Resnik. Singer: Birgit Nilsson. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Elektra: "Wenn das rechte Blutopfer unterm Beile f盲llt"

    Singer: Regina Resnik. Singer: Birgit Nilsson. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • Warner classics.
  • Richard Strauss

    An Alpine Symphony: Auf dem Gipfel

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Richard Strauss

    An Alpine Symphony: Vision

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Wilhelm Furtw盲ngler.
    • DG.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier, Act II: Hat einen starken Geruch wie Rosen

    Singer: Christa Ludwig. Singer: Teresa Stich-Randall. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in G major, BWV916

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberfl枚te, K620: "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd sch枚n"

    Singer: Ernst Haefliger. Orchestra: RIAS Symphonie Orchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Edward Elgar

    Caractacus Scene 6: Processional Music

    Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Hob.XVI:21

    Performer: J茅r么me Hanta茂.
    • Mirare.
  • William Wordsworth

    Violin Concerto in A Major, Op. 60: II. Adagio cantabile

    Performer: Kamila Bydlowska. Orchestra: Liep膩ja Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Gibbons.
    • Wordsworth: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 302.
  • Robert de Vis茅e

    Prelude in G

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.
  • Robert de Vis茅e

    Les Sylvains de Mr. Couperin

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sigismondo, Act I: O tranquillo soggiorno! - Oggetto amabile (Live)

    Singer: Hera Hyesang Park. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson.
    • Rossini: Sigismondo (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 106.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sigismondo, Act I: Signora... Ah taci (Live)

    Singer: Hera Hyesang Park. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson.
    • Rossini: Sigismondo (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 107.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sigismondo, Act I: Di caccia il suono - Al bosco! Alla caccia! (Live)

    Singer: Hera Hyesang Park. Singer: Guido Loconsolo. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson.
    • Rossini: Sigismondo (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 108.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066

    Orchestra: Freiberg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Summer Record Review

9.00am

Beethoven: Egmont, Complete Incidental Music

Robert Hunger-B眉hle (narration)

Elisabeth Breuer (soprano)

Helsinki Baroque Orchestra

Aapo H盲kkinen (conductor)

Ondine ODE1331-2




MA Charpentier: Les Plaisirs de Versailles & Les Arts Florissants

Teresa Wakim (soprano)

Molly Netter (soprano)

Virginia Warnken (mezzo-soprano)

Aaron Sheehan (tenor)

Jesse Blumberg (baritone)

Margot Rood (soprano)

John Taylor Ward (baritone)

Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble,

Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble

Paul O'Dette (director)

Stephen Stubbs (director)

CPO 555 283-2

Caroline Shaw: Orange

Attacca Quartet

Nonesuch 7559-79260-9



9.30am 鈥 Proms Composer: William Mival on Richard Strauss

Composer: Richard Strauss

Reviewer: William Mival

Recommended Recordings:

Elektra听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Birgit Nilsson (Elektra)

Regina Resnik (Klyt盲mnestra)

Marie Collier (Chrystothemis)

Gerhard Stolze (Aegisth)

Tom Krause (Orest)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Georg Solti (conductor)

Decca 4173452

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28听听听 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 听听听听听听听听听听听

Staatskapelle Dresden

Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

Warner Classics 9029554251


An Alpine Symphony

Berlin Philharmonic

Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

DG 439 017-2

Metamorphosen听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Berlin Philharmonic

Wilhelm Furtw盲ngler (conductor)

DG 4770062

Der Rosenkavalier

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marschallin)

Christa Ludwig (Octavian)

Teresa Stich-Randall (Sophie)

Otto Edelmann (Ochs)

Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra

Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Warner 9668242

10.20am 鈥 New Releases

JS Bach: The Toccatas

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Hyperion CDA68244

The Ernst Haefliger Edition 鈥 A centenary set of Ernst Haefliger's Deutsche Grammophon

听recordings

Ernst Haefliger (tenor)

DG 4837122 (12 CDs)



Elgar: Caractacus

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Eigen)

Elgan Ll欧r Thomas (Orbin)

Roland Wood (Caractacus)

Christopher Purves (Arch-Druid, A Bard)

Alastair Miles (Claudius)

Huddersfield Choral Society

Orchestra of Opera North

Martyn Brabbins

Hyperion CDA68254 (2 CDs)

Haydn, Mozart: Sonates - Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K332, Piano Sonata No. 36 in C major, Hob.XVI:21, Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat major K282, Piano Sonata No. 44 in F major, Hob.XVI:29 and Piano Sonata No. 51 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:38

J茅r么me Hanta茂 (fortepiano)

Mirare MIR456

William Wordsworth: Orchestral Music, Volume Two - Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 28, Pastoral Sketches Op. 10 and Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 60

Kamila Bydlowska (violin)

Arta Arnic膩ne (piano)

Liep膩ja Symphony Orchestra

John Gibbons (conductor)

Toccata Classics TOCC0526

Ars longa: Old and new music for theorbo by Piccinini, Kasperger, Muhly etc

Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)

Linn CKD603

Rossini: Sigismondo

Hyesang Park (Aldimira)

Marianna Pizzolato (Sigismondo)

Rachel Kelly (Anagilda)

Kenneth Tarver (Ladislao)

Olga Watts (Hammerfl眉gel)

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Munich Radio Orchestra

Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor)

BR Klassik 900327 (2 CDs)


11.25am 鈥 Proms BAL Recommendation

Bach: Orchestral Suites: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066
Reviewer: Mark Lowther, December 2014

Recommended recording:
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Harmonia Mundi HMC902113/14 (2 CDs)

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