CD Review on 5th May 2012: Plenty of JSB

[Seán]

In this week’s programme (timings are approximate):

9.05am

Pachelbel and Bach - Canons and cantatas
BACH: Cantata BWV54 Widerstehe doch der Sunde; Cantata BWV4 Christ lag in Todesbanden ‘Easter Cantata’; Cantata BWV99 Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan; Goldberg Canons BWV1087
PACHELBEL: Christ lag in Todesbanden; Canon; Mein Fleisch ist die rechte Speise; Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan; Partie a 5 in G major; Christ ist erstanden The Bach Players, Nicolette Moonen (artistic director) HYPHEN PRESS MUSIC HPM005 (2CD, mid-price)


Bach contextueel
BACH: Praeludium in E minor BWV 548; Cantata Sehet Welch eine Liebe BWV 64; Fantasia Jesu meine Freude BWV 713; Motet Jesu Meine Freude BWV227; Cantata Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen BWV 81; Fugue in E minor BWV 548
Musica Amphion, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Pieter-Jan Belder (director)
ETCETERA KTC1440 (CD + book)


J S Bach - Motets
BACH: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV230; Komm, Jesu, komm BWV229; Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf BWV226; Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227; Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir BWV 228; Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV 225; Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn! BWV Anh.III 159
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG716 (CD)


Apocryphal Bach Masses II
BACH: Missa in G major BWV Anh. 167; Magnificat in C major BWV Anh. 30; Missa in A minor BWV Anh. 24; Sanctus in G major BWV 240; Sanctus in D minor BWV 239; Sanctus in C major BWV 237; Cantata BWV 150
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Solistenquartett der Musikhochschule Bremen, Alsfelder Vokalensemble, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Wolfgang Helbich (conductor)
CPO 7775612 (CD)


9.30am Building a Library

Jessica Duchen surveys recordings of Korngold’s Violin Concerto and makes a recommendation


10.15am New Releases

Nicholas Anderson joins Andrew to discuss recent Bach box sets


The RIAS Bach Cantas Project - Berlin 1949 to 1952
BACH Recordings from the RIAS archives
RIAS Kammerorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, RIAS Knabenchor, Karl Ristenpart (conductor)
AUDITE AUDITE21415 (9CD, budget)


The Complete Bach Edition
BACH complete works
Various performers
TELDEC 2564664202 (153CD + DVD, budget)


11.05am New Releases

Beethoven - Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 11
BEETHOVEN: Zwolf Variationen uber den russischen Tanz aus Das Waldmadchen, WoO71; Acht Variationen uber Une fievre brulante, WoO72; Zehn Variationen uber La stessa, la stessissima, WoO73; Sieben Variationen uber Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen, WoO75; Acht Variationen uber Tändeln und Scherzen, WoO76; Sechs Variationen uber ein eigenes Thema G-Dur, WoO77; Funfzehn Variationen mit einer Fuge Es-Dur, Op.35 (‘Eroica’ Variations)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
BIS BISSACD1673 (Hybrid SACD)


BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations Op. 120
Includes Diabelli Variations by Czerny, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Kerzkowsky, Kreutzer, Liszt, Moscheles, Pixis, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven
Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Conrad Graf)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902091 (CD)


SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E flat major Op.47; Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jerusalem Quartet: Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler (violins), Ori Kam (viola), Kyril Zlotnikov (cello)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902122 (CD)


BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
Anthony Marwood (violin), Aleksandar Madzar (piano)
WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0050 (CD)


11.40 am Disc of the Week

MASSENET: Don Quichotte
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Quichotte), Anna Kiknadze (Dulcinee), Andrei Serov (Sancho Panza), Eleonora Vindau (Pedro), Yulia Matochkina (Gardias), Carlos D’Onofrio (Rodriguez), Dmitry Koleushko (Juan), Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers Ensemble, Mariinsky Orchestra, Soloists’ Ensemble of the Mariinsky, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
MARIINSKY MAR0523 (2 Hybrid SACD)

[Ciaran]

The Ristenpart set of Bach Cantatas was enthusiastically welcomed in International Record Review recently (possibly by Nicholas Anderson*, who's talking about them here): I'll be interested to hear some excerpts.

* A man who has been impressed by my system!

[Diapason]

That's some solid name-dropping there, Ciaran. Nice work!

[Ciaran]

I thought I might as well when I had the opportunity!

[Seán]

I was very impressed with the Ristenpart Bach Cantata set:

The RIAS Bach Cantas Project - Berlin 1949 to 1952
BACH Recordings from the RIAS archives
RIAS Kammerorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, RIAS Knabenchor, Karl Ristenpart (conductor)
AUDITE AUDITE21415 (9CD, budget)

[fergus]

I was very impressed with the Ristenpart Bach Cantata set:

The RIAS Bach Cantas Project - Berlin 1949 to 1952
BACH Recordings from the RIAS archives
RIAS Kammerorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, RIAS Knabenchor, Karl Ristenpart (conductor)
AUDITE AUDITE21415 (9CD, budget)

I will give that a listen on the replay facility so.

[Seán]

I was very impressed with the Ristenpart Bach Cantata set:

The RIAS Bach Cantas Project - Berlin 1949 to 1952
BACH Recordings from the RIAS archives
RIAS Kammerorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, RIAS Knabenchor, Karl Ristenpart (conductor)
AUDITE AUDITE21415 (9CD, budget)

I will give that a listen on the replay facility so.

The Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performance played this morning was particularly good.

[Ciaran]

I thought the Ristenpart excerpts were delightful. His Bach dances! I think I'll be getting a Korngold Violin Concerto: some of the melodies are really taking hold. Certainly the Gil Shahan/Previn as recommended: those excerpts had a huge magnetism to them! And now I'm thinking seriously about the Teldec complete Bach again!