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



9.05am

Venice by Night
Arias and concertos by Pollarolo, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Veracini and Porta.
For full track-listing see www.avie-records.com/album_detail.php?id=575
Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Simon Munday (trumpet), Peter Whelan (bassoon) La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (conductor) AVIE AV2257 (CD)


Notte Veneziana
VIVALDI arr. KLIERNE: Concerto in D major RV 93; Concerto in G major RV 310; Concerto in G major RV 299; Concerto in F minor ‘Winter’ RV297
MARCELLO: Concerto in D Minor
PARISH ALVARS: 'La Mandoline' Op. 84
ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor
PESCETTI: Sonata in C minor
GODEFROID: Carnaval de Venise Op. 184
Xavier de Maistre (harp), l’arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (artistic director)
SONY 88697937732 (CD)


Mr de Machy - Pieces de viole: Suites de danses. Paris, 1685
DE MACHY: Suite VIII in A major; Suite I in D minor; Suite IV G major; Suite V in D minor
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
GLOSSA GCD920413 (CD)


LAWES: Consorts to the Organ
Phantasm with Daniel Hyde (organ)
For full track listing see www.linnrecords.com/recording-lawes.aspx
LINN CKD399 (Hybrid SACD)


9.30am Building a Library

Stephen Johnson surveys recordings of Symphony no.5 by Sibelius and makes a recommendation


10.20am

1612 Italian Vespers
BARBARINO / A. GABRIELI / G. GABRIELI / MONTEVERDI / PALESTRINA / VIADANA / SORIANO: Vespers
I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth (conductor)
DECCA 4783506 (CD)


Arias for Guadagni
HANDEL: O Lord whose mercies numberless; The raptur’d soul; Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay; Destructive war
HASSE: Ah che dissi!; Se resto sul lido; Odi cola la frigia tromba?; A trionfar mi chiama
SMITH: Say lovely Dream!
ARNE: Vengeance O come inspire me!
C.P.E. BACH: Orchester-Sinfonie in D major H663
VON GLUCK: Ah! non turbi il mio riposo; Ballo The Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Arioso Che puro ciel!; Recitative Ahimè! Dove trascorsi?; Aria Che farò senza Euridice?
GUADAGNI: Pensa a serbarmi, o cara
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67924 (CD)


Johann Adolph Hasse - Reloaded
HASSE: Didone abbandonata; La Gelosia; Artaserse
Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor), Hofkapelle Munchen, Michael Hofstetter (conductor)
OEHMS OC830 (CD)


Le Triomphe de l’amour
GRETRY: Je romps la chaîne qui m’engage; Overture
LULLY: Enfin j’ai dissipe la crainte
RAMEAU: L’Amour est le dieu de la paix; Sarabande; Je vole amour; Viens hymen
REBEL & FRANCOEUR: Overture; Tout est pret
CAMPRA: Espoir des malheureux
CHARPENTIER: A-t-on jamais souffert
FAVART: Pauvre nise!
SACCHINI: Que l’Eclat de la victoire se repande sur vos jours
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Les Paladins, Jerome Correas (conductor)
NAIVE OP30532 (CD)


10.55am New Releases

Rob Cowan joins Andrew to discuss some recent releases from archives of Japanese radio of concert recordings of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from the 1950s to the 1990s

WAGNER: Gotterdammerung: Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine Journey & Funeral March; Siegfried: Waldweben; Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts 1 & 3; Rienzi: Overture; Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade Suite
RIMSKY KORSOKOV: Scheherazade Op. 35
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Horst Stein (conductor)
Recorded in 1973, 1975 and 1990
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2011/2 (2CD)


SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major D944 'The Great'
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Gunter Wand (conductor)
Recorded in 1979 and 1983
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2015/6 (2CD)


BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor; Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Otmar Suitner (conductor)
Recorded in 1971 and 1980
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2009/10 (2CD)


MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major K216
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 61*
Isaac Stern (violin), NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Kurt Woss (conductor), Jean Martinon (conductor)*
Recorded in 1953
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2003/4 (2CD)


MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K491
HANDEL trans. HEIDSIECK: Passacaglia HWV432
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 'Organ’
DEBUSSY: Prelude à l'apres-midi d'un faune; Nocturnes
DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
RAVEL: Bolero
Eric Heidsieck (piano), Andre Isoir (organ), NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Pierre Dervaux (conductor)
Recorded in 1978
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2013/4 (2CD)


BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major Op. 73 'Emperor'; Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op. 58*
SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23*
Walter Gieseking (piano), Emil Gilels (piano)*, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Kurt Woss (conductor), Wilhelm Loibner (conductor)*
Recorded in 1953 and 1957
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2001/2 (2CD)


RAVEL:Piano Concerto in G major
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15*; Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op. 58*^
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Friedrich Gulda (piano)*
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Alexander Rumpf (conductor), Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)*, Lovro von Matacic (conductor)^
Recorded in 1965, 1967 and 1969
KING INTERNATIONAL INC. KKC2005/6 (2CD)


11.45am Disc of the Week


BERLIOZ: Herminie; Les Nuits d’ete
RAVEL: Sheherazade
Véronique Gens (soprano), Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, John Axelrod (conductor)
ONDINE ODE12002 (CD)