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

09.05am

DVORAK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53; Legends Op 59 Richard Tognetti (violin) / Nordic Chamber Orchestra / Christian Lindberg (conductor) BIS BISCD1708 (CD)

DVORAK: String Quartet No 10 in E flat major Op 51 B92; String Quartet No 11 in C major Op 61 B121; String Quartet No 13 in G major Op 106 B192; String Quartet No 14 in A flat major Op 105 B193; String Quintet No 3 in E flat major Op 97 'American'*; Cypresses for string quartet B152 Emerson String Quartet / *Paul Neubauer (viola) Deutsche Grammophon 4778765 (3CD, mid price)

DVORAK: String Quartet No 11 in C major Op 61 B121; String Quartet No 12 in F major Op 96 'American'
Wihan Quartet
Nimbus NI6114 (CD)


09.30am Building a Library

CARISSIMI: Historia di Jephta

Reviewer – David Vickers

The first choice recommendation will be placed on the CD Review website on Monday.

Next week Andrew discusses recent recordings of Mahler Symphonies with Edward Seckerson and Julian Johnson.

Search the Building a Library database for recommendations since 2005 via the CD Review website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/cdreview


10.20am Recent Releases

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 3 in E flat major Op 12 No 3; Violin Sonata No 9 in A major Op 47 ‘Kreutzer'
Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Onyx ONYX4050 (CD)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58; Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op 73 'Emperor'
Till Fellner (piano) / Montreal Symphony Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor) ECM New Series 4763315 (CD)


10.40am New Releases

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47 San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor) Avie Keeping Score 82193600352 (CD, mid price)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 7 in C major Op 60 'Leningrad'
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) Signum SIGCD194 (CD)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 8 in C minor Op 65 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor) Naxos 8572392 (CD, budget)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 11 in G minor Op 103 'The year 1905'
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) BIS BISSACD1583 (Hybrid SACD)

PROKOFIEV: Suite from Cinderella (arr Michael Pletnev); SHOSTAKOVICH: Suite for two pianos in F sharp major Op 6 Ufuk Dorduncu (piano) / Bahar Dorduncu (piano) Hat Hut Records hat[now]ART 177 (CD)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 16; Piano Concerto No 3 in C major Op 26; Piano Sonata No 2 in D minor Op 14 Freddy Kempf (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton (conductor) BIS BISSACD1820 (Hybrid SACD)


11.50am Disc of the Week

SHOSTAKOVICH: Complete Preludes and Fugues Alexander Melnikov (piano) Harmonia Mundi HMC902019-20 (2CD + CD/DVD, mid price)

10.20am Recent Releases

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 3 in E flat major Op 12 No 3; Violin Sonata No 9 in A major Op 47 ‘Kreutzer'
Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Onyx ONYX4050 (CD)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58; Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op 73 'Emperor'
Till Fellner (piano) / Montreal Symphony Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor) ECM New Series 4763315 (CD)

Ciaran wrote:Hi Seán

I listened (as I nearly always do). I was interested in the BAL work as I don't know it at all, and I loved the Mullova/Bezuidenhout Beethoven sonatas (I'd seen it somewhere and was already interested...) and the Temirkanov Leningrad Symphony. I've aded those and the winning Jephtha (performed by a team I like anyway) to my current MDT order, which was already too large! I'll send it off shortly before I'm stricken by doubts!

fergus wrote:

Ciaran wrote:Hi Seán

I listened (as I nearly always do). I was interested in the BAL work as I don't know it at all, and I loved the Mullova/Bezuidenhout Beethoven sonatas (I'd seen it somewhere and was already interested...) and the Temirkanov Leningrad Symphony. I've aded those and the winning Jephtha (performed by a team I like anyway) to my current MDT order, which was already too large! I'll send it off shortly before I'm stricken by doubts!

Go to the Confirm Order stage, close your eyes and press Enter....painless, really!!

Seán wrote:

fergus wrote:

Ciaran wrote:I've aded those and the winning Jephtha (performed by a team I like anyway) to my current MDT order, which was already too large! I'll send it off shortly before I'm stricken by doubts!

Go to the Confirm Order stage, close your eyes and press Enter....painless, really!!

You are giving in to your feminine side there Fergus: spend regardless! LOL

Ciaran wrote:MDT tell me they're on their way!