Tomorrow's CD Review BAL is Bach’s St John Passion

[Seán]

Apologies for the lateness of the post.

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

NB Timings are approximate

9.05am

Ravel: The complete solo piano music
RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Sonatine; Miroirs; La valse (ed. Osborne); Le tombeau de Couperin; Menuet in C sharp minor; Menuet antique; Serenade grotesque; Jeux d’eau; Prelude; Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn; À la maniere de Borodine; À la maniere de Chabrier; Pavane pour une infante defunte; Valses nobles et sentimentales Steven Osborne (piano) HYPERION CDA67731-2 (2CD)


SCHMITT: La tragedie de Salome
FRANCK: Symphony in D minor
Orchestre Metropolitan, Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor) ATMA ACD22647 (CD)


DEBUSSY: La Mer; Jeux; Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
LSO Live SO0692 (Hybrid SACD)


9.30 am Building a Library

Simon Heighes surveys the currently available recordings of Bach’s St John Passion


10.25 am New Releases

Saint-Saens: Music for Wind Instruments
SAINT-SAENS: Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano Op. 79; Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Op. 167; Oboe Sonata in D major Op. 166; Bassoon Sonata in G major Op. 168; Romance in E major Op. 67 (arr. for horn and piano); Tarantella for Flute, Clarinet and Piano Op. 6
Canada’s National Arts Centre Wind Quintet, Stephane Lemelin (piano)
NAXOS 8570964 (CD Budget)


10:35 am
Nicholas Kenyon

Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol. 2
MOZART: Sonata in C major K330, Rondo in A minor K511, Rondo in D major K485, Adagio in B minor K540, Sonata in C minor, K.457
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907498 (CD)


Mozart: Complete Pianoforte works
MOZART: Sonatas, Variations, Klavierstucke and Works for 4-hands and 2 keyboards
Bart Van Oort (fortepiano - after Walter ca 1795), also featuring Ursula Dutschler
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94198 (14CD+CD ROM, Budget)


Mozart Piano Concertos
MOZART: Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat major, K 271 ‘Jenamy’ [‘Jeunehomme’]; Piano Concerto No.12 in A major, K 414; Rondo in A major, K 386
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano), Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens (conductor)
BIS 1794 (Hybrid SACD)


MOZART: Symphony No 39 in E flat major K 543; Symphony No 41 in C major K551 “Jupiter”
The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG711 (CD)


11.35am Disc of the Week


Liszt: Funeral Odes
LISZT: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe S107, Trois Odes funèbres S112, Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust S110
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67856 (CD)


Liszt: The sound of Weimar
LISZT: Dante Symphony (Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia) for 2 pianos S. 648, Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine, for organ, harmonium or pedal piano (after Allegri & Mozart), S. 65
Women singers from Chorus Sine Nomine, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselbock (conductor)
NCA 60234 (CD)

[Seán]

The Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki recording of Bach's St John Passion was the recommended performance.

[Ciaran]

I'll be getting the Suzuki soon! I was very impressed by what I heard.

Also in the last lap were

• Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort (OVPP, just out: I buy their Bach automatically so mine was posted on Wednesday, I hope it arrives soon!)
• Parrott (which I have): OVPP and extremely cheap! And very very good, in a box which also includes his terrific b minor Mass!
• Gardiner's new live recording

Herreweghe's recording of the second version sounded interesting, and the excerpts that were played sounded good.

I was interested that Simon Heighes mentioned and wasn't hugely taken with the version with Chapelle Rhenane under Benoit Haller which came out a few months ago. I bought it on the basis of a very enthusiastic notice in International Record Review, but I didn't take greatly to it, so I was interested that SH wasn't that keen either.