The New Releases

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Tartini: Pastorale in A, Op. 1/13
Locatelli Trio.
Hyperion CDD-22061 (2 CDs) "The Devil's Trill" (9:10)

Schumann: Humoreske in Bb, Op. 20
Angela Hewitt, p.
Hyperion CDA-67618 (28:57)

Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C, Op. 21
Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä. 
BIS SACD-1716  (25:51)

George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto #2 (2003)
Steven Copes, v; St. Paul Chamber Orch/Douglas Boyd.
Koch KIC-CD-7592  (18:43)

Byrd: Ave verum corpus (4:10); Infelix ego (12:20)
Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips.
Gimell CDGIM-208 (2 CDs)

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Bach: Cantata #152, Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn
Dorothea Röschmann, s; Thomas Quasthoff, b-br; Berlin Baroque Solists/Rainer Kussmaul.
DG B0010052-02  "Dialogue Cantatas"  (16:40)

Busoni: Improvisation on a Bach Chorale
Daniell Revenaugh & Lawrence Leighton Smith, p's.
EMI Classics 97469-2  "Busoni: The Complete Two Piano Programme"  (15:07)

Mozart: Duo for Violin & Viola #1 in G, K. 423
Philippe Graffin, v; Nobuko Imai, vi.
Avie AV-2127  (2 CDs)  (18:54)

Brahms: I from Symphony #4 in e, Op. 98
St. Louis Sym Orch/Hans Vonk.
Arch Media Archives PTC-5186318   (13:37)

Roussel: Suite #2 from Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43
St. Louis Sym Orch/Hans Vonk.
Arch Media Archives PTC-5186319   (18:39)

Trad. Norwegian: The little child (4:43); Rest now, sweet child (3:07); Villemann and Magnhild (1:49); The thieves (2:36)
Trio Mediaeval; Birger Mistereggen, per.
ECM Records B0009888-02  "Folk Songs"

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G, BWV 1049
European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock.
Avie AV-2119  (2 CDs)  (15:00)

Handel: Act III from Solomon
Sarah Connolly, ms (Solomon); Carolyn Sampson, s (Queen of Sheba); Mark Padmore, t (Zadok); RIAS Chamber Cho, Berlin Academy of Ancient Music/Daniel Reuss.
Harmonia Mundi HMC-901949.50  (2 CDs)  (43:23)

Brahms: Cello Sonata #2 in F, Op. 99
Sonia Wieder-Atherton, vc; Imogen Cooper, p.
RCA 201872 (2 CDs)  (27:54)

Golijov: Excerpts from Youth Without Youth
Bucharest Metropolitan Orch/Radu Popa.
DG B0010309-02   (14:43)

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb, K. 364
Nobuko Imai, vi; Brabant Phil Orch/Philippe Graffin, v.
Avie AV-2127 (2 CDs)  (29:49)

Mozart: Act IV (Conclusion) from The Marriage of Figaro
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Figaro); Anna Netrebko (Susanna); Bo Skovhus (Count Almaviva); Dorothea Röschmann (Countess); Christine Schäfer (Cherubino); Vienna State Opera Cho & Vienna Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
DG 477 6558 (3 CDs)  (28:24)

Jenö Hubay: Fantaisie brillante on Bizet's Carmen (8:14)
Weill, arr. Stefan Frenkel: Song of Human Insufficiency/Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera (3:01)
Livia Sohn, v; Benjamin Loeb, p.
Naxos 8.570202 "Opera Fantasies for Violin"

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BBC Sym Orch/Ji?i B?lohlávek.
DG 477 7352 "Best of British: From the BBC Proms 2007"  (16:17)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Four Poems of Thomas Campion
BBC Sym Chorus/Stephen Jackson.
DG 477 7352 "Best of British: From the BBC Proms 2007"  (12:41)