The New Releases

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Handel: Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6/9
Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman.
Telarc CD-80688   (13:13)

Vivaldi: Non m'affligge il tormento di morte (4:06); Combatta un gentil cor (4:34) from Tito Manlio
Simone Kermes, s; Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon.
Archiv 477 6618  "Amor Profano"

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle.
EMI Classics 60273-2  (34:12)

Elliott Carter: String Quartet #5 (1995)
Pacifica Quartet.
Naxos 8.559362   (21:11)

Roland de Lassus: Missa "Tous les regretz"
Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel.
Harmonia Mundi HMC-901922  "La Quinta essential"  (22:18)

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano (Triple Concerto), Op. 56
Chee-Yun, v; Andrés Díaz, vc; Camerata Ireland/Barry Douglas, p.
Satirino SR-073   (34:46)

Vierne: Naïades from Fantasy Pieces, Op. 55 (4:49)
Widor: Toccata from Organ Symphony #5 (4:55)
Mary Preston, o.
Reference RR-113  "Organ Odyssey"

Debussy: Book I from Images
Simon Trpceski, p.
EMI Classics 00272-2   (14:37)

Dowland: Come again! Sweet love (4:56); Sleep, wayward thoughts (1:22); Come, heavy Sleep (4:28)
Mark Padmore, t; Elizabeth Kenny, l
Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland (17:55)
Craig Ogden, g
Hyperion CDA-67648

Chen Yi: Shuo (8:48)
Bright Sheng: Silent Temple IV (3:53)
Ying Quartet.
Telarc CD-80690  "Dim Sum"

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Bach: English Suite #3 in g, BWV 808
Sviatoslav Richter, p.
Decca 475 8631 (2 CDs) "Richter: The Master, Volume 8"  (24:56)

Shostakovich, arr. Marijn van Prooij: String Quartet #4 in D, Op. 83
Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Channel Classics CCS SA 26007   (24:39)

Liszt: Piano Concerto #1 in Eb
Lise de la Salle, p; Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orch/Lawrence Foster.
Naïve V-5053   (19:24)

Milhaud: Sonata for Two Violins & Piano
Angela Chun & Jennifer Chun, v's; Nelson Padgett, p.
Harmonia Mundi HMU-907444  "Fantasy"  (16:00)

Ives: The Circus Band (2:13); Mists (1:38); In Flanders Fields (2:58); The Children's Hour (2:28); At the River (2:29); A Christmas Carol (2:07); Romanzo (di Central Park) (2:58)
Gerald Finley, br; Julius Drake, p.
Hyperion CDA-67644  "Romanzo di Central Park"

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Beethoven: Piano Trio #5 in D, Op. 70/1, Ghost
Andreas Staier, fp; Daniel Sepec, v; Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc.
Harmonia Mundi HMC-901955  (26:44)

Vivaldi: Gloria, R. 589
Ann Monoyios, s; Matthew White, ct; Tafelmusik Chamber Choir & Baroque Orch/Ivars Taurins.
CBC Records SMCD-5244   (28:19)

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Symphony in C
Toronto Chamber Orch/Kevin Mallon.
Naxos 8.570280   (15:49)

Martinu: Czech Rhapsody
Bohuslav Matoušek, v; Czech Phil Orch/Christopher Hogwood.
Hyperion CDA-67672   (10:28)

Bach: Contrapunctus I-VI from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p.
DG B0010765-02   (19:41)

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Gounod: Salut! demeure chaste et pure from Faust (6:14)
Wagner: Prize Song, Morgenlich leuchtend from Die Meistersinger (5:16)
Jonas Kaufmann, t; Prague Phil Orch/Marco Armiliato.
Decca B0010837-02  "Romantic Arias"

Poulenc: Ballet, Les Animaux modèles
Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio di Torino/Jan Latham-Koenig.
Avie AV-2135   (40:04)

Poulenc: Salve regina (4:44); Exultate Deo (2:44)
Polyphony/Stephen Layton.
Hyperion CDA-67623  "Gloria & Motets" 

Javier Contreras: Euclídica (Tonada acuecada) (4:21)
Horacio Salinas: Cristalino (5:42)
Violeta Parra: Anticueca #1 (2:19)
José Antonio Escobar, g.
Naxos 8.570341  "Guitar Music of Chile"

August Klughardt: Schilflieder (Songs of the Reeds), Op. 28
Alex Klein, ob; Richard Young, vi; Ricardo Castro, p.
Cedille CDR 90000 102  "Poetic Inspirations"  (19:35)

Verdi: Lunge da lei…Oh mio rimorso from La Traviata
Jonas Kaufmann, t (w/Jana Sibera, s); Prague Phil Orch/Marco Armiliato.
Decca B0010837-02  "Romantic Arias"  (7:25)