September 27, 2009

Handel: Keyboard Suite #2 in F (10:08) Angela Hewitt, p Hyperion CDA-67736 "Angela Hewitt plays Handel & Haydn"

Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes (Ballet in Three Deals) (21:35) BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Ilan Volkov Hyperion CDA-67698

Sarasate: Zapateado, Op. 23/2 (3:17) Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p Sarasate: Navarra, Op. 33 (6:50) Gil Shaham & Adele Anthony, v's; Castilla y León Sym Orch/ Alejandro Posada Canary Classics CC-07 "Sarasate: Virtuoso Violin Works"

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (61:28) Klaus Florian Vogt, t; Christian Gerhaher, br; Montreal Sym Orch/Kent Nagano Sony Classical 88697 508212

September 20, 2009

Bach: Keyboard Partita #1 in Bb, BWV 825 (18:25)
Murray Perahia, p
Sony Classical 88697 443612

Bright Sheng: Never Far Away (23:33)
Yolanda Kondonassis, h; San Diego Sym Orch/Jahja Ling
Telarc CD-80719 "Never Far Away"

Beethoven: String Quartet #16 in F, Op. 135 (24:12)
Cypress String Quartet
Cypress Performing Arts Association "Beethoven: Late Quartets, Volume 1"

Jennifer Higdon: Dooryard Bloom (23:25)
Nmon Ford, br; Atlanta Sym Orch/Robert Spano
Telarc CD-80673 "Transmigration"

Anon (13th-century English): Hymn, Ave maris stella (3:37)
Anon (Medieval Hungarian): Te Deum (6:03)
Hildegard von Bingen: Hymn, Beata nobis gaudia (2:49)
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi HMX-2907546 "Four Centuries of Chant"

September 13, 2009

Mozart: Overture (4:17); March (2:07) from The Marriage of Figaro
Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini
Naïve OP-30479 "Mozart Overtures"

Mozart: Piano Concerto #23 in A, K. 488 (26:48)
Cleveland Orch/Mitsuko Uchida, p
Decca B0013276-02

Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 (13:47)
Danielle de Niese, s; Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Sir Charles Mackerras
Decca B0013277-02 "The Mozart Album"

Janáček, arr. Breiner: Orchestral Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen (39:01)
New Zealand Sym Orch/Peter Breiner
Naxos 8.570706 "Janáček: Orchestral Suites from the Operas, Volume 3"

Schoenfield: Four Souvenirs (11:47)
Trad Cape Breton: Hector the Hero (4:06)
Caroline Goulding, v; Christopher O'Riley, p
Telarc CD-80744

September 6, 2009

Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in a, R. 463 (9:54)
Zefiro/Alfredo Bernardini, ob
Naïve OP-30478

Debussy: Lindaraja (5:53)
Ravel: La Valse (11:08)
Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy, p's
Decca 478 1090

Glazunov: Symphony #1 in E, Op. 5, Slavyanskaya (34:17)
Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier
Warner Classics 2564 68904-2 (2 CDs)

Schumann: III from Piano Quintet in Eb, Op. 44 (4:21) (w/Leonard Bernstein, p)
Bartók: I from String Quartet #1, Op. 7 (9:04)
Beethoven: Finale from String Quartet #11 in f, Op. 95 (5:06)
Juilliard String Quartet
Sony Digital Download Release

Handel: Water Music Suite in D/G (21:26)
Zefiro/Alfredo Bernardini
Naïve AM-192