The New Releases

Sunday, April 8

Bach: Cantata #31 (for Easter Sunday), Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret
Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner.
Soli Deo Gloria SDG-128    (18:16)

Shostakovich: Quartet #6 in G, Op. 101
Jerusalem Quartet.
Harmonia Mundi HMC-901953    (23:53)

Ravel: Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose)
Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink. 
Pentatone Classics PTC 5186 167    (27:04)

Mondonville: Benefac, Domine from Pièces de clavecin avec voix ou violon, Op. 5
Luc Beauséjour, hc; Shannon Mercer, s; Hélène Plouffe, v.  (4:50)
Mondonville: I from Violin Sonata #4 in C
Hélène Plouffe, v; Luc Beauséjour, hc.  (6:22)
Analekta AN 2 9920

Bach: Excerpts from Mass in b minor
Netherlands Bach Society/Jos van Veldhoven. 
Channel Classics CCS SA 25007 (18:23)

Sunday, April 15

Handel: Trio Sonata in b, Op. 2/1
Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone. 
Harmonia Mundi HMC-901957 "Il duello amoroso" (11:16)

Handel: Cantata, Nel dolce tempo
Andreas Scholl, ct; Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone. 
Harmonia Mundi HMC-901957 "Il duello amoroso"  (10:27)

Mozart: Violin Concerto #4 in D, K. 218
Verbier Festival Chamber Orch/Maxim Vengerov, v. 
EMI 78374-2  (24:15)

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Les Dissonances/David Grimal.
Naïve AM-110 "Métamorphoses"  (26:24)

Haydn: Piano Sonata in Ab, Hob. XVI, Nr. 43
Fazil Say, p. 
Naïve V-5070  (15:52)

Luna: Pajarin, tú que vuelas from La pícara molinera (4:55)
Torroba: De este apacible rincón de Madrid from Luisa Fernanda (3:27)
Rolando Villazón, t;
Madrid Community Orch/Plácido Domingo. 
Virgin Classics 65474-2 "Gitano"

Sunday, April 22

Haydn: Piano Sonata #51 in Eb
Marc-André Hamelin, p. 
Hyperion CDA-67554 (2 CDs)  (20:03)

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Dorothea Röschmann, s; Thomas Quasthoff, br; Berlin Radio Choir & Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle. 
EMI 65393-2  (67:07)

Bach, arr. Sitkovetsky: Aria; Variations XXVII-XXX; Aria da Capo from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Julian Rachlin, v; Nobuko Imai, vi; Mischa Maisky, vc. 
DG 00289 477 6378  (15:35)

Sunday, April 29

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto #1 in a, Op. 33
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; All-Union Radio Sym Orch/Grigory Stolyarov. 
DG 0289 477 6505  (19:57)

Handel: Aria, Vouchsafe, O Lord from Dettingen Te Deum
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Walter Naum, p. (4:15)
Popper: Elfentanz (Dance of the Elves), Op. 39
Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Alexander Dedyukhin, p. (2:31)
DG 0289 477 6505 

Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande polonaise in Eb, Op. 22
Alfred Brendel, p.
Philips 475 8322 (2 CDs) "BBC Radio Performances"  (13:50)

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet #1 in D, Op. 11, Accordion
Ying Quartet. 
Telarc 2CD-80685  (29:30)

Tallis: Hymn, Why Fum'th in Fight?
Atlanta Sym Chamber Chorus/Robert Spano. (0:54)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Atlanta Sym Orch/Robert Spano. (16:17)
Telarc CD-80676 

György Kurtág: Eight Choruses to Poems by Dezsö Tandori, Op. 23
SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart/Marcus Creed. 
Hänssler Classic 93.174  (10:30)