BBC Radio 3 - CD Review - Building A Library
Listed below are recommended recordings made on Radio 3's Saturday morning programme, CD Review - Building A Library
B
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini
Warner Elatus 2564 617732 (2CD)
Bach - Art of Fugue
Phantasm
Simax PSC1135
Bach- Mass in F, BWV 233
Cantus Cölln / Junghänel
Harmonia Mundi
HMC901939-40 (2CD)
Bartok - Violin Concerto
Chung; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Rattle
EMI 509 4072 (3CD)
Beethoven - Symphony no. 5
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Kleiber
DG 447 4002
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 17, "Tempest"
Claudio Arrau
[part of the complete piano sonatas & concertos]
Philips 462 3582 (14CD)
Bizet - Symphony in C
Les Siècles / Roth
Mirare MIR036
Borodin - Symphony no.2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Ashkenazy
Decca 436 6512
Britten - Peter Grimes
Vickers; Orchestra & Chorus of the ROH / Davis
Philips 462 8472 (2CD)
D
Donizetti -
Lucia di Lammermoor
Callas; di Stefano; Gobbi; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chorus & Orchestra / Serafin
EMI 586 1972 (2CD)
G
Gluck - Iphigenie en Tauride
Les Musiciens du Louvre / Minkowski
Archiv 471 1332 (2CD)
Grieg - Lyric Pieces
Leif Ove Andsnes
EMI 557 2962
H
Haydn - Theresienmesse
Collegium Musicum 90 Choir; Collegium Musicum 90 / Hickox
Chandos CHAN0592
J
Josquin - Missa Pange Lingua
Ensemble Clement Janequin; Ensemble Organum / Peres
Due for reissue in September 2008
M
Mahler - Symphony no. 3
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Chailly
Decca 470 6522
Mahler - Symphony No. 9
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Abbado
DG 471 6242
Mendelssohn -
Symphony no. 3
Berlin Symphony Orchestra / Ashkenazy
[coupled with Mendelssohn Syms. nos. 1, 2, 4 & 5]
Decca 470 9462 (3CD)
Messiaen - La Nativite du Seigneur
Gillian Weir
Priory PRCD921
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
L'Ensemble La Venexiana / Cavina
Glossa GES920913 (2CD)
Mozart - Quintet in E flat for Piano & Wind, K452
Stephen Hough (piano); members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
BIS BISCD1552
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante, K364
Dumay (violin); Causse (viola); Sinfonia Varsovia / Krivine
EMI 572 3682 (3CD)
Mozart - String Quartet No. 19 K. 465, "Dissonance"
Emerson String Quartet
DG 477 5751
Mozart - String Quartet no. 23, K590
Quatuor Mosaiques
Naive E8888
p
Puccini - La Bohème
de los Angeles, Björling, Merrill, Reardon, Tozzi, Corena, Lucie Amara, RCA Victor Chorus & Orchestra, Columbus Boychoir / Beecham
EMI 5677502(2CD)
R
Rachmaninov- Ėtudes-Tableaux Op. 39
Hayroudinoff
Chandos CHAN10391
Ravel - Sheherazade
Crespin; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ansermet
Decca 460 9732
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
Lortie
Chandos CHAN10142X (2CD)
Respighi - Pines of Rome
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Ozawa
DG 415 8462
S
Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony
Latry; Philadelphia Orchestra / Eschenbach
Ondine ODE10945
Schubert - String Quintet, D956
Hagen Quartet; Schiff
DG 439 7742 (import only)
Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44
Andsnes; Artemis Quartet
Virgin 395 1432
Scriabin - Le Poeme de l'extase (coupled with Symphonies nos. 1-3)
Philadelphia Orchestra / Muti
EMI 567 7202 (3CD)
Shostakovich - Symphony no. 13
Eizen; Moscow PO / Kondrashin (available only as part of complete set of symphonies)
Melodia (11CD)
Strauss - Metamorphosen
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Rattle
EMI 556 5802
T
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / Mravinsky
4775911 (2CDs)
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker
Kirov Orchestra / Gergiev
Philips 462 1142
Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra
LSO; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Philip Jones Brass Ens / Davis; Marriner
Decca 476 7960
V
Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony
Christine Goerke (soprano); Brett Polegaro (baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Robert Spano
Telarc CD80588
Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 6
Williams; LSO / Hickox
Chandos CHAN10103
W
Wagner - Das Rheingold
soloists; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Keilberth
Testament SBT21390 (2CD)
Wagner - Die Walkure
Vickers; Stewart; Janowitz; Crespin; Veasey; Berlin Philharmonic / Karajan
DG 457 7852 (4CD)
Wagner - Siegfried
Neidlinger; Hotter; Greindl; Kuen; Ilosvay; Varnay; Windgassen; Hollweg; Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Keilberth
Testament SBT41392 (4CD)
Wagner - Gotterdammerung
Soloists; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Solti
Decca 455 5692 (4CD)
Wagner - Complete Ring Cycle (DVD)
Soloists; Bayreuth Festival / Boulez
DG 073 4057 (8DVD)
Walton - Viola Concerto
Power; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Volkov
Hyperion CDA67587
Vivaldi - Stabat Mater
Mena; Ricercar Consort / Pierlot
Mirare MIR9968