Library CD check-outs

[ChamberNut]

Last night's checkouts:

Shostakovich

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 *
Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67

Beaux Arts Trio
*Eugene Drucker, violin, Lawrence Dutton, viola
Philips

Schubert

Symphony No. 3 in D, D200
Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D485
Symphony No. 6 in C, D589

Sir Thomas Beechaam
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
EMI

Bach

Cantatas Vol 1:  City of London

CD1
BWV 167, BWV 7, BWV 30

CD2
BWV 75, BWV 39, BWV 20

The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
SDG

Denise Djokic - cello
David Jalbert - piano*

Barber/Martinu/Britten

Barber

Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 6*

Martinu

Sonat for cello and piano, N. 1 H277*

Britten

Third Suite for Solo Cello, Op.87

Sony Classical

[timnehguy]

Great thread - classical music for hard times!

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday:

Scriabin

The Poem of Ecstasy
Symphony No. 2

BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky
BBC Music

Bartok

The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82 *
Hungarian Peasant Songs for orchestra, BB 107
Hungarian Sketches for orchestra, BB 103
Roumanian Folk Dances for orchestra, BB 76
Dances of Transylvania for orchestra, BB 102b
Roumanian Dance for orchestra, BB61

*Hungarian Radio Chorus

Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer
Phillips

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor for Bass, chorus & orchestra, Op. 113 "Babi Yar"

Sergei Aleksashkin, bass
Chorus Academy Moscow
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Rudolf Barshai

Brilliant Classics


Shostakovich

Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141

WDR Sinfonieorchester
Rudolf Barshai

Brilliant Classics


Unfortunately, I was looking forward to checking out some Bruckner 8ths, but no luck.  Only a boat load of 7ths.

[sporkadelic]

HAUSEGGER | Natursymphonie
WDR Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen

What's Hausegger's music like?  I know him only as the conductor of Bruckner's 9th, the classic recording made in the 1930s.

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday's checkouts:

Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Wilhelm Kempff, piano
DG

Bartok

The String Quartets

Takacs Quartet
London

Britten

String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
Three Divertimenti

Maggini String Quartet
Naxos

Dvorak

Complete Piano Trios

Beaux Arts Trio
Philips

Davies, Victor (1939-)

Mennonite Piano Concerto
Good Times (Suite for Orchestra)

Irmgard Baerg, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Boris Brott, conductor
Water Lily Records

Dowland

In Darkness Let Me Dwell

John Potter, tenor

Stephen Stubbs, lute
John Surman, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Maya Homburger, baroque violin
Barry Guy, double-bass

ECM Records

Masters of the Lute

Lute & Theorbo music

Featuring music of John Dowland, Giovanni Gieralomo Kapsberger, Alessandro Piccinini, Robert de Visee, Heirich Ignaz Franz von Biber

Matthew Wadsworth - Lute & Theorbo
Channel Classics

[Opus106]

Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Wilhelm Kempff, piano
DG

Just a little curious: did the library have any other performances of the WTC?

[ChamberNut]

Just a little curious: did the library have any other performances of the WTC?

Not at the branch I visited.  That was the only copy (perhaps some others were checked out).  However, if you want Goldberg Variations, there are about two dozen or more copies of these!    Too bad it's not the other way around. 

[Opus106]

Ah, I see.

[ChamberNut]

Today's checkouts, just in time for my extra long-weekend!  0:)

DVD

Mozart

Don Giovanni

Carlos Alvarez - Don Giovanni
Franz-Josef Selig - Il Commendatore

Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Riccardo Muti
TDK

CDs

Bach

Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II

Angela Hewitt - 2007
Hyperion

Enescu

Octet, op.9
Piano Quintet, op.27

Kremerata Baltica
Nonesuch

Holst

The Planets

Berliner Philharmoniker
Karajan
DG

Grieg/Sibelius

String Quartets

Emerson String Quartet
DG

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin

Yuri Mazurok - Eugene Onegin
Stefka Popangelova - Larina
Anna Tomowa-Sintow - Tatyana
Rossitza Troeva-Mircheva - Olga

Sofia National Opera Chorus and Festival Orchestra
Emil Tchakarov, conducting
Sony Classical

[Opus106]

Bach

Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II

Angela Hewitt - 2007
Hyperion

Nice. How was the Kempff?

[ChamberNut]

Nice. How was the Kempff?

I really liked it.  Although it was only Book I.  I've never heard Book II yet.

I'm listening to Hewitt Book I right now.  Very, very nice! 

[Opus106]

I really liked it.  Although it was only Book I.  I've never heard Book II yet.

I'm listening to Hewitt Book I right now.  Very, very nice! 

Pleased to know.

Right next to me are the box of LvB quartets and the first Hewitt WTC. Just finished listening to Op. 59/3 and Op. 131, and now about to listen to Book 1. The C minor NEEDS to be played now.

[ChamberNut]

and now about to listen to Book 1. The C minor NEEDS to be played now.

One of my favorites! 

[prémont]

I really liked it.  Although it was only Book I.  I've never heard Book II yet.

To my knowledge Kempff neither recorded the complete WTC book I nor the complete WTC book II. All he recorded were excerpts from both books (all in all amounting to about one third of it), and all of it was released on a CD by DG several years ago.

[Valentino]

I live between two libraries.

Right now, 1:
Sibelius: Sym 2/Valse Triste/Finlandia/Swan of Tuonolea; Boston SO/Davis (Philips)
Schumann: Piano concerto; Anda/BPO/Kubelik, Frauenliebe und Leben; Fassbaender/Gage (DG)
Krommer: Paritas for wind ensemble; Budapest WE/Berkes (Naxos)

Right now, 2:
Haydn: Symhonies 88, 89, 90; Weil (Sony)
Weber: Der Freischutz; C. Kleiber (DG). Oh yeah.
Vivaldi: La Stravaganza (op. 4); Podger (Channel)
Vivaldi: Il Cimento... (op. 8 ); Il Giardino Armonico (Warner)
Honegger: Sym 2 & 3, Pacific 231; Oslo PO/Jansons (EMI)
Schoenberg/Berg/Webern: Concerto, pieces, variations; Uchida/Cleveland/Boulez (Philips)
Paganini: VC 1 & 2; Accardo/LPO/Dutoit (DG)

[Coopmv]

I live between two libraries.

Right now, 1:
Sibelius: Sym 2/Valse Triste/Finlandia/Swan of Tuonolea; Boston SO/Davis (Philips)
Schumann: Piano concerto; Anda/BPO/Kubelik, Frauenliebe und Leben; Fassbaender/Gage (DG)
Krommer: Paritas for wind ensemble; Budapest WE/Berkes (Naxos)

Right now, 2:
Haydn: Symhonies 88, 89, 90; Weil (Sony)
Weber: Der Freischutz; C. Kleiber (DG). Oh yeah.
Vivaldi: La Stravaganza (op. 4); Podger (Channel)
Vivaldi: Il Cimento... (op. 8 ); Il Giardino Armonico (Warner)
Honegger: Sym 2 & 3, Pacific 231; Oslo PO/Jansons (EMI)
Schoenberg/Berg/Webern: Concerto, pieces, variations; Uchida/Cleveland/Boulez (Philips)
Paganini: VC 1 & 2; Accardo/LPO/Dutoit (DG)

Do you ever have problems playing these library CD's?  Are the CD's generally in good condition?

[Valentino]

Only once when I borrowed Kodaly's Haydn op.9 quartets I've had problems. One of the two disks was in three pieces, literally.
"-We shall get a new copy."

[Opus106]

John Tavener

Eternity's Sunrise
The Choir and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music
Paul Goodwin


Music for Alonso* Alfonso The Wise (!)
The Dufay Collective

I have at least heard of the composer in the previous case and the orchestra is pretty well-known, but this one is a completely uncharted territory - for me.

Both discs are from Harmonia Mundi.





*Sorry. Overdose of F1. 

[Valentino]

Bach cantatas:
51, 93, 129: Ricter w/FiDi et al. (Archiv)
Trauerode + 1: Herreweghe (HM)
73, 105, 131: Herreweghe (Virgin)
Vol 21; Suzuki (BIS)
49, 115, 180: Coin, the Mosaïques cellist (Astree)
140, 147: Gardiner (Archiv)
Advent cantatas: Herreweghe (HM)
vol. 27: Gardiner (SDG)
Wedding cantatas: Kirkby, Hogwood (Decca)

Beethoven:
op. 18/4 and 131: Hagen Quartett. 
Christus am Ölberge: Baudo (HM)

A. Scarlatti:
Magnificat, Dixit Dominus, and five madrigals: Alessandrini (Naïve)

Vivaldi:
Vespri per Assunzio: Alessandrini (Naïve)

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday's check-outs: 

Glazunov

The Seasons, Op. 47

Ondrej Lenard
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82

Ilya Kaler, violin
Camilla Kolchinsky
Polish National Radio Orchestra

Naxos

Grieg

Violin Sonatas

Gerald Tarack, violin
David Hancock, piano

Bridge Records

Grieg

Cello Concerto (after Cello Sonata), Op, 36

8 Songs arranged for cello and orchestra

Raphael Wallfisch, cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
ASV

Britten

*Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68
Suite from 'Death in Venice', Op. 88

*Raphael Wallfisch, cello
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
Chandos

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43

Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
Sony Classical

Wagner

Die Meistersinger Von Nuremberg

Hans Sachs - Bernd Weikl
Walter von Stolzing - Ben Heppner
Eva - Cheryl Studer
Veit Pogner - Kurt Moll


Wolfgang Sawallisch
Cho der Bayerischen Staatsoper - Bayerisches Staatsorchester
EMI Classics