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Summer Record Review: Proms Composer - Alexander Zemlinsky

With Andrew McGregor. Including Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (excerpt); Proms Composer: Zemlinsky; Recent re-issues of Handel oratorios; Bacewicz: String Quartet No 3.

with Andrew McGregor, including recordings of Proms Composer Alexander Zemlinsky and a review of recordings of Handel oratorios

0905
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (excerpt)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

0930
Proms Composer: Alexander Zemlinsky
Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer who composed in a recognisably post-Wagnerian style, while at the same time forging a musical language distinctively his own. Mainly known for his Lyric Symphony he was also the composer of chamber music, songs and several operas.

1045
Andrew talks to Caroline Gill about recent reissues of recordings of Handel oratorios.

1145
Bacewicz
String Quartet No. 3
Silesian Quartet.

3 hours, 12 minutes

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 902244.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 (i. Reveries)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
  • Richard Strauss

    Oboe Concerto (iii)

    Performer: Emily Pailthorpe. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • CHAMPS HILL: CHRCD116.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 3.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Symphony in D minor. First movement

    Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion CDA67985.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quintet in D minor

    Ensemble: Bartholdy Quartet.
    • C-Avi Music 8553348.
    • C-Avi Music.
    • 2.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Maiblumen bl眉hten 眉berall

    Performer: Jan Erik van Regteren Altena. Performer: Taco Kooistra. Singer: Susan Narucki. Ensemble: Schoenberg String Quartet.
    • Chandos CHAN 9772.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Meeraugen, Op. 7 No. 5

    Performer: Gerold Huber. Singer: Ruth Ziesak.
    • Capriccio C5119.
    • Capriccio.
    • 7.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    The Mermaid

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • Ondine ODE1237-5.
    • Ondine.
    • 3.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Eine Florentinische Tragodie, Op.16

    Singer: Heike Wessels. Singer: Sergey Skorokhodov. Singer: Albert Dohmen. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • LPO 0078.
    • LPO.
    • 15.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Der Kreidekreis

    Singer: Uwe Peper. Singer: Celina Lindsley. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Stefan Solt茅sz.
    • Capriccio C5190.
    • Capriccio.
    • 1.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Sinfonietta, Op.23

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Naxos 8.570240.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quartet No. 4, Op. 25 (v. Barcarole)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Naxos 8.572813.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op.13

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx Classics ONYX 4150.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op.15 (arr. Abrahamsen)

    Ensemble: Ensemble MidtVest.
    • DaCapo 8.226090.
    • DaCapo.
    • 10.
  • Thomas Larcher

    Poems: 12 Pieces for Pianists and Other Children

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • C-AVI: 8553310.
    • C-AVI.
    • 10.
  • Richard Strauss

    Eine Alpensinfonie, Op.64

    Orchestra: Gothenburg S O.. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Farao Classics B 108091.
    • Farao Classics.
    • 16.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Violin Concerto No. 1 (i Allegro)

    Performer: Piotr P艂awner. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: J眉rgen Bruns.
    • Naxos 8.573496.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Sonata No. 2 for solo violin (ii. Adagio)

    Performer: Bartosz Woroch.
    • Champs Hill Records CHRCD114.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 2.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    String Quartet no.4 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Lutos艂awski Quartet.
    • Naxos 8.572807.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    String Quartet No. 3

    Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet.
    • Chandos CHAN 10904.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

9.00am

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique & Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique Op. 14
RAMEAU: Hippolyte et Aricie: Orchestral Suite
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902244 (CD)

Emily Pailthorpe: Better Angels
BARBER: Canzonetta for oboe and strings; Summer Music Op. 31
BLACKFORD: The Better Angels of Our Nature
JANACEK: Mladi (Youth), for wind sextet
STRAUSS, R: Oboe Concerto in D
Emily Pailthorpe (oboe), 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra, 91热爆SO Soloists, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
CHAMPS HILL RECORDS CHRCD116 (CD)

9.30am Proms Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871 鈥 1942)

Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer who composed in a recognisably post-Wagnerian style, while at the same time forging a musical language distinctively his own. Mainly known for his Lyric Symphony he was also the composer of chamber music, songs and several operas

Zemlinsky: Symphonies in D minor & B flat major
ZEMLINSKY: Symphony No. 1 in D minor; Symphony No. 2 in B flat major
91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67985 (CD)

Bruckner & Zemlinksy: String Quintets
BRUCKNER: String Quintet in F major; Intermezzo for String Quintet in D minor
ZEMLINSKY: String Quintet in D minor
Bartholdy Quintet
AVI MUSIC AVI8553348 (CD)

Zemlinsky - Chamber Music for Strings
ZEMLINSKY: String Quartet No. 1 in A major Op. 4; Mailblumen bluhten uberall (Dehmel); String Quartet No. 2 Op. 15; String Quartet No. 3 Op. 19; Two Movements for String Quartet; String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) Op. 25
Susan Narucki (soprano), Schoenberg Quartet
CHANDOS CHAN9772 (2CD mid-price)

Mahler & Zemlinsky: Songs
MAHLER: Erinnerung (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Ich ging mit Lust (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Scheiden und Meiden (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Ablosung im Sommer (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit)
MAHLER, A: Die stille Stadt; Bei dir ist es traut; In meines Vaters Garten; Erntelied (text: Gustav Falke); Ich wandle unter Blumen (text: Heinrich Heine); Waldseligkeit (text: Richard Dehmel); Hymne an die Nacht
ZEMLINSKY: Noch Spur ich ihren Atem auf den Wangen; Hortest du den nicht hinein; Die beiden; Harmonie des Abends; Irmelin Rose and other songs Op. 7
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano)
CAPRICCIO C5119 (CD)

Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) & Sinfonietta
ZEMLINSKY: Die Seejungfrau; Sinfonietta Op. 23
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
ONDINE ODE12375 (Hybrid SACD)

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Zemlinsky
ZEMLINSKY: Eine Florentinische Tragodie Op. 16; Songs (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck Op. 13
Heike Wessels (mezzo soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor), Albert Dohmen (baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
LPO LPO0078 (CD mid-price)

ZEMLINSKY: Der Kreidekreis
Renate Behle, Roland Hermann, Reiner Goldberg, Siegfried Lorenz, Celina Lindsley, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor)
CAPRICCIO C5190 (2CD budget)

Zemlinsky - The Mermaid
ZEMLINSKY: Sinfonietta Op. 23; Die Seejungfrau
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)
NAXOS 8570240 (CD budget)

Zemlinsky: String Quartets, Volume 1
ZEMLINSKY: String Quartet No. 3 Op. 19; String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) Op. 25; Zwei Satze
Escher String Quartet
NAXOS 8572813 (CD budget)

10.15am

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 5
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1 in G minor Op. 13 'Winter Daydreams'; Symphony No. 2 in C minor Op. 17 'Little Russian'; Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
ONYX ONYX4150 (2CD mid-price)

Abrahamsen: Works for Wind Quintet
ABRAHAMSEN: Landskaber; Walden (4)
RAVEL arr. Abrahamsen: Le Tombeau de Couperin
SCHUMANN arr. Abrahamsen: Kinderszenen Op. 15
Ensemble MidtVest
DACAPO 8226090 (CD)

Schumann, Bartok & Larcher: For children
BARTOK: For Children, Sz42 (selections)
LARCHER: Poems (12 Pieces for Pianists and Other Children)
SCHUMANN: Album for the Young Op. 68 - excerpts
Lars Vogt (piano)
AVI MUSIC AVI8553310 (CD)

STRAUSS, R: Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64
Goteborgs Symfoniker, Kent Nagano (conductor)
FARAO B108091 (CD)

10.45am Caroline Gill on Handel oratorios

Andrew talks to Caroline Gill about recent reissues of recordings of Handel oratorios.


Handel: The Great Oratorios
HANDEL: La Resurrezione, HWV47; Acis and Galatea; Esther; Athalia; Alexander's Feast; Saul; Israel in Egypt, HWV54; Messiah; Samson; Semele; Hercules; Belshazzar; Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63; Solomon; Theodora, HWV 68; Jephtha
Emma Kirkby (Angelo), Patrizia Kwella (Maddalena), Carolyn Watkinson (Cleofe), Ian Partridge (San Giovanni), David Thomas (Lucifero), The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor), Norma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus), Paul Elliot (Corydon), The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Patrizia Kwella (Esther), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Ahasuerus), Ian Partridge (Mordecai), David Thomas (Haman), Emma Kirkby (Israelite woman), Paul Elliott (1st Israelite), Andrew King (2nd Israelite/Habdonah/Officer), Drew Minter (Priest), Westminster Cathedral Boys鈥 Choir, Joan Sutherland (Athalia), Emma Kirkby (Josabeth), Aled Jones (Joas), James Bowman (Joad), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Mathan), David Thomas (Abner), Choir of New College Oxford, Donna Brown (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, Alastair Miles (Saul), Derek Lee Ragin (David), John Mark Ainsley (Jonathan), Lynne Dawson (Michal), Donna Brown (Merab), Philip Slane (Abner/Amalekite), Neil Mackie (High Priest), Simon Oberst (Doeg), Philip Salmon (Witch of Endor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Arleen Auger (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Michael Chance (countertenor), Howard Crook (tenor), John Tomlinson (bass), The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock (conductor), Thomas Randle (Samson), Lynda Russell (Dalila), Catherine Wyn Rogers (Micah), Lynne Dawson (Israelite woman/Philistine woman/Virgin), Matthew Vine (Messenger), Michael George (Manoa), Jonathan Best (Harapha), The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers (conductor), Kathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson (conductor), Gidon Saks (Hercules), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dejanira), Richard Croft (Hyllus), Lynne Dawson (Iole), David Daniels (Lichas), Marcos Pujol (Priest), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor), Arleen Auger, Julia Gooding, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Nicolas Robertson, Nigel Short, Catherine Robbin, Richard Wistreich, David Wilson-Johnson, Ryland Davies, Felicity Palmer, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Christopher Keyte, Paul Esswood, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Alison Hagley (soprano), Susan Bickley (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Gabrieli Consort, Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor), Susan Gritton (Theodora), Susan Bickley (Irene), Robin Blaze (Didymus), Paul Agnew (Septimius), Neal Davies (Valens)
DECCA 4830142 (41CD budget)

Handel: Oratorios
HANDEL: Messiah; Alexander's Feast; Brockes Passion HWV 48; Solomon; Israel in Egypt, HWV54; L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Antonia Bourv茅, Nele Gram脽, Simone Kermes, Julia Doyle, Carolyn Sampson, Dominique Labelle, Johanna Winkel, Claron McFadden, Cornelia Winter, Maria Keohana (sopranos); Elvira Bill (mezzo-soprano); Tim Mead, Michael Hofmeister, Jan Thomer, Terry Wey, Daniel Taylor (altos); Benjamin Hulett, Markus Brutscher, James Oxley, Jan Kobow, Michael Slattery, Virgil Hartinger (tenors); Markus Flaig, Roderick Williams, Konstantin Wolff, Peter Harvey, Andreas Wolf, Michael Dahmen (basses); Collegium Cartusianum, Kolner Kammerchor, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Winchester Cathedral Choir, FestspielOrchester Gottingen, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Vocalensemble Rastatt, Peter Neumann, Frieder Bernius, Holger Speck, Nicholas McGegan (conductors)
CARUS CARUS83040 (13CD budget)

11.45am Recent recordings of music by Grazyna Bacewicz

Polish Violin Concertos
BACEWICZ: Violin Concerto No. 1
PANUFNIK, A: Violin Concerto
SPISAK: Andante and Allegro for violin and string orchestra
TANSMAN: Cinq Pieces pour Violon avec accompagnement de Piano ou de petit orchestre
Piotr Plawner (violin), Kammersymphonie Berlin, Jurgen Bruns
NAXOS 8573496 (CD mid-price)

Dancer on a Tightrope
BACEWICZ: Sonata No. 2 for Violin Solo
CAGE: Six Melodies
GUBAIDULINA: Der Seiltanzer (Dancer on a Tightrope), for violin & piano
HINDEMITH: Sonata for Solo Violin Op. 31 No. 2 'Es ist so schones Wetter draussen...'
PROKOFIEV: Sonata in D major for solo violin Op. 115
SCHNITTKE: Fugue for solo violin
Bartosz Woroch (violin), Mei Yi Foo (piano / keyboard)
CHAMPS HILL RECORDS CHRCD114 (CD mid-price)

Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
BACEWICZ: String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5
Lutoslawski Quartet
NAXOS 8572807 (CD mid-price)

Bacewicz: String Quartets
BACEWICZ: String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 6; String Quartet No. 7
Silesian Quartet
CHANDOS CHAN10904(2) (2CD budget)

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