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Andrew McGregor with Simon Heighes and Caroline Rae

Andrew McGregor chooses his Disc of the Week, Building a Library focuses on Vivaldi's La Stravaganza and McGregor talks to Caroline Rae about releases of French piano music.

with Andrew McGregor

0930
Building a Library on Vivaldi's La Stravaganza with Simon Heighes. Vivaldi called his Op.4 set of concertos La stravaganza, or The Extravagance. All of the concertos are scored for solo violin, with extra soloists in some movements. Within this framework, Vivaldi created a set of concertos of remarkable invention.

1045
Andrew talks to Caroline Rae about a releases of French piano music releases by Ravel and Franck and chamber music by Koechlin

1145
Andrew chooses an outstanding new release as his Disc of the Week.

3 hours, 15 minutes

Music Played

  • Charles Koechlin

    Vers La Voute Etoilee - Symphonic Poem Op.129

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Koechlin: Orchestral Works.
    • SWR Music.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Symphony No. 1 In B Flat Minor

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Walton: Symphonies 1&2.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Falstaff - Symphonic Study Op.68

    Orchestra: 91ȱ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Falstaff, Orchestral Songs; Grania and Diarmid.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Erik Chisholm

    Concerto For Violin And Orchestra

    Performer: Matthew Trusler. Performer: 91ȱ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Erik Chisholm: Violin Concerto & Dance Suite.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Symphony Op.68 For Cello And Orchestra

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Young Slava.
    • Melodiya.
    • 1.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major Op.107 For Cello And Orchestra

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: David Oistrakh. Orchestra: Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra.
    • Young Slava.
    • Melodiya.
    • 5.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Quartet No. 1 In C Minor Op.15 For Piano And Strings

    Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels. Performer: Leonid Kogan. Performer: Rudolf Barshai. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • Young Slava.
    • Melodiya.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Concerto No. 1 In A Minor Op.33 For Cello And Orchestra

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Victor Dubrovsky.
    • Young Slava.
    • Melodiya.
    • 4.
  • Richard Strauss

    Don Quixote Op.35

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Dmitri Shebalin. Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • Young Slava.
    • Melodiya.
    • 2.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    The Epic Of Gilgamesh

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Andrew Staples. Singer: Derek Welton. Singer: Jan Martiník. Narrator: Simon Callow. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Martinu: The Epic of Gilgamesh.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.

Record Review

9.00am

KOECHLIN: ORCHESTRAL WORKS
CHARLES KOECHLIN: Quatre Poèmes d’Edmond Haraucourt, Op.7; Deux Poèmes symphoniques, Op.43; Poèmes d’Automne, Op.13; Deux Poèmes d’André Chénier, Op.23; Trois Mélodies, Op.17; Études antiques, Op.46; Six Mélodies sur des poésies d’Albert Samain, Op.31; Chant funèbre à la mémoire des jeunes femmes défuntes, Op.37; La Course de printemps, Op.95; Le Buisson ardent, Op.203 (1st part) et 171 (2nd part); La Méditation de Purun Bhagat, Op.159; Les Heures persanes, Op.65 (Orchestral version); Les Bandar-log, Op.176; Offrande musicale sur le nom de BACH, Op.187; Sur les flots lointains, Op.130; Vers la voûte étoilée, Op.129; Le Docteur Fabirius, Op.202.

GABRIEL FAURÉ ORCH. CHARLES KOECHLIN: Chanson de Mélisande; Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY ARR. CHARLES KOECHLIN: Khamma.

FRANZ SCHUBERT ARR. CHARLES KOECHLIN: Wanderfantasie, D 760.

EMMANUEL CHABRIER ARR. CHARLES KOECHLIN: Bourrée fantasque (1891).

Juliane Banse (soprano); Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR; Heinz Holliger (conductor)

SWR Music SWR19046CD (7 CDs)

WALTON: SYMPHONIES 1&2

WILLIAM WALTON: Symphony No.1 in B flat minor; Symphony No.2.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Karabits (conductor)

Onyx Classics ONYX 4168 (CD)

ELGAR: FALSTAFF; ORCHESTRAL SONGS; GRANIA AND DIARMID

EDWARD ELGAR: Falstaff, Op.68 (Symphonic Study); Songs, Op.59; Songs, Op.60; Two Movements from ‘Grania and Diarmid’, Op.42; The Wind at Dawn; The Pipes of Pan; Pleading, Op.48; The King’s Way; Kindly Do Not Smoke.

Roderick Williams (baritone); 91ȱ Philharmonic; Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Chandos CHSA 5188 (hybrid SACD)

ERIK CHISHOLM: VIOLIN CONCERTO & DANCE SUITE

ERIK CHISHOLM: Violin Concerto; From the True Edge of the Great World; Dance Suite for orchestra and piano.

Matthew Trusler (violin); Danny Driver (piano); 91ȱ Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Hyperion CDA68208 (CD)


9.30am – Building a Library

Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

Piece: La Stravaganza

Reviewer: Simon Heighes

Recommended Recording:

Vivaldi: La stravaganza - 12 concerti, Op. 4
Rachel Podger (violin), Arte dei Suonatori Baroque Orchestra
Channel CCSSA19503

Other Recommended Recordings:

Vivaldi: La Stravaganza

Fabio Biondi (violin and direction), Europa Galante

Erato 5193002

Vivaldi: La stravaganza – 12 concerti, Op.4

Federico Guglielmo (violin), L’Arte del’Arco

Brilliant Classics 95043BR

10.20am – New Releases

YOUNG SLAVA

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Trios, Op.9 Nos. 1&3

GABRIEL FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No.1

ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No.1

ANTONĺN DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto in B Minor

MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: Cello Concerto

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No.1

LEV KNIPPER: Concerto-Monologue

VLADIMIR VLASOV: Improvisation

BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY: Cello Concerto

YURI LEVITIN: Concertino

NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY: Cello Concerto

ARAM KHACHATURIAN: Concerto-Rhapsody

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS: Ária from Bachianas Brasileiras No.5

ÉDOUARD LALO: Cello Concerto

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No.1

OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Adagio con Variazioni

RICHARD STRAUSS: Don Quixote

ERNEST BLOCH: Schelomo

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Cello Symphony

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello); Emil Gilels (piano); Leonid Kogan (violin); Rudolf Barshai (viola); Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano); Benjamin Britten, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov, Boris Khaikin, Yuri Ahronovitch, David Oistrakh and Victor Dubrovsky (conductors).

Melodiya MEL CD 10 02505 (9 CDs)


10.50am – Caroline Rae on Richter recital and Koechlin Chamber Music

SVIATOSLAV RICHTER PLAYS GRIEG, FRANCK AND RAVEL

EDVARD GRIEG: Lyrische Stücke

CÉSAR FRANCK: Prélude, chorale et fugue M 21

MAURICE RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales; Miroirs.

Siatoslav Richter (piano).

SWR Music SWR19409CD (CD)

KOECHLIN: CHAMBER MUSIC

CHARLES KOECHLIN: Sonate no.1 pour clarinette et piano; Les Confidences d’un joueur de clarinette; Sonate no.2 pour clarinette et piano; Idylle pour deux clarinettes; Quatorze Pièces pour clarinette et piano; Monodies pour clarinette seule; Sonate pour flûte et piano; Épitaphe de Jean Harlow; Trio pour deux flûtes et clarinette; Suite en quatuor; Trio pour flûte, clarinette et basson; Sonate pour deux flûtes; Deux Nocturnes pour flûte, cor et piano; Sonatine modale pour flûte et clarinette; Pièce pour flûte et piano; Le Portrait de Daisy Hamilton; Sonate pour piano et hautbois; Sonate pour basson et piano; Suite pour cor anglais seul; Stèle funéraire pour 3 flûtes; Sonate pour piano et alto; Sonate pour piano et violoncelle; Vingt Chansons bretonnes; Andante quasi adagio; Sonatine op.87 no.1; L’Album de Lilian (first collection); Sonatine op.87 no.2; Paysages et marines; Sonatine op.87 no.3; L’Album de Lilian (second collection); Sonatine op.87 no.4; Les Heures persanes pour piano; Danses pour Ginger; Sonatine op.59 no.3; Andante con moto; L’Ancienne Maison de campagne; Pièce pour piano; Sonatine op.59 no.2; Esquisses op.41 Première Série.

Dirk Altmann (clarinet); Tatjana Ruhland (flute); Michael Korstick (piano) et. al.

SWR Music SWR19047CD (7 CDs)


11.45am – Disc of the Week

MARTINŮ: THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ: The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Lucy Crowe (soprano); Andrew Staples (tenor); Derek Welton (baritone); Jan Martiník (bass); Simon Callow (narrator); Prague Philharmonic Choir; Czech Philharmonic; Manfred Honeck (conductor)

Supraphon SU 4225-2 (CD)

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