netradio: : NOV 2009 HOT PICK/NEW RELEASES (2009-11-03)

With so many great piano quartets and so few permanent ensembles of the same, the Ames Piano Quartet has something to celebrate, having been in residence at Iowa State University for some 34 years. The Dorian label also celebrates 20 years of recording the group with this 8 disc box set of re-issues, including one featuring the Chausson and Saint-Saens quartets originally issued by the Musical Heritage Society. Its members, all present ISU faculty, include Mahlon Darlington, violinist; George Work, cellist; William David, pianist; with present violist Jonathan Sturm sharing duties with former member Lawrence Bulkhalter. This long-term relationship certainly shows in the works, with a cohesive sound and a near psychic sense of ensemble. ---------------------------------------------------------- NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK ONE Ferdinando CARULLI: Music for Guitar & Piano Vol. 2 Halasz, guitar; Deborah Halasz, piano NAXOS: 8570588 Malcolm ARNOLD: Ballet Music; Homage to the Queen, Sweeney Todd Concert Suites; Rinaldo & Armida, Electra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Rumon Gamba CHANDOS: 10550 Francesco DURANTE: Concerti per quartetto 1-8, Harpsichord Concerto Concerto Koln PHOENIX EDITION: 427 Julius RONTGEN: Symphony No. 8, No. 15; Variations on a Norwegian Folksong NDR Radio Philharmonic, Hannover/David Porcelijn CPO: 777307 Franz Anton HOFFMEISTER: 'Notturno' Quintets for oboe, violin or horn, 2 violas, bassoon Simon Fuchs, oboe; Primoz Novsak, violin; Jakob Hefti, horn; Michel Rouilly, viola; Katja Fuchs, viola; Manfred Sax, bassoon TUDOR: 7124 SCARBOROUGH FAIR – Songs from the British Isles Bryn Terfel, baritone; London Symphony Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON: 12642 ---------------------------------------------------------- NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK TWO Pablo SARASATE: Works for Violin & Orchestra Vol. 1 Navarra Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Martinez Izquierdo; Tianwa Yang, violin NAXOS: 8572191 DIE SCHONSTEN – Hornkonzerte: MOZART: Horn Concertos k 417, 447, 495; Horn Quintet K 407; TELEMANN: Horn Concerto in D TWV 51:D8, Tafelmusik III/iii Concerto for 2 horns; R STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No. 1; HANDEL: Water Music Suite No. 1 Various Ensembles; Wilhem Bruns, Erich Penzel, Hermann Baumann, others, horn PROFIL: 8075 BRAHMS: Symphonies 1-4 Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle EMI: 67254 A GERMAN BOUQUET: SCHOP, SCHMELZER, KRIEGER, BUXTEHUDE, BACH, ERLEBACH, PISENDEl Trio Settecento CEDILLE: 114 PIAZZOLLA AND BEYOND: PIAZZOLLA, David GORDON, Adam SUMMERHAYES London Concertante HARMONIA MUNDI: 907491 Margo GURYAN: The Chopsticks Variations Margo Guryan, piano OGLIO: 81619 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, Nowak Edition L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Marek Janowski PENTATONE: 5186354 HAYDN: Piano Trios Vol. 2 Florestan Trio HYPERION: 67757 HANDEL: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Dixit Dominus Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Vocalconsort Berlin/Marcus Creed; Andreas Scholl, counter-tenor; Helen Guilmette, soprano; Malcolm e Bennett, tenor; Andreas Wolf, bass HARMONIA MUNDI: 902041 ---------------------------------------------------------- NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK THREE CAFE VIENNA; GIULIANI, CARULLI, KUFFNER, BEETHOVEN, others Michala Petri, recorder; Lars Hannibal, guitar OUR RECORDINGS: 6220601 Joseph Martin KRAUS: Symphonies Concerto Koln/Werner Ehrhard PHOENIX EDITION: 424 13th Annual Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist; STRAVINSKY: Three Movements from Petrouchka; CHOPIN: 24 Preludes; Mason BATES: White Lies for Lomax; LISZT: Spanish Rhapsody Haochen Zhang, piano Harmonia Mundi: 907506 ROMANTIC VIOLIN CONCERTOS; Niels Wilhelm GADE, P.E. LANGE-MULLER, Rued LANGGAARD Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra/John Storgards; Chistina Astrand, violin DACAPO: 6220562 THE LUTE IS A SONG Edin Karamazov, lute; Sting, Renee Fleming, Andreas Scholl, others L'OISEAU LYRE: 13278 BACH: Brandenburg Concertos English Baroque Soloists/John Elliot Gardiner SOLI DEO GLORIA: 707 RACHMANINOV: Elegiac Piano Trio No. 1; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Trio in a Lang Lang, piano; Vadim Repin, violin; Mischa Maisky, cello DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON: 13504 Francesco Maria VERACINI: Overtures & Concerti Vol. 1 L'Arte dell Arco/Giovanni Guglielmo, violin CPO: 777302 SACRIFICIUM; The Age of the Castrato: PORPORA, LEO, ARAIA, VINCI, GRAUN, CALDARA, BROSCHI, HANDEL, GIACOMELLI Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini; Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano DECCA: 4781521 ---------------------------------------------------------- NEW RELEASES & RE-ISSUES WEEK FOUR FESTLICH WEIHNACHTLICHE; Bach Trompeten Gala (Christmas Festival) Bach Trumpet Ensemble, Munich ARS MUSICI: 232243 MOZART: Sonatas for keyboard & violin K 296, 360, 379, 454 Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano; Petra Mullejans, violin HARMONIA MUNDI: 907494 Arthur BLISS: Christopher Columbus, Seven Waves Away, Men of Two Worlds Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Adriano NAXOS: 8572226 CHOPIN: Complete Waltzes Ingrid Fliter, piano EMI: 98351 Johann STAMITZ: Flute Concertos St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra/Donatus Katkus; Robert Aitken, flute NAXOS: 8570150 THE FLYING HORSE; Music from the ML Lutebook Elizabeth Kenny, lute HYPERION: 67776 William Grant STILL: 'Autochthonous' Symphony No. 4 (Indigenous), 'Western Hemisphere' Symphony No. 5, Poem for Orchestra Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter NAXOS: 8559603 DELIUS: Hiawatha, Suite for Violin & Orchestra, Legende, Double Concerto for Violin & Viola, Caprice & Elegy for Viola & Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones; Philippe Graffin, violin; Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola DUTTON: 7226 TANGOS & DANCES RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin/Fionnuala Hunt, violin AVIE: 2083 TO ST. CECILIA; PURCELL: Hail Bright Cecilia; HANDEL: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; HAYDN: St Cecilia Mass Musicians of the Louvre/Marc Minkowski NAIVE: 5183